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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03

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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03
SCHOOL SUPPLIES

For Youngsters and Teachers
Continued Sale of School Supplies and the
little wearables for the youngsters; as we'll
as the many needed articles which will fa-
cilitate the work of the teachers.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-08-28
MILITARY DISCIPLINE

In many ways military organization is the most
peaceful of activities. When the contemporary
man steps from the street, OF clamorous lnsln-
cere advertisement, push adulteratlon, undersel-
ing and intermittent employment, into the bar
backward he steps on to higher social plane
into an atmosphere Of service and cooperation
and of infinitely more honorable emuations
Here at least men are not flung out of employ
ment to degenerate because there is no tmme-
date work for them to do They are fed and
drilled and trained for better services. Here at
least man is supposed to win promotion by
selfforgetfulness and not by self-seeking And
beside the feeble and irregular endowment OF re-
search by commercialsm, its little shortsighted
snatches at profit by innovation and scientific
economy see how remarkable is the steady and
rapid development of method and appliances in
naval and military affairs!
Nothing is more striking than to compare the
progress of civil conveniences which has been
left almost entirely to the trader, to the progress
in military apparatus during the last few decades.
The house appliances of today for example, are
little better than they were so years ago.
house of today is still almost as ill-ventilated,
badly heated by wasteful fires, clumsy arranged
and furnished as the house of 1853. Houses a
couple of hundred years old still satisfactory
places of residence so little have our standards
risen. But the rifle or battleship Of so years ago
was beyond all comparison inferior to those We
possess; in power in speed. in convenience alike.
No one has a use for such supersnnuated
things.
The conceptions of order and discipline the
tradition Of service and devotion. of physical fit
ness, unstinted exertion and universal RESPONSE
bility which universal military duty is teach
ing European nations, will remain a permanent
acquisition, when the last ammunition has been
used In the fireworks that celebrate the final
peace.-H. G.. Wells.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-08-28

derful power and inspiration for service expressed
in t. and at the present time every vessel OF
the navy and at every station under its supervls-
sion greater effort is being put forth from day to
day to render to the great public more EN-
cient service in return for the appropriations
made for their maintenance
am not talking for a greater navy, am not
talking for the military form of management!
am asking you simply to understand that eacn
officer and enlisted man of the United States
navy Is feeling more and more every day that in
order to live up to the full measure of his useful
ness he must give you service; and | ask for
them from every dweller under the Stars ana
Stripes the heartiest cooperation in helping each
of us to find and use, in the broadcast way, all
possible paths of usefulness open to US as your
servants and fellow citizens.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-08-28
HALF THE WORLD AND
IT'S PEOPLE AT WAR

Belgian dependency. 1t touches Brit
iSh South Africa and also the British
Sudan holdings 1t requires no bold
stretch of the Imagination to conceive
that the present great war may
change the map of Africa to a consid.
cradle extent. When the great powers
sit down around the council table at
the end of the conflict, England, in re-
turn for her support Of Belgium
against the Germans, might easily ask
that the sovereignty of the Congo
Free State be entrusted to her.
France might we'll be expected to
assent to this, because her African
holdings would likely be consolidated
and considerably extended as the re-
suit of her participation in the war.
With the Congo Free State in her pos
session, Great Britain would then hold
great strip of Africa running almost
due north and south from the Medi-
terranean to the Cape. She would
control the interior lake region OF the
Dark Continent whose vast bodies OF
navigable fresh water are fairly COM
parable to the Great Lakes Of the
United States; the Congo Valley; the
gold and diamond reefs of South Afr1-
ca and practically every mile Of the
immense and rich valley of the Nile.
The consolidated British Empire in
Africa, thus brought into being would
exceed the British holdings In any
other continent, not excepting Aus
tralia and the Dominion of Canada.
The Spells Of War.
On the other hand, should Germany
be the dictator In the peace terms at
the end of the great struggle, she
of the French possessions in Africa.
Besides the holdings in the Sahara.
the Congo and the Niger Valley.
France owns the great island of NADIA
gascar. 1t is not improbable that IL
Germany again, as In 1871, were in a
position to force terms on France, she
would exact her pound of flesh" in
choice bits of French colonial possess
sions, rather than in cash.
One of the greatest colonizing pow
of the world Is Holland, whose empire
in the East once included much OF
what is now British India. Holland
still owns Borneo, which is nearly as
large in area as the German Empire;
the Celebes Islands, one-third as
large as Borneo; Sumatra, which is
nearly as large as France; Java,
which though only about as large as
Iowa, is one of the most densely popu-
lated regions In the world, numbering
something like 100000 inhabitants:
Dutch Guiana, on the north coast of
South America, which is about the
size of Java, though having much
smaller population and various islands
and groups of islands in the South
Seas
Though Holland has not declared
war, the enumeration of her colonial
possessions is important In this con-
nection, for she has ordered the mobil-
ization of her army and 1t is hard to
see how, in the event of a prolonga-
ton of the big war, any European
power with world interests can keep
out OF it.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-08-28

