Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 27, 1918, Page 4

< dnwith Bulletin Bulletin Business Cfice 480. . and Gouéies 122 YEARS OLD Entered at the Postoffice at Ndrwich, Coun.. &s second-class matten \ Telephone Callst Bulletin Editorial Rooms, 35-3. Bulletin Job Otftce 35-2, Willimantic Office, 625 Ms'n Street. Telephone =10-2. Norwich, Saturday, April 27, 1918, _ CIRCULATION 1901, rverage . 4412 5925 1905, average April 20, 1918......... MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Assoclated Press is exclusives Iy entitied to the use for republica- tion of all hews despatches credi ed to it or not otherwise eredit- ed in’ this paper and also the local él'he acquisition of many new ships news published herein. . All rights of republication of special despatches herein are also reserved. ‘Right is More Precious than Peace” THE LANGUAGE IN THE SCHOOLS ander the law ¢ the state of cut and posse: the ay- to issue the order which he Governor Holcomb in insisting that the teaching of ldren in ic and priv schoois must after the ng the policy zripping the It is probable that there are sec- tions of the country where the fa- struction in the common schools con- ducted in other than the English lan- guaze is far m in this state, bu extensive than it is it makes no differ- ence how emall it may be here in eomparison with other states it is time that it was brought to an end. In a nation of this character made wp of so many who have come here from other countries to secure the benefits to be is time, even if we were not at war, that every pos- sible effort sh de to zee that the children of such people, especial- iy, and insof: possible grants hemse! shoul structed in t h langu they muy get into closeér touch with the con: ion, ideals and institu- tions of t ountry. It was a mis take to ever allow any relaxation’ in this respect under existing con- ditions i cnforcement of t law Is required for the safety of the state and tion. action taken by the governor is only what should be taken throughout the en- tire country, and particularly at this time uid enemy alien instructors be barred regardless of the language used in the school BOND SHARKS. Adv hat is timely and good is that which is by put forth to the offect tiat the hold: of Libert, bonds should heware of bond sharks. With the millions of people in thi country responding to the nation's needs and obtaining government promises to return the principal at a pulated rate of interest, it is to be expected that there will be not a few in the country who will endeavor to take advantage of such holders to ther in a rich vrize the unsuspecting Under normal conditions swindlers are constantly at work getting a hand- some living off of those who can be made-to part their mopey under promises of alluring returns. The re- sult, as has been experienced in count- less instances, is that such schemes haye robbed the people right and left, and now they see a chance to fatten their pocketbooks by taking advan- tage of thousands who have never be- fore been bondholders and do not ap- preciate the neceesity of exercising the same degree of care in regard to their bonds and the nosal {hereof the expense of that they would with their bank* books. Tt i well that such people should therefore be warned that they need to zealously guard their holdings. The stories and claims of the bond sharks should be taken with more than a grain of salt until holders ecan certain the actual facts regarding such proposals as are made to them to dispose of their bonds from those whom they know and in whom they have confidence. Those who are en- deavoring to get possession of your bonds ehould be given a wide berth unless full value ean be assured. OUR FOREIGN TRADE. With increased attention being di- rected to the requirements of the war, the shipping situation and the devot- ing of every possible means of trans- portation to the getting of our sol- Siers to Burope, it would not be sur- prising if the foreign trade had suf- fered. Hewever, aceording to the report of the buregu of foreign and domestic commerce for March, which has just been issued, the imports and exporta show a partial recovery from the de- cline in recent months. Exports for March amounted to, $531,000,000 an in- crease of no less than $119,000,000 over February. For the nine months end- ing, with March exports were valued at $4,394,000,000, a decrease from $4,- 837,000,000 for the nine months’ pe- tiod a year ago. Imports for the month of Mareh for, the nmine months period -ending with March totalled. _$2,08¢,000,000 which was a substantial gain over the $1,818,000,000 for the nine months pe- riod ending with Mareh 1917. 