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New Britain herald., 1918-09-25
LIFE OF GENERAL PERSHING

if twenty pulsations occur between the time of seeing a lightning flash and hearing the thunder is---five miles two hundred and forty six feet and eight inches.'
 The answer Jack blurted out and hurriedly sank back into his seat amid the applause of the school.
 The Chairman, in another speech, congratulated the boy and ended by presenting him with the book--the life of George Washington. Then, like a bolt from the blue, the youth full winner heard these words:
 John, can't you make us 8 little speech?"
 There is nothing that the average small boy dreads more than to speak in public John was no exception; i; but there seemed no way open to 8 refusal. Slowly he rose. He turned toward where his mother was sitting, and her smile and her moving lips gave him the support he needed. He could see her lips shaping the worls that he could use, and, with this to help, he began:
 I'm sorry you all didn't win a prize. too. I--I-I'm much obliged. I'm going to grow up like George Washington"
 (To Be Continued.)
New Britain herald., 1918-09-25

about ready to take the water, is the feat accom- plished by the Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation, whose 12- way plant is situated on the west bank of the Delaware at Bristol. The com pany and it's 13,000 employees have pledged themselves to deliver 16 com pleted $500 ton cargo carriers by the end of 1918. Contracts call for SO vessels of 525,0 ,000 aggregate tonnage. A model town covering 175 acres, built simultaneously with the yards, has eliminated housing difficulties.
 With a park about which centers its educational and recreational life, this community, Hartman, presents advanced ideas in town site develop ment. The 400 to 500 buildings, com pleted or under construction, include bachelor houses, single houses and a modern 3Oo-room hotel The town also boasts public school, high school auditorium, gymnasium and athletic field and it's own fire depart ment and postoffice.
 At Chester, where the Sun Ship building companys 5000 workers have completed four cargo ships and launched two others, a $6,000,00 model community Is being built. An OLner housing pTOJeCI IS LnaI or tne Traylor Shipbuilding Corporation at Cornwells, where nearly 100 homes, In addition to barracks, are being erected. The Tray1or company has trained virtually all it's 3,4oo men, who are building wooden ships. It's management claims a national record in planking 8 hull in eleven days.
 Wilmington, a shipbuilding town for generations, quckly responded to the nations demand for cargo carriers. With 5000 workers, the Harlan & Hollingsworth plant of the Bethle hem Shipbuilding Corporation has completed six steel vessels and launched another. The Pusey & Jones Company has another steel ship plant here, employing 5000 men on four ways, and the American Car and Foundry Company, with 4,O00 persons on it's payroll, is building wooden hulls. Wilmington has contended with a serious housing problem which the plant managers say will be overcome when 500 houses, now in construction are completed.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-25
CADETS BOARD MEETS HERE,

A meeting of the State Board of Cadets will be held Thursday evening at 6 o'clock in the parlor of the Y. M T. A. B. society. Several import ant business matters will come up for consideration regarding the rou tine of the cadets for the coming year. As it was voted at a, recent meeting to do away with the Cadet convention this year, the meeting will take the place of the annual convention. Following the meeting the officers will attend the reception and entertainment to be given by the Ladies' T. A. B. society of St. Mary's church.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-25
CHAE.TER v.

tCopyright, 1918, by William Fox) fN the morning Jack Pershins came down to breakfast tired but happy. He had solved the problem in that last hour. It was a proud mother who sent him off to school that day. It was the big day of the school year. The Chairman and the Examining Board would be there. Friends and relatives would be pres ent to hear the accomplishme of tho pupils.
 The customary exercises passed without a hitch. The event of the day, however, was still to come. Every one was eagerly waiting to see who would win the coveted problem prize. At last the Chairman rose.
 "As you all know" he said, there Is to be 0 prize awarded today. This prize is particularly signifcant-a copy of the life of our first President, George Washington. His life was an example of diligence and perserver- arlce. These traits are sure to be pos sessed by the scholar who wins this prize. l now call upon you for an swers to the problem on the black board"
 in the silence that followed the boys and girls all looked around to ace who would have the courage to respond. Jack waited until it was evident that he was the only one who could even attempt to answer. He arose. He had felt so confident be- fore, but now his knees were begin ming to tremble as he stood in the presence of the board.
 Please sir" his voice wavered as
 
