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The Washington times., 1918-05-26
MUST KEEP HEADS,
RESIST COERCION,
SAYS JOHN DILLON


> DUBLIN, Nav 26-5OlTn DHlon's
position in the latest development OF
the Irish crisis. which is most impor-
tRnt now, is set forth in a letter he
wrote 10 the United Irish League of
Limerick. The letter is a reply to a
resolution OF support adopted by the
1eAktfe e. us So F- sza.
''Fhe government has embarked on
a, policy which. II persevered in. must
turn Ireland into a perfect pande-
monium and inflict incalculable In
jury on the cause OF the allies" Dill
Ion wrote.
In the face OF such conditions the
body OF Irishmen who can keep their
heads and are equally determined to
resist the stupid coercion and
breaches OF faith on the part Of the
government and the wild incoherenf
Sim Fein policy are capable OF doing
an incalculable service
The Washington times., 1918-05-26
BOGTHAT BIT u
TNO0N STREET
HAD THE RABIES


How many persons were bitten by
the mad dog which was shot by a
policeman at Fourth street and Flor
ada avenue Thursday?
How many dogs were, bitten by the
rabid animal. thereby making posi-
bic their developing rabies also?
These are questious that are agi-
Eating TIE '4Iealth Department today.
Two persons are known TO have
been bTttehs by the dog. They are
fen-ysar-oId Jesse ,-aS6rton, Of $500
Evarts. street northeast.z Bangdon.
who was attacked BY The animal
Thursday morning While playing near
his home. E-s
The other victim q the animal Is
Charles .Schali, .sof 5125g Columbia road.
neered an auto and pursued the fleeing
dog oHnuii "a policeman was Encountered
The animal was then. shot
The body fEss sent % the Bureau Of
Animal Industry, eWherB Il was found
that the dog had been suffering from
rabies
( Proper precautionary measures have
been taken-in the case OF the two per
Sons known ito have been bitten. Their
wounds have been cauterized. and they
are being kept under observation.
A number OF dogs, which are known TO
have been exposed to the mad animal,
have been quarantined. The pound
master IS endeavoring 10 obtain traces
% other animals exposed to or bitten by
The madzdogs -. BE-. 81, .-.
The mad dog. which is described
by the Health Department as a
straightlsgged beadle hound. ran
away, Swapping at passersby and OBJ
3ects. IN its way after biting both OF
itH known victims,
The Washington times., 1918-05-26

Pennsylvania railroad at Severn, Nd.
Ihis is the fourth accident at this
railroad crossing since the establish
ment Of Camp Meade
Thomas II. Hurst 2Ol0 Penrose ave-
nue., Baltimore, driver OF the motor
bus, was instantly killed when hurled
twenty feet from the wreckage The
machine was completely demolished.
According TO railroad officials. Hurst
failed to heed the warnings OF the
crossing hagman. A. Cohen. OF 9I6
Watson street BALTIMORE. a fireman
employed on the Pennsylvania rail-
road, suffered fracture OF the left
arm. Bernfde zackamfey, OF 1870
The Washington times., 1918-05-26
WOOL FROM SHEEP
OF PRESIDENT TO
Be AUCTIONED OFF

Tomorrow evening at -6 o'clock.
Commissioner Brownlow will sell for
the Red Cross fund to the highest
bidder the two pounds OF wool which
President Wilson assigned TO the Dis
trict Of Columbia from the wool clip
OF, the flock OF ShrOpshires now feed
INK on the grasses OF the White House
I The results Of the bidding Win De
announced from the stage OF the Be-
Iasco ThSater Monday night =.
Since Saturday morning he has
been receiving bids. and today kept
open his Offices in the District build
ing from o'clock on, to accept othef
bids.
Keen. interest has been manifested
in the sale OF this. which is to be
an historic wool sale. Never before
have sheep grazed on such an aris-
tocratio range-the perfectly kept
grounds Of the Chief Executive of the
most powerful nation on earth. The
sheep are prize winners, and bred
with exceeding care. Every state IN
the Union has had its two pounds Of
wool assigned 20 Il, and sales stint
lar to the one here will bs.+held all
over the country Monday evening
It is expected that many interesting
incidents will come from the unique
enterprise. Many suggestions have
been offered as to what should be
done with the twO-pound lots by the
successful bidders-but It Is assured
that some OF the wool woven into
souvenirs to be kept in future years
as family heirlooms.
President and Mrs. Wilson are Jak-
ing keen interest in the wool sale.
ana are having much pleasure in the
realization that their new but much
loved sheep flock will be the means
OF helping TO swell the funds avail
able for the work OF the Red Cross
here and on the baJtlehelds of Eu-
rope.
The Washington times., 1918-05-26
HAS
10000 WORKERS
IN WASHINGTON

