Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 22, 1917, Page 4

Glorwich Bulletin and Goufied 121 YEARS OLD price 12¢ a week; 50c a Subscrintion month: $6.00 = year. Entared at the Postoffice at Norwich, Conn.. as second-class mast o Telenhone Calla: Bullein Businass Office 480, Billetin Bdltorial Rooms 36-3. Bolletin Job Gfice 35-2. Willim#ntic _Office, 67 Church St Telephone 210-2. Norwich, Tuesday, May 22, 1917. The Circulation of The Bulletin The Bulletin has the largest eireuiation of any paper in Eastern Connecticut and from three to four times larger than that of any inm Norwich. It is delivered ‘o over 2,000 of the 4,053 houses in Nor- wich and read by ninety-three per cent. of the people. In Windham it s delivezed w over 900 houses, ¥ in Putnam and Danielson to over 1,100, and In all of these places it is consiiered tbe local dally. Eastern Cobnecticut has forty- aine towns. one hundred and sixty- five postoffice districts, and sixty iural free dellvery routes. The Bullctin is sold In every town and on all of he R. F. D. soutes ip Eastern Comnecticut. CIRCULATION average i 1901, 1905, average.... 4412 veeeee 5850 ssaseasessssssesensarsssasnse May 19, 1917....... GERMAN SYMPATHY ALSO SUF- FERS Throughout the war there has been & strong pro-German feeling among the people of Sweden. It has even been claimed that that country, along with others, was drawing supplies from other neutrals for the purpose of sending them, or their equivalent to the central powers. No one can deny but what they had a right to deal with Germany the same as with any other of the belligerents and that it rested with the belligerents to 5o blockade the ports of the enemy that they could not obtain such goods if they hoped to cut off such supplie But the Scandinavian countries have sufferea rtheles: the hands rmans. They have gotten the benen the trade they were abie to carry on but there has been a tremendous loss in shipping which they h scen forced to bea ana the latest occurrence of this kind has béen the e to the bottom of three Swedish vessels which were on their wav to Swedish ports with grain These vessc ere proceeding un- der 2n agroement which was supposed to give them protection. It was the Swedish people who were to benefit ] from the carzoes but regardless of the promises and the fact that no ben- Germans and no efit accrued loss to the enemy, the submarines pro- ceeded to sink and kill, the same as they have done in the case of Danish vessels and those destined for Bel- gium. It is but natural the —wre that mach indignation should be felt in Swedep, and that one who voiced his réeling should fare that not onl. Swedish grain but German sympat went down at the same time. The Jonger such methods are continued, and particwlarly against the neutrals, the soomer will the time arrive when Germany has no friends at all TIME TO APPLY THE REMEDY. There is frequently urged upon the people of all sections of this country the mecessity of raising more sheep, both for the contributions which will thereby be made to the supply of wool and to the supply of meat and sheep- skin. For a number of years there has been a steady decline in the sheep raising industry and the presentation of the situation which is made to re- sult from this state of affairs does not appear to be making much headway. There are reasons for the decline of Those who used to raise course. sheep or those who have succeeded them in the usiness do not find it profitable. There is a handsome profit today for thcse who raise sheep either for the wool or for marketing pur- poses, but there are handicaps which considered in connection until they are overcome it can hardly expected that those who might otherwise be interested in resuming such business or launching out therein wiil respond to the de- mand. When s must be therewith and e from Pennsvl- vania that sheep to the value of $49,- 000 were killea by vicicus dogs, it does not show a condition which is not en- countered in other states. The dog nuisance is one of the greatest draw- backs to the raising of sheep which exists today. Connecticut suffers from it the same as Pennsylvania and other eastern states do, and they will con- tinue to until the proper action is taken in these states to overcome this serious drawback. As long as vicious @na worthless doss are favored in- stead of sheep this deplorable condi- *on can be expected to exist. THE CAPE COD CANAL. When the Cape Cod canal was pro- jected and work actually started upon it there was doubt expressed at the abllity of the builders to make it pay, beeause of the large expense involved. 