Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-29
WEST SIDE PLOT
 AWAITS AN APPLICANT
Has Been Flowed and Narrowed and
 is Ready for Planting.

there is one plot on the West Side
 which is already for planting but for
 which no application has been made. He also said that there is still a quan- l ttty of bush beans on hand for distri button. During the past week thirty | three plots were made ready and as- signed and fortysix more are in pro I cess of blowing and narrowing. It is the intention to start a system
 of regular inspection of the gardens
 under the control of the Home Garden
 Committee and the factory plots where such supervision has been applied for. There are hundreds in Connecticut. we believe, who want to do something | for their country in this crisis and do
 not know what they can do or how to | go about finding out" said a state
 ment issued Monday by the Connecti- | cut Council of Defense. These people ! can 1earr of real. patriotic work to be done by writing to the office of the | state defense council at the state cap- | itol, Hartford. This council is Con necticut's arm of tle Council of Ma l ticnal Defense for carrying on the civ | :lian activities of the war It repre- scnts democracy in action
 The Council of National Defense 1 consists of members of the president 8 | cabinet and an advisory board of pri- | vate citizens of eminence. The cab | 1net members serving on It are the sec culture, commerce and labor. The ad- visorv board members are Daniel Will | Hard Howard E. Coffin. Dr. Hollis Godfrey. Julius Rosenwald. Bernard M.
 Barueh, Samuel Gompers and Dr. Franklin IT. Martin.
 The routine methods of offfcialdom break down or are paralyzed under stress. The Council of National De- ! rense cuts the red tape. The members of the Connectisut Council of Defense are: Richard NJ. Bissell, Hartford, as
 chairman. Joseph W Alsop. Avon: Winchester Bonnet. New Haven; D..
 Chester Brown. Danbury: Adiutant tant General George NJ Cole, Hart ford; Homer s. Cummings. Stamford: : Howard A. Giddjngs. Hartford: Chas. 4 Goodwin. Hartford; Richard H. M.
 Robinson. Bridgeport; Julius Strem-
 lau. Meriden and Harris Whittemore. Naugat,ick
 There are to be ten sub-committees of the Connecticut council. Chairmen appointed by the council have accepted as follows:
 gal, Iucius F. Robinson: food supply
 and conservation. George NJ. Landers: industrial survey, Frank D. Cheney:
 man power and labor Herbert Knox
 smith; military and naval, Admiral w.
 S. Cowles. U. s. Navy. retired.
 Other committees will be, finance,
 co-ordinatton of societies and trans
 por!ation.
 The Publicity committee has been
 completed and consists of the follow
 ing members: George B. Chandler,
 chnirlnan Isidore Wise, Hartford;
 Rev. William A. Keefe, PIainfield;
 Judge T. F. Noone, Rockville: WIT. "
 Dee, Bridgeport: Edward P Jones. of
 1h personnel of other committees will
 te ann nounced within a few days.
 All sorts of individual organizations and clubs have rolled up their sleeves for service. There is danger of vast amount of wasted energy. The state council ot defense will act as a clear ing house for these various activities.
 If person or organization is trying to l" something that is already being done by some one else. the two agen- cies will be brought together. The council of defense i'll act as a clear ing house for these various activities. If a person or organization is trying to do something that is already being done by some one else, the two agen- cfes will be brought together. The council especially desires all individ- uals or organizations that are now act ing to report to it's office what they are doing so that the work may be recorded and co-ordinated.
 Connecticut has contributed one DOT table sawmill unit for England. it was announced by the Connecticut Council of Defense. Zen such units are to be sent across the water by New Eng land, an deach of the six states of this section now has given one unit. The other four are to be provided by n. At the request Of Governor Marcus H. Holcomb and the state council of defense. the state board of control has approved an appropriation of s12,00O for this purpose
 There is a great need in England for these sawmill units and men to handle them. for England knows lit tie or nothing about getting out tim Der. The attention of this country was first called to this when the Mass m faa So fafx received, through Vernon Wiley, an American engaged in British war ser vice, information that England was ex- periercing difficulty in securing suff1- cfent timber for her forces in France owing to lack of skilled lumbermen and equipment. The cooperation of the United States war department in this work has been approved.
 The plan is to deliver to the British government at some American port the ten sawmill units, fully equipped with sufficient men, horses, tools and all assembled at the earli- gone cut for subscriptions to meet the $4S,0oo cost of the additional units needed over those which the states will provide. H. G. Philbrook, State House. Boston. Mass. is the treasur- CT.
 Several hundred men will go with !; the outfit and arrangements have been | made with the British embassy that | they shall receive wages from the time | of sailing
 Great quantities of timber are need | ed at all times by the armies in France 1 for snoring up trenches and hundreds | of other imperative war uses. By | in this nlan. Connecticut | and the rest of New England are help 1 ing in an important part of providing needed materials for the man on the firing line.
 The Connecticut Council of Defense and Governor Marcus H. Holcomb nave both approved the daylight saw ng plan" a war measure. This action Is in line with that taken by he governors of the five other New England states. the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety md the Rhode Island legislature. Press re- ports indicate that President Wilson tlso has approved this plan.
 The daylight saving plan contem-