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New Britain herald., 1918-12-10
The Breaking Up of the Big Fortunes.

A will recently probated disposes of
the estate of the widow of a man from
whom she inherited 100000 when
he died in August, 1911. How much
of this sum remains is not yet known,
but the testator's son, who inherited
a like amount from his father, had
reduced his patrimony to $1,000 900
by the time of his death two years
later. At the rate of two million q
year spent during the brief span OF
life that remained to him, he was on
the high road to the poorhouse.
These facts are worth the consider
alton of those eminent publicists who
are clamoring for a redistribution by
some process of legal confiscation of
what they call ther"swollen fortunes"
Of America. There is no need for any
special legislation on this subject. Tho
work OF breaking UP the great inheri-
tances Is carried on automatically in
q way that is far more thorough and
effective than by any scheme that even
the most radical wielder OF the red
flag could devise. OF the fortunes of
40 years ago, then regarded as stu
pendous, only a few remain intact.
The others have either been wasted
Ill SloCh E5dulDIIiS anu lSSIJdIjOh OF
have been divided and subdivided to
the vanishing point.
Moreover. nearly all these fortunes
have been accumulated by men who
began life with no capital save brains
and ambition, and this fact is a con-
slant stimulus to young men of the
rising generation. Back of these
schemes of legalized confiscation turks
I hat Of !, sc1, ie
failing that human nature is heir to.
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10
TOCH CABLES THANKS.
Marshal Appreciates Offer of Freedom
of New York City.

New York, Dec. 10.-Replying to a
message sent by Mayor Hylan offering
him the freedom of Now York City
should he desire to come here, Mar
shaI Foch sent d cablegram in which
he said:
II am profoundly touched by the
sentim ent which has inspired your
message, and ! thank YOU for your
invitation | appreciate highly the
honor of the Right of the city which
the city Of New York offers me. Please
transmit with my acceptance, express
sion Of my Warmest gratitudc.'
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10
PEACE THRIFT STAMPS.

Word comes from Washington
that the government will continue the
times. The arrangement has been
found to be 50 practicable and SO pop
uIar with the people during the war
that it's incorporation in our peace
reimbursement plan will m eet with in
slant approval.
The lesson of thrift. through small
savings. was one of the most forcefu1
taught by the struggle against the
Central Powers. A generation ago
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10
RETURNED MISSIONARY WILL
SPEAK AT SWEDISH BETHANY

Rev. C. G. Johnson will deliver an
address at the Swedish Bethany
church Wednesday evening, and the
regular Thursday evening service will
he omitted. Rev. Mr.. Johnson has
been a missionary in South America
for several years The Bethany Sis
tiers will hold their annual meeting
Thursday afternoon. Rev. G. f. Phil
will attend services at Georgetown.
Sunday, and the evening service will
be conducted by Harry CTusberg. who
will give a talk on the prophetical
conference recently held in New York.
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10
HEARS POLISH NNTERICANS
INTEND TO OCCUPY DANZTG

Amsterdam, Dee. 1O-Polish- Amer
lean divisions. according to a we'll
informed source. says the Warsaw
correspondent of the Weser-Zeitung,
have embarked at Havre for Danzig
in West Prussia, with the intention Of
occupying the provinces of Posen and
Silesia. The headquarters of the
Polish American troops, according to
this information will be in the town
of Posen.
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10
ANTI GUNNERS
ARE BEING BROUGHT HOME

Washington, Dec. 1O.-General
March, chief of staff announces that
these additional organizations have
been assigned by General Pershing for
early convoy home: 141st "Anti-Air-
craft Machine Gun Battalion; 10th
Anti-Aircraft Sector Headquarters and
the 9Th, 18th, Sth and 9th .Anti-Aircraft
Batteries. The total personnel is 81
officers and 900 men.
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10
PEACE DELEGATES til
HAVE MANY Aides
Every Train to Paris Bring
Scores Of Official Attaches

