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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-29
Drastic Measures
 In German Shops

Control of labor power in Germany is absolute, according to information just obtained from that country. The Arrangement in force there contrasts Strongly with the recent plan of con- trol in America through the United Estates Employment Service of the De- Dartment of Labor, and i is said that in no country of the Allies has it been necessary to adopt any measures even approaching the drastic steps that have been taken in Germany.
 Just how each workman is chained to his job may be realized when it is known that he can not change posi- lions without the written consent |&ither of his employer or of a board of seven members appointed by the military authorities. The boards of seven include an army officer as chair man. two government officials, two employers. and two workingmen. The worE4ngmen, therefore, not only have small representation on the board but are denied the opportunity oI ! choosing their own representatives, for that is undertaken by the war of= flee.
 Any violation of the regulations concerning migration from one job tc another is punished by heavy fine o1 fsseSisonment,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-29
SPECIAL LABOR,
 DAY THIS YEAR

Labor Day is to have a special sig nifcance this year, for the power of organized labor has made itself mani- fest in the essential work of the war, and President Samuel Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, has sent out statements to unions in every part of the country urging a special celebration of labors holiday this year having as its keynote Twin the War for Freedom"
 Last years Labor Day celebration was, in general, solemn and serious. The war note was much in evidence. It will be even more so this year but President Gompers calls upon union labor everywhere to engage in great public demonstrations attesting to la bor's absolute loyalty in the war.
 The net effect will be a great na- tional observance of the holiday and a national illustration of labor's de. termination to do everything in it: power to bring the war to a success full conclusion.
 There are now, according to tht | figures of the American Federation O
 Labor, about 3,ooO.000 union men oI | the rolls of that organization, abou 8 per cent. of the population of thu country. It is expected that grea mass meetings and the usual larg' | parades will be decided upon by tn city central labor unions, in order t
 comply with MT. Gompers' sugges 1 tiOn
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-29
SLOVAK OFFICERS
 PLATED AT WORK

The Czecho-Slovak Women's Relief committee at their meeting Tuesday night held at the headquarters, 521 Hallett street, exactly at o'clock in compliance with the orders issued by the Governor sang Star Spangled Banner"
 The officers are elated over the work that is going on throughout the New England States by several auxiliaries, all asking for additional wool and other materials.
 The CZecho-Slovak armies now numberng iclose to 2OO,O00 their de- mands will be larger and the work of the women in this country is the0 only source of assistance.
 The headquarters is in need of sew ing machines and any one that could spare a sewing machine would do a charitable act by loaning same to the Czecho-S -Slovak women, who are doinE Red Cross work for their armies. A telephone call Noble 930-3 will give further details.
 The Connecticut Canvas Mfg. Go offered two power machines in their shop at the disposal of the Relief committee and their use with free thread. As,,,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-29
Training of War
 Horses Difficult

London, Aug. 29-A war horse, be- fore he is ready for service, receives an education almost as rigorous and comprehensive as that of the recruit who rides him into battle. When properly trained he will face barbed wire and even rush entanglements, regardless of lacerated legs and Hanks. After he has been accustomed to have a man mount rapidly on his sensitive back he is taught to kneel with his rider. He has to be taught to pull up in his own length from a gallop, to stand steady while a rider fires from his back and to lie still on the ground while he is being used as a cover for his rider who snipes over his side.
 One of the most difficult things re- quired Of a war horse is to become famitiafized with the sword. In war fare it is a common trick for caval- Fyman to aim his first blow at his | opponents horse, for no horse will stand after being pricked on the nos- tFil or lip.
 When horse knows his rider well
 he will perform surprising deeds, A
 brigade has been known to ge through
 three lines of bayonets and then
 through a baFbed-wiFe eatangiement
 Not long ago Canadian trool
 charged two lines of German machine
 guns and rifles, wheeled and theT Fede through them a seeoad time | When the enemy finally begins his ] big retreat it is the Allies' heFses that
 will keep the Germans on the run,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-29
MORE COAL FOR
 CONNECTICUT IS
 NEW FUEL ORDER

