New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 19, 1918, Page 6

Herald. | COMPAN New Britain HERALD PUBLI SHING Tasued datly (snnd at Her: ! 5 n oSt rirain ¢ the Uilice at Now Mail Mateer Entered at as Se v CHLEPUOX LLS Busin 3 Kdiorial 29 Roome medium n rofitabl ! The only th Vis and s I Rroad- - saie at Tota- Hariford Depot Member or the Associated Press. xclusively entitled an wise « editect news | also OUR IMMEDIATE N Britain SEDS. New should proceed slowly its park sys- ! to ex- | in tem the development of and before if is decided | com- amo’tnt of woney | d pend a iarge petent offictals she thoroughly in vestizate our needs in respect (n'; At A meeting of other improvement charfer revision committee Tues- | $300.- | the ex- the was explained that he recently day night it 000 might spent to develop lands purchased as an | tension of a park svstem and also to ks fmprove those pa now in exist- | money | | ery | Many projects that require would Le of more practi- 1t and which e under discussion is to erect memarial ommemorate the sacrifices of itain in past wars and and $200.000 | the present confliet been mentioned as amount accomplishment of | Ttesidents and the sonthwest part of of been the need &l \eir appeal has same appli Bel- be- owning in the prope tion and although the necesenry < haste is not the day is not will require fire livection n that distriet There is question no v of a new police head- which also and iikding can courts. The build- un- Te palice city house present location of the police and the building itself are ing 1 b construction of these sufficient sui he buildings will {mpose den on the taxpayers. whose income for the past two or that of other from property three yoars is far, below I. Brooks, who is sponsor for the proposed ric improvements, is P highly prized as a citizen and no at- made to disparage his abil- rightful leader in clvic takes an active interest in Mr. Brooks and of park develop- consider that the past been years of sacri- tempt ity. affair the others wunity. But who approve ments niust tew vears have flce has Hons and for everyone and the becn The dona- is dark called upon for many immediate [uiure uncertain and may require even greater sacrifices. Now Britain evcloped along it have yatem the Mr afford to wait a few vears until other jmprovements for which actual demand have heen a park plans of Brooks. but municipai there is an bought and paid for. CONVICTED AT IAS loves his Amcrican who Every country will sense a thrill of satisfac- tion at the the officers of G published the conviction of rman guage a for violat- The in Philadelphia Ing espionage law sensa- tion of will not be derived t pleasure ] from the knowledge e hu- heings me about to contined man in h would he unworthy prison I'he pleasure is born atification the punislunent imposed on the who earned r living in this men ihe they country and who so abused ileges extended to them that their undermine tary to snemy. Since aid utmost to our mili- cfficiency and assist the the Department of Justice began to gather we have had convictions sourts because of legal defen have black sheep technicalities in these fe: the or for other We discharged offered by had too from reasons many prisoners custody ‘with regrets”. Here is an actual conviction, it having been proved be- the doubt of that these at yond a jury three the autocrats our sots con laws. In gpend Atianta portunity to own minds friendship. The chief it Atlanta is noi more friends of 1 heart had that of more they nien wer which we pledg honor to efface and th tituted violation ou the year or will withjn the cheerless walls of prison, they will have an op- and judge in their to retlec whethel ye abuse that the colony numerous, regret is Sl build- | proper- | In to those ! far | bur- | family purse | should ! can | newspaper , three | priv- NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, DECL manhcod and woman- physically and which UNCLE SAM WORLD'S broken down POLIC AN, P | | broken No zurden hood, down Kuox o nosylvania mentally. in Wead e allowed to srow cver rishes. it na. He would | #re altowed to srow cver fouri dispatehes, the child labor its (0 pross \¢cording tional bully by the pronounce- | OPponents of i Poctrine’ in | Manuiaciures “declared that pri- all W Alonr .