1t wes realized that it would be cof much benefit to coastwise shipping, sapecially in bad weather since it it ted would afford a short cut which would 7 eliminate the narrow and dangerous channel and shoals past and around the cape. There has been reason to foel that this opinion has been sub- stantiated since the canal was com- pleted by the limitation of vessels of cartain draft to the canal and by the difficulty which has been experienced in fixing rates which would prove at- tractive to shipping and cause vessels to resort to this route instead of taking chances on the longer and more un- certain but toll-less trip in circling the cape. New emphasis is lald upon the de- sire of the buflders to get the canal off their hands by the bill which has been introduced in congress to have the government purchase it. For some time thero has been a disposition in Washington to use funds for other purposes and to let the development of waterways, except where the work Is actually necessary, wait until a later ate, but in this case, while much de- velopment might be undertaken, the {canal is already in use even if it is not turning in a profit. There are rea- sons, however, for believing that the government will look thoroughly into its value before any investment is made should that be decided upon. If the government needs it there will be no objections to the purchase but care should be taken to see that an exorbi- tant figure is not pald just because government money would be involved. SEEKING AUTHORITY TO INSURE FOOD SUPPLIES. In the consideration of ' the food measures sought by the administra- tion from congress, there bids fair to be the same kind of dilatory tactics which have characterized action upon the other Important bills which have been presented to the extra session of ongress. The bill as it now stands provides against hoarding and monopoly of ood, it arranges for the licensing of wholesale aistributors of food and of storage houses and it provides against the spoilage of food by belng held back by azents. The measure forbids spec- ulation in food or the organization of exchanges to control it. It wouid res- ulate the use of grain and forbid its use in the manufacture of alcoholic beverages and proposes the guarantee- ing of reasonable prices to farmers for staple food products. It would also |insist upon reasonable prices to the | tooa aistributor so as to provent ex- tortion or the cornering of a market and it would permit of the requisition- ing of foodstuffs in time of scarcity. Food supplies could be confiscated if an emerzency should require and the protection of American grown food would be insured by allowing the plac- ing of an emergency tax on foreign { foodstuff=. It also provides for a cen- sus of the country’s food resources and under it there would be allowed an in- crease in the milling percentage of flour and the mixing of other cereals with wheat in the manufacture of flour. The demand for such a bill is made necessary by the existing conditions for the insurance of an adcquate sup- Plv and the protection of the interests of the little as well"as the biz con- sumer. All these things might not be necessary but there should be the au- thority to take such action whenever occasion requires and that is what is being sought at this time. TOO MUCH WASTE. Much attentfon has been called in the past to the great amount cf waste which has occurred throughout the country from the failure to pay the proper amount of attention to the con- scrvation of supplies. Materials of all kinds are thrown away, discarded and made no use of simply beciuse thers is a feeling that there is pionty more to be had where they came from. The demands in a great many wavs have been increasinz, great inroads thus being made in the amount of available material, without the proper amount of attention being devoted to the ques- tion of suppiy. Too little attention has been given to the use of the many coal tar pro- ducts. Other nations have seen the necessity of utilizinz them but not un 1 the dyestuffs which this country was purchasing abroad were cut off did this country attempt to make much use of them. We have long been usinz wood as if there was no limit to the amount which could be obtained. Just at the present time there is a shortaze of tin cans while there is also trou- ble experienced in getting certain