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Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-06-20
SALISBURY

Miss Dorothy Bell is at her home
for the summer.
c. S. Mitchell and family of
Yonkers, N. Y. are again at the Par
sonage for. the summer. DR.. Goddard
Mrs. and Miss Goddard have roonS
at Mrs. Hubbard's.
Mrs. Geo. R. Belcher spent the
weekend with her sister in Great
Darlington.
Miss Ruth Hatmaker has resigned
her position at G. H. Clark's and
will be succeeded by Mrs. Lester Lib
by.
Salisbury School closed last week,
but several boys will remain for
further examinations, for a short
time.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-06-20
PRESENTATION OF FLAG
Continued from page 1
every one.


every one.
~ Our expectations were more than
fulfilled, for we were successful in
raising $37,250, instead of the $15-
900, which constituted our quota.
With few pledges still to come in
we may claim to have achieved an
over-subscription of exactly one
hundred and fifty per cent. This
compares with an over subscription
of about fifty per cent in the entire
United States, and an over subscrip-
ton of one hundred and twenty five
per cent in Connecticut which was
one of the Banner States.
We made no serious effort to sub
divide our quota among the six
towns of our territory, Canaan,
Litchfeld, Morris, North Canaan,
Salisbury and Sharon, because the
resources of community depend
upon too many elements to furnish
a reliable guide. Probably the finest
principle allotment is the state Tax,
or the Grand List. On the basis of
the former Salisbury was way ahead
of the rest OF US, with an over sub
scription of three hundred and
seventy five per cent above its pro-
portionate share in our joint quota.
In offering a prize flag to be COM
peted for in this campaign the Chap
ter thought it better to stress less
our achievement in subscriptions
than our success in obtaining sub
scriptions than QUIZ G1ccnss il obtaiE-
Ing Subscribers. 81 ! ...ayc sax.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-06-20
Suffrage Notes
America

News from press secretary Of
Conn. branch of National Woman's
Party, Mrs. A. G. Porritt, informs us
that "a very great stimulus has been
given to the campaign in New Eng
land for the passage by the Senate
of the Federal Amendment by the
statement given by President Wilson
in favor of early action. 1t has been
said that it is hardly to be expected
that the Republican party will be
willing to see all credit for the pas
sage of the amendment going over
to the Democrats and the New Eng
land Suffragists are making a new
effort to win over some of the Re
publican Senators. At present, as a
result of the New England Confer
ence held at Hartford May 20. Stuff
ragists of the National Woman's
Party are conducting campaigns all
over the States with a view toward
winning hostile Senators.
Press Chairman, Canaan
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-04
TRIGID BLESSINGS.

II has been a "hard winter un.
ouestionably. for most Of the people in
the United States. The cold and snow
have been unprecedented in the history
of the weather bureau. The coal short
age has made things worse stlI. Ana
vet there are compensations. Some OF
them are mentioned by Dr. K. H.
Bishop. health commissioner OF CleVe-
land. city which regards itself as haV-
ing suffered much from the rgors OF
the season.
The weather has really been fine.
says Doctor Bishop-iine for health
which is the main thing. Health con-
dtions were never better. There are
few cases of communicable diseases,
and colds and sore throats are hard to
find. despite the extreme temperatures
Maybe he should have said because
Of" the extreme temperatures. For he
goes on to explain that warmer weather
in the winter months would mean
moist weather and wet sidewalks, wet
feet and halcyon time for the distrl'
button and propagation Of disease
germs.
What il ones feet do get cold in zero
weather? he asks. Cold feet are bet
fer than wet feet. And a walk in the
cold. dry air is better than dose OF
medicine. g., for the snow evil, it's
blessing m disguise. The more snow
people have to shovel off their walks
the better. There's no more invlsorat-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-04
RUMANIA AND RUSSIA.

