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New-York tribune., 1917-12-24

PHILLIPS. WILLIAM WIN PURsU.
ANCE OF Az ORDER OF Honorable
John II. Cohalan. a Surrogate Of the County
OF New York NOTICE Is hereby given
10 AL persons having claims against
WILLIAM ". PHILLIPS. late of the Bor-
ough OF Mendham. County 6f Morri5. state
OF New Jersey, deceased. % present tns
same with vouchers thereof 70 tho sub
scribed. az place of trsnsactlng business.
at the ofllce Of their attorney, Roswell c.
Otheman, 80. 81 Nassau Street, IA The City
of New York, on or before tng nrst day OF
February next.
Dated, New York. tho 27th day ot July,
1917. EDWARD n. OTHEMAN,
HOWARD G. PHILLIPS.
Executors
ROSWELL G. OTHEMAN. Attorney for
Executors. 81 Nassau Street. borough
OF Manhattan. New York City.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-24
Stocks

~ YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
VI" TRANSACTIONS
Rail- other All
Ids stocks. stocks.
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last wee zee so2 900 2,s7i.eoo S,o74.600
v. VIZ 0,' ,so. !, i.67s,eoo s,47t,Soo 1911
% % $40 500 55,o64, 400 ~, 7,e35,2oo
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-, -, o,oted dollars per share.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-10
FOUR WOMEN
 TESTIFY
Positive Proof that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound Restored Their
 Health.

Yonkers, N. Y.-tT suffered from a bad case of female trouble, backache, nervousness and indigestion. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound re- stored my health after every thing else had failed. '-Mrs. H. J. l.. FEATHER, 61 Hamilton Ave-, Yonkers, N. Y.
 Danville, Ill.-''I would not be alive today had it not been for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as it cured me from severe case of female trouble. Mrs. o. A. Cog, Batestown Road, Danville, Ill.
 Ridgway, Pa.-'1 wish all women who suffer from female troubles would take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as 1 avoided surgical oper- ation by it's use. Mrs. o. M. RHINEs, Ridgway. Pa.
 North Haven, Conn. - Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound re- stored my health after everything else had failed when passing through change of life. There is nothing like it to overcome the trying symptoms Mrs. FLORENCE IsELLA, Box 197, North Haven, Conn.
 The many convincing testimonials constantly published in the newspapers ought to be proof enough to women who suffer from those distressing ills pecu- liar to their sex that Lydia E. Pinkham' g Vegetable Compound is the medicine they need.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-10
until an advisable rule is reached

until an advisable rule is reached.
 Nothing has happened to
 change the belief that the per
 sons enumerated in Section IS
 could be discharged without in
 terfering with the raising of an
 army, but there are indications
 that abuses of Section IS may
 render it's continuance no longer
 advisable.
 Reports are to the effect that, in some districts. as high as 80 per cent. of persons called before local boards are filing claims of discharge on the ground of dependent relatives. Such a percentage of claims, when viewed in connection with all available stat istics, indicates beyond question that advantage is being taken of the pro- visions of the law and regulations which were intended to reduce 10 a minimum the misery at home nor mally attendant upon war.
 There is moral certainty, in the extravaganza of this percentage that hundreds of unfounded claims are in cluded in those totals.
 This state of affairs greatly in- creases the burden of local boards, for if so high a percentage of reg istrants claim exemption only the un- compromising action of local boards
New Britain herald., 1917-08-10