of { the material for the manufacture of ss bottles and jars. Attention Is also being called by Professor Breed of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to the fact that the United States waster almost enough money on wooden boxes znd fibre cases, which are thrown away or cut up for kindling after being used once or twice to build as many war. ships as were provided for in the 1915 naval bill. When it is realized that this waste is going on in many other lines in equally large amount, it cannot help beinz felt that this stageering loss Sadie eased her plump form into a seat beside Stella. “Kiddie,”she said “never imtroduce your best gentleman friend to a blond! Lieten! Me and Billie are goin’ to the movies last night when we meet up with Lulu Walters, her gettin’ there accidentally because she'd planted herself there a purpose, and, of course, I had to do the poiite. I wish you could a seen and heard her when I said the fatal words that made them acquainted. She bows and looks up through that bunch of” curls she dangles on her brow, and ‘Glad to collect your ac- quaintance, she says. “I nudge Billle, but do you think he ive me a comeback? No! He's look. ng into her uplifted eyes and he's smirkin’ Ifke a cat that wants a chanet at a canary. “Well! I says when I reached my limit, T guess we'll have to leave you here/ and I started om, but Lulu just hung alongside Bilile. You know she's only about as big as a cigarette and she snugeled her head against his shoulder and peeped around at me. “‘Lucky you!' she gurgled, ‘to have a nice blg man to take you place: Poor little me! T have to stick home alone, and sew. Stella_sniffled."Much she sits home and _sews! What she doin’ now, waitin’ at Dinks?" Sadle snapped her eyes. “Waitin'? Her? The nearest she ever come to a waitresses’ job is washin' out the eyes of spuds axd removin’ the union suits from onions in the kitchen there. But she smiles and grins and gargles at Billie and he's just like all the rest of the fool men-—he fell for it. Then she looks around at me and smiles. You know, that deceitful look like a cat wears when it rubs its silky sides against your ankle and scratches holes in your silk stockin’s while it waits for a chance to steal your cream. ““What's the matter with goin® with us?” Bill says. You know that leer she can sgive a_person of the other sect ‘= around? Well, she done it. “rm afraid that Sadie wouldn’t like it she lsped “*Oh, I retort, ‘Don’t mind me, g0 as far as vou like’' And blamed if she didn’t make believe she thought Td give her cordlal invitation. “I wish you could a seen her all through the show. She insisted in runnin’ into the seats ahead of me and coppin’ the one mext the wall, where she wouldn't have to take her hat off. Then ehe engineered Bill in beside her nd every time they was a _shootin’ piece on the screen she grabbed his arm and said_somethin’ till he looked at her, and then she’d open her eyes £0 big and frightened. I was that disgusted I wanted to put chewin’ zum in her hair. She squealed like she couldn’t hold herself when the music played loud. Altogether was the Jife of the party. “You can imagine my feelin’s when Biil whispered to me: ‘She's an amusin’ little tike, ain't she? e “About as amusin’ as a “Well, the pleasant lttlc thing goes right along out with us and then she says she's afraid to go home alone, us passin’ her street to get to my house, and, of course, Blllie takes her. I was just combin’ my crown of glory when he came back. I didn't espect hif, and it kind o' made me feel good. But I hope to be found dead in a Chinese Jaundry, if the first words he said to soothe me wasn't ‘She's some cute little tike, ain’t she?" “Yes, she ain't, I saye. ‘Mad?' he asks. ‘You look so ser- 1ous.’ “Me mad?” T says, “No, indeedy: I was just wishin' I had a million dollars so T couid found a home for lunatics so's to be sure you'd be well taken care of in your old age.’ “ “Now, what have I done? he asks. “Is or isn't that like a man? He looked at me keen, and then he added the last camel: ‘Can it be that you're Jealous? he asks. “Tee hee!’ I laugh. ‘Jealous of what? I just want to say William Daly, 1 says, gettin’ warmer all the time, ‘that ~you can spend all your time’ with Miss Lulu, for hereafter Til have other engagements every night.’ “‘Say’ he says. ‘Cut the comedy. TN be around to-morrow night as usual— You needn’t, 1 won't be here!” ‘Do you mean you want to shake me? he asks. My heart did a flipflop but T shut my lips and answered: It looks like it, don’t it? ““Then he says kind o' calm, 1 will not come back till you send for me.’ I cut in. ‘For "Tn, that case vou better give me one of your pictures,’ I tell him, ‘for you're goin’ to be gone a long, long time. Sadie dabbed at her eves, looked out the car window and tossed her head. Then she looked at her friend. “And he's went for good, 1 guess, ‘cause he ain’t sent any word. ~Well, there’s a thorn to_every rose.” Stela observed. “Gert Downs was tellin’ me that Lulu had lost her job at Brink’s and her father is home with a broke leg.” “The poor kid!” returned Sadie. “I wonder could T get her in at our place.” Stella_smiled. “And,” she continued ued, “Billle Daly asked me to invite you' over to our house to-night and not to let on, but he is going to be there and try and make it up with you.” “Gee! Don't you love this kind of a nice, wet, sloppy night?”’ sniffed Sadie.~Exchange. LETTERS TC THE EDITOZ City Water. Mr. Editor: s there any good rea- son why the city water shou'd taste so filthy as it does? The clty of Norwich is lucky if its citizens do not have an epidemic on their hands with the water in its present condition. If there | is anybody in town who cannot afford to buy potatoes and who wants to know what they taste like, just tell them to take a drink of the city water and if that does not taste like dirty potato water, then I don't know what it does taste iike. It might be well to hire an expert to investigate the water supply. We have had one on zas and spent a thou- sand dollars for the same. Now why not tackle a real question, one which is endangering the health of the com- munity at the present time, to say nothing about the terrible inconven- ience which the people must suffer for the want of clean, fresh water. Perhaps this is the price the citizens are paying on account of the life job | which has heen made for the superin- tendent. Get busy, City Fathers, and attend to a real question and give us some fresh water before we all die of thirst. PROHIBITIO! 1917, Norwich, May THE WAR PRIMER | By National Geographic Society. Laon—“Situated on a long. islolated hill that rises abruptly to a height of nearly 60% feet from a fertile and ex- tensive plain, T.aon, foward which the French army is rapidly fighting its way, was a town of 15,000 prosperous inhabitants at the outbreak of the war. The capital of the department of the Aisne, 87 miles northeast of Parls, it formed with the Rheims and La Fere a_triangle of important fortresses in France's schemo of defense alonz the northern frontier,” savs a war geog- raphy bulletin issued today from the Washington headquarters of the Na- tional Geographic Society. “Surrounded by vegetable gardens and fruit orchards for which is was famous, Laon was also an important should be sufficient to bring about a hasty reform. 1 EDITORIAL NOTES. i The man on the corner savs: It} doesn't make any difference what the | situation is, someone is always kick- | tng. i If the reports are true, Russia is get- ting ready to demonstrate anew by means of its army that It is anti-Ger- man. i 1 The time to start in and lend a hand | in the clean-up week is at the begin- ning ana not after sundown on the| final day. 5 what is pos- 4 total Is the Brery littls bit sessed swellz the way the treasury department feels about the Liberty loan. If Russia could so arrange its af- fairs as to have its armies strike now, it would hasten the day when Ger- many decides to put forth its peace terms. The poultry raiser who deesn’t be- lieve In restricting his flock finds It difficult to keep peace in the neigh- borhood now that the backyard gar- fening is in full swing. The bringing of United States and Japanese war vessels into the fight to overcome the submarine menace gives reason for the belief that the under- water boats are going to De hunted as they were never hunted before. There has been introduced in the British parliament a bill giving wom- | stroyed all of its industries. [tween the townspeople and the bishop manufacturing center for metals, su- gar and linens before the war de- “The first mention of Laon in the chronicles of amcient Gaul appears under the name of Laudunm in the Afth century. During the ascendancy of the early Frankish king it attained great importance and in the 10th cen- tury was the roval residence of the Carolinglans. To St. Remigius, who baptized Clovis. the traditional found- er of the kingdom of France, L€on Is indebted for the