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The Carlisle independent., 1918-10-03

soon as We got in range the enemy batteries opened up on us and the shell fire was heavier than any we had been in before, though not more effective. We drew in on a bright morning, about half past five or six, with our convoy, the troOpship Cham pagne, ahead of us and going slowly, sounding all the way.
 At this part ef the shore there Is dock about mile and a half long, running back into the country and terminating in road. The Cham pagne was making for this dock, sounding as she went. Suddenly, when she was within 50O yards of the shore, I saw her swing around and steer in a crazy fashion. We began asking each other what was the matter with her. but we learned afterwards that her rudder had been torn off, though we never found out how, nor do 1 think anyone ever knew.
 Then she went aground, with her stern toward the shore and listed over to port. You could see different arti-
  Then her back broke. The quarter deck was crowded with men half dressed, with life belts on, jumping over the side or climbing down. There was an explosion and cloud of black smoke broke over ns, and for a while I thought I was blinded.
 All the time the shells were raining in on us and on the Champagne. When I could see again I saw the men on the Champagne climbing down the starboard or shore side. One chap was going down hand over hand along a stanchion, when another fellow above him let go and slid right down on him. The first man fell about thirty feet, landing in the water with his neck doubled under him. Our lifeboats and launches were out picking up sur vivors.
 Those who got safely over the side started to swim ashore. but when they had gone only little way they found they could wade in. When the water was only up to their waists they came upon barbed wire entanglements and not man got ashore that way but was scratched and clawed and man. gled horribly. Some of them that l saw afterwards were just shredded along the sides of their bodies like coconuts. 4 great many of them, though, were killed by shrapnel while they were in the water.
 On board the Cassard our guns had been busy all the time, and 1t was not long before we put one enemy bat tery out of commission. We had sui fered bit, too, but not enough to worry us. There were about 3,ooo men on the Champagne, l think, and at least third were killed or drowned. and the casualties must have been almost two-thirds. The ship was just a mass of wreckage.
 They called for landing party from the Cassard. and officers asked for volunteers for trench duty. I was not very keen about going, because I had been in trenches at Dixmude, and l knew how pleasant they were-not, but I volunteered, and so did Murray. We went ashore in our boats under q heavy fire. There were 12 men killed in the lifeboat in which I was. l es- caped without a scratch.
 We were mustered up on shore and volunteers were called for, for sentry duty. Murray volunteered. If he had only gone on with the rest of us he might have come through. After a short wait we were given the order to advance. The firing became heavier about this time, so we went at the
The Carlisle independent., 1918-10-03

Boches are trsing to murder US, to help wake every oue up to the fact that America must real ize what the world is facing over here. Can't you see it, how ev- erything is hanging in the bal ance. and 1 know that the weight which shall cast it down is when your bathing for the Boche will 50 burn in you as to make you count nothing. consider nothing
 but his extermination."
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 ITO Be Continued]
A Preacher Who Would Exterminate
 The Huns

The following letter by Rev. Geo. A. Griffith, an Episcopal clergyman of Baltimore, now serving as chaplain of the Fifth Field Artillery. the regiment that fired the first American shot in the war. was published in the Manufacturers Record, and Is reproduced in the Independ- ent by request:
 T feel that 1 express the sen.
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and heard over here when 1 say
 that were 1 in America today. priest as 1 am. I should do ny
 best to have put to death any
 Boche in America or any so-call- ed American who would apolo. gize in any way for what the Boche has done.
 Ali that you have heard in America about them does not approximate the truth. There are little children right here in France with their little stumps of hands: there were some not far from my last camp, and young men with all the fingers of their right hand cut of. The other day a British officer and three Tom mics told me that a short time ago they went as an advance party into a little village from which the 9oche had been driven back, and .in large room there were four young Canadians crucified, one on each wall of the
 room. Also, when I was with the British they told me the Bo- ches had taken young Belgian and French girls into their first line trenches and tortured them until their screams made the Scotch and the Canadians so crazed they would go over into the machine gun nests which the Boche had set up, using the women's screams as decoy.
 And I have it on the word of a British officer that they have stood (the officers) with guns lev. eled at their men to keep them from going over when the wom- en screamed, and being needless. ly slaughtered I can not tell you
 what the Tommies told me they found when they drove them hell fiends out of these positions; it Is too awful to even think about. I also have it on the word of one of the greatest French ab- bes that the Boche were spec ially instructed to destroy con- vents and kill or outrage the nuns; and .he says that all thru France and Belgium are ruined convents and that the nuns were given to the soldiers to be out
 ragged in the camps.
 ''These are not isolated cases nor abnormal conditions which prevail here and there, where troops were drunk or without re
 straint. Go along the French or
 British front, and the only con. clusion you arrive at is that they are just the ground principle of Boche efficiency in action. 1
 don't believe there is one of us here who wouldn't like to be home. But there is not one of us here, I believe, who does not
 want to see Bocheland devastated from one end to the other, with Berlin a blackened ruin, with the Boche exterminated, militar- ists and all before we come home. Ut is American blood that is flowing now, and God grant it may give America some strength to realize what we are up against. To talk of terms until the Roche is exterminated is to league with Satan for corner in hell. Priva- tions, sacrifices. What can you do at home to compare with what these men of ours are doing over heres Meatless days, wheatless days, sugarless days, good wom- en knitting, benefits for the Red Cross-or all your social diver sions with a charitable object Sandwiched in.
 When you are out on she'll swept hill and the shells are go ing by like bats out of hell, as the soldiers say, land it's as dark as the grave. and every man. God bless him, stands strong and n Ill l.-
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A Pal crueided.

