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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-04
Hog Island and Fore River
Yards Hampered by
Disease
FEDERAL OFFICIALS
FIGHTING MALADY
Expert Worknen Like Riveters Down
With Grip in Such Numbers That
Production is Cut from 8. to 10 Per
Cent-Causes Under Investigation.


Production is Cut from 8. to 10 Per
Cent-Causes Under Investigation.
WASHINGTON, Oct spanish in
fuenza, which is epidemic in forty three
states, is having most serious effect
upon ship production in eastern yards,
particularly in the New England and
Philadelphia districts, it is stated by
Charles NJ. Schwab, director general of
the emergency fleet corporation.
Eight per cent of the men at the Hog
Island yard and 10 per cent at the Fore
River plants are down with the disease,
most of them skilled men, riveters or
other important workmen, he declared.
The percentage at all of the other yards
is high, but Hog Island and Fore River
plants, with from $500 to 5000 men each
under hospital care, are the worst hit.
| Hospitals at most of the yards are crowd
! ed, and special buildings are being put up
for the care of stricken men.
| If conditions grow worse, this situa
ton will give the shipbuilding program
the greatest blow it has sustained. The
setback in the work is most serious.
] Medical officers of the shipping board
have evolved a most successful method
of treating the disease, the principal cure
being fresh air and sunshine, but its
spread has not been stopped. Patients
are isolated wherever possible in special
" built bays with open fronts and sides.
| Drastic federal action to curb the cpl
demic that is assuming alarming pro-
portions is being taken in many direc
tions. Secretary McAdoo has offered
through the surgeon general the aid of
the public health service to all state
health authorities.
A number of officers have been sent
to New England particularly to the ship
building centers A hospital train has
been sent to New England carrying six
physicians, ten nurses and beds for fifty
lpatientS The Red Cross has been asked
to furnish nurses for many sections.
Investigations as to the causative or
ganism and possibilities for the proven
tion and cure of influenza are being con-
Quoted in all the laboratories of the
service. especially at the HYGIENE Labo-
ratory. Washington. ID. c., and an officer
has been instructed to look. especially
into the part played by carriers in the
transmission OF the epidemic. The value
of the vaccine recommended as prophy-
Tactic against the disease is being inves-
tigated Request has been made of the
national research council to have inyes-
legations of the disease conducted by
other laboratories in the country.
Bulletins in regard to the prevention
of the disease are being distributed a.
fast as supplies become available from
the government printing Office. Five
hundred thousand copies have been sent
to Red Cross chapters for local distr
button and an equal number are beil..
sent to state and local health autAori
ties and the sanitation zones which have
been established by the service arounC
environments throughout the country.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-04
Central Control of Economic
Forces is Now in
Operation
NEW SYSTEM CUTS
THROUGH RED TAPE
War, Shipping, Finance, Munitions and
Food Are to Come Under One Head
the Same as the Military-Plans for
the New Program.

the Same as the Military-PlanS for
the New Program.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4-The long
planned centralized control of all the
economic forces of the nations fighting
Germany is at last a fact. 1t applies
the principles of the unified military
command TO raw materials, manufactured
products, shipping, finance, food and the
export and import relations of the Unit
ed States and the co-belligerents.
The great plan was worked out by
President Wilson's so-called war cabi-
net and the allied missions. 1t has been
approved by the President and the pre-
miers OF the entente nations. That it is
actually III operation became known
through developments in Paris and Lon
don
| Coordination of effort by the associat-
ed governments in addition to military
and naval activity, amounting to cen
! tralized control, is built around the five
/ inter allied councils-war, shipping, mu-
nitions, food and finance, Under these
special bodies completion of common
economic and industrial program is now
Ebcing undertaken. principally in London
and Paris, and limited to the following
cases.
Where two or more governments are
interested in supplies which must be
! transported overseas to supplement de-
ficiencie~ in local production, or where
several sources Of supplies should be
agreed upon. together with the allot-
ment and method Of their distribution
or utilization or where there might with
out agreement by competition between
governments in procuring supplies or a
wasteful duplication of productive ef-
fort.
The programs will be co-ordinated with
France through the interalled finance
commission. with shipping through the
interallied shipping council and with eX-
port and import relations through an in.
terallied board made up of heads or rep
rescntatives of the American War Trade
board and similar departments of the
other governments.
Subordinate to the interallied councils
are being organized commodity commit
tees or executives.
The committee will deal directly Will
virtually all materials and cOmmoditie,
for the prosecution of the war. Thes,
include nitrates, tungsten and tin, inter
national pooling agreements for whicl
have recently been effected in Paris anC
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-04
BRITISH OFFICERS
MAY DANCE AGAIN
Rule in Force for Three Years as Dis
culinary Measure Now
Repealed.