This feeling is based upon the fact that the spe-
calized industries of today demand specialized
education. Vocational training In the public
schools. in extension courses and the still more
highly specialized training Of the corporation
schools are all long steps in the right direction.
An accurate fitting of the round peg to the
round hole demands however, something In adj
dition to the above. The navy requires 81 trades
to administer to its needs All these trades are
under the common direction of one head Each
ship contains modern machinery for each trade
to attain maximum efficiency.
Does 1t not possible that during the
four years of the enlistment period the natural
capabilities Of each man might be worked out
In such way as to practically insure locating
this man In any profession to which his par
ticular type of brain and mental and physical
equipment best fit him?
Fitting the individual in the navy to his
position of maximum usefulness means a care
full personal unselflsh consideration OF the am
billions and capabilities Of each man by the Off
GERS under whom he serves. Mutual understand
ing between officer and enlisted man In the navy
is being developed at wonderfully rapid rate
In the first place. very large majority OF the
work in the navy is with machinery. officer and
man are both In overalls.
The officer is Mr. Brooks, for example and the
man is simply Smith" but that is practically
the only distinction between the officer and the
man. except such as Is given by the power OF
the officer to serve the enlisted man and to
bring him to his highest point Of efficiency.
In the forward turret of the Alabama for ex-
ample the ordinary seaman in charge of the
hoist motor has found that tightening a certain
clutch will give greater speed to his car.
MIR Brooks / think little change will give
us quicker ammunition supply. Ra
What do you recommend? @ae~
The man then explains his idea and the entire
turret crew gather around to discuss the advis-
ability OF the change. Each member OF the tur-
ret crew is Just as vitality interested In the sue
cess of the turret as the oficer is and each man
knows that his best effort is absolutely essential
TO the maximum of hits.
In this way machinery the ships has proved
a great force working toward intelligent democ-
racy In the navy.
The second force tending to draw officer and
man together is the fact that the efficiency OF
each officer and man, from the commander In
chief to the latest recruit on board, 10 q matter
OF exact record.
eThe ,nots that hit the shots that count,
and. Incidentally they are the only shots that
count.
The number of hits OF each oficer for each
yrn. of each man for each gun and OF each
man for each shot OF each gun Is put on the
record OF the officer and the enlisted man and
Incomes a matter of public knowledge. published
IN the newspapers of the country, advertising
tha efnciency of EACH IL the score is good enough
and ON the other hand advertising inemciency
n the score is bad enough.
The engineering competition applies the same
sxact methods to the number OF pounds OF coal.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-08-28

