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New Britain herald., 1919-05-31
WHAT TO DO WITH
 GOLD FROM GERMANY
Economic Experts Studying Disposi- tiOn to Be Made of Payments
 for Food.

Paris, May 29.-Economic experts with the different delegations at the peace conference are making a close study of the disposition to be made of gold which the Germans are pay ing for food supplies. This gold is being shipped into Belgium and stored in the Belgian national bank. Realiz- ing there would be a general disturb ance of world credits if this gold should be taken to the United States economists have advanced a, plan to hold the metal where it is as security which will be gradually redeemed by shipments of comm oddities to various parts of the world. They say this would be built up of credits which would assist stahilizing world com merce. place the United States in splendid trading position and even tually make the gold availab ble for the Allies, who need it as a basis for their currency.
 Experts hold this plan will secure the payment of allied debts to Ameri- ca and assist in restoring allied coun- tries to normal conditions of employ ment, which the peace missions rec ognize as absolutely necessary to the resumption of world con,~>"rce. It is said the payments of gold by Germany is rapidly reducing the German gold reserve.
New Britain herald., 1919-05-31
AN ENERGETIC RAILROADER.

The Railroad Administration loses Rne Of it's most vigorous workers
 through the retirement of Alfred H.
 Ernith as regional director of Eastern
 territory. MT. Smith returns to the
 Kew York Central lines from which Elation in the United States became al- .nost hope1essly tangled.
 When MT. Smith entered the na- kion's service in those dark days it $was predicted that an improvement would be seen. It was. Within twen- Ey-four hours he had ordered hun kireds of locomotives out to clear the Congestion on the Pennsylvania lines Rails leading to eastern ports that Were choked to overfiowing soon be- kan to function again. Red tape was Flashed right and left and with typi- bal disregard for moth eaten policies Rfr. Smith was soon able to send out &he word 'The line is clear"
 Among the accomplishments credit Nd to this hustling, railroader arc the Famous ten commandme ents" of that lime, which ordered all railroads to Ignore priorities, to release the 5O,- poo carloads of necessities strung 8bcross the country to cut passenger &ervice to a minimum so that freight #night be moved and to reduce time Allowance for loading, hauling and Unloading. He also operated solid $upply trains which connected with pecan transports, making French ports $he real terminals of the railroads.
 His was 8 mans job and he dis Enlarged his duties with an order and dispatch and commonsense that #howed a man was at the helm.
 The New York Herald considers the
 felease of MT. Smith an indica ton that
 he government is to employ all req
 Fonable haste to return the railroads Eo their private owners.
New Britain herald., 1919-05-31

also, but this is not yet authorized. The lumber for the construction work will be drawn largely from the large unused stocks held hy the war department when the armistice was signed. At Camp Hancock there are 6 million feet of unused lumber; at Camp Bragg 70 million feet.
 The border has been split up into 12 patrol districts. These are named as follows:
 TeXas-BroWnsville Rio Grande, Laredo, Eagle Pass. Fort Clark. Del Rio, Big Bend, Sierra Blanca Fl Paso, Columbus, Doublas, Tenth Cav. Dis.
 One of the main posts will be erect ed in each of these districts, following the line of the Southern Pacific rail- road.
 Each post will be the base for four to six of the patrol stations. One troop of cavalry will he constantly on guard at the latter, which are located from 60 to 150 miles from the main posts, and each troop will be relieved and return to it's base once a month.
 Here is a list of the patrol stations at which construction of barracks is and authorized.
 Texas-San Renito, Mercedes, Me- Allen, Sam Fordyce, La Grulla, Fit. Ringgold. Roma, Alpine, Maria, Santa Helena, Lajitos, Glenn Springs, Indio, Ruidosa, PresidiO, Everett. Polva, Hoolland's Ranch, Hesters Ranch. Ft. Hancock, Ysleta Fabens, CulbersOn Ranch, International Bridge. New Mexico-Columbus Hachita, LOChiel.
 Arizona-Huachuca NaCo, Nogales, Arivaga.
 The desert wastes between Nogales and Yuma, Ariz., on the California border will be the only part of the border left unguarded by this line of defenses.
 If the Mexicans ever try to break through Uncle Sans big fence, it will take an army of them to do it!
New Britain herald., 1919-05-31
WINNIPEG STRIKE
 IS ABOUT OVER
Hundreds of Employes Are Now Re- turning to WCrk-Arbitration
 Is Under Way.

