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The Washington times., 1917-10-13
PLAN TO SWELL
SMOKE FUND BY
''SMOKELESSDA

That every man and boy in wash
ington set aside one day in every
week as "smokeiess Day" and con-
tribute the money usually spent for
tobacco on that day to The Washing
ton Times Tobacco Fund was the
recommendations today of Postmaster
Merritt o. Chance, postmaster OF
Warrington.
To show that his heart is back Of
the suggestion, Postmaster Chance
offers to do without his smokes one
day in every week and set aside the
money spent for tobacco on the
"smokelsss day for the bsnent OF
the fund that will bring cheer to
Somewhere in France" Postmaster
Chance thinks that every smoker In
Washington who has at heart the
welfare of the boys "oVer there"
should make some little personal sac.
rince in order to insure . small de-
gree OF comfort for the youths who
have gone abroad to risk their lives
for democracy, or who are in train
ing camps In this country preparatory
to going to the battle lines OF France.
Net to as UaaAswered.
This challenge from the city post
master will surely not go unanswered
in Washington, where patriotism runs
at high tide among all classes OF
citizens. Even II you are not willing
to do without days smokes, 1t will
be an easy matter for you to set
aside each week a sum equivalent to
the amount you expend daily for to-
khFa tn The
washington Times Tobacco Fund.
Every quarter spent in this cause
will bring double value to the soldier
"over there" fighting your battle. and
will be . pleasant memory for the
donor.
Here is Postmaster Chances appeal
to Washington smokers TO set one
day out Of every week aside as
"smokeless day."
Every Man willing.
have been following with a great
deal of interest and sympathy the
campaign Of The Washington Times
to provide smokes for the boys in
France, and 1t has occurred to me
that II would be a mighty nne thing
for the men OF Washington to adopt
a 'smokeless day in each week. on
which day the amount they would or
dinarily spend for smokes might be
contributed to the soldiers smoke
fund. a certain day Of each week.
say Friday, should be designated so
that the persons deprivinE themselves
OF the comfort could be on the look
out for friends to persuade them to
do likewise.
81 feel sure that nearly every man
in Washington, whether he smokes
cigars, cigarettes or pipe. would be
willing to forego the pleasure for
one day each week in order that the
boys in the trenches might benent-
Personally, / should be glad to
give up my smokes for one day each
week, and I hope that - will be pos
sible to arrange for q 'smokeless
day for the District.
ContributIOns Received.
Contributions thus far received for
The Washington Times Tobacco Fund
include:
acknowledged. .S3.I47.oo
Blanche Simpson, age ten,
RAllafnn VA 100
Mrs. c. B. WirtG. 100 Rhode
Island avenue northwest. 10
Oswald z. Camp. l.OO
Total ....... S.T4e.25
The Washington times., 1917-10-13
German Forces Exhausted by Constant British Drive Make No Co
HAIG HOLDS NEW
GAINS WITHOUT FOE
.. COUNTER ATTACKS

(Continued from First Page.)
and slid and fought through the mud
below, the aerial soldIers-British
fighting aYiators-whistled through
the air, directly above the enemy, ma
chine cunning them along line after
line
The Washington times., 1917-10-13
Resent Duty on U-Boats.

authoritative reports reaching
here from Holland indicate q strong
disinclination on the part OF Ger
man seamen to serve on U-boats and
several Of them have already been
shot for refusing to perform subma-
Tine duty. This incident occurred
just before the general mutiny which
is said to have affected six units Of
the German fleet and prevented an
attack on the Russian fleet In the
Baltic sea recently which an excellent
opportunity was afforded.
A dispatch says that It has been
impossible to take stern measures
against the revolters because there
would be an increase In the unrest.
German socialists are playing an
important part in the disruption OF
the empire. They(have just inform
ed Chancellor MichAelis that they will
not vote for needed credits so long as
he holds office, and his resignation
has been demanded.
The Washington times., 1917-10-13
made the war PoasibIe.

