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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
Men Who Stole From
 Conlin on Probation

Five local painters charged with conspiracy to steal paints and brushes from James J. Conlin of Elm street, were arraigned before Judge Reed in the criminal superior court yester- day. Sentence in the case of William J. Reilling, an employe of Collins, was deferred. Harvey Bouviere was sentenced to jail for 30 days, but judgment was suspended and he was placed on probation for six months. in the cases, of the following. proba- tion for one year was ordered after jail sentences of six months each had been suspended: John Pregg, Samuel vaskeralli, George Marak, Fred Carl son.
 A nolle was recommended in the case of Ellen Egan of Water bury, charged with deserting her husband in order to live with Philip Healy of this city. The father of the girl. who is young and pretty, came to the courtroom to take her home.
 Benjamin Howard, charged with burglarizing the store of George B. Clark in this city, was sentenced to the state reformatory. He exonerat- ed Harry Lewis, who was arrested on the same charge, and Lewis case was nolled.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
FRENCH RAILROAD CUSTOMS

Paris, March 7.--The appearance on French railways of consider ble quantities Of English rolling stock has called attention to curious survival on the trench railways which indi- cates their English origin Contrary to the French rule of the road, which is Keep to the right" trains in France have always kept to the left as in England. The pioneers of French railways were Englishmen, and near ly all the locomtivc engineers were for many years brought from Eng land. These men followed the rules of the road which they had learned at home, and passed them on to their French successors.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07

Calls for help were sebt out by the British freight steamship G. R. Grove. aground in Ambrose Channel. opposite Coney Island.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
Ferro Concrete Triumphs Over
 Brick in Fires

London, March Five million dol lars damage was done and 100000 win Eows broken by the explosion in the east end of London on January 19, ac- cording to the current issue of "Fire, a technical publication. The building in which the explosion occurred dis appeared, and an immense crater lo0 fet by 30 feet deep was formed.
 '"The triumph of ferro-concrete con- struction is the most striking feature of the catastrophe" the paper says.
 Not only have such structures within the explosion area withstood the ef- feet of the air wave, but they came through the ordeal of fire successfully.
 1.-The metallic rods and laths within the concrete enabled the buildings tG give slightly to the air wave when it struck the building; the windows caved in. The reverberating air en- tered, and, expanding, passed through the opposite windows, thereby help ing to straighten up the main struc- ture again although fire was left be- hind. Brick structures collapsed ig. unanimously, being pulled inward by the floor and roof joists and girders. Not all the 100,0 windows broken were blown in; many were blown out by the advance wave entering oper doors and creating a preliminary higf internal pressure, sufficient to burs' out some windows before the mair blast arrived and blew in the remain ing windows"
 The paper finds that the damag, will not exceed one-tenth of the valu, that preliminary inspection of tn, area might lead one to anticipate.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
HE EALTH MATTERS MUDDLED, SAYS
 PROF. WINSL0W
Yale Professor Criticises Present System and
 Favors New Law.

Representative attendance of phy- sicians and health officials, as well as of commercial and manufacturing interests from Bridgeport and the other places in the county IS expected at the capital at Hartford Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock when the legiS- lative committee on public health and safety will give it's first public hear ing on the bill simplifying the powers Of and making more efflclent the state board of health. The bill, 1n- troduced by Senator Frederic A. Bart lett of this city, has attracted much attention, especially because or the outbreak of infantile paralysis and epidemic of smallpox in the state during the last year. The support of every physician in the state has been
 asked by the Connecticut Medical Society through it's committee on pub- lie policy and legislation of which Dr. Everett J. Mcknight of Hartford is chairman and Dr. Paul Waterman of the same city is clerk. Dr. Waterman is major of the sanitary detachment connected with the First Regiment of Infantry, Connecticut National Guard.
 Among othsr interested and active
 
 Winslow, professor of public health in Yale Medical school and president of the Connecticut Society of Social Hygiene In letter, he says:
 Health matters throughout the state have been. in the past, in quite a chaotic condition as result of the fact that the State Board of Health has had exceedingly limited powers and that the town health officers have been appointed and supervised by the county health officers, who are lawyers appointed by the superior lcurt. These county health officers have, in most cases, been entirely weH-meaning, but, of course, they lack the expert knowledge necessary to guide the local men in the conduct of the somewhat complex duties de- manded of a modern health officer
 'The infantile paralysis outbreak of last summer and the smallpox epi- demic last fall have aroused forward looking people throughout the state to the need of a radical change. The governor endorsed the plan in his an nual message The bill provides fo1 the amplification of the powers of the state department of health and for placing in the hands of the state board of health, in stead of the coun- ty health officers, the appointment and supervision of local men, while ii would retain the county health off cers for their proper function oi prosecuting officials.
 '"The chances are exceedingly fa- vorable for the passage of this bill, o1 a similar bill. I think that this is one of the most vital matters before the 1 legislature this year and that the op- portunity to secure model state health organizat ton is one that may not come again for years.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
LOSS OF APPETITE, LOSS OF WEIGHT.
 SLEEPLESSNEo, EIt.