LONDON, Sept. 2l,-On with the dance
is again the order of the day with the
British army. For over three years of !
ticers have been forbidden to dance in
any public places or clubs. and although
ways and extremely profitable ways at
that-have been found to evade this order
by Lieut.. Gen. Sir Francis Lloyd, who
commands the London area. the announce
ment that it has been rescinded has
caused general satisfaction.
What probably has influenced the Brit
ish authorities more than anything else
is the invidious position it has placed
British officers in comparison with Ameri-
can officers. When there were only a
few Americans over in London it did not
matter, but for some weeks past Ameri-
can officers have been dancing every eve
ming at Murrays-the popular London
night club, controlled by Jack May. the
Anglo American host of many similar
clubs-and the British officer has natural
ly felt it hard luck that he should not
be allowed to do what his American.
French, Belgian and Italian comrades
were permitted to do.
1t had even been suggested to the
Americans that they should refrain from
| udncliB, Dut lills uIu llpJ meet NlJn APP
proval. Also the American authorities
strongly supported the efforts which had
been made to rescind the order affecting
British officers
Now naval, army and air service of.
ficers have been permitted to dance al
Murray's club, Sir Francis Lloyd having
informed Jack May that he proposed tC
rescind this disciplinary regulation which
prohibited officers going to ANY dancing
or other night club in uniform
For some time past it had been evi
dent that this order would be rescinded
In the first place conditions are entirely
different from those existing when thu
order came into force.
Then complaints were received from
commanding officers that many officer,
under training were dancing all night
with the consequence that these youn,
men were not fit to put in a full day
drill and their training suffered
In those days also clubs could keel
open all night, but today all public dane
ing halls must be closed down at |,
o'clock.
-sK5 BUY LIBERTY BONDS 81
! Tho oor.prr ro,i1l.r
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-04
-~s BUY LIBERTY BONDS a.

The Kaiser is aging rapidly accord
ing TO a Swiss newspaper. So are the
rest of us for that matter.-Burling-
ton News.
The Irish standard., 1918-02-16
STRONG CATHOLIC REPRE-.
SENTATION AT CAMP GORDON
Over 40 Per Cent of Enrolment of
Catholic Faith-Methodists Are Sec
ond on List-This Percentage Is
About Average Maintained at Other
Camps.

The PERCENTAGE OF men protesting
adherence to various creeds in the
army camps scattered all over the
country is surely topic of vital in
terest to every one. In addition to
the census taken at both Camps Grant
(Rockford) and Logan (Houston)
which were cited in the New World,
only recently the New York American
published an article stating that at
Camp Mcclellan in Texas there were
1880 Catholics in total enrolment
of 10000, which makes the camp
about As per cent Catholic.
Now comes the Atlanta Constitu-
ton, Georgia's leading daily, with a
complete enumeration of the various
religious professions of the men en-
rolled at Camp Gordon, Ca, and here,
too, we find large number of Cath
olics, equal to 41.9 per cent of the
total. Says the Atlanta Constitution:
Formal announcement of the re-
suits of the recent religious census
taken at Camp Gordon by the officers
in charge of the personal survey of
the Eighty-second Division was made
on - by officials at division head
quarters.
'The following figures represent the
exact number of adherents to various
religious creeds:
The Irish standard., 1918-02-16
boys from the farthest camps.