| mary purposc was not to raise warning to Deo enue but to meet the decision of the Rupreme Court in hokding the former child this n We «~hild un- | labor wel uncons ien ) wor acl unconstitutional. thev were prebabily correet. cuds and prepar don't want the We monsey <hild impossibic S from iabo W, ahor made } profitable, if not THE S taein JOIN D CROSS W become that o ol 1t has ot 11 o ¢ objected to K his Christmas dinner y tashioned ideu the iser was Paris? o United St 5 a partner to ¥ to eut in league of nution cnwior Knox has 4 he has been Ehert ol a5 Gl ovir desired as- | sume ¢ o be mizht, with rea Wails of the Lonox Wilsen oy i o8 himself the Prince otod George Washingt B B e soquiont return to lite of Nich R R anoff almest converts one to ditlienlt fo see where | the theory of the transmigration of scheme would im- | =ouls. 1f ntangled' situation we do not Berlin's cabarets are reported to be The bagin to pay Wi “ovu¢ with any runnin il Dblast. Germans diplomatic = doe: foreiz intries through «oon they will the alllances surcly Senator Knox ; fiddicr uot offer w solut W6 have the man power and the : A : L 1 thet 6y Vietory in Loudon, two American Day material power to enforce a decree officers walked the length under | h Senator Knox suggests @ strect kissing every gitl they met te; Bov, page D QIO O ) | and being kissed in return. order intaves| club OVer | nj. Sherman! as Senator Knox | continue that authority—a the head of Kurope suggests— it would Dhe necessary to Allied ordered Sort the Ofticers in charge of the and It maintain maintain a larze standing army Al o oocunationNhave personnel the navy | o be part of 2 large in back an hour, Watch 1 clocks set the vould also LR B e of turning back on the greater our war machin- Rhine, so to speak. and keep our munition plants \ for the We mili- virtually with steam up ready o turn at quick notice ORI URRE DGR .85 wheel become, in fact, a o e The would be enormotus, not to mention would then fInane THE LORELFI —0 nation. L\ expense rary moral prestige— was a siren hair the 1os~ of prestige There once golden ith a peaceful republic. relation it would for the United States to as- we now have as to finances, be Who lured to destruction men there With a cruel and necsssary whole cost which it the swme the is pro- vicious design. | posed to distribute men- among She sang of the kisses she'd the bold dared side, ! And she premise and gold, knew bers of w league of nations if such an give to s formed. s0Cis i} friendship ton Who to come near to her | America wishes the respect and of the 1 world it should ig- caresses and nore this intimidation plot ! - 3 \ And she very well i lied. JOIN THE RED CROSS | { But closer and closer the fishermen came their boats were tossed, | But hers was only a vampire's game, So the poor simple creatures were lost. MANN connection S CANDIDACY with the candidacy for the Till on the dark rocks in S Titon (e of Spealkership Representatives, the out the West ure the of im- Mann House of the New York Sun Middle chairmanships of the majority committees 1f followed. Unless puints | West will Now, lately, a siren sat by the Rbine, Many lovers she lured from afar, For she seemed to the duped ones gracious and fine And the name of the lady was War. and se portant the seniority ts | revoked { ch ruts this rule is the se sections will have the of kaiser had wooed her for a year. he thought her svolls, his hopes gave way fear, For at last he was crught W her roils. | comumittees on | The many irmanships of the of Columbia, Im- | Affaivs, Tnsular Af- Interstate Cemni Judiciary { i Affairs Office, Public | | Buildings and Grounds, Pubii \griculinve, Distrne 2 L ¢ For he would share in | migration, Indian s. ree, 3ut litary Post Lands, Wa- | t Territories, Means, York Sun under beaten Harhors, wa the Rivers and And just like the fisherimen long, long ago, By the Lorelei Both he and his armies wrecked with the blow the rocks of the allied defense. I'RANCES STUART, in Lese's. Lier nd ind Power New de- the tor Editorially, all sense, were { ciares war on Mr. Mann | robbEdads ption “Mann must be M lacis He in the fcllowing werds: on Mann lacks vision. He breadth. He lacks poise. licks self-restraint. He does not measure up to the