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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
FIFTY RED CROSS
 AUXILIARIES IN CITY

There are more than fifty auxiliar- ies of the Red Cross in Bridgeport and they have prepared literally car loads of material for the hospitals and war sufferers in Europe. A service in recognition of their splendid work will be held at the First Methodist church tomorrow night. The address " the pastor, George M. Brown, will be on what the women of Bridgeport are doing in the Red Cross service. The motion picture will be Human ity's Appeal which is an excellent Red Cross film and lantern slides will be used to show what part America is taking to help alleviate the suffer- ings of those across the sea.
 The Sunday School which meets at 9:45 will begin it's Summer program tomorrow. The classes will sit to- gether in the main room and all will participate in the general exercises. The Mems Assembly will elect it's of ficers for the next six months under the commission form of government which has proved an excellent way in which to conduct the affairs of the Assembly. The annual Field. Day with games and contests and picnic dinner will be held in Beards1ey Park next Tuesday The cars will leave the church at o'clock sharp.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
40 RECREATION HOUSES FOR RED
 CROSS NURSES

- The American Red Cross Is plan ming forty Nurses Recreation Houses to be built, at the request and with the approval of the Surgeon General, at the cantonments and base hospi- tals in connection with nurses bar racks. All of these buildings will be in use within the next two months, Judging by the speed with which Red Cross work has been completed in the past. Already fin many places these club houses, with their white walls and red roofs are going up un- der the eyes of the. nurses them selves.
 The general purpose is to provide every comfort for the nurses serving 1T. the cantonment and base hospitals. The main room, 30 by 75 feet, will have a great open fire place along one side. Although the room ordinarily will be used as living room, it will also be adapted for an assembly hall and can be used for dances and re- captions.
 Overlooking this room is a small
  can be thrown on the wall opposite. Opening off this same room will be a library, g. sewing-room equipped with machines and all conveniences, a small laundry and a fully equipped kitchen. The furnishings through out have been planned to the last de- tail
 A piano and victrola, folding chairs for assembly purposes, the gold brown walls and dainty lounges, even the lighting fixtures with their design suggesting the Red Cross, have been selected and combined to express a sense of home, and, to supply the needs and add to the comfort of can | tonment life. The houses will con- meet with the nurses quarters.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
GERMAN ORGANIZATION
 IS OVER-RATED

"One hears much expansive admira- ton of the German genius for organ izing,'' writes Brand Whitlock in Ev- erybody's for July, "but it comes for the most part from those who have never had actual experience of Ger man organization. Perhaps it is be- cause there is so much of it; because it is so colossal. It is in many ways efficient, no doubt; they get certain things done; but then, so do the French, who seem to have so little or ganization, and are so clever in inn provisation. But the vast, elephan- tine deliberation Of German organi- zation would drive an American cap tain of industry mad in a fortnight. It is heavy, cumbersome; it's compli- cated machinery rumbles on and on, remorselessly, and once set in motion there is no way of stopping it, of turn Rexigencies. It is blindly imperson. al, inhuman, taking no account of persons or of the personal equation. Wherever it touches human beings, it consists of a multitude of regulations, of 'Verbotens.' Instead of few sim pie guideposts to point the way through a wilderness, the Germans would put up myriad signboards tell ing the traveller where not to go; in- stead of barking few trees to blaze the trail, they would hack all the trees in the forest except those along the way they wished to indicate"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
BUZAS HELD FOR
 UNWISE REMARKS

Tony Buzas, of New Canaan, ar- rested by Officer Mcbride yesterday at the instance of First Class Gunner s Mate Benchoff U. S. N, who charged him with speaking disrespectfully of the United States flag and making the remark, My son is over in Germany fighting with the Kaiser and if was there I would be fighting with him, too," was in court today and his case was continued until July g by Judge Bartlett, who fixed his bonds at $1,- 000.-
 Buzas, apparently, is an enemy alien and officials are of the belief he will be immediately either given q heavy jail sentence or interned for the duration of the war.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
EFFECTIVE POLICY IN U. s, AIRPL.ANE
 PRODUCTION NOW

