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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

or 13.1 per cent. had an income of $1,250 or more. The cities investi- gated were Johnstown, Pa, Montclair, N. J., Manchester, N. H., Brockton, Mass, Waterbury, Conn.,, Akron, Ohio, Sagniaw, Mich., and New Bedford, Mass.
 The number of women in industry has increased since the United States entered the war and in the new work CTS an increase was found in the pro portion of married women to single women. The high cost of living was given as one reason for the return of wives to positions in the Chicago stockyards which they held before marriage. The report adds:
 The employers feel that. within the next few months it will be practically inevitable that this increase in the number of women employed and in the proportionate gain of married over single women will go still fur ther''
 While close studies of maternal and infant mortality have shown the su- perior healthfulness of the country over cities, as a whole, it was found that isolation and low incomes may together overba1ance fresh air and wholesome surroundings. Particular ly in western grazing states, where the population is sparse and scattered, it was found that lack of care and med ical attention greatly increased the death rate among mothers and babies. Welfare work by industrial corpora tions in cities has reduced material ly the mortality among mothers,
 '"The importance of the care a mother receives before and at her child's birth is being constantly more fully recognized the report com ments.
 Whether or not children released from labor are obtaining the full benefits intended for them by the Child Labor Law will be the subject of future studies by the Bureau, which will endeavor to find out if they have gone into occupations not forbidden by law or are in school, or are both out of work and out of school. Chair man of the State Councils of Defense have been asked to report on the number of children not in school.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

HOLLY-XMAS TREES
 WREATHS JOHN RICK @ SON
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10
HUGHES TO PAY
 VISIT TO WILSON

Washington, Dec. 10.-Charles E. Hughes will call on President Wilson today. It was announced at the White House that MT. Hughes Woulo see the president at 1 p. m., but no intimation was given as to the on1ect of his call or whether the meeting was arranged at the instance or the president or MT Hughes,
 Today's- meeting between the two men will be the first time they have seen each other since before the pres- idential election.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

Prices truea advertise he e
  comprise hundreds Hnd er Consider below all others cheerfuly  Military Wrist Watches and Soldiers Kits from
 $500 to $25.00
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10
LAST APPEAL TO SAVE WISE FROM
 GALLONS DEATH

Hartford, Dec. 10-A final appeal to save William J. Wise from the gall lows was made to the board of par odns in session today at the state prison in Wethersheld Wise killed Mrs. Anna Tobin in New Britain early on the morning of Sept 29, while on leave of absence from Fort Slocum, where he was attached to the quar- termaster department. At the trial he alleged that an unknown man had att tackled Mrs. Tobin and him.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10
FRENCH WILL TALK PEACE AIMS WITH
 RUSSIAN PEOPLE

London, Dec. 10-lAIaurice Paleo- Iogue, the French ambassador to Russia, according to the Petrograd correspondent of the Times, has is- sued a declaration which includes statement of willingness to discuss
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10
PITTSFTEID MAN KILLED.

Ottawa, Ont, Dec. 10-E. L. Kipp Of Pittsdeld. Mass, Is included among the Americana appearing in the Can adian overseas casualty list issued last night.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

fE1ooverize your coal by us- ing electrical or gas irons. fCheaper, easier, better, more efficient way of ironing. fSaves coal, money. time, temper, fuss.
 fCleaner, quicker - and a
 better ironing job. fAfter all that, are you go-
 ing to stick to the stove heated iron?
 fBetter come in first and see our electric or gas irons.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

New York city contributed 1898 more men to the Yaphank army of drafted men.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-20

in the firing line for the sake of those ct home.
 And this, 1t seems to me, Is of paramount importance in view of cir cumstances which exist today clearly indicating that, as this country or ganizes for war quickly or slowly, we'll or badly, earnestly or haltingly- 50 will the end of the war be soon or long in coming"
 MT. Burton said that one of the reasons for the strange lethargy'' of the people of the United States was the policy of close censorship prac- ticed by the Entente Allies and that this policy already "has cost count less thousands of lives and untold treasure"
 "I earnestly hope 1t will not be re- peated here" said MT. Burton. ''The public is entitled to all the war news except those matters which military and naval experts judge to be of actual value to the enemy. Establish a censorship board of five newspaper men, with consulting military and naval advisers and proceed upon that broad and sim pie basis and there will be an end to all this foolish censor ship discussion. the public will get tho facts and military secrets unsuita ble for publication will be automatically withheld"
New Britain herald., 1917-06-20

secretary of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce, with offices in the Produce Exchange Annex, said yesterday that a heavy increase had taken place in exports from this country to Sweden because normal imports from Eng land, France and Germany had been shut out. He added that an official Swedish commission Twas now in Washington discussing the question of American exports.
 A Danish commission is also there, while one from Norway is expected to reach an American port shortly. Both of these will attempt to stave of a threatened curtailment of shipments to their respective countries. The Dutch minister has also made repre- sentations to the Washington govern ment in behalf of shippers desiring to continue trade relations with the Netherlands, and the Swiss govern ment is sending commission here.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-20
PATRIOTISM URGED
 l. FOR JULY FOURTH
Deeper Significance Attached to
 Observance This Year
Especial to the Herald) 1.


