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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-11
ELKS TO HOLD
 CHARITY BALL ON APRIL q

Bridgeport Lodge of Elks will hold it's annual Charity Ball at the Strat- field Hotel on Easter Monday night, April 21. The committee in charge of arrangements met last evening and furthered plans for the event which promises to be one of the brilliant functions of the season.
 The ball was omitted last year be- cause of the war. so that there is an added interest in the forthcoming event. In addition to the prom ienade concert and dancing programs, the committee promises some distinctive features this year.
 The proceeds of the ball go to the Elks' charity fund, by which the an- nua1 Christmas basket distribution is provided.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-11
CITY'S HEALTH
 NEARLY NORMAL

City Health Officer Dr. W. H. Brown is pleased to announce that the health of the city Is rapidly approaching nor nal after the influenza epidemic.
 There are only 74 cases of this disease now in the city. Twenty-seven deaths weer due to influenza during the month of March and 46 to pneumonia.
 From all causes there were 219 deaths during the month of March. This shows q considerably less mortality
 than in March, 1917, when there were
 293 deaths. There was only one case
 of typhoid in the city during the past
 month.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-11
NEGOTIATE FOR
 CONVENTIONS

Madrid, Thursday, April 1O-It is announced that negotiations are about to be opened by the Spanish government with Belgium and Italy for conventions which, among other things. will provide for an advance of funds by Spain, as already has been done in convention with others of the Allied powers The treaties in question provide for exports of Span ish products To the countries con- cerned. the British treaty also prvid- ing for the shipment to Spain of I50,- coo tons of coal per month.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-11
FOR MOTOR TRUCK
 TRANSPORT LINES

wasflinGton, April 11.---As a perma- nent organization to promote esta1>- dishment of motor truck transporta- ton lines in rural districts and for short hRu1 service generally, the high ways transport committee of the Council of National Defense has been eorgantzed, it was announced today, to include representatives of the sev- eral government departments inter ested in improved highway transport ation.
 Representatives of the agricultural. economic and post office departments, at was said, have been approved to serve on the committee which will be assisted by the committees wartime advisory board composed of Il promi- Jent business men acting as regional directors for the committee.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-11
THREE MONTHS TO VENTmATE

Berlin. Wednesday, April e-(By The Associated Press)-A special de- spatch from Weimar states that the government has abandoned for the present its intention to transfer fur ther sessions of the national assem- hIy to Berlin. owing to the unsuita- ble condition of the Reichstag build ing, which for months has been used for a barracks for revolutionary troops. It is estimated that four months would be required, at an ex- penditure of -6G0.0O0 marks, to ven- tilate the building properly.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-11

Sid Leslie, former junior national cross country champion and 9 war veteran. started training a shor- time ago and was beginning to round into shape when he sprained his right ankle. This will put him back in his training, and it may be the middle Of the summer before he will be aela to do aRy racing,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-11

Hans Schus;er. the former long distance star Of the MorniRgside A
 t-. will be a starter in ;hs Boston E I.fthon a" ADr;I 19. 1t. will ac- company Runar Ohman, the Swedish marathon champion. wto recently arrived in this country. IVi5h these two fire distance runners il :he race the Swedes will be we'll represeated.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-11

Henry Strauss of this city, is visit tng relatives in Yalesville. Conn, for D feW-dayE.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-27
Boxing News
By Gravy"

