11GB SIX
’ machinations
EVENING SENTINEL
E. L. & A. L. GOLDEN. Props.
”"ai'si‘séiisfinfi'nv "
JAMES GOLDEN
5 SATURDAY. JULY7 21, 1917
uranium" ALMANAC FOR
TOMORROW
High tide 12:35 a. m.;‘12:59 p. m. ’
Sun rises 4:39; sets 7:19.
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EVENING SENTINEL TELE-
PHONE CALLS
Editorial Rooms—92.
Business Office—93.
Norwalk Branch Office—1388. ,
Editor's Residence—2182.
City Editor‘s Residencefi‘l492‘4 ,
Business Manager's Remdencem
113-12.
FRANCS F
A French banker las an ingenious
OR DOLLARS
plan for elimination all our financial
difficulties. He has written an open
'ic’ter to American bankers suggesting
that we substitute the ft|ttc for the
.l liar as our monetary unit.
tle reasons it out about like this. A
Q
knows, i
\\'e are
front“. as most everybody
only oaelit‘th of a dollar.
arsed to handling dollars as units of
“Mlt‘filllllll'H—Wt‘ expect Io pay just so
totally dollars for a pairs of shot-s er
a suit of clothes. or a it-élllllillt‘l' vaca-‘
Hon. Now, if we suddenlp found all
.. our money turned into francs, vvc‘d
1i“lll):illl\‘ go ahead automatically pay-
‘nt: out about the same number of
:t'ttdtc‘s as we had fornteriy‘paid out
tlo‘lrirs. 1‘ would seem a dreadful ex-
1t‘it\'{‘if.:'il‘.ltt‘ to spend 2:» francs for a
'pJ-ll‘ of shoes. or to francs for a suit
or clothes. We would therefore spend
and force prices down,
expenditures.
I
has, ;
Likewise with petty
'l‘lte franc is divided into too cetttimes,
Just as otir dollar is divided ipto ttltl
Thus with the adoption of the
as it pvt-\‘ails in France.
cents.
franc system.
Switzerland , ltaly and Greece. we
should havo as our smallest unit ‘of
A “a cent. ” That
\\'lto‘
t
who
‘(Lll'l't‘llt’)' oncllttlu of
would azch us a new standard.
.wotild scorn live continua? ()t' ‘
a nickel, it it were label-:
Ir. auld wastr-
vd “3.3 (’f‘li‘dlllt’il "
~ ,Mavbe it would work that way. it.
itia~ often been said tltltt you can judse
a nation's thrift front the value .
' . . y
general circuintton.‘
of its
smallest coin in
.'l‘hus we have been said to spend nl-
cltcls'as the l’renchni’au spends sous
¢ as the German
utcttual to our (-entsl.
. . ”
fenniu pieces (equal to ..
mantis ten-p {
Englishman ‘
' il-‘l centst..ind as tho
hp'dltls a penny (equal to two (‘i‘llll=l.:
But Will never can tell, The way.
l5
prices are kitint: now, everybody . ,
. m. . .3.
fast losing the old senst of money \ l .
tics. if the pric
Tent money units w
tiplied by live. wouldn‘t
'plation of such big figures make “5’
and spend .
e of everything: in eur-
I
ere suddenly iuul-_
the contour:
I
:t't-cl like like millionaires.
- ~- . v r‘.’
oillt'.‘ money more recklessly tian e e '
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-‘ A LOAF 0F BREAD }
-‘ Federal agents investigating how"
found sixteen-ounct"
bakeries (V
where from 7. to lo.
Work
loaves sellingr any ,
Zt-ccnt loaves weigh-_
cents apiece, anti
even to fourteen
lug anywhere front 5 '
it would he a good thing if
ounces.
the inquiry
or the whole country,
given” ftill publicity. .
wonder what discyepancies in price
0 revealed in this
I
lard- ‘
and the results
We "naturally
and size would b
city.
if any commodity is to he slant
people may know DTPCISQ‘
are getting for.
ized so that
ly what what they
'casv'to standardize. The materials.
