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New Britain herald., 1917-11-30

This IS the age of packages, small cheap packages-but millions of 'em. Breakfast foods and shaving soap; chewing gum, pills, pajamas and pow der bags. white menacing powder bags liko so many deadly milestones down the perspective of time shout trap opens and a head is to tho
 days oe bulk, the days whom John Paul Jones cried "Attaboy!" and poured an extra pint of black powder down the gullet of his favorite gun. The man who first proposed breech-loading was jeered out of the
 meeting. How are you going to ram your charger" was the unanswerabe @ question-until the Powder Bag re- piled: Make me right and you won't have to ram!"
 Today our gunners never even see the muzzles of their weapons. More
 than sixty feet in the rear a lnechan-
 1cal rammer chases home the shell,
 while after it almost tenderly glide
 four fat pillows of powder. The
 breech plug swings, smacks, and
 grinds shut. Powder laid in so gently
 is enclosed by the shell in front:
 damned against its rifings and by the steel mushroom behind. Very
 best of old-fashioned muzzle-rann1ers could not have done so neat job.
 Bags must be strong and tough and durable. Upon these qualities depends the safety of the crews who load. But material that will meet all these requirements 1S difficult to obtain. It must h0 able to stand a lot of punishment. Surely a bellicose Pacif1st on Broadway could not re- ceive rougher treatment than does a sack of smokeless powder rushed from magazine to breech.
 Stowage is in tanks. Cover off. the hundred pound bag Is jerked out over a sharp-lipped edge, swung to the air-tight door trough and shot out into the handling room. A pow derman leaps upon the catapult, seizes 1t. staggers for a moment un- der It's bulk, then speeds across to the conveyer, a motor-run endless chain of buckets. Into the first empty bucket rolls the bag and flies Janglng upward forty feet to the next ammunition supply room. Here four men bounce upon the bags and sort them as they come to supply tho two or three guns overhead.
 Presently the powder stops. Men brace. Explosion rocks the very roots of the huge bArbette. A faint
New Britain herald., 1917-11-30
ALFRED GROSS COMES TO LIGHT.
Now Playing With Mrs. Fiske in New
 Comedy By Philip Moeller.

To the Editor of the Herald:
 Alfred Cross, sometime leading man with the Lyceum Players. is now ap- bearing with Mfrs. Fiske in New York, in Philip Moeller's comedy, Madame Sand, which opened last Monday evening". This play is based upon the life of George Sand the French writer of the nineteenth century. known in real life as Madame Julie Aurore Lu- cille Amandine Dudevant George Sand was also known as the Great Lover" of her day and it was record ed that she had forty-seven sweet hearts. Out of this number MT Noel Ter, who is one of founders of the Washington Square Players in New York, has chosen five with whom he carries on the action in which Ma dame sand is the important character. These five are: Heinrich Heine, Alfred
New Britain herald., 1917-11-30

one upon winch to establish a nat,ona, custom.
 The wearing of mourning Is in no way measure of grief for tho dead. It does not even satisfy any natural human instinct for somberness in fun- eral garb. Purple, red and white have been mourning colors in certain lands and centuries.
 Obviously. the governme ill nev- CT regulate the mode and oner of expressing personal sentime
 But could the women of lne coun- try make a finer free will offering to democracy than by sacrificing their mourning garments as superf1uous and inadequate symbols of grief?
 The hero who falls il France has' made his life gift to his country and to the worlds freedom. Yet we wo- mon are accustomed to speak of the men slain in battle as "our gift to our country!"
 Let us try to think what dying in the full strength and beauty of their man. hood meant to them. Let us try to appreciate their gift to us.
 Then, feeling this, mothers and wives of America, we must strip off our black toggery as a cheap and tawdry affection: and knowing this, the only honor we can pay a dear dead soldier boy ts a proud smile foc the glory of his spirit, and tears, In all humility, for our profit in the new liberty for which he laid down hA
New Britain herald., 1917-11-30

