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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-03
CHIVALRY IN THE TRENCHES
How Suffering Tommy, Doomed to Early Death, Attempted to Give
 His Blanket to Yank Comrade.

"Yank, I'm only twenty-eight, but I'm an old man." said an English Tommy just before we turned into our sleeping rolls on the coldest night that I had experienced. And his aw- ful cough, the result of being gassed early in the war, when they had no masks. added fatal testimony to his statement.
 All night long he coughed. About midnight I awoke shlvering. From hs coughing I knew that he was awake, said ''Toratny. never was so cold In my life" and then in a few minutes was asleep again.
 An hour later I was again awakened by his violent coughing. To my sur prise seemed to be warm and wonder ed if the wind had suddenly changed . but from It's constant vhistling knew 1t had not. I reached out and felt two extra blankets on me. I suspect ed whence they had come by that yio- lent coughing.
 I got up and carried them back to where he lay, saying: ''Tommy, did you put these blankets on mel" He replied "Yes, Tank, you said you were cold"
 ''But what about you?"
 "Oh, me? I'm used to it"
 Well, all I get to say is, thank you but if you ever do that trick again I'll throw you out of the window in tho snow and let you freeze to death." And then I put them back on his shivering gassed body.-William L. Stdger iu Association Men.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-03
DAYLIGHT SAVING REPEAL BILL
 WILL FAIL

Washington, March 3.-All attempts to repeal the daylight saving law will be defeated. This was admitted yes terday by Senators who have been most ardent in their support of the Gore rider to the agricultural bill. Some changed their minds when they heard from their constituents. Twenty wire baskets, each filled with telegrams or letters of protest, were carried over to the Senate.
 It was evident from the tenor of the letters, the differing phraseoIogy in which they were couched. that they were not prompted by a formal propaganda. They were spontaneous outbursts, manifesting clearly that the writers were indignant over the attempt to deprive them of an extra hour of sunlight.
 Many protests came from agricui- tural states. Senator Watson, of h. diana, said he had received hundreds of letters urging him to vote against repeal and not more than a half dozen for it.
 Tt Is unjust to the farmer to say that he is against the daylight saving plan," said Senator Watson. Tn my state there is a large body of farmers the great majority of whom appear to be with Senator Calder in his fight against repeal. In any case, I would be against repeal, but I am glad to have the support of my people in the stand I take"
 Senator Cummings, of Iowa, also from an agricultural state, is cIained q by the opponents of repeal as q friend. The Senator has made no public statement so far, but the friends of the law say he will he with them when the final count fs made.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-03
GRANDMOTHER KNEW
There Was Nothing So Good for Congestion and Colds
 as Mustard

But the old-fashioned mustard plaster burned and blistered while it acted. Get the relief and help that mustard plasters gave. without the plaster and without the blister.
 Musterole does it. It is a clean, white ointment, made with oil of mus tard. It is scientifically prepared, so that it works wonders, and yet does not blister the tenderest skin.
 Gently massage Musterole in with the finger-tips. See how quickly it brings te- ief-how speedily the pain disappears.
 Use Musterole for sore throat bron- chitis, tonsilitis, croup, stiff neck, asthma, neuralgia, headache, conges- ton, pleurisy, rheumatism, lumoago, pains and aches of the back or joints, sprains, sore muscles, bruises, chill plains, frosted feet, colds of the chest Git often prevents pneumonia).
 BOG and COG jars; hospital size $2.50
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-03

man of the War Garden Commission of Pittsburgh, has wired the National War Garden Commission as we'll as to Senator Knox, Senator Penrose and the representatives from the Pitts burgh district, protesting against re- peal.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-03

The first amateur three-cushion billiard tournament ever staged will begin tomorrow night in New York. Seven players have been entered. Some splendid matches are expected tO dave1oD
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-03

revolution. The political conflicts went on, but daily life returned to its normal conditions.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-03

In these and all of the departments the
 ideals of the business the will of dependaby which will be continued The basis uperstrucre which greater
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-01-11

A food map of Europe today shows
not single country in which the fu.
ture does not hold threat of serious
difficulties and only small part which
is not rapidly approaching the famine
point. With the exception of the
Ukraine only those countries which
have maintained marine commerce
have sufficient food supplies to meet
actual needs until next harvest, and
even In the Ukraine, with stores accu-
mulated on the farms, there is famine
in the large centers Of population.
Belgium and northern France, as
we'll as Serbia, appear on the hunger
map distinct from the rest of Europe
because they stand in a different rela-
ton from the other nations to the peo-
pie of the United States. America has
for four years maintained the small
war rations of Belgium and northern
France and is already making special
efforts to care for their increased
after-thewar needs, which, with those
Of Serbia, must be included in this
plan, are urgent in the extreme and
must have immediate relief.
The gratitude of the Belgian nation
for the help America has extended to
her during the war constitutes the
strongest appeal for us to continue our
work there. The moment the German
armies withdrew from her soil and she
was established once more in her own
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-01-11
gions, with conditions most serious in

