Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 19, 1917, Page 4

Jlonwich: Bulletin and @oufied g.__121 YEARS OLD Sulscription price 12¢ a weelk:; 50c a e mOnth: $6.00 n year. Entered at the Postoffice at Norwich, Conn., &s second-class matter. Telephome Calls: _Bulletin Business Offica 480. o~ Bulletin Editorial Reoms 35-3. Bulletin Job Otfice 35-2. Willimantic Office. 625 Main Street. Teolephone 210-2. CIRCULATION .. 4812 5,920 1901, 1805, erage average .. October 13, 1917 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusive- 1y entitled to the use for republica- tion of all news despa credit- ed to it or not otherwisc credit- ed in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. THE COAL STRIKES, For a long tum, eved befure the cutbreak of the warl there have been increasing indicationz $hat the timez was approaching when govern- ment would have to taks 'pver the » control of the coal mines of the coun- try. Such has been due to the un- just manner in which the consumers have been treated through combira- tions, labor tropbles and other prob- lems which have risen in connection with the mining and distribution of that commodity. Stronger today than ever appears to be the liklinood of such a step be- ing taken in view of the strike in the soft coal flelds of the middle west where thcusands of miners are al- ready out and others are threatening to go out, where the production of coal has decreased 75,000 tons a day and where it will drop much more if the number of strikers increases. . Scarcity of labor and the demand for increased wages have brought the matter to a focus now, tc such an ex- tent that Coal Administrator Garfield ~ has issued warning to the effect that “ miners and operators must assume the * responsibility of the burden which rests upon them to produce coai need- ed without interruption and if neces- sary he will take the required steps .to compel the production cf coal to meet the country’s needs. It should be realized that this is the worst time when such trouble could - take place. The coal situation is bad enough without making it worse by - strikes. Business is suffering enough from such a handicap without hav- ing the industrial activity of any sec- tion of the country paralyzed by such inconsistent ‘action and if it is not the dispgsition of the miners and op- rators to get together on a sensible adjustment there will be nothing else for the government to do but act and without prolcnged delay- LOANS OR TAXATION. There is food for Serious thought in 4ythe siatement which has been made in'| urging the subsecriptions to the Lib- y-erty loan that it is preferable to loan your money to the government at a sood rate of interest and know that here is substantial security back cf it than it is to refrain frcm such ac- tion and therefore invite the imposi- tion of larger taxes. Taxes are bet- ter than trib but an investment is better than taxes. This ‘country has gone into the war and it has gone in with the purpose of securing a victorious outcome which | means respect for its rights and the principles for which it is fighting. In gz order to wage a successful war it must kave funds. Those' funds must be se- cured and they are .being raised by taxation and by loans. In other words the people are being given a chance to get a return of interest and prin- cipal for part of what they are sup- posed to pay to carry on the conflict. If the amount which it is desired to secure by loans is not obtained the cquivalent ‘can be raised by the im- position of larger taxes, which means that when the money is paid over here, will be none of it which they an cxpect to come back ip the fu- ‘ure. There i therefore a responsibility which rests upon the people. Now is the time for them to make a choice of what they prefer to do. There can _be no question .but what the bonds fare much more desirabie than taxes and such being the case there should be & determination upon the part of each and every one to do his bit and do it in a way which will not oniy help the country but himself at the jsame time. s GREECE AND BULGARIA. From a reliable source comes the in- formation that Greece will soon enter he conflict by declaring war upon Bulgaria. That " of" course has been nticipated. It is in keeping with fhe tand which that country has taken long with the entente, and at the it offers a plausible- ex- lanation of the recent visit of Kaiser Wilhelm and Secretary von Kuehl- nn to Sofia. It is certain that the kaiser has een anticipating this move. He at e same time is conscious of the feel- ng of the people of Bulgaria that Deace ought to be declared and that they should