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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-03

dent Of the Bridgeport Equal Fran
chise league, who will entertain at tea
for her in the Brooklawn Country
club after the lecture. Besides Miss
Rankin, Mrs. Shaws guests will in
clude the ushers and a number Of
prominent suffragists Of the city
The ushers for the lecture will in
clude Walter b. Lashar, John S.
Pullman, Richard w Cogswell, Will
liam f. Seeley, Parker Seeley, DR..
George Hawley, Radcliffe Sprott, Is
rael Cohn, Samuel c. Shaw, William
T. Hincks and Hon. Henry Sherwood.
Sitting on the platform while Miss
Rankin is speaking will be Mayor
Clifford 3. Wilson, John T. King, Sell
atOr Frederick A. Bartlett, Senator
John Y. Caldwell, Lynn w. Wilson,
Archibald Mcneil, Jr., Elmer Ravens
and the ushers. Mr.. King will intro
duce Miss Rankin.
A number of persons have engaged
boxes for the lecture are Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter b. Lashar, Mr.. and Mrs Will
liam T. Haviland, Mrs. Charles Read,
Mr.. and Mrs. William E. Seeley, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Stewart Garfield,
Hon. and Mrs. Henry Sherwood of
Westport, Mrs. G. Ray Of Greenwich,
the senior class of Rosemary hall,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-03

party" said he.
Then he spoke Of the expense of
the proposed measure. "Connecticut
is rich-rich beyond the dreams Of
Creosus," said Mr.. ing. 1T seems
as if we had quit baseball as a ma
tional sport, and gone into perjury
instead, swearing off our taxes.
1.-The funds are easy enough to get
the question is only whether the
principles are good. The way to get
the money is by taxation"
Mr.. King was followed by Attorney
Spotswood d. Bowers of Bridgeport
who drafted the measure. He ex-
planned the substitute measure, which
follows the underlying principles of
the original bill. The agricultural
and Industrial commission it is pro-
posed to create would embody nine
members two from the state grange;
one Of the board of trustees of Stoors
Agricultural college; two employers;
two employees, and two women, one of
whom shall be an employe in a man
ufacturing plant, the other versed in
social welfare work. The salaries of
the members would be $4,000, with
an extra $1,000 for the chairman. all
the members to be appointed by the
governor, they to elect their chair
man.
Mr.. Bowers then supported the
agricultural provisions by citing the
Federal census report of 1910 as to
farm values in Connecticut, indicat-
ing the need of a stimulus for agri-
cultural effort in the state. He went
through the provisions calling for aid
in REPRESENTATION; providing for loans
for the purchase of fertilizer and seed
in event of crop failure; explained the
state farm loan bureau; dwelt on the
importance of carrying out the pro-
posed improvement of bylaws in
towns of less than 5000 as a means
towards bringing the farmers into
closer touch with the consumers.
AS, to- the free employment bureau,
he said the trainers Of the bill were
not insistent upon this feature, or
any other feature whose underlying
principle the committee might see fit
to attain in any other. way.
He defended the provision which
provides for the legalization of farm
ers' combines, also upon the peace
full assembly clause which would be
of interest to labor unions. There
also is an 8 hour Industrial work day
provided.
Legislation has assisted capital -
said Mr.. Bowers. ''Now that the la
Dor unions are organized, they have
been able to force legislation none too
willingly granted. The principle we
should all stand for is the greatest
good of the greatest number
He explained the supervision that
the commission would have in COM
pulsory extension Of public utilities
services Of telephone, water and gas
and added that in this, if the COM
mittee believes the power should lie
in the Public Utilities commission,
there was no objection.
The minimum wage provision calls
for a public hearing upon complaint
of any worker, and the fixing Of a
minimum wage, the right of appeal
always being provided. Fourteen
states have similar laws, said Mr..
Bowers, and the supreme court is ex-
pected to decide upon the first test
case as to constitutionality next week.
The constitutional theory upon which
the state undertakes to fix the mini
mum wage is that the employer takes
the entire work Of the employee, and
that the state is entitled to see that
the employe shall not be forced
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-03
Bridgeport Artists
Composition Will Be
Played in Symphony