Washington, July GA policy now effective in American airplane produc- ton is that of supplementing spruce wood supply by using selected timber of other more widely distributed com mercial varieties. It Is said that ex- haustive tests made by the forest ser vice, followed by experiments in con- structton, have proved that requisite qualifications of strength and light ness for airplane building are possess ed in varying degree by other woods, notably white pine, and that under or Isders of John D. Ryan, head of the Aircraft Board, use of them was inn mediately decided upon.
 It is not intended, the technical men say, to dispIace the invaluable but somewhat inaccessible spruce with the other woods except in making the fu- selage, finishing the body, and build ing up sections of the structure like the landing-struts, where the strains and stresses of progress against air re- sistance do not center. Spruce will still constitute the material for wing SpdISJ Sl1 ulSs DSlWSCiA Pld44Oo- ebAAo oAl4A- liar sections where these stresses do center.
 Airplane specifications have been thoroughly overhauled in recent weeks, it is also said, in an effort to eliminate, requirements of eXtraordi- nary structural strength and fineness of material in non-strain bearing sec tions, whether made of wood or of metal, which has hampered produc- tion and raised problems of raw ma terial supply which have been more or I less unsolvable in view of the quanti- 1 ty of machines desired. Much of this has only been possible because of the building during the past year, which
 has furnished an experience upon
 which to develop innovations. A | policy of official secrecy concerning
 all details of the airplane program | is still in effect.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
ISEBMARINE CARGO CARRIERS SIMON
 LAKES REMEDY
Believes That is Only Sure Way to Escape Menace of
 German Activity.

Huge cargo-carrytng submarines are what MT, Simon Lake still believes to be the growing submarine menace of the Germans according to a state ment made by that noted inventor of under sea boats,
 MT. Lake, who Is president of the Lake Submarine company of Bridge port and president of the Lake Torpedo Boat company, now engaged in building boats for Uncle Sam is firmly convinced that commercial submarines will prove to be the only way to beat the military undersea boat, He is himself the inventor of an invisible cargo-carrying ship and has offered his services and the use of his designs free to the government, for the purpose of constructing without profit to anyone, cargo carrying sub marines and carrying without profit to any one, foodstuffs, munitions, and supplies to our soldiers and Allies on the other side.
 As a builder and a student of the possibilities of the submarine for over l25 years, MT. Lake feels that he knows their possibilities better than men who have not specialized. He con- tends that submarines, properly de- lCigned and equipped, in sufficient numbers, have the capacity to drive surface craft from the seas, and that there has been no means yet discov- cred for combating them on any thing like equal terms. He claims, further, that means are not likely to be found to meet them on equal terms and that the only way we can hope to continue to supply our own boys and Allies on the other side with foodstuffs and ammunition is to be able to evade the German military submarine by sending our commerce in ships that have the capacity, as has the military submarine, to become in- visible at will.
 MT Lake figures that the Germans are not losing more than 1 per cent. 1p submarine tonnage and dollars, in comparison with our losses; even giv- ing full credit to the claims made by some of the newspapers, who seem to think they can win the war by dis crediting the work of the submarine, rather than by recognizing the dan ger and trying to assist in finding an antidote for 1t.
 The merchant submarine, which the noted inventor holds will alone prove to be the antidote, is a boat about 5000 tons, Dr ten times as large as the Deutschland. They are unsink- able, can be submerged in half a min ute, can be constructed in large num- bers and can be turned out at the rate of three or four a week.
 Speaking of the continuing menace of the U-boat campaign, MT. Lake said:
 "If we do not succeed we may lose, and as a nation we cannot afford to take that chance. It is up to every citizen and official with influence to study this problem carefully"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
THE ACID TEST
(By Wallace Irwin.)

