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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-30

can be knocked down nat like a movable
bookcase. They nave four sides, spider,
three chambers, q cover, and stack in four
sections. The men are using four-foot bard
cordwood TO give the heat. On the Mex.
lean border (where a iot OF them baked
they SOMETIMES used oil burners. The army
field bake oven is used, the same as in the
border war. A trench is dug "a feet deep
20 feet wide, 8 feet long. The bread Is
baked over an hour, beginning at ten.
perature Of COO degrees Fahrenheit and fall
ing gradually TO $50 degrees and then 800
The ovens are worked twenty-four hours
day. These ovens in France stand in Ii,
open, with bricks to shore up and hold Il,
heat. The firing pit end the trench and ne
surrounding earth arc all dry from the great
heat. No amount Of rain can food the pae,
or make mud out of the immediate locality.
Tricks of Army Cooking
Everything is clean, is sanitary. There is
no "rope" in this bread. Rope is that string
streak Of amateur soft dough that rsn
through inferior bread, like a Gulf Strssn
What makes good bread? First, good -four
Sour, heavy bread is made Of -four where
bran stuff and all the byproducts have been
ground in together. Then, good water. The
water in this section of France is clear and
abundant. 1t is piped in to the bakery frcn
a Quarter mile away. Then, the technique o.
the craftsman. These men were, some Of
them, bakers in cities and villages. Other
were trained in the army baking schools
Seventeen of them, though. were butchers
and number of them We're trained in By
the others under emergency.
One trick Of army baking is TO make the
loaf sitter. The bread has to stand up
under stacking and rough handling. You
could almost stand on one of these lOs'es
without crushing it. 1t holds fairly good
quality for number Of days, becoming stale
without becoming sodden and sour. After
fourteen days it is possible 10 wrap it in
wet towel and steam it in the oven and hnd
il reasonably fresh. Bot this forcing process
ends il. The enthusiasts claim that under
necessity the loaf will last for thirty dY''
The added stiffness and endurance are o.
tanned by baking it for an hour and guar
ter instead of the twenty minutes Of eivil
life
This bread Of our bakers is whittier than
November frost and Parian marble. And
that is no surface hue covering disillusion'
ment. 1t is white, clean white, inside Il
tastes like more. II melts in the mouth, m
stead Of forming a wad Ike chewing gun
1t helps the meal along, and there Is no
morning after.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-30
In That Dark Silent Hour

(From The Nc1c Statesmdn)
In that dark silent hour
When the wind wants power,
And in the black height
The sky wants light
Stirless and black
In utter lack,
And not a sound
Escapes from that u-troubled round:-
To wake then
In the dark, and ache then
Until the dark is gone
Lonely, yet not alone;
Hearing another's breath
All the quiet beneath,
Knowing one sleeps near
That day held dear
And dreams held dear; but now
In this sharp moment-how
Share the moments sweetness,
Forego its completeness,
Nor be alone
Now the dark is grown
Spiritual and deep
More than in dreams and sleep?
o, it is pain, tits need
That so will plead
For a little loneliness.
II il be pain TO miss
Loved touch, look and lip,
Companionship
Yet is verier pain
Then, then
In that dark silent hour
When the wind wants power,
And you, near or far sleep,
And your released thoughts toward me creel
While I. imprisoned awake,
Ache-ache
To be for one
Locg. little moment with myself alone.
JOHN FREEMAN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-30
Unthanl
JOHN FREEMAN.

(Froni The Nc1o Witness)
The Sleep are bleating in the rain
That drives across Lune Moor,
And he will never come again
At eve to Unthank door.
Though I was naught to him kind sleep
Comes rare and scant to me
Since he has left the bleating sheep
And gone across the sea.
They took him from the sheep and gave
A gun into his hands;
And he has gone to seek grave
In far-df foreign lands.
I wonder if he ever hears
Out there the bleat Of sheep
Or if with cold death in his ears
lie sleeps too sound and deep.
7 wonder II lie hears the rain
That drives so drearily-
That drives across Lune Moor again
And through the heart Of me.
wILFRID WILSON GIBSON.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-30
Chances in This War
lFrom me Davion Yei0O