 The chairman, pleased that here ' was one at least who could make an answer, encouraged him. Jack con- tinued:
 ''If sound travels at the rate of 1,142 feet per second and the pulsa- tions of tho human body are seventy per minute, tho distance of a cloud
New Britain herald., 1918-09-25
PHILADELPHIA NEW
 CRADLE OF LIBERTY
Largest Group of Shipyards in
 Race to Defeat Kaiser

Philadelphia, Sept. 25.--shipbuild- ing, under the spur of the German submarine menace. has made Phila- delphia, for the second time in Amer ican history. "cradle of liberty F'ostered by the natural advantages of the Delaware river, together with proximity to the nations steel pro- auction ccnters, the country's largest group of shipyards, including the world record-making Hog Island plant, has grown up in the home dis trlct of the Pennsylvania metropolis
 In this district are employed more than 10000 shipworkers, one-fourth the enrolment in this industry throughout the United States, whose outturn to date is 50 vessels, 27 of them ready for service. Vessels of all types, from 3,500-ton wooden steam CTS to huge steel freighters of 12,OOO tons, are produced. The influx of workers has overrun 8 score of com munities, enforcing the building of seven new towns, yet the cry is for more men and more men. Given a suff1ciency of materials and the work CTS to handle them, the "Philadel- phia phenomenon" in ship construc- tion promises to become another worlds wonder.
 In this region the Emergency Fleet Corporation, through the companies carrying on it's work, has undertaken an extensive housing project. At Bristol, Chester Cornwells and Hog Island in Pennsylvania at Camden and Gloucester on the New Jersey side and at Wilmington in Delaware, homes, bachelor apartments barracks, boarding houses and even hotel have been erected, with the hope of solving the problem of inadequate labor growing out of poor accommo- dations.
 Growth in Population.
 How the yards on the Delaware have expanded in the past II months and what this influx of labor means to the communities along the river is indicated by comparison with the cen- sus of last October, when the asgre- gate of men engaged was less than 25,000. Excluding Cramps and the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, which were then working as complet-
New Britain herald., 1918-09-25

cd yards, the nine other plants on the Delaware then reported 12,000 work CTS
 More than half the present force of shipbuilders has been recruited from outside, the district, so that the popu- lation growth from this source alone has been double that of any normal year. At Bristol, 25 miles above Phil adelphia and beyond the confines of the previously accepted Shipbuilding zone, workers at the Merchant plant now exceed the entire population of the borough in 1910. Chester, where John B. Roach built American war ships fifty years ago, has trebled in a year it's population gain between 1900 and 1910.
 Except the great Hog Island plant, to be treated in @ later article, that of the New York shipbuilding Corpora ton at Camden, employing II, 500 men, is the largest in the Philadelphia district. When work under way is completed there will be 29 shipways, most of them able to accommodate at one time two ships of ordinary size. The yard set a. new worlds record when it launched the collier Tuckahoe in 27 days from the time the keel was laid. Ten days later the vessel was pleted a feat which has not been equalled for a ship of this type. Transportation has been a problem, with the majority of workers forced to travel long distances to and from the plant To overcome this difficulty the company is erecting the town of Yorkship 8 mile from the works, with a connecting trolley line. The xl>s &IN saloons, will be made a part of Cam den.
 Gloucester Wide Awake.
 Neighboring Gloucester is another shipbuilding center. When the glory of the old race track days faded under the ban of New Jersey legislative enactment, the town went to sleep. It has been awakened. The Pusey &s Jones Co. operates two yards. The "Pennsylvania' plant, two years old, has launched seven ships of assorted types within a year, and the newly completed New Jersey" shops have four vessels on the ways. Launchings here are made sidewise into 8 basin a process said to be much simpler than the sternforemost slide which has been practiced through centuries of shipbuilding. The company Is erecting $50 homes for it's workers near the two yards.
 Recently both the Gloucester and Wilmington yards of the Pusey & Jones company have been combined under Emergency Fleet management and 8 standard type of 12,000-ton steel vessels will be built.
 Creation in less than a year of a great fabricated steel shipyard, with one vessel launched and three others
New Britain herald., 1918-09-25
WRITES FROM FRANCE.

