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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-13

Edward Shcchan of West avenue has received his discharge from the Y, s, Navy and has returned home. For many months Mir Shechau was stationed In Bordeaux, France,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-13

The Wednesday Workers of sh" United church will rcsUyae thCir uo-,r- inca for the next season ON Tu"s7-:ay, September lE tns:VaH of Wednesday. as usual Tho meeting Is called for 10 o'clock ip tNc ulO~u-ng,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-13

N.~. and Mrs. C. ", West o@ Pork avenue navc as tr"'~ house guests over tho vgc}-vud, rJr. and fTTs, hn- dcrson p1vcEwC or Syrarus'. E, N., and vr and Mrs ]. F, E. rrouson of Hartford
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-13

Miss Mario Webb and AEiss Jean neate Bradley CT tNis city will leave next week for Now York "tty where they will take up a post graduate course at T'caceaccs' ColleE'o> They will bo back at the Vls'tlrE Nurse As sociation op Lafayette street In the spring,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-13

General and Mrs. Henry A. Bishop of washtu ~rur orc11a will opCn their camp on carr pond Portage, Me, for Ihe month of October.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-13

Mss Julia. Wheeler. daughter of Mir. and Mrs -D- F'2lsss sll-Id Wheeler of La7- fa yette S-rco-- vii hc hostess a- Inc dinner dance tonight at the Brook lawn Country club when she will en- tertain -I5es Sally L-averv, Miss Eiiz- aibcth E--1lth Miss BC-Ly LseeI= Miss Katherira SieuHn Nathaniel Bishop, Jr.- Palmer Senior. Marion WHmot, ElwooG Stanley and Ecmpton Adams.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-13

Miss Margaret Mcdonald. daughter of MT. and Mrs. T. K. Mcdonald ot ProolIlawn avcnuc. will entertain a number of her friends at dinner to- night al the BroolIawp Country club preceding the dance,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-13

Miss Marie Nauu'on, who has 0So' spending the summer at i3etho, conn. has returned to g Fremont street where she has resumed her duties al the Nurses Registry,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-13

Mss Annette ycy>-o Of Black Rock avenue ia vis fn- lriCn-s over t2o wcc',-cud at ,Fo~ioou.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
Back He Goes

While this sympathy swirls and
gyrates about the diminutive person
of Michael, the Ellis Island officials
ship him back to Europe. There
is some mental anguish at the time
on the part Of Mikes public. But in
week he Is forgotten and so will
remain-until he comes again.
Now, what are the facts about
Little Michael, or rather about
stowaways generally? Briefly, he
is mentally inferior and of a psy-
cho-neurotic trend. He has admit
ted, perhaps to uperintendent
Percy A. Baker, the busiest man
on Ellis Island, that he does not
wish to be adopted; that he abhors
the thought of a city residence or a
home OH farm; that he is follow
ing his true bent, that Of a seeker of
romance, through the medium of
the sea.
If admitted into the United
States under bond the average stow
away will quickly prove his unfit
ness--has done so, indeed, many
times. He will tire of guardian
ship and become unmanageable.
Then he will break forth with the
same spirit that made of him
originally a juvenile derelict, and,
if in his nature there is anything of
the emotional defective, he has. a
capacity for genuine harm.
In sum, while there is no want of
picturesqueness about these little
Michaels, there is considerable lack
Of practically and an extended
study of the stowaway situation and
experiments conducted have con-
WINGED the Ellis Island authorities
that in ninety percent of all cases
of this kind their Judgment is sound.
81 recall an Episcopal minister,
among many, who had gone to no
little trouble to secure'the admission
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