3 igm, e has of course been renty shinpised Smsties o oo i It would unquestionably have gone far beyond these figures eountry not been sngagea 1 O war and had it not been forced to use sl le ships for meeting Wwar besides those being furned, out dally should have an important sffect upon this foreign business im the future, THE NEW AIRCRAFT HEAD. Following eclogely upon the appoint- ment. of Mr. Schwab as the head of the emergency fieet corporation, John D. Ryan has been named as the single civilian head of the department charged with the production of air craft in this coumtry. This with the other reorganization which has taken place in conmection with such opera- tions gives the best assugance that has been re¢eived in @ long time that the administration is getting down to sound business relative to this impor- tant matter, Mr. Ryan has heen at the head of important industrial activities. He is numbered’among the nation’s captains of industry as the organizer and head of a large copper concern, as a raii- rozd man_who has done big things and done them successfully and ad_a financier. - Not a smail part of the trouble which has heen experienced in «carrving out the airplane programme has been due to the form of orzanie zation which was placed in charze of it. There has beep a serious handi- cap because there was no head to the business. Copfliet in authority has caused confusion and serious de- lays, but with this overcome and the naming of a man of Mr. Ryan's cap- abilities for the directing head of this departmeni resuits such as are de- sired should be immediately forth- coming. Tt is teo late of course to muke up for the large losses which have been sustained becayse this step was not taken before. They cannot be re- trieved but therd is eertainly a most promising outlook for the future. Ex- perience is a hard road but it should land us on the right irack in time. SAVING EXPENSE AND WOOD. While so much attention is being given to the problm of overcoming waste in many directions, it cannot help being recoghized that there is o great opportunity to effect a tremen- dous’ saving through the salvaginz of the packing cases which are used in such great numbers every day. It was not so lonz ago that gany of the packing cases were regarded mply as so much uncut kindling wood after being used once. By the truckload they were carted to honfes to be chopped un for fuel regariless of the large expense that is involved in cutting the material and constructing the containers. Under war time con- ditions the value of 'such boxes as well barrels has taken an appreciable jump. More thought is given to using them agaln and again instead of throwing them into the discard, Such a saving when practiced all who receive and used boxes is bound to be large in the courge of a year gnd at the same time means a valuable conservgtion of the material which foes into their construction. For the purpase of earrving the idea o step further 3 Massachusetis co poration is now endeavoring to get lower rate for the transportation of metal containers, hoping thereby to carry out the idea of saving and re-us. ing on.a more extepsive basis. Th concern\points out, as an added ar- gument, that milliony of dollars In losses are systained every year be- cause of wooden packing cases being broken into which would be prévented by the use of metal, the additiomal initial cxpense of which would thus be quickly made up through the pre- vention of loss and the much greater service which they would give. It is an idea which all those who are con- cerned in the purchase of wooden cases are bound to follow with inter- est. EDITORIAL NOTES. Now that the British navy has got into action again there will be 2 de- mand for more of the same kind. The man on the corner says: The joy of living is never fully expericnced until home gardening is undertaken. Convert vour doilars into Liberty bonds and thus get back of vour country and “the boys” with all your might. Get into vour war gardep all the seed it will take, and into the third Liberty bonds ail the doliars you can spure. There will be no obstruction for those who are inclined to exceed the speed limit in the Liberty loan cam- raign. Don't wait to be solicited. Step right un and put in your application for Liherty bonds iike the rest of the patriots. The need of placing the same re- strictions upap the fewpale alien ene- mies as upon the male has heen rec- ognized none too soen, Tn spite of the offensive and the successes which they claim, German authoritigs realige that the war prom- ises to be a long one. 4 The bottling up meve which the Eritish made against Zeebrugge may cause the main Germam fleet in the Kiel canal a bit of anxiety. 