boys from the farthest camps.
I'VE are handicapped somewhat by
the raw weather, but am daily at my
post in the Knights of Columbus hut,
afternoons and evenings. What will
give you fair idea of the knights of
Columbus work in my case, and that
the boys are interested, is the fact
that at (deleted by censor) and at
(deleted by censor) l sat nine and q
half hours in the confessional on
Christmas eve and Christmas morn
ing. Our boys have edited both par
ishes,"
Club House Rented.
A report has also been received
concerning the work of the Rev.
Joseph M. Blais, formerly of BEDFORD,
New York. A representative of the
Knights of Columbus Committee on
War Activities writes from the Paris
office: Il went to see Father Blais
bright and early the day after Christ
mas y and we had q two
hours talk and next morning we went
to the house which he has rented.
1T fronts on the river and the sun
pours in the front windows. There
are four rooms on the ground floor of
fairly good size, four bedrooms on the
second floor, one of which is to be &C.
cupied by the French Liason officer
which is most diplomatic move on
Father Blais part, and great ad-
vantage-and very good attic where
the boys can have wrestling, boxing
and medicine ball during the bad
weather. Back of the house there is a
large stone terrace and beautiful
garden where they can have all sorts
OF games during the summer.
There is no such thing in (deleted
by censor) as the chance for either
officers or men to take bath. Out at
the camp even drinking water is
scarce, so Father Blais has fine idea
of two shower baths in the corner of
the garden which is sheltered by
shrubs and trees
The Irish standard., 1918-02-16

United Brethren, 145; Reformist, 1903;
Evangelical, "a; Anglicans, 70; First
Reformist, 60; Jewish Orthodox, 66.
The Irish standard., 1918-02-16
President McWhorter's
Circular to |. A. A. 0. /.

Many Matters Of Interest to Ladies'
Auxiliary Treated-Urges Prompt
ness in Filing Division Reports
Review Of Mass Outfits Work-Na-
tional Hibernian Status Discussed
Funeral Benefit Fund Advocated
War Relief Fund to Be Augmented
by Sale Of "Glories Of lreland"-
Liberty Bond, Thrift Stamps and
Food Conservation Urged-Presi-
dent Wilson's Letter Of Apprecia-
ton.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-21
Lord cornwalIis KneebuckIes.

At the time of the Revolutionary war. a brave little girl 1amed Anna Randolph, lived on a farm not far from Philadelphia. Her father and two brothers had joined the American army under the command of George Washington.
 Anna and her mother were left alone to take care of the farm.
 Two years before the war, Anna's father had given her a calf for a pet. At one time during the war the Eng fish was in Philadelphia. The sol- diers as they marched through the country took the wheat and corn of farmers and took Anna's pet as well. Tn great grief she begged fo, her calf, but her words had no effect. As soon as they were gone, she ran to the barn, .saddled her pony and went at full speed to see Lori Cornwallis. It was a brave thing for a small girl like her to do
 A soldier was marching back and forth in from of the generals quarters.
 What do you want?" he asked An na as she galloped up.
 T wish to see Lord CornNallis' she said.
 'What is vour business with him ?' asked the soldier.
  piled the girl
 So the soldier let her rass. Lord i CornwaHis and some officers were at dinner when Anna ruShcl in the room.
 What do you want, my child? ?' asked the general.
 "I want my COW. sir. Your soldiers have taken Ter away ans I came to get her I am Anna Randolph. and live three miles from here with my mother. Have you seen r1y COW, sir ?' | Have von no father or brothers Anna" asked the general, kind.".
 Yes, sir! But they are in the American army.
 O. ho! So they are rebels, are
 @oh, yes. sir. We are all rebels i round here if you please sir"
 And you are a bit of a rebel your self?"
 "Yes. indeed! was born so,'
 The general threw back his head and laughed "And your COW is a rebel too. I suppose?"
 q thinI, so, sir. She is the incest COW I ever knew
 The general and his officers laugh ed again. Look here, my little rebel said Cornwallis, soberly, don't YOU know we are here to f1Sh- the rebels
 'Yes, but you are bound to respec' their rights Anna answered. "Oh sir" she continued, q raised my CON myself She has always leen mine It can't belong to you. must have her would never steal your COW, sir the little girl said, proudly. The general rose, Come here, m!
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-21

