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New Britain herald., 1919-09-24
MARRIED AT HOME.l
Miss Daisy Slate Bride of Charles D.
 Hills, of Bristol.

A very pretty wedding took place at the home of MT. and Mrs. Charles Slate, of 61 Wells street, last night at 6 o'clock when their daughter Daisy was united in marriage to Charles D. Hills, of Bristol, by Rev. G. M. Mis- sirian. Mrs. Mae Quinlan acted as matron of honor, and Howard Slate, a brother of the bride, was best man. The brides gown was of georgetto. The matron of honor wore brown tricolette.
 A reception followed, guests being present from New York, New Jersey, Hartford and Waterbury. MT. and Mrs. Hills left on a wedding trip to Atlantic City after which they will live in Bristol.
New Britain herald., 1919-09-24
EX-SERVICE MAN
 IS FATALLY HURT
Paul Bianco Found Lying Along Railroad Track Dies Later at
 New Britain General Hospital

Paul Bianco, aged 31 years, resiG- ing at ii Holmes avenue, died at the New Britain General hospital at 6 o'clock this morning, of injuries sus- talned on the railrt ad crossing near Church street last evening. How, and at whattiE1e Bianco met with the ac- cident was not determined, as there are no eye witnesses. His body was found by railroad employees lying alongside the track, with the left arm practically severed at the shoul- der.
 The police were notified at 1O:45 o'clock of the accident and the am- bulance was sent to the scene. At the hospital it was decided to perform an operation and Drs. Hart, Dunn and Bray arputated Bianco's left arm and left leg, the latter just below the knee. His head Was also somewhat lacerated.
 Bianco, who was an ex-servico man, WIS employed IS machinist at North & Judd Man ufacturing com pany He was single and resided with his brother. He has a father living in Italy The funeral will be held at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning at St. Mary's church, Burial will be in the new Cathohc cemetery.
 The record at the war bureau in City hal shows that Paul E. J3ianco left this city in a draft increment for Camp Deveps on September 20, 1917. At the Aver cartonment ne was as- signed to Co. D. 302d Machine Gun Battalion. There is no record at the served overseas.
New Britain herald., 1919-09-24
PERSONALS

George Lcoby and Stanley Platts have returned to Centerbrook after d stay in this city.
New Britain herald., 1919-09-24

A new baby airplane of Swedish make weighs only TOO pounds and has a speed of 80 miles an hour.
 London's telephone and telegraph wires extend 73, miles overhead and 1000 miles beneath the ground.
 Tn parts Of China it is considered a high act of virtue for a woman to commit suicide after the death of her husband.
New Britain herald., 1919-09-24

Miss Allena J. Dates, of New York, is> visiting with friends on Russell street.
New Britain herald., 1919-09-24

 have returned to CenterbrOok after d stay in this city.
 Miss Clare Denney, of Winthrop street, had as her guests over the week end, Merwin Chapman, of New London, MT. and Mrs. Frank Buer, of Waterbury, Miss Fanny Hill, of Brooklyn, N. Y, Miss Annie Burr, of Merlden, Chancey Chapman, of Mid dletown and Orville Burr, of Water bury.
 Kendall Mills, son of MT. and Mrs. Herbert Mills, of Curtis street, left today for the Taft school at Water town.
 Meyer Jester has left Cor Chambers burg, Pa, to attend Cromwell col lege.
 Mrs. Charles Corbin of New Ro- chc1le, who has been the guest of Mrs Carl Ramsey, has returned to her home.
New Britain herald., 1919-09-24

thorities will try to have them de- ported as undesirable aliens. Emma Goldman was born in Russia but claims American citizenship
New Britain herald., 1919-09-24

Flying fish, eaten raw, is a Kanaka delicaCy.
New Britain herald., 1919-09-24

William Wells of Newington left this afternoon for Wilbraham, Mass, where he will attend school
 Miss Marion. Riordan, formerly of this city, has left for France with her uncle and aunt, MT. and Mrs William Mulligan of Thompsonville Mr. Mulligan was war director of the K. of c. They will be stationed in Paris.
 lMrs. A. H. Harop of Harrison street is visiting in Attleboro, Mass, for a few weeks.
 MT. and Mrs. G. F. Kibhe, of Exeter, R. l., are visiting in this city. Mir. Kibbe was formerly superin- tendent of the Town Home here and is at president one of the superin- tendents of the School for 93oysr in Exeter.
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-06
UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS.

