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CHAPTER V-continued.

never saw battery better con
cealed than this one. Up on the ground
you couldn't see the muzzle twenty
yards away-and that was all there
was to see at any distance. There
was ruined garden just outside the
gun quarters, and while the gunners
were there picking apples there would
be hiss and an explosion, and over
would go some of the trees, or maybe
man or two, but never shell struck
nearer the guns than that. The poilus
used to thank Fritz for helping them
pick the apples, because the explosions
would bring them down in great style.
Shells from our heavy artillery passed
just over the garden, too, making an
awful racket. But they were not in it
with the "75's."
They gave me a little practice with
a "75" under the direction of expert
French gunners before I went to my
l4-inch naval gun, and, believe me, it
was a fine little piece. Just picture
to yourself a little beauty that can
send a 3S-pound shell every two sec
OlIuS lOI hfe lIt1cS anu II lOu
want it to. and land on Fritz vest
button every time. There is nothing
I like better than a gun, anyway, and
have never since been entirely salts
fed with anything less than ''75."
AS you probably know, the opposing
artillery in this war is so widely sepa-
rated that the gunners never see their
targets unless these happen to be
buildings, and even then it is rare. So,
since an artillery officer never sees the
enemy artillery or infantry, he must
depend on others to give him the range
and direction.
For this purpose there are balloons
and airplanes attached to each artil-
lery unit. The airpIanes are equipped
with wireless, but also, signal by
smoke and direction of flight, while
the balloons use telephones. The OBJ
servers have maps and powerful
glasses and cameras. Their maps are
the maps used by the artillery officers.
The observations are signaled to
receiving station on the ground and |
are then telephoned to the batteries. |
All our troops were equipped with |
telephone signal corps detachments /
and this was very important arm |
of the service. The enemy position is
shelled before on attack, either en- |
barrage or otherwise, and communica-
ton between the waves of attack and
the artillery is absolutely necessary.
Commandments are directed toward
certain parts of the enemy position
almost as accurately as you would use
a searchlight. The field telephones are
very light and are portable to the last
degree. They can be rugged up or
knocked down in a very short time.
The wire is wound on drums or reels
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FRUIT FLIES SPREAD

The Bermudas probably would
not now be infested by the Med
iterranean fruit fly had not a
sailing vessel bound for New
York from the Mediterranean re-
gion during the Civil war times,
been blown from her course and
forced to unload her cargo
containing infester fruits at
st George. The Mediterra-
mean fruit fly did not become es-
tablished in Australia until
steamships and cold storage
made it possible for the infested
Mediterranean countries to ship
oranges to Perth and Sydney.
With the pest established in
eastern Australia the ships ply
ing between Australia and Ha-
wall carried the maggots to Hon.
olulu, and today the inspectors
of the state of California and
the United States are intercept
ing infested fruits on ships ar
irving at San Francisco and San
Pedro from Honolulu and Hilo.
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and you would be surprised to see how
quickly our corps established COM
munication from a newly won trench
to headquarters, for instance. They
were asking for our casualties before
We had finished having them, almost.
Artillery fire was directed by men
whose duty it was to dope out the
range from the information sent them
by the observers in the air. Two men
were stationed at the switchboard,
one man to receive the message and
the other to operate the board AS
noon as the range was plotted out it
was telephoned to the gunners and
they did the rest.
The naval guns at Dixmude were
mounted on fat cars and these were
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Fertilizers From Wastes.

Industrial wastes furnished about 40
per cent Of the potash, 8 per cent Of
the phosphoric acid, and So per cent
of the nitrogen used in this country
In 1916, according to recent United
States department of agriculture pub
LEGATION, Fertilizers From Industrial
Wastes"
The potash was obtained from such
wastes as tobacco stems, cottonseed
hulls, hardwood ashes, wool washings,
blast-furnace flue dust, cement fue
dust and sugar residues; the phos-
phoric acid from bones, shells, fish
scrap, basic Stag and other materials;
and the nitrogen from wastes in the
manufacture of castor. linseed and fish
oils; from animal wastes, as blood,
hair, horns, hoofs and hides; from
leather and wool wastes, coke, and
many other substances.
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INTERCEPT and
DESTROY FLIES
Half of Insect Pests Could Have
Been Kept Out of Country
by Quarantine.
FRUIT FLIES ARE BEAUTIFUL
Immense Losses Caused Annually to
Fruits and Vegetables of United
States Could Be Prevented
Precautions Being Taken.

