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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-25

routed check up 20 see that tHe
envelope contains the chcch or aiI
which the letter may say IL contains
and that the return address D. on
the letter as wen as the ems e-ope-
Thousands Of letters come without
return address making DO dimclt
10 trace them Hundreds ~ er-
ge,opes contain currency without
letter or address 20 identify them.
Many are signed by am Inadequate
name. such as Mrs. smith. go that
Identification must be worked out
laboriously by clerks
When letters give insufficient in-
formation upon which q reply may
be- based "a form setting forth AL
the necessary Information is sent 90
the writer
outgoing letters are sorted ac-
cording 10 the states for which they
are destined and tied in bundles end
placed Boz separate sacks before
leaving the bureau On order rhal
they may be more rapidly handles
ia the federal Qostonices.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-25
Plan to Establish Great National University in
Washington to Fulfill Dream of First President

WASHINGTON. D. c.. May a.
\ plan To establish a great national
university in The city of Washington
and thus 10 bring about the realiza-
tion OF a cherished dream of George
Washington. the father of his
country" is provided for in a bill
JUST introduced in congress by Rep.
Simeon ID. Tess. of Ohio. chairman
Of the committee on education
The bill appropriates S5O5.000 a.
start toward bringing the univer-
sity into existence. II is TO be a
post graduate institution and no STU
dent. under the terms OF the bill.
shall be admitted To the universits
unless he shall lave obtained the
de-ree OF master OF science or mas
ter OF arts froEa some institution of
recognized standing. or shall have
pursued a course OF study equiv
aleut TO that required for such de-
crces
Purposes 1hrccfOld.
Tho bill states that the purposes
OF the university shall be three
fold
Ito promote the advance OF
science. pure and applied and OF
the liberal and fine arts by original
investigation ana research and 10
such other means as may appear
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-25
SPRING BRINGS LIFE
TO WAR-WRECKED FRANCE.

AThen the spring came. with the earliest spring
even in March few stragglers the villages
and towns They found there generally some active or
ganized agency of help awaiting them. The mayor
Of the project chiefly hand The courage and
the competency of these French civil authorities
splendid Americans of money. the
astated France; they
ers. And the soldiers did much but the French
stuted authorities after all main springs
the armistce. AS the people came Struggling back
two by two, family a time perhaps even one
member of a family a time scouting they often
found barracks in the villages and towns-somber
board houses, ugly but warm-and in these the
refugees managed live. Sometimes these barracks
housed several families And this the French hate
above everything Privacy Is essentially French
need. The walled garden, the compartment car the
little private courtyard in the middle house-alI
these testify the Frencman's desire away from
the crowd So he and his family 10 a dugout left
by the soldiers rather than the barracks
villagers went to a vaulted cellar under ruin.
or boarded up broken wall i'm a roohess ruin put
in tin bucket under the fluent and lived
there rather than 10 into the community barracks
Yet badly broken of village and so
were available and walls up for the basis
! OF shelter. In such people compelled to
| go into barracks. Occasionally the barracks were
walled off into rooms: perhaps the men occupied one
part and the men the other. some rare and
joyous instances the pople coming back found that
little board houses had been for them
even IL with but n they
! lived most happily but not COnteniedV For the
Frenchman hates ugness with intense Ioathing: he
hates to be ugly almost as much as he hates TO be
herded in
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-25

BOcST ON-Boston is 20 have a
garden OF Eden-for males only
in tho yard of police station 10
The Adams" Of the force are go
ing 10 plant HloIets and cabbases
sxpAzseA
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-25

