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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-20
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inaI court today to shooting Mar garet Farrar in Pennington, June zs' and was sentenced to state prison 10 from 15 to 25 years. The girl, al though hit in three places by bullets, made a remarkable recovery, and was in court today.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-20
U. S. STEEL INCREASES
 WAGES TO EMPLOYES

New York, Sept. 2o-The United States Steel corporation todAy an- nounced 10 per cent advance in the wage of it's workers to take effect Oct. 1.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-23
RETURN VISIT WILL
FIND MANY CHANGES

CAMBRIDGE, April 23.-Those who
return to Cambridge University after
the war will find great changes. There
is in progress not only great reform
in curriculum, but also a great DEM
ocratization of the whole university at
mosphere. In the past the cost of ed
ucation at the older English univers-
tiles has been a bar to all except
wealthy and very clever students.
Since the war good deal of attention
has been given to the reduction of the
expenses of undergraduates and the
consequent throwing open of the uni
versity to much-wider range of stud
ents.
The student after the war will be
offered a short course Of study and
longer terms. This will result in a
shortening of the time required for the
university course. But generally
speaking, 1t has been found that the
heavy cost of a Cambridge education is
not due to the fees exacted by the col
leges so much as to the eXtravagant
social habits of the under graduates.
Steps are being taken to curb all I'M
necessary expenditure in this direction
and the student who comes to Cam
bridge with an idea that he can spend
his money freely on all sorts of pleas
ures will find himself on bad terms
with the university authorities.
There is to be great liberalization
of teh courses of study. Courses in
modern languages. English, economics,
and modern science will be extended
enormously. The whole system of ex-
aminations will be revised, and in all
probability the present special exam
nations will be rearranged and stiff
ened Compulsory Greek will be aban-
doned, and those who consider that
military training should form part OF
a university education are distinctly in
the majority in faculty circles.
For the present, college classhooms
are almost completely depopulated.
Examinations, lectures and class ex-
ercises still go on, but class seldom
contains more than four or five young
men. Many students whose names APP
pear on the rolls are only nominally in
college. being either on war duty with
the army or engaged in work at var
ious government Offices.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-23
J.B0ATS DRIVE THE SEA
GULLS TO SOME DISTANCE

LONDON, April 23-Hardships of the
new relentless submarine warfare
haven't been confined to the terrestrial
population of the earth. Even the sea-
gulIs today showed signs of the strain.
The sea-gull's meal ticket is, or
course, the maritime traffic of the
globe. The more exclusive gulls follow
the ocean liners, while the bourgeoise
take their table d'hote from any old
vessel at all.
Curtailment of ocean traffic has put
the voracious fowl on strict war ra-
lions. AS a result, many of them are
invading the western front and trying
to share the scott and plum n apple"
of the Tommies.
Thousands of sea-gulls are lowering
over the Somme region, squawking
about the mess-camps and bring the
French chefs to despair Any food left
unguarded for any length of time is at
once snatched away. AS result OF
this unwelcome aerial "strafing," a
new sport is in progress. "Gull-hunt-
ing'' with plenty of targets, furnishes
amusement for the Tommies.
In the rear, however, where great
pies Of refuse and empty cans accum-
ulate, the gulls perform valuable ser
vices in cleaning up the debris. At
clicking the platter clean" neither the
small American boy nor Mr.. and Mrs.
| Jack Sprat have anything on the sea-
gull.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-23
COST GREAT BRITAIN GREAT
SUM TO MAINTAIN HER ARMY

LONDON. April 2S.-It cost Great
Britain 2,62S, O6S, 800 to maintain the
British army during the fancial year
of 1915-16, according to the accounts
lust made public. The pay of the SOL
diers aggregated $4sO,00O,OoO; the
medicinal establishment cost nearly
$4,000 ,OOO; transport, remounts, and
ouartering cost $4SO,OOO,OOO; supplies
and clothing $685. 100000; ordinance
and general stores $245,OOO,000; arm
aments. engineers stores and aviation
$4,000, 900; and payments on account
Of prisoners of war totaled $6,1O4,97O.
Gifts of money included $1,S5O,42O
from India. From the national egg
collection 100000 egs were received.
The general public contributed to the
army 114.OO0 razors.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-23
state SOCIETY FOR
MOTORS PLANNING

