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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-12
First Meeting of Tammany

Today is the birthday of Tammany, the great political organization which is so prominently identified with the City of New York. On May 12, 17S9 William Mooney, an upholsterer, who previously had been active as one of the Sons of Liberty, founded in New York, founded what to be patriotic and social organization, the secret society of St. Tammany, or Colun1- bian Order, which in 1895 was regu- larly incorporated as a fraterna1 aid society. The society was divided in to thirteen tribes, each of which had its separate totem, the year being di- vided into four seasons, each month being called by some distinguished characteristic. The officers became known as the Grand Sachem, the sachems, the sagamore or master of ceremonies and the wiskinsk, or doorkeeper. In 1911 the society built it's first hall, and in 1867 moved to Tammany Hall, in Fourteenth St.. New York city, where it has been ever since. Fourteenth, street and Tam many hall have long since become synonomous The political organiza- tion is nomina1ly distinct from the society but the two have become al- most identical, the leadership of both being in the same hands. Early in it's History Tammany began to take an active part in politics. Aarons Burr is supposed to have, been it's tutor in ways of politics and in 1900 the so- ciety took part in it's first campaign. being instrumental in carrying New York for Thomas Jefferson.
 The name Tammany is adapted from that of an Indian Chief, Tam amend, of the Delaware tribe, who was famous for his virtues and wis dom. He died in 1740 and was bur- jed in New Britain township, Bucks County, Pa. Tammany was one of the earliest social organizations in America The members in the early days were accustomed to dress in In- dian costume
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Lodge of Massachusetts

This is the sixty-seventh 2 birthday of United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, who was born in Boston on May 12,1S50. Sena- tor Lodge is a graduate of Harvard and has had degrees bestowed upon him by that institution of learning as well as by Yale, Williams and others. After graduating from Harvard he took up literary work and was editor of the North American Review from 1873 to, 1876, when he was admitted to the bar. In S1880 he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Rep resentatives and was reelected the following year. In 1887 he was elect ed to Congress from the sixth Massa- chusetts district. He remained in the lower house until 1893 when he was chosen United States Senator. MT. Lodge has been member of the Sem ate, ever since that time.
 MT. Lodges political career has been most interesting and in all con ventions and assemblies of republi- cans, whether they were state or na- tiona1. has always played a leading prat- He it was who placed Thomas l B. Reed in nomination for the presf-
 dency in 1896. Besides his active po- l litical career MT. Lodge has found time to lecture on American history
 at various universities and besides
 this has written books and essays or
 a wide range of subjects. MT. Lodge
 has come to be looked upon as the Republican leader in the United
 States Senate. While he is a stauncf partisan, he has let party politics gc
 by the board in the present interna-
 tional situation and from the begin ming has been an ardent packer o1 all of President Wilson's war meas
 ures. Senator Lodge has been a mem Der of the Alaskan Boundary Com mission since 1903 and a member o1
 the Immigration Commission since 1907. The Massachusetts statesmen i is recognized as one of the best ora. tors and debaters in the United States
 Senate He has written history o1 l the life of Washington, Webster and of the English Colonies in America
 and many other similar works which have gained for him high reputa- | tion as a historian.
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FOOD CONSERVATION
 DAY TOMORROW IN CHURCHES OF STATE

Reports received by the Connecti- cut Committee of Food Supply indi- cate that, in response to it's request, Food Conservation Day. will be ob- served in many churches throughout the state on Sunday. The call to the churches for this aid in the campaign for increased food production and conservation was sent out early in the week by the committee from it's headquarters in Hartford, and those replies received thus far indicate that sermons on this vital topic will be heard in many Connecticut churches on Sunday, and that in a large num- Der of cases the entire services will be devoted to the Bigger Crops movement.
 The call of the committee has urg- ed ministers to present the matter of food production and conservation as a religious and patriotic duty" There are many pastors who received the committees call and who have not replied, but will, it is known, put this matter before their congrega- tions All denominations will be rep resented in this food conservation service Many choir directors have planned special and appropriate mu- sic to have an important part in the services.
 Scores of pastors, it is known. are engaged this week in the preparation of sermons which will bring before their peoples the great facts leading to Americas entry into the war and the vital truth that bushels of food crops are as important as bullets in the great task of winning the war, and thereby making the world a safe place for democracy.
 The committee members hope that every church in the state, will recog- nize this Food Conservation Sun day. as all have been asked to do.
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TODAY's ANNIVERSARIES

