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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-19
Birthday Bio-Briefs
FAMOUS MEN.
To Parents and Teachers-Get |
Your Children to Read This
Instructive Daily Feature.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

William Jennings Bryan, former
Secretary of State, and thrice Dem
ocracy's candidate for the presidency
of the United States, will celebrate
his fifty-eighth birthday to-day. The
famous son of Silas Lillard Bryan and
Marian Elizabeth Jennings Bryan was
born at Stem, Ill, March 10 1860. Mr..
Bryan was unfortunate in the choice
of his birthplace, so far as the realiza-
ton of presidential aspirations go for
Illinois, great and populous state that
it is, has never had a president born
within it's limits. Lincoln, whom Il
linois claims as its own, was born in
Kentucky, Virginia is still entitled to
the proud boast of being the Moth
er of Presidents" for no less than
eight chief magistrates of the republic
including Woodrow Wilson, were born
in the Old Dominion. Ohio is a
close second, with six presidents num-
bered among its native sons, and New
York bad third, with three. In at
tanning the high place of Secretary OF
State, Mr. Bryan could scarcely be
said to have improved his chances fol
winning possession of the White
House. 1t is true that six heads OF
the State Department have achieved
the higher goal, but that is ancient
history. Thomas Jefferson, James
Madison, James Monroe, John Quin-
cy Adams, Martin Van Buren, and Jas
| Buchanan were presidents who at one
time held the portfolio of Secretary Of
State. Buchanan, the last of the list
was secretary from 1S45 to 1S49. Since
| then the office of Secretary has beer
held by only one man who came a
all near the presidency, James G
Blaine, Cabinet positions have seldom
served as stepping stones to thu
White House. U. S. Grant was for
short time Secretary of War, and Mr.
Taft also held that PORTFOLIO. Jeffer
son Davis, president of the Confed
ieracy, was Secretary of War in Pierce
cabinet in 1853.
Mr.. Bryan is at present one of tn
national leaders of the prohibition
movement, and as prohibition is grow
ing throughout the country, it woult
be not at all surprising to see him a
the head of the national prohibitions
ticket when the next presidential cleo
ton comes around.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-19
PAPER PICTURES
LONDON AIR RAID

London, March 19-The Manches-
ter Guardian prints the following de.
scription of the recent afraid over
London as seen from a height, by a
correspondent:
ut was some time after the burst
ing of the maroons that the first
sound of the attack was heard. II
came from the northeast, a series OF
quiet, separate s-plop-pIop-
plop-plop, like porridge boiling. The
firing died down and started again
from the north in the same gentle
way. Then it became quicker, and
then died away in soft, f1annelly
noises.
Suddenly the firing burst again tc
the northwest and also to the south
and some nearer guns began to bay
Then there was activity in the west
and we heard four or five harsh
noises that we took to be bombs &C
Companied by faster firing. The last
II ovement was to the south and south.
cast, and the noise of the guns wa:
near and loud, till the whole eartI
seemed full of barking and the skie:
of explosions.
"At the same time the unseen enc
my, that had been buzzing around oui
defenses like mosquitoes round a net
tried again on the north. 1t was thu
ast wrestle, and could not continu,
long. The enemy fell back, and thu
firing died down until only a few dis
cant guns were firing softly, plop-
plop-plop, like a sigh of relief TIL
raid was over
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-19
WOMEN ARE
BOOSTING IT
You Cannot Fool the Women

