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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08
BILL IN CONGRESS TO DEVELOP PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT SERVICE Financial Aid For State and City Public Labor
 Exchanges
Exchanges.

Washington, D. C., Dec S.-A bill to create public employment ser vice for the effective distribution of labor to meet the wars demand for increased output was introduced in Congress yesterday by Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas and Repre- sentative Edward Heating of Color ado, as an emergency measure.
 The bill extends and unifies all la- Dor exchange activities of the govern ment, placing them on an indepen- dent basis in the Department of La- Dor in charge of a director to be ap- pointed by the President It also pro- vides an inducement for improved ser vice by granting financial aid to state and city employment bureaus co-op- erating with the national service.
 The war work of the government, it is pointed out, is being seriously hampered because a comprehensiye system of labor distribution is lack. ing in this country. The service pro- posed in the bill is in accord with pro. bosa1s for the efficient organization and conduct of labor placement on a 'at1on-wide scale, but goes further oward meeting the situation by pro. viding for unified control and uni. fornnity of policy, specifying clearly the functions of the new service and giving direct financial inducement to states and cities for fitting into the governments plan.
 The measure which has the en- dorsement of the Association for La
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08
SUSPEND MOVES FOR ARMISTICE
 WITH GERMANY
Trotzky Asks That In Mean time Allied Powers De-
 clare Their War Aims

London, Dec. 8.-A Russian govern 'ment dispatch, dated Thursday and received here by wireless, announces that Leon Trotzky, the BolsheviEi foreign minister, has sent to all the Allied embassies and legations in Petrograd a note intimating that the arm1stice negotiations with the Gen. tral powers have been suspended for a week at the initiative of the Rus sian delegation, for the purpose of providing opportunity of informing the peoples and the governments of the Allied countries the existence of such negotiations and their tendency
 The note adds that the armistice will be signed only on condition that troops will not be transferred from one front to another and that Ger man troops are cleared from the is- lands around Moon sound. It .gener- ally indicates the points of the ne gotiations in accordance with the wireless statement received from Pet rograd Thursday and concludes:
 The period of delay thus given, even in the existing disturbed condi- tion of international communications, is only sufficient to afford the Allied governments opportunity to define their attitude toward the peace nego- i tiations, that is, their willingness or refusal to participate in, negotiations for an armistice and peace.
 "In case of refusal they must de- clare clearly and definitely before all mankind the aims for which the peo- pie of Europe may be called to shed their blood during the fourth year ot the war;
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08
M GAIN NAMED
 AS INSPECTOR
 OF EXP. .OSIvES

Washington, Dec. 5 President Wilson sent to the Senate yesterday the nomination of former Senator James B. McGann of New Haven to be inspector of explosives for Gin necticut, MoGann will have charge of all explosives manufactured, handled and used in the state, and will control the issuance of licenses to all persons handling explosives in any way, A heavy fine and fmpris- onment is the penalty fer having pos session of explosives without 8 federal license, McGann was appointed about two weeks ago at salary of $2,4 a year and his confirmation by the Sem ate is necessary,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08
BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY OF ELI WHITNEY WHO
 MADE COTTON KING