cutting it horribly The people gone from the
village. Il lay below the Farm OF the Quarries dead.
thins under cold winter sky when Madame
DevereuX came back 10 Ii IN late November. But
she did go back Paris. II question Of
money. She might have lived a the Ritz but her
home home. The Germans had up cement
wall in the quarry. which burrowed far into the
hillside. made fairly room. but il still
hole in the hiilsde-just that. There she brought
size of valise beautiful mahogany secretary and a
case Of books-and there she and her lived
maid came with her and farmer and his wife lived
in the next quarry but All through the cold
winter in that little hole the hill she lived.
but than that, she sat hours every day al her
desk ordering provisions building material.
food clothing. supplies for her people No in
the village; what the spring would bring.
She went about the country little motor she
secured gang Of German prisoners; quartered them.
them the fields. hing shell holes and
trenches cutting down wire weeds OF war-vines
wherefrom young mans blood had flowed like vine
oners and you may well believe she that they
worked. In February village appeared. A week
later two others In March dozen people in
she village. They all worked. Madame Devereaux
that their work took direction One room cellar.
one part Of house shelter after another took
form. When the refugees back in pril a few
places ready for them and they worked with the
others who knew how TO work. and places for
SO people ready then they an made gar
dens The fields planted and life began. But il
the homing instinct of noble French woman
who breathed into life that village She knew her
people. She loved them. She worked with them. Her
for the the adjoining said
she expected TO come 10 her place when the weather
settled-how abyssmal that contempt
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-25
TONS Of MAIL ON
INSURANCE DAILY

WASHINGTON. May 24.-More
than a ton Of incoming mail daily.
and nearly as much outgoing mail
has made il necessary for the bu-
reau Of war risk insurance 10 build
up postal system OF its own larger
than is maintained by any single in
st.tution except the pOstOfiCe in the
United States. An announcement
today By the bureau said an average
OF 10000 persons write daily inquir-
ing about allotments and allowances.
insurance policies. or compensation
payments. or renting checks and
currency as premiums on insurance.
This also means that each letter
must be answered and that makes
an outgoing mail Of $4,000 letters.
Since the bureau has 1900 en-
ployes and 36 divisions devoted &C.
various phases Of the bureaus work
the opening reading. sorting and
delivery OF these letters TO the
proper divisions is a task requiring
2
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-25
GOVERNMENT HELPS
RETURN OF NORMAL CONDITIONS.

to bring the living conditions Of the villages and farm
back their normal level Provision is made that any
neighbOring land owners form cooperative
agricultural society unit borrow money from tn
government to resock their stables TO replant thei
fields. rebuild their houses and barns and to bu
new farm machinery-which by the way, IS hardly q
be had price. Theoretically this should max
France blossom the rose in But the Frencl
farmer is sadly like the American farmer. He is a.
individualist He will not cooperate except he
forced into it. The government provides for coopera
ton crop planting. crop tending. crop har
vesting. in crop selling. in any all of thes
things. in order to make the credit safe that on
mans failure not jeopardze the common lean Blu
generaIly the Erench farmers are shy ON the plan
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-25
GIT TO WORK son
FARMS AND GARDENS.

4 As soon the spring really opened possibly
March or early April. dozen people out of a thou
sand had come back TO their homes. And the first
thing these people did TO get work on their
farms or n their gardens Garden tools and agrcul-
tural implements priceless. Even Amar-
leans could not produce garden sufficient num-
bers, nor plowS and horses enough till fields
The Americans did produce hundreds Of tractor piows
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-25
HELPING HANDS
ARE NEEDED.

SO the helping hands Of Americans and OF others
from the favored nations the world needed
They must go in not in a large operating with
set rules The real help the French people in the
devastated will from the people who will
live with them work with them understand the peculiar
needs of each section indeed of village. and per
haps of each family Small units do great good.
The man group Of men who viii try TO help one
town do first hand things do great
work. II requires no very great capital a few thou
san dollars viii long in French village: and
no great training-just common sense and will TO
serve in neshbory human way without oficousness.
All spring and and all summer the roads OF France
will he black with these people trailing back their
homes. 1t viii be years, perhaps many decades be-
rebuilt; this winters problem the
towns-in the big towns where thousands living
half in the open and have shelter by
winter-that problem is serious There will be hunger
and cold and disease and death next winter We are
far from done with the wreck the has made Il
will be with US for many years. But this winter
coming will be dangerous in the larger towns,
Thousands Of homes be built before the popula-
ton there may be sheltered and it will the
people of France unaded one-third of the work.
America must keep helping. our hand is 10 the
plow; cannot look backward. And il is part of
the pact peace duty the neigh borhood of
treaties and understandings and policies Of
will bring peace permanently earth among men OF
good will And from kindness will after all come
finally all this world know Of the resurrec
ton the life"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-25
FRENCH VENERATION
FOR OLD HOMES.