The Anthracite Committee of the U. S. Fuel Administration today an- nounced the domestic tonnage figures for 222 communities in Connecticut that receive hard coal in conformity with the U. s. allotment figures an nounced by the committee on May 29, 1918. All anthracite producers and distributors are notified they must ship hard coal only into the commit mites named on the list and conform to the exact figures as outlined by the committee. By so doing it is be- lieved that the best fuel needs of the Nutmeg State will be met and it is suggested that the using of bitumi- nous and wood, wherever possible, will both aid and husband the an- thracite supply.
 Among the principal cities that are supplied with anthracite are New Ha- ven which receives the highest amount of 915,444 gross tons; Bridge port, 300,O00 tons; Hartford, 291, ,S6T tons; Waterbury, 28O,O0O tons; stam-
 ford, 75,0O0 tons; Norwalk, 55 200 tons;
 Greenwich, 43,320 tons; Danbury, 36, ,345 tons.
 Connecticut's allotment for the
 191S-19 coal year is 2.476,7OO gross tons,
 an increase of 26 per cent. over the
 1916-17 coal year distribution figures.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-29
PATRIOTIC JAUNT
 TO LEBANON SEPT. 8, PERMITTED

Hartford Aug. 29.---Participatbon in the patriotic automobile pilgrimage to Lebanon on Sept. g, arranged by the Labanon war bureau for the people of Connecticut, will be permitted un der the gasolene conservation order just issued by the federal fuel ad- ministration, according to ruling made today by Fuel Administrator Thomas w. Russell of this state, pro- vided that those that make the pill grimage will refrain from using gas- olene for pleasure for one Sunday af- ter the curtailnent request is re- scinded.
 Plans have been under way for some time for the pilgrimage to his- toric Lebanon for day of patriotic exercises. The entire state has been invited. On Tuesday, the federal fuel administration called upon the public east of the Mississippi river to discon- tinue the use of gasolene for pleasure riding on Sundays until further no- tice, saying that the request would probably be in effect only few Sun days.
 Mir. Russell, Connecticut fuel >ad- ninistrator, said today:
 Tt is expected that the spirit and the letter of the federal fuel admins tration request will be followed ir lConnecticut.
 There should be no 'gasolene slack. CTS and pleasure riders on Sunday as : long as the ban is on assuredly are tC be considered 'gasolene slackers.'
 He says the Lebanon exception i! made because of the nature of tht event, because plans have progressed so far for it and because the saving of gasolene will be effected througI pledge to conserve on another Sun
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-29

one sitting. It is estimated that 1000 meals are served from 11:3O a. m> to D. m. One of the most profit able features of the restaurant IS the serving of afternoon tea, which has been very we'll patronized. The prin- ciple on which the restaurant is run Is to serve food which is most easily procurable at the time. This makes possible the serving of liberal portions at reasonable prices As an indica- ton of the prices the following will give those in effect on July 2, 1918:
 Soup, 2 pence a portion; fish,
 to pence; roast meat to pence;
 two meat entrees, to pence; veg etables, 2 pence a portion; bread, one ] half pence; sweets, and 4 pence;
 coffee, 2 pence a cup; tea, one pence
 a cup.
 "An arrangement has been work | ed out whereby six vouchers will be
 exchanged for one meat coupon, each
 voucher entitling the holder to a
 meat meal of not less than two ounces. | In this way it is possible to procure
 six meat meals for one meat coupon.
 A good substantial lunch can be pro-
 duced for a charge of one shilling,
 six pence Approximately 35 cents.)
 '"The national restaurant is very popular with the shop workers, clerks
 and business men in the vicinity of Fleet street, the newspaper center of London"
 A queue starts forming a half hour before the doors open, and it was
 necessary to remain in line about 45
 minutes before being served. This is
 the only inconvenience attached tc the scheme, and perhaps when more
 restaurants are established this may be overcome.
 Already hotels and restaurant. alarmed by this development. Int Ministry of Food received a deputa : tion of these interests, but found tha they had no definite program. Tht object of the Ministry of Food is tt procure the cooperation of privat, hotels and restaurants which the, would like to have adopt their meth ods. Although there has been som
 protest of the entry of the govern ment into private business, it doe
 not appear likely that this vii = amount to enough to check the move ment. The other alternative is tha l the private establishments will hay to meet the national resaurant il quality of food and prices, and in thi l the Food Ministry stands ready t lend them all the encouragement an Q give them every possible assistance IT this results, it probably will be tn n greatest advantage to be derived fror T. this government undertaking. This movement has resulted fror
 the tendency of hotel and restauran I keepers to fasten the burden of foo e regulations on their customers, Thi y has resulted in special emergenc e need for something to be done to pro l. tect the interest of the public durin 8 the war. The success, however, C 6 national kitchens and national res+ar n rants may have an ultimate effect i a showing the advantage of co-opera t tive cooking anad serving of food"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-29
Porto Ricans Will
 Send Female Labor

