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THE SUN, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1918.
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VETERAN, AGED 14,
LAUGHS AT BATTLE
New York Hoy Snys He Has
Boon Over Top More Times
Thnn He HemembPto.
WORRIED OVER LOST TEA
Shrapnel Annoying:. liit Not.
So Bad as Chiding of
Officers.
Counting two months In the hospital,
he was In the tlrllliOi nrmy five months.
He was of those who held a front line
trench at Ypres five weeks without re
lief. With ride or bomb he went over
the top so many times that he lost count
four times In one liollInK summer
week. A speck of .lirapnel pierced his
and had to 1 reproved for hl reti
cence. Was ho never wounded except
by the butt of the rriisslan's rifle?
fthraiinrl Spoiled the Tea.
"Nothlnir but a scratch," he said.
"One day In the trenches a group
of us were standing by the dugout and
I watched a ahrapncl shell that oamo
from across the way. You can see iv
shell going up, ou know, but not com
ing down. Thls'one came down on top
of the dugout. I forgot to say we were
making tea at the time In a canteen
that we call a dlxle. Piece nf shrapnel
and parapet spattered all over us and
splashed mud Into tho dlxle, so the
tea was spoiled."
"Hut that was hardly a catastrophe,
was It," the Interviewing guide sug
gested. "It vas to I'." said .laffe,
"Hut what about the scratch you
got?"
"Nothing hut a bit of shrapnel that
went through right here." 11h pointed
out faint mnrks that may be small scars
on tliH talhi anr back of his right hand,
near thi Junction nf forefinger and
thumb, but It wa clfar that the loss of
a pot of tea had bei tre only event of
that day of anv Inipor'anre."
"Would xou'lio Interested In knowing
that I deserted-" he ..ffered. "Well, It
was near the end of my service, when
I wa back In England. Tiny Bradford
and I mut have acted like kids, for
right hand. A German's clubbed musket we were always up for dodging parades
"... . ,, . ,. and fa ure to answer roll call. This
smashed his shoulder In a ruined house . . f ,h - .
U. S. MAY REVOKE
$40,000,000 GIFT
Government Inquires What
States Did With School Funds
Granted in lfl-IG.
NEW .JERSEY DISTURBED
Gloucester County Would
Have to Mortjrnjrc Court
Hfliisc to Pay Its Share.
TRADE PARLEY WITH MEXICO.
at St. Julian, and his chum snuffed out
the fJcrman. He did a man's work;
claims no more and no less. He was
honorably discharged for reasons which
will appear.
Nothing extraordinary about this? All
right; then let him tell why he cspe
lally remembers his fourteenth birth
day. July 24. 1S17 ;
"You know the country around Yyres
Is pretty watery anyway, and It had
rained for seven days and nights. I
was walking along a duck board, You
know duck boards nre the planks that
they sink Into the koij In the trenches,
one plank on top of another, until there
li sort of a solid path 1 stepped on a
loose one, the other end flew up and I
spilled into four feet of mud that was
mostly water. Sympathy? 'Jerr,' sings
out my chum. Tiny Bradford, 'you been
klckln' for four weeks about not liavln
a bawth, and here's hopln' you're satis
fied now.' I swabbed the mud out of my
ecs. went to the C O.'s office, where
there was a fire, and they let me hang up
my clothes and get them dry for the first
time In an awful while. Thai's why I
remember the day 1 was H."
Perhaps Youngest In War.
Sydney Jaffe, a New York boy now
back In New York, was perhaps the
oungest soldier In the war. He en
listed and was accepted at 13 and was a
Hrltlsh rifleman 163 days. Tr.ere is no
question nf that. Official records prove
it. The rest of the story la his own.
Hrltlsh officers here call it Incredthle.
but the boy sticks to It. He says the
dreariest of all fighting fronts, the Ypres
nallcnt, was an old story to him before
he was H. And now. with that behind
him. he Is living with his mother at 3S0
East 164th street and ilerklng for an
exemption board on the Kast Side, help
ing In another way to recruit the Army
of Freedom.
