Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 5, 1918, Page 4

Office 480, Bulletin Editorial Rooms 35-3. Buletin Job Office 35-2 Office, 625 Ms'n Street. Téle 310-3. —————— Nerwich, Vhdnudny. June 5, 1918, CIRCULATION 1908, average June 1, 1918 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusive- Jy entitled to the use for republica- tien of all news despatches credit- ed to it or not otherwise credit- ed in this paper and also the local -fl published herein. its of republication of epectal reserved. ches herein are also "Right is More Precious than Peace” S ———— REGISTRATION DAY. In connection with the bringing into the war service of those who have be- come 21 years of age since the first draft law went into effect it is of mudh importance that all male per- sons who were born on or between June 6, 1886 and June 5, 1897, whether they are citizens or aliens, should pre- eent themselves at the office of the draft board in their respective locali- ties for registration today. The boards will be at their offices from seven o'clock this morning until nine o’clock tonight for this purpose and in that time every one of the designated age, barring the fact that he is already in the service of his country, must ap- pear before the board and recelve his registration certificate. As the result of today's registration it is éxpected that there will be some- where about 750,000 names added to the list of those subject to military Aduty, the age limit not having been lowered to take these in, but the law tmended so as to include those who 18 time has passed have reached the age at which others were included for the selective service. These young men will be classified following exam- ination the same as those in the past. 1t is probable that there will be some complicated situations and some not so complicated which will need to be straightened out, but wherever there is any uncertainty it will be on the side of safety to have the draft boards decide. The law requiring the regis- tration is mandatory and failure to comply with it carries the penalty of 1 year's imprisonment, the loss of rights and the possibility of immediate call to the service. Everyone within the age limit should therefore meet his obligation and register today. « THE SUBMARINE MENACE. We are not to sappose that because the German U-boats have not followed up their work on Monday with a simi- lar record on Tuesday that they have been driven away or that their dan- ger Is past. It was to be expected that, through the methods which they had employed to keep their activities secret by carrying the crews of three vessels on board for a number of days and the failure to warn coastwise shipping of what appeared zood rea- son to believe were evidences of sub- marines in coastal waters, a number of vessels would be caught unawares, but now that. the alarm has been sounded and the destroyers and chasers have been let loose to hunt them the let up is quite in accord with the sitnation. It would be unwise, however, to an- ticipate that the submersibles will not continue to strike at shipping on this side of the ocean just as long as they are able to eluyde capture or destruc- tion and obtain the necessary sup- plies and ammunition. It calls for the. strictest attention belng given to them and thé taking of all possible precau- tions to see that shipping and espec- ially the transports and passenger ships are given adequate convoy and protection. Because they operdted off the New Jersey, Delaware and Virginia coast on their appearance does not mean that that is where they intend to re- main. They are likely to show up in the steamship lanes or wherever it ap- pears they can do the most damage. How serfous and prolonged the activ- ity will prove on this eide of the water ought to be determined within a short time hut full reliance must be placed upon the claim of the war department that the mavy is fully prepared to handle the danger untfl it is shown to the contrary. It now léoks like a rrandstand play in connection with the drives in Europe. RESTORING WOUNDED HORSES. Great progress has been made in war equipment the same as in every- thing else. Today the motor cars, tanks and bicycles are playing a stead- 1ly increasing part in the great struggle in Europe. Much is being done in the way of moving troops, guns and other the war even though they have been supplanted in many respects by the gasolene driven machines. Millions of horses and mulesy have bm\bron:ht into service in rope during the past four