That profound feeling of the French for France
comes to all Frenchmen: II is not the possession Of
lowy. For the beauty of it shines the lives Of
the educated Frenchman well in the ignorant
peasants Not far from Beirancourt is farm called
the Farm of the QuarreS. Near the farm is the ruin
splendid BET Madame
ereaux lived in the chateau with her little and
managed the 1000 estate from which little
viii he hillside beneath drew its
life Before burning the chateau the Germans looted
it. They every valuable thing in a few days
in advance OF her flight from the chateau Madame Dew
ereux had hidden all her vauabes "A cham
Der in a sub-celar After burning the chateau the
quartered soldiers the cellars of the
place. there they found the secret chambers in
sub-cear and took everything out of the cache.
So when the Germans were driven out of the place
in 1918 Madame DevereuX back 10 find every
thing gone but the land. That waste-the trees
stripped by shell fire fields raked with barrage
fire that had turned the gravel up and turned the rich
under while trenches zigzagged the land
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-25
By William Allen White

scissors or Cambria or ST. Quentin. it represented
years Of labor. But the French are oathe TO give
their towns. To them the connection with the past
is important, indeed il il is vital The fact that gem
OF family have lived upon site signifies
something deep and powerful in French life Ii means
little nothing in American life Destroy town like
Omaha, 50 that il would have TO be torn down and
carted off before II could be rebuilt. the would
merely up down the river mile or two and
begin again. But the smallest poorest. most
terribly wrecked French villages the people stirring
among the ruins and thinks of going to an
other townste. SO the problem Of rebuilding the
houses arises French people spending millions
francs city and village plans American commit
from the Red Cross all the benevolent area
of activities working plans for modern
houses materially different from the ruined French
homes, but somewhat more sanitary. For instance,
the pile which often in the French home
lowered as a mark of social distinction in the front
yard, house plans has been moved TO the
the establishment and the entrance 10 the house
longer through or by near the stable. Model
houses being in certain villages by Ameri-
car as community cenersthe property Of the village
where public meetings of the young people may be
called These community centers look much like the
neighboring houses but they the hint of modern
lighting and plumbing and ventilation without really
imposing it, And they seem to be doing good by
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-25
Nm ErcrN HaIf Hour.

Mail is received every half hour
and most Of IL is opened by ma
chinery and tied IN bundles for de-
livery 20 the first set or readers. The
readers perusc each letter 10 ascer-
tan 10 what division 1t should be
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-25

But in fields owned such small the French
fields are owned tractors hard They make
operations expensive. they used. served
well-but not as VII as Americans home would sup
pose. Living i'm dugouts, i'm cellars. in ruins, even
living in little rabbit trenches, with but
few feet of moving space about them and walking
their farms. villagers began their
spring work-only a handful OF them, but enough TO
i'm their little gardens and plant crops.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-25
ROADS BLACK WITH
RETURNING HOME SEEK FRS.

late April and early May before the roads
o the devastated began grow black with re-
turning home seekers. Then all day long every
highway all sorts vehices-two- wheeled carts.
donkey carts. old carriages automobiles, hand carts
with dogs under and the family taking turns
at pulling trucks. camons and camionettes, coming
and baby carriages came pouring along, great
human stream. into the villages every point of
compass Men and and children foot,
carrying little scraps clothing and furniture
they had saved i'm their fight before the Germans,
loer along the highway, weary and foot-sore but al
ways going forward the land of their dreams It
is like the flight of a tribe. Indeed it is the flight Of
tribe-the great higera of the French TO the thing
they love most of all--their homes Not particularly
their actual houses; though that is part of their
homing nstnctnot exactly to their villages and towns
farms; thought that also is in their minds but
strongest Of all in their hearts is the instinct to
connect themselves with orderly French life, to take
with the civilization which they love. They not a
little immigration from France; real men
might food the country knee deep with seductive lit
erature might offer free farms and all kinds of
these people. all kinds promises
rise in the economic scale and they would smile it.
they the thing they loved before the war
their simple homes, And for that they trudging
back the white ribbons OF roads that bedeck
France. hundreds Of thousands OF poor people who
know what their homes like. For they have seen
pictures Of the ruins. They know that the houses
were before the Germans left that stick
is left among the ruins. But nevertheless
empty handed and heavy hearted and YEARLY they
plod on; answering deep call in their hearts.
is deep speaking deep.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-25
HOUSE BUILDING SERIOUS
PROBLEM OF DEMONSTRATIONS

