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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11

the service as a technical expert. In case he doesn't qualify, still he will go to 8 noncommissioned officers school, the nearest depot brigade, or, in case of special technical or me- chanical ability. to the vocational de- tachment.
 It is not our purpose to cover the whole ground of this splendid oppor- tunity. We desire simply to indicate the way for ambitious. intelligent young men to improve their condi- ton. They need not enter the ser vice in the ranks. They may really go to college, and if they are of the right stuff, may soon be holding com missions earned by ntudious appli- cation to 8 course, which, while il is designed primarily to meet the inn mediate requirements of the War De- partment, will be SO organized as to give as much credit as possible to- ward the regular degree course re- | quirements.
 The United States government comes to meet our ambitious boys half way. It offers them chance to show what is in them. The boys who desire to meet the government half way, and give it the best there is in them, will find the meeting place at bur ownl State college. Then | having chosen the branch of servic5 and line of work they desire, they may go to college, under as good in struction as can be obtained, by the l government, become technical experts or qualify for further training with commissions in the army or the navy as the goal.
 The war Is bringing sorrow and hardship and loss-it is also bringing an immensely larger life It is bring. ing opportunity such as many of oul boys never dreamed of-Manchestel Union.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11
GLOVE OUTPUT RESTRICTED

Washington, Oct. 1.-The War In- dustries Board yesterday announced that manufacturers of light leather gloves and mittens had been instruct ed, beginning with the 1919 spring season, to eliminate many styles, re- strict the number of colors and limit the length of tflS gloves to '12 1-2 inches.
 Each manufacturer is to restrict his output to the following colors in the various classes of leather: All gloves cut from dipped grain leather to be restricted to black, dark tan, gray and khaki; gloves cut from brushed leather to be restricted to black, white, tan and gray; gloves cut from mocha leather to be restricted to gray and beaver; gloves cut from suede or flesher leather to be restrict ed to gray, beaver and khaki; gloves cut from so-called doeskin or chamois leather to be restricted to white and natural; gloves cut from deerskin to be restricted to gray and khaki.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11

Four women with banners of the women's party were arrested in front of the Senate wing of the Capitol.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11
COLLEGE OPPORTUNITY.
Uncle Sam Comes to Meet Am
 bilious Boys Half Way.

There are hundreds, probably thou sands of boys in New Hampshire who have thought of a college education as something desirable, but unobtain-, able. Wistfully they have looked in the direction of Durham or Dart mouth, then turned away, and shut out from their thoughts any least idea that this life of the colleges could be for them. One who has lived through this disappointment knows how keen it is, and how 1t seems as if one were seeing the door to pretty much all that makes life worth while slammed in ones face. Let us, then, speak word of encour- agement to the young men who have thought college career was not pos sible for them, and tell them that 1t is within their reach-not the or dinary academic course, to be sure, but, nevertheless, a genuine college training and experience, with the pos sibility of a commission in the army or the navy lying beyond it.
 Let us individualize this matter. Here is an 1S-year-old boy. He Is subject to the draft. He is physical ly fit. He has no dependents. He has had a grammar school education and no more He will be drafted and enter the service as private. Yet he may do much better than that. The War Department, for example, will
 soon establish a unit of the Students
 Army Training Corps at New Hamp-
 shire College. This boy may go tc
 a vocational school, choose his brancE of the service, receive practica training at the expense of the govern
 ment and become fitted for some use full mechanical work. If he showt himself to be of officer stuff he vii l be transferred to the collegiate sec ton of the Students Army Trainine l Corps.
 In case this young man has had z
 high school education he may be ad mitted to the courses of the collegiat' 1 grade through matriculation in thu
 regular way. In this event, he vii l enter the regular army, will be en titled to a private's pay, subsistence | etc., will be under the customar. rules of discipline, and will be train | ed either for a commission or for eX
 pert service, according as he ma, choose. If he shows promise h.
 will be kept in college until qualified | to enter a central officers training camp, or until he is sent directly int!
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11
QUAKER HOSPITAL UNIT WIPED OUT
 BY GERMAN BOMB

