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Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24
MOST TERRIBLE
ALTERNATIVE is
FACING GERMANY
Swiss Journalist Says Sugges-
ton for Killing OF Old
People Is Considered.
EITHER THAT OR
FACE HUNGER PANGS
Glittering. Hopes Dangled Be
fore People Have Proved
But Shadows.

will the Germans kill of their
old people? In all seriousness the
Possibility is suggested here by a
Swiss journalist who has just re-
turned from a shoht visit to Ger
many.
London;-
Despite the glittering hopes dangled
before them. Germans today see a
great shadow over their country.
That shadow is hunger.
They all know from the Kaiser
down to tho Berlin washerwoman
that unless they can obtain speedy
peace it will be quite impossible for
them to hod out for the coming har-
vest.
The situation will in all likelihood
be so terrible that in July that not q
few of the worlds soberest thinkers
believe that Germany will collapse in
ternally before her army can be de-
feated in the field.
1t is for this reason that neutrals
who know Germany assert that the
Germans with their readiness to sac
rifice the world to Moloch, will not
hesitate to get rid of all averaged
men and women whose age and infm-
ity prevent them from helping to car
ry on the war-who cannot work, but
who must be fed.
GRIM ALTERNATIVE.
Such an idea is horrible and revolt
ing to anyone who is not a Hun, but
there is every reason to think that
has been terminating some long time
in the Hun mind.
1t follows the axiom Of a great Ger
man military leader who laid down
as first principle of warfare that not
a single person, with the exception OF
children, was to be given food unless
the military machine.
The Germans are now faced witt
the grim fact that six million mouths
at the very least have to be hlled
three times a day, without the army
being in the least better off for the
loss of the valuable food consumed.
The cold1bIooded, calculating Ger
man, with his grim devotion to the
war machine, can never overcome his
regret for the loss of these eighteen
million meals day
IT is for this reason that observers
have limited that there is nothing more
likely than that Hun males and re-
males over 10 will receive polite In
timation that early suicide Will be
helpful to all concerned. and that the
hint will be emphasized by the cut
ting-off Of rations. -
The Germans were never noted fo1
sentleness towards neighbors or kind
ly feelings, but this regularly increas-
| ing shortage of food, this incessan'
sapping away the vitality Of nation
already exhausted on the battlefield
of Europe, if continued is adding t.
the acerbity of public manners.
There is a general hardening of the
Hun mind against tho slightest YES
tige of sentimentality. For this reas-
on there is little ground 20 disbeIeve
that when the Kaiser gives the order
for the aged to die for the sake o.
Germany, the younger people will Sc
that the order is carried out, so tina
the rations of those remaining may IL
greater. Ry the International NV
| Bureau Inc Boston,
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24
100000 FEEBLE MINDED PERSONS !
IN The UNITED STATES DECLARES
CHARITIES ASSOCIATION SECRETARY

Kansas City, Mo, May 17-"Fee-
"Reminiscences is sapping vital forces
of the nation and is a very real dan
ger to democracy" George A. Hast
ings, Executive Secretary of the Men
tai Hygiene Committee of the State
Charities Aid Association of New York
asserted in an address before the Ma
tional Conference OF Social Work
here today. AS a cure for the evil the
speaker advocated community con-
troll through Identification, registra-
ton. instruction, supervision and Sc
gregation.
"A complete census of the feeble
minded in this country has never been
taken, but it is estimated that there
| is one feebleminded person to every
ESQ of the population, or approximate
ly 400, 900 in ALL" Mr.. Hastings said
about $4,000 men have been reject
ed from the new National Army on
| account of nervous and mental disor-
ders; and one-third of these were
rejected on account of feebleminded-
ness.
49,
| importance of controlling feeblemind-
edness, or the increasing burden OF
crime ,inefhciency, disease, immoral
ity and poverty resulting from it will
stagger coming generations. The ef-
feet of the prevalence of feeblemind-
| edness on the effective man-power 81
the nation, in tn light of the National
Army figures, can scarcely be called
negligible.
st is becoming more and more
| evident that the proper place to dis
cover the feebleminded is in the
schools. Here their condition can De
diagnosed and instruction suited tc
their capabilities provided, or, if thes
are to require supervision or segre-
cation for life, this can be obtained
before they have gone out into the
| community and come in conflict with
the law and society and become Grim
| inaI, immoral, diseased or paupers.
New York state alone has an es-
timated feebleminded population oil
about $4,000.
"a practical working program 70,
the various states which would take
them a long way on the road to q
solution includes:
| Awakened public knowledge and
conscience through making the facts
about feeblemindedness more gener-
ally known.
Placing squarely up to each state
| its responsibility for dealing with the
| problem
"a central registration of all fee
l.
Establishment of institutions anc
schools for segregation and train
ing.
Facilities in connection will
courts to determines mental condition
of prisoners before sentence.
/ adjustment of mona uusrzzse<
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24
SUBSTITUTES ARE
TAKING PLACE OF
CREAMERY BUTTER