One of the serious problems of the reconstruction
was the matter of house building. Certainly there
was plenty of good building material every town
site But if was in neggee, il were Practically
every village had TO be completely down before
rebuilding could begin And when i'm a town of 80 600
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-25

CONTINUED OK PAGE TWO
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-10-01
he SLEEPS ON WINDOW LEDGE
Thousands Watch New Porter Siumber
on Perllous Couch in
Philadelphia.

Philadelphia.-Office workers In the
buildings near Broad and Chestnut
streets and thousands of pedestrians in
the street had the chill of their lives
as they watched a man lying on the
ledge Of window Of the Land Title
building, taking a siesta.
Entirely oblivious to the commotion
he was creating, he slept peacefully
on, his arms outstretched in luxurious
ease, his feet sticking over the edge It
the sill from which was a sheer drop
Of forty or fifty feet to the pavement.
His slumbers, however, were soon
brought to an end when repeated tele-
phone calls to the building superintend-
ent's Office told of the sleeper and his
perilous couch. The man turned out to
be a new porter and John, the head
porter, climbed out, woke him and soon
brought him back to earth" both
fguratively and physically.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-10-01
LAUDS C0OTIE EXPERIMENTS
Surgeon General Ireland Tells Of YanI<s
Who Willingly Submitted to
''~-'' incubation. s''

Philadelphia company of SOL
diers who faced death in battle
of the bugs" to save the American
army In France from trench fever, was
lauded by Surgeon General Merritt w.
Ireland at the Jefferson Medical col
lege ninety-fourth commencement.
A class of AZ physicians was gradu-
ated. The degree Of doctor Of laws was
conferred upon General Ireland and
Vice Admiral Gleaves.
The "unsung heroes" the surgeon
general explained submitted them
selves as volunteers for experiments
with disease-bearing coolies to deter
mine the cause of trench fever The
men survived the experiments"
Surgeon General Ireland said: GAS
result Of the experiments with this
volunteer group of soldiers we learned
that trench fever is transmitted by the
bite Of this insect This led to the
elaborate delousing plants"
In a review Of the work in Porto
Rico to eliminate the hookworm the
surgeon general said: 1.-The death rate
has fallen to one-half and the wealth
Of the island has increased tenfold."
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-10-01
DIED.

DlX-At Mckinley, Sept "a, Mrs Mira Dix,
aged 80 years.
FORD-At Ellsworth, Sept 80, Ina G, dough-
ter Of Mr. and Mrs Wesley Ford formerly of
Marlboro, aged years.
GRINDLE-At Bluehill, Sept "a, Clifton W,
infant son of Mr. and Mrs Leon W Grindle
aged day.
MASON AT Bluehill, Sept %, William B
Mason, aged rs years, months, l3days.
MADDOCKS-At Bucksport, Sept 2s, Alvin
Maddocks, aged SO years, 9 months, "a
days.
McKAY-At West Eden, Sept %. Annie M,
widow Of Daniel Mckay, aged 70 years,
months, days.
RYDER-At Bar Harbor, Sept 20, Stephen
Ryder, aged rs years.
SMITH-At Ellsworth, Sept 81, Sarah A,
widow OF Greenly Smith, aged 70 years,
months, 10 days.
VEAZIE-At BluehiIl, Sept 25, Ferdinand NJ
Veazie, aged 70 years, months, days.
YOUNG-At Surry, Sept "a, Mlllard Young
aged 81 years, days.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-10-01
WINTER HARBOR.