.1nce YOU have shown them and
got their confidence they will stick
through thick and thin to what they
6now ard believe is good thing.
Hundreds Of women in our city are
going around today with joy in their
hearts and a new lease on life and
health where before each day was
one long nervous drag of misery
As one woman expressed it, Its
not the work you do, it's the way you
feel that makes the drudgery, you
cannot get ahead when you go to
bed all in, too tired to sleep and get
up in the morning half dead. Believe
me, 1 know. I certainly was ner-
vous wreck, every task load, no
ambition, thin, haggard and pale, an
I'D woman before my time. Look at
me now, some change, eh! Work IS
pleasure. am just bubbling over
with life and good spirits, the picture
of health, cheeks rosy and full of the
! color that only ironized blood can
give, while my phosphate-fed nerves
are as steady as clock, nothing wor-
| ries me, I sleep like top and feel
| like a girl of sixteen. Take it from
me, l want phosphated Iron TO gel
credit for everything; too much can
not be said in its praise, it sure is
| the goods and everyone I have rec
commended it to is a booster"
| This is only one of many like cases
in our city, there is no need of any
man or woman going around with
| that tired all-in feeling or any form
of nervousness if they will get mex
j to themselves, take brace, and stack
up to a package of Phosphated Iron
1t sure will spruce you up and make
you feel like a live wire once more
so get busy.
To insure physicians and their pa
tients getting the genuine Phosphatet
Iron we have put in capsules only. DIX
not take pills or tablets, insist OF
capsules. Hindle's Drug Stores, ant
leading druggists everywhere.-Adv
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-19

cies, and both are prepared to accept
as basis the British Memorandum.
What the General Council of the
party seems most concerned about is
the exact measure of opposition and
should be applied to the Clemenceau
government, which is not within the
scope of our conference.
For the purpose of common state
ment necessarily concrete and def
mite, of War Aims themselves, there
ought to be no difficulty in finding
formula in which both sections can
agree.
When NM. Albert Thomas Renau-
del Marcel-Sembat and Jean Longuet
to name only some of those who are
expected between now and Friday
want to agree on a common text, they
are never at a loss for words!
In the same way the Belgian dele
gates (among whom will be M. Emile
Vandervelde, actually a member OF
the Belgian Cabinet, and also the
Portuguese delegates ask for re.
drafting of the proposal to interna,
tionalist Tropical Africa, in such {
way as to emphasize international con-
troll, whilst not depriving these State:
of their ewe-lambs in the way of col
onies.
The Italians are honestly divided
among themselves and it to be feared
that they will agree only in the length
of the declarations that they may
propose to insert in the document un
der discussion! But these, like thu
exact proposals to be made for tn,
Poles, the Jews, and the Balkan PEG
pies, will be the subject of amicabl,
discussions in committee. ProbabI,
the conference will decide to hav,
even it's full sessions in private, ant
to submit to the press merely state
ment of the results
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-19
AMERICAN HARDWARE
STORES

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Lyon & Grammar. Retail Dfviaio9
FAIRFIELD AVE. AND MIDl.slE ST.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-19
FIRST AMERICAN
HOSPITAL OPENED
NEAR LIVERPOOL

Liverpool, March 19-The first hos
pital for American soldiers in Great
Britain has just been opened in Liv-
erpool. All other hospitals thus far
opened in the British Isles have
opened for American officers. The
Liverpool hospital is known as Ameri-
can Red Cross military hospital No.
4 and is situated in the Mossley Hill
district, the most fashionable residen-
tial section about three miles from
the downtown business part of the
city. Already many American SOL
uiers occupy it's cheerful wards and
many others in the convalescent
stage, clad in hospital pale blue are
walking about the spacious grounds.
The hospital proper occupies Moss
ley House, the former home of DR..
Knowles Muspratt, a noted authority
en- chemistry and one of LiverpooPs
leading citizens, who when he heard
that the Americans wanted it gladly
turned it over to them. It occupies
the highest elevation in the city. A
typical old gothic style English town
house, it stands in the center of
seven acres of beautiful grounds, the
| flower gardens of which are rapidly
being converted into plots for raising
vegetables. An American flag, flying
from the tall staff in front of the
grounds can be seen a great distance.
and assists visitors to find the
| place.
The head of the hospital is Major
| lido J. Vile, Medical Officers Re
serve Corps, United States Army, who
is a member of the faculty of the
/ University of Michigan at Ann Ar
Dor. Major Vile came here last No
vember and has worked untiringly to
outfit the institution. In this he has
been assisted by Joseph R. Morris
of Chicago, representing the American
Red Cross. The majors staff con-
sists of five officers-three captains
and two Heutenants. The personnel
of the place includes ten American
Red Cross nurses, twelve sergeants
and twenty privates, Miss Marion
| Weller a graduate of the New York
hospital, is chief nurse.
Major Vile is proud of the fact
that thirty-four days after Mossley
House was taken over it was fully
equipped as an American hospital
ready for its first patients. Today
it has $50 beds with room for expan-
sion to S26 beds. The institution is
equipped throughout on the American
plan. This especially is true of the
hot water heating plant and of the
plumbing and electrical installations,
all of which work was facilitated
largely through the efforts of the
British Royal Engineers who helped
draw up the plans and put them into
execution in these days of labor
shortage.
The hospital now has ten wards for
soldiers, two small officers wards and
an operating room, besides the admin
istrative offices. 1t boasts two am
tulances of the latest type, one given
by Richard Pearce, an American
resident in Liverpool and the second
by an anonymous donor.
About 200 yards from the hospital
are building two isolation wards, each
designed to accommodate 100 con-
tagious disease patients. These are
one story structures of brick and con-
crete. Each will have four TENDED
wards with two small wards in the
center for officers. A feature will be
discharge rooms where outgoing pa
tents can don their new garments.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-19
DISAPPROVE SALE
OF SECURITIES

