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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-21

a war of conquest. They want
speedy peace, and they will have it,
too. The Patriotic party had better
abandon all doubt abcJ- that
Junkers' Risky Game
The ''Volksfreund'' of Brunswick, in
a highly significant articles, warns the
Junkers that the armory of the people
is not yet exhausted, and that an ON
nous move is still in reserve
1.-THE proceedings in the election
committee of the Reichstag have open
ed the eyes of the people to the ur-
gent necessity of putting up a grim
fight for a real franchise reform The
means and the weapons that the
deeply-wronged Prussian people will
adopt to secure their object will de-
pend on their opponents.
1.-THE Prussian Junkers know full
we'll that they are playing a risky
game. It may be 'that they do so
with set purpose: it may be that it is
their intention to exasperate the peo-
pie to fury, so that by some drastic
measures they may make capital for
themselves.
.sThis satisfaction the German work
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-21
RED CROSS TAG
DAY drive TO
START TOMORROW

Red Cross tag day has been sched-
uled for Saturday, when 100000
needed for local running expenses is
going to be raised, but things start off
with a wallop tomorrow, when the
two workers stationed at every school
take donations from the boys and girls.
his plan works in admirably with
Junior Red Cross week which is now
on in the schools. The Board of Edu-
cation has given every aid possible to
the Red Cross, and at the request of
the children at the high school allowed
Mrs. Ludlum to make an address in
explanation of the drive, at the high
school yesterday.
Every big department store inBridge-
port is going to have a hundred per
cent contribution record if the plans
MRS. F7eck, head of the Minute Women
Mrs. Flick, head of the Minute Women
is addressing the employees of D. M.
Reads and Dorsen's today. An ad-
dress was made by Mrs. F'leck at How
lands yesterday, when representatives
of other stores were present
After the explanation of the meaning
of the drive and the need for the $780,
10000 to tide the local chapter over
uI6ll may ~, luS udJ0 SCI lOI TIE UlS
drive, a committee was formed for the
purpose of canvassing the store and
making Howland's have a 1000 rec
ord.
The famous ambulance, donated to
the Bridgeport Chapter by Walter B.
Lasher, chairman, will be much in evil
dence on Friday when it will deliver
all of the tags, and boxes for collect
ing the money at the different way
stations which have been selected
throughout the city.
Merchants have not only guaranteed
1000 contributions for their establish
ments, but they have assumed the re-
sponsibility of acting as way stations.
All Minute Women Captains can call
for automobile flags a Harigan's drug
sore on Fairfield avenue near Main.
The flags for the automobiles are
going to be made this afternoon at
the home of Miss Dotten eros Claude
1850 Laurel avenue, by fifty women.
The immense task of putting the red
string through the 175,000 tags was
accomplished by the Red Cross Aux
iliaries and the Minute Women.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-21
septic voices rise

SCepLlc voices r1Se:-
"And yet -. there are voices
which whisper that the patient never
had any bullet at all in his body, that
he was simply suffering from severe
indigestion. and that the Prince,
whose operation was performed in
strictest privacy, therefore had moth
ing to remove.
Nevertheless his Royal Highness
in due time presented his patient with
a bullet (whence procured he only
can say) which he had adorned with
a golden crown and with his name in
letters of the same precious metal
What an act of princely generosity
at time when every particle of gold
is required for the defense of the
Fatherland. Perhaps there may be
others who would like a nice little
golden gift from the Bavarian prince.
Let them speak up, and we have no
doubt that the talented royal fiddler
surgeon will contrive by his magic
arts to produce a bullet from their
loyal interiors, or, at all events, to in
duce them to believe that he has done
so; and the dear, good Bavarian Press
will print columns about the affair,
regardless of the scarcity of paper.
Indeed, to be a Prince in Bavaria is
synonymous with being a wizardl'
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-21

