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The Little River news., 1918-01-12
DISLOYALTY CHARGED
German Said to Have Cursed Red
 Cross and Criticised Wilson.

Pine Bluff, Jan. 9.-Charles Martin Kruger, German whc. lives near Double Wells. this county, was arrest ed this morning by Deputy United States Marshal H. w. Gray on a charge of disloyalty. It is said that Kruger cursed the Red Cross, charged President Wilson with causing the war and opposing army conscription. He was released upon bail and will be arraigned before United States Com missioner A. L. Burnett in this city January 13.
The Little River news., 1918-01-12
TIME TABLE Memphis, Dallas X Gulf Ky.


 Daily Except Sunday, Eastbound. Leave TeXarkana 7:S0 a. m. Arrive Ashdown S:30 a. m. Arrive Hot Springs 5:90 p. m.
 Westbound. Leave Hot Springs FOO D. m. Arrive Ashdown 4:05 D. m. Arrive Texarkana 4:50 D. m.
 Sunday Only Eastbound. Leave TeXarkana 7:30 a. m. Arrive Ashdown S;20 D. m. Arrive Hot Springs 3:30 p. m.
 Sunday Only Westbound. Leave Hot Springs 9:25 a. m Arrive Ashdown 4:03 p, m. Arrive TeXarkana 4:50 p. m.
The Little River news., 1918-01-12

E fighting ocured several weeks ago, the Italians are violently smelling the Austro-German positions.
The Little River news., 1918-01-12
To Cure a Cold in One Day.

Take LAXATIVE PROMO Ouinne. It stops the Cough aud Headache and works off the Cold. Druggists refund money If it fails to cure. E. W, GROVES signature on each box. BOG.
The Washington times., 1918-10-24
Here's Hoping for Full
Membership
By III CO

To be admitted to full membership in the big and
happy family of loyal and lively Neutrality-suspicious. who
daily read and contributed to Earl Goodwin column in The
Times win be honor and a pleasure. Here's hoping
that backbaIs win drop anywhere against me- and that
there win always be lenency and forgiveness for the short
cOmings sure to crop out in human beings efforts.
Washington Is city Of half million, and whether
the ends In few months few years, the number
of inhabitants win not dwindle apprecaby. probably
viii continue to increase permanent basis Thousands
of Government employees will be retained in their
permit buy homes here and send back for the loved ones
to share with them the beauties and pleasures of pera
nent residence In the Federal Capital.
These newcomers viii become as loyal to Washington
and her best interests the oldest citizens They VIII
earnestly wish to participate in civic and social activities
having for their purpose the development Of Washington
along clean and heahful ines-economc financial social
and spiritual For whatever the future has store for
this greatest capital of the greatest nation EARTH it viii
continue to be city of ideal homee devoted to the up
building of all that is good in man and woman
And with the growth Of Washington, materially and
spiritually, The Times win keep in close touch encourag
ing all that should be encouraged and going the top
against men and measures having no place in this eys
program of development
To do this The Times has found no better way than by
giving thoughtful to the views of thousands Of sincere
splendid citizens whose hearts and minds the
alert for the betterment of humanity and of the municipal
it demonstrated IN the letters they write the messages
they send this paper.
Goodwin representing The Times was gioriOusly for
tunate In the privilege Of communication each day with
that great circle of readers whose minds constantly
tive in behalf of all that is good right and just In Wash
ington
This column Is for you and with you; for Washington
and her progress along lines that viii make her the model
city of the world.
The Washington times., 1918-10-24
TODAY'S TOPIC
WHEN SHALL A GIRL MARRY?
By T. E. Powers

is Of imprisoning this delicate
emotion In . child marriage.
Desire to Be In Fashion.
But Just because respect gen.
uine love always I cannot per-
suade myself that all the sixteen
year-olds who Just now have 50
much TO say about love and mar
rage really understand what love
is. II 1t becomes the fashion to be
In love and engaged. isn't It a
temptation to dramatize ones
feelings Just . little? II one can
help Il, one doesn't want to be left
toFlornly out Of the running at
Seventeen-still less to be called
1old maid At eighteen.
But what these young creatures
forget IL that they are deprivtng
themselves Of youth. At sixteen
childhood il only Just over and
youth Is beginning. And the more
years one can devote TO the BUSH
ness of being gloriously young the
better on one Is all the rest OF
one's life
To marry at sixteen or seven
teen Is 70 forego youth In the real
sense. Youth Is the growing and
playing and learning time, and
one must be free to grow and play
The Washington times., 1918-10-24
Beatrice Fairfax Writes Problems Pitfalls
Especially for Washington Women