Hartford, March 19-In the inter
ests of war finances the Connecticut
State Council of Defense, has record
ed its disapproval of the public sale
of certain forms of securities in small
denominations. This action will ap-
ply to the war period and will dis
courage corporations from starting
financial campaigns that might run
counter to interests of the national
government in securing the financial
aid needed to successfully prosecute
the war.
The vote as taken by the State
Council at a recent meeting, was as
follows:
Voted, That it is the judgment OF
this council that corporations shall
not, during the present emergency
issue for public sale securities Goth
er than stock in denominations less
than $780,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-19

fChickens invented the art
of daylight saving. And
despite the new national
law, they'll continue to
beat you out of bed in the
morning.
Tiff you keep them, you must
keep them confined.
fAll Of which reminds us
that we have bought wire
fencing for our agricul-
tural department by the
carload.
livery kind Of fence for
every purpose, at the right
price.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-19
THE WAR AIMS OF
SOCIALIST PARTY
OF GREAT BRITAIN
Problems Which Inter Allied Council Hope They
Will Be Able to Solve-A Great Allied
Peace Drive by Ranks of Labor
BY SIDNEY WEBB
Copyright, The International News Bureau Inc.)

The conference of representatives of the Labor and Social
is parties Of the nations alliance against the Central En-
pires which opens today "Wednesday February 2 at the
Central hail. Westminster, WILL it hoped mark stage
in the consolidation of working class opinion the War
Aims of the Western Democraces Down to this moment it
might almost be said of the French Socialist leaders Bit
ery remarked Paris last week. that the working class
organizations TO the different Allies just about much
in complete agreement among themselves their
era countries Foreign Mnister They concurred in contnu
ing the they recognized that it struggle in which they
had the strongest interest," but when they had to de-
clare what it they fighting for they defined their War
Aims each in its patriotic way
1t is the conviction of Mr. Henderson and the Executive
Committee of the British Labor Party that clear and definite
statement War Aims, made in by the Labor and
Socialist parties of all the allied nations, would far
and Austrian wageearning that they
being deuded by their governments to what
were aetna fighting for.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-19
REITMAN HOPES FOR
AN EARLY RELEASE

Cleveland, March 1s.-Hnpe that he
will be released within a few weeks
was expressed by DR.. Ben L. Reit-
man of Chicago when he ar
rived here to start a term of six
months in the Warrensville work
house. He was to be taken to War
rensville later to-day.
DR.. Reitman was sent enced to six
months and fined $1,000 IN December.
1916, for circulating birth control lit
erature.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-19
CHARGES CRUELTY.

