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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-24
COST OF LIVING
 IN AUSTRALIA UP BUT 30 PER CENT
Increase Not Felt There to the Degree in 9th
 CT Places.

Stockholm, Oct. 24-(Correspon- dence of The Associated Press)-Aus- tralia occupies the most favorable po- sition of all lands in the matter of in creased cost of living, according to a survey made by the Stockholm Com mercial Gazette. The Australian in crease was reported as 30 per cent. since the beginning of the war. The United States was recorded as in sec ond position with the increase of 60 to 70 per cent.
 Holland with an increase of 70 per cent. showed the smallest increase among European nations with Den mark next with the increase of about 80 per cent.
 Sweden, England, France, Spain and Portugal are grouped with an in crease running from 100 to 1S2 per cent. England and France occupy ing the most favorable place with 1n- creases of about 100 per cent, while Sweden had 1S2 per cent. Germany, Belgium, Norway and Hungary had increases from 15o to 200 per cent, while the cost of living in Austria. Finland and Russia had in- creased more than 800 per cent.
 In every case the figures are based on the budget of a normal family with a years expenditures of 2,000 crowns in 1914.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-24
ANNIVERSARY OF CHAUCER, GREAT
 ENGLISH POET

The first great English poet. and the Father of English Literature" was Godfrey Chaucer, who died 518 years ago tomorrow, Oct. 25, 140O. He was born in London about 1928, the son of a vintner. He won high favor at court, and went on several diplomatic missions for the kingA who, in addition to other rewards, gave the poet a pitcher of wine daily while in London. Like most of his success sors, Chaucer was unable to make living from his literary labors, and held many public offices, receiving from the authorities of the city of London a house rent free. He mar ried lady of the court, but his po- etic commentaries on matrimony lead to the belief that he did not enjoy any large measure of domestic bliss. Chaucer commenced as a translator and adapter of French poems later turned to Italian sources, and even tually wrought out an original and na- tive type of treatment, although Boc- caccio and others furnished the in suiration for much of his work. Chau- cers works necessarily had a small circulation in his day, since only a few could read, and it was not until three quarters of a century after the
 poets death that William Caxton in-
 troduced the art of printing in Eng land.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-24
LABOR LAWS SHOW
 GAINS DURING THE
 FIRST YEAR OF WAR

New York, Oct. 24.-Advances in labor conservation mark the first years war legislation, according to the annual Labor Legislation Review, issued today by the American Asso- citation for Labor Legislation.
 Congress and the twenty-two states and territories which this year held legislative sessions" says the Review, have almost unanimously insisted on upholding enforcing and extending labor laws.''
 Most significant of tho new enact ments are the vocational rehabilita- tion laws, it is asserted. The Unit ed States has undertaken to re-edu- cate crippled soldiers and sailors for their return to industrial life, while Massachusetts has gone a step fur ther and provided vocational rehabili- tation for the great army of workers crippled every year by industrial ac- cidents. Special legislative appro- priations were made by both the Unit ed States and Massachusetts to devel- op an employment service for reha- bilitated persons.
 The emergency employment service for war workers established on an extensive scale by the federal govern ment, although developed without legislative sanction, the As1ociation points out. will almost undoubtedly be made permanent by legislative en- actment in the near future,
 Further safeguards were thrown about the labor of women and chil- dren in Louisiana, Maryland, Massa- chusetts, New York, Rhode Island | Virginia and Wisconsin.
 | In the field of social insurance, Vir- | ginia became the thirty-eighth state to adopt workmen's compensation and Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachu- setts, New Jersey, New York and Por- to Rico liberalized their compensation acts. Four states now base compen- sation for injuries on 55 per cent. ot wages, four on 60 per cent. three or
 65 per cent. and six on 662-3 per cent In eight states official commissions have been making surveys of sick ness conditions among wage earners with a view to health insurance legis- | latiOn,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-24
GIFTS OF LAND
 TO STATE FOR A REFUGE FOR BIRDS

