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New Britain herald., 1918-03-07

Are they volunteers any more EEaaa the man in the National Army? I should say not, for there are com parativeay few of these volunteers" to whom one can point and, without a, single reflection on his honor or pa triotism, say he would have volun- teered even if the draft had not come To my mind, these men were not volunteers in the true sense of the word. They hurried into the ser vice for fear of the draft. They saw the draft coming. They saw the writ ing on the wall. Then they looked around and picked out what looked the best to them, or that service they were most interested m. Take the naval reserve men. I contend that they are all brave, loyal young mon; but who can deny that when the vast majority of them enlisted last spring and summer they chose that branch because they thought they would be kept on this side of the Atlantic, pa trolling our coast in submarine cflas- CTS? Who, also. can but question the motive of some of the men of draft age who f1ocked to the ordinance de- peartment? One can but suspect that they thought this @ safer branch than the n1aCn10S gun DdUa1fOnS. " men brings us down to the National Army Men who have waited for the draft are entitled to as much credit as any, and more than some in certain other branches of the service where bomb proof jobs are handed out These men knew all along that they would be taken in the draft, yet they wait ed their turn, willing to take their o1,o ho in tT11p army of dem mocracy. Any insinuation that the draft army is not as "clean' Or credible as the other fighting units should be opposed strenuousiy, and 1 for one am determined to do ft. In this vast fighting machine of the United States there should be TO dis crimination in handing out the laur- els for the man in the draft army is, as a general rule, just as brave and loyal a citizen as the volunteer" in the naval reserve, the ordnance de-
 partmcn regular army or navy. Nat lraIly there are exceptions to all things and certain positive slackers can be found in the draft army; but generalizing, l should say that these men will measure up with the So- called "yolunteers when the final test comes.
 Thanking you fora your courtesy, am, yours truly.
 RICHARD K. RUDD
 "A Civil war vet who was not drafted and Ole who has neither kith nor kin in the National Army.)
New Britain herald., 1918-03-07
FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY
 BY LIEUT. r1rzHUo11 GREEN U. S. N
The Woman Too

There are facts about our Navy which are interesting without being scientific. One of them is the navy but his wife is a fact
 There are over 300,000 men who can call themselves naval sailors. Some are officers. Not a few hold down soft swivel chairs ashore. But more than half are aHoat
 HOW many of that half are mar ried: Not many you say; especially when you consider the naiority's pay as web under $50 month. But these are more than von think. When the right man meets the right woman, particularly if they still be mostly boy and girl mere detail like money doesn't count.
 Money seems little thing, very little: and distant too, when the dav IS softly futt of spring and the smell Of blossoms. Summer drifts in: then autumn; then winter almost irnperceptfbly. Winter costs monev.
 One day this winter it was raining. Later it showed. A great battleship lay heavily alongside her pier in the Navy Yard. Near the sangway. shTouded in dripping oil-skins stood the officer of-the e-deck He watched a untitled figure trudge up tho bow.
 1t was a Won1an. Her cloth coat was soaked She carried a bundle. l. Once the bundle gave a little cry. And she patted 1t while she asked
New Britain herald., 1918-03-07
ProhiI,itiou> to Prohibit.

To the Editor of the Herald:
 A friend has called my attention to an article in vour issue of February , giving excerpts from a speech by Rev. Joseph H. McMahon, pastor of the Roman Catholic Church Of Our Lady of Lourdes, to the Catholic Library Association of New York at Dehnoni- co.'s on February 20 in which he is quoted as saying:
 "They (the prohibtionistS) are go- ing to attempt to make men moral by statute, som ething which not even God has been able to do. Prohibition is aimed at the destruction of the indi- vidual freedom of man. It will re- move the right to decide between good and bad and will make man a slave"
 This statement. when put into fewer and palmer words. is the old one of "personal liberty used in earlier times and the one upon which the ii- uuor men depended to meet the argu- ments for the prohibition of the liquor traffic; it has so many times been an- sWered that it seems hardly worth while to reply to 1t in this connection except that possibly there arc still a few who have had little opportunity to read upon this question, far less to make a study of it, and have not yet learned that really in this country there is no such thing as personal liberty" but instead there is plenty of civil liberty or liberty under law The larger part of the population of this nation has grown up under a lib- erty sustained by law and it is the few to whom the laws sustaining civil liberty arc ir]lsomc as note our crin- inal classes 1t must be plain to every thinking, person that we are hedged about by prohibitory laws To ''turn to the right as the law directs" is so inbred that we walk the streets and never thlrk as we meet the passing thronss that VIC are under prohibi-
New Britain herald., 1918-03-07
LIST OF NEW BOOKS AT THE NEW BRITAIN INSTITUTE

