Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 22, 1918, Page 8

GARDENING MAKES Mfl'rs, The mors blisters yau ralse in ting, the water your plants will need. Weeds waste moisture and. plant food. And they're not even pretty. Have you filed your hoes? Some sticks to mark the rows? — Gardeners of a neighborhood, whe- ther beginners or experienced, should find profit as well ‘as pleasure in the formatio» of a local garden club, in the opinion of specialists of the Unit- ed States Department of Agriculture. The meetings can be conducted on the basis <’ experience meetings to ‘the mutual advantoge of all. Beginners can take advautage of the experience of svccessful gardenrs, and thus ob- tain much valuable advice théy may not find in books or papers on gar- dening. In the present emergency, it is pointed ovt, it is not only a prii- ivge but a duty to pass on the results of garden experience when such ex- perience may save another from er- ror or increase his chances of success. May Buy Together. Anotaer use of the neighborhood garden club may be found ip coopera- tive work and cooperative buying. The club members may unite to .do the heavy work in breaking up a neigh- bor's garden; and should emergency arise, may help in preventing damage Boys Organized Like These (m Washi ngton, D. C. Lots and Neighborh by storm or flood or insect visitation. If insect attacks can not be met by simple methods, the gardening club may buy a sprayer for the use of all its members. Costly garden tools needed only occasionally also may be obtained in this manner without hard- ship to the individual gardener. Interest Boys and Girls. An important feature of the work can be the organization of boy's and girls' garden clubs, separate from the adults’. - In banding together "the young folks to help .in the campaign for more food. assistance may be ob- tained from the State Relations Ser- vice of the United. States Department of Agricuiture in cooperation with the State agricultural colleges. It is re- zarded as important that the boys and girls be'interested. for many of.the light tdsks of gardening ‘can be per- willingly :if given a undertaking. Exhil -of garden pro- idea may ‘suggest themselves to thi club orgunzer. \ué'r:Au OF BREAD. “If you are hungry you can = something. else besides hmd’ is 'the ‘way mother's wise sayi all-of us now. things the United States Food Ad- instead of bl'eld Potatoe P‘“'"’“fi, luced po- tatoes. 3 tablespoons thick-: 2 toblespoons grated cheese, l spoons onion juice, salt-and. mer‘ Mix' all together, place in ramekins and hent in the ‘oven. cup of cooked rice add one egg beaten- and two tablespoons of eom cooked sausage. and form into flat ca.kee It ture is very soft add a rice. Brown lightly in drippings, be- ing careful to have the fat well heat- ed before adding the cakes. . This a;i‘ount will make lix medium - sized es. i Rlpo%Com Pud‘fimy—l L ice, 13 cups ng water, 1 D | oo corfmeal, 1 )t)u.bl:gpnon fat, 2 well b?fi ten eggs, 2 cups milk, 1 wtspmm salt, the mix Sausage and Rm Cakes—To nne girl students at the coll ix 'well together [0 De given to' ttle more V0 on Eum- ‘ducts and other outgrowths of the club | - ing tol the children should be interpreted for Hete 'are some of thel" ministration suggests t}mt we can eat| Adnudq Apl'fl 3. M an dances have been mm'fl flm- holidays by the stud@nts . gian Relief Fund. The Wlll Ji\'( a_dance to' 300 paople at_thé-clul ofi Easter Tuesday: !\ll:d‘ Broo girls will hold.a ard party, !, ter - b8 a’s 4 day for Hutfimi e_sunty ris vmgu %la.mflns ¥ or _the fund.. s The artiord_studente wil_ hold &i-’m tea on E-.iter Mo ,.t.he ! rls - the dm ad wns lnmum“ that. 3880 . "|been. made at the be&t Mfiflflntfi at the Crown on Sun ening. erything “will be. attempted to hrlnx . the Belgiar Relief. Whl’k Tund to 2 ttcord brealdn; sum, Ruu 1 Greenwich, Conn., chair- man of the Connecticut Division of the ational De- on - |fense, addressed .students and" !aculty Work Wonders in Vacant ¥ Gardens. - 1 teaspoon baking powder. Boil the rice in the water for ten minutes. Scald half the cornmeal with the boil- ed rice mixture. Add melted fat and the well ‘beaten eggs. Then odd the milk and ‘the remainder of the corn- meal, together with the salt and bak- ing powder. Mix thoroughly and bake in a moderate oven 40 minutes. - Hominy Balls—1 cup cooked hominy. slight grating nutmeg, 1 egg yolk salt as needed. Mix all well together and form into smooth bolls the size of darge English walnuts. 