 Hartford. June 20.-Every commu- nifty in Connecticut will celebrate July this year as day of conse- cration to national ideals and day of dedication to national service. if the Connecticut state Council of De- fense succeeds in plans which it has undertaken through its committee on publicity. The defense council has decided that Independence day means more to the American this year than it usually does, and has voted to request officials in every town to consider this special signif- icance and arrange for the observ- ance of the day in such a manner that all the impressiveness of Amer ican tradition will be brought home to Connecticut citizens on this occa- sion.
 It Is not tho purpose of the state defense council to interfere in any way with plans for the observance of Independence day which many com munities already have developed. It's purpose is to induce communities in which no plans have been made for Fourth of July celebration to begin preparations at once for . proper ob- servance of the day. Some form of celebration Is expected in every com munfty by Governor Marcus H. Hol- comb and his war council.
 The council of defense publicity committee Is now engaged in prepar- ing a list of persons in the various communities to whom 1t may appeal for assistance in putting through it's Independence day celebration plans. Features which 1t will recommend for tho programs include nag rais- ings, music, both vocal and instru- mental. and speaking. The commit tee recommends that each town se- cure outside speakers as far as pos sible, and offers the cooperation of its speakers bureau in arranging for thess patriotic addresses. It will ask tho various communities to consider the advisability of special recogni- tion on Independence day this year for those men between the ages of 31 end Fl who registered on June 5 under the selective service law. both at the church service on Sunday. July first and at the patriotic gath erings on Wednesday, July fourth.
 Recognizing the position in which America finds herself on this Fourth of July. the defense councils com mfttee is pointing out the special re- iigfous sisnificance of the occasion.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-20

2 < F f ' kf l~XU The various comuiunities will
 asked. in planning their progrAma TIT the day, to consider that the indes% Npendence celebrated on July tfouftl was fought Tor by past generaticHl of Americana. and that the natioi& has now come to an hour when III citizens must fight to maintain th9] independence SO dearly bOuS34S23 Every community is to be urged &
 make the celebration of IndeSS g ence day, 1917, day of con66c! ton to national ideals, . day Of resE ognition of leadership from abtv6sl and . day Of preparation for servtcas;
 The council of defense has takS
 the position that the sale and uae O& fireworks this. year shouid be diS4a couraged in all communities in tho stAte Tn place of the fireworks,s which in the past have been costly in life, limb and money. public paIs triotic demonstrations gre stronglyi urged. .s5s $
 It is also probable that plans MIL be perfected within a day or two {a1 vigorous recruiting campaign Go}* Connecticut National Guard, and tlsAl recruiting on Independece day my form one of the principal features xpfl this occasion. ,s.. NJ 6
New Britain herald., 1917-06-20

deaf of the approanhing storm: de- spite all of these. today finds great masses of the population throughout the United States dangerously apa- thetic and oblivious to the acute peril which threatens them. It also finds this country astoundingly unprepared.
 Delays Mean Death
 T am not one of those who believe the Allies can be defeated-they must surely conquer in the end: but so serious are some features of the war situation today that unless the peo- pie of the United States awaken quick ly to full sense of their individual responsibilities and join heartily in the work of organizing the country, for war on an enormous scale, there is al- most certain to ensue . long period of ghastly fighting and worldwide suf- fering-with ruin and starvation on every sfde-and by . long period mean from nvo to twenty years, or more.
 The war program cannot be made effective without the full cooperation of the people. That cooperation can- not be expected until the people have been aroused to g full and complete understanding of the war, of what 1t means to them and their future. and of tho obligations and responsibili- ties which devolve upon them If 1t Is to be won within the next two years.
 "I would like to repeat with the utmost emphass what had the priv ilege of stating recently to the Mer- chants Association of New York. that it Is absolutely essential for those who are shaping the general war program. without further delay, to organize and project. under government direction, g great and farreaching campaign of information designed to make the people understand this war. It should be made to reach the eyes and the hearts and tho full understanding of the people by freely using the adver- tising and the news columns of every useful publication In the United States, and by using the movieA tho billboard. the post-omoes, the public buildinga the railway stations. and the public conveyances, as was done in the great publicity campaigns which were successfully used to arouse the people of England to a full sense of their danger and their responstbf1i- ties at 8 critical period of the war. In addition to this, schoolrooms, the lec- ture halls. the churches, the libraries, the caty halls. the public squares the meeting places of the people in every state of the Union should re- sound with tho voices of Americas greatest and most fofceful speakers. telling the people the full truth, the basic facts, about this war.
 '.If. coupled with this. urgently need ed campaign. there could be accom- plished a radical revision of the French and English censorship rules. permitting much freer flow of all sorts of war facts and war develop mepts from the fighting areas than is possible under existing conditions. the effsct, I feel sure. would be enor- mously beneficial to tho whole AL lied cause.
 Wants the Truth.
 For instance. would 1t not be the height of wisdom to rsveFee the poll
New Britain herald., 1917-06-20

