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The Press., 1918-10-10

lie axes anu nerves DOuSll lol the army since we entered the war number 5121,729, costing $6,397 ,961. There are 34,972 rolling kitchens, which cost $47, 7,48O,0OO; 3S,427 field ranges, costing $1,635,994; 109,30 carpenters chests, costing $2732.65O; and 5,GO0 blacksmith's chests, cost ing $224,O00. The army is using g. 574,982 shovels costing $1 each; r. 392, 300 lantern globes costing 30 cents each; 105,727 desks, costing $I,377,3GO and 47,541 portable fOrges, costing $95O,82O.
 There have been cOntraGted for 100000 motor trucks of all types, sizes and styles, costing $24O,345, 900; 10, 700 passenger cars, costing $12,r 275, ,0Ou; 54, 400 motorcycles costing SIC ,255 ,000; together with many thousand bicycles and cargo and tank trailers.
 These figures show how the peo- ple's money is going into the war to register a will for victory. The sums are large but the need is great. The results, it E believed, will vtndi- cate them.
The Press., 1918-10-10
HIS SWELLED HEAD REDUCED
Why Recruit at Camp Upton No Long, CT Brags of His Prowess With
 the "Padded Mitts."

A certain husky, raw-bOned recruit from an interior town reached Camp Upton recently and brought forth two sets of boxing gloves. He cOnfided to his comrades that he was a mighty fine boxer, and ''back home" he had thrash ed everybody who had tried cOnclus- ions with him. This declaration nat urally was an invitation, and all promptly prOfessed to know nothing of the manly art and asked if he would give them little instruction.
 Flatterpd, the youth stated his will ingneSS to Oblige, and the following day was set for the lesson. The pupils promptly hunted up Benny Leonard, the lightweight champion. who was and is the boxing instructor at Upton, and arranged for him to meet the re- cruit The latter was informed that he was to give the first lesson. to very fresh" yOungster, and he agreed to put the unknown in his place, When Leonard was brought before him he wanted to back out, stating that he couldn't think of boxing with a man so mTCh smaller than himself,
 Leonard, however, insisted that the lesson go on, and each put on his gloves. During the "leSS0n' Benny never struck blow, but cOntented himself with feinting, ducking, lodging and blocking until the volunteer teach. CT was so exhausted with his own eff. forts that he could scarcely stand. He stopped finally, congratulated the champion on his showing, said that he did very well "for an amateur" and then made his way to the barracks to bed. When, later, he was informed of the identity of his antagonist he said several things more or less cOmplimen. tary to those who had put up the job OR him and sent the gloves to his Weekly.
The Press., 1918-10-10

0OWh 6 ' u V 8 O
 badly that at times
 1 could not be on
 my feet and it did
 not seem as though
 I could stand it. l
 tried diff erent medicines without any benefit and several d doctors told me nothing but an operation would do me any good. My drug gist told me of E. Pink h ham's Vegetable Compound. l took it with the result that l am now well and atPOnO I 0ot
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WELLINGTON

CARD.-I wish to thank the neighbOrs and friends for their many acts of kind ness to my son. Howard, during his iIl- ness, and to Misses Mersereau and Rick etts of Hillside for their devoted care and attention to him.
 ISABEL BIGH. Boston. Mass.
The Press., 1918-10-10
Therefore Is Public Energy.

"De man dat talks too much," said Uncle Eben, "nin' satisfied wifi wastin' his own time. He wants to stop work foh as large an audience as possible"
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The Main OuAa4Inn

"The way to mans heart is through his stomach" Wives have been hearing that for years. But what's the way to his pocketbook D. Louisville T<,,,,.;~~ Ta,,.pcI
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Real Vacation.

"You say you are on a vacation ?"
 "Yes." replied the philosophical per son. "FOr the next few weeks I am going to quit riding on the cars or talking about the weather"
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NOTICE.

