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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-01
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL


Asmeeting of the Ophthepoynt club
was held Thursday evening at the
home of Miss Margaret e. Whelan.
At this enjoyable meeting Miss WHEEL
an played and sang The WILLOW" the
words to which she has composed
herself The next meeting of the club
will be held at the home of Miss Ca
Uterine E. Brown, 435 Coleman street.
February TO-
Mr.. and Mrs Augustus s. May Of
3ss Clinton avenue have issued invita-
tons for the wedding of their daugh-
ter Miss sAlthea May, to Maturin B.
Waldo. Saturday afternoon, Feb. 26, at
40 O'Clock in St, Johns Episcopal
church. Rev stephen Fish Sherman,
Jr., rector of the church, will perform,
the ceremony. A reception viii follow
at O'Clock at the May home. The
wedding will be society event. The
natron of honor will be Mrs. Herbert
Yates OF Detroit, Mich, and the
bridesmaids, the Misses Alice Pierce,
Marion Paige, Edith Riker,s Henrietta
bishop. Barbara Waldo and Anne
shelton Miss May is a much feted
bride elect.
The enlargement of Miss Ethel May
Keefe to M. ]. Powers of this city was
announced last evening by Mr.. and
Mrs John F. Keefe of 2e3 William
street, to a gathering of the embroid-
cry club of which the young woman is
a member. Mr. Powers is secretary
and treasurer of the Flynn & Powers
co.
The engagement of Miss Ada Bar
Der, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Barber of 2e6 inwood avenue, to
Harry Lewis Anderson, was an
nounced at an attractive valentine
party given last night by Miss Ada G.
Z Buck of 2.160 Main street. The we'd
y ding viii be held in st. Johns church
the latter part of the month.
The postponed meeting of the La
dies Hebrew Charitable society will
be held Tuesday, Feb 8, at 3 p. m, in
the Park Avenue Temple.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-01

chard Work at Connecticut Expert
ment Stations Illustrated with Ian
tern slides. Prof. M. A. Blake of New
Jersey spoke on Problems of the
Year In Peach Growing and Market
Ing
At this evenings session there will
be historical addresses on Twenty
five Years of Connecticut Pomology,'
by N. S. Plat. of New Haven, j. H.
Hale, of Glastonbury, and ]. N! Barnes
of WalIingford
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-01
TWO BRIDGEPORT
CONCERNS ORGANIZE

The Connecticut By-Products Co. of
Bridgeport, has filed a certifate of or
sanitation with capital stock of
1850, 900, Kenneth w. Mcneil of
Bridgeport is president; Willis G.
fTownes of Port Chester, N. Y, is Sec
rotary and treasurer.
The Brooch & Beards1ey co. of
Bridgeport, has filed certificate of
, organization 1t has a capital of $4,-
900; William Brooch is president and
George N. Beardsley is secretary and
treasurer. Both are of Bridgeport.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-01
HARBoR HAPPENINGS.

The continuous bad weather is still
keeping most of the Sound tugs in
their harbors, only few of the more
venturesome making trips with their
towns. The Clarence Blakeslee en-
tered with two boats and is now
waatherbound here. The Robert
-obinson went to New Haven with
ons light boat.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-01

A delegatioan of about SO of the
boyhood friends and acquaintances of
Gov. Whitman Of New York, escorted
him from Youngstown, Ohio, to the
nearby village of Garfield, where the
governor spent his youth.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-01
WILLIAM F. HENNEY
ELECTED HEAD OF
BAR ASSOCIATION


The eighth annual meeting Of the
State Bar Association of Connections
was held yesterday. Upon recon-
mendation of the executive committee,
the following were elected to member
ship:
Donald T. Warner of Salisbury. wiz
liam L. CAVITY, Joseph F. iDutton -
Bristol, William James Hamersley
Harry Tyler Smith, T. J. Spellacy OF
Hartford, Ralph H. Clark of Derby
Stephen Whitney Of New Haven. RUS
sell Porter Clark of Stamford and
Matthew P. Kelley of Windsor Locks.
Upon recommendation of the nomt-
mating committee the following ON
GERS were elected for the year:
Presid ent-William H Henney g
Hartford.
vice President-Donald T. Warner oG
Salisbury.
Secretary. and Treasurer-James E.
Wheeler of New Haven.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-01

