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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-01-16
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21
LETTER CARRIERS
IN CONVENTION
HERE TOMORROW

The letter carriers in the local post
Office will act as hosts to their brother
carriers of the state when the Ce--
necticut State Letter Carriers Asso-
citation meets in this city for its oath
annual convention tomorrow. George
W. O'Shea, chairman of the local
committee on arrangements, has an
nounced that everything is in readi-
ness for the affair. From early morn
ing till late in the evening something
will be doing every minute, he says.
Many prominent speakers have
agreed to attend the convention and
address the carriers. Among them
are: Congressman Merritt, Glynn,
Freeman and Tilson of Connecticut;
Madden, of Illinois; Senators Mclean
and Brandegee of Connecticut; Presi-
dent Edward Gamer of the National
Association of Letter Carriers; Rev.
Bowlby of the Lords Day Alliance and
Patrick ]. McNab of New York lodge,
No. SO.
Among those who have been invit-
ed to attend the affair are: Mayor c.
B. Wilson, Postmaster G. F. Greene,
eX-Congressman Thomas L. Reilly of
Meriden and John S. Foley of Boston.
+ Foresters' hall at 62 Cannon street
will be opened to the visitors at 10
o'clock tomorrow morning and will
remain so until midnight. Here re-
freshments will be served all day.
Several surprises have been arranged
and the special vaudeville entertain
ment and buffet luncheon will COM
mence at 6 o'clock in the evening.
The business meeting of the letter
carriers will be held in convention hall
OF 1889 Broad street, and will be
held at o'clock. Besides George W.
O'Shea. who is chairman of the COM
mittee on arrangements, the follow
| ing members are assisting: Samuel
| r. Merritt, Charles j. O'Brien,
Thomas Lynch, Herman Rickel,
George Haggerty, Andrew Peterson,
Fred Hayden, William Tonge, Ebert
| Patterson and Robert Watt.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21

given military training for purposes
of discipline, but their intensive train
ing is in the industrial phases of the
service so vital to the maintenance
of the ships of the air.
Added to the great manufacturing
activity which is being concentrated
ceaselessly upon the production of en-
gines, planes, aircraft parts, machine
guns, scientific instruments and ma
terials, is the big task of whipping
human material into shape for active
service. A tremendous work has al
ready been done by the Signal Corps.
European experts have stated that the
flying and training schools in the Uni
ted States, created within a few brief
months, surpass anything in this line
to be seen in Europe after three years
of war.
1t is to the perfecting of this great
business and manufacturing organiza-
ton, which is so essential to the pic
turesque Cavalry of the Clouds" that
Mr.. Stettinius's knowledge and or
ganizing ability is first being turned.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21
Grand Commander
Knights Templar
Coming Tonight

An event in Hamilton Commandery,
K T., will be the official visitation of
Right Eminent Sir Arthur c. Wheele"
of Norwalk, Grand Commander of
Connecticut this evening, at the Nj
sonic Temple. He will be accom-
panied by a number of his associate
officers and will be received with full
Templar honors at o'clock. The
order of the Temple will be exempli-
fled during the evening. There will
be special music by a quartette and
a large number of Sir knights will
be present in honor of the visit of
the Templar dignitaries. The Grand
Commander will be accompanied by
the following associate Grand offic-
ers: En-. Sir Frederick L. Huntington,
Meriden, Grand Senior Warden; EN-.
Sir George E. Human, Middletown,
Grand Standard carer; EN-. Sir e.
Ward DeKlyn, Danbury, Grand
Sword Bearer; and EN-. Sir Angus
H. Mackenzie, this city, Grand War
Den.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21