Within the last few years Holland has sent
us undesirable immigrants Of one hundred and
'forty-eight different kinds, Belgium sixtyfour
varieties of nuisances, France eighty-nine pestl-
ferrous species, England sixty-two, Japan one
hundred and eight. All these highly objection
able immigrants having been discovered short
ly after they landed on our shores, were sum
marily dealt with. They were not deported,
not imprisoned. No mercy whatever was shown
them, every Individual of them having been put
to death.
LII these undesirable arrivals were insects
which tried to steal into this country In ship
ments of nursery stock, and there is reason to
fear that some others succeeded in eluding IN
~spection and are now at large and preparing to
make us trouble. The most dreaded and dan
gerous of these intruders are the brown tail
moth and the gypsy moth, who are bolsheylsts
of the most vicious sort. Neither is credit
ed with a decent characteristic, a single saving
quality; and both of them make it their life
work to devour or destroy everything in sight.
How determined the scum and riffraff OF the
world is to get a foothold here! In what hordes
the undesirables would flock here, if permitted,
from every land! And as soon as they get here
in sufficient numbers they want to run or ruin
the country.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-06
Culture means perfect and equal develop
ment on all sides.-John Burroughs.
HERE is N REASON.

1T is Important says a bulletin from the
government labor bureau ito seek out the
causes for the evident reluctance Of returning
soldiers and war workers to accept work on
the land, and to obviate any causes that are not
simply personal preference" Well and good.
There is work for the labor bureau right in its
own cabinet family. Let the labor bureau be-
gin its seeking for causes and its efforts to
obyiate them by approaching the railroad di-
rectorate and the postal department. The rail
road directorate has recently increased the
wages Of its employees to a total of sixty-fve
million dollars and this is but the latest in
crease. Wages of telegraph and telephone OPP
~eratives have been literally increased. Wagesin
the myriad of government bureaus and clerical
services are above the scale of similar service
outside government employ. The government
Is setting artificial and arbitrary standards; in
the war it was in a measure compelled to do
SO; but the need is removed but not the practice.
One reason that the returning soldiers seek
certain kinds Of work and are reluctant to ac-
cept others is in the discrimination which now
exists under government sponsorship in favor
of these employments. If the farms were pay
ing high wages for short hours of labor, en-
ployes from trades and Offices would be hand
ing III designations and taking to the land. The
soldiers are reluctant to go on the land for the
same reason that government employees, not
soldiers, are Teluctant-because the plum tree
grows not on the farm but elsewhere.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-06
WHAT 1907 SIGNIFIES.

Pittsburgh Despatch: By frequent
reference to it, noted by newspaper
readers, doubtless the meaning of that
| cnbalistic symbol go" has become
familiar to many. but this incident and
explanation, printed in connection
with the O~bsequies Of Sir Wilfrid
Laurier make an item in the Montreal
La Patrie and is thence translated:
What does that signify?" was asked
by thousands who filed past the casket
of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and had re-
marked the bouquet of flowers upon
which lay the symbol 800 in red fig
ures. This floral tribute was given
by members Of the press gallery in
the Dominion parliament. For them
this number means the same as the
words which the great departed pro-
nounced some days after being stricken
by his malady: at is ended" (C'est
fini.) The origin of this conventional
J symbol has been lost in the traditions
Of Journalism, but here is what the
older operators declare it was:
Many years ago the old Western
Union Telegraph company published a
code of signs for their operators. The
figure a." for example, signiied wait
a minute;" the figure 49," I'm busy
on a line" the number IT." I'm
sending an important message, it
ought to have precedence" and SO on
until finally $50" indicated the end OF
the message.
Journalists have never been able to
devise a better symbol in all the COM
of the world having telegraph
codes. After each night and at the
end OF every day the conventional
$50" traversed the %contiennt from end
to end. Editors in time adopted the
sign $50" to inform the staff of the
various departments and the compos-
ing room that all the copy" was fin
ished and that there would be nothing
additional.
Finally, for newspaper men the
number $50" became the symbol of
the end of all things of earth and even
of life. For Sir Wilfrid the number
"3oo meant 1T is the end" For US
who every day collect the news OF
the entire world $50" signifies also
'aC,est fnio
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-06
cERMANIzED SCHOOL BOOKS