The State Park Commission has re- gently received for the state two val uable gifts of land for park purposes, lying near the eastern and western boundaries of the state.
 The first gift from Miss Sarah B. Fay, of Woods Hole, Mass, a for mer resident of Pomfret, lies in the town of Pomfret and Is composed of two tracts. One about eleven acres on the easterly side of Mashamo- quet brook, including a beautiful and irregular gorge, with a fine stand of old native hemlock. and smaller tract of three acres fronting on the turnpike. To this gift the commits sion has added by purchase some 24 acres of adjoining land including a plantation of young pine and frontage on both the turnpike and Mashamo- quet brook.
 The second gift, from the White Memorial Foundation of Litchfield, | comprises a single trace of 1000 acres in the northwestern part of the town of Kent. It includes about 3 miles in Macedonia brook, with nu- merous tributary mountain streams and two mountains over 1, 400 feet above sea level, with the slopes ot several lesser heights. Cobble noun
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-24
PROHIBITION IS
 PRUSSIAN MEASURE
(Hartford Courant.)

Prohibition by constitutional amendment is a Prussian measure" said Colonel Norris G. Osborn, editor of the New Haven "Journal-Courier" to the members of the Get-Together Club recently in the course of a de- bate upon the propriety of the propo- sed prohibitory amendment. the affir- mative of which was upheld by State Senator Howard Davies of Portland, Me. Colonel Osborn declared that democracy is threatened in the pro- posed amendment, and that the pres ent opportunistic tendency of some parts of the United States threatens to destroy the fabric and foundation of the republican form of government.
 Tt isn't the business of the con- stitution to legislate righteousness and virtue into the people" said Col onel Osborn. If we allow the peo- pie to remain free to work out their own moral problems in their own way, they will, in good time, become righteous and virtuous. I am in sym pathy with those who hate the liquor traffic. Nobody hates the Saloon more than I do. But 1t isn't the way to solve this problem by putting spe- cial legislation into the constitution where it can't be removed if we find that it doesn't work"
 Colonel Osborn said that he agrees with the Bishop of York, who said, "I would rather have England free than England sober" because sobriety or any special, temporary question can never be so important as the perma- nent security of the constitutional provision that all questions not speci- ftcally delegated to the states or the 1 federal government should be left to the states or the people in the states l The amendments to the constitution which forced the South to grant uni versal suffrage to the negroes, have | been unsuccessful. Colonel Osborn said because the people of the South were not willing partners to them and have never put their provisions into practical effect. 'Lincolns way was the right way" he said, but the peo- pie were carried away by passion and partisanship and they would not hear him. No motive, however noble and Humanitarian, justifies a man shak- ing the structures of this republic. ] hope that when the legislature meets this winter, it will spew this mon.
 strous doctrine out of its mouth"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-24
BRITISH ACES
 NOT ADVERTISED

London, Oct. 24-British Air Force authorities do not allow publication of stories of exploits of the most suc- cessful British aviators using the names as in France and Germany be- cause 1t is considered unfair to men who are doing fine work but who have not had opportunities for winning many air victories. Also they say the loss of famous aviator creates a bad impression if the people at home have been led to believe that he is al- most a superman.
 This view also Is taken by many British flying officers. One of them recently wrote: "I go into the air perfectly equipped to bring down Hun machines. A pilot on artillery observation or photography work goes up to do a highly necessary job. and perhaps has to spend several hours over it and in any case has other work to do and cannot go strafng however much he might like it. Why should I be advertised and glorif1ed any more than he is? We both are trying to do our job and no body can do more"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-24
HOW A SUBMARINE
IS CONTROLLED.

