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Newport daily independent., 1919-02-03

oCSASbe1l yVl Jtil NAiitOAlO} CAt&oj compiled the following extracts ta- ken from letters received at Camp Headquarters from wives and rela- tives of soldiers, making many cu- rious and startling statements. A copy of the Sulphur, (Okla.), Demo- crat came to us through :. friend, where we ran across the compilation and decided to reproduce it for the benefit of our readers.
 ain't got no book learning and am writing to you for information.
 She is living in disported house.
 Just a line to let you know that I am widow and four children.
 Previous to his departure we were married to justice of the peace.
 He is inducted to the surface
 have a four -months-old baby and he is my only support. A lone woman and barley depend ent.
 was discharged from the army for goiter which I was sent home on. I enclose lovingly yours.
 I am left with baby seven months old and she is baby and can't work I received $61O0 and am certainly provoked tonight.
 I service with the U. s. Armory.
 And he is my best supporter.
 I received my insurance polish and have since moved my postoffice.
 You ask for the allotment num- Der. I have four boys and two girls. am his wife and only air.
 Please return my marriage certifi- cate. Baby hasn't eaten in three days.
 am writing to the Y. M. C., with the band playing in my uniform.
 Please send me a wife's form.
 have been in bed with one doctor for fifteen years and am going to try another.
 Hello, Mr. War Insurance, l am well and hope you are.
 Dear MT. Wilson, I have already written to MT. Headquarters and re- ceived no reply and if I don't get one I will write to Uncle Sam hisself.
 am poor widow and all I have is in the front.
 We have your letter. I am his grandmother and grandfather and he was kept and lived up according to your instructions.
 I ain't received no pay since my husband has gone nowhere.
 You have changed my little girl to Ia boy. Will that make any differ ence.
 I have not received my husbands pay and will be forced to lead an inn mortal life.
 You have taken away my man to fight and he was the best fighter l ever had in my life. Now you will have to keep me up or who in the "hell" will.
 My boys have been in charge of the spitoon (platoons) will he get any more money?
 My son is in CT" Go. 158 Infancy.
 Please tell me if he is living or dead and what is his address.
 My mother is dead on both sides.
 He has taken out S5,00O insurance; I haven't got the police yet.
 Dear MT. Wilson and Uncle Sam: This is to notify you that on the 7th of September there was to me the un- dersigned wife of Nick Compana No 4424 Co. H and enlisted man. Res pectfully Nellie Compana.
 have baby born August 22. What action will be taken regarding same.
 I am returning check. Mr. and I have been living together three years. I am not his wife, we were only close friends.
 Bureau of War Risks, Dear MT. Risk: The old man Johnston to whom you sent the check is dead and wants to know what to do with the check.
 I ain't got no money since my boy went sailing over the top.
 I am writing to know why l have never received my elopement.
 Copied in Camp Travis, Texas by
 F. M. DODSON.
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Newport daily independent., 1919-02-03

having equal rights with any eventu- ual parliament or other governmental body.
Newport daily independent., 1919-02-03

The Independent worts e Usa it as your salesman ,ew~ of the store into hs homes.
Newport daily independent., 1919-02-03
THEY MEANT WELL
 BUT KNEW NO BETTER.

MT. Floyd M. Dodson, Y. M. c. A. secretaryof San Antonio, Texas, compiled the following extracts ta- ken from letters received at Camp Headquarters from wives and rela- tives of soldiers, making many cu- rious and startling statements. A copy of the Sulphur, (Okla.), Demo- crat came to us through :. friend, where we ran across the compilation and decided to reproduce it for the benefit of our readers.
Newport daily independent., 1919-02-03

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New Britain herald., 1919-10-22
Near Ratification.
(NeW York Times.)