establishment of its bisphopric which for nearly 1,300 years was second only to the arch- bishopric_of Rheims in prestige and power. The struggle for power be- of Laon resulted in many sanguinary conflicts during the middle azes. “Under the walls of Laon .in 1514 Napoleon met defeat at the hands of his Gérman nemesis Blucher, he whose opportune arrival was to turn the tide of battle against’ the great military genius at Waterloo the following vear. “Laon figured conspicuously in the military annals of 1870 through an ex- traordinary incident. The town had capituiated to the Germans who were entering the gates to take formal pos- session when Henriot, a private of en- Bineers in the French army, succeeded in blowing up a powder magazines se- riously @eaging a number of bulld- ings and killing and wounding fuily 500 people. The explosion killed three times as many French soldiers as it did Germans, however, and Henriot was one of thie victims of his own' en- terprise. “On the ramparts of the thirteenth century fortifications have been built beautiful promenades commanding ex- tensive views of the plain in every di- rection. “The town of Laon is of special in- Gulf of Mexico. Marshal Serurier, one of Napoleon's most gifted soldiers and siatesmen, was aiso a native of this monument. stands here in The Laon cathedral of Notre Dame is one of the finest thirteenth century Gothic edifices in Europe. Libau, the Baltic seaport from which according to recent advices, the Ger- mans by sea against Petrograd. Is described by the National Geographic Society’s war meography bulletin issued today “With a population of 90,000, one- fifth of whom are Jews, Libau (R sfan. Libava) is the chief commercial city of the Russian province of Cour-! land” savs the bulledn. “It is a well- built town, many of the houses being of stone, ' situated on a low-lying, sandyv peninsula_which separates the Baltic Sea from the Lake of Libau, the latter a body of water some 12 miles ong and two miles wide having an area of 17 square miles. A channel connecting the sea and lake was dug n 1702 and the modern town has grown up on both banks of this arti- ficial waterway. On the left bank, be- fore the outbreak of the world war, there were numerous factories engaged in the fanufacture of explosives, soap. furniture, agricultural machiner: matches and rope. There were numerous zrain clevators and mills, for Libau had railway connec- tion ' with ‘Russia’s most troductive whaet reglons and forest ‘ands. “Although it is in n high latitude, less than 230 miles south of Petrograd, also saw Libau is listed among the few prac- cally ice-fres ports of Russia. Large quantities of grain. lumber and egs | were exported prior to the war. while the chief imports included coal and herring. The naval harbor of Em- peror Alexander I, a short distance nomh of the commercial harbor, was strongly fortified but id not pre- vent the city from falling into the hands of the Germans, many months ago. “There has been a settlement at Libau for many centuries. At Crst it was only a fishing village, the séafar- ers being attracted by the excellent harbor. As early as the middle of the 13th century it had become a posses- sion of the Livonian Brothers of the word. At the beginning of the 15th century it was burned by the Lithu- anians, and 150 years later was given in pawn_to a Prussian duke. In 1701 Charles XII of Sweden captured & and assessed its citizens for the expense he incurred in fortifying it. I¢ became a Russian town In 1795. Seventeen years later. Macdonpld, he who had won a marshal's baton on the field of Wag- Tam by piercing the Austdan center and saving the day for the French, oc- cupied the place with the Prussian allies of Napoleon in the disastrous Moscow campaign. “Tn times of peace Libau enjovs a certain degree of povularity as a sea- bathing resort, and there is a fort- nightly passenzer steamer service con- necting it with Copenhagen. Stettin, Reval and Petrograd. It is also con- nected with Riga by rafl, that city be- ing 145 miles to the northeast. Petro- grad is more than 400 miles to the northeast in an_airline. The German fortified city of Konizsberg lies almost due south a distance of 125 miles. HOME GARDENS Eggplant. Eggplant is a difficult vegetable for the amateur gardenec~to handle, says today’s bulletin from the National TEmergency Food Garden Comrmission, whose garden instruction approved by experis of the National Department of Agriculture, is printed daily in this