2 . It is playing the same old game when Germany makes demands ot/ Holland and threatems to force- it in- o war unless they are granted. ———— That New Jersey man who tried to avoid the draft under the clgim that he was not a human being should bave been told that he was therefore all the better fitted to fight the Hun. Germany =ays that vessels properly marked and cartying grain for Switzerland, will have free passage. But here again there is immediately encountered “the unreligble German promises. + These are unquestiomably trying er cor 4 3 w} in mind ;b;ththc persistent be _Syccess, where ers end In the face oth, a&' face of this great &m;w ?fizm is We should e s : ‘The a it 5 was Wellington at Waterloo who, sai “Hard pounding, gentlemen, but will see who can pound the. Thio Fignn sy tq‘w tory is won severing. g‘m Eritish Tommies re- duced in flesh ih German prisons nev- to a brokem spirit. = The w and the neglected and the S8 20p b the #ld ory of British grit in.the face of the ememy: “Are we down-hearte NO!! No true American should be caught murmuring and giving voice to fear and doubt and leen.. The defeat of the Huns will worth all the self-sacrifice and cost of showing them their error and the might of right. Do not forget he who gives a trifie meanly is meaner thaa the trife. The soldiers buy honds anil rigk their lives in the trenches for us. Let us do our level best for them and our country. —— Have you ever thought #standarized religion is .a3 cold gnd imert as any other sort of a symbol; and that the Teligion of the heart is not only alive, but has a rebirth every day. It is a human fault to mistake the-shadow for the substance in religion as in many other things in this life. It is not probable that St. Peter or any one else will_ever ask a decarnated soul what chureh he belonged to, or how much money he contributed to causes of love or mercy. Merit does not abide in acts but in motives. The why i§ of | more importance than the profession or i he shekel. ¥We do not holg at its fuil | implicity or realize that of all the things sought to be counterfeited in this world it is the most difficult. Simplicity has been defined as “na- ture's first step and the last of Art” We shouid not rest in the thought we are good, hut sb conduct ourselves that we impress our neighbors we are %ond for something of value to ourselves and others. No man has ever written 'as complete a_work upon Angling as did Isaac Walton in 1633, and_the fact is the author was 60 vears old when the book was written and put into it the ex- perience and the knowledze of a life- time. Thnree hundred years ago the huntsmen with their hounds and their | falcons and their horses used to laugh ! at the man who walked and lashed the stream with #nd_fly 1o fill his creel with f was in defence of this soring sport that Isaa¢ Walton was inspired to write this sreat littie book hich is today a classic, for it mirrers not only the life and times of the au- thor, but teaches the art of rod and fly-meking and many. things about in- sects and Teptiles necessary to success in angling. When we have read the book we know the author was a| scholar, a true sport, a preacher, a| naturalist, «x chef, an artist in the con- struction of angling outfits, a moralist and a philosopher. It js an autobiog- raphy as well as a book upon fishi asport he regarded as *being lilie math ematics, never to be fuliy learnt. Very few of the readers of this col umn were aware perhaps that Sunda; April 21st, was appainted by the Go ernor Massachysetts as “Humane Sunday” day when the attéhtion of , man should sbe called to his own savage nature and the claim God's creatures have upon him for ikindly and gentfe treatment; and to is own need of ‘the cultivation of habits of justice and mercy. Those who are not mindful of the needs of the dependent, and who vent, their meanness upon the weak are savages whatever they may profess to be. The thousands of bands of mercy in this epresenting the late George labor of Jove as the Humane Agent of the Old Bay State, are.a memaorial of his worth 4s they are con- stantly making the foundation of man- hood ‘and Wwomanhood broader and kindlier and more Christian. There is no danger of man's becoming too gentle or 400 kind under the best of tutorship. Our systems of selfisir en- deavor really prevent our being hu- man to one another, a Few words of modern times have at- tracted more attention or discussign than camoufiage, which in most ef the French dictionaries appears ouflet, defines which hid view.) ts or creatures from in cussingf! ¥he word have found its origins in the habits ~of minicry of birds mals and insects; and now i closed that “the permissable lies” come within iis zone of meaning. You may not think there is such a thing as a “permissable lie,” but a Canon of the English Church at stminster re- cently said in defence of camoufiaze, | “If my scrvant tells a visitor 1 am Tiot at home the visitor is not particu- lary annoved if he catchesa glimpse of me. He knows that for some or other T do not want to but if he were toid that I was at home, but did not wish