stature of a statesman, His admitted in- tellentual acuteness is not guided informed comprehension of the duties which will devolve on ihe Republican Speaker of the Sixty-sixth Congress The Speakership of the House of Representatives is an ofiice too vieh in opportunities for Republican party, too im- nortant to the United States, too | impostant to the world, to have i ! conforred for seographical on=, or merely to sustain ditional custom. The first Republican the Sixty-sixth to select Mann FACTS AND FANCIE I by tete- con- car- Mr. phone Vail announces a new invention whereby four versations can be simultaneously ried on over one pair of wires. We can't get this Improvement upon our lines too quickly.—New London Day. Germany is billions of even' more Fritz! The first the hardest. | | one dol- against twenty The bill ! hundred and lars, and it sounds marks, Cheer up, hundred Dbillions are | Chicago Tribune. department soap Tast rea- tra a = progressive step , of - Representatives Congress must v besides Speaker of bought 119.- for shipment ix months, Ouy 000,000 war pieces of In the in be lunes R the Honse overseas which to get viki omebos for Bolshe- into contact with the ndianapolis Star. CHILD LABOR QUESTION. those A French army is now occupying Budapest. Ifor a nation that was bled white every vear through a long d, France certainly does act vig- Dallas News With a single cxception Sen- ainst child itors who voted yesterday im- posing a ten per cent. tax on L orous like.— labor products which are shipped be- Columbia has worked out system of preserving steak by drying it. Surely the pro- ssors didn’t have to bother their thought domes about that. We've all met with steak must o gone throagh that proces Mer Rec- sity of represent the Ais- The Unive that state southern tween tricts, 2 conveving impression | in 1o the 1 labor question, | that respect part of the country is not as en- light/nad as we pride oursclves on b s. len ord Opposition 1o laws against the em of chietly loyment children in factories has the remarkaple prog- de i camou- Counsidering that has been made laging 1t ought to be possible to over- Christmas tree shortage.- Bulietin. Iying al- come from the states : below the Mason and Dixon line though there vas o time within mem- | oo Norwi any ' present gencration when h the ovy of nmanufactirers in rorth were in bankroil and our Charistn 1i we undersiand tho the kaiser felt along about Octo- -New York Tribune Lipton on the New “ed by our need of rsunsion on this question ore ally conv ced o finali nvineed of | oy the unmorality of the practice is to | ber 1 heir credit. Once enlightened on the | z to con- for the Register. wants seas Flaven Sir Thomas tinue the war | neasty wdvocates of its anolishment. | America's cup. doubt, ciougness of the thing, they became { - ire, would years but they are so that are ouicasts among their class Child labor has only 1o who tender th som¢ even scems superfluous for William Il after trying suicide, to fear as- sassins, but he might very well be afraid of ghosts.—~Springficld Repub lican, today hire minors of | few | | i rev- | long ! Who lived on an isle in the Rhine, | the fisher- | i Jdealism." that she | | variety of qualities in to a terribte | in | | Boston sounds as if we are preparing . LIST OF NEW BOOK COLLEGE MEN iN Wainwrialit Merrill “Boyish, enthus letters of a Harvard student enlisted in the Cana- dian vouth who found re- lease of Tnglish the historic of coun- KHAKI, by stic forces, i from the tedinm training-—camp lite in nd ssociation literary a the | MAN. by €. readahle life of FOCH THE A » ¥. TLaughlin. account of Alied Com- simple, rsonal i | the the { mandes GREATIST OF THESE Taylon \ diary triotic ali Laurette with portraits tour of o1 “Out the pa- There' . MAY by HOW A AFTER well, A little St R CCEED TI. Con- number of stories simple, Uien mostly from War of soldier who nused spare time in study » ® enfoving successful sult. after the list interesting | Civil | their and as A careers A re- Hook- | : war."