years, and particularly since the world war began, addressed the meet ing at Boston and urged all Polish men of draft age who are not called to the colors to enter the new army. as the New Britain men have done. Now Is our chance to get back a free and independent Poland" said the musician. We have the support and goodwill of this great and lib- erty-loving nation and its greatest leader-our beloved President, Wood- row Wilson"
 From the time of Kosciusko. whose statue graces many a park through out this country, and whose memory will live so long as the American na- ton survives. there has been kindly feeling manifested toward the Polish people by all who know anything of their native land The Polish people arc great people. Their history shows their worth. Their actions in this country stamp them as desirable citizens just as soon as they become accustomed to the laws and practices of the new world
 In New Britain we have seen much of the Polish people. They have builded up a goodly part of this town. Never have they Jagged when called upon to work for the public good. So, when a great object Is presented to their view, the freedom of their beloved land across the seas, those sons who are not naturalized citizens Of this country are not slow to set aside their employments, remunera- tive at this time, and go forth to fight the good fight. People who are prone to make such sacrifices as this arc people of whom we must expect great things. The action of these one hun dred young Polish men argues well for the future of New Britain, the future of Connecticut and the future l of America, insofar as Polish people 1 have anything to do with the shaping ! of that future. And they are here as nation builders.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-30
THEE NATION BUILDERS.

New Britain yesterday witnessed an Impressive sight in the going-away of some one hundred young Polish men. members of the Polish-American army which will eventually take it's place on the side of the Allied nations In their attempt to crush the Haps- burgs and Hohenzollerns.
 These men who left here yesterday are patriots in the extreme, imbued with the idea of Hberating the land of their nativity. "A free and inde- pendent Poland" is the watch-word that rings in their ears, that spurs them on to make the supreme sacri- flee. Believing that actions are stronger than words these men have not time to stand around and talk about what they would do. Rather, they go forth to show the world that deeds are the mighty conquerors of all things.
 At the moment New Britain's Polish residents accompanied their valiant men to the train she'd Secretary of War Baker expressed concrete appre- citation of the new Polish American army, numbered at 100000, by offer ing use of the camp at Plattsburg for the training of Polish officers. This announcement greeted an enthusiastic gathering of Polish people who had assembled in Boston yesterday to com- memorate the one-hundredth anni- Nrsary of the death of Thaddeus Kosctusko.
 Ignace Paderewski, the great plan list, who has been an enthusiastic worker for Poland for all these many
New Britain herald., 1917-11-30
STRANGE, INDEED.

X HnGred for the President of tho < Un1Aod States and everything Amer. eaoan as . characteristic trait of some < of our wol1 known paciflsts. Love for
 tho Kaiser and all things German Is
 but the other side of their nature. The German who yesterday at South ! 1Torwalk shouted ITO hell with the Mag" while . congregation was sing Ing ''The Star, spangled Banner." Is n example of what extremes those folk attempt in their madness. Tho wonder is. the man is living to face sA court trial He probably owes his deliverAnoe to the ultra-ChristfAn Temperament of his captives.
 After 50 many years in the United States 1t is strange that some folk who came to this country to evade Prussian militarism have never be- come quite reconoiled to their fate. ( And yet, up to this time, there was nothing to hinder them from going back to the old love. There were ships sailing at regular intervals from Atlantic ports. The only time these were pressed into service seemed to be when the now pronounced pro. Germans had accumulated enough honey to spend a vacation in tho Old World. Then they rush back to spend their American gold: but, and here Is the rNb. they always came back to this col 4ntry.
 Now "a great number of them shout ''To he'll with the flag" meaning, of cosrse, the American flag. When peace times were in evidence 1t was . pretty good flag under which to live. When money could be made hand ovOr fist and none of 1t need be placed In improvement on American soil, but could be hoarded and sent back to the Fatherland, the American flag was all right. Now it must give way to the flag of the Imperial Master, Wilhelm Hohenzollern. The consola- ton of the whole thing is, however, that ell Germans in this country are not pro-German to this extent. and also that there are enough true Amer leans of native and foreign birth to counter-balance the disloyalists.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-30
"The Big Guns Thunder On the Elan