The Georgia State Automobile asso-
citation, a statewide organization OF
individual motor car owners, is making
rapid progress in carrying out its plan
OF perfecting local automobile clubs,
which are affiliated with it, and the
American Automobile association. The
chief purpose of the association and
its affiliated clubs is to obtain legis-
lation that will enable the taxpayers
Of Georgia to get more and better
Highways, and to place the system or
cur road construction upon a different
basis. whereby the taxpayers will get
hundred cents on each dollar spent.
The interest and cooperation which
has attended the progress of the state
wide campaign of the organization OF
the association has been most crafty
ing to the members of the executive
committee, of which Wylie West. OF
Decatur, is chairman. This committee
is composed of one member from each
of the affiliated local clubs throughout
the state, making it truly representa-
tive body. The entire management
and control of the affairs of the asso-
citation are in the hands of this COM
mittee, and already number of local
clubs have been organized and affiliat-
ed. and number are in the process OF
organization throughout the state. 1t
is expected that fully one hundred
clubs will be organized and affiliated
ay the firse of the year, the work OF
the organization being pushed forward
as rapidly as possible with a staff OF
experienced field secretaries.
Addison N. O'Flint, managing direc-
tor of the state association, said that
he expected to visit every county in
Georgia in the interest of the organi-
cation and ducating the people to the
needs of the present day legislation
necessary to obtain better system OF
highways; also explaining the work
that the association has mapped out to
brong before the legislature in June.
The farmers and residents OF the
rural communities are showing a keen
interest in the association and Its
work and are cooperating everywhere.
During the past week, Field Secretary
Cofield, who has charge of the north
east division of Georgia, placed a
number of clubs around Hartwell, Con-
yers, Cannon, Toccoa, Lavonia, Carnes-
Vile and Homer. This is JUS tone in
stance of cooperation, because the
people first see particularly the ad-
vantages to be derived through state
organization casting their entire inter
est to better road construction and leg
islation. and in the construction and
maintenance of the principal thor
oughfares which will bring the markets
closer to the producer, reduce the time
ard cost of transportation and make
these thoroughfares open and access
ible the year round.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-23
WOMEN TAKE GREAT
PART IN MUNITIONS

LONDON, April 23.-Those who still
cling to the idea that the women
munition worker is mere attendant
upon a machine, engaged in repetition
work and incapable of taking the
place of the skilled artisan, are being
given a tangible proof that there are
manv thousands of women mechanics
in this country doing delicate and diff
cult work that. in times of peace, only
the exceptional experts was thought
capable of doing. This proof is being
furnished by an exhibition that the
Ministry of Munitions is giving.
Engineers agree that the making of
a rotary aircraft engine is about as
severe test as exists of skilled artis-
anship. Such engines are being pro-
duced today by women. Steel cylind-
ers are exhibited that are machined
down to one-thousandth Of an inch, and
with an accuracy of balance that is
reckoned to the fraction of gramme.
pump used in a rotary aircraft en-
CINE is shown that it is miracle of
delicate construction, and is made en-
tirely by womn. 1t is war invention
and has never been made by man labor.
The degree of accuracy here is .00O4 of
an inch, and notice attached to the
exhibit adds that "in every case the OPP
orator sets and grinds he- own TOOLS .
Even greater accuracy is achieved n
the various gauges that women work
ers are making. There is on display
one cylinder gauge for sixty-pound
shell. This gauge has been ground to
a limit of three ten-thousandths of an
inch. And this is but one exhibit in a
whole section devoted TO dies, gauges,
and tool cutters of every kind. A man :
ufacturer who was attending the ex-
hibit wa heard to exclaim:
81 never thought should live to see
twist drills made by women"
There are few cases of repetition
work, most of the exhibits being OF
pure handicraft, very often of kind
that, before the war, England had to
look for abroad. A striking example is
the optical section. AS far as lense-
making was British industry Derore
the war, it virtually was monop-
oly of a few French and German i'm
ported workmen specially into this
country. Now English women are
turning out lenses and prisms of an
angular accuracy of three seconds or
less that are said to challenge the
best work of France or Germany be-
fore the war.
Not only few exceptional women
have attained this skill, but there is
an army of them engaged in all these
kind of expert work and earning high
wages. And the astonishing thing
about it is that it has all come about
since 1915. These tens of thousands OF
skilled women artisans have had an
apprenticeship of months where men
have had years.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-23
EXCURSION FARES TO
ATLANTA, ga, AND RETURN