™ IN THE SOLDY Mary Dexter, War experiences. um, France, 1814- This A n girl unusual varicty of wa uninterruptediy since the She began as ussistant iu a base hos- . pital in ¥ngland and iater went o Belglum as a Red Cross nurs She i became Intcrested in psycho-analy- | sig, and studied and worked in one of the biz clinics for treating shell shock and other nervous diseases. As i a vacation from the strain of this: work, she for several months drove a large motor ambulance on the French front.”—Publisher’s note. 5. v LUXEMBURG AND HER bors, by Ruth Putnam. .. POET OF THE AIR; JACK WRIGHT. s R'S SERVICE, by England. 3. Relgi- n ias had an service, almost fall of 1914. NEIGH- LETTERS OF | “The war letters of | year-old American hoy who was edu- cated in France. whose playmates were the children of French artists and poets, and who returncd to France to fight for her. Although but nine months in the war, he had won ; his commission as Fivst Tieutenant ' | Pilot-Aviator. The hook stands out of the ordinary run of war letters by virtue of its vouthful high spirits and —Publisher's note. £ oo RUSSTA, by an eighteen- RED HEART OF Bessie | silver | a keen Ameri- | experiences in (he chaos | Russia’s revolution.” “Vivid pictures of can woman of .y SOLDIERS OF THFE SEA Abbot. “It contains the history of the United States Marines over a stretch of 100 years, from their exploits un- der Decatur down to their wonderful fighting of Chateau Thierry.” —Pub- lisher’'s note. by W. STEEP TRAILS, by Joan Muir. “Reprints of articles published in periodicals during a period of twen- iy-five years.” “Characteristic charm of whose of man writings lies in his own a the the per- Outlook. . » ) VALLEY OF DEMOCRACY, by Mer- edith Nicholson. “These are delightful chapters about the Middle West written by one ot her sons who can see both without and within, who loves his own part of a great country, yet can see weak- nesses and touch them with genlal sonality.’ i S AT T | cessiul i Hst | stories i note ; nature."—A, T. | JOHN : unusual i WAR WORKERE, { ciently recovered ! bert Putnam, give hooks.” die NEW BRITAIN INSTITUL: | Diplomats and the Peopl (New York World.) before the president greeted by enthusiastic citizens France, the prime ministers of Gre jritain, France and Italy met in Lon don t& discuss the preliminary terms of peace. The result of these discu: sions is still enshrouded in mystery, but the correspondent of the World reports a general belief among the governing circles of the entente coun tries that “the president has forestalled.”” That means neither more | nor less than that the entente gov- | ernments have privately pledged themselves to make a Kuropean peuce aloag the familiar lines of the diplo- macy that was responsible for this war. Tn that case the United States government could hardly be expected to become a party to it Tt is all very well for the president to speak at the Hotel de Ville yes- terday about ‘‘the full ownership of those peoples here and throughout | the world reverence the right of liberty instice,” but that fellbw- | ship must find expression. if it is to | be expression at all, through ornments. To say that the gover meats with which the president now to deal personally are geneinl regarded hostile to the kind o peace that he advocates is merels state a fact of common knowledz everywhere except in the Unite States. Perhaps themselve partly this situation. Duaring last years 5o many of them have been dently pro-British or pro-Freach pro-Belgian or pro-German that the have forgotten be necs sity of being pro-American, Now tha the test has come their own foreign svmpathies are heing turned them in support of a peace which bears little relation to the ideals fo which they have been sacrificing and fighting. . If the traditions of Iu O'MAY: rapean diplomacy are overthrow AL S. Burt. and a peace based upon true libe “Saven short stories which all have [ and justice s finally established. hu to do with ‘Gentlemen Unafraid’ here | manity will owa its debt of eratitud- and there around the worid. They are | mainly to President Wilsan, but very cleverly told, dramatle, about|Calnot be said thet the present out people in unusual places. look is particularly bright. Popular Bookliat. applause is only empty sound unless - it can change the course of govern- | RED ONE. Jack London ments that are more concarned ahont | “A collection of short storics. The [the immediate political value of the settings run from the tropics to Alas- | SPoils of war than about the future R btk peace and security of mankiad I long was of t humor and give keen and kindiy crit- icism.” NIGHT, A, | D | WING, Miller. “Certain these v an ardent Acuteness snd a stronger Dz IN THE by qualities stand out in rses: a simplicity of diction, sincerity, a psychological Her gifts are noi common, | ssion, a firmer reli- ance on her ser of drama may bring her far beyond the achieve- ment of present volume.” —Djal. Fiction. BOOMERANG, David on the play of novelization more suc- han usual and makes an amusing story of the two love affairs conducted on the theory that a little jealousy is helpful.”