I am going to call him First Lieut.. Williams, of the Aviation Corps, be- cause that isn't his name and he de- sires more than anything else not to be advertised. His hair is perfectly gray, but he carries himself with mil itary precision and obeys his superior officers as well as he himself was obeyed during those years when he was boss of many thousands of work men in one of Americas greatest public-service corporations.
 And this is how First Lieut.. Will Hams, an old man to be starting on his military career, is taking orders to-day and feeling like young man again.
 For about a month after President Wilson had offered America with it's men and resources to the cause of freedom and democracy MT. Williams sat at his desk in tall skyscraper and envied the young fellows whom he saw Hooking toward the training camps. Finally he decided he had done enough sitting around getting his ideas of war out of the newspapers.
 Charley he said to his business partner one morning, "All your sons have gone into the service and you've done your share. But haven't got any boys to offer to my country. Therefore it's up to me. I'm going to enlist"
 "You can't enlist as major gen. eral,"" laughed his partner, "and you're too old and too important to be a private
 I'm neither" hotly replied MT. Williams. "I'm going to war to fight and as long as I can beat half my of flee at tennis Pm not afraid of the physical examinations"
 MT. Williams's first experience at the recruiting stations however, show ed that his partner was right. After an Army doctor had gotten through with him he went away feeling like a chronic invalid. However, he sub mitted himself to two or three minor surgical examinations, applied again, was rejected, went the rounds of Ar my, Navy and Marines and at last found himself hopelessly outside the circle, where wealth and success count for nothing against the sp1en- did claims of youth.
 He went back to his desk, grinning g sheepish1y when his partner was un- kind enough to say, ''I told you so!'' But two weeks later, when he ap- peared in the uniform of the Aviation Corps and showed the little silver bar on his shoulder-it was time for First Lieutenant Williams to boast.
 "I found they wanted experienced business men as ground officers to manage the flying camps" he ex- plained. 'They wouldn't take me as a private, so I decided to become an officer"
 Ours is a true Army of democracy. know of a prosperous corporation lawyer who recently enlisted in the Navy and found that the petty officer over him was one Sweeney, whom he had recently employed as chauffeur. The lawyers wife decided to give her sailor husband a reception on his first day of leave But early on the ap- pointed afternoon there came a ring at the telephone.
 ''This is Rob- came the voice of the beloved recruit. FI can't be home, dear. I'm scrubbing the mess hall and Sweeney won't let me go."
 Sweeney may never rise to the ward room; his ex-employer may command ship before the war is over-or vice versa-depending on merit alone.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
Italians Suffer Much
 In Austrian Prisons

