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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-06
Spirit of College Rowing Has Improved
 Since O1den Times

University rowing has had a more suspicious start. and all the condi- tions point to a season which, hav- ing begun satisfactorily, will proceed with cumulative bri1liancy to a splen- did climax in June. Not the least important contributcry feature has been the new spirit in which the varf- ous universities have accepted the sport.
 There is now a pleasing absence of that attitude of distrust and sus- picion which formerly characterized tn ereIations of the various rowing institutions At New London to cite no longer that system of espionage which was manifested in clandestine visits to boathouses and in spies arm ed with telescopes hiding behind hills and trees along the Thames course. Now, when either Harvard or Yale goes out for a time trial the rival camp is notified and the coach may, if he wishes, follow the enemy in it's dash down the course.
 In the recent Princeton-Harvard race the two squads lived together, oc- cupied the same boathouse, and had their oars in adjoining racks-in all a. pleasant ming1ing of sport and friendliness And so with Yale and PennsyIva mia. The new status, too, is to be observed in the expansion of rowing schedules. so that now the two New London crews row several preliminary regattas, whereas in for mer times Yale and Harvard were inclined to flock pretty much by them selves
 Of course, elf-interest played some part in this modern tendency of the Crimson and the Blue, but none the less, a more amialh1e bearing toward .he rowing men of other universities
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-06
STILL PUT BLAME FOR CONGESTION ON
 LOCAL CONSIGNEES

At a conference held in New York city yesterday between R. W. Miller, chairman of the transportation com n1fttee of the Chamber Of Commerce. and the New England Freight Accu- mutation Conference, 1t was declared that the embargo would be lifted from Bpadgeport as soon as freight held in cars on std4ngs here was unloaded by conGgnees.
 Vice President Campbell of the New Haven road. who is a member of Ghe AccunnuIa4fon Conference explain ed that the necessity for the embargo was due to the great number of cars being turned over by connecting lines for Bridgeport which increased to an enormous extent in a few days when the recent embargo was lifted.
 Arrangements have been made for eDsczf1c con1plaanks against the rail-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-06
RAISING RENTS

saYNDIGATES real estate purchasers reported buying dwellings at high prices for the purpose of
 raising is justified by the increased living of etravagant city govern Anything beyond In the long etravagant rents will result in imitation of building that the eight hours three shifts
 day abandoned there be surpusage and rents will
 point they high Housing difficult in Bridgeport just scarcity should exorton Bridgeport landlords not gasoline They not studied the art of taking all the traffic will bear. {
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-06
NEW YORK CITY

NEW YORK WORLD.-AI that part of the German reply which con- templates an alliance between Ger many and the United States to break self cannot break is inpossi ble. It is .unthinkalble. To grant it would put 2. stain on the honor of the United States that could never be erased.
 What Germany has yielded. she must yield in obedience to law, not for the expected benefits of barter. That and that alone must be the American attitude. Hmm ediate abandonm ent'' is what the President demanded, and ssirnm ediate abandonne ent'' it must be, without condition and without quail fcation.
 NEW YORK SUN.-The note had to be written not only as a, reply to a specific demand of the American gov ernment, but also with a view to the satisfaction of national pride and a very exacting natural sentiment at home.
 The tone is manifest1y intended for Berlin; the substance for Washington The Administration may we'll concen- trate it's attention upon the essentioI fact, and that fact is that an infn cas- urab1e and apparently imminent ca 1amity has by Germany's act been averted without the ob1iteration of a single bright band in the spectrum of this Republics honor.
 NEW YORK HERALD-Ther are two things that he (President Wilson, can do. One is to sever diplomatic re- lations with Germany immediately The tone of the note in itself would be Justification for that. On the other hand, he can sit down and wait. He will not have to wait long. There is no way out of the difficulties of the United States with Germany except through Germany abandoning it's iI- legal use of the submarine. This it will not do. The break seems bound to come in the very nature of things. It would perhaps be better to have it come now.
 NEW YORK TRIBUNE-Mr.- Will
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-06
New York Celebrates
 Start of Baby Week.