ing classes will not afford them, but
neither on the other hand, do they
intend to suffer with patience every
blow that the Junker fist may deal
them in the face. The armory of the
proletariat is not yet exhausted. The
people are ready to take up the glove
which the Junkers have thrown at
them by way of challenge. They will
wage the good fight for equal suf-
frage, and they will not desist until
the power of the Junkers is smashed
for ever
Epic of Princely Magic
In a joyous mood the Stuttgart
'eVolksstimme" tells the diverting
story of fiddler prince, a phantom
bullet, and a weird surgical opera
ton, and with true Wurtemberg
wickedness manages to cast scorn and
cofrtumely on it's Bavarian neighbours:
''Heroic times inspire heroic deeds,
as he following item of information
will show Prince Ludwig Ferdinand
of the Royal House of Bavaria is a
talented violinist, but as, of course,
he cannot constantly find an oppor-
tunity for fiddling, he also performs
other surgical operations.
"Quite recently the Prince actually
succeeded, so they say, in removing
from the body of young Bavarian
peasant bullet that had lodged in it
for sixteen months. At Cologne and
Metz all attempts to remove the OBJ
structions, made by the greatest sur
gical experts, proved fruitless. 1t
needed a Bavarian prince to perform
SO doughty a deed!
The Phantom Operation
Smooth sailing, so far, but here
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-21
OBITUARY
JACON GLEENIAN.

The Chesed Shell Ames Benevolence
and Truth society of Bridgeport have
taken care of their initial case. They
have buried Jacon GIeeman of 1872
Arch street.
Rev. Arie Leib Lederer, first chap
lain, OBLIGATED, assisted by Nathan
fash, second chaplain. Others present
of the society were Edward Postil,
president; Aaron Goddard, vice presi-
dent; Samuel Steinlauf, secretary;
Morris Ostrofsky, H. Reinstien and
Nathan Gurfien.
The society is a Jewish organiza-
ton that was recently organized for
the purpose of caring for those who
pass away, who are friendless or
whose relatives are not in a position
to bury them according to Jewish
rights.
Burial was made in the Hebrew
Sick Benefit society plot in the He
brew cemetery.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-21

SWEET PEAS, VIOLETS, TULIPS,
DAFFODILS.
JOHN RECK & SON.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-21
STATE PRESIDENT
VISITS ENGINEERS

Harry Brown, state president of the
Stationary Engineers organization,
made his official visit to the local
branch of the organization. Other out
of town men who attended the meet
ing were: Deputy f. NJ. Hastings,
John "A. Morehouse and Bradford
Ames of Boston, representatives of
the New England Commercial Supply
association.
The state convention of stationary
engineers will be held in this city on
July 10, II, u and 13.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-21
JOHN JOSEPH COOK.

Following an illness of four days
with pneumonia, John Joseph Cook,
aged 10, died yesterday noon at the
residence of his parents, Jerome T.
and Ellen Cook, 1870 Main street. Mr..
Cook was a cletk employed at the
freight house and was exceedingly
popular with his fellow employees. He
resided in the South End and was
widely known among the younger
people of that section. Besides his
parents, two sisters, Julia and Helen
and three brothers, Jerome II, Jr., a
student at St. Bernard's seminary,
Rochester, N. Y; Francis and Or
mond, survive.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-21
BOOK
OUT OF LIBRARY

Tho Three Industrial Nations"
book said to have pro-German ten
denotes, was ousted from the library
at the Bridgeport High school yester-
day by Schools Supt. Samuel j. Slaw-
son, follow ing the order of the State
Council of Defense to eliminate all
such books from schools. The search
for pro-Teutonic literature will be
continued. 1t is not thought that any
of the text hooks in this city will be
molested as anything pertaining to
the German government has been
previously closely scrutinized.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-21
GERMAN NEWSPAPER.
SHOWS Big CHANGE.
SINCE START OF WAR.
LEIPZIG ''NACHRICHTEN," ONCE SENSIBLE
SHEET, NOW POURING OUT TEUTONIC
VENOM is GYP-THE-BLOOD STYLE-''VOS4
SICEIE ZEITUNG ALSO ATTACKS AMERICAN
LEADERS,
Copyright, 1918, By The International News Bureau)
COMPILED BY ]. j. BOSDAN

The Leipzig Nachrchen in prewar days. unusually
sensible newspaper But since the war; the fam
university city newspaper has experienced terrible mental
change In article in of its current issues find the fol-
lowing Teuonc poured out in truly Gypthe
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-21

Adolph Timm of Philadelphia. Sec
rotary of the German-American ALI
ance was before the Senate committee
Investigating the organizations alleg-
ed disloyal activities.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-21

A burglar Owed through the Sec
ond story window of the rooms of the
Order of Eagles in Syracuse. Detect
ives fired a volley from the window,
wounding him, but he escaped.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-21

First Lieut. Walter L. johnson of
Belleville, Ill, was killed at San An-
tonic, Tex, when the Canadian Curtiss
airpIane he was driving fell 1900 feet.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-21