Abigail Adams and Her Times, by Laura E. Richards. Anne of Brittany. the Story of a Duchess and Twice Crowned Queen, by H. J. Sanborn. "The reader has a sense of per sonaI intercourse, a quality as rare as it is uncommon in biography, and Boston Transcript. Many ilIumna ting glinpses of the age and the country are given in pendent.
 English Apprenticeship and Child
 Labour, by Dunlop and Denham.
 This work is the result of inves- tigatfon suggested by MT. and Mrs. Sidney Webb. and as a piece of re- wel1-known historical work of the Webbs s"-Nation.
 Facing the Hindenburg Line by B.
 A. Jenkins.
 Medical Research and Human Well
 fare, by ". w. Keen.
 Tn non-technioaI language Doctor Keen discusses the vast strides made in science, and the work of such men as Lister and Pasteur, showing how their discoveries have worked for the good of humanity and completely revolutionized the practice of modern medicine and surgery.''-A. l.. A BookliSt
 
 Political History of the French Revo-
 lution, 17Sa-1804, by A. Aulard
 / vols.
 ''In this new school of historians. the central figure vas M. Aulard. No body has ever known the printed ma terial better than he. and nobody knows the unpublished material so well. Autards narrative. is in tefiigent and instructive beyond all others, and shows the sta ndard that has been reached by century Of study,"-Lord Acton Roumanian Diary, 1915-1T, by D. k.
 B. Kennard.
 Elm phasis is laid on descriptions Of the country, and people, rather than on political and military affairs" Weekly. Spell of China by Archie Bell.
 The interest of these descriptions lies in the keenncsS and freshness of the authors reactions to modern China. His journey was leisurely and with no more serious motive than to
New Britain herald., 1918-03-07
COMMUNICATED.
\ VETERAN SPEAKS.
Civil War Man Has Few Pertinent Remarks On Am Interesting
 Subject, the New AGIny.
g Editor of the Herald :

To the Editor of the Herald:
 While lettering at the Y. M. C. A.
 recently I was at first amused. then
 interested to hear a, quartet of young
 men talking. One was enlisted in the
 naval reserve. the other three were, to use their expression, Caught in the draft" The conclusion of tn cir
 conversation is what I shall endeav-
 or to relieve my mind about. During
 their talk the draft was referred to and one made the remark that they
 do not draft men for the navy. NO"
 remarked the naval reserve man,
 i've want to keep the navy clean. ,
 The National Army candidate there upon unburdened his soul, advised the reservist of several pertinent
 facts and insisted that the National
 Army is just as clean, just as honor able and just as efficient a, fighting unit as any other. And now kindly permit me to make few observations from my birdseye viewpoint of 72 winters. Much proud prattling is heard on all sides, especially by mothers, fathers and relatives of the men and boys who "vOlunteered.r
 Much is made by these proud souls of the fact that their relatives ''vol-
 unteered" and did not wait to be drafted" Bosh! is the way l should sum up such talk; for, to my way ot thinking, the only men entitled to any rank of volunteering are those who f1ocked to the cOlors when war was pending and before the dratt was contemplated. They were true volunteers, but what of these others These men in the ordnance depart n1ent, these men in the naval re serve, and likewise these later enlist ments in the regular army and navy
New Britain herald., 1918-03-07

the officers permission to see her husband, a coal-passer below.
 Investigation showed that the man Was in the brig (ship's jaiD. He had overstayed leave, in wartime a very serious offense It was irregular for him to see visitors, even his own Wife in trouble. And it is right that there. should be law that binds men togethz CT in these perilous days.
 But the woman couldn't under stand. She had trouble, Grievous personal trouble. So finally, though her trouble was tiny beside the worlds trouble, for pity she was let see the father of her child She had a few minutes with him. She waa given mug of coffee, and piece OK bread. Then she went csyer the side with an officers v111tN gfssA .. Next day the ship sailed.
 The man in the hedg wore a knit ted sweater. He had another in bis bag. also warm socks, BHt his wtfe was shivering and wet. The man had food and no need of money. His wife and child were hungry, but penni2ess. The man had thousand shipmatcE and music and movies. His-wife had the child.
 Is it possible there are other wives? They may not be hungry ors cold Or pennifess. But may they not be something else?
 God give strength to the men-but [ rem ember the woman too!
New Britain herald., 1918-03-07
T0DAY'S TABLOID TALE
Sofa and No Further.
By Joe Blast

