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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15
BRIDGEPORTER is
YOUNGEST MAJOR

Bridgeport people will be interest
ed to learn that Clinton B. Amorous
who was for many years associated
with the sales department of the Lo-
comobile Company in this city, is one
of the youngest majors in the United
States army. Shortly after this coun-
try entered the war he offered his ser
vices to the government. He passed
the severe aviation test and was or
dered to report at the Omaha balloon
school. Recently he was commission
ed a major in the Signal Corps He is
at present stationed at Washington.
Major Amorous is a very young man
TO have been given so high a commits
sion. 1t was because Of his thorough
knowledge of gasoline engines and
his powers of orgs Tization that he
won the proud distinction of being
for time the youngest major in
America.
He has been an automobile enthusi-
asst and expert since the earliest days
! of the gasoline motor. In 1906 at Or
mond Beach he established an Ameri.
can record for the mile, driving one
| of the old Pope Toledo cars. He stud
led engineering at Georgia Tech from
which university he graduated in
1908, and also at Cornell.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15
TEUTON AGENTS
CAUSE LIBERTY
BOND UNLOADING
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workman approached by an agent of
the enemy and urged to sell his bond,
would furnish him with the name or
description of the party spreading the
propaganda.
eff anyone will give US tangible in
formation 10 go upon We will be only
too glad to place the guilty ones under
arrest and I can assure you that they
will be severely dealt with when con-
victed of creating lack of confidence
in the United States government"
When seen today Agent Lane had
one Of the bank statements before him
and was giving the matter his deep
attention. With information supplied
the Department of Justice, by the man
ufacturers, bankers and workmen it is
expected that quick and decisive action
will be taken by the Federal authori-
ties to crush out the propaganda which
is spreading a feeling of distrust of
the government among the workers in
the shops.
The propaganda of inducing workers
to sell their Liberty Bonds at greatly
reduced price is not new idea in this
MY IL llctS dlSO Dt0H WOThSu IN OlHbI
parts of the country extensively. Last
year the authorities took a strong
hand in the matter and after a brief
but successful war waged upon the
spreaders Of falsehoods the Prussiar
agents all Bcurried to cover.
Communications have poured in to
the offices of the Manufacturers AS
ISOLATION about the underground
workings of the "Potsdam Dasc-
hounds" and workmen have beer
warned by factory heads to be on the
lokout for these glib tongued agents
The Manufacturers Association call.
attention to the fact that Hun agent.
were busy during the last Liberty
Loan drive and that they did theil
utmost at that time to make tn,
worker believe that the Liberty Bond
were not worth a fraction of thei
face value.
After today's meeting the Manufac
turers' Association will take actor
with the combined banks of Bridge
port and a drive will be organize
with the sole purpose of stamping ou
the mass of lying propaganda whic
has been injected among the worker
of this city by the products of "Kul
tur." The names of the factories al
fected by the propaganda, are with
held at the request of Howard Spec
and the manufacturers,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15
NOTED SCHOONER
LOSES HER MASTS

The schooner Perry Setter" a four
master, the largest and last ship built
at the old Green Shipyards in this
city, was damaged while passing I'M
der the Brooklyn bridge yesterday
morning. Three of the topmasts were
knocked off. 1t is alleged that they
were not lowered according to the
custom with sailing vessels while
passing under East River bridges.
The schooner was named after Perry
Setter, nephew of Bernard Setter,
member of the Board of Apportion-
ment. Its launching was matter of
great Importance here about Is years
ago.
It was built in the old yards at the
| foot of Seaview avenue and was a
source of much pride to the people Of
this vicinity. Several thousand per-
sons gathered to witness the launch
ing.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15
BELIEVE AIRBOATS
DESTROYED SUB