Paris, Dec. 10.-Every train arriving q
at Paris these days brings in largey
numbers of officials attached to tAeA
various delegations to the peace con-|
ference All the larger Allied nationsI
are continuously sending parts ocE
their working personnel and by theI
time the delegates gather the nunl-l
Der Of officials OF ally nationaIitics Win
number between 5000 and 5,OO0y|
Each one will have some special work.
to do. Many of them already areI
busy.
Many Workers Present.
The French delegates will have ALL
their assistants near. at hand. for thAI
large staffs Of the admiralty and warI
and foreign ministries will be con-I
stantly available The United STATE
office force will ne large Great Brit
ain will have a large number of ext1
perts and assistants in Paris and, in
addition, staffs in the London govern
mental Offices will be available for
work which is not particularly urg-
ent. Moreover, there undoubtedly
will be in Paris representatives OIL
Great Brttains donipions and COL
ONES, with their respective staffs-
Great Britain also will have in Paris
experts of various sorts. including
men who have made life study OF
such subjects as the navy, colonies,
the Far East and the Near East
The United States because Of its
remoteness will be obliged to hava
probably the largest and most COM
plete staff and for this reason the
American authorities have been COM
PEELED to take over larger accommo-
dations than any other delegations
Italy also will have a considerable
working force here. but the delegates
as in the case of Great Britain. will
be able to depend on much Of their
work being done in their own coun-
try.
Private Telephone Service.
Each European nations delegates
will have at their disposal their own
private telegraph and telephone wires
with which they may communicates
with their respective governments.
S many hotels have been taken over
by the peace delegates, and the re-.
mainder of the obstetrics are so over
crowded that it is impossible for sol
dierS to find accommodation in the
city.
. large number of the officials of
the leading powers are receiving
many representatives Of small nation
alities or groups of natiOnalities who
have interests which they intend to
bring before the conference. Some OF
these represent governments which
have not even been recognized and in
a few cases there are two groups Of
representatives, of the Same nationali-
ty each claiming to represent the ma
jority party and anxious to put for
ward it's. claims and statements.
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10

Within nine months after the Ma
tional Guard had been drafted into
the federal service, 1913 officers had
been eliminated for various reasons
Universal military training would
prevent such a situation.
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10
Desperate Need Of a Tracer.
(Fort Wayne News

Mrs. Bessie Dahl. of Herbst, in
Howard County, is reported as deeply
distressed because the body of her
father, who died in q Western city,
has been lost in transit. Let us trust
however, that her distress will be in
a measure relieved by the thought
that the fault rests with our benevo-
lent governm ent rather than with q
wicked and rapacious railroad corpor-
alton
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10

Amateur statesmen who have inter
preted the policy of England as being
opposed to League of Nations
must feel rather disconnected at an
nouncements by A. J. Balfour and
Winston Spencer Churchill favoring
the establishment of such an organi-
zation.
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10
Great Chance.

(Kansas City JournaD
ITO make sales you must seize the
psychological moment"
THE barber has all the best OF it,"
Glow so?"
with man in the chair he has at
least Is psychological moments to
talk up his stuff"
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10
GERDIS HEADS BROTHERHOOD.
Lithuanian Society Meets and Elects
Officers and Delegates.


The brotherhood Of Lithuanian In
dependent Citizens club held its an
nu&I meeting in Lithuanian hall last
night and the following officers We're
elected
President-John j. Gerdis.
Vice president Matthew Mailman.
Financial secretary-Josep Lukas,
Recording secretary-John Kajac-
kas.
Assistant secretary-Adam Stasket-
unas.
reaSurer-Michacl WalkOnis.
Trus teeS-JOhn PisareviCh and
William p. KrjtiS. !
Marshal-Joseph RELATIONSHIPS.
Delegates to United Lithuanian So
cicties-LudWick MandZeski, Vincent
Matulevicia and Charles KaZlauskas.
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10

Macmillan Harden declares that
Bill Hohenzollern was a great show
man. And for a while, it might be
admitted frankly. he did succeed in
Barnumtzing the public.
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10
Yankee jam,

youngstown telegram
Mother"
Yes, rabella-"
IT think we ought to call this stuff
Yankee jam"
WHY"
because every time try to stir ii
UP it tries to go over the top"
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10
Desperate Measures.
(EXchange(

Edith (visiting )-"I didn't know
you liked classical music, but 7 sec
you have a number of pieces"
Mame-"I hate it, but sometimes
one has to play it in order to get a
man to go home"
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10
SPANISH ENJOYS LEAVE.

Lisbon, Dec. S.--Four government
delegates headed by the minister of
foreign affairs, have left for France
TO participate in the discussions pre-
liminary to the peace conference.
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10

Herr Liebknecht resembles in one
respect a we'll known American poll
tician who refuses to play unless he
can lead. He just can't exist without
publicity.
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10

Why not turn those German notes
over to some practical newspaper
man? They would quickly find their
way into the waste basket.
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10

True neutrality is the feeling that
permeates the average citizen on
reading accounts of the warfare be-
tween the restaurant men, who
charge so much, and their walters
who get what's left over from the
bill.-Now York Tribune.
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10

Holland says it will give up the
Hohenzollerns if the Allies want
them. That's a safe bet
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10

Mr.. McAdoo should have resigned
in sections. The crash of so many
official titles falling at once is unset
Ting to the nerves.-Troy Times.
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10
FACTS MD F.NNCIES.