The Registrars of the Second Voting District, town of SI afford will be in session at NJ. D. OConnells offlce on Monday. october I4th, l9ls from nine o'clock a m 10 i've o'clock D m., to receive the applications Of all persons desiring to be made voters tN said district No name can be added to the list ito be made" after said date and after i've 0'cIOck.
 Gted aL StatOTd this Sd day of october, 1918.
 GEORGE SlSWlCK, pao,strsrs
 PATRICK ]. MURRAY [ N
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NOTICE.
NOTICE.

The SelecUmen and Town Clerk of the town Of Wilmington will hold sessions to examine the qualifications of electors and to admit to the electors oath those who are found QuaIified and whose names appear on the list ito be made, T 18th, 1918, and on Friday. Oct 25th, IsiS from 8 o'clock a. m. to o'clock p. n {, and if 1t appears that the rights Of any person on the first list un- der the title ito be made" will mature after said Friday, Oct. 18th, and on or before election day, then on Monday, Nov. 4th, from o'clock a. m. until o'clock p. m., in said hall in South Will llngton
 WILL HAM H. RRACKETT1
 WILBERT RUBY, SeleeImen
 H. L. LILl.IBRIDGE,
 GEO P. BUG EE, Town Clerk. Wilmington, COnn., Oct. 9th, 1918
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Sign up now!
 Sign for Fighting Fourth Liberty bonds, at once! Success in this world war depends upon it! Seal the doom of the Kaiser!
 Deutschland UNDER AL lies!
 Help the boys over the Rhine into the haunts of the Hun!
 Buy bonds and keep them! Save to buy and buy to keepl
 Buy early,-tOday. .....
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NOTICE.

All persons liable to taxation in the town of WiIlingt on. Conn are hereby required 0y law 10 prepare list Of aN such taxable property and return the same to the assessors, duly sign ed and sworn to. on or before Nov lst, 1918. Ten pc" cent additional for failure to comply with the law.
 Ell BUKDICK.
 GEO .. BUGBkE, Assessors
 LOUIS C D. MOCK.l WilIington, conn oct. 1Bt, 1918
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OptlmlstIc Thounhe

A skeptic is one who knows too much for fool and too little for a wise man.
The Press., 1918-10-10

Draw Busted Nails. First drive them in little, which breaks the hold, and then they may be drawn out much easier.
The Press., 1918-10-10
NOTICE.

The legal voters Of the town Of Holland are hereby nOtthed and warned to meet at the town h9ll In said town, on Monday, the Tth day Of OctOb-I, A. D 1918 at o'clock a. m to make choice of such Om CTS as are by law required to be chosen by ballot for the ensuing year Also to laJ a tax for current expenses for the ensuing year and to transact any other business per. tain ng to said town.
 TollRn1. Conn.,, Sept. 50, 1918.
 CORNELL GREEN,
 ENRY MARTIN SeIectmen
 PETER MORGANSEN
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H.G HARLOW

H. c BARLOW, AUCT. .ONEER.
 A UCTION.- Saturday, Oct 18th, at 10 "A a. m 1 will sell my farm of4O acres, known as the Royal chapman place, one mile north Of WesLoTd village l WtIl also sell at same time my stock oonsIstIng of { young Cows. 2 two year. old HelFers, young neifers, all extra fine stock Work Horse, large ShOaC, ( small ShOaL-, 30 Fowls and Chtcke ns, Buckeye Ons!horse Now CT, Farm Wagons, Express wagon, Buggy, SIeighs CultivatOF, Harrow, HaTnesss Farming Tools Potatoes, Beans, Corn, Barley, Oafs, Ky, Pumpkins, Beets, Hay aud Straw, Apples. Cider. and lot 0f Household Goods If very stormy. next TatE day. JOHN s0STEK.
The Press., 1918-10-10
WOMAN WORKS
 15 HOURS A DAY
Marvellous Story of Woman'a Change from Weakness to Strength by Taking
 Druggist's Advice.

Peru, Ind.-"I suffered from a dis placement with backsche and dragging
The Press., 1918-10-10
NOTICE.