New York, May 6-Celebration of Baby Week" began today with ser vices in the synagogues throughout the city and the first of a series of clinics conducted by the Society for the Relief of Crippled Children. Baby Sunday will be observed in all Pro- testant and Catholic churches tomor- row. Little Mothers g meetings will be held on Monday. Wednesday will be Fathers Day." when factory meet ings will be held throughout the city with noon hour talks to men,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-06
THE PKErrIEsr FACE

and the most beautiful hands are oH- ten disfigured by an unsightly wart- T. can easily be removed in a few days without pain by using Cyrus Wart Remover. For sale only at the Cyrus Pharmacy, AIS Fairfield Ave
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-06

road by shippers or consignees and likewise railroad complaints against delinquent individual consignees to be transmitted daily through the Cham Der of Commerce to the Accumulation Conference that the exact situation here may be known to the railroad heads and fair means taken to expe- dite or restrict shipments to this city.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-06
NEW ENGLAND

BOSTON GLOBEAAs to whether the note is acceptable to the American commonwealth, it is hard to see why we should give Am bassador von Bernstorff his pass ports. If we do Germany will have proved her contention that our neu- trality is farcica1 and that he really more than sympathize with her ene- mics. As to whether we shall. do as Germany requests regarding Great Britain, it is fairly evident that today's note makes such a, step all the more difficult.
 BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT The note will mollify the public mind of Germany and mudd1e the is pitched in a tone so sneering as to satisfy the Germans and couched in terms so clever as to misIead many Americans.
 BOSTON TRAVELER-The note is sions, denial, irony and fact. It is an invitation to the -Presi- dent to begin a new series of com munications and s'the services of hu- manity'' is dragged in after the Pres ident's own fashion, as if to make him wonder whether the Kaiser is batting him on the back or pol1ing fun at him.
 BOSTON RECORD reply is an evasion and an invitation to further corresp ondence and argu- ment- It does contain one para graph of concession but qualities it with an effort to bargain with the United States in her relations with Great Britain The reply meets the positiveness of our April I g note with vagueness of word and promise.
 PROVIDENCE EVENING JOUR- one course is left to Pres. Wilson now; only one path for a, Ma ton that would be honest with itself; only one step for a government un- willing to make base surrender of it's and not ready to suffer the taunt that it has lost itsfl last shred of seIf-respect. It is MT. Wilson's un- avoidable duty at once to put Ger many beyond the pale of civilized na- tions by the means indicated in his And in doing so he will have every real American behind him to a man.
 PROVIDENCE BULLETIN. = s'It (the note1 is a brutal mockery of the wounds again and again inflicted upon us It is a series of studied insults added to a long inventory of injuries. It amounts to an elaborate and de1ib- crate defiance of nation whose re- straint under persistent provocation has moved half the world to admira- ton and the other half to scorn. The President must prove that the lofty he has so often reiterated are not empty words"
 WORCESTER EVENING POST-l It is difficult to read into the docu- ment much more of the spirit of con- cession than that Germany will agree to meet the demands of the United States if the Unied tStates will insist that Great Britain shall abandon what Germany considers to be her infractfons of international law
 WORCESTER EVENING GA German answer to note is No"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-06
Editorial Comment on Berlin Note

break off diplomatic relations with the Imperial Government without de- lay and without hesitation. The re- call of Gerard, the dispatch of Bern stOrff to his own country-these are the things that we can no longer post pone. They are the least that can be done; they may well be but the be- ginning-but they must be done
 NEW YORK AMERICAN-We are bound to admit that all this (the terms of the German note) seems to us to be reasonable on the part of Germany and essential to our own honestly, sincerity, and self-re- spect.
 As we said the other day, the home ly proverb that what is sauce for the German goose must be sauce for the British gander applies exactly to the
 Germany has yielded to our de- mands.
 Now make England obey -Interna- tionaI law and respect our rights.
 Any other course will convict us in the eyes of the world of maintaining sham neutrality.
 Any other course will put us in the wrong and put Germany in the right.
 Any other course will be a square denial of fair play.
 NEW YORK PREss-As long as Germany lives up to her new or der to submarine commanders, ~ this government will have what President Wilson has demanded > But if or when the German govern ment does change it's order to sub marine commanders, or does permit them to violate the order indiscrin- inately and wantonly, then there will be nothing left for President Wilson to do but to end relations with the German government-to snap them off without barley or delay.
 JOURNAL OF COMMERCE. Again it depends upon what is done in the other and wholly different case of Great Britain. If we will make her behave Germany will promise to behave. At least it will be facing a new situation in which it must re- serve for itself complete liberty of de- cision.' This means that it has reached no decision now. It has, in fact, made no answer to the Ameri- ton of abandonment. Will there be the "effect''?
 NEW YORK TIMES-So the situa- ton we are now facing is this:-Ger- many has issued orders that comply with our demands and the principles of international law and of human
 
 tells us that it may not consider this order and this promise binding upon itself unless certain conditions are brought about. which are altogether beyond our power to control.
 NEW YORK EVENING SUN.-''we cordially hope our government may find in this note the solution of our own difficulty but as a general indica- ton as respects the prospects of peace it fills us with gloom. Plainly Ger many is not in the hunnor yet to heed the counse1s of wisdom or humanity She is still wor1d-def1ant.''
 NEW YORK GIOBE.-tsThere is no compliance or substantial com p1iance. The little that is conceded is conceded eonditiona1Iy! No choice would thus seem open to our government but to carry out it's declared intention to sew CT diplomatic relations
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-06