Cedar Rapids Gazette: How fal
some men will go in their effort tc
spread anti-American propaganda has
been disclosed in Seattle where II
was found that un-American teach
Iings had crept into some OF the text
books that had been supplied the
city schools. Happily the attempt
to poison the minds of the children
was discovered and the Objectionable
matter was expurgated before 1T got
to the children. Outlines of Euro,
pean History" is the title of the
offending book. 1t was written by
Prof. Robinson and Prof. Beard.
Prof. Beard is a pacifst of the most
pronounced type. He is a lecturer
in the Rand School of Social Science
in New York, and was one of the
number of pacifsts named in Sena-
tor Overman's investigating commit
tee by the military intelligence de-
partment of the government. He
was forced to resign from Columbia
university because Of his views.
Prof. Robinson is engaged in
organizing and promoting THE New
School for Social Research" and he
certainly is not the type Of man who
should be permitted to write the
text books for the unsophisticated
youth of the land.
An expurgated edition Of this text
book has been introduced in the
schools of Ottumwa and has been
adopted after its contents were
closely scrutinized, and 1t was said
that 1t passed the inspection Of patri-
otto American teachers, Maybe the
book in its present form Is all that it
should be, but why adopt it at all?
The fact that the authors are known
pacifsts should be sufficient for the
book to be barred.
The board of education probably
knows what Is contained in the text
books used in the schools of this
city, but if. it does not the books
should be given close scrutiny.
There should be nothing un-Ameri-
can, nothing eulogizing the Germans,
permitted to reach the children. Just
because the war is over is no reason
why the bars should be let down.
Un-Americanism has no place here
at any time. Nothing that savors Of
Germany and Germanism must be
permitted to get into the schools.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-06
Learning to Use the Rivers.

st. Louis Post-Dispatch: With
ample tonnage offered, the large line
improvised by the government is now
being operated to capacity. The
plans made by the Mississippi Valley
Waterways association 1t their meet
ing in st. Louis look to a comprehen-
sive improvement of the river chan
nels to keep pace with the expected
commercial development of the
future.
Accordingly, with the problem Of
the present provided for and SOLD
tions offered for the problems of the
remoter future, there remains the
problem of the near future. Forty
barges and power boats of the latest
river type will soon be added to the
present facilities of the river line,
increasing perhaps five times the
cargo space and cutting down the
time of round trips.
What is being lone to utilize this
large increase in available carrying
capacity? Freight offerings that tax
the possibilities Of the existing craft
will make but a negligible showing in
the capacious holds Of the new
barges.
The barge line as yet Is only a tenn
porary, not q permanent success. The
chance of lamentable failure still
exists. Intensified effort must begin
now and be continued TO make a
five-fold addition to the tonnage
moved up and down the river.
Terminals and tonnage are the
need of the present summer.
Shippers must learn how to use
the rivers, The latter have bean
neglected SO long that the former
have much to learn. The possibili-
ties of the rivers are many and their
limitations few. Both must be, studied
with a view to the fullest most ex-
peditious, most profitable utilization
OF opportunity. No freight, no boats.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-06
AMERICAN SURROUNDINGS.