are afl overcome by Recupertabs. the, are made after the formula of Dr. Al. bert Robin. the famous French physi. elan, and arc being used very largely in Paris and other European capiIaia When taken for a short while they will give positive relief in all cases ot us rvous exhaustion. mental depression. a. ia:k of vitality. general debility. ans- mia, etc.
 The Glycerophosphates of which Recupertabs are composed. contain the elemert necessary to overcome these conditions. They are now bein prescribed and recommended by many physicians in this and foreign cuun. tries as the best. quickest and suresr nerve and biooc tonic that they know of.
 Recupertaba arc for sale at all drug stores at 60c and $1.0o per packaxs or will be sent direct upo,l receipt uf price.
 Curts Chemical Co.,, No. 4l4 wes. zsrd St.. New York. Distributed in Bridgeport and vicinity by J. D. Harti- gan. No. si Fairfield Avenue.-Adv.
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
STAR SHIRT CD.
 FACTORY TO BE
 A RECORD SHOP
Graphophone Go. Takes Over Building ng-Apart-
 ment Plan Dropped.

Plans of well known residents of Golden Hill district to maintain the section as a residential district have apparently failed With the an- nouncement in mercantile circles to- day that the American GraphOphone Co. has procured possession of the Star Shirt factory building for stor- age and industrial purposes, hopes for the preservation of the section have been lost.
 Though E.. w. Harral, one of the foremost projectors of the preserva- tion scheme is away from the city and could not be located to express the particular reasons for the change of plans, it is generally conceded that the tendency to erect factory and ga rage buildings in Harrison street, and the erection of a large power house al the intersection of Courtland street and Fairfield avenue by George w Crawford has somewhat influenced against the restricting of the Colder Hill district.
 1t was originally planned by Harral when h> purchased the Star Shirt factory buildings to change them into a large apartment house with park way in the front. Architects were employed to plan the remodeling With mill construction to contend with, it would have been almost as cheap to destroy the present buildings as to remodel them.
 Other property holders, however made announcement that they ex' pected to erect the bachelor and New York type of apartment houses, gar ages and possibly light manufa curing buildings. Crawford, head of the laundry company bearing his name and president of the Chamber of Com merce, began the erection of large power house directly adjoining Christ Episcopal church. With the immense chimney pouring out its black smoke on level with Golden Hill, the feasi. bility of the residential project be- came less likely for success.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
Chamber of Commerce
 Back of Ordinance to Prohibit Dishonest Ads

Some speculation has developed among the members of the board of aldermen concerning proposed or dinance to force honest advertising, which has been referred to the ordin- ance committee of the common coun- cil at the request of the Chamber of Commerce. The aldermen say they are looking for joker" in the ordin- ance and it will receive careful scru- tiny before any report is forthcoming. The text of the proposed ordinance follows:
 We, the merchants committee of the Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce respectfully submit for your consid- eration and recommend the enact ment as an ordinance of the city the following:
 Any person, firm, corporation, or association, or employe thereof, who, with intent to sell or in any wise dis pose of merchandise, securities, ser vice or anything offered by such per- sons, firm, corporation or association or employe thereof, directly or indi- rectly. to the public for sale or distri- button, or with intent to increase the consumption thereof, or to induce the public in any manner to enter into any obligation relating thereto or to acquire title thereto, or any interest therein, makes, publishes. dissemin- ates, circulates, or places before the public. or causes directly or indirect ly, to be made, published, dissemina- ted, circulated or placed before the public of Bridgeport in a newspaper or other publication or in the form of a book, card. sign. billboard, la In1 ho, ,,1h 1o:J :, cular, pamphlet, or letter, or in any other way. any advertisement of any sort regarding merchandise securi- ties, service or anything so offered to the public. which advertisement con- tains any assertion, representation or statement of fact which is untrue, de- captive, or misleading, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
 Any person violating the provisions of this ordinance shall be fined not i less than $10 nor more than $500 This ordinance shall take effect i from its passage.
 This is identical with an act uni ] fornly adopted in 15 states and con- tains provisions similar to those con- tained in the ordinances of severa cities.
 l Such an ordinance will serve as a protection to the honest merchant ir
 this city and we believe will be a pro- i lection to the public against dishon- esty anu misrepresentation. Committee,
 FRANK D. BELL CHARLES D. DAVIS DWIGHT D. GRAVES ANGUS H. MCKENZIE $. c. PARKER L. r. ROCKWELL GEORGE COVE, 1 Executive secretary.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
EPWORTH LEAGUERS
 TO HOLD QUARTERLY
 RALLY AT GRACE M. F..