WORCESTER TELE G R A M There is not satisfaction in the note unless 1t be the assurance which is smeared all over it. It is up to Presi- dent Wilson to make the American answer by force or quit.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-06
I his Is the Brides Season Everything for the rousseau Everything for the House

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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-06

NEW YORK GLOBE.-seThere is no compliance or substantial com pliance. The little that is conceded is conceded conditiona11y. No choice would thus seem open to our government but to carry out it's declared intention to sew CT dipIomatic relations
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-06

SPRING PIONEERING |,
 PLANTS. JOHN RECK 6 SON.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-06

SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN.-
 The Presidents specific demand has been met literally and with suf- dcient completeness to render a di- plomatic break unwarranted at this time.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-06
sPRINGFIELD UNION.-The G.

SPRINGFIELD UNION.-The Ger man reply is a complete evasion of the issue, so clearly drawn in the Presidents ultimatun that it was iTn- possible to mistake it's meaning. The course of President Wilson appears to be clear. He has only one course to pursue and that is to live up to the terms of his last note to Ger many and sever diplomatic relations with that nation. Responsibility for the consequences, whatever they may be, will rest with Emperor William.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-06

NEW YORK TRIBUNE-Mr.- Will son can do but one thing. He must
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-06

HARTFORD POST@The note is not in any way a compliance with the demands of the United States. It is in spots defiant of those demands and in others evasive. The note con- tains a covert insinuation that the German people regard the United States as one of their enemies.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-06
NEwYORK EvENTNG SUN.

NEW YOf1EA F4V E1NINN SUN." w e cordially hope our government may find in this note the solution of our own difficulty but as a general indica- ton as respects the prospects of peace it fills US with gloom. Plainly Ger many is not in the humor yet to heed the counsels of wisdom or humanity. She is still worId-defiant''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-06
BOSTON EVENING rRANsCR1P,

The note will mollify the public mind of Germany and nudd1e the public mind of the United States. It is pitched in a tone so sneering as to satisfy the Germans and couched in terms so clever as to misIead many Americans.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-06

WORCESTER EVENING GA ZETTE@The German answer to Americas note is No"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-06

WORCESTER EVENING POST It is difficult to read into the docu- ment much more of the spirit of con- cession than that Germany will agree to meet the demands of the United States if the Unied tStates will insist that, Great Britain shall abandon what Germany considers to be her infractions of international law.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-06

MERIDEN RECORD-Preside
 Wilson and his advisers will think it (the note) over, and may send
 another absolutely last and final uItf- matym
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-06

WATERBURY REPUBLICAN,
 It is not for the President to con sider what his action shall be. His action has been decreed. He cannot recede now. He must declare that the German reply is unsatisfactory.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-03-27
DEAL At WEBSTER
CITY COMPLETED, INVOLVING
SUM OF $25oooo.
tsAwARnEN CONCERN COMES
INTO POSSESSION SOON
Purchasing Company Owns Many
Plants in Northwest Iowa-Webster
City to Be Made General Hsadquar-
ters-Martin to Devote Time to New
Inventions and to Manufacturing.

| Webster City, March 27.-The big
gest individual business deal ever
consumated in Webster City has just
terminated in the sale of the Martin
Telephone Company's plant here to
the Farmers and Merchants Telephone
Company Of Hawarden. which now
owns twenty one telephone exchanges
in this part of Iowa. The price paid
for the Webster City plant. including
the fine new brick block recently built
by Mr. Martin to house the plant was
$4,000.
W. J. Brownell. president of the
Farmers and Merchants Company,
was in Webster City to close the pur-
chase Of the Martin plant. He also
operates some twenty exchanges along
the Illinois Central between Webster
City and Waterloo. 1t is announced
that Webster City is to be made the
general headquarters for the Farmers
and Merchants plant and the Browneli
interests. The new Martin building Is
finely equipped for general offices OF
this kind and Webster City is centrally
located as regards the plants owned
by the Hawarden company and the
Brownell interests.
F. II. Martin. telephone man. CAPT.
talst and inventor. esta blished his
plant in Webster City twenty-three
years ago AS an indication of the
rapid development Of the telephone
business. il is said that the Webster
City exchange was the first independ-
ent telephone exchange in the United
States.
E H Martin expects to remain IN
Webster City. at least for time.
Later his telephone meter interests
may call him to Des Moines. He is
president Of the International Tele-
phone Meter Company. a company or
ganized in Des Moines for the manu-
racture Of telephone meter invented
by Mr.. Martin and which Is capitalized
at $1,000. 900.
The Farmers and Merchants Com
pany will take over the Webster City
plant April I. r. L. Sterling, present
manager Of the company, will remain
AZ thar pOsitiOn.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-03-27
CHEAPER TO IMPROVE RoADs.
Wriaht County Thro~s Away $1S,oOO
Annually For Mud Hoade.