years and in spite of the extensive use of motor cars the American army is going to.depend to 4 largé extent upon them in the car- rying out of their operations. It is therefore impossible to overlook the dered by the American Red Star ani- mal relief, the object of which is to save ‘as large a portion of the animals ueed in the war as it is possible by treating them in hospitals and -camps especially arranged for that service. Many ‘of the animals which are woupded can be restored to useful- ness by the proper attention and care and in view of the large numbers re- quired the service is certainly justi- fled. It is one of the ways of sawing the war waste which deserves all -the attention and assistance that it can get. It must in fact be realized that such work is necessary if sufficient horses and mules are going to be had. 4 TRUSTING GERMANY. One of the most diffienl§ things to understand is the determination of this government to send the newly fif- ted out hospital ship Comfort across the Atlantic without convoy and with- out any prevision for its safety ex- cept the provisions of the Geneva con- vention. Germany is to be notified that it is to be put into service for the transporting of sick and wounded sol- diers to this side of the ocean and re- lance is to be placed in German prom- ises not to molest it. How this government can put 'any faith in- German promises in view of the manner in which it has sunk al- lied hospital ships, the way in which it is treating prisoners and the per- sistency with which .it is bombing hospitals where American sick and wounded are quartered in France/is beyond comprehension. Germany has resorted to all sorts of frightfulness and it makes no dif- ference whether it is a neutral or a beHigerent nation at which it strikes. Promises amount to nothing when it comes to advancing the interests of the kaiser. They are just as much scraps of paper now as when Beigium was invaded. It is like putting one's ‘ head in an untamed lon’s mouth to expect any consideration from such a government. Time -and again has it been said that this government would not treat with the imperial German government as long as it is what it is because it could not be trusted to respect any agreement. In view of that it is a strange attitude which ‘is taken when those who are responsible for it decide to trust Germany to the keeping of any promise. It ought to be well enough understood that Ger- many can be relied upon to find a pre- text for sinking any ship that sails whether it is justified or not. One might as well hire’a cannibal as a nursemaid. PROTECTING THE RIVERS, The, effort to stop the pollution of rivers is by no means a new one, but the endeavor to have congress enact o law which would prevent manufac- turing plants from turning acids and poisons into the streams is and 1t would appear that it was entitled to some consideration. The Merchants’ association of New York is certainly taking up‘a matter which will secure both support and. opposition. Without regard to the ihjury which is done through the pouring of acids in the shape of waste into rivers in- dustrial establishments have followed the ‘practice for a long.time, except where local legislation has been se- cured to prevent it. The result has been that it has resulted in a serious Qecrease in the number of fish and it has had no little effect upon oyster beds. But in addition thereto it is claimed that the effect of the acids upon the hulls of steel ships‘in har- bors such as New York is getting to be a serious matter. When, however, we are doing our utmost to eliminate waste it would seem to be time to ascertain if it is possible to turn what is now being thrown away to some profitable use. At least if it is unreclaimable wo ought not to permit waste to destroy food in the shape of fish®or property when it can be avoided. Investigation nas determined in many instances that such wastes can not only be kept out of streams but by being used for other purposes be - made to yield a profic which will at least overcome the cost of handling it. Such being the case it is time that a more thorough sur- vey was made of all such cases for the protection and profit that can be re- alized. EDITORIAL NOTES, Old General Humidity has shown that he ‘can make himsel? just as un- popular as he ever could. If the Germans have a submarine base on this side of the Atlantic the Bayy can never rest until it ferrets it out and bags the game. The man on the corner says: Of course those who were suffering from the cold