the number of gallons of oil and the number of
gallons Of water used in the engines, dynamos
and auxiliaries
Competition thus engendered and intelligently
rewarded for success failure has compelled
study OF the enlisted by the officer which
has resulted in feeling of mutual interdepend-
ence which has brought officer and man in
relationship which makes snobbishness on the
hand aud misunderstanding on the other more
nearly impossible every day.
To fit the man to his position of maximum
usefulness in the navy demands, therefore, no
change In existing mechanism OF effort The
only thing necessary is to coordinate and to
direct to a given end the forces already In ex
stence on every ship and at every station Of the
navy.
This given purpose is two-fold In character
First, to use the navy to give education broad
mindedness and personal efficiency to each of
fcer and enlisted man in the service training
each individually to give the highest possible
returns in actual useful effort for the money
expended for his pay and training.
This first aim will send forth among our citi
zenship each year approximately 1000 men, each
of whom is qualified by his industrial training,
by his association with officers and men Of diff
ferent nations by his habit Of mind of intelli-
gent comprehension and quick, well-disciplined
action and by his broad understanding Of world
politics. to act center for spreading knowl-
edge of discipline of good citizenship, OF the
highest ideals of mental physical and spiritual
efficiency through every section of our United
States.
Second from the body OF men thus qualified
the employer Will be able to select, from exact
records the man fftAed in every respect for best
efficiency in any given position. Letters from
some of the largest employers of labor in the
country show that they now employing men
holding honorable discharges from the navy and
getting from them higher efficiency than from
the average man.
Give greater certainty Of direction TO the In
dustrial education of each man and 1t is not pos
sibie to avoid the conclusion hat greater eff1-
cheney still will result
Let us pass now to consideration of the ma
teriaI side of the navy. Do you realize that
when q ship OF our fleet visits foreign port
she carries on board practical. complete work
ing demonstrations of the best and latest Ameri-
can-rnade types of machinery?
Suppose am q mine owner In Rio de Janeiro
1t ia my desire to install q $250.0oO pumping
plant In the mines under my direction. The
fleet visits Rio de Janero and | go on board
the ship as q visitor. In the engine room ana
In the IRE room find American pumps operat-
ing so smoothly and efficiently and with so small
n necessity for supervision that am impressed
Immediately with the fact that those pumps,
made by an American manufacturer. are the
& only ones that will serve my purpose
In other words the actual demonstration OF
the machinery has overcome any means brought
TO bear by foreign manufacturers to convert me
to their product
of the possibilities Il this line would, It seems
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-08-28
WOMAN, SHOT AS
A TRAITOR, CRIES
"vIvE LA FRANCEv'

Geneva-Mme. Favre Schwarz Of
Basic, young and beautiful Swiss
lady, married to one OF the richest
men In AlsaceLorraine, was shot aft
err courtmartial. She was accused
of attempting to blow up an impor-
tant tunnel on the railroad line near
Lsopoldschall.
Nine. Schwarz made no secret OF
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-08-28
"A SPLENDID CHARGE

There will be the full complement
Of backs broken in two, of arms twist
ed wholly off, of men impaled upon
their bayonets, of legs smashed up
like bits of firewood, of heads sliced
open like apples, of other heads
crunched into soft jelly by the iron
hoofs OF horses, Of faces trampled
out of all likeness to anything human.
This is what skulks behind "a splen-
did charge" This is what follows. as
a matter Of course. when our fellows.
rode at them in style and cut them up.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Dickens.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-08-28

achievement for all mod
ern industries.
IN addition to the pro-
lection feature of the
navy, there are three
ways in which. it seems
to me, there might be
possibilities for future
service to individual tax
payers and to individual
employers fortunate
enough to live in the
United States.
A widespread feeling
Is abroad in the land
that the present method
of education does not
give to boys aged seven
teen to twenty-one the
maximum return for the
time spent In Study.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-08-28

her intense French sympathies, Hav-
ing been found guilty and sentenced
to death, she shouted "viya la.
France!" and she died with this cry
upon her lips.
She was well known in tho best
cosmopolitan society not only of Basel.
but of Berlin.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-08-28
NIL DEsPERANDUM.