Paris Feb. 15-An encounter be-
tween two French hydr-oaeroplanes
and a German submarine in the Eng
fish channel recently probably result
ed in the sinking of the U-boat after
it had been bombed by the planes,
according to an official announce
met by the French dmiralty.
The aeroplanes were on patrol duty
over thee hannel. When they discov-
cred thes ubmarine on the surface
they attacked it. after manoeuvring
so that the sun was at their backs.
Thes ubmarinep lunged. 1t did not
disappear before the aviators had
succeeded In dropping several bombs
on or near the periscopo.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15

rose will be in charge especially of
the work with the French. residents
in the eastern section of the state.
He has accepted the appointment, and
the state headquarters expects a very
successful campaign among these peo-
pie under his direction.
Thousands of members of various
fraternal organizations throughout
Connecticut are organizing war saw
ings societies for the purchase of
thrift stamps and war savings GER
tifcates. This campaign has been
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15

started with the approval of Howell
Cheney, director for Connecticut of
the national war savings committee,
and it is expected that many thou
sands of dollars worth of stamps will
be disposed of among the members Of
the different lodges.
The suggestion has been made that
the different organizations inaugurate
contests, and that prizes be awarded
the society, members of which pur-
chase the greatest number of stamps.
Members have taken hold of this
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15

While one aeroplane returned to
the base for more bombs the other
kepe watch and saw the submarine
emerge after a few minutes after list
to port of As degrees. After attempt
ing to right itself thes ubmarine
disappeared, only to reappear third
time. It's Instability, however increas-
ed and suddenly the observer saw the
submarine list still farther and sink.
so that even the periscope could not
be seen.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15
CLERGYMAN ON
SAVINGS BOARD

Hartford, Feb. 15.-With the ap-
prevail of Rt. Rev. J. J. Milan, bishop
of the Roman Catholic Diocese of
Hartford, Rev. U. o. Bellerose of
Taftville has been appointed by How
ell Cheney, w. S. IS. director of Con-
necticut, as assistant director of the
War Savings Committee. Fir. Belle
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15
SWEDEN SEXES
MUNITION EXPORT

London, Feb. 15-Great quantities
of arms and munitions bound for Fin
land have been seized in the harbor
Of Stockhold, the Social Demokraten
of Stockholm says. Half a million
cartridges were delivered there to the
order of an alleged private individ-
ual. The workmen at the Westerns
factory have informed the govern
ment that they will stop work if ex-
portation of munitions is permitted.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15
HUGE TOBACCO PROFITS

London, Feb. 15.-Huge profits
have been made out of tobacco dur
ing the past year. One large COM
pany shows net profit for the year
of over three million pounds sterling.
They paid a dividend Of 30 per cent,
,and carried forward two and half
millions stsEilng.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15
ATTEND CONVENTION.

Many of the teachers in the publfU
schools of the city are today attend
ing the second convention of the win
ter of the Connecticut State Teachers
association which is being held in
Hartford.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15

proposition with great enthusiasm.
and many have already pledged them
selves~to the purchase of one or more
thrift stamps every week.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-27
FADE OFFICERS GET
EQUESTRIAN TRAINING
Surgeon Qualls Now Lieut..
Colonel-Epidemic of In
huenza Is Arrested

gpecfoi Dispatch TO the EUoninD Public Ledger
Camp Meade. Md, Sept. %.
Schools of Equitation have been es-
tabiished here for the mounted officers
Of the Lafayette Division. Lieutenant
Colonel j. A. Barry, the division au-
3utant. is teaching his associates on the
division staff how to ride.
Colonel Barry Is instructing them now
TO stick on the backs Of their mounts
Later, however, he will teach them
how to ride standing and in every other
way a horseman should know how 10
ride.
The instruction in other units is belng
conducted by other officers. Colonel
Harry n. Pattison is conducting the
school Of the 154th Depot Brigade
1900 Aliens Take Oath
The oath of allegiance TO the United
states was administered to about 15oo
allen soldiers this morning by Judge
Robert Moss, Of Annapolis. The exer-
cises were to have been held last Mon
day, but were postponed because the
preliminary work of making these SOL
diers citizens was incomplete. Because
of the quarantine n the regulations
against the asSe1nblage OF soIuielS III
large groups to prevent any spread or
the Spanish influenza. the exercises were
very brief. The soldiers took the oath
en- masse and sang the star ~Spangled
Banner" amid the cheers of their asso-
ciates. Judge Moss also delivered n
brief address. Major General Jesse Mel.
Carter had a few words to say to the
soldiers.
Major Guy NJ. Qualls, the camp sur
geon, rested from his duties for a little
while this morning to accept the con-
gratulations of his friends here n else
where in the good old u. s. A. upon his
promotion to a lieutenant ]colonelcy.
Colonel Qualls and Lieutenant Colonel
P%illsbury, the division surgeon, have
been directing the battle against the
Spanish FLU" The rapid increase in the
number of cases has kept both of these
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-27