Annually tor Muo NoAoes
Special to Times Republican.
. Iowa Falls, March N.-Dvery good
roads booster In the state will be in
terested in knowing that Wright coun-
ty is paying over $4,000 annually In
trying to keep out Of the mud and that
the county spends $4,000 year
more than would pay for draining,
grading and gravelng the 1913 miles
of county roads in the county under a
thirty year bond issue. Based on a
cost Of $4,000 a mile for such an i'm
provement, it Is stated by one who has
given the matter much attention that
by Issuing bonds and putting the roads
in first class shape, the tax payers
could pay for the improvements in a
period covering thirty years and at the
same time save $4,000 a year over
and above the present cost OF main
tanning the roads of the county. The
Iowa Farmers Club Of the county
proposes to see to 1t that every cam
didate for office lines up on a new deal
on good roads. The same organization
is against the present system of land
titles and compulsory school CONSOLE
dation. The club will also back the
bond issue proposition for better roads
in the county.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-03-27
GrinneII and Vicinity.

Special to Times Republican.
Grinnell, March 27.-The question has
been discussed for some time in Iowa
College circles of cutting" out baseball
as an intercollegiate form Of compett-
tive athletics. The matter has finally
come up before the board of athletic
control and the faculty committee and
will probably be decided very soon.
Those who urge the cutting out would
have greater emphasis laid upon track
athletics The discussion is likely to
be intensified and extended before the
final decision OF the authorities.
Clark McFate. who has spent the win
ter with his relatives and old neigh
bors in Sheridan township, has just got
back with a car load of goods to his
recently acquired farm near Red Lake
Falls, MINI.
Grinnell will have a goodly number Of
teachers and professors to represent her
as an educational center in the South
eastern Iowa Teachers Association at
Oskaloosa next week. Profs. Jesse
Macy and Paul F. Peck, of the college,
are on the speaking program. Prof c.
N Smiley is to deliver his stereopti
con lecture. "A Visit to Rome" Super
| intendent Henely and Miss Nettie Bay
/ ley are also on the program.
| A. E. James. of Union township, was
here last week for an x-ray examina-
ton Of his knee. which had been Sc
! verely injured some time ago by being
struck with a piece of iron while Mr..
/ James was working in a blacksmith
shop on his farm.
/ Fred Rose Is happy In the possession
of a medal which says "National Pet
Stock Association for the Best Junior
! Rabbit" which came to him as the re-
suit Of his exhibit in Chicago In Feb
ruary.
Mrs. J. H. P. Robinson. of this city.
Is away for a ten days visit with
friends in Omaha. 49,
]. c. Bacon, of this city, 10 having the
pleasure OF visit from his son. H. j.
Bacon. Of Britt. who will visit other
relatives in Chester before going back
to his home. ~. =
Lafe Elmore, whose home In Rock
Creek, four miles west OF Grinnell waa
Destroyed by fire some months ago, If
now established with his family in the
new dwelling recently finished. The
fire in the old one started from putting
kerosene on the fire and the hired Cir
4 was badly burned and Mr.. Elmore
somewhat singed. ~. Essn- r.
Mrs w. F. Hammond Is having the
pleasure OF visit from her son, AIdace
who is spending his week OF vacation
from Rush Medical College in Chicago
here. >---s.8. z, 3 sF. iej4.t ~ = A q
Last fall Henry Frahm, a prosper,
GUS farmer Of Sheridan township
bought residence In GrinneIl on Elm
street. He has recently arranged chi
renting OF his Sheridan fafm 20 his so1
and moved into his new home here.
II The Sunday school institute which
led by Prof III. r. Evafis, has been .,
this year, ms aTid TN
J following officers have been elected 10,