and learn And this isn't Just
matter Of securing oneself q few
years Of playtime without respon-
sioillty. 1t Is q matter Of prepar-
Ing oneself for life.
Unfettered Youth Important
In order to be a healthy, sensi-
BILE woman later on, "a good wife
and mother" as the phrase goes,
one must fortify oneself by having
a normal youth. a youth without
too heavy burdens.
And youth Is not youth, I will
admit, 1t isn't the golden wonder
time OF dreams, IL boys and girls
don't share their playtime, IL they
don't often laugh and talk and
dance together. Only, they win
enjoy this precious companion
ship so much more II that dis
turbing thought OF marriage isn't
always at the bottom Of their
minds.
Remember, sixteen year olds,
that now you are In the playtime
Of your life. Stow away all the
Joy you can and don't be IN a
hurry for life to ring its bell and
summon you indoors to begin the
job Of serious living
Learn How to Love.
Don't allow yourselves TO look
about nervously for a life partner
to present himself (think what
that means-a life partnerD until
you have yourself accumulated
some capital to contribute to the
partnership. don't mean money.
1 mean practical experience and
the growth OF good sense / mean
even the capacity to love
See If you cannot possibly wait
until you are, say, twenty, before
you promise to marry-or before
you defy the too sober Judgment
of your family by the dashing
plunge of On clopcmcnt. At TWEEN
ty, a girl knows what love and
marriage means, and if she is go
ing to direct her own life, instead
of letting it be a matter Of chance,
she ought also to have some prac-
teal knowledge OF motherhood and
housekeeping. And / think she is
better off If she has had expert
ence in wage-carning, too, be-
sides as much schooling as her
parents could afford to give her.
You see marriage is serious
matter. It was q serious matter
for those sixteen-year-oid great
grandmothers, who grew old be-
fore they were ever young. It is
too serious for the sixteen-yecr-
olds o. today to think Of under
taking, -
The Washington times., 1918-10-24

taeh grown-up names 20 their
inst, charming, poetic boy-and-
girl love affair? OF course, I
have urged them strongly to do
nothing Of the sort
A few days ago a girl Of fifteen
wrote to tell me that her mother
disapproved Of her engagement
and approaching marriage, and to
ask my Intervention
Other girls, having escaped the
lures Of matrimony I'D TO the age
of eighteen, complain that they
are continually reproached with
the term Of "old maid" by even
more youthful acquaintance
hear Of girls still in their first
year Of college, marrying depart
ing soldiers and then cody going
on with their education. Though,
Of course, if one is determined to
marry at sixteen, this is the best
way to do it, rather than to un-
dertake the burdens of house
keeping and parenthood before one
has finished growing.
/ don't wish to be understood IS
making light Of love at whatever
age it may occur. Young love IL .
beautiful thing. even II it isn't ro-
bust enough to stand the heavy
strain Of a lifetime. The danger
The Washington times., 1918-10-24

rrIS there 10 be Q return to the
custom of early marri-
i agesE' q Washington girl
asks.
As we all know, our great
grandmothers married when they
were sixteen. To be sure. life was
pretty well over for them by the
time they were thirty, q fact which
should like the impetuous young
girls Of today to consider.
But In our mothers day the
bridal age slipped along to
twenty-one or 20, and in our own
time twenty-five has seemed to
many people an even wiser limit
to set to girlhood Some women
have deferred their marriage q
good deal later than this without
being considered eccentric
Romance OutIaStS First Youd.
For my own part, l have never
believed that love is q gin be-
slowed on early youth alone or
that romance blooms, vithers, and
dies before one Is twenty.
There Is, Of course, the classic
case Of Shakespeare's Juliet who
loved-and became, indeed, the
ideal of all later lovers-at four
teen!
But q fourteen-year-old Italian,
making necessary allowance for
the precocious towering time of
the southern races, is perhaps the
equivalent Of an American girl Of
sixteen. So BY mentioning Juliet
I may seem to have given warrant
to the excessively bridal tendency
that / have been noting among
young American girls.
What / really believe is that a
girl of sixteen, whatever race or
country she belongs to, is too
young to understand love, and
therefore too young to marry.
Do / hear q shrill young chorus
Of disagreement!
Several sixteen-year-old girls
have recently written me, saying
that their parents disapproved Of
their marrying, and asking
whether they should elope?
ElOpement At Sixteen.
Elope?-when they are only
just learning how to put their
hair up, and when, except for the
family circumstances, they would
still be in high school. Elope?-
juss o.cnus -. go eat
The Washington times., 1918-10-24
Poverty and Disease-Their Cruel
Harvest
Harvest
Continued From First Cofuma.]