be allowed.to keep the territory which they now possess. There was meed therefore of a little = PRI B o — o o= encouragement from the high com- mand. Sofia needed to be told by the monarch who is in control of all the central powers that it had not as yet done ‘its full duty, that it fs necessary for Bulgaria to do some mcre fighting in order to help out the German ambition for a great central empire and to hold out as a bait the alluring offer of Saloniki if Bulgaria can only capture it. It was quite im- portant therefore that the ' kaiser should go in person to direct this move, to overceme Bulgarian apathy and to set in motion the forces that are needed to offset the entrance of Greece into the war. Some prize was needed to get Bulgaria to do more than it is doing. Saloniki is appar- ently it, but the Greeks have no love for their neighbors and they fully un- derstand with what longing eyes that country scans their northeastern pos- sessicn and thus any move in that di- rection is going to put Greece into the fight with a greater determination than ever. The kaiser is clever, but it will be surprising if his latest move has not already been discounted. ECONOMIZE ON SUGAR. It wasn't many days ago that the “people were informed of the plea which had ccme from France asking for 100,000 tons or so of sugar in order to carry that country through until the next sugar crop becomes available. Even in the past France has bezn on a_tery small sugarrationand it faced “n ahsolute exhaustion of its supply of that commodity unless it received the desired relief. Consequently this country has determined to aid and France will be furnished sufficient to carry it throush. Tt is in connection with this exten- sion of help to France that this coun- try, especially throughout the east, is experiencing a shortage of sugar, and it was in anticipation of such a result that the food administrator, almost simultaneously with the anncunce- ment regarding the appeal from France, asked for the practice of economy in the use of sugar, realiz- ing that by such cutting down of the quantities of sugar and candy used it would be possible to meet France's de- mands without causing any serious shortage here. There has unquestionably been some curtailment, but it is safe to say that it has not been what it should be, and in fact the time since the appeal was made has not been sufficient to make any great saving, but with the dealers be- ing unable to get all the sugar they need and therefore beinz obliged to place restrictions upon- the amount sold to a customer, even though th> price is not affected, new emphasis”is given to the need of practicing econ- omy for the next menth or so until the new cane and beet sugar comes into the market. This is a way in which everyone not only can but should help. SWEDEN’S OFFICIAL MAIL. Just what the outcoms of the hold- ing up of the diplomatic mail which was being brought to this country by Sweden’s special representative will he cannot be forecasted. What ough! to be done is a different matter. The pouches and boxes were re- movéd from the ship at Halifax and are mow in the British legation at Washington _ with unbroken seals. Great Britain acted when . it was shown that Sweden had been handlint German messages, and its desire now is to ascertain whether there are any such messages contained in the di- plomatic pouches in question, and it has offered to turn them over pro- vided it is permitted to witness the opening of them. Sweden of course resents the action that has been taken and the Swedish minister in refusing to comply with the demand has appealed to this coun- try, urging that it use its influence 10 get the hoxes inasmuch as there are reporis contained therein rezarding economic ccnditions in Sweden that this country has asked for. There appears to be no immediate prospects that Great Britain will in- terfere in any wav with the mail any more than to withhold it until its re- quest is complied with. Sweden can if it will quickly straighten out the matter and it would seem to be for its interests to do-so for thereby it could prave that even though its for- eign service had erred in the past, the practice has been stopped and stop- ped for good. On the other hand just as long as 1t refuses it keeps alive the suspicion that it has not reformed and that it is still workinz for Ger- many’s interests, and that is a sus- picion that it ought to clear up if it is unwarranted. EDITORIAL NOTES. Russia must realize as the result of the new German menace that there is greater need for unity than ever. The decision of Anson Phelps Stokes that he would not accept the call to