icy which even yet conceals from
 the world the full truth about the
 incredible atrocities in Belgium.
 atrocities which, if possible, have
 been outdone in Rumanta, and which up to now have not been publicly d.s- closed; adopting new policy which
 would release to the whole world the story of appalling barbarities per-
 petrated by the Germans there many of them too horrible to de- scribe from public platform. but all of them serving to show the peo-
 pie here what they might expect in the event of Hun invasion of the United States: what sort of enemy. in fact, 1t is, that we are fighting; exposing the fiendish deviltry which caused thousands of poisoned candles, filled with typhus germs, to be dropped from German aeroplanes for RumaniAn children to pick up and eat; the tragic story of how the Queens little boy, her youngest, picked up one of these poison-laden sweets in her garden, ate 1t, sickened almost at once, lowered between life and death for weeks and finally died in her arms, this story being written by the queens own pen and sent to 8 lady who has recently returned to New York, and who has the letter with her now; the shocking story of how brutal German soldiers forced gentle and refined Rumanian women to disrobe in public, and then drove them In groups through the streets: the story of Rumania's pitiable plight today, with disease raging unchecked for lack of surgeons. physicians and medical supplies: the bloodcurdling details of scores of submarine ank- ings where non-comba blatant victims struggling for life in the water were ruthlessly shot or struck down at short range: or, when they escaped that horrible fate, where they were cast adrift in small boats on the high seas to die one after the other from madness and from thirst: and in a different category, the thrilling stories of those com bats in the air which are taking place every day over the fighting lines in France, stories of courage and daring the like of which have never been equaled in the wid- est realms of fiction: the countless stories of noble heroism, of human sacrifice and suffering for . great cause, which show in their true light the details of modern warfare, so persistently concealed, and so urgent ly needed to stir the peoples pulse and to make them feel and realize the truth and tho full truth about this gigantic struggle between might and right on the one side and might alone on the other.
 Reverse this policy of secrecy, let tho people at home have these and other true pictures of the war as 1t really Is, and firmly believe the TO- sponse would be electrical-the peo- pie of the United States would rouse as one man to their task. fired with patriotic fervor born of full and true understanding of what this war means to them and their future, of the individual obligations 1t imposes upon those at home as well as upon those who are constantly facing death
New Britain herald., 1917-06-20
SHIPPERS IN FEAR
 OF EMBARGO LAW
Many Anxious Concerning l-
 Censes to Be Issued by Govt.

New York, June 20.-Plans for making New York the chief center for the administration of the export of provisions of the espionage law and the Trading -the- Enemy bill, about to be enacted into law. are ex- pected to be given big impetus when Dr. E. B. Pratt, Chief of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Washington, arrives here today or to- morrow to confer with officials of the local office of the bureau, located in the custom house. It also was thought possible that the preferential ship ment measure, when it becomes a law may dovetail to some extent into the administration of the two other meas ures, at least when the question of rail transportation for merchandise for exportation is concerned.
 ID. E. Casey, commercial agent of the local bureau, said that, while g. big expansion of the local offices ac- ttvities was projected, with a view to dealing adequately with the changed conditions to govern export trade. neither the bureau nor the department Of commerce was prepared to outline the procedure to be followed. The exceptional powers conferred upon President Wilson, and through him on Secretary Redfeld, to issue licenses and otherwise decide where and to whom shipments abroad shall be made have caused much anxiety among shippers in this city, as we'll as those inland who use this port for forward ing foodstuffs. war munitions. and supplies abroad. Exporters calling at the local ofice of the bureau recently have, 1t was said, evinced interest chiefly in the system of export licenses to be adopted by the government.
 Representatives of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce were sent here from Washington a fort night or more ago to make prelim- mary survey of the facilities existing in the local office for handling the immense export business expected to develop as soon as the two laws are made effective. It was thought prob ably that additional ofice space would have to be found in the Custom house, Is expected to allot extra space on the seventh floor for the granting of licenses and the carrying on of the other details of the embargo acts.
 A special committee, of which Dr. Pratt is a member, has been at work for some time on the tentative regu- lations to cover procedure. It was said yesterday that this committee had had prepared elaborate tables of exports from the United States to neutrals. especially the Scandinavian countries and the Netherlands. cov- erig period of years, together with a mass of other information useful to the government ofimcials in deciding what amounts and classes of exports could properly go forward from here without fear of diversion of parts of the supplies to Germany.
 |. With the opening of the export bureau hero. one of the first matters to be taken up will relate to the al- lowances of American foodstuffs and other supplies required to ration Sweden. Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands. without at the same time allowing Germany to obtain American products. o. G. Marcel,
New Britain herald., 1917-06-20
[lC MUST AWAKE ID WARS REALITY
leoy Burton FaVors Wide Campaign of Education