giOnS, with conditions most serious in
Finland
Bohemia, Serbia, Roumania and
Montenegro have already reached the
famine point and are suffering a heavy
toll Of death. The Armenian popula-
ton is falling each week as hunger
takes its toll, and in Greece, Albania
and Roumania so serious are the food
shortages that famine is near. AL
though starvation is not yet imminent,
Italy, Switzerland, Bulgaria and Tur-
key are In the throes of serious strin-
gencies.
In order to fulfill Americas pledge
in world relief we will have to export
every ton of food which can be ham
died through our ports. This means at
the very least minimum of 100000
tons compared with 100000 tons pre-
war exports and 11,82O,0OO tons ex-
ported last year, when we we're bound
by the ties of war to the European
allies.
If we fail to tighten the black spots
on the hunger map or If we allow any
portions to become darker the very
peace for which we fought and bled
will be threatened. Revolt and anarchy
inevitably follow famine. Should this
happen we will see in other parts of
Europe repetition Of the Russian de-
bacle and our fight for world peace
will have been in vain,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-01-11

seat of government the little nations
first thought was to express her graft
tude to the Commission for Relief in
Belgium for preserving the lives of
millions Of her citizens.
Germany, on the other hand, need
not figure in such a map for Ameri-
cans because there is no present indi-
cation that we shall be called on at all
to take thought for the food needs of
Germany. Germany probably can care
for her own food problem If she is
given access to shipping and is enabled
to distribute food to the cities with
dense populations, which are the trou-
BILE centers.
England, France, the Netherlands
and Portugal, all Of which have been
maintained from American supplies,
have sufficient food to meet immediate
needs, but their future presents seri-
GUS difficulties. The same is true of
Spain and the northern neutral coun-
tries-Norway, Sweden and Denmark
whose ports have been open and who
have been able to draw to some degree
upon foreign supplies.
Most Of Russia is already in the
throes of famine, and 100000 people
there are beyond the possibility of
help. Before another spring thou
sands of them inevitably must die.
This applies as we'll to Poland and
practically throughout the Baltic re-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-01-11

They have known very we'll the risks
they were taking-the two thousand
and more women who have gone to
France for varied services under the
American Red Cross, and the more
than nine thousand nurses whom the
American Red Cross has assigned to
foreign duty under the United States
Army and Navy Nurse Corps.
They went under orders, as soldiers
do; prepared for any emergencies, as
soldiers do; they assumed many
strange and unforeseen taskg, as SOL
diers do. Literally, they went as
fighters, against pain, disease and
death.
A mobile surgical unit" of nurses
those words don't mean very much,
perhaps, the first time we hear them.
But see such an unit follow an army
up to an advanced post; see how the
nurses work with steady hands beside
the surgeons as the stretchers with the
newly wounded are brought in. See
pitfalls, base hospitals, convalescent
hospitals, tuberculosis hospitals; some
Of them in French military hospitals
where sometimes our men are sent ;
see them with their specialized skill
in head surgery, or fracture work, or
psychiatry all these women who
keep head and hand cool and steady,
when the ambulances unload great
harvests of wounded. Then we say
the words "Our Nurses" as we say
"Our Soldiers" "Our Sailors" "Our
Marines"
On the night Of March 25th, when
the Germans were fast advancing, and
already within six kilometers of
Annel, an outpost Of Compiegne, two
American doctors remained, who un-
der order of the French government,
had sent the patients and personnel
Of their hospital farther back the
night before. The artillery was deaf.
ening, but the American Ambulance
sections kept bringing their wounded
to Annel These doctors said that as
long as the American boys brought
them wounded they would operate
Two nurses volunteered from Com
piegne, and SO in the deserted chatear
the two surgeons, the two nurses and
the ten drivers worked calmly on
while the buzz of aeroplanes shook
the air, and the blasting guns SHOOK
the earth. .-..*
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GRAND DUKE WORKS AS CLERK
"London Michael" and Countess En-.
dure Reverses UncomplaininoIy
in London,

London.-One of the Russian grand
dukes, known as the 'London Michael"
to distinguish him from the other
Grand Duke Michael, has fallen from
great wealth to comparative perjury as
q result Of the Russian revolution.
Before the war he lived in one of
the finest residential estates In the
neighborhood Of London. When his
income from Russia was cut off he
subleased this property and is now a
clerk at $1,000 a year in an Office near
Westminster abbey. His wife, the
Countess Torby, conducts their small
home with zest and without grumbling.
probably no family in Great Brit
ain has endured greater reverses than
this one, or borne its misfortune more
cheerfully," comments the Evening
News. -.--... ~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-01-11
ALL ACTIVITIES
UNDER ONE HEAD
Ninth District War Loan ORGAN
ization to Supervise 1919
Sales of u. S. Securities.
AVOIDS ALL FRICTION
New Plan Of Coordination Expected
to Bring Biggest Possible Sales
With Least Possible Effort
and Expense,