Havre, Oct. 11-(Correspondence of The Associated Press)-The head quarters of the Friends Ambulance Unit, an organization of $50 workers from all sections of America sent to the western front by the American Society of Friends, has been almost completely wiped out by bombs dropped from German airplanes. Two of the staff were killed and four in- jured. The others were safe.
 The story of the disaster is told in a report of Major John Van Schatk' Deputy Commissioner of the Amerl- can Red Cross, of which the Friends Ambulance is a unit, who says:
 "A worker whom we had placed with the unit was sleeping in the room with one of those who was kill ed. He was not injured. He describ- ed his experience as follows:
 CT was awake when the bomb fell. don't remember much noise, only the motion. The whole room seemed to lurch back toward where the bomb fell, and then went down. We fell fast and seemed to be falling through all eternity. My life was saved by my bed shooting across the room. The cupoIa of the adjoining building fell where my bed stood.
 The adjutant of the unit was buried under the debris for three hours. A large oak chest held beam off his neck. They had to tunnel through the debris to get. him out. He was conscious part of the time, and directed the rescuers in their work He was bruised but not seriously hurt"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11
REGULATE THE TRAFFIC BEHIND
 THE FRONT LINE

With the Americans on British Front in France, Oct. 11-(Corres- pondence of The Associated Press)- One of the interesting characters seen on the roads behind the line is the military policeman, He is stationed at every crosaroad, regulating trafnc with all the gestures of a professional traffic policeman in New York, or Chi- cago, but in a khaki uniform and with a red brassard on his arm as the badge of his authority,
 Everything from a gigantic motor truck to a sputtering motorcycle comes within his Jurisdiction, The haughtiest staff car, with It's proud -4aR flags and Its red-capped passen- gers ia subject to the law as laid Aavn by that firm arm la khaki.
 St is a motley pageant that he mar s4-Ss. There are big closed cars con- taning generals; there are great open cars filled with young staff officers of lesser rank but alert, energetic, and keen. There are evenly-moVing am- balances with the doctor sitting calm beside the driver. There are huge : lorries, long columns of them
 All day long the rush of traffic on these great main roads continues. Towards night the roads are some times quieter, but there Is still ac- tfvity. All through the night, the Tor ries plod on their way backward and forward, the cars dash by, the dis patch riders come and go. There Is no rest. Layer after layer of white Aust settles on. the houses and the houses and the fences. Day after day the machinery behind the war goes whirring on, growing constantly more complex and moro powerful.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11

The wife of New York lawyer dissents from this extreme opinion, and thinks bridge should be treated like other amusements or diversions, as rest and relaxation to the mind. The wife of a New England governor contributes a lively letter, from which 1t appears she is an expert player, not a 'fbridge-fiend" by any means, but one who finds it an absorbing game. She admits that just now intelligent persons can be much more profitably employed than in playing cards, but says very sensibly:
 If an occasional game of bridge, after the days work is over, is bet 1 ter tonic for the next days work in some cases than a contest at golf, or visit to the theatre, or a quiet hour with a book, I can see no reason to consider it idle or unpatriotic to in dulge in it.''
 She makes the point that every comfort kit that we send to our soldiers in France contains a, pack of cards, 'but we do not suppose that the soldiers will wish to use them in working hours, and the same rule should a1ply to ourselves" The ed itor of The Chronicle sides with the freformers, and gives his Cor her) req sons, some of them curious, for inter- dieting the game. A woman of some literary celebrity cuts the knot with a clip:
 Of all the persons I have known who played bridge enough for it to interfere with the usefulness of their lives, there has been no one whose time seemed sufficiently valuable for 1t to matter what he did with it.,
 The reform has been inaugurated. Il A pledge has been drawn up, circu- Hated and signed by several linen and women of wealth and leisure" We desire to promote a reasonable and patriotic spirit of abnegation, and the renunciation of all vain amusements lamong the "leizure classes" of our city Abandon bridge and win the war!" To this end, and that all so- minded may have the golden oppor- tunity of joining this great moral movement, we print the formal pledge
 confident that no similar documen cah vie with it in singularity:
 We, the undersigned, do condemn the playing of bridge in times of wal as a contemptible waste of time, ar evil example to set and a form o1 idIeness unworthy of our place as American citizens. We believe that by playing bridge men and women o1 ; wealth and leisure give to the ex- ponents of class hatred a weapon to wield against the unity of the United States and it's long-cherished institu- tions Therefore we sign this appea to players of bridge who may not have considered the widespread in f1uence of their apathy toward the
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11
Concerning Bridge