In talking about the left bank of
the Rhine no once feels quite certain
that the other fellow has the right
enc in mind.-Norwich Bulletin.
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10

With carfare, shaves and beer go
ing up in the city, the country will
prove q pretty Good old place to
spend the winter.-NTanlius Eagle
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10

If Tom Marshall ever had any
doubts about not being big enough
for the presidency, they must be pref
ty we'll cleared up by this. time
Manchester Union.
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10

Why not let the crown prince and
LudendOrff settle their differences in
a duel, the survivor, if there be one,
to be interned in the document room
Of the Carnegie library of Pskov?-
New York Evening Post
New Britain herald., 1918-12-10

TLIANOR JOHNSON.
in st. Nicholas.
The Washington times., 1918-08-07
Where Your War Daddy
Fund Money Went
BY EARL GOODWIN.
You May BE Interested In knowing Just What Is B
the Money You Gave Up.

Every day at lunch time you in front of some
OF the Government buildings War Camp Community Service
automobiles, driven by busnesske young women In bust.
nesslke mems clothes. The automobiles loaded with
sandwiches and other food and there to give over
crowded workers chance good food at low prices
oOI Ot DOORS away from the jam and buste heat noise
and prohteering of some of the lunch rooms.
The service which sends out these lunch automobiles
one OF the finest things the has produced for Washing
ton is not large enough however and trust that it will
grow rapidly to the point where it take of ALL the
war workers and ALL the soldiers in Washington
The War Camp Community Service has canteen service
at 1914 Massachusetts Also soldiers and sailors
get beds there for 80 cents apiece In the basement of 1911
Massachusetts avenue the sandwiches made daily the
services OF the young women being given FREE At 6S6
Pennsvania the War Camp Community Service has
club for enlisted and there another club exclusively
Tor coored enlisted men Fourteenth street northwest At
the pennsylvania avenue club the War Camp Community
Service serves 800 soldiers and sailors for FIVE DAYS
and at least Saturdays Sundays On the second
hoor there comfortable club with electric fans
Portable chairs pianos graphophonen fact everything to
make club room attractive There sleeping quarters
$50 men at 35 cents bed which considerable reduction
from the sky prices paid for sky paro in certain other hos
telries could mention.
Another splendid achievement is Camp Columbia an
outdoor lodging place for young women workers The
camp on Conduit road and us campers living there
now For $35 month each young women gets bed in
tent and two meals day. There is also recreation hall
tennis and other outdoor athletics 1t is blessed relief
from the overcrowded city Just now and in small ay an
example which the United States Government could wen
afford to follow.
The War Camp Community Service is doing what If can
DO to make Washington better place in which the war
working toward this end but it is conspicuous one and :
working HARD. - =
1t is playing the good Samaritan to MANY men in mi;
for and to many war Office girls who otherwise would feel
that they had been tossed into high priced desert
Perhaps you have forgotten it; but it was toward tb.
service that you contributed $4,000 during the v % AZ
: var Daddy + und Aren't you glad now that You ddf
The Washington times., 1918-08-07
By Beatrice Fairfax.

Good morning, Mrs. Smith, pleas
ant weather we are having" Or
something like that, when they
happened to meet on the cars.
And the re-incarnation of the
Serpent Of Old Nile" began to
reflect on the depths of despair
that might lay concealed in those
Pleasant weathers we are hay-
ing" Because they must all be
tremendously conscious of her
power-hadn't Chutnichilli said:
mo man could ever been uncon-
scious of it."
SO the worthy matron laid the
fiattering unction to her soul that
the solid suburbanites were all
losing weight, or putting it on,
or getting gray, or bald, or having
fiat foot, not because of middle
age, but by reason of her fatal
gift.
She Does Not Confide In Everyone.
She does not, however, confide
her awful power to everyone, there
Is a faithful band of about ten of
us-including her long suffering
husband-that has to bear the
brunt of the Cleopatra delusion.
The nice, substantial business
man to whom she is married has
been magnificent all through the
Cleopatra blight. Though it has
taken some of the straightness out
Of his shoulders and given him a
curiously appealing look. That
pathetic shifty glance OF his, it
always seems to be defending her,
TO be reminding us that apart from
his ten dollars worth of madness,
"she is the best little woman
alive"
And, Of course. the rest OF US
the other faithful nine-have days.
weeks, sometimes months OF from
The Washington times., 1918-08-07
HEARD AND SEEN
RUSSELL EDWARDS saws:

RUSSELL EDWARDS says:
at was nice to read that editorial
about benches in the parks today.
Having written you a letter some
two or three months ago about the
importance Of this / certainly read
that editorial with a great deal of
qualification, almost as much as If I
had written it by my favorite au-
thor.
at is a crime the way the parks
are not available to this greatly in
creased population in Washington at
this time, and / hope your expedi-
ton of the fact viii stir up some
body to at least put a few old bar
rels or boxes in the parks to keep
the people from sprawling around
under the trees, which is, to say the
least, not a very pleasant thing to
look at on a hot day"
PEDESTRIAN FLAT DwELLER
says:
"Just a line to approve the excellent
suggestion made in your editorial OF
today, regarding the increase in the
number of benches in the parks.
why not have the Government
take over all the vacant lots In the
city, NOW the grass, and place park
benches on these lots as well as in
the regularly established parks. Any.
way, the holding of this ground by
spectators awaiting a chance to sell
at an enormous profit is almost suf-
ficient cause to make the owner fix
it up as q park at his own expense.
In this way there would be park
benefits for many Of the Government
workers who do not reside sufficient
ly near a park to have such enjoy
ment.
"And with regard to our parks,
why doesn't the man in charge ac-
cept the suggestions OF the walking
public (carfare is expensive these
DAYS when 1t takes more to liVe) and
convert the pedestrian-made paths
into regular walks instead Of placing
policemen (as they do in the Mall
and elsewhere) to make people fol-
low the winding pathways or adhere
to cement walks"
THOMAS H. QUINN Of the Ma
tional Federation of Federal En-
ployes:
"Most any evening from 8 to IL
YOU can find at many corners from
one to thirty people waiting for
The Washington times., 1918-08-07
Do You Remember

-"Thos. B" is Fright D" as to
Jake Budd being the whole show at
the Old Theatre Comiq1e. During
that time Jake Budd and Denny
O'Niel were co-managers, with John
Starr, ticket taker; Jake ONiel dis
pensing the fluid that cheers.
in the basement Of the old play
house, we might also add, among
many other favorites, were Big John
Robinson, Billy. Williams, R. Jean
Buckley, the greatest straight work
er, even in negro comedy.
We saw also the Fieldings (John
and Maggie), James Collins and
Martha Wren, Eagen and Edwards,
Manchester and Jennings, Gus Hill
(then swinging clubs), WheatIy and
Trainor (refined Irish dancers, hay-
ing just come over), z. T. Stetson In
Neck and Neck" Sid C. France in
Marked for Life" also Dick Parker
(banjoist).
Rice and Barton never managed
the Logan-Old Dime Museum. Twas
Barton and Thadeus. Old Barton
was the former manager of the Ma
tional Theater, with VIM. E. Spald-
ing and W. W. Rapley, proprietors.
"Old Western Union Boy" is perfect
ly correct as to "Omega," not forget
ting dear old alpha"
G. W. LOHR refers to Lew"
Spencer, a clever Dutch comedian, not
Len Spencer" one Of the original
Snow Flakes" afterward of phono-
graphic fame. Mr.. Lohn. what about
Goss and Fox, DAILY Bros. Quilter
and Gaedvich, Cogill and Cooper?
That was when the song-and-danc0
business was rampant
'MEIG" PARHAM.
IL Grant place northwest
The Washington times., 1918-08-07
The Fortune Teller Habit

the fatal gift condolences. But the
poor husband naturally has few
holidays.
And she tells him all about the
suburbanites and the thrilling
tones in which they said: Pleas
ant weather we are having. Mrs.
Smith," or I'VE need rain badly"
or These cars are terribly over
crowded, don't you Think"
And she insists IL is not so much
what they say, as the way they
say II, and the way they look. And
that poor business man mods his
head and looks back on the good
old days before his wife visited the
seeress from East India, who In
terprets the law of vibration and
discovers the historical character
of whom you are the living coun-
terpart"
The Moral Of All This.
l don't know that there Is any
particular moral to this chapter
from real life. Unless It Is, keep
away from fortune tellers IL you
are not blessed with q sense OF
humor. The old-fashioned kind
that manipulated a deck Of greasy
cards, or saw dark or light gentle
men in tea cups, weremore or less
harmless, but the extra fancy KIND
that sell Cleopatra delusions At
ten dollars per head are danger
Gus gentry.
They sell more than Cleopatra
delusions; they drive comfortable
people who have to hear about
them to despair, and as one Of the
faithful nine said the other day:
"Of course, the Litany is perfect,
but if the church should ever de-
eide to add to 1t. hope it will be
something like this:
From the d>lusions Of imagin-
ing every man who says: Pleasant
weather we are having is deeply
in love with US, Good Lord, deliver
usi'
The Washington times., 1918-08-07
\ NCE on a time there was a

