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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-23
,NORWALK MAN HEADS
RURAL CARRIERS ASSO.

Hartford, Feb. 22-At the annual
convention Of the Connecticut Rural
Letter Carriers association here yes
terday, the carriers were welcomed
by Mayor r. A. Hagarty who, having
been q postmaster at one time, knew
OF their hardsdps.
No class Of officials comes SO near
the great public as city and rural
carriers" the, mayor said
Congressman-elect Augustine Lon
ergan also addressed the carriers
IT believe in civil service when
honestly applied. If one man passes
an examination and shows that he
is. Intellectually superior he should
receive the appointment. I always
voted in favor Of civil service in the
Sixty-third Congress; I voted against
the spoils system. Is it fair that a
man should creep in through pofiti-
cal influence? I Wouldn't stand for
any man who obtained his position
through the spoils system and re-
tanned 1t through the merit system .
President III. S. Brown Of Nor
walk was reelected. Other officers
were chosen as follows: Vice presi-
dent, William F. Wilson, Of Middle
town; secretary and treasurer, J. J..
Petrofsky, Of Cromwell; delegate-at-
large, H s. Brown; alternate, Will
liam A. Wilson; state delegate, J. T.
OsKeefe, of Middletown.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-23
HAVE COLOR IN YOUR CHEEKS
Be Better Looking Take
Olive Tablets

If your skin is yellow-comp1ex;on
pallid--tongue coated appetite poor
you have a bad taste in your mouth-a
lazy, no-good feeling should take
Olive Tablets
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets-a sub
stitute for calomel-were prepared by
DR.. Edwards after II years Of study
with his patients.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets are a
purely vegetable compound mixed with
olive oil. You will know them by their
olive color.
i To havea oLear, pink skin, bright eyes,
no pimples. !, feeling of buoyancy like
childhood days you must get at the cause.
Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets act on the
liver and bowels like calome.-yet have
no dangerous after effects.
They start the bile and overcome con-
stipation. That's why millions of boxes
are sold annually at 10c and Csc per
box. All druggists. Take one or two
nightly and note the pleasing results.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-23
FIFTY LEADERS
IN BIG IRISH
REVOLT SEIZED
Thirty-fiVe Are Dublin Sim
Fein and Gaelic League
Members.

London, Feb. .23-The arrest yes
terday Of a number of leaders of the
Irish Volunteers and other persons
who figured in the Irish uprising of
last year is reported in a Central
News dispatch from Dublin.
D Among those arrested, the dispatch
says, are Councillor S. T. Kelly, j. J.
O'Kelly, editor of the Catholic Bull
'letin; Darrell Figgis, well known
writer, and Captain Liam Mellowes.
Dublin, Feb. ga number of Sim
Feiners, who had recently returned
from internment in England, were
arrested today in Limerick, Galway
and Skibbereen, as we'll as in Dublin,
the arrests were made under the De-
Tense of the Realm Act.
Altogether about fifty members of
the Sim Fein and the Gaelic League
have been arrested, and arrests are
continuing. Thirty-five men were
taken into custody in Dublin alone.
In Galway last night a prominent
member Of the Oughterard Distric.
Council and a prominent Athenry
merchant were arrested.
It is believed here these arrests
will greatly embarrass the National
list party.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-23
FOOD SHORTAGE
NOT CAUSED BY
FREIGHT TIE-UP

Washington, Fe5. 27-No actual
food or fuel shortage exists anywhere
in the country and high prices should
not be attributed to the present freight
congestion, it was stated by the inter-
state commerce commission and rail-
road auth critics today. Reports in,
Dictated that all localities are sup
piled with adequate stocks of living
necessities for immediate domestic
consumption, and the tieup on rail-
roads will improve steadily.
Conditions today were believed to
be far better than "a hours ago, since
good weather and a suspension of
traffic over yesterdays holiday per-
mitted railroads to rush hundreds of
empty freight cars westward from the
congested yards of the east. These
will be reloaded, largely with food
stuffs destined for, consumption in the
east or for export, but both the in
terstate commerce commission and
the car service commission of the
American Railway association are
seeking to give preference to car al
lotments to goods for domestic needs.
On Feb. 10, 1924 cars, loaded
and empty, were involved in the con-
gestion, having increased by more
than one-third in two weeks, the COM
missions report showed.
Chicago's lack Of empty, cars for
eastbound shipments is no greater,
proportionate1y than in other localities
according to the commission, whose
reports show that city has received
200 cars daily and half of these were
used for export grain.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-23
PROHIBITION
FOR CAPITAL
Is CONSIDERED

