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Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
THE IRISH SITUATION

LOYD GEORGE offers home rule and conscrlphon to Ire A land announcements contiguous as to warrant al guess intended to compensate for the other
 The volunteering from Ireland has been heavy Some nun hmen of draft age needed for ship build ing production The remainder against whom the draft would operate largely composed of men who would if there quarrel between Eng llnd and Ireland.
 The sympathy between the Irish in America and those ln
 Gnd is deep and of long existence How will the Irish in feel about conscrpion for the Irish in Ireland?
 The quarrel is not Britans but the worlds. The Irish from everywhere fighting including hundreds of thousands the of Ireland The Irish in America have volunteered numbers have taken their due place in the draft They will which is good enough to command their support good enough demand the support of all lshmen
 The rshman who has volunteered from Ireland will feel the same but strongly He will regard the rishman who behind slacker His life is involved and all he believes in and prays for.
 To talk revolution and armed resistance upon the part Ireland to speak of something which cannot be realized
 program for home rule will reconcile lrishmen to conscripion The welfare of rhmen already fighting will reconcile many There is little danger that conscnpton will be seriously resisted in Ireland.
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
EASTERN ROADS KIDDING LINES
 FROM T|E-UPS Congestion During the Bad Weather Being Cleared
 Up By Railroads. WILL TAKE A MONTH
 TO CLEAR YARDS Pennsylvania Lines Were Most Congested, Accord
 ing to Officials.

Washington, April 16.-Eastern railroads slowly are ridding their lines of the big freight congestion which developed during the long period of bad weather last December and Jan uary, but indications are that it will take a month longer to restore con- ditions to normal.
 A report of the Railroad Admins tration today showed 41,726 cars more than normal held on Eastern lines The Pennsylvania east of Pittsburgh were the most crowded, with 12,665 cars above normal capacity.
 The secon5 most congested road in the East is the Baltimore & Ohio, with 5,442 cars more than normal. Other roads show:
 New York Central, 3,2S0; Lehigh Valley, 2,345; Pennsylvania lines West l, 500; Boston & Maine, 1850; Dela- ware. Lackawanna & Western, 1,192; Buffalo, Rochester & ittsburgh, 7S4; Delaware & Hudson, 2S6; Michigan Central, 750; Nickel Plate, 1,1S3; New Haven; 913; Philadelphia & Reading 664.
 The Erie has cleared away all con- gestiOn. Improvement of motive pow CT and good weather are expected tc make it possible for Eastern lines te approach normal conditions by the middle of May.
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
IRISH PROTEST
 DRAFT IN MANY PARISH MEETINGS

London, April 16.-Meetings to pro- test against conscription were held in many parishes in Ireland, all classes of the population participating, says a dispatch from Dublin to the Times. Clergy took a leading part in all the meetings. Resolutions of protest are pouring in from public bodies and Sim Fein clubs are very active.
 "Unquestionably," the dispatch adds, 'the present temper of Nation alist Ireland is very deplorable. The country has lost all sense of propor- tion and has forgotten, not merely home rule but the war. It is a coun- try of contradictions, however, for in Dublin and some other towns volun tary recruiting has been remarkably good in the last few days"
 The committee which is in charge of the drafting of an Irish home rule bill, says The Times, includes J. Aus ten Chamberlain, former secretary for India. This, it adds, is a fact which suggests that he already is or is about to become a member of the war cabinet"
 The same paper prints an appeal from Unionist members of parliament urging the immediate introduction of a measure of home rule, "as generous as can be devised by the light of the recent discussions of the Irish conven- ton and in harmony with the ultimate goal of federal devolution.''
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
COTTON DECLINE
 CAUSES FLOOR
 BROKER TO FAIL