''T1e Fig Guns Thunder On the F1an-
 ders FroMt." The headline stobs one from the print
 ed sheet, In spite of nerves long since to
 horror strung: It's thunder echoes down the quiet
 street, And stoic calm Is to the four winds
 flung. How go about small things, ones
 being set Through nfe's routine, to that ti-
 tanic rune, When you, beloved of many hearts.
 are met Where, noon to midnight, midnight
 back to noon. The big guns thunder on the
 Flanders front! One sees you mantled in cascadinR
 flame, In that terrific urge where rivers The life-blood freely shed to sign the
 namo Of holy freedom ever on tho man. Splendor of life proclaimed fin every
 breath, W1Cn years or your yOUCn'S h0ydQY still to run, Your deathless victory spells bar tered death For mound recaptured, milo of frontage won Where big guns thunder on the Flanders front! So be the mourning-badge for you ~~.A o. Our service flag, while starred upon the breast: Our song, the final courage that you call When Heaven puts you to tho final test. Unmarked, your graves make conse- crated ground Of blood-soaked land where now wars demon shrieks, For there white peace shall be anofnt- ed, crowned, And there the certain voice of god- head speaks Where big guns thunder on tho Flanders front! :, Merington, in New York Times.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-30

against moral and social convention, 1 so characteristic of George Sand, is ! shown in the sincere and vigorous 1 acting or Mrs. Fiske. George Sand in | herlted a dashlng temperament, dem | ocratlc sympathies and a taste for ad- venture Her nature was simple, af- ! tecttonate and without vanity. Mrs. tlske recognizes those inherited quail ties and that nature, that Is why she IS admlrable. As Madame Sand she IS Madame Sand not Mrs. Fiske as Madame sand. She is not merely the actress she is the character.
 Whother Madame Sand" will be a success and will remain long on the stage Is question. In the first place. this play Is succession of events and based entirely upon dialogue Critics have pointed out that a play must have something more than dialogue to succeed that dialogue usually fails. A play. it is accepted, must have con- stTuction in which there is plenty Of action. In the next place, the present theatrical season in New York is far from being successful. When such well known and splendid actors as William Faversham and Henry Miller arc obliged to take their plays off the stage after a brief run, it would ap- pear that something is wrong eithe, with the plays or with the public. Per haps Madame Sand" will prove a suc- cess, chiefly through Mrs F'iskc's work. At any rate it will be interest ing to watch the progress of Alfred Cross..>
 WILLIAM c. KRANOWITZ,
 Columbia School of Journalism, New York. November 25, 1917
New Britain herald., 1917-11-30
Telling the Worst.
Philadelphia Record)

Tell mo the worst, doctor!" cried the sick man. The doctor hesitated. Gan you stand it ?" he asked gently.
 'Yes, yes!" exclaimed the sick mna ''Tell me the worst
 Well, if you insist" said the doc. tor in hushed voice, your bill vii be $S97"
New Britain herald., 1917-11-30
FACTS AND RANCHES.

An actor in New York whom a German spy suspected of being a fellow German spy committed suicide leaving the world in doubt as to whether he was patriot. spy or a natural actor.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-30

estimated to have been melted in Germany for munitions. Many poor allied soldier has been perfo- rated with chime notes from Sweet Hour of Prayer" and has never known it.-NeW London Day.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-30

Oh! what's the use? New York gave woman the ballot but won't let her sit on juries. How can woman feel herself a peer" when denied the blessed privilege of jailing New Workers Patterson Press-Guardian.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-30

One thing not shown in the de- partment of labor's statistics of the effects of the war on various ind,ls- tries is the growth of the knitting industry. Springfield Republican.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-30

As time goes by, the villains of the past appear less v1llainous. Some people in Russia are beginning to feel that Nick Romanoff wasn't such a bad fellow. after aN.-Boston Tran script
New Britain herald., 1917-11-30

The peoples peace council is go- ing to open an office in Washington. but 1t has not been decided that Senator LaFd1lette shall have charge of it.-New York Sun.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-30

"Hyperthyreosis" is to the physio- logical chemist what the "brain storm" was to the alienist.-New Haven Register.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-30
NEVER A FAILURE.

