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New Britain herald., 1919-05-07
PLAINVlLLE NEWS NEW TOWN BUILDING |S NOT IMPOSSIBLE Need Of Assembly Hall Is Known
 to All
 MAY HAVE SERVICE CLUB

Army and Navy Fighters May Orcan-
 iHc lIcrc--\ort"n Garden Plots to
 Be CuItivatcd-t.ardcncrs Busy
New Britain herald., 1919-05-07
Brief Items.

The Young Peoples Christian En- dcaVOr society of the tOnGrCGationaI church will enjoy social at the homo of samuel Castle on Friday evening. The white side will he the guest of tho red side as tn" latter were the Win- ncrS in q recent contest. The Red Cross rooms for the month h of May will be or"M from ; to , D. m. on Tuesday and Friday only.
 The W. C. r. |. will meet at the home oof Mrs. Charles BunncII on F'ri- day afternoon at o'clock.
 The Ladies' union of the Advent Christian church will meet on Thurs day afternoon with Mrs. r. C. smith of l9 Park street.
 Four candidates were given the second degree at a meeting of PNth- ian lodge. No. 47, Knights of pythiaS last evening.
 are expected hom" at any time now They paradCd in NcW York yesterday and will now be discharged. NANTED-To do your pHperhanying
 and painting now; work guaran- tccd; prices reasonable. R. w. Johnson, 24 I'armington 3vcnuc ] PlainNillC, Conn. 5-2-5dx l FOR SALE-Cook stove. IImpirc
 state steel range with pipe. All in i good shape. Cheap. Also some fur
 niturc at 132 Broad street, w. o. Trask. 5-7-4dx
New Britain herald., 1919-05-07
BlOS<O Buys Elton prODCrty

John Rlosko of 255 High street, New Britain. has purchased the Arthur Elton property located In RrandyWine Lane. Nensington. TPe property comprises about SS ac"ns Of land and dwelling house Mr. Elton has owned tho property for the past 15 years. He will locate in Now Britain
New Britain herald., 1919-05-07
Gardens to Be Allotted.

Now that IA A. Mcleod has returned from Florida and successfully directed tho Victory Loan campaign, it is proo- able that tho committee in charge of the Nort on gardens on Red stone Hill will allOt the plots very shortly. Tho applications for plots th"rc closed some time ago and the committee had intended to HlOt them immcdiat clN. Thc absence from town of MryMCLeod was the first delay and tn" loan cam paign the second. Nothing stands in the way now and the mon folks will soon be allowed to get busy for tho summer. \o one but heads of ami lies, Without garden plots at their own home, will he given space on the large tract
New Britain herald., 1919-05-07
Giann0tta Coming Homo.

Private Pasquale GiannooEta na$ written home 10 his parents and In formed them that he expects to ar rive in this country about the miIdl Of next week
New Britain herald., 1919-05-07
Planting starts.

Nearly every family in town is new husilN engaged in cultivHting the small pieces Of garden land 0round their homes and daily people can Inc seen blowing and the evening %Ccs the mon folks going out to start work The war taught q good lesson in regard 10 gardens in this town and from all tn" blowing being done it would seen, that every family in town is to havo on" this year also.
 GcinG to i'orc>tNilIc.
 Tn" minstrel troupe which gave an ont"rtajnment for the Holy Same sn- ri"tN of the Church of our Iadv of M"TrN recently, has b"0n asked to furnish th" evenings ontcrtainn,ont in i'orcstNiIc Friday night. For tl,at reason final rehearsal of tho tro,n., will be held at 1;3o this evening 2t Grange hall to put the fNisbin,, touches on the production. The nrnl gram to be rendered in that town will
New Britain herald., 1919-05-07

part of the town and after the articles are verified by the public they will be sent to the state capitol for rccognl- tion. The committee announces that should the articles he accepted, pub lie subscription will be asked to finance the construction of new library and also the purchase of a mum bCr of new volumes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-29
7[I5\V7