Tulsa Times: The bolshevst govern
ment Of Russia has sent an ultimatum
to Rumania demanding that it adopt
the same attitude toward the German
peace proposals that has been taken by
the bolsheyiki Rumania could do moth
ing else, being situated between the
devil and the deep sea.
Always Rumania has been a victim of
treacherous Russian diplomacy. Not
further back than 1877, at the end Of
the Russian.Turliish War in which the
little but valiant Rumanian army saved
the Muscovites from a sure and shame
full defeat, the Russian diplomats as
token of gratitude robbed Rumania OF
a rich and densely populated province
lower Bessarabia-and instead al
lowed her to take possession Of Dobrud-
ia, which at that time was a barren, un-
healthy and sparsely populated country
and a province historically and geo
graphically belonging to Bulgaria. This
naturally created a perpetual cause of
animosity between Bulgarians and Eu.
manians.
Coming back to the present war, the
RumanianS, in spite of their long cher
ished aspirations of uniting all their
brothers under 4 single national domin
ion. knowing how ill prepared and un-
favorably located strateRcally they
were to fight the Teutonic alliance, hes.
ltated for more than two years to
plunge into the war. In the end, under
. IDhgCtap t1ltitr1g
and with the assurance of getting am
pie assistance from Russia in supplies,
munitions and troops Rumania declared
war on Austria-Elungary and her troops
with a dash that stirred the admira-
ton Of the whole word-invaded Tran
svlvania. For a short time the dream
of the Rumanian patriots of greater
Rumania seemed almost realized. But
the beautiful dream was soon shattered
The much promised Russian assist
ance was slow in arriving and instead
of being an advancing and conquering
army the Rumanians found themselves
suddenly in a very precarious situation
IInasslsted they had to bear the brunt
Of the attacks of enemies advancing and
overrunning the country from three oil
rections. 1t is still the wonder of strat
egists how the Rumanian armies, poor
" supplied with ammunition as they
were, could fight as they did in thei'
clashes with the experienced and vet
eran troops Of Germany and Austria ir
their hasty retreat from TransylvaniS
and later in their own country, and how
they could extricate themselves an(
save the bulk OF their army from being
surrounded and annihuated by sucf
powerful enemies.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-04

down, but II has been until now with
out any element of hope. Now how
ever, hope begins to show itself, not as
yet in a large way, but nevertheless
quite Enthusiastically There appear
stronger grounds today than ever be
fore for the belief that the peoples Of
the central empires are themselves to
have 4 good deal to do with ultimate
peace terms. SO far as they have had
an opportunity to express themselves,
t.ose peoples are found to be in prin-
ciple in accord with many Of the terms
recently outlined by President Wilson
in his latest address to the American
congress. The reported strikes in Aus
uia and Germany are significant
The question of whether the war is
to last indefinitely, il is thus seen, de-
pends on whether the war party is
to retain its Strangle hold on the people
Of the central empires. That hold seems
T. be weakening. It's up to the people
Of Germany and Austria to make the
lccislon.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-04
OUTCASTS.
BY Charles Buxton Going of The
Nigilantes.

We have debaucheI the splendor Of
the sea,
Made shambles Of its starry ways, and
set
Murder by stealth where kingly rule
should be;
This will the sea and seafolk not
forget.
Ye have defiled the beauty Of the land,
FEELING all kindly shade trees, goodly
fruit,
Fouling the wells. The very desert
sand
Would spew you out, ye filthier than
brutes,
Ye have betrayed the brotherhood of
men,
Spat on your pledge, rayaged of.
fenceless soil,
Robbed, raped and killed. Think ye to
proffer, then,
Hands from which lepers, loathing
wouldd recoil?
would recoil?
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-04

writer she has made an exhaustive
study of the cantonments. She had
written copiously for the Saturday
Evening Post and other publications
many weeks before the recent coutro.
versy arose.
What Mrs. Rinehart asks every
mother to believe, from her own wide
experience, is that the system as 4
whole is excellent. Most of the criti-
cism has been based on cases that are
the exception, not the rule. The sick
ness and death rates are lower than
for the same number Of men in ordinary
life. The chances for every boy are
better in the environments than at home
But that is not eHough.
The system which puts an enlisted
man Of no training in the essentials
of nursing in charge Of sick men, is
bad. Even minor illness demands
trained attention, lest it become worse.
The difficulty everywhere is the lack
of skilled help. An unframed man in
charge of i'll men i'm a ward is far
better than no man at all At least
he can do certain necessary tasks. lie
is pat there by the army officials nos
because they prefer him to the trained
nurse, bat because there is no trainec
nurse.
This Is a distinct call to young won.
cn who are i'm good physical condition
and who are willing to serve their
country The way to help is to enter
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-04
STRAFING HOLLAND.