-
Washington, Feb. 23The house
Sllie committee today held an execu-
tive session to consider the question Of
reporting out a special rule to bring
up in the house the bill for prohibition
IN the District of Columbia. The
measure already has passed the SEN
ate and now is pending in the house
District committee. Sentiment in
the rule committee is said to favor the
rule. The committee first gave a
public hearing on the merits of the,
rule.
"a Conferees on the part of the house
and senate met today to thresh out
differences over certain features Of
the post office appropriation bill other
than the bone dry prohibition
amendment adopted by the house on
Wednesday. AS soon as the bill is
disposed Of, Chairman Moon Of the
house post Office commission is expect
ed to try to get action on his resolu-
tion introduced yesterday which would
postpone the effective date of the
''bone dry amendment until Oct. 1
next. Many prohibition leaders who
IT first were opposed to a postpone
tnent, are now said to favor it.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-23
BANQUETING CLOSES
SEASON FOR LEAGUE
OF PINOCHLE PLAYERS

The Fraternal Pinochle League
closed it's season last night with a
BANQUET in Odd Fellows hall. Three
score persons attended.
Prizes were awarded. A check for
SIS was given Charles Holmes who
had the best individual score. Checks
for So were given William Carson,
Edward Conger, Andrew Munson, R.
Johnson, Louis Street and c. Bisso-
nette. Checks for $3.50 were given
Harry Lint, George Dayton, E. Elem
endorf, J. ireland, Paul Hoffman and
q. E.. Dryer Checks for 81 were
awarded Andrew Peterson, John
Mills. w. Reed, F. Mailer, Harry
Wendell.
II. A. King was POSTMASTER.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-23
BRIDGEPORT DAY
At AUTOMOBILE
SHOW OBSERVED
City Officials Attend Exhibition.
Records Still Being
Smashed.

Today is Bridgeport Day at the au-
tomobile show. Mayor Wilson, the
members Of the board Of aldermen
and all other city officials will attend.
There remain only two days more in
which to visit the show and those who
have not already awaited themselves of
the opportunity should do so at once.
In point of attendance and in num-
ber OF exhibits the show Is the biggest
OF, this character ever presented in
Bridgeport. The exhibit of CONNER
cial cars is also the largest ever seen
here. Washington,s birthday brought
the largest crowds yesterday that have
ever. attended holiday exposition in
Bridgeport
Yesterday 5,0S1 persons visited the
Casino. a record for attendance for the
part of the exposition being held there.
Louis Schwartz, in charge of the ex-
hibits, was kept busy welcoming the
visitors and directing them to the par
iticular cars which they came to see.
Sahes of Riker, Packard, Armleder and
al the, special designs for Ford chas-
sisee have been recorded at the Ca
sino.
!, The t'Safety First, booth at the Ar
uUly at WHICH captain CnarleS A.
Wheeler and members Of the Bridge
port police traffic squad are stationed
continues to attract the attention Of
All visitors, Particularly interesting
arp the moving pictures made in
Bridgeport and illustrating how acct
DENTS occur and how to avoid them
Ono ticket admits to both shows.
Bentleyfs and Speidel's orchestras fur
n1sh music every afternoon and even
Ing. The show is open from 10 a. m.
to- 10 p. m. today will close at
midnight tomorrow
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-23
PASTOR EXILED FROM
RUSSIA WILL SPEAK
AT BAPTIST CHURCH

Rev. William Fetler, D. D., who viii
speak Sunday morning at the Second
Baptist church, Kossuth and Arctic
streets, on Gospel Work Among the
Russian War Prisoners of Europe is
the exiled pastor Of the "Dom Evan
CELIA" Baptist church of Petrograd.
Shortly after the outbreak Of the war.
the Russian authorities, not being
able to sympahize with his Baptist
curch Of Petrograd. Shortly after the
outbreak Of the war, the Russian
authorities. not being able to sympa-
thize with his Baptist ideals of democ-
racy, exiled Pastor Fetler, first to ST.
IBERIA They then allowed him to go
to Sweden, and thence to America.
At the present, Mr.. Fetler is doing
missionary and educational work
among his countrymen.
At $3.50 p.m.Pastor Fet1er will speak
again to all persons who are interest
ed in the work Of giving the gospel
to the thousands Of war prisoners.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-23
S250,OOO,OO0 ARMY.
BILL PASSES HOUSE
BY UNANIMOUS VOTE.
Members Not Sounded When
Effort Is Made to Include
Universal Service.