Winnipeg, May 31.-With arbitra- tion conferences under way on the basic industrial dispute of the general strike-the walk kout of the metal trades-and hundreds of employees re- turning to work, gradual settlement of the civic and Industrial tieup which has been almost complete since May 15, was beginning today, according to government officials.
 Edmonton dispatches ndicat ted re- sumption of public service functions was complete there, although strik e headquarters asserted workers in g trades were still out.
 Reports from the mining districts in Ontario and British Columbia said tho Ia bor situation al Cobalt and Fer nie was acute though not directly re- lated to the Winnipeg strike situation or general strikes under way at other points.
New Britain herald., 1919-05-31

In explaining this project, Assistant Secretary of War Crowell declared it is primarily for defense against the elements. and not against the MeXi- cans. It is admitted, however, that the patrol stations are for the purpose of guarding the border against inva- sions by Mexican bandits and cattle thieves. If any real trouble With Mexico should develop in the future we'll. tho posts are there. That seems to be the attitude of the war depart n-ent
 There are at present about 10000 soldiers on the border-all cavalry with the exception of the 18th infan- try at Camp stephen c. Little. These men have been out of luck during the war with Germany. Not only were they denied the privilege of going to the front and getting a crack at the Germans, but they have been living in tents for about seven years with few comforts and many hardshps.
 Major Gen. Cabell, commander of the southern department of the army, has spent almost his entire militia " career on the border. He is typical of most of the other officers.
 Since the a.rmistice was signed these soldiers have been making their complaints heard, with the result that the war departm ent decided to do something for them.
 The forces on the border are not to he enlarged now-but when these bar racks are completed it will be an easy matter to accommodate twice or three times the number of men now there, if necessary.
 The buildings in the main will be small structures one story in height, some wooden, some brick and some adobe.
 Two large cantonments are being built at Fort Bliss, El Paso. to house two regiments of cavalry. These will be brick structures. A 250-bed hospi- tai is proposed to be built at Fort Bliss
New Britain herald., 1919-05-31
DANISH MARY.
O-

Twas Danish Mary picked them up Out of the air and sea; A shoddy, trudging lollypup A-trapseing slatternly. The cry rang north, the cry rang
 south:
 The vanished-where are they?'' But Danish Mary shut her mouth And shuffled on her way "Ho, Hawker!-Grieve!" on flying
 scud
 Called kingdoms and called kings; But Danish Mary chewed her cud In drowsy maunderings. Now "Lost!" cried West, and "Lost."
 cried East,
 Till "Perished," like a pail, Turned bonfirc-light and homing More dark than funeral And toward the hollow sky rose pray And dirge of steeple-chime: But what should Danish Mary care? She takes her own sweet time. And bawls to Lewis Butt: Its mel I've picked 'em up-your men, What! - Grieve and Hawker?"
 'Sure!' And she Goes shambling on again. But lightning engines flash and fight For news that reaps renown, The tackles swarm from bay and
 blight , And race to run her down. %
 And win, and bear her prize away While Mary turns to prowl Once more where slips the dumb, salt
 spray , And slaps her on the jowl.
 PERCY MACkAYE,
 in the New York Times.
New Britain herald., 1919-05-31
WILSON HAS VISITORS
While Waiting for Conference to Meet He Has Talk With Rhode Island Senator and Others,

Paris, May 31.--While awaiting the converting of the plenary session of the peace conference set for 3 O clock this afternoon for the reading of the peace treaty to he presented to Aus tria, President Wilson filled a, mum Der of engagements to receive individuals. Among his callers was T.. s. Senator Peter Gerry of Rhode Island.
 The council of four held no meeting this morning, this fact giving the president freedom to receive his sev- eral visitors. Meanwhile the Jugo- Slav delegation to the peace confer ence conferred at length with the en- tire peace delegation except President Wilson. The conference was over the Adriatic question. The conferees reached no decision, the Jugo-Slavs standing firmly for their claims. It is understood that they are less dis posed than the Italians at present to give ground in the controversy.
 President Wilson joined the other members of the American delegation at the Hotel de Crillon at 12:45 o'clock. The Am erican conferees dis cussed phases of the German peace terms as we'll as the Adriatic and other pending problems.
New Britain herald., 1919-05-31
Cats and Birds.
(Boston Transcript }

