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The Washington times., 1919-12-12
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The Washington times., 1919-12-12

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The Washington times., 1919-12-12
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The Washington times., 1919-12-12
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The Washington times., 1919-12-12

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The Washington times., 1919-12-12

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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-17
BLIND OWNERS OF RAILROADS

IS THE New World that says with succtnt cearnesS \ that withdrawal of government operation will not turn the railroads to their private owners The private owners of the their stockholders It Is many long year stockholders of most American railroads have to do with the control of heIr property Says contemporary:
 ownership control of ourr mileage for all Purposes in the O and bond
 of the prop They the policies of the roads n stockholders are andd tho bankers And by means ss. the roads keep their stock denied the means action against the executives
 
 aruIa ro be unle takeni
 Ii seems to established that most minds have bhnd arcs places which function at ali, at less than nor maj some smart people color blind. Others are tone blind.
 Railroad stockholders have been blind to their own rights for more than generation They have turned their property too frcnlv managers who have feeced them, rob bed them and often have ruined hem
 While process stripping the blind railroad stock holders in they were induced to cry with TarhoFh0nc unity against every attempt to save them from their lack of vision
 handmade charge they hurled when ever the government. made protect their property History will record stranger fact than that millions of very intelligent in whom acqusitVeness was hoIv developed persuaded to the government of confi5cation that @ovcrment trying to them from and gigantic con5cations which upon these railroad stockholders by their own chosen. trusted and often adored managers.
 Who look back upon the late aduation of Charles S. Necn England and of the Hartford Courant without shame. mingled with and relieved by c the ridiculous?
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-17
SENATOR Bf,ANDEGEE ON LADIES.
 CLERGYAEEN AND PAREsHEONEFs"

WOULD be to much say Brandegee dis honest in his discussion of he peace reoty for dis honesty discussion implies intent to misrepresent and the Connecticut senator attain great deal of perverson of the truth without any dishonesty because his intellectual pro- neither very subtle very accurate His ndc ment of the treaty composed mainly of superficial observations of the document from which he draws equally shallow conclusions.
 Here he says, is document of 536 pages. wonder how many the ladies and cergymen parishoners people generally who signed petitions us knew what they asking to vote for?"
 the treaty of peace very but Covenant the League about which MT Bandegee than the constitution of the United States. shorter than the constitution of Connecticut, much shorter.
 The other provisions of the treaty a amount dea regarding the settlement of purely European prob lens, government of the for asceranng any paying ndemncs and nobody, except Germany takes the slightest exception
 The Covenant has been printed in full and in substance in substantially American newspaper dies. and cergymen and parhioners ally, familiar with it than they were paper before American knowledge of the accurate and widespread than American knowledge constitution which most people recent occasion to read.
 kind of mind that operating disclosed in that sentence T wonder how many of the ladies cergymen and parishoners and people generally new they were asking 10 vote for?"
 Continued in Last Two Columns)
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-17
CLAIMS AGAIN BEFORE
 PEACE COUNCIL

Paris. Dec. 17-German claims in connection with settlement of peace terms details wee again before the supreme council today. In dealing with these the council unanimously agreed to permit the Germans to col Iect their customs duties in gold.
 In a further discussion of the ques- tion of compensation for the sinking of the German warships at Scapa Flow a discrepancy was developed between the estimates of the repara- tions committee and those of the German experts regarding the total of mercantile tonnage and floating docks available for reparation pur- poses at German ports. This dis crepancy amounted to about 10O,O 900 tons.
 The allied and the German maya! experts will meet again this after noon to discuss the Scapa Flow ques- tion. The Germans are semi official 1y reported as having first asked reduction in the quantity of the dock material demanded by the allies and to have made a second proposition to the effect that they should deliver to the allies units of shipping con struction now under way instead Of the material referred to the proto- col
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-17
INDIAN IS 10 POSE AS
 TYPICAL SOLDIER