One of the features Of the concert
which the Bridgeport Symphony or
chestra will play at the Bridgeport
Musicians association room tomor-
row afternoon will be the rendition OF
Our Teddy" march, the composition
Of a Bridgeport musician. Oscar
Knablin, the author, is the leader OF
the Palace theatre orchestra. It will
be the first time composition has been
played at a concert.
Forty musicians will take part in
the concert which will be begun al
$3.50. It is the second concert OF
the Symphony series. Samuel Da-
vey, Jr., leader of the Poll theatre or
chestra, will direct. Besides "Ou1
Teddy march, the program is:
March, 'tTannhauser," r. Wagner;
Her Soldier Boy Sigmund Rom
berg: Raymond overture, A. Thomas
and Pilgrim chorus, "Tannhauser," r.
Wagner. ~
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-03

through insufficient wages to go to
the poor house.
The health insurance clause pro-
vides that workers, employers, and
state pay equally to the cost. The
worker pays 10 cents a week. The
average illness of the employe is nine
days to the year, and when he is dis
abled, under the proposed measure,
he would receive tWo-thirds of his
wages. This clause aims to make
what now, often is charity for the
worker, matter of right. 1t pro-
vides that the insurance should be
done through a private company, on
the theory that it would be cheaper
than for the state to undertake to
run a special insurance bureau Old
age and mothers pensions also are
provided.
After Evart e. Brown had humor-
ously offered himself as a candidate
for the commission, Jasper McLevy
Of Bridgeport said he did not aspire
to any of the $4,000 plums, nor was
he Republican politician. ITO my
mind" said he, ''this is the best or
ganized plan that has ever been Of
fered to the legislature to thoroughly
VI 6d1IIAC oil lIlc various forces OF the
state. Shortage OF food and high
prices would largely be obviated if
the farming interests Of the state were
assisted in the development Of their
resources.
II don't agree, politically, with the
man who introduced this BILL" said
he, "but believe heartily in the pass
age of legislation of this kind
Rep. Maurice e. Miner, a Democrat
of Plymouth, endorsed especially the
agricultural features of the bill
The committee on the judiciary
comprises Senators George w. Klett,
Of New Britain, chairman; Senator
Frederick A. Bartlett, and Represen-
tatives Peasley, Cheshire; Bailey,
Norwich; Huxford, Stamford; Back,
Killingly; Sherwood, Westport;
Geary, Waterford; Taylor, Danbury;
Mardsden, Madison; Brown, Milford
Leete, Enfield; Jones, New Hartford.
There are only two Democrats, Judge
John c.. Geary Of Waterford, and At
| torney Howard Taylor of Danbury
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-03

Greenwich, with Miss Caroline Ruutz
Reez and Mrs. William D. Bishop who
will have as her guests Mrs. Marie
Fowler of Washington and Mrs. Ma
than Heft.
Among those who have reserved
large sections Of seats for parties OF
friends are Mr.. and Mrs Samuel
Wheeler, Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar w.
Bassick, Mr.. and Mrs. James r.
Roche, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs. William T.
Hincks, Nh. and Mrs. E. w. Harral,
Mr. and Mrs. j Percy Bartram and
Mr.. and Mrs. John S. Pullman.
Miss Rankin will hold a public re-
ception on the stage of the theatre
following the lecture and all mems
bers of the audience will be inviteF
to come forward and meet her.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-03
GREAT INTEREST
IN MISS RANKIN,
CONGRESSIONAL
John T. King Will Intro.
duce Legislator From
Montana, At Lyric

The coming of the Miss Jeanette
Rankin, Congresswoman from Mon
tana to speak at the Lyric theatre at
3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, is one
of the most looked forward to events
Of the season. Miss Rankin, who will
talk on LET the People Know, will
be accompanied by Miss Caroline
Ruutz- Reez, the head Of Rosemary
Hall school in Greenwich. During
her stay in this city she will be the
guest Of Mrs. Samuel G. Shaw, presi-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-03
Danielson Company
Hasn't Come Here
to Guard Bridges

At the headquarters Of the Ninth
Company, Coast Artillery Corps, at
the railroad depot, guarding of the
railroad bridge continued as hereto
fore Il was said by officers in COM
mand.
A report that Governor Marcus
Holcomb had ordered the Thirteenth
Company, Coast Artillery Corps, of
Danielson, to replace the Ninth Com
pany, stationed in Bridgeport, is not
confirmed, no orders having been
transmitted to the command in this
city.
The price Of gasoline in the leading
New York garages was advanced
From RI C2 cents a gallon
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-03