uniform place she can find amid the daisies or the timothy and clover, and places her simple structure upon the ground in the midst Of it.
 There is no concealment, except as he greater comedies the little.
 You may find the nest cnce, if your course chances to lead you across 1t and vour eye is quick enough to note the silent brown bird as she darts quickly away; but step three paces in the wrong direction, and your search will probably be fruitless.
 Bobolinks build in considerable num- bers in a meadow within a quarter or 2 mile of us. A houseless lane passed through the midst of their camp, and in clear weather. at the right season, one may hear a score of them singing at once. When they are breeding, IT chance to pass, one of the mae Dlros always accompanies me like a consta : ble. flittering from post to post Of the rail fence, with short note Of re- proof continually repeated. till am fairly out of the neighborhood.
 Then he will swing away into the air and run down the wind, gurshnS rnusic without stint over the unheed- ing tussoclls of meadow grass and dark clumps of bulrushes that mark his domain. .-,
 CLARENCE HATHAWAY, Age l4. -
 Goshen, Mass.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-21

Thames lodge, I. o. o. F., at it's meet lns last week. About 75 members, with 50 guests from New London, were present. After the meeting an oyster supper was served under direc- ton of Norman C. Allen. An interest," ing lecture on the Yellowstone Park illustrated by stereopticon slides. was given. This lodge has Is members in the U. S. service and has purchased a nag in their honor. Each star on the nag has the name of the member it represents.
 Miss Grace Allison of Hoyloke, Mass. arrived Saturday for a few days visit at the home of her uncle, Newton Landphere.
 Miss Jennie Ffnnegan attended the 50th wedding anniversary of MT. and Mrs: Edward Grosvenor at Pomfret.
 The Ladies Aid society of the Meth odist church is. to hold a harvest s,1n- per followed by an entertainment,
 James Street. while skunk hunting recently, was badly bitten by a skunk winch was escaping into .. nearby wall. MT: Street, fearing it would get away. picked it up. The skunk turned upon him, biting his hand. MT. Street i'm medlately dropped the animal, which was finally killed by his dog.
 A new platform is being built at the [. M Robertson Co.'S mill.
 The body of John l.. Comstock, whose death occurred in Hempstead, \. ,4., was brought to Comstock's cem- 1 etery for burial last week.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-21
A Pair of Robins.

Dear Uncle Jed: As I was sittin; by the window last spring, a robiI and his mate flew into q tree near me They were looking for a good tree tt weave their nest in so that Mrs. RobiT Redbreast could have some little bab? robins. They flew here and there getting sticks and hair and other thing. robins think suitable for a nest. l took them all day to get a nest to sui them, for robins are very particular you know,
 I took out some crumbs of bread ar( other things to put on an old log tt see if they would eat them. After tha I fed them every morning and the! cleaned every crumb from the log. ] was afraid they would get too lazy il fed them too much.
 Next week my father made a bird house pretty enough to please even peacock. It had windows, with small blinds, very small porch and only one room inside. They seemed quite pleased with it. Not long after l supported the roof, and, the robins came down, trying to tell me that they would soon. have some young robins. In a few days the little ones came out of the sky-blue eggs. After they got their feathers they were very cunning; but one day a sad thing happened. One little robin, Speckle fell out of his nest to the ground. Pussy epied him before I did and car ried the helpless little thing away. where he could torture it unobserved. l discovered it by seeing Mrs. Robin l flying wildly about, near the place
 where her darling was kept prisoner.
 I ran out to chase the cat and finally caught him. The poor birdie was all but dead. Pussy did not know that it was wrong to kill birds, but I don't | forgive Pussy at that.
 After a few days Speckle began to | recover, so that I could put him in | the nest with. his grateful mother | When I went back into the house
 and sat down I heard a great chirping 1 outside. l looked out and saH MT. and
 Mrs. Robin happily singing. They
 seemed to say We are glad we came
 to live here We are glad to live here''
 BLANCH MONTGOMERY, Age F. PaChaug.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-21
STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE
 AWAkES.
The Spiders Judgment.