It is Hollands turn to be strafed
by the righteous power that is punish
ing the world for its sins. Germany is
filled with holy wrath because the
eighty-two Dutch ships that have been
lying idle in American ports FOR many
months are at last to be set to work
again.
That these ships are not to be used
for war traffic makes no difference.
That they are not to intrude in the
zone forbidden by Prussian edict makes
no difference What if they are sailing
to Argentina, Australia and Java and
carving food for Holland herself and
for Belgian refugees and for unoflend-
ing neutral neighbors? 1t is just as
bad as if they were engaged i'm trans
porting war munitions from America to
England and France. Prussias sacred
duty is to "sink everything" Holland
has dared to use Germany's ocean, and
must therefore be strafed for her pre-
sumption. The U-boats will sink the
Dutch ships wherever they find them.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-04
THE MEN WHO CAME BACK
Copyrighted by the British.Canadian
Recruiting AIission)
Rv Major G.. w. Anderson,

Third Battalion. Toronto Regiment.
one of the main factors which has
contributed largely to the successes OF
the Canadian troops is the stimulus
ON the North American continent to
individuality and initiative. The reports
of the way our men have fought prove
a. marked superiority over the troops
Of the rest of the allies. Some people
think of the new methods of warfare
as a case of mud and misery. l had
that impression once myself. But ON
the contrary there is great opportunity
and great need for individual initiative
and action.
When the troops are committed to
an attack the officers necessarily lose
control Of them temporarily until the
objective is taken The troops who all
their lives have been used to deciding
and acting for themselves are better
equipped to grasp the situation as a
whole. And they get the results with
their men.
To illustrate how this quality of the
Canadian troops was recognized by the
higher commands: On my way back TO
an English hospital I got acquainted
with a young Englishman. This boy
cot wounded the same day | did lie
had been in France ten months. ! had
been there six months up to that date.
His battalion had never been over the
top. whereas my battalion had been III
four major operations i'm little more
than half the time. The Canadians
have taken part in offensive operations
O. great deal because Of this quality.
was wounded at the battle ot
| Givenchy. The first battalion made an
attack at 3 o'clock in the afternoon
June Is. 1915. They took three lines
/ of trenches and were driven back. we
were supporting them and at that
night were sent i'm. We were fighting
round mine crater, 1t was more
like a snowfall fight with hand grenade'
than anything else | can think of-th'
Germans on one side Of the crater anC
our bows on the other, We We're driver
back after we had taken one Line o
trenches.
They sent me 10 q small hospital a
Farnboro in Hants which the Empress
Eueen.e paid for and financed. 1t wa
O. par, Of her house which she ha'
arranged for the accommodation o
eight officers, and the place was man
aged by Lady Douglas Haig. The ON
press entertained US at dinner severa
times and tried to make our period o
convalcscing less burdcnsome. She wa
much interested in the Canadians bu
surprised that I could not speak French
She said she would die happy il sh
could I've to sec the Germans thrashe(
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-04

