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THE FARMER: FEBRUARY 22, 1918
AUSTRIAN'S BUT
W
ITHIN THE borders of 'the
people nominally subjects of the Hapbtirgs, but in
tensely loyal to the country of their adoption.
They are Bohemians, Croatians, Hungarians, Italians, Jews.
Lithuanians, Loranians, Moravians, Poles, Roumanians, Ru
thenians, Serbs, Slovaks, Slovenes and others. -
. . The House Committee on foreign affairs has favorably re
ported a bill, exempting these peoples from classification as
alien enemies, except those who claim military exemption on
the ground of alienage.
Most of these millions intend to make America their home
and the abiding place of their posterity forever.
Here they sacrifice nationality, language and all the pe
culiar culture which is nationalistic, and take on the culture
i that is American. .
Already some millions of the children of these stocks are
i American in language, American in ideals and without substan
tial traces of the culture of the homes their parents left. The
word culture in this case being used, to describe that education
peculiar to nationality, but not that education general to all.
As subjects of the Hapsburgs, or of the Hohenzollerns, these
people struggled bravely, and sometimes fiercely, to retain na
tionality, language, and peculiar culture.
There are the Slovaks, the Irish of Austria, who have large
: ly colonized in Bridgeport, and are among the most loyal of
iAmericans. The Bohemian state has achieved a legal existence
i by the presence of a Czechoslovak army, which has declared the
! existence of the Bohemian nationality as a distinctive, sovereign
' entity.
! , Why is it that the peoples
I Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns a
their own language and culture,
gether American, in language,
The answer is not far. Autocracy oppresses; democracy
! brings freedom. The subjects of an autocracy find in the bond
I of language and a common blood the basic necessity for union
to win against the force of despotism.
The same peoples, admitted to a government in which they
have an equal share, are contented with the institution. They
no longer need the organizing forces of peculiar tongue or race
to obtain justice. On the contrary, they cannot share in the lull
blessing of democracy until they learn its language, practice its
i customs, and understand its institutions.
The president anticipated the action Congress will take.
These subject peoples are aliens in the political sense, but by
the bonds of sympathy are truly American.
THE PEN ALTY
BOLO PASHA, a French adventurer, a. handsome fellow,
- with a gracious manner and a princely carriage, a very
; type of the successful American lobbyist, has been sentenced to
; death, being found guilty of treason by a French tribunal, which
i deliberated the evidence for a trifle more than fifteen' minutes.
What did Bolo Pasha do? He did not organize armed re
sistance, nor blow up ammunition plants, nor shoot French sol
diers in the back while they were on guard duty. . ,
His treason was of a different nature. He gave aid and
comfort to the enemy, by fostering propaganda. Using German
' money to influence persons and newspapers, he flooded France
with tales that the Germans were invincible, that their frightful
ness was beyond comprehension. He brought about the circu
lation of peace rumors. "Why fight any longer, let us make
peace!" This was the burden of the agitation he conducted,
while denouncing the Germans in the strongest terms. The
.'Germans are wicked, they are cruel, Huns, barbarians, but
'they will win! Why fight?
This propaganda he created in France, in Italy and to some
I extent in America. Therefore he is found guilty of treason and
i will be executed by a French firing squad, if he does not sooner
j commit suicide.
In the fate of Bolo Pasha there may be a lesson for some in
America. Bolo Pasha led in asserting that the French govern-
iment was incompetent, that it never accomplished anything,
Ithat it ought to be supplanted.
The time draws constantly nearer when the man who can-
;not see any intelligence, efficiency or military skill in his own
! Countrymen and his own government will be the object of war
ranted suspicion. .
THE NATURE
i HE GOVERNMENT commands
people make them.
The women especially are faithful to the utmost. Man,
I op woman, they practice thrift, anad buy bonds, or stamps,
j Habit has to be conquered. It is not so easy for him to save,
i who has spent his money upon cherished gratifications.