,Th4 seIectIhen and Town Clerk of the Town Of stafford will hold session to examine the qualifications Of electors and admit to the cleo. tors oath those who shall be found QuaIife1 on Friday, october IS, 1918, at the Town Hall, Staf- ford, from o'clock in the forenoon until Is O'clock.nOOn, and at the Or0ugh Hall, Stafford Springs, from l o'clock until 5 o'clock in the afternoon and on Friday, ctober 2S. 1918, at the Town Hall, stafford. from o'clock in the roTe- no until |! o'clock noon. and at the Borough Hall. stafford Springs, fT0m o'clock until s o'clock in the afternoon, and if tt shall appear that the rights Of any person on the first list to be made" win mature after said Friday, ana on or OefoIe the day of inc electors meeting to be held on Tuesday, November 5, 1918, session will be held at the Borough Hall. Statford springs, on Monday, November 4, 1918 from g O'clo K iR the for" noon until 5 o'cloCt in the and hot afterwards. for the purpose of admitting such persons, a' for no 0 her pur. pOSe
 stafford, conn, Oct 10, 1918.
 VIM. R. TREBLE,
 ENOI E. PENNY, ; SSelectmen.
 DAVID BISSETT,l
 j. CARL CONVERSE, Town Clerk
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SOME USES OF THE PEOPLES MONEY BY ThE WAR
 DEPARTMENT

Since the United States entered the war, little more than Is months ago, the War Department has raised. equipped, trained and with naval help, sent across the sea upward of million and a half of soldiers and has practically as many more under training at home, The number of American soldiers lost in transit us Il result of U-boat attacks up iu Sep tember last was less than 500.
 In this time more thun 2.OOO, 900 rifles of the new 1917 model. consid- cred by many experts the best army rife in the world, have been made. inspected, assembled and issued. and the weekly production is growing.
 The total amount of money directly appropriated by Congress for the Ordnance Program. or for which au- thorization has been given to incur obligations, amounts to approximate ly $12,000. .000.O00, since the begin ming of the war.
 From the beginning of the war, to June 30 1918. the last day Of the past fiscal year, contracts were placed by the Ordnance Department from appropriat and authurizat tions existing at that time amounting to $4, 800, ,00O,000. It is estimated that during the present fiscal year ending June 30. 1918, the actual cash expen- ditures for ordnance will reach to- tai of $7,0O0,0 ,00S ,00O
 The major items for which cash expenditures were made or for which contracts were placed, up to June 90, 1918 were:
 Artillery $1. .050, 00O 900 Automatic Rifles 300, 00000 small Arms 100, 000O00 Artillery Ammunition 1.9OU. 900 900 Small Arms Ammunition 42U. 900 900 Stores x Supplies 230. 900 900 Armored Motor Cars loo. .O0O GOO
 $4, loo. 000, 900
 Artillery Ammunition $2.6oU, U,O00000 aud Small Arms Ammunition $955.- 100000.
 Exbenditures in connection with military engineering operations di- rectly relating to the war have eX- ceeded $375,00OO0 the past year, the larger part going for docks and rail ways in France.
 Since the beginning of our partiCi- patton in the war, there have been bought for Army use 625, ,46l ,392 lbs. of flour at a cost of 43,375. 445; 1SG,5S2.316 lbs of sugar at a cost of $14,452,5l2; 11O451. .67O lbs. of bacon al a cost of $43,375,445; lO2,894,742 lbs. Of dried beans, at a cost of $l2,- 612.469; 72.274.529 cans of tomatoes, al a cost of $9,278.121 and 38,421 ,25G lbs. Of rice at cost of $2.775.519. These are but six standard articles of food but they give an idea of the size of Uncle Sam's market basket.
 Here is an idea of the Army's clothing bill from April l, 1917, to
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NOTICE.