On Saturday April 9th over eight
hundred Of the branches of the Dairy
mems league held meetings with
total attendance of above 80 per
cent of the $4,000 members.
| OF the. many important resolutions
which were discussed and adopted at
the various meetings, the one which
received the most attention was that
the use of butter had decreased to an
alarming extent during the last two
years, and butter substitutes were TAX
! ing it's place not only among the con-
sumers in the city, but among farmers
themselves. Emphatic resolutions on
the need of using more milk and
dairy products in their homes and de-
creasing the use of butter substitutes
were passed at nearly every one Of
the meetings.
The discussion on this subject
brought out the fact that one reason
why butter is not used more among
farmers is that many merchants urge
on their, customers the use. of oleo-
margarine or other substitutes in the
place of butter.
One of the great troubles of the
present critical market situation is
caused by the fact that butter is low
in price and that this low price is due
to butter being displaced by oleomar-
garine. If this condition continues it
means eventually that a large part
of the dairy industry will be sacri-
feed, and of course, such a condition
would react directly on al of the
merchants in the villages in the dairy
sections. There are many of the
| dairy. sections that are not adapted
to any other line of farming except
that of producing milk and butter. 1t
would therefore seem to be as much
of a problem of the local merchants
to do everything in their power to
advertise and sell the products pro-
duced by local dairymen as it is for
the dairynen themselves. There is
also the health side of the problem
to be considered for scientists have
conclusively proved that large con-
sumption of dairy products is neces-
salary to the growth and proper
maintenance of human life.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24
CREEL SENDS AN
APOLOGY FOR HIS
INDISCREET TALK

Washington, May 17.-George Creel,
chairman of the committee On Pub
no Information, apologized to Con-
gress today for his much discussed
recent New York speech in which
he was quoted as having said that as
he disliked summing he would not
explore the hearts of congressman.
at admit the indiscretion and regret
it deeply" Mr.. Creel wrote to Chair
man Pou of the Committee on Rules,
considering resolutions on the incident
The remarks attributed to Creel
created a furore in Congress with de-
rnands for investigation of his COM
mttee and declarations that if correct
" quoted he was unfit to hold his Of
nee.
It was indicated yesterday by House
7 leaders that the matter probably
would be permitted to drop and
Creels Letter Pou probably assures
such disposition of the incident.
Chairman Pou told the. committee to-
day that he had been advised that the
Letter had been written and would be
delivered today.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24
BRITISH Get
TWELVE HOUR
START ON HUNS