elf-confidence when it is justified by results
lis an admirable factor in accomplishing things.
That Americans have this quality is testified
to by all the military chiefs and observers
who saw our men work in the war. Our sol
|diers were skeptical over any difficulties that
were prophesied to them; their tendency to dis
obey was in failure to heed cautions. Now that
our men are coming home, this same confidence
lis plainly manifest among those who have suf-
Ifered casualties. 1t is the great problem of the
vocational education board which is 'undertak-
ing to re-educate our disabled soldiers to get
such men to admit the need Of government CO
operation IN finding profitable employment.
The men want to get out of the hospitals, no
matter what handicap they carry, and seek
their own fortunes. But this is not the best
way, either for them or for the nation. The
nation is not putting disabled soldiers under
any obligation by re-educating them; it is sim
ply fulfilling its duty. And our wounded sol
.diers ought to SO estimate the opportunities of
fered them.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-06

Greet and s~elf-contained as his course IN the
last four years has shown. He came very
much nearer than is generally known to Sc
curing the republican nomination when MI
was chosen, and it is certain thai men
who know him best consider him OF preslden-
tial size. His voice and that of Colonel Roose-
welt were the most powerful and inslstent that
were raised for national preparedness and mad
the administration acted on their advice IN the
thirty months before we entered the war we
should have saved billions of dollars and our
work would have beeen effective from the hrst.
General Wood is a man of vision and events
have proved that he was right. His counsel OF
wisdom was ignored and the nation knows what
treatment he has received at the hands OF the
civil and military branches of the government.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-06
TALK OF GENERAL, w0on

Arthur Sears Henning, the Washington cor
respondent of the Chicago Tribune, says that
General Leonard Wood has become the leading
candidate for the republican nomination for
president. Also, and according to Mr.. Henning.
the most significant feature of the manifesto,
tons is the fact that the general is being en-
dorsed by conservative as well as progressive
republicans. His candidacy is being promoted
by no one faction, and the comment most fire.
quently heard is that General Wood is the
most available candidate to unite both wings
Of the party and restore the harmony without
which it went down to defeat in 1912 and 1916
Too much importance should not be attached
to straw votes, but such expressions Of opinion
taken Of late, particularly in the middle west.
indicate that General Wood is looming into
prominence. He is concededly an administra-
tor Of remarkable ability, and wise, strong. dis
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-06
TODAYs Bat OF VERSE
LEE Is WORTH LINING.


Life Is worth living after all,
In spite of its fever of vague unrest,
The hearts that break and the souls oppressed;
The sneers that mock and the tears that fall,
For God, who w~atcheth, he knoweth best
And life is worth living after all.
Like violets blooming under the snow,
Hope still smiles after bitter pain;
And under loves sorrowful, sweet refrain
Are echoes of laughter, soft and low;
Seeds that are scattered shall blossom again,
And the sunshine come when the shadows go.
Life is worth living after all;
Toll is lightened by noontide rest,
And baby lips on the mothers breast
Blot out the losses beyond recall;
The robin sings as he builds his nest
And life is worth living after all.
For sweet are the greetings when day is done,
And tender the hands that cling to ours.
And after this world with it's sun and it's showers,
And its ties that are broken one by one.
Sound is the sleep under drifting flowers
And life is worth living when life is done.
Ida Goldsmith Morris, in New York Times
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-06

shing made good; that it accom-
ed just what it was sent over !
complish. Success is what couu,
war; strategists who conduct
terly retreats n back nuD1
Pershing and his army were su1
full. and that fact would atone
world of shortcomings. Il
existed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-06

the United States than in the ranks
OF the army, and there are many
people-not a great many compared
to the total, but too many-who have
not hesitated to exaggerate the mis-
takes and shortcomings of the Amer
lean army machine. heaping the
blame upon the shoulders of General
Pershing. Apparently they lost sight
OF the fact that the army under Per-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-06
IOWA PRESS