officers "on the job" day and night, and
they have arrested the spread Of the cpl
demic.
Philadelphia Assigned
First Lieutenant Frank Il. Bielaski, a
brother of A. Bruce Bielaski, chief of
the Bureau of Investigations of the De-
partment of Justice. has been assigned
to the Thirty-third machine-gun bat
talon. Lieutenant Bielaski was a mem
Der of the 316th Infantry, a crack Phila
delphia unit, which was a part of the
Seventy-ninth Division, now in france.
He was stricken i'll when his regiment
left for overseas, and although he made
every possible effort to be assigned to
his old regiment when he recovered, his
efforts nave been unavailing. He will
now go to rance with the Lafayette
Division. under Major General Carter.
Captain George n. Moore. of the field
artillery, has been transferred to Camp
Kearney, California.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-27
DIX GRATEFUL FOR FRUIT
Gifts Much Appreciated by Con.
Y~alescent Soldiers

Camp nix. wrightstown. Sept. az
Major General Scott, commander of
Camp Dix. has asked the press to con-
rey fore him, personally and on behalf
of officers and enlisted soldiers here.
appreciation and thanks to patriotic in
dividuals and communities who are send
ing fresh fruit. flowers and other deli
cacies to soldiers convalesccrt from
the disease thai is epidemic at the
camp.
While several loads of fruit arrived
Yesterday, medical authorities say
donors need have no fear of overesti-
dreds of convalescent soldiers are said
to crave little but fruit. which is re-
garded also as especially beneficial to
their systems.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-27
How a Woman Novelist
Keeps House

IF you ask Eleanor Hallowell Abbott how she manages to
keep house and at the same time write sparkling stories that
make eyes twinkle and hearts grow tender, she will answer:
Tmn@ j~ustkeepmyh ou5e-I IN keeping FARM! Hayfelds as well
as rooms to be swept, and an eight-acre hilltop of war crops
that's harder to dust than even m work room mantelpiece!'
In the October Woman's Home Companion she tells
how she does it, and describes her everyday, pen-in-hand
and duster-in-hand life.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1918-11-23
FAIR PLAY FOR THE COAL DEALERS

Whenever there opportunity for the
cost of of the necessities of life easy matter to stir
feeling against the mddmen the matter
selling that particular commodity to the people.
From time mmemoa has been the easiest thing in the world
fact the natural thing for people look upon coal deal
gouger protees No the may
the general impression that making nord
late profit out of handling it.
many persons MarnsDurg glad believe
local dealers always looking for opportunity
charge price COAL douby
the opinion and spreads broad
that the coal gougng and hard to dsu
sion people IF such idea they get into their heads
Dealers like any other merchants entitled fair pro-
fit and the WORLD is satisfied that the coal dealers of Martins
burg making much than enough the coal they
pay the actual expense the
S45 the the freight Martnsburg $3.50
and the nine cents making S1014 for coal
the Martinsburg The difference between this
S23S what the dealers gets handling it. all
profit by great DEAL
for the dealer The coal placed
siding the railroad and the dealer unoads it his bin
The step separate from
all the fine dust which incidentally amounts considerable ios
dealer sell it for anywhere what pays
good screening if the coal be handled twice
shoveed the again taken away
from the foot of the end piled in the bin
order in by and the coal be handled
again. still again when unoaded the customers house
Add this the Of money which the dealer must keep
his stock the wages the yard and drivers the
the the and tear the and dozen
other and readily be that the dealer
making great deal of money of it. Personally have
burning lead the life of coal dealer feel
every armnded of coal will agree after reading
this editorial that the price charged fair and not exorban
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1918-11-23
WORTH WHILE
QUOTATIONS