Just 152 years ago today there was born in Westboro, Mass, the man who was designed to revolutionize the cot ton industry, and thus exercise pro- found effect upon the political, social commercial, intellectual and moral history of great nation.
 Of all inventors and inventions of the world, Eli Whitney and his cot ton gin were the most dramatic. On that day in 1793 when he patented his epochal machine the whole cur rent history in the United States was changed. If the cotton gin had not been invented, slavery would in all probability have died a natural death, and the civil war would have been averted.
 Eli Whitney graduated from Yale and then went to Georgia, where he found a generous patron in the widow of General Greene, of Revolutionary fame. One day in conversation a friend of Mrs. Greene expressed re- gret that there was no machine by which the cotton wool could be separ- ated from the seed. Under the labor ious process then in vogue one person could clean only about one pound a day.
 That conversation was the germ of the great revolutionary idea of the cotton gin.- With only rude plantation tools Whitney constructed a machine that accomplished the work satisfac- torily. The news of the mechanical marvel that could do in a day the work of a thousand men and women soon spread abroad, and Whitney s workshop was broken into and the model carried off. Imperfect machines were made and put on the market, and Whitney in defense of his patent, Twas involved in many expensive law suits. Even state legislatures broke their bargains with Whitney, and, al- though South Carolina gave him $50,- 900, that sum was soon swallowed up in litigation. When Whitney asked for an extension of his patent, Con- gress, at the behest of members from the southern states, refused the pray 1 CT, and he was left with nothing to show for his work.
 | In 179S Whitney was granted con- 1 tract by the government for the manufacture of firearms, and from this industry, which he also revolu- tionized, he made a fortune. He was the first to effect division of labor by which each part was made separ, ately.
 i Whitney's cotton gin was respon- sible for the revival of the dying in stitution of slavery. By giving great impetus to cotton growing, it made slave labor profitahle Tn the fifteer years following the invention of the
 gin vast multitudes of Africans were
 brought to America. Slavery agair
 became strong, despite the fact that
 even in the southern states tLere had
 been opposition to it on mora, grounds.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08

FRENCH AND DUTCH BULBS JUST ARRIVED
 JOHN RICK 6 SON
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08
FEAST OF THE
 INADEQUATE CONCEPTION

In the Catholic calendar this is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, which was first made a definite dog ma of the church by the proclamation of Pope Plus K, sixty-three years ago today, Dec. 8, 1854. The doctrine of the immaculate conception of the Virgin, without the taint of original sin, was formulated early in the his- tory Of the church, but it remained a matter of controversy until the middle of the last century. While this pious belief was held by a great majority of the theologians of the Roman Catholic church, and was strenuous ly maintained, there were many doubters, especially among the Dom inioans, who denied 1t. A number of popes had been appealed to for & de- cision on the disputed point, but until the time of Pope Plus IX., they held that it was an article of faith on which me- bers of the church were free to US their individual judg- ments. After discussion which had continued through many centuries, Plus TX 8 last decided fin favor of the doctrine. and since then it has been an essential article of the Catho- lie faith, to doubt Whieh is heresy,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08

Dor Legislation and the Association of Public Employment Officials has been prepared in cooperation with the Department of Labor and other fed eral government bodies, "As the war develops there is certain to be dearth of workers for many depart ments of industry vital to the success full conduct of the war;" according to the Associations statement. "All of the available workers for these indus tries must be mobilized. This means that the United States must have ade- quate machinery for registering em- ploves and directing all of those avil. IaL-ee to the places where they are most needed. This bill is a. vitally important war measure which should be passed by Congress without delay"
 Introduction of the bill follows con- ferences with representatives of the Department of Labor, the United States Shipping Board, the Federation of Labor and he Council of ationalN Defense. Effective employment agencies are characterized as "an in- valuable adjunct to our war machin- cry" and the Federation of Labor adds that they will be "keenly need. ed in the work of demobilization fol- lowing the declaration of peace England has over 400 public employ ment bureaus in operation and her commissioners this country recently announced that they will increase the number to 2,000 which is about ten times as many as we now have in the United States.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08
PITY THE DANGEROUS SICK MAN

:. (In World Outlook for December)
 Here is a letter from a Chinese boy to his physician:
 Dear Doctor: I have studied sev- eral years there, but I couldn't know know mans tranquility is more val uable than fortune and nobility, and mans misery nalady is more miser- able than to suffer from cold and hun ger. Therefore I hope you, taking a great attention, discriminate chronic deathesis, observe miscellaneous symp- toms of mine and cure me with good medication and physics. Now I will tell you three different sick portions within my body in following sentences.
 First, am sometimes headache and my forehead is sometimes hot, and the eyelids inflame, swell and itch that the eyebrows and eyelashes often fall off and the eyes become bleareyd. The juice of my eyes is daily and nightly as thick as glue; that coheres of eyelids tightly and make the sight a little obscuration.
 Second, if I sit to ready a little more time my bosom and back are ' by sometimes expires out a long time
 Third, my legs have been hydropsy two years yet.
 How. do you feel in your opinion? If you doubt this do you like to con- suit with your friends who understand the knowledge of medicine? Would you like to cure such a poor man am and to savem from the most dangerous sickness? If you please I shall recompense kindness with kind ness as could as my wisdom and strength may, or I hope you shall get your kind rewards from Jesus and God in heaven.
 I fear I shall die in youthfulness if sickness will not be well; that I long and shame not to find kind helper. But I can't tell you with English as distinct as wish to say, perhaps you can't understand the Chinese language that will say. Therefore I write this indication to you, please give a pity for the dangerous sick man.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08
POSSESSION OF RESOURCES
 ALONE WILL NOT WIN THE
 VAR, SAYS SECRETARY LANE
Accounts the Enormous Progress Made on Every Hand and Declares Physical Stores of America Are at the Command of the Allies of the United States.