Battles that have changed the course of human history have strong appeal to interest at the pres ent time, with the battle of the Marne the lates epoch making battle fresh in our minds. All the more is this true because of the visit to America of the commander of the French ar mics during that struggle, Gen. Jof- fire. In the year 48 B. C., on May 12 was fought the great battle of Pharsalia between Caesar and Pom pey in which the latter was defeated. This battle, too, marked an epoch in the worlds history. Again the French come to the fore on this date for Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans, is said to have receivej the message from Heaven to save the kingdom of France. This was in 1430.
 1621-First marriage in Plymouth Colony took place between Edward Winslow and Susanna White.
 1678-Treaty of peace signed with Sagamore Indians.
 17SD-Char1eston captured by Bri- tish forces
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The Duke of Brabant

The most heroic figure in the pres ent war, ever since it's beginning, has been King Albert of Belgium, the seat of whose government has been in the French port of Havre ever since the Germans overran that unfortunate country. In considering this heroic figure one cannot fail to think of his son and heir, the Duke of Brabant, now in his sixteenth year and who for the past three years, almost, has helped his father to bear the sorrows that have been the lot of the Belgian royal family. When Brussels had to be evacuated the queen with her three children fled to England, but long ago the young duke has taken his place by the side of his father and has fought flor his country by the side of the lowliest of his people. Grown Prince Leopold Phillipe Charles AL bert Moinard Herbert Marie Miguel, Duke of Brabant is an unusually in- telligent young man. He has the blue eyes and blond hair of his father. He plays the violin remarkably well and is otherwise talented. His great pas
 sion before the war was his menager- ie, which he kept in an outhouse or the peace grounds in Brussels and ! which contained cats, dogs, birds
 and other domestic animals and, frs
 and foremost, his shetland pony.
 The younk duke Is now devotint himself heart and soul to fighting thu Germans. Curiously enough his blood is German to the utmost degree. Cen turies of Teuton blood flows throug1 his veins. His father is descended from Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg 1 who was elevated to the Belgian throne in 1881 and his Mother, Queer
 Elizabeth won her medical degree be fore he married the Belgian Prince King Albert's mother was Princes | Marie of Hohenzollern, a relative O l the Kaiser, and his sister is the wifi, of Prince Charles of Hohenzollern
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OWNERSHIP OF RAILROADS

HE yesterday those best understood to- day. The things done in the realm of doubt just the things still are The text of this tiny Railway Regulation and Con ro summary of certain matters presented to the gressonal Committee Interstate Commerce by M Ack worth Heading" English authority railroads Leading railroad authorities in country kinds those who believe in government regulation of type Tn government ownership, and those who do not
 Certain facts stand out from Mr. Ackworhs statement which is managed give effect desired hv those who pay for it's publication z
 He says that private management blazes the way He is right =
 Most railroads in the beginning privately owned though, too often governments paid for them.
 But throughout the world the tendency for years to government ownership to forms of government That steadily to the condition ownership
 Prussia has national railroads France, Italy, Australia Russia Austria Bulgaria Zealand and others have them
 Some states all their railroads some only par some operate mixed system which private roads exist hated by government until scarcely than the title private hands.
 The United States while leaves titles in private hands, is rapidly making it's railroads into national oganiza tons The determines equipment service wages rates and dividends prescrbes systems of bookkeeping sends in its examiners who have predominant authority the moment under government direction nomnally private board which actually public board IS trying to administer all the railroads unit taking precedence own goods and prescribing for private goods which shall be moved and which shall wait awhile i8
 all of Mr. Ackorths testimony presented it would doubtless show him keenly familiar with such elementary show conscious that the matter of public private ownership by showing that the private lines earned much and public lines
 purposeof public service The service is not profits called upon to perform imperative This no be performed successfully by privately owned compe tive railroads each operated by it's little group than bat tie could be successfully fought in France with thousand lated commands side and the unified Prusan armies the other
 National ownership of railroads coming so fast in the United States that beat out prohibition and frage Already barely than titles in private The functions of ownership in the government The thory that prescbes services rates and dividends is the authority that holds the of ownership Mere h ties, without essential authority shadows.
 One lesson of the Is that state weak the mi- ary when Its railroads privately operated The ands of self preservation require them to be managed operated unity, by public authority
 The proof in the fact All the fighting nations oper ating their railroads sa
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WAR TAXES