Frank Bass of Lawlor street has received a letter from Private John v. McGrath formerly member of the office staff at Hart & Cooley's, telling of his trip across the "big pond" McGrath is a member of the 301st Field Hospital corps of the 76th division. He states that his company is still some distance be- hind the lines and at his writing the hospital team is playing a baseball series with a team from an infantry company stationed nearby.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-25
TEACHER grrs CoNrNgrssrr,N

James F. Lucy, a member of the High school faculty, who has been at tending the officers training canan aA Pfattsburg, has been gradun4su with 8 commission and bas~requested the school board in this city to release him from his contract for the present year.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-25


 at the beautiflif clJ
 This year the tea Is the benefit of the New ties and the proceeds voted entirely to thiA in previous years no pairi6 spared to make this affair a for those in charge realize q S< essity of obtaining as large a surn possible for this most worthw catISS' It is hoped and anticipated that the attendance will be large for it is not for the members of the / woman's Club only, but for all thaf are inter- ested in the cause.
 The entertainment th1t Mrs. Her bert L. Mills chairmani of the civic department, has arrangfd is so var jed that it will suit all ages and tastes. Those who enjoy social game of cards can spend the after noon in doing so, andf if they desire to remain to supper, ithat will be served at 2 o'clock. Aater they may indulge in dancing, or merely look on.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-25
ANNlJll AT SHQQ New Britd
 Through !

The civic mans CluN it's annual tober and courtes !l Shuttle Meadd
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-08-08
E CION EDITO RIAL
Las ASPIRACONES DEFRAUDADAS

La Constitution de 81, Sc decia, es demasiado avan-
zada para el pueblo nexicano. Pues en- este avance
precisamente c~cnsstia su principal valor, puesto que
Sc adelantaba = las refcrmas que de otro modo Sc ext
girian necesariamente, y quizas por Ia violencia, dada
muestra NAL aducada "psicologia," y las lagunas de
nuestras leyes organicas. Con ell Almcdrote, Sc han
iuycrtfdo los terniRCs Y Sc proyocan las intemperan-
cias de los agitadores, dando pretextos para las asona-
das las rebeliones. Esto basta para que ell Almodro-
te nc de5a subsistir, aparte de les p%rpfundos mott
YES "sentimentaies" Y dc patriotismo ~fetctista, que
dirian los carrancistas-
Puss en- la practica, el carrancismo nc respeta nj
al Alrlodrote. Carranza nc ha ~integrado, nj siquiera el
Gab;nete. Las Secretaries no las despachan, como 10
pSeyiene ell AlH,G6rote, los respectiyos Secretaries, con
responsibilities pcliticas Y legales. Simples Oficia-
les MayOres, Jefes de Secci0n @ escribientes, sin auto
rizaci6n legal ninguna, son les que dan fuerza de ley"
4 les acuerd0s V decretcS. Nj como Dictator, fue ei
seacr General Diaz tan cmnimodo Y absolute.
Estas 0bseTracicnes, no son de nuestra exclusive
mcnte. Les mismOs carrancistas, COMO Garcia Vigil.
pr ejemplc, Sc expresan en- los siguientes terminus, en-
ell seno del CGngreso carrancista:
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-08-08
ASUNTOS E OLA
La PRENSA