More than half of the insect pests
that annually cause immense losses
In fruits and vegetables of the United
States could have been kept out of
this country by thorough quarantine
against them, according to officials of
the United States department of agri-
culture. To guard against more in
furious insects being brought in from
other countries is the object of the
federal plant quarantine act of 1912
which, with the development of knowk
edge of insects throughout the world,
has resulted in the bars being put up
wherever the pests are likely to enter.
Among the insects of other lands
that have not yet become established
In this country are the serious pests
known popularity as fruit flies. They
resemble ordinary house flies but are
far more beautiful, inasmuch as their
wings are prettily spotted and band
ed and their bodies are usually more
brightly colored. They are like horse
flies also in that they lay small, white
eggs that hatch into whitish maggots.
However, the maggots do not develop
in refuse or decaying matter as do
those of the house fly, but they feed
upon the living tissues of fruits, nuts
and vegetables. Eggs are laid just
under the skin of the host plant or
fruit and these hatch into the mag
COTS which burrow in all directions
through the pulp. AS the maggots
tunnel about they cause decays to
develop and these rotting areas often
produce greater injury than the mag
COTS themselves.
Where Danger Lies.
Increasing imports from the coun-
tries where fruit flies now abound, ex-
tension of trade to remote corners |
of the earth, increasing density of |
population in the warmer portions of |
year the danger that fruit flies may |
become firmly established in the Unit
ed States.
To intercept and destroy fruit flies
rs well as other pests, the federal |
board of the department
Of agriculture, charged with the en-
forcement of the plant quarantine act, |
prohibits the entry of all horticultural
products likely to carry insect pests
unless they have been rendered free
from danger as pest carriers, either
BY federal inspection or by treatment
~ approved methods under federal su-
Aervision.
Vhe department also has estab-
ished in the Hawaiian islands sys-
|em\ of inspection that is heartily sup
ported by fruit growers and transpor-
alton companies, whereby all p1anta-
ions and packing houses from which
'ruit Is shipped are kept from becom-
ng sources Of fruit-fy dissemination.
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DICTIONARIES VOW VENGEANCE WHEN GERMANS HIDE
BEHIND BELGIAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN

snopsAlbert Depew author his service
petty officer frstca The world
receives his honorable discharge
assigned the Casrd where
him honor Later transferred the
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MATING Guinea Fowls.

Guinea fowls have tendency to
mate In pairs, but one male may BE-
mated successfully with three or f0us
females.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-13
THE NEW DRAFT ARMY,

 Up att the roll of the summoning
 drum Again the hosts of the people come! Populus rex! proclaim the guns; PopulOuS rex! the bugles blow: Democracy sends her stalwart sons To slay the Beast that would strike
 her low. Up at the rol of the summoning drum Still they come, still they come! They rally from workshop, desk. and
 farm
 With hearts of steel and the dawn
 in their eyes; At the danger call and the loud alarm, Like the Minute Men of old, they
 rise! tS Up at the rattle of Fate's own drum While the need be there, they come!
 they come! NO peace, no peace, the flies shrill
 high:
 NO peace, no peace" responds the tread Of myriad freemen marching by. "There can be no peace till the
 Beast is dead!" By Elias Lieberman in the New York Times.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-13
MMe and More Men.
(St. Paul Pioneer Press.