New York, April 16-On the open ing of the New York cotton market today with another severe decline in prices, the failure of Gay L. Schiffer, one of the best known floor brokers on the exchange, was announced It was said that his liabilities were not large.
 Schiller became a member of the exchange in 1893.
 First prices today showed breaks of from 45 to 110 points May contracts opened at 2S.50, July at 27.75 and October at 26.30.
 Although the market continued ex- tremely nervous, a qusck recovery followed. October selling up to 26.so.
 Liverpool cabled heavy selling or ders here, the market there recording the maximum decline allowed in one day.
 The first break was equivalent to S5 a bale or about $50 a bale below | the highest of the season.
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
AIREDALE GOES
 BACK TO WILDS

An instance of a dogs return to the savage state of his wolf ancestry came ito light in February in the Yellow stone National Park when Scout An derson's report of trip into the Buff falo Fork country contained, under the heading of predatory animals kill ed, mention of one mountain lion, one bobcat, four coyotes, and an Aire- dale dog.
 This dog, which probably wandered into the park from some farm or set clement few miles over the border, has been living in the Yellowstone in a wild state for several years. Whether or not he fraternized with his cousins the wolves and the coyotes can not be known certainly. No doubt he lived as they live at the expense of young and weaker deer and elk, and smaller prey. Probably he lived alone, against all animal kind as they were against him. There are well au- thenticated instances of dogs thus re- turning to savage nature. It speaks well for his tenacity and strength that, alone of his kind in a country where all kinds of wild animals live
 still their natural lives, he survived. | He may have been a dog of good pedi- gree.
 Anyway, the dog had been seen at | intervals for several years and was of ficially classed among the animals which, alone of all Yellowstones an- | imals, are sought and killed because
 destructive of the harmless animals which make of this national park the
 best populated wild animal preserve | in the world.
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
TO PROVIDE COzY
 HOMES FOR MEN BACK FROM FRONT

London, April 16-A new plan to provide comfortable homes for dis charged soldiers by enlisting country people to act as Country hosts to the army men has just been launched by the Marquis of Sligo, himself a former captain in the army and Wis count Knutsford, long interested in charitable enterprises. They have formed the Country Host Institution which hosts are urged to join.
 The scheme has a two-foId object. It aims, not only at giving the broken soldiers a lift but also to qualify them for farming work, thus increas- ing the countrys food supply.
 Briefly the plan requires the host to provide free lodging and board for the man and a good-sized garden or farm in which suitable, light outdoor work can be found for him. The man selected as guests shall be of good character, sober, not suffering from any serious ailments and able to look after themselves.
 An allowance of 1 5 shil1ings a week will, if required, be paid direct to the former soldier in return for his labor.
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
ARRANCETRA
 SCHEDULES FOR ARMY MECHANICS
Final Increment Will Be Moved to Boston to Study
 on May First.
' STAMFORD MEN
 GO FROM BRIDGEPORT
Will Be Given Two Months Training At the Wen
 worth Institute.

Hartford, April 16-Following conference between Adit.-Gen. George M. Cole and the New Haven road the train schedule by which Connecticut's final increment of draft registrants irducted for army service as mechaE- ics will be moved to Boston May was announced today. All Hartford men for this service entrained Mon day
 Three Greenwich men, leaving there at 8:55 a. m., will leave New Haven at 10:33 on a special train reaching Boston at 2:24 p. m. The special will leave South Norwalk at 9:19, taking five men there. At 9:29 five men will be taken in Stamford. Seven Strat- ford men will catch the special in Bridgeport at 1O:01. Three Milford men, leaving there at 10 o'clock, will catch the special in New Haven.
 Five Branford men will leave there on a train at S:53 a. m., which will take on five men in Groton at 10:04.
 Three Ridgefeld men will leave Danbury at 7.2O on train stopping in Hartford at $50, leaving there at 11:24, and reaching Boston at 2:43. To meet this train three New Milford men will leave that town at 6:11, stopping at Hawleyville at 6:49. Two men will leave Canaan at $40 and make the special at Hartford, as will five Torrington men who will board a train there at 9:19 and leave Winsted at $40. Five men leaving Meriden at 10:52 will reach Hartford at 11:19. The special will stop in Vernon at 11:43 and take on three Stafford men leaving Rockville at 11:30. In Willi- mantle at 1928 the special will re- ceive three Plainfeld men. Nine Ansonia men will board the special in that town at 9:4S. Three from Naugatuck will entrain there al 1O:08.
 A train leaving Plainville at 7:54 will receive there seven men from Pennington. In East Hartford at S:36 it will take on five men and reach Boston at 1928.
 Another train will receive two Mid. dletown men in that town at 7:4S a m. It will leave Middletown at 8:1( and reach Willimantic at 9:21, where the men will board the train reaching Boston at 1928. Two Deep River mer will entrain in Midd1etowr at S:10. Four Norwich men will leave there at 9:05, Putnam at 10:13 and reacl Boston at 1928. Five Sufield mer will leave Thompsonville at 10:12 Springfield at il o'clock and reacl Boston at 2 o'clock.
 All these men will be given twt months training at the Wentwortl l institute, Boston.
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
EXEMPTIONS AND STRIKING