When We got 10 ''N'' Beach on my next trip the weather was really fine. but 1t did not please us much, for as
The Carlisle independent., 1918-10-03

You never say that when you havea telephone in your home-i, isn't ne- cessary.
 A telephone knows no weather--n hour--no hardship. Rain or snow-day or nieht-ips al- ways ready 10 take your voice where you would otherwise have 70 go your. self.
 Think of that convenience l-and the cost is SO small-it is surprising. A postal brings complete information.
 Send 1t todayl Carlisle Telephone Co.
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Albert fN.DepeW2
CHAPTER XII.

' Trs Wah
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-16
RICH HOSTS SCRAP =.
OVER PRETTY WAffS

MANCHESTER. Conn.--To preyeus
well-to-do families quarreling over.
their guests a bevy OF 100 New York
waits sent here. for an outing Of two
weeks with private families who have
volunteered to keep them, we're each
tagged with the names Of their hosts
before leaving New York II was ere
planned that most mothers who agreed
to take children were anxious to get
blue eyed flaxen haired children, pref.a
erably with curls. As all could not bs
pretty ones, the children we're distrib-.
uted among the applicants before aar'-
ing.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-16
REAL ESTATE TC TRADE
BY De Beck

SO 900 GENERAL MERCHANDISE ttock
10 trade fnr Oklahoma city improved
property AK MI Pope Maple 1850
Walnut go i3-lt Majestic Bldg
900 AND ] trades. houses vacant lots
merchandise ttockss autos, booming
house. etc. Ask Mr.. Pope Maple 1850,
Walnut @2o. 'Al3-A Majestic Bldg.
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wANTED-BIDs AND PROPOSALS
NOTICE oE LETTINg CONTRACT

NOTICE OF LETTING CONTRACT
FOR STREET IMPROVEMENT.
Bids will be received up TO 3 O'Clock
p. u OF August 10. 1918, for the I'm
provemcnt OF approximately eight blocks
OF streets In the town OF Rolf Okla
homA. The streets are 20 be ruitered
and chrbcd with concrete, and are to
be graded and surfaced with a four-Inch
layer OF clnders. surmounted With 4
iour-ineh layer Of chat, sufficiently oiled
TO we'll pack. The work Ia 20 be done
az provided In ordinance No. rs Of said
town.
Parties interested may write for further
particulars 10
J. r. CRAIG. Town Clerk.
Rolf, Okla.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-16
HORSE MEAT USED
in PLACE OF BEEF
IN WESTERN TOWN
Seattle Is introduced 10 New
Wartime Meat.

