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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-15
AmuSements
PLAZA

LET Katy Do IT,, with Jane Grey
and TuIly Marshall in the stellar roles
and a company of eight clever little
tots doing some really remarkable act
ing, is a Triangle feature ;of unusual
merit and it is attracting much atten-
ton from patrons of the Plaza dur
ing the latter half of the week. The
story which at first runs in a SYM
pathetic vein turns out to be one Of
the most thrilling ever filmed and the
work of one little fellow in defending
his brothers and sisters from an at
tack of some Mexican marauders, is
exciting in the extreme.
The picture is in five acts and beau
tifully produced from a scenic stand
point.
Sam Bernard of musical comedy
fame is starred in ''The Great Pearl
aTngle,'' a keystone two part attrac-
ton. 1t is a merry mix-up from start
to finish and keeps the crowd laugh
ing throughout.
The vaudeville is headed by Luken's
tGroupe of trained animals, including
tire lions. a panther and bear Mile
Evelyn, a daring and pretty little miss
works in the cage with the beasts and
puts them through a series of clever
stunts that are both interesting and
amusing.
Rocket, Hoover and Marley, two
attractive young women and noble
NUT succeed in creating a veritable
hurricane of laughter on their en-
trance and they don't let it die down
for a moment until after they. have
left the stage.
THE Beauty Shop a, dainty de-
light in the hands of Stone & Lear
is being enthusiastically received. Both
are gifted entertainers and their ma
teria1 is pleasing.
The bounding Tramps in their odd
trampoline offering that makes you
laugh in spite of yourself, complete
the bill
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-15
LYRIC

For next week. Dainty Cecil
Spooner with her own COMPANY
whose popularity appears ever on the
increase, will be seen in that ever
stead" now in constant production
more than 80 years, and still young
for it's age. ''The Old homestead a
play of beauty, is undoubtedly the
most important production ever given
by a stock organization and will be
seen at the. Lyric theatre next week,
when Cecil Spooner and an enlarged
company will present a magnificent
and costly production of Denman
Fhompson's world famous New Eng
land play. This play has outIived all
others of a similar nature, and is even
now in the very height of its popular
ity; in fact, it has been often said by
famous critics and leading theatrical
managers that it will never lose its
genuine worth a dramatic offering.
Moreover, that like good wine it
improves with age For the last 80
years 1.-The Old Homestead" has been
presented in every city of any import
ance throughout this country and
Canada, with or without the original
star and producer, Denman Thomp~
son, in the part of the kindly old
farmer, Uncle Joshua Whitcombv
1t is safe to state that everybody at
all interested, in theatricals have
play. which fairly bubbles over with
human interest and quantity attract
i've types Of characters. The Old
Homestead will afford Miss Spooner
a splendid part, that of .sRickety
Ann such as the popular little star
personally revels in playing; in fact,
every member of the company-vill
have part to their personal liking,
with Frederic Clayton as "Unc1e
Joshua; PeH Trenton as Happy
jack; Reta ,Villers as "Aunt Matilda
Whitcomb,'' and the entire company
in famous parts made famous in this
beautiful play, the result of which
should be a splendid, all around per-
Torrance of the strongest rural play
that ever has, or perhaps ever will bes4
produced on the stage. It is. a play
of human nature, with its characters
taken from actual life 1.-THE Old
Homestead" a play of intense in
terest could not possibly be improv.
ed on particularly for d stock pro-
ducing company of the popularity of
Cecil Spooner and her splendid or
ganization, and should prove the ban
ner attraction thus far this season at
the Lyric.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-15
EASTON