1f the homr- iny is very stiff it should be beaten up with two tablespoons of hot milk before the other things are added. Roll ‘the balls in cornmeal bread, crumbs then in slighty beaten -egg white, and again in crumbs. Brown in the oven. CONNECTICUT COLLEGE NEWS Norwich _Girls. Take Par{ in Indoor Meet—Easter Recess Begins Friday at Noon—Half Hour Talks to Be Given Weekly by Members of Fac- ulty. (Special to The Bulletin.) Connecticut College For Women, March 21.—As a windup of the winter. sports and physical education work, an interclass track meet was held in e college gymnasium on Wednesday cvening, members wf the classes tak- iny part. The three classes, freshmen, sophomores and .juniors, each with distinctive. ties and ribbons formed in three lines, for the meet. The work included vaulting, jumping, jumping from the spring board and climbing .rupes. The last was especially amus- inz and skilifully attempted. In vaulting, honors went to the ‘r€~h'nan cl in climbing ropes to class, in jumping to' the niors. The total restilt of the meet Freshmen 165, Sophomores 162, . Among the Norwich ng part in the meet were: Wulf, 21, Dora Schwartz, , '20 The results of the s basketball games was an- d as awarding the champijonship first teams to the Sophomore class, of second teams to the Fresh- man -class. Following.the meet, exhibition danc- ing by members of the dancing classes was given. A group of folk dances, including~ Old English. Norwegian, French .and -Swiss dances was given first, by eight girls, including Geor- gette Comeau and Agnes l.eahy, T. C, ‘21 Miss Irma Hutzler and ss Susan Wilcox, C. C. '19, of Norwich, gave an exhibition of an Italian = Tarentella, which was charmin; danced. Solo dances by Miss Henrietta C tigan of White Plains. N. Y.. and Mi; La Fetra Perley of New Rochelle, Y., foillowed and were enthusiastically received. The dances were Polish and Roumanian folk dances and were characteristically interpreted. The dances offered by members of the in- terpretative dancing classes, elemen- tary and advanced, closed the even- ing’s programme. The advanced class interpretated old Greek stories of the gods ang godesses and the grace of the participants was essentially Grecian. The elementary interpretative class danced in unison a Torest Spirits dance. Thesgayness and Crecian ei- fects of the costumes added much to the picturesqueness of the interpreta- tion, Easter Recess. College will close for Waster recess Friday at noon and.will reopen at noon FREE! FREE! MONDAY AND TUESDAY, MARCH 26-27 We.will give away 10 yards of Border with every four Double Roil Wall Paper purchased during the two days as advertised 5000 ROLLS ON SALE ARRANGING AS FOLLOWS Bed Room Patterns........ 20c and 25c Double Roll, Kiichen Room Patterns. ... Hall Room Patterns. .. .. Dining Room Patterns. . Living Room Patterns. .. .. 20c and 25c¢ Double Roll . 20c and 25c Double Roll . 25¢, 30c and 35¢c Double Roll 35¢, 40c and 50c Double Roll \As this is houze cleaning time we give the public this opportunity to save a large at this sale. amount of money in buying COME EARLY AS THE STOCK WILL BE LIMITED SCHWARTZ BROS,, Inc. —The Big Store with the Little Prices—— 9-11-13 WATER STREET, NORWICH, CONN. kL Le- & Osgood €o, of - the cojlege at. weekly . convocation on Tuesday morning. Miss Reis took for her subject Woman's Work in the War, and divided the work into three important groups; farm work, foster- ing of intellectual work and life; con- servation work. In speaking of the farm work,: Miss Reis emphasizeq the fact that women are badly needed for farm work he- cause of the handicap of lack of la- bor, ‘As the result of statistics taken from questionnaires of farmers in Connecticut, it was shown that farm- ers to the amount of 25 per cent. pre- ferred ‘women as laborers. College women were especially needed because of their alertness and %menableness to discipline. The fostering, of intellectual life con not be emphasized too strong] large body of well trained and educated wonién' are'a’ social necessi in any commuuity and-are so in this period more than. ever . before. France, high school teachers, who en- listed in hospital and trench wo: men and women have been sent back to their schools, so important is the neeq of education and training. The Americanization of foreigners, fostering of food conservation and the liberty loans were among other phases of work undertaken by the Women's Committee of National Defense. By working h the farm bureaus and with the home economics bureau the work of fostering and. spreadinz the conservation of food'is widespread and made completely effective. Half Hour Talks. vice League, half hour talks will be ziven by membors of the faculty to students every Friday —evening ° in Thames Hall fromyv. 