IS IMPOSSIBLE to have which will not lay substantially all elements of the community. War has become national business. The support of commodities not in promises to The drain commod ties imposes burdens upon a will the goes
 These burdens will be chiefly four
 There will be the duty to work, to do labor muludes who have avoided heretofore by ing fortunately situated unpleasant tasks.
 There will be the duty of self denial expressed sened supply of uxure and possibly in decreased ration
 There will be the duty literally laid upon those fortunately supplied with property
 Finally there will be the supreme duty imposed upon lions, perhaps, to fight for the country and de
 Quite plainly beyond the shadow of dispute those conr bute most who fight Those who merely must work merely practice self denial who have only the obligation pay
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-12
FORTY HOURS DEVOTION

ThAH7orty Hours devotion will open at St. Patrick's R. c. church tomorrow at the 10:30 o'clock service. Confess sions will be heard Sunday and Mon. day afternoons and evenings. Visit ing clergymen will assist at the ser vices The devotions will come to a close Tuesday morning.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-12
International Group Of Socialists. Oppose
 Meet With Majority

Stockholm. May 12-The Politiken prints a letter from the historian Franz Mehring of Berlin, to Presi- dent Tcheidse of the council of workmen's and soldiers delegates. saving that the German international group of socialists declines to share in any conference at which the Ger
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man socialist 1--ajority is represented. He urges the Russian socialists to exclude Dr. Albert Suedekum, the socialist reichstag deputy, and his as- sociates.
 Herr Mehring adds that he speaks also in tn, name of Rosa Luxem- burg and Dr. Karl Liebknecht. both of whom are in prison.
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FEDERAL APPOINTMENT
 FOR DAVID c. SANFORD
(Snecial to The Farmer. ]

Norwalk, May 12-David c. San ford of this city has received appoint ynent from the United States navy de- partment as superintendent of mines and torpedo nets in New York bay.
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increased taxes fortunate in comparison
 Let each work, hungry pay fight duty and destiny demand Let all be done cheeuly oyousy becomes descendants by blood belief of those who suffered at Valley Forge
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-12
REV. R. B. MARSHALL
 CALLED TO HINGHAM

Hartford, May 12.-The Rev. Rob ert E. Marshall, for three years as- sistant pastor at Trinity Episcopal church, has been called to the Church of St. John the Evangelist in Hingham, Mass.
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Emperor, has been seriously wounded | in the head by shell-splinter.
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PRINCE ADoLPH WOUNDED