IL would be well for every candidate for pub. lie oflce to be ,oted for at the town election on october 7th to bear in mind that within i5 days after said election he must file a statement with the Town Clerk Of the expense that was incur red by him to promote his election, and in case he has not been to any expense. he must make such return. Failure 10 do 30 means a flne Of $a5 for every day on which he is in default, On- less ne snall Oe excused by the court.
 Fifteen days after such election the town clerk must notify the prosecuting Oflicer Of any failure to file such a statement on the part of any candidate, ana WithiD ten days thereafter such prosecuting ofIlcer shall proceed to prose- cute such candidate for such oHenSe.
 Blanks for filing such statement will be fur niShed by the town clerk upon request
 awN J. CARL DIVERSE, Town Clerk
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NOTICE.

The Registrars of the first voting district will be in session Rt John G. Nightmare residence on Monday, oct. I4th, from a. m. to D. m. for the purpose of receiving names to be made.
 JOLN c. WIGHTMAN, voo,,,ro,s
 A. H ADAMS, "Si''"e' Stafford, Oct. 8, l9lS
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L OR SALE-One horse, express wag- on, meat cart and saving machine.
 28 JOHN SENA.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20
Arnold Daily to I lay
Napoleon i'm Balar's
Brilliant Comedy

Arnold Daily will soon be seen as Ma
poleon in Herman Bahr's three-act sa-
tirical comedy, "Josephine," with pro-
logue and epilogue. 1t is brilliant
drama by the author Of "The Concert"
and "The Master" DR. Washburn
Freund, the adaptor, gave his version
to Mr.. DAILY, who Immediately put the
piece in rehearsal! after coaxing Vir-
sinia Harmed to Quit her long retire
ment to play the title role
DAILY is like schoolboy in his en-
thusiasm over Josephine" and this
enthusiasm is shared by Miss Harmed.
This is not the first time Daily has
essayed the role Of Napoleon. Back
in 1894, when he and Winchell Smith
conducted the Theatre of Ideas at the
Berkeley Lyceum, Daily presented
George Bernard Shaw's "The Man of
Destiny" with considerable success.
The Shaw hero was the strutting. crot-
chiefly conqueror at the height of his
imperial fortunes. The critical COM
ments were uniformly favorable. New
after all these years Daily must create
new Napoleon-one vastly different
from the Shaw conception.
Herman Bahr's Napoleon is the Young
aGventurer in Paris, in that slump of
fortune between Toulon and Lodi, plead
ing for the caresses and the love of the
dazzling Josephine, who is somewhat
bored by this eager youth and tells him
to make name for himself. She in
sists that he accept the command of the
Army of Italy, which she demands from
Barras. He is ]oath to leave her. bnt
finally departs for the campaign of i'm
perlshable glory. Here, then, is Napo.
leon, the lover, the suitor, the wooer
the humble. When Josephine. awed
by his triumphs, seeks him out in Jtoly
he has developed into a conoueror q
potential emperor, and the great affairs
OF state so engross him that Josenhine
in turn has to plead for attention and
kisses.
The turn in the tide is strikingly nor
trayed. DAILY has read enormously in
Napoleonic literature and studied tho
era until he is saturated with memoirs
The production will be precisely Of the
period.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20
It's + uTlr1y What a
Difference Just a
Few Years Make

All the stories you've ever heard
told to prove that this world is a
pretty small place after all are no
more unusual than something which
came to light the other day about
Estellc Winwood, the little English
girl in "Why Marry?" at the Astor
Theatre.
Ernest Lawford, who plays the role
OF the clergyman in "Why Marry ?"
was a star on the English stage lone
before he came to this country. His
first hit in England was made in the
role of clergyman. Now, before Miss
Winwood ever thought of going on the
stage she loved to go to the theatre.
And, not unlike other girls, she fell
madly in love one time with clerpv-
man. He was only stage clergyman,
1T is true, but he represented exactly
the type of man she was "perfectly
sure" she was quite mad about. The
clergyman happened to be Ernest Law
ford
Miss Winwood never met her idol
Nor did she until the first day she
walked into the Astor Theatre to start
rehearsals for "Why Marry" Then
She met Mr.. Lawford. That fifteen
years had elapsed between the time
she dreamed dreams about cher" cler-
gyman and the day she met him ac-
counts for the fact that things were
not quite the same.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20
Blood Lust ON the STAGE
The Scope of Hon,icidal Mania as Dramatic
Motive, and the Sins Of CORRUPTED Critics.
Against the ART Of the Theatre
By J. Alexander Pierce