The Commercial Cable Co. an
nounced that the Guam Manila cable
has been repaired, restoring direct
cable communication with the Philip
pines and China
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-03
SEEK ARMED SHIP PASSAGE

New York, March 3.-Numerous
applications have been made for pas
sage on the first armed steamship Of
the American line to sail from this
port, officials of this company an
nOunced.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-03

Kaiser William is confined to hif
room with a severe chill.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-04-04
sas.:.Ss..:.-

b, A foreign war for conquestf on a
large scale will be the grave of re-
publican institutions. Woodrow Will
son has struck the right key EARNED
neutrality" 1t embodies the princi-
Piles laid down by Washington and
Monroe and beautifully carried out in
the war with Spain.
Monarchies flourish on wars of con-
quest and aristocracies always fatten
in war, but military government is
untitled for real republic. America
is the world leader in democracy, Ger
many of autocracy. Our war is not
so much against the German people
as to destroy an ideal, which, if it tri-
umphed, would enslave the German
people as much as ourselves.
There were two autocrats in Eu-
rope, the czar and the kaiser; both
names mean Caesar. One is over
thrown by the spirit of democracy
and is prisoner of his own people;
perhaps the same fate awaits the
other. There is something wonder
fully contagious in democracy. It's
spirit moves in the wind and is borne
in the rays of The sun to the dark
places.
Let us pray that the air of freedom
may be borne westward across the
war-swept plains Of Poland into Ger
many.
| believe that Germany will lose in
the end, not because the allies are
superior financially and numerically,
but because with her treatment of
conquered people and ruthless subma-
rlnc warfare, she has outraged the
conscience of the world.
The entry of the United States adds
moral and spiritual force greater
than money or numbers. Peace is not
a manufactured growth. In war be-
tween ideas it will come only when
the time is ripe. The entry of the
United States will be a powerful fac
tor IN the revival Of confidence in the
progress of society and the high des
tiny Of mankind. Thus will hasten
peace.
Human suffering means human adj
vancemcnt.
When it is all over, there will be no
kings claiming to rule by divine right
All government will rest on the con-
sent of the governed.
Right will make might, and the
strong nation will respect the weak.
When peace does come it will flow
like river and "joy and gladness
cover the earth as water covers the
sea-"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-04-04
NO EENTANGLING ALLIANCE
s WITH ANY FOREIGN NATION
Ex-senator John l.. McLaurin on the
q War Says Monroe Doctrine Will. BE
"a Dead if We Help Others Instead of
DEF ending Ourselves.

Abbeville, S. c., March 29.-Ex-
9Senator John l.. McLaurin spoke to-
highs, ,-at the Abbeville cotton mill
I. under therauspices Of the United Tex
tile Worker$"of America. He urged
I the Importance of organization, and
: preparedness. The hal! was filed to
\ overfiowing, and the speakers re-
marks on the war were listened to
with profound attention.
\ The following is a summary of what
he said:
"This is the first war ever fought
entirely on credit. 1t is costing the
!. nations 40 million dollars day for
which they are issuing bonds.
The aggregate earning of all the
}. people in all the countries is almost
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-04-04

20 million dollars day, so that they
are spending each day five times what
all the people earn.
BY the end Of the third year of the
war the bonded war debt Of these ma
tons win amount to 100 billion dol
lars and with the debt accrued prior
to the war will be 1870 billion dollars.
The accumulations of century is be-
ing destroyed and the earnings of the
next century mortgagcd.
This debt is greater than all the
wealth of Italy and France combined
or that Of either England or Germany.
In the March number of Harper's
Mr.. Davies says that the interest on
the war debt of England will be six
times all of the taxes she collected the
last year of peace-that it will take
25 cents out of the dollar Of every
man woman and child.
EnvelOp the Earth.
The flames of this war cnvclop the
earth. Men look into each others
faces by the red glare which blazes
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-04-04
One Disadvantage.