Things in general" said the pessimistic the.
osophist ARE very, very bad"
"Oh. well" replied the optimistic theosophist.
cheerfuliy, its all In lifetime; and, besides,
there will be other lifetimes."-Puck
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-08-28
GENERAL TENDENCY.

How do you account for the falling OF b
enthusiasm in your district?
TIA to be expected" replied Senator Sorghum.
people will fall on band wagon the same az
a water wagon"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-08-28
THE LOGIC OF IT.

The Mexicans must be an unusually smart
people"
What makes you think that"
Il see the oil people are afraid they win set the
rivers there on fire."
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-08-28

Man viii never become entirely sat-
isfied until somebody can contrive n
system OF fulltime wages without
work.-Houston Post
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-08-28

to the individual and to the corporation under the
United States government given by the army and
navy undoubtedly pays considerable percentage
of dividends the investment, but utilization of
all possibilities for efficiency is the standard Of
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-08-28

N INVESTMENT of $250,O0O,O00 is some
thing we'll worth while Analysing for the
purpose of determining the best way to
utilize all the possibilities for service to
the investor.
The taxpayers of the United States
have considerably more than this amount
already invested in the United States
navy.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-08-28
AON LzZy HIP HT .

to me, disclose a field
of usefulness for the
navy second only in it's
power for service to
the wonderful personal
service given to enlist
ed men on the one hand
and employers on the
other by efficiently CO.
ordinating their mutual
power and necessity.
In the opinion of
some of our distin-
guished fellow citizens
the army and the navy
are an industrial waste.
The watchword of mod
ern industry Is Turn
your wastes into prof
it's" The navy has
heard this watchword,
comprehended the won
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-04
Architect Rogers to
 Straighten Out High
 School Mix Up
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 soluteIy no overtures have been made to us looking toward a settlement. We shall press our claims in court and have no doubt but that we shall be able to show that every claim we make is just. We have done our work satisfactorily and according to con- tract. as is evident from the fact that we were under heavy bonds which would have been cancelled by the bonding company if we had not,
 $22. .674.5O For Excavation
 The report of ScodeId & Ford, en- gineers as rendered to Robertson 6 Giovanne, dated May 26, showed that the total earth excavation upon the high school site would run 13,972.9f fcu- bic yards with S,s42,0 cubic yards of rock. According to the contract fig ures agreed upon by Miss Durkin and the sub-contractors. this would mem .S6, ,9s6 for the removal of earth and $15, 50 for rock, a total of $2z, ,674g 40 for excavation alone on the new school It is also claimed by Robert son & Giovanne that they were au- thorized to remove about 1000 addi- tional cubic yards eof material for which claim will be made under ar, arbitration agreement with the stlb- contractors. An amount of $200O0 was estimated by the Board of Education for this work.
 It is alleged today that there is not one Bridgeport resident at work upon the building, Jacob Mann, foreman and time-keeper, having: been released from the work last week That the action of the contractors in releasing all Bridgeport help seems indefensi- ble from the fact that the work of Mann at least must have been saiis- factory, as he was later employed by Architect Rogers in work upon the unfinished New Haven post office.
 A special. delivery letter addressed to "Durlxin & L.aas 103 Park avenue. New York city, which is her office. was returned today to Charles OsShea with the post office inscription s.re- fused upon it's face.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-04

was necessary to have a. surgical op- eration performed upon him in New York, that for twenty years he has suffered from deliriuTn tremens several times a year, that he has been con- fined in the insane asylum and in the Greens Farms Sanftariurn, in Dr. Gib- bon's Sanitarium in Stamford and that he took the Keeley cure in an insti- tuition In Babylon, l.. T., that he was twice confined in the Bridgeport hos pital because Of the after r-effects or hard drink and three times in the St Vincent's hospital and that he had enormous doctors bills, which we're incurred almost solely in treating him for the effects Of liquor.
 She said that he was, in her opinion, now too old to change his habits, tFlat she had lost her health in caring for him and worrying about him, that shs was now z5 years of age and had only Q little while longer to stay and, not withstanding all he had done, she still loved her. boy and desired to have a Conservation retained in order that his property might not be squandered, so that he would eventually become a charge upon the town or upon his re- lations.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-04
MAY PUT OFFICER |ON THE AMBULA