to see him, he would he offended. By conveying the literal| truth, I should be conveying a wrong | impression and ,should deceive, while the telling of an apparent lie would convey the true facts of the case. This being so, We may as rationally claim that the voice heard from the burning bush in pre-Christian times canmnot be left out of the scope of this wonderful French word. A German major. in eonversation with George Bourdon just prior to the present war revealed the soul of Ger- mapy by his candor as few Germans hav ventured to do. He said: “There is a very old saying among us that ic ways applicable to our relations to others: such and such a country may possess an army; but Germany is an army that possesses a country.” This is the whole story in 3 nutshell. You may have noticed the instant Cotrland surrendered to the German forces it was' anneunced that Germany would at once send there for permanent ahbode sixiy thowsand colonists (every man a German soldler), not as a mat- upon the face of the statement, but| #s 2 mastefly stroke for holding a country forever loyal to and secure for the Kaiser. Iivery colonist from Germany. is sent out as a soldier to assume ejtizenship anywhere, but to! @lways be true to Germany and sub- ject te Imperial command. This is why Germany is 3 menace to the peace and well being of the world. The French poilu seemingly has a fine sepse of honon He does not re- gard a wound which can be attributal o negligenee or carelessness on his part as being honerable. An im- inmfix nr;l of '1’1:1. mmtax—yfl duty is to eep elf i a it as long 3 Dosaible. . Ome French bolgier did not hink his weund henorable bacause he should have seen the shell ceming which wounded him, and should have doq?d it. Tt certainly is the duty of a soldier -to himself, his family and the state to be gbserving and discreet as well as brave-—tg be vigilant as well as da; . In other weords it does not pay to he dull—it is extra hazardeus for a statement of a German-American, giv- It is werthy of the careful perusal of all fellow countrymen of the writer whe, like him, have become citizeps of ‘the Unitéd States. follows: be done. iboat had puilled away from the si red IThe rose , as where some buried Caesar bled. The richer the sacrifice, the mere ter of good fellowship as might appear | Loyal Sentiments of a German-Ame: A can. . i . Editor: Loyal German citizens afu(he United States are entitled to our respect and sympathy ata time like this, when the two countrles are at war. - ‘Whoever fails to discriminate be- tween loyal and disloyal citizens qom- mits a grave error or even Worse—a great injustice. The enclosed article from a German. American is so true, and_expresses €0 fairly the loyal sentiments of thou- sands_of our best Garman -citizens, that I hope you 11 - be willing to print it in The Bulletin—a paper that merits our highest respect for justice, to others. . L. 0. SMITH. Norwich, April 26, 1918. The article referred to follows: The following is &n interesting ing some excellent reasons wh¥ he should be loyal to his adopted country. The artiele To ail people of German blood who live in thisstate or elsewhere in the nited States, whether you are citi- zens or have intended to become such, 1 have a few ~words to say about what our duty is in this war. There is much written and said these days about the Germans in America. Some of the things said about us are kind; some of them un- d. Many things are said that are nd because - we are not under- unk stood and we-are not making the ef- and ekill are a guard of it in fiercest moment of combat. the The inquiry is new being made what real yse there is in a gun that will throw a 380-pound shell wenty miles high to hit an object 75 miles dis- tant? This sort of artillery is really absolete alreads the bombing airplanes have outranked it in power and destructivene: What is a T5-miles range compared with 300 miles which the airplanes have made, ‘and the droppi -pound bomh where the al pable of dropping a ha bs of greater destructivenes: simpl; as _an ‘expert manifestation of power and as an experiment that this world-surpris- ing long dist Zun will go tory. It i e not really needed since more depend- able and destructive emzines of war have already been invented in use today long _ distance NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE FAILURE. = of’a proverb, or the fre- quency of its use i mno guarantee that it is sound at the core. Some axioms that have had currency for 5 alf true, at best. f true proverb to ¢ is very great. othing succeeds like success” is| ge we have fired at generations of youns peo) It is by no means unqualifiedly A life with that riously m: As a matter of fact, the succ that are made on first endeavor are few and trivial com- pared to those that are the results of much experimenting and many dis- couragements. There are countless ogcasions when nothing is so helpful and so prophetic of uitimate vietory as failure. 