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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-20

The General Electric Co. notified
the Navy Department that it will shut
down three plants engaged on war or
ders because the oil supply was cut off
when the Shipping Board took tank
steamers of the Gulf Refining Co.
Service.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-20

President Wilson was urged in a
letter from a French Radical Social
list deputy, Ferdinand Buisson, to
start a league of nations.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-20

Soldiers from New Jersey will be
court martialed, if identified, for
spreading stories of men freezing to
death at Camp Mcclellan, Ala
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-20

Earthquake shocks in Annoy, China,
injured many people. More than 100
homes collapsed.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-20

The Detroit police force win be re-
duced and plain clothes men put on.
A wave of crime is spreading over the
city and the substitution will have to
be made.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-20

bridgeport, Conn. members or New
York Stock Exchange.
Feb. 20, 1880 p. m.
Allis Chalmers 20
Alhs Chalmers Pfd. 80
Am Beet Sugar 8OH
Am. Car & Fdy. 76A
Am. Can 421s
Am. Cotton Oil Co. S21z
Am. Locomotive 67%
Am. Smelt. & Re. Co. S4B
Am. Sug. Refg. Co. 10S
Am. Tel. & Tele. 1914
Am. Wooden Sc
Alaska Gold 2B
ALL Gulf & W. Indies 118A
Atch, T. & S. Fe SAY
Anaconda Copper 65h
Baldwin Loco. S0h
Baltimore & Ohio 521s
Bethlehem Steel "B" 81
Beth. Steel so pr. 101A
Brooklyn Rapid Trans. 4212
Butte & Sup. 2OA
Canadian Pacific 147A
Calf. Petroleum 1712
Cen. Leather Co. Tx
Chi, M. & St. Paul 43
Chi. R. I. & Pac. Pfd. A 63%
Chi, r. I. & Pac. Pfd. B "a
Chile Copper 1914
Chino 44h
Chesapeake & Ohio 5S%
Col. Fuel & Iron 40h
Corn Products BAN
Crucible Steel 66%
Cuban Cane Sugar 1875
Distilleries Securities Al
Erie 15A
Erie 1st Pfd. rs
General Electric 142A
General Motors 1919
Ct Northern Ore 29B
Illinois Central 96A
Inspiration Copper 473s
International Nickel 27%
marlborough Cons. 81
marlborough Cons. Pfd. 431s
Inter. Harvester 1870
Inter. Mer. Marine 27A
Inter. Mer. Marine Pfd. 100
International Paper 31k
Kansas City Sou. 17h
Kennecott Copper 33$
Lackawanna Steel 1873
Louis. & Nashville 113 %
Maxwell Motors BIZ
Mex. Petroleum SO
Midvale Steel 46
Missouri Pacific 22%
Miami Copper 32A
Montana Power II u
Nat Enameling 48
Norfolk & Western 1O3%
Northern Pacific S3X
N. Y. Central II Il
N. Y, N. H. & H. 28h
Pittsburgh Coal 5SA
Peoples Gas As
Pennsylvania As
Pressed Steel Car 64%
Ray Cons. 24A
Reading II
Repub. Iron & Steel sou
Ry. Steel Spring SIS
Sinclair Oil 36T
Southern Pacific S64
Southern Railway 23$
Studebaker Corp'sn. K Div. $50
Tenn. Copper 16a
Texas Pacific 1e4
Texas Oil 1876
Tob. Products 54a
Uunion Pacific 1901
United Cigar Stores 96
United Fruit 131
U. S. Ind. Alcohol 1913
U. S. Steel OF
U. S. Smslter 481
Utah Copper S41
Wabash 81
Wabash Pfd. A. 429
Westinghouse Electric 421
WHY'S Overland 1871
g. S. Government Bonds.
Liberty 3hs 97.9
Liberty As 96.1
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-20
TODAY'S WANTS

LOST-Brown water spaniel, about /
year old, has collar with name on it..
Tel. Bar. 1896. be
WANTED-High school boy to work
after school. Apply Mr.. Hodgson
Bridgeport Times. a"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-20
BRIEF NEWS NOTES

Sidney ]. Jennings, vice president
of the United States Smelling & Re-
fining Co., was elected president of
the American Institute of Mining En-
gineers.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-20

Secret Service men have begun an
investigation of all phases of expendi-
lures at Hog Island Shipyard
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-20

Boston 1880 p. M. Prices Reported
Over Private Wire to T. L.
Watson & Co.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-20

PAUL L. MILLER,
Judge.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-20
New York Stock
Exchange Quotations

T. L. Watson & Co.. Bankers and
brokers', corner Main and John streets,
Bridgeport, Conn. Members of New
York Stock Exchange.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
Wartime Philanthropy.