WS2 7 ASHINGTON, D. C., April 2S.- 1 WNW Special l.)-Montenegro one of the states that helps to make up
 the new Jugo-Slav nation, also called the | kingdom of the Serbs, Greats and Slo- , venes, is described in bulletin from the National Geographic society.
 | "A land of mountains, apparently with
 out valleys, and almost destitute of vege- tation, Montenegro seems to have emerged out of a chaos of the gods to be the primeval rib of the world" says the l bulletin, which is based on communi- l cation to the society from Marian Cruger Coffin.
 And in keeping with the country, is | the proud and independent character of this race, who have retreated step by l step before the Turk from the fat lands they once held, preferring freedom Tn | their rocky fastness to soft living under the yoke of Islam. And it must be re- membered to their everlasting credit that they not only remained free when the other Slav peoples well as the | Greek, Albanian, and Bulgar fell be- 1 fore the power of the Turk, but that they maintained their independence when all | Europe, to the gates of Vienna, trenbled before the hosts of the Crescent.
 Twenty years ago Cettinje, the Monte- negrin capital, was a collection of novels. It grew to be a clean, neat little town with wide streets and low stone houses roofed with red tile. There are no at tempts at architectural decoration-all is plain and bare and seems to have sprung from the very soil of the noun tain- locked plain. It has been called kindergarten capital, and though but a village in size, conducts itself with the importance befitting the center of the
 Princes very modest palace, while the large, pretentious embassies of Austria and Russia formerly guarded opposite ends of the town like two great blood hounds waiting to bounce on their prey. "The rational costume seems designer to show off the grace and dignity inherent in even the humblest. Crimson and gold sparkle in the sunshine, in dazzling con trast to the somber tints of the encir- cling mountains, real gold, too, which IS
 elaborately worked in the garment oy
 hand. From the royal family down. the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-29

The grand old Monroe do,,r.r@ ls pst' and parcel of the league covea~a,. sta,es- men who feared the worst may now com pose themselves to slumber.
 T x < Although Max Harden continues to wield a "trenchant pen," we can't forget that Max was once suspected of being a Hohenzollern cats paw.
 < < x Even if Uncle Sam does not form an alliance with France. she will assuredly have his moral support in all matters appertaining to the Hun.
 < x # When the department of justice starts to enforcing the prohibition law a few white slavers" are apt to slip through the departments fingers.
 < < # While 275 per cent beer may not be immediately intoxicating steady con sumption of schooners might eventually snow results.
 x # x Former Emperor Charles has little to say for himself these days. That may be because he is living with his mother in-law.
 deputy sheriff has left s75,000 to found a home for tramps. A fellow feeling in quarter where you would least expect it.
 When a war hero is photographed a group of grinning doughboys forms an appropriate background.
 # # # It may be a sad blow for the Italians to learn that President Wilson has not lost his academic calm.
 # j: < MT. Burleson has been called some hard names, but after all, petty politician" is about the worst
 # * # The mighty roar from the bleachers is just another reminder that the cruel war is over.
 The league of nations will be able to function without the assistance of Mex
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-29
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Talking in Church


 'It was my misfortune to miss the in itial open. religious forum which pr. Preston B. Wells, pastor of the Highlands Methodist church, has inaugurated at our Sunday evening services at that church, said M. F. Messer yesterday. But had the pleasure of being present on last Sunday evening, which marked the second Sunday for this innovation. l was very much attracted to the idea and feel that it can be introduced into the Sunday evening services very proftably for all concerned. In the first place, every man likes to hear himself talk and some women do, too-and when we have voice in the meeting it is always interesting. pr. Wells, appreciating this fact, has let down the bars, so to speak, and invited anybody y-eyerybody-in the ton to express an opinion about the subject on which he breaches. Sun day evening pr. Wells theme was The Church and the Problems of Today and following the sermon he asked for vol unteers to make remarks. l.. P. Sur key answered the call and made an in- teresting talk I believe Dr. Wells has struck a happy note in the inauguration of the open religious forum which will develop into very valuable part Of our Sunday evening service"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-29
SAYS SKY LEAP IS EASY