Richard Allen returned last week from
Boston.
John Slower has gone to Harrington to
work in the woods.
Ms. Elizabeth Jones OF Chicago is a
guest Of Mrs. Amasa Young.
G,ndstone Inn closed last week, and
nearly ali OF the cottages are closed.
Lillian Huckings OF MIlbridge recently
visited her aunt, Mrs. Wallace Bickford.
CAPT. H. L, Tracy and wife OF Bar Har-
BOZ we're recent guests OF Mrs. VT. Rand.
great Improvement to the village ia
the strip Of concrete sidewalk recently
completed
Mrs. A. B. rockingham and son Tom,
who have been al the "Oid Homestead"
cottage several weeks, have returned to
Boston.
Mrs. Eva Palmer of Bar Harbor, who
vas recently operated upon at the Eastern
haine general hospital, Bangor, is with
hs' sister, Mrs. e. w. Written.
Inc village schools opened Sept. IA.
Merrill Farrow of Castine is principal OF
we hlgn school, with Miss Ruth Dresser
VI aioridge as assistant. The grade
'aOois are taught by Pearl Porter, Beu-
aa bunker and Lea Rockwell.
Slllman Nash and family are occupying
1 'oid Homestead" cottage for the
s'Ooi year, their son freedom attending
-sn school here. Their daughter Flor
'ucs, who was graduated last June, is
''aeh'ng at Bunker's Harbor.
y" D. s, Bragg and wife and Mrs.
n'' mother, Mrs. Josephine Guptill,
-''o.ea 10 Bangor last week. With them
s'' MS Hattie Sargent of South Goulds-
~ VINO entered the 4. NJ. @. hospital
49,, surgical operation. DR.. Bragg and
- 80 continued their trip to st. Adams,
~ ,r ,ney visited DIR. Bragg; father.
r;.r " hiism Cole OF st. Adams returned
with them Tor visit.
Sept. o.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-10-01
MARRIED.

CH-SARGENT-At Ellsworth Falls.
Sept 26, by Rev Henry w Conley. Miss
Gunilla M Bennoch, of Dedham, to Ernest
L Sargent, Of Ellsworth Falls.
CLOUGH-ROYAL-At 8luehill, Sept 27, by
Rev X NJ Trafton, Miss Naomi Clough
OF surry, to 5ewall t Royal, of Ellsworth
CHATTO-CHATTO-A south Rrooksyille.
Sept ~, by Rev John Carson, Miss Agnes @
Chatte. OF South Brooksville, to LYMAN o
Chatto, of North Bluehin.
UNBAR-BALDWIN-At Bucksport Sent
q. by Rev William Forsyth, Miss Bernice
M Dunbar, OF Orland, to Earl Baldwin
OF Bucksport.
GARCELON = CORNELL corrected At
bueksport, Sept 81, by Rev d M Angella
MISS RUBY Garcelon, of Smyrna Mills, to
FRANK O'Brien Cornell, of Verona.
MBLEN-ROBERTS-At Bucksport, Sept
~, Dy Rev William Forsyth, Mrs Marie G
namolen, of Detroit, Mich, to Frank
W. Roberts of East Norwalk, Conn.
LEACH-GINN-At Bucksport Sept 2S, by
Key VIM Forsyth, Miss Mary Lena Leach, Of
Bucksport.
MOORE-CHALMERS-A Manset, Sept rs,
by Rev Q Mckenzie, Gussie Moore
70 FRANCIS Il Chalmers, both of Manset.
RiCH-PARTRIDGE-At Ellsworth, Sept %,
by Rev II Moyle, Miss Gladys NJ Rich
TO Raymond d Partridge, both of Hancock.
TURNER - HOYT - AT South Orrington,
Sept %, by Rev W A McGraw, Miss irene
Turner, of Bucksport, to Gardner B
Hoyt, of Orrington.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-10-01
HUBBY CAN'T HELP HIS FACE
Judge Tells Wife Her Husband 10 Not
to Blame for What
Nature Did.

New York.-After Kelrous PolIus
drew back the gauze curtains that
yelled his broken jaw his bride Of sew
enteen forgot all her love for him, and
straightway made for court. She
charged her husband with disorderly
conduct.
But the judge on hearing the facts
in the case told the bride her husband
was not to blame for the face nature
had given him, and lectured her on
counting in the dark.
For Mrs. Polius met her hubby in a
moving picture house during an ex-
citing eight-reel love affair. Mr. Polius
had just been hit by an actor and
came in to forget his broken jaw.
1t was not until days after the mar
riage that Mrs, Polius saw her hus-
hands face in full, and what she saw
well, that's where this story started