Intolerable cruelty is the charge
made in the divorce petition filed with
the Superior court by Frank Landau
ski of Stamford, against Ursula Ian
danski of Waterbury. They were
married November Z, 1904, and the
acts of cruelty commenced soon after
marriage.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-19
HARTFORD MAN
DIES IN SOUTH

Hartford, March 19.-The death of
Austin c. Durham of this City in St.
Petersburg, Fla. last night, was an
nounced in telegram received by rel
atives yesterday. He was in his 85th
year, native of Coventry and a res
ident of Hartford since babyhood. He
was a student at Yale, class of 1854
and in his later years became prom
inently identified with the business
life of Hartford. He was for 80 years
up to 1912, president of the Hartford
Electric Light Co.
Mr.. Durham had spent his winters
in the south and in Cuba, where he
owned a plantation, for several years.
Several days ago he was taken sick
with stomach trouble. His daughter
Mrs. D. Newton Barney of Farming
ton, started for St. Petersburg, Fri
day.
The Federal authorities at Washing
ton accepted the contract with Purdue
University for the use of the grounds
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-01
"OUR NEW WAR"

The Bolshevist government have set the seal
to their ignominy. Hardly has German resumed
the offensive when they hasten to declare them,
selves ready to sign peace on the terms dictated
to them at Brest. We doubt whether even TINS
proffer Of abject submission will stay the march
of the Germans Herr Won Kuhlmann hopes toI
strengthen the Russian inclination for peace by
renewing the war. The German troops are IN
Dvinsk once 50 valianty defended, and they are
in Lutsk. The "new diplomacy" as practised by
the Boshevsts, suits the central powers admir-
ably. It has enabled them to foster the secession
of the Ukraine and to make separate peace with
the new state upon terms most advantageous 10
themselves. 1t now enables them to obey the
summons of their Ukraine clients with show OF
juridical "correctitude" With unfeigned alacrlty
the Germans are dispatching troops INTO the prov
inces which have been severed under their protec-
ton from the former Russian Empire Nommallv
they 90 to take the side of the Ukraine in the civil
war which they have promoted in fact they rejoice
to find themselves in armed control OF territory
so valuable as possession or as PLEDGE IL may,
or it may not, furnish the abundant supplies OF
foodstuffs, 'in the current economic year,, which
Herr Won Kuhlmann and DR.. Soldier dangle before
the hungry masses of the central powers: But II
undoubtedly opens a wide window upon the Black
sea and upon all that lies beyond the Black sea-
delightful to the believers in MitteEuropa. They
will take care that the window is not again smut
AS the prospect for Germany grows darker IN the
vest her uniformed ''idealists' turn their vision
more and more fondly to the east, and to the op.
portunities they find there in the dissolution OF
Russia. The advance of their Turkish allies to
within few miles of Trebzond and the rapid re-
assertion of Turkish mastery in Armenia may
naturally increase their hopes It is 50 good to
be in the Ukraine that, although the invitation was
deliberately addressed ito the German people"
over the head of 'the All Highest and his satel-
ltes, Germany has overlooked the fact me
Hohenzoerns are ready to act with the socialists
of the Ukraine, as they acted with the Jacobins
a century ago. The kaiser, like his predecessors
knows when to put his throne and altar prin-
ciples in his pocket. He can salve his conscience
by the reflection that he is now fighting the Bol-
shevsts in a double capacity; first as the enemy
Of Russia. and, secondly, as the further anodyne
to be found in the prospect of gain.-London
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-01
TIE GRAPPLE OF MILLIONS

