The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-20
CAILLAUx'S' LEADERSHIP IS
 STRONGER WITH MIDDLE CLASS
Shooting of Ffgaros Editor By His Wife Failed to Injure Politicians Prestige ThrOu ghout French Writers Declare Smoking Does Not Give Inspiration.

Geneva, Switzerland, April 1s4The Saint Bernard monks gave shelter and food to nearly 40,g0e persons last year. The average voluntary con- gate was equivalent to two cents a person The nonastery finds itself in financial difficulties and the claap- ter is considering whether a, fixed charged must not be made in the future for the rich travellers who wis., stay for the week end and drop a. franc or two into the box in pay ment for themselves arId chauffeur for two days keep.
 The monks have carried on their charity for nine centuries without asking any visitor to pay. They have been able to do so by the income from lands vested in the monastery. But during the last ten years the cost of everything has gone LID about forty per cent while rentals have re- mained stationary.
 I've hope to continue,'' says the Abbot Bourgeois. the head of the chapter, giving free hospitality as we have done since the eleventh cen- tury. But if the burden becomes too heavy for our means, we shall be ob-, liged to charge small sum much against our inclination and our prin- cipIes.''
 Friedrich Lutz, the proprietor and editor of a technical newspaper call ed the .sCommerce of the Contin lent Beyond the Seas, z published at Zu- rich. has been sentenced to a years Imprisonment on a charge of defraud- ing the public by claiming a larger circulation in Europe and America than he had. It1tz's defense was that he knew of no newspaper on the con tinent which published it's real cir culatfen, and that he had followed the usual practice of letting the ad- vertiser find out for himself
 The Swiss government is consider. ing the idea, Of an arrangement with the grain interests in the United States whereby the Swiss might be supplied with American wheat if the powers which surround the little neu- tra1 Republic were at war. The For eiEn Office is negotiating first with the French and Italian governments to learn what assurances may be had that such grain shipments would not be nlo1ested in passing through these countries in time of war.
 The problem of wheat supply for the Swiss army became acute during the Balkan war. when the closing of the Dardanel1es cut off much of the usual importations from the East, and prices scared tremendously high.
 
 United States then relieved the sit uation.
 At present the government keeps stores of wheat sufficient to feed the whole mobfIized force of the couri- try, upward of 300. .00Q men, for sev- era1 months. The grain is stored in the capitals Of eleven cantons and. is never allowed to remain in storage more than three months, supplies be- ing constantly taken out and renew ed.
 A distinguished officer of the Swiss staff has advised the government to come to arrangement with neighbor- ing powers on a novel basis. In the event of war Switzerland should be allowed to receive it's food supplies through any of the countries on it's frontiers on condition that the Swiss government received 100000 sick and wounded soldiers and took care of them until the end Of the war.
 Dr. Hardy of Geneva who was a surgeon in the Balkan war says that all the hotels in, Switzerland would have to be turned into hospitals to care for 100000 men and that there are not enough doctors and nurses in. the country. The cost in preparation and in maintenance for a year would he estimates, be $35, 900, ,0Oe, and he adds that it would be- far better for Switzerland to spend the money on the army.