It is quite evident that there is an approach to agreement between the senators who are supporting and those who are opposing the peace treaty. What Senator Lodge has to say, though a little truculent in tone, jibes so we'll with what Senator Hitchcock says that any one can see the movement of the finger behind the scenes.
 The extravagant program of Sena- tors Johnson and Borah will be re- jected. On the other hand, Mir Hitchcock and the administration leaders may be content with some thing less than they had hoped. The treaty will go through unamended, let the Johnsons and Poindexters rave as they like. Interpretations of the treaty, or reservations, if the word is preferred, may be necessary to ratification. The reservations will not change a word of the treaty. Senator Htchcock's tone is too satis- fled and confident to allow of any other belief. The very fact of MT. Lodges truculencc suggests that he is laundering in the index and pre- pairing to claim a victory which is not his.
 TOT lll1S COucluSlOn to the troupe the battle-ground republicans are to be highly praised. From the very be- ginning Senator McCumber, Senator McNary, Senator Lenroot, Senator Nelson, and the other members of that body have fought their way with intelligence, resolution, and skill. Their compactness, determination, and strategic ability have made the nominal republican leadership of the senate look ridiculous by comparison. If the United States does finally come out of the mess into which for sev- eral months it's senate has been steer ing the hope of the world, it will be due largely to the patriotism and shreWdness with which Senator Me- Cumber and those who stand with him have managed their cause. In say ing this one must not forget that Senator Hitchcock had a most trying part to play and that the presidents illness threw an unexpected burden upon him, to which he rose with a patience and oarnestness that deserve all commendation.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-22
Consumed or HOardcd. (BridgeDOrt POSt,)

Figures on sugar come from the big fehnerleS. When a pound of sugar leaves a refinery it is marked down "consum ed.' Government figures show the consumption of sugar to have in creased nine pounds for every man, woman and child in the United States so far this year as against the same period last year. Now you and we be- lieVe that neither of us has consumed nine pounds more sugar so far this year than in the same period last year, though every cube, almost every grain of sugar last year was carefully count ed out to the consumer.
 Is there not possibly another cNpla- nation? Suppose spectators, WnOle- salers and others are peerng into the future, seeing the end of governm ent control of sugar December 31. What next? Continued shortage and imme- diate jump in prices.
 Is 1t too much to suspect that some clever traders here and there are hay ing sugar slowed away at the present low price with a view of marketing it at twice or three times that price next year?
 As far as the refinery, giving out the figures is concerned, sugar is "con- sumed," even though it be hoarded.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-22
GERMANS TO OPEN
 MEXICAN COLONY
Plans Told When Scheme to Irrigatc Puerto Valley Are Made
 Public.

Mexico City, Oct. 22.-Concrete evil dence of German colonization plans for Mexico was revealed here today with the announcement of an enter prise for the Irrigation of 10000 hec- tares of land in the F'uerte river val ley in the state of Snaola where thousands of German emil grants are expected to buy small parcels of land sotr a 2o-year payment plan.
 The corporation is being f1oated by Jose Meakany, a Mexico City capital ist, with the support of Gen. Ramon Iturbe, governor of Sinaloa. It is proposed to construct a dam at Saint Blaz, securing from the government concession for the use of enough water from the Fuerte river for the proposed colony. The land is de- clared to be extremely fertile and the plan is being backed by German banks here.
 Until few months ago the water concession for the Fuerte valley was held by the United Sugar companies of Los Mochis Sinaola headed by Benjamin F. Johnson, of Chicago, III. The concession of the sugar com panies, granted 20 years ago, was for the use of 75 per cent. of the rivers flow, but it is declared to have been decreased to eight cubic metres per second. Promoters of the present ir- rigation project declare the old con- cesston was reduced because of the opposition of many Iandholders alona the Fuerte river to the companies controlling 75 per cent. of the water while only owning five per cent. of land in that region which could be irrigated.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-22

chairmanship, of Croatian and other business men, who agreed that the in terests of Plume and it's hinterland re- quired to be a free port, and who for Warded prayer to the peace confer ence that it be made a free port under Italian suzerainty. "The only thing we cannot bear is that the Italian character of the town should be de- nied and Italian national rights agat- ed.' This is practical, intelligent, a sensible step toward compromises facile and deep descent from the glO- riOus appetite for martyrdOm Whic>. spoke a moment earlier. Let q An nunzio go but one step further and ad- init the same national rights to terri tories where the Jugoslav population predominates that he demands for the Italians of Fiume-rights qualified by similar guarantee of the comm ercial privileges belonging to outsiders-and he will have attained program on Which the interested peoples and the world at large could welcome a prompt settlement of the Adriatic dis pute. That would be the act of q statesman who would have earned the gratitude of Italians and Slavs as well. But what a pathetic antclimax for d pOet-hero!
New Britain herald., 1919-10-22
I WISH I WE'RE SETTING
 -.s OUT TO SEA,