Hampton Institute was a bit of good news-to Yale, The man on the corner says: No one will he surprised these days to hear a Beighbor announce that he is having a stickpin set with coal With the destruction of grain ele- vatcrs, and a stockyard by fire, it 100ks very much as if something more than accidents were responsibie. Every kime the German generals feel the need cf strencthening the opinion of the people in their abilit: and power they direct a hlow at Rus sia. # led abandonment of .the Liberty fires was a good cne, but what effect will it have The argument: which to the upon the Thanksgiving night barre! burning? It is time thdt Some of the close friends of the; miners in the middle west called to their attention the im- vortant fact that a:strike now means just so much advantage for the enemy. Contrary to some of their neighbors the Danes are conscious of the fact that the United States is entireiy right in the course it is pursuing and they are not backward in so stating. When the “Kaiser tells Ambassador Gerard that he will brook no nonsense from the United States after the war, it is time that there was a recogni- tion of the need of largely oversub- scribing the Liberty loan. Applicants for auto licenses must henceforth pass skidding tests, but might it not be a good idea also. to coach them in reading the speedome- ter and becoming more proficlent in knowing ‘when they are going too fast? e S~y =4 FROM LUCILE’S DIARY Cousin Fannie’s delight at being in- vited to a house party at the Dering’s on Hope Lake was really naive. With her usually rather gauche self-depre- clation she said that she thought she ought not to go, as she was sure it would be a rather dressy affair. But mother insisted upon her accepting the invitation and I offered to lend her my last year's best sports suit, which is still remarkably g00d looking. Father took me aside and said that he wished to finance the iittie trip. “You get the railroad tickets. please, Luclle,” he said, “and give them to her. Then there wili be' no argument about the matter. Fannie certainly needs and deserves a holiday in the country. “Indeed she does and I think it’ dear of you, daddy, to furnish it. Don't you think it would be nice to give me a little money to buy her something pretty to wear up there in the coun- try ‘Why, ves, if you think she needs something extra. _ “Just as if a woman didn't always need something new to wear,” 1 re- turned laughingly, and father, drew some bills from his bill book and" hand- ed them to me. I went out immediate- Iy and bought a beautiful silk sweater. I secretly slipped it in to Cousin Fan- nie's trunk as a gay little surprise. “T certainly think it's strang that we don’t hear from Fannie” remarked mother three days after she had left for Hope lake. “Fannie is usually punctillous about writing. I hope she arrived safely.” “Well, here's a letter from her now,” said father, who had met the postman on his late afternoon round. “What does she say?” Mother opened the enevelope and after reading a few lines gasped. “Why, she had a fearful time getting to Dering’s. Mercy. Lucile! You bought her a ticket to New London instead of London, and that’s in the opposite end of the state, she says. She got up there at half past 7 in the evening. and nobody knew anything about Hope lake. At last the station agent suc- ceeded in looking it up for her. and the poor child had to stay there all night and get up at 3 o'clock in the morning to catch a train out when the next noon she arrived after changing cars several times. Lucile, how could you have been so careless?” “I's awfully easy mother, fuse Loondon and New London. think 1 should be blamed when legislature allows town in the state to have such similar names. { really perfectly stupid.” 1 “Of course nobody else is stupid.” remarked father. with unusual acidity. “Well. I don’t see that it's such a catastrophe,” I returned. I should have considered it just a lark. Cousin Fannie had a much longer trip than she otherwise would and saw a great deal more country.” “And developed such a sick head- ache that she couldn't write the ‘first day she was at the Dering’s,” added mother. “Well. she is all right now, so why discuss it any longer? I might write a note to her telling how sorry I am.” “I wish you would Lucile, my dear,” said father, more genially. “All right. daddy. I'll be glad to” I assured him, but before I had time to avrite the next day I received a note from Cousin Fannie inclosed with the green sweater. “I think this must have been placed in my trunk by mistake” she wrote. “It is much more your style than mine. Lucile. 