understand just how lonesome life is
for them over there" he said. Tive
seen big, rough soldiers, the most
hardened ones in camp, turn all Wo-
man when it came to cuddling some
French youngster who happened to
be about the place, some baby that
looked like one of their own at home,
or that they imagined looked like one
of their own. It's the unusual sol
der who doesn't come and show the
Young Mems Christian Association
worker snapshots of his girl back
home, or a picture of his mother, or
of his children"
All women want to help in war
time. The trouble is that most of
them would like to go over to France,
or in some way to give personal SER
vice to the soldiers. But the real way
to be of aid is to do ordinary, I'M
spectacular things over here, to send
their men off cheerfully, and to write
the kind of letters that keep them of
good courage.
Get Ready to Do Mems Work
There is very little that women
can do for our soldiers over there"
Captain Pearson declared. What the
American women ought to be doing
row, in my opinion, is to be getting
ready to do mems work, in case the
war lasts long time. In France you
will see them busted with almost
every task that men formerly did,
hitched to the pillow in the fields, driv-
ing the motor cars in the cities, doing
almost everything you can mention,
brave, devoted women who are every
whit as good soldiers as their men at
the front. In Canada and in England
it is almost the same; there are few
men left at home, and the women
must do the work.
when it comes to sending home
boxes to the soldiers over seas, wo-
men should be sure that they send
gifts that are needed, and that won't
spoil en- route. A lot of junk merely
cutters things up for the soldiers
there. But letter is a gift that is
always timely, and never in the way.
War just shows how wonderful
women can be. But sometimes they
cont understand how lonesome SOL
G:ers get, and how far from every
thing they feel over there on the bor-
der of No Mans Land. They wait
fer answers to their letters, and don't
stop to figure out that they are neg
lecting one of their wartime jobs.
write to them!"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21
SLEEPY town"
WIDE awake FOR
LIBERTY LOAN

Philadelphia, Feb. 21-Probably no
other section of the country has made
more elaborate preparations for the
third Liberty Loan campaign than the
Third Federal Reserve District which
embraces two-thirds of Pennsylvania,
New Jersey south of Trenton, and all
headquarters of this territory, will be
the focal point of spectacular interest
during the new drive.
Four art figures in heroic mold have
been installed over the four archways
of the city hall here to stimulate in
terest in the campaign. Notable
among these is a reproduction, in all
but the dimensions, of Bartholdfs
statue of the Goddess of Liberty in
New York harbor Surmounting the
other entrances of the municipal
building are respectively, a gigantic
representation of a khak-clad soldier
going over the top; a tank on the
advance and a portrayal of an Ameri-
can battleship destroying a German
submarine.
The statue of liberty, including the
torch, is twenty nine feet high and
with the pedestal, towers aloft about
SO feet. 1t is the largest imitation
of the bronze presented to America
by the French nation ever made and il
is expected that it will be entirely
veneered with a coating of medals
and nails, the latter to be driven II
by bond-subscribers.
In the base of the statue there is g
large room with two entrances. From
this ladder leads to the figure of tbs
goddess. Bond-buyers will be fur
nished with medals on which theil
initials will be stamped and with these
they expect to weld a complete coat
of mail for Liberty long before the
| campaign is completed.
Delegations from all over the Third
| Federal Reserve District have plan
ned pilgrimages to the city to take
part in this unique pledge of patriot
| ism
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21
THIRTY HELPERS
FOR every u. S.
BIRDMAN IN WAR