last winter are not saying anything about the heut now. Now that the Austrian emperor has sold out to the kaiser and become his messenger boy he may yet win the popular title of “Gumshos Charley.” A surprise attack by the German submarines was to be expected. That !is the way they operate but henceforth they will find trouble awaiting them. The fact that submarines from Ger- many are operating on our coast may prove to be the solution of the dis- appearance of the U. S. collier Cy- clops. The conviction and sentencing of Rose Pastor Stokes. considering her| position, ought to carry a lesson of lasting value. There can be no len- iency for the seditious The sending of the submarines across the Atlantic makes it evident that Germany realizes that we are getting ahead with our shipbuilding and transportation too satisfactorily. If by any change \there were those who failed to grasp the fact that we are actually involved in the war, the operation of the U-boats on this side mtzrh-l by motor which could not|of the Atlantic should.awaken them. be accomplished if the task was left fo the raflroads or to the horse. This is supposed to be “coal week” And yet the army cannot get along|so designated to increase the number without the horse any more than it is|of orders, which might be-all right if ‘possible to exclude old Dobbin from |it were not a fact that orders have The|been going in ‘so much faster than herse and the mule are decidédly im- | dealers could fill them that there is m! when it comes to carrying on'no benefit being obtained. the ordinary uses in business. o The expected increases in railway passenger and freight rates are defini- tely set for the 10th and 25th of this month respectively. Freight rates are be raised 25 per cent, while pas- senger fares are to be on a basis of three cents a mile, with which in- creases comes the abolition of mileage books and higher charges for excess baggage. Commutation fares .are to advance ten per cent. Passengers in parlor and sleeping cars, besides the customary charge for these special ac- commodations must pay a transporta- tion fare one sixth more than that paid by the passenger in the ordin- ary day ycoach. The increase. in freight rates will be reflected in the prices of commodities when sold to the consumer, while the added cost of passenger travel will t§ some degree reduce travelling for pleasure and thereby free track and equipment for the more necessary freight transporta- tion. Pleasure trips by rail will in- deed be an expensive luxury, the more so that the regular war tax of eight per cent. will be reckoned on the new and higher rate of fare. The total in- creases should give the railways $90,,000000 extra income each year, all of which will be absorbed by the added cost of labor and material. Under government operation and in the stress of war the railways are ‘obtaining ‘what they have been consistently deni- ed by the same government in time of peace. Leonard Wood, the highest ranking officer of permanent grade in the regular army, on the eve of sailing for service in France has been relieved of the command of the 89th National Army division that he has trdined at Camp Funston in Kansas, and assigned to purely ad- ministrative duties in San Francisco. No explanation of this astonishing order is forthcoming e&ither from the White House or the war department and the country is left to its own conjectures as to the reasons for this| latest surprise in Gen. Wood's re- markable career. Leonard Wood, M. D., a splendid type of volunteer officers bécame colonel of the so-called Rough Riders in the Spanish War, whijle Theodore Roosevelt was the lieut.-colonel. There- after the former struck to the soldier’s life and was transferred to the regular Major-General army while Roosevelt went to the White House. Wood's rise was rapid, but, because he was not a West Pointer, the appointment as head of the regular army wouid doubtless have never come to him except for-the' fact that his friend President Rooseveit had the appointing power. This rapid ad- vance of a civillan physician to the highest military position in the nation could not fail to cause a stir, yet it was one of those things that Teddy could do and get away with, nor any- one ever questioned Gen. Wood’s high character and abality. As father of the Plattsburg idea, Gen. Wood has rendered his greatest seryice, and as a direct result the nation has thou- sands of officers adequately, trained to whip the new armv into shape, and themselves intellectually capable