+ BEFORE the titanic impact of possibly 100000
Teuton troops moved to supreme effort by now
or-never conviction, the British are yleld'ng
ground, but by all accounts the resistance they
offer is costing the enemy stupendous price III
loss of life and fighting energy.
| Pre-eminently, it is time for cool heads, brave
hearts and determined spirit in all allied quarters
The British, though thrust back here and there
by an opposing avalanche of men and guns lnte1>-
sivly keyed, are far from beaten They are neither
demoralized, discouraged nor beWlldered by the
cumulative effect Of the blows that are being dealt
them Their fighting morale is intact. They are
giving way in good order and with clear purpose.
They are making the foe pay dearly for every foot
he gains.
The rapid progress of the enemy IS dsquletlng,
but that may be the very thing that, in the end
will defeat him. The ground over which the Brit
sh retire, because of previous devastation, IS oao
enough heaven knows, but it is vastly worse 60
ing for the attacking side. Unless the kalser>s
armies can move their heavy guns and supply
bases consistently at the pace the forward fighting
ranks set; in short, if they cannot maintain their
gait over wide front to victorious end-they
will land inevitably in precarlous positions ana
be menaced by huge thanking or scissors move
ments that would annhiate or cut off great bodies
of men and accoutrements. This danger, of course
fensive for the time, are the Jess likely to encoun-
ter it, other things being equal.
The people of London are calmly confident that
the Teutons will be stopped. Paris, though bat
tered with marvellous long-range guns, IS less
Eanxious than it was during the clash at the Marne
Washington expects that in the big and vital sense
the British will hold and that the French will do
likewise if they should be put to test of the same
kind. If tide of Teuton might is hurled against
the American soldiers they may be trusted to give
their level best, handicapped as they are by lack
LOT airpanes. Will their courage and spirit be
matched here at home?
This new crisis is an injunction upon every
loyal American to show the stuff that is in him
as never before. The issue Of the war will be de-
cided, apparently, by what is now going on, altho
victory may be yet, long way off. American
effort should bobfeAiedtea ofr thellatter hypothe
thas1Ast four days. Minneapolis Tribune.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-01
WITH THE EDITORS
MIR. HEARST'S LATEST

William R. Hearst printed personally signed
editorial in his papers the other day. He adver-
tised the fact that the editorial reached 100000
readers. Perhaps that is so. The editorial seemed
to US to border on dangerous ground. He talked
of the entrance of Japan into the war. He cited
the fact that Japan had asked permission OF no
nation, least Of ALL of the United States, to enter
Russia. He insisted that it is the duty OF the
United States to talk plainly to the British and to
the Japs and to insist that Japan keep out Of
Russia. His line of reasoning is difficult to follow
For our part, no matter what the latter danger
may be from the occupation Of part of Russia by
Japan, no matter if suspect the Japs of secretly
docs not seem fair nor justified by any rule of past
conduct or present exigencies it is better for the
United States and for the allies to have Japan in
Russia than to have Germany in control OF Russia
We suspect that Mr.. Hearst is too anxious to find
something to cause embarrassment. And good
ness knows the president has enough embarrass-
ing situations without having any other unneces-
sary embarrassments foisted on him at this time.
New Rockford State Center.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-01
WHEN IT'S WORTH WHILE

Through his experience with an army of 10000
employees, Henry Ford has arrived at this:
"Men don't work for money alone. len dollars
a day will not hold men in some places. The things
of life that are worth while make the strongest
appeal to the man. Above all, he must have some
thing to hope for in the future
Mr. Ford has the secret of satisfied labor and,
if all the employers in the country had it, we
would have very much different and better
America.
through earnest persistent striving for little DIT
more than he already had.
The man without hope of advancement is a
machine He watches the clock He does his stint,
and no more, and is Indifferent to the fate OF the
enterprise of which his stint is part. His loyalty
is measured by his obedience to rules and MS con-
tribution is no more than that Of the dies, clogs,
rivets, wires, gears and fuel Of his shop. He has
represented the status quo only, and always will.
He has been the blowing by ox-poWer, the reaplng
with the sickle, the garment made by hand-neede,
the transportation by canal. Keep him as ne IS,
and he will always have only what is granted him
and few of the things that make life worth while.
And should he become the majority, should in
alienable rights and opportunities depend upon
him, human progress will cease
OF capital and labor, the latter is the greater
and it's responsibility is the greater. .Human-ma-
chine labor, labor without aspiration for the things
Of life worth while without something better to
nope Tor IN Cne. luluEC means oLdSiI1 O1 oIdSt1.
ton of capital as well as of all other elements, and
hence it is labors insistent obligation to fight
against the increase OF human machines.
The great war work that Mr.. Fords industrial!
army is performing is admirable, but, in the final
analysis, it is only fundamental duty Of labor
It is but abors fulfilment of its obligation to beat
back an autocracy which would make all laborers
but human machines, without hope of the things
of life that are worth while. $780,. ....
Mr.. Ford is one of the greatest liberators of
our times He is demonstrating to capitalism, by
his growing bank balances that it is most profit
able that the wage-earner be eager for and have
the things of life that worth while. All of our
industrial problems are locked up in that PROPOSE
ton.