Mail from Hong Kong, Feb. 81.
from Toxic, March l, and Kobe and
Yokohoma, March 2, are due in New
York Friday morning.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-05-27
RAISE SERVICE FLAG
AT SEVENTH STREF,T CHURCH

The Baraca class of Seventh Street
Christian church yesterday morning
raised a. service flag of thirty-six stars
in honor of it's members in the army
and navy.
Or. H d. c. Maclachlan, the pas
tor. delivered an impressive address
in which he referred to the Christian
service the boys are performing in
fighting for parents. number of
whom were present, not to pity them.
but rather to envy them their glorious
experience. in which they are learn
ing perhaps for the first time, the true
significance OF duty. the JOY OF self
sacrifice. and the reality of God.
Judge Christopher E. Garnett, the
class teacher, pointed out in a few
words. that nearly one-haf of the
class enrolment are in the service.
thirty-six of the seventy-hve mem
bers having entered the army or the
navy. OF this number thirteen have
received commissions, while six are
non commissioned officers.
Al his suggestion. the class adopt
ed plan for keeping In touch with
the men while at the front or In the
training camps.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-05-27
Lyric Employees
Adopt War Orphans

"Its a wise child that knows fts
own father" the aphorisn, runs. Five
little French war orphans there are.
who will have to possess unusual
wisdom therefore when they learn in
the years to come that they are the
children OF an American personality
identified officially only as Lyric
theater, Richmond, Va, u. s. A." For
under that name Charles W. Rex
and the staff members and stage EN-.
ployes Of the vaudeville theater have
adopted Ave French kiddies. made
fatherless by the war.
The adoption Of the Ave was made
through the good Offices Of Mrs. ].
mond section of the Fartherless Chill
dren OF France association. head.
quarters In New York. The manager
and the employees OF the theater
pooled their contributions and agreed
to provide for the maintenance OF
Ave orphans, in accordance with the
system devised by the association for
caring for the war orphans of France,
who have been left in destitute cir
cumstances.
Manager Rex enlisted the sympathy
and support of all the men on the
Lyrics payroll in the movement and
hopes TO persuaue ny example ana
precept the managers OF other theaters
throughout the state and the Southern
country TO Join in the charitable move
ment, each theater adopting as many
of the orphans as the employees can
afford.
Mrs rllyson will select the ave
children for the Lyric men and supply
photographs of the little ones. The
pictures will he displayed on the
screen at the theater as soon as they
are received
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-05-27
Potatoes
q. S. Reod Administration
Though Within Few Miles Of Battle, US. Officers
Knew Less of 1t Than We Here at Home

With the American Army in Pr
cardy, April 26 (bv mail) ALL day
today--in fact for the last forty-e eight
hours--one of the big battles of this
greatest battle in the history of the
world has been raging just --~---- miles
from the village where headquarters
of a certain American organization
finds itself temporarily.
American officers leaving their mess
in an almost deserted two-street VII
iage tonight saw the flashes of gun
fire in a wide crescent curve along the
horizon. The windows of the ram e
shackIe old house in which ] am writ
ing this dispatch by Ticking candle
light shook just now under the heavy
rumble from the hell of fire only
thirty minutes motor ride away
Yet we men within few miles or
that great battle actually know less
of what has happened along that
curving line OF fire in the last twenty
four hours than somebody's butcher
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-05-27
WHITE SULPHUR WORKS
FOR RED CROSS DRIVE

Especial 10 The Richmond Nirginian.1
The Greenhrier, White sulphur
Springs W. Va. Nav IS Interest in
the Red Gross second war fund lis
the supreme thought ~ White Sui
phur springs~ W. va last week,
where a committee 81 which j. How
ard Slocum is the chairman. is work
ing tireiessly TO raise the quota for
this district. Orrin G. Lester chair
man OF the speakers committee for
the national American Red Cross, and
Major A. G. Nutter. Of the Canadian
forces who has been returned 10 his
country UNFIT for further fighting ser
vice. spoke to Greenbrier so}ourners
last THURSDAY evening Oh what the
Red Cross IS doing in the war Gaisn
l. Stone, OF the Hayden 81 one COM
pany, of New York and Boston, offer
ed to double any amount Of subacrip-
lions raised that evening for the war
fund, aBd also doubled the sales Of
war savings stamps AT the booths.
where Mrs, Stone served with Mrs.
James Ransom Branch of Richmond.
The result that the drive opened this
week with a good start. il liz re-
memhered by members OF the White
Sulphur colony that last season Char
les Hayden. Of the same firm, offered
TO double subscription TO the second
liberty loan, with a result that on
liberty loan day White Sulphur
Springs raised over s27 500, and add
ed that amount to MIR. Hayden's Of
fer.
The war stamps sales are temper
arliy suspended during the drive for
the Red Cross. and the booth closed
last saturday evening with sales total
ling sl25G The sales will be re-
sumed for the summer when il Us
hoped that an attractive booth will
be placed al the Casino In order 10
encourage golfers and bridge players
to play for war stamps and thrift
stamps instead Of for money
Charles Grady who made the trip
from West Orange. n j.. 10 White
Sulphur Springs In twenty one and a
half hours in a 1918 Marmon car
went to Charleston recently by auto
mobile TO look after some special con-
struction work or the war plants that
the government is erecting for the
manufacture OF war munitions He
returned along the fanawha and New
rivers, which are noted among motor
lists for the beautiful scenery
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-05-27

