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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10
TWO BITS A DAY.

In Phoenix, Arizona, there have
been started what the people call
1.-TWO Bits a Day" clubs. In the East
the term two bits may be mystify-
ing In the West 1.-TWO bits signi-
fies the sum of money represented by
the silver quarter of a dollar. The
clubs bearing this appellation have for
their purpose the saving of thrift
stamps for all members. Each day
when the members meet at luncheon,
or wherever they meet they purchase
some two bits worth of thrift
stamps. On the day these clubs were
inaugurated three men took a hun
dred thrift stamps, pasted one stamp
on each card, and sold the entire lot
between their regular dining places
land their offices, a distance of some
three blocks. Even if New Britain
lis not up on the vernacular of the
ESouth and the West, both of which
sections know the term, there might
I he room here for a 1.-TWO Bits a Day"
Sclub. It will be found that this is a
&good way for each man who dimes
downtown to "do his bit"
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10
EVENTS TONIGHT

Superior photo plays, Lyceum
theater
High class photo drama, Fox's thea
ter.
Vaudeville and moving pictures, at
Keeney's theater.
Turner society meets in Turner hall.
Lexington lodge, [. 0. O. F., meets in
Jr. o. U. A. M. hall.
Landers Camp, M. w. A, meets at
"a Church street.
Emmett. club meets at 321 Main
street.
Journeymen BARRIERS Union meets
at "a Church street.
Sir Francis Drake lodge, S. of st. c.,
meets at PIT Main street.
Washington Camp, P. O. of A,
meets in c.. A. r. hall.
New Britain Aerie F. O. E., meets
in cages hall.
Water jain lodge, D. of H, meets in
Bardeck'S hall
Board of Fire Commissioners meets
in City hall.
White Rose Camp, r. n. A, meets
in Electric hall.
Annual meeting Luther League,
Swedish Lutheran church.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10

BY spring, New Britain will be
represented in the colony of aviatOrs
and mechanicianS now training at
Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas.
Among the New Britain men now
there's Warren r. Norton. son of Mr..
and Mrs. r. ID. Norton of 1856 West
Main street.
Norton is % years of age and was
graduated from New Britain High
school with the class of 1914. He was
we'll known in Y. M. G. A. circles. He
enlisted in the aviation corps in New
York on December 3, 1917. He has a
brother, Leon Norton, who enlisted in
the New York infantry in May and
who is stationed at Plattsburg, N. Y.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10
FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY
GREEN U. S N.
Steam

You may have visited Swift and Co.
and seen the evolution of Pig to Pork
Chops, or Of Bull to Beefsteak. Per-
haps you have witnessed the trans
mutation of steel ingots to stillson
wrenches horse hoofs to glue, dirt to
dynamite, or even dairy maids to
ponies. In every case expenditure of
energy was tremendous and the pro-
cess not reversible.
Marvel then with me at the al
chemy of steam. Cold, placid, incom-
pressible water becomes a raging
fiend, wrestling valves and pstons
from it's path only to fall exhausted,
shrinking back to it's former cold Sc
renity Mighty SCATTERING guns and
deadly torpedoes are jack-in- boxes
beside the Gagged Titan, Steam.
First step, fill boiler-overgTow
tea pot that it is, with spout leading
to engines. Prime furnaces, light
fires, and irritate the sleeping Giant.
Giant I say; but more exactly
Giant Army. H2O is the scientific
name for the rank and file Of this vast
horde whose numbers are stupendous
beyond conception. Five quadrillion
per drop is one estimate of density
of molecular population in water.
Vapor pressure is proportional to
the activity of the molecules thereof.
Fires grow hotter. The teeming host
awakes. At PIP deg. F. the heat be-
comes unbearable. First few, then
million, and finally whole myriads
of frantic atoms leap from the liquid
and clamor for escape. Torturing fire
only brightens, little rocking of the
tragedy overhead.
Some of the raving pigmies dis
cover a small door, tear madly
through its black passage, butting
finally against a blank brass wall
They have been trapped. Just outside
grimy face drips sweat, peers
heaves a sigh, and says:
Look, Bill, she's a-goin' up
It is the water tender looking at
his steam gauge.
Simple enough it is, boiling eggs
when water is abundant. But when
100000 lbs. of coal and $4,000 gallons
Of water are the daily ration there
are wonderful chances to save. The
Navy slogan is MAKE every ounce of
coal and every pint of water count!''
Since Watt and Fulton, engineers.
have studied steam and how to make
the ounces count Their research is
not yet half done. The genius who
bought economy by turbines died in
a mad house
Boiling points of water vary with
the pressure. The tea pot under at
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10
Discipline.
milwaukee JOurnaD