If cats in Massachusetts really kill as many as 100000 birds in s season. as the state commissioners of fish, cries and game estimate in their an- nuaI appeal to cat owners, there is surely justice and point in their ap- peal for the protection of birds from, cats. for each insectivorous bird de- yours many thousa nds of insects, and the removal of so many birds meang an increase of the insect population by untold millions. Never in the history of New England was the in- sect pest so burdensome and so men, acing as it is now, and any agency which tends to make the pest still greater constitutes a public danger. The account of the state with the harmless necessary cat is not, how ever summarily closed by the state. ment of the commissioners. If cats catch wild insectivorous, birds they also catch a good many birds that are not inseCtivorous, or but spar ingly so. Cats prey heavily, and probably chiefly, so far as birds arg concerned, on the English sparrow, which does more harm than it does good by driving away native birds; and incidentally cats prey on rats, mice and moles, thereby establishing an item of credit for themselves in the account. If we eXtermnate ths cats altogether, We might lose st onf end of the line more than we gained a the other.
New Britain herald., 1919-05-31
La Toilette Holds the Balance.
(New York World.)

MT. La Toilette exercises the ball. ance of power in a senate which must have his vote if the republicans keeping MT. Newberry in his high priced seats. are to do better than break even with the democrats and, losing Mr. Newberry. may, by Mfr. La Follette's opposition, find them selves any day in a minority of one.
 A few months ago, when, in view of his hostility to the war, a great popular movement, participated in by. republicans and democrats alike, was demanding Mir La Follettes eXpul- sion from the senate, few of us in1- agined that in so short a time he would become the most Courted re- publican in that body. There has been no change in the gentleman from Wisconsin, It is the republican mem bership that has changed
 In spite of his record, Senator La Toilette has become a valuable party asset He is enrolled among the elect and is indispensable. He is to steer the organization which without him would be impotent.
New Britain herald., 1919-05-31
\ Busy Week.
(Galesburg Democrat.)

On Monday as D. I. Foster VAS re, plling some limbs cut from some large dead peach trees, a forked piece fell over, hitting him in it's fall, cutting an ugly gash above his right eya aRd barking an ear in bad shape. On Tuesday as Mrs. J. C. Harden was standing on a cook stove cleaning the stove pipe hole in the chimney a stove lid turned, throwing her back: wards to the floor where her head struck a chair. It was close ealI and resulted in a bad shake-up. Fhs same day W. E. Suydam came in csn- tact with a young cow in which hs came off second best receiving 8 bad cut ear and the loss of some cutieles. The same day during the high wind F. S Taylor was caught in a hog hause door and his leg injured so he had te have the services of, a physician aHd it will be some time before he will get entirely over it. On Saturday as Gale Foster was leading a young horse to water, it threw it's head in some man. ner hitting Mir. Foster in the face, cutting very ugly gash above his eye.
New Britain herald., 1919-05-31
The Attitude of Our Boys.
Oregon Voter.)

Quite a change of opinion is be. coming evident among laborins people since returned soldiers from France have been working side bg side with them in shops, factories and counting rooms. An incident at g shipyard gate will illustrate the kind of propaganda that is going on.
 "Go in through this gate" ordered a gatekeeper, calling to an employe who was starting to enter another passa geway.
 Wat tells matter with you" re. torted the employe; i've been work. ing here a whole year now and l guess I know which gate to so in at"
 You've been working here whels year, have you? We'll, I wouldn't brag about it if 1 were you. You're an able bodied young fellow. I've been working a year in France in Uncle Sans uniform for $30 a month. The less you boast about having been working a year here at shipyard wages the better chance you have to get some standing"
 There was no room for arguHa eat. The young fellow went through the gate indicated by the ex-so1dier
 Tn this particular shipyard, meys than 400 are now employed. The sentiment of doing a square days work for the high pay received is growing as a consequence.
New Britain herald., 1919-05-31
Army Spending Nearly ST. 0OO,0OO to Erect Outpost Stations" and Barracks For. Troops to Guard Inter- national Boundary.
(By A. F.. Geldhof.)