I wish I were setting out to sea- Under an evening sky, With the wet wind blowing against
 my face, And the spray upspringing like fairy AS we went hurrying by. The swing of the waves would bring
 me peace Swaying now low now high. I wish I were setting out to sea- Bound for a far-off shore, And watching the tWinkling coast
 lights glow, Fainter and paler, as on we'd go, Until they could show no more. The wall of the wind would send me
 to sleep, Swecter than eer before. I wish I were setting out to sea, Hearing the throbbing screw Dim through my dreaming the whole
 night long, With it's low, monotonous humming g
 song,
 While the miles behind us grew. The sea. and the wind, and the song,
 all three,
 Would gird my soul anew.
 ETHEL WOLFF.
 in New York Times.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-22
BOrcrS Within.
(NeW York Sun )

The avowed "syndicalist anarchist' Margolis, testifying before the senate committee which is Investigating the steel strike, sheds light on the mem tai processes of the interesting Will liam Z. Foster, secretary of the steel strikers committee:
 ''Foster believed that he could still retain his integrity as a syndicalist while going into the American Fed eTation of Labor and being a 'borer Within,' as he put it. I didn't think he could.''
 What has been accomplished by "borers within" so far as the disin- tegration of the authority of organ ized labor is concerned, is indicated in the declaration of Margolis
 Out of the last seventy strikes in this country, siXty-tWo were unau- thorized, showing the great disaffec- ton within the ranks of older labor unions"
 The Bolsheviki of ;. ,lerica. finding the old unions unWill < to ruin this country, bore within ,hese unions to ruin the unions themselves.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-22
WANT CLOSED SHOP
United Mine Workers of America Also Approve Plans for Standardization of Coal Mines.

Johnstown, Pa, Oct 22.-Recom- mendation of adoption of the "closed shop" and endorsement of the na tional movement for organizing of the labor party, pledged to carry out by legislation laborss program, including standardization of coal mines, are to be considered by District No. ,, United Mine Workers of America, which opened the second session of it's biennial convention here today
 John Brophy, president of the dis trict, has recommended that the con- vention adopt the "closed shop" policy and go on record in favor oI the new labor party. According to MT, Brophy, who is in charge of the convention, every local union in Dis trict No. , will carry out the strike order for bituminous miners, NOvem- Der 1, unless an agreement is reached by that time between operators an the union.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-22
BERNSTORFF ON STAND
Tcstifies That Wilson Tried to Bring About Peace Between Germany and the Allies.

Berlin, Oct. 22 (By The Associated ss)-Count Johann von Bernstorf, former German ambassador to the United States, who yesterday was the principal witness before the commit tee investigating the responsibility of German officials in causing the out break of the great war, resumes his testimony today.
 While on the stand yesterday, von Bernstorff told of the efforts made by President Wilson in 1914 and in 1916 to find a way to bring peace proposals before the allied governments. Ger man peace tentatiVes made from time to time, however, handicapped MT. Wilson, in the opinion of the former am bassador, being construed bv the Allies as evidences of weak ness on the part of Germany. It was Count von Bernstorff's impression that Mir. Wilson intended to propose a temporary peace which would. not touch upon territorial issues and which would leave major problems connected with peace to a conference of the belligerents. Tn 1916, the wit ness said. President Wilson was in Il position to propose peace without vintorv" but, he declared, Mir. Wilson deferred action because of the scnti- mcnt against Germany in the United States at the time.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-22
National Happenings.