From the Chicago News. Remember reading about that man who jumps from one airplane to an other when up in the air bit-a few miles or SO? Well, he arrived in Chi cago today to act as one of the Victory Loan attractions. He is Lieut.. Ormer l.. Locklear of Fort Worth, Tex. How in the world do you do it?" a breathless crowd asked him at the Stratford hotel.
 My pilot is running steadily" he begins.
 "Yes, yesl What next?" q climb down to the axel of the wheels under the lower wing. One gets good view of the earth there. One
 should be at least 5000 feet up. The air
 is smooth I sit down on the axle in comfort
 Tn comfort" you say.
 "Yes; soon the lower airplane ap-
 breaches. It's about four feet benath us. Pretty soon it's directly under us In 30 seconds We are running identi- cally. I drop, hanging with my hands to the axle. Then at a certain moment let go."
 "O-o-h" comment his listeners. T alight on top of the airplane be- meath me. It's only about two feet to go. One foot slips instantly beneath an iron support for an exhaust pipe and takes a grip. My other foot is back of it. I stoop and grasp that iron SUD- port with my hands. That's all It's safe If you do it perfectly.
 q can't do it in Chicago today.
 must know the pilot of the airplane to which I drop. don't know these men here I'll be back in few months. Then I'll be glad to do it. "The army doesn't approve my doing it, but it has carefully refrained from forbdding it. It'll help lots some day We'll shoot our mail across the con tinent that way, changing airplanes We aviators can take turns sleeping I've slept lots that way. l dozed more
 than an hour flying from Stevenville to Fort Worth, Tex. My pilot couldn't wake me. So he stopped his motor awoke instantly. I had Ihoped to use my ability to ride under the airplane against the Germans some day. We would have a firing radius of 36O de- grees then-the whole field. l could sit there and weld a machine gun against | the enemy directly beneath me-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-29
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS:

If woman has a good complexion she isn't going to do much worrying about politics or the administration.
 This would be a better world if we were all as busy renouncing our own bad habits as we are denouncing those of the other fellow.
 The hardest work in the world isn't digging a ditch or drilling rock, or carrying a piano up flight of stairs. The hardest work in the world is play ing poker all night.
 If it wasn't for the fact that father keeps both feet in the trough when he eats, daughter might invite her gentle man friend to her home for dinner.
 Why is it that a man can't make up his mind to do the right thing until he has figured the percentages?
 Men are fickle. A man would rather stand up in a kaif and gaze at a red nosed bartender for three hours than sit down at home and look at his pretty wife for an hour.
 You have often read verse at the head of chapter in story and dis covered that the verse had some bear ing on what follows. haven't you? Neither have we.
 We kept tab on a modest mutt who was arguing with us the other day. and lc uStu LHe pIOHOun Of LlHlcS III 10 minutes. But don't laugh. Maybe if you kept tab on yourself you could make this record look sick.
 Beauty isn't everything. A bird of paradise may look nifty on hat, but it takes homely little spring chicken to decorate plate.
 And what is going to become of the old fashioned silent vote when all of the states grant woman the ballot?
 What has become of the o. f. man who used to say that things were higher than cats back"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-29
MONTENEGRO

men wear long, wide-skrted coat of light gray, white, robins egg blue, or dark green cloth, embroidered in gold. or dark red, open wide in front over crimson waistcoat heavily decorated in gold, and confined about the waist by broad sash of plaid silk. The belt IS stuck full of weapons knives, pistols, etc., for our friend considers his toilette incomplete without such accessories, and indeed ones eyes become so accustomed to seeing every man a walking arsenal that on returning to work-a-day Europe people look strangely undressed. Dark blue brooches, baggy to the knee, with the leg either encased in white home spun and low string shoes on the feet. this is thoroughly characteristic, or if the wearer be a bit of dandy a pair of high black riding boots will be worn instead; a cane for dress occasions and the cocky stiff -brimmed cap complete the costume
 "A tale hangs by the cap. The Monte- negrins are conservative people and, like all the Serbs of the Balkans, look back to the days of the great Serbian empire when the Slavs held most of the pennsular. The highest point of glory was reached under Stephen Dushan, 13S7- 1856, who planned to keep the Turk our of Europe, but who unfortunately died at at the height of his career. In 1889 the different Slav peoples made their last united stand under Tzar LaZar Gubljan- ovich on the plain of Kosovo The day was at first with Tzar Lazar, but, as usual in the peninsular, jealousies pre- vented a concerted action and he was betrayed by his son-in-law, Vuk Branko- vich, who coveted the crown. He desert ed to the enemy with 12,000 followers, frightful slaughter ensued, and the Bal kans fell to the invader. This fateful 18th of June is a day of mourning throughout Serb lands and the Montene- grin cap is worn in commemoration-- the black is for mourning, and the red centered crown for the blood shed on the field of Kosovo. A semicircle of gilt braid encloses the Princes initials H. L.. the circle typifying the rainbow of hope that the Turk will be driven from Europe and the great Serbian empire again es- tablished."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-29