Edward r. Stettinius, the recently
appointed surveyor general of sup
plies for the army is turning his atten-
ton first to a Tightening up of the
business organization of the Signal
Corps, for here, as in no other branch
of the service, is typified the interre-
lation between the industrial and the
military processes of war-making.
The reader of newspapers and
magazines is accustomed to think of
the air service as consisting entirely
of intrepid filters who soar over the
enemy's lines, accommodating, pomb-
ing, and, in general, fulfilling the ira
ditions of that most picturesque
branch of our military service. Per
haps no department of warfare ap-
peals more to the imagination and less
to a realization of the practical, me-
chanical grind of the days work.
And yet, if each pilot were to take
up in the air with him all the men
who are, in their way, as intimately
connected with that single airplane
as he himself, a Zeppelin-sized con-
veyance would be required; for, be-
sides the pilot, there are 80 industrial
over the front. Each pilot is the per-
sonal representative of 80 machinists,
! toolmakers, engine filters, cabinetma-
kers, carpenters, sailmakers, motor
and plane repairmen--all of them SOL
diers, all of them members of the Sig
nal Corps, and all of them waiting on
the ground with personal interest in
| that machine.
It is the building up of this COM
bination industrial military organiza-
ton that has made the work of the
Signal Corps SO phenomenal, and it is
to it's further development and co-or-
dination that Mr.. Stettinius is bring
ing his exceptional talents for organ
| ization. Progress in this branch of
war preparation may be said to have
begun at minus zero, because, at the
declaration of war, it became neces-
sary to cancel a large percentage of
the work which was being carried
forward on a peace-time basis.
i On July "a, 1917, when the appro-
priation bill providing for the expan-
sion of this fighting branch was pass
ed, the personnel of the flying ser
vice consisted of only a few hundred
men. Today the personnel of the Sig
nal Corps numbers 10000, including
fliers, mechanics, and trade experts
in every line.
The industrial soldiers enrolled in
!, this service are all sent to schools fol-
trade testing. Here they are sorted
into squadrons for training in that
branch of the work for which they
are best fitted. These squaurons are
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21
CONDEMN RESALES
OF FOODSTUFFS

Washington, Feb. 20-Double mid
dleman's profits on foodstuffs with a
resultant price advance to the con-
sumner caused by the practice Of
wholesalers selling to one another to
make up deprecated stocks were con-
demned in statement issued today
by the food administration.
Resales should be permitted only
with the consent of the state food ad-
ministrator and with the provision
that dealers share the usual wholesale
profit on the entire transaction. Com
missions or brokerage charges on re-
sales, it was said, should be allowed
only when the legality of the resale is
clearly established.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21
HOLD MAN FOR
NORWICH FRAUDS

New York, Feb. 2O.-Frederick M,
Robinson, who, the police say, de-
frauded several New York city bus
mess houses through alleged worth
less checks drawn on the Thames Ma
tional bank of Norwich, Conn, was
held in $500 bail for examination on
Saturday when arraigned before a
magistrate here today. He is charged
with grand larceny for presenting a
bogus check for $185 in payment for
goods purchased from the John Wan
amaker store. Robinson, the police
say, posed as a United States army
captain.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21
CARGO SHIP DIVIDENDS

London, Feb. 21-An analysis of
the earnings of seventy British cargo
steamship companies for last year
shows that dividends were paid ag
gregating $13,OOO,0O0 or 1925 per
cent on their capital. The earnings
of the same companies in pre- war
days averaged 3.3 per cent.
The dividends of twenty-three lin
er companies were IA p@ cent on a
capital of $1S9,000,000.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21
IiIlOIline
MARVELLOUS MEDICINE
For Colds

Linonine takes that awful
kick out of a hard cold and
renders it harmless. 1t is the
great family remedy for all
forms of colds and remark
able preventive for the more
dangerous winter complaints
Of adults and children.
Have a bottle of Linonine
handy at all tirnes-there's no
telling what instant it will be
needed, especially so for
coughs that threaten bron-
chitis. Nothing quite equals
Linonine for bronchitis.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21
(By The Information al News Bureau, Inc.)
BY DIR. ARTHUR LYNCH, BRITISH Nj. p.