of the farm life. In 1890 Professor s. M. Babcock, of the University of
 Wisconsin, invented the "RabcOck
 test" by which the farmer dairy
 man, in a simple and accurate man.
 ner can determine the amount of
 butter fat in the milk of each COW of
 his herd and thus determine definitely
 it's richness and it's commercial value.
 Prior to this invention, the value of
 milk was based on quantity rather
 than quality and thus temptation to
 dishonesty, in the shape of watering
 the milk, made cooperative cream
 cries impracticable.
 The immediate effect of this inven-
 tion was to stimulate the breeding of
 productive herds, to promote factory
 efficiency, and to raise dairying to the
 plane of a scientific pursuit, worthy of
 the participation of intelligent trained
 men. To effect upon the economic life of the state of Wisconsin, the report says, Is equally marked. The produc-
 ton of cheese there grew from eighty
 million pounds in 1899 to two hundred
 forty four million pounds in 1916 while the total value of dairy prod ucts is approximately $110, 100000. It is said Wisconsin manufac ctures about one-half of all the cheese made in the United States.
 Where State Universities Lead. Testing seed as general practice is a comparatively recent thing, &C., l cording to the committee report, and even now far from being universal. Yet the Iowa state agricultural col lege, by it's teaching in this regard ] has added about $2,oOO,OO0 annually to the incomes of the farmers of that state in the matter of corn production alone. The agricultural college of the University of Illinois is conducting a state wide soil survey One of the most definite additions by the agr1- cultural college to the wealth of the country is found in the almost com plete suppression of hog cholera by ] campaigns of sanitation and by the use of g-ChOlera serum as a pre- Ventive measure.
 There is maintained at the Univer-
 sity of Missouri in Columbia an ex- pertinent farm and also similar ones | in different parts of the state. Garry ing the university to those people who cannot come to the university is the aim and purpose of extension work This phase is well illustrated by the state grfcultural college of Kansas, in it's desire to take education to the homes of the citizens.
 Making Life on Farm Worth Living. The great city has ever been the problem of every civilization from Babylone, Nineveh and Rome to our own times. The cry of back to the land is mostly theoretically sentiment tality, because 1t IS entirely imprac- ticable." the national chamber report concludes. The real answer to the portentious menace or the great con- gested center Is to make life on the farm attractive and worth while, for the problem Is even more social than economic. In Kansas, as elsewhere, all the forces and resources of the college of letters and science and of agriculture are invoked in the aid of the farmer"
New Britain herald., 1917-08-10
SLACkERS ABUSING EXEMPTION CLAIMS
Stricter Ruling May Be Made to
 Secure Draft Army

Washington, Aug. 10.-Plain warn ing was issued by the War Depart ment to every local draft board last night that unless stern measures of repression were adopted to weed out all unfounded claims for exemption based on dependency, the government would be forced to issue a new and more uncompromising regulation on the subject.
 The warning was conveyed in a tel egram which Brig. Gen. Crowder the provost marshal, issued to the gov- ernor of each state. General Crow der points out that the selective serv- ice law does not provide for the exemption of persons from military service just because they are married or have dependents. It only author ized the president, in his discretion to exclude from the draft, those with a status based on dependency which renders their exclusion advisable
 But the president is to be the final arbiter of this matter, and if the local boards do not adopt a most uncom- promising attitude toward those who make claims for discharge on the ground of dependency, the federal officials, who have ordered all such cases automatically appealed, will take the necessary measures to en- able the government to raise it's na- tional army in accordance with the spirit and letter of the law.
 General Crowder's telegram to the governors follows:
 Washington, Aug. g, 1917
 Governors of all States:
 Section 2 of the selective draft
 law eXempts no person from mil
 itary service on the ground of
 dependency. It only authorizes
 the president to exclude or dis
 charge from draft those in
 status with respect to persons de-
 pendent upon them for support
 which renders their exclusion or
 discharge advisable."
 The controlling necessity Is to
 raise an army. It is advisable to
 disturb dependents just as little
 as the necessity of raising an
 army will permit. To this end
 Section Is of the regulations was
 compiled carefully and after the
 most earnest consideration. If
 experience is to prove that the
 generous conditions prescribed by
 Section IS, or any abuse of them.
 will interfere with the raising of
 any army, then 1t is no longer ad-
 visable to discharge so wide a
 class, and the conditions stated
 therein will have to be restricted
New Britain herald., 1917-08-10

features for convenience and effici cy. They will be one story high. ]
 The larger Of the two structures be 45X2GO feet, with wing 55. feet. The estimated cost of this .l is $48,O00. The second building VI be 10OX15U feet and will be built the estimated expense Of $24, ol Work will be commenced at once, cording to the plans, and the strl lures will be occupied as soon as co' pleted
New Britain herald., 1917-08-10
PIONEERS Vs. WATERBURY.