Describing a boys adventure in a submarine in Boys Life for October, Ralph Henry Barbour writes. They paused and looked through the door, There were nine persons there, the captain and first officer and seven men. It was quite a spacious cham Der, as it needed to be in order tr ac- commodate all those necessary to nav igate the boat under water. A lad der led upward to the coming tower above and a bench ran along one side, but for the rest the furnishings of the central station were all mechanical. Dials, valves, gyroscope compass. manifolds, steering and diving wheels, depth gauges, levers, clinometer for determining the boats inclination, graph, navigating lights, voice pipes and other things were indicated by Martin. Here was the brain of the craft Every activity was controlled from this white-walled, light-f1ooded chamber, and from it wires and pipes led forward and aft like nerves. Two gunner's mates were at the big brass wheels controlling the diving rudders, while in front of them gauge indi- cated the boats depth. Their duty, explained Martin, was to keep the submarine on an even keel and at the depth ordered by the navigating of fcer by means of the forward and aft
 diving rudders. Near them a me
 chanic presided over the air and
 water manifolds of the ballast and
 trimming tanks. A fourth man was in charge of the Kingston valves which flood the main ballast tanks | during submergence. A steersman
 was at the wheel to the left of the l forward door and two electricians stood by the No. periscope ready for duty.
 Passing through the forward bat tery compartment. Nelson found him. self in the wireless room, a small compartment at present holding one
 man, who, with a telephone receiver
 strapped to his head, was listening at the Fessenden Oscillator, or sub | marine signal apparatus. The com | partment was a maze of wires, me ters, switches, coils and other cleo | trical contrivances. Beyond the wire less room were small staterooms oc- l cupied by the officers. They were tiny, bare, white-walled cells contain | ing little more than a bunk, a chest l of drawers, a small writing desk and l a Ravatory each.
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-24
AERO EXPRESSES
 TO RUN BETWEEN LONDON AND CAIRO
Trips to Be Made at Night and Passengers May Sleep During Aerial Voyage As If at Sea.

London, Oct. 24.-(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)-Danger of flying at night will not interrupt the aerial express service already being planned here for flights between Lon don and Cairo or Calcutta, say avia- .+ion experts. The great machines de- signed for this work will fly by com pass throughout the night, with pow erful lamps lighted on their wings and the instruments in front of the pi- lot brilliantly illuminated. Lights will be turned on in the cabins and the members of the crew who are off du- ty will turn in and sleep, as they do on steamships.
 If the weather has been bad du- ring the daytime and 1t clears up at dusk, the delayed machines will leave at once in order that their car goes and passengers may be deliver ed on time at their destination. It | is believed that business men travel ling from London to Petrograd or Rome, will prefer to journey at night so that they may sleep during the voyage and waste no time. The wind, which Is an important factor in aviation, Is nearly always less strong at night.
 | Each airpIane will carry powerful navigation lights, visible twenty o1 thirty miles off, and also luminous number. There will be frequent land. ing places along the way, so that whatever it's need, a machine will al l ways be able to land.
 Each landing ground will be bril- liantly lighted and near it illuminat ed wind-arrows will automatically in dicate the direction of the wind, { knowledge of which is essential to the pilot of a machine about to land. Al machines landing will display a brigh light of particular color, in order to warn pilots of other machines O it's intentions.
 Aerial lighthouses probably will b. used in the same way as coastal-light houses They will consist presumab ly of vertical search-lights, flashing on and off, twin searchlights, color ed searchlights, or bright flashing lights on the ground. Machines vii be able to land either at sea or on tn ground, and will carry large flares t light up the ground below in case o a forced landing.
 All that war conditions have taugh the allied airmen will be of immens value in organizing night flying af ter the war.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-24
RURAL MINISTERS
 TEACH FARMERS TO BE CONTENT