San Juan, Porto Rico, Aug. 2e-F. c. Roberts, special agent in charge of the United States Employment Ser vice here, has announced that within d short time several thousand women will be registered and ready to go to the United States to help in war work
 The women, as well as the men, are being classified in such a way that particular types of workers can be supplied to meet any particular re- quirement. MT, Roberts said that 8 considerable number of the women who are enrolled have had sufficient commercial training to make them valuable in the offices of exporting houses having business in Spanish speaking countries,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-29
RESTAURANT MEN ARE NOW FOES
 OF SUGAR BOWL.

Hartford, Aug. 29-Several weeks ago when the Food Administration or dered the open sugar bowl off hotel ana restaurant dining room tables, the largest restaurant in a city in Fair field county complied reluctantly. say- ing 1t would use more sugar than if the sugar bowls were left free to hand. Since then it's sugar allowance having been reduced, it has voluntarily ad- mitted that it would have been much better off had it removed the sugar poWl sooner. The abolition of the open sugar bowl since the beginning of the sugar scarcity has saved an amazing number of pounds and acted as an educational measure to the pub- lie as well.
 One man, the proprietor of sever lunch rooms, feeding approximately 10000 people day, declared that he was saving about 500 pounds a month since he had dispensed with the oper sugar bowl. Sugar is served behind the counter, one teaspoonful to eacI cup of coffee or tea or to each grape fruit or bowl of cereal.
 The people seem very much il favor of the plan" said the owner O. two lunch rooms, "We serve on ar average, 900 people a day and tn, best proof that the people are witt us is that since we have instituted tn, new plan there has been no falling of in our business. We are saving abou 150 pounds of sugar a month and i is the most definite way that I knov | of to save"
 Another declared that in feedin 2,000 people day, he saves 67 pound a week by doing away with the opeI sugar bowl.
 The proprietor of a chain of eatin places, serving approximately 1900 people each day, found that he ha saved hundreds of pounds a month b serving teaspoonful of sugar in a envelope.
 Sugar must go to the soldiers an the Allies and the people of the Unite States must show the same spirit C
 voluntary sacrifice which they dis
 played during the wheat saving cam
 paign.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-29
AMERICAN RIFLE IMPORTANT PART IN WAR

Paris, Aug. 29-(Correspondence of The Associated Press)-The effect of American rifle fire has been one of the great surprises to the enemy dur ing the recent engagements along the front. As result the rifle Is fast coming back to it's own as the depend able weapon for infantry fighting. For 8 time its place was challenged by the hand grenade and some of the English and French experts took the view that the grenade would gradual ly supersede the rifle. Trench war
 fare had accustomed both sides to the
 grenade so that the rifle was seldom
 brought into use.
 Even with the two weapons avail able, the troops had become accus- toned to use the grenade rather than the rifle, and an enemy fugitive would
 often be chased until his pursuer was rear enough to throw a grenade when
 rifle ball would have brought down
 the fugitive from a distance.
 All this has been changed, however,
 by the open fighting of the present ! offensive and the unusually effective
 use the Americans have made of the
 rifle General Pershing has maintain
 ed from the first that the rifle was the indispensable weapon for infan- try, and while the grenade has not
 been neglected, every American unit has been thoroughly trained in rifle practice.
 Many of the national guardsmen as well as the regulars were crack rifle
 shots, winners in tournaments anc
 veterans of the rifle-ranges maintain ed at home. These ranges have be
 come a notable feature of the training on this siderb, until the whole Amer ican organization has become special ly proficient with the rifle.
 ,I German prisoners all recount tn same story, that the greatest surpris came from the impetuosity of tn , American troops, and after tha the sweeping fire of the American riff , caused the greatest consternation am i, loss Accustomed to waiting for grenade attack at close quarters, tn l mass formations of the enemy wer
 suddenly exposed to concentrated riff l fire at a distance, with every sho from a trained marksman who wa , not blazing into the air but was pick l ing out his target and sending hi f ball home.
 = This experience has fully sustaine : the American contention for the riff
 as against the grenade, and Frenc . and English military experts ar [ agreed in the enthusiastic approva g they give the Americans as rifleme and and in the view that the rifle ha again demonstrated it's right to b ! considered the paramount weapon fo
 infantry fighting.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-29
OF BEEF TO BE LOWER IN
 CONN, MARKETS