newspaper. It is a hot weather plants therefore it should not be grown where the summer season is short. Nor should it be attempted in poor soil; nor by anyone who is not willing to give it plenty of attention. It requires one or more transplantings, and if its growth sufiers—any check the crop is likely to be a faiiure. Inasmuch as it is not safe to set out eggplant in the garden much before en the right to vote upon reaching the | terst to Americans as the birthplace |the middle of June, and because the age of thirty, but that apparently doesn't take Into consideration that vast army of youthful appearing women who of course never admit reaching that age. of the intrepid Abbe Jacques Mar- quette, the Jesuit missionary who, with Louis Joliet, re-discovered the Mississippi River in 1673, journeying down the great watercourse from Wisconsin to within 700 miles of the & plant requires a long growing eeason, the seeds should be sown indoors, or in outdoor hotbeds. One-third of an ounce of seed will produce engugh plants to make a row 100 feet Iong. seeds are wsually sown thickly re threatening ke a ve ! g to make a drive|TMeasutes ena tana | where are wise and foolish. out the seedlings later. Unless the seedling and transplant- ed to large pots directly from the seed Dox, as the plants grow they should be set in larger pots. Somo gardeners make three transfers before putting the plants into the garden, which should not be done until warm weather is settled and the plants are 6 to 10 inches high. Great care should be used not to disturb the roots in any transplanting. Injury can be avoided by using o:d berry boxes in- stead of flower pots for srowing the seedlings; the bottom of the boxes be- ing torn off and then the rest of the Dox set Into the garden with the plant. Plants should set 18 inches apart, and the fruits may be eaten when they are 3 iniches or more in dlameter. | OTHER VIEW POINTS In looking over the record of the General Assembly that is about to adjourn the two things which stand out in its doings are its response to Governor Hoicomb's request for war measures and its tremendously sig- nificant vetes on the prohibition and suffrage amencments to the state con- stitution. Indeed, one might almost say, on the liquor question, that both branches were very close to prohibit, by majority voting, the House by al- most two-thirds. If for no other rea- sons the legislature of this vear will ever be memorable. But it has other accomplishments of no mean note, and aside from one or two exceptions, which were brought about by the un- expected war, it met fairly we'l every demand presented to it—Bridgeport ost. The man who is going to run a gar- den this summer needs to make up his mind very resolutely on the weed question. He will find that it will take all his philosophy and physical en- ergy It is simply astonishing to the ama- teur gardener how fast a weed will grow. He may leave his garden look- ing as neat as apple pie. After return- ing from a week's vacation he finds that the weeds have completely over- topped his_struggling vegetables. The persistence of a weed root I amazing. You may cut off practically the whole thing with your hoe. Then if some little piece of the tap root is left In the soil, up it comes smiling or two, nodding its saucy you as it climbs up to its for- It seems to thrive on head at mer position. decapitation. Or you may pull your weed up by the roots and carelessly leave it Iving on the surface. All at once it sticks its wicked little feet into the ground and in another day or two it has re- established itself That kind of treat- ment would destroy the most able- bodied bean or potato. But weeds have a peculiar vitality of their own. If they flourish it is good-bye to an: hope of vegetables.—#Meriden Journal. Speaker Frank E. Healy of the house at Hartford, Majority Leader Klett of the semate, and inority Leader P. B. O'Sullivan of the sen- agree that the mothers’ pension is one of the most important enacted at the session Mr. Healy alsc con- siders the teachers’ pension bill. and the Home Guard plan very import- ant. On all but the last item the average man will agree with these decisions. Also most of us will re gret with the speaker of the hous that the bill rzising the minimum age limit at which children may leave school from 14 to 16 years did not pass and become law. It is too bad that the antiquated Sunday law ate, bill measures were not changed to more nearly conform with modern practice