To deny wheat, sugar, fats and meats, these are triumphs
I of the spirit more difficult than many victories that have a
'larger sound.
The crowning sacrifice placed upon the boys who go fb
war, is a tremendous fact. But the mere willingness to give
! life is probably not so distressing to the spirit, as the self de
jnials and discomforts that inhere in the life of the soldier. To
I shoulder a musket and pack a load; to dig trenches and hike
,for miles; to stand in mud and water in zero weather, these are
, real sacrifices.
The government, seeing the wThole area of necessity, has
.given advice, to individuals and communities. To communities
it has said, deny yourselff. Spend no money except for what is
-fNabsolutely necessary.
The political machine charged with the government of
Bridgeport hears this advice, but does not heed it. In every
direction these politicians are embarking upon a career of ex
penditure shamelessly unpatriotic. City Hall knows neither
the nature of shame, nor the nature of patriotism. Why does
it spend and spend, when it knows that the nation demands
thrift and self denial?
TYING UP OTHER WORKERS
THE ACTION OF the ship carpenters was the more injuri
ous because it threatened to stip the labor of millions
of other men. The workers of the nation, hand and brain, are
mostly engaged upon things for the war. Most of these things
are for shipment abroad; if they cannot be shipped it is useless
to produce them.
A mere handful of men, members of a comparatively new
organization, threatened to tie up the entire war industry of the
United States, and would have done so had it not been for the
smart reprimand of the president.
h4 The leaders of these men were without support, either
rom the great labor leaders, or from anybody else. They were
p'oing contrary to the labor policy of American workers as de
fined by Mr. Gompers, without any excuse. Fortunately these
ien have seen the error of
NOT ALIEN'S
United States live 5,000,000
who constantly demand of the
government of their own, and
here are willing to become alto
customs and all?
FOR TREASON
OF SHAME
many sacrifices. Most
their waysu
A SLITTER
T HOSE WHO prefer anarchy to order may look at Russia.
Those who prefer a weak government to a strong one
may gaze upon the countries so recently ruled by the Czar.
Russia was a union of dissimilar elements, of widely sepa:
rated peoples, of varying stocks speaking numerous tongues.
Every country contains within its borders dissimilar elements.
There are political differences, social- differences, Industrial
separations and all that sort of thing.
The miracle is that men, who have so many opinions, and
who are so tenacious in their beliefs, should be able to establish
organized governments. '
The United States is also an assemblage of parts not quite
concordant. New England immemorially insists that the South
and the West are hostile to it. The class and mass cleavage ex
ists. There are elements not in sympathy with the war. More
tongues are spokenun America than are heard in Russia.
In spite of these difficulties, the United States offers to the
world an internal solidarity that is amazing. But the binding
force of this solidarity is largely in organized government;
weaken the government, destroy the people's faith in it, and
disturbance, anarchy and dissolution may follow to jits the ex
tent that the forces of destructive criticism are successful.
Keep the government at Washington strong. Support it.
Have faith in it Talk for it and pray for it. This is the road
to unity, and the broad highway that leads to victory.
Men, of their savage nature, tend constantly to fall apart.
Dissension is easier than unity. It is harder to do team work,
than for each to play star all alone.
The measure of civilization is co-ordination. How can we
do things together; thqe are the really civilized men.
Who can do nothing but rend and destroy, these are the
men in whom the instincts of the savage are strong.
; '
TWO CENT SCHOOL LUNCH
THE OBJECT of public education is to make the state
strong. The public schools are industrial establish
ments that create intelligence. The raw material is the mind of
the child. The job is not entirely dissimiliar from other indus
trial operations, in which the raw material is in the order of in
animate, unintelligent matter.
In this lower field of industry, if the material is not up to
specifications, it will be reworked and made so, if that is pos
sible. The same rule is wise in the higher industrial effort. If a
child is backward because of physical defects, or by reason of
underfeeding, elemental manufacturing knowledge requires
remedy for the defects. Only a stupid manufacturer, or an im
poverished or dishonest one, will waste effort on inferior ma
terial that can be made right.