Hartford, Aug. 29-Connecticut housewives who have been accustom- ed to purchase beef from heavier weight carcasses should now be able to buy at much lower prices than the average which has ruled during the past year if they observe the Food Administration request to demand meat from cattle which dress below 475 pounds per head. The Food Ad- ministration declared today that the lightweight cattle are now moving ra- pidly to market, the producers In the southwest endeavoring to dispose or them before they suffer further from the effects of the long continued drought.
 Heavy steers are being sold in Eas- tern meat centers for S26 to $27 per 1 100 pounds; good steers, somewhat lighter in weight, at SPA to $25; me- dium weight steers, at $19 to $21, and light weight steers at $14 to SIS.
 While prices are not uniform
 throughout the country, it will be | found that this ratio will rule in
 practically every market. Meat mar
 kets which normally cut S26 beef can obviously give their patrons the bene-
 fit of such a wide difference in flrst cost. Selling light cuts, bought at 1 $14 to SIS, there should be material
 reduction below the selling price of
 meat bought at $26.
 The Food Administration believes that it's request for consumption ot the light cattle will not only do much
 to relieve the producers who are af- | OhtSl hnf Shn11lC
 be followed by a general downward
 trend in retail purchasing prices-the
 demand turning to the cattle which
 are now in abundance and relieving
 the strain on the market for heavier beef, which is still badly needed fol
 the military forces and for export tt the civil populations of the allied : countries. The market should natur : ally follow in it's price reductions th' difference in first cost, providing reasonable low price to those wht utilize the lightweight cattle. The! are wholesome, of good quality, ant . before being marketed have passet government inspection.
 . Following a conference betweel packers and the Food Administration l attended by officers of the Army . Navy and Marine Corps, maximum t prices are announced at which bee 3 will be allotted for September deliv ery-eXcepting on the Pacific coasts s for the Army, Navy and Allies. ) The following bases are f. o. | l Chicago, per 100 pounds, for steers o !. quality and grade satisfactory to tn g authorized inspectors. chilled and un l wrapped. These prices average sub
 stantially the same as for the mont I of August.
 t 475 to 575 pounds, S21.9O. d 575 to 700 pounds, s22.65. s 700 to $50 pounds $2335. y The average weight of cattle mar = keted this year, it was brought ou g is 30 pounds lighter than last yea f 40 pounds lighter than in 1916 and 6 . pounds below the 1915 average Thi n is due in part to excessive marketin = of immature cattle owing to drougt
 conditions.
 To utilize cattle below 475 pound
 in weight, the minimum now bein
 supplied on Army specification
 housewives and proprietors of publi
 eating places are asked by the Foo
 Administration to buy cuts frol
 lighter weight stock.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-29
GREAT BRITAIN ESTABLISHES NATIONAL KITCHENS TO SERVE
 FOOD AT COST TO THE PEOPLE

