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Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republization of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also local news published hereln. ) ——— U=, AND PUBLIC BUTLDINGS The CGAIRIAG The Comimon Council will meet 10- morrow evening in special session io consider the wvassing of an ordinance which will prohibit the erection garage vicinity of build- huildings in the schoolhouscs The and other public ings. advisability o1 having these busy, noisy and often dirty trade buildings in proximity {o structures which are given over to the uses of the public is extremely questionable. Garages are necessary to the welfare of a but out of place near a schonol city, they are building. 17actories and garages, the latter particularly, are by no means factors for bromoting the ph are bound to be a nmicnace despite the with from them and in front of them. ical welfare of the children, they operating This argument alone should insure the pas- care taken machines sage of the ordinance. In addition to in and about a the above, the noise gar ge 1s not conducive to aiding in study, and the busy streets in front would pry many a child's eyve whether the Finally, the rule, an surroundings from its school book, {child were willing schools idea of beautifying as well as making use 0f the situation. stful and sooth- or no. are built, as a with the What place may bhe ri ing to the eye and sense with a black- facaded garage next door? Why must bhe build- They the garages placed near public ings? have a to perform but duty conduct from a street used dealer hit can on auto can business as well a removed the center as he for school or public purpose. It that it is purposed {o construct a gar- has also come to our attention age on West Main street, just East of the Hirks property and onc door re- moved from the New Britain Institute. The board of that ered a institution has reg- We for the Institute, for West Mnain street, protest. hold no hrief o, forsthe from We vicinity greater park acro the pro- posed site of the that of Britain marage., have no interest in than the interest any citizen But of the city of that New we believe the city would make a great mistake in allowing the handsome as it erection of the edifice: may promise to he it will be hound to become unsightly. We can not make our taste agree with tion fe from the erec hundred across of a of the entrance garage within a few the Institute and to the park. Surzly there arc better places than th for a garage. spots about a beauty Why violate one of the the city which should be spot with a building of the It is inconceivable. Why disturh thoss who wish building crected garage, lype? to study, in a for (hat purpose, by placing & haven for bhackfiring motors alongside of it? Why offend the vision of one who wishes to enjoy the heanties of Walnut Hill park by sticking an un- gainly where the first of disgust? building, edifice at its very entrance The Library is the property The park Why their own is a of public it ihe pee- New by ple* of Britain. owned our citizens shonld they not protect goods by refusing to allow detferiorating con- struction should this without Tt that New to the possibilities of harm on mnearby iand? debar question. is time Britain awoke to its onn property, of danger dren. Tt lation for its own good. to its own chil- is time that it enacted to guard against Tt these S thing is not a matier for argument by sidents of the par- It everyone who ticular district in question. of is a mat- ter interest to {alkes of any pride at all in the posacssions the comm ATRSHIPS A LOGGERS, Coincident R-34 its freighter service tha the fl of adaptabil with xht the and seeming comes a thenl of prediction in the future, ahiter than air machine will be great Just that use in lumbering operations. now a fiight Yet considered of faney scems ex treme. when it is thorouzi N . there are many thi favor. ientific d of the ¢ struction nmanlkind 5 was of the ai responsible for olution rehip Now that there is 'no need foF further service in this:ling ! its other The flight into planned. pe gers tablished little doubt of that. It uses are being’ consigered, over the The ocean has passed histery. Air return is heing lines of freighters for shable gnods and hurried passen- ’ There may be y before the problem is fully worked ' press | of | his | impression will be one | is | Pride legis- | to | this | js ! This rapidity of zranted. the out. but its is encration, success dazed by inventions, is looking of when it is fowth of new far ahecad matters that scem ared muking its prophce- cies. When Renjamin Franklin capturcd a spark of electricity, at a penses for ene cpark, he did not to which e did common duties of dream of the uses the “juice’ would be put. not reckon upon the this power. Mayhe he dreamed and pictured to himsclf somewhat of what would be done with the stuff, We do not cven approximate the u art in dreams, Could we 100 the air our return vears hence and see what in would be That ith is heing done the air we surprised. is certain. Tt was w all this in mind that we met the arguments of our prophet who told of an aid the airship as lumbering. He wa a learned man He castles and a trained engincer himself. ad admittedly been “building in the air,” but he believed It line of conjecture anyhow. R-%4 that they would bha fulfilled was an inter- ing The was capable of carrying tons of weight, about 22 tons of which was dischargeable to This the R-34 lighten the ship. means that a bag as great as could carry o i i roughly fwenty-five tons of lumber from the woods in a trip and it to some where it he The such place would easily sawed up. main argument against using would be the expense of involved. 