It is senseless to waste education on children not physically
able to receive it. This is why the two cent lunch will be justi
fied, even if it costs five cents and the community has to pay
the extra three cents.
If the object of schools is to manufacture citizens well
equipped to do the work of life, correctible defects, which stand
in the way of successful production, must be corrected.
TRAIN PIGEONS
AT DEVES FOR
DUTYJN ARMY
Birds Will Be Used to Carry
Messages at American
Front in France.
Camp Devens. Feb. 18. Seventy-five
of the finest breed of carrier pigeons
win De inducted into service at this
cantonment this week. The new quar
ters, a large roomy cood. has been
completed and occupies a position in
the rear of divisional headquarters.
'lhe birds which will be brought to
Camp Devens will be the pick of the
trained racing pigeons from New
England's finest coops. Lieutenant
Robert Milne of 47 Ocean street, Dor
chester, one of the most expert and
best known pigeon breeders of the
country, has been placed in charge of
the work of training the birds for war
work.
Under the plan the birds will be
kept in the coop for one month. Dur
ing this time they will be allowed to
perch on an extended fhelf, enclosed
by wire netting. In this time the
birds, following their wonderful in
stinct in this regard, will make a
close study of the landscape so that
they will know its every identifying
mark.
Meanwhile the reof of the coop will
be painted in the colors of the signal
flags. With these, too, the birds will
familiarize themselves.
At the end of one month the birds
will be freed for the first time. As
they return to the coop they will be
tried on longer flights, anrii eventually
they will be trained in making flights
of 25 and 50 miles.
From this time on they will be
trained in the carrying of messages.
The carrier pigeon is at its best at
the age of six years. For this reason
young birds are being sought. By
the time they are trained they will
at the height of their worth as mes
sengers in No Man's Land.
The peculiar instincts of the pigeon
have never teen accounted for. Mere
ly instinct is the answer to their
adaptabilities for messenger work.
They are a most sensitive and yet in
telligent type of bird.
Despite their sensitiveness, however,
it is said that at the front they ac
custom themselves to the noise of the
heavy artillery fire and the screaming
of the 6hells better than tie horse or
mule.
Before being ' sent into the smoke
of battle the birds are given a trial
near the front line trenches, just as
soldiers are. They are then provided
with respirators which, made of alu
minum and attached to their leg, does
not impede the bird in its flight, but
in case of gas attacks protects it from
the nauseating fumes.
Experiments will he conducted
throughout the country from now on.
As in everything else Uncle Sam,
with very .good reason, expects to
eventually surpass all other countries
in this work. Kven little Belgium,
the home of the carrier pigeon, will
finally be surpassed, say Uncle Sam's
lieutenants.
Some day in the not far distant fu
ture these birds will tie carrying our
messages over the battle lines of Eu
rope at the rate of more than a mile
JLa Minute.
OF CHOICE
DANIELS SENDS
MESSAGE ABOUT
NEED OF SHIPS
Hartford, Feb. 18. Secretary of the
Navy Josephus Daniels has joined the
list of prominent government officials
who have telegraphed to the Connect
icut State Council of Defense empha
sizing the importance of the enroll
ment of shipyard volunteers now go
ing on in Connecticut under the direc
tion of the defense council and Leo
A. Korper, federal director, in co-operation.
The telegram received last night
from Secretary Daniels says'.
Ships, ships and more ships is the
call of the hour. We must have them
to carry our armies to Europe and to
keep our troops and our allies sup
plied with food and munitions. Gen
eral Pershing calls for a bridge of
ships across the Atlantic .and that is
what we are bending every effort to
furnish him. We must have more
ships to win the war. We must have
them for the great merchant marine
that will carry America's commerce
under the American flag to all the
world's ports after the war.