Washington, Feb. 23.-The House
last night passed the Army Appropri-
alton Bill without a roll call and with
out a dissenting vote. The bill carries
an appropriation of about $3.50, OOO, 900,
an increase of 100000 over the sum
recommended by the committee.
An effort was made by Representa-
tive c. P. Caldwell Dem) of New
York to have the House accept as an
amendment a plan for compulsory
military training. His plan was not
read, but he said it followed some OF
the features embodied in the Cham
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-23
MAN WINS PRIZE FOR
PRETTIEST WOMAN'S
COSTUME AT DANCE

A man won the first prize for the
prettiest woman's costume at the
masquerade ball given by the
Bridgeport Marine band in Eagles
hall last night. He was Valentine
Tavano and so c1ever1y did he mas
querade as a woman that his identity
was unknown until he was awarded
a silver loving cup. He represented
Italy.
8 The first prize for comic costume
was awarded to six years old Ettore
Biseto Of 1863 Hancock avenue Other
prize winners were Mrs. Mabel Goot-
man and William J. Rosina. The
comittee was Amedeo Marcella and
Luigi Cherino. tf
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-23
SENATE REPUBLICANS
WILL HOLD CAUCUS

Washington Feb. 23-A caucus Of
Senate Republicans was called today
to consider the emergency revenue
bill, now before the Senate. and to
frame a general legislative program
to be laid before the Democratic
1eaderN for enactment before the ses-
sion of Congress ends. Efforts of the
Republicans recently to reach an
agreement with the Democrats on the
subject failed.
Debate on the revenue bill con-
tinued in the Senate today. Several
amendments were pending.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-23
[ ever saw"

The bill increases pay 10 per cent.
for clerks in the War Department re-
ceiving less than $1,000 and per cent.
for those between $1,000 and $1,SCO.
An increase of $3,0O0000 was made
for arms uniforms. &C., for the Ma
tional Guard. Provision of $4,000 was
made for Instruction in military ava
ton of National Guard officers. An
appropriation of $2,50O,000 is made Tor
machine guns for the Guard. The Dill
makes Immediately available $,174,00O
fer the engineering equipment of the
troops. For airships and development
of aviation SIS, OGO, 900 is allowed.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-23
and have died a natural death within

and have died natural death within
q short time.
The 1,430 which are enumerated
constitute just about on-eeighth Of
the publications that fourished be-
fore the war, but that have had to
cease issue since then because Of the
increased shortage of paper, high
prices, scarcity of labor, dropping
circulation and other things. The
post office cites them all an having
suspended temporarily" but their
more fortunate contemporaries Insist
on enclosing the word temporary in
quotation marks.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-23
NEWSPAPERS SUSPENDED

Berlin, Feb. 21.-It has required
32-page booklet for the imperial post
office to enumerate the list of news
papers and periodical publications in
Germany Of recognized standing
which temporarily will not appear
during the course of the war;" The
list includes 1870 publications. but
of course, does not include the hum
dreds if not thousands of "fyby-
night" papers and magazines which.
in many instances, have come into be-
ing since the beginning of the war
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-23
CHAPMAN TO APPEAR
AT HEALTH BOARDS
MEETING TONIGHT

General Manager C. Fl. Chapman
Of the Connecticut Co.,'wi1l appear be-
fore the board Of health this evening
at 1880 to deny the charges Of the
health inspectors that the street cars
Of Bridgeport are unsanitary, Inspec-
tors for the company, who have ex-
amined the cars and who have made
recommendations which 1t is alleged
the Connecticut Co. has not carried
out, will be present also.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-23
CUTS PASSENGER TRAVEL.