Jarvis Swipe, gazing more than a mile into the fathOm- less depths of her liquid brown eyes, started desperately to propose and then coughed and murmurcd some platitHde about the Japanese being won derful little people.
 He thought fearfuily: wonder if l got up steam enough to pop the question II she'd say ycs? 1 wonder if she would if I did ?''
 And he looked ycarningly at her left dimple, took his foun- tain pen out of his pocket and put it back again, and re- marked, They don't seem to be able to do much with the high cost Of living, do they?'
 With an indescribable geS- ture, she lightly powdered her nose. He almost fainted with rapture.
 "Stevc Brody took q chance, he thought.
 A no He STltLGQ HIS tIo"'' 'oT Eether resolutelv until he dis covered that his tongue was between them.
 Suddenly she spoke, and her words came out one by one, each in it's proper place.
 '1 think I'll turn you down" sue said steadily.
 Jarvis Swipe was dusrfb- founded. boWled over, f1oored, staggered and fabbergasted.
 "Yes, I think I'll turn you down" sine repeated. And she rose and turned down the lamp until the room was almost in darkness.
 Five min utes later they were coth prisoners for Hfe.
 tCpylaght 1918 by George
 Matthew Adams)
New Britain herald., 1918-03-07
The StirT-uD Cup.

My short and happy life is done. The long and drea1y night comes on, And at my door the pale horse stands To carry me to unknown lands. His whinny s1rir1, his paving hoof, Sound dreadful as a gathering storm;
 And I must leave this she1tering roof And joys of life so soft and warm Tender and warm the joys of life Good friends, the faithful and the
 true:
 My rosy children and my wife, So sweet to kiss, so fair to view. So sweet to kiss, so fair to view: The night comes down, the lights
 burn blue; And at my door the pale horse stands To bear mo forth 10 unknown lands
 JOHN HAY.
New Britain herald., 1918-03-07

ton or that we are enjoying civil IO- erty or liberty under law: otherwise We are certain to get bumps innumCr- able.
 AS to prohibition removing the right to decide betweehS good and bad: Man has been for so long slave to the use of intoxiCantS-to be a slave is no new thing: but many have seen their condition of slavery and have freed themselves, while others welcome pro hibition as a help to freedom and oth- CTS, including some of the best states men of our times, are convinced of not only it's feasibility but it's absolute ne cessity. However, this is a question of morals rather than of legal prohibi- ton. As to having to face the prospect of abolishing the mass that is somply a ''scarchcad" for most people know. that in nearly, of not all the state prohibito laws there is d clause which covers the sacramental and scientific use of wine and in the federal amendment these words are used, flor beverage purposes, If Rev. McMahon has read wider and was up to date he would not have intro duced this idea of the mass, for evidently it has not scared arch bishops, bishops and a very large number of priests of the catholic church who have stood and still stand for the national constitutional prohibition amendment passed ny congress and already ratified by seven states.
 It may be well to call 10 the mind of the reverend speaker as a genera reply to his moro general inference that alcoholic liquors are Someth'hS one may use at will. that the hhulnsS of science do not so prove ana IL would be difficult to hnd SclenttSt in this country, if not abroad Who would make such 8 statement.
 As to property rights" the speaker i not quoted as enlarging on this ,nattcr There was a time when the 1iuuor men talked of compensation but evidently on second thought they concluded it wisdom not to open that question for discussion, for in the
New Britain herald., 1918-03-07
It Was a GoShauk

kensinSton, Conn. March 6, 1918. Editor New Britain Herald:
 Dear Sir: Having made study of birds and their habits, | was very much interested in the article in last evenings Herald in the Berlin news in regard to the bird seen from the trol- ley by the passengers, I would ven-- ture to say from the description given that the bird was an American Cioss Hawk, or more properly spelled Cos hawk. They arc, l think, the most destructive Of any Of our birds of prey, and they can carry away a fu1I- grown hen as easily as a person can carry a small child
 If his direction could have beee noted one could have followed him and no doubt would have found hjgu having a fine feast in his regular din. ing room. as they usually have one particular place where thev carry their victims and dcvour them. This place is usually an old log or a lower. branch of a large tree.
 l found one of their dining rooms at one time and there was about 25 skeletons of, fowls which must have been mostly full grown.
 I hcpc that there will be others that will give their opinion in rcgar! to tnis st>an--e oir l.
 JOHN F. SR3RET.
 kenStngHon, C&aKw-
New Britain herald., 1918-03-07
HELD AS SPY AT 72.
Civil War Veteran Suspected of Plot
 at Western Fort.