3ut the need first-cla lumber is very great and even now it takes a sur- prising mumber the felled Al=o lumber is getting very hard to obtain. There forest United All far water shed which would of men to woods. get trees from the are several stretches of virgin in the States today. of these are back from any make it pos- sible to market. The drive them to trees have not been was no way of getting them out sho 1t by a of building a them. them dirigible railroad lift hovering to will be possible to cable from a and carry them a few 1t miles profitable the amount to water. will also be as soon as aviation is bevond A experi- mental stage. large lumber would be thus obtainable; it is useless now. The spectacle of ing heav; carried from the of mills thyough the heart woods to the saw 25r may not We and the need be have of it an shortly. a burden It hearer remains 1o de- velop the scheme. WHAT CAN KOIL.CHAK DO? Admiral Kolchak, of the of while 1t was but a council of four, has heen winner recognition hy Council Five, given the moral backing of the new members of the Peace l.eague in Paris in a further the still The Omsk attempt to create order [rom existing chaos in Russia. anti-Bolshevist from will combine with ‘inns and receive the Allies in Petrograd suppiies and help from an attempt to take from the Bolsheviki, thus taking the necessary first step toward the subjugation of the lawle in clement Russia and the .creation of I however. some stabie form of government. will only he the first he step. Years will necessary to tie together loosely connected land and to put down the ~arious rebellious that now exist will aq at anc Utterly demoralized the start by means of German propaganda aided and abetted by the deeds of wild-eved theorists Russia has a long uphill fizht before her in endeavoring to establish it the only way A government. is a sad state of af- fairs that to accomplish this is further slayinz. Mobs will met with gunfire and men will intensely and die by the thousands in times to come as It that they have in the past is wot punishment of the the Alligs aesire. There is antagonism in them. But the experi- of T ment Jolshevism must bhe put down. never can accomplish any- thing. The only way to put it down is to occupy its strongholds and in do- ng ir TTumanity this men must ne killed they continue resistance. must be maltreated o1 its own good A rcorganized Ruszsia under a sta- ble government The enormous. its possibilities tremendous. look for the preper reconstruction it is bhet- means much to socie- rezources of tho couniry are If we have one In whom ve way that we that ter lend ofl might, him every aid prefer- ahle to putting. in our of own troops who hecause foreign derivation, antagonize some who mi otherwize be loyal to the Russian Kolchak has the rizht idea and, aided by the Finp< he might hrnv';‘;‘ahu\r: dhe desired effect. R u$sio papples, made heartless by of anarchistic the their Jost severa®years war, have descended into frenz JFoichak might of them be restoring and lead- there reach means to faith There iz nc great if to in humanity their country er in Russia though were today. it would be very hard the headquarte of every group of peoples. action. We will, "through friendly The only hope is in military m deliver transportation | cut because thero | of | weights be- | the | unusual sgighk, semi- | S | broken < leader | i —Rxchange. tlm"”'s' as bad. E the | hands | on | Ther's all sortg of di be | | suffer | Russians | no their | { | i | | | | Russians, clear tI'fir and their commiunic ports centers of in order that ion we mas reach them with. food and supplies and pelieve their distress faith thereby bringing back in We their humanity. must teach them, one would an erring child, that we are their friends and inter their welfare To do this we 1d hiood- 1t is thravzh tain the central points, that it must be done shed. he teach to Kolchak and small luck lesson Good may his at a cost in Iives to ecither side. Avis Tor of Amherst ~oing up in a balloon and expects cormtmunication Mars. zet, inlo e The the two former will with has . made fur- He he is of of this attempts be by equipage \aVhED what nished Department. not stated language to talk wnor what vsiem going ¢ignals he will use. The attention that planet cught 1o be turned way after the disturbance that been going on for the past four They has happened years this world of ours. may he wondering what to the the violent eruptions Tt “Big Berthas over sihle carth =ince ceased of uncomfortably Paris. Professor have is Furope that ent a po the biggest has close to We can shell hombarding if the one on them in sup- talk next the formation pose that, to some the planet, the order will be of smaller thing in of a lL.eague Stars. The world is infinity de- is here. to Mars. zetting and The age ot wonders still creaseth. Jut it is a long way Twinkle twinkle little star U'p above the world so far We'd like to how If vou're fine? are be ask you Well you 50 we. me Mars— stars— therc today? up your way? Hello Central, give Fifteen one cleven, What, is doing up How's- the wcather Is Prohifition bothering you? When voW are thirsty, what dorz . What are ®ou like, we'd like to know? It has worfied us ten years or so. \ do you You say yolu'd like to a about The re n fdor the mighty shout Rarne fo 3nzv on wirelc®s becams Well, \\‘oodyi Wilson's home it seems. We'h ¢ ug.;ou up some other day In ourk setheric way Good-ly old top, good luck know time You It's to quit, we've got Lo go. FACIS AND FANCIES. Fift Minneapolis bhusine Faxe Preanized to demand a 13 mon rear. No landlord has so far ohjected go their hobby.