vouchsafcd the comment that she
was "a bad actor'
"lndced," said he. "when they are
really bad, Of all female stowaways
deliver me from tho tongue of the
Irish or the Scotch"
a little later, while we were as
ccnding the stairs that led up from
the "T. d. quarters, this particular
stowaway, who was Scotch, sat
languidly on a wooden bench, puff
ing her cigarette and exchanging
pungcnt repartee with the less dead
~ Of the species cooped on the third
floor Of the main building.
No doubt these temporary de-
tanning quarters provide delight
full study in racial characteristics.
Here is the blood of the Old World
met upon an equal plane. Three
Irish women, dressed in what was
Individually their Sunday best, sat
stiffly upon a wooden bench, though,
to be sure, in the eye Of one of them
there was twinkle. As steerage
passengers they were waiting for
friends to call for them, and in spite
of their inhibition it was evident
that they looked with faster beating
pulse upon the great adventure
which should carry them into the
United States.
But when it came to sitting stifflv
and in holiday attire suitable TO the
occasion, nothing quite approached
the degree OF queenly isolation at
tanned by two Jamaica negresses
High shoes shining like new-washed
mirrors, picture hats that dropped
over dusky brows, and colorful
dresses bought recently from West
Indian shop created the impression
that here were ladies who intended
entering the United States with the
sartorial dignity beftting the act.
A group Of Italian women
sprawled over benches, sewing for
and minding their children, garru-
lous beyond description and unmind-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
Hoe IL Worked

of little Italian boy who was
stowaway upon an incoming ship
among whose passengers was this
rector said Superintendent Baker
last week.
Owe watched the boy while he
was beirg detained and found that
he was no different from hundreds
of other stowaways whom we deem
it unwisc to admit. If he was dis
similar it was in his capacity to
act. He was a very good actor.
The minister visited us on several
occasions in behalf Of the boy and
upon each Of these trips when called
into the uperintendent's office the
hoy's conduct underwent an heroic
change. He was soft of voice and
quiet Of manner. He seemed in
every way desirable.
"Consequently this stowaway was
at length admitted to bond, and with
much thanksgiving he departed to
the home of the minister In two
weeks the minister wrote informing
us that he had underestimate the
mission which he had undertaken
and that he had been deceived in the
character Of the boy. In other
words, he reiterated what we had
told him. The bond was forfeited,
and the boy sent back.
'"This treatment is not cruel
Very often it precisely comedies
with the wishes Of the bonded stow
away. 1t is love of adventure, the
call Of the sea. or what you like,
that prompts the actions of the
great majority of stowaways, and
once on the sea they quickly lose
their plcturesqueness and revert 70
their normal instincts. AS such
they are not desirable. Isn't it
better to make sure that American
boys are developed under favorable
circumstances than to become too
solicitous about the welfare Of one
who has run away from any de-
velopment provided for him at
hOme""
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

might participate in the member
ship drive. Lightweight more char
ters granted on the second day
brought the total for Monday and
Tuesday to 200. Since the average
number Of signatures on charter
application is twenty-five the
National Executive Committee cs-
timated that 5000 new members
were enrolled, automatically, by
mailing that record breaking number
Of charters.
Regardless Of whether the total
membership after six days of the
official drive be less or more than
one million, the American Legion
will continue it's membership cam
paign, so that on November II.
American Legion, to be held in
ganizatlon may represent the larg-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

four-minute talks between pictures.
Merchants, manufacturers and bust
ness men in general assisted by dis
playing Legion posters and donating
advertising space in the newspapers,
which, in turn, put their coopera-
ton into the form of space set aside
to tell the story of the September
drive.
Up to midnight last night the
drive was in full progress. 1t is
too early to predict whether or not
the one million membership object
i've was attained. The initial re-
ports from state branches were en-
couraging. New York state enrolled
10000 members The first day. On
that day, also, national headquar-
ters granted li2 charters to new
posts in thirty states, many of
which had requested speedy action
on their applications so that they
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