at is only glorious because. the
mineral wealth of AIsace-Lorrains
enabled Germany TO prepare herself
for the present war. without that
mineral wealth Germany would be in
great difficulty to prepare anew for
her next war. Therefore, apart
from Justice and right, the return OF
those two provinces to France will be
q fundamental security for future
peace"
In the course Of an article on the
future OF Alsace-Lorraine, printed in
the Times, the writer says:
-In 1871 Germany was permitted to
annex yet another slice OF France and
add another million and a half to the
alrea y huge populations from whish
she draws her armies. This time
there was no quest on OF adjusting
the European balance. and the otter
powers stood with folded hands while
the nouveau rich OF Europe moved
her neighbor's landmarks one stage
farther back. -----
The Washington times., 1917-10-13
PEACE GUARANTEE /
SEEN IN RETURN OF
ALSACE-LORRANE

LoNDoN.- Oct. 1s.-FosslGn, Minis
ter Won Kueklnann,s snsySii -never,'
swiftly challenged both by Premier
regarding Alsace-Lorraine has been
swiftly challenged both by Premier
Lloyd George and Mr. Asquith in pub
lie speeches. Hitherto President will
sons words have been the only def
mite declaration oa-the subject out
side OF France. The London editor OF
the Amsterdam Telegraaf, In the
course OF q letter to the Times, says:
The German foreign secretary
could hardly throw over his imperial
master. who declared in August, 1885
q few months after his secession to
the throne: We should rather sac
rifce on the battlefield our eighteen
army corps and 42,000.0 900 Inhabitants
than give up q. single Stone OF what
we have won. These words were
uttered In public by william Hohen-
zollern In Straasburg, In regard to
the territory robbed from France. ana
which Kueklmann called a glorious
lunoTttAnCe. -a-He-
The Washington times., 1917-10-13
Disaster POFtends.

The birth Of two political factions
growing out Of differences between
Bethmann Won HollweR and Admiral
Won Tirpitz and the increasing follow
ing Of the former portends disaster.
ReichstaE deputies declare that two
distinct governments now exist in
Germany. Deputy Naumann, at the
meeting of the Reichstag last week,
declared that "since the end OF 1914
Germany has had two governments,
the Bethmann Hollweg government
and the Won Tirpitz Eovernment."
For a time neither the Kaiser nor
Parliament drew a distinction between
the two and today they dare not ven
ture to do so. A dualism has been
the outcome which has resulted in
there being two factions In the army,
among the newspapers and among the
authorities. The majority OF the peo-
pie, Deputy SpAmann said, are with
Won Hollweg. when he declared before
the Reichstag that today the battle is
between Won Tirpitz and a majority Of
the German nation, there were cries
among the deputies OF quite true"
The marked dlsintegration OF the
German machine began with the entry
OF the United States into the war and
IL is believed that the messages of
President Wilson. particularly those
bearing on peace terms are slowly TAX
ing a dehnite hold on the German
mind, both at home and In the hsld.
The Washington times., 1917-10-13
GERMAN UNREST
SHAKES KA|SER'S
MILITARY MACHINE
(continued from First Page,

(Continued from First Pase.1
at the front. At the beginning Of the
war such men were mercilessly shot
down. The result was that large num-
bers Of German officers would later
be found with German bullets in their
heads. No officer will now dare have
q man shot for lack OF moral stamina
These men, who hold back when
their commands are rushed into bat
tie. have been formed in so-called
"strafe" battalions, and forced to
work at menial tasks suffering even
greater insults than prisoners of war.
Because of the treatment that has
been accorded them they have been
styled the hunger brigade"
For months the German military
commanders were noted for their
strategic moves, for transferring
toops from east to west, and Vice
versa. The continual shutting and
transferring OF men, the almost week
ly Reorganization Of the starved,
war-sIck soldiers Is no longer Gic-
tated by strategical reasons. 1t 10
purely for sslf-defsnse. The authori-
ties dare not keep any. set Of men at
the same place for any long period
Of TINA.
Victories Fail to EneOuFaEs.
The expected reJuvsnation Of the
armies and the strengthening of the
morale of the soldiers as a result OF
the capture OF the fertile Riga and
Bukowina districts failed to material
ise. In spite of the fact that Germany
is better of as regards food supplies
today than at any time during the
last eighteen months, the soldiers and
citizens have failed to respond to the
Kaiser's call for a solid front.
That the navy 10 facing q general
disruption, which will result IN q
weakening OF the U-boat campaign is
certain. following the admission by
Vice Admiral Capells. of q mutiny
which grew to such proportions that
It was necessary to execute many Of
the leaders.
Further evidence Of the growing
discomfort which presaEes a collapse
Of both land ana Sea forces was the
formal resignation OF Admiral Czpeils
following the mutiny.
The Washington times., 1917-10-13
RAIN MAKES ADVANCE DIFFICULT.