of learning .the great game of modern war in the shortest possible time at the front. It was Gen. Wood's per- sonality and enhtusiasm that attract- ed this splendid type of men to the training camps months before the country woke up to the fact that war ‘was imminent, The President Lincoln, sixxth in size of our army transports, was submarin- ed Friday morning in the war zone and sank in an hour. Like the Antilles and the Moldavia, the President Lin- coln was attacked on her return voy- age, hente very few lives were lost. The vessel was a former Hamburg- Arherican liner and was one of four to which their owners had given Amer can names with the intention of mak- ing them more popular with American travellers. In spite of the loss of this one ship, the Hamburg-American fleet is even now .carrying more American passengers than the company antici- pated! As the British army was selected by | Hindenburg to bear the weight of tue' March offensive, so the second bl two months later was. aimed at tae French. Meantime, however, several divisions of British trcops had been, put into the Allies’ line northwest or Rheims, and these bore th share in the great assault of May 27th. the March thrust was directly wesi- ward toward Amiens and the sea, s0 the May attempt was aimed due Soutg tow®rd the Marne. Paris lines about as far south of-the tip of the Montd: dier salient as it lies west of the mew German position on the river Marne It was the same story as before y<t; with a difference. The Germans a, succeeded in secretly m: ous forces, and struck w force, sweeping all before thefn. Eight and ten to one was odds too great to meet, and there was nothing for the Allies to do but to take tjeir toll from the oncoming CGerman hordes and re- treat and again retreat, until the re- serves could be brought up. Nowhere was there panic, nowhere were the lines broken. On an ever-narrowing front the Germans advanced, in five days, thirty miles to the Marne. The city of Soissons, at the northwest heel of the southward driven wedge, had to be abandoned by the I'rench and was occupied by the enemy. The forts above Rheims at the northeast heel of the wedge were taken but the poor ruined city is still in the hands of its defenders. Having once reached the Marne, the Germans turned their direction west- ward. toward Paris; but now Foch’s reserves were coming into action and after the first day of the westward movement, progress was virtuaily stop- ped. The hostile attacks are distinct- ly weaker, the Allies’ defense is con- stantly’ growing more stubborn. The difference between the March | and the May situation has been in the | Paris and London press. 1iot a note been struck, but quiet confidence has been everywhere eit. that the Ger- mans are spending their - strength rapid that the Allies’ line will hold and that Foch has.the situation well|{pundred feet along the Brenta canal;hay in hand. Impatient peqple are eager to have him throw in. his reserves at once and by one grand blow win a decisive victory. The .same people, recalling Farragut at Mobile and Dewey at Manila, would have the Anglo-American fleet rush the mine-| fields at Heligoland and force a fight with the German fleet. The answer is the same afloat and ashore. “Damn | the torpedoes” was the correct Policy | at Manila and Mobile, where the ad- | mirals had only their own fleets at stake. Foch has at stake not merely his own army but the whole cause of civilization, One error now might easily ruin it all. It is surely wiser to wait. The American army in France is growing faster than the German boys are reaching military age. As an earnest demonstration of what may be expected of the Americans, just below the tip of the Montdidier salient almost simultaneously with the begin- ning of the German drive soward the Marne, our forces, assisted by French tanks, seriously dented the German line, seized the fortified village of Cantigny and came back with 240 pri- somers. Several counter-attacks have ‘beén repulsed and for more than a week the Americans have been holding ' for irresistable ! of discougagement or apprehension has | “Now, er, papa,” Bobby began after dinner, “1 want'to ask you something.” “All right, fire ahead,” 'his father said, laying down the evening paper. “How much do you want?” “Now you're kidding me,” protested. “I just got my week’s money, and 1 got extra because I wiped dishes when Nora was sick, 1 bought a thrift stamp. “Good for you!” commented Bohbs s father. “Yes,” Bobby sgreed complacently, “I got five now.” “You've