Amsterdam. May 12.-The German announce that Prince
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A BARGAIN
 OF INDUSTRY

question that every wise woman will always ask before buying goods
 WILL TT WEAR? spending her time her vocation every wise young should also ask for it. WHAT WILL IT LOOK LIKE NEXT YEAR! value time not the usual thing but this of the advantages of switchboard operating This type of position permanent because every month girls needed to for increasing business Employees who will stick wanted To secure them they are given regular privileges o
 INCREASING ATTRACTIVENESS. spent at the switchboard does not drag. Operating thing and because of the opportunity for individual expression Comfortable rest recreation attendant matron and appetzng lunches at low cost provided.
 GUARANTEE. Permanence of position is assured. benefit plan applies toward loss of pay through illness.
 enpoye not personal contact with any except
  TERMS.
 Good character, good heath intelligence.
 Age between 46 and 25 years. Regular at start the position of switchboard A. by telephone call to Barnum 5353 Telephone Building, 1S8 Fairfield Ave- Bridgeport.
 The Southern New England Telephone Company
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Farmer Want Ads. One Cent a Word.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-04
THE FLAG ON THE PLOW.

Nail the flag to the plow-
The country needs the grain,
While the sailor boys guard
The tracks of the main.
God gave you the fields
And the sun with its light;
Then double their yields
While the sailor boys fight.
Nail the flag to the plow-
The soldiers must eat
While defending the trenches
Or suffer defeat.
You can help the brave soldier
At this time of his need
BY increasing your acres
And planting more seed.
Nail the flag to the plow-
Your children and wife
Must be saved from starvation
While the world is in strife.
Your duty is plain;
Your mission is grand;
Each man Is hero
Who's filling the land.
You say you're too old
- To fight with gun;
Then work In the fields
Till the setting of sun.
And show to the world
By the sweat on your brow
That you're serving your country
With flag on your plow.
w. B. Lockwood.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-04
THE SCHOOL BOARD
ELECTION.

The result of last Saturdays
school election was a complete
surprise to the staid and conserv-
alive standpatters who have sue.
cessively manipulated school cleo
tions for these many years past.
Two factors entered into the de-
feat of the old members of the
board; one was the discharge of
R. E. Denfeld as superintendent
of schools and the other the ap-
parent "public be damned" at
titude assumed by such board
members as Frank L. Brewer and
his immediate associates.
The people have lost at least
two valuable members Of the
school board. The fact that they
were beaten at the election does
not indicate that it was a personal
defeat for any Of the old members.
It was the protest Of the people
against a naughty and defiant at
titude assumed by the board when.
ever any number of the people
made protest against school
changes, or advocated school re-
forms.
The old board members found
that they lost a good asset when
r. E. Denfeld was practically
forced out of the office Of super
intendent of schools. Unless the
members change their defiant
policy there will be more new
faces on the board Of education
one year hence.
It does not hurt to keep near
to the people and to yield to their
wishes occasionally between cleo
tions. Indeed it pays in the long
run.-The Labor World.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-04

favor of a municipal coal dock.
The hard-hearted legislature and
a wise city attorney inform him
that there is no legal authority
for such an institution, hence he
finds it impossible to carry out
his pledges in that respect.
Mr.. Phillips also favors the
strictest economy in his depart
ment. He now finds out that the
civil service commission will not
permit him to save over ST 900 a
year in operation Of the aerial
bridge, although he, at least,
firmly believes the service will
not be deteriorated by doing
away with one employe out Of
five.
The Rip-saw regrets that Mr..
Phillips is meeting so many
stumbling blocks in giving the
people what they want and what
he considers good for them. 1t
is hoped that he will find Balm
in Gilead. AS a slight surcease
for sorrow in these matters, the
Rip-saw humbly and most court
eously suggests that commits
sioner Phillips push propa-
ganda for an ample number Of
comfort stations in the city. One
is badly needed at the head Of
Garfield avenue. Other import
ant places easily will suggest
themselves to so sharp-eyed a
man as Mr.. Phillips and even
some of his fellow commissioners.
If at first you don't succeed,
try, try again.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-04
THE TRANSFORMATION.