Arnaldo FracaroH, correspondent of the Corriere della Sera, of Milan, paints a disagreeable picture of Aus trian prsion life, based upon reports from Italian invalids recently return ed from Austro- Hungarian concen- tration camps. He points out that only a brief stap in an Austrian pris- on camp has been sufficient to open the eyes of those few who let themselves be captured, thinking that they would end the war by their own de- feat" Of these prisoners who had surrendered willingly an Italian officer who had spent some time in an Aus trian prison is quoted as saying:
 eff these soldiers could return to our front and have a rifle in their hands each of them would be worth ten brave soldiers! One month in Austria teaches one to love Italy pas sionately, with all ones heart and might"
 '1n the Austrian concentration camps" says Arnaldo Fracaroli, ''of- ficers can exist only with the help of their own resources. But the com mon soldiers are treated worse. They have not enough to eat. They per ish, languish and become weakened. Strong and healthy men are so re- duced that they hardly have any strength left. In the prison camp at
 Mathausen there died last winter from thirty to forty men each day. Of what? From lack of nutrition.
 "1n Mathausen every morning at ten o'clock the trumpets give the sig
 nal It is the funeral hour. There are funerals every day. The dead our dead soldiers-are being stripped teompletely of everything and placed two in a coffin-if there are any cof- fins.
 "On their arrival in the concentra- tion camps the soldiers taken prison CTS are being stripped of everything clothing, linen, helmets and shoes. They receive filthy uniforms of dark chestnut texture that do not keep them warm and can hardly serve as clothing. The prisoners of Capo- rettoi-that is how they call those captured last October-have suffer ed more than all others, not because of any difference in treatment-official Austria does not make any sentiment al distinctions; she treats all equally badly-but because at that time pris- oners were gathered in by the thou
 sand, quartered in the streets, dis | patched in companies on foot, left without food or shelter, abandoned
 for entire days on fields of assemb- | ling and trains. Hunger, cold, filth mess, insults and blows-they have
 suffered everything. When they arriv- ed in the concentration camps they
 were easily recognized as the 'pris-
 iners of Caporetto' by the suffering
 figures which they presented. On
 these masses which had suffered and had been weakened so much death
 threw itself with the most furious fe-
 rocity. If the soldiers at the front
 could only see some of the disabled men whom the Austrians are return
 ing to Italy and then read some of the
 circulars in which the Austrians are
 inviting the Italian soldiers to desert
 because they would be treated well l livery now and then the Austrians
 are making a tour of the prison
 camps to select soldiers for work in
 the trenches. Everybody knows that from those expeditions one almost 1 never returns or one returns as a phantom"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
BAR SUPPLIES
 FROM DUTCH ROAD

The Hague, July 5-Washington and the other Entente allied govern ments have sent a note to Holland for the purpose of controverting statements in the Dutch press that the associated governments conten- plate making concessions regarding transit over the Limburg railroad.
 The note says this would be con- trary to the agreement made with the Dutch government last April, which, while releasing the Dutch government from certain engage ments regarding the transit of gravel and sand to Germany, did not con- template any concession regarding the transit of military supplies.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth of l Belgium co-operates with the Ameri- can Red Cross in directing a chill i dren's refuge at Le Chandler, in Elan ders.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
BRANCH LIBRARY PLANS.

Branches of the public library will be opened before the end of the month in the North End and East Side. The exterior of both buildings has been completed and only little of the interior remains to be done.
 The branches will be closed in the morning but will be opened from noon until evening. If a book called for In a branch library is out a messenger will be sent to the public library to see if it can be obtained there. At the start each branch Ii. brary will contain about 4,000 vol umes. The number will be increas- ed from time to time until 5000 books are in each library.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06

There is one chapter of the Red Cross all Indian in membership It < at Belcourt, N. D.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06

"Iwas great sufferer from RAewm- atfssv Jo'- O0e'- I6 pears, I consulted specialists, took medicines, used lotions but nothing did me good.
 Then, I began to use "Fruit-a- lives" and in 15 days, the pain was easier and the Rheumatism was better. Gradually, "Fzwtt-a-tives" o7,ercGage ny Rhewnatfsm; and now, for five years, I have had no return of the trouble. Also, I had severe EczsmG ard Constipation, and "Fruit-a-tives" relieved me of these complaints and gave me a good appetite l; and in every way restored me to health'. P. H. McHUGH.
 5Oc. 8 box, 6 for $2.5O, trial size 25c. At all dealers or sent on receipt of price, by FRUIT -A-TIVES Limited, OGDENSBURG, NY,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
JUNE REGISTRANTS
 TO BE CLASSIFIED

Boys who registered June will be put into the National Army before the end of August. This was the opinion of members of the draft boards today. They believe that Hartford has received a notice stat ing that al the men who registered last June must be classified before the end of this month. General Crowder has sent out notices to the capital of each state asking them to notify all the boards to get the June list complete as soon as possible. As class one of the old draft is almost exhausted, it is almost certain that the men in class one of the new draft will be taken before class two of the old draft.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
STATE FOR
 15O MORE MEN