VV8V 0AkV A EEA1AUINEIs
 The American people have never failed in any great duty or feared to face any great respon- stbility in that spirit of justice and liberty which has made us all that WO are or can ever hope to b..
 -HUNRY CABOT LODGE.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-30

Sugar was never so dearly swee as bridgeport Post.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-30

About 10000 church bells are now
New Britain herald., 1917-11-30

Villa having resumed fighting again, conditions in Mexico are once more Mcriden Journal,
New Britain herald., 1917-11-30
New Britain Herald.

HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-30

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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-07-02
Go and Have a Look
At Doug" in the Movies
and Become Young Again

Not for the United States mint could
we be induced to bend our gracious pen
in tribute TO a crouch. but humanity's
gratitude to the ringer of JOY bells will
not be denied.
To the man who drives along. doing
his work with the best that is in him,
putting pep and gladness into 1t. there
is coming a good measure of praise.
And whether that man is Douglas
Fairbanks or Theodore Roosevelt matters
not
Just now it happens to be Doug Fair
banks.
Fairbanks is a movie actor.
Somehow when we speak of movie
actors there is something about the
phrase that carries the idea they don't
amount to much.
But a movie actor can amount TO as
much as one who travels under any other
name.
Fairbanks does.
1t is good for the system to see this
man in action.
1t is good for the disposition.
There is in him the energy of Roose-
Welt and it is in action every minute.
And along with this boundless energy
there is always a smile-a smile that
is so infectious that it gets into your
system and you feel glad about every
thing.
You feel as though you could do every
thing this remarkable actor does-and
he does some things that but few can do.
And what is more. you feel as though
you really want to. You feel brimful of
pep and zipp and fun.
1t is pleasant to pay tribute to a
man who does his work so well-even
tho he is paid remarkably well for it in
good hard cash.
No cash payment in the world can put
into a man such pep and such joy as is
in this man. That was put there long
before cash entered into his young life
Some day when you are feeling blue
and thinking the whole world is going
lash. go and see Douglas Fairbanks
1t will be good for what's the matter
with you.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-07-02
Not How Hard, But How

Two men on a construction job were
shoveling sand into wheelbarrows.
One man was working hard.
The sweat streamed off his face
The other was taking it easy.
But somehow the second man got just
as much done as the first, in fact little
more.
Life works out very much the same as
the two shovelers. It isn't how HARD
you work, but HOW that counts. Gener-
ally the more hours man works the
smaller his salary.
The more muscle strain he endures the
smaller his pay check.
You may not be fitted for an executive
where few important decisions makes a
days work, but the chances are you will
get along if you study your work.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-07-02
From Another Point of NeU
By c. T. S.

ST. Paul claims population of 100000.
Take that, Minneapolis.
American cities are starting to tax cats.
It sounds to us at times as if there are
enough in our alley to pay the running
expenses of the war.
A lawsuit begun AZ years ago in Sioux
Falls, S. D., is about to go to the jury,
which will probably disagree.
The old time school bad boy is extinct,
Chicago teacher says. Wonder if that
is intended to be personal.
Let the spirit this Fourth be one that conserves
In powder and money and fingers and nerves
Let's teach all the children. the girls and the
boys.
They can be patriotic with little less noise.
The dynamite cracker and grim pistol toy
Let's not 20 our loved children lug
With the rest Of the Junk that is lighted with
punk
And harbors the tetanus bug.
81
"Why not wait until we get out in
Highland Park Bert; they have so much
better air out there.
Be nice to him, Rover; he's the sausage
man
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-07-02

the same softness and luster are not on
hair washed with ivory soap as on that
which feels the soothing. cleansing quail
tiles of the egg.
Therefore, we will have none of II.
Let the invalids keep to their Cruel
and the babies drink more milk.
Let cakes and buildings go by the
board, but thru the awful carnage OF
war when bodies. and hearts are torn by
shells and emotions, leave us the solace
Of the egg shampoo.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-07-02
Sunday Got SS15,200
Space in y. Y. Papers