lfrOn nc DdgloH NcusJ
Here is something encouraging for fathers
and mothers who have sons in the army
There is in the province Of Quebec Canada
a military hospitals commission which, fortu-
nately, has been keeping an aecoun. OF the
manner in which Canadian troops have Jared
on European battlefelds We have heard so
much about the high percentage Of casualties
among the Canadian troops that it has come
TO be believed pretty generally by the people
OF this country that American boys who go to
fight in France are likely to have very poor
chance 20 come home alive or free from in
juries that will disable them for life. Basine
its computations upon the experiences Of
Canadian soldiers in the war, the military
hospitals commission furnishes these statis-
tics:
The boy who goes to the front has twenty
nine chances to come home, against one
that he will be killed.
He has ninety-eight chances 10 recover
from a wound against two that lie Will die
because Of wounds received in battle.
There is one chance in five hundred that he
will lose an arm or leg.
1t is explained, also. that in this war only
enc man dies from disease. as against from
ten to fifteen who fell victims OF various dis
eases in other wars. This estimate is proper
tional.
But 10 per ccat of the Canadian soldiers
disabled on the battlefelds are rendered unfit
physically 10 engage in their former occupa-
tons.
There ought 20 be cause for general encour-
segment IN tE1se figures.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-30
Mobilizing Labor

The suggestion made by the American
Association for Labor Legislation that
there be established a comprehensive sys-
TEN Of labor exchanges or official employ
ment bureaus, centring in the Federal
government, is distinctly valuable in view
Of the widespread difficulty in obtaining
employees in war industries. This proposal
contemplates the thorough cooperation of
state and municipal employment agencies
and the expansion of the Federal employ
ment service. A Federal director would
be placed in charge of the unified system
and Federal aid would be given to the
state and municipal bureaus. In effect
there would be created a nationwide in
terstate clearing house for employers and
employees.
For this proposal there is ample prec-
odent in the methods employed in Great
Britain since the war. There, under the
Ministry Of Labor, there is a chain Of labor
exchanges, administered by government
officers. Only through them may en-
ployes be obtained. Men and women reg
ister at them, and their qualifications
are ascertained and entered or the lists.
Employers register their requirements;
system of priority is observed with regard
to the filling of acquisitions for workers.
The most urgent work has first call; es-
senGal industries are protected against
withdrawal of labor. Employers are for
hidden to "entice" labor from other en-
ployers: the "dilution" Of skilled labor by
the employment Of women to take the
places of men who, thus released, 60 into
work requiring more proficiency is under
government supervision and safeguarding.
Mobilization of the labor army is as i'm
portant to this country as mobilization Of
armies Of soldiers. The labor c~ganiza-
tons have done much to help their mem
bers and to help the government. But fac
tories and farms have felt the pinch Of
Tabor shortage"-not that there is neces-
sarily a shortage of workers, but that they
are ill-distributed. There has been much
talk of a labor draft. Not only would such
an expedient be tremendously unpopular
and difficult in the highest degree to carry
out, but there is probably no need for it
now and little likelihood of that need I'M
less the war should run on for three or
four or five years. A nationwide labor
exchange would be much more 10 the point.
This should be able to collect information
about labor needs and the labor supply,
wages, working conditions and the like.
1t should operate to stabilize conditions,
to prevent competitive bidding which mere
" drags a man out of a place where he
is needed into another at higher wages,
while it should also tend to keep wages
properly related to living costs. 1t should
minimize unemployment and seasonal idle
ness, while lessening idle machines in fac
tories unable to keep their quota of work
ers full.
State and municipal employment bu-
reaus have done much to help employers
and workers in the present situation. A
national exchange ought to be able to do
much more.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-30
The Doughboys
By Arthur Gleason