Paris, Feb. 23-Wi Wv to re-
ducing railroad pc traffic
Transport Minister ] Is pub
lished decree suppre ii circu-
lar tickets, family tickets, excursion
tickets and special tickets for seaside
resorts. At the same time the
amount Of baggage, other than per-
sonal, is limited to 200 pounds for
. each passenger.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-23

Calvin Derrick former warden at,
Sing Sing, was appointed superinten-a
dent of the new Westchester county's
penitentiary. to be opened at East
view next month
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-23

Major General Pershing was in.
vited to be one of the speakers at a J,
memorial service for Major General
Funston, to be held at San Antonio.
Tex, tomorrow. -,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-23

FUNERAL DESIGNS AND
BOUQUETS
JOHN REOK q SON
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-14
SALUTE THE FLAG

VTTaEREvER you are. what
w ever your occupation, pause a
moment before sunset and salute the
Flag.
To-day is the anniversary of the
birth of The Star Spangled Banner.
Francis Scott Key wrote his inn
mortal anthem 104 years ago to-day.
A handful of hastily gathered mill
tia was defending Baltimore. The
fate of the young nation hung in the
balance. The troops lay in their posi-
tions in the darkness and strained
their weary eyes for a glimpse of the
flag they loved over Fort McHenry,
and from the travail of that night
of battle burst full blown the in
spiration that prompted Key to put
to paper those stanzas that since
have been sung the world around
and which Americans sing and will
sing whenever and wherever the
spirit of patriotism manifests itself
among the people. To-day in a hun
dred camps American boys stand
hands to cap when the band plays
the stirring air. In a few more
they and thousands of others
will be following that banner to vic
tory in the cause of democracy over
the bloodstained fields of France,
Oh, thus be it ever when freemen
shall stand
Between their loved homes and
the wars desolation!
Blest with victory and peace. may
the heaven rescued land
Praise the Power that has made
and preserved us nation.
Then conquer we must, for our
cause it is just,
And this be our motto: 'In God
is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in
triumph shall wave
Ger the land of the free and the
home of the brave.
Show your loyalty. Salute the flag
to-day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-14
GERMS

The current issue of the United
States Public Health reports con-
firm the news item of some days ago
with regard 10 the fndIng of tetanus
germs in specimens of courtplaster
taken from original packages as they
are bought at drug stores. but adds
that there is no ground for believing
that the contamination was inten-
tional. There Is no reason for any
war scare in the matter.
The investigation has shown that
courtplaster is not clean" in the
surgical sense. and that therefore
instead of protecting open wounds
from contamination. as is often
thought. it rather favors that pro-
cess. This authoritative opinion prob
ably will not prevent the use by
the fair sex of tabs of courtplaster
as beauty spots" but it should act
as an effective warning against the
use of the material on open wounds
It's employment is relic of the time
when sticking plaster and salves and
external applications of various kinds
were supposed to be curative. Abso-
lutte cleanliness is the one all i'm
portant element in the treatment OF
wounds, small or large. The less ex-
ternal interference with them the
better.-New York Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-14
GOOD-BY WHISKY

We doubt very much if, at the end
of two years, or one year, there will
be any loud wailing throughout the
land for the re-establishment of the
whisky supply. There will be no
CoXey army of consumers marching
on Washington crying for whisky.
The habit is not so universal to-day
that any numerous chorus is heard
in protest against high prices or
prospective drought.
The situation when war shall have
lifted its ban depends much more
or what shall happen to the whisky
producing industry in the meantime
than on the effect of the temporary
prohibition on the consumers. The
whisky ring is not badly hurt by this
proceeding, and. particularly if it
shall be allowed to dispose of its
present stock, ii may fairly be con.
sidered that it has been compensated
for such interference as the govern
ment has decreed. II, following upon
this act, its plants can be converted
to other profitable uses. If CONNER
cial alcohol can be distilled from
cornstalks IN quantities sufficient to
furnish cheap fuel for farmers trac-
tors and the automobiles of the rest
of us, if whisky capital can be in
duced to seek other means of earn
ing, the problem of the prohibition
lists will be far easier. The whisky
stills are to be closed tonight. 1t will
be n mistake to permit them to re-
main closed. The practical oppor-
tunity lies in finding profitable work
for them to do. so tnat there will
be less incentive for them to resume
their Objectionable enterprise.-The
Evening Bulletin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-14
PATRIOTIC BOYS

Theodore Roosevelt praises the
patriotic spirit which is being shown
by American boys and young men
not ordinarily engaged in productive
labor who are stepping in to fill the
gaps caused by shortage of labor
on the farms and in industry. In a
letter to William +. Hall. national
director of the United States Boys
Working Reserve, Department of
Labor. the former President declares
that the boys patriotism can be
counted on to make him stick where
needed in this time of emergency,
even when higher wages at times
tempt him to go elsewhere. Mr..
Roosevelt expresses his pleasure over
the prospect of having boys trained
for essential industries to take the
places of men called to the front.
Speaking of tho value of the Boys
Working Reserve. he says:
"One of the great benefits you
confer is that of making the boy
realize that he is part of Uncle
Sans team; that he is doing his
share in this great war; that he holds
his services in trust for the nation,
and that though it is proper to con-
slider the question of material gain
and the question of his own desires
yet that what he must most strong
ly consider at this time is where his
services will do most good to our
people as a whole. I earnestly wish
you every success in your wise and
patriotic effort"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-14
RECLAIM DRUNKARDS