Paris Feb 21-In Marcel Prevosts Lies Anges Gardens
The Guardian Angels otherwise governesses he depicts
English who is fond Of drink Italian beauty wins
the affections of the and heir and German Meg by
jolly and attractive young woman unembarrassed by mora
scruples, but capable and shrewd,
Meg spy and her spying the dangerous for the
fact that she the guardian angel of the daughter of the
French War Minister.
This story written with certain grace of style, set all
France talking and many bourgeois am scrunized with
horror their stocsh supdlooking but Woodworking West
phaan maids who knew little outside the little household and
Who had conceived real affection for the children
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21

great rider, a beau, a lady-killer. Ger
tain histories in this latter direction
cut off his career as a guardsman,
and he came to Paris.
Old Adolph had then nothing of the
beau cavalier of old, he seemed good
natured, but stupid; he did not look
as if he could mount horse. for he
moved all in block, like a piece of
wood; he was fond of pictures, he
professed great affection for France
and he made extensive acquaintance
with members of the old nobility po-
litical men, noted writers; in word
"old Adolph" was well-known and
sympathetic Partisan figure.
Old Adolph
Old Adolph had incidentally hired
a. chateau which commanded a good
range of country, and which possess
ed real value for war purposes.
To this chateau he made several
additions and improvements which
were thought to be fad of dear, stu
pid old Adolph; they could be used as
excellent gun emplacements. It is
still a point in the circles that old
Adolph frequented whether he real
| ly was a fool, or only had that ap-
| pearance. But it is not remote from
this question to remark that at one
point the disastrous flight of the Ger
mans from he Marine was brought to
an end by the fact that they arrived
at positions which had been carefully
noted and prepared by Germans be-
| fore the war.
1 have lifted the veil here and there
- ~ Co., =,
system is no less edifying a study. For
the past two generations the Ger
mans have been extending and per-
fecting their spy system; it has now
become one of the important func-
tons of state.
Are Trained Young
A spy is not taken at hap-hazard
and asked impromptly to undertake
difficult and hazardous work. Years
before that employment, end when
quite a boy the spy has been sent to
the foreign country in order to get
rid of his German accent and, if pos
sible, of his Teutonic appearance and
manners. He is helped to learn a
trade or profession; he is exhorte6
to make himself really efficient in his
business, fit to compete successfully
with the foreigner on his own soil sc
as to make his services indispensable
Particularly he seeks to get il
touch with government departments
or with financial, theatrical, or jour.
nalistic world.
He may have changed his national
ity a generation ago, but he remain!
a German.
, Adventurous like Bolo or anarchist!
: like Almereyda, half-idealist, semi
criminal editor of the pacifist bon
= net Rouge" are in another category
and deserve separate treatment; blu
= even now in neutral countries, AM
S particularly in Switzerland, plans ar
t being ceaselessly elaborated, and tel
S thousand clever eyes are searching
i out the secrets of the Allies. And no
only in neutral countries. (By The In
o ternational News Bureau, Inc, Bos
a ton, Mass,)
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21

"Meg
I confess I was inclined to laugh
at the spy-scare, but some little time
before the war used to met on the
staircase of a modest and quiet little
private hotel the dame who stood for
the original of Meg; she had an
apartment adjoining mine.
There was nothing about her ap-
pearance or her manners to attract
attention. Meg had, in good German
style, grown imposing, though still at
tractive in the German fashion. She
was dressed in the latest Partisan
style; she spoke baby French and pig
con English, though she knew both
those languages perfectly, and she
was often visited by distinguished
looking men, who had the air Of Of
ficers in multi.
One evening, on returning to my
rooms, I saw Mes lady-companion,
a dragon-loolSing person ,camped on
a chair on the landing near Meg's
door, and presently three middle-aged
gentlemen left Meg's room. Meg
knew that the war was coming, and
no doubt serious business was on
hand that night.
The Spy Dancer
Parisians have become very suspi-
cious of late, but the surprise was
general, nevertheless, when they dis
covered that their exotic favorite, Ma
ia Hari, the Hindoo dancer, was a
German spy.
This lady with the dusky skin and
flexible wrists, and languorous graces
of the Eastern dancing women, turn
ed out to be a formidable parsonage
At the age of II she married Ger
man who had obtained Dutch nation
atty in order to mask his spying
work. The marriage was rather il
the nature of a formal business tran.
saction, but this did not prevent the
ex-German officer from brutally ill
treating his young wife, whom HI
wounded on one occasion by pisto
shot.
Nevertheless, she entered into thu
spy system with Zest, became dull!
registered and paid, amused and de
lighted Paris for some years with he
audacious performances, became &C
quainted with various highly-paid of
ficials and politicians and founC
means it is said, to make known t.
the Germans some of the most impor
tant French plans in the first month
of the war, and subsequently inform
ed them accurately of the departur
of transports.
New Type OF Spy
Certainly it is absurd to find a sp
in every German - kitchen-maid 0
hall-porter, or BARRIERS apprentice
but our eyes have been opened to tn
extent of the organization, its studio
and elaborate character, and the clev
erness of. the German spy system.
Here in Paris is a type very differ
ent from Meg but one who employ
the Megs as his agents: The Cour
of W, "old Adolph," as he wa
Familiarity called, half in affection an
half in contempt
Adolph was not so many years az
a dashing officer of the Guards
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21
COMBING OUT Hun
SPIES IN FRANCE;
The TALE OF Meg