All traffic stopped-Big washout on Naugatuck railroad-Bank of can al which supplies water for power to the big factories in Ansonia gave way carly this morning, flooding the tracks of the Naugatuck rsslroad and causing break 15O feet long and number of feet deep.
 Russian ruler dying-Asks that friends be called to his bedside-He becomes delirious and does not rec ognize members of his family
 Many steamers f1red-Thousands of bales of cotton destroyed-The vessels burned to their wharves, at Savannah, Ga.-Ships and cargoes fully covered by insurance-Origin of fire unknown
New Britain herald., 1919-10-22

The United States is preparing to feed the people of Petrograd imme- diately upon the fall of that city to the anti-Red forces. Possibly if the citizens of that place knew it as we'll at once instead of several days later. Yudenitch had reached a temporary halt before the capital to wait for the big guns with which he plans to food are allied in the attack. Petro- grad will fall.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-22
GERMAN OPERA.

pne of the first attempts to play \ man operas in New York since opening of the war met with lster last evening when Mayor R an officially forbade the presenta- h of Oar und Zimmerman'' not Ehstanding the fact that the house been practically sold out. There 5 riot in which many service men [ticipated and where it was neces- to call out many police to pro- the. house and it's occupants on previous evening. Declaring that Constituted a breach of the .pelce Stage the production when the ! Sntry was still at war the Mayor of York caused the theater to be
 k last night and the producers &e applied for an injunction re ] lining him from Interfering, upon ] ch d finding is promised today.
 Following upon the riots of the Rat before, service men and others
 b had been in the service collected great numbers for the second
 sentation of the week, resolved to #,ib1y express their opinion of the &ceedings. Five hundred police,
New Britain herald., 1919-10-22

the recent industrial conference in Canada. The employers group in the conference took substantially the po- sition regarding unionism and col lect1Ve bargaining that Mr. Gary takes But the majority of the conference as a whole disagreed with them and published it's recommendations, among which were recognition of unionism and collective bargaining in this sense: CD Collective bargaining i'm plies the right of workers to group themselves together for the purpose Of selling their labor power collective- ly to their employer instead of mak- Ing individual agreements; CD "as the employer has the right to bring Tn any assistance he may desire in carrying on negotiations, there is no reason why the "mploye should be de- ,nied like righ1'; (3) 'co1lective bar gaining, which is the negotiation of agreements through the representa- tiVes chosen by the respective parties themselves, does not mean recogni- tion of the closed shop unless the agreement so provides"
 If the group system in the Wash ington conference were abolished and majority and minority reports from the conference as whole were pre- sented, the majority would unques- tionably indorse the conclusions reached by the majority in the Can adian conference. A majority of the public group alone would endorse them. This consensus of opinion con- corning a pivotal issue should some how be placed formally on record; the country is entitled to it.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-22

The House passed the Budget bill, as introduced by Representative Good of Iowa, by a vote of 283 to yes terday. A single committee, of thirty propriations, of any character, before Congress, the President will be re- sponsble for the submission of an annual schedule of estimated eXpendi- General of the Currency is estab- lished. He will have an assistant and they will get $1O,ooo and s7,5oO a year respectively.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-22
g YEARS AGO
October 22, 1894.
tFrom the Herald of Ths. Date.)

Patrick F. Burns was driving John J. O'Brien's horse on Church street this noon when the animal became frightened and ran away. MT. Burns was thrown out and bruised about the head. The horse ran up Elm street and at the corner of North and Lawlor street the carriage was overx~ turned and damaged. The horse was slightly injured.
 Work was commenced last Friday raising the front of the Park hotel property and when completed will have the prettiest front of any in town.
 Attorney E. F. Gaffney has pur- chased the property at the corner Of Franklin and Elm streets from c. c. Blackman, of Hartford.
 The basketball team of the '. M. C. A. met last evening at the "Y' and organized. Bert Loomis was elected captain and A. E. Way, man ager. They will commence regular practice soon.
 The Central Railway and Electric company contracted yesterday with Francis Deming of Berlin for 5000 loads of gravel for filling in its line to that place.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-22
Keeping of Jobs for Union Members
Waterbury Republican,


 According to Col. George B. Goetz, now salvage member of the war claims board there has been between two and three million dollars worth of leather at the Rock Island arsenal which he has been endeavoring to pry loose for somc time for use ln industry, but the American Fedora tion of Labor Keeps man in Washington all the time vi Ose business it is to see that the Workmcn at the arsenal arc kept at work, and has interfered with large leather surplus getting to the con- sumers of the country. He wants the union men at the arsenal to have the joo of cutting up that leather on gov ernment wage schedule
 If this is true, it shows the same selfish disregard for the rest of the na- tion in favor of organized labor that has been shown by labor in it's endeav- or to put over on the country the Plumb railroad plan.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-22
X Dull Word for Heroes.
(NeW York Tim eS.)