they must be kept cheerful. They make
good bread.
These boys and the hospital unit and the
Detroit engineers and the tuneful telephone
men had written up $1,000 sheets of paper
in six days, sending letters home. All these
men do is bake bread and write letters. We
must give them little fun in between. They
had a theological discussion the other even
ing. and one man quoted a page Of Lyman
Abbott. They like anything that occupies
the mind Here are some Of the questions
they put to me:
as it true about the Germans crucfying
a Canadian"
"Do the Germans poison wells?"
"Are al the Germans alike, or is it the
officers Who make the men do wrong?"
"Are the Germans ali alike, from all parts
of Germany, or is it the Prussians VINO are
the worst?"
Glow do the Germans treat prisoners"
"Do they use them inside the war zone"
as it true about their raping women
Glow IL the food supply in Germany
They would have gone on for another hour
with their sensible, we'll aimed questions.
But, instead, asked them to run the show
and they put on some good boxing. In one
company of these bakers there were men
from thrty-three states. One company was
still living in the same tents which they used
on the Mexican border.
l saw a few thousand of their loaves, saw
them while the stuff was in the -four bag,
then yeasted and mixed, then kneaded and
panned and showed into the roaring ovens,
then out again, with the rich crust harden
ing. There was one room that contained
nothing but loaves, loaves on wooden boards
ard on wire holders, filing high room
over 100 feet long. Little alleyways ran
down the sweet smelling cupboards. And
another room contained bags of rice, Sugar
and thousands of bags of -four Twelve
mouse traps were placed at strategic points
and one custodial cat padded up and down
the corridors. 1t is the duty of soldiers to
kill Germans, but hers was the lonely and
unique job of Staying the destroyers Of the
food supply.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-30
Daughter of the Morning

From The Westminster Ga1eife)
Thou art the blue forget-me-not
Men dream Of in the iron paths Of life;
Thou art the laughing waterfall
In the high glen no step Of ours can reachi
Thou art the song of woodland birds,
Rising. as incense through the golden air
That is thy murmurous home,
Where trembling starlight thrills thy shadow
sleep
And sunlit winds thy day.
Blessed are they who in their loved ones find
Some memory of thee; blessed are they
Whose hearts were bound within thy sanct-
nary +. Z. SPElGHT.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-30
$4,000 Pounds of Flour a Day

This storehouse was 12O feet long. The
stock is alternated every twenty days, as it
REQUIRES that length of time for mice, in
spite Of cat and traps, to locate weak points
and bite home. yellow jackets in the hot
months get after the sugar sacks.
In one storehouse were 10000 pounds Of
sugar and half q million pounds Of -four.
One set Of our bakers are using $4,000
pounds of -four day, so that supply would
be good for fortnight. The same set were
baking about 10000 pounds OF bread day.
1t is estimated that one full company of
bakers can supply between 10000 and 10000
men.
won't give total figures, because that
would netray the size Of the American force.
But taking one company (only half up TO
strength, the rest on the way. they are
working eight ovens now, and will work
fifteen ovens. Between 6 q. m. and p. m.
they turn out 1922 pounds of bread in
ti3 runs eighteen pans TO a rum. The
loaf is four and half pounds at first and
is held for time till it shrinks to
four pounds. Two loaves TO a pan, and
there are 2,034 pans. French yeast has been
found excellent. The can reads "Levure
pour la fabrication de pain de guerre.' The
-four sack weighs ninety-eight pounds. After
the stuff has been mixed, ii is left for four
hours. then knocked. There arc two mixers
and three or four kneaders. There is one
man 20 each oven, and one sergeant over
each three ovens. This group was working
eight-hour shifts-6 o'clock 20 2 a. M, .
to 10 a. n, 10 to s p. m. Four pounds Of
sugar, two of salt. two of yeast, two bags
Of -four with two scoops added; only cooks
and other artists will understand, give 2lo
pounds Of dough.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-30
Remonstrance With Sleep

IRON Tic Poetry JoaricD
Each night to stop. to cease, to die;
Each night, hour after hour, to lie
So many hours, night after night
With vacant hands and vacant sight .
There are so many ways 20 go,
So many curious inviting ways;
There is so much 10 have, and do, and know
o sleep. why need you take these pieces Of
my days.
Ny days that are so fast, so dear, so few
Why need give my little wealth to you.
HELEN HOYT.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-30
'Cross-Country Baking

These men can cross country on eamions,
set up their portable ovens, and turn out
a run of bread eighteen pans to run, two
loaves TO a pam all in the same day. II the
yeast has been left in another county, they
make their own yeast with -four. The ovens
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-30
War Bread