Is it wrong or improper or impo1i- tic to play bridge in these strenuous times? This is the momentous ques- tion now agitating certain feminine minds In The Chronicle, a New York society magazine, a symposium on this subject has appeared, likewise a pledge entitled "A Solemn Protest Against Bridge" signed by several persons of alleged social prominence addicted to the game. Among the letters composing the symposium is one from a Boston woman who heart fly approves giving up bridge until after the. war, and hopes that many will see the wisdom of renouncing it for all time. She thinks it a waste of precious time and mentally narrow ing"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11
PLEASURE SEEKERS MAY BE DEBARRED
 FROM USING CARS

When you read about the enormous fleet of motor trucks to be put to work in France, 1t is evident that the drain on the gasoline supply is going to be enormous. And our great air plane force must have another vast supply.
 Sharp restrictions upon the use of gasoline in this country seems in evitable, The government of course will not permit great quantities of gas to be used in pleasure riding if the army work Is being held up for lack of motive power. It would not riding pretty nearly stopped before the war is over.
 Our joyriders can stand it for q short time. There are plenty of people who run cars 10000 miles a year just for pleasure. And they may not take long tours at that. With 200 to 300 miles every week end and holiday, several shorter rides through the week, and lot of little excur- sions summer evenings just to cool off, 1t is not 2 difficult thing, with a smooth purring motor, to run of 10, 900 miles.
 If the car Is burning up a gallon every ten miles, it's consumption of 1900 gallons year would carry an army truck some distance.
 As to the fresh air necessary to a mans health, the fellow who runs his car 5000 to 4,0OO miles a year can get a lot of it Pleasant country scenes within 25 miles of his home town are just as refreshing as those 100 miles away. Some of us would have a. lot better health if we would walk to and from business, instead Of feeling the iron beast must cart us every step. So there is plenty oi chance to save gasoline for army use without interference with the well be- ing of the people. If people will re- | strict their pleasure riding reasona- bly, the government will not be fore. ed to regulate the use of gasoline SC drastically as otherwise is inevitable
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11
RADTUM SUBSTITUTE FOUND

Milwaukee, Oct. 11-Mesoth orium, "a substitute for radium, the world supply of which is only about three ounces of radium element, has been found, the convention of the Amer icen Institute of Mining Engineers learned today from Dr. Richard B. Moore of the United States Bureau of Mines.
 The radium substitute, Dr. Moore said. could be used efficiently as luminous paint on a1rplane dials, compasses and gunsights-
 The convention closed after dis cussing many conservation and pro- duction measures.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11
IRISH MODEL HOMES.