Las 5Etinas elecciones-las prime
: rus, segtn ell decir Official, en- las
qme 81 pueblo soberano iba q ejerci-
tar Hbremente, deSpU6S dc medic sfgIo
de tiranio q dc abyecci6n, CT sagrado
derecho del voto-han dcjGdo SobTe
terra dc M6rico, aSanchas de Scngre
q s~ianientes dc profnndo rencor.
LO sucedido era de temerse, eI pc
ligro de los procedimiento ofieia-
les, eStG5G pGtente.
Sc pidi6 al pueblo que pusiera en-
la function electoral, todG SM passion,
TODD su 3ntcr6S, que dedicGSe toda sn
atenci6n q la tarcG dc seiecci0nar sus
candidates, y que rGrchase serene y
confiado a las urnaS e~lectorGLeS, a de-
poSitar Su UOto Ell elias. Con este, Ell
gobierMO Sc hGciG anlGble q Ia mt
chedunl6re, CON este Ell gobierno AFR
MAZDA su credit0 democrGtico, con oS-
to comprobubG q Ia gran colectiridad
nnciOnol, que hGcia etectiUG n dc
las promesus dc Ia reUohicl6m: Ii de
Ia li5re expression dc Ia voluntG poll
ticd.
A la bora de las elecci0neS, cuGndo
Sc trQtuSe de Ia designation etectivG
de los candidates.. ga cl gobierno ha-
ria 10 que a bien tuviese q ~lieUGria al
poGer u los sWyos; pero. a~mientrdS
tamto, cl puebio recjbiG Ia satisfCc-
ciGn de "hQber UOtGdo."
No coat6 et go5iermo conque ct pwe-
blo, que no eStabG ea ell Secrcto dc la
cOmediu, tomGr5G las cOSGS pOr 10 Sc
rio, pondrio su passion q su inter5S en-
Ia ccntiendG electoral, y erigiri9 Qae
unsbas fueSen re~spetudas q tomGdus
en- cuentG.
La fGrsG era psLigr0sG, q clio qaed6
dcmcstrGGo bien ProIsto. Primero,
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-08-08

rama a~ustriaca Y ST. aversion hacla
una raz- cen IL que Sc ha,lan en- COM
ol:ta o1osicion. POI 10 tanto, clos
han ent-evisto en- Ia guerra actual
" en- los fines de guerra que persi-
guen Ia Entente "a poSj5iidad de
realizar sus deSaos seculaCeS legi-
timoS: Y es por simpaha real tanto
como por racionalismo Foiitico po-
10 que han ven:do a posotros.
La empresa no ha sido facil. Co.
mo todos los pue5los somecidos a una
prolongaGa OPPRESSION, eZ.Sten en-
los tcheco-:slGracos dtfo-eEIcS nj
us. Ulos, .os que han ~conservado
irtacto el seatimieHto de su dignidad
y 81 amor a la iibertad, son los gus
Sc nan p-eStado para eagrosar las II
las de los aliados. Onos, los que
aceptan los hechos consumados por
tin;dez V por costumore, Sc han de-
jado incorpo-ar en- los e~jGrcivos enc
migos. Estes son, ademas, los ms
nos numerosos Y no sufren e. y1go
sino con c;erra im~pacieEc;a. Las sos
pechas de que son objeto, por part-
de les autoridades de Austria son Ia
mejor prreba de clio.
Viniendo a combatir bajo nuestras
ban6sras. los tcheco-esl6vacos COM
baten tambien por n fundacidn de
su futura patria. e. nuevo estado
que Sc constituira con estos diferen-
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TIBERiO.