His story begins Just where he began
when he told It to The Sirs yesterday:
"I wan born near London, and when I
was T my father died of akkne&s bi ought
n by Boer war wounds. I have two
brothers, and In 1914 my mother moved
us all to New York. I imt to Public
School 14T, In East Broadway, and then
etarted In Morris High School. I was
pretty well satisfied until I took twodas
, off to visit two friends they were big
lads who were going to Join the Ameri
can army. They didn't say anything, but
from all their talk I got to thinking It
time we were gulng up before the Colo
nel for taklne .onie apples from an
orchard, anil as the Colonel didn't like
use becauro we bothered blm we thought
we'd get away, especially as we'd been
paid off the night Jiefore. We went in
khaki, for If they catch ou In your
uniform vou art- not a deserter, but
mrelv aleent without leave. We strolled
off to another camp tbW was on an
Island off the coast of Kent and then
we found a hut on tho shore and stayed
In that. In the night thins got to
crawling over u. and lighting a match
we found they weie san-l crabs. There
must have been a million of 'em. but
we uilltcte.t them ail together In u box
anil threw -eaebUN Into the tire we
had- made Oif. jou ought to have
beard thorp crib crackle! After that
we cotiM vIofj, "
.laffe Mid Tiny ,ot tired of the hut
on the xhore, It seemed, and embarked
on the North Sra In a boat with no
oars. Thej paddled with a board until
Tiny, who ki.eiv the co.t. found they
were headed for "the biggest whlrlvl
In the world, whete seven tide meet"
Cnniitit lis- frenl-MJnr,
loiter they raided a ramp ;iot office
and tilled up on the contents of pack
ages intended for well-behaved o!d!ers.
By climbing through the window of a
canteen they go cigirette. and the
next day. be'.ng hungry again, helped
themselves to the store of an officers'
mess. Then the were eff to London and
at a farm house on the way had the
flrt glas of milk .laffe had tasted
since he left New York. In a town,
the name of wli'cli the boy mentioned,
their four day invlng was ended by a
sergeant-major who walked In on them.
"What are you ilo-.ng hete."' said tho
sergeant-major
"On li.k le;e. ir " sa'd Jaffe.
'Then go 'bark to quarters and clean
up "
Yes, ir "
"As we were pretty hungry ag.tin.
we went haik." Jaffe went on. "We
met the provot sergeant and remarked,
have been aber.t without le3e.
fir'
"Oh. all right. Jaffe' he a,d. 'I
know what's the matter with you.
Turn out our po..kef'
'1 emptied it the cigaretie., for you
can't smoke In the Jigger (guard house)
The net day we were before the
Colonel.
'1'.. I' nun i ',r tih Expeditionary
WooDBL'nr. N. J.. IM) 24. l.'.ke the
man who puts on an old suit that he
hasn't worn for some time and hai the
delightful thrill of finding a stray green
back or coin stuck away In a pocket
where he had forgotten all about It, I'll
cle Sam, In donning his old war togs
again lias poked hU finger Into his vest
pocket and discovered a cool $40,000,000
that had entirely slipped his memory
since he tucked It away there for safe
keeping eighty-two years hso.
Just now your Uncle Is fondly finger
ing the forgotten piece and wondering
whether to add It to the big pile he has
staked on the war game. That such l
the case has come to public notice through
the reairhlng of the old records of
Uloucester county by Oeorge N. Plerson,
the xeteran founty collector, following
formal Inquiries from the Federal au
thorities us to how- surplus revenue funds
divided among the States and subdivided
among the counties in 13'3 have been in"
estcd.
I.rnnt Made III IS.KI.
County Collector Plerson has dug up
a complete re.-ord. which set." forth that
in ls:',i; Congress voted to divide anions
the various States surplu levenue
amounting to $40,000,0i0. The record
here are not dmr as to how this big
surplii" for that period was accumulated,
but It l supposed that it came fiom war
taxes or Indemnities.
Ill distributing this money CoiiRie"
provided tnat it Khould be used for pub
lic school purposes and exacted a pledge
from each State that its share of the
monej would be returned to the Fed
eral Treasury (.houtil the nation ever
need it badly enough to call It back.
It wa planned tnit this mone should
be naid out in four Instalments, but
the old Oloucetor county records sliow
the payment of onlj three of tnese
Instalments. In that peilod, Olouc. ter
'ounty reH bed from tne Delaware
River i tt- Atlantic ean and in
cluded what are now Camden and Atlan
tic coiintle". As Its share of the fund'
Conference to Be Reanrard To-4ay
at rarrania'a Capital.