been very saving, I'm pleas- ed to note.” “Well,” Bobby said, honestly, “you see Aunt Mary gave me four. Any- how, I got more than Mamie Kelly. She up and knitted a man a helmet.” “She's a real patriot.” “If you dom’t care what you i Bobby said, grudgingly. “Anyhow, - auxiliary her mother’s in wouldn't take the helmet because it was too small and she put it on thé cat. “Gee, that cat looked funny!” Bobby continued. “It was awful mad, too, and we fellers like to bust, we laugh- ed so. Mamie laughed, too, till her mother heard her. But you just ought to ‘a’ seen that cat. It ain't come home yet.” “I don't much wonder.” “Of course Susie started in knitting when Mamie did” Bobby went on. “And Sam he use to go over and hold yarn for her and her mother. Now, Susie’s father he’s a doctor and he’s head of a unit that's going over. So of course Sam up and wants to imake a unit with- him as head and Billy said it was a good idea. only he had ought: to be the head on account of him being the oldest feHer in our room. “Billy makes me awful tired, because !he works it both ways. - Why, it was lonly last week he licked a feller from iover on Aunt Mary's street because | he said Billy was the oldest feller in i!he room. Well, all said we'd be glad to be any old kind of a unit, but we didn't know what we was to unit about. Sam wanted to have a lot of girls in, same as he always does, so him -and Billy they said they’d make it a club. Billy’s crazy about clubs and that was the day I had to .pick up the yard and I wasn’t there.” “If you'd picked up the yard when 1 told you to” Bobby's father sug- have been on the spot.” Bobby said hastily. they up and fixed it. Nellie, Bobby “Oh, “Well, gotta stop it. jor old or anything, stop and it kind of bust things up. “And they ain't,done anything yet except me and = George Bishop, chased around a lot asking people to buy bonds. bought or had promised else, but we had a lot of fun ringing There was one place where a lady was having a party and her lit- tle girl was dressed up all froshy. ‘She was in our room at school and her name's Annabel and she went and e | got her old hat and went around with me and George all the rest of the af- ternoon. 7% “Some of the ladies had been kind’a cross about coming to the door, but! when they saw Annabel that made a difference on account of her being all ddlled up and some of the ladies knew She thought nobody wouldn't know she'd been out, but one of the |§ ladies must ‘a’ telephoned because An- | f nabel téld me at school that her mo-.| ther didn’t like it and wouldn’t let her have any party ice cream.” “I don't wonder,” said Bobby's fath- “She probably didn’t improve her dress running around with you boys.” it wasn’t hurt much,” Bobby nly it got some black on it when she climbed over the front| of an auto that was right square in| -1 told her about our unit and she thought just like Nellie that we'd ought to have something to unit| She knows Nellie, of course, and |§ she says Nellie can knit something She don’t like Mamie Kelly no more'n anything and she says Mamie don’t know anything but anyhow, we fellers{anyhow.” “I think you have happened on a kindred spir bells. her. er. said, airly. * our way. on. swell. v you know, Nellie she n\.ld she'd join if we did anything, so she ain't in yet. But the other girls they're there all right because they don’t care if they don't do anything but sit on Sam’s fence and kick .the hoards. It's a low fence, but it makes an awful noise and the lady.next door she sent in word she was taking a nap and we That lady ain’t sick but we had to Most all of ’em “Oh, “I don’t know. what you call “Then I gather,” “Yes,” Bobby said. the position. The whole attack was of course a minor action, over in an hour, yet carried on it was under the trained eyes of British and French officers, it brought unqualified praise i for the dash and spirit of the Ameri- can troops in this, their first offensive operation. STORIES OF THE WAR American Relief in Italy. (Ccrrespondem:n of The Associated Press): Throughout Italy and particularly in_jthis section near the fighting front, the work of American relief ac- complished by American .Red Cross workers has served as a medium for stirring the spirit of resistance among the people and soldiers. It has.con- tributed toward keeping them heart- ened for the trials of the war and letting them know that America was united with them in it It is a work going on all over Italy, b near the front it deals with actual fighting conditions, in a belt of