1t seems a law of life that most en- terprises must fail for a while, before hey” begin to succeed. Somewhere, in_every hig manufacturing plant, lies the “cemetery,” where are thrown all the waste products of the concern— devices that would not work, the inventions that proved impracticable. hardly correct to call these things fa have accomplished—namely how some particular thing could not The efficiency of the whole estabfishment has- been built upan this miserable mass of discarded al. hen the Troquois theater down, some burned s ago, and scores of people lost their lives, it meant as- hestos curtains on every stage in America, more fire estapes.and better inspection. The terrible calamity spelied safety in every public building in the United States for .vears to come. When passengers wore left on the sinkidz Titanic, after the last life- e, the whole world —realired the tragic failure of the steamship com- pany as regards the safezuarding of its natrons. That failure meant that every passenger vessel that crosses ocean today must carry lifehoats suf- ficient for ‘the entire ship's compan; both ipassengers and crew. Decause thousands wiil cross the . great deep safely through all the years. Tt is one of the most profound of the laws of life that out of sacrifice come the loftiest inspirations of eur experience. 1f Stephen had not laid down his life ‘as a martyr, we should not have had the mighty labors of the Apostle Paul. So, at least. Au- gustine believed and declared. If Ar- thur Hallam had not died untimely in his youth, we should not have had one of the noblest poems in the English lansuage—“In Memoriam.” The Per- sian Omar surely had a gleam of in- sight wher he wrote: 1 sometimes think that never glows so beautiful the bloom that springs up over it. How often we see the weak things of the world used to confound the things that are mighty! “In _the streets, the markets, and the palaces of Rome,” we are told, “there was a gay_erowd—philosophers, nobles, and people—confident in their strength, proud of themselves as rulers of the world. In the catacombs bemeath there were gathered a few penitents— men and women conscious of sin, cry- ing out their weakness, and claiming to be mothing. Out of the catacombs, and not from the philosophies or pow- er of Rome, has come the force of modern progress.” The blood of the martyrs has become the seed of the church. Here is a truth that is best tested in one's own experience. Many a man, as he looks back in life, can see that some things he grieved over as misfortunes have proved his best for- tunes. He has been helped by being hindered. Failure has been the prel- ude to bigger success thap he lever dreamed of. - for Helland. hut the Dutch know that if they knuckle te Germany in is instance it simply means the first p toward mm"y- ince of itself. be geidior mut e imve 4l his active in the face of the enemy. or when he is ordered “over the tpp.” It may be a2 the Saime fime e 1 ncmny 3ne same © ace the enemy without a tremor; but fanaticism is 2 waste of life while levelheadedness I hold it true with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, TPhat men may rise on stepping stones for the reason that| that it is| gi think these hundreds went to their death, | no reason for cow o't the reasons. w'uxd there untjl wn:f;? ;d},-;uzen of d_have not o able. One of the first agked is, “Why . swer. My a family of to male a livin; nat like in this country, fifty cents a day. few acres of lan $100 to $200 per acre. there were extra neav: ‘what we pay here. royal family. Dbought for in thi Over in German homestead land which perity wi this e Wi country enjoy. Beside: about two months of eac tary ea uard as it is known no himself. free all kinds that the how to he. offers? this countr: ress, T am the equ here. to a men in this country gound business myself and m: reasonably pros fa my family enjoy | vantages that thei { When I look 3 do, {in this country times what they had staved about _these were given school: when T think of all have here that we did nd when T read the what is going on over what my brother here to consider all haven't fully decided America, a sa true cf Our plain duty lies that on the eutside. We must not | side wof the line. We aver on the AMERICA STAY THERE. We are free Americans. should for conquest. stood out as I going to war. cans have alwa: or the little pendent, 20_back? have been thrift: still respect u this govermment. beeause we knovr to_the common peap! war, what do_we gain? here of brothers in ene cause. must be fair and kee name on this side of from the stain of guilt. fighting against its Of their dead selves to higher things. © THE PARSON. today, i | fo uld, o