In the city OF Toronto Canada, there is a
large department store that is the wonder OF the
country and indeed it is doubtful if it has equal
in the world. 1t is institution that gives the
denial to the old adage that Corporations have
no souls to he damned bodies to be kicked"
This institution has given to the war I,773 OF
its unmarried employees and 62o of its married EN-
ployes OF these ISo have been killed or died OF
wounds, 3S7 are among the wounded, hive. are
missing thirty-four prisoners OF war, and 4o2
have returned, having done their bit" For three
and half years this company has paid $4,000
weekly in wages to these absent soldiers. In four
years, should the war last~thst long, Szooo,ooo will
have been freely contributed to the wage roll to
employees who are serving at the front.
The owner of the store placed his yacht and
complete wireless plant at the disposal OF the gov
ernment and orders issued that the employees
of the company at the front were 10 be carefully
looked after by the companys agents IN torelgn
fields.
Soldiers from this store having savings ac-
counts in the store bank are allowed 10 per cent
interest for the duration OF the war, and the state
nent has been made that not dollar has been
withdrawn for unwise expenditure. In addition to
-sH this. Sir John Eaton has contributed millions
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
Forest Resource, and the War.

Z. A. Stirling. in the November
issue OF American Forestry" shows
the capital Importance OF lumber ss
one OF the many factors in the final
vitOry OF the allies. He writes:
ITO say two or three billion board
feet OF lumber are being produced
in the shortest possible time TO meet
the most urgent war needs the
country has ever known CONVEYS
very little. Even 10 say that q sin
gle billion feet would make u board
walk ten feet wide from New York
TO PetrOgrad. via VIGdivostok. really
does not convey the full impression.
As a matter Of fact. no one really
knows just how much lumber ~
being used just now in our wsr
preparations. The only important
know that our forest resources are
fully able to meet the unprecedented
demands upon them, and this with
out materially reducing our reserve
timber supply.
1T should be remembered thst
while the military needs are being
taken care OF. lumber for the every
day needs Of the country is being
produced as well. This alone. even
with the decreases in building opera
tiOns. will not fall far below 10000 =
O0O,0O0 feet per year. Then, although
their Importance tranEcends every
thing else. the war requirements are
but a comparatively small percent
age OF our total output"
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
Easily Explained.

REPRESENTATIVE John T. Watkins, OF Louisiana,
said at a social session that some people have a
mighty easy way OF explaining things, and told
the following story an illustration
his office for the greater part of the day, On
returning he observed certain symptoms OF idle
James" demanded the lawyer, why hasn't that
typewriter been working?"
1T has been working" defensvely answered
James. 81 using it less than ten minutes ago.
Then" exclaimed the lawyer, pointing con-
yictng finger, "how comes it that there is spider
on the machine and that it has woven web over
the keyboardH
"a fly got in the works, sir" easily explained
lanes "and rather than waste time trying to catch
it, introduced the spder."-Philadephia Evening
Telegraph.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
Regulate Them!

On March 20 will go into effect one OF
the most important orders yet issued. by the Pres
ident. On that date, all corporations indi-
viduals engaged in importing, making, storing or
distributing fertilizer fertilizer ingredients must
take out Federal license and come under regu-
lation by the Department of Agriculture.
it is not yet known what regulations that de-
partment will prescribe. but it is certain that, If
food is to play an important part in winning the
war, government has got to close down on any
thing that smacks OF extortion in prices OF ferti-
lzer. There has been such eXtortion, in the
prices Of sodium and calcium nitratcs particularly,
and it is upon these ingredients that success Of
nearly all the gardens, especially, depends.
Overpriced fertilizers and seeds in gar
dens can very easily loss instead OF gain in
the final analysis, and in the high cost OF fertilizer
the professional farmer has a mighty strong ex-
cuse for the de luxe prices he is demanding for
his products.
The administration hasn't hesitated 10 put a
price on the farmers winter wheat. 1t should train
its guns on the stuff that makes winter wheat and
which the farmer has TO buy.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
CAN THE BIG WAR LAST?