Account of Grand Opera by Metro
rolitan Opera Company of New York
CITY. April 23,2S, inc, 1917. Tickets on
sale April % to %, inc. Final limit
May /, 1917. Ask any Central OF
Georgia Railway ticket agent for fol-
der giving detailed information as to
the dates Of operas. casts, etc.
CENTRAL. OF GEORGIA RAILWAY
27-1m The Right Way.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-23

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-01
College Men by The Thousand
Now Doing Their Bit In War
Reports From Leading Universities of the United States
Show That Nearly Onethird of Their Men Are
Serving the Nation in Some Capacity

What part are American college men
taking in the war? How is war al
fecting our universities?
In an effort to answer these questions
The Tribune applied for information 10
more than score or the largest ecu-
eational institutions in all sections Of
the country. Replies indicate that about
cne-third Of the undergraduates
throughout the United States are
already in military service. College
men are taking every conceivable part
in the war both as privates and Of
ficers on land, in the air and on and
under the water.
The University Of Missouri points
with pride to Brigadier General +. II.
Crowder. Of the class OF 1886, who as
provost marshal general is responsible
for the excellent administration of the
selective draft. Thirty-six members
have left its faculty to engage in war
work and total of 761 from the Uni
versity are in military service.
Figures there. as elsewhere, are still
incomplete. Records of students and
graduates called TO the colors are being
added to daily. Figures received from
many colleges are too conjectural and
based upon too many different stan
dards as yet TO be OF value for any ae-
curate comparison of the degree of col
lege participation in the war, but all
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-01
Food for Thought

DO you know we have comparatively brand new Law that permits
selling skinned milk whole milk Giving
always hard the dog for time completely
he reform Selling milk which the fat stolen
milk such temptation and widely
the legislators the Godan knot SKINNED milk
This
Of this valuable food have been thrown fed to the hogs BEST
Now, the law is concerned it, but
fact be bought from just brave Brooklyn
We will application
skinned milk. a present selling
bargain for cooking has everything that milk
the
The casen milk valuable brding food The sugar
better for than regular that
if at ALL and as for the mineral ingredients that need
and
known offers them relatively
BY the Sanatogen $19O for eighounce bottle
S5 Why the of skinned
quart? At this will
fourth much bought it in Sanaogen bottle.
There only donts" about skinned milk Don't
the whole
cooking purposes until it, The demand will produce supply
excellent and economical
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-01