How many men and women does
Uncle Sam employ in Washington?
Answer: One hundred and fifty
thousand-or at least. that appears to
be the correct hgure. The discovery
was made incidental to the recreation
census By the War Camp Community
Service. More than 10000 have al
ready been located In that way. and
the Indications are that the total will
run up 10 10000.
The census Is to ascertain the
names. addresses here and at home,
and recreatLonal preferences OF each
one, so that a comprehensive program
OF sports may be arranged for the
summer-for the war workers are not
to have a vacation longer than one
week at a time.
Surprises OfheIaIs.
The apparent total amazed even Of
fcials who are familiar with such
affairs. Before the war began there
were less than 10000 employed by the
Government in Washington. After
the war began and before the United
States declared a state OF war the
number increased cOnEiderably. but
probably not TO more than 10000.
But that there were 10000 at the
present time. not even the most ex-
travagant would have guessed.
Workers for the recreation census
are coming back for more registra-
ton cards. in many instances asking
for double the number assigned to
them. The average is for more than
30 per cent Of the original assign
ment, which Indicates that 10000
will be reached before the census Is
completed
Housing II Inadequate.
Congress was asked for and gave
SIO.OOOOOO for housing war workers.
the estimate running 10 $500 invest
ment for each person. The housing ac-
conmodations already we're near to
exhaustion. before the great Increase
began. 1t figures out. therefore. that.
instead OF having 5000 per person for
housing, the $4,000 900 fund will
yield an average of only about $50
each-or in other words buildings
would have to be erected and equip
ped at a cost OF only $40 for each one
who is to live therein.
Were the estimate Of $500 per per-
son to be adhered to. an appropria-
tion OF 100000. 900 would be required
for housing war workers in the Dis
trict alone.
The War Department alone Is ask
ing for 10000 more employees. the
request having been made yesterday
for appropriations to pay salaries to
that many more than are now en-
ployed. other departments are pre-
pairing to increase their forces i'm
mensely.
The Washington times., 1918-05-26
NO CONSUMPTION !
OF LABOR SAYS
WAR SECRETARY

The war Department has no ints
tion OF eonseriptlng labor.
It's work or fight" order must not
be thus Construed Secretary Of Wss
Baker declared yesterday after heat.
ing from labor interests the 'apprf-
hensive cry that the department vi
apparently starting a series OF reg
ulations which would draft labor.
While this order forces idlerg
either 20 work or fight. and direcEa
men from non-essential lines into -
sentlal war tasks. Il is not intendfd
as a elub above the heads OF men VI
strike. Baker said In short, Baketa
explanation meant that the War De-
partment does not seek 70 take useful
labor and put It on military pay under
the army.
The Washington times., 1918-05-26

East Baltimore street. Baltimore. suf-
fered lacerations about the body.
The express was travelling fast when
il struck the motor vehicle. The ma
chine was pushed about eighty feet.
Hurst was catapulted twenty feet. strik-
ing on his head. Cohen and Zackamfey
were taking TO the hospital at Camp
Meade. They were later removed to their
homes.
Railroaders stated that the engineer Of
the locomotive had. piloted an er sins In
an accident at Short Lane, near Perry
man, Nd. six months ago, when sew
ersl people were killed. An investi-
cation Is under way today.
The Washington times., 1918-05-26
KILLED HOLDING UP
AUTOS FOR RED CROSS

MIIIburn. N J.. May 26.-Miss Ce-
celia Cross seventeen years old. a
Red Cross worker. lost her life in her
service last night. when she
was run down accidentally and killed
while holding up" sutomobilists to
secure contributions for the Red Cross
fund
The Washington times., 1918-05-26
QUICKLY BUILT SHIP
BEATS COALNG RECORD

Another record for the Tuckahoe; T-fs
boat that waS built IN the astonishing
time OF twenty-seven days has hung ID
a voaling record of putting In l.s92 tons
The Washington times., 1918-05-26
BANS moLDY coRNmEAL.