The latest advance halted made practically
impossible to continue Yards Of Ground
studded with German rdoub were taken IN
length Of six miles from the
the railway The British operated toward Ii. crest
OF the Passehendaee ridge some 500 From
captured. ~ 1O'N""" prisoners
The fighting Asne and verdun front. .out;nu , H.
SHARP but of apparently local North Of the In
e Germans attacked French positions
Noisy farm but repuse Local on the
eastern slopes Of Hill ~ the Verdun
hlery IRE Is being maintained with vgor both sides
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-16

Ing exercises, their muscles ached all
over, and their feet burned. But
gradually they got the contagious en-
thusiasm of the fellows around them.
Then they began to feel ashamed be-
cause they got fatigued so easily. Day
by day the fresh air and hearty eat
ing braced them up and they felt
able to perform stunts that would
have Frustrated them six weeks be-
fore. Fellows that used to drink
regularly learned the advantages of
temperance. Lazy men are finding
out the benefits of active exercise. In
door workers now know what a tonic
the open air is.
When parents and friends come
around to visit, they hardly know the
boy. He has a clearer eye, a. more
erect carriage, a frmer step. II he
had too much flesh it is gone. There
is no doubt that army life is working
wonders for the boys, and it will
make them able to endure hardships
that they could never have stood be-
fore.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-16
SAMUEL BENSON
TONIGHT
| At HIGH SCHOOL

Samuel Cranston Benson, noted or
ator and gifted speaker, will talk at
the High school at 8 O'Clock tonight
on his experiences in France and Ger
many. The meeting will be open to
the public and those who are FORUM
ate enough to go will hear one Of the
most vivid tales of life in the trenches
yet given In this city.
DR.. Benson left the ministry to be-
come an ambulance driver in 1914 and
since that time he has been contin-
uous1y in the service in connection
with the American Ambulance Unit at
NeuiHy. His experiences have been
thrilling and he has a forcible way
of describing them. He was arrest
ed as spy by the Germans and tried
and convicted by the same court mar
tial that convicted Edith Cavell. He
was arraigned in the same room.
His life was spared when the at
tendant was about to put the hand
kerchtef over his eyes and he was or
dered to leave Belgium with instruc-
lions never to come back to either
Belgium or Germany, but this great
fighting parson, himself a converted
pacifist, says: 'But am going back
with millions Of khaki-clad boys with
Old Glory waving over our heads and
am going into Belgium and on into
Germany, too"
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-16
FIRST WEEKS
IN THE ARMY

AS the soldiers return home for
short visits or see their friends at the
camps, they are telling a mighty in
teresting story of their first weeks OF
training. 1t is a revelation to many
men who formerly were used to home
comforts.
The first days seemed pretty rough
to many Of them. Their mothers or
wives had fixed up comforts for
their clothing and toilet. They were
not allowed to keep many of these.
1t is the principle OF the new army
that all the men are to be equipped
alike. It is not wished that some
have luxuries not enjoyed by 9th
ers.
When a man has been used to home
cooking, comfortable or luxurious
rooms, and many little conveniences,
it goes bit hard to come down to
the bare necessities of army lv-
ing.
Then they had to march and march
and go through 1aborious and harden
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-16
CEARLO Ute OBSERVER, SUPPORTER
OF ADVOCATE OF BONE DRY BILL,
DEPL ORES PROHIBITION RESULTS
Newspaper Which Has Supported Yates Webb, Author
and Father of the Bone Dry Bill in Congress Tells
Wierd Tales of the Results of Prohibition in North
Carolina.

pie brandy was the favorfte product
of the moonshine still. Occasionally
runs were made Of peach and cherry,
but apple jack was the standby. The
more pretentious of the distillers
would turn out corn whiskey exclus-
lively. The enforcement of the pro-
hibition laws has not only necessitat-
ed resort to diversified methods Of
distilling, but has turned the atten-
ton of the moonshiners to new pos
sibilities. Some Of their products are
said to be fierce. In the section
around Wilson the favorite tipple is
called monkey rum 1t ts a white
fluid and tumblerful bites like so
many wasps being swallowed. But 1t
seems to be manufactured with no
fear of the law, and travelling people
tell the Observer that it can be
bought in some towns almost openly.
Some blockaders evidently resort to
almost any kind of material that will
put "kick" into their product. ia
maica ginger is the most wholesome
of the various articles they use. Bay
rum is another Ingredient, while con-
centrated lye gives it the head" and
plug tobacco makes the color, where
it is desired to convert a key of the
white lightning into 50 much good
rye liquor" It is stuff like this that
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-16