London. May 1.-THE seven British
submarines destroyed by their crews
at Helsfngfors to prevent their being
captured by the Germans reached the
Baltic sea either through the straits
between Denmark and Norway and
Sweden or by way of ArchaDgel, ac-
cording to an admiralty statement.
The class G boats went by way CT
Apchangel while the class E. boats
took the other route.
An account of the destruction of
seven British submarines in Helsing-
fors was given to the Associated
Press correspondent in a port where
he met several OF the members of
the crews q, of the submarines and
whence he travelled back to England
on the steamer with them.
The British crews got out of Hell
siugfors only IL hours ahead of the
German entrance to the town. The
men assured the correspondent that
they had effected the complete de-
struct1on of thir boats before leav-
ing.
The submarines, which had entered
the Baltic at early periods in the war
and had been in constant service
since, were frozen soIidIy in the ice
in Helsingfors, which made their es-
cape impossible.
For the purpose Of destroying the
/ submarines large quantities of explos-
ives were placed inside them and ex-
| ploded by cans of fuses The series
of explosions which followed shook
the entire city of Helsingfors and the
crash of the detonations was heard
| for miles.
The property value of the craft and
( the material destroyed reached a tota
! OF about 500, 900 pounds.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24
KILLER WILL
Be SHIPPED TO
CAMP FUNSTON

Battle Creek, Mich, May 17.-W11-
liam Kilhfer, catcher for the Chicago
Nationals and battery mate of Grover
Cleveland Alexander, with whom he
was purchased last winter from the
Philadelphia Nationals at a cost said
TO be more than $4,000, will be sent
to Camp Funston instead of Camp
Custer, it was learned here today.
Alexander is now stationed at the
Kansas cantonment. Kilifer was
originally given deferred classical
ton by his local board in Paw Paw,
Mich, but the government appealed
the case with the result that the dis
trict board reversed the earlier clas-
sification, placing Killffer in class l..
Kil1ifer was married last October.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24
SOVIET PROTEST
is MADE PUBLIC

Washington, May ia copy of the
protest made by the Soviet govern
ment to the German ministry of
foreign affairs on April 26 against
German aggressions, made public to-
day by the State Department shows
that the Russians gave notice of their
intention to mobilize ''all necessary
forces in order to secure the freedom
and independence of the Russian re-
public which is now menaced beyond
the limits established by the Brest
treaty"
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24
BRIDGEPORTFR
REPORTED ON
WOUNDED LIST

washington, May 1.-THE casualty
hist today contained LOG names, divid-
ed as follows:
Killed in action, Is: died of wounds,
6; died of disease, 4; died of gas poi
soning, l. wounded severely, II;
wounded slightly, 50; missing in ac-
ton. s.
The following Connecticut boys APP
pear on che latest list:
wounded shghtly---Isadore Durkin,
15S Beach street, Bridgeport; Friend
w. Rosene, Shelton
Severely wounded---ESarnest Hickey,
Hartford.
Died of disease--John j. Corcoran.
Rranford.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24
Need Coal Passers
In Merchant Shibs

Boston, May 17.---Among 81 Ameri-
cans between p and 80, accepted for
training in the Merchant Marine on
"Wednesday, was Otis II. Sleeper, Jr.,
of 245 William street, Bridgeport, Ct.
With the others he was sent aboard
ono of the training vessels stationed
here by the U. S. Shipping Board.
The demand in the service just now
is for firemen and coal-passers, who
are given high pay and have excellent
opportunities for advancement.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24
INVITED TO SEE
FIRST LAUNCHING

Collector of Port James L. Meow
ern of this city has received an invita-
ton to attend the ceremonies which
will accompany the launching of the
Emergency Fleet corporations
steamer ''Holzah" at the Groton Iron
worksyards at Noank, tomorrow.
The, ''Hokah," a magnificent steel
vessels is the first boat to be COM
pleted in Connecticut, for the United
States Shipping Board. She will soon
be in shape to help carry Yankee SOL
diers cross the ocean to fight the muir
derous Hun.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24
RUN EXTRA TRAIN
MEMORIAL DAY

An extra train to accommodate ho1-
1day travel will be operated between
New York and New Haven on Me-
mortal Day, Thursday, May 30, by the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad
This train will leave New York,
Grand Central Terminal at 9:25 p M;
Stamford, 1920 p M; South Norwalk,
1888 p. m; Bridgeport. 1886 p. m;
and is due in New Haven at 1:S
p. m. IS
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24