Doubtless the war bread of England and
France is necessary, sanitary and nourish-
ing. But to one like me, who eats bread
with every gulp of coffee and every bite Of
meat, there is something sour in the war
bread of the last year. IL sets up strange
rumblngs in the interior. 1t needs bit
OF helping through. / have grown weary Of
the taste. the color and the after effects.
Five months I have nibbled it with little
enthusiasm, tried to drown it in hot choco-
late, paint it with jam and forget it with
cheese. But always something within me
said. "You are eating so per cent bread and
20 per cent mixings." To eat war bread is
like smoking n stogey of filings and rags.
1t is like drinking swamp water. 1t is like
listening to an 1899 gramophone. | never
knew before that a meal is based on bread.
Bread is tho foreporch and thrilling overture.
Il is the contents and inner meaning 1t
is the goal, toward which the whole menu
moves. With it you arc blessed and satisfied.
Without it you are poor indeed.
Into that dark brown situation came the
American bakers, scattering their white
loaves Of plenty. Peasant children gather
up the fragments which the soldiers leave
and run home with the precious souvenir.
Families bring it out for the final flourish of
= banquet. and cherish it as cake. After the
hunger of twelve months, find il impossible
even to get enough, fer a guest at soldiers
mess must try to behave seemly. Recent
arrivals, Americans, living on this fine lux
ury in daily abundance, tell ME | overstate
the good fortune OF the American army But
let them live on mixings for year, and they
will learn to love the color and the taste Of
the American army loaf.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-30
With the Bread Makers

So went out TO the bakers. They are
working. some in three shifts Of eight hours
each. some in two shifts of twelve hours
each All work hard. It is hard to tend the
hot oven. and knead the dough, and feed the
mans. and lack the loaves. In the evening
they wander in to their Red Triangle Club,
clean tagged. One or two of them drop
asleep as they sit around. They ought 20
have illustrated papers and story magazines,
motion pictures. bright talk, a snsppy en-
ertainer-something every evening. But
there is nothing like that in their village.
The two magazines which / carried were
eagerly seized and went through the whole
group that sat around the stove. An occa-
sional speaker drifts out to them. They had
lust listened 20 a countess who had seen
the German army crush Belgium. She came
with a set of posters and German generals
pfoclamGtions. They liked her story. They
had enjoyed Gerry Reynolds, the singer and
reciter. But these treats are occasional, and
their need is constant. Motor transport, sup
ply Of entertainers, stocks of Popular Mag
azines," Saturday Evening Posts" exeeu-
tive ability 70 meet a human demand-what-
ever Is lacking must be supplied. These
men VINO feed our army are tired and home
sick in the dark evening after work, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-30

e.r,i aud published daily BY The 1ffu1e .',on
-. yo-k Cr-.,-saau osi-u Red. President. %. .'
-, -. f.-...I.rt. IT, sufcr T7'surer address
-. r-rs.-e I-f Nassau street. Sow Nora ItT1'a'
pxEr-an 5000.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-01-18

'he remainder of the house with the
exception OF the chemical which leaked
through the booth on 20 some draperies
The booth in OF the most modern type,
constructed of asbestos and steel. and
equipped with n shaft TO the open air
with a Tan which drove the blaze up the
*hatt There were two operators in the
booth at the time the blaze started, both
OF whom escaped without injury.
Nhen the blaze was discovered by the
management announcement was made to
those in the theatre that it could not get
outside of the booth and the audience
made a very orderly cgrcss by means of
the numerous fire exits which have been
provided in all parts OF tho building 70,
lust such emergencies. Many OF tho poo
pie who were in the theatre did no. leave
but stopped to watch the work OF tie
iremen. the absense OF smoke and fumes
in the theatre being due 20 the air
shaft in Che booth.
a general alarm was sen. IN from box
4, nj the corner of Bank and Church
streets and the blaze was extinguished
with the chemical fror, the automobile
truck. Several films were destroyed and
both machines in the booth were greatly
damaged
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-01-18
CHURCH OFFICERS.
College street ConEreestionaltst5 Hold
Annual Meeting.