Washington, Dec. 17-Otis W, Leader, a Choctaw Indian, of Calvin, Oklahoma, who was with the artil- lery force which fired the first Amer ican shots in the world war. and who, after having engaged in the major operations of Chateau Thferry St Mihiel and the Argonne. was still present and accounted for when the last guns of the war were fired, has been selected as a model by the French artist, Dewarreux, for a. por- trait of a typical American soldier.
 Leader, who trained with the fla nous Blue Devils when he went to France, was almost continuously un- der fire. At Chateau Thierry he was cited for fighting with the infantry for three days after the entire gun crew to which he had been attached had been killed. During the engage ment he succeeded in capturing two machine guns and IS prisoners.
 Leader is now taking vocational tarining under the direction of the federal board and still is under treat ment for mustard gas burns.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-17
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Brandegee arch foe of suffrage sneers in that sentence at womanhood he at ministers of the gospel he at parishiOners.
 There is prejudice in that mind. It despises women with outlook oriental than western despses cergymen, incompetent think about affairs it with contempt parhiones species of supersttous persons entirely incapable of knowing ineigeny what their country ought to do.
 It is Brandegees language. There is mistake about it. The information not derived from newspapers but official report of his speech sent by him into the offices of Connecticut.
 The Senator will live to know the value of that maxim which says that silence take the place of wisdom
 If the senator made speeches. his paucity wit lack of discretion his ideas that clergymen and parish inferior order of being would exist but be in the position of the idoc boy who by talking table, let everybody know he a fool
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-17
WIFE HAD LEFT
 HIM 19 TIMES
 HUSBAND SAYS
Twentieth Disappearance Decided Becherer to Ask
 For 8 Divorce.

Stating that his wife had left him 20 times but was always persuaded to return until the goth departure, Edward c. Becherer of this city, ap- peared before Judge Reed in the Su- perior Court this morning to ask for q divorce from Maude c. Becherer of this city. Becherer declared his wife never gave any good reason for her various flights. Sometimes she said the house was too big for her to care for and on other occasions she declared she did not know why she left.
 Becherer claimed his wife chose inopportune times to leave him. Once she fled on New Years eve and an ether of her disappearing acts took place on the night before the couple were to move into a new house.
 He once accused his wife of going out with a marred man but she claimed the man came to see their daughter. Mrs. Becherer was for merIy employed at The Strafeld and
 Manager Cantwell of that hostelry was called upon to testify regarding that. The court allowed Becherer a divorce.
 In the case of Nora Griffin Harper of Stamford, the court granted her divorce from Edward Harper of parts unknown. Mrs. Harper testified her husband left her in 1914, saying that he had to go out of town to undtrgo an operation. He did not return, however. The wife said Harper did nothing to furni sh hes proper sup port and that they did not get along well together. The couple were mar ried in January, 1913.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-17
NATURALIZATION OF WORLDS END
 IS RANK FAILURE:

Washin gton, Dec. 17.---Experts who keep the weather under official sur veillance for tn egovernment scanned the heavens and the weather reports in vain today for any sign that an al- legged solar conspiracy between the planets Neptune, Jupiter, ct al., was about to produce storms which would bring the world to a sudden end. The best the weather men could make out of the signs as they read them, was that low pressure areas off the north Atlantic coast and in the far north west had combined to bring low tenn peratureS generally throughout. the country, except along the southwest ern border. The outlook for tonight and tomorrow, the official forecaster said, was for local snowstorms in the great lakes region and fair weather elsewhere east of the Mississippi river.
 Ann Arbor, Mich, Dec. 17-Prof Albert Porta, who is generally credit ed with having predicted the end of the earth today. made no such flat statement, according to information received in university circles here.
 Porta, who is said to be an amateur astronomer at present living just out side of Los Angeles, predicted early in July, according to this information, that beginning about the middle of December and continuing until the middle of January there would be a series of terrific storms, earthquakes and volcano eruptions. The opinion is expressed in university circles that these forecasts have been strongly en- larged upon in the telling until the end of the world prediction was at- tributed to Porta.
 It was understood here that Porta number of years ago was profes- sor in the University of Turin, Italy.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-17
CHARILES F.. SMITH

Following an illness of about six months, Charles E. Smith, superin- tendent of the -srnith-E -Egge Manufac- turing company. died yesterday at the family home, TSP Lafayette street NIr. Smith was prominently known throughout the city. He had been born here, was educated in the local schools and was associated with the Smith -Egge Go. for the past 40 years EIe is survived %by two brothers, Oliver Smith and F. W. Smith, and one sis
 ter, Mrs. Mayibelle. Jackson. Funeral services will be held tomorrow after non at 2:3O o'clock at the late home
 Rev. John G. Sadtler, rector of Christ Episcopal church, will conduct the services, and burial will be in Noun tain Grove cemeterY.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-17
LITTLE: HOPE OF ACTION ON SUGAR
 BEFORE RECESS
Passage of Senate Bill By House Sends It Into
 Conference.

Washington, Dec. 17-Passage of the Senate sugar bill by the House with amendments sent the measure to conference today with little hope of it coming out in time for final ac> ton before congress recesses for the holidays
 The bill, which continues the sugar equalization board through 1920, was passed by the House with amend ments which would keep in force the wartime powers of the government for the control of prices and move ment of sugar.
 As passed by the Senate, the bill repealed the war time powers per hitting the licensing control of the sugar business and the requfsition- ing of stocks of refiners. In the con- ference the committeeman from the two houses will make an effort to reach an early agreement on the amendments and send the measure back for final passage.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-17
POLICE AIDED IN
 THEFT AMOUNTING
 UP IN THOUSANDS
District Attorney Lewis As serts Thieves Had Protec-
 tion of Police.