Arthur C. Clark of 2O3 Arctic street
used leach to draw the bad blood
from blackened left eye yesterday
=SserEo--- He was unable to stop the
flow of blood and he went to the
Emergency hospital for treatment.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-01

AS the German army authorities are
ready and eager to adopt every meas
ure to add to the efficiency of the
kaiser's forces, they have not over
looked the advantage of having In
winter warfare, soldiers mounted on
ski The soldier in the picture Is q
German with the eIon snow. run
ners He is clad in a white uniform
to render him inconspicuous against q.
background of snow.
Evening star., 1916-05-14

as the independence of France and Bel
sium. NJ work changed brusdaely who n
the war came on
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the war which made Raemaekers. Of
course, he must have had it in him. but
would it have come out? The war struck
the spark which exploded Raemaelters
from an obscure iocaIcartoonist 70 an
immortal genius
He had not even succeeded in the line
of his technical greatness-that of
draughtmanship and design.
Il had my formation at Amst terdam
and Brussels he says. 1T was not
much. Only in Brussels. with one par
ticular professor. did ] receive good les
sons. He was Blanc Garin. a professor
of design. l became a professor of de-
sign. l passed my diplomas such.
For me. everything was in that. Let a
man he grounded in design. lie has his
means at his fingers ends. He can draw
anything--clothe his ideas
: Yet nobody wanted Raemaekers les
sons III design. lie took up newspaper
cartoon work. Obscurely occupied on
local Amsterdam subjects he had time
to think. The great patriot ideal began
TO illuminate him.
From the beginning of the German
danger, six or seven years ago. he says,
Il was always aware of its peril for
the Dutch. and that the independence
of Holland was quite the same thing
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Shakespeare

TITLE squirt courtiers dared his genius Doubt
u less he often cringed and hamee faWned before
MOBILES City merchants and goldsmths vaguely held him the
universally bestowed all folk The law
coodnated him with thieves. vagabond ard prostitutes He
muchy lived the half -wod-many lived Altogether his
rather humble
England Elizabeth herself vulgar and nasty. As
suredy he knew nothing rehnements Therefore,
ceeding strange how and clean he kept his quill.
tower bridge and crazy old ramshackle all
The Tuder gone Drake
and Raleigh the proud companies whose exploits made splendid
the virgins reign perhaps OF duevened coatea still
We great dandies and
naughty caeanes who condscended approve his
And all that mighty medieval
has long been fed wood and broken junk and
carried rubbish But his words still gode9 lips
The of his mind universal cons phrases from
Cape Cape Yellow and white daily mine the of
his Imagination His glib cu<ng Kissing purrng
vernacular throughout the world He grdle
around the EARTH and then around eternity
Thrones and empires fall the tidal sweeps from
the the the rottng
drop from off Times bough and only things the deame make
live on"
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this one genius. Raemaekers. the Dutch
cartoonist, hailed by Paris, London and
sime for sheer power, spiritual in
sight, artistic achievement and high
inspiration. Paris and London have
honored him as never an artist was
honOred: the mere announcement cf his
presence of an afternoon has filled the
Trocadero and Queens Hall with
cheering thousands. When he signed
the golden book at the Paris Hotel de
Vie he had an escort Of the most
famous French designers and painters.
The originals of his cartoons-to the
number of 2s0-were all bought up in
London, in the first week of their ex
hibition, at from 500 to $3.50 each. and
certain famous ones. when held by
art dealers, are already valued at more
than double. France has made him q
member of the Legion of Honor. Ger
Evening star., 1916-05-14