1 know you love this emerald shade and its's becoming to your au- burn hair. but I shudder to think how sallow 1 should 1ok in it, so I'm send- ing it back to you. feeling sure it was mean for you and not for me.” | It happened that I was going to a golf tournament at the Linden club that afternoon with Jerry Voshell, a delightful man I have recently met. Of course I was glad to have somehing stunning to wear. to con- 1 don’t the same it's When I came home at dinner time father whistled a surprised and admir- ing exclamation. “Where did you get th; orgeous garment?” he asked. this is the sweaer you gave to Cousin Fannie. She fancied that it was too bright for her. and sent it home. Poor dear, she has such mouselike taste!” “Knowing that, why didn’t you se- leet something less flamboyant?” fath- er persisted. “She needs keying up,” I answered. LETTERS TO THE EDITO Who is Ireland? Mr. Editor: It is but a short time ago that Mr. Cummings wrote you that he was done with his argument on the Irish question. It scems that he was only out of ammunition, so now Ye reloads his dream with a Latin quotation. One would think he might | have more properly selected for his theme an Irish sentiment. An . old Norwich resident of the ancient Gaelic stock used to say “It is not aisy to knock blood out of a_turnip,” nor is it casy to prove loyalty with pen and pencil. Real loyalists do not have claim it in the streets, and an answer o all this kind of special pleading is this—which _is also of Latin origin— *Cesar’s wife skbould be above suspi- cion.” Mr. - Cummings’ ludicrous parallels between Ireland and the United States are amusing. Ireland did this, and the United States did that. Who is Ire- land? Is De Valeria—the South American adventurer—without even an irish name, but representative of the Sinn Feiners who insult and imoh American jackies in the streets of Cork. Is he Ireland? Is_ Sir Roger | Casement, who betrayed the govern- ment that made him a “Sir"—is he Ire- Jand? Is Mr. Cummings himself, wo is a supporter and sympathizer of the above? TIs he Ireland? Or are not such men as Carson, Bonar Law. John Redmond and a host of clean men who have not lifted up their hands to trea- son nor eword deceitfully, are these not fairer representatives of Ireland? ‘While such men exist no great place can be found for peoble who think that Napper Tandy is vet alive. and that there is an English law forbidding the growth of the shamrock on Irish soil. The Ireland of today Is not this, but is exemplified in the virtue. valor and patriotism of men in the trenches at the western front, anywhere in France, who are there for humanity’s sake and not for any antiquated notiorw of a. circumscribed past. More power to them and us! AMERICAN CITIZEN. Norwich, Oct. 18, 1917. The Wrong Time. Mr. Editor. We find J. H. Cummings has come down tc earth and laid aside bis self-given halo. It is with joy we find from his own writing that he is human. And, like the rest of us, knows enough to cover. With ail his bragging about being honest, “Show us an honest man.” We can see the hole he has dug to run to as if we were really there. Now. J. H., if you want to remodel the U.'S. A. take another time. BUTTER. Norwich. Oct. 18. 1917 ; make broad their phrlacteries, nor pro- | “She dresses in too quiet tones.” “I suppose she knows what she likes. You'd better change this for a gray or white or whatever color she likes im- mediately.” “Oh, this can’t be exchanged now, daddy, “I've worn it this afternoon and snagged it a little, and besides you don’t approve of sending garments back after they've been worn do you?” “No. I don’t, that's so!” he ac- knowledged. “You’'ll have to keep that and get another for Fannie—out of your own allowance.” This edict was most unpleasant for me, as I am trying to economize this summer, and I thought when I se- lected that lovely bright green sweater that Cousin Fannie and I could share it and carry out my plan of making one dollar do the work of two. It is annoying in Cousin Fannie to be so extremely fussy about colors. With her unfortunate complextion. I can’t see that it makes much difference what she wears.