IT has long been observed that
whenever a new prohibition law goes
into effect. or the taxes on liquor are
raised, there is at once an increase
In the Illicit manufacture of whiskey
and other fiery beverages by the pro-
cess known as moonshining.
From the Charlotte IN. c. OBJ
server. a paper published down in the
famous old moonshine country, we
learn that the "art of moonshine has
received polishing up"
According to the Charlotte Observer
much ingenuity is being developed in
the process of dtstillation. The cum
bersome copper still with it's tell-tale
volume of smoke has given away to
the more refined devices not SO easy
of detection, but capable of running
out all manner of distilled stuff. The
North Carolinians, according to the
Observer, are also giving a great deal
of attention to the advantage of Sc
curing outfits which are easily trans
ported from one place to the other.
New Lease on Life.
The Observer remarks that moon
shining is thus taking on new life be-
cause of the passage of the law which
prohibits the manufacture of whiskey
during the war. Says the Observer:
In the old days of blockading ap-
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-16

guns, but no upper platform. It car
ried eighteen men and two tons OF
bombs.
TT had reached a height of 1000
meters flour and one-quarter miles)
over London and had then encounter
ed not only strong north wind, but
a temperature falling as low as 33 de-
grees below zero centigrade. The
men had frozen hands, and became
half stupefied with the cold. The
water ballast froze. although a GER
tain amount Of alcohol had been mix
ed with it to prevent this happen
ing.
Although there is an arrange
ment to raise the radiators within the
protection of the cars, their water also
froze. The compass was in good
condition, but in the circumstances
was useless
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-16
GOES TWO SONS
IN WAR ZONE But
NOT HEARD FROM
Former Bridgeporter Writes
Collector McGOVern From
London Hospital.

Collector James L. McGovern has
received the following letter telling OF
conditions in London during the air
raids by Germans in September, from
E. Thomas Coe, V S.. who is well
known here and who formerly had
the care of the blooded horses of the
E. T. Bedford farm in Greens Farms.
He writes:
Dear Friend-ou will be sorry to
hear have been in 1uck's way again
On the 18th of July, 1880 p M. on
leaving business and while crossing
Oxford street I was knocked down
by a motor bus, my left shoulder was
dislocated, and the arm fractured
badly I was taken to the hospital
where I remained until last Saturday
week, September Is, and now I have
to undergo an operation on October
s. Something is wrong with the col
lar bone. and I get no rest, night Pr
day. I am writing this in bed, q
a. n.y. H. A. Baker, the great bone
setter here, is going to see me this
time. I hope it will be successful
and that I shall soon be in harness
again. If you like to let the Bridge
port people know I am in the land
Of the living you are at liberty to
do so, and if you do send me acopy
of your well known Farmer.
''The Germans are brutes. They
paid US a visit per air last night
What damage they have done I don't
know yet. The anti-air guns were
going for a long time, but ere this
reaches you no doubt you will have
heard particulars.
ct am sorry to say my eldest son
has not been heard of for some
months. He went out the second
year of the war. Three letters
have had returned. I wrote to the
war Office, but they cannot trace
him, and he is posted as missing. He
has a wife and two children. Ny
other son has not been home since
he went to France 10 months ago,
and have not heard of him for more
than two months. but I hope he is all
right
Coe in his letter asks to beAremem.
bered to some of his old friends here
and asks some questions regarding
others.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-16
ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS
CAUSE ZEPPELIN FAILURES