It seems incredible, despite the pre-
dictions of military experts, that this
war can last for another year. 1t is
too terribly exhausting The spirit
of revolution against 1t is in the air,
not only in Russia but also among
the peoples of all the contending ma
tions. In Germany It is not apparent
so much among the masses as among
the classes-the great bankers. the
heads OF industries and of shipping
The revolution in Germany is not
likely to come from the bottom, but
from the top. When the great bank
ers and captains of industry fully ap-
preciate what the isolation of Ger
many means, they will be driven to
demand overtures for peace. Whether
the Kaiser can resist these powerful
influences may be questioned, but
without money he cannot continue the
dreadful conflict. am among those
who believe that the end of the war
will be in sight in 1918 and peace may
come as Unexpectedly as the war did.
-LeSlie'S
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
Conyeyor and Fan Combined ia
Snow PIow.

BY combining an endless convey or
with a powerful rotary fan, an in
ventor claims TO have constructed a
railroad snoWplow that will clear a
track Of snow OF almost any depth,
or a mixture OF snow and debris,
such as results from a slide on =
mountain. says the Popular Mechanics
in an illustrated article. The ms %
chine is built on trucks, is operated
by fits own engine. and is propelled
from behind by a locomotive. The
endless ConveyOr is mounted slsntinElv
at the front, with the forward end
close to the ground AS the plow
advances. the nose is driven into the
snow, which IL steadily cut away hr
the conveyor and discharged into ID
hood containing the fan. at the up
per end OF the incline. The ian throws
the snow either side OF the track. it,
delivery being regulated 10y the posi-
tion Of the sides OF the hood, whl, 4
are adjustable.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
Uncle Sam. Ten Commandments.


President Wilson is about to sign bill whiC
takes its place in history the most liberal legi
lation in protection of nations fighters ev
known. 1t is good enough, strong enough to
called the National Ten Commandments, and
in effect, thus:
Thou shalt not eviet, for non-payment of
rent, soldiers dependents, under penalty of
$4,000 fine.
Thou shalt not cut off soldiers life in
surance because of delayed premiums
Thou shalt not foreclese mortgage on
soldiers property. ,.--
Thou shalt not take away a soldiers home
on which he has made part payment.
Thou shalt not sell soldiers property be-
cause of his failure to pay the taxes, national,
State or local.
Thou shalt not settle law suit against
soldier during his absence.
If soldier sue, the courts shall postpone
action until he can attend to it.
If soldier have a mine, or timber or farm
claim, assessments on which are overdue, it
shall be held for him.
Honor thy soldier and thy sailor, that thy
days may be long in the land of liberty.
No man hath greater love than he that
offereth his life for the worlds sake, and it is
commanded that neither lawyers, the loan
sharks, nor the gatherers of tithes shall fattcn
on him.
Congress is content to call this bill civil righ
bill. It's the divine rights bill
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
Russia.
By EDMUND VANCE COOKE.
YESTERDA7

YESTERDAY
The Russian Bear was ill., A throbbng pain
Beat at his temples asking to be free
Then Revolution Glove his head in twain
And forth Kerensky sprang, armed cap-a-pie!
Alas that combat should so soon reveal
He like Achilles, had his rhortaPs heel
TODAY
A penny-a-ner, starving week by week,
Become the embodiment of Bolshevik.
An oracle who speaks more than he thinks
And yet remains the European Sphinx.
He yields like water, yet stands fixed as fate;
Who shall un-riddle him may save the state.
TOMORROW
France had her tyrants, too and dragged them
down;
Then the guillotine the sword, the crown;
Commune and Consul Emperor and King.
Republican and Bourbon had their fling
century endured one might say
France had survived and owned her peoples sway
Now Russia sails upon the boundless brine
And scarce shall harbor in your time or mine
Copyright, 1879
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
Mysteries Of the Brain = B. B. sSas sSsss