Whenever you go out of doors, draw
the chin in, carry the crown of the
head high, and fill the lungs to the
utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet
your friends with a smile, and put
soul into every hand-clasp.
Do not fear being misunderstood;
and never waste minute thinking
about your enemies. Try to fix firm
ly in your mind what you would like
to do, and then without violence of
direction you will move straight tc
the goal m III targe al
sKeepfyour mind on the great and
splendid things you would like to- do;
and then, as the days go gliding by,
you will find yourself unconsciously
selling upon the opportunities that
are required for the fulfllment of your
desire, just as the coral insect takes
from the running tide the elements 1t
needs. Picture tn your mind the sole,
earnest, useful person you desire to
be, and the thought you hold is hourly
transforming you into that particu-
lar individual.
Thought is supreme, Preserve a
right mental attitude-the attitude of
courage, frankness and good-cheer. To
think rightly is to create.
All things come through desire, and
every sincere prayer is answered. We
become like that on which our hearts
are flxed. Garry your chin in and the
crown OF your head high. We are gods
in the chrysalis. --ELBERT HUB
BARD. n.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1918-11-23
SPORT ROYAL!

RI The century in its teens
And fuzzy was the weather;
The bars the churches and the
Were ostracsed together
Yet through the land, by all report
There yet remained one regal sport.
Come goode leave the dishes and the sundy kitchen
Let's the poundof through the grocery sore
The sport exercised charm
On and courtly,
And many basket sought
Whose wont staid and portly.
Odsfaith! it missed resident
From peasant up to president.
Yea pursued his food written record tells
So harried they through and des
AS keen kaisers after peace
AS glad as Karls sorry,
They joined the hunt and did not
Until they claimed their quarry.
And oft would adventurous knight
Win guerdon of delight.
"What no let the buges wind and let the beages bay!
God wot, that haply shall find new-ad egg today!
N T. ~
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1918-11-23
CHILD CONSERVATION.

The back to the school, drive of the
children's bureau OF the Department OIL
Labor, recently inaugurated, seeks tc
accomplish that which will be indors
ed by every thinking person tn the
country. Wars demands upon indus
try have Increased enormously child
labor to meet therequirements of the
present, regardless Of the future wei
fare either of the child Or the country
1t is high time official notice were ia.
ken OF the evil and drastic action be-
gun to eradicate 1t before the greater
portion Of the coming generation Is
stunted and cheated out OF its right to
that measure of education upon which
is founded a proper conception Of the
duties Of citizenship. SCI i'ff tne
This task undertaken by the chill
dren's bureau is an attempt to induce
children and parents to realize that
the training the children can obtain
now to fit them for after-the-war tasks
Is patriotic service. Orders issued for
some time past by the Labor Depart
ment have emphasized the, fact that
child labor is not considered neces-
sary in essential war industries. But
in spite of this effort Of the govern
ment to suppress the evil it has grown
apace and more rapidly than ever
since the Supreme Court held the
child labor law unconstitutional.
Out Of the factory and into the
schoolroom by all means for children
offender years. Investigations by the
Department of Labor justify the de-
mand which should be enforced by
every sober-thinking and patriotic
parent. 1t has been shown that in
some of the Southern textile manufac-
turing States children between the
ages Of and IA years are being en-
ployed more than eight hours a day.
The premature aging of young chill
dren through long and laborious hours
of work also is going on in staid old
New England and elsewhere. Let the
people give their support to this lau-
dable enterprise Of the children's bu-
reau and rescue these little ones from
a fate that promises to make of them
throughout their lives mere menials
and servants instead of Intelligent and
independent American citizens Wash.
ington Post.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1918-11-23