A member of an American patrol
stepped or a harmless looking wire
noar the German lines early yester-
day and bomb Immediately exploded
in khe. center of the patrol group. 1t
had been planted by the enemy.
The members of the patrol either
eutoped or were assisted into an
abandoned trench nearby and the SOL
dierS prepared for a. fight, believing
one was certain to come. They wait
ed in the darkness for half an hour
for something to happen, but the Ger
mans did not come out. The party
then made its way cautiously back to
the American line. -~--
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24
HOOVER SELLS
CAR TO SAVE

Washington. May II - Food Ad-
nintstrator Hoover practices what he
breaches not only in food conserva-
ton but in other measures to help
win the war.
Today he sold his large automobile,
discharged his chauffeur and began
operating a small car himself.
Il could not think Of Withholding
/, a man from industry who should be
building ships" said Mr.. Hoover.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24
Pagan NOn-Suited
In Superior Court

Unable to prove that the automobile
owned by Michael Chaps of Greenwich
was responsible for collision with
his vegetable wagon on the Post road
in Port Chester last June Jacob Pagan
of Greenwich lost his suit in the Su-
perior court yesterday where he was
claiming damages of $4,000. Judge
j.. p. Kelloggs allowed a motion for a
non suit.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24
PREDICTS FIFTH
WINTER OF WAR

Berne, Switzerland, May I7.--In
speech before the Wuerttemberg diet
Herr Hausmann, one of the leaders Of
the Progressive party, said that a
fifth winter of war was now inevita-
BILE.
Germans must make up their minds
to face Disappointment, he said in
stead of obtaining the victory hoped
for during the ez11zrner.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24
JOIN BRITISH ARMY

Four recruits, who were accepted
for service in the Canadian army at
the recruiting station in Fairfield ave
nue., left Bridgeport this morning for
New Haven, where they will be en-
listed. The men who left were: David
Morock, 220 Harriet street: Michael
Helton, 147 Howard avenue: Daniel
Faean. 500 John street, and James
Braenenn. of New York
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24
HELMET TAKEN
BY SON GIVEN
TO HIS MOTHER

Washington, May 17.---Secretary
Baker has presented to Mrs, Arthur
Macarthur, widow of Lieut.. Gen.
Macarthur and mother of Col. Doug
las Macarthur, chief of staff of the
Rainbow division, the helmet taken
from the head of the Bavarian officer
that her son captured single handed
in a trench raid several months ago.
Col Macarthur had given the he'll
met to the secretary in his recent
visit to France. Mr.. Baker decided
not to keep it himself because it had
a. greater. value to the mother of the
man whose valpr it is mute evidence.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24
FAMOUS ITALIAN
AVIATOR KILLED

New York, May 17-Capt. Antonio
Silvio Resnati of the royal Italian fly
ing corps, who piloted the 10 pas
senger Caproni biplane from Wash
ington to New York and back again
recently, was killed at noon today at
the Hampstead flying field.
Resnati, one of the most famous
italian military aviators, met death
while testing an American built Ca
proni plane of the bombing type, re-
Gently authorized for purchase by the
United States government.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24
ORDNANCE BUREAU
NEEDS OPERATORS

Positions for switchboard operators
are now vacant in the Bridgeport Ord
candidates for these positions may file
applications in the office of the deputy
customs collector, in the Bridgeport
Post Office The salary is $780, q. year
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24

classes in public schools to provide
training adapted to tn ecapacity of
backward and defective children
"a system of community supervis-
ion for the feebleninded who can
safely be left in the community after
being properly. trained"
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24
AGREE EXCHANGE
:. OF ITALIAN MEN

Bernie, Switzerland, May .17.-An
agreement has been reached here be-
tween German and Italian commits
sioners in regard to the exchange of
sick and crippled prisoners OF war and
the management of prison camps. It
will be, submitted for ratification Of
the, two governments.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24
HELSINGFORS is
kENTERED BY GUARD

q London. May IT = Gen Manner
heizn, commander of the Finnish
\ White guard. entered Helsingfors on
| Thursday, at the head of $4,000 men.
an Exchange Telegraph Co. dispatch
from Copenhagen reports. Until that
2irne the capital was occupied by Ger
,snan troops
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24
FIRE DESTROYS
DANBURY SHOP

Danbury, May 17-Fire caused by
6sparks from an over heated bearing
did damage estimated at $4,000 to the
factory of the F1utual Fur Cutting Co.
today.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24
Internal Machines
Are Being Used TO
Check Our Soldiers
AMERICAN PATROLS FIND FOES ARE
PLANTING BOMBS WITH HARMLESS
LOOKING WIRES ATTACHED
IN NO MANS REGION.