The Pioneers will have a worthy opponent at the Ellis street ground next Sunday when the Waterbury h. dependents appear prepared for a fast game Although it is some time since the Waterbury have appeared here they need no introduction to local fans. The team of the visitor is com posed mainly of College stars who are we'll known in this vicinity. Dudack and Corkins will be the battery for the Pioneers.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-10
STANLEY WORKS TO BUILD

One Structure to Cost $4S,OOO, An-
 other $24 .OOO-Site Is Andrews
 Pr-one,tv West of Burritt Street.
 Plans for two new buildings have been accepted by the Stanley Works to be erected on the Andrews proper ty west of Burritt street. The build inss will be of modern contraction materials and will contain the latest
New Britain herald., 1917-08-10
City Items

Just received-Boys' Scout Suits Besse- e-Leland' 's.-advt.
 Arthur Doty and Florence B. Adal were married yesterday by Justice B. Hungerford.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-10

can prevent a new regulation on the subject of dependency which shall re- duce discharges for dependency to far more restricted class and to very necessitous and clearly defined cir" cumstances.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-20
TOO MUCH PROFANITY

TO the Editor Of the Evening LCdger;
Sir-The general use Of profanity and
blasphemy in the country, especially among
men. is appalling. Why they are INDUCED
is one Of the conundrums of life, for their
use is neither gentle nor profitable. a
thought can be expressed in good, plain
English with far more force than with pro-
family The use of profanity minmi2es
ones vocabulary and weakens the power of
expression,
Under the law Of the Hebrew theocraCy'
where the form of enactment was, Thus
saith the Lord" the penalty for blasphemy
was death: but under the laws of Pennsyl-
yania, where the form of enactment Is, BE
II enacted by the Senate and the House OF
Representatives of the Commonwealth or
pcnnsvlvania in General Assembly met
the penalty for blasphemy Is a fine in
nominal sum, and is rarely, if ever inn
posed. , ,,,-
George washington, one evening while
he was in command of the colonial armies
entertained a number of his subordinate
officers at dinner, and he observed that they
were all using profane language at his
table. He rebuked them for their profanity
by saving to them. II thought ! had invited
none but gentlemen to dine with me-
Would that there were more Washngtons'
Reading, Pa, February l6. RIB, b.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-20
A SALOONLESS PARKWAY

OF COURSE, there should be no saloons
" on the Parkway any more than there
should be in the Park. To bring the
clty's greatest playground directly TO the
door of City Hall through a wide avenue
that has mown down factory and dwelling
as with a scythe--to have the imagiua-
ton to do that and then to clutter up
that avenue with provincial little tawdry
gin mills would be to sin against the
esthetic light indeed.
A hotel on the Parkway however
might be allowed TO sell liquor in its
dining rooms without having bar
opening on the Parkway. Saloon men and
prohibtionists would object to this as
inconsistent, because they both insist on
viewing the liquor question from the
standpoint of morals alone. The saloon
men say it is immoral to stop the sale
of liquor anywhere and the prohibition
lists that it is immoral to allow it to he
sold anywhere. They both hate hotel
dining sales in equal measure.
The Parkway was conceived in the de-
sire for beauty, however, and not in the
desire for better morals, save as beauty
conserves morals. "Wets' and "drys," If
they have to settle the Parkway dispute
in n peace without victory, should com
promise on beautiful Parkway IL not a
bone dry" one.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-20
CUBA

Ten thousand rifles now are lent,
To aid great Menocals ambition; ,
And Uncle Sam, with them, has sent
Five million rounds of ammunition.
Bold Gomez with the rebels stands
And Spain remembers his defiance,
The Xayas turbulence expands,
And we Menocars reliance.
our help is certainly immense
one side is under our protection;
With that, 'twere grave incompetence
To fail to carry an election
But rebels laugh at bogus counts,
on which mere lawyers fercely chatter
on loaned munitions they may pounce,
And make the war a serious matter.
one pregnant thought is Washingtons-
Thoughts come though many statesmen
Spurn en-
If Zayas grabs our borrowed guns,
How then will Menocal return 'em?
j. A., in the Brooklyn Eagle.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-20
ACCORDING TO LAW