7 to 7.30. .Topics of popular interest as fwell as college problems will serye as themes rof’ the, fuculty. The' suggestion that such ‘in- formal evenings be held was unani- mously voted by tle, resident students and will be an instructive as‘well as \connecting links between faculty and students! About Food Conservation. Miss Helén Thompsen, head of the dietetics department. spoke to the students at din»r 6n Monddy even- ing, with practical suggestions of how students could help to conserve food. The little talk is bearing practical fruit as can be readily noticed by vis- itors at Thames Hall. Butter is being carefullv measured by students so that ncne will be left on. butfer’ plates, plenty of cereals are being eaten at breakfast, and wheat bread has been tabooed. HELP PAY SALARIES OF GARDEN SUPERVISORS U. S. Department of Agriculture Au- thorizes Expenditure of $3,000. The T'nited States Department of Agreulture has authoried the spend- ing of $3,000 to help pay salaries of garden supervisors to diréct the work of boys and girls in this state. This money is to be distributed through the Connecticut Agricultural college and will be used to provide supervision for the members of the Junior Food Army who take up the work as outlined for them by the Jurior Food Armv com- mittee of the Connecticut Food Sup- ply, Connecticut State Council of De- fense. After discussing the matter with the members of the Junior Food Army committee at a meeting at the Hart- ford" headquarters of the food com- mittee today, State Club Leader A: J. Prundage announced that the.mon- ery will be divided equally among the first twenty towns or cities applying. provided they have a population of over 30,000 and meet the following conditions: 1—A local committee musf be form- €d who will 'xrnvfily assist and advise with the supervisor. 2—The local committes’ must supply sufficient additional funds_to provide supervision from May 1 to October 1, and in addition will supply travel. 3—The time of ‘the supervisor shall be devoted entrelv to over-seeing boys and girls in the production and. conservation of food. .4—The supervisor shall meet - the approval of the state club leader and will be expected to attend a three day training course at the Connecticvt sricultural college, . Agricuitural college: - 5—Plans for orzanization of = the work shail be mada in consultxtion with the county. club leader. Communities .irqerested are thus eu- abled to secure supervision for their boys' and girls’ work by contributing a small amount themselves. Mr. Rrundage reports that all- communi- ties interested should e3t in touch with their county farm L%reau imme- diately. —_— ALVOST A YOUNG MAN AGAIN en a man awakes in the morning with back so stiff he can hardly stoop over, with shodting. twinges -in sides and grojns, dark and puffed pouches under eves—when his movements seem siowed up and he'lacks .vim and-ener- gy—instead of saying “I'm _ getting ol he should be on guard against 'kidney trouble. ' E. R, “hltqhurst‘ R. F.-D." 1, Norfolk, Va. writes: “I had been suffering for .more than a eflr, but since taking Foley Kidney Pila: feel almost a yflung man ag'lin Th er |/ i In| Under the management of the Ser- | e -penters, blacksmiths; tinsmiths, cabi- -\ netmakers,. electricians,. copperemiths, Cash allowance for Find out how much! “Let our corps of expert ulgheers help you solve your heating problem. OCUR Stories oi A:hvmu and Conditions Small-Farm Owner May Securg Aid _From Farm Lcan Board. The Federal Farm loan Board has 1ssued the following rules for the guid- ance:of the land banks'in determining what area constitutes a farm for luan- ing purposes: #First. Generally.—The farm must be of sufficient area to yield at the hands of an ordinarily capable farmer, putting it to use to which it is gen- erally adapted and using average metinods, an income sufficient to main- tain the family of the applicant and discharge the interest and amortiza- tion payments. “Second. Specially.