NA(" AA' '->' oCll1lcI'(
 Washington, D. C., May 31.-Uncle Sam is building a giant fence along the. Mexican border!
 It's 1,2OO miles long, and while it's posts arc of wood and other build ing materials it's rails will be Amer iCan soldiers.
 Assistant Secretary of War CroWell, until recently acting secretary of war, has given me special authorization to tell for the first time the facts about this big fence, placing all the infor- mation at the army's command at my disposal.
 The huge barrier isn't a fence in the real sense of the word, though it's purpose is the same.
 Its a double row of cavalry pa trol stations. barracks buildings and miscellaneous structures, stretching from Brownsville, Tex, on the Gulf of Mexico, to Arivaga, Ariz., on the edge of the great desert.
 At each of the fifty outpost sta tions one troop of cavalry-about 100 men--will he on guard all the time, patroling the border between sta tiOns.
 Some distance back from these pa ITOl SIaIlO0S Nlll DS dilolDe1 SSi lcS Ol twelve posts which will constitute a sort of "second line of defense' against the Mexicans. These twelve posts will he larger and each of them will serve as base for four or five of the patrol stations on the bound ary. The complete system will house 10000 soldiers.
 The whole project will cost the war department approximately S6,- 75o.000, according to an estimate made by Lieut.-Col. 0. r. Chamber lain, of the construction division of the army.
 The twelve main posts probably will be given the name "forts," but the war department emphasizes the fact that they will not be forts in reality, but merely army posts, such as Fort Bliss, Fort Ringgold and the other forts already on the border.
New Britain herald., 1919-05-31
PLYMOUTH.
At Versailles, or Berlin.

Once more in the worlds history
 Plymouth becomes a significant name. Et was at Plym mouth, Massa chusetts hat sturdy band of Englishmen landed and tablished a government Bs firm as the rock on which they put loot. It was at Plymouth, England, Bhat equally as daring adventures ar lived today. Headed west for the then Unknown Plymouth, the Englishmen Rared the unknown terrors of the wa Ter. Headed east for Plymouth, the Americans dared the unknown perils bf the. air. Both conquered, a charac- Feristic of the English speaking race. There is 8 deep message in the land |ng at Plymouth. It is this, that the peoples who use the common tongue l.re welded together by bonds that
 must never be sundered; England's s future is our future; England's down. (a,ll the beginning of the end for all
 vho speak the language. Together, England and America, the leaders of Civilization, can rule the world, not
 with the sword but with wisdom and Justice.
New Britain herald., 1919-05-31
VERSAILLES OR BERLIN.

To sign or not to sign, that is not he question.
 To sign in Versailles or in Berlin, Ehat is the question. Premier Lloyd George of England, Handing firmly on the ground that the Allied armies have been victorious, ftrikes resolutely at the enemy prop bgandists in blunt English language knd knocks their barriers into splin- fers.
 Speaking before the Welsh division kt Amiens yesterday. the Premier kaid: n We say to the Germans: Gen tlemen, you must sign. If you don't do so at Versailles, you shall do so in Berlin. We are not go- ing to give way.'' There is no bluff about that. Ameri- fan and Allied armies are on tip toe evaiting to advance. They are trained o the minute, anxious to start, armed hs no army has ever before been
 brmed. Germany's navy is n-exist- ent, the greatest part of it in the GUS Body of the victors. The blockade can be frightened at a moments notice. Germany can be crushed if Germany wills it.
 All the talk, all the circumlocution,
 pll the notes-wasted, as if the words
 had never been spoken or written.
 Germany knows the terms. They are ' bot light; they are not harsh they are lust. Did Germany expect to escape?
 Did Germany expect to be the single
 exception to the law of compensation
 Vain hope.
 At Versailles, or Berlin.
New Britain herald., 1919-05-31
The Wrights' View 10 Years Ago
Kansas City Star. )

 From an interview with Orville and Wilbur Wright, by William c. Shep- herd when the Wright brothers re- turned from Europe ten years ago: How high can you go?" "As high as I want to, but there will never be any need to go higher than 1000 feet. At that height no known gun could reach you"
 How high have you gone? ?" Three hundred feet. I passed over bal loon"
 F How fast have you gone?" Forty miles an hour"
 How fast could a machine be made to go?" There's no limit that I know of, but no man, unprotected, could go faster than one hundred miles an hour and stick to his ma chine. The rush of air is too great" Do you think anybody will ever fly across the ocean in an airplane ?" Hard to tell. Depends on whether anybody wants to-" -
 For what purposes will your ma~ chimes be used ?" Military operations ard sport"
New Britain herald., 1919-05-31
TT WILL BE DONE.