"entering into it are few and simple,
:ttuottuli t
lsion and social workers.
lAll we need to pet
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l'llfl l‘ilf‘l (‘l'lell K‘S \\ hen
‘willinrncss and c
‘at the hour of his
A soldiercohblt‘r home
their money, surely it stinuld be the»
“staff of life." Bread is extremely.
the experiment,
Publicity campaigns were undertak-
en in order to arouse public interest
in keeping well. There was :1 "Med-
ical l-Zxaiiiination Week“ in which hun-
;til‘t:.'¥ of pctlltlf‘ were given competent
and ll‘t‘vittllfill examination by doctors..
There was a "Baby Week" and a
‘t‘l~~:‘ttt llilk llemons:ration" and 0th-
t-r interesting things,
Six tttetitlts. of course. makes only
nin: iii a work so hose and re»
ii!
llllll‘li‘: so much time to carry out.
in the six months some facts have
tut-7i th-tnunstrateti satisfactorilly
o show the usefulness of the
experiment. '
The marvellous contlusion to which
Illlt75t' in charge have come is that
fully ottt- Erill of all sickness is pre-
‘ventablc. it is preventable by means
already known to the medical profes-
The means
'are known to a great part of the pill)-
lit- at large, though naturally in a
vaguer way than to the professit‘inals.
Where serious sickness exists these
titeans, thouch known. are not utilized.
well and to stay
well is to use the means at hand.
Sickness represents an ennrmou.q
lt
pain. distress, mis-
econoniic waste. means loss of
“112,08. it means
cry. depression.
Why
brains will keep you well'.‘
be sick, when using your
The first essential is a thorough
physical examination. The next is to
keep yourself and your premises
clean. wetl-sunned and welt-aired. The
next is to eat pure and wholcSome
food. and not to mistake self—indul-
gence for nourishment~ (letting enough
sleep. keeping your teeth looked alter.
your eyes fitted aud’your feet in sane
shoes comes next. it you do all these
tliiugs. medicine will not be needed.
Some of these conditions are not
possibly of attainment unless a com-
‘munity gets together to procure them
for all its members. Most of them
tare individual matters in which you
your coni-
- l
niuntty. ,
The country needs every ounce
“'hy be sick!
can set lllt’" example fot‘
of
_\'t')lll' t‘llM'llY.
THE Facile; SOLDIER 0N LEAVE
The French soldier as described in
numerous stories and
makes a strong appeal to our intert-
Ont“
it
and affection.
on leave is his
anertiess to slip back
into his accustomed place at home no
matter how short his stay may be.
it is reported as quite common for"
the French soldier returned to his lit-
tle farm to pick up his work promptly
arrival at home
and to work all the while he is there.
on leavoles
said to have donned his colmler‘s ap-
rml and gladly served as llltlllyfiglfl—
tomers as possible in his brief stay_ .\
_. fish MILLION _
MEN ENROLLED :
disrupt t'llt‘S£
of his striltlnu'
FOR SERVICE;
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l'5!“'litl'll‘t’s " Eu it"‘t'tllltlt:l~lll'fit'til
than the
. scat t = ly less notewo _
gaucctyl‘dl l.i;l.~.1'.itioii ('ill'l'li'tl out Eh.
lw‘et-ks also. ’l‘en million tron, they
pointed out. had been assigned liltlt‘t's
l on the nation’s nitlster roll witts’..\fie
space of less than ,a day. and appar-
ently with only one minor error in
. the whole complicated process.
‘ The single erioi' cattle to light near
the end of the drawing this month
. when a blank was found \\'lltfl‘l“lllt‘l‘.'
should have been a number in one
'Of the logiott capsules by which the
5 war time fortunes of America's youth
twet‘e determined. All otllciali- agreed
that it could work no injustice to any
registrant. it means only a It-mpot—
z-ry complication, they said, and in no
llllpaiilo the equality of the lot»
tcry.
, What serial nttinbt-r should have
been in the place of the blank had not
been determined today. but it will be
found shortly by a careful reclieclting
of the lists. Then it will be assign»
ed to the only place open on the lia-
bility listhuiiiber pump, ,at the \'t’l‘}'
foot. Because of its absence there
ate only 10,499 places now, with bold-
crs ot' the serial number 3.217 iii last
place. The vacant place was shifted
to the end of the list because when
the blank was drawn in the 1U.t;pltli
dilare it ilnlttetlialely was rt-placml by
the drawing of a number, and that
made the numbers lat-k one of tilting
the 10,500 places.