Atlanta. Ga. June 20.-A nation
 e4e campaign of information "de-
 Derately designed to bring the people
 the United States quickly to a Borough understanding of all phases f the war, of why we are in 1t, of the dnd of enemy we are fighting, and of &&Me urgent necessity for the whole @4ple of the United States to join 4Eh their very hearts and souls in the 81pendous task" was advocated by ptneroy Burton. in an address which (1e delivered today before the Interna-
 2ual Rotary convention here. MT.
 nrton, the well-known American
 nrnalist in London, who has been
 kuring In the United States upon
 rplad0n Of the United States to
 " var. spoke as follows:
 For nearly three years the grim $&la honys index finger of war has s6ointed straight this way.
 Tor nearly three years, and each 8&ncneelling day with accommodating &E&rce. surgent reasons have existed\ for ttlng in order the defensive machin- RSy Of this country.
 liter nearly three years of war af(A scale such as the world never aoamod of before, involving country sMeGor country. and sweeping steadi- Ell on. liko m; overwhelming tidal 2 SS1Uo. with warning after warning of sko most definite character-the Lust- x ta. tho ,sussex. the Arabic-with 2 Elethen1nr flashes and deafening peals s61 4lunder from the darkening skies til all who were not blind and
New Britain herald., 1917-06-20
TEETH|'||INC BABIES
 ALL SMILES
Mothers Rest and Stop
 Worrying.

This news may seem too good to be true, but it sure Is right,
 Young mothers are getting wise and listening to the tips experienced mothers are handing out.
 Hundreds of mothers right in your own home town testify since using ''Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup that teething babies have lost all terrors for them, they know they need not worry after 8 few doses. As ono fond mother expressed ''It seems to act like Q charm. you could see the little one pick up and improve from the first dose.''
 Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup sure is a long looked for blessing for teething kiddies, 1t takes right hold. and mind you not Q grain of dope. the formula right on the bottle. too. so you know just what you are giving. No hit or miss about Mrs Windows syrup"
 Every mother owes 1t to the suffer ing child, to relieve it with ''Winslow'a Soothing Syrup" It does the trick. you can see the little one brace up with the first dose. where before pain and tears. now smiles and good nature.
 Old folks take children's troubles as q, matter of course and think. Well we all went through them." sounds | o. K. but does not help the kiddies. Give the little ones chance mother. do your part. get bottle o1 .'winslow's Soothing Syrup today Sold and recommended by Nood druggists everywhere. For sale lr New Britain by Seltzer's Prescription Pharmacy
New Britain herald., 1917-06-20
NEW CLERGYMAN HERE

Former Pastor of Attleboro, Mass, Assigned to A. M. E. Zion Church
 Rev. Gur1ey for Missionary Work.
 Rev. Governor H. Staton, for the past eighteen months pastor of the A. M. E.. Zion church at Attleboro, Mass, and previous to that located in New York. has been assigned to New Britain and has already arrived here and taken charge of the local A. M E. Zion church. Rev. M. s. Gurley, the former pastor, is now enrolled in mis- sionary work by the New England an- nual conference which met at Hart ford from June to June Il.
 The new clergyman has an excel lent record and has been we'll received by his new parishionrs. During the eighteen months that he was with the Attleboro church he succeeded in liquidating a fifteen years standing mortgage.
 Rev. Mr. Staton has letters of recom- mendation and endorsement from the following Attleboro mon: Edward E. odist Episcopal church; J. Leo Mitch ell. Ph. D.. pastor Of the Second Con- gregational church; Charles H.. Pen- noyer. director of the A&tleboro Com- munity Fellowship and pastor of the Murray Universalist church: Alvin E. Norman, rector of All Saints Episco- pal church. and Harold B. Sweet mayor of Attleboro.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-20
EXAMINE RECRUITS SATURDAY

EXAMINE RECRUITS SATURDAY
 The young men from New Britain who signed with the ambulance .oom- pany being formed in this city. Mer1- den and Mtddletown will be examined and sworn in by Captain L. o. Tarle- to of the Medical corps, United States army. who will be located at tho local state armory from o'clock in the morning on. Captain Tarleton will be in New Britain for this one day. and intends to examine and swear in all the local recruits on that day.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-20

c. M. Grococl<, 1ss Main street i closing out . good many Of his mold hats at $1.oo.-Advt.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-20
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