New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 19, 1922, Page 18

B T b e 18 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1022, s ET——— . e T T TR e E L e e e ing wage, i ped th " 1100,000, of whom whoul @5,000 ve-|married men and women, all farm of all kinds Is being planned, ployment fund for buying paving Last winter several thousand jobless ditlons would soon hecome hetter \ [;ANTIENY I-‘RAN[;E were given, instruction in almost any el gl “”(‘IZ‘IM‘ml""“ Pt P““!nu\n aid. This number is higher [workers and fishermen. It is be-| The unemployment commission I): stones to bo placed at the dlsposal, wanch of lbary hie h ¢ Vas expectec f order to|llevec these classes o y 0 ] 9 [branc) arning in which they were than was expected and in order to|lieved that these classes can shift for[laying plans for extensive forest work| ... oo AaL: vot, earihia! taWte el the WL serious wroblem of Sweden interested, Large appropriations were ((1M ¢ QU PToRIeI, 0k e\ cep within the budgef, the unem-|themselvgs during the summer and[in co-operation with the forestry despite a slight decrease in the num highway boards for the improvement set aside for doles and for publie et idle ployment eommission and the gov-pick up enough work to keep them|board and the state domains depart- |works at which the otherwise unem ).000 1dle. ernment have had to cancel duving goink, Married inen with families {ment, Furthermore, about $200,000(of streets and conds, thus affording : the summer unemployment abd to un- [still draw stipends, while reliet work[hgs been diverted from the unem-|employment to considerable numbers, ployed would be able to earn & 1V=] nyq jon1ass still number more than | —_———e— e —— - —————————— = Where Americans “Went Over the Top” to Be Remembered Washington, D, €., May 19 A modern prototype of America’s “little red schoolhous will erown the hill at Cantigny, France, where American soldiers first entered the westérn front as a fighting unit. | The National ( graphic elety will erect at the tiny village of Can-| tigny a school house as a memorial | to the American soldiers who fought| there and as a further emblem of | America's historic friendship for France Pershing Picks Place. In announcing the action o elety's board of trustees, Gilbert Gro. venor, president of the National Geo- graphic society, stat that the s lection of the fetermi | upon recommendation of General | Pershing. During the war members of the| National Geographic society contrib- uted $20,000 to be expended for the | establishment and equipment of| wards at erican Military Hospital No. 1, at Neuilly, France When the armistice was signegd o $10,000 of | the fund had been expended. A com- mittee of the society considered care- fully the most fitting and useful ex- penditure of the remaining $10,000 of this fund and, after consultation with General Pershing, it was determined that the spot where Europe first saw the valor of America’s youth would be an appropriate site for the b ing of America's characteristic tution of peace. First Thrill There. At Cantigny the First American Di- vision first went over the top ar began to share in Foch's sturdy re- sistance which held the Germans back, then defeated them, and won ¥ the war. 1t will be recalled that the . a n = S f and best in Motor Lubrication that the heart be taken out of the , Americans at any cost when they first showed up as a unit along the fight- ing front. Therefore, when orde : came for the Americans to iron out y . , - H H acke i ears’ refining experience have been a skirmish turned into a i - terrific struggle during which the ? Germans rallied thousands of men and threw 19,000 shells into the town. Even after the Americang took the | town they had to hold it against six counter attacks by the exasperated Germans. General's View Expressed. General Pershing, in his official re- | port of the engagement at Cantigny, | called it “a brilliant action,” and said | that it demonstrated our fighting | qualities under extreme battle condi- tions.” The French communique gave high praise to American cour- age, valor, and soldierly gualities. The German war office merely referred to the Americans as “the cnemy. The London Times “History of the War” has this to say of the Ameri- cans at Cantigny: History of War. ; 3 3 “The 1st Division, fresh from the | o i B 4 ; Toul training sector, had relieved the - - ¥ " : 45th French African Division from ’ 3 : : R % % north of Mesnil St. Georges to just 1 ; : ; : a c or ou" north of Catnigy in that sector, facing | E 4 3 - i 3 Montdidier and south of Amien & : - f where the undulating country broken | 3 g 2 S0 3 e ! forded the opportunity for a fierce de- | A 3 e ; Z e g & ; K oy fense after the open vastness of the| Somme valley. They had, after the | i : : 2 i i, Amiens drive settled down into the | 2§ : ! ¢ : : Book’et game of exchanging shells across the green, stood up to a daily bombard- ment of every kind of cannon. At last the chance, welcome after much git- ting in trenches. Cantigny, small but proud on its green eminence, over- looking with a mouth of fire the whole countryside, was to be taken. Never did men rise so eagerly out of trenches to go forward than those Americans. Through gas, through a cloud of machine-gun bullets, follow- ing close behind their age they steadjly ascended the slopes | village and sheltered themselves in the cemetery when the village was theirs. Cantigny was a small isolated action with little immed E cance. But the village was the first| ever captured by ‘American troops in| Europe, and the lesson that the Ger- mans learned was the first they had| received from the youth of America."” | Cantigny sets on a hill near Mont- didier, and is twenty miles southeast of Amiens. Even before the Ameri- cans took it the village had heen de- vastated during an heroic French re- sistance. INEWPLOVED ARETD| |8 STANDIR HAVELITTLE FARNS, (8 ey Swedish Government May Provide for 150,000 Men Stockholm, May 19.—Before long the Swedish unemployed may have a chance to become independent far ers. When they recently expressed ' . the desire to obtain small farms of ! their own where they might work - till old age without being subjected 5 to enforced idleness, their request sounded at first like wishing for the moon. But not so to the minister of agri- . 7 culture, who immediately ordered an investigation into the possibilities of 5 forming a farm colony in the province | ¢ of Soedermanland. If the plan is found feasible the government may purchase land to be parceled among its unemployed. The project would, 2 of course, involve more than ac- quiring the land. The government will have to build cottages on the farms, and supply its indigent citi- zens with livestock, farm implements " and living expenses for the first year. The arm project is one of the| most important and interesting of | w . many attempts for relleving the un- employment troubles of the country. e —— » 26 Broadway = FOLLOW-THE CROWDS TO BESSE-LELAND’S