We are now in the third century or
 modern boxing, for il was Just zVo
 years ago today that James tlgS, giant Oxfordshire man and the hrst recorded champion of England en-
 gagged in the first of his several pal
 tles It was not until six years later
 that Figg, having met and defeated all challengers, was crowned by the
 title Iordlings of English sport as the king of English pugil!sts. Before Figg's appearance in the ring there were men famed as being mighty with
 tLeir fists, for the Englishman has ever preferred natures weapons, but
 the science of boxing had its begin
 ming with Figg. Like most of the
 other fighters of that era, he had
 been a laborer, but brain and brawn
 lifted him to affluence and a wide
 popularity He was the first to open
 a boxing school and give lessons in defence scientifically" and many men
 of wealth, title and learning were among his pupils. In his amphithea- tre he fought before large audiences,
 and was never defeated. To his
 death he remained the champion. In
 173O a number of fighters contested
 for the title, and Pipes and Greeting
 gained the ascendancy. George Taylor gained the topmost rung of pugilism in 1734. and six years later
 was succeeded by Jack Broughton. in
 many respects the greatest of those
 old-time opponents of the manly
 art" Figg had attained to a certain
 proficiency in boxing, and with his passing the sport slumped into the
 old murderous give-and-take style of rough and tumble. Broughton no:
 cnly formulated the first set of rules
 to govern the game, but he was also the first to introduce "muflcrs" CT gloves The hand-coverinz, however, he used only when boxing pupils in the amphitheatre he built near oxford Road. London, Tn HAP. Broughton retained the title for ten years, and lost ii to Jack Slack, a Norwich but cher. Broughton's rules, which re- r1ained in force for nearly a century, provided that square of a yard be chalked in the middle of the stage, | and that in every fresh set-to after a | fall the seconds are to bring the men
 10 the siGe of the square and place | them opposite to each other, and un- ii this is done 1t Is not lawful for one
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-27
FORMER HARTFORD PRIEST WILL BE
 HEAD OF c. T. A. U.

AIiddletown, Aug. 27.---With the election of officers and the choosing of New Haven as the place for the holding of the annual state conven- ton next year, the convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union, which has been in session in this city since Sunday night, came to a close yesterday afternoon. Rev. John J. Fitzgerald of New Britain, who has beens president of the union for the past eight years, declined a re-elec- tion and Rev. John F. Ryan of Dan bury was elected in his stead.
 Other officers chosen were as fol- lows: First vice president, Samuel J. Benson of New Haven; second vice president Miss Margaret A. McCaf- frey of Norwich; third vice president, Miss Anna Barrows of Meriden; sec retary, Frank J. Kinney of Branford; treasurer, Frank M. Dunn of Middle town: state editor, Miss Florence Fitz- gerald of New Britain: national dele gates, Mayor John C. Mead of Anso- mia; and Frank G. Ford of Middle town. The closing business on the convention program was the installa- ton of the newly elected officers by the retiring president Father Fitz- gerald.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-27
ATTRACTIVE WALLS.

There is one part Of the house th,. often suffers i'll treatment far r,ar than any of the rest of 1t. That 1. the wall space. Of course. one doe- nor wish to see the walls literally cov- cred with every conceivable tn,rx ,r me way of pictures and ornaments nevertheless there are oftentimes cer- tain spaces that seem to cry out for something new and attractive 10 fiII them.
 Wonders can be worked with A bIt or old tapestry or brocade. Pprhaps your house has mantei of tho type that requires something 10 All the space above it. A bit of tapestry pick ed up at the shops would be iust tho thing. Of course, the nnntfel alone should not be considered. There ts the rest of the room with its furnt- ture.
 Again there Is that ul.ce undsr- meath the staircase. A piece of hro cade. rich perhaps. in coppery tints would reflect any bit of light that fr- tered through. Just such corners ss these of,entimes hole the richest por- abilities
 If on your trips about town ven happen 10 spy any bits of brocsde or tapestry (often seen as odd lot. in the upholstery department) 3ust buy them. One can never tell when they may be used. and what is more used effectively.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-27
M'CuLLOCH SAYS
 TROOPS ABUSED;.
 SEC. DENIES IT
Allege Soldiers Were Starv- ed and Abused by Drunk
 en Officers.