u d 4 3 "a
sE"I see you are wearing a new pair
of Shoes" the fat plumber remarked,
as the thin carpenter boarded the
street car.
"Yep. Have to get 'em once in a
while"
"It's awful how expensive shoes are
now and how quickly they wear out"
"That's why I bought this kind"
"What kind are they?"
"Moose hide soles."
care they pretty good?"
"There is no wear out to them"
Cpl have to get me pair"
"There is only one fault to be found
with them."
"What's that 2"
"a man gets kind of tired carrying
around big bag of sand"
"Whaddye want to carry the sand
for?"
"!n wet weather the moose hide
soles get so slippery you have to
carry the sand to sprinkle on the
pavement to, keep from skidding."-
Youngstown Telegram.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-04-04

down from the midnight sky, and
trembling ask what it means? The
civilization of a thousand years and
20 centuries of christianity vanished
in night. Every humane impulse
is gone. Men become wild beasts Is
it Armageddon The word means a
great plain, the great destruction, the
Judgment Of God, the final struggle
1t may be that America is now TAX
ing her place for the final battle be-
tween error and truth, the conflict
foretold in holy writ and dimly seen
by poet and painter, where the i'm
mortal soul of man finally overcome
this brute nature.
do not know. These are grand
and awful times. Something colossal
ly good or colossally evil must come
from such tremendous uphcaval.
Disaster in the Air.
Wherever | go, whether in the
quiet of my farm, revcling in the
small of the fresh turned earth, or
amid the strife and clamor of busy
Wall street, l sense a general feeling
among the people, that something of
appalling magnitude is bound to
happen. A mystical sense of i'm
pending evil is in the air. 1t has hung
over us like a pail since the Lusi-
tania went to her ocean grave. This
universal feeling, half doubt and half
fear, it at once warning and a call
from God to action. The hour has
struck.
am in favor OF the United States
raisin an army for SELF DEFENSE,
| o. s than two million men, and
! .ntil our navy can protect
| oln encroachments of any
fo. ,wer. / am NOT IN FAVOR
OF AN ALLIANCE WITH ANY EU-
ROpEAN POWER, nor of sending
troops to Europe, but of arming our
merchant ships and using every
means to wipe the seas clean of
illegal blockadcs and submarines.
England's declared monopoly of the
sea has cost no lives, but in COM
mcrcial way it is as dangerous as the
miiitarism of Germany. 1t is only
another phase of the same spirit.
On the 22d day of each February
in both houses of congress, George
! Washington farewell address is
solemnly read from the speakers
desk. "No entangling foreign al.
liances," and the Monroe doctrine arc
the foundation Of our foreign policy
The moment we send an army as
the allies of the European army, it is
the END OF THE MONROE DOC
TRINE.
say that we should make our foh
on the ocean, and remain on our ow !.
dunghili, ready to tackle any rooster
that cones on it.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-04-04
Just Like a Man.

"What do you suppose I have done
today, darling? ?" he asked.
81 don't know, dear. You know I
was never good at guessing"
"Had my life insured"
"That's just like you, Will White!
All you seem to thing of is yourself"
-Jack-o'-Lantern.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-12-24

lading securing bonds under which cars can be
promptly released and urging the handling of
bills of lading through the fewest number of banks.
A clear understanding of the value of this kind of
cooperation may be cleaned from this fact. Until
the board began its campaign for the intensive
loading of freight the average load of a
only AZ per cent of its capacity. In word, more
than so per cent of the space ordered not
utilized. Today, In response to the plea of the rail
roads, great majority of the shippers using
anywhere from 20 to 100 per of the capacity of
the cars. Some even loading from > to 10 per
cent beyond the marked capacity
One phase of work which the railroads have
undertaken and which has caused criticism the
part Of the unthlnking citizen has been the curtall
ment of unnecessary passenger service 1t was not
without misgivings that the Railroads War
Board suggested this step to the roads, but it
necessary at the moment to insure the safety of the
country and the proper conduct of the than that
the railroads be able to handle the utmost possible
amount of freight.
Every passenger train eliminated releases loco
motives, train and track space that sorely
needed for freight service. 1t means too i'm
tons year. These facts not theories The rail
roads reduced their passenger service solely to in
crease the facilities for handling freight.and to save
coal-and for no other reason. The public must
derstand this. 1t must understand too that every
ton of coal. every locomotive, every mile of track
space, every whose duties absorbed by
fort to the enemies of the United States by weaken
ing the most important branch of entire trans
portation systematic moving of food, fuel and sup
lies.
The Government and the railroads need more than
patience from the travelling public IN solving
the transportation problem that the has
stoned They need the active cooperation of every
who railroad car either directly or IN
directly: they need team work between the shipper
the consignee and the railroad employee and also
the banks through which clearances made; for
every day that a be prevented from remain
ing idle anywhere is valuable putting brand
into service for twenty -four hours. 1t Is
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-12-24