seguramente, en- virtud de las circuns-
tancias que puedan s~obrevenir. Los
contingencies del nuevo ~eiercito sc
han tornado con los elementos &c
nuestra legion extranjera, del ejercl-
to russo, Y con los voluntarios que Sc
encontraban en- ST. pals de origen, en-
los paises de Ia Entente o que han
acudi6o de los Estados Unidos. To-
das esas buenas volunJades han sido
agrupadas debido a los cuidados del
comite tcheco-eslovaco que esta fun
cionando en- Paris Y cuya coopera-
ci6n ma sido una ~preciosa ayuda para
los gobiernos aliados Y cuyo merlto-
rio esfuerzo es de justicia que Sc de
a conocer algun dia.
P. CentamiRe dc Latour.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-08-08
ACTUALIDADES EXTRANJERAS
LA BOHEMIA INDEPENDENTS

Trad2ee.5- De! t-sEess Pc II PEENSA."
Mucho es 10 que Sc Ia hablado en-
los ultimo5 Gias de los ,hsco-es.Gva-
COS, V muy es2ecialme2te desGe que
e. P~residente de Ia EepIbl!ca france
So les savi6 u baaderas . los ha-
ta5oneS de ~c-eac!0n recieaCe cue per
tenecen a eSaS nacional:daGeS V que
van q combatir al freHte, en- las f.
las aliadaS. al lado de SIS herrnanos
de Polonia; pero. en- Eeali6ad, NADIA
Sc ha dicho que Sirva de information
acerca del origen V a~spiracioaeS de
estos pusblos que. haStI ahora, 80
existen mas que como raGaS, pero
cue no re2resentan n.ngGna eXprs-
sion ~geogr&fica.
Los ccheco-eSl6vacos son los habi-
taates De a Bohemia CUE eSta en-
castrada en- Alemani2. de "A Mora
via encaStrada e1 Austria, de n rs
lovaGuia aHexada = Hungria : de una
parte de 10 SiieSia alemaEa. For
man una ~poblacj0n de nos once MI
Homes Y m9dio de habitanteS que por
SIS costum5res, 81 carIcter Y u his
toria tienea entire si esCrechas afin.-
dades y cuyo ideal politico Sc resu-
me en- Ia Independence Y "A autono-
mia.
Los tchecoS de Ia Noravia Sc
aproximan mucho al t:co russo; los
de Ia E~siovaqUia Sc asemejan mas
bien al tipo sueco por ms que e.
ten, territorialmente, muy distantes.
Pero % que une eSpecialmente a es-
tas po-blaciones eS So odio a Ia IL
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-08-08