A story is told of a boy from one
of the training camps who returned
home for a visit and overheard his
father tell younger son to fix the
furnace. The lad objected, and the
father promised him a quarter if he
would obey. Whereupon the embryo
soldier remarked "Father, the disci-
pine in this house is perfectly rot
ten"
If it will serve aus a corrective to
the "rotten" discipline prevailing in
so many homes, military training mus,
commend itself to all who recognize
the handicap with which many undis-
ciplined boys and girls start out in
life. The present enforced training of
millions of men, the fathers of the
future, will also have served an added
purpose.
The fragrant lack Of discipline
among the youth Of today, who, one
sometimes feels, scarcely know the
meaning of the word "obey," neces-
sarily leads to graver forms Of insub-
ordination in other affairs, and the
next step, disregard for law, is danger
ouslv easy. All teachers know that
school children give the measure of
obedience to school thorties that
they are trained in at home. And it
has long been notorious that this
measure is often dangerously little.
Unfortunately, the military training
our boys are getting will not ma
terially affect existing conditions in
the home Present lack of discipline,
however, will be materially affected
by the training the fathers of the next
generation Of boys and girls are now
getting And there is promise of bet
ter things with that next generation,
when our present soldiers shall have
homes Of their own. They at least
will scarcely be willing to bride their
children into obedience,
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10
UP FROM THE RANKS.

Having stepped out of the stage
Scamp Devens and other environments
Throughout the nation have been
warned against breaches of military
%discipline. From now on they are to
Sbe considered as soldiers. Their baby
Mhood in the ranks is a thing of the
&past. There will be no more leeway
@granted them. At the same time the
MWar Department shows it's considera-
zion of the mettle manifested by the
%Belective Service men and orders many
#of them in training for officerships.
1 To bring men from the rank and
I#fle of the army and make of them
@oficers is a thing that will meet with
#approval all over the country. There
IA 8 some fine material in the ranks of
8he new national army. Numbered
#hmong these who have gone away
&rom their peaceful occupations are
&1octors, lawyers, business men, and
#nen from all the various professions.
MEhlS is ClLGO mercy 10 SNOW OIL what
#caliber the new army is made. Some
u the privates in the ranks are as
well, if not better, educated than the
men who now command them. AS
# he draft goes on this may be more
ind more the case.
81 It is encouraging to all those young
amen of the country who are in the
iraft to know that this new order of
ia hings is taking place in the army,
awhile the Plattsburg camps are now
losed to the ambitious youth Of the
%kbation, the ranks of the army are
pen. Those who pass therein may be
ssured that they will be given every
" hance to rise to positions Of COM
i hand, providing, of course, they pos
. ess the necessary qualifications In
DO other nation but a Democracy
ould men hope to start as privates in
he ranks and work to the top.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10
THE POLISH VOLUNTEERS.
Legion of Enthusiasts in Training at
Fort Niagara Voice Spirit OF
Democracy.
providence Journal. }