est. Paul Pioneer Press)
 :, Wanted: 1 1000, 900 men, not to fight r{ France. but to perform a no less needed service for the winning of the war.
 The front of France calls for men, men and more men. That call ap- peals to the public imagination, for it means risk, adventure, perhaps death, at all events glory.
 But the American people do not seem to realize that just now, there is an even more imperative call. It is the call for the worker behind the lines who is no less essential than the soldier on the field of battle.
 Just what is the condition of that field of activity which makes the sol dier's shells, his cannon, his rifles, his airplanes, his clothing, his shoes; which prepares the food he eats and builds the ships that carry him over the ocean and supply his needs after he gets there?
 For the ending six months the government has issued acquisitions for steel alone which amount to be- tween twenty-tWo and twenty-four million tons But the total produc- ton for the same period will have been from seventeen to twenty mill lion tons.
 Why? Not from a shortage of iron | ore, but from a shortage of coal. And | why a shortage of coal? Because the | men mining it are lured away by more 1 attractive jobs. Also we have short age of transportation needs. This is 1 due less to a direct shortage of rail- ! way men than to the above-m e1ltioned | shortage Of steel, which hampers the railroads in securing the necessary equipment.
 L. We have worried about the train. ing of the necessary number of fight ing men in the time required to save the military situation for the Allies ir | France. We have worried about the l needed quantity production of rifle: l and cannon. We have been given 6 | fright by the rate of U-boat sinking:
 and the slowness of tbe development
 of our shipbuilding program. We 1 have been justly apprehensive of un | successful airplane production. W.
 have feared for the crops We hay
 gone through one struggle after an
 other with something like a common
New Britain herald., 1918-09-13
Not Democrats.
Huntsville Courier-Journa

we intend," says Senator Lodge, ito make the world safe for democ- racy But what exactly do we mean by democracy? If we mean, as we undoubtedly do, the democracy of England, France, Italy and the United States, we can all understand it; but the Bolsheviki masquerade under the name of democracy and the Bolshe- wiki, by a com bination of treachery, corruption and ignorance, have re- duced the Russians to servltude under Germany and have engendered a form of democracy as dangerous to the world as the government of the Hohenzollerns."
 It is loose use of language to call the Bolsheviki democrats.
 Whatever they may pretend to be their course since they came into pow CT in Russia has demonstrated that they are anything but democrats,
New Britain herald., 1918-09-13

surate appreciation of the thing to be attained.
 But in the matter of man power or essential industries we have touched along trusting to Yankee luck to pull us through the dilemma. We have hesitated to conscript labor largely, perhaps, because of the dras- tic differences of opinion on the sub- ject. There is 8 point to the argument that men should not be conscripted to make profits for others, and the government seizure of plants to avoid this is another thing itself to be avoided except as a last measure to win the far
 The new Select1ve Draft bill should do much to solve the difficulty, for this will permit the War Departm ent to extend it's work or fight" order to men included within the new age limits. But it may be necessary that even more stringent measures be ta- ken such as the curtailment, by one means or another, of non essential trades or occupations which are keep ing in their employment persons need ed for war work.
 The public is looking to the gov ernment to do this rather than to COnS1uST lISSll uuIy LtllSl ko CCcIcO buying non- essential articles. Such a boycott would not work out fair either to consumer or producer. It is for the government to say what plants shall have labor and which shall not, and the public will abide by the result.
 To waken the public to the needs of the hour the Department of Labor has made a frank confession of con- dtions in it's field. The public, of course, as a general principle, should know. As a matter which concerns it's patriotism and it's interest in jus tice and the winning of the war, it should know. Those of it's members who can add one to the army of use- full war workers should know. And those inclined to spend money on non-essential articles, the production of which keeps men from war work, should know. But to avoid injustice confusion and loss of morale it still remains to the government to desig- nate which industries shall be enti- tied to the use of precious man power and which shall not
New Britain herald., 1918-09-13
No Draft Riots,
(NeW York Herald.