and custom. However, the house did throw off the steady habit inertia and there was enough of the cerebrums to get through measures recommending that the people have a chance to vote on the two most insistent topics that have occupled attention In civil affairs of lately, namely suffrage and prohi- bition. We suppose the speaker of the house must_have had Governor Tolcomb Jargely in mind when he sald a lot of sheer foolishness had been perpetrat- ed at Hartford in the name of patri- otism. “People have gone crazy over this war business.” he said. “It has per- meated the legislature, naturally, as it has the whole social and economic scheme and many crimes have been committed in its name. Here iu the house you could drive a jackass in label it ‘war measure’ and they’'d think it was a Ford automobile.” Take it all in all the present legis lature, like the legislatures we have been familiar with in the past has done some wise things and a number of foolish ones. Legislatures every New Ha- ven Union. STORIES OF THE WAR Stunts of the Flying Corps. “In a service like the Flying Corps the standard of values is on a very different plane from that of average lay minds” writes a British military expert from the front, according to correspondence of The Associated Press. “What is little short of mirac. ulous to the uninitiated is but a com- monplace to the airman, and a pliot's achievement must be very fine indeed before it is regarded with undue inter- est by his fellows, far less by himself. “This enlarged perspective has ex- tended, though to a less degree, to the soldiers in the trenches, to whom the antics of an airplanes or squadron of airplanes, have long since ceased to be a novelty. But sometimes an un- definable touch of ‘olass’ about the manner in which a pilot handles his machine immediately attracts the al- tention of the men below, and the whole trench here will be filled with eager and observant spectators watth- ing his every manoeuvre. “Every plane coming up from the rear is sarnestly scannmed until its identity is qstablished, and once it is known that ‘he’ is coming, the eol- diers lean back on the fire-step, and wonder what new ‘stunt’ will be in: troduced for their delectation. The pllot in turn seems conscious of what is expected of him and the more cheerfully takes his risks among the rchies’ because it provides the tired trench-dweller with a little mild amusement. “One such pilot existed just at the —_—_——— ‘when for the time the Germans have time when the Germans introduced their much over-rated Fokker. This type of machine, and the tactics evolved with it, certainly scored an initial success against some British airmen. But improved planes a constantly being brought out, ad each side has always in use a certain number of machines inferior to the later enemy planes. When the two types come into conflict the odds are naturally in favor of the better ma- chine. Supremacy in the air, however, depends more on the skiil and re- sourcefulness of the pilot, than on the quality of the alrplane he fiies. and 1t is to euch resourceful men that the British owe their undeniable supre- macy of the air, challenged but a supremacy often never broken, even had the better type of machine. ‘The fame of the pilot mentioned was not confined to any particular sector. The whole line knew of his exploits. His name was never men- tioned in print at home, but out in France in every rest camp, village and town, men chuckled hugely over his doings, and were greaty theered thereby. Here is one of them. A British machine was engaged on a reconnalesance over the German lines when it was attacked by two Fokkers. The observer saw the first Fokker coming, and used his gun so well that the German fluttered down to earth sorely damaged. The second okker, however, dived right behind the British machine, and so deiuged it with machine-gin fire that the pilot had no_course left but to attempt forced ianding. The German quickl: recovered from his dive and was com- ing back to finish off his adversary when our pilot dived from behind the clouds. The German saw him com- ing, banked sharply and started to climb. “The Briton ‘stalled” his machine, and managed to put severai shots in- to the enemy from beneath. One shot killed the observer; another put the engine out of commission, and the Fokker, mortally hit, nose-dived steeply, throwing the dead observer out info mid-air. The pilot managed to regain control before his machine crashed, and contrived