T EXEMPTION FOR industrial is conferred solely H. because the work of the exempted regarded useful to his country than his service soldier would be- When the exempted stops working the for his exemption automatically and nothing remains except to induct him into the service.
 There is for strikes in ammunition factories. Just grievances will be redressed by the government, and should be borne until the has time to adjust them
 Society cannot permit the lives of it's soldiers and sailors who endure much to be eopardzed by the caprice of who would stop production because of inconvenience that these times scarcely worth the time of to speak about
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
A WISE CONCLUSION

" HE GERMAN-AMERICAN Alliance is better dissolved It
 ought to be followed in this policy by all organizations America which for their object the preservation of language and natonaIsm not American.
 It is not consistent with American policy that groups of men, coming other lands to profit by the superior cond tons this soil should organize themselves into exclusive groups upon the ideals and tongues of foreign national ities
 Under this theory, German language newspapers have proper function the American poty and generally speak ing foreign language newspapers are out of place.
 Solidarity is above everything necessary to the successful defense of the United States Separatve principles and ns utons must be far possible eliminated for the well be- ngof everybody.
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
LYNCH LAW

TT HE NEW sedon act what slight form ery existed for application of lynch law to those pected of dsoyay Hereafter mobs who take the law into their own hands, will be apprehended and punished
 If any knows of disloyal person. let that man port the facts to the proper Federal officer preferably Bridgeport and vicinity to MT Lane charge of secret service or to any Federal officer.
 Acts that should be reported may consist of words ndica ing disloyaly of dsoya acts though they may be M vial and of anything that proves anybody to be dsafeced with the government and it's purpose to carry the war
 Mob justice is frequently not justice at a and may be the consequence of somebody's spite malice. Lynch law America provocative of lynch law in Germany though there few Americans the Kaisers territory those few
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
TRACTOR PLOUGHS
 MAKE NEW RECORD

London, April 16-New English records for tractor ploughing were set in the annual spring tests at sthe new government Tractor School of Instruction at Mossley Hill. Two types of light tractor plough of the model adopted by the British govern ment as most suitable for British re- quirements, worked for twelve con- secutive hours in the tests.
 The ground was 8. light soil and the tractors were required to pull four-furrow ploughs the depth of the furrow being six inches and the land fairly level, but slightly rocky. The work accomplished by the ploughs averaged 11.75 acres each, and the fuel consumption was 2.46 gallons per acre The engines were run continuously for the allotted twelve hours.
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
Making An Aviator
 Worth Army Corps
(By Henry Woodhouse. in
 look" for April.)