Provost Marshal tit-neral (‘rowdcr's
‘ oliice said that the error undoubtedly
3 resulted from an oversiclit for which
no one could be blamed. .\ shift in
‘pltins only a few bouts before the
‘drawini; began. threw on the Kt'llt‘l‘v
al‘s itsitistanls the task (if prt)\itlilig
quickly ten times as ll‘.'lll)' numbers
and 1'" times as many capsules as
, had been counted upon.
The participating titiicinls worked
in relays, litit the strain of the Math
this process began to weigh \istbly
upon all of them before the end. tleii»
erttl Crowdcr, the provost marshal. reg
placed the blindfolded oliicial .‘tl liie‘
dtuwinp bowl and liliiiseh‘ drew out:
tllt' last number. ‘
‘ Seartely had the historic event thus
reached its close than the.- news of
.1110 last drawina had been flashed
over the. country. The lclt'gl‘flpltlt't
,t‘eat ot‘ tratisiitittim: the “pinto nuur‘
‘ h-t‘rs as rapidly as thpy \v-le dr'twti
. was protiottittuxtl by otllcials today as
among the most ltotablc features of
‘tlle whole process. The Associated
l'Ir-ss virtually cleared its \virt-s ‘ol'
.t‘lllt'! lllillll‘l' anti paw the tltzltt oft
way to .tli.» draft nttntbt-rs from the;
2 start of the drawing, with the result-
’lllid llt‘\\'.~ltil-|H‘l>‘ everywhere w-‘retl
able to give to their readers promptly
the lists of those elitist-n iii the vari .
i ous districts. l
i No small part in the countrywide;
_ success ot' the lottery plans was play.‘
2 ed by The Associated Press operatora.
, who worked for long hours wlth noth-t:
in; before them btit the (.‘ll‘l'lllllt
'crtiups of tiaut‘cs and \vitlr thtll
. thought in their minds that a iiilsttikci
of ,a single figure would be a lllllllt‘l"
of utmost concern to thousands oft
men and tens of thousands atiionizj
their friends and relatives. For that,
reason no attempt at unusual speed,‘
,could he lllMll‘, with the result thattI
: errors were kept at a minimum. 3
Some mistakes were tiinivoidable.‘
however. for in some respeqs the of».
; licial lt‘ll’t‘l‘i' report‘s were at variance;
and a comparison and rt-ciflcatimu
was proceeding today. The rule fol
. lowed was that asreoment iii the rec—
ords of two of the three tellers int
‘atiy case would be sutliclent to show:
the variation was the mistake of the.
.lllll‘tl. All the records of the draw-
! lllL‘.‘ will be so rcctltl-ed before the of-
Eticial reports are followed to local.
‘ boards. ‘
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. - ~ vln reporting the iiuitibcia to the
. ‘ .i 1. “pm his tout days . .
“mm": “NO I “V."t boards the federal government also
leave in his white apron 9“ 1”" will provide special lists with tltcj
guests at the little restaurant his wife
had kept tip after he left for the
front.
Thrift and simplicity, love of home
are the background for
coach
anti country
these homely piCtures of the it
soldier off duty.
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could be extended to cox-i Hoover‘s letter to the president up.
vents a situation in which tlie'atliuin-
istration can takerno satisfaction. If,
its lloover tells Wilson,
tors have been exploiting both the
farmer and the consumer, why has
not the Department of Justice .- taken
isome step to prevent or to punish
There are laws-enough
the specula-
such’ action?
on the statute book to do this; and it
does not need the food—control bill to
set the Sherman anti-trust law or the
Clayton law in motion. The fact is
‘M definitely ascertainahle mink-m fairly deducible' from what Hoover
cost 0f making it is ms“). figured 0{whens the president that the. adminis-
«The first step in fond regulationttréuon itself has been nibré‘fi'emiss
might well he the establishmcm 0t:ltlian Congress it in dealing with the
definite standards 0f quality, 3i” and:food question. Congress has debated
‘prlce for the broad supplied 10 the} new proposals clothe unknown
ination. ct we find chaos and extor- men with unheard-of powers. The ad-
“lion. -’ . t . 2.13:.» ministration, with ample powers al-
l‘Pfldfi';»llal-l taken no action at all.
to
It W
" KEEPING WELL
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'A scientific test has been made in
‘Framlngliam, Mass, for the past six
months to see whether‘ much of the
usual disease, death. ill-healthmutd
\phystcaldefects mlgbtlnot be preventi-
.There is a confeéslon of defeat in
the German chancellor's remark that
the: empire."must fight to the last
gasp." Germany entered this war
by taking proper precautions. Dr
e would in
d!