The annual neeting oc the College
Street Churcl. THURSDAY evening at the
church parlors. we presided over by the
pastor, 'he Rev. /. G. Smart, c. IL. Per-
hnS acting clerk pro tern in the
absence Of the clerk. The reports from
the various officers Of the church were
rccai:ed. showing the church to be in
a very satisfactory condition.
The officers elected to serve the ensuing
year follow; Clerk. II +. Perkins; treas
uIcr. r. S. Dean. chairman Of benevolent
committee. II. l.. Perkins; welcome COM
mittec. A. ]. ,ioodhuc: outlook committee,
J. l.. Southwick. committee on ushers,
A. l.. Whiting: member of board of cor
porators of the Home for Destitute Chill
dren. Mrs. b. l.. Benedict and Mrs II. l..
Ingalls,. The election OF a superintendent
Of the Sunday school was referred to
the standing committee for action.
1t was voted that the annual meeting
Of the church should hereafter be held
one week later, on the Thursday follow
ing the third Monday of January. II
was also voted that the church should
concur with the society in its plan OF
raising the amount needed for church
expenses and bencvolcnccs.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-01-18
WOMAN'S AUXILIARY.
Papers and Talks OF in,crcs, m ,...
Ladies'.

most enjoyable rnoct,nr r tho
Women's Auxiliary to tn" pairvr,on,s
association was held on the root ,.,rle,
Of the fiotel Vermont Thrred.. a,fcr.
noon. Mrs. T.. II. Bickford Of bradford
president of the auxiliary, proaidus 1h,
afternoons program vas on of intore,.
TO the 50 ladies attending tCUuDinr
greetings from the president tnor, v,rn
vocal selections by Miss France. w..rr.v
OF St Adams, a stud"h, al the i.utvcr-
Sity al Vermont, MNra + johnson Of
Bradford gave paper ON "Ecoro,nIcs'
ana Miss Helen Holmes who conducts
liillhomle Farm in Massachu-ct.. on
which is fine greenhouse. truck and
dairy farm. held the close attention Of
her audience with unique story of how
n farm can be very successfully con-
Quoted by n woman. Miss Hel.u flall
of this city, also n student at tha uni
versity. gave two much appreciated rad
ings. and the afternoons program was
brought to II close by talk Iv Mrs.
Elizabeth Jones Chase Of Lyndon. whose
topic was clarifying and Other Features
of the Lyndon Boys and Girls Home
Project Club" Mrs. Chase had before
yesterday endearcd herself to- the mem
bers of the auxiliary with her stories If
the work she is conducting at Lyndon.
and her talk Thursday afternoon proved
TO be Of the same great interest. being
given with her usual enthusiasm and
| spirit.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-01-18
ttIi( tENT DEATH.

The death Of Byron S. Barrett, for
mcr resident Of Burlington. is announced
Mr.. Barrett was born in Madrid, n. Y.
December II, 1891 and carly in life went
to Brooklyn, y. y. In his youth he
accompanied his father on numerous
trips and assisted him in teaching and
in the writing 1f grammars On June
6, 1855, he married Ellen Phoebe Jone-
and went 10 live IN Montreal. where he
entered into partnership With his brother
in-law. John +. Henry. in the Whole
sale drug business After II years he
sold out his interest and went To MIR
Hcnrys store in New Yorl; city, wncrc
he remained several wears, during which
time he made several trips through the
West and TO Europe, going with his wife
as far as Rome
After his return h" severed connections
with Mr.. Henry. and assumed charge ut
the Manhattan Medicine company. Latcr
in the interest OF the New York Phar-
macal company he travelled through the
western States, including the Pacific
coast. and ON his return moved to Bur
lington. where, about 20 years ago, he
published "The Earth" and Farmers
Advocate" Returning to Brooklyn in
1899 he became n teacher ia Browns
Business College and retired in 1911
Mr.. Barrett also had ,dhcr interests
and from 1878 to 1851 was in partnership
with his son, William Wallace Barrett,
in the printing business in New York
city. He composed several pieces OF
music. was leader Of an orchestra, and
scored the music. He also learned tn,
art Of wood engraving, was very fond
Of chess and conducted chess columns in
his own and other papers. He was tn,
grand scribe of the Sons of Temperance
| for the State of New York and connect eG
with Washington division.
Mr.. Barrett's death. at the advanced
age of S. occurred at his home in Brook
| Ign, his son, Franklin c.. his daughter
Mrs. Nellie A. l.. Browne and his grand
daughter. Mrs. Florence Wyman. beini
at his bedside when he passed away.