—Chicago News. CANNING GRAPES. Grape jelly is the king of Jellies, says today’s bulletin of the National Emergency Food Garden Commis- sion, with which this nwspaper is co-operating in a nation-wide food conservation movement. An acid grap: Is best for jelly. The sweet, ripe grapes contain too much sugar. Half-ripe fruit, or equal por- tions of nearly ripe and green grapes, will also be found satisfactory. Wild grapes make aeiicious jelly. Pick grapes from stems, put into preserving kettle, crush with wooden potato masher or wooden spoon, heat siowly, stirring frequently while sim- mering. Cook _until fruit is broken into pieces. Strain through a jelly bag. To each cup of juice add a cup of sugar and boil until it thickens on the edge of a spoon dipped into it and cooled. Pour into hot jelly glasses and when cold cover with hot paraffin. Grape Jelly in layers—Make some Niagara and Delaware jelly. also a small quantity of Concord jelly. In the bottoms ot individual glasses place a layer of Delaware jelly and let it harden, then cover with a layer of Niagara jelly. When this has con- gealed finish with the decep-tinted Concord_jelly. ~ Cool and _seal as usual. When serving as a desert top with a_spoonful of whipped ‘cream and decorate with a_cherry. Grape Jam—Stem, weigh and wash grapes. Measure out one pound of sugar for each pound of grapes. Put grapes in preserving _kettle with | enoush water to keep from sticking Ccok gently one-half to hour, preas on_ bottom. three-quarters of an hg through colander fine eénough to keep seeds_from passing through. Add sugar, return to kettle, stir well and cook slowiy until it drops from ine spoon in a jelly-lize consistency. Skim if needed ana when as thick as desired turn into glasses. . Ripe Grape Marmalade — Stem grapes: to each half pint allow cup of sugar. Pu'p the grapes and keep skins. Extract sceds by boiling pulp until tender, rubbing through fine col- ander. Put pulp juice and skins over fire in preserving kettle and add sugar. Boil until very thick, pour into jars and seal. g Views of the Vigilantes WHY WE ARE AT WAR Henry Dwight Sedgwick of The Vigilantes. We aie a peacable people. After the Civil War there was a universal hove that that we should never go to war again; but Cuba lay at our doors, exploited, ill-treated, making her pa- thetic appeal to American chivalry and American justice, and we regard- war as a lesser evil than a heart hardened to the suffering of others. Against that war neither Pacifists nor German Americans made objec- tion: they had no Spanish sympathies. The Spanish war was soon ended, and once more we hoped that Ameri- ca would never go to war again. But our hopes were too sanguine. A great country in the centre of Eu- rope had waxed wonderfully strong during forty years.of peace. In 1870 Germany and France were equal in population and riches. In 1914. the German population was 70 millions, the French 38 millions: German com- merce amounted to five billions of dollars, French commerce to three: the German merchant marine was double that of France: German agri- cultural produce, wheat. rye, potatoes, in spite of inferior soil, was 25 per cent. to 50 per cent. greater than the French. By peaceful means Germany was rapidly acquiring a very great, even a guiding influence in the world’s affairs. The German government, however, remained a government of a warrior caste, bred upon the Prus- sian tradition that might makes right; At its head was an Emperor. who de- clared that he ruled by divineright, By and that his army was the rock on which his empire was built. This great nation, and especially its in- tellectual leaders, become drunk with success and self-love: boastful and truculent. it pressed upon its neigh- bors, until the peace of Europe gave way at its weakest point. Germany thought she say her way clear to dominate Europe, and dragging Aus- tria with her, dashed over Belgium, in order to deal knockout blows first to France and then to Russia. We were astounded. We admired Germany, her music, her science, her scholarship, Ther universities and schools, her municipalities, her in- dustry. skill and success. We, could not believe that Germany was S0 ut- terly in the wrong as her enemies said. ‘But little . by little we were forced to belie it. First the A'des published the story of their diplo- matic efforts to prevent the war, but Germany never published her corre- spondence with Austria: then came report after report of murders devas- tation and pillage in Belgium and France: then followed, one after the other. lawless sinkings of American vessels, the torpedoing of the Lusi- tania, the drowning of American women and children, the intrigues and plots in this country, the Insult- ing order that American flags should keep off a great part of the high seas, and finally_the plan to involve us in war with Japan and Mexico. Even these insults and injurles aid not push us directly into the war, but they opened our eyes. and we learned a lesson. That lesson was that a Prussian feudal ,military government, with a Kaiser by divine right at its Head. will act in accordance with its nature: that in order to fulfill its