New York, Oct. 24.-Te help make farming profitable and rural life en- durable for the farmer, his wife, his sons and daughters, the Methodist Episcopal Church has undertaken to spend S5,500,O00 in training rural ministers to teach scientific farming and develop social activity in coun- try districts. The purpose as an nounced by the Board of Home Mis- eions and Church Extension is to keep the farmers on the farm and thus help to win the war.
 Dissatisfaction with country life, it is declared, has caused a decrease of rural population in Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Vermont and New Hampshire. The boys and girls will not stay on the farm when high wa grs are to be earned nearer the nov ing picture theatres.
 To combat this, the Methodist church, is planning to send many of it's best men to the country churches, of which 1t has upward of 12,o00, Rural pastors are to have special training in agriculture so as to help farmers with advice. Demonstration farms are to be established where az ricultural colleges do not meet the needs.
 Associations of rural ministers tc put these plans into effect already have been started in Ohio, West Vir' ginia, Iowa, South Dakota, Pennsyl vania and Nebraska. Chairs of Ru rol Sociology to teach how to be hap py though living on farm have been established in theological sem inaries and plans are making to star similar courses in colleges.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-24
China's New President
 A Great Statesman

Peking, Oct. 24.-Hsu Shih-chang Chinas new president is a man to whom most Chinese can look up as an experienced statesman of the Man chu days. Moreover. he has great literary achievements which his coun- trymen admire, and is a peacemak- CT to such an extent that even the trump Parliament functioning at Can ton may also elect him President He has the added qualifications of not being a military man.
 It is not expected. however, that he will hold office for any great length of time. certainly not for the full pe- riod of five years, and the Pres ident will then automatically become President.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-24
ToDAY's ANNIVERSARY.

The Thirty Years War" the frs great war for religious toleration ir Germany, was ended 270 years ago today, Oct. 24. 164S, by the treaty of Westphalia. The destruction of life and property in this war was unpre- cedented, being outdone only by the ruin wrought in the present conflict, and 1t took Germany two hundred years to recover from its effects. Law and order had almost ceased to exist, bands of hungry people roamed the country, children grew up to be men and women, without knowing that there was such a thing as peace.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-24

The dear girl who appeals so pite- ously for sympathy for her racking cough, is often the same one who puts on an extra low cut waist when cold weather comes.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-24
America Held As
 Model For Russia

Archangel Oct. 24-America is held up as a model for regenerated Russia by the Sternoie Utro, an Archangle newspaper, in urging Russians to re- store their country to its former place in the world.
 'rrhe ideals of America and Russia are alike" asserts the paper. Both countries strive for permanent, dem ocratic peace, and equally hate the German imperialism. We hope that our friendly feelings toward America will allow us to grow more and more acquainted with her life and culture and that, taking her as a model, Rus sia will occupy her former rank"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-24
OIL PATCHES
 NOW CLARIFIED

London, Oct. 24.-Even oil patches on the sea are charted these days. A sunken submarine may emit oil for weeks. To guard against navy ae- rial patrols wasting bombs on sub mersib1es already finished, a record of such cases Is kept and shown on maps kept up-to-date.
 Aviators patrolling the same section of water for days become accustomed to these permanent" patches and waste no time on them. A man over new water however, must frequently consult his map.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-24

Times waRt .ads. One Cent a Word. l
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-25
Mothers! Don't Give Children
NauSeous Medicine for Colds

with each breath. 10 tho aIr passages
and lungs. In addition, the prepare
tion In absorbed through and stimu.
lates the skin, taking out that tight
ness and soreness In tho chest.
To-day this treatment, known aa
Vick's NapoRub In universally used
throughout the south in preference TO
Internal dosing. by arrangement with
the manufacturers the local druggists
me Offering 25c jars on 30 days trial,
the purchase price 10 be refunded II
you are not delighted with the results.
You have to try VapoRub 10 realize
lts remarkable effect not only for deep
chest colds sore throat, bronchitis or
lnclpient pneumonia, but for head
colds, asthmatlc or catarrhal troubles.
Group IA usually relieved within M.
teen minutes and an application at
bedtime prevents night attack.
VapoRub II particularly recon.
mended 10 mothers with small chill
dfon as II In externally applied and
can therefore be used freely and often
with perfect safety or tho smallest
wombCS OF the family, (AdD
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-25
NE
RIGHT away"
Kentucky Lady Says Two Bottles Of
Cardui Surprised Her by Acting
So Quickly.