show t o ”fi‘;{:toh:l‘lgoqu my auty g sdy o W, e w e o = o 7. me on an equal footinz. | Tn a poor laborer in T am the manager of a good institution her they would in Germany homesteads them and of and the right we have to vote and be part of the government, and the 't have there— nd sister € this, i There military fax and there was the royal tax that was for the benefit of the These taxes amounted to about twenty dollars per acre over the regular taxes such as we pay here or as much as plenty of land can be country. there was no free and been the start in the pros- ich many Germans mow in was no land to be had omly at a high price and the poor man had no chance for gettins ahead in the world. it 1 had stayed in Germany, I would have had to take three yvears of military training and after that give vear to mil work and be subject to call for active service at any time. have continueq true until old, and after that T would have had to join the land reserve or home There D We is He only ar, and was have 1 Tnstead of . so I know something about the The other is, because 1 the United State ten my oath of which I swore as seon after here as I could get my papers. Also I see what my duty as a citigen isand want tg de it as far as J am uestions T am often d you leave Ger- many?” Well, that is not hard to an- ther was a paer man with e It haiTY s e owned seven acres of land. It was e £ for us all and thzr’; i no chance for me to get any pa o4t when T had grown 1t was ere nearly every farmer can spaye 160 acres to snul-? his bey out with i fasm. If I stayed over there and hired out as a laboring man, the be: 1 gould earn as a common lahor8r was As a skilled me- chanic the best wages I could earn would be one dollar a day. The most thrifty man who worked as a_eommion laborer could not save but about twenty doflars in one y think what a long time it would take to get enough together to buy even o when it cost from he wants to yvages Begides, It cost more to live there, since though ‘the land produced well, taxes over the This would The only thing that T could zet over thore that amounted to any a good common schaol educal there were no free higher schaols and ‘hance for a poor fellow to better ng was ion. but ‘We Germans often heard and talked of America and many who could get away were anxious to come to a land that we heard so much about, With its nds, free schools and freedom of e did not enjoy there. 1 was one of those who emigrated to nited States, and I have never heen sorry that T did so. being sorry, I am glad T came and T a mproud to let it be known that T am as true an American citizen s 1 know Why shiouldn’t T be glad ! when T compare what Germa offer me alongeide of what T am not the biggest man in far from it, but I am an independent American citizen. As long as T am honest and tend to my busi- | al of every T don't have to take of v man unless T want to, v has to Amerjca man | my hat perous. The other bus- iness men, no matter what their na- | tionality or their line of business, treat lme with respect and as an eq the same =o round me and see what a lot of our German people there ave | who are worth many be worth ang 1 that free freedom T would have had {0 take part in if T was over there and r t here—I rmans Jiv io in has 4 B u, word but by action as well. not he German at heart and American We must not secreuy rejoice when Germany wins a battle. stand with a foot on each jear DE—AND hould be glad we No one will be sorrs for the stain that has been put on honest German blood by the sian military power—but ours be henest bleod uniess we back up our ozth ef allegiance by our and love for our adopted we won't be honest about zo back and ne; said that German blood We know that Germany is fighting We know that America g as it could before We know that Ameri- fought for liberty for all the peeple, and when we read haw the United States Is today fight- ipg and spending large sums of money down-trodden nati that they too may be free and inde- just ax we are, who wants to We mustn't be selfish. are at the front with those boys from different blood. They are We must back them up and though it hurts because some of us gre on the ather side we the German e water free and stand by vou do so now and forever. ret T let two-faced. | Our bays ziven us and our e must | it Before the war our German.citizens here were spoken of with pride. we have been hon- est. We have. warled hard and pros- pered. If we are loyal citizens we can still hold up our heads and people will ‘So let ys stand for 1t it needs our time and meney, we myst give it just as other citizens give. and maybe more, than_ others - this fres cpuntcy really means Don't let us kick about high prices and because everything isn't done just as we want to see it done. ernment is dojng its best. loved peace over here so