".Every vessel that is turned out in
this country counts toward the defeat
of Germany. Every worker in a ship
yard can feel that he is doing a part
toward winning this struggle only less
important than that of the mei: on.
our warships or in tho trenches. Let
Americans who are not called for mil
itary service enlist in the army of
shipbbuilders and work for the flag
which our soldiers aiwi sailors are
fighting to uphold. Victory ships is
a good name for the vessels being
built for the government. For each
one brings nearer the defeat of autoc
racy and victory for democracy which
will usher in a new era of peace and
prosperity for the world."
U. S. INFORMATION
BUREAU FOR LABOR
Washington. Feb. 16 Appointment
of Roger W. Babson, the statistician,
who is a special agent of the labor
department's employment service, as
director of a newly created division
of industrial relations of the com
mittee on public information, was an
nounced today.
The new division will serve as a
point of contact between the infor
mation committee and the labor de
partment and Mr. Babson's first work
will be to inform manufacturers of
the war work which the department
of labor is doing and of the assist
ance that the department can lend to
employers.
BRITISH TROOPS
IN GREAT RAID
London, Feb. 19 An extensive raid
was carried out by British troops last
night on the Flanders front, in the
southern section of Houthalst wood;
the , war office announced today.
There were two other successful raids,
one in the region south of Lens and
the other on the old Arras front, in
the neighborhood of Epehy. Prison
ers were taken in all these raids. The
Flanders raid was a particularly im
portant affair, resulting in heavy cas
ualties to the Germans.
STATE SEEKING
CO-OPERATION IN
FIGHTING FIRES
Cities May Aid Each Other
With Apparatus When
Necessary.
Hartford, Feb. 19 Towns and
cities in Connecticut which have fire
departments are to be called upon
by ths Connecticut State Council of
Uefense to put into effect throughout
the entire state a plan for the inter
change of fire apparatus in emergen
cies. The matter has been investi
gated by the council's committee on
industrial survey, which has reported
that, due to the efforts in the past
few years of the Fire Chiefs' Asso
ciation, there is mutual aid co-operation
to a very considerable extent
among the various towns and cities.
The committee recognized the de
sirability of a standard thread on
hose and hydrant couplings through
out the state; but did not recommend
at this time any effort to change the
various threads now used. Instead, it
recommended most strongly that every
fire department in the state be
equipped with a sufficient number of
standard adapter couplings to permit
of ready mutual aid.
The adapter coupling proposed has
been designed under the direction of
John C. Moran," chief of the Hartford
fire department, who was named by
the Fire Chiefs' Association a com
mittee of one to assist the council's
committee in this matter. The com
mittee also has had the benefit of the
advice of Horace B. Clark, chairman
of the Board of Fire Commissioners
of Hartford.
The State Council of Defense de
cided at yesterday's meeting to make
a determined effort to have every
town in the state which has a fire
department provide itself with these
strainottiemetaoinetoaietaoietaoin
standard adapter couplings so as to
make mutual aid possible at all times
throughout Connecticut. The coun
cil hs arranged to secure these coup
lings at $5.75 each and towns are to
be given an opportunity to buy them
from the council at this rate.
The council voted that its commit
tee on Industrial survey be authorized
in the name of the council to instruct
various agencies of the council
throughout the State as follows:
"In such cases where authority is
not at present vested in the chief or
acting chief to ask or render assist
ance in an emergency to obtain for
him such authority.
"To arrange with the local depart
ments in all districts to place orders
directly with the ' Connecticut State
Council of Defense for a suitable num
ber of hydrant and hose couplings."
ASKS WILSON TO
FORM LEAGUE OF
ENTENTE NATIONS
Paris, Feb. 19 Writing to Presi
dent Wilson on behalf of the League
for the Rights of Man, Ferdinand
Buisson, a Radical Socialist deputy,
asks that the President take the ini
tiative for the immediate organiza
tion of the nucleus of a society of
nations. M. Buisson Urges the Presi
dent to take up this subject with
England, France and other Entente
nations.