Mexico Citt, Feb. 24. Conferences
will bo resumed here to-morroy concern
ing the raising of the United States ex
port restrictions against Mexico. Henry
P. Fletcher, American Ambassador, ami
Hofael Nteto, acting Secretary of the
Treasury, arrived to-day from Wash
ington, wheie an agreement was reached
subject to President Carrania's approval,
lien. Salvador Alvarado, formerly 5ov
ernor of Yucatan, will also attend the
conferences, presumably In relation to
the shipments of sisal to the United
States,
According to Senor Nleto, the prelim
inary agreement provides that the
United States shall allow $15,000,000
American gold to enter Mexico, and In
return Mexico will remove certain dn
named transport restrictions on mine
products. Senor Nleto also announced
the establishment of a credit of I2J,
OOO.OOO. What arangement" have ben made
regarding the admls.lon of foodstuffs
Into Mexico has not been announced,
hut J. A McCarthy, MexU-o city banker,
who lias been named representative of
the I lilted States Food Administrator
In Mexico, conferred to-day with the
Ji'atlomil Food Commission.
COL. H1NE LEAYES
THE FIGHTING 69TH
BISHOP BASHFORD
WARNS OF RACE WAR
Methodist Episcopal Church
Plans Ripr Mission Drive to
Plant Religion.
looked funny that I had come away from Force he said to tne
England just when the war started,
when everybody that could ought to be
going the other way Well, the next
morning after I saw- my two friends off
I went to a British recruiting office here
nd enlisted. It was on June ? last year
nd I was 1 3 - years old, but fairly'blg.
and my voice hid changed, f Jaffe Is sir.'
about 5 feet 6 inches tall now.
!alil Jle Wu 18.
Yes.
"Been in France and Belgium?'
' 'Yes, sir.'
' 'How old are ou?'
'Fourteen ears and three months.'
'What ?'
Fourteen yea: . and Hires months.
"I told em I was 1 and they took me
My tiothr was going to kick, but as I
thought I would be training in Canada
for seven months I told her so. and that
the war would be over by then. But a
week after I got to Canada I was
grabbed for a draff they were Just send
ing over and was sent along I was in
A iompan. sixth Battalion, the Itille
Brigade, and later in the Twelfth Bat
talion. Fiom Krigiaiul they sent us right
over. We were at a French seaport two
days, then up the line to Calais and a
four days march to Ypree . Gee. that was
some march '
Sydney Jaffe Mnpvfd as If he had told
It all, and the astounded 'ntervlrwer had
to prod him with. "Wei!, go on. What
did nil do at Ypres'"
"Oh." he said, in precise Fnglish, not
of the Fast Side but of London "We
started doing our work. like In and out
of the lines and going over the top occa- i
lonally It was summer and our bodies
wero nearly raw from sunburn. At one
stretch we were in our trench for five
weeks you know at times lejjef was
bad and of course there's nothing to do
but stay where you are till it comes.
Well, after that the c. o. says this was
In July, I think 'Boys, you're out for a
long rest now We pay nut ti-morrow
and draw- as much as you like '
"I drew out 100 francs and spent ft
week In Poperlnghe w ith my chum. Tiny
Bradford, who was 1, but smaller than
I. He went in. by the way. In 1314. on
the t-econd day of the war.
"Then It was bark to Yprei again and
Just as wo got t-ere another big attack
started. When we went over at dawn
the Hermans were not there the had
evacuated their line; It was quite a re
treat, I think We kept on and caught
up with them at the end of about four
miles, at the town of St. Julian, which
was badly battered As they had left
machine gun emplacements in the houses
to protect their rear our company com
mander. Lieut, West, said .
" 'Bos, the Germans are trying to put
one over by firing on us from the'e
houses. It's un to ou lo go through the
houses and fotec: the rest of the di
vision.' Cio Through the Homes.