~ nee on a time there was a
very sane, wholesome, con-
~ scientious woman who ad-
ministered her household wisely
and brought up a family Of chill
dren well.
And this lady got around to the
time Of life where two chins grew
where only one chin grew before.
And when she got hold Of an in
teresting book she was more in
clined to lie down on the couch
to read 1t than sit up bolt upright
as had once been her habit.
And along came a friend, one of
those, "Rag, bone. and hank Of
hair" women who always look
slender and young-when heavily
veiled. And. the rag, bone, etc"
lady said: why do you let your
self go like that? Why don't you
see and take up Chutnichilli?"
What Was the Strange Mystery.
Now the comfortable one did not
AuO" HHClnCE NuulllSullil was q
new reel at the movies, another
small country slaughtered by Ger
many, or perhaps something new
in the pickle line.
But after a proper amount Of
horror over her friends ignorance
the rag, bone, etc." lady explain
ed that the queer name went with
a brand new, up-to-date "seeress."
No, not a fortune teller. nothing
vulgar like that!
But a genuine East Indian
priestess who made you we'll,
young, and discovered your his
torical counterpart, by means Of
vibrations. 1t seemed that one got
fat elderly and unlovely because
ones vibrations were all wrong.
Get them coming or going--I'ye
forgotten which-the right way,
and the world was yours.
And the sane, wholesome woman
'fell for it." And paid ten dollars
The Washington times., 1918-08-07
to the seeress with the name Ike
Cross and Blackwell's Pickles.
Soreeress of Old Nile.

to the seeress with the name Ike
Cross and Blackwell's Pickles.
SOreeress of Old Nile.
The seeress discovered that the
fat lady's vibrations had been
going on for years, in a highly
dangerous way. They were either
coming nor nor east" when they
ought to be going SOU SOU west"
or something like that, don't lust
remember which, but it was a won
der the fat lady had lived at all,
according to the seeress.
But the thrilling part Of the dis
closure was that this comfortable
middle-aged woman was the living
incarnation OF Cleopatra, the ser
pent Of old Nile.
And instead of spending the best
years Of her life in going to mar
ket, darning her husbands socks,
and being the thrifty, capable
housekeeper she had always been,
the misguided woman had missed
her destiny completely. She ought
to have made history by playing
ten pins with all sorts Of poten-
tates.
Every Virtue But HumOr.
Now the plump lady had every
virtue but a sense of humor.
Humor is not generally conceded
to be a virtue, but in her case it
would have been one. 1t would
have accomplished perfect "cure"
for the vaporings Of the seeress.
She would have had ten dollars
worth Of laughs out of the vibra-
tions-Cleopatra nonsense, and let
it go at that.
But she didn't, she took it all
seriously and she began to think
of the solid citizens who lived in
the same suburb and to reflect on
the manner in which they said:
The Washington times., 1918-08-07
Editor The Times:

Editor The Times:
As one good American family. We
wish to thank you for the valuable
space you occupy in your paper In
publishing the grand articles, editoI-
tally and otherwise. in behalf OF the
workers in this city, in other cities,
here and abroad.
You fought consistently for contin-
uation OF fair hours OF lab - for Gov
ernment employees. You know, they
are related to boys over there, who
don't want to hear OF their mothers.
sisters, sweethearts! and friends icing
imposed on back home.
We also compliment you :o- y1lr
Insistent belief in raining dynamite
from the skies on the devils whUm
The Washington times., 1918-08-07
Wants German Prisoners Sent Here.

would have British patrol boat o.
fcials destroy their own, Gods peo-
pie. after they. the DEVILS people, had
been rescued.
Please advocate all ships returning
from allied ports to be loaded with
German prisoners captured by allies-
Let their country know we are
bringing them back to feed them. and
to loosen the burden of our allies In
taking care OF them.
Advertise this freight OF inhuman
devils we are receiving. and let their
companions in the fatherland learn
II their submarines are sinking or en-
deavoring to sink boats laden with
Germans.
VIM. H. MARSH
119 c st. n. z.