people. u is continually tripping itself
up. We hear people say that they
could do this thing or that thing #.
Then they tell OF some lack, perhaps
merely Of confidence. that holds them
In leash
When 30 vigorous a writer a. George
Eliot finished q novel she would be
seized with fear that she could never
write another. One part OF her mind
was trying 10 cripple another part.
forcing her 70 struggle in order TO be-
GIN again, TO cohesive . new plan and
carry it on, doubtless gaining In as
surance as she proceeded.
Mark Twain used TO say that there
was a period In his life when he
thought that he could write anywhere
save In Elmirs, n. Y. A. Il was his
habit 10 spend his summers only In
Elmira his Hartford winters were un-
productive. One part Of his brain was
bullying another part and continued 10
bully IL till the victim rebeIled and
broke the inhibition.
Those oId-fashioned writers who RELY
on Inspiration" know how Il feels
both 10 be enslsVed and 10 be free
After a period Of slavery they sud
denly reach confidence. Nov they can
fulfll their dreams. Eagerly they 20
70 work, soaring beyond Themselves,
a. they think, but, in fact. ind self
realization.
The new-fsshioned writers under
stand the situation much better, and.
as a rule, get better results. They
know another way Of finding inSpirs-
ton, through the habit OF steady en-
desvOr, which enables them 20 com
mand their resources. Powers, once
elusive, become obedient and acquire
greater skill with practice, now and
then bringing up treasures from the
depths OF the mind, seemingly as re-
wards OF industry. really gems thai
could be produced only in the glow o'
endeaVor that had reached beyond
self-consciousneEE into freedom,
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09

OF Information that hasn't been put
there, II Is also true that, with many
minds. information can multiply it,
self in an extraordinary way. To
the practical folk. meagerly related
TO the imagination, a fact is a fact.
But out of a fact the imaginative
mind can draw a great array OF other
facts and differences and potentiSli-
ties.
There are writer's who are said TO
possess the gift OF divination. They
can describe periods and characters
that thoy knew nothing about from
eNperien e. that they perhaps know
little about from study.
How do they perform their fests?
Simply by making the most Of what
they have, by going through proc
esses Of reasoning partly conscious.
mainly unconscious.
That strange and elaborate mech
anism. the brain. will work for them,
even when they don't know it is
working, when they don't care wheth-
er II works or not, when they them
selves are apparently in the depths
Of unconsciousness or absorbed in the
| consideration OF alien matters.
II We only knew how much the
dulIest brain held we should probably
be startled and awed
Where does it keep all those rec
ords? Does It really lose nothing?
These questions one is tempted TO
ask when a memory associated with
years long gone by suddenly presents
itself. released by a sound. an OdOr,
a glance. or by a subtle association
beyond any tracing
Have you been down there all the
time? What have you been doing?
Have you been asleep or have you
been secretly active working evil or
good?"
often We hear OF some one who. by
/ some accident, has discovered that he
ductive, reveIing in his power. win
ming applause. taking a higher place
among his fellows.
Is he really different from the ordi-
nary person that used TO go by un-
noticed? Why didn't his talent mani
\ fest before? Has he always been
gifted? Or was the gift a mysterious
creation that took place when he
reached a certain age or experienced
sorrow or a Joy or found life turn
ing to dust and ashes in his mouth?
Was the gift a mere possibility that
something developed into a reality?
| These questions are not always easy
| to answer. In some cases, however,
one can see that the talent must have
/ been there, that it had been trying to
reach expression.
There are religions thar aave the
/ effect OF seeming to break down inhibl-
I lions. Now marvellous capacities come
into play. among them the supreme
capacity for turning life into a source
| OF happiness. What can the eNplana-
! tion be? is il that the source OF power
is within Us and that all We have to
/ do IL TO learn 10 open il up and let
/ il flow abundantly?
You can do it, Of course You can
| do it
! Words Of this kind echo and re-echO
! through life TO-DAY. They are asSo-
! ciated with aslonIs hing successes made
/ by people only TO" familiar with fail
ure and now Idrutifed with successes
| for the rest Of their days, masters
] of themselves and of life. with the
: brain al on, oppression Of their mas
| terry.
! the BRAN is 50 complex. it has so
many departments. that. with most
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09

Dr. Garfield,says he will study the more day
light" plan as soon as he straghtcns out the coal
trouble Hurry up Doc, and don't lose any time,
for the more daylight plan is a complicated
problem requiring lots OF study and next winter
may be here before you solve it You see' the
plan calls for turning the clocks ahead an hour
50 Won can get up an hour earlier without know
ing it.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09

qualities associ-
ated with tn Q
creative temper
ament- To write
those plays a
man of , genius
did not have to
be a scholar. A
little learning
may be a dan
gerous thing. but
W h m genius
puts 1t TO use II
m ay be c o. m e
miraculous.
IL IL II true. as
the Psychologist
say, that nothing
can come out OF
mind in the WAY
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
LINE O. CHEER
EACH DAY o. THE YEAR
by John kendrick Bangs.
EFFICIENCY.