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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-20

dressing should always be mixed With a
silver fork. Before the Legislature passes
any law which would compel men to use
their teeth as cigar cutters the members
ought to consult expert dentists, VINO
every one knows, insist that seamstresses
who bit off their thread ruin their teeth
and indirectly undermine their heaIth'
After all, the factional fight In Harms
burg may continue SO fierce that Repre'
sentative Gans's hill will be lost in the
shuttle and the man who carries goId
cigar cutter on his watch chain may
be allowed to retain it for use as well
as for ornament
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-20
CannOn-B Ball Velocity

u. S. S. MINNESOTA-Dr, Arthur Willis
Goodspeed, professor of physics at the Uni
versty of Pennsylvania, says that If a shell
with a velocity of sixty miles an hour were
fired in forward direction from the front
of train travelling with a velocity of sixty
miles an hour, the velocity of the shell over
the ground would be 100 miles an hour
This is obtained by adding the velocity of
the shell with respect to the train (sixty
miles an hour) to the velocity of the train.
The reverse of thls-fring the shell in a
backward direction from the rear of the
train--is that the velocity of the shell with
respect to the train would be the same
(sixty miles an hour), and with respect to
the ground, zero; l. e., the shell would drop
to the ground This is obtained by sub
tracing the velocity of the train from the
velocity of the shell with respect TO the
train. the one neutralizing the other.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-20
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

I, The United States navy is divided into the
Atlantic. Atlantic Reserve. Pacific, Pacific
Reserve and Asatic fleets. besides ships
on special duty.
2. Thomas Jefferson is buried at Monticello
Abemnrle County, Va.
3. \ decimeter is One-tenth OF n meter (3.931
inChesl; II dekameter is ten meters t303.s
inches).
4. Letters of marque commissions by q
government TO destroy hostile shipping and
other property.
g. There are about GOO, 900 words in the English
language. about half of which scien-
tic terms or archaic. obsolete or obso-
lescent words.
@. The countries of Central America are
Guatemala, Honduras, British Honduras.
Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and
Panama.
T. All dromedaries are camels. but not all
camels drOme la ries. The drOmedary Is
the arabian camel (One-humpedD, as dis
tinGushed from the Bactrian camel uwO-
humped)
8. "Wind eggs" is one of the names for small,
yOll<less eggs.
o. Serial bonds are bonds of which parts are
to he redeemed within successive stiDu-
lated periods.
TO- INTER den Linden. Beriin's chief street. ex-
tends mile from the Brandenburg Gate
to the Royal Palace 1t is l0S feet wide
and is lined with lime trees and a few
chestnut trees.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-20
No thinking man could watch tn

No thinking man could watch the
sixth Regiment as 1t paraded Broad street
yesterday without feelings of profound
respect for the citizen soldiers who have
given seven months to the service Of
their country on the Mexican border. The
prime duty of citizen of free democ.
racy is to take up arms for its defense
when the need arises. Universal suf.
frage and universal military service logi.
cally go hand in hand. Every one ap-
proves universal suffrage, but there must
be a long campaign of education before
universal military service is admitted to
be desirable. The most of us are will
ing that "the other fellow" should do the
lighting, that some other mothers son
should protect our mothers sons when
the crisis comes. To state the case in
this way is to show the selfshness of
the popular attitude toward military serv-
ice. The members of the Sixth Regiment
deserve all praise, for they have shown
their willingness to do the fighting.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-20
ENVOY
FLORA.

There is a house on South Broadvav
st. Louis, bearing upon it's outer wall
a bronze tablet reading, Here was horn
Eugene Field, the poet" This tablet vaS
unveiled by Mark Twain and David n
Francis in 1904 Robertus Love. WIN
witnessed that ceremony, now points ont
in a letter to the st. Louis Mirror that
Gene was born in a house on Collins
street, which was torn down many years
ago. "I would suggest" says Mr.. Love
that all poets or persons who ara
threatened with poesy, or those who bv
heredity, environment or perversity are
potential addicts to the habit, should
mark their own birthplaces."
Philopena!' Only last week we gave
our attention to that very matter. II
was in the course of an eloquent address
to the Fairmoupt Business Mems Asso
citation on Wednesday night that we said
Some day you will be moved to place
upon the front of the house 230S Fair.
mount avenue a bronze tablet. Let it say:
HERE WAS BORN
May 2S, 1871
Our Name Spelled Out in FUN
GREATEST POET OF HIS AGE
and weight.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-20
MRS. AVERY'S POLITICS