The Bridgeport Epworth League group will hold it's third quarterly rally at the Grace M. E. church, Fair field and Clinton avenues at 8 o'clock Thursday evening. Rev. E. Weise, pastor of the church, will conduct the devotional services. A splendid pro- gram has been arranged, consisting of piano, violin, vocal solos, req dings, trios, etc., in which the Epworth leagues of the various churches have offered their young peoples services to the group. A very pleasant social has been planned, in which all can take part and enjoy themselves. Re treatments will also be served in the parlors of the church.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
Literary Test Is
 Stimulating Study
 Of English Abroad.

Rome, March 7.-The literacy test clause of the United States immigra tion laws, which is to take effect May 1, has already resulted in the stimula- tion of the study of English among Italians who expect to migrate to America when the war is over.
 In the belief of the Italian Com missioner of Emigration there will be more than enough work to be done in Europe, and at good wages when the war is over, and the governments are expected to do all possible to discour- age emigration. However inquiries already being made at the American consulates indicate that a large num- Der of soldiers are considering the possibility of going to America when released from service. Reports that the United States has become inn mensely wealthy because of her war sales are prevalent here, and relatives of many Italians have written home from America telling of opportunities that are more certain there and urg- ing them to come when the war is over without waiting to discover whether Europe is or is not going to recover from the setback given by the war. One of the commonest re- marks which Americans in Italy hear from store clerks, from soldiers, or from barbers, is that they think of going to America when the war is over.
 An interesting phase of immigra- ton possibilities is the belief express ed in some quarters that many of the hitherto well-to-do Italians of the educated classes who have suffered by the war may go to America to re- coup their fortunes.
 While Italy furnished the largest number of emigrants to the United { States before the war of any single 1 nation, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, the number being 2S3,73S, as compared to 278,152 from Austria Hungary, the Italian government fa- vcrs rather than objects to the new | literacy test
 1 When the news of the passing of the new law over President Wilson's veto was printed in Italy, the news papers at once editorially stated that
 the law would help rather than injure
 Italy. These newspapers gave two
 reasons for this position. One req.
 son was that the law would force
 Italians to educate themselves. The
 second was that Italy hoped in the flu.
 ture to export the manufactured pro. ducts of labor rather than labor it.
 selr, and thereby increase the wealth l of the nation.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
Expelled Assemblyman
 Succumbs In Alaska

Gloucester, Mass, March 7.-H Harry e. Foster, former mayor, of this city and for several years member of the legislature, died Monday in Seward, Alaska Notice of his death was re- ceived from the commissioner of Sew ard. who was requested to have the body shipped here for burial. He was 48 years old.
 He was expelled from the house of representatives last March after an investigation of charges of improperly collecting money in behalf of a bill for a highway between Gloucester and Rockport, preferred by Representative James M. Lyle of this city
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07

Fire destroyed the Carsten's pack ing plant at Tacoma, at a loss of $325, 1000.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07

The Cunard liner Orduna, which left New York Feb. 24 for Liverpool, arrived safely.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
DEPENDANT HUSBAND TILES CROSS CHARGE
 AGAINST HIS SPOUS]

cross complaint in which he ac- cuses his wife of infidelity and deser- tion has been filed by George w. Mathewson of this city. Mrs Mathew son charged her husband with intol- erable cruelty. The couple were mar ried in April, 1902. In his cross com plaint Mathewson does not name any correspondent
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-27
MEDDLER Is NOT
PEACEMAKER
Interesting Decision Handed
Down by the State Com
pensation Board Today

A man who forsakes his duties and
undertakes to give orders to another
employe takes himself out of the
course of his employment and as
sumes powers which do not belong
to him, thereby forfeiting right to
protection of the state compensation
act, according to an opinion rendered
by Chairman Harry A. Mackey. OF
the state board, in the case of Hol-
lister VS.. Colonial Colliery Company.
Natalie. Hollister was a sort of
general utility man and while acting
as ashman was asked by another en-
ploye. to compel a third employe to
hand over to him certain tools. When
he attempted to get the tools Hol-
lister was struck with a hammer.
In so acting Mr.. Mackey says he can
not be said to have been furthering
interests of his employer and that
there is no evidence in the record
that there was any imminent danger
of fight between the men. Mr..
Mackey adds: I'VE can only regard
the claimant in this case as a med
dler or interferer in other mems af-
fairs at time when he ought to have
been prosecuting his own work. This
does not raise the question of the
right of a peacemaker to compensa-
ton when he finds one employe is
about to be assaulted by another"
The opinion reverses Referee Cham
pion.
In the case of Pressler VS.. General
Refractories Company, Mt. Union,
Commissioner John A. Scott lays
down the policy of the board in re-
gard to petitions to reopen agree
ments, saying that detailed state
ments of proper causes are required.
A similar decision is given in the So
lonkoski VS.. Midvale Steel Company.
Mr.. Scott says receipts must stand
until it is showno n petition to
review that the f1nal receipt was exc
cuted under mistake by fraud, coer-
cion or other cause.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-27