Dublin, Oct. 11-Construction by the government of model homes for the families of 27,O0O Dublin workingnae n is recommended in report just pub hshed here by Chief Engineering In spector Cowan of the Local Govern ment Board, appointed by the govern ment to solve the serious housing problem.
 The proposition involves an expendi- ture of f9,00o,000 and calls for the erection of 16,000 new buildings and the reconstruction of nearly 4,OOO old tenements
 The problem of housing the work ing classes long has been a serious one here, and there has been much. dis content because of poor living condi- tions.
 Some 10000 families or nearly one third of the city's population, live in single rooms.
 MT. Cowan's report recommends the erection by the government of 16,0O0 self-contained homes in the suburbs | near car lines.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11
STAMFORD

The body of the man who was found hanging in the Beardsley woods off Stratford avenue, "Wednesday 1 night, was Identified late this after noon by Joseph Stempel, g. Barnum avenue merchant, as tllnt of William Kubick, who lived with the John Fer l go family on Franklin avenue. | Kubick had worked at the Bridge 1 port Brass Co., for IS years and had l 1 wife and children in Hungary. He 1 was continually talking about his rheumatism and made many threats that he would take his own life. There are deposits in his name in the Farmers and Mechanics Savings bank amounting to $100.
 The body was turned over to Un- dertaker Joseph Adzima, of Bridge port
 The doubling of the quota allotted to Stratford for the Fourth Liberty Loan may soon be an accomplished fact. The largest subscription re- ceived yesterday was from the men of the Housatonic Shipbuilding Co.,, s25.000. A contest is in progress in the yards of this company, the prize being a $50 bond to be given to the man securing the largest number of subscriptions
 An entertainment and dance was held last evening at Red Mems hall for the benefit of the Romatzick family who were burned out last week.
 The board of selectmen organized last evening with James Ially, first selectman and town agent, as chair man. Daniel J. Carten and Reinhold Persson as the other members of the board.
 This year the town will not be di. vided off into districts, with each one of the selectmen having a certain amount of money to spend. Hereaf- |, ter the road money will be spent as the board directs and none can be ex- pended unless by vote of the board
 Ten different periods in the devel- opment of the county were shown in the school parade this afternoon The different parts taken were as follows: Indian Life, Sedgwick school; Period lof Discovery, Whitney school; Period nf Settlement. Garden street and Acbels avenue: Revolutionary Period, Honeyspot school; Progress After the Revoluntion. Washington school; Civil War Period, Franklin school; Development After the Civil War, Centre school grades; Present Day Activities, High school; The Flu ture, East Main street school; The Fourth Liberty Loan, Lordship school.
 After the parade athletic contests were held on Academy Hill. A boy and a girl representing each grade in town taking part. A 50-yard dash was held for girls, ard a 50-yard dash and a standing broad jump for tine boys.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11

common veal to foreswear the play ing of bridge until the end of the war and to persuade others to cease this time killing, useless pastine."
 How about poker? Why pitch on innocent idge?---Hartford Courant.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11

Costs few centsI DroJ G little Freezone on that touchy corn, instant ly that corn stops hurting, then you. lift it right out with the fingers. i
 Why wait? Your druggist sells a. tiny bottle of Freezone for a few cents,
 sufficient to rid your feet of every hard corn, soft corn, or corn betweenI the toes, and calluses, without sore ness or irritation. FTeezone Is the much talked of discovery of the Cin- cinnati genius.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11

It is possibly significant that the outbreak of influenza in so many army camps occurred at a time when the spies and plotters seemed to be very inactive
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11

It is claimed there are too mauy stray dogs running around loose. The food administration should not over- look this.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11

An American scouting airptaae was lost off the Atlantic coast. The occu- pants were saved
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-11

CORTEZ c. ROCKWELL, plumbing and heating; jobbing a speciality. Cor. Main and Hillside avenue. Stratford.
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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-09-03
Reservoir Dams in Tunls.

Already the French are looking for.
ward to the rapid development Of the
nroyince of Tunis in Africa. Accord
Ing to a civil engineer who has been
investigating the matter there are
about 35 localities in that country
where dams could be constructed. with
reservoir capacities ranging from 81
100000 to 400, 900, 600 cubic meters, and
water power ranging from 30 to 5000
horse power Of continuous energy. The
engineering difficulties are stated to
be small in comparison with those OF
dams already built in Europe and the
United States, and the utilization OF
the water for irrigation, electrical
power. and in one case canal naviga-
ton IS estimated to furnish good
margin of profit. The numerous ruins
of Roman dams found in Tunis show
by what methods the country became
"the granary of Rome" under the en-
pire and the ruins Of large cities, with
coliseums, bath and temples OF great
size standing in what are now barred
plains, are evidence Of the success OF
the organized methods Of irrigation OF
those ancient times.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-09-03
Made Brave Reeeue.