public has enabled the railroads to handle not only
the troop movements but increase of than
20 per cent in freight traffic, with practically the
same facilities that they had in normal times
Cooperation from the employees Themselves has
been particularly inspiring. Track walking may not
appeal to many people patriotic sort of job but
the track walkers in the railroad army have made it
one. BY increased vigilance in watching out for
and repairing damages in rails tes-condi-
tons that might plunge whole tranload of soldiers
to destruction ruin thousands of dollars worth of
also helped to the supply of live stock need
ed for food by this country and the Allies by keeping
all right of way fences in good repair to reduce
the amount of live stock that killed by trains
Little things, but they count
Staying the job and saving coal the two
contributions that the locomotive engineers max
ing to their country in its present crisis Railroad
labor has never been 1t is today The
draft has taken many and the railroad regi-
cruited from the employees of the railroads of this
country.
Knowing these things, scores of engineers old
enough to retire are staying their jobs now
ming their engines economically in order to coal
and keeping their heavy locomotives in condition so
that they may be kept out of the repair shop and
duty as long possible.
The firemen doing their bit too, and in
similar way.
In the freight branch of the service. the freight
traffic have set themselves to the task of edu-
eating the shipper up to time appreciation of
the value of cooperation In all parts of the country
they at work helping him devise schemes for
double loads and for making the most economical use
of They also at work night and day to
detect delays to shippers order notify consign-
ments consequent upon the non-arrival of bills of
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-12-24
] he Freight Cars Appeal
Load Me Quickly
Load lie to Capacity
Unload Me Promptly
Help Win the War;

fullest possible of the existing rolling stock
Make one do the work of two" was the
slogan which the Railroads War Board early
adopted and not only the freight handlers and rail-
road men themselves, but the shippers well have
rallied royalty to it.
The Railroads Slogan.
As result, the so-called car shortage which
amounted to 14s,627 cars on May LIST of this year.
was reduced to 1851 September lst. An
arithmetical extension of such decrease would
begin to show actual car surplus within the next
month, but unfortunately, do not progress
along arthmetical lines, and in all probability
the shortage will soon begin to increase again.
For the fall and winter are always the seasons of
the heaviest traffic upon railroads, and to them
this year is TO be added the vast traffic necessities
OF our ever growing military movements More
over, IN September feature annually shows
itself consequential in the railroad traffic situa-
ton The food crops begin to These crop
movements cannot be delayed They must have
both cars and the most expeditions movement. So,
too, must the material and the finished prod
ucts of our ammunition factories. Fuel also must
move. And so must the troops.
=, UP to the present time, cooperation of type
that was never thought possible the part of both
railway employees and the shipping and travelling
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-12-24

nv THEN the United States entered the war
NJ the first question that every rcd-blooded
asked himself was:
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-09-05
!, Associated Press.

ROME, Sept. Slate dispatches fran General Cardona announce that tk Italian forces are now in complete pc sseson of the entire chain of noun
 ta ms running north and south from c .rizla and have also captured Monte s; Il Gabrile, northeast of the city in q magnificent assault which drove tie Austrians back in disorder. More tan one thousand prisoners were taken in this and other assaults along u.e Gorizia front, together with great stores of military supplies. Every inn pertant position along the IsinZo is m W in the possession of the Cardona ftces and the Italians continue to
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-09-05
SENATE REJECTS MORE WAR
 PROFITS AMENDMENTS
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.-(Dclay- ed in transmisson)- additional designed to effect huge increases in the government taxation on war profits were rejected by the senate today following spirited debate in which the opposition speakers de- clared that the excessive taxation de- manded in the amendments was strk- ing at the safety of the country by forcing a suppression of industry and commerce.
 An amendment calling for a tax of sixty per cent on inflated profits was decisively rejected as was also another calling for a tax of fifty eight per cent. The vote in both cases ap- pears a clear indication that the final figure agreed upon by the senate will be far below that designated in the defeated amendments