 D'Annunzio'S latest complaint sounds very much like that of the lit tie boy who used to weep, as he laid down his dime novel, because the world had turned tame and there were no more Indians to kill. The pOet-hero is disturbed because nobody will give him anything to be heroic about. II believe I shall act sQon,'. he says. It would seem that there is nOth- ing at hand which calls for action, but he will act anyway. If nobody will attack me-and I am ready to fight any aggression-I will march on Rome" No doubt he hopes that Nitti will shake in his shoes at this threat; and the history of Rome is full of the records of gentlemen who acquired military fame in the outlying prov inces and then marched on Rome to cash in on it. ' But d'Annunzio is actu- ated by DO unworthy desire Tor per sOnaI power; all he wants IS to be q martyr, and nobody will martyr him. We want to offer ourselves m sacri- fee. We want to light a fire that will burn high. We cannot be beaten be- cause death is our victory.
 The plight of a gentleman who can not find anybody to attack him is in deed a sad one. He might challenge Jack Dempsey and thereby free him. self from the boredom of life in Plume, which apparently has driven him to a pitch of fury like that of the famOus persOn who was so bad ne was afraid of himself But after tnts fran- tic cry for somebody tC come and DC aec,ressive one is surprised to hear the poet observe calmly, in the very next sentence. "However, I do not see who can fight us.
 stll more surprising is it to hear him lei Of q conference, under his
New Britain herald., 1919-10-22
Pivotal Issue in the Conference.
Springfield Republican,.

The industrial conference at Wash lngton need not be completely wrecked by the withdrawal of either the capital or the labor group, for a report from the group representing the public would possess significance and value. The publc's representa- tiVes in any event would perform pub lie service in agreeing upon a set of principles and publishing them.
 This was, in effect, the outcome of
New Britain herald., 1919-10-22

mounted and afoot had been collected to give protection. Both sides were disappointed-the theater was closed and the mobs went their various ways without trouble
 Though we disapprove of their violence, we feel in the mood of the service men, that there should be no German opera played here at this time. However, what is surprising to us, and probably is to many other ex- service men and American citizens, is the fact that the mana agement had been able to sell enough tickets to insure a crowded house. The general public seems to be already forgetting the sins of it's late enemy and pre- pairing to enjoy the kultur of which it has had too extreme a dose. We do not pretend to set ourselves up as musical critics, nor to pass upon the relative merits of German and other music The wonder is that the
 
 that goes with the German language and the German made music. Surely there is a realization, a mental picture of the Hun and what he has meant to us lately, all through the perform ance It is this that would prove so distasteful to us that it would out weigh all love of music that we might have, despite the attractiveness of the affair.
 The crowd that bought tickets in- dicates that such mental pictures are not going to be present in the United States, that we are going to accept German productions of all kinds with never a thought as to their source, that we are not going to hold over the country, which a few months ago we so heartily detested. There has been much conjecture as to what our atti- tude would be, here is an example of it.
 Provided the German proves, through his own government that he is impelled by motives that are honorable, that he is anxious to wipe from his record the stain of blood that is upon it, there is no particular reason that we should hold anything against him. He still has his sin cerity to prove, however, there is a certain period of time before he will ever be able to do so. But the time has not elapsed, for that matter we are still at war with Germany to all intents and purposes. We do not fear, that the service man or the family of the man killed in the service will readily forgive the enemy, they may hold their forgiveness too long but we do deplore the seeming fact that the enemy may carry on in our country at this time. Violence is not the proper weapon to meet him with, but individual, concerted action will snub him very shortly, providing pub lie sentiment is back of the initial impulse of the movement.