[high numbers which do not apply in;
tho given district already Cllllt‘tllli‘tl.?
iTho process will not be reduced to,
like title point of providing: tt cancell-j
led sheet that shall exactly fit each}
ttlistrict iii the country. but lists with
icanccllalions lll'tdt" by groups of
3 thousands will be used anti one willi
the supplied each local board with the ,
line drawn at the thousand mark next;
I above the highest lllllllb’51‘ in that dis-l
t trict. l
With the close of the drawing. tin-l
great bulk of the business of makingl
itlto new army ready for service willi
lpass Oii the state and local authori-l
lties. They now must post the lining
l bers of the men first to be called from!
leach district. must summon them tort
lexaminalion and later on must take‘
the subject of exemptions. it will be}
the duty. in short. to turn- over to':
the .federal govttrnnient when vlllt‘tl
mobilization call comes in St‘lilembt‘l‘.|
their given quota of men (it and ready"
to be ‘soldiers.
NEW ‘YORK. Jilly 21.——Tlie New
Yorkers liable under the selective
draft law were waitingr today for the
next step in the lottery. This will
not be known until Governor Whit,-
nian apportions to catch community
its quota of the 60.2“ men the state
must furnish to the 'arm‘y on the first'
call. Thereception here of the draw-l
ing to determine the order in wliiclit
the registered men will be summoned
before the local exemption boards
was marked by some anxiety and cur-
iosity, but without any disorder.
Conditions at. the local exemption
board stations. improved but little tO-l
day.
BOSTON, July 21.———Charles F. Get-
teiny. Director of Military Enrollment
said today that the. last, cards and
corresponding lists of registered men
were ablppéd to the local boards last
night. In many districts of this state
the registrants were unablegyesterdlny
to learn their red ink. numbers. but
Mr. 'Gettemy said that all of these
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NGRWALK, CONN.
Su ; ‘ mer Clearance Sac
ES arts Monday
“V 2.3, 1917
Probablv never in the history‘of the Boston Store has a sale
presented such a definite, advantage for buying present and fu-
ture needs. No thoughtful housekeeper can fail to note the big
advance of prices. Almost everything purchased in this sale
was secured on a much lower price basis than we can possibly
hope for in the Fall. With these glaring facts, our patrons should
be quick to take advantage of the countless economies offered
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, There Are Hundreds and Hundreds of ExtraordinaryValucs
The whole store is prepared for this great bargain}
' event as never before. ‘
:; Drastic Price Cutting in Every Department
‘ q f Is the- Imperative Order
We invite you to come and see for, yourselves. Don’t miss-
the opportunities for real money savers. '
Store Open Until 9 p.m. First Day of Sale .’
WSE’EEQT’”
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One of those well up toward thei important ones by senator Lieorlteiator McLean was from the National SISTER
head of the, list drafted l'llfili’il‘diililp. McLean. The first was from tlie,\t‘011itin‘s partv of CoiuieCtiotir. favor-
was Francis Ouiiiiet, oriiter uttt onit Suffrage Leo no of l-‘alrfitdd (‘ountv ' . . ~~ a
mummy and on?“ go” champion. who g . Vim. the pasta of the Susan B.
won the western amateur champion-t favoring ratification 0‘ “‘9 tSusttn B‘hAnlllOHY amendment.
‘uhip past week. Quintet dives inlilntliouy amendment of the federal;
lgyooklliiv. His number was 2t66.'const.itution. { BEAT THE DRAFT.
which was the. 127th number drawni The second petition emanated front:
at \i'llsllilll-‘lt‘tl 3““ ”‘9 6"“ “mfiR'a'ftlie National Woman's party of Coir-Dr. Hefferan Made lst Lieutenant “in
blc m ”If “we. lnectlcut. and was a protest agalnstl Ni¢k 0‘ Time."
M'LEAN PRESENTS THREE the tailing or members of the Nit-“1T3: 13333331\Ws yesterday print-
PETITIONS FOR "sun‘s". h'
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SAYS MRS,
GILLIGAN’S INSANE
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ling :1 new trial.
,Mrs. Gilligan's def
sanity and evldeiic
by the defence. will
“We are not 1’
If one is. granted
case, may be. lit-
e of. cxliumations
be introduced.