There's laurel wreath adjoining
The old toper's classic brow,
Tho he has no mornings morning,
He wears no nightcap now;
For he holds a good position,
He respects his county's laws,
And he says that prohibition
Is the best thing ever was.
Once this fellow talked minus"
AS to cash on Monday morn,
For he bowed before Gambrinus,
And he loved John Barleycorn,
Lushing was his only mission
When his weekly pay he drew;
It was state wide prohibition
Turned him toward the good ant
true.
Now he need not dissemble
To his wife as heretofore;
And the children do not tremble
When he comes home any more.
It is now his whole ambition
To provide his wife and chicks;
And he says that prohibition
Saved him from destruction.
-Bixby.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-04
FROM CAUSE TO EFFECT

For every ulcer there must be
a cause. For every i'll there
should be proper remedy. dag
nosticians err in their reading
of symptoms. Many physicians
improperly prescribe.
Just now, society is fostering
with ugly ulcers. The blood
thirsty, war-mad element has
been followed by slackers, SYM
pathizers with the enemy, bellig-
erent labor unions and the
vengeful, vicious I. w. w.
No man fully understanding
the history of this country and
the principles on which the gov
eminent was founded, can have
much sympathy with many Of
the I. W. w. methods. Stern, re-
pressive measures seem necessary
in many cases.
The I. w. w. leaders are so
foolish in many of their policies
that no further proof is needed
as to their incompetence as wise
leaders. Now is no time to en-
barrass the government in any
way. The English suffragettes
gained greatly by abandoning
their militant policy. The emo
tional Irish lost sympathy and
support on all sides by the lily
advised attempt to stab "perfi-
dious old Albion" in the back.
But checking, regulating and
suppressing the wild acts Of the
/. W. w. should be done strictly
in accordance with law, Of which
there is no lack. Two wrongs
do not make a right. Numbering
q murderer does not accord with
right and justice. Deportations,
hdnappings and physical assaults
smack too much Of Russian meth
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-04

DDS under the Cars. An eye for
an eye and a tooth for a tooth
accords neither with the Chris
tian law nor the civil law.
Many of the men so bitter
against the I. w. w. are but past
breeders of these Ishmaelites.
The I. w. w. movement was a
direct and natural outgrowth of
such lawless affairs as the depor-
tations in the Cripple Creek
strike and, later, the trouble in
the Colorado coal fields, owned
by godly John D. Rockefeller. At
Cripple Creek, merchants who be-
longed to no miners union and
who were law-abiding American
citizens, were torn from their
families at midnight, run out of
the state and dumped on the
treeless, foodless, waterless plains
of Kansas, between stations.
Such lawless, inhumane treat
ment would make an anarchist
out of any Americn with red
blood in his veins, especially if
inflicted on him by former gun
men, saloon keepers and jail
birds as deputies, under color of
the law.
Reports indicate that the most
blind and vicious members of
the I. w. w. are foreigners"
These same foreigners were
brought from Europe because
they would work for a lower
wage than men accustomed to
the American plane Of living.
Many Of these foreigners were
sent directly from European pris-
ons; many fled here to escape
prison at home; many Of those
not criminals mistake license for
liberty. But they were encour-
aged to come by the very men
who now so loudly call for aid
in suppressing their lawless &C.
tons.
One reaps what he sows. Just
now, many of our greedy cap
tains of industry are fearful of
reaping the whirlwind. AS usual
the innocent bystander is more
or less a sufferer.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-04
POETS CORNER
NEVER MIND

NCVG1 MIMI
Sometimes, when nothing goes Just
right,
And worry reigns supreme,
When heartache fills the eyes with
mist
And all things useless seem,
There's just one thing can drive
away
The tears that scald and blind,
Some one to slip a strong arm round
And whisper "Never mind"
No one has ever told just why
These words such comforts bring
Nor why that whisper makes our
cares
Depart on hurried wing,
Yet troubles say quick Good day"
We leave them far behind
When some one slips an arm around
And whispers "Never mind"
But love must prompt that soft Ca
ress,
The love must aye be true,
Or at that tender clinging touch
No heartease comes to you,
And if the arm be moved by love,
Sweet comforts you will find,
When some one slips an arm around
And whispers "Never mind"
Author Unknown.