"Tiny and 1 weie orderel into a shack
that had been a dwelling plan- but
rather knocked about by shellfir. We
went upstairs first and there was nobody
thre. Then vie went down to tile street
floor and opened a door and came upon
a German He had a machine gun It
was a T.ewi gun and had stuck the
murzle through tre shutters of a w indow
in such a way that no one outside would
know It was there But tne gun was
Jammed and hn was working on it He
was a big Prulan Guardsman
"The s'irjpnei helmet alwa.vs gave me
a headache and when we went over I hi-
ways manage.1 to get rid of it. so I diiV
not have it this time. Tiny and I went
for the German, but he picked up a rifle
and Just managed to whirl it as a dub
when we closed. I got It on the shoulder
and was knocked down. Hut good old
Tiny Bradford let the German have the
bayonet. No, he'll never see Prussia
again
"Then Bradford cut eff the sleeve of
my tunic and shlit and put a flehi dress
ing on the shoulder When we got down
tir I reported s i-k to the se-tloti com.
mandrr, and at the has." ho-pltal tiles
found my collar Nine bmken ami sinews
torn At the ba.p ROt nia.hria and
was suit over to Broadway Hospital,
Sheerncs. Cngland I was there two
months and rejoined ihe baitnlun at the
beginning of N',. vernier Then
finallv I was dlseharsid"
A511I11 Ujij bo thought his story ended
" 'Impossible "
' Yc, sir.' "
Jeff and Tiny t.ioucat ,n.v thing short
of shooting might happen to them, but
eight days confinement li barracks for
Jaffe and four days for Bradford, with
an opportunity to do all the dlrt work
around camp, w as their m.ld pun.hmcnt.
Mother TaUca n llnnd.
Meanwhile Mother Ja-.Te .n New York
had be'ii trmg to cet her pre-o(.i u
ihild out of the -civ ire V. iien Sidney
found hl. unite jteil for dutv in Sal
niuca uiatiad of a retjrli to BeL-i,im a
he say8, he hea:i a serious a:inipf lo
Only Cht stlanlt 'n spreid can prevent
a racial world war vvhti h vvMIl over
shadow the present conflict, raid Bishop
Jam's W. Bashford of China lat night
In a statement given out by the Joint tired to M-e top o
He Is Assigned to Transporta
tion Department of Ter
shin:rs Army.
PARKER SUCCEEDS 1I1M
He Is West Pointer and Has
Fine Military
lleeord.
Tlie.li'iiii find .Vnt'i JoiiriKtJ announces
In Its edition of yesterday that Charles
He Lnno Hlnc has been succeeded by
John W Barker as Colonel of the 163th
Infantty (formerly the Sixty-ninth New
York), now- In France as a portion of
the llalnbov Division. Tile Information
enme In a iVtter to the editor from an
army officer In France. The Army nml
.Vnt'v Journal adds
"Col. Hlne. who Is an expert In rail
road work, has been .-yslgned to duty In
the transportation department of the
American Uxpedlllnnary Force", for
which by hN long association with rail
road organliatlon and work be Is es
pecially fitted. Col Barker Is a grad
uate nf the t S M. A., class of ISM.
and Is known as an all around efficient
officer. A' n Lieutenant In tho Ninth
Infantry he was in command of n topo
graphical parly on progressive military
map. As a Lieutenant In the Third In
fantry he tool; part In tre Santiago cam
paign, battle of LI Cancy and the siege
of Santiago.
"Col. Barker served with hN regi
ment, the Third Infantry, in Philippine
c.imiaigns and In effecting the disarma
ment of sonv Moros he was wounded
In the hip by a bullet fnm a r'fl In ttv-
hands of n Morti Th Morn. who re-
Bud Dujo, finally
A. S. HOUGHTON RESIGNS.
TV. . Carpenter to lie Secretary
Conservation Commission. '
ALmrtT, Feb. '.'4. The resignation of!
A. S. Houghton as secretary of the Con- I
rervation Commission, to take effect to- I
morrow, Is announced by Conservation
Commissioner George D. Pratt. Mr. I
Houghton has been secretary of the com
mission since April, 1915, and Is now- re- ,
turning to New York to resume the prac- ,
tlce of law.
In announcing Mr. Houghton's resigna
tion Commissioner Pratt said that Mr.
Houghton had given up his law practice
at a great personal sacrltlce to take the
po'ltlon of secretary of the Conservation
Commission In order that he might co
operate with Commissioner Pratt In put
ting Into effect many of the policies on
which they have worked together for
many years.