New York's newspapers gave Billy
Sunday ss15.2OO worth OF publicity
for the campaign that closed last
Sunday night. This is counting the
space at 81 line. the lowest rate
for reading. In some OF the papers
II runs as high as $50. The meas
urement Is in agate lines. the usual
method followed. AS his publicity
was in the reading columns, the
reading rate is given
The publicity he obtained may be
worked out about as follows: There
are rs daily newspapers in the city
The length OF the columns vary
from $50 to s05 agate lines. and
about 2i5 lines when measure in
the body type OF the paper.
There Is no standard 20 the New
York column. either "a to length or
width. Pages will average. how
ever. about 2.400 lines. Therefore
every page he received was worth
AT least $4,000. That's what an ad
yertiser would have 70 pay for what
was given TO Billy Sunday without
cost
The 10 papers gave him from
three-auarters OF column TO two
columns daily. An average OF about
one and one-half columns a day, or
450 lines 81 agate each. II measured
az advertising matter, 1900 lines IN
all OF the papers, or little matter OF
1920 daily.
This amounts 10 something like
s50. 400 a. week, and for the 13
weeks, approximately s655.20o. at 81
a line. or course some OF the pa
pers did not print Sundays, but the
papers that did ran special Sunday
features. sometimes as much as a
page. which would probably make
up the total. There Is no way Of
getting the information exactly
since no one kept track OF II. and
these figures are an estimate AT
best, based on what was printed on
the average every day
But there was publicity in add.
ton to amount given during the l3
weeks he was here. For month
or more prior 10 his coming, his
press agents were on the job, and
were busy. too. Not only were they
busy, but they delivered the goods
BY agate line measurement the
is papers printed approximately 2.
1874 pages in ~ weeks--which IL 20.
ing some
Just what amount OF publicity
reached the public thru newspapers
prior 10 Sundays coming r. not
known. but II probably ran close 10
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-07-02
Sending Elihu Root
To Russia Seems To Have
Made Him a Democrat

Even those who expressed displeasure
that one with Elihu Roots antecedents
should be chosen by the president TO
head the American mission to revolution
ary Russia, must confess their agreeable
surprise over the manner in which ne
has so far accomplished his difficult ana
delicate task
The Slav has a history, religion,
literature, and temper worlds away
from anything with which we are famii-
lar in this country.
And yet, so far as we have been able
to Judge at this distance, our special am
bassador has gagged Russian public SEN
timent to nicely and adjusted his own
utterances to fit in most perfectly.
He has delivered a whole-hearted, gem
erous and unselfsh message from an old
established democracy to newly-form-
ed one.
He has extended the hand of brother
hood.
He has stated how glad our people are
to know that another great race has
thrown off the shackles CT medievalism,
and walked out of the shadows into the
sunlight of Gods freedom
He has impressed upon them that
America wants nothing for herself and
is warning for no selfish purpose.
He has shown them that if they want
to preserve their liberty, they must con-
tinue to fight the kaiser, who is the
enemy of all liberty.
He has demonstrated that only by
standing together can the free people:
Of the earth remain in freedom.
If Russia stands firm, if her people or
ganize a stable government, if hel
armies once more render effective co
operation with the legions of the west
we will all have to thank Elihu Root fol
the large part he played in bringing
about the contamination so ardently de
sired everywhere, save in the Teutor
countries.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-07-02
RubeS
BY BERToN BRALEY

The people in the slick the big town. the quick
They about "hick town-the quiet little place,
Where life is of drowsy and stores slightly blowsy
And depot oafers frowsy and stubby as to face.
The people from the town. they call place Gay town
A very much passe town. dead as dead can be,
Yet knows JOY and gladness and loves delicious madness
And sin and shame and sadness and greed and poverty
The people from the great town. they eer
town,
this shy sedae and others here and there,
Youth wonder TO smash Faes gates assunder
And seize the goodly plumber that Fortune has to share
For though they call dear town funny and queer town
A very old and town, chuckle, for we know
That those who the quick towns the big and smart and
slick towns,
Are folks who from thick" towns which city folks
call "slow"i
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-07-02
The Old Gardener Says

To be really enjoyed. vegetable
marrows must be eaten when
young They are considered 10
be just right for the table when
the outside skin is still so tender
that II can be easily broken BY
the finger nail IL left, however.
until they get older. they can be
used for pies. and even when
well matured make excellent pre-,
serves when young. marrows
may be mashed or baked in tho
oven and served with butter
while hot or they may be sliced
and fried like egg plants Small
marroNs are sometimes served
Tho same az sweet potatoes.