land-the greatest and, perhaps, the
only remaining danger"
He looks me in the eyes.
L ought to understand Cannot any
one imagine what a German retreat in
Belgium might mean? When the
French and English drive the Germans
northward. Holland will be in danger.
Evidently, the Dutch cannot permit it.
They cannot permit retreating Ger
many to grab, cling and defend herself
in Holland in order to keep the battle
outside German territory and hold sea-
coast hostages. They are making prep
arations on the Limburg frontier-and
call it railroad work.
X
kers.
He gazes into space. What does he
see? German armies in Dutch towns,
shooting down civilians as francs
tireurs? Raemaekers saw it in Bel
GUM. That is why he is SO indignant.
Their greatest wickedness is the
francs -tireurs fable" says Raemae-
kers. 1T is natural that villagers
should want to defend their hearths-
must have some chance. When you see
patrol of twenty or thirty Germans
coming, a dozen villagers might snipe
them. but when you have an army corps
in locality and they take every weap
on. when the mayor says: You must
do what they want.-why. don't come
telling me. in the days following, when
100000 German troops have marched
through the village, that the popula-
tion of dozen men Will be silly
enough to fire on them. No, the Ger
man command needed those francs
tireurs. They took crowds of innocent
Belgians in wagons through all Ger
many. exhibiting them to the people
like wild beasts in menagerie, and
saying: Here are the francs tireurs
of Belgium The people looked on them
with horror. They were sure they were
francs-tireurs, because they had seen
them
This war of conquest makes Rae
maekers sick. 1t curdles the German
blood in him. 1t is terrible, how low
officers and gentlemen must descend. in
a war of conquest.
What did they demand. the first
ties of claret and 10000 bottles of cog
nae. There was friend of mine at
Wise. German soldiers went with bot
ties of gin and wine in their hands.
One offered my friend, Have a drink"
he said. from the bottle. My friend re-
fused. Then cama German officer and
advised him: 1tNis best to drink, he
sa id. Those German officers could not
control their men. They had un-
chained the beast to burn and plunder."
The tranquil Dutchman's face is red.
now.
I perceived the holy Indignation which
brought out his genius. because 1t is
Evening star., 1916-05-14

YOU can find millions of dollars in
support of smuggling, and Holland
was full of Germans. settled there in
advance, ready to make the Snug
sling-yes. waiting for the war. to be
ready for anything that might be nee
essary. That is why it looked so bad.
They are numerous and active. They en-
tangled the Dutch. But now we are
getting mastery of the smuggling. Our
people are sick Of the fine bargain
cutting the land Of its resources, be-
cause the Germans settled among us
tempted 0lr people to sell their prod
uce also Our people imagined 1t to be
ordinary misunderstanding and selling
our produce was quitting the land in
mass. Now a caulifiower costs s
cents which cost 1 cent before the
war
prove?" I say.
THE mass Of the Dutch are furious"
replies Raemaekers "At Amsterdam
they hissed the portrait Of the kaiser
in a moving picture show. they expel
German emissaries from Dutch cafes
and cheer Dutch students singing the
.Marseillaise' through the streets. You
know how tranquil and peaceable are
our Dutch merchants? Well. they are
wild against the Germans and call
them 'd-n Mofs'"
Because Germany torpedoes Dutch
shipsT' I suggest.
The whole business" replies Rae
maekers 1T has been working up.
Germany is all lies. Dutch eyes are
opening. Germany is a false friend.
Germany wants not only our cauli-
flowers and our honor, but our land.
When Germany gets a chance to take
Holland Germany will try to do 1t.
there is no doubt. We have seen maps
where our land and Belgium and north
France are all made German territory.
Our colonies are marked as German
colonies"
Authentic maps?" / ask. Would
not Germans claim them to be the work
of irresponsible visionaries?'
Germany would claim anything"
he answers. The maps were made by
university professors in Germany hold
ing government places. One dates from
1905. They are scientific maps. ex-
pensively printed and circulated every
where in Germany. under the cloak as
we say, to work up the German people
to war for conquest, They say open
ly: We must have Holland; it belongs
to us because 1T is a Germanic people
and the mouth OF the Rhine and all
that. They are never idle. They burrow
like moles. II they could manage to
have the power they would take Hol-
land at once, with violence, like Bel
gium. But because they fear they
haven't the power they try to per-
suade us. saying: 1t Is for your inter-
Evening star., 1916-05-14

MY mother was a German" he says.
slowly.
He hesitates. He leaves one to guess.
II know the Germans" he says THAT
is why I can draw them"
One guesses the drama behind these
reticences. drama beginning with the
young Dutchman's vacations in Ger
many as boy. He has his memories,
fond ties of happy youth, old admira-
tions of a forceful state, the struggle
of two spirits in his growth, and then
Dutchman. He is entirely a Dutchma-.
nowise hyphenated, loving passionately
his Holland. with it's glorious past,
which is long. continuous struggle
through the centuries for freedom, and
its dangerous present, whose dark
shadow. watched with ailent dread and
determination by the mass of Dutch
men. is tinted up, in the eyes of out
vast contra band profits.
1t is not. true" exclaims Raemaek-
ers. "Of course. there are Dutch SNUG
glers, but the mass of smuggling has
been done through a German network
covering the land. a veritable spiders
web spread in advance. 1t is part OF
a great German conspiracy for domina-
tion. To jerk free from 1t, to untangle,
REQUIRES great and. patient labor. You
ought to know in America"
Did the Dutch government always
try to stop smuggling" l ask.
Raemaekers looks troubled.
1T always tried" he answers, loyal
lv. but il could not manage. Look
Before the campaign of my paper. the
Amsterdam Te1egraaf. they had just
the same measures against smugglers
as in ordinary times. but nowadays
Evening star., 1916-05-14