make all men our debtors. Our na- tional purpose Is to transInute days of dreary. work into happier lives for ourselves first and for all others in their time. This is the large, view, the ideahstic view, if you please, of Americas mission. It is the sub conscious philosophy of all our his tory-our wars, our public school system, our conservation schemes, our enterprise.
 ''This greater America Is not to be the fllmy product of a nations fancy, the day dream of a monumental na- ttonal ego. It is to be as substantial as hard thought and hard work can make it, 8 thing of good roads. ships, and railroads. well fertilized farms and we'll organized industry, regulated rivers put to use, and schools and schools and schools, and laboratories and more laboratories! War has taught England and France much, one thing perhaps above all others, how all important in this day is the man who has the new kind of savoir faire. If we are to meet the full rivalry of the world, we must rest CIlduCc TUT SQCC0SS upon dDl1lly LO produce men who, in character, in trained capacities. and in radiactive imaginative will outmatch those whom they are to meet.
 ''This new America, as the old, will contribute to the world raw products with most generous hand. ut the ul- innate resource of the nation is not that which lies within the ground but tthat which vibrates in mans brain. Therefore out of the struggle and torture that we shall pass through, and the reverses and triumph that we shall meet, there should evolve the conception of America as the center of the worlds thought, an America that will give that leadership and di- i, rection to the scientific. literary, and social thought of the world that we pride ourselves we have recently given to it's political thought Our status in this war gives us place of moral ascendancy from which if we are great enough to be humble we can become real masters of men, con- querors of the invisible kingdom of mans mind."
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08
BEDDING FIRM
 INCORPORATED

A certificate of increase of capital stock of the Gilbert & Bennett Man ufacturing Go. of Bedding, was re- corded yesterday at the office of the secretary. of state. The stock is in creased from $1,000,0 900 to s2.O00,00O, and the value of the 10000 shares is increased from $50 to $1O0 per share.
 A certificate of organization of, the Prevalent Development Corporation of Bridgeport was recorded, The amount of capital stock is $5,025, di- vided into 261 shares. The subserib- CTS are Lueius J. Jordan, Henry H. Faulkner and Ernest M Williams Of Bridgeport.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08
COLORED DRAFT
 MEN AMONG NEXT SENT TO OEVENS

Members of the local exemption boards were definitely informed by Adjutant General Cole at a meeting in the University club last night that the colored draftees would positively be included in the last 15 per cent. contingent, General Cole could not state definitely when this increment would be sent to camp. There are approximately 100 negroes to be sent from this city to Camp DevenR
 The recently appointed members of the legal advisory boards were prek- ent also and elected Attorney William B. Boardman as head chairman. At torney Sanford Stoddard of the Third Division local board is head chair man of the draft boards,
 The draft officials gained much valuable information from General Cole, who explained many compli- cated parts of the questionnaire. The legal boards will complete erganiza- tion at a meeting in the County Court House on Monday afternoon.
 Members of the local boards will meet again in the University club next Friday night,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08

Men enlisting in this branch will be serving their country just as patriot ically as in the firing lines. They will receive the pay of soldiers and allow ance of rations, clothing, and quarters and have excellent chances for pro- motion according to their ability. Pri- yates will be paid $3o @ month, and pay advances for sergeants to $61.2o a month. After Dec. 5 all enlist ments of registered men will cease, and they become subject to the new draft regulations.
 Information will be, given at the army recruiting station at 15 Fair field avenue or at the Ordnance de- partment, Office 107. Wall street
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08
ANNIVERSARY OF
DIR. SOLOMON sCHECHTE,