—Where thorough intensive farming or.the practice of a specialty a ;suffictent income has been regularly derived .from a tract defi- cient in area for ordinary: farming. or where the application of the pro: pective borrower shows that he is by experience capable of prdducing such income from such a tract, such area may be accepted as sufficient. pro- vided .the land has a stable and per- manent market-value sufficient to war- rant the loan applied for. : This ruling does not apply to fruit and orchard lands which have already been the subjects of definite rulings by this board.” Under the first paragraph of this ruling loans may be made to the or- dinary farmer on the basis of average skill and efficiency, and no tract of land will be accepted as a farm eli- gible for a loan under the Federal farm loan act unless it is large enough to support the family and take care of the loar under the average farm con- ditions of the nelghborhood. But under the second paragraph of the ruling the intensive farmer or the man who practices a profitable spec- falty, or who shows himself able, to ’do so. will be given financial support by .the Federal Form Loan System. even though his farm may be too small for ordinary farming purposes, pro- vided that the land quite apart from its use has a stable ‘and permanent land value Wwhich will make the loan safe whether it is well operated, or badly operated. or not operated at all. l Ordnance Base Costing %,M,d for ‘ Forces in France. An ordnance base that will cost ap- proximately $25,000,000 is under con- struetion in Frarce.” It will include a gun-repair plant equipped to- reline mrore than 800 guns a ‘month; a large- capacity carriage repair plant; a motor-vehicle repair plant capable of dverhauling more than 1,200 vehicles a month; a small-arms repair plant to handle 58,000 rifies and machine guns a month; a large shop for ihe repair of horse and infantry equip- ment; a reloading plant capable of reloading about 100,000 armlery car- tridges a day. The . ordnance base wm include 20 large storéhouses, 12 shop buildings, 100. smalier shops and magazines, and machine and tool equipment costing $5.000.000. Approximately 450 officers and 16,000 men will be required for maintenance. 10,000 Skilled Men Wanted hr Service " in Aviation Section. Qualified men registered under the selective-service law may be inducted intg service to fill the call for 10,000 skilled mechanics needed by the Avia- tion Section” of the Signal Corps, by aplying to. their' local Boards, Men flot registered may enlist at recruiting stations. The, present call is particularly for machinists, auto mechanics. engine re- pairmen, gunsmiths, chauffeurs, car- We make a boiler for every use. you can get for -our expert’s a You are under no obligation — want to get the information hands, knowmg that if we can show you you, you will wish to emenis now rather than all when it will be too P!ERCE. BUTLER & PiErce MANUFACTURING CORP. 1 Birnie St, Spnnsbwfi.ld, Mass. how it will p\z make your arral wait until next New York = Worcester o Springfield ’ My can Xour old boiler and to get vice on how much you ought to spend for heating your house. 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Cut out the coupon today and send it to us, no matter how small or how large your heating plant may be, and valu- able information about your own. heating and how much we will allow you on your old boiler, will come to you at once. Established 1839 Philadelphia Last Winter I burned. How much cash will you allow me on my boiler and how much money at once. You Brooklyn ulung\al ‘WAR. NEWS DIGEST Throughout the United States and “on the Battle Fronts, sheetmetal workers, propeller makers, Wwireless . operators and constructors, tailors, tentmakers, sailmakers, truck maste vulcanizers, welders, and ex- peris on magnets ignition systems cameras, watches, and. cl Men wiil be sent to San .Antonio, iTex., for segregation by trades, fol- lowed by a brief course of instruc at flving fields or factories ganized . into squadrons service overseas. Additionai in for- mation may ‘be secured by application to the Air Division, Personnel De- partment, Washingtén, D. C. n then or- [ First Gas Masks Made by Women of England and France. The use of gas in warfare dates back to about 400 B. 