Mr.. and Mrs. J. Arthur Sherwood,
Miss Hazel e. Sherwood, Rev. and
Mrs F. G.. Clark have returned, hav-
ing spent a few days in Hartford at
tending the state grange meeting.
Mr. and Mrs. Erwin p Edwards
were guests Thursday of Mr. Edwards
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ed
wards, in Bridgeport.
The regular meeting of Easton
grange. No. 149, was held on Tuesday
evening. There was not a, very large
attendance as SO many are i'll with
the grip.
Miss Clara Sanford, who has been
confined to her home with the mumps
is now recovering.
The week-night meeting of the Bap-
fist church was held on, Friday even
ing. at the home of Deacon and Mrs.
Charles S. Everette.
Mrs. Florence Standish has moved
her household goods from 3Charles
SiIIiman's to the Gould place.
The new officers of the Baptist
Sunday school for the coming year
are: Superintendent, Willard D. Gil
Iette: assistant superintendent, Stand
ley Bibbins; secretary and treasurer.
Edwin Vargoshe; assistant secretary
and treasurer. Lillian f. Andrews; Ii
brarian, Clarence Logan, assistant Ii
brarian, Beth Andrews; organist
Clara Sanford; assistant orgahist.
HiIda McCauIey.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-15
CANNON

Mrs. George Warncke has returned
from spending a few days with
friends in Brooklyn. Mrs. Dion Gels
Ter is her guest.
Rev. Henry Appenzeller left on
Wednesday to assist in the evangel-
istic meetings of DR.. Julian Wads-
worth's church in Providence, r. I.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford FIanford have
returned home after spending the past
week in South Norwalk
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Knapp of Hurl-
butt street have welcomed twin
daughters at their home, Edith and
Elizabeth.
Miss Henrietta willing, Lloyd Scrib-
ner, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Miller. Mrs.
James Dennen and son Lawrence,
J. Robert Sturges are among the
latest victims in town of the grip.
w. c. Ward of the W. U. test sta
ton has been entertaining a friend,
Mr.. Walshs- of New York, for the past
week.
Mrs Frank Bradley of Southport.
and Miss Ella Gilbert have been re-
cent guests of Mrs. Harry Remsen.
Nelson s. HurIbutt has returned to
his duties at the Lounsbury- & Math-
ewson Co. office in South Norwalk,
after a weeks illness with the grip.
Miss Ida Appenzeller has been
suffering with a badly infected finger.
Mrs. Conger and Miss c. Reynolds
were called to Brewsters. N. Y, on
Saturday by the illness and death
from pneumonia of their brother,
Charles Reynolds, who was formerly
a resident in town.
Mrs. Jane A. Smith is spending a
few weeks with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Booth in Bridgeport.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. LinsIey Corsa and
Mr.. and Mrs. George Corsa attended
the funeral of their aunt, Miss S. Bus
sing who died last week at her home
in the Bronx, of pneumonia Her sis
ter, Mrs, Charles, Corsa, has already
been called to her bedside.
Wilbur Sturges had a bad fall on
the ice on Monday, but escaped ser
ious injury.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-15
PR0LONGING WAR
MEANS BIG LOSS
IN HUMAN VALUES

Paris, Jan. 15@The prelongation
of the war has had the effect of COM
plicatings remarkably tbs work of the
statistician The man who is fond
of figuring OUT what given circum-
stances will produce IN all sorts of
occasions began his calculations on
the supposition that all would be over
within a few months. After the few
months passed he began to figure on
year. and again he2had to revise his
figures.
The most intricate problem that
he has BEEN working on is what will
be the total destruction in value of
the men killed and men disabled for
life Statisticians working this
problem go back as far as the war,
Of the Crimea in 81, when Proudhon
estimated the value of a mans life at
90. 900 francs ($4,0OO). Since then
writer's on this subject have for the
most part discredited the arbitrary
figure and have valued the life or
services of a man according to his
producing; capacity. Foville made
the far more moderate estimate of
$500 as the average value of the men
killed in the war kof 1870. Coming
down to the present time, Yves Guy
OF considers that a mans salary or
wages represents no more than half
OF the value of the production to
which he contributes. and starting
from that basis he figures that during
the first six months of the war France
had lost $4,000. 100000 through the
disappearance and disabling of pro-
ducing men. On the same basis the
loss to date would be $4,000, 900,
but other writer's contest the sound
ness of the basis on which these fig
on salary Of 81 per day may be con-
Bldered worth from $1,000 to 100000,
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-15
Australia to Send
New Army Into War