Dr. Solomon Schechter, president of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America rounds out his seventieth year today. The famous Hebrew the ologian and scholar was born in Ru- mania, and was educated in Berlin and Vienna, becoming a rabbi in the latter city in 1887. Before coming to America he spent several years in England as reader of Rabbinio at the University of Cambridge and profes- sor of Hebrew at University College, London. Under the auspices of Cam bridge, he made a number of impor- tant discoveries in Hebrew Literature, and travelled extensively over Eur ope and in Palestine and Egypt. He assumed the presidency Of the Jew ish Theological Seminary America in 1902.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08
NkCK.INAWS AT WHITE HOUSE
 CLOTHING co.

? Due to an error in preor reading in an advertisement of The W hite House Clothing Store at 641 Water street, mems nackinaws were advertised at $1.19 instead of the correct price of s5.s0, The Farmer takes this eppor- tunity to correct the mistake.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08

Army recruiting has taken another upward trend. Wednesday, 2..769 men were accepted. Twelve states have failed to supply their quotsA
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-28
TURKEY READY
 FOR PEACE BY
 ARBITRATI ION
End of War Is Obviously Approaching, Grand
 Vizier Declares

Amsterdam. Sept. ss.-Turkey's en- .try into the war was justified by Ta- laat Boy, the grand vtzfer, in 3 long speech closing the congress of the Party of Union and Progress accord ing to q despatch from constantino- xar He defended the Turkish sre--' IrSsnt of the Armenians. but admitted that the deportattons could not De carried ort joy regular forces because the gendarmes had been drafted into the army and order could not be maintained. Irregularities in connec- tion with the deportations had been investigated, he said, and the guilty parties had been punished severely. some with death.
 Referrfng to the pope's peace note Talaat Bey declared that Turkey ad- hered to the principles of arbitration. 0nGRrding disarmament he said:
 We shall oppose no solution which 0.eompatfble with our vital interest"
 0e concluded by saying that no one could say when peace would come, bsn it was obvious that the end was aQproachtng.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-28

atives at the meeting Wednesday of the inter parliamentary caucus of the centrist, national-liberal, radical and socialist parties, manifested desire to refuse to vote favorably on the sal- ary of Vice Chancellor Helfferich, who is unpopular in reichstag circles. The establishment of the chancellorship as a separate ministry, including a vice chancellor, necessitates new vote of credit The radicals and national lib- erals opposed consideration of the matter at the caucus and the question was sent to the main committee of the : reichstag.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-28
TO INVESTIGATE
 HELFIN CHARGES
 OF BRlBE TAKING
House Leaders of Both Par. ties Insistent Upon Se-
 
 were Inquiry

Washington, Sept 28.-Indications multiplied today that a congressional investigation will be made into the charges by Representative Hefiin of Alabama, concerning the alleged use of German money to influence con- gress. Both Democratic and Repub- lican members of the house are in sistent upon an inquiry and are sup ported by the leaders.
 The house rules committee today gave further consideration to pending resolutions calling for an invitation, with strong prospects that one of them would be favorably reported to the house.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-28
LAKE COMP ANYy
 STRIKERS 60
 BACK TO JOBS Locomobile Co. Employees to
 Demand Increase in Wages.

Fifteen strikers at the Lake Tor pedo Boat Co. returned to work this morning, following a vote taken yes terday afternoon. The rest will have returned Monday.
 Their action followed the. repre- sentations of Frederick L. Feik, special agent of the government, that the latter will settle the Lake matter satisfactorily.
 The Locomobile Co. employees will make demands for an increase in wages Monday. A petition has been circulated in the factory and has been signed by workers of all trades.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-28
Saving Coal Brings Big
 Protest From Teachers