Dowell, state superintendent of edu- cation, and D. J. Burleson, agricul- turist, of Auburn. Each stressed the importance of scientific husbandry and the advantage that the well schooled youth had in the battle of life over the farm boy deficient in education.
 "As most of your certificate hold Iers," said MT. Burleson, "are going to live upon farms, we should pay more attention to agricultural lines. To this end the Alabama extension serv- ice, as the joint representative of the United States department of agricul- ture and the Alabama Polytechnic in stitute, is directing its efforts not alone to help the grown-up farmers and homekeepers, but also to cooper ate with the public schools through club work in agriculture and home economics for boys and girls. It is doing this through the farm and home demonstration agents in each county and the various specialists at Auburn, who work in cooperation with teach CTS and superintendents of education over the state. Ultimate success of farmer is measured not so much by his bank account as by the training he gives his children for the life they are to lead"
 Coffee county's example should be followed by other counties. Farmers educated for their work will mean in- creased individual prosperity and in- creased wealth for the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-29
Holt Makes Rapid Changes.

q am making some rather lightning changes as a publicity star" said David Holt. T greatly enjoyed my work with the Army Y. NJ. c. A. cam paign, and after it I jumped into the Salvation Army call for funds, and now I have just signed up to make the Alabama centennial success. do not know what will come after it is ap- propriately celebrated, but have no fear. for my run of luck has been so consistent that I am sure some good cause will need a lift and, of course, it will need me as a booster"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-29
Had Happy Easter.

q do not think that any mother In all the land had happier Easter Suh- day than my wife did," said A. B. Her. ring of Springville, flor the morning our son, Lewis, who is with the army of occupation in Germany, and the other from Charley, who is with the army in France Both of them wrote that they were getting along fine and had escaped uninjured. It seems rather a strange thing that two letters, the one starting from Germany and the other from France, should have been received here in America at the same time"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-29
Galloway Publicity Director

A. A. Galloway has been named by Campaign Director H. D. Cullen as pub licity director for the gulf division, Sal vation Army home service fund campaign. He succeeds David Holt, who has been employed by the Alabama Centennial commission as it's publicity secretary. MT. Galloway is a reporter of the Birming- ham Ledger, and his services have been lent to the home service campaign through the courtesy of that paper. MT. Galloway recently has met with consid- erable success as a magazine writer, having had one novel and several short stories accepted and published in popu- lar magazines.
 Mir. Holt begins his duties with the Alabama Centennial commission May 1. He will assist as a volunteer in the Sal vation Army campaign until it's close, May 26.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-29
ALMOST FORGOTTEN LANDS,