military service. Instruction Is u
rected by a Canadian officer
Definite records are not ayallable ~
the University Of Illinois, but the dean
Of men estimates that $500 students
instructors and alumni have joined the
colors.
Washington University, st. Louis, re-
ports seventy-seven students IN 'he
army and ten in the navy. Washing-
ton University hospital unit on foreign
soil includes most OF the eighty-one
students engaged in relief work. Alum
nj records are incomplete.
At the University Of Kansas about
900 men are drilling daily under
4 system Of universal military service
adopted this year. A dozen members
Of the faculty and about 800 under
graduated have entered the army.
Herman Olcott. football coach. has left
10 become physical director at the
Great Lakes y val Training Station.
About 1000 undergraduates and
graduates of the University of Cali
fornia have gone into military service
according to the secretary OF the re-
gents.
Hoover Of Belgium is also Hoover
Of Leland Stanford. Jr. The western
university points out that he is only
one of the 400 men it has contributed
TO war work -
The College Of the City of New YORK
has contributed u instructors to mil
tarv service and 1870 students. hall TO
the navy and nalf to the army.
New York University has 400 men
from its student body actually IN
eervicc and 400 more drilling dai ~ IN
the military training prescribed LOT
students. Seventy-fiye men have gone
from its faculty into the service. IN
complete records show l63 alumni III
military work. I'll; ~;
Military records from Columbia UNI
yersity are not yet available.
The thousands of college men VINO
are now or will soon be IN Europe VIII
find a meeting place in Paris at the
Roval Palace Hotel, at the head Oh the
Avenue de POpera. near the Louyre'
Ueadouarters Of the American uhi,
varsitv Union in Europe have Deen
established there. This orgahlIaeIo.'
wos founded last June by American
coIIege men to provide at moderate
cost home with the privileges Oh
simple club. II will serve as heau-
quarters for college bureaus ana cleai-
ipg house for war service for American
college men. Many Of the recognized
colleges and college organizations NJ
have taken out annual memberships
in the union. - 1T. A.. Amor-
ica's college men have recognized thei l
responsibility in the war and nave ave
been prompt in needing the call to the
colors
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-01
West Side Plan
Laid Over for New
Estimate Board
P. S. Board to Order Re-
moval of N. Y. c. Tracks
From 18th Ave.

Acting on the opinion of Corporation
Counsel Hardy that it had no power to
rescind the ordinance of l847, under
which the New York Central Railroad
received certain rights to the use OF
the city thoroughfares on the West
Side. the Board of Estimate yesterday
refused TO act. On the motion Of Mayor
Mitchell, the matter was laid over until
the first meeting of the new Board of
Estimate, IN January.
Following the refusal of the board to
revoke the ordinance, as requested by
the Joint conference committee OF the
Public Service Commission and the
Board of Estimate, which is endeavor-
ing TO solve the West Side improvement
problem. Commissioner Charles 5. Her
vey announced that the commission
would proceed on Monday to order the
New York Central to remove its tracks
at grade on Eleventh Avenue and other
streets on the West Side.
Under the so-caled Ottinger law,
which gave joint jurisdiction in the
West Side matter to the Board of EST
mate and the Public Service Commits
sion, il is mandatory upon the com
mission to take this action If no agree
ment with the railroad company IS
reached by December !.
The law gives the commission power
TO order the railroad company to
change its operation to an elevated
structure. or, where practicable, INTO
subway, along its present right OF way
1t was announced that the engineering
department of the commission had
been at work for some time preparing
plans. drawings, profles and other en-
cheering studies necessary TO carry
out the abolition of operation at grade.
The law, however. does not prevent
the Public Service Commission or the
Board of Estimate from entering INTO
further negotiations with the railroad
companv toward an agreement, and the
action contemplated by the commission
is expected either to force the railroad
IN come to some agreement or lead 10
extended litigation between the rail-
road and the city.
Mavor Mitchell in moving that the
matter be laid over until the flrst meet
an view of the fact that very radical
y;ows seem to be held by the incoming
administration, move that the matter
be nut over until the first meeting IN
January, so that the new Corporation
Counsel may have a chance to review
the matter and the new Board Of rs
innate dea with It, | have no doubt II
will deal with it at the first meeting,
Irrespective of the opinion OF the
Corporation Counsel, any action prior
TO January 1 had been vigorouslly OPP
posed by representatives Of Mayor
elect Hylan and the reelect Tammany
members of the present Board OF Es-
innate.
The same opposition was met when
authorization of the advertisement OF
a public hearing on December % to
consider the proposed contract between
the city and the Fifth Avenue Coach
Company for the operation Of buses
/ over various new lines in Manhattan
came before the board. The opposl-
/ ton caused considerable confusion at
the morning meeting of the board. and
| it adjourned until the afternoon. when
the resolution authorizing the public
hearing on December % was adopted
/ by a majority vote.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-01
Labor Supply Is
To Be Adjusted
To War Needs