am- bition, ‘it will burn and pillage citics devastate fields and orchards, that it will order priests sjot women raped, laborers deported. that it will tear up treaties, sink innocent travelers by sea, and seek to cow nations _into submission by terror. With such an 19, 1917 government, supported by the mi t has ever existed, no democracy in-the world is safe. Slowly, reluctantly, we faced this al- ternative; either’ we must submit to’ the divine rights of an Emperor who bids his soldiers act like Huns, or we must fight for our own right to exist. So, slowly, reluctantly, we decided to Aght. If we cannot overthrow the Prussian military articracy and its Emperor now, not only England. France, Italy and Russia, but the United States also qust keep armed to the teeth, and with national military preparedness moulding our national life ,reshaping >ur honored institutions, ~breaking down our ofd ideas, our democracy, as ve.hoped to see it ,will be impossible. \ military nation cannot be run by the methods of a town meeting. it must be run by despotic methods. We shall ‘e obliged to economize and serimp on schools hospitals, asylums, play- grounds, institutions of research, to re- frain from all activities which, sprung from a sense of human brotherhood make the lfves of the mass of men more worth while to themselves and Armories and arsenals will imperial ightiest take the place of ball and boating. For the sake of our children we must stop all that wickedness and folly now. We must fight till the German government has passed out of the hands of the feudal aristocracy and AUDITOR G Taken Entire Posse: Suspicious of Every Move Her Sweet! Minute Drama v Woman’s Heart and Soul AND AN ALL STAR GOOD MUSIC BY CONCERT ORCHE COMING MONDAY—ALL THE PLAGUE OF JEALOUSY on of Her. She Becomes Wildly and Unreasonably “NWrath of .ove’’ with VIRGINIA PEARSON r=u: EDWARD CONNELLY -.: PRICES—Matinee 10c, Children 5¢; MATINEE 130, 3 EVENING 7, 8:30 1IUM ntil the Green-Eyed Monster Has the heart Makes in This Up to SUPPORTING CAST STRA - ALWAYS A GOOD SHOW Evening 10c and 15¢ their supporters, ino the hands of the German people. 1t was a clear understanding-of the matters at issue and of the immense consequences to our future a dto the future of the world, that has ranged us at last side by side with Egnland, France, Russia, Italy, Belgium and Ser- bla. May God defend the right. Anton Vys, 21 years old, and Hu- bert Nieterau 20, who have escaped from Germany, told the correspondent of the London Times the following story: On September 3 we were approach- ed by a Dutch workman whom we tad known and who said, “Will you make 40 guilders a week? We said we would, and followed him to the office of a firm, blacklisted by the British as we heard afterwards, and accepted an offer to work in Germany as navvies. Our wages were to be about 18 marks (18s.) daily. We re- celved a ticket by which we could get a photograph and a ticket for a_pass- port. On Séptember 5 we found our- selves in company with 23 Dutch workmen, mostly siilled workers' in the iron trade, on_the platform at Maas Station in Rottera¥m, under the guidance of a member of the said firm. The same evening we were taken over hy another member of the firm at Emmerich, who took us to Es- sen. The next day we were forced to enlist as munition worlkers at Krupp's works. On_September 7 we had to start manufacturing 12 cm. (4.7in.) shells. No protest could heip us. We worked with Belgian deported people, Belgian, French and Russian prison- ers, and German men and women. Ail were under guard of German sentries armed with rifles and revolvers. We were forced to work because, unless we worked, we had no food. We worked eight hours a day practically without interruption. There were 12 shell presses in our department, but iwo of them were not employed owing to shortage of men. The atmosphere was insufferably hot, and men occa- slonally fainted. Nieterau said that he had seen a German killed by the rough way in which a girl had swung a hot steel bar towards him. The man was placed by the side of the gangway and remained there for four hours, as work could not be interrupted for the purpose of attending to him. Both Vvg and Nie- terau had been ill for about half the time they spent in Essen, as the re- sult of strain and bad food. The lat- ter, they said, consisted of swillings -twice a dav and four slices cf bread. Nieterau lost 22 pounds in weight in 21 davw. They were struck with the fact that nobody at the works spoke about the war, and that all Germans as well as their prisoners were nothing but slaves who had partly lost their power of thinking as the result of