Continued From First Column
ings and the death that put before dull statistics
We know and care little about them
In one of the last letters that he wrote suffering
and almost dying himself Robert Louis Stevenson said
ct have been getting of the Bullets of late; but
have amply earned them-you need not pity me. Pity
sick children"
When the people shall feel Stevenson felt and when
especially they shall possess fraction Of his imagination
as well of his sympathy there viii come wholesale fight
for the end of wholesale child murder
Some day in the future more taxes win be spent for
the benefit Of poor people en- vim not be allowed
to die for the lack Of few orth of pure milk;
filthy streets viii not be the Fairgrounds Of millions Of
children
The Washington times., 1918-10-24
HEARD AND SEEN

that II Government authorities had
arranged 30 that builders Of this city
could have obtained funds, materials,
etc, for new buildings the present
contention and dissatisfaction could
have, been avoided
CONGRESSMAN BEN JOHNSON
has had q great opening for . loug
time to make public the names Of .
number Of rent hyenaS. Facts ara
available for him IN the ofaees q
CAPT. JULIUS PEYSER and z. 8.
HEGE. In charge of providing rooEa
for Government employees. Captain
Peyser knows the records Of many
men and women who set aside every
thought Of their fellow men IN tie
scramble for dollars.
No man, however, should Be Eullt1
of besmirching ALI the real estats
dealers and landlords Of tAls town
because Of the acts Of some. ROttsa
apples win appear In . barrel Of The
best fruit
The solution is q wise rent lav,
with a rent administrator having
wide powers to correct injustices-
Sunday morning al the CLOCKS vii
sing,
Turn backward, turn backward,
oh, time, in your fight" line of .
sweet old song Of years gone bv.
How many readers OF The Times
remember the words Of this old soar.
which many Of Us heard our moth
ers or sisters sing3 The tenderness
and sympathy of the wordS in
pressed even the young.
The Washington times., 1918-10-24
Once-Overs
Copyright 1918 By International Feature Service, In
HOW ABOUT TT

HOW ABOUT TT
angred little Just cr
from your wife, why display right spirit Of aceeptane!
bit of advice norted that
mot any possessed the ce
youw to understand"
Now old that little wife of does not object what you
complaining but because Eh really
interested in your welfare and she wants to help
Your her doesn't
you browbeaten her ill., Tor the sake Of she
opon words and actions
you honest criticism from her from in all
the world
better than else where weak and
small cabr consider much intellectual
she Is incapable Of helping
biographies the biggest Of today and yesterday show
much their
is and o q wifes help and interest
do not yourself N aela1 hy ypqrzeh. Do JnQS
The Washington times., 1918-10-24

Not having heard anything lately
about automatic telephones, How
ARD W. PHILLIPS makes the per-
tinent inquiry as to what has hap
pened- "In view of the telephone
service, the epidemic, and eoineiient
generalization Of the staff Of the
telephone company" he writes, Il
wonder whether it has occurred 10
you and to officials that automatic
telephones do not GET THE IN
FLUENZA-"
Maybe Postmaster General Burle-
son had not thought of that Inter-
nation is that Mr.. BurleSon inteRds
to install automatic telephones N
Washington before q great while
The influenza idea may hasten his
favorable decision
Commissioner LOUIS BROWN
LOW, who favors automatics, is q
victim of influenza. He IS improv-
ing.
Louis tried to keep at q reasonable
distance from all persons talking
with him, but he has been so busy
in the last few weeks that it was i'm
possible to avoid acquaintance with
the germs.
EDMUND K. FOX, Of the long
established real estate house Of AZ
F. Fox Company, commenting upon
a recent article by this writer on the
detestable work of rent sharks, eX-
presses the opinion that those guilty
of these acts should be exposed by
the publication of their names and
residences.
Mr.. Fox is also right in the view
The Washington times., 1918-10-24

Mr.. Earl Goodwin, whose articles formerly APP
Peared regularly m these columns, has dOnned the
khaki and become agent for Uncle Sam m estab-
fishing American principles IN the place Of German
lack Of principle. During his absence, Mr. BIN Price
wei known to al the TmeS' readers win Be in charge
Of this department.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-19
SAVINGS STAMPS
SELL VERY FAST