Washington, Aug. 27 - Charges that American troops sent to the Dal- matian coast following the armistice were starved and brutally treated by drunken officers were reiterated in the House yesterday by Representa- tive Mccullough of Ohio, Repubn- can. These charges were made last February and were denied by Secre- tary Baker Yesterday MT McCul- loch denounced the Secretary and
 presented a number of affidavits from
 former members of Company H of the 322nd Infantry, which command, after being on the Italian front, was sent to Dalmatia.
 Secretary Baker said that the
 charges were untrue and that no one
 could believe such slanderous state
 ments," said Representative McCul-
 loch. "He wrote me a letter citing a
 report which he said disposed of the
 charges. But the report was made, not on the troops in question, but
 upon troops 500 miles away. 'I was also startled to have the Secretary virtually say that the mat ter of poor food, clothing and shell ter for our troops was less import ant than that the character their officers should have been assailed upon the charge that they were drunk most of the time.
 Why were these troops sent where they were after the armistice? l have a letter from the War Depart ment saying that the reason could | be given only by the Italian High Command, but that 1t is presumed the desire was to expliot as widely as possible the moral effect of the presence of American troops. We all know that at that time Italy was making her fight for territory on the Adriatic. How do we know | that these men were not used for ex- ploitation in the true sense of the
 word ?"
 Representative Madden of Illinois | said American soldiers who were in Italy at the time of the Plume dis
 npts told him that they had to wear
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-27
ANTI-REDS HOLD
 MOST OF SOUTH
 RUSSIAN SECTION

Paris Sunday, Aug. 24-(By The Associated Press)-General Denekine. the anu-Bolshevik leader in southern Russia, now dominates a territory larger than Germany and his forces are daily progressing into central Rus sla with comparative slight opposi- ton.
 H:s actual front two days ago. ac- cording to accurate military inforn1a- ton received here. extended from a few miles east of Odessa northward to Elizabelgrade.
 tSince this despatch was filed. the capture Of Odessa by anti-Bolshevik forces has been announced)
 General Denekine also occupies all me caucasus region from tn. Caspian Io the Black Sea and south 10 the ueorslah border His forces are not occupying Astrakkan at the mouth os Volga.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-27
FIRST DIVISION
 PARADE UNITS
 ARE ANNOUNCED

Washington. Aug 27-Indentifica- ton of the organization of the first Division, which will parade in New York City and Washington, together with the units in the famous division which will remain as members of the American Army of Occupation, were made public by the War Department.
 The portions of the division which will continue in service overseas in- clude the 2nd Battalion of the 6th Field Artillery Regiment: the list Supply Train. the 1st Mobile Ordnance Repair shop, Company of the 1st Engineer Regiment and Field Hospi- tai No. 13.
 The combat units which will parade in New York and Washington include the following:
 The headquarters of the division, composed of the 1st Division Head quarters troops and the Sd Machine Gun Battalion, which is motorized; {; 1st Infantry Brigade. composed of the 16th and 18th Regiments and the 1st Machine Gun Battalion: and the 2d Brigade, comprising the 26th and 2sth Regiments and the 2d Machine Gun Battalion.
 The 5th, 6th and 7th Field Artillery Regiments, comprising the list Field Artillery Brigade. less the 2nd Battal- ion of the 9th Regiment.
 The auxiliary units of the division include the following.
 1st Engineer Regiment, less Com pany A; 1st Engineer Train 1st and 2nd Field Signal Battalion 1st Train Headquarters made up of the st Am munition Train, 1st Sanitary Train and the first Company of Military Police; 2d Ambulance CompIny and 2d Field Hospital, Sd Ambulance Company and Sd Field Hospital, 12th Ambulance Company and 18th Field Hospital. 18th Ambulance Company
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-27

civilian clothes to protect themselves from violence" at the hands of the Italian people.
 Whatever the purpose of sending these troops in Dalmatia," declared Representative McCulloch. the fact remains that, despite Secretary Bak- CTS denials and investigations. they were starved and fed on worny food. housed in filthy quarters and made quately clothed. At the same time four out of five of their officers were drunk most of the time. and some of them were later removed for the very things which Mir. Baker declared could not be true-'
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-27
POLES SURROUND
 GERMAN TROOPS

London, Aug. 27-Polish insurgents in upper Silesia are surrounding the German garrison in Myslowitz and that town is expected to surrender, says a Polish official communicate re- ceived here today. Regarding other operations of Polish forces, the com munique says:
 Our troops have reached Belrino and are pursuing the enemy"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-27

to strike the other" It was also held that eff either combatant be unable to be brought up to the square within 3U seconds after the fall he shall be deemed a beaten man" Other rules prohibited hitting an adversary when down. and a man on his knees was to be reckoned with
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06
The Pleasant Wdy