Relief, Ky-Mrs Sarah NJ. Hill of
this place writes 81 can't praise Car
dui too much, for it is a wonderful
medicine for women.
Eight years ago ] bcgan to feel not
quite so well a, usual. ... was not
able to do anything It seemed like was
dwindllng away and kept getting nlbre
puny every day. was weak and pale
and could not stand on my feet long.
| had no doctor but knew by my feel
ngs that ] had womany weakness
After | decided to try Cardui. |
bought ono bottle II seemed as If the
very first few doses began to help me
| was surprised that anything could
begin to act so quickly. But it helped
me right away | know IT did because |
began immediately to get strong
After | finished that first bottle, !
bought another When had finished
that second bottle, was all right I
did not need third bottle kept right
on getting stronger until was as
strong as ever and | have kept so.
Now am as well and as strong and as
able 10 do my work as ! ever was in
my lie"
Try Cardu today ADV,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-25
Local Druggists Are Offering an
Outside" Treatment on
A 80 Days Trial

chlldrens stomsohs Are Delicate
Easily Upset by Constant internal
Dosing, The Best Way To Prevent
Colds Ia To Allow the Children Reg
ulsr Out Door ESerelso-keep Plen-
" Of Fresh AIR In tho Bedroom al
Night, and, at the First Sign Of
Trouble, Apply the Southern Ex.
ternal Vapor Treatment
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-25

Fifteen years ago a North Carolina
Druggist discovered n process Of com.
blnlng the old ldiashlonod remedies.
Camphor, Tupentino and Menthol.
with certain volatile oils. IN salve
form, 40 that when applied over the
throat and chest the body heat would
release these ingredients In the form
OF vapors These vapors, brcnthed IN
all night long, carry The medication,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-25
ENVER & RIO GRANDE
WILL HAVE RECEIVER

DENVER, Col Ian 25 Judge Wal.
'r IT, Sanboru sitting in the United
tates district court here today, an
ounccd he would appoint receiver
,r fe Denver & Rio Grandc railroad
reylously the court had granted per
liSson 10 the Equitable Trust com
,ny Of New York to intervene IN the
rcciycr,hp SUIT brought hy the Elliot
rog and Switch company against the
BAD.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-25

In the window OF the Times Journal
Publishing company there Is card
board with a Red Cross in die center
OF IT, This Red Cross is entirely sur
rounded by names of women who want
their name, tu be sewn IN red thread on
squares 10 bc made into a counterpanc
There is fee OF 10 cents charged for
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-25
\XI ON oNFN's
w DIRK
RED CROSS PHONES.

Mrs. L, c. HoIzapfel, extension
secretary Empire building; Maple
Mrs. Claude o. Mccartney, civilian
reIet secretary Empire buildings
Central workroom In Scott .Harl.
burton store, Walnut 8s2.
Elks' hall workoom, Maple 966.
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Camp Fire Girls, who have taken up
home demonstration work under the
instruction Of Mamie Walker. home
demonstration agent. will meet 10 the
home OF Mrs. H. +. Stone. 8l5 East
Eighth street, tomorrow afternoon at
; As Miss Walker will address the
girls and will cndcayor to find out inSt
what the girls want to do most 10 hep
win the war For those girls who can
not get ground for a garden. an ef-
tort will be made BY Miss Walker 10
secute a vacant lot where several girls
can work together in producing fruit
and vegetables
Mrs Maggie Barry will give an ad.
dress on Women and War Work. in
the uu rl,rc ,G ia, | 49,. Hi e.. It ..
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supply dcpar,mcn, ~ ,cn,r,f N" 'I5,I p.I