ASK MERCY FOR
NEGRO SOLDIERS
Washington, Feb. 19 President
Wilson was urged today by a com
mittee from the New York branch of
the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People to ex
tend clemency to the five negro sol
diers of the 24th United States infan
try sentenced to be hanged for the
part they played in the riots in Hous
ton, Tex., in August last.
A review of the cases of 41 other
negro soldiers sentenced to life im
prisonment as a result of the rioting
was also requested. The Rev. F. A.
Cullen, as spokesman, placed in the
hands of the president a petition
bearing thousands of signatures.
Y. M. C. A. COMFORT
FOR PORTUGUESE
Paris, Feb. 19. The American army
T. 31. C. A. is extending its activity
to cover the Portuguese army in
France. Myron A. Clark has been
appointed to take charge. The field
staff will be recruited in Paris. Rec
reation huts similar to those in use
by the T. M. C. A. on the American,
French and Italian fronts will be
erected scon.
FINDS FELICE IS
GUILTY OF DEATH
George Felice is held criminally re
sponsible by doroner J. J. Phelan for
the death of Guiseppe Quattone of
South Norwalk, who died February
11 from the effect of bullet wounds
due to a shot fired by Felice in a
quarrel. Felice has not been appre
hended. Quattone, 25 years old, and Felice,
about 18, quarreled over a relative of
Quattone who had' been sliding on the
ice near the home of Felice. There
are some features which might indi
cate self-defense, but although rela
tives of Felice promised to produce
him before the coroner yesterday he
failed to appear.
The finding has been sent to the
prosecuting officers and attempt will
be made to trace Felice and bring him
before the courts.
URGE MINTING
OF 2-CENT COINS
Washington, Feb. 19 -Recommendation
that the treasury resume
minting of two .cent coins has been
made by the executive committee of
the American Newspaper association,
in session here. The new coin, it
was pointed out, would make a con
venient medium for purchasing pa
pers, the price of which has generally
advanced to two cents because of the
increased price of paper.
SENATOR WATSON
CRITICISES WIDE
POWER OF WILSON
Washington, Feb. 19. Provision of
the Overman bill giving President
Wilson wide powers to reorganize the
war branches of the government were
denounced as "unconstitutional," and
autocratic," by Senator Watson yes
terday in the course of a speech in
support of the senate draft of the ad
ministration's railroad bill.
"The Overman bill," declared Sena
tor Watson, "confers, upon the presi
dent unheard of powers, many of
which to my mind are entirely unjus
tifiable, but the most reprehensible
feature of that measure in my judg
ment is the one that provides that
this autocratic authority shall con
tinue for one year after the termina
tion of the war. Why this provision?
Why seek in that measure, as in the
railroad bill, .to perpetuate power
asked to prosecute the war into the
days when there shall be no war?
These are war powers. They are ask
ed for war purposes. They are not
constitutional, they are not in har
mony with the spirit of our institu
tions, they are irreconcilably opposed
to eve.-y theory of our- government,
they are un-American on any other
hypothesis.
"Let us firmly resolve that with the
proclamation of peace the president
shall surrender all the past powers
willingly conferred upon him by an
aroused people because of the exigent
necessities of war; that this nation
shall return to the kind of republic
founded by the revered fathers of the
union."
Senator Watson approved the pro
vision in the railroad bill limiting gov
ernment control over the railroads to
18 months after the war, but opposed
the administration's original proposal
to leave this period indefinite.
In his opinion. Senator. Watson said,
the war will mark a new era in rail
road management,
"I believe the old system of com
petition is gone forever; that the
Sherman anti-trust law, so far as it
effects railroad combinations, will be
repealed; that anti-pooling laws di
rected at railroad operations will, in-sofar-as
they affect the trnsportation
systems of the country, be abrogated
and a plan will be adopted which will
give the government practical control
of American railroads without the
weakness and the inefficiency inci
dent to government ownership."