personal message to the veteran. ~
America from their former Comrades
who are meeting the problems Of 70.
construction in Europe.
The Minneapolis convention viii
mark turning point in the or.
ganization of the American Legion
Six months ago enlisted men and
officers, hastily gathered together !,
Paris to represent the A. IF. dis.
cussed and dreamed of great ma
tional association which would weld
together the finely tempered Amer;-
can metals which had come forth
from the crucible of war. The a.
pirations Of the overseas troops
were confirmed two months later hv
one thousand delegates in similar
caucus at ST. Louis, Representing
the A. f. F. in the United States. The
preliminary course of the American
Legion was charted at st. Lou;s
and Paris.
If discharged doughboy, or COB.
had called at national Headquarters
10 West Forty-fourth Street, early
in June, he would have found few
Of the original organizers working.
with q small staff of assistants ia
get the P. c. Of the National Ex-
ecutive Committee organized. II
the doughboy, or COB, had asked, in
those days, "Say, buddy, where's
the nearest post of this here Legion?
Guess I'll join up" the answer
would have been: you'll have to
take things easy-local posts are
Just beginning to be chartered.
Well take your name and address,
and get in touch with you"
Three months brought 1000 posts
throughout the United States, and
even more changes at national
service man came in search of in
formation tomorrow, he would find
Robert Steele, marine who lost
both legs in the Argonne drive, sit
ting at one of the two large in
formation desks. He has plenty Of
information for distribution, too.
policies Not Politics" is the
companion slogan to Let's Stick
Together" in the American Legion.
Taken together, those SIX words ex-
plain, briefly and adequately, why
this youngster among national or
carnations has been already hailed
when only six months old as one of
the most important factors in
| American national life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

in Illinois, who had sent passage
money to Italy to bring over his
future wife. You will understand
that often the fance never has been
the tiancec. He tells one Of his
countrymen iourneying horlcward
to pick him out q wife, and the act
being done, he forwards the trans
portation.
"This case was like that. The
brldc-to-be arrived in the United
States on schedule, and Investigation
proved that she had taken the train
for the West at the Grand Central
Station. At length We received
letter from the Italian youth in
Illinois that his fiancee had failed
to arrive, and he solicited an m
vcstigation.
1--WE looked into the matter and
found that the Italian girl had
ridden as far as Buffalo, but that
the remainder of her ticket was un-
cancelled. Further investigation
proved that she had returned from
Buffalo to the Grand Contra! Sta
tion-the immigrant rarely becomes
lost when he is not so minded
hiring a taxicab at the Grand Cen
trail Station for the sum Of $40, she
had been driven to an address in
Brooklyn, where she was joined by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

Down in the temporary detain-
ing room, or the ''T. D." room, as it
is dubbed, we were permitted to OBJ
serve two feminine stowaways. We
rounded a corner and came upon
them unexpectedly. One had
cigarette in her mouth and a lighted
match in her hand, her companion
shielding the fire from the wind
which sweeps down the bay and
across Ellis Island. They promptly
made off to a quieter corner of the
big concrete yard. Reassured at
length, they walked back, the
smaller of the stowaways smoking
her cigarette saucily and blowing
clouds of smoke into the air.
While she spoke no word, Dugan,
one of the Ellis Island guards,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

The italian is an interesting, if
sometimes eccentric, immigrant.
Thousands Of HIM journey across
the ocean and back again each
year. Most of these are day labor
ers who work in the United States
during the warm months, contrive
to save a little and go back to Italy
during the winter to live up their
savings. Some like the United
States and decide definitely to fore
sake their native land. But many
more are invcterate tourists and
keep the port officials busy with
their comings and goings. Occa
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

fascinated by the trappings of war,
and one who would gladly follow
soldiers to the end Of the earth. At
length he reaches Ellis Island bear
ing the status Of an admitted stow
away, declaring allegiance to a new
found country and expressing a de
sire to become citizen.
But Ellis Island stops him, Ellis
Island, the sieve through which the
immigrating nations of the earth
are strained, holds up hand.
Now there is tumult OF sym
pathy. Letters come from dozens
Of kind-hearted grownups ogering
to adopt little Michael Telephone
solicitation is made in his behalf,
Little Michael has become the dead
centre of a tiny whirlpool that
sometimes is referred to as public
sentiment
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