10 the Editor Of the EUening Ledger;
Sir-Mrs Martha Moore Avery is a Social
ist, SO says today's EVENING LEDGER. 1t Is
a good thing for the young woman who IN
terviewed the well-known boston anu 'hat
sba wont home today. otherwise she might,
and no doubt would, make display of some
of the fire that makes her the greatest
woman orator" Since she has gone home,
however permit a mere Brooklynite to say
that the Justly celebrated Bostonlan Is not
only not a Socialist but-well ask some
oiI-informed Socialist about her work and
pause for reply
JOSEPH A. CUMMINGS.
Philadelphia, February l6
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-20
RIITHLESSNESS
o the Editor of TIC Evening Ledger:

TO the Editor Of The Evening Ledger:
Sir-Will you kindly say why it is that
the newspapers invariably use the word
ruthless" in connection with Germany's
new submarine campaign?
Up to yesterday there were 1O1 ships tor
pedOed in this campaign, with the total
loss of four lives and this, in most cases,
by drowning. Is this "ruthessness"? If
it be- what word i'm our language would fit
the campaign if ten lives had been lost?
The sinking Of ships by Germany is ruth
less" while the starvation of German nom
Combatants by England is-well let us say
warfare" f. j. COY.
Philadelphia, February II.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-20

O. S.-Nothing in the Constitution re-
stricts a President of the United States
who has served two terms from becoming
a candidate for election to n third term.
No President as yet has served more than
two terms, due probably to n precedent
established by Washington and jefferson,
who, after serving two terms each, refused
to allow their supporters to nominate them
for third terms. Washington was tired of
public office. Jefferson's reason was that
he did not believe that such a practice
would be beneficial TO a democracy At
that time the Republic was young having
but short time previously thrown off the
English monarchcal government, and the
anti.monarchcal sentiment was very strong
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-20
CRIME" OF SHORT SELLING

DLANS for legislation to prohibit short
l. selling are said to be under consldera.
tlon by the House leak investigating com.
mittee. Such plans are always proposed
whenever amateur economists are con.
fronted with the conditions that prevail
in the stock exchanges. These persons
regard short selling as crime and they
think that none but dealer in shares
is guilty of it.
As a matter of fact short selling is
merely selling what you do not have for
future delivery at a price agreed upon at
the time of sale. If the seller can buy
at less than the agreed-on price he makes
money. II the price goes up he loses
money.
The man who takes a contract to build
q steel-framed warehouse sells structural
steel short. If the price goes down be-
fore he has to use the steel his profit
is increased. If it goes up his profit is
diminished by so much. The man who
takes a contract TO supply the army with
100, 900 pairs Of shoes or 100000 uniforms
sells leather and cloth short. The man
who contracts to supply the navy with
10000 bushels of potatoes sells what he
does not have to be delivered at some fu.
ture time. He sells short as really as the
man who sells 1000 shares of Bethlehem
Steel when he does not own it.
Our whole commercial life is dependent
on short selling. Without it there would
be stagnation. Previous congressional
committees have made this discover,
after >they have studied the subject awhile
and fkGlF rIope r. forbid short selling
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-20

DIR. HENRY VAN DYKE has written
a bit of verse that's bad enough 70 "
ouoted in the poets corner of the Com
gressional Record. 1t is that current ~.
about the freedom of the seas where's
says he:
you dare to say with perJured hps'l
We fight to make the ocean 1ree
whose black trail of butchered sn'p-
bestrews the bed of every sea wheie ~
man submarines have wrought their ~.
rors, Have you never thought wha' ~
call freedom men call piracyT 1.
There's another fine pair OF hnes
prose in it that we mustn't pass -
"a dark memorial of the dead "o"s
ard children whom you left to oro"'-
When we saw Doctor van DYKE .,h
signed to those lines we chortieu ~.
elee. for we have nursed grouch -
him for ten years. In Scribners Mss
zine for April, 1907 the centenary -
of Longfellow), the Doc put forth ~
unrhvmed catalogue of the achieVen;~ X
of that gentle poet who "shep'e'a .,.h NJ
flock with music and conciudea "'
SOP to the highbrows; ..,>|
Go the shepherd sang his way aiohs' III
S' came unto a mountain; 4. xva 4. 'ca1ic1
And / know not surely whether u was
Parnassus -. - still heHf||
~ tire voice OF one singing - ~
: The nerve of himLsay we, kno",n
well that there are those who
for the doctors verse the admirauo
only his prose observes, VIII ~