With the American Army in France, May by the AS
socated Press Germans opposite the American sector
northwest of Tou resorng to internal machines eff
fort to check the activity of American PATROLS numbers of
which go out every night No Mans Land and
,-o+1x
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24

Edward II. Wasmuth, of Hunting-
ton, Inds, was elected chairman of the
Republican committee of Indiana
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-05-30
FOOD CONTROL
MEANS VICTORY
European Shortage Places Prob
lem Before American Govern
ment-FarSighted Policy II
d Adopted.
NEED 100000 Blu. WHEAT.
Food Administration Asks Aid Of
Every American in Gigantic
Task of Feeding Millions.

It is the food problem over there
that makes food problem over here.
If we wished to be supremely selfish
and supremely shortsighted-we could
go on eating as much as we like and
whatever we like, without much diff
Guilty or Interruptions least, until
the Germans came!
But we are not doing things in that
selfish and suicidal way. We are try.
ing to make great common pool or
all of our food, and all of the food of
the allies, and all of the food we can
get from South American and other
neutrals, and dividing it up fairly
among America, England, France, Bel
GUM and Italy.
This does not mean that all of the
people in the great pool are going to
have the same ration, but means that
we are trying to arrange to have
enough for everybody so that the sol
diers-our soldiers and their soldiers
will be we'll fed, as they have to be
to fight hard and continuously, and
that the munitions workers and the
workers in all the other necessary in
dustries, and the men and women at
home will all have enough to keep
alive and well. 1t is absolutely neces-
sary to do this if the war is to be won,
and we are going to do it, but it means
planning, working, arranging, cooper
ating, being careful, not wasting, saw
ing.
And 1t means that each and every
one of us has got to help.
Now, we have enough and more than
enough food for ourselves, and the
Government is going to see to it that
we keep here at home sufficient sup
ply of every essential kind of food to
support our people. But over there
they simply have not enough. Lord
Rhondda, the English food controller,
recently cabed the American food adj
ministrator, that unless we can send
the allies before the next uropean
harvest 100000 bushels of wheat in
addition to what had been sent up to
January I of this year he could not
assure the people of the allies that
they would have sufficient supply OF
food to carry on the war.
He did not say anything in this cable
about the other food necessary, but
he has told of these needs in other
cables-and by his actions in England.
For example, his latest regulation
compeIs reduction of meat eating in
the United Kingdom to maximum of
one pound per week per person, this
pound including the bone and other
waste. PARTS in the meat as bought in
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-05-30

Stop outdoor Photography in London.
Orders have been made by the COM
petent military authority, under the
defense of the realm regulations, pro-
hibiting the making, without permits
sion, of any photograph, sketch, plan,
model, ''or other representation of any
place or thing" within a given area.
No person in this area shall, without
lawful authority or excuse, have in
his possession any Photographic or
other apparatus cor other material or
thing suitable for use in making any
such representations" The area af-
fected includes the metropolitan po-
lice district and large. portions of the
counties of Essex. Kent and Surrey
London Telegraph.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-05-30

If you have babies to weigh prepare
to weigh them now. This is the ba-
bies' year. 1t began April 6, the first
anniversary of our entrance into the
war. The first step is to weigh all the
children under five years of age. The
idea is to begin with the children, to
build up the nation of tomorrow.
Many of the physical defects which
caused the rejection of applicants for
enlistment in the army AMI navy are
believed Il, have had thei, beginning
in infancy and the committee believes
a higher standard of physical efficien-
cy in the rising generation will result
from these tests. Height, weight and
reach are considered a rough index of
a child's health.