country lying just beck of the fighting line, with masses of hme‘efl in towns, villages and | cts and a vast wave of refugees, s\vem south and west mmi ‘m'e invaded regions, settling own | { with ail their misery like a swarm of !locusts on the local communities. In such a section the work omething more than one of relief, for while $200,000 has been distrimuted in this one section yet the main pur-| | | the spirit of the peasantryeto arouse their ardor and support for the men| cn the fighting line, and to let them| know that America and all her re-| ! sources are with them to the end. These provinces of Treviso, Venetia ! and Padua lie just back of the Piave and mountain fighting fronts. Tre- viso province is on the border line,! with half its communes occupied by \lhe enemy and half by the Italians,| !and the Piave tunmn" between (he wo severed parts of so com- n con trol have been visited by the Ameri. can Red Cross workers; the 103 communes of' Padua province been similarly visited; and some ,75; communes in Venetia province. Stirring scenes have been witnessed in these country districts as the American workers have carried on their work, under the general di- rection of Captain Thwaits, in charge of civilian relief in the war zone. At Este, for example, a public holi- day was decreed, the town was plac- arded with posters announcing that “the. Americans are coming.” School ichildren and the mayor gave a din- ner with speeches. The same wave of appreciation and enthusiasm has spread everywhere, until the whole region rings with what the Ameri- cans are doing. The ~tour lay due - north ;the very margin of the fighting| icountry, and one could see =|de by | side the stir of intense militas region and the end. down U-Boats. sighted a mine adrift. prevented the boats from sinking the mine by gunfire, darkness was coming on, and there was a possibility of los- So the commander approached ithe mine in a small boat, and when within some distance of the drigting | menace he took to the water and swam the rest of the way. to the mine, he feturned to his boat and towed it ashore, where it was ex- ploded by rifle fire. Often days elapse before a mine which has been discovered can be de- In a terrific gale, with moun- tainous seas running, a party of mine- | sweepers found a nest of eight mines. The boats were unable to use their a 1ose has been to stimulate and hearten | 5105 on them and ing it. stroyed. gines of death. e; province. | o ¥ _1brouzht them to ing awakemng of a{ What then? After their hero-worship the' ! had died away in the near future, are ity of Italy and the United States, and an dssurance to your people and sol- diers that America is with them to We want it to be a con- tribution to strengthen the spirit of resistance of every soldier and every 'worker behind the lines.’ ’ The Humble Mine Sweeper. (Correspondence of The Associated Press) : ‘When the story of the humble mine- sweeper is fully told, many pages will be added to the history of anti-marine warfare, craft is sharing’the work of the dash- ‘|ing destroyer and “chaser” in running A mine-sweeper in- variable drops its accustomed business for the bigger game and many an ene- my submersible has been accounted for by them. According to official reports, there are forty times more mine-swesepers in commission to-day in the service of the Allies than in July, 1914. for this we somebody | 'rithmetic, it Bobby said, “but anyhow she’s fixed it so that her and Nellie will come into the unit.” his father said, “that you have found something to do hesitatingly, “Neilie’s going to show us, and that was what 1 wanted to ask you. —er—papa, what do you think about us men knitting?"—Chicago News. Now | stirring little BIG DOUBLE FEATURE BII.I. MME. PETROVA IN HER SECOND PRODUCTION A POWERFUL 6-PART DRAMA e gt et BARBARA CONNOLEY ' The 3-Year-Old Triangle Star in LITTLE RED DECIDES 5-Part Western Comedy Drama A COWARDS. COURAGE Z TRIANGLE KOMEDY e e e Tt TEE——— Symphuny Orchestra New Show Tomorrow THE COOLEST PLACE IN TOWN ée§ne. ‘“°X;&°“ . ECO| PERFOIMANCES AT THE LDHG- E ACRE THEATRE, NEW YORK Prices 25¢, 50c, 75¢, $1.50. Seats Now Selling. MUSICAL COMEDY surrounded by the enemy. conquers by her great love try for the vocational training of our wounded and - disabled soldiers; but, owing to indecisicn and red tape, not a thing has yet heen done to put this great work of reconstruction into effect. But the way is prepared. The Red Cross Institute for the Crippled and Djsabled is already conducting re- search experiments