New York, Dec. 17-Thefts of hun dreds of thousands of dollars worth of goods, planned by burglars in ac- tive cooperation with policemen have been executed in the six months in Brooklyn, District Attorney Lewis as- serted today in a statement declar- ing that Patrolman Herman Crause instigated a s12,OOO robbery of a manufacturing furrier's plant No vember 30. CrauSe and Peter Rueger, another policeman. were arrested yesterday in connection with this theft.
 Lewis attributed the hundreds of thousands of dollars robberies to the same gang of burglars work with the aid and under the protection of'' one group of Brooklyn policemen. The operations of the clique reached over into Manhattan" Lewis added.
 The arrest of Crause and Rueger is the third instance recently in which Brooklyn policemen have been taken into custody in. connection with thefts. Following the arrest a few days ago of a patrolman charged with holding up a sailor on the street and robbing him of SIS, Patrolman Louis J. Ho- horst was captured by a brother off, Ger early today after, it is alleged, he had 'jimmfed' his way into a. show case and stolen women's apparel.
 President Wood came as an apostle of lower living costs. His visit was for the purpose of holding a confer ence with the chamber of commerce in view of his demand that the prices of necessaries in the retail stores be reduced. He had announced that until such a mark down was made he would set up a big general store at which American WooIen Go. en- pIoyes could buy all necessaries from hardware to clothing and from L'soup 10 nuts, at cost
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-17
NOT IN GOOD TASTE

wx 7 HIN MAYOR Wilson alderman, he took com w pensation for work done for the city which against After he became mayor he doubled his salary and drew we'll compensation in other offices in cluding thai of lieutenant governor.
 It Ih> rmmemOra custom Of other mayors, in making little trips the city, pay their way, such trips being regarded in the nature of junets ol fiCaOns
 Tn. Mayor going openly upon his vacation, draws der $25 pay his "eXpenses upon the theory that he will attend convention of mayors and the order is immed aey honor all along the that leads the city treasury
 These things not criminal they not unlawful. But neither they good taste They scarcely decent
 I it strange that the people begin to scrutnize their af fairs viIh eye find at point their public vans began 10 stray inc ideals which ought to acIae who have been set in honorable places.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-17
INTERVENTION IN MEXICO WOULD BE COSTLY BLUNDER
 FOR U. s. SAYS RANEz

petroleum wells. They sustain the turmoil in Mexico and create new difficulties with the aim in view of intervention.
 ''I have even heard people in this country expressing freely such i'm periaHstic desires for conquest with Mexico as the Pan-Germans enter tatned toward the world. But I be- lieye these people to be in the mi nority and I do not believe their talk represents their true American opinion.
 Press Adds to A1isunderstanding
 Much to my surprise and sorrow, I even find newspapers which seem to take special pains to add to this mis- understanding between the two North American republics, rather than try to clear it up.
 America today is the best liked nation in the world because of it's un- selfish course in the world war. It is likely to forfeit this we'll deserved opinion by intervention in Mexico.
 Before 1914 Latin-American na- tiOns feared and lacked confidence ya the United States. They knew the United States knew little or nothing about them, and felt sure it cared less. The war wiped out that miscon- ception of the true American attitude toward Latin-American countries
 European Peoples Want Peace
 'As one of the leading anti-German and pro-allied propagandists through out the war, ! can say to the Ameri- can people that there is no desire on the people of France and Britain for intervention in Mexico by the United States.
 q believe that I am as good friend as America has in Europe. Be cause of this friendship I protest aeainst the apparent effort of the mi nOrity in this country to commit the bLunder of intervention in Mexico
 ''Of what use will it have been for America to go to Europe to fight the battles of the weak nations of the earth and then make a conquest in Mexico?
 War Would Kill Friendships.
 Picture the position of the liberals of Europe who have preached Aneri- can unselfshness in opposition to the GermanOphiles in case of intervention. Surely all intelligent Americans-an this is a nation of intelligent people can see that such a. situation would forfeit the friendship of the world for this country
 Look to the Argentine trouble. They have been much worse than those in Mexico. Yet Argentina is the second republic of the western hemi- sphere.
 T say all this to the American people because have such a grea- love for the United States. I love the United States because I have all ways been a republican I have just as great an interest in seeing the United States remain the friend Of liberty as I have in seeing Mexico, a Spanish-speaking republic, enjoy self government.
 FTendly Policy Would End Trouble.
 'I have all my life been a friend and admirer of the United States, even to the extent of going to prison for opposing the course which led my country into the Spanish-American war,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-17
MRS. ROSE S. DEvINE.