Adoption of the standard of com
pensation provided in the bill also
was urged by Senator Watson.
COMPLAINING OF
DISCRIMINATION
AGAINST STRIKERS
Washington. Feb. 19 With strik
ing carpenters in all affected districts
returning to work today and William
L. Hutcheson, president of the Broth
erhood of Carpenters and Joiners,
due here to take up the situation with
government officials, complete settle
ment of the recent trouble in eastern
ship yards seemed assured. In effect
President Wilson's intervention has
terminated the eastern ship yard
strike.
New Tork, Feb. 19 Thirty-eight
striking carpenters who sought today
to return to work at the plant of the
Downey Ship Building Co. on Staten
Island, according to John Rice, na
tional organizer of the United Broth
erhood of Carpenters and Joiners
were refused entrance to the yard un
less they made new applications for
their old jobs at a changed scale of
wages.
The men, who had been working at
a flat rate of 60 cents an hour, refuse
to sign up for 54 to 60 cents and left
the plant. Their affidavits, Rice said,
would be sent to, William L. Hutche
son, president of the brotherhood,
who is now in Washington preparing
to go before the United States ship
ping board in the hope of effecting an
adjustment of the ship yard contro
versy. WANTS $10,000
FROM CONN. CO.
Edward Marshall, as administrator
on the estate of Thomas Broadley, has
filed suit in the Superior court against
the Connecticut Co. for $10,000 dam
ages for the death of Broadley.
According to the complaint Broad
ley, the evening of May 4, 1917, was
crossing Stratford avenue near Kos
suth street, and was struck by a trol
ley car going east in that street. He
died a short time later from his in
juries. .Negligence in the operation of
the trolley car is alleged.
WAR COSTS U. S.
$555 A SECOND
Every ciock tick costs us over $555
in our first year's conduct of the war.
This equal $33,333 1-3 a minute,
$2,000,000 an hour, and about one
billion and a half a month just for
the United States alone. But we shall
get some of it back, for we have been
lending our allies at the rate of about
thirteen million and a half dollars a
day.
EXPLOSION KILLS TWO.
Hammond, Ind., Feb. 21 Two men
were killed, qne is missing and 20
'were injured by an explosion " last
night which wrecked the Republic
Iron & Steel Co.'s plant in East Chi
cago, four miles from here. Th!
blast occurred in the tubular boilers
and batteries in the structural iron
mill.
NOTED GRAIN EXPERT DJKAI
Chicago, Feb. 16. Edward M. Hig
gins, grain expert with an interna
tional reputation, died at his home
here last night of heart disease. He
was 58 years old and a son of one of
Chicago's first packers. While presi
dent of the Armour Grain Co. he was
credited with a prominent part in
smashing the so-called Leiter wheat
corner in 1898. In 1907 he resigned,
saying his fortune of more than $1,
000.000 was sufficient for him, and
made a trip around the world. After
a year's retirement he resumed bus
iness here as a grain broker.
ITALIAN QUEEN
LAUDS AMERICAN;
RED CROSS WORK
Genea, Italy, Feb. 16 (Corrwpond
ence of the Associated Press Svom
Queen llaM of Italy, the ahm-Ioui
Red Cross committee for Genoa, hes
received a telegram expressing her
appreciation and that of King Em
manuel for its "high and beneficent
work" in opening a canteen and re
freshments place in the railroad sta
tion at Genoa. The Genoa commit
tee war organized early in November,
erected a chalet in the station yard
and served as many as 600 refugees
in a single night, during the height
of the Teutonic invasion.
Now that the influx of refugees has
decreased, the scope of the canteen
work has been expanded to include
Italian, British and French soldiers
passing through.
The new work was formally inaug
urated this week in the presence- of
municipal and army authorities. Paul :
Grosjean, manager . of the Genoa
branch of a New Tork bank and
chairman of the local committee,
spoke in behalf of the whole Red
Cross organization in Italy. A Bel
gian, he has enthusiastically under
taken the American work.