Melbourne. Australia. Jan. Is
One of the first official acts of the new
Prime Minister OF Australia, William
M. Hughes, has been an announce
ment that a fresh army will be fur
nished by the Commonwealth for the
British and allied cause ana that
this army will number $4,000 men.
'eThis further contribution said Mr.
Hughes, will bring the total number
Of men supplied by Australia by next
June to something like 100000 men.
It is to be understood that the prin-
ciple of voluntary enlistment is to be
adhered to. No request had Heen
made to the Commonwealth by the
Imperial government for more men.
The offer was quite spontaneous I
have not the slightest doubt that the
necessary men will be forthcoming
These will form new units and are in
dependent of the quota Of $500 a
month necessary for reinforcenents. y
A governmental appeal will be made
by mail to every man in Australia
within the military age group based
on the recent war census-that is sin
gle men from IS to A years.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-15
EMPIRE

Mice and Men, a delightful five
part Famous Players Paramount mas
terpiece Featuring that ever delight
full star, Marguerite Clarke. will again
be the featured attraction this even
ing.
An all feature photoplay bill will
be shown in conjunction with this
masterpiece.
Tomorrow evening an all select
photoplay program will be offered.
headed by the five part Famous Play
ers Paramount masterpiece, f'tThe
Foundling," with Mary Pickford in
the leading role.
On Monday and Tuesday a f1ve-part
Paramount masterpiece will be
shown.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-15
Moratorium For Soldiers.

London, Jan. 15.-Sir Alfred Mond's
bill for a moratorium of rent for men
entering the army, which would pre-
vent landlords not only from raising
rents on soldiers dependents but
from busting them for arrears in pay
merit. Is now under the consideration
of the war office. France passed
such legislation on the outbreak of
war, as a matter of course But Eng
land, as a Volounteer country, has not
until lately considered such mea-
sure necessary. The general opinion
is that the domestic situation is such
that passage of the measure cannot
be long deferred. !
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-15
Japan Takes War Loan.

Toxic, Jan. Is. subscriptions
throughout Japan to the French gov
ernment's 5 per cent war loan which
have now closed amounted to about
three million francs. The subscri-
bers were chiefly foreigners. On ac-
count of the favorable exchange rate
between Japan and France, subscri-
bers in this country were able to pur-
chase a bond for yen 29,829, which
was the equivalent of the issue price
of francs S7.25. The rate of ex-
change was 2 francs 90 1-2 confines
for one yen.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-15
Wife of DR.. Townsend
To Complete Report
Of Deceased Secretary

New Haven. Jan. 1.-THE death of
DR.. Joseph H. Townsend. secretary of
the state board of health. has de-
layed the preparation of the monthly
report of the board for Decem Der,
DR.. Townsend having been preparing
his statistics for the bulletin when
taken Ill. Mrs. Townsend will COM
plete the figures which her husband
had in hand and the matter will be
amplided by the office of the board
at Hartford.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-15
sCHooLBOY HURT IN FAIL

Albert Schneider, aged eight, a
pupil at Prospect street school and
living at SO Court1and street, suffered
a Iaceration of his lip when he fell on
the concrete walk after being pushed
by another youth during play in the
schoolyard. DR.. John 3. Caravan at
the emergency hospital dressed the
wound.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-15

About now many people are pleased
to find their judgment thoroughly
indicated, that it would have been
Impossible for them to keep any New
Years resolutions.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-15

It is surprising to see how it cheers
up grip victim to tell him about
the sufferings of other people with
the epidemic.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-15

After condemning employers for
not letting their young men attend
military camps, many people would
decide to order goods of firms that
are not tied up by having men absent
on militia duty.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-15

Expectation of munitions from the
United States during the Is months
from August, 1914. to October. 1915,
amounted to $121. 742, 937, according
to an estimate Of the Department of
Commerce.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-15
BOY WITH MATCH
CAUSES SMALL FIRE

A boy with lighted match looking
for an article Of clothing in a closet
at his home, 38 Huron street, started
a fire at 1880 last night in the two
family house owned by Susan Miller.
Damages are estimated at $50.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-15

The fact that u boy will tramp
miles daily looking after his muskraf
and skunk traps, does not mean thai
he would be able to skip down to the
corner after supper to mail a lette
for his mother.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-15
NEW BEGINNERS
DANCING CLASSES