providence Journal.)
Two thousand Poles recruited in the
United States will inaugurate the
training camp at the reservation
across the Niagara river from tTot
Niagara, which has been set apart for
the new Polish Legion by the War
department. The action has followed
promptly upon the recognition by the
government at Washington of the
Polish National committee, in Paris,
as an official national organization.
Thousands of Polish defendants are
already in the Army and Navy, but the
men at Fort Niagara will be trained
for the growing force which is at
tached to the French army.
This foreign legion on our soil,
under it's own flag, is an interesting
and significant incident of the times.
1t is entirely a volunteer movement,
engaging the enthusiastic interest Of
such distinguished Poles as Mr.. Pader-
ewski and appealing to the hearts Of
Polish immigrants and their children
the country over.
1t is said that Germany has four
hundred thousand uniforms in storage
awaiting the Polish army which, fol-
lowing the capture of Warsaw, it was
announced was to be raised in the
name of a new and Independent king
dom of Poland-under Teutonic tute-
lage No considerable proportion of
those uniforms is ever likely to be
filled by Polish volunteers.
despatch from Buffalo the other
day reported the departure of four
hundred young Polish American citi-
gems and Poles from that city, for the
training camp at Niagara on -the-Lake.
Every man was either below or above
the draft age, or had not acquired
American citizenship. Their going was
the occasion of q great demonstration.
It would not be surprising if ten thou
sand recruits were enrolled for the
camp at no distant date. Those in
charge of the movement estimate that
as many as one hundred thousand
sons of Poland will ultimately be fight
ing for the Stars and Stripes.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10

1t Is Human Nature to Esxaggerate
and Some Wild Stories Are
Told OF "Big Men," IL
New York T1mes)

The dement's of a card index svs.
tenn recording all the acts OF evoral
citizen are obvious, especially to thoM
who in Germany Or elsewhere have
experienced the operations of some.
thing approaching this bureaucratic
ideal. But it would have obvious ad.
vantages. For instance, it would dis.
courage the growth of legends about
the early lives of great men whose
dolngS in ordinary course do not be-
come noted until they have reached Ia
position where they can create Nn
rival story that may OR may not have
some basis of truth. IS
A modern instance Of the capacities
on the mythopoetic instinct, even in q
short time, is the New York career oil
the current potentate, Mr.. Leon Trot.
ky. We hear that he spent his daW
furiously writing editorial articles, 10
! three different papers (and as fun.
ously quarreling with their editors
/ from time to time), and his nights
organizing and talking to the discol-
tented; and that simultaneously he
spent his days rolling cigars in q
YorkV1lle factory and his nights as
waiter at a hotel. Even his financial
position Is clouded by the mists OF
rumor. He made $12 a week; or II
you prefer to believe another story
he was provided for sumptuously ~
the New York Bolsheviki, whose az
pacity may be estimated from the faci
that at a recent public revel they
caressed whiskey bottles, the posses
sion of which in these times is prima
facie evidence of considerable means
A strict account of the condition and
doings of every resident, a beginning
of which we shall have in the volumi.
nous records of the new draft ques-
tionnaire, might save future his.
torians the labor of sitting out thu
grain of truth from the early records
of the Trotzky dynasty which they
have experienced in the case of the.
Bonapartes and others.
Still wilder stories were told of the
past, present, or future visit of the
Grand Duchess Tatiana, concerning
whose whereabouts and doings there
seems to be some real mystery aside
from the productions of eager press
agents. Whether Tatiana came and
went, Or is still with us, OF is shiyer-
ing over the radiator OF the furnished
apartment in Tobolsk, the very nature
of the romances about her and about
Trotzky form an illuminating com-
mentary ON the altered spirit of the
times. New York has always been a
snug harbor for the tempest driv@r
kings and liberators, but their habits
are changing. Joseph Bonaparte Gull
tivated the soil and literature in the
Sabine suburbanity of Jersey; C1em-
enceau practiced his profession in
Twelfth street, and taught the French
language to a seminary of young la
dies. But Trotzky elected to dwell in
the Bronx, surely no suitable habitat
for the man destined to sit on half tks
throne of Peter and Catherine; and
Tatiana, if the stories current had any
basis in fact, was headed straight for
the movies.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10
THE TOUBIB,S STORY.