Action TO stop shipments OF mouldy
cornmeal has been announced by the
Food Administration. Hoover will
compel all corn grinders anu dealers
TO ship corn meal in such condition
that II shall reach its destination cool
and sweet
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-09
CONQUERING RUSSIA

ID USSIA IS TOO large to conquer and too mucn dec0lunA IN Napoleon discovered this in 1872, when he marched out May with 68OOO and returned as winter was breaking with more than 80OOO.
 If the Germans occupy Moscow they will be nearer their base by many miles, than Napoleon and they will have advantage of modern methods of transport
 But they will scarcely be safe in Moscow winter would prove trial to the German armies and provisioning the armies yet unless the Russians acquescent to the presence of the Kaiser's troops
 Already signs that the Russians contemplate al guerilla warfare They might burn Moscow, they did when Napoleon occupied it.
 If the Germans occupy this citadel of Russian prestige they must do it soon months it will begin to be cold In three months the mercury will scarcely rise above the freezing point and then until well along in the spring 1t will seldom be warmer than 22 degrees below zero.
 country of farms, operated sufficiently for the support of the people, but in primitive Industry t tie developed central place, by the conquest of which the population be paralyzed.
 In Russia there 186000000 persons scattered through vast territory, but most of them within area subsan taly 1,6OO miles by 1900 miles.
 persons accustomed to self government They mmemorially participated in system of local adminis- ration stringly like the town meeting system of New England the greatness of the population and the remoeness community from another it is possible for the town meetings carry wide and great organization.
 The present of Russia proceeds from these town meetings Zemvstos composed of representatives from local democracies hold the governing Trosky and Lenne creatures of these popular tribunals When the tribunals desire both will fall unlikely that Zemvstos
 In these facts is easy of the difficulties that beset the Allies If they send army into Russia they may country into the hands of the Germans they not Germany may obtain vast supplies and power
 Only those in possession of all the facts make dec America the decision is to be made by President Will son. who shown heretofore full appreciation of the Russian situation and much sympathy for Russia.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-09
BURY VICTIMS OF
 RIVER TRAGEDY . IN ILLINOIS TOWN

Peoria, H., July 9-Residents of Pekin continued today the sad task of burying victims of the steamer Co., lumbia disaster. Twenty-two funerals were arranged for the day. The first was held at 8 a. m. and from then until late in the afternoon there was a succession of such ceremonies at the town cemetery Funerals also were held in Kingston Mines, the vil- 1age which lost 15 of it's residents in the steamer wreck.
 Federal, state and county off cials continued their investigations of the wreck. Divers began inspecting the hull under direction of govern ment officials and several state ers gineers arrived to survey the river. E. L. Cleary, coroner of TazeweIl county, announced that his inquest would not begin until probably the Monday or Tuesday after the govern. ment officials have completed their investigation.
 With the recovery of the body of Jerry Choillis of Pekin, found floating near the wreck this morning, the total number of bodies recovered was brought up to 80. According to latest figures 10 persons still are missing.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-09
A.F. OF TAKES UP
 LIFE INSURANCE

St. Paul, Minn., July 9-Universal health insurance has been officially taken up by the American Federation of Labor as a protective measure for industrial workers upon which it finds favorable sentiment developing among the states.
 ''The enactment of workmen's com pensation laws by number of state legislatures is now being followed by the development of a favorable sentf- ment for the enactment of health in- surance laws" says the report of the Executive Council, unanimously adopted at the Federaticn's annual convention in St. Paul. Already legislation of this kind has been com sidered by a number of state legis latures and in addition, commissions have been created for the purpose of making an exhaustive study of the subject and aa report to their respec- tive legislative branches thereon.
 Central bodies and state fedora tions of labor in several places have been studying the question. Some of them have approved the principle, while others are supporting laws pro- viding for universal health insur- ance.
 ''The organized labor movement approved the enactment of work mems compensation legislation" the report continues. Their approval of that legislation was based upon the theory that when the earning power of the worker was impaired by req son of an industrial accident, that he or his dependents should be compen- sated during the time he was suffer ing from said injury. The same rule holds good when the worker becomes incapacitated through illness-par- ticularly illness due to trade or occu- patton. He and his family suffer | through the impairment of his earn | ing power just the same when he is | i'll as when he sustains an injury. The organized labor movement of America | ought to formulate a program upon l this subject
 By unanimous vote the Executive | Council was authorized to take up the l subject of health insurance with a l view to legislation. In approving the health insurance study, including | it's bearing on trade or occupational 1 disease the convention endorsed the l Councils position in urging that "as part of such legislation there should
 be embodied fundamental principles of democratic administration and guarantee to the workers of an equal
 voice and equal authority in the ad-
 ministration of all it's features" Spe- l cial stress was laid upon the desira-
 bility of giving additional impetus tc
 work for the prevention of industrial
 accidents and diseases.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-09
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE

Why should Bridgeport alone of all the cities of the state require its milk to be pasteurized2 New Haven, the classic city, the hometown of science and culture, has no use for 1t, Neither has Hartford, the capi- tai city, nor one single other of them all.
 It is very expensive fad for us to indulge in, making at the least an added cost of two or three cents per quart to the consumer. And we must bear in mind that this burden falls largely on the poor with the usual large families.
 This is not the worst of it. An added day is interposed by the pas teurization plant between the pro- ducer and the consumer, The milk is no longer fresh. The flavor of the product is vitiated and rendered un- palatable. The milk thinker for swears his old time habit of an oc- casional glass of milk and the milk market become glutted with an over surplus, requiring an urge from the patriotic ladies of the City Home Economies Committee to stimulate the use of milk as a diet
 Then, there is another very impor- tance point to be considered. Nature has evolved, through the ages, a safe and practical scheme in connection with the milk supply in it's relation to life nourishment. Pure, fresh milk, if kept too long, or in a warm place, sours, having an acid reaction to the taste. Such milk is not un. healthy. The scientist, Metchinkoff indeed, predicated a sort of earthly immortality based on the sour milk l habit.
 Now here is where pasteurization steps in and changes this safeguard 1 placed by nature on the milk SUD- ply. The semi-boiling of pasteuriza- tion kills the tactic acid bacteria an6 the milk will no longer sour. Thus prepared the milk will remain sweet till qualification ensues with it's very | injurious germ development. Ii opens wide opportunity for the milk spsculator but bars the way fol the old time pure, fresh milk, aIsc the equally honest and healthy soul milk.
 | B. B. LEWIS.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-09
WHAT THE VICTORY OR DEFEAT OF GERMANY MEANS
 TO EVERY AMERICAN

Contributed by Robert H. Davis to the National Security Leagues campaign of Patriotism Through Ed ucation.)
 America cannot contemplate de- feat; a lasting victory is alone admis- sible. If we lose this war with the Prussians it will be our last war; if we win this war against the Prussians it will be the last war. We are fight ing dynasty of madmen, super-sat- urated with the idea that they are quer every nation not of their blood.
 They have the primitive impulses of red-men, with whom this country has already had some experience. A typical Prussian was the late Gere- nimo, chief of the Apaches; a medi cine-man with a high rating as a tor turer. It made little difference to Geronimo whether his victim was male or female, old or young. The sight of human blood appealed to him. He was known among his peo- pie as '+The Apache Devil.' Even so they revered him.
 He was the wickedest Indian that ever ranged the North American Con tinent. He took the war-path without Justification; raided the settlements; shot the peaceful peoples from am bush; broke every truce. and carried on a campaign of shocking brutality until finally, exhausted by his own vicious career, he surrendered and died a military prisoner at Fort Sill.
 Sitting Bull, chief of the Sioux. de- veloped the Prussian monarchial trait of remaining in his tepee while his braves went out to die. He was not even present at the Custer mas sacre in The Little Big Horn, although he arrived shortly afterward to decor ate himself. and subsequently, tour ed the country as the chief who wip- ed out Clusters command. Sitting Bull wasNa long-range blood thinker He also organized the Messiah craze, another Prussian device designed to | camouflage inherited savagery, and mis1ead his disciples.
 The Hohen49llerns are to the world what Geronimo and Sitting Bull were to the American plains. It is their destruction, or ours. The scouts l of the Prussians are among us; the | torch is in their hands; their poison ed arrows are on the wing; the Prus- sian Messiah" who prefers to burn churches rather than to pray in them, is on the march. We must cross our thresholds and meet them, or they will cross our thresholds and | destroy us.
 If Germany Is victorious, the world is lost; if Germany is defeated, the world is saved.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-09
ELIAS HOWE.