So far from letti~g down immedi-
ately after War wings week, the
sales of stamps reported by the War
Savings committee for Monday
amounted to s6,S03.25. This is mar
ly $1,000 ahead of the daily average
for War Savings week. While the
committee was prepared for slight
recession, it is particularly pleasing
that the sales so far exceeded the daily
average of the week before.
At the Pocket Billiard exhibitions
given by Champion Taberski at the
different billiard rooms in town, Mr..
Henry s. Osborn, who brought Mr..
Taberski to town and is in charge of
his exhibitions, has arranged to make
his exhibitions into a benefit for War
Savings Stamps instead of the Billiard
Players Ambulance Fund as originally
planned.
At the performance at Kelly's Pool
Room and at the Seaside club last
night the aggregate sales of War Saw
ings Stamps were in excess of 500.
The exhibition will take place at the
Y. M. c. A. this afternoon and at the
Moose hall at $50 tonight.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-19
Word of F nance
STOCK MARKET

New York, Feb. 19-Opening: War
shares and kindred specialties bound
ed forward again at the opening Of to-
days stock market, recording gains
extending from large fractions to
three points in the very active first
half hour. Shippings, railroads,
steels and the usual leaders advanced
more moderately at the outset, but
increased their gains later. The rise
prompted further heavy covering Of
short contracts
Nioon--Pools were in control of the
forenoon operations, although outside
interest was not lacking in represent
alive stocks. The turnover of the
morning unprecedented 100000 shares,
establishing a record for many weeks.
Extreme gains of two to five points
were made by New York Air Brake,
messed Steel Car, Crucible Steel,
Bethlehem Steel, Virginia Iron, Chan
dler Motors, Industrial Alcohol, Colo
RADIO Fuel and General Electric. Rail-
roads held their early gains, but ship
pings were reactionary. Liberty lbs
sold at 97.9S to 1904, the first As at
$3.50 to $3.50, and the second As at
1912 to $500.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-19
SETTLE DAMAGE
CASES WITHOUT
A COURT TRIAL

Settlements seemed to be the order
III the Superior Court today, three of
the cases assigned for trial being dis
posed of by agreements between
counsel without submission to the
jury.
The first was the suit of Honora
Ray Bowker, against julius Nesenfeld
in which $1,000 was claimed for a
fall from an alleged defective porch.
In the case of Harry Nelson Mitch
ell against Edward Miller, both of
Norwalk, an agreement was reached
and the case withdrawn. Mitchell
claimed $4,000 for the loss of a part
OF his thumb in machinery in a boat
yard where he was employed August
IA, 1916. The employer having less
than five employees did not come under
the provision of the compensation
act
Agreement was also reached in the
suit of StepIanie Wirth, admfnistra-
trix, against John Juracka- Mrs. Wirth
asked damages of $4,000 for the
death of her daughter, Marietta
Wirth, which occurred May 2, 1917,
when the little girl was struck by an
automobile owned and driven by Ju-
racka-
One other case was withdrawn
without trial. and court adjourned
until tomorrow morning when the suit
of Julia F1eischer against Jacob
Wetnstock is assigned. Slanderous re-
marks July 10 last are alleged, and
damages of $4,000 are asked.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-19
COMPL- OF
DISCRIMINATION
AGAINST STRIKERS

Washington, Feb. f9-With strik-
ing carpenters in all affected districts
returning to work today and William
L. Hutchinson, president of the Broth
erhood of Carpenters and Joiners,
due here to take up the situation with
government officials, complete settle
ment of the recent trouble in eastern
ship yards seemed assured. In effect
President Wilson's Intervention has
terminated the eastern ship yard
strike.
New York, Feb. 19-Thirty-e eight
striking carpenters who sought today
to return to work at the plant of the
Downey Ship Building Co. on Staten
Island, according to John Rice, ma
tional organizer of the United Broth
erhood of Carpenters and Joiners,
were refused entrance to the yard I'M
less they made new applications for
their old jobs at a changed scale Of
wages.
The men, who had been working at
fiat rate of so cents an hour, refused
to sign up for "a to so cents and left
the plant. Their affidavits, Rice said,
would be sent to William L. Hutche-
son, president of the brotherhood
who is now IN Washington preparing
to go before the United States ship
ping board in the hope of effecting an
adjustment of the ship yard contro-
versy.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-19
ASK MERCY FOR
NEGRO SOLDIERS