as the Independence of France and BEL
sium NJ work changed brusdaely whcn
the war came on
How
My soul was changed" affirms Rae
maekers Il knew the Germans. I hs
worried about them FOR SO lons-and
here they were realizing thems selves just
AS | had dreaded. | seemed to awake
Ny heart was in il. my heart led me.
my soul expanded to light and right, and
everything became easy. / was like
man who had come out of a great sick
ness The war made me sick to the
depths of my being. When l recovered
was a new man. Portray Portray"
Surely, Raenaekers has portrayed.
And now the man who had German
mother sends a message to America.
81 hope 10 God that America realizeS,"
says Raematkers. This is not a war Of
ations interests. II Is a war Of ideas.
of liberty. of conscience and Of Christian
obligation-to keep promises, and ..ot
harm your neighbor!"
STERLING HELLO.
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There's always room for .
skyscraping career. Most
men are planning shanty
lives.
It's a Warning from Headquarters

sHE last place look for mystery is the first place
The burglar through bureau drawers.
and searching for the box of concealed
in the gas range.
The Lord only knows how scientists scratched their
quito bites they delved for the of malaria.
A who sold his farm hunting petroleum used
ary skim the scum off pond that his would
drink the dreaming that he stood beside of the
richest oil wells in existence.
We generally things right
Take teeth Who would have supposed
which battling doctors
for ages. originate molars?
The dentists wonder They've discovered and
uncovered whole brigade of diseases nesting the gums
Oral accomplishing marvellous OF the
body that utterly disconnected from the masicang functions
Lots stomach troubles door The pain
Spring from colony operating around the
of nsposed eyetoot types of headache and
varieties pain deafness mabe
dctu liver complaints and kidney troubles.
No wonder oothache hurts sots warning from headquar
Evening star., 1916-05-14

est it will serve you: you will get
rich Rubbish! They want to get rich
themselves. They want harbors
Harborso
THE harbor of Hamburg is not deep
enough for modern big ships. When
they leave Hamburg they must leave
half loaded, and at Antwerp they take
on the other half. Fully loaded Ham
burg does not give them deep enough
water. When they have Antwerp per
manently they will have Holland. Hap
PLY, they won't have Antwerp-not
long
DO you mean that they always in
tended to take Antwerp" l ask.
"Certainly, they did. Even if Bel
gum had believed their promises and
permitted them to peacefully violate :
their oath and fall on France through
neutral territory. they would have
broken their oath again and taken Ant
werp just the same. 1t was as If bur
glar comes and says: Please. Sir, L
will do nothing against you. L only
want to murder the lady next door and
kill the children in the bathroom" The
proof is that they did take Antwerp
before going south to conquer France
Now they are lamenttng that it was a
great mistake: we ought to have fought
our way through Belgium elegantly.
humanely. mercifully. just chivalrous
war to get through. without injuring
Belgian cities or civilians. We would
have won admiration. Then we could
The young Dutchman remains placid,
but his cheeks are heating up.
Their intention was to have the
domination of all Europe and the
America realizes 1T! Harden has said it
clearly: We have Belgium. industrial
Poland and the best part Of industrial
France. That will do for the present.
It." continues Raemaekers. Until
they're driven back into Germany, Hol-
land will be in mortal danger"
DO the Dutch believe it?" I ask.
YES" he answers, briefly.
'Who Is for Germany in Holland?"
Very few. Kuyper. the famous min
lister. is an ultra-Calvinist and has
some followers. but not many. There
are some high commands in the army,
but not all. They admire the Prussian
military"
THE court?" l inquire.
IT'S not true" snaps Raemaekers.
THE Catholics?"
The mass of Dutch Catholics are all
against Germany. Only the very high
ones are favorable to Germany. All
the Dutch masses are against Ger
many"
Why. then, is Raemaekers uneasy?
Why is he of hesitat'ng manner? Can
he. possibly. doubt his own govern
ment-that it might try to thwart the
Dutch masses? No. all the Dutch are
MYSTERIOUS. these days. It is prudence.
Raema ekers is the boldest Dutchman.
Holland is in a bad geographical sit
uation." he says. finally. Even a re-
treating Germany is a danger to Hol-
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Equalization