A pleasant way is the Christmas
way,
With youngsters dancing upon it,
And the Tilt and lift of a music gay,
And the joy of the world to sun
it,
A pleasant way, as it keeps its faith,
In the old dreams and the fine,
With childhood brimmed and the
rosy wrath
OF the love that grows divine.
A pleasant way, where the plodding
throngs
Go by with hop and skip,
And always breathing the song of
songs
And whistling with puckered lip.
A fairyEway for the hosts of strife
To find when the time draws near,
So beautiful with the dreams of life
And sweet with the Christmas
cheer.
A pleasant way, where the people
pass
With light hearts and bright eyes,
The old and the young, the lad and
lass,
And above them the bright blue
skies.
A way that is rich with the hopes
of things,
And stored with the dreams of
men,
And a voice of life's beautiful love
that sings
OF King that shall come again.
B. Il. in the Baltimore Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06
A GREAT TEAM

VTT THATEVER be the outcome of
WV the contest at Island Park
this afternoon, the fact will
remain that this years Technical
High School team will stand as the
greatest football machine to date
ever developed in Harrisburg. Not
only that, but it ranks among the
best high school elevens in the whole
country and is stronger than many
college teams. This speaks well for
the spirit of the school, for the quail
ity of the young manhood of Harris
burg and for the ability of the coach.
All have combined to make an eleven
of championship form.
The Technical school has stood
high for years in athletic circles,
and while it will lose many of it's
best men by graduation the coming
year, the outlook for the future is
bright. In another year or two the
junior high schools will begin to
contribute to the high school boys
with one or two years foot ball train
ing and this will be a big factor in
the development Of future teams.
The Rotary Club proposes to have
the members of the Technical High
School eleven at luncheon on Mon
day. This is an honor well deserved.
The boys have done much to adver-
tise Harrisburg over the country and
ought to have recognition at the
hands of the people of the city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06
Albright Estate Is Sold
[From the London Telegraph. ]

Extraordinary interest was taken
in the sale at Chesterfield of the
trust estate belonging to William
Arkwright a descendant of Richard
Arkwright, the inventor of the cot
ton spinning jenny. The largest
building in the town, the Market
Hall, was packed. Most of the ten
ants bid for their farms, and many
became purchasers, it being the
special wish of Mr.. Arkwright that
they should become their own land
lords. Indeed, Mr.. Arkwright ar
ranged that 60 per cent. of the pur-
chase money could be left upon
mortgage at per cent. Mr.. Ark
wright's own residence, Sutton
Scarsdale Hall, stately, historical
mansion, built in the 18th century.
and standing in delightful grounds,
comprising nearly 600 acres, was
withdrawn from sale at $4,000.
Sutton Rock, until recently the coun-
try residence of c. E. Cockburn,
member of the London county
council, was purchased for the Duke
of pevonshire for $19,750. A fully
licensed public house, the Arkwright
Arms hotel, with an acre of land,
was purchased by the Brampton
Brewery company for $4,000.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06
UP WILL GO PRICES

A TTORNEY GENERAL PAL
~ MER, having decided that he
has neither the powers nor the
facilities for the control of sugar
by the Government, we may expect
a boost in prices.
This, we take it, is equivalent to
saying that the Attorney General,
having no power to. control sugar,
is equally helpless in other direc-
tions and that the food controller
ship entrusted to his hands by Presi-
dent Wilson will be a duty in name
only, If Mr.. Palmer can't control
sugar, how can he hope to control
other foodstuffs? We hope we have
misunderstood and that Mr.. Palmer
will be able to offer more encourage
ment than would appear.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06
BEST MAN FOR THE JOB.
W. Y. Morgan in the Hutchinson News.