sionally one is injured at work in
this country, returns to Italy and
then tries to come back to the
United States. which previously he
has entered several times. In the
event that his injury places him
under the ban there are many cries
Of injustice and little Of under
standing. The Italian, indeed, is
the most tourful of all tourists.
immigration under normal con-
aitions totals 100000 year, while
The emigration average is 5S1,8lO.
In the three years of 1916-19l8
inclusive there were 58O,454 de-
partures, less than the average for
one year IN peace times. During
the years of 1912-l3-1l the de-
partures, averaging more than 600,-
600 annually, aggregated ~ per
cent of the arrivals. This abun-
dant travel indicates the attraction
of the high wage scale in the United
States for the foreigner
The war virtually stopped immi-
grafton and also curtailed, because
Of the submarine menace, emigra-
ton. The business of Ellis Island
IS now at low ebb, with a total Of
less than 250 who are awaiting de-
portatlon or an official adjustment
of their cases, as against a normal
of some 800.
1t is an interesting island, for it
is the gateway that leads into the
United States and a new world
or from it-and here the inspector
is an arbiter who decides whether
or no the immigrant is Of that stuff
necessary to make citizen of the
United States.
While we were conversing a few
doors down the corridor the youth
Gul members of the Vatican Cho'rs,
with thea Eton collars, velvet
suits and bare legs, were having
their cases adjusted that they might
be admitted. Upstairs tnere was
putative grand opera singer ana
artist, viewed through the rose
colored spectacles of sympathetic
publicity, who was detained at the
pier and held because it is believed
his is an instance that violates the
contract labor clause of the imnll-
grafton laws. AS a matter Of fac''
the superintendent said, he was
S16-a-week chorus member.
These cases reach print. They
have popular appeal. Yet Maggie
O 'Hara, who has come over TO COOK
and is intercepted by a guard III
blue uniform, probably thinks, as
she is detained upon Ellis Island'
that her capacity for making USE
full citizen is as indisputahle -
any ones .x1uuA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

est possible percentage Of its po-
tential strength
American Legion Day Will be the
first anniversary Of the signing of
the armistice with Germany and
it will mark the second day Of the
first national convention of the
American Legion to be held in
Minneapolis on November 10, IL
and II.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

an Italian youth she had met aboard
ship and to whom she was married
that very day.
she had gone through with the
fiction Of starting for the West
merely to satisfy the immigration
officials, but her heart directed her
along different route. There was
nothing to be done. The girl was
legally married. The Illinois boy
was out the price Of a single pass
age
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

as extensive as that which enabled
New York to oversubscribc her re-
quired quota Of the Liberty loans.
Out in The Middle Western agri-
cultural states the membership
drive had to take an entirely differ
ent attack formation. The automo-
bile, covered with Legion posters
and with the muller cut out, be-
came a travelling advertisement for
the campaign.
The canvassing committee went
to potential members scattered over
wide territory with the same mes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

Marshal Foch Of France, Gen
eralissimo Of the Allied armies, is
expected to come to America to
address several thousand delegates
who viii represent other thousands
Of service men and women on Ameri-
can Legion Day. lie will bring
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

on the screen urging veterans in the
audience to sign an enrolment card
in the lobby; they also invited
American Legion speakers to give
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

ssE M FOthe Legion because I'm for anything that will
the fellows together They're much good sep
arate. If we have something definite hang we
will stick together The Legion will help tc fellows recall the
days there and thus keep up spirit that the war;
ELSIE JANIS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

sage which the big city organizations
popularized, and took advantage Of,
agricultural fairs, cattle roundups,
old home week celebrations, wei
come home carnivals for the service
mcn-any opportunity afforded to
bring the full force Of the drive
to bear on large gathering Of
veterans.
Wow IL Worked
Everywhere the campaign has
been intensive. Motion picture ex-
hibitors cooperated by flashing slides
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
Zero Hour