Memorial Day was peculiarly an appropriate occasion for President Wilson to explain again our purpose III entering the war. Speaking in France yesterday, he told the story anew, that we did not fight with hope of gain, we did not fight to whip an honest people. We fought for right and the right is yet to be gained If the more than fifty thousand Ameri- cans who sleep in France did not die in vain, their work must be carried on There must be no more war, if il can possibly be avoided. We must have amity among nations, and good. will.
 President Wilson's thrilling call tc arms on this point was:
 These men did not come across the sea merely to defeat Germany and her associated powers in the war. They came to defeat for ever the things for which the Gen. tral Powers stood, the sort of power they meant to assert in the world, the arrogant, selfish dom ination which they meant to establish; and they came, more over, to see to it that there should never be a war like this again. It is for us, particularly for us who are civilized, to use our proper weapons of counsel and agree ment to see to it that there never is such a war again. The nation that should now fling out of this common concord of counsel would betray the human race.
 So it is our duty to take and maintain the safeguards which will see to it that the mothers of America aud the mothers of France and Italy and Belgium and all other suffering nations should never be called upon for this sacrifice again. This can be done. It must be done. And 1t will be done.
New Britain herald., 1919-05-31
Big Threcs.
(Pearson's Weekly )

The present craze for designating all sorts of combinations and entcr- prises in terms of numbers. with the adjective "bg" prefxed, is by no means new.
 Moltke, so long ago as 1871. Colned the phrase Big Three" in alluslon to the French forresscs of Strasbourg Metz and Verdun With the Big Three in our possession our safety IS assured,' he said at the Versailles peace conference. He got his will so Tar as the first two were concerned, put failed as regards the third, luck ny for France, and the world at large. Ioday we find the newspapers using tne phrase Big Three to designate
New Britain herald., 1919-05-31

The total of battle deaths. wounded and prisoners for the whole army in France as given by the same author ity are:
 Battle Deaths. Wounded. Prisoners. 4S,9O9 237,135 4,434 From these figures it appears that the seven divisions of regulars lost 16,619 of the 4S,909 men killed in action or who died from wounds re- ceived in action, or approximately 34 per cent; 76,416 of the 237, ,135 wounded, or approximately 33 per cent; and that from their ranks came SIP of the 4,434 Americans captured by the German armies, or approxi- mately IS per cent.
 The number of prisoners taken. by the enemy from these seven divisions of regular troops amounted to ap- proximately nine-tenths of 1 per cent of the number of men lost by them through battle deaths and wounds. The number of prisoners taken by the enemy from the American ex- peditionary forces amounted to ap- proximately Is per cent of the num- Der they lost through battle deaths and wounds
 Local pride and local interest do not unite to record and celebrate the regulars. In their ranks volunteers and drafted men fought side by side. Not all their officers were West Pointers or men of long military raining. It would be idle to com- pare the record of their divisions with the records made by other divi- sions. But their record is worth ex- amining. and when it has been eHam~ ined we believe every American, with drawing nothing from his respect and affection for the army units ldent1- fled with his own home, will eXclalm, Thank God for the Regulars!
New Britain herald., 1919-05-31

One New Britain concern has de- cided to set the pace in the construc- ton of homes. As pioneers in the field they should receive encourage ment New Britain needs homes for it's workingmen and those who erect them are doing 8 great service to the community. It is to be hoped that other business men follow the lead toward our progress.
New Britain herald., 1919-05-31
DISARMING NIL REBELS.
Lack of Ammunition Has Caused the
 Revolt in Costa Rica to Fail.

San Juan del Sur, May 30.-The Nicaraguan government is disarming and arresting all Costa Rican revoIu- tionists crossing the border from Costa Rica. Lack of ammunition is said to have caused the failure of the rebel invasion of western Costa Rica from Nicaragua.
 Many Of the wounded rebels were not attended for several days owing to scarcity of surgeons and surgical appliances.
New Britain herald., 1919-05-31
HUGE CONTRACT CANCELLED.

Washington, D. C., May 31.-The War department has cancelled or suspended contracts for ordnance, arms, artillery, tanks, tractors, etc, amounting to s2,474, 939, 600. Con- tracts for these supplies outstanding at the signing of the armistice to- tailed s3,572, 2,O0O0O0 More than a billion and a half dollars of the sus- pensions were accepted by contractors who are turning their plants to peace- time activities.