SEATTLE, Wa,h-lts only a
change IN stallsl
Yet what II means Tor the housekeep-
er; IN a change in the family dlctary I:
IN another drive at the bogey Of meat
less weckS-when the horse today
moved out Of his box stall into stall
No. IS az the Westlakc market! For
II was here that Seattle today bought
IT'S first horse meat.
That's not the only Stall" in this
changing diet which the Range Horse
Meat company is trying to put over in
this city-a change, or supplementary
help, for beef, mutton laUb, pork and
veal There is going to be lot Of
"stalling' before the horse meat cuts
reach their ultimate oblectiye-the din
ner table.
User Recommends 1t.
"Why should Seattle hold itself aloof
look askance at and wait for some more
daring souls to take the long leap?'
said one patron OF the horse meat mar
ket as his purchase was being don,
into portable package shape this af
ternoon. I've used horse meat 70
considerably more than a year;
learned how good it was when | live,
in Portland, where they've been seilinI
IT for a long time"
"And why not, surely" added an
other patron standin. by. THE only
thing that might probably contend
against the success OF the horse meat
market is the fact that somebody else
thought OF II first Seattle was a pio-
neer in placing dog fish on the table :
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-16
LEGALs
Dividend Notice

Notice is hereby given by the Pro-
ducers Lead and Zinc company that the
monthly dividend for August will be s aid
September 10th 10 al stockholders Of
record August al, 1918.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-16
FARMER & RODEN

hIhUI dU1E- 90 Leo HIUE-
MY 10 ~ MUST he sgd by Monday
wv NYU An ideal n acre bottom
farm equipped mles
from the city OF state road. every foot
bottom and as fnh alfalfa hand M there
n In state. Produces crops every year.
Oaluuce In pasture. \ new two-roomed
bungalow nearly completed: now barn
Just started. Prlrr $1,000 and worth tho
money but In order to sell By Monday,
owner T. offering all the crops amount
ing TO about 81 SEQ, two teams aud mar
ness. good wagon. fine COW. new cult
vators, MI the household goods and new
1918 Mitchell auto. he must 20 and ls
going TO sell 20 someone by Monday
n you have been looking for scoop
here II ls
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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
OR TRADE

100 IMPROVED farm: $4,000; two mile
railroad town; two roads; went little
cash: balance any old trade. what have
you, Don't 0c afraid to speak out
HsE 2lj Lee Bldg.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-16

Does Uncle Sam still hold the noe
you signed on June 2s II 90. buy ycuf
war savings stamps and cancel the no(6SI
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-16

Remember that silver bullets are es-
sential 10 the winning Of the war. Buy
war savings stamps. n.
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:@QSEsS%

Telephone I'BX.I -. North Harvey.
FOR SALE l1y-acro river bottom fnfiU.
miles from Tnhlcqunh. Cherokee
county, okla. n you want u real bottom
farm, here IL H.; about l3i acres in Cul-
tlvatlon. house, wells, spring price SEQ
an acre terms. }. T. Cunningham, Tah-
lequah. Okla
100 ACRES near San Antonio TcErs. to
trade for Oklnhsma CITY property or
soil ~ harRaln Pierre aal Lee huIdlnK
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-16
CITY REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

most choice iOrutlou. on Harrison Ave
ptlco only 81 300 Bob Parman, 65
American NntIUuiI HldF
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Bargain Sale.

FrVe-room modern home AZ 1909 W.
nth. Just west OF Classen; old paving
fun lots. newly papered and In good con-
dlton; garage and chicken yard: only
5000 cash. balance 10 suit This Is the
best bargain offered in many dsy.
Owner. Maple s29 Key,Nt 1909 W. 27th
NONRESIDENT here 10 settle an estate
6-room cottage West 10Th, 4 vacant
lots. 2sth street; best offer takes Wal
nut 693i
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-16

- y-STORY brick on Main IT..
W. a0rliO; now rented Tor i2Ol
monthly. owned by uon-rcsl-
icut who IL here fJr the purpose of sell
ing within next Is hours Bud win mako
price that VIII show better than Is per
cent on Investment. good terms FYr fur
Their information rec
jay ! Dwy,r.
Red Estate Dept.
II T. STUART ~ 60
20 W Main Maple 7G
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-16

Buys first class iO.Rcre tract. M I'm
cultivation about / ~ miles south ana
east Of State Fair building. IrF dirt
cheap. Oue-half cash balance on easy
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-16
CITY REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.