NUGENE WALTER has common
the central erage that of being
subject periodic the
Sclan robbr
hmcida literary descendant of
long line of American relodramat
violent
the meworn mechanics Of traditional technique that
suggested its opuence the cinema The
Play contains much that especially the naturalne
the dialogue the creation effectiveness Of
eral And the whole
Globe bu
down in until the last has fallen.
The drama of blood lust specifically hmcida mania
represented in ancient eaures Notable
and Lon of Eurpde and The Fet Athama"
hylus 1t is subject that has greatly aenss and
1orbddlng its phases public one which
might afford number OF powerful dramatic
the theatre
would formula
suermgs upon the retu of but
afforded by including
the
divine manifestation by the deonaca whereas
look to-day pathological variety created b
demoniac
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20
IN VAUDEVILLE

PALACE-Mollie King; Theodore
kosloff and Russian Ballet; Stella MAY
hew; Franklyn Ardell and company;
Florence Tempest; Duffy and Inglis,
and the Four Danubes.
ALHAMBRA--Rober T.. Haines and
company; Bert Clark and Mabel Ham
ilton; Little Billy; Mary Marble; Les
ter; Nat Nazarro and company; Jones
and Greenles; Sinclair and Casper, and
Renee Florigny.
COLONIAL-Gladys Hanson; the
Cameron Sisters; J. Francis Dooley
and Corinne Sales; the Watson Sisters:
Hallon and Fullor; Flanagan and Ed
wards; Mystic Hanson Trio; Henri
Kublick and Jack and Cora Williams
RIVERS1DE-LadyD Duff Gordon: Lew
Dockstader; W. ]. Reilly, U. S. n:
Josie Heather; Joseph E. Bernard:
Paul Mccarthy and Elsie Fave: Perish
and Peru; Prosper and Maret. md
Sylvia Loyal and Pierrot.
ROYAI~Laura Hope Crews: Gus
Van and Joe Schenck; Dolly Connolly:
Jimmy Duffy and Jack Englis; Kimber-
~ and Arnold; Maurice Burkhardt.
Morton and Clare; Hayward Stafford
and company; the Misses Chalfonte
and June Salmo.
LOEW'S AMERICAN-Colone, John
A. Pattee and company; Tracey and
Mcbrlde; Edith Ferguson; Cameron
De Witt and company; the University
Four, and others.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20

ness man and worst artist in the world
the pamphleteer is fairly maddencd at
the callousness OF this reviewer who
stands idly by and watches the Ameri
can theatre pile itself on the rocks
wltAout feeling impellcd either to cut
his throat or to stop -pettifoggine.
The sin of pandering to the theatre
goers instead Of serving "the great So
clal art of the theatre" is strangely
ignored by another commentator, who
is, nevertheless, quite as caustic in his
way as Mr.. Macgowan. George Jean
Nathan, indeed, writing in "The Smart
Set" bewails the fact that author and
producer alike must strive to please
an audience whose mental calibre he
indicates by citing an advertisement
in the theatre programmes: "All those
who make good and understand that no
excuse goes, chew gum. 1t is the one
ideal habit of the alert" The same
public that relishes this aphorsm ap-
proves the drama served on the side.
Mr.. Nathan's opinion rises above mere
plausibility; the New York audience
'believes that Beeman is greater
man than Beethoven, and that Water
loo might not have been Waterloo had
Napoleon Bonapartc been privy to q
stick of Tutti Frutti." But the view
may be merely specious, inasmuch as
it completely absolvcs the dramatic
critic.
IHERE is good deal Of truth in
a The assertion of Jacques Copeau,
Colomber, that the commercial thea
ire has alienated the highest dramatic
talent of author and actor, which has
found refuge in other professions. But
the commercial theatre, like any of the
great industrial organizations, is a
product of the public which it serves.
The commercial managers have low
cred the standards more than neces-
sary perhaps in their efforts to reach
the largest public, but the fact re-
mains that the cultivated public is
coterie so restricted that it reQuites
indiferently the efforts that have been
put forth to conduct theatres on a
basis of high artistic ideals.
! 1t is precisely the economies Of
American industrialism, SO little un
derstood by the dramatic critics. ac-
cording to Mr.. Macgowan, that deter
mines the character of the American
drama. There is no escape from the
economic law of demand and supply,
cause and effect. The American pub
lic gets exactly the sort of fare it can
appreciate. The theatre can do little
by itself to elevate the public taste.
II any improvement is possible it will
have to come through an advance of
general culture, which. besides being
extremely gradual, probably can never
go very far for the reason that society
is perpetually dying off at the ton and
being recruited from the lowest class.
Endowed theatres might appeal to
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20