It is well enough to take every pre- caution, but 1t is doubtful wisdom for the Provost Marshal General to be talking about the possi bility of draft riots. There were draft riots during the Civil War because of belief in the unfairness of the law and because a drafted man with money could pur- chase a substitute. Nothing is more popular today than the present selec- tive system unless it is the splendid army which is the product of that system. The only opposition it has met has been in a few isolated noun tain sections.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-13

know that religious questions have been cast aside for the moment, that racial prejudices have been forgotten and that the men and women of Amer ica are united in the great work of helping American soldiers and sailors y Following the announcement of a return to the original plan for one common drive for all the war welfare organizations in the country. Bishop Peter J. Muldoon, Bishop Joseph Schrembs, Bishop Patrick J. Hayes and Bishop William T. Russell, con- posing the administrative committee of the national Catholic war council, issued today the following statement:
 "The announcement of the return to the original plan of one common drive for war work funds for all the related war activities is heartily welcomed by the national Catholic war council We have from the beginning hoped for a common drive because it enables us all to stand on the common platform of American citizenship and brings out clearly that the aim of all these or ganizatiOnS is one and the same, rec reational aid to the men in the SerV- ice.
 Questions of religious differences have no place in such a service, which should be extended to all soldiers and sailors without regard to creed or col- or; nor in a drive for funds to which all citizens of any and every denomi- nation contribute. The harmonious &C., ton in support of the government for recreation work for our soldiers, which the common drive symbolizes deserves and has ever received our heartiest cooperation.
 Tt offers an unequalled opportunity for all American citizens to work to- gether in the common cause now so urgent and so dear to us. Every act of ours has been directed toward building up this patriotic co-opera- ton, the attainment of which is even more important than financial success
 All of the organizations concerned have come to an amicable agreement as to budgets and distribution with the approval of the government. Thus happily united in single e-hearted devo- tion to our country, one common ap- peal will reach from one end of Amer ica to the other and find a response in every true American heart.
 That the president. the secretary of war, the secretary of the navy, the chairman of the commissions on train ing camp activities, have brought about the broad union of all welfare war workers without division or discrimi- nation, only confirms the great re- spect which we have held for their wide vision and broad mindedness. The national Catholic war council, which includes every variety of war work done by Catholics, was organized that it might offer the entire services of the Catholic body in cooperation with all other citizens to the support of the government in the winning of the war. In this common drive for war funds We will follow the lead of the government with unqualified ap- proval and enthusiasm, and we take this earliest possible opportunity to urge them to bring to the notice of our Catholic people the common drive and to urge them to support in the most whole hearted manner this great union drive" ..
New Britain herald., 1918-09-13

8 #$S@A&FSS@ SV12lG1t uetS eoCSAi' esliA ASs eAh0
 acIpal feature of their lives? Have city officials sufficient pride and Ngmiration for the deeds of these eed heroes to provide at least one bonn for them? The City building, Sith it's elevator, would be admirably lited for the veterans, many of whom ave difficulty in climbing stairs. Thy not make room there, if no room Y empty? Surely they are entitled to # little consideration. There is much lo about this and that. new activity round municipal headquarters, but one seems to have any thought for le soldiers who helped 'preserve us nation, .... ...,e. ..- $ If the members Of the Grand Army \ re compelled to go without meet 2 place; if their last years are to be Rddened by the lack of quarters herein comrades in the Civil war zhn gather and spend a few hours Syery day; if they are to sbe entirely eglected, then what will the boys kerseas and in the training camps Blink about it? What will the men Atween the ages of Is and 45 who ave just been enrolled for military ervice, think about it? What Will Ae young men who will leave soon #ith the next contingent think about Of course it would not under Nine their loyalty to the Government;
 would not make them less deter lined to do their duty when called 8 pon to go to camp, or to the tront' but it surely WILL make them ink that the city authorities show S Soeful lack of interest in the affairs
 veterans who have fought as they re now prepared to fight. The men @ this city who are now, or who will
 soon in the army, cannot help but btice this total disregard on the part
 the authorities of the dilemma bnfronting the members of the rand Army. And unconsciOusly their houghts will turn to that future Mic when perhaps they themselves ill be i'll a similar predicament,- Ahen they. too, will be without a eetine place where they can spend cir last days on this earth with their bmrades of the great war, with hom they passed through countless erils, and with whom they fought
 boulder to shoulder for the sake of
 at same nation which was saved by
 e G. A. R.
 Most of these aged veterans'-
 ere are only a handful of them ave reached the age allotted to man, Id they have only a few years more
 which they can respond to the roll
 II on Memorial Day. Can we not ake these remaining years happy aes? Will we sit idly by and see
 em compelled to go without quar-
 rs because of five, or ten, or fifty oIlars rent to be paid? Surely we ust hang our heads in shame if we srnit such a state of affairs to come
 pass!
 We believe it is the. solemn duty of he Mayor and his official family to svise means, at once, whereby the
 embers of the Grand Army in this ty will be provided with a meeting ace. We are positive that a place m be arranged for them in the City hiding. and place should be ar lnged, even if two departments or areaus now occupying separate of
New Britain herald., 1918-09-13
K. OF [. APPROVES OF UNITED WAR DRIVE
". J. Mulligan Issues Appeal to All Creeds to Support Campaign