underfeed- ing. The firm which engaged the two young men is beinz prosecuted by the Rotterdam police for breach of neu- trality, as metal workers are not al- lowed 'to proceed outside Holland. The Vorwarts calls attention to the official statistics of tuberculosis in Eerlin. During March, April and May of this vear there wecre \1,605 deaths from tuberculosis. as compared with 1,032 deaths in the same¢ months cf 1916: 1,009 deaths from inflammation of the lungs, as compared with 622 in 1916: and 337 deaths from other lung diseases as compared with 190 deaths in 1916. Thus the total num- ber of deaths from lung troubles dur- ing the three months was 2,952 in 1917, as compared with 1,844 in 1916. Tt is not a little singular that the oldest flag belongs, comparatively speaking. to the newest nation. The United States adcpted their present colors 140 years ago (June 14, i and the only change in it since has Leen the addition of now stars for every new state added to the Union. The stars angd stripes were, of course, takn from the arms of General George Washington, the shield of whose fam. ily is depicted on monuments in Brin- ton church. The Union Jack. in its present form, dates only from 1801 while the French tricolor was adopted in 1794, To one of the casualty clearing. sta- tions in Armentieres was brought a boy of 19, who had been gassed. He was a life-long paralytic and wizened like an old man, and deaf and dumb. Nobody knew where he had come from or to whom he belonged, but he had one creature faithful to him. It was a_small dog, who came on the stret- cher with him, sitting on his chest. It watched close to him when he lay in the hospital, and went away with nim, sitting on his chest again, when he was sent further awayv to another clearing station. This dog's fidelity to others. be the school houses for young men; ammunition plants will be their iab- oratories; rifle and bayonet drill will { to the paralyzed boy, who was deaf and dumb and gassed, seems to men who have -seen many sights of war and this ageny in Armentieres the most { pitiful thing they know. “A queer chance meeting took piace in a_South London tobacconist's shop on Saturday evening,” writes a cor- respondent. “As the elderly trades- man, who lacked his left arm. was serving me, another customer entered with a wooden stump for his left leg. A moment later a soldier came in with his right sleeve empty. All were chviously merely casual customers, for Tommy stared with amazement at the one-armed shopkeeper, the one- legged customer, and then indicating his own missing arm, remarked: ‘Seems to me, if the doctors mot to work they could make ‘one compiete man oit of the three of us.’ "—lLondcn Chronicle. > The people of the United States were intensely peace loving. They had tried as hard-as they couid to main- tain a position of neutrality as long as they honorably could, but they had been finaily forced to the conclusicn that this earth was no place for de- cent people to inhabit, if a single great ‘Power could be allowed to -go on un- checked, by whatever means—by force, by treachery, by the use of actual or moral poison—sweeping out of its way any obstacles which stood in the path of its own inordinate ambition: and so he felt that their countrv and -his GLEANED FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES country were united by something far stronger than any written pact or any formal alliance. They were united by an absolute unity of motive and of aim. (Cheers.) They were both out to do what they could to make the world a better place to live in—a place that would be safer for the weak against the inordinate ambition of a great power, and dominated by some other law than the law of the jungle. (Cheers.) “We are beth out.” continued Lord Milner, “to try to prevent—as far, in- deed, as human foresizght and precau- tions can prevent—the recurrence of this scourge which is at present de- vastating such large portions of the [ habitable carth.”—ILord Milner. General Botha, 65 years old, who made home rule a magnificent succ: in South Africa, has an interesting but little known Jink with the cause of self-government in Ireland. Mrs. Botha is a descendant of Themas Adis Emmet, elder brother of Robert Em- met, the famous insurgent leader. 