and formulating methods in conjunction with the Federal Board for Vocational Educa- tion. Both have agreed to co-operate with the Bureau of War Risk and the | Medical Department of the Army. But Congress has appropriated no money for this important, this im- perative work. Hoke Smithk’s bill to expedite it is still unpassed. It is, then, for the President to act, and act quickly. Under the Over- man bill he has the disposal of funds available for this use without delay. And meanwhile our wounded sol- diers-are arriving every day! Mr. President, in the name of the mothers and sisters and wives of the men who have been mutilated while defending their country, we call upon you to act—to see that these “herces™ do not become mere stagnant, despair- ing victims, but useful to the com- munity and to themselves. You can make them,—give them hope and happiness! You cad change them from “cripples” to upstanding, edu- cvated, self-respecting men! THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Society. Recently a fleet of six, all trawlers, as almost touching the its destruction. V'xew's of the Vigilantes WHAT ABOUT GUR WOUNDED? By Gelett Burgess Of The Vigilantes And still we are Unprepare For the war, ves, we are The rough sea Attaching a line as night came on| little vessels lay-to in imminent | danger of being washed onto the en- Next day two of the mines .were sunk by gunfire, but one jof the sweepers was lost—how, the jreport does not state, ! the evening of the fourth day the last of the mines was exploded. The trawler Manx King hauled up a jmine in such a dangerous position that {one horn of the mine came within a i few inches of the boat’s rail and ano- r gear. ightest roll of the vessel would | have caused difficulty was met by lashing the mine i to the sweeper, so that it would mnot have | D¢ bumped against the side, and ex- perts were summoned to remove the detonators from the dangerous prize. It was not until The preparing, | at last. But are we prepared for the National ~Geo- graphic” Society from. its Washing- ton headquarters issues the following war geography bulletin on Mont- didier, a few miles east of Amiens: ‘“Montdidier feli into enemy hands during the great German offensive of March and April, and now the Ameri- cans, brigaded with the TFrench, are a!dmg the latter in making the ecity untenable for the Huns. ‘This little town, whose history dates back to the first millenium of the Christian era, had a ‘population of less than 5,000 at the beginning of the war, but it was_rich in historic associations. It is said to have de- rived its name from the fact that Didier or Desiderius, the last of the Lombard kings, was imprisoned here in 7Ti4 by Charlemagne. It will be remembered that Charlemagne, having put aside his first wife, Desiderius’ daughter, took up the quarrel of Pope Adrian I with the Lombard mon- arch, and after marching an arm} across the Alps captured his first while father-in-law's capital city, Ticium, and took the vanquished ruler back to France where he died in capm-%y “Montdiliier is attractively situated on an eminence on the banks of the river Don. It is the “capital of an arrondissement in the department of the Somme, and is 62 miles north of Paris by rail, and 22 miles southeast of Amiens. Its chief industries be- fore the war were tanneries and the manufacture of zinc-white. “When the tides of war finally re- cede it is probable that the three { buildings in ‘which the citizens of Montdidier toolk the greatest pride will be crumbling ruins. These =a the Church of St Pierre which was} built before Colum set zail on his! j yovage of discover and which con-! tains a tomb and f of the 1ith the Church of St. Sepulcre, 17th century odmre and the de Justic !nrmerly the city Tn the last named building fore the war were shown ndsome Brussels 18 Palais rasne totdxrect affects of the war? What about our wounded? The surgeons han “medical unfortunate they to be victims or victors ASS Swep! “out ‘of the invaded regmn On the Tight river with the defenses iregion, and ahead was the smow-cov ered peaks of Mount Grappa and its \line of mountain defenses streiching!ie [west to the Brenta river. Sentinels. were on gnard . everv' guarding this precious artery of communlication. Across the fields new | trenches were being duz | the farm country was gradua ion the aspect of an armed {|{Barbed wire entanglements \placements for b {suns lookeq very solid a 1 rerve as a permanent foftifieation.