.‘ russlitns and a new
llldl will certainly be granted Mrs
Gilligan, telegraphed Mrs. Bllckt‘llh':
(letter to his excellency.
I do .not litsitate to say the seas
teiice Will never be executed" ‘s'tt‘tl
de ard J. Priiidle of Brintfield. this.
today in a letter
tional Woman Suffrage ASsOClaim“ re‘l l'lr. Harry l-lct‘fcran. of 22! Orchard
icemly sentenced to the District 0f.‘street, who was the ninth man taken
WASHINGTON. July 21.—-—Among Columbia workhouse. \ tin this district in_today‘s draft for the
osented b): Sen-till“ iiiiliottalarmy, yesterday received
to ‘ tons resettled to the Unltedl The last etitio‘n pr . _ .
the I m p i p illlS commission as first lieutenant in
..}lllt“ dental reserve Officers‘ corps.
. 7‘ > , _. > > » .Ht‘tabplit‘d some time abo for 3p. U111 llall'i‘n protesting again”.
Latest-Photo 0f Wife 0‘: Secretary lpoimment' in ”m army dental taught szllllgolofvit‘lllsdlrmlliiflggle “1‘3
Ecorps and has been anxiously await-
.int: to hear Whether he had been ac-
tcepted or not. .
Yesterday afternoon Dr. Hemp-an r|-‘
lceived notice that he had been com-
imissioned a first lieutenant and noti-
.tled his family last evening to that ef-
years ago in Litchfield.
little," says Mr.
was openly or
of War and Her. Three=.Children “A‘ ”“t
. Prliidle, “the opiniOn
. pressed by those-"wt
knew her better llllilll I did that 1119::
tally she was not well balanced.
In tier family were several cases
lfect. He was ordered to place himself
[ready for call for service at any fu~
lure time,
itin announced that Dr. Hcfferan was
[the ninth man drawn in this district,
walk to acquaint him of the fact.
nice. neat first
sion in the dental corps," replied Dr.
Hoffman.
. actuated by no mawkish
This morning when the News“ bulle-i
some of his friends telephoned to Nor"
“Cotne down here and I'll show you a ‘
lieutenant's commlst,
(if course the dentifls rlt‘ny local ‘j
friendswerc pleased and Dr. Hefferan
Of mental degeneracy, though i have
forgotten the cause then given. I an:
sentiu -
'tallty and Mrs. Gilligan may be gulill’tnvt
Of a score of murders, but if site it"
the victim of modal degeneracy 'or
actual insanity the state of Connecti-
cut will not be justified in carrying
the sentence into effect. As for Mrs.
Gilligan’s given age of 44 years, I be.-
lieve she is nearly 50 years old. and
ant sure that if her counsel will loot: '
into’ her family history a commutu‘
tion of the death sentence will be
t
was the recipient today of many con-. easily secured."
gratulatory messages by wire.
suEs TO RECOVER $4.800
onrwo UNPAID NOTES
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( Now comes the season when hay
Stilt m recover $4,300 alleged to be fever and asthma. cause thousands to
due on notes not paid has beenlsuffer. “I have been trouble for years
brought in the superiorcourt by theiwlth asthma," writes E. C. Schaaf..
York against the John Davenport com-.:
pany of Satmford and the ’Spfing‘fleldf
Motors company of Delaware.» The; relief. It inserts the phlegm so 1. can"
LHELPS ASTHMA‘AND HAY FEVER .
Hem-4' H- " Adams company °f NewiCreston, 0., "and find Foley's Honey,
and Tar the only thing that~gives mo,
complaint alleges that on April 12 offihrow ft off,.and sleep. _ ,tHadto sit; ,
probably would be available at the *
this year the. Davenport .compnny
promised to pay tuto notes. one of $2.-
One of $3.000 due in 60 days wittyln-
terest. both payable at the First Na.
tional bank in Stamford. Credit of $1.-
0060 is admitted on the flrsbnote. The
'ofiicefi~ of the district boards before
. case is returnable tO the Septembei
' term. . , -
036 due in 30 days- wltli interest, and
inights in my chair. not belngable to 3
tie down, before using Foley’s Honey,
:and Tar." ‘A standard family remedy)
tfor coughs, colds, cream—Adv.
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.A good adv. pays best in the be" '
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