Commissioner Pratt has announced the
promotion of Warwick S. Carpenter, who
Iibr been confidential secretary and
editor of the commission since June,
1P13, to fill the vacancy left by Mr.
Houghton. " i
NOTICE TO ALL ICE MANUFACTURERS
AND DEALERS
Under nd puriuant to the Lavvi of the State of New York, n provide!
in Chapter 4 of the lawi of 1918, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO Al 1.
CONCERNED, that ihe manufacture and tale of artificial ice i prohibited
on and after March I. 1918. in the City of New Yoik. on Long Island, and m
the countiei berdenng on the Hudon River up to and including the Counti-i
ol Albany and Rer.tsclaer. No person, partnerihip or corporation shall en?aj
in the business of manufacturing, selling and delivering artificial ice in any city
of more than one million inhabitanU after March I. 1918. and before Februjry
I. 1919, before first obtaining a license so to do to be issued by the Ice Comp.
troller in the form prescribed by him.
This notice is given, therefore, to all persons interested in order that they
may make application, in writing, to the Ice Comptroller at his office. Room
3233. 120 Broadway. Such applications must be made by mail to the under,
signed.
B. B. ODEU.. Ice Comptroller.
centenary .ommittee of the Methodist i cipiiiu.imi lie nas ior seiera. je .r-.
, , , ., , . . ,1 been on dutv with the Amerlesn Lm-
l.plseopal Church. The , Lurch intends . ,v . ., ... ,,..,
to commemorate the centenary of its porttmlt to study the condition. on the
mission work by taking up. a world pio-
granime this year.
Bishop Bashford eaid that the war
has ploughed up the world for a new
p. anting of religion, and the Methodlt
Church In America has mapjied out ar
rangement for missionary movement's
,m the largest a! in hltnrv
"I am not needlessly a'armlng' said
the Biehop '"Tho-t ti ns who have
studied conditions t ie win : I ove: see It.
It ! nf no avail ca!l mi h a rate war
battle, fio-it
The t.r!'i Infantry, we a.e told, has
been doing hard training vvoik, but " a
whole l In ex-ellent health T.ie bat
talions nf the regiment are 1 ,-ated in
different towns and f.ml t.ie Inhabitants
very friend! The weather has been
try. lie. and frequent rains hue now
set in. ("loe on two-third" nf the tilth
Heciment i made up of members drafted
from the old Seventh. Twelfth. Four
teinth. Twent.v -third and some other
impossible Civilization thought such a regiments. Them men at the time did
war .ii the one which Is now going on not w elenme leaving their idd command.,
out nf 'he iutlon With the colored 1 but later made t lie bet nf It and now
lines no;, jdightly outnumbering the I are thoroughly H3th Iteglment men and
white raies of the r orld. v ,th South are a'l doing their bit
Amer.ci fliiing up with a mixed white Th present war is the first t nie in
as subdivided by the State of New Jei-j H, (0!ored pnpulatlof. nrh Malaysia the hltory "f the old Slxty-nint.i -',.it
Idling up with Oriental ra e that will enough Irinnirti or lrln Americans
number three or four hundred millions did not enlist in war time to fill It to
before the i lce of the century, if the I the I'mlt. In nth. r vvar. with well
white i"n s lontinue to atvnipt to domi-! known Irish Colonels at it" held, ihe
tiate rveiy luntinent by mllltar power , Sixty-ninth was rapidly tlllt-il to over
sey among the countle". tijouccster re
eelved approximate $51,000 There
were then sixteen counties in tho State
while now there arc twenty-two.
When Atlantic county was created
out of the lower portion nf filoucester
county In 1S37 the State made up to the
new
ami to exclude the vellmv tate fiom live
of the s.x great continent", there will
race wa
flowing t'nfortunately tho Colonel se
levied for it In lj'.l. while lie was an
i'Vi ellent officer, wh" unknown t. Irish
ouni.v us portion in iris spe, iai . . , r r ,.omtiar.on with
s;heo! fund. In 1SI4 illoucester county li ii Ix nur ptesent struggle will pmve a i i-.i-i.. and this fact killed recruiting The
again was divided and Camden county i skirmish regiment i" now a hard a.- nall, and
created. A commission was appointed -Had our rh'ii-hr -"lent fortv null. on- when the time .ijnies for 1: to meet the
to divide the funds anj other property , llf ,