One Of the %chief officers of the
French aeronautical services, himself
an experienced pilot of dirigibles, has
just completed an examination of the
wrecked Zeppel1ns, and the one cap
tured intact after last Fridays raid
ON London. and has given me the fol-
lowing statement Of his views on the
causes of the fiasco and the probable
tiles for the future.
The failure of the expedition was
due partly to atmospheric conditions
and partly to bad working Of the
wireless apparatus. The vessels de-
parted for England in a moderate
west wind, but it there turned to the
north, and when they rose to escape
the British anti-aircraft guns q
strong gale was blowing in the upper
attitudes.
"The wireless stations in Germany
on which these vessels depend for
their guidance-because no means
have yet been found for calculating
drift, and the compass seems prac-
tically useless without that-seem not
to have been working we'll. Perhaps
with SO many ships gone astray they
were submerged with demands.
1--WE know that the L 40, brought
down at Bourbonne, had break
down of its wireless motor, and Sc
could not posi- bly, get the usual guild
ance. It had been completely lost
for hours.
"You see the dilemma. These mon
sters have been built. so far as land
raids are concerned, to reach and re-
main at great height, and to cover a
long distance. The German govern
ment has still so much faith in them
that 1t is turning out two per month.
They are $50 feet long, 116 feet high,
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-16

and have capacity of $4,000 cubic
feet.
Since anti-aircraft guns can now
do good practice at a height of five
and even 5000 meters (roughly three
to four miles,, they must commonly
remain above this level. At this
height bombs cannot be aimed at a
precise objective, and the raiders are
helpless before bad weather.
''As to the cost and trouble of their
construction, have made a curious
little calculation, which shows that
for the gold-beaters' skin, forming
with a cotton lining the envelope of
intestines of 100000 cattle are need
ed.
There are various ingenious de-
tails in the construction. Between
the eighteen balloners contained by
the envelope a number of chimneys
are set, to carry out at the top any
leakage of gas.
"a passage within the envelope
contains the ballast, patrol bombs,
and several beds. There are four
cars. The front one carries the COM
mander, most of the crew, the> wire
less machinery, and one Of the five
motors.
1.-THE vessel can normally make
ffty-flve or sixty miles an hour All
the instruments are well made. The
ballast bombs and other packages are
mum bered in luminous numbers at
night. To get from one car to an
other is an awkward Journey, as you
must pass up a rope ladder and
through the interior passage.
1.-THE L 40 has two vertical rud-
ders, and two lateral planes for rising
and falling. It had two machine
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-16
REV. H. S. BROWN
IS CHOSEN MEMBER
ON CHURCH UNITY

Middletown, Nov. 16-Rev. Herbert
S. Brown, of Bridgeport, was chosen
a member of the Committee on
Church Unity, at the Fifty-First An
nua1 Convention of the Congregational
Churches of Connecticut, which clos
ed here last evening. The conven-
ton decided upon Meriden as the
meeting place for next year.
Rev. William H. Day, of Bridgeport,
spoke on evangelism Through the
School," urging greater cooperation
on the part of parents and Sunday
school workers with the pastor. Rev.
Clarence H. Perry, of Kent, reporting
for the rural church work committee,
advocated the use of tent meetings for
the summer months.
Before adjourning, the convention
adopted resolution favoring imme-
date war prohibition.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-16

is behind the many crazy deeds re-
ported from time to time in the
papers Of the state. The blockade
trade Is not being supplied with
liquors IF any degree of purity, as in
the older times.
One not unnatural consequence of
drinking this horrible stuff is that it
is gradually and somewhat violently
killing off it's consumers" And no
wonder. Will the steady extension of
the prohibitory laws gradually bring
the northern states to this same atti-
tude toward the manufacture of
liquor?
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-16
BRITISH HOLD 1876, 900
PRISONERS OF WAR

London, Nov. 16.-In the House OF
Commons yesterday Henry William
Forster, Financial Secretary Of War,
said since July 1, 1916, the British had
captured from the Turks 30,197 pris-
oners and 1856 guns, and from the
Germans on the western front 101, 534
prisoners and $40 guns.
The approximate territory con-
quered or reconquered by the British
in the same time, said MIR. Forster.
was $4,000 square miles. The total
number of prisoners captured on all
fronts since the beginning of the war
was 10000, while the captured guns
numbered 800.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-16

The War Department is consider
ing plan to organize a special guard
for defense of interior plants from
pro-German p1otters.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-16

Highwaymen robbed Supt. A. d.
Farrell of the G. w. Johnston Lime
stone Co.. Newcastle, Pa, of the pay
roll Of $4,000.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-16
BRIEF NEWS NOTES

To allow its members to take part
In large Victory Loan parade, the
Montreal Stock Exchange will close
next Monday.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-16

The United States government needs
women to fill the vacancies left by
the men. Stenographers are offered
salaries Of $1,000 yer.