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
 When the peace Conference at Paris
 was looking about for unconsidered
 German colonial trifles they nearly
 overlooked the largest of all Cor
 many's overseas possessions Kaiser
 Wilhelm II Land is an extensive part
 of the vast Antarctic continent. It
 was discovered by Wilhelm Filchner in 1912 and since the publication of his
 findings in 1913 it has been claimed
 as a German possession. No German
 has been to Kaiser Wilhelm II Land
 since it's discoverers departure, and its
 population is zero. Yet it may be rich
 to be left in German possession, and
 supplementary clause has been
 drafted by the peace conference with
 special reference to this Antarctic will
 derEess.
 At the other end of the world lies
 Franz Josef Land. an Arctic archi-
 pelago beyond spitzbergen. It was
 discovered by an Austrian expedition and has been claimed as Austrian property If an uninhabitable ice- bound bunch of rocks can be called a "colony' Franz Josef Land was Aus tria's solitary colonial possession. It is probable that this, too, will be taken by the peace conference.
 Just how the future possession of Kaiser Wilhelm II Land and Frahz Josef Land will be decided may be somewhat of a puzzle. Th9 theory of mandatories is scarcely applicable. Mandatory nations are to administer the affairs of backward or uncivilizeo peoples in the interest of the peoples. A land which contains no population cannot be thus administered, even in theory It can be administered only ii the interest of the nation that has the mandate.
 The present importance of Kaiser Wilhelm II Land and Franz Josef Land is less than negligible. But at the earth's mineral deposits become more and more depleted the time may come when even the most inaccessible lsLds will be sources O. the faN iaN, slsle which are necessit a c}NAtzei4 siaa. In the remote futuTe eHatf ha hr- arctic or the Arctic i@res pseins of inestimable value fNe ae4 eaa- ference is looking e f sowasa Ao ta4
 ture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-29
Barnett to EufauIa

Tt would seem that a fellow who had had such disastrous trip as I had in trying to go through the country to my old home town of Eufaula on last Thanksgiving day would be afraid to at tempt it again." said J. Mercer Barnett,
 but in spite of the fact that my wife and sisters had to spend the night in the car and Jim Mercer, my nephew and I had to wade out and strike across coun- try and put up with hosptable farmer, a brother Mason, who needed my sign Of distress, I have decided to try it once more, and will leave on Saturday. Re ports come that the roads are at least dry"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-29
One DisanpOinted Father.

'T have been looking forward to the return of my son, Lewis Drake, with the 167th, Rainbow division, and was sorely disappointed to learn that the7 had sailed for America without him, said James B. Drake. Lewis left with the old Fighting Fourth and saw ser vice in the Argonne, Chateau Thierry and other battles. He was wounded and was in the hospital when the arm- istice was signed. We had received let ters from him telling us that he ex- pected to sail with the others and you can imagine his mothers and my disap-
 pointment on finding that he was not to do so.
 Tt is supposed that he was consid- cred still unable to stand the trip. We
 are anxiously awaiting a letter of ex- planation."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-29
FACT AND FICTION.

From the Pittsburgh Dispatch:
 A country deputy sheriff has struck a severe blow against the theory or tho enmitv between the "hobo" and so- cietv which has been discussed num- berless times from every concelvaoie angle. Thrilling, even sensatiohai news stories have been written cy alert and ambitious reporters with eenius for detail about the criminal denredations of traps in countrysides. Fiction by the carload has been turneo out with the tramp and the rural dls- tricts as principal points of interest. Whole novels have been written around the mystery" of tramp crimes in beautiful country region. By keeping public attention directed close lv to the tramp's inherent affinity TOT lawlessness many reputations for re- spectability have been saved In many hamlets. Possibly knowledge or this softened a former harsh attitude to- wards tramps by the deputy. Be that as it may, when he died about week ago he left will providing fund or s75,00o for building home in west chester county. New York, for "indl- gent transients" This is the technical and euphonistic term for tramps or any other specimen of the human derelict.
 The antagonism between the country deputy sheriff and the tramp is bet ter known to the mass of Americans than the Declaration of Independence. It is a national tradition. It is as cer- tain in its operation and results, ac- cording to the popular belief, as the Monroe doctrine. But alongscomes a man who spent the greater portion of his life as a country deputy sheriff who not merely expresses doubt of the accuracy of the general opinion about tran,ps and the inherited enmity be- tweer tramps and sheriffs. but gives positive evidence of a genuine friend- liness for tramps. Either his experi- ence has been different from the com mon run of deputies. or he refuses to be shaken in his loyalty to the uni versal kinship. probably the latter. He may recognize some brotherhood with the social outcasts or he may bo taking this way of expressing sympa- thy with their misfortunes or what eSs~ : na0uerS tcs ts. Wro ts~-.- H'H van ,a,-14 Una f4rI ia 3nfaifF for. inc q 4A