'C. The Spartans saturated wood with pitch and sulpher and burned it under the walls of cities which they were attacking. For sev- eral centuries gas has not been used in warfare, and The Hague convention definitely ruled against it. However, {on April 22, 1915, the Germans libera- ted great clouds of, gas against Canadian troops near Ypres. destruction and demoralization re- Isulted from this first gas atteck, and within a week England was making plans fon gas warfare against the Germans, Soon after the first German gas at, tack English and French women sent to the front hundreds of thousands of homemade gas masks. For the most part they were merely bandages im- pregnated with chemicals to wrap around ‘the mouth and nose. These emergency masks saved many lives, but afforded only limited protection. Small-Caliber Bullet * Has Armor- Piercing, Tracing, and Incendiary Action. The present war has brought forth a new kind of ammunition for "air- plane use in the form of special cartridges containing bullets for ar- mor-piercing, tracing, and incendiary purposes. "All of these cartridges are of the emall rifie calibers, according to a statement authorized by the War Department. The three-tentks of an inch diameter and short length of the bullet left little space for the armor- piercing element or for tracer and in- cendiary composition, but such com- { binations has been made. » The bullets developed by the United States Ordnance Department have been tested on land ‘and from air- planes to see if there is'any difference in their performance when fired from a quickly moving airplane in the upper atmosphere and when fired on*land. These tests indicate that the Unitew States has developed a class of special cartridges with a performance fully equal to or surpassing that attained abroac. More Than 90 Per Cent. of United States Troops Now Carry Insurance. More than $11,000,000,000 of war-risk insurance has so far been written, covering over 1,500 000 persons in the military and naval services. The average amount of insurance applied for is nearly $9000. The maXimum permitted is $10,000, and the minimum ; $1,000. Swiss Bread Ration Will Be Reduced to 200 Grams a Day. Commenting on the decision to reg- ulate , the consumption of bread - in Paris by means of tickets, reference is made by some of the Paris news- mostly for| Terrible |, papers to the success. of the - bread card in Switzerland, where the bread has been rationed for several months, resulting in an economy of 45 per cent. . of . the amount = consumed previousiy. The @veraze amount ¢lotted person’ per day is 250 grams (which will soon be reduced to 200 grams). Each individual card contains a cer- tain number of ‘coupons for 250, 150 50, and 25 grams of bread. amounting in all to the totai monthly allotment per *| These coupons may be used whenever the holder desires, either at the baker's ant; in fact, guests in are expected to de- individual bread cards the coupons: equivaient to the amount of bread consumed. Sugar Supply Assured for Manu- facturers of Food Products. Manufacturers of ejential food products ‘have been advised by the Food Administration that they will be able to obtain their full require- ments of sugc3 for manufacturing purposes the coming year. This applies particularly to packers of fruit, condensed milk, such vege- tables for the preservation of which sugar may be necessary, as well as to the housewives, for usage in pre- serving purposes., As soon as the car shortage is relieved. according to thy Food Adminisiration statement, supplies of sugar will be available for these purposes. Shipments from Cuba are steadily increasing. All canners have been advised to hold for war purposes such quantities of canned corn, peas, tomatoes, string beans, and salmon as they may have on hand.Such quantities as are not wanted will be released within a few days after receipt of reports showing stocks on hand mustg-be submitted to the Food Administrition before March 13. Each Battle Plane Needs Extra Equipment and Staff of Skilled Men. After three years of warfare the total number of :airplants able to take theé air at any one time bn either side of the western front has not been over 2,500. -Each plane in the air requires a_force of 46 men, two replacemént planes. on the ground, and one training plane for every pilot ‘who eventually reaches the front, with an extra engine for each plane. The life ‘of .a plane 4han two months, and is ‘not’ more the engine must be overhauled after each 75 hours. Now that American battle blanes are going’ overseas, the great problem is to secure the thousands of skilled mechanics, enginemen, motor repair men, wood