Toubib told me this
Toubtb is soldier slang for doctor
One day at the Quart en- Reserve
| We were waiting for the Colonel.
To make his daily round of the
trenches
| And come back for lunch.
! We sat in the Captains room
| At the Bureau of Regg. $40.
Just back of the third line
A cave Iog-roofed,
! In a red clay bank.
A smelly kerosene lamp was burning;
| The fire in the stove was too hot
cit was down there
The Toubib lit his pipe
And put his very long, bony fore
finger
On a delicatcly- drawn map
Tackled on the wall
I'm the Champagne"
He said that one morning after an
attack
He'd seen something
Som ething odd-lOOhinS--
Caught high on the limb
OF a shell-split tree
In the wake Of the advance.
He threw up stones
Till he dislodged it.
1t fell.
"Figurez-vous," he finished dryly,
"C'etait un coeur.'
A naked heart.
All that-was left of body
Blown to bloody tatters-
A naked heart
Lodged in the branches
After battle,
Great God, I thought, what a holy
sign!
What a victorious symbol
What a Song Of France
-terrible-triump plant!
Often and often
I have tried to write the song
OF that lost heart
I cannot.
1t is immeasurably beyond my little
art.
SO for me it must always remain
Just this
The Toubibs story
Of a French soldiers heart
Just a heart
Lodged in the branches of a tree
After battle.
EMERY POTTLE,
in The Touchstone-
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10
STATE CHANGERS.
Close Their Convention in Hartford
With $1,000 Expenditure.

Hartford, Jan. 10.-The 33rd an
nual session of the Connecticut State
Grange, closing this afternoon, has
two important features. Perhaps the
most significant was the adoption Of
a resolution to eXpend $4,000 or any
necessary part of it, to assist in Sc
curing ratification of the federal pro-
hibition amendment by the Connecti-
cut legislature through n campaign
of education. Another feature was
the retirement Of Secretary LOOMS of
Glastonbury after 27 years service.
He declined reelection. He is sue
ceeded by Ard Welton of Plymouth.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10
TiTpitz the Cody.
(LOndOn Globe).

In an article entitled Through
says: ''Our Divine Redeemer is
lover of peace. SO are we, but the
peace that the Lord wants must be
q lasting peace, and no peace can be
lasting except one that brings us Cour-
land, the mining regions of Longwy
and Briey and bases for our fleet to
serve as future starting points in any
eventual war with England. The lat
ter our Tirpitz, a man after Christ's
own heart, can assure us He may
be appropriately styled the Warlike
Nazarene, whose ardent patriotism is
only equalled by his devotion to his
Divine Master"
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10

mospheric pressure of 14.7 lbs bub-l
bles at PIP deg. F. But a battleship'sf
boilers making 260 lb. steam cannot
simmer under 400 deg. Steam auto
mobiles work up to 900 lbs. pressure,
Whereat 500 deg. is the vapor temper
ature. In figuring coal economy and
cruising radius it makes a huge diff
ference whether one steams at high or
low speeds, at great or small pres.
sures. Using 200 lbs. of steam will
get you home for holiday while eos
lbs. may strand you with empty bunk
ers hull down at sea-
There is steam and steam-d1-v
steam, superheated steam, wire
drawn steam, and a dozen other
kinds, depending on the amount of
heat and solid. water carried and tho
way it behaves in an engine. THAI
hammering in your radiator is wet
steam which has gathered a battering
ram of water. A cast steel cylinder
head six feet In diameter has been
popped off by water hammer like
the cap off an over-live bottle of root
beer.
Dry hot steam is most efficient.
After leaving boilers the vapor ia
again heated and dried, then carried
engineward by pipes bandaged to re-'
tain the heat. Theoretically one
pound of coal can evaporate IA lbs. of
water. The working average is not
over lbs. Space occupied by steam
depends on pressure. At 1 lb. pres
sure / ID. of water vapor occupies 337
Gu. #. At 1000. lbs. pressure the
same steam is squeezed into half 4
cubic foot. The higher the pressure
the greater the excited energy of the I
molecules. The dryer the steam the
more molecules have been goaded in
to action. Whence it follows that dry
hot steam is the proper engine diet.
In a perfect thermos bottle steam
could be stored like any other form
of concentrated energy. Some day
ships and planes shall take their pro-
pulsiVe force aboard in small tanks
and batteries, one per day allowance.
One great factory shall smoke in the
heart of desert to supply power pei .
lets to the world. Steam as we know
it is water fomented by heat to a tur-
bulent Vapor. But light electricity.
radium emanations, and all other
manifestations of force may each be
considered the ebullient product OF
some matter whose molecules have
been set spinning either by heat Or bv
some other agent.
Not an uninteresting subject-and
It always does a man good to blow off
steam.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10
NOT VERY LATE.
p. S. Mcmahon Makes Tardy Appear
ance in Court at Hartford.