How An Unintelligent Appearing German Dame
in Small Apartment Knew About War Plans
Spy Dancer, Mata Hari, Was Married by
a German Officer to Betray French.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21

The man who thinks he has found
something new is only waking up.
Concrete, for instance, has been
practical shipbuilding material all
along; only we are just now getting
around to it.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21

Four business houses were burned
and several stores. damaged at Benton
Harbor, Mich. The loss is estimated
at $250,000.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21

Chairman Chamberlain of the Sem
ate military affairs committee under
went successful operation for appen-
dicitis.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21

The House adopted the conferences
repcrt on the bill appropriatiGg SSS4,-
600, 900 for the construction of houses
for ship workers.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21

Cleveland bakers have defed the
Food Board anu raised the price of
bread to retailers.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21

Cadet Victor L. Dennis of Detroit,
who was burned when his airplane
fell to the ground at Love Field, Dali
las Texas, died of his injuries.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21

SWEET PEAS. VIOLETS, TULIPS.
DAFFODILS.
JOHN RECK & SON,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21
BRIEF NEWS NOTES

The American Newspaper Publish
ers Association in session at WASH
ington, recommended the coming of
two-cent pieces.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21

A number of persons were hurt in
the Passaic court house in Paterson
N. j., when a bomb exploded in the
rotunda
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21

Jacob Dashler. of Wrightsville, Pa,
was hit by ton Of iron. His re-
covery is expected.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21

Fire of unknown origin at the ware
houses of T. & E. Cumpson, wholesale
grocers of Buffalo, destroyed food
stuffs valued at 100000.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21

Senator Thompson introduced an
amendment to the Food bill to fix the
price of 1918 wheat at $265, instead
of So, as at present.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21

The Signal Corps needs telephone
girls.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21

The New York Cotton Exchange
will be closed on Saturday following
Washington's Birthday
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21
Moral Conditions Are Good

Moral conditions in the army are
a great deal better than is common
ly reported, Captain Pearson said. No
mother, he thought, needed to worry
more about her soldier-son on this
score than she would if he were any
where else. The army is as safe a
place for boy as can be found. But
the hometown across the seas seems
long way from the shel1-scarred
field in France, and there is little to
remind a man of the home standards
and home traditions in the strange
new life within range of the bursting
shells. He needs letters from, his
family to do it. In maintaining high
moral conditions, as well as in keep
ing the morale of the army what it
should be, Captain Pearson believes
that letters from home play a larger
part than any other thing.
MEN don't talk much about home
sickness, and perhaps women don't
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-21

Lieut.. Gordon Loring Rand, of the
aviation section of the Signal Corps
reserve, Pershing's forces, committed
suicide Feb. G. Rand lived at Law
renee, L. I.
"Uncle Sam" General Pershing'S
pet golden eagle, presented to him
by citizens of San Antonio, attracted
much attention at he Bronx Zoo,
where it is on exhibition.