All the Governments 1910 loan &C.
tivities in the Ninth District will be
directed by the Ninth District War
Loan Organization. This means that
for the first time the sale of War
Savings Stamps and Liberty Loan
Bonds are all under the same district
supervision and that all efforts to
dispose OF Government securities
will be under the same district super
vision and that all efforts to dispose
of Government securities will be CO.
ordinated in manner that will bring
the biggest possible sales with the
least possible effort and expense.
For some time past officials of the
Treasury Department in Washington
have realized that the War Savings
Stamp Sales Organization needed Ma
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-01-11
BARRIERS BEMOAN TRADE LOSS
Women Who Are Taking Mems Places
in Industries Are Not Helping
Tonsoriai Artist,

Memphis, Tenn.-Women taking the
place Of men in the Industrial world
may be filling the jobs all right, but
they are not helping the barber.
Visit any tonsorial establishment
and ask the man who Yields the gleam-
ing blade. He will tell you some Of
his best customers have gone-gone to
fight the Germans. And he will tell
you that all the women who took their
places are strangers to him.
While the barber complains the
''beauty doctor" has a different story
to tell. She says her patrons are
more numerous than ever before, and
they are more liberal. They spend
money lavishly. A few dollars to re-
move wrinkle that has appeared as
a result Of business worries is handed
over. without murmur. Powder and
paint and toilet water are used Law
ishly.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-01-11
NEWEST OF SLACkERS
Is Person Who Encourages Buy
ing of Platinum JeweIry,
Government Must Have Metal II War
Machine Is to Be Kept
Going.

Washington, D. C.-The newest type
OF Stacker and one who is doing his
country a great amount of harm. is
the man or woman who buys or even
encourages the purchase of platinum
5ewelry, according to the bureau of
mines, department Of the interior. For
the country is and for many years will
be desperately in need of the scarce
and precious platinum in it's industrial
work and must have it if the war ma
chine is to go full speed ahead.
A plan proposed by the federal Off
Gals would stop the use of platinum
in jewelry, not only for the war but for
all time. Officials of the government
who are in close touch with the situa-
ton are filled with apprehension as
to the future supply of platinum. =
In an effort to fill the immediate
pressing needs of the government in
its war program, the war industries
board has ordered that IS per cent Of
the stock Of platinum in the hands of
manufacturing jewelers. be comman-
deered and also the complete stock
held by reiners, importers and deal
ers, but this, it is said, will only fill
a small gap and that temporarily.
1t has been hoped by federal officials
and chemists throughout the country
who understand the seriousness of the
situation that the whims of fashion
might yield to national needs and that
purchasers of jewelry would demand
gold and silver or a white alloy and 50
release platinum for it's highest use,
out the results have been disappoint-
ing.
The American Chemical society, an
organization composed Of the leading
1000 chemists Of the country, which
is also back of this movement, has is
sued an appeal to the people not under
any circumstances either during the
war or after the war to use platinum
jewelry, but to conserve this unique
and fast dwindling metal now priced
at five times the cost of gold for the
exclusive use of the chemical and
other necessary industries.
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WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING
FOR SOLDIERS IN FRANCE
Fight in the Ranks of the Red Cross Against
Pain, Disease and Death.