MAYHEM the kings born the fairy godmothes there
wv abou dropped and did the conventional thing One left
little spell which made him Of all the lands from the ice of
the North to the ice of the South
made him Lord of all the
Dawn the Islands of the Dark.
And heaped his days with the glory OF brave emprse
And crowded his youth with the wichery of amazing
And brought him feather from the wing of lame.
Until with this and that his future filled overhowng and
there place left for the wishing which the Oldest and
godmoher brought SO she stopped the cote hut and
gave his baby.
And there those who enved the prince and ptied the
pauper
Evening star., 1916-05-14
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chance.
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knowledge relay raceToday takes Yesterdays ince
and Investigations To-
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ens-step by step the search proceeds.
Cures for cancer, consumption Bghts disease han
deferred perhaps by maybe decadewho tell from
what laboratory tube fateul about speak,
Microscope and fighting death for you Hope Keep
courage while they keep the battle Every dappont
eliminates adverse chance and down the
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Old impossibities whetstones. F7FN1HM1(sSy
If pole pot acid spit speech between islands
the dark-if astronomy weigh worlds million miles away
lamp learn singf be divided demon
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of waterfalls along the way the breath of be
resurrected from the hunk coal in which peed
agof be managed well enough pay
buding-if life
suocaton skull operation reform cmnalif sleeps
shank be mored human shin -bonei ship
travel 1000 miles under about pessi
nlism.
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MT Dutch Genius Sends Message to America

ERLNC HElC Correspondent
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many has put price on his head No
body who has not seen the originals,
large in size, their black and white re-
lieved by Touches o. faint color, can
imagine their force. beauty. delicacy
and horror.
Long after the details of the war
have become misty memory" says a
great English critic. the cartoons of
Raemaekers will live to feed the in
dignation of the ages. Louis Raemaek
ers has nailed German>militarsm to
cross of immortal infamy,"
End his mother was 4 German,
We know much about Raemaekers
art. but who knows anything about the
man himself. his opiuions. his motives,
why he did it? Raemaekers is Dutch
man. not willfully tight-mouthed. per-
haps, but 1t takes time to get a Dutch
man talking Raemaekers speaks Eng
lish better than French. When he gets
started, it comes out In a gentle flow.
But how start him? His blue eyes are
meditative. He chews a pencil. He re
fleets. Wait patiently. But most people
don't They fear to embarrass the re-
fined, contemplate Dutchman, who is
simply pondering and Weighing well
his answer. SO they cut in with a flood
of talk about his art. He listens with
politeness. And. SO. nobody learns
anything about the heart of Louis
Raemaekers.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1916-06-08
BAPTIST CHURCH

J. w. Priest, pastor, residence S02
Pine st.
1000 Sunday morning service.
Children's Day program, "Heralds
of the Cross" Songs by the Sunday
school. Instrumental music by mem
bers of the Sunday school. Recita-
tons by children in the primary and
intermediate departments. Emblem
attic piece by nine young ladies'.
Childrens Day address by the pastor.
Offering for the work of the Amer
lean Baptist Publication society.
There will be no session of the Sun
day school 1t is hoped that all the
members of the Sunday school. their
parents and friends will be present
at the 1000 o'clock service.
$50 B. Y. p. U. meeting. Topic
There will be no evening services in
Tressel Story.
Their will be no evening services in
the Baptist church on account of the
college baccalaureate service.
1880 Thursday evening prayer meet
ing. All are invited to these services.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1916-06-08
ENTERTAINs SOCIETY

The Farther Lights Missionary
Society of the Baptist church were
entertained at their regular meeting
Monday night by Miss Virgie Serum
ger. Miss Angel and Miss Perrigo
gave interesting talks after which
Miss Helen Huff delighted the gath
ering with several piano selections.
The hostess served dainty refresh
ments.