Nby denTN WOOQHIOuSSs HI W OIIQ
 look" for April.)
 To make an aviator worth an army corps involves extensive training exceptional care and good equipment.
 "In tn eearly stages of the war" Alan R. Hawley, president of the Aero Club of America, points out, 'aviators were only used for scouting and directing artillery fire and there was no fighting in the air, no anti aircraft barrage fire, no night patrol duty, no day and night bombing of the eEemy at close range, no contact patrol, nor any of the other 20-odd dangerous duties which military and naval aviators must perform today. And the Allies count on the aviators to decide the war in the air by main taining supremacy in the air by day and night.
 Do you realize what that means? Do you realize that in the air no quar- ter is given, no wounded or prisoners taken?
 Tn all other branches of the service danger begins only with active ser vice. In the aviation service it begins with training"
 The life of an aviator is one of in creased intensity. After spending six weeks at ground schooF' at one of the Universities, where he learns the theory of flight, wireless, aerial gun nery, ct cetera, he is sent to an avia- ton training camp, where he receives filing training in aeroplanes having a speed of not over 80 miles an hour. He first flies with an instructor, then alone and after 40 or more hours of flying training in aeroplanes having ing, which includes flying in machines having a speed of up 70 135 miles an hour aerial acrobacy, bomb dropping, shooting at moving targets, directing artillery fire, taking photographs from different attitudes, cross-country fly ing, etc
 The coming 12 months wT1I nee a greater amount of air raids and aerial fighting, and the tendency will be to employ large numbers of large war | planes for major aerial operations against military and naval bases.
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
A DUTY FOR LAWYERS

A MITCHELL PALMER, cuodan of alien enemy proper
 As y has asked the 10000 lawyers, not in the army report alien property of which any of them have knowledge.
 Had this order been issued earlier the industry for the cea!ment of alien property might have been less thriving notorious that lawyers in Connecticut have not been unwilling to aid enemy aliens By the of devices alien property has been brought into corporate orm protected from Federal seizure How patriotic this work has been each must judge for himself.
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
FIRE DESTROYS
 ZEPPELIN WORKS IN SWITZERLAND

Geneva, Switzerland April s6.--- Enormous loss was caused by the fire that started Saturday in the zeppelin works in Manzel, near F>riedrichsha- ven and destroyed the plant, accord ing to reliable reports from Rors- chach, on Lake Constance. Vast quantities of raw materials were burned and it is reported thai two large zeppelins and 40 aeroI lanes comprising the whole fleet then ist the plant. also were destroyed.
 Many warehouses were redused to ashes, as also were the offices of the plant. The number of victims was considerable
 There was something like a panic in the town where several houses l were set on fire.
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
A SIMPLE PROTECTION

T FREQUENTLY the solution of problem is missed through the of effort devoted to search for something The Shipping board, after considering multitude of make ships unsnkabe has decided that the most icabe scheme to increase the number of bukheads which be done for trifng expense and with great loss of cargo space.
 Hereafter American merchant ships will be divided into eight water tight compartments, instead of four.
 The experience with submarine damage is great Many facts at hand to show what injury done to hu by torpedo explosion Not every ship orpedoed is sunk Many limp into port though much wounded There is plenty of peence show that eight bulkheads will greatly increase the probability of vessel remaining afloat and making her way into harbOr if hit
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
To Launch First
 Ship During May

Hoboken;- N.. J.. April 15-The first ship built at the governments re- quest by the United States Steel Co.,, will be launched in Newark, E. J., by the middle of May, and the two yards in Mobile, Ala, and Newark will be prepared to turn out a com pleted ship every 10 days, Ebert H. Gary, chairman of the corporation. announced here today at the annual meeting of the stockholders.
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
S25O,00O BLAZE
 IN STOCK YARDS

Toronto, April 16- Bremen virtually has extinguished thls morn ing fire which did s75O,000 damage at the plant of the Harris Abattoir Co. at the union stock yards after burning throughout the night. Half a million dollars worth of packing house foodstuffs was destroyed and S250,0o0 damage was done to the plant and auxiliary buildings.
 The police are investigating a re- port of a mysterious explosion pre- ceding the fire, which started in the plants laundry.
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
ST. LOUIS BANKS
 LEAD IN DRIVE