Thursday, Jan. ID, from to 9; Friday,
Jan IA, from to 8. Terms Sc for
lessons. Advanced Glasses from 8 to ~
Quilty's School of Dancing
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-15

Il. Nj. WOOSTER, Attorney Law
Late Examiner U. S. Patent Ofice
lila MAIN ST. SECURITY BLDG.
BRIDGEPORT. CONN,
send Postal for Booklet on Patents
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-15

Farmer Want Ads. One Cent a word.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10
Both Young and Old
Do Their Share

Juvenile labor has also been en-
ployed during the war to a greater
extent than formerly, and on scale
large enough possibly to occasion Sc
rious consequences. Old people, too,
have been obliged TO quit the peace
full existence to which they had re-
tired, and once more engage in in
dustrial pursuits. In Berlin one can
see cabmen who, like their horses
and vehicles, look as though they had
been brought out from some museum
of antiquities.
In addition TO all this, the hours
of work in all branches where it has
become necessary to make the change
ere now longer than before. In the
government Offices and the banks, in
business Offices and in the schools, as
well as in the majority of factories
overtime is now the rule.
Of course, as compared with what
it was before the war, productive
labor has really diminished. But, by
the productive work Of the soldiers
themselves who have been called &c
the colors; by the adoption of the
plan of releasing, altogether or tenn
porarily, the men in service for the
purpose of carrying out important
work in civil life; by the productive
employment of the prisoners Of war
by the use of woman's labor; by the
extensive employment of young oil
aged persons, and by means of gen
eral regime of overtime, it would
seem as though success had beer
gained in the struggle to maintain
the productive capacity of the nation
at standard not very far below the
normal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10
Reduced Consumption
Not a Hardship

OF course Germany is not so
strong economically as during the
last years Of peace But in peace
time consumption had reached
scale which could stand a great re-
duction. We have seen that this
reduction need not in essentials re-
duce the German to lower level of
consumption than that on which
many other civilized people exist or
than even the Germans themselves
were accustomed to very few dec
AIDES since, and on which they were
an active and powerful people. The
lowering Of the standard of living
it may appear to outsiders impor-
tant and for those concerned hard
cannot involve any serious harm or
prevent the continuation of the
war.
If the war were to continue for
years Germany would be weakened
economically. But there is hardly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10
Modern Machinery
Proves Its Adaptability

German industries have been COM
PEELED to undergo an extraordinarily
radical transformation, caused by
the needs and conditions brought
about by the war. 1t has been neces-
sary to do without an export Of liz
dustrial goods amounting to hun
dreds of millions OF money, and in
the home markets demand for many
articles has greatly lessened. New
tasks have been laid on industrial
production.
The story Of this adoption is ex-
tremely interesting, and when its
history at last comes to be written
en- entirely new light will be thrown
on the adaptability Of modern indus
trial enterprises. What people in
Germany are fond of asserting may
be true: that business men in that
country are more than usually ca
pable of adapting themselves to cir
cumstances. But an explanation of
how such thorough and rapid altera-
tons could be carried out at all is
certainly TO be found in the highly
scientific management nowadays en-
ployed in industrial production. The
foundation Of this production is the
machine industry, which has attained
an extraordinarily high degree Of
perfection in Germany. This indus
try, carried on in normal times chief
ly for export trade, has been adapted
in a very short time to meet the de-
mand for new machines necessitated
by the transformation of production.
Whatever and however widely diff
ferent the purposes may be for
which machines are intended, they
consist essentially of fairly similar
component parts, all produced by the
machine shops. The transformation
that has been required of the ma
chine industry itself has, consequent
y. not offered any special difficulties.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10