An elaborate plan for the re-
clamation of drunkards and victims
of various perverting vices is being
formulated in Ripon, Wis, not with
the workhouse idea predominating
but with the purpose of an actual
cure as the incentive.
No longer will the tippler have
TO topple his way down the street
to the sewer gutter to find a place
for the night, only to awake the
next morning with nothing more
nor less to do than to get drunk all
over again.
The organization which has taken
the problem in hand and is now
working out solution is the Ripon
commercial club.
1t is planned that all men brought
up before the court and charged
with drunk and disorderly conduct,
instead of receiving a prison or
workhouse sentence, will be given
their choice of accenting n sentence
to some penal institution or going
to some appropriate. established
place devoted to treatment for the
elimination of the alcohol poison
from the human system.
After the poison has been re-
m owed and the craving squelched.
they will be dicharged from the re-
clamation institution and as thew
become able in spirit, vigor, courage
and ambition to recompense their
benefactors. they are requested to
do so to the entent of the sum ex-
pended for their redemption.
The commercial club is a pioneer
in this field of endeavor and as such
is blazing a trail in an untroddcn
area of the forest of charity.-From
the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-14
1T WAS THE WOMAN

According to dispatch from Lon
don, the Swedes lay, upon their
Queen, Victoria, a Baden princess,
the chief responsibility for Sweden's
treacherous and underhand conduct
as it has been disclosed in the Swe-
Argentine revelations. They
lil<en her influence over the power
full Inner circle" which controls
the political affairs of their country
to that OF Queen Sophie over Con-
stantine, and predict as a result the
end of the reign of the present
Swedish rulers.
Again it is the woman.
Poor Henrietta Maria and her
Catholicism have been compelled &c
bear much of the burden of the
overthrow of the Stuarts and the be-
heading of her husband, Charles J.,
Marie Antoinette was the object of
the Parisians' greatest animosity,
a hatred that found it's bitterest eN-
preston IN the epithet 'rAutrl-
chienne." She and not her weak
willed, weak kneed husband was the
victim most demanded for the gull
lotine. 1t was Empress Eugene upon
whom the responsibilities for tho
reverses of the Franco-Prussian war
were laid. And so on with women
who had less opportunities for mis-
chief than queens have. They have
been credited with overthrowing
ministries, defeating great reforms
and destroying armies.
But in seeking a comparison in
the present time between Queen Vic
toria and Sophie, it is only just to
say that Constantine, according to
the disclosure recently made in
Greece, did not learn all of his tricks
from his wife, and in the same way
Swedish authorities may not have
learned all of their underhandedness
from Queen Victoria. In fact, there
is so much appearance of the bung-
ling masculine hand in Swedish af-
fairs that the once little Baden prin-
cess should be cleared of responai-
bility until more evidence of her
guilt is produced.-New York Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-14
MORE ABOUT COAL

TOLLOWING is an extract from
I letter far too lengthy and
violent in its tone to be publish
ed in its entirety here:
And 1 am glad to note that the
Telegraph has gotten after the
local coal dealers and the Federal
authorities for imposing these
nigh prices on the people.
Our correspondent has misunder-
stood the attitude of this newspaper.
The Telegraph has not gotten after
either the local dealers or the federal
authorities, for the simple reason
that it does not know which, if
either, is at fault.
The Telegraph has pointed out
that the Presidents maximum coal
price order" instead of bringing
promised relief to the people of Har-
risourg. was followed Immediately
by sharp advances of prices in all
grades of anthracite and by all
dealers. The Telegraph has publish
ed what the dealers have to say
about it and is now in correspond
ence with DR.. Garfield, federal fuel
administrator, seeking an explana-
ton, and if possible, a remedy.
Until DR.. Garfield shall have re-
piled and all the facts are known
the Telegraph will be in no position
to get after" anybody. There ought
to be some interesting developments
In the coal situation here in n very
few days.