21 himself one of ihe finest gharacters among the United Irishmen of 17¢8. After being exileg from Ireland he went to America and rose to be at- torney general of the state of New York. In our effort to assist our American cousins to find a suitable nickname for their soldiers we should be careful not to wound susceptibilities or to re- open old sores. “Yankee” will never do for the man from the southern states. Let us offer a word worthy of them and worthy their acceptance. The obvious name—to include north- erner, southerner, and the man from “out west” is—*“Samsons!” But really no exception should taken to the word Yankee, which is an honorable title. When the New ¥ngland colonies were first setiled, the inhabitants were obliged to fight fneir way against many nations of Indians They found but little difficulty in st duing them all except one trihe, 0 were known by the name of Yankoos —which signifies invincible. After the waste of much blood and treasure, the Yankoos were at last subdued by the be New Englandmen. The remains of this 18- (agreeable to the Indinn transferred their name to th For a while they were called Yankcos: but from a corruption, common to names in all languares, they got the name of Yankee. The ex-dowager empress Marie of Russia, whose condition is reported to be very serious, was never among those - whom German blandishments deceived. “I hate the Germans,” she cnce declared. “I have hated them ever since they took Schleswiz from Den- nation tom) conquerors. | ! i : mark. I am a Dane. We in Russia have believed too much in the Gar- mans and allowed them to fili too many important official positions. Put I know one man whoin they could not deceive—King Edward VIL™ Lord French has told us cf the im- portance of the rifle and war corres- pondents emphasize the point afresh this week. Y soldiers home from the trenches report from time to time that rifle-firing never comes their way. A gallant young Australian, wounded and homeward bound, wil carry the same ‘story to. the great south. Rut without the rifle he would not he alive to deny its value. In a great attack he saw a giant Prussian guardsman advancing upon him. “There was only one thing for it; I shot him with my rifie before he could get at me. That was the only time I used It.” PBuring Saturday night's alr raid the 1 constables on duty on Harrow ching the reception given to the invaders cver Northeast Loi don while the boys in the head mas- ter's house near by were assembled for evening prayers. The specials smiled when they heard the hyvmn be- ing_ sung. It was “Hark, hark, my soul!” with the refrain: “Singing to welcome the pilgrims of the nizht.” NEW BOOKS cluding full and graphic descriptions of the Jutland sea fight and other en- Estate of M. utilizing his money to prote STAR FEATURE BILL BTHEATRE Today and Saturday ALICE JOYCE and Marc MacDermott i N “An Alabaster Box” From the Famous Novel by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley. LATEST WAR NEWS in HEARST-PATHE WEEKLY BIG V. COMEDY B VAUDEV LE TODAY AND TOMORROW FRANKIE CARPENTER And Her Own Company Presents “WAR IS WAR” FOUR DANCING DEMONS Sensational Variety Dancers KULLERVOO BROS. Miraculous Gymnastic ,Feats D ———— BESSIE LOVE in THE LITTLE REFORMER Five Acts TRIANGLE KOMEDY If You Cannot kBuy LIBERTY BOND YOURSELF Help the College Club to buy one by going to FI-FI OF THE TOY SHOP agements, sreat and small, as'well as an illuminating ace: 1t of the marine are her was given in; this informe and his book i as authentic as it thrilli Temperamental Henry. An eplsode in History of the Early Life and the Young Loves of Henry Calver] By Samuel Merwin. Cloth, pages, illustrated Published the Bobbs: Merili Company, In apolis. Price $1.50 net This story appeared serially in ona prominent magazines, nnder the somewhat misleading title, 7T Love of ilenry the Nint Its suc was immediate and ured, so great, ir deed, that Mr, Merwir once urged to write the fur nc of his young hero. now doing and calling them Henry is ty. Samuel Merwin Is the auth many successful novels, but it i to say that this romance of the iffe 1 vounz loves of Hent 2d, w new ad verly Cholmondeley Publizhed by Company, New Christine Is a notable addition to the Action’ which has dealt with the great tory of a student ¥y and this violin to In fact voung English ‘girl—a who goes to Germany who ig thers at the outbre uilities, may be sald to German state of mind m Brittling Sees It Through interprets { English. 1 cripping and unfor- gettable human, fascin ingly inte nd significant in tk new light throws tp man character and thor As one writer has said: “When one s latd the book one why 1 to win this war ch nation of read Christine—I w side gland is determin know or dle in the strife. the entente skculd am_thankful to have known (hristine, and 1 owe onc sad mother a debt of gratitude for giving me a Ance —_— realize the b and nobiilty of the h Navy at War. ile Dixon. Cloth, ozt illustrated. 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