INNl'1 now broom bungalow with
rliu rLg lui. 'lu.r t0 Cl1sa.n Hyd
~ bnili-ln f'niufca, haH u,E floors only
50 .25O good terms Phone MRple 1885 !
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-16
. Farm Bargain

ESQ acres. ls miles from city; 100 acres
best bottom land 20 acres IN alfalfa. $50
acres good grass; special bargain at
$500: will, take small residence in
trade. Ask for Eylar,
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Get on the Phone

FINE HOME with store building. close
IA on Walker, two full lots; f2,5oO; easy
terms
SACRIFIcE--A fins s-room. two-story
Oklahoma bungalow. near 10th and Doug
lass; eaSt front; $3.50: $500 cash; easy
terms
SEE THIS--A fine home on corner lots
with good store building In fine neigh
borhood. northwest, Just OFF Clsssen. for
s.. $50: $500 cash.
OWN THIS-Nice 5-room home on five
lots, south front. nice fruit one block
OF car line. $500: $500 cash good terms
NORTHWEST BARGAIN Groom
home. fine condition. two full lotA with
paving paid out, on W 9Th St; S2.s0O;
good terms
SNAP-Nice home. t~o full lots. fine
fruit: close in. three blocks OF Main St;
81 500 5000 cash. balance $50 per month.
VIII sell other and 6-room houses
for 5000 down and 500 per month.
OKLAHOMA TRUST COMPANY.
r W Morgan. c. G. Clark
Dell Miller Albert + Upsher.
g r., Trosper
r0E 4 Inanvopra n1dg Mail.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-16

FOR SALE ~ owNER-siI large
room bungalow good basement and
garnEe. one block from Claasen car line,
r~o blocks from Jefferson school, lot
5NNl1o can Maple 1891
FOR SAIE-Ecw furnished Groom
house, fine place for garden. COW and
chickens. s. 900. Small payment down.
balance payments. SIS month ga West
IOllAMA . tOmle- = OMner. llls Wort Ninth
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-16
CITY REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.

FOR SALE by owner beautiful 6-room
bungalow. 3 rooms IN hardwood; large
bult-tn buffet and china closet. book 10
case and breakfast room; fine location.
Call Staple 1901.
HAVE n good Groom bargain on East
SIN street; good terms and price. will
be in my office from 80 a. IN. until t:30
d. IN Sunday
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-16

FOR fALE-LoA n md -. block /.
Ornd1lc addition. Oklahoma CITY. In
cumbrnnce 81 200, nt G percent; viii ne.
ccpl best cnsh offer received, rents Tor
80 Write or wire Ira white. Macon.
Aiu
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-16

COLOkED PEOPLE - STOP PAYING
HleNT We can sell you a nice. large
i-rocm hOuse. within two blocks OF car
line and sc1ool FOR only $50 cash and
so per month. Ask about this
CLARENCE T. fRrSPER & COMPANY
50S-lo Insurance Bldg Maple "a
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-16
EMPIRE BROKERAGE
COMPANY, INC.
D 6 N. ROBfNSO,
Maple 30SS.

ANY county map OF Oklahoma, 25c
Adams Engineering Co, Oklahoma CITY
20G n Robinson Ave
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Near Stiles Park.

A Broom, two-story frame house in
good repair; dandy location and promo
sltlon for one who desires TO rent out
rooms. Second floor now rents for $40
Garage and servant room WIN sell this
week at $3.50.
r. j. CONWAY
Walnut t7s Maple 2sIo-J
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5000. TERMS buys a-roOm, modern
bungalow. iJth ana ClaWen. Maple
i02G-E
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500 Cash VIII Handle

This beautiful 5-room bungalow well
located nenr school and clr line: com
plet" with latest built-in features: hard
wood foors and sleeping porch with south
cNpOFure Price s.. 400
LEWIS l. .HENsLF,Y
Walnut 4TG VE.f,ft, t--r
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-16

CHOICE Groom bungalow. basement.
carrEe md driveway, located In choice
district. near car line. can be seen by
calling phone Maple 1891
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BOB PARMAN OFFERS