—A A. Book- been | the by Gray the same name Ve is a TH® = and CHILDRY WOLDS “Readers from DEAR Harlker. the mood to whether of fact or fan- . may .urn with confidence to these of the comfortable world of vesterday.”—Nation Margaret Turnbull picture studio story of before the United tha war. ' —Dublisher’s O COTS- L. in herrors. escape | as CLOSE-UP_ by “A moving California just States entered the American are vesponsible 1 the fou FREE AND OTHER Theodore Drejser. ‘Fleven stories of varving length nature, some of them tull of ac- tion. others _psychological studies with rather a pessimistic tone, all showing the keen student of human A. Booklist STORIES and e, and Other Stories, by \ AL LA br by ¥. L. Delafield. novelist of the second gen- eration, who is a daughter of Mrs. De la Pasture (now Tady Clifford), has a toueh both keen and restrained. For her inability to deal with mere- for her demure humor and v of narration this young writer may fairly be referred to if not com- pared with the great little Miss Aus- ten.”—Nation. .o 1 Eggs. { Post. Goose and Golden (New York Loose talk about demanding a hug- indemnity from Germany, while at the same time maintaiaing a ent economic hoveott again: was brought down fto the test of fact| at a political meeting in Scotland, couple of weeks ago. The candidate for parliament. after his spe to face the customary heckling. One | question put to him was doubie-bar- | reled: Was he is favor of exacting a | heavy indemnity from Germany; and would he do his best 1o prevent re- | ovening of trade with Germany? The would-be M. P. explained that it would be impossible to get a big in- | demnity while ruliang out the only | means by which it could be paid. ! “Does that mean that if insi an indemnity to pay for the war heckler said, must begin with Germany agaln?" “I'm it does,” said the ca.didate. said the heckler. with terrific empha- | sis “I'd rather pay for it myself!" ! « i This canny Scot at least knew that he War Service, thus s 2!} had to impale bimself an one horn or tention to an opportunity for service the other of the dilemn that is open to everyone. “Tor fic- ey 2 i tion and general literature we have to depend largely on the gifts from the public. Rvery good recent book that can be spared from anyone’s person- al book shelf will find its way quickly into the hands of some soldier of sailor who needs it if taker sent at once to the nearest public library. There is no better way make a Christmas gift to the men who have been wounded in our service than to “This Evening cch, . oa o Library Notes. “There are tens of thousands of woundad men in our array hospitals and every returning transport and ship brings more thousands. of these men will he in hospi- for months, some of them for a or more, bhefore they are suffi- to be discharged These men need books. They need books more than they need almost anything else ex- cept surgical care and nursing.” Her- Tibrarian of Congress, is Geoneral Direotor of the Li- tals vear we the trading | atraid ! “Then.’ from the armj who bra is See What Happened to Dr. (Kans dispatehes the s City Star.) | annou the | Gorman foreign | v Solf | the wan the United of the arwistice armistice wast up too. until {he day re- sizned. [very morning the doctor would appear even in advance of the Berlin resignation of winister, Dr, Dr. Solf protest 1o the terms day the kept. it or i who begzan to tes against | the very signed. He St is er to he ] England Railroads. Republican.) England railroals have made headway in adding to | their factlities during the past year, there was opportunity of carrying out | only a small part of the government's betterment