to effect a landing’ of some sort. But our pilot was not finished with him. He circled overhead until the German had got clear of his machine, and then he das- cended further, and sprayed the Folk- ker with machine-gun fire till it burst into flames. He then started to climb. “Clouds of German anti-aircraf( shells pursued him, but he managed to get right over the German firing line | Defore a shel: burst near enousn o injure him. His machine stopped In its course, its nose fell, and lown it “ing steeply to earth. A thousand feet. five hundred, two hun- dred! Everyone’s heart jumped in ex- pectation of the crash. Then the pla righted. Alonz the German line sped. faster than a swallow, and machine-gun sput venomously the crowded trenches. It was only ruse. just anothar flight of the geniu which marked the pilot from the or- and as he mounied henven- rds’and flew towards the sefety of own lines, he leaned over from seat and gaily waved his hand to baffled fo the A GREAT WAR IF WE DON'T WEAKEN By Wallace Irwin of the Vigilantes. A few nights ago a public demon- tion was held in Madison Square Garden to honor the crews of visiting Fren warships. That night was truly inspiring to Joyalty and to brotherhood In arms., The twelve thousand who beat the other twelve thousand to the door and stormed the auditorium were on their feet most of the evening, shaking the girdered ceiling with Yankee cheers and_Rebel “rench vel's. AL one dramatic point a Ir Lieutenant-Commander lezped over the ropes into the central arena and whiped out his sword, a_ Yongue of flame, to sisnal many hundred French bayonets which sprouted suddenly skyward, a cornfield of steel, raised to the glory of new Ally. The ensuing din was'terrific and I—on the t¥e of a young enthusiasm—helped knock off the hat of the only pacifist présent. Tt was out of the contrasting silence which followed that 1 heard the warn- ing spoken softly by the little man just behind me. “Itll be a great war," “it we don’t weaken.” if we don’t weaken—there's the point of a sermon! Nobody likes to preach on the elderly subject of pro- hibition; but we are now launched as a Nation upon the business of killing and being kilied and at such a time none of us can afford to trifle with the truth. We mustn’t’ weaken and we must cut out the rotten roots of wealkness. Sane America wants the manyfac- ture of alcoholic beverages stopped for a reason that has nothing to do with sentimental) twaddle. The man- ufacture of alcoholic beverages, If continued with us, would amount e a deadly German pot in our midst. This is a matter of ps1 busines fact. The world America must feed he said, herseif and the world: and she cannot sit by and see millions of tons of good, clean grain being poured into vigs to make a rather expensive, somewhat poison- ous, entirely useless liquid. they are talking of giving ad. Your grocer has learn- ed to say “Food shortage” as he dou- bles the price of every edible apd in the saloon next door the workman— who would eurely serve our Industrial Army a jittle better were he sticking to cold water—is cheating somebody out of a square meal every time a glass of “the same” is shoved at him over the bar. Tt's up to the banker and the baker, the pub and the club. We are strug- gling desperately to make food-ships, a large percentage of which are dos- tined to feed Von and cowardly sharks. ing something heil never dreamed of. And if we're going to out-face hell we can't do it by getting drunk at the expense of soldiers abroad and children at home. Uncle Sam has got to go In training for the big fight. If he's going to win he mustn’t be starv- ed or drugged. Patriotic brewers and distillers know this and are diverting their business into_channels useful to the Government. Those who are not patriotic must be compelled into de- ecency—and your influence will help, if you don't weaken. Might Be So. If Ttaijan patrdls have sunk 13 Aus- trian submarines in the Adriatic dur- ing the last few weeks, perhaps the Ttalians have learned the trick of Already {is the result of a suggestion is facing starvation, | Capelle’s ruinous | War is beosm- | ALL LIONEL BARRYMORE AND IRENE HOWLEY in “HiIS FATHER’S SON”’ A METRO WONDER PLAY OF ROMANCE, MIRTH AND MILLION BURTON HOLMES . | A HONEYLESS HONEYMOON UE TRAVE Comedy TODAY AND TONIGHT NELL SHIPMAN—WM. DUNCAN—GEORGE HOL in “THROUGH THE WALL” PATHE WEEKLY HUGHIE MACK COMEDY Ji IDAVIS TH 1T . Ruby Cavelle Co. 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