EFFICIENCY.
Whene'er | see a fault in other men
don't abuse them with my tongue
and pen.
But look within with quite a little
care
To see il that same fault is lurking
there:
And IL find it in myself. instead
or batting other people on the head,
! gain a lot OF valuable pelf
BY hanmering away upon-MYSELF
tCopyright, 1881
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09

.THE people who argue that Shake
speare could not have written
i Shakespeare because he was 50
uneducated apparently don't under
stand either the marvellous possibili-
ties of the human brain. even when
II IL not elaborately trained, or the
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09

They've been having potato week in several
Western States and newspapers have been begging
folk to eat potatoes the big supply on hand
won't spoil. Another way to induce people to eat
potatoes is to raise the prices and then announce
there is shortage.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09

German prisoners, say dispatches carried maps
showing perfectly the American trenches. But tor
fear the Germans may learn something they
shouldn't know, follow the ccnsors rules and
keep the name OF the locality secret.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09

of dollars to the various causes of the Empire.
When the Halifax disaster was heard of a special
train with $4,000 worth of supplies was started to
Nova Scotia, the gift of the T. Eaton Company.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09

We have heard OF the case of per-
feCtly loyal citizen of Uncle Sam who
paid in a tax of over 1900 a year or
more ago and now, when the law un-
der which he has been taxed has been
declared unconstitutional. and the
government has admitted it should re-
turn the money to him, he Is una BILE
to get it. That was some time ago
and the government still has his
money. 1t is a little thing and Yet
the processes OF government should
be fast enough to see that this money
is paid back. There are numerous
cases along this line-and the men
concerned are quite sure, so some OF
them say to us, that a movement for
the abolishment OF red tape IN other
departments than the War Depart
ment would have their hearty indorse-
ment. THE OBSERVER.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09

Upon being decorated by Premier Clemenceau,
an American soldier from St Louis blushed and
retired to the ranks, says a cablcgram. From St
Louis Blushedo Must be d mistake. From Bal
timore, maybe.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09

Bolsheviki having signed for peace Sunday,
German avators promptly lombard Pctrograd
women and children Monday.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09

\ Dallas, Tex, child'4 weeks old has developed
iull sets OF teeth in both jaws They have to quit
milk and go onto alfalfa early, in Texas.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
ship democracy from its present

ship democracy from it's present
more or less safe moorings.
a campaign of education is start
ing 1t will he continued through
the year with increased fervor. The
hope is to bring the lesson Of after
the war" home to the common peo-
pie of the country-to make them
see that free trade will positively
bring them to the brink of ruin IL
they persist in it. And. very natu-
rally. the cause Of protection will
be advocated as the remedy for our
grossest economic i'll. Democrats are
preparing to defend the UnderWo ood
document and Republicans think
they foresee a condition, resultant
from the arrival of peace, which
will bring on a desire of the Amer
lean people TO repudiate that docu-
ment.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09

Up to March 1, Uboats had destroyed 0o2 Nor
wegian sailors. Not a man among them had any
show, being neutral
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09

We are brought to with a sudden
hitch and reminded that the old bat
tic of protection against free trade
is 10 be revived in the campaign
of 1918 and again two years hence,
with a violence WHICH may tear old
Bisbee daily review., 1918-01-22
plsTuReANeEs PoLITIcAl.

(RV Review Leased Wircl
 WASHINGTON. Jan. si.-LSbOr dis turbances in Austria are described aS political rather than economic in of ficial dispatches received here today. The demands made upon the govern ment in the statement of the commit tee of directors Of the socialist party of Austria are as follows;
 First. formal assurances that the conferences at BreSt-LitOvsk will not run the risk of failure because Of ter ritOrial exigeNcies Of any kind
 Second. complete refor min the pro visioning system.
 Third. an immediate proposal of a bin establishing universal equal and direct suffrage in the communal eiec- tons.
 Fourth. annulling of the measures whcih have been taken to militarize the work of the fsctroies and which have deprived the laborer or an his rights
 Won Seydler in a long statement de clared that the government would do it's utmost tO obtain a general peace. and that it did not wish for an in crease of territory at the expense of Russia. Regarding Poland. he assert cd that Austria Hungary would regard it as Sn independent state and that it did not wish to dictate it's constitution al form or O impose forced relations in case she should decide her own fate by popular vote.