Washington, April 15.---According to latest adNices to the treasury de- partment the St. Louis federal reserve district has obtained a larger per centage of it's quota to the third Lib erty loan than any other district in the country. The total reported was 36 per cent of it's quota of $130 coo, 600, and this did not include the city of St Louis
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
FAIRFIELD FINANCE

on ~ HE VOTERS of Fairfield decided favor of fi- 1 board by vote of nearly two to The deci n is The town meeting has many advantages itl cumbersome for the successful construction of budgets
 financial provision for the support of growing community eds careful consideration that its income be wisely pended The recommendations of the finance committee are not in true limitation upon democratic Large bodies cannot act ntelgeny except upon knowledge facts This knowledge should be obtained representing the body The report of committee merely guide to action, and not controlling unless the judgment the voters cOncides If committee of the town course and the town adopts the action will usually be the soundes much sounder haphazard action of the whole body of voters taken without
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
Forces Landed To
 Protect Interests

Washington, April 16.7--In giving out today the text of statement made in Vologda by Ambassador Francis the State department made it clear that the landing of Japanese and British forces in vladiyostok was not in pursuance of any international agreement. but merely for the pur- pose of protecting ths Japanese and British interests
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
INSTRUCTOR IS
 KILLED IN FALL

Austin, Tex, April 15-Lieut. E. B. Markham, flying instructor at Kelly Field, was instantly killed when the machine in which he was flying with a cadet dropped while trying tail shift, dropped from a height of 200 feet The cadet was not hurt.
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
NEW BARRACKS
 FOR NAVAL MEN

Cambridge, Mass, April 16-The work of reftting College house, one of the oldest Harvard dormitories for use as barracks for students ct the naval wireless school here, was begun today. It is expected that quar- ters for 300 students will be provid- ed
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
S1OO,OOO IN BONDS
 TAKEN BY CLUB

Chicago, April 1.-The Chicago Ma tional Baseball club has subscribed for $10O,000 worth of Third Liberty bonds, being the unexpended part of the $250, 900 that the stockholders ap- propriated late last year for the pur- pose of purchasing new players and otherwise strengthening the team.
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
ENGLISH CASUALTIES.

London, April 15-A casualty list published by the war office today contains the names of 504 officers. Seventy-nine were killed. 2S5 died of wounds and 40 are missing.
 Presumably this is the first casual ty list from the heavy fighting iu France in the last three weeks
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
TWO AMERICANS
 REPORTED KILLED

Ottawa, April 1s-The names of the following Americans are included in last nights casualty list:
 Killed in action-E. Gadbois, Hol- yoke, Mass.
 Died Of wounds-G. F1ndlay, Man chester, N. H.
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
THE MAN, YANKE

HE DIFFICULTIES that confront the service
 Bridgeport are illustrated by the man, Yanke, who arrested the other day at the instance of Mir ne in charge of the work of the department of justice Bridgeport ank had been frequent visitor at the office of Mr. protest his loyalty to the United States He had been received face value and accorded privileges Yet he absolutely
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
SIX OF CREW DROWNED

Halifax April 16.-Six members of the crew of the former Lunenburg schooner Wantauga, torpedoed on March 27, were lost when boat con- taining them capsized as they were about to make a landing.
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
14e HONOR DISTRICTS.

v~es,-A-yten, April 1s-New Eng land reported 146 Liberty loan honor communities with oHe-half of the districts total subscribed in MaAsa- ehusetts.
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19
FIXING THE PRICE OF COAL

XXT HEN MR. RUSSELL fixes the price of coal it would
 w pleasing if he would state the elements that enter into his price, Coal costs much at the mine It costs much to freight by rail- mixed rail leading storage and delivery cost money How much allow ed in Mr Russels tentative figures for each these mrntS'
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19

loyal and finally discovered tearing down government Liberty loan posters He will be interned he should be-
 German citizens often have first knowledge of this sort For their sakes they should report all such the department of justice The principle of seproecon is strongly involved in such course
Republican farmer., 1918-04-19

The Federal Labor Department an- nounced that more than 100000 men are being sent to work in munition factories and shipyards every month