l met an elderly man the other day
erect, alert, and gravely cheerful-and
we talked Of the vs,-, OF the stay.at-
homes place and part in it, 1t strikes
me that what this man said is worth
recording. Here it is in his own words,
as nearly as I can remember.
This isn't a paper war we've en-
tered on its real, life and death
struggle for mans freedom on earth.
We've each got to shoulder our share
OF the burden, and do what we can do
strengthen the governments arm. I'm
doing my little to the best of my ability,
and it makes me glad and proud. l
don't feel any longer as if l were on
the scrap pile.
What is it that I'm doing? I'll tell
you, and mind you, it is in no spirit of
boastfulness; it is what thousands of
others are doing all up and down the
land. | am going without certain
things these days, things l formerly
thought essential to my comfort and
happiness. | have the money to buy
these things-though 1 am far from
well off-but I'm going without them
because in so doing it helps the gov
ernment to find at least one modest
market for its Liberty bonds, its War
Savings Stamps its Thrift Stamps, By
going without | can help the Red Cross
a little the Y. NJ. G. \. little, and
give up a little to other needs as they
come up.
"ro do what | may in these directions
l am wearing my last winters hat anc
shoes, and overcoat, and other articles
need not specify. | am walking where
| used to ride; am reading about the
plays at the thcater instead of seeing
them as | used to-aud loved to; / an
putting but one scant spoonful Of sugar
in my coffee where it was two heapine
ones before: | am forgetting how g
beefsteal, tastes; | am cultivating lik
ing for cornmeal bread; | am guarding
against waste in the house as misel
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-04
THE GID LOVE.

'rhe ghost of a dead sweetheart came,
last night,
And sat beside me in the tent Of sleep;
And my heart met her with a joyful
leap,
And knew not that the years had taken
flight
Zach word was so familiar that it might
Have been but yesterday I woke to
weep
The death of those first joys no man
can keep
The passing Of the days Of pure delight.
Each tone, each gesture, had the we'll
known grace
I loved so well, of old; her tenderness
Vas round me as l woke, and found her
place
Empty and lost the ghost of a caress.
But in the darkness she had veled her
face,
And which old love she was, 7 cannot
guess!
Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-04
NO NOMENCLATURE OF SMELL
Approach Made, But With Little Sue
cess, TO Establishment OF system.

London Lancet: Little success has
been made in efforts tending to the
establishment of a system Of nomen.
clature comparable for smells with the
classification which we have been able
to set up in the cases Of the senses Of
seeing and hearing. The fact Is that,
so far, smells have not been capable
II the analysis which Is possible with
fight and sound. In both these cases
we have a gamut or a law of octaves,
as also with the atomic weights in chem
istry, and perhaps some day a similar
analysis in regard to odors will be forth
coming. At present We are without a
nomenclature, and everybody expert
Q ices the difficulty Of describing a smell.
We have to be content to say that a
given smell resembles another smell
which is more or less familiar The
fact Is that the sense of smell has
been the least cultivated of the senses,
and it is just possible that if the sub
ject had received the same attention as
hSve the senses of hearing and sight
lie study Of odors would have reached
a higher scientific plane, though, it ap-
pears to us, the classification of smells
must always suffer from the absence
OF the mathematical analysis capable
in optics and acoustics.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-04
BLIND SOLDIERS FIGHT on.
England Finds Use for Men Who Lost
Their Sight nj the Front.

New York Times: How England is
meeting the problem Of how to care for
uer blinded soldiers and sailors and
how to inspire them to take up their
lives anew with the same courage and
resourcefulness with which they faced
German shell and rifle fire is described
IN report just issued by 81. Dunstan's
H.ostel for Blinded Soldiers and Sailors.
Regents Park, London. In the report
Iir Arthur Pearson, himself blind, tells
now the blinded have learned in st.
Dunstan's to be successful at one or
more of the following occupations; Mas
sage. shorthand writing, telephone OPP
Grating, boot repairing, mat making,
basket making, joinery poultry farm
ng and market gardening.
The newly blinded soldier is not al
lowed to slip into the slough OF de-
spond, which usually engulfs a man
who has suddenly lost the precious gift
# sight" says Sir Arthur. Instead,
MS fighting spirit is reused, as he hears
10 what full and wonderful lives others
can win through; closed eyelids do
not mean lack of vision, what others
can make of life he can also make,
lqd tlready his spirits are cheered as
lie eagerly plans his new campaign"
st. Dunstan's is situated on the estate
alaced at the disposal of the Blinded
Soldiers and Sailors Care Committee
by its owner Otta Kahn, of Kuhn,
loeb & Co. Under arrangements with
the war office, soldiers with badly dam
aged eyes are drafted to the Second
London General Hospital, or in case
heavy fighting has made the casualty
J.. st occupy the entire accommodations
there, the men are sent to the Third
London General Hospital. once at these
hospitals. the blinded come directly un
| der the care Of st. Dunstan's. Mem
hers of the staff visit them daily while
| they are still in the hospital and en-
courage them TO bear up under the
awful depression which accompanies the
| iirst moments of lifetime of blindness
Nearly a thousand Englshmen have
!
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-04
From Other
Editorial Pages
BRITISH PERSISTENCE.