America might as we'll prepare to
take down it's sign.
The selection of q man just be-
cause he was a soldier, would not be
good patriotism; but to oppose a
man because he had been would be
as un-American as it would be un-
reasonable. If time should come
in our country's history when men
who have proven their patriotism
are not given preferment rather
than considered disqualified by their
cause for real alarm and genuine
despair for our Nations future.
General Wood is not only a pa
triotic and efficient executive, but
he has the human qualities of kind
illness and friendliness, He can or
ganize a division, enforce the hard
discipline required for rapid train
ing, and not forget that his soldiers
are American citizens. He can deal
with q strike situation in such a way
as to command the respect and con-
fidence of both sides, as after all,
men believe in a square deal. He
has no associations or entanglements
which would Justify a suspicion of
partisanship in industrial troubles
or in times of strife.
He believes the United States is
the biggest and greatest power of
the world, and he would allow no
policy to weaken it's position. He
is opposed to a large standing army
and to any militaristic spirit that
would take from the people the
force which must be behind the
government of men. He will not be
supported because he is a soldier,
but because in and out of the army
and in and out of public service. he
has proven himself the best man
for the big job that awaits the next
President of the United States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06
for the public welfare should take
pains to help in putting an end to 1t"
Real Americans
GFrom Kansas City Times.1

FROM haIlSlS lily llIlleSsI
Looking around on a December
world with strike attachments 1t Is
easy enough to feel blue, even if one
doesn't happen at the moment to be
actually blue with cold. Yet if we
look in the right direction we can
get the finest kind of a glow and
feel faith and hope renewed in all
the things we had been tempted to
despair of.
The thing to look at right now is
the splendid manifestation of patrl-
otic spirit displayed by the thou-
sands of wholesome, cheerful, sound
thinking and right acting Amer
leans who have responded to Gov
ernor Aliens call and are now min
ing coal in Kansas to relieve the
sufferings of the people of that state.
This is the sort OF thing that puts
to rout all doubt and forebodings
as to the stability of the foundations
on which American democracy
builded. That foundation is the
citizenship of this country. While 1t
remains sound it's institutions are
safe. and there could be no more
convincing proof that it is sound
than that now being established
by the action of these volunteer coal
workers.
Here is rallying that makes
Americas heart expand with pride
and gratitude. 1t is a time like this
that brings out what is in us OF pa
triotism and responsibility to the OBJ
legations 3 of citizenship. The Ma
ton, shaken like a sieve in the
crisis, has sifted out the littleness
and selfishness and brought to the
top the big and the fine of its man
hood. Let's take u good look at it
and indulge the rejoicings the
sight brings us.
Something in it brings to mind
the lines of Lowell
This shows methinks Gods plan
And measure of a stalwart man,
and makes us believe the Nation
can never be in real danger while
this spirit lives. if sometimes 1T
seems to shmber, in the national
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06

Europe. AS matter of fact, the
administration has been pussyfoot-
ing continually. instead OF bringing
the big stick down upon the heads
of the dangerous mischief makers
who have menaced law and order
on every side.
Again, the President urges the
value of publicity as an aid to the
Governments campaign for the re-
duction OF living costs. In view of.
the hundreds of thousands of dol
lars squandered by the personally
conducted publicity bureau of the
administration, the Presidents bro
ken promise of 'pitiless publicity"
and his arbitrary suppression of
facts which the people are entitled
to know all about, this latest appeal
for still more authority in the ex-
penditures of funds "for the purpose
of making the public fully informed
about the efforts of the Government"
is likely to fall upon deaf ears.
With respect to the industrial sit
uation, he talks of constructive in
to stem the tide of
unrest" but as usual fails to indi-
cate for the guidance of the distract
ed employer and his equally dis
tracted employe any plan that
might realize the deep yearnings
and desires" OF the men and breth-
rem, the human machine which he
portrays as the great dynamic force
back of all industry and progress.
President Wilson's high-sounding
phrases and eloquently-t turned peri
DDS no longer impress his country
men as the outgivings of a construc-
tive and practical leader. They are
regarded more as the mellifiuous
palaver OF the opportunist trimming
his sails for all winds.