soon as she steps off.) Anyway. Mr..
Stone read the children to sleep. left
the stage and specded for his DRESSING
room.
4he manager lodged a rising cur
tam and sought to give comfort.
Mr.. Stone has quick change here.
If you will wait a moment III come
back and take you to his dressino
ROOM"
Consentlng, we continued to occupv
the hrst entrance. Chorus girls on
their way to and from the stage bumped
US and examined our two months-old
hat with supercilious shifts. Then
they spoke casually of charge accounts.
drawing rooms on limited trains and
large sums of money. Now and again
they glanced at our headgear and
seemed annoyed.
Presently came Mr.. Stones valet and
lea the way to the dressing room. Mr.
Stone was very nice and extremely DO
lite. And it must be difficult to be
polite when one is perspiring and pant
ing and wearing a costume that looks
like peppermint candy. From a suit
case he brought forth photographs that
revealed him in tortuous and tortured
attitudes.
"How did you learn to do every.
thing, Mr.. Stone?" The question
abashed the modest star He grinned.
made deprecatory gesture and passed
over photograph
This is head balancing on tight
rope-did it when l was kid twelve
years old-hve stories in the air
learned on mothers clothesline in
backyard-mother didn't mind-alw.v.
encouraged me-"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20
By Salita Solano

All this happened because we didn't
believe Fred Stone could really skate
like Charlotte. This native skepti-
cism took US to the Globe Theatre the
other evening to see "Jack O. Lantern"
and once there it seemed as we'll to
pay Mr.. Stone call and find out all
about ice and it's ways.
After the star had tumbled out of a
load of hay and later brought the act
to pleasant conclusion, sympathetic
manager guided US back stage and
placed chair in an empty dressing
room near the wings-that "irst en-
trance" destined to play such part
in our evening.
Mr.. Stone has quick change here
If you'll wait moment I'll come back
and take you to his dressing room," he
promised.
We waited. Overture for the second
act began and ended. The curtain went
up. We heard voices, but they carried
no message for US. The manager re-
turned.
"Mr. Stone was a bit late and had to
go right on the stage. Will you come
and stand in the first entrance and
watch this scene?'
Gladly. Mr. Stone was sitting at
table reading to two children, boy
and girl. The girl was clever Kath-
leen Robinson, about whose singing and
dancing the Gerry Societv has made an
insurmountable NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
when one considers how we'll she does
both. (But while little Kathleen con-
sents to act like a child on the stage
she has quite the air of a leading
woman whose salary is $3.50 week as
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20

special public, but owing to the lack of
aristocratic leadership it seems un-
likely that municipal theatres can be-
conducted in this country on the ambi.
tlous plane successfully attempted in
Europe In Germany and France such
theatres have offered what was deemed
artistic and uplifting and have at
tracted the general public by the mod
esty OF their charges, but the system is
not democratic. 1t is depressing to
consider the probable effects of popu-
lar control on such ,stitutions. The
desecration of "the great social art Of
the theatre" by the commercial mana
gers, abetted by the CORRUPTED dra-
matte critics" is tremendous indict-
ment. the full significance of which can
be grasped only By visionaries.