buO Assurance OH nnd kctinlng-, %
Some Gladstone o. and II. at lowest
price.
500 United on and Refining ...... .25
900 Lucky Ir.sc on ............. %
100 lvanhoe Petroleum Zone block 500
1858 McChnn-Rasch OIL ........... go
200 Big Western OH and Gas .... Is
500 BLACK Panther on ........... 666
Some North American O. and Il. 500
20 Cr"scent Refining ......,...,.. $500
32i Oklamnde OH and Gas ...... 100
100 White Panther on ........... Ab
800 Carnegie milling and Mining 20
200 Constitutional Lead and Zinc 90
800 Interstate Tropic Ice Machine 20
900 TropIc Ice Machine toriginnO 70
Equity In I fine lots on Fast 10Th
street to trade for some good oil stocks.
WIN buy National on or Sammics OIL
stocks
ans American Natl bldg, Walnut 1895
We offer the following stocks for sale:
400 Assurance oil & Ref. .....,..t 80
1000 Glenrose on ..,............... 30
i.2oO Magnolia Lead & Zinc, cheap
1000 American Industrial .,.,....,.. rs
200 Oklamade OIL & Ref .......... 90
100 United on & Ref ..,.,r....,. %
800 Kool Koln Observation-Disclosures. i.15
Some Gladstone At reasonable
price
2no Onadrangle ..,.'..'.'...''''.. $40
200 Zig Diamond ................, 90
100 Big Western on & Gas. will
trade
Wanted TO buy the following:
200 oklahoma on & Ref .........t 10.
5000 Sammles oil Corporation ...... 10
/ 600 Lucky Lease ................ .i5
offered for sale or show that they have
been sold prior 10 demand
WILLIAMSON -HARWELL co.
s2t Lee Bldg Phone Maple l1ns
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-16
OIL LEASE

OlL LEASE
Two oil leasel one 70 and one sO-acre
lease In Wise county. Texas; count un-
der test; have gnsI good stuff; nhist
sell for ~ per acre; also 200 shares
Midas OIL stock, SOC per share. Address
40 N. Randletl 81, Hobart Okla.
FOR HALE--Yery attractive oil leases
and production. John Deer Nsodesha.
lsan.
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NyV1glNNMNGI g SgJs
Texas

See Hartell. Farm Dept.
Walnut e7 2Oa4 W. Main 81
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$50 ACRES toward Norman: 200 acres
meadow and pasture; 100 acres Guilt
Nailoh: ~ acres plowed for wheat; 2 sets
improvements; near school; $50 per acre
Possession now. Brand Moore, Okla
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10 ACRES, S-roOm house. barn smoke
house. chicken house, vineyard binck.
berries. dewberrlcsi Joining town To-
eunsrh Tor gale; bargain Box a.,
TecumHeh, Okla.
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FARM AND ACRE TRACTS
Oklahoma.

WANT TO rent farm on halves or all,
VIII pick cotton this fan, write at
once for particulars; can give good
reference; married. I'm family. c.
Barto, 100 W, Jrd st. Oklahoma CITY
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See IIarrell, Farmt Dept,
WORKMAN u COMPANY,
Walnut y 2O94 w. Main Stree
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-29

attention TO the raising OF foodstufls, Ia
peace times they depend great deal on
the United States; in war times they
must depend a great deal more on us to
supply them with food Indeed, il is i'm.
perative that the United States supply
all of them with large percentage OF
food products. This the United States
can do ii the people lend the much needed
cooperation, That cooperation means
that we shall have TO cut down our own
rations OH certain foods and to build up
a surplus in exportable foods, That is
the purpose back of the new food regnla-
tions, We must follow those regulations
il we and our allies are to win the war,
and we have pretty good assurance that
our allies need this help very much. II
is not an idle call upon the United States.
II is an imperative demand. So let the
of every household study the
regulations carefully and map out their
own weekly routine OF meals according
to the restrictions laid down. We, one
and all, will find out that the knowledge
of making a slight sacrifice in this way
will bring a certain satisfaction as re-
CARDS work we'll done. Save the ex-
portable foods.
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COOPERATION IN FOOD SAVING
CALLED FOR.

The revised food regulations adopted
by the United States government for the
guidance of the people of this country
will fail Of their full purpose unless every
household in the United States adopts
the regulations and adheres to them
through thick and thin. II is to be hoped,
therefore. that the people will feel the
responsibility that is resting upon them
personally to win the war. Our own sol
diers. the soldiers of our faithful allies
and the peoples Of those allied countries
look to the United States to supply them
with a large part Of the foodstufs which
viii keep them going against Germany,
because their strength j. 50 much drained
BY the demands Of service in the var
that they are unable to pay sufficient
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-29

Those who attend the public meeting
in Montpelier city hall on Friday evening
of this week will be assured of hearing
some very interesting talks, for two of
the speakers will be DR. Taleott VIII
lisms, head of the Columbia School of
Journalism, and Hon. George Adam, who
is minister OF munitions in the British
government. Both the men have recently
spoken in Vermont and they were very
well received. Although the addresses
ar in connection with the Winooski Val
lev Teachers association, the meeting
will be open TO the public