 Having a policeman detailed to ac- company the emergency hospital's au- tomobile anbu1ance on aI calls ex= cepting transfers is an innovation be- ing considered by police department officials and may be brought to the attention of the Commissioners of both the police and charities depar Hnents soon. They believe that such an ar rangement would benefit both depart ments and cite procedure followed in other cities.
 It is pointed out that in having a policeman on the ambulance. much valuable time wilISbe gained in investi- gating murders. assaults, etc., as often they are not reported until the a.nbu- lance returns from a hospital call or the police patrol is called Also that there are occasions 1requent1y where nnbulance patients are violent and the surgeon is roughly used.
 The same detail, supporters Of the plan say. could be used to accompany the patrol. doing away with the man making the arrest leaving his beat to bring the prisoner in
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-04
FREEDOM ABUSED;,
 MRS. HOLMAN SAYS
Admits Love Affair With Present Husband Before
 She Got Divorce

Hartford, June Mrs. Elizabeth Curtis Holman, former wife of Prof. sational testimony today in her dam age suit against her husband and Dr. C. c. Smith and Paul Waterman, in which conspiracy is charged.
 Ralph o. Wells. of counsel for the defense. quoting from a letter intro- Holman deserved her punishment as one who had abused her freedom, asked
 Had you abused your freedom
 tsI presumed had I had contin- ued a correspo pondence and love affair with a man loved after my married life had been so unhappy. which I suppose is a. social wTongdoings but. under the circumstances of my life, I believed there were mitigating cir .cuTnstances.s
 Did you think it was wrongdoing ?,'
 Was the man MT Holman ?"
 Yes. my present husband"
 The testimony then turned to two letters which Mrs. Holman, when she was Mrs. Brenton. wrote to MT Hol- man and which she said we're written to assist MT. Holman in being divorce ed from his wife, and which Mrs. Holman, in a letter to MT. Brenton said, were the most discriminating letters that he had in his possession 2
  not present at the memorable Inter- view in her home in Hartford on the morning in September when Dr. Smith, Dr. Waterman and Prof. Bren- ton decided she must go to a, sanf- tariurn but her mother came in when it was over with her hat and coat.
 Did you appeal to your mother 7'' asked MT. Wells
 .T think did..' replied Mrs. Ho1- man
 'sShe wept and was very much agS itateds cried and said that Cranston and the doctors said I must go and that it was best for me to Eo.''
 Asked by MT Wells if she was really taken away by force or went voluntarily, the witness said:
 They told me if did not go vol- untarily they would take me by force.,'
 She told again of it being impress ed on her that there were three men and a nurse present if force were nee. essary She said she did not know until she reached Brattleboro that she was to be confined in an insane asp Iun.
 ''was your mother one of the con- spirators?''
 T don't consider her so. believe she was unduly influenced at the times
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-04
CUP DEFENDERS RAcE
 IN sPTTE or wTArTE1aEEe

Rye. N. Y, June 4.-with the crews drenched with spray and rain, this af- ternoon the cup defending yachts started out in spite of the weather. The official starting time: Vanite 1:o0:21 Resolute 1:O1 :55.
 The thrash Of wind was a pretty struggle. At 1: :z5 the forestaysaM sheet on the vanitie parted and she lost minutes in getting in the sail Mean while, the Resolute rapidly closed up the gap between them.
 It was announced that the Vanitie had withdrawn The committee had hoisted the code flag "'M,' indicating that the flag would be finished as soon as the Resolute passed over the line on the second leg Of the course.
 Resolute won when she crossed the finish line at 1:55:47, unofficial tinae- Later it was learned that the with drawal of the Vanitie was caused by the loss of man overheard and diff ffcu1ty in recovering him and not by the parting of the forestaysail sheet.