McAlester News-Capital: The Ger
mans have no monopoly on thorough
ness The British are just as thor
ough in their way, though with them
the quality is usually called persist
ence, or stubbornness 1t amounts to
about the same thing. They may not
use so much system" to attain their
end, but they get there no less surely
in fact, more surely.
The war has proved time after time
that the traditional character Of the
English people has not changed. When
their first eXpedtionary force was over
whelmed by disaster in Mesopotamia,
they started all over again, and went
to work slowly and methodically, build
ing railroads and perrecting river trans,
portation and fighting heat and dis
ease and sending troops and equipment,
until they wiped out their defeat and
mastered that historic land. When a
Turkish army threatened the Suez
Canal, they protected Egypt and their
water route to India by the slow, pains
taking process Of building a railroad
through the desert, sweeping the Turks
out of Palestine and taking Jerusalem.
When the Germans assailed South At
rca, they proceeded in the same thor
ough way in which they won the Boer
War to extend their sway over all Ger
many's African colonies, a task just
ended They have long since avenged
the defeat Of their first contemplate
little army" in Flanders by raising a
vast army and beating the Germans a:
their own game. In nearly all the es,
sentials Of prescntday warfare they
have out-Germauci the Germans.
Much remains to be done, but the
same pcrtinacity may be counted or
to do it, Britain is still the bulldog
Whatever the cost, she will not give up
A century ago she fought Napoleon
till his gigantic power collapsed. She
will fight the kaiser likewise To-day
the British people are weary and sick
of war, but they never dream Of quit
ting.
We 1atter ourselves that we have the
same dogged strength, and along with
it more dash and brillancy than the
British have. However that may be
every intelligent American today ap
preciates the value Of having Britain a.
an ally in our big war And if it came
to the worst-if all the rest of the al
lies were exhausted and dropped out OF
the game-Britain and America could
and would carry on the struggle tC
victory.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-04
Up 70 THE PEOPLE OF GERMANY
AND AUSTRIA.

st Joseph Cfo) News Press: The po'
.tical unrest in Germany and the ac-
cumulating evidence of friction between
Austria and Germany are the most i'm
iortant features Of the news of recent
Gavs. The noise that is being made
lv tho German Socialists indicates that
the bars are down on speech AS tor
Austria. she might endure the physical
suffering Of the present winter II her
heart were In the war, but in proper
ton as she sees what victory would
mean in loss of prestige many OF her
poople must realize that she has less
"a hope for with Germany winning the
var than with the allies winning II.
The semiofficial Vienna Fremden-
blatt sharply attacked the German an
aexationists, intimating that they were
prejudicing Austria's interests by their
policy at Brest Ltovsk. In reply there
were furious articles in the pan.German
press The Vossische Zeitung, which
is not pan-German, reminding the Aus
trian press that it was endangering
tine alliance with Germany. The re-
port is that when Count Czernin a
few days ago returned to Vienna he at
once held an interview with the young
emperor, following which he sent two
Nigh government officials post haste
to- Berlin. There appears to be fric
ton between the two governments, prob
ably the result of Austria's earnest de
sire for peace. The statement in
news dispatches that Count CZernir
sent an advance copy of his statement
| ,f Auctr;o'c u>ar airnc IN President Wi
sen may be of considerable importance
More than a year ago talk was frs
heard. forecasting an Austrian break