of the great Nobel prizes in chenais-
try, said in public interview early
in the war that Germany was fifty
years ahead of the rest of the world
in culture and social organization
and 1t was her moral duty to give
her higher form of civilization to
Europe, Asia, and, inferentially to
America-by force If necessary. One
! of the strangest documents of the
war is a paper taking this same
view of lGermanys destiny" and
| therefore defending the rape of Bel
GUM, the shooting of women, chill
dren and noncombatants, and the
commission of deeds which the rest
of the world shudderingly regards
as atrocities. This paper was written
and signed by ninety-three German
theologians, philosophers and uni
Versity professors.
The torpedoing of the Lusitania
and the drowning of unwarned and
innocent women and children was
hailed by the Pan G Germanists as a
| deed of bravery, and commemorated
by the striking and distribution of
medal.
The German Chancellor, a. culti-
waited, accomplished gentleman, ex-
cused the invasion of Belgium on
the ground that military necessity
knows no law" and that an inter-
national treaty is really nothing but
"a scrap of paper"
When at the end of July, 1914,
the peace of the world was threat
ened by the controversy of Austria
and Servia over the assassination of
the Austrian archduke, the British
! government through Sir Edward
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-27

Grey, implored the Kaiser to sit at
round table conference and see IL
the dispute could not be settled by
International agreement instead of
by war.
NO" said the Kaiser. THAT
would be beneath the dignity of my
ally Austria" And he deliberately
chose war.
Now the intellectual German is
ineXorable in his logic. Given a GER
tain premise. he will follow it to the
bitterest end no matter what it NAV
be And If the German premise in
this war is right then every one of
their deeds in the war is right.
If war is a biological necessity"
If the will to power is the great
manly virtue. if the strong are bless
ed for they shall inherit the earth,
IL the weak are to be wiped out of
civilization, if military necessity
knows no law" if military organiza-
ton is the highest form of social
efficiency" then all the acts of the
German army are Virtuous and
splendid the rape of Belgium was
patriotic, not traitorous; the sinking
of the Lusitania was heroic, not das-
tardly; the Zeppelin bombardnent
Of women and babies in unfortified
towns was justifiable; the shooting
of Nurse Cavell was reasonable; the
ruthless devastation of Northern
France was civilized, not barbaric;
and it is criminal as the Germans
| assert, for Americans to interfere.
What, then. are we lighting for?
We are fighting because we hold
that the Pan-German premise is
false and that the Pan-German doc
trine of life which they are trying
to impose by force on the rest OF
the world is destructive of all that
! is most dear to us in civilization
because we hold that international
neighborliness and not war is a bio
| logical necessity; that the strong are
not to destroy but to protect the
weak; that military organization is
not the master but the servant OF
| the civil power. ........
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-27
SELF GOVERNMENT

1t was hardly necessary to ask the
man who had worked hardest for
the passage of the Jones bill wheth-
er the passage of Eel Bill Jones" had
improved the fraternal feelings be-
tween the two nations but his reply,
coming as it did the day before
America declared war, was of real
interest.
Five years ago." he said, "if
America had become involved in war
the best she could have expected of
the Philippines was strict neutrality,
But to-day if America needs our
aid the Filipinos will flock to the COL
ors ready to give their lives for the
nation that has promised them their
independence"
Others have testified to this change
in attitude, and there are other Illus
trations to prove a change of feeling.
Five years ago if a Filipino mention
ed independence he was cheered TO
the echo. This year the finest ora
tor among the young Filipinos
speaking before the graduating
classes of the University of the Phil
ippines and the large audience that
had gathered to witness their COM
mencement exercises, spoke of the
coming independence and there was
no response on the part Of the audi
ence. 1 asked Mr.. Quezon whether
the Filipinos were as keen for inn
mediate independence as they were
two years ago, and he replied that
they were not.
Two factors enter into the pres
ent attitude which were absent two
years ago." continued the young
statesman. The larger factor is the
assurance. which the Filipino peo-
pie now have for the first time, that
America intends to give us our in
dependence. Never until the passage
of the Jones bill were we certain
that such was the policy of the Unit
ed States. The second factor is the
feeling of responsibility that has
come with the larger measure oi
self-government and the realization
that sooner or later we must be pre-
pared for entire independence. One
cannot prophesy with certainty, but
there is a possibility that the Fill.
pinos, confident of ultimate inde'
pendence, will desire little more
| time for preparing themselves
| Maynard Owen Williams, in ThC
| Christian Herald.