Elias Howe, the inventor of the sewing machine, was born at Spenc- CT, Mass, ninety-eight years ago to- day. July g, 1920. Howe was a man. ufacturer of cotton-mill machinery at Lowell, Mass, when he first began to work on the sewing machine idea. He completed his first crude machine in May, 1S45, and was granted a United States patent 8 little over 8 year later. For a time he had the usual i'll luck of inventors, and for eight years he had to fight against public indifference, poverty and the dishonesty of those who sought te steal his great invention. In 1854 he established his claim for priority Then wealth and honors were show cred upon him the French govern ment conferring upon him the Cross of the Legion of Honor. Before the expiration of his patent Howe realiz- ed $2,OO0.0 900. He died ins 1867,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-09
CRITICISM

CRlTCSING Suppressed Desres, the play presented by B. H. S. senior class in June, the Board of Education doubtless desired to be upon the conservative sd Mere cleo on to the board does not in itself confer the gifts that attend upon successful and intelligent censorship but it does impose duty be the safe de In it's opposition to Suppressed Desires the board did its duty took the safe de The play appears have been all right and not in the least improperly suggestive If it shocked the sensbties of who it, that would be proof of it's being somewhat in advance of the state of public opnon which would naturally invite from conscientious committeeman Such attitude was not opposition to the diffusion of wisdom The criticism cured after the fact that invited it.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-09
PRO-GERMAN NEWSPAPERS

VXT HTLE ONE leading New York newspaper conducts w jealous campaign to prove that another is in the interest of the Kaiser proceeds to arrest Dr. Edward A. RuneIy borrowed million from funds of the German government and lost much of running the New York Evening Mail
 This proves that government is the best authority upon patriotism the criminal lack of it. If anybody knows of papers like the Mail furnish the information to the government It will act promptly, and there will be need of public campaigns waged by newspapers against others
 Dr. Albert is said to have been the intermediary in this His amiarized the citizens Bridge port by the pictures which movie show him bus engaged in attempt to injure the United States.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-09
DOG HAD
 RABIES, TEST SHOWS

Commissioner of Domestic Animals James M. Whittelsey received re- port yesterday from Professor c. J.. Bartlett, of the State board of health laboratories in New Haven, upon the examination of the brain of the dog which bit Ed. German, Roman Belob- losky and Louis Gill in Bridgeport on July 2. The examination showed the presence of. negri bodies. positive evil dence of rabies. The three men who were bitten are under observation in Bridgeport Symptoms of hydropho- bia usually develop not sooner than fourteen days after exposure. The ownership of the dog has not been established.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-09
ENLIST IN BRITISH ARMY.

The British Recruiting station re- ported the following recruits, Walter c. Elwood, IS, chauffeur, 7S9 Beech- wood avenue, English Grand Army; Edward J. Waddell, 20, farmer, 496 East Washington avenue, field artil- lery; Ernest F. Amiont, plumber, 19, 716 Lafayette street English Grand Army, and John Innis, 40 Sacks street, Stratford, English Grand Army. E1wood, Amiot and Innis left this morning for Fort Slocum Waddell will go July 15.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-09
WILL READ THE PLAY,

Letters were read from Mrs. A. H. Bedworth and Mrs. W. H. Lyon to the board of education last night. These letters criticized the members for statements delivered at their meeting in June in regard to the senior plays at the local high school. After a Iit- tie discussion the matter was laid over until copies of the play can be read by the members themselves.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-09
BREAKS ANKLE,

Frank Schweikert, bartender in Colonel Murphy's cafe, sustained a broken ankle yesterday afternoon while at work. He was taken to his home where he is receiving a doctors care. Frank was better known as Dutch" and his many friends wish him the best of luck in mending his injury.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-09
sLAWSON CRITICIZED.

At the meeting of the board of education last evening one of the members criticized MT. Slawson's ac- tions in leaving the city whenever he wanted to. He stated that he knew no reason why the superintendent of schools who is receiving very large salary from the city should not turn all his attention to his work and at least be present at the board meetings.