TINE economic strength Of
country depends, in the first
II place, on the amount Of the
productive work that is carried on
within its borders.
That the industrial life Of Ger
many during the war has passed
through q period Of disorganizatiOn
extending over about two-thirds OF
the first year, but has succeeded In
adapting itself to the new state OF
things, is a fact of very great i'm
portsnce in judging the economic
strength of the country.
We should calculate that from z
10 S million men have been called
away on active service. We are
then forced 70 ask: How Is it pos
sible, under such circumstances, for
Germany's industrial life to exist at
all? The answer is that the labor
which was called away by the war
has TO a very great extent been re-
placed by other labor and that to
no slight degree it is still engaged
in productive work.
The last statement is probably
surprising. AS a matter of fact, IT
is a chapter Of the economy Of the
war as peculiar as it is interesting,
Behind the German trenches there
j. carried on a most extensive and
varied work for the production Of
necessaries of life. II appears to be
chiefly men of the supply depart
ment who are engaged in this task,
although other troops are employed
now and then. The army horses,
which i'm this trench warfare are of
comparatively little use, are utilized
as beasts of burden in this military
agriculture. Within the commits
sariat lines of merely those parts of
France occupied by the German
forces there were said to be no less
than sixty motor ploughs at work
last autumn G915); in various
tracts tillage was carried on on a
most extensive scale. In one place,
for example, there was one area of
some $4,000 acres being farmed as
one unit. In addition there is a
most extensive system of cattle
farming, with diaries and slaughter
houses, etc, complete. Both horned
cattle and pigs are kept in bomb
proof underground rooms in the
neighborhood Of the trenches. Ag-
riculture is carried on as close to the
scene Of actual operations as posi-
bic. Hay, for instance, is mown only
a few hundred yards behind the
trenches.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10
Brazilian Coffee Trade

The publication OF the French and
English blacklists has had a marked
effect on the Brazilian coffee trade.
The shipments OF the present coffee
crop already exceed by 2.06O,540 bags
those OF the coffee crop OF 1915, de-
spite the fact that the blscklisted firms
have not dispatched a single bag. The
purchases OF these blscklisted firms
have been notably reduced, their share
OF the export trade for the year to date
amounting to only 1l.2 per cent. COM
pared with 2l.5 per cent last year. On
the other hand, the French, English
and Italian firms acknowledge an in
crease OF l,466,726 bags and have
shipped 3l.e per cent, against 25.s per
can't
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10
No. pporrssOR CUsTAv CAssEI, University Of Stockholm

peace time. the German woman, I'M
like the Swedish, is almost totally ex-
Guided is bank employment. One or
the principal bank directors in Ger
many gave me the following explana-
ton of this. As a matter of prin-
ciple. his bank accepted none but
men applicants, since none but men
are desired for responsible positions
in financial institutions. In each
clerk there may be future financial
leader. a man predestined to fill the
very first position in the bank. Now,
however, it has been found necessary
to adopt other views and, since the
war, the large German banks have
engaged hundreds and hundreds OF
women, one single establishment hav-
ing no less than 500 women on its
staff in Berlin alone. Whence have
these women come. and how has it
been found possible 70 place them at
the bank desk at once? The answer
is that the greater number have been
recruited from the less important
branches Of trade which in conse-
quence of reduced business have less
need of assistants, or have seen
themselves obliged to engage persons
possessing fewer qualifications than
those discharged. Employees in the
export industry and the export
trades have also, and on a large
scale, been set at liberty to engage
in other occupations, and have been
found specially fitted for bank posi-
tons.
There exists a considerable reserve
Of female labor in the great number
of married women who were for
merly business employees; during the
war these women have been called on
in large numbers to assist in indus
trial occupation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10

Germany makes no secret Of hof0
sic does it, except as to come Of the
laboratory details. She Sc even drr-
,ous to sho41 the main outlines Of ker
ochieUement to any neutral SCI
enlist.
Professor Gustav CosseL Uriver--
eity OF Stockholm, ,cos tnvited bg
the German government TO enter the
empire beleog,red and erplorc # for
economic truths. He reports has das-
coUeriss IN book that hos Just oP-
reared in this country entitled Ger
many's Economic Poicer Of Res's-
lance" jackson Press.
The last tseo tcords Of the t7tte
ciUe 10 a eertcin inferio'1, perhaps
unconscious. II IS the po'eer Of re-
sistance and not the pO10sr Of often
sire that Professor CoSsel 'cr7tes
about.