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.-Prepara-
tons for greater governmental aid in
adjusting labor supply to war needs
were put under way to-day by the
Council of National Defence with the
appointment of L. c. Marshall. dean
If the School of Commerce and Admin
istration of the University of Chicago
as chief of a newly created section on
industrial service.
The new section will undertake pre-
liminary investigation of the increas-
ing number of labor problems arising
in direct ratio to the growing demands
for war supplies. This inquiry, it is
announced, will have four main OBJ
jects:
To determine present and probable
future demand for labc- in war indus
tries. and to determine in connection
with the priorities committee OF the
War Industries Board the relative rri-
critics of the labor demand.
Also to arrange for the supplying ofth
demand through the Department of La
Dor or such other governmental or civ
ilian agencies as can best meet any de-
manu-, anu To lilC ilNNu' w
dilution of labor, including the intro
duction of women into industry. and
to recommend policies TO be followed
in regard thereto.
Labor Leaders to Supply Men
When the facts have been established
in the case of labor shortage handi-
Gaping any line of industry, the coun'
ell will look 10 representatives of the
workers TO supply available men: The
section on industries service will have
functions comparable to the duties OF
the War Industries Board. and will
bring to the Defence Council digested
information from all government de-
partments regarding labor questions
but will not have power TO take eXecu-
tive action.
Everything suggestive of coercion or
CONSUMPTION Of labor apparently IS be-
ing avoided by the council. Employ.
ment agencies of the Department OF
Labor. in successful operation for a
long time. will be utilized in obtaining
workers. but otherwise it is expected
that representatives of the workers
themselves will be relied on to recruit
the civilian army needed to back up
the fighting men.
The American Federation of Labor
has promised to cooperate. and Will
send officials here to confer with the
council. Semi official labor committees
attached 10 the council also will assist
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-01
Roosevelt Assails
Coolie Labor Plan

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Nov. 30.-In an
article 1.-THE Kansas City Star" will
publish tomorrow morning, entitled
"Mobilize Our Man Power" Theodore
Roosevelt will say:
alt has been announced from Wash
ington that in view of the shortage OF
labor on the farms there will be an
effort in Congress to permit the i'm
portation for temporary use on the
farms of Chinese coolies. do not De,
lieve the effort will be successful, and
IL il were successful il would be one
of the greatest calamities that could
befall the American people.
"Neither ought we to approve the
nlan. sometimes set forth by zealou
and ygh-minded men, to get the gsy-
eminent 10 open up vast tracts OF land
and farm it with wage labor. ms is
proposal 20 substitute wage-earning
agricultural proletariat for farming
population which owns the land 1t tills.
il is a move in exactly the wrong direc-
ton. We ought by law to do every
thing possible TO put stop to the
growth of an absentee landlord class
and of huge estates worked by tenant
farmers. Methods identical with or
similar TO those advocated by me in my
recent book, The Foes of Our Own
Household point the way 10 the proper
permanent solution OF the question.
"As a war measure, rather than adopt
either of the proposals above enumer-
dated. let rs deal boldly with the situs-
ton created by the existence of such
vast numbers Of men in good physical
condition who are not being utilized.
The best war asset and labor asset in
this country is the mass Of young men
from eighteen 10 twenty-one. This draft
law explicitly and unjustiiably excerpts
this class, although in the Civil War
most of the soldiers entered the army
when they were under twenty-one.