wage conra issien on The same progress
st~e theory
The rev wage Is based upor tire
rate covering the position and not
upou the Individual erTlcv@ who ma ?
be ni!iuE su~h position II since De-
tsmosr. iait, employees have receive 81
increases in wages. such increases are
charges against the employees and only
ths additicasI increase granted by the
wage ORDER rs row - he aaGet
Wherfrer wages o~ rates of otcr.
tire are row higher than those Fixed
nv the order they vii! rernaln unaiF-
ssrhad and no adjustment cf hours o.
work wll he permitted ehtch Will
serve. - deprive hny employee II the
f1ln amount 20 the Increased compen-
sat4en 20 which hs Is now entitled
under tire orde-
Aow tire basic eleht-hour day prin-
clpie established NY The order viii in
crease the pay q employees Is shown
ny tire following examples
Position which tn December, 1915.
raid So psy y ne hours per day; old
rate s. per day new rate S2.5i for
eikft-hoIr basic day; overtime. 81 1
cents PEE hour: rFw rate - 80 for nirs
hours service. eighty-three cents in
CREASE
Position which in December. 1913.
paid s19h per month. working eleven
hours per dsy for thirty-one working
DAYS. old rates sine per month rev
rate SIS SO per month. basic eight
hour day. overtime s5Ge5. ninety
three hours AZ - "a cents per hour new
rate sl3r.75 for same service, increase
s3iTs.
while fhGs does not actually reduce
the hours Of emp loym&rf row IN effect,
or increase the condemnation recon-
nended bv the wage commission II
b. gtrE al a-r n ~ y
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-05-27

n San Francisco, merchant In
Pekin, China. or the newspaper read So
ers of sydney, Australia.
The wireless failed today. The
French, British and German COM
muniques daily picked from the air
failed to come through the fog for
some reason designated by the wire
less men as interference. Three
newspapers printed in Paris at mid
night last night and brought to our
town by automobile from a neighbor-
ing city al sunset tonight furnished
news of activities up to last night. The
British had held at one point, The
French had fallen back slightly al
another.
That is all we know. And four
hours ago every newspaper reader in
the United States had digesteG the
official statements and the news
stories from the British and French
| fronts that we are so eagerly seeking
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-05-27
Social Settlement Workers May Possibly Invade
Capital Owing to Congested Conditions
By EDNA HUBER CHURCH.

Now Washington is the most congest-
ed boom town In the country.
Small families crowded into small
houses and tenements. Boar n 2
houses began putting three beds where
one had been before. 0vercongestton
is rife.
Congestion in living quarters Ia wha,
makes the siurns in the East Side oi
New York. II seems that II should
follow that congested living conditions
will give Washington some slums.
II rather looks now as though
there will have to he some social set
Element workers come to Washingto on
to teach the people how to live under
congested conditions.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-05-27