To test the judgment of a spider put fly, twice the size of the spi- der, into the cage. The spider seem e1 to recognize the strength of her Toe; for the latter, when it got on it's legs, whirled against the side of the cage, and wholly destroyed the threads CT the web with little difficulty. Ire spider saw that any further use Of her. silky thread would be of no ava1I. rey- c tlthetess. she stationed herself nearest 10 the struggling fly and hesitated here for a few moments.
 She seemed 10 say to herself: 70 t.7at my silky thread was only thick and durable. What can I do toWaTd capturing him? If I could only ex haust him. but l have no means to do it. My thread is about as good as nothing"
 Then she moved slowly td corner and remained there quietly for a while.
 I noticed that the fly, instes6 of buzzing round and round inside the cage, firted against a certain side re re eatedly. This the spider must have perceived; for she dashed from the corner and sped to the floor of the cage, on which was lying a piece of thread thicker and more dura b1e than her own. Tn fact, it was the re- mainins thread of large spider that once occupied the cage. The spider hurried up the side against which the fly was repeatedly Whirhng, carrying this piece of waste thread. The thread was then sus pended on this side. and the fv got entangled in 1t every time that he %nlrled against it. As often as he croke away, he got entangled m # asain, and his fate was not far off, HIS strength was a5 the point of sfv- 1 ing way. as shown by the decrea SC 1 of his resistance.
 At length the scene closed with the spider rejoicing ever her final victory. What made her take LID that wssta thread? Why did she not use her own thread? Why did she suspend tbe thread on that side instead of else where? The answer is because she had judgment.
 EDITH ". HATHAWAY. 1 Goshen, Mass.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-21

said the father of large family one morning in the early spring. when he came in from doing his chores. Then the children laughed in glee, for bis g. bird was a sure sign of spring.
 Bluebirds and house wrers were all ways welcome about tha. home, for the father insured their presence every year by putting up boxes for their nests.
 z So in the springtime the father cut small; round hole in one box and nailed that up for the wrens, and made a larger round hole ir another box, which he fastened securely to the branch of a tree for the Hiuebirds.
 With what interest the children watched the busy workers when, with patient skill. they brought suitable twigs to make their nests.
 One spring. by mistake, the door of both the bird houses were made large enough to admit a blu"bi-d. This caused some confusion on the part of the builders, but at length the blue birds settled upon one Ste, and the | wrens, after much scolding, adopted the other. But, alas! in the midst ot the nest building, second pair ot hluebirds arrived. and by virtue oi their superior size and strength, took possession of their home.
 | Of course father made s new boz for the wrens, but the tel of theil house building was doubled. When the brooding time of the mother was ended. the children were wild with excitement to sec the baby l bluebirds. Their curiosity was SCOT gratified; but the sight of the, ugly film covered eyes. and the gapins mouths was a shock to their feelings for they had always thought babies O such beautiful birds should be beau 1 tiful, also.
 ELIZABETH SHAW.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-21
The Nest of a Bohnjink

Dear Uncle Jed: l am going to teil you about q bobolinl + I were n bird, in building my nest I should fol- low the example of the bobolink, plac- ing it in the midst of a broad mea- dow, where there was no spear of grass, or flowers or growth unlike an ether to make it's site. l judge that the bobolink escapes the danger to which I have adyerted as few or no birds do. Unless the mowers come along at an earlier date than she has anticipated, that is, before July first, CT a skunk goes nosing through the grass, which is unusual, she is as safe ae bird well can be in the great field Cf nature.
 She elects the most monotonous and
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-21
The Return of the MavHowsr.

The morning sun rose brightly over the village Of Plymouth where the people had long been astir. The sad day had arrived when the good little ship. "Mayfiower' was to rerurn home to England It was sad blow to them because if now the people want ed to go homa to England they could not as the good little vessel would be gone, never to come back.
 It was just ten o'clock and the peo- pie were slowly walking to the shore to bid a last farewell to the faithful little vessel which had brought them safely across the great ocean. But no one wants to go back because if they did they would have no religious free dom as they now had in tfejr rude lit tie village.
 As the little boat became a mere speck in the distance, t,ars stood in their eyes as they waited With hats off and heads bowed But there was a great many dangers to face and lots of work to be done. so they slowly went back to their village
 There they worked hard and re- ligious liberty grew till 1t extended all over the country
 Thus. by our crave. heroic ancestors we now have religious freedom. EDITH HELEN STOWE Age 14. Norwich.