p. S. Mcmahon was only an hour
and a half late for the opening of the
court of common pleas in Hartford
this morning to answer in an action
brought by the town Of Berlin,
through Tax Collector G.. r. Lewis, to
recover 5000 on back taxes.
1t is claimed that Mcmahon bought
property, agreeing to pay the taxes.
This, the collector said, he had neg
lected to do. Judgment was rendered
for the town of Berlin to collect the
5000 with costs.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10

i boys" The appeal is from a man in
khaki who makes the statement that
"a letter from home causes much
more commotion than feet of air
planes overhead Having become
used to buzzing airplane engines in
the clear skies of Texas our boys now
turn their attention to the mail
pouches. It is for friends and &C
quaintances to see to it that the boys
are not disappointed.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10
Nothing to Worry About.
(Springfield Union1

The discovery that German made
scissors are included in the comfort
kits sent to the American soldiers ih~
France need cause no alarm. There
are other German products our army
and navy are using, including SONG,
large and very serviceable German=
built ships. e
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10
CIVIL SERVICE HEARINGS.

The Civil Service Commission will
hold meeting on January 1 5, for the
purpose of examining candidates for
positions in the police and fire depart
ments, and promotions in either de-
partment Applications must be filed
with the secretary on or before Janu-
airy II.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10
LIEUT.. RAND HOME.

First Lieutenant Raymond r. Rand,
formerly of Company 7 and now
attached to the staff of the command
ing general at Camp Green, North
Carolina, is spending a leave of alb
sence at his home in this city He
will return south on Monday.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10
ON COMMISSION,

Washington, Jan. 10.-John Lind,
former governor of Minnesota will
be one Of the new advisory commits
sion to assist Secretary Wilson for
mobilizing labor for war service.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10

An Arrowsic farmer SAYS that
when he entered his barn Sunday
morning he discovered that the
breath Of two of his COWS had frozen
together.-Lewiston Journal.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10

1t is a pity that a United States
senate so anxious to prohibit some
thing has not yet begun on La Fol
lette.-New York World
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10

Here's a chance for girls who want
to go to France to be near their sweet
hearts, as they may enlist as telephone
girls-Bridgeport Post.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10
Three Years Too Late.

buffalo Times.)
Germany wants a return to the
status quo. She should have thought
of that before she upset it in 1914.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10

This is again the opportunity of the
man who can explain why the hot
water pipe freezes before the cold
water pipe.-\CW York Evening Post
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10
Library War Service.

, The London Graphic for Dec. 22d
reports the work of the Camps Lii
brary" which sends out to men in
service $4,000 books a week. Some of
the letters received give an idea of
what reading matter means to those
at the front:
The very sight of an English book
brings visions of home and to drop
across a favorite author is like meet
ing an old FRIEND; For my COM
rades and myself, it is impossible to
write our feelings down on paper, af-
ter SO long away from civilization, to
find those things waiting for us and
from the land of our dreams" One
man wrote from Mesopotamia: 1--WE
have had a glorious summer, with
fruit everywhere, as if this were the
Garden of Eden, itself. Alas! Eve is
not and we can only read the love
stories of Others"
The plea of the English librarian
may we'll be echoed here:
Send what reading you can and
send it now, for the winter is cold and
a good book warns the soldier mans
heart
The society has collected and sent
to the British soldiers and sailors ten
and a half million books and periodi-
calls.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10

Put him in the army says a de
serted Wife.-NeWspaper headline.
There at least he will learn that de
sertlon is serious matter.-Ne1
York Sun
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10
FACTS AND FANCJES
getller

why not coal shower for brides
this winter ?-Meriden Journal
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10

We were all brought up on the idea
that 1t was the Turkish empire that
was dlslnteeratinE. But here we are
seeing Russia go to pieces while "the
sick man of Europe" very coolly
reaches out to pick up some of the
pieces.-Springfeld Republican
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-01-10

Sir w. Triton, Britisher who got
up the tanks" says they'll predomi-
nate before the war is over. His gov
eminent offered him 5000 for his
rights in the invention. VERY good
said he; anything to win the war;
Paterson Press Guardian.