— New York { Sun. le who their king automobiles never Zugh trouble in the good en they were operating s.—Gallatin . Missourian. The pei xet arms had old w wheel-barro any days the Rolsheviki arve leave Petrograd are There nowhere except some place Reports preparing probably for them that to untrye. to go > There is stily, fope that civilization, grown weary its monotonous level orbit, contemplat s spiraling to high- er things.—Chicdggo Daily News. contemporaries are the Knox resolution Adm inistpatio: joicing becaus seems to have @een dropped: perhaps hetter hold Philadelphia to else. - it "was d rnpped‘ get & on something Press. UNCLE ICHABOD PICKS CHERRIES., sypation In this zay and, wicked nation, Wheare they're pushin’ off to and a swiggih' sody down, But out here, I'm cherry-pickin’ With a little counyry chicken, I'erchin’ high o bree miles away ("nm any town. hS movies branches Say! stone emerald May look good to cit But 1)ike 'em when a full-ripe cherry And some folks are.al/ways prayin’ Fer fresh pleasures, bitt I'm sayin’ Pickin' cherri good enough fér m. and rubies boobies, hey're loaded on T don’t take it hard—no{ veryv-— When she lips a juicy cfrerm And slips her face up ose to take a hite, by 1 don't even think it shodkin’ When she shows a streak ”f. 0 { For the prettyness of pretiy girls ain't just above the neck. ’ to mine heylk! Tin’ Yes, sir. she's some cherry ?-p\(kvr Jer she's faster and shes’ ’sliv‘l\'ar Than any picker on vms' place picks the live-longz @av: don’t think I'm gittifh' woozyv, When [ praise my datg Yes, own daug even haf to 1919, and Sa sir, don’t (Copyright, my T Rhede Islang’s Fat untt of ke homeward Seventy-sixth givighion. is bound from Fra This has a special pl the affections of the home folk of first who marched under th The day of t ber 19, 1917, W3 be in fomposed as it largely ntingent of the men ray for the. war selective service is the en- law Septem - s & memorable one in Providence. asAin every town in the state and ewery eity, village and hamlet in land—300,000 voung Americans that da; rolled e departure, in the marcgped awayv Of the first dra an advance guardla good many has i s with ¥ pretty girl is | { i WATCH 'IM! | ALLIES DEMAND ALOLLAND MUST GUARD BILL HOHENZOLLERN 4y —— FROM ESCAPING i it of 3 per Island cent., calling for 111 selectives, had entrained for the cantonments on the fifth of the month. On National Army day, as the nineteenth was designated, sched- ule called for 40 per cent.,.and the oc- casion made WTth the 884 Rhode ls 1200 whose going scheduled for October paraded, and busine gener- ally was suspended that the city and state might do honor to them. It may be recalled that while there was some degree of solemnity ta the farewell, there were no such pathetic incidents as werc later to be witnesscd on these occasions. We were not Iy in the war. It was still the paratory stage. A few regular troops were overseas, but there was as no anticipation of what the war would mean. Months were to before we were to receive the casualty reports. There was a un- doubtedly, that be cnded before ot into the that the would he Rhode he he was ceremonious., and men the was real- pre- pass first feeling, hostilities would our actually fighting. did not dream decisive of the war marked by the resolute stand of American soldiers, including Rhode Jsland's, at a sccond sanguin- ary Bafttle of the Marne. The hbrilliancy of that September day was itself almost enough to dispel the thought of grim war, and with bands plaving gaily the departure took on the aspect of a military festi- val. The spirit of the drafted men was illusirated in the response of one of them to a friend on {he curb. “*Hullo, Jim, I sce you're an the cried the latter. “Sh, yvou'll s the kaiser!" the new soldier fired back This joviality was reflected in the legends painted on boards that dotted the line—as “‘To and “Berlin hy boys We turn way,’! with Germany. of Ayer.” The crowd caught the spirit, o that cven the mother these gave them a smiling good-bye. T.ater on the de- parture of the drafted contingent marked by heart-racking scenes It was the good of the first Rhode mast them, to be organized regiment, and to remain together. And this regiment was the onl\ the first New national army throughout the sixth did not division, but battie losses only a ant home wearing its insignia. Hundred and First over. was the only New ment to be retained stice for service with the army of ae- cupation. It will one of {he last units to he demobilized. of the nation- al army the mohilization of which hegun on that 21 ago. way of boyvs was fortunc of the men Island draft. or of m a one of division of the its identity The Seventy- get the front as a was drawn on to replace in until return Throe mo: England to retain war. to other divisions, remained to The engineers, Fingland after regi- the armi- he historic day nths Information From Hartford. (New Haven Courier) We learn the following from the edi- torial columns of the Hartford ant, or we handed out iunk of It has demonstrated Haven that busine opposite Green e opposite it Jour rather are information in New purposes land desirable bheen the that the less land has huildin across street.”’ We wonder tion of it where this d- fook We have never heard and it is sorter our know zoing on gone monstr place. joh to ha aind what has o Certainly the demonstr ot touched the we the Green for ow of there. Since ation counld of d1rMi- have ern front college ¢ tories stand none of that property is for sale, we ¢ that nnot believe business from anyv angle. The castern fronts the represent a high standard of husiness enterpri and valued owners and front is already largely menumental and it fair to assume as the years run on will become more o as a mat- ter of civie pride. It is the belief of peovle that Elm street men have considered it scuthern Green and of are accordingly by The mnorthern their Jesscos is carly } yot | was , equipment Cour- | this from Collegz to Church might to great advantage a neyw with ftfentrance at Temple and Elm ing for eagev bt site now occupie As tion of the kind mentioned by our con- tempora re Green stitution, has ity hall, corner of thus releas- interests the the street capable of the defie treatment condition the it. It is an in- preciois the town for the that on 1tes the most merciil analysi —at le we have always supposed so to offer extraordinary attractions for peopic have wares té dispose of in its vicinity. To itself suggest that our neighbof c¢ome New Haven and try to buy some this surrounding land. who convince to of The Railro: ringfield Republican.) A political bias be expected from now till next election in actions of the majority party in wherever the administration: is concerned disclosed in ads, is to year' the congress This made of he committee. Mr. remark that ‘‘grave been made in ordering and 2,900 locomotives consulting the individual widely known, opinion desirability equipment, that was not taken the criticisms Chairman appropriations Good saw fil to error’” had 100,000 cars without companies. there ves terday by Good® hause were nees of among as to of building standardized but there is no evidence actually built The of it allocated is the railroad equipment that locomotive who most standardized experts the not a success part already now to be over by under interest manufac- zealous in companies It an trust is of to recall the turer was M month ting clain, president works, which is commonly « h producing the of locomotive. of have equipmen elected last the T Was of aldwin Jocomotin highest Chairman bills the pay for that 1le ithe fo implies also ment 1 nce 1= Zoing hills presented for a speaks may mainte- Ir to he pa) CONgre gladly any and ali hy railroad ation will railroad companics lezed deterio of way or warm- quarters. his be in cquipment, words Iy wclcomed The Pederal Employment Agency. (New York Sun.) It appears that there is some doubt whether congress will make the small | maintain | service | appropriation to the United the | required States employment month cessation of this branch at beyvond esent The sudden war emer iust of time ney service and benefit and al- misfortune. Unde Director soldie the pal when our returning need to the utimost of its help would be a ¢ most irreparable the management Kirchwoy the service industrial work for 21 the rate of about 200,000 sailors of Federal is now the unemple 300.000 2 month least el of these cent.. propartion the ind at or 20 are soldiers and per 1o civilian unemploved increase ars sailors likely to ishandment tha process Toes on this for othe; of presant I"or reason. if none the work the service should go on for the The it does not detail of handling in individual that in the Sun scarcely needs to say regard the detail the supervision Inbor market and the employers vidual for a normal or properl; of federal of of relations be- tween and indi- applicants employviment permanent fune- But wha 2 tion activity work for left Jifferent of has {he provision the call of the flag ose their jabs o to the war is a and until this crnment its defende filled “let not starving matte gov- heen ful- ohligation the to us tolerate or crippling this intellizently conducted industrial reconstruction. idea importaift and agency of mvh:flcl a matter of fact no demonstra- | , and it does not lend itself to com- | while it does continue | we | democratic is | the redited | H\(‘KMZ“' Good | govern- | the findinz | 60.000, ! sail- ! and | ot | | the | 1o ! of | bheen agl| Aland 1 Raltic g matier portant in Eurg islands Russia them fi coa made ri tio jol powers; to islands All were tion fhe early neal of tions a Sweden, ting or The strate are aby | eighty ermen descen which most From Gylf c the| casily to capita were my ¥ Thy fenti and, neces weste tion, the and z | convd Brita P bé