Boston, Sept 28.-Boston teachers do not like the school boards method of economizing in the use of coal by re- fusing to have school buildings heated on cold days this fall. The teachers club in protest submitted to tne board last night, asserted that the ar rangement was working great hard ship to pupils and teachers who were forced to work in yault-like chill. The board refused to reseind the or der, asserting that there would be no suffering if pupils and teachers would come to school suitably clothed.'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-28
Compensation Insurance
 At Loss In Massachusetts

Boston, Sept. 2s.-Workmen's com pensation insurance in Massachusetts has not been a profitable field for the stock Insurance companies in the last two years, State Insurance Commits s40ner Frank H. Hardison says in his annual report made public today. The report estimates the losses experi
 enced iby such companies in two years
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-28
Miss Mary F. Nc Guire
 and MT. Rahrig to Wed

An engagement of considerable local interest is that informally announced recently between Miss Mary Florence Mcclure. the daughter Of MT. and Mrs. P. J. Mcclure of 678 Park ave- hue, and Stephen F. Rahrig, of 46S Park avenue Both are well known throughout the city. and will carry the best wishes of their many friends.
 Miss Mcclure is a. stenographer for tho Burns & Bassiek Go, while MT Rahrig is affiliated with the Connect icut Go.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-28

The schooner yacht America. which in 1851 won the Royal Yac1t Squa- dron cup was sold to members of the Eastern Yacht club of Marbleheads Mass.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-28

as more than a million dollars. ada ing:
 These recent losses have wiped out the profits made in the early years of the compensation act"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-28
POST OF IMPERIAL
 VICE CHANCELLOR
 OFFICIALLY CREATED

Amsterdam. Sept. 2s.-The main committee of the reichstag, despatch from Berlin says. yesterday passed on first reading the bill crea ting the post of imperial vice chancellor Consid- erable discussion preceded the favor able action.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-28

acopenhagen. Sept. 2s-Under orders ofuaths military authorities ths Pan- 0grman newspaper Deufschs Zeitung ok Berlin has been suppressed and the socialist vcllrgwacht. of Dantzig, has been placed under preventive censor sffp.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-28

J. W. Cornwell and H. c. Taylor were expelled from the New York Stock Exchange.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-28

The oat crop of Canada is estimated at 400, 100000 bushels, compared with 366, 900. .o00 bushels in 1916.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-28

Farmer Want Ads. One Cent a-usoud
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-28

ADvEaaann N THE FARMER
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-28

The eentrist and socialist represeu
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1917-05-11
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Department Of the Interior, U.
S Land Office at Occur d'Alene,
Idaho, April 10, 1917.
Notice is hereby given that Vic
tor o. Kretsinger, of Emida, Ida
no, who, on February f8, 1914,
made homestead entry No. O9I23,
for N p NE "A, N15NW a, Section
IA, Township AN, Range 3W
Boise Meridian, has filed notice
Of intention to make three year
proof, to establish claim to the
land above described, before u.
q. Kirkpatrick, u. S. Commission
er, at DeSmet, Idaho, on the goth
day Of May, 1917.
Claimant names as witnesses
Fred Ellis, of Emida, Idaho; An
drew Brown, of Emida, Idaho ;
Guy Darling, Of Kennewick, Wash
and Allen English, of Emida, Ida
no.
FRANK LANGLEY, Register
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1917-05-11
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Department of the Interior, u.
S. land Office at Occur d'Alene,
Idaho, April 10, 1917.
Notice is hereby given that
Carl A. Deobald, of Tekoa, Wash
ipgton, who, on November 10,
1914, n ade Homestead entry No.
O8028, for So NEA, section 2,
township 44N, range 4W. b. mer-
idian, and who, on January %.
1912, made additional II. e. No.
O81i6 for lots and 3, section 2,
L. Am, Range 4W., b. NJ, has
filed notice of intention to make
five year proof, to establish claim
to the land above described, be
fore Warren Il. shepherd Clerk
Of the District Court, at st. Nor
les, Idaho, on the 18th day of
June, 1917. Claimant names as
Witnesses: l.. J. Snow, Paul Graf.
Guy Kennedy and j. J. Dunlap, all
of IekOa, Washington.
FRANK LANGLEY, Register.
M&y June 3.