and metal workers needed to:keep the planes in per- fect condition. This engineerine and mechanjcal force at the aird 4 mes, the flving fields, and revair denots, both here and ‘behind the lines in France, is a vital industrial link in the chain to air supremacy. Use of . Soldiers- as Guards for In- dustrial Plants .is Not recom- mended, A memorandum made public by the War Department concerning the use of armed guards about industrial plants contains the following: | “The soldier in training who has offered his life for the defense of country should not sacrifice hns ef- fectiveness by performing police duty in'.the protection of property back of the lines. This is the duty of the citizen at home. “The theater for operations for armed soldiers is the battlefield of Europe. Each civilian should aid his country by acting as a guard for the detection and preventién of intrigue, deceit, and. all the familiar stealthy operations of the enemy in our midst. Each soldier unnecessarily detained as a’guard in this country aids and abets the enemy in Europe. | *Often a guard may be needed for the safety of a factory. When it is, it atou.ld Qe supplied by the, owner of s | February 23 the factory, by the municipality, or by | the Siate ‘These measures apply net only to manu:actiring plants, but are equally able to shipyards, grain eleva- and stores of suppues a5 t Surgeon General. R-movn Many Officers from “Medical Rucrvn Corps. Fiom fhe decla §tion vf wi.r te the Surgeon General of the Army has removed: 1,050 officers of the Medical 'Reserve .Corps; Tn the following table the reason assigned {for discharge does not isolate under - | maputude for the service™ all those whose dismissal was in considerable jdegree due to inefficiency or ‘in cem- petency, since these reasons had weight in many ‘cases otherwise classified. Discharged for physical disability, 411: inaptitude for the service, 184: to join other branches. 306;" domestic difficulties, 39; resignaticn, 88; need- ed by communities, hospitals,- schools, burm" the same period there “have been 2,265 promotions, including ‘some officers. promoted more tham once. All cheese now. in storage must -Le marketed before June 13, unless specia. permission to hold is given by the i Food Administration. The prospect for the 1918 wheat cror in Japan is said to be very good by a report to the Department of Commerce The 1917 crop is estimated at mearly 35 000,000¢ busheis. More than 1,600 tons of anthragitc coal were condemned in Pennsyivania markets by representatives of the Fuel Administration recently in the cam- pafin to compel the delivery of clean coal A division of “betterments and.ad- ditions” has been added to the rail- road administration- in . charge, . o! Judge Robert S. Lovett. The division | will_ have jurisdiction of betterments and additions to railroad lines through- out the country. From the beginning of 1914 to August 1. 1917, there was a total advance in the retail prices of bread, according to the Department of Labor. In the last few months thére has. been a de- crease, and prices are now 66 per.cent. higher than at the bezinning. 6f 1914, Firms or individuals paying officers or business employees a portion;or all salaries and- wages during the war period in which they are in the serv- ice of the United gtataé deduct these amounts from their un.ble in- comes, according to a regulations by the Commissioner, of Internal Revenue. From June 5 to December -1, 1817, only ‘5,870 arrests were madé or-re- ported to the Department of Jystice for failure to register under the se- lective-service ‘act. OF these.’ 2882 were released ‘after having 'registered and prosecutions were begun agajnst 2.059, of . which .about laofl cases -are still ‘pending. : Following the plan ulnptad for Cali- fornia and Colorado, the Food Admin- istration has appointed a m&-’kn to determine the cost of producing sugar Beets in Nebraska. - THe ‘cam;r mission has no power to fix prices, but it is expected that its. figures will serve as the.basis gor voluniary price agreements between growers and m.- chasers of sugar beets: The new “Mexican service bad: will soon be issued under cerfain (Oll- ditions in Mexico and on the border Persons not now .in the Army who- would have been entitled to the hl‘ and whose separation from the se: has been honorable may secure au- thority from The Adjutant General:to purchase and wear the service Children ' Ory " FOR FLETCHER'S i_