Salt Lake City, Utah, March 7.- Alexander H. Lucas, 72, said to be a civil war veteran, employed as archi- tectural engineer at the Third war prison barracks at Fort Douglas was arrested here, charged with ma king seditious remarks
 Lucas came here from Los Angeles and said he was born in San Antonio, but admitted, according to the au- thorities, that he vas born in Ger many.
 He will be held pending conclusion of an investigation to place respon- sibility for the digging of 1T tunnels with q view to effecting wholesale de- livery of interned German prisoners, Federal officials announced.
New Britain herald., 1918-03-07

prohibitory states thus far, they have quietly accepted the situation and Have folded their tents like the Arabs and as silently stolen away. or gone into some other business No. refornl is settled until settled right and more and more the princip.a is being established thai The path of patriotism is the path of prohibition ''t and that prohibitiin is a large factor in ovcrthrowing "autocracy'' and es-. tablishing democracy" throughout the entire world
 CAROLINE B. BUELL.
 President, State w. C. T. L.. East Haddam. Conn
New Britain herald., 1918-03-07

see what he could sec "A. L. A.. Booklist
 Visions and Vignettes of War, by1
 Maurice Ponsonby, Chaplain toI
 the Forces. "He has spent about two years with the fighting troops in France, [ and nine months in the hospital. Fl ooes not give us any ordinary chron- icle of experiences, but new flashes of light which have leapt in his mind amidst the horrors in which he has himself shared and some of the in cidents which have helped to kindle them."-London Times.
 / We of Italy by Mrs. k. R. Steege.
 Fiction Balkan Frecbooter Being the Truei
 Exploits Of the Serbian Outlaw
 and Comitaj Pctko Moritch, Told
 by Him 10 the Author and Set
 Into English, by Jan Gordon. Carolyn of the Corners, by R. E. En-. dicott.
 Invisible Guide, by C. Lewis Hind
  Just Outside, by Stacy Aumonier.J
 
 Lost Naval Papers, by Bennett Cop.
 pIestone.
 Mistress of Men. by Mrs r. A W. Transactions of Lord Louis Lewis, byt
 Roland PertWee
 "The tales are well told They move swiftly and have happy con clusions. . and there are enough Incidental disasters and fateful jest5 tB hold the readers aIrazed attenti@". Lord Louis adventu ~ange e1' r where from digging Uu N Cellinl cellar to fitting together the Io,f pieces of a puzzling Reynolds group -N. Y. Times.
 Library War Service.
 Two camp librarians attended the annual meeting of the Connecticut Library association at New Haven last week. Both were enthusiastic over the work and felt that the re- suits more than justified .ha eXpecta- tions Tho A. l.. A is spending it's money on the technical books and periodicals called for by the men. Popular books they hope to obtain from q generous public. Poetry is called for, travel, war books and novels. of course. Don't forget that the library sends books.
New Britain herald., 1918-03-07
nESTROYFT7S NAMED,
Will Be Known After Distinguished
 Rear AdmiraIS,

Washington, March 7.-Naming of four new torpedo boat destroyers in honor of rear admirafs who 'distin- guished themselves in early wars was announced today by Secretary Dan ie1s.
 The officers honored and their birth places are: William Radford, FSncas- tie. Va; John Berrien Montgomery Allentown. N. J.; Charles Stuart Boggs. New Brunswick, N J., and AugtsStus Henry Kitty, Annapolis, Md.
New Britain herald., 1918-03-07
BRANDING LA TOILETTE.

Ten days ago the Wisconsin State H,nate passed, by a vote of .5 to s, ke subJoined resolution:
 we condemn Senator La Toilette sld all others who have failed to #pport our Governm ent in matters ataI to the winning of the war. We
 knounce any utterance of theirs sf1ich has tended to incite sedition hong the people and to in1ure Wis knsin's fair name before the free kop1es of the earth
 After securing, under rigid rules, h attendance large enough to adopt Rfs sare resolution. the Lower 5 5ouse of the Wisconsin state legis- Nture yesterday went on record as favor of the Senate's action. The
 Rte wfs%tS5 to 32. Thus is Senator
 h Toilette censured by his own Sople fn,a way that the entire na- # pn must approve. Eighty-six out # a full membership of 1oo were Hesent, one not voting.
 What has happened to La Toilette his own state. in his own bailiwick, lay well be followed by action at Fashington It is the consensus of
 bfnion that he has been disloyal all se way through. He and all his Bnd of followers should be painted sth another coat One dose is not Rough.
New Britain herald., 1918-03-07
SINN FEINERS TAKE TOWN.