much that it takes a long time to prepare for war. Tt we save our meney and lose this ‘The gov- ‘We have ‘When someone argues that if we side in Jwith America we are fighting our own hiood, let us ‘tell themr that own blood is what makes America the land of the free & mnfi:n’t tho‘flvsks‘:me;:lln the - " Xow Englang ‘states fight their own |especially in the eeuntry districts blood when in the Revolutionary war|towns near the front. We son? And wasn't it freedom i erty they fought for then? An We now :ati wag 3 good | that the .'l?t::w:m'%;ch we qu Lo L years of strife, aye we wha come here and share ~u»w§m aant of sant ‘to us going to t inst it now it needs us? If wb\dg, WP &Pe. traitors and never in ean we to be honest men and ;women. Slackers Should Be Placed Where idr. l;dnt itpr: k-‘t‘u IH e {he natne "of, your st Brok sweetheart - among t wounds Franee, 3nd = e reat Brif o :!‘x ’-'J‘}M" ¢ ml" s ' Major M. M. of the Fourth Canadian Mounted Rifles truly 1 't‘Tx;o .ltn{‘um xs‘vzqeh_ mars nrl:a:i r vou, Mr, i fl‘g‘kfl' ward, thap Shl think. e tlon i alse [« 3 pur. The Amej Deopie. " The Ao genergus e cowardly dedger: they heye gome about s far a3 can. We have been teld hy a num- Der of American subjects who are espeeially séen'ed‘in thy Mfi:”; s‘mw p'.“t angdian armies that they have aheu decided to dflcmya thmf all. do, hecause the cowardiy i ice dodger is entitled te neither sympathy or mepoy in this or -any other country W &@ns _ave in the service.” can't [f aiser young lieutes on the jaw. FOUR SHOWS TORAY AUDITORIUM | THOMAS H. INCE'S s LLING. ACTS -AND OTHER Bi6 FEATURES 130, 3 6.15, 315 In some sectigng creases with every rej of "iijled and wounded.” The American people, even to little children, ape doing ail in their power tg help win the war. while in all directions around us our boys who are giving up all freely and willingly on the altar of freedom have st high salaried laces bowind them to be filled by fareign slackers, te@ cowardly to join their awn celors, teo mean to become American eitizens, and most assuredly nat entitled to an atom of respect from either man or Deast. _ 1t i5 about time that Conneeticut rallied to the support ef its grand eid governor in everything good and ev- eryihing he dees is good and Fight, including his desire io see the foreign slacker placed in the ranks where he 13| belongs. C. B. MONTGOMERY. Oneco, Conn., April 25, 1915, STORIES OF THE WAR | The Soldier and His Horse. (Correspondence of The Associated Press): ’ An Amerjear captain of artiller: Iving wounded in an American hos pital ai the rear of our’sector nerth- west of Toul calied his nurse to his bedside the other day and said: “I'm feeling pretty zood naw byt 4, feel a whole lot better if only | could see old Biil, my horse.” The orderly spoke-to the ward phy sician, the surgeon in charge of the hospital telephoned ta artillery head- quarters and soon afterwird an or- derly came ‘galioping up the read to the hospital and dismounted. ere’s Captain von Blank's hors d he. him.” So otderly and horse around to a windew in buildinz. stopped. were:, a_long, I The orderly - looked in inside. ‘‘Good morning, captain.” he sa “I have brought Bill around into a smils. “Have him stick his head ordered. But the horse had heard a voice he knew and he put his head inside the ward window without any urging. There was his master Iying flat on his back, a small bandage around his head where just a little piece of rock hit. And pinned to the pillow of his cot was a little bronze crogs sus- pended from a green and red ribbon— the Croix de Guerre. For half an hour the wounded cap- tain talked to the Horze, calling him “5la oy ana Ol Man” and Teebly stroking the animal's soft nofe. The horse apparently understood, for -he Kept_his nose as close as pessible and stood perfectly still. He only moved his head once or twice and then ft he if e & u { of this cauntry 2 |“LIRERTY THRA' sullen rumble ie going on that in-| Have Been Built “Smil and National finw Can iu{y ee. nd For sale at the following places: & i 1l Rlitbaony Doug. Sters. 3 oed Ca, 4 *yun\mgnul Offics. M. Lerou, @. Macpherson, ¢ Shows Teday—130, 3, 6.15, 815 TWO BIG FEATURES FANNIllE‘ WARD ON THE LEVEL g and cmak MYERS THE WINE GIRL Hearst-Pathe News - Nati ! Guar in America. e Books," issusd by Federal terialnment Coun l;&-‘ o these ‘%‘a‘hm 't;“ Da‘fil h"l Her o 1o Tice 'L" E one & Osg: len (Cigar Store). armacy, Py L3 ice. —tells man—and she is only ene among many trees in the farest of SUNDAY, APRIL 28th, 3.30 P. M, DAVIS THEATRE (UNDER Y. M. €, A. AUSPICES) TUBBS' MILITARY BAND "Patriotic Address By G.'T, BOCHMAN, a Native German half a pound of bacen, half ‘@ pound of lard, half a pound of salt meat. half 2 pound of haricots. four-fifths of a how she was mmade te feil aint-Gabain, ‘The captzin wants to see Three windews down