New York, Sept. 13.-The Knights of Columbus, which has been appoint ed as the representative of the nation al war council in the nation wide drive for war funds, issued a statement last night indorsing the united war work campaign which will begin 9 drive in November to raise s17O, ,0OO.- 900 to be spent by Catholics, Protes- tants and Jews in their welfare work
 William J. Mulligan, chairman of the Knights war activities committee said:
 Jews and Gentiles, Catholics and Protestants, are at last united in one common cause. It is gratifying to
New Britain herald., 1918-09-13
German Marching Music.

Toronto Mail and Emplre).
 When the Germans entered Brus- sells they sang >as they marched, EV- cry Little Movement" They do not sing now. because every little move ment still has a meaning of its own, the same being retreat.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-13
The War in Siberia.

(WaterburY Amerlcan).
 A little hard luck at the beginning of the Siberian campaign may be a good thing. to. stiffen. up the allied eff fort. It looks, little as though some of the parties engaged in it regarded it as an eXperm ental affair.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-13

A Hartford morning contemporary criticizes the war department for keep ing back military information When they get things strengthened out down in Washington, all copy will be sub- mitted to State street for approval be- fore publication.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-13

tions are deaf to my words. No, Bill, not deaf. The only word they want to hear from you is "Enough!", and you'd better speak your little piece right soon.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-13

Hindenburg calls the German army a hedgehog, and says all who stroke it Will get scratched. >, We knew 1t was some kind of a hog, Hindy, but we net.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-13

Theirs is in no sense democratic gov ernment but distinctly class rule, their own class alone having any right to govern, all real democrats associated in the Bolshevik mind with any other class being anathema, fit only for ex- plO1tation, robbery, enslavement and assassination by the Bolsheviki.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-13

Germany fails at nearly everything. She failed to keep France, England and America out of the war, and now she admits her failure to stop the war.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-13

Gene" C1erkin postcards us from London as follows: Have been here two hours and neither of the Georges has consulted me about the war!"
New Britain herald., 1918-09-13

The evening schools offer a wonder fuI opportunity to all who wish to inn prove their education. It is to be hoped that they will be well patron ized
New Britain herald., 1918-09-13

Another evidence of the fact that there is something else happening in France than the strengthening of the Hindenburg line, which should appear even to the German people, Is the ab- sence lately of any messages from the Kaiser about the Lords cooperation in the fight.-Kansas City Star.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-13

About the only Germans who are enjoying a vacation this summer are those in internment camps.-Philadel- phia Inquirer.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-13

Man named Hellbig applied to the courts of New York for permission to change his name. He said the fel- lows at school called his kid Big helP'
New Britain herald., 1918-09-13

General Pershing celebrated regis tration day by registering victory over the Hun.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-13

Hope has about departed that Col. w. J. Bryan would step forward and show how the silver market could be managed so as to keep down living ex- pensses-Washingto Star
New Britain herald., 1918-09-13

"Kaiser Implores Germans to Go On"-Headline And the German people will probably tell him to Ego on".
New Britain herald., 1918-09-13

It rained here today and 1t rained bullets, shells and shrapne1 on the Hun.