washington, May 2s,--Attention'
girls with inelinations for social set
element work, staid old Washington
is threatened with siums.
For years and years the national
capital has been immune from the So
csal disease that has afflicted all the
rest of our large electromagnetic
living conditions. Washington has al
ways been roomy. and even the poor
est citizens have been able to live In
decent quarters. with plenty OF breath
ing space The war has changed this,
With the coming OF war and the
great amount of work thrown upon
the government incident 10 the war.
there OF course came to Washington
a great host of new workers. Now,
Nashin Efon hasn't grown nucn, ana
II has sust kept pace with Its popu-
lntion for many years back but inc
thousands OF new workers had TO ma
living quarters. and many of them
were willing to pay well for them.
Some Of the new workers came from
New York. Boston. Chicago and other
cities where rents have grown, and
they were ready TO meet the same
sort of situation In Washington.
Landlords went dizzy when they
found that people were willing to
pay as much as $40 for two-room
auArtnent washington nau~ always
nsed standard price of s27.bo
month for this size apartment. Then
there came an even greater food. and
consequently the real estate circles
went mad Rents went up faster than
the thermometer opposite the post
office department goes up on typica!
summer day in Washington.
The fever spread. Private home
owners and those who had leases on
apartments saw riches spread before
them. All they had To do was to rent
their homes furnished, at prices that
more than euuslled their salaries, and
move TO smaller quarters. The conse-
uuenee has been that many regular
Notwithstanding sought smaller quar-
ters and there began to Be conges-
ton. The old homestead that used to
be q modest little dwelling became a
mansion over night and rented for two
or three hundred dollars = month. FUR
ntshed Many of the very respectable
population Of Washington moved into
the back streets and made way for the
afiuent war workers and for those
who weren't aniusnt but Just had to
have place TO live in. -7-'--
The real estate men awoke one
morning and found that they ware
being attacked as proh1serg. and they
suddenly reversed THAR positions. but
the private home p>cpls went ftghf On.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-05-27
OKLAHOMA TOWNS FORGET
TO HOLD THEIR ELECTIoNs

Oklahoma City. Okla, May as~-
Two Oklahoma towns. Edmond and
Marrow. forgot" 10 hold city cleo
items this year. and as result, the
pree&nt city officials will hold over
1ccordinE TO ruling by Joseph Nor
i fi9. secretary Of the state election
hoard.
The holding Of primaries BY both
AeUns VAS an overnight. the officials
eAeiAted, and as a. result. no selections
- ~ held The encouragement
100 supported 1n< xalisx ~. lax-s ..s~
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-05-27
Local obseryation mt n. VI. Yesterda,
BADITS PAY SOCIAL CALL
But DEPART WITH 500

Chicago. ILL.,. May 2s.-Two armed
bandits made a social call at the Of
fees of the williams Grain company
here. They chatted pleasantly with
Miss Cora Stewart and Mrs, Walter
Applegate. employees, punctuating their
conversation with nourishes of re-
volvers.
After stay of several minutes
they left. taking along 500 that had
been in the cash drawer.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-05-27
PERsHING TO HHAvE VEST
MADE OF woMEN's GLOVES

Seattle. Wash. May zs--Generai
John j. Pershing IL going to have
white kid vest. lined with silk. to pro-
tect him against the cold winds Of
the battle front. General Persh!nr
doesn't know what IL In storH for
him. but the Seattle National league
for women's Service is now at work
on the vest 1t will be made OF dis
carded women's gloves
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-05-27
AMERICAN PATROL
sCATTERS ENEMIES

with the American Army In France
May as.--An American patrol in the
lunevalle sector encountered an enemy
patrp. eqipped with several Hight ma
chine guns. Our troops scattered the
Germans. II is believed several OF
the latter were killed We suffered
NO losses
In the same sector German ser
Eesnt deserted. saying he WIS tired
Of nghtfnsefer the kaiser gang, lie
SURRENDERED 20 our men
Several aerial reconn1 1858 noes were
successfully carried out in euT sec
tors in the lastytwentvfour hours The
artillery fire was light
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-05-27
THE WEATHER
Omitted States Weather Bureau
Department Of Agricultural

Washington. May 26.-More warm
weather for the East was written on
the forecast menu by the government
experts tonight, but at the same time
they held out hope for the future for
they reported that snow is falling in
southern North Dakota and western
Wyoming tonight.
Forecast:
Virginia-Fair. continued warm Mon
day; Tuesday, partly cloudy.
North caro- ! / n a---Fair in east,
showers in west portion Monday and
probably Tuesday.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-05-27
WOMEN SHY ON NEEDLES
SPEND MONEY FOR HATS

SeattIt. Wash, May Zt.-Because
# German submarine destroyed m err
chant vessel in the cargo Of which
was a big consignment Of millinery
needles. American women will have
to wait for some time before they can
have the latest creations in head
gear, according to G.. w. Thorn. rep
resentative of Minneapolis millinery
concern. He also declared American
women are buying more hats than
ever before and factories are swamped
with orders