they and {saw his captain lying on a cot just The weunded captain's face broke which was under eenstant gunfire, while in the same vicinity all the sup- ply columns for the iroops in the most dangeraus parts of the iine were forms. #d of Fremch civikans. In the neighborhoad of Cambrai all agricultural work is cavried 6ut by the peasants under the surveillance of German Soldiers and when the produes is ripe it is all requisitioned by the military authorities. The factories in the city itself huve been robbed of their machinery ¥ith the result that large numbers of werkers have heen o led ow id, pound of salt sometimes a fifth of a pound of coffee, two-fifths of a pemnd of biscuit flour, @ quarter of 2 pound of sugar, and small guantities ol corn esi@ue. - B there things each person receives once a monthr a ecan of condensed milk. In the stores cof- fee costs about §7 & pound, sugar nearly $2, chocolate nearly §4. The sale of potataes is forbidden. Nearly all ihe meh wark for the Gerrtans, who forbid them to leave their houses before soven in the morn- ing and they must Feturn by eight in the to tai from § was fo rub his nose against his master's paim. ~The surgeon standing nearby m tioned to the orderly after a while and the horse’s head wae withdrawn from the widow. The orderly rode him away—back toward the batteries. The captain watched the window for a minute or two and them said to the surgeon; “Well, T feel better. 1f Bill ecan come ’round every day I-eught to he moving about in a week or so. So Bill—he isn't one of the kind of horses that the atmy cally an “artil- lery plug;” hels a real American horse and ' leoks it—probably will be a regylar hospital visitor for some days to come. For some months the captain had affectionately caped for his = meunt. Before the artillery unit to which the officer belongs maved up te the I he and the horse were together gvery day and sometimes all night. They understood each other perfeatls. Then came the meve to Ahe front ang for seyeral wesks the officer did not get many chances to yide; the: being work e do with batteries tuh:; on the Germane, Then there was an American raid on the enemy lines, with its barrage and enemy-bails work. The captain was in the thi of it and. during the time When Ger- man shells wepe falling heaviest, around our guns, he was obliged to g out into the open to give erders to some of his men. A shell dropped near and exploded and a * inter tore into the eaptain's chest. Three days later he was in an evaecuation hospital within seu of his own guns and deeiareq to be i a dangerous conditian, be | ms 2 't medical attention heve oulled through until today, to the surgeons, hi recovery. How Germans Treat The Civilians. (Correspondenee of The Associated Press). hind the German lines in the eceu; dsnann;ems of g:mhu bacome al- most slavery. e 0 people have to submit to ngmmim depriv. ing them of all the usual amenities of human existence. Datajls of the ter- rorizing progess inf #d by the Germans, which is dally beeoming more severe. have reached the g~ ent of The Associ#ted Press from 8 number of centers where the ’Gel?lln army holds passession. According to some of these com- munieations everybady—that is ta ssy, men, women and children—is forced to work for the German cona One young we: reduced to- semi-star sequent sickn: there were still In_most parts of the copptry Spapish-Dutch relief, whizh has taken the place of the American Rellef Com- misgion. goes on normal it asserted that the German authorities manage to obtain possession of a por- tion of the provisiens, prices of fogd are extremely high, and the population. alveady has great trouble to obtai cost them 36 cents a available, shoes arc $25 a pair, eloth cest $16 a yard, and there is no beer, milk or is gistributed at the rate of 46 pounds per head of the population per month at the price of 36 cents a pound or §730 per ton af 2,000 pounds. tion and con- At the end of 1917 7000 inhabitants in 2il of whom were campelied refuge in the cellars. the evening. Atz Denain «Erench. prisoners have been employed fn the destruction of the facteries, from Wwhich all the ma- chinery has_ been taken and sent to Germany, while at Saint-Quentin all the statues have been taken down and speciglisis frony Germany have we- moved everything of value from the basilica. Even children of school age, most of whom bave not had the opportunity to ga to school threc years. are made to waork along. the roads and ia the forests. It is reported that the first dis- banded Rumanian Army Corps has ar- rhved in‘the occupied ierritory, CASTORIA the but it is in Lille, tie impoverished, food. ¥ggs co, meat is 60 to 3¢ a pound when it is soap teé de had. while coal In Charleville = matters ave even Infants and Children worse. 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