London, March 7.-Six hundred Sim Fein volunteers have taken pos session of the town of Kiltamagh, County Mayo, Ireland according to a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company This action followed the receipt of an order from the Sim iFein leaders for a general mobiIiza- ton. Drilling is being carried out and no one can enter or leave the town without Sim F'ein permits.
New Britain herald., 1918-03-07

value of these being S394.16. Reports from some Of our branch workrooms, show the following supplies furnished by them last month: Kensington branch: 26 Knitted Articles. 56 Hospital Garments, Newington branch: 30 Hospital Garments, 15 Knitted Articles.
 Berlin branch: 41 Hospital Garments, 40 Knitted Articles g Comfort Pillows. West End Workrooms: 320 Hospital aCirments, 51 Knitted Articles, 29 Pillows. Plainvile branch: 162 Hospital Garner 100 Knitted Articles. It is interesting to note the amount of work done by some of our most faithful friends. Mrs. F. F. Fairbanks reports between 50 and 60 knitted articles made for the Red Cross, and Mrs. John North end has made 260 hospital garments. Wool has increased so in price that the manag cement is unable to completely supply the demand for free wool. People that can afford to do so are therefore urged to buy their own wool and donate the fin ished articles to the Red Cross. Re quest is also made from headquart CTS that no colored stripes be knitted into socks as the coIo1s run in wash ing.
 Almost everyone has bits of dis carded JewelTy or old silverwate. They are of no value to the owner but quantity gathered together might net a considerable sum. Will you please look over Vour boxes and bring your gifts to our melting pot at the Red Cross roms on Court street. Small bags made of cretonne in bright pretty patterns are requested for the hospitals. These bags are to
 hold the wounded mans personal be- longings and are kept at the bedside. Miss Mary Rogers Is in charge of this work at the Red Cross rooms and anyone having suitable pieces at least l4"x13'' would do US favor by bringing them to 20 Court street. Have you noticed the display of surgical dressings in Dickinson's window? Anyone finding the mis- spelled word on one of the cards in the display is entitled to free course in surgical dressings at the Red Cross rooms on Court street. (Watch the crowd standing outside the window with dictionaries in their hands.) Seriously, the instruction in the making of the dressings is free to everyone and we are anxious to have you come and help make the band ages and dressings which will be needed in Hmitless quantities this summer.
 The usual weekly sewing meeting of the Rcd Cross will be held at Cen ter church on Friday, March 8tn.
New Britain herald., 1918-03-07

New Haven, March '.-IInSlnes known as the Santa Fe type will be used on the New Haven road within a few days to assist in clearing up freight congestion, and in handling heavy traffic. All along the system changes have been made to meet the weight of the new engines.
New Britain herald., 1918-03-07
WRITE SLAVES SENTENCED.

New Haven, March 7-Walliam Narrico, 20, a Bridgeport barber, was sent to Atlanta for a year, and Mary Millowsky, 25, given four months in iail today by the federal court on charg under the "Wrhite slave" law. They brought Annie Shieb from Brooklyn to Bridgeport Assistant District Attorney Crosby said the case was that of amateurs attempting to do a "Whte slave" traffic.
New Britain herald., 1918-03-07
WILL SPEAK AT YALE.

Hartford, March T.-The most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Long. archbishop of York and primate Of England, who is on a tuur of this country, is to be in New Haven March 13 and will speak at Yale afternoon and evening" From thcre he will go west.
New Britain herald., 1918-03-07

There will be no serious friction with Japan over Siberia" says a news story in a local paper. For which, let Heaven be praised, say we.
New Britain herald., 1918-03-07

The symbol of the democratic par ty is the donkey, that of the repub1i- cans the elephant, the progressives sport a bull moose and the prohibit tionists have had camel thrust upon them. But it remained for Alder man Jester to introduce the chicken into the political menagerie.
New Britain herald., 1918-03-07

"I did not have chance to do any thing before an American grabbed me by the throat" says a German prison CT. After that his chances to do any thing did not materially improve New York World.