Through three takings of Belgrade,
first when the city was taken by the
Austrians, again when it was retaken
by the Serbians, and still again when
it was taken back by the Germans and
Austrians together, an American Red
Cross nurse, Mary Gladwin, worked
In the operating room. In that first
capture, when nine thousand wounded
crowded the wards and halls and yard
Of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and doctor
and nurse worked together for day
and night without stopping, giving to
each operation an average Of six min
utes, and employing emergencies in
spired by the desperate need Of the
moment, they did not know that the
city had been taken until all the
stretchers brought Austrian wounded,
and Austrian doctors came to their
relief.
Several hundred women are work.
ing over there in the American Red
Cross canteens. There are about two
hundred Of these canteens along the
French and American lines of COM
munication, and the women are work
Ing under great pressure, feeding
thousands Of soldiers. The Red Cross
is also establishing canteens by mill
tary request at number Of Aviation
Camps. American women conduct
these stations, comprising canteen and
club and reading room. Everyone of
these canteens has something of the
genius of home about it; and it is
because Of this, no less than the "a
cilities for cleanliness and rest and
refreshment, that the French govern
ment has given the responsibility for
maintaining canteens for both armies
to the hands Of the American Red Cross.
In large numbers women are going
abroad as hospital hut workers, also,
and as social workers for trained
service among the refugees and the
repatriated. At each base hospital the
Red Cross is equipping, as fast as they
can be built, recreation huts for con.
valescent soldiers.
Clerical workers have steadily in.
| creased in number for the admins.
trative offices. From that original
group of eighteen, which as the first
American Red Cross Commission to
France sailed about June LIST, 1917,
the organization has grown to a work.
ing force of more than 5000 men and
! women.
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ton will endeavor to help the people
on the firing line. We will do every
thing we possibly can to show them
the necessity for loaning money to
their Government and to help convert
those who do not understand
1.-THE great mass of people have
never fully realized the Importance
and the value to individuals and to
good Government of buying Savings
Stamps. Owing largely to the fact
that the Liberty Loan drives have &C.
cupied the center of the stage the
smaller securities have seemed some
what trivial. This has never been the
right attitude and it is more import
ant now than ever before that We
should change our view point. The
fact that Government Savings Stamps
can be and are purchased by many
thousands of people who are not able
to buy Liberty Bonds makes this form
OF security Of untold value to the Gov
eminent. Right now the Government
needs large amounts of cash for the
payment of debts and the advantage
VO0 oOtIAAA6 VI wal COAt1dCt6. A0
proceeds of the Fourth Liberty Loan
Bonds have been spent. A large pur.
chase of Savings Stamps at this time
will give the Government the money
it needs and will do much toward
making certain permanent peace and
prosperity in this and other countries
of the world. ....
"A complete and progressive cam.
paign of education and for the sale OF
War Savings Stamps now and Liberty
Bonds later is being worked out by
the Central Committee. Details will
be given members of the organization
as soon as possible and we know that
with the help of the splendid army OF
loyal Americans that have made the
J Ninth District respected during the
war, we will continue to lead thu
/ forces Of freedom"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-01-11

D.; Roger L. Dennis, Sioux Falls, 8.
D.; J. H. Peulicher, Milwaukee, Wis;
F. w. Hubbard, Detroit, Michigan.
Eff~ion>u and

H., IL L OuAACAC1, U14l W duhOO, w IL.
F. w. Hubbard, Detroit, Michigan.
Efficiency and Economy.
. 1--WE feel very certain that the 1919
sale Of Government securities can be
effected with much less expense and
more efficiently under the new ar.
rangements", said Governor Void to-
day. Any lack Of results in the past
has been due to the fact that there
has been no central direction and no
we'll organized, continuous plan for
the sale of these securities. AS wa
have planned the organization, which
will be directed after the first of Jan.
uary by Mr.. Rogers, we are certain
that results will be obtained with
much less effort and without friction
which developed in some localities
during the past year.
"The Treasury Department at Wash.
1ngton Is working out complete and
scientific national campaign to in.
duce thrift and the investment of say.
ings in Government securities. Our
district organization will have the
NSAASAAS VI CAAS WOIh duU
will adapt and put into operation such
parts>of the plan as meet the condi'
lions in this territory.
I'VE appreciate the enthusiasm and
loyal efforts Of the men and women
who have worked untiringly to effect
the sale of War Savings Stamps dur
ing the past year in the various states
of this district. We know that with
the experience they have had and
with the aid of new direction and ex.
perience they will be able to accom-.
pllsh very much more during the com.
ing months. While there is to be an
other Liberty Loan drive, it will be
necessary to put more steam behind
the sale of Government Savings
Stamps than ever before. The Gov.
eminent expects to realize $2,OO0,O0O,.
900 from the sale of Savings Stamps
during 1919 This is more than twice
the amount sold during 1918 and indi.
viduals everywhere must realize that
the buying Of stamps is a paramount
duty"
Northwest Will Not Fail.
"The people Of the Northwest have
never failed to respond to any call in
which their loyalty has been involved
and they will not fail now when asked
to raise their share of the money
needed by their Government to finish
the biggest job ever undertaken by
any people" was the way in which
Chairman Rogers expressed his faith
In the outcome of the 1919 campaign
for the sale of Government securities
Continuing, Mr.. Rogers said; IF !
did not have entire faith in the loyal
ty of the people Of the Ninth District,
I would not have accepted the added
responsibility of directing the war
loan organization which is a combina.
tion. of the War Savings and Liberty
Loan activities. We have a big task
in front of us, but know we are not
going to quit now and that the men
and women who have worked so earn
estly and effectively in this district
will continue to keep the wonderful
record of their communities and their
district untarnished.
I'm a last analysis, the individuals
must do the work and finish the lob
We in the District Central Organize.