Once a terror to mariners, Mfnots
Hight, which stands on reef of Bos-
ton harbor, has another thrilling story
added to its history, says the Popular
Mechanics magazine. Three days be
fore Chn1Hmas, Captain Octavius
Reamey, the keeper, approached the
tower in his motorboat, which was
loaded with provisions and fuel OBJ
tanned on the mainland. AS the craft
drew up, it was overturned by the
waves that were breaking over the base
of the structure, leaving the captain
battling alone in tossing maelstrom
Of lev water. The assistant keeper was
lowered on rope from the door fifty
feet above. He managed to seize the
drowning man before it was too late,
and both men were pulled from the
water by their companions to the door
way high in the tower.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-09-03

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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-09-03
Books of Registration.

The members of the board of regis
tration will be at the following places
at the following dates:
Little Mountain, Tuesday, 10th o.
September, from 10 to 1:30 o'clock
Pomaria, Tuesday, 10th of septem-
Der, from 2 to 5 o'clock.
Chappells, Wednesday, 11th Of Sep.
tember, from $3.50 to $50 O'Clock.
Prosperity, Thursday, September %,
from 1880 to 500. Will have books
for 8, 9 and 10 townships.
silverstreet, 18th September, from
10 to 100 o'clock.
Longshore, 18th September, froa
1:3O to 500 o'clock.
Glymphville, 18th September, from
10:00 to 100 o'clock.
Mt. Bethel, 10th September, froHse-
2:3O to 500 O'Clock.
R. c. Sigh
Member Of Board.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-09-03
SOME FOOD FOR THOUGHT
FROM A LOYAL CITIZEN

We find in Gods word where 1t
saws, There is a time for all things
a time for peace and time for war.
And also it says there shall be wars
and rumors of wars. "See that ye be
not troubled for all these things must
come to pass" but the end is nor
here" Matt. 24-s. "And when ye
shall hear of wars and rumors OF
wars, be ye not troubled, for such
things must needest be, but the enc
shall not be yet, for nations. shall
rise against nations and kingdoms
against kingdoms, and there shall oe
earthquakes in. divers places, ane
there shall be famines and troubles.
There are the beginnings OF sorroWs.
The crises of the present time be-
gin to make us feel that God is verify
ing his word. We cannot say that
God orders wars, for his command
that said in the beginning, Thou shalt
not kill, stands for just the same that
il did when given to Moses on the
Mount. But God suffers these things
to he and he will finally vindicate MS
righteousness is the end.
We firmly believe that Gcd intends
this high-minded, proud, disobedient
set of people who are now occupy
ing his earth, to bend their knees 10
him before this thing is over.
But I started out to say something
about loyalty and patriotism, as this
is one of the creates: demands OF the
occasion. Not every one who STANDS
upon the housetops and is proclaim
ino patriotism and loyalty to MS
country is a coworker to this greas
struggle. 1t is true that everybody
that you hear talk wants to win the
war, but it is very sad indeed 10
know that we have some people Wno
want to win with somebody's boy ane
somebody else's money If there Is
anybody who is shielded behind tne
curtain in this class, and this is the
class that you may call skinfllnts'
There are great many people in tne
world who have to be made feel d.
fore they are willing to yield. I am
not going to accuse anyone Of dong
so much wrong, but there is going 10
be general sitting after a while, and
we will see where the chaf lies. Al
ter this great struggle is over, the
sheep are going to be separated from
among the goats and they will never
be classified together any more. PUP
lie opinion is powerful force and 7
can not be triffled with. When aroused
and directed, and it will be directed
the poor boys who have gone forth