"The small nations, overwhelmed
by the barbarian, have stronger faith
than ever," he said. "This is an ex
ample to us. To these little nations
have come in aid the great nations in
an outpouring of high idealism of
justice.- The American Red Cross
represents the spirit of humanity
that animates the entire American
people. It has given immediate aid
to unfortunates forced to abandon
their homes. It works throughout
Italy in harmony with the country's
institutions. It intensifies the bonds
of solidarity and sympathy between
the two countries. Out of the awful
struggle a good has come. Nations
understand each other, draw nearer
together, and strengthen their friendly
relations. The American Red Cross
and the Italian Red Cross will work
together in a holy mission of giving
comfort and aid."
Consul-General David T. Wilber
expressed America's appreciation of
cordial collabiration shown by citi
zens of Genoft, The mayor of Genoa
responded warmly for the eivi'!in
authorities and General Garione
the military.
"American, Italian and Red Cross
flags were flying, and the station w. s
thronged with a cheering crowd."
WAR INCREASES
SWEDISH TRADE
Stockholm, Feb. 18 The opening of
the new year finds the Swedish State
Bank reflecting the wartime pros
perity of Swedish trade. Net profits
for the year are 2,600,000, againsc
fl, 600, 000 a year ago. The expansion
of Swedish trade is shown by the fact
that during 1917 over 1,200 new stock
companies were formed with an ag
gregate capital of 115,000,006.
FLYER BURNED IN
FLAMING PLANE
Dallas. Tex., Feb. 19 Victor L.
Dennis, flying cadet at Love field, was
probably fatally burned today when
his aeroplane burst into flames while
he was attempting to make a landing.
Dennis' home is in Detroit.
COMSTOCK, FRUIT
GROWER, DEAD
South Norwalk, Feb. 18 George
Christopher Comstoek, well known
throughout Connecticut and New
England as a fruit grower, died at
the Norwalk hospital yesterday at
the age of 70., He conducted the
Rosedale fruit farm in Broad River,
where he made his home.
GENERAL SIBLEY DEAD.
Rockford, 111., Feb. IS Brig. Gen.
F. W. Sibley, for many years a lead
ing officer who took part in the early
Indian campaigns and later in the
Spanish war, is dead at the base hos
pital in Camp Grant. Death was caus
ed by pernicious anaemia.
DEPORTED DESCENDANT
OF BEETHOVEN DEAD.
Copenhagen, Feb. 18 The death in
an Austrian field hospital of Karl Ju
lius Maria von Beethoven, a descen
dant of the famous composer of that
name, is announced. Deported from
England in 1915, he was drawn into
the Austrian army and sent to
the front. He was 46 years old.
WHO WROTE THEIR
NATIONAL ANTHEM?
The authorship of the British na
tional anthem furnishes one of those
evergreen subjects of dispute which
delight the soul of individuals whose
joy it is to write letters to the press,
observes a British newspaper.
Probably there will also be con
flicting evidences of the question, but
the common opinion now is that Hen
ry Carey, who died in October, 1743,
was the author.
At any rate, Carey sang the song
as his own composition at a dinner
party in Cornhill, while shortly after
wards he approached a publisher with
the manuscript.
It was not at once accepted, and
seems to have been first sung in pub- -lie
in 1745 two years after Carey's
death.
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
Viscount Ishii, head of the recent.
Japanese Mission to the United States,
has been appointed Japanese Am
bassador at Washington.
BsAwrt B. Van Coriiwndi. nr-m
ber of the Van CortlandC famT."
one of the original colonial families
of New Amsterdam killed himseif at
his home at Mount Kisco, N. Y.
Hayner Feld, a private in the 108th
Field Artillery at Spartanburg. S. C.
was fatally wounded by a civilian at
the outskirts of the city.
Arthur Woods, former police com
missioner of New York, has been ap
pointed to take charge of an Ameri
can propaganda in foreign coun
tries. '