Washington, Aug. 29-National kitchens and national restaurants es- tablished in England this year by the British Food Ministry to avert pub ltc hardship and provide food at req sonable cost, are underselling private ly oP.~>ated eating houses; and still are earning big profits. Meals in the restaurants cost less than in the aver Hse Americar eating place, despite the fact that Singland must import much of it's food and has undergone three more years of war.
 The kitchens are to prepare food for householders, and in few instances only are arrangements made for con- surning food on the premises. The restaurant caters only to the latter. A good substantial lunch can be obtain ed at the restaurants for 35 cents.
 Food rationing has been established successfully this year, but food reg ulations resulted in hotel and restau- rant owners reducing the quantity and quality of food without any re- duction in price. In some instances prices were increased.
 Seeing that this situation was likely to become an actual hardship, the Food Ministry took steps to assist the public, writes MT. Kennedy. The first action was establishment of na- tional kitchens. A thousand were es- abolished from February to August with only three of four under the di- rect management of the Food Minis try, the others being controlled by To- cal authorities. Necessary capital may be obtained from the government, but return payment must be made in ter years. The kitchens are said to have helped materially in relieving the fooc difficulties.
 A further step was necessary, MT Kennedy reports, because hotel anC restaurant patrons found the food reg ulations to be a hardship. As an ex pertinent the Food Ministry opened its first national restaurant on Jun 26, last, near the newspaper distric in Fleet street, and it has proved s successful that others are to be open ed in London and other cities.
 '"The original payment for rent an, equipment amounted to $12,16O, writes Mir. Kennedy. ''The manage ment or the restaurant Is in the charg of the Director of the Nationa Kitchens, who hopes to be able to re pay the original treasury investmen within a year from profits earne There has been some idea that thi restaurant has been subsidized by tn government, but the director declare that the food is purchased in the ope market in competition with other. and that all money advanced by tn government will be fully repaid.
 'In this initial restaurant the stat numbers about thirty persons. Tn kitchen and dining room are yer clean and attractive, and the servic appears to be very efficient. The sys tenn in vogue is what is sometime known in the United States as tn cafetaria plan-the customers wait O themselves. The dining room has
 seating capacity for ITO persons q
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-29
Schooner Blanca
 Sunk By U-BOat

A Canadian Atlantic Port, Aug. D. The Newfoundland three masted schooner Blanca was captured and sunk by German submarine on Sat- urday night. Her crew landed today, The schooner was bound from Brazil for Canadian port with a cargo of tobacco,
 The crew of the submarine told Capt, Burke Of the Blanca that they had sunk an oil tanker and that they intended to sink eight more steamers now bound for this port,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-29
THE UNIVERSITY
 SCHOOL
SS6 FairticId Ayenue.
27th Year Begins Sept. 25

27th Year Begins Sept. 25th. Elementary and advanced subjects covering high-school and earlier grades, in preparation for college, technical and professional schools, business, and the large preparatory schools.
 Every student given individual in- struction by experienced teachers. Thorough work: no red tape; shorter courses. Outdoor and indoor ath- IeticS.
 Applications for admission should be addressed to Vincent c. Peck, Head Master, Bridgeport, Conn.
 L 27 A S%
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-29
GOMPERS' PARTY
 ARRIVES IN LONDON

London, Aug. 29.---Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor, and his party have arrived in an English port.
 New York, Aug. 29.--The purpose of Samuel Gompers' visit to England, it was explained yesterday by Robert Maisel, director of the American Ali ance for Lahpr and Democracy, is to bring the union leaders of England. France and Italy to better under standing of the aims and principles of the American labor movement in the support and prosecution of the war
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-29
K. OF C. GIVE SOAP AND TOWELS
 TO OUR SOLDIERS

Father Mcdonald, a Knights of Columbus chaplain, just returned from the fighting zone in France, said at the Knights of Columbus head quarters that the one article among all the K. of c. supplies distributed to the Americans, that seemed spec ially appreciated and for which there is insistent request, is soap and towels. Thousands of gross of these are being distributed free by the Knights.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-29
CHARLES AND ZITY
 VISIT SAXON KING

Amsterdam, Aug. 28-Emperor Charles and Empress Zita have arriv- ed in Dresden to visit the king of Saxony. Later they will go to Munich and Stuttgart. They are accompanied by Baron Burian.