US elementoz, al fin dc Ia guerra,
comprehend los cuatro territories
Cue hemos enImerado mas arriba.
pero su forma no ha sjdo determi-
NADIA aun. iSera n Republica II
IN RENO? Esta question ma sido
ap,azada por los d~iferentes consoles
interaljados que IA han di5cutido.
Otro tanto ha pasado con relaci6n al
nombre que debera llevar. Hasta
ahora Sc le designa, por un acuerdo
tactic, con el nombra de Ia Bohemia
Independence; rero los ~interesados
pref!eren Ia designation de: Estado
tcheco-esl6veco. Sin embargo, este
no tiene Ell ~caracter de definitivo.
Los blasones de las cuat-o nacio-
nalidades son: para la Bohemia, ro-
jos con leon de plata coronado Y en-
campo de orc; para Ia Moravia,
azules con aguila franjeada de orc
Y roio: para Ia Silesia. dorados con
aguila negra atravesada por
media luna floreada de plata; para
Ia EslovaQuia, rojos con doble cruz
dc plata emergiendo de una corona
real de GRO y colocada sobre IN otero
de sinople de tres cimas. Estes bla-
sones aparecen en- Ia bandera que AGA
ba de series remitida a los batallones
tcheco-eslovacos.
La constitution del future Estado
ha demandado, tanto desde el purto
de vista econ6mico como desde 81 po-
litico V el militar, I'm largo Y minu-
cioso trabajo que aun no esta termi-
nado y que sufrira modificacioues,
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; con los GSesinat0S que autorIdddes
tc2pes q ~crUeleS, c0metier0m en- Ia
persona de los propGgandiStds, de los
defensoreS q slmpatizadcres dc cGndi-
datos que no contGbGn con la con-
tiGn-G Official.
4. Ia postre, Ia tragediG yucGteca
Vino q co1,tirmar la ~yraUedad del
error.
Ell partido sociali8ta, es decir, ell
pGrtido del gobjerno, triunt6 n Yu-
catGn, triunf6 en- toda Ia Inca. Los
jejeS del partido liberal yucateco,
protestaron contra clio, q de Ia pro-
tesla results en- plena saja electoral,
IN encaentro a tiros q pu5laLadas, en-
eI que hubo muert0S q beridos.
Los partjdos en- d~errota, han pedi-
do Ia nu!idGd de las eLecci0neS, y las
cEecioncs no Sc nulifica ram. Lo mis-
mo podriG hGberse hccko, para ell
bien official, sin que ell pueblo 10 pa
CARA q tan alto precio.
Las ver6enCS sc vQn, dicen los Gro
Ristus metropolitGnos al reSenar una
Gue GMtGNo jaerG OCCASION de algeria
para el bucm pueblo dc M6rico; Ia
rerbcnq dc Los angeles, la que lie
nara la UiejG iGleSiG colonial dc INC
muchedumbre ~abigarrGdG y fervorO-
sa que dGbG grucias q Dios por los be-
nejicioS dc la poS. que GpretujGbG en-
tire "los puestoS" Orlados de bande-
rolaS q gaiiGrdeteS, a ID genie mo@G
que tej{G maiIGs dc amor al Grrullo
de les cdncjones populGres que cGn-
taban y uorGbGn en- las cuerdas dc las
g~Eiturras.
HOY. m la Ver5enG dc los Angeles:
GpcnaS 81 UiG ell croniSta, tropdS de
mcndigos pringosoS que tendiaa hGcid
los p~nscnntes 81 mGno hucs0sa en- ges-
to de doiiente ~inf2iorGci6n, grupOS de
n~ujeres ~triStcs y de ni1os grGves, que
aalian dc 10 igIesia donde HARLAN pc
dido q DioS IN poqwttiLo dc piedad
para sus pobrcs ridas ~msiserabieS.
Aun de amor parccjG que sc hobioSe
qucdo, en- GqucllG jie8tG quc GMtcno
juerG la fiesta de los ~enGmorGdos.
Del aver Glegre, 10 quedcba NADIA
en- Ia rerbcnd..... como 10 QMedG
HaGa en- niuchuS otrGS parties.
Pedro RECIO.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-08-08
Ell tempo benigno ayuda al
tratamiento

No Sc equivoque, pensando que 81
catarro ha desaparecido. La primer
racha del invierno Sc 10 traera de
vuelta con TODD su cortejo de moles-
tias.
Pero este tempo es eXcelente para
que limpie del TODD su sangre de los
germenes del c~atarro, Y de que des-
tierre para siempre la molestia de
i~rrigaciones Y duchas, que nunca To-
graran ~curarlo.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-08-08
AHoRA ES BUEN TEMPO PARA
QUE Sc CURE So cATARRo.

Ell S. S. S., ell gran purificador,
extirpara los germenes del catarro
que infestan 81 salgre, haciendoios
desaparecer totalmente de su siste-
ma. Es este ell mas satisfactorio ira
tamiento para esa enfermedad, por-
que penetra hasta las raices Y cesa
la aus que la origina. Escriba hoy
por una information completa, y
nuestro consejo medico experto, lie
indicara el tratamicuto que Sc debe
seguir en- su case. Ap,cvechese de
las v~entajas que esta oportunidad le
ofrece. D~irijase a Swift Specific
Co., Dept. O. AtlaLta, Ga. (Adv.)