Last Monday they left their
jumping-of places. To say that the
DICTIONARIES leaped out of their
campaign trenches would be speak
ing too fguratively, although it is
a fact that the American Legion,
through its local posts, has already
become intrenched in the hearts of
thousands of communities. The
membership campaign is an after
the-war drive, a peaceful offensive
in which the assault units are cap
turing their comrades for the
legion.
In New York City, where there
are more than 100000 former SER
vice men and women to be reached,
the big September drive meant
establishing campaign headquarters
at 2Gl Madison Avenue and or
ganizing campaign machinery almost
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

IT. Rl thy tears, Aunt Clarssa,
Il " aud weep no more-Lttle
M-~ Michael is not all that he
seems, or, perhaps, it
might be better said, he is more.
Little Michael Gilhooly is stow
away. No Pigment of salty re-
portorial fancy is he, with his 10
corporal pounds of Belgian-1rish
blood and bone. Let us say rather
that he has been introduced to his
public-for Mike has public.
through the rose-colored light of
heart-affecting publicity.
This little stowaway, known as
Michael, gathers his public through
the phenomena of printed words.
He is pictured as bright little boy,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
The Fatal Fielding

"iow about romance?" he was
asked.
The superintendent scratched his
gray head and was inclined to side
step.
ooh, that" he answered. 1t was
plain that he was willing to leave
romance to the snip news reporters.
"What was the biggest romance
you recall?"
The superintendent continued to
run his fingers through his hair.
II remember" he said, "one case
where romance went wrong, or
rather where Cupid directed his
arrows with new aim. 1t was in
the matter of an Italian boy living
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

a CALL to national service
IN has been sounded in the
4 N ears of some 100000
Americans in the last sixty
days-the countrywide invitation
of the American Legion to all men
and women who served their Uncle
Samuel on land or sea or in the air
during the war to stick together
now for the preservation of the
ideals for which they stood together
in arms.
Four hundred thousand veterans
already enrolled in the American
Legion went over the top last Mon
day, as many of them went over a
year ago this month in the final
offensive of the Allied operations,
to get 100000 of their comrades to
join under the legion's slogan:
LETS Stick Together" They were
told that they must tackle big job
in a big way with big enthusiasm
worthy of Americas participation
in the war.
"September Is at sun-up will be
the zero hour" said the field orders
issued from national headquarters.
"Our objective is a minimum men,
bership of 100000 members!"
To each of the 1000 local posts
in the forty-eight state branches of
the American Legion a definite
objective was assigned-the proper
ton Of all service men in the COM
munity who had to be enrolled to
make the national membership reach
the l 100000 mark.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

full of visitors or other incident
That broke upon the routine Ct the
day. An English woman in black
sat upon a cane suitcase, writing
a letter, holding supremacy aloof
from a party Of Slavs hard by. 1t
vas to be observed that the feminine
groups kept severely to themselves
and separated along racial lines.
While the human interest" cases
are looked into by Superintendent
Baker, he is not so interested in
them as in those plentiful instances
which require some nice application
Of the immigration laws to deter
mine, and many is the yarn he can
spin about these. Yet they would
be more in place in a law journal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
Soldiers Finish a Drive for the American Legi'

a CALL to national service
IA has been sounded in the
4 "A ears of some 100000
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-06
City To Pay County
Share OF Expense OF
Courthouse Upkeep

The city commissioners must pay to
the county commissioners the sum Of
1874, 1S4,S4. being amount due the oun
ty from the city for services rendered
in the courthouse for the past nine
years, the life Of the big temple Of JUS
tice. The bill will be presented to the
city Friday or Saturday.
The city and county agreed that the
city should not pay rent. but that 1t
should pay one-seventh of the expense
Of lights, water, coal consumed in heat
ing the building, expenses Of the engi-
neer's room and the expense of clean
ing the offices. This amounts to less
than 81 900 a year. The city has never
paid a cent, and this is the first time
a bill has been presented.
The city charges the county for wa
ter, through the water commission, and
now the county is charging back to the
city the water used in Its offices in the
courthouse.
The city commissioners have consid-
cred the proposition of moving the city
offices to the proposed auditorium and
market house when that structure Is
completed. but no formal action has
ever been taken.