program before Novem- ber 1. The wark is still going on, as | i sshown by the pleturesque inetal- | lation of a new bridge at Greenfield on Sunday. Yet it is evident that a ! large part of the program must go over to next year. Figures are avail- able showing the capital expenditures up to November 1. At that time, the and Maine had expcaded oniv $2,269,007 its allotted $16,141,905 and the Haven had cxpended $8,193,734 its $21.570,675. To the | Roston and Albany $2.572,099 had been allotted, and of this $487.054, was e: ended before November 1 relatively small part of the appro- priations had been expended by rail- ways throughout the country, thougn one, the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy, had got as high 70 per cent. The chief problem involved will the attitude of railroad direc- tors, who. now that the war is over, may seek to curtail the improvement program because of uncertalaty ot financing. According to the Railway Age, one road has already refused any further shipments oa unfilled or- ders far equipmeni and matevials. The Price We Paid. (New York World) As the veil is lifted in Furope we can see how tremendous were the achievements of the allied armies in the immontal 119 days from July 15, the date of the last German drive, to November 11, when Germany ad- mitted defeat, If valor in battle be ihe supreme test of manhood, then the losses as well as the victories tell that the race has grown. An Bnglish authority estimates our casualties in the Argonne-Meuse bat- tle. by far the greatest ever fought by American armies under American command, at 160.000, cight times ihose of the Germans ai Gravelotte, anAq the figures NOW coming in indi- cate that he is approximately correct. This gives us a 1088 of about 20 pe cent. At Gettysburg the lorses of the two ammiss were #5000, a0 per New (Springfield While the New of New af s be in © or | they £ Waterloo. milkman, ring the door bell, and | demand a modification the terms. When President Wilkon slninmead the | cent.. but when the battle there was over, North and South alike were ex- hausted. At the Meuse the Americans | door in his face, Dr. Solf then hegan were ready to fight the next hour, but | by ringing hells and making a noisa there was nobody to fight. 1 the sfreet, and when the allies Wlen our marines weo. | he shouted some new across the path of the Germans a in the armisti had come down from the A the Vesle and were dricing a epearhead toward P less than 40 | miles away, they had more than 4,000 asualtics out of the 8,000 engaged. but they never”yielded an inch, At the second Marne, the 38th Regiment, Regulars, held off five times its num- ber, despite enormous losses. In this | attle, one of the most dramatic and important in the world's history, we had, according to Pershing’s veport, | 300,000 men, about as many as the allied armies at Leipziz, or at least 50 per cent. more than all the armies at of ed out out uf Laguest sne : for a change and | Fas be Now that he allies will eep in the resigned, able to mornings. ris, the st carly Jow Pay ( Philadelphis 1 atter will Dr. A. cducationl philosophe ‘The cheapest aducation,” ‘T Crates. iron Vi vear: but a philosopher for about sixpen and three half-pence for Teachers. Publie of pay inai E. missio Ledze teaclers to that them ey q live ¢ the the | thing todas Poy iy £ “Eou oing cook.” pounis 1 tutor \ hired for a can he The British o were 6,600. By this scale, they fought more than 100 Waterloos in “'So today,’ writes Frasmus those blasing four months, and the stands aghast at thougnt French, on innumerable fields, showed { PAYing for his boy’s education a sum a valor and constancy never surpassed ! Which would buy 2 or teed a and probably never equalled by the | farm servant.’ race that has burned up more gun “The positios powder than any other in Europe. changed since e vears ago.” | i casualties at Waterloo & ! | i nan the of has not wrote much 2,000 The Flag in Hearst's Papers (New York lvening Post.) use of Stand Up Daily various elements might (springfield News.) : Hearst's profuse the Ameri- can flag is made only a trifle more nauseating than it always was by his unblushing direction to keep it up on “special occasions.”” since it had the effect of “ziving us a very American character and probably helping sell papers.” All this was merely the cool adoption /by a great aewspaper proprietor of the motto of the bush- whacking congressman always fo go in for the old flag and an appropria- | tion A of secured fine line on Public the future by requesting: Husbands present with their ographers to step out into the aisle, Men laundry addresses chestra., Deadheads aronnd to the right Mothers who have go-carts in the lobby lephone. Young men stand up and everybody sees Chaps cxpensive up their check books. Any man who naver used the wearisome slang expression, “I'll say * to step up on the stage and re- aive an ovaiton. gatherings be ! in sten- side theiy their leader last week’s names and of the or- who owa for to hand to the present to pass quictly left to in the infants step to JIRMAN MINE EXPLODES KILTANG 15 PERSONS 19 (Havas.)—A German had been plaated in hridge at Guise has exploded. killing! 15 persons and injuring 25. according | 1 to a Guise dispateh to the Matin. Tha | date of the exnloston is not given, but the dispatch savs that 1t oeccurred more than a month after the ar- mistice went into effect. in hiread remain how they fit. intending to give their Christmas presents to dress suits to standing until Ps fe. Dec. mine which girls hold { You know ! Hartford, Sp { Montre fore I am home again, 15 MINUTE NOTICE T0 STGF FiHTING Dix Street Boy at Front When Truce Was Signed | In Conrad Frane s Ven of Dix with Company S. infantry, the signing ing that the 1 only a 15-mh ing. At 10:45. b warned to stop fighti e r oo promoted, succossiv - Stros i the interestingly 102 of cxplaii of men hting v stog young and serge CONRAD to th VENBER( rank of the non-commis iz letiers fol rediced did a0t Jike officer’s work Dear Sister ‘Recel but didn’t bave a4 chance to answer therm, as we in the the Verdun front where the up to our necks, besides it cold. That wa$§ the worst place we were in during our in France. Tt was just plain hel. « udette was killed before the armi- was signed. We were a happy when the major said at 10: t hostilities would cease at 11 a. m, That was on November 11. After the armistice was signed our division was relleved and I was onc lTucler ones to get a seven-day furlough. Wo are in Aix-le-Bains and 1 am sending You a couple of cards. owing the hotel 1 am The i picture of a place rented C. A It is a grand place, send you some views of taken before A it the bigzc ambling the world, next Monte “Ther¢ private as on ed your letters, were lines on mud being ver was stay orge there just the day ice dnch one st in other 1 ang the war that was joint 3t in B ossible chaner but longer I ome Christmas, if won't 1 ttle vihing will ™ sail m be quiet about a emember now and 1 in the® TRADS ’ mpson W him hope this best of “Dear ‘Now won't be S h I finds o all lelter ou will close you healti o Parents wo Wil nd 1 experience 1 lette will n censor my New that el you FFranc Soptem- « New through through ind to the Misenna- Wo un- 20, hich some of We left ber 18, ington in B 2 Au i o'clock 9:09 at 7 and passe and rode road at 1gfield Massachu throu mont we came ahoard liaer racitic Canadian 1 ocean Sepiem We bec i v 19 left the n der th nd pas ning sed Q 't Quebec platean enee river Y AE-Epany thro wrenc and Halifax tayed and Halita s pa~ on 1ips The sca six days {he rain roug and a d to+ Lands der anc aift horses, the samc “We February trenc since- signed two the Chemin the famons Fo went to the corporal reat people, whoere ows, chickens buildi drilled i ind peopl T " until the e was andavill we went th v 5, when o hes, and t have until wecks been he Dame: £ Malmaison i is armisticc We were in where then des tor oul fron \pril 3 ha stonped Xt where on the vhere made e were n transferred the marines their drive to and d to « au-Thierry the Germans We relieved Germans I hattlc sergeant Paris marines we the w That Marne ugust Mihiel where the on was the second of W dvive mad next made the 1 Verd armistice we are especially with very and then ve were when 1ed the fellows was sig1 S0 glad the div Teft I will finds yom wish you all hope it won't ou ¢ that war is over who came over the sion, of whom there are fow lose now and hope this let- in the best of health. T a merry Christmas and be long after that be- CONRAD,”