Washington, July 5-Alaska was directed by Provost Marshal General Crowder today to furnish 300 white selective service registrants to be sent to Fort William Seward, Haines, Alaska, as soon as they can be mobil- ized.
 New York was called upon to send 500 limited service men to Camp Johnston, Jacksonville, Fla; and Connecticut to send 150 limited ser vice men to Camp Meigs, Washing ton, D. c. The men will be used as clerks and are ordered to entratn on July 1 5.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
APPROVED BY STATE COUNCIL

Hartford, July 6.-Approval ha: been given by the Connecticut State Council of Defense to a statewide campaign for funds by the Connecti cut Children's Aid Society. At tht recent meeting of the State Council z letter was received from the Child. ren's Aid Society asking for authori zation for such an appeal. By vott of the Council approval was given.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06

One of the most curious contribu- tions that has ever reached the Amer lean Red Cross is that of $1S.75 from a Sunday School of Chinese children in California to be used for the benefit of Chinese coolies in France.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-23
MARY PlCkFORO
NJohsnna ,Enlists'
.AArUcpAfTnar

At a dinner, should a guest be in
doubt what to do, the rule is to glance
at the hostess and follow her method,
whatever it may be.
Miss Reilly will answer in this COL
umn all questions on matters of Ell
quette addressed to her in care of this
paper. If personal reply is desired,
enclose a 3-cent stamp.)
L. E.: 1t is really better to wait
until the young man asks permission
to call. Since he is SO bashful, how
ever, you might invite him and sew
eral other young people to spend an
evening at your home. After he has
been to see you once, he might pick
up courage to ask to come again
SUBSCRIBER: There are many
ways in which to announce an engage
ment at a luncheon. You might place
a small envelope at each plate, the
outside bearing the guests name.
while the card bears the names of the
couple. The envelope may be sealed
with gilt heart. Or, you might pre-
pare English walnuts with pretty
quotations written and concealed in
side the shells. On one write the
news.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-23

1.-The One Woman" presented many
difficult features in adapting 1t for
motion picture purposes. The diff
Guilty lay in the condensation of the
novel with all its interesting qualities
with its big theme to properly ar
range for presentation of the play
without losing any of the merits of the
original story. There are some NAM
moth sets and stupendous scenes in
this play and an all-star cast has been
used in filming it.
The characters in the story are few
but vivid. The atmosphere is that of
New York and deals with the dis
cordant note of social life. The pic
ture has a bigness combined with
something which is rarely found in a
really big picture, that is, fine artis-
tic detail.
THE One Woman is the one pic
ture of it's kind which has been pre-
scented to the Topeka people. 1t is a
picture which has drawn big audi
ences in the east and at much higher
prices than it will be seen in Topeka.
At the Novelty.
The Dixie Entertainer" in tunes of
the sunny south will open the vaude-
Vile bill at the Novelty theater the
first half of the week. This gentle
man of the south is a regular black
face comedian of the old school and
carries his banjo with him. Francis
and Hume are second on the program
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-23

Food Boss Quits.
London, Nov. 22.-John r. Clynes,
the British food controller, it is under
stood, has resigned. ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-23
Round Up Shakers.

Chicago, Nov. ga round UP of
alien tax slackers was under way here
today. Seven arrested Friday were
heid on charges of failing to pay ag-
gregate taxes of $500. The law re-
quires aliens to pay taxes on incomes
regardless of whether its big or little.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-23

He was one of the three boys chosen
from his battalion to enter the gas en-
CINE school and finished the seven
weeks course in two weeks and two
days. with q grade OF 50. He received
the title OF sergeant instructor, and IL
now in France 80 command of heavy
onk
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-23
At the Iris

The feature at the Iris, beginning
Monday. will be THE One Woman"
1t is the work of Thomas Dixon, au-
thor Of the Birth of a Nation" The
novelist who wrote this story is a big
figure in literary spheres, and the play
is one Of his masterpieces.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-23

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