Washington, Feb. 19-President
Wilson was urged today by a COM
mittee from the New York branch of
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People to eX-
tend clemency to the five negro sol
diers of the oath United States infan-
try sentenced to be hanged for the
part they played in the riots in Hous-
ton, Tex, in August last.
A review of the cases of Al other
negro soldiers sentenced to life i'm
prisonment as a result of the rioting
was also requested. The Rev. F. A
Cullen, as spokesman, placed in the
hands Of the president petition
bearing thousands of signatures.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-19
RECIPROCAL DRAFT
TREATY SIGNED

Washington, Feb. 10 - Signing of
the army draft treaty between. Great
Britain and the United States was an
nounced today. The new British am
bassador, Earl Reading, affixed his
signature to the document as his first
official act in Washington.
Under the treaty the United States
may draft into the military service
British subjects in this country be-
tween the ages of 20 and As, while
Great Britain may draft American
citizens living within its jurisdiction
between the ages of 81 and 81.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-19
MAY f DOWNS,
VS..
CHARLES EDISON DOWNS.
STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
FAIRFIELD COUNTY, S.,
CTTDTrDVOR COTTRT
MAY f. DOWNS,


Bridgeport, Feb. IS, A. D., 1918.
Upon the complaint of the said May
E. Downs praying, for reasons therein
set forth, for a divorce returnable to
the superior court in and for Fair
field County, on the first Tuesday of
March, 1918.
1t appearing to and being found by
the subscribing authority that Charles
Edison Downs the said defendant is
absent from this state and gone to
parts unknown
Therefore Ordered, that notice OF
the pendencv of said complaint be
given by publishing this order in the
bridgeport Times and Evening Far
1aer, newspaper printed in Bridge
port, three times successfully, com
mencing on or before the 18th day OF
February, A. D., 1913.
FRED W. TRACY,
Assistant Clerk Of the Superior Cour1
Tor KzaEfieEd Cozntx. - - $"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-19

may make an advance to the realiza-
ton of an ideal to which great men
of action in the past, such for in
stance, as Henry " of France, no Wis
ionary but a practical statesman. if
their way.
What is the ideal?
1t is the creation no longer Of
merely European. but since our kfns-
men who cross the Atlantic have join
ed hands with US, of a worldwide
policy, uniting the peoples in con-
federation of which justice will be
the base and liberty the cornerstone.
The limitation of ornaments, the &C
ceptance of arbitration as the normal
and natural solvent Of international
disputes, the RELOCATION of wars of
ambition and aggression, between
states to the same category of obso-
lete follies in which we class the fac
ton fights If the old Republics, and
the petty conflicts of feudal lords
these will be the nilestones which
mark the stages of the road. You will
not at first, perhaps not for long
tine, be able to dispense with coer-
cion, military or economic, against
the disloyal and the recalcitrant.
But we may dwell hope, as has
been the case in all civilized societies,
so in the International sphere, that
positive law, with its forcible re-
straints, may gradually recede into
the background, and the sovereign
authority be recognized to rest in the
common-sense of mankind.
We Must Keep Our Powder Dry
These are changes which will not
come in a day. But with them Will
come profound notifications, not
only in the external relations of
states, but in the internal structure
and working of the societies of which
they are composed.
It is impossible to believe that this
universal upheaval will not leave
abiding traces tn the industrial and
economic worlds. For what is it that
distinguishes this war, so far as we
and our allies are concerned, from
most of the wars of history?
It has not been a capitalistic war.
It has been war in which the free
peoples of the world here in Eur
ope, in our Dominions beyond the
Seas, and in the great Republic OF
the West, have given their moral
support, have submitted without a
murmur to unwonted privations and
restraints, and have offered and spent
their own and their children's lives.
When the storm has passed over
and the sky is once more clear, must
we not after such a common discip-
line which has spared no class in So
ciety, see the things that concern our
daily lives and our relations to one
another in a new and truer perspec-
tive than was ever possible before ?
Meanwhile, we must keep our pow
der dry! (By The International News
Bureau, Inc. Boston, Mass.)
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-19
CLEAR UP POISON STORY.

Washington, Feb. 19-Rumors that
a large number of men had been
poisoned at the Norfolk naval train
ing station were cleared up today by
report from Capt. Dayton, the COM
manding officer, that 35 of his force
were made slightly sick recently by
eating corned beef hash. He said
there was no evidence of opoison or
other foreign substance in the hash
and that most of the men were now
back at work.