Mrs. Rose S. Devine, 27, wife of James D. Devine, 47 White street, Stratford, died yesterday at St Vim cents hospital, after a brief illness. Sh eis survived by her husband, her parents. MT. and Mrs. William Smith, of Stratford, one daughter, Helen and ftv esisters, Mrs. D. D. Lynch, Miss Georgianna Smith, Miss Julia Smith and Miss Dorothy Smith and Miss Marguerite Smith. The funeral was held privately this morning from the late home. Burial was in St. MichaePs cemetery.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-17
WOMAN MUST
 60 TO JAIL
 FOR HER ACT
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so that she might not have to spend Christmas in jail The jury was out only 45 minutes before bringing in verdict.
 After Judge Reed had thanked the jurors for their services, States At torney Cummings said he wished to thank the court for his courtesy and iteration in the trial of cases at the present term and he mentioned that it is a source of regret to him self and members of the bar that Judge Reed sis serving his last term on the bench. He said the court will the bar for the future.
 Judge Reed expressed his thanks for the tribute. He declared it was a matter of regret to him that proba- bly, his last act as a judge of a crim- inal court should be passing sentence in a case like the MaXfield affair."
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-17
By CHARLES II. NEWELL.


 Chicago, Dec. 17.-'Jn tervention i'll Mexico by the United States, if it comes under present conditions, will be wrong morally and economically, and prove the most costly blunder in the history of the worlds greatest re- public''
 This is the flat statement of Vi cente Blasco Ibanez, famous Spanish novelist and leading Allied propagan- dist in Spain, who is touring the United States, IecturIng to splendid audiences Of our sO-called best citi- zens everywhert. he goes.
 Sent to Prison for Free CUTa.
 Blasco Ibanez wears q Legion of Honor button in the lapel of his coat. This was awarded him for leading in the defeat Of German propaganda i'll Spain. He spent a year and Q half in 8 Spanish prison more than 20 years ago for advocating q free Cuba, and opposing the course of his country which led to the spanish American war.
 Americans are more recently fa.- miliar with him through the pur- chase of more than 50O,O00 copies of his novel, '"The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse-'
 T love America because it has been the foremost friend and defend- CT Of liberty throughout the world" said Blasco Ibanez. "Therefore, it grieves and anazes me to find upon my arrival in this country that what I believe to be q minority of your people are using the same arguments in behalf of intervention in Mexico that Germany used to justify it's in defensible program of world con quest.
 Mexicans Are Not Savages.
 ''I believe the situation in this country today regarding the relations with Mexico is due wholly to the fact that the American people are ignor- ant of the real Mexican conditions. They have an idea, that Mexico is a nation of savages and bandits. That is an erroneous idea.
 ''The intellectual element of Mexico the writers, authors and journalists is greater than in any other Latin American country. And America should not forget that there are 19 Spanish-speakiug nations in South America alone
 Cultural Gifts From Mexico.
 ''Of course in all countries the in teIIectual element is in the minority.
 "But Mexico has given Spanish lit erature some of it's most eminent au- thors and many poets, particularly in the nineteenth century.
 Mexico is passing through a revo- lutiOnary convulsion.
 ''To ny mind this convulsion, is about at an end.
 ''The end would have been hasten ed ha q the United States given con- sistent recognition and hearty support to some one of the Mexican factions early in the revolution.
 Selfish Interests Delay Peace.
 Ignorance of Mexico, a lack of consistent policy toward the govern ment of Mexico and the open friend ship of the selfish interests in this country for bandit leaders seeking to promote tumoff in the southern re- public, have only tended to delay the day of peace in Mexico and better un- derstanding between the two North American republics.
 What the United States should do is to give it's full support to some one government in Mexico and stick to it.
 The only Americans who have consistent policy toward Mexico are the mine owners and the owners of
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-17
ASK PUBLISHERS TO GUT AMOUNT
 OF PAPER USED
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MT. Steenerson's statement to the newspaper publishers follows:
 The committee considered the shortage in the newsprint paper sup ply and believe that unless consump- tion can be materially reduced it will result in the destruction Of a large number of newspapers in the smaller cities and towns, and infiict irrepara- ble injury on the communities served by them; and having in mind the great results accomplished during the war by the voluntary and patriotic cooperation of the people in saving food, fuel and other necessaries. in which you had creditable part, we appeal to you to reduce consumption of newsprint paper by at least 10 per cent. during the next six months. thereby averting the threatened in jury and obYiating the necessity for oppressive measures in the future.''