life cheap that they might hold for us
all that most precious heritage of
Gods children--the right to live
with conscience free, with heart kept
whole, and with soul untrammeled
The boys who come back have been
transformed from common clay into
stuff that makes heroes and martyrs
but they do not yet know that they
were thus born again.
They are the men, who because of
their splendid chivalry, won the love
of women and children across the sea
whose homes were wrecked, whose
minds were wracked. whose hearts
were wrung by the fearful wrongs in
flicted by an enemy who knew rot
pity, nor mercy, nor right.
They will come back to us with their
visions broadened, their patriotism en-
larged, their souls enriched, because
Of new worlds seen, cruel sufferings
endured, fine fellowships formed
their lives deepened and fortified by
contacts with those whom they never
knew because an ocean divided them,
but whose hearts now beat together
and whose souls are now welded as
one because they fought against a
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1918-11-23
WAR HUMOR

1--WE just been on sick leave after
swallowing some Of Fritz's gas" a
Tommy told group Of comrades in a
storytelling period. Il felt regular
queer with toothache when got, home.
And the first blooming words that the
dentist said when 4 visited him were,
vii you hat GASP One of those nat
uralized Huns, !, bet. So / 'opped it,
toothache and ALL, s
The pantry maid OF British hos
pital frequently wandered through the
wards in spite of regulations, and came
to be adored by the men. One; pre-
sented her with fragment of shrap-
mel. Taken out OF my side, that was
he declared with pardonable pride.
The pantry maid turned it over
thoughfully Il wish it had been a Ger
man helmet she said
Hospital visitors ask embarrassing
questions, such as, "And where were
you wounded?" "In the" begins
the soldier. "On the" and then
breaks in the nurse with, "On the
Somme wasn't it Tolnmy?' And the
grateful Tommy signs a relieved as
sent.
y
A whiz-bang sent bunch Of Yanks
scurrying to dugout. did you hear
that one, Elmer?" said one. did
hear it, said another. Il heard it
twice, once when it skidded, and once
when | passed it on my road down
here"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1918-11-23
A GERMAN "REPuBLIc."

The Ukraine republic" set up by the
Germans and the bolsheviki seems to
have been overturned by coup at
Kief Troops from Astrakhan under a
strong antibolshevik general are re-
ported to have taken Kief and put the
Ipro-German assembly to flight. A pro-
visional government has been formed,
which will try to administer affairs
for the time being.
Former Emperor Williams ostenta-
tious welcome to the premier of Tx
|rainia and the close dealings between
Ukrainia and Germany disclosed this
real character of the so-called repub-
lie. 1t was nothing but German
mechanism for robbing the people OF
food and handing 1t over to the Ger
mans. The peasants stoutly resisted
this procedure and left their mark
upon the Invaders. Germany got com
paratively little food from Ukrainia,
after ALL The little that was extorted
went to Prussia, although the German
government has promised Austria
Hungary that 1t would be permitted
to share in the loot. After the Magyars
discovered Germany's treachery they
shut down on food exports from Hun
gary to Germany, and at this moment
they are standing guard with guns
over their food supply Field Marshal
Won Mackensen has been unable to OBJ.
tain a pound of food in Hungary for
the use OF his troops.
Ukrainia is Iegitimately part of
Russia The people Of all Russia have
a right to share in the determination
of the fate of Ukrainia. Just as the
Ukrainias have q right to participate
in Russian affairs. If every. nook and
corner Of Russia Is to be permitted to
break away and set up feeble and
corrupt government, the nations may
as well bid goodby to peace in Europe
The United States in 1861 would not
permit this nation to be split into
fragments, and, now the Russian peo-
pie will probably see the wisdom of
union. AT any rate, they deserve the
support of the allies in preventing the
creation of such governments as that
of Ukrainia, which has been mere
tool of the German government, If the
Ukrainians can prove their right to
establish a government separate from
Russia, they must at least exercise
good faith in the establishment of
their own institutions. The nations will
no longer permit German intrigue to
set up such republics" as that of
Ukrainia.- Post.