| | So1aiers marched along the roads in| {endless lines, with ereat parks horses,. mules. ammu {of pagzed and impoverished refugees. At all the places visited there was the same procedure; the important offi- cials and citizens of the town were gathered for a conference on the com- munity needs—the mayor, asséssor, i head-school-teacher, and the parigsh priest. They furnished the exaet statistics. of families in need, con- ducting the party to the chief centers of distregs when this was pessible, and then the Red Cross started them. on a plan of relief work with a sub- stantial contribution according to the need. “It is not only the donation that co\mu explained Captain Thwaits,” government France such a work of rehal hds been ) resnits attained have beer marvellois. Here In America disabled have been so r. suits are Jinsnir: ;fl ss, bl d—whoily relatives? friends to done their 'ne< final n Aiready they have begun to return aprronee A and s‘[f ted down here unable to =zet|armles: was the; partial or| Arc they! on:to =it idly at home humiliated, de- the heights of Asole and \{on(buo‘r;)find"nl upon’ th the cf most famous son was apetne o the cul France. A statue erected here gift to the nation. “For a number of years this little Auditorium Theatre THE BROADWAY REVIEW Presenting CLEAN, SNAPPY MUSICAL SHOWS A Daughter of France WITH VIRGINIA PEARSON ; LOVE IN THE TRENCHES — French girl finds herself T rel ood AND PHOTOPLAYS She continues to- fight and for France. VENGEANCE AND THE WOMAN — Full of Thrills H VIOLA DANA N s RIDERS OF THE NIGHT PEARL WHITE and ANTONIO MORENO IN THE HOUSE OF HATE Burton Holmes Travelogue “LIBERTY THEATRES” g Have Beer Built in All N-uonn Guard and Nauonal Army Cam n America. “Smileage Bookz issued by Federal Military Entertainment Council, pro- vide free admission to these thoatres. Send one to YOUR soldier or to ANY soldier. Price $1. For sale af the following places: The Porteous & Mitchell Co. 'L‘he‘ Reid & Hughes Co. (Boston Store. Rathbone’s Dm{ stou. Rickers Drug Slor T Tes & Ovgd The Wauregan Hoter” oOttce. Mara & Eggleton, e Madden (Cigar Store). r's Pharmacy. Ring & sm; Dru‘rlsu. M. & "A. Office. u. city was governed by its own Lords, then passed under the dominion of the Counts of Crepsy and Valois. In the 12th century it became a possession of the French Crown, and received a charter of liberties, In 1638 it ofer- ed a gallant and successful resistance to the Spanish invaders.’ * OTHER VIEW POINTS It is about time to hear of some new disease to be attributed to the decreaseq use of wheat flour and the substitution of coarser grains. So far, however, the testimony tll seems to be the other way. Many people say their health has been improved by the change in diet.—Manchester Herald. Children Cry FOR FLETGHER'S | CASTORIA rs, or shameful ob-| th a m3 em ?'a 2 e gun or with a bayonet fit r! The world has pro; as were the maimed | best is the man who held Germans at | g drove only is over, to be 3 nignt| errand boy—a mere { e mnst be taken care of by a ;rate- 1 n--re-educated for a vo- n where his loss will prove ne icap fitted for a worthy position industria! life at the expense of a In Germany, in BEagland ~and for long going om. Nine months ago the litat uninjured men. . their I he has protected. He of imust have hia self-respect preserved on and smp-!by becoming a useful member of so- e &treets were|clety and the practical equal of whole | men. 2 i civiliane lucal t.lu‘ the re- ng. Men ®without hands have beer taught useful and; dignified trades and have compofied| successfully with Cripples have been fitted by studies under vocational experts to| take industria! positions than those they filled . before being| disabled. The Norwich even better| sGovernment took under consideration a plan for thm.mwmmw;-!huu«u hospitals all over the cous- 42 FRANKLIN ST. Electnc Co i The administration is running the war. It isn't pleasant for the men in power to recall that the messy con- dition that our war: preparinz has been in has been due to the admin- istration’s blindness before our en- trance into the war and its eb- stinacy since we eatered it. Gen. is a reminder of these facts, If he were allowed to g0 to the front, | he undoubtedly would do things that jwould call to mind these points and i would set the administration men lin a still more unfavorable light. | Therefore Cen. Wood is sent to Cali- fornia and the nation is deprived of the best uee of his fine - abilities when it needs them most. That's Secretary Baker's idea of the way to conduct the war department.—Water- { bury Republican.