~
Spencer News-Herald: The revises
covenant of the league of nations Is
about as was expected. 1t is better
than no covenant at all, and its ten
dency will be to avoid war, but it is
sadly lacking in n particular still.
We wish we could write Just one
more amendment: mo nation sigma
tory to this agreement shall be the
first to declare war without previ-
ously submitting the question to a
referendum vote of its people" The
war making power should be lodged
directly in the hands of the people.
All the other articles and agreements
are as nothing compared to this one
Charter Oak Times: We hardly be-
lieve Mr.. Wilson will be fool enough
to try for another term in the white
house. He can not get through again
on the slogan of He kept us out of
war"
Webster City Freeman-Journal:
or course you have noticed that ras-
Gals always manage to get into the
other party or faction. That is one
of the inexplicable characteristics of
rascals.
Perry Chief: A great many people
often wonder what would become of
Mexico If the people of the United
States would lose their patience.
Marshalltown Times-Republican:
While we are abolishing war no
nation so far has, piled it's bayonets
back of the blacksmith shop with a
big order for pruning hooks. \
Carroll Herald, 1t may be assumed
that the farmers as a class are
against government ownership or
government management of the rail-
roads. And for the reasons that they
are taxed more and more in higher
freight rates and are getting poorer
service. Say what you will. the farm
ers are the principal victims of the
governments extravaganza and mis-
cradle service.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-06

The board Of education should keep
a watchful eye on the text books at
all times.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-06

Knocking Pershing.
Washington Post: The knockers
chorus has swelled louder here in
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-06
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-06
BoLsHEvIsM AND THE CHILDREN.

The greatest teacher of humanity the world
has ever known on one occasion when import
ant councils were to fore ''set the child in the
midst of HEM" The child is the future; with
out the child as center Of thought all planning
for the future is of no avail. The pivot Of
the guardian of morals, the safety of
life as civilization has known and loved, fought
for it, hoped for it, is the home; and the home
is the bulwark of child life.
Now we read in official announcements the
program Of bolshevism for it's children. All
young men and women Of twenty years Of age
must marry; this m under bolshevism
is the mere notification of a soviet official that
such a union is agreed upon. The marriage
so called can be dissolved by a similar n%otifca-
ton. If there are children they are to be
equally apportioned between the parents, if this
Is agreed upon. If not agreed upon by the par
ents, the bolshevist deputy is to adjudicate the
apportlonment. If the parents abandon the
children, they go to a state institution.
Bolshevlsm seeks to make the present a
havoc Of anarchy, murder, rapine. It seeks to
make the future barren of true childhood. It
is a monstrous perversion of the basic princi-
pies Of decent life in the world.
The announcement by Secretary Glass that
Japan has subscribed for fifty million dollars
worth Of United States treasury certificates Of
Indebtedness Will no doubt be interpreted by the
Hearst newspapers as a particularly machiave-
han scheme on the part of the japanese to get
of the finances Of this nation.
In 1914 the wreck. In 1919 the reckoning.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-06

Marshalltown Times-Republican:
While we are %abolishing war no
nation so far has piled it's bayonets
back of the blacksmith shop with a
big order for pruning hooks.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-06

Perry Chief: A great many people
often wonder what would become of
Mexico If the people of the United
States would lose their patience.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-06

United Pr
INDIANA
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dianapolis
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Yards brou
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that the hi,
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-06

In 1914 the wreck. In 1919 the reckoning.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-05-14
Writes Review
OF China Life

Proof sheets of a work which will
establish his reputation as an Orien-
tai student and historian-a Chinese
review in the form Of an encyclope-
dia-have been received here from l..
C. Applestill, brother of Sheriff Chas.
M. Applestill Of Imperial county.
Mr.. Applestill, who is we'll known
here because of periodical visits with
his brother, for the past twenty years
has been postal commissioner in the
province Of HaEg Chow, the high
est POST to which a foreigner can as
rire under the Chinese government.
He has been in the Orient nearly 40
years.
His review of Chinese customs and
history is attracting widespread at
tcntion from Orientalists. Indicating
the knowledge which he possesses of
his adopted country, Mr.. Applestill
speakers the three principal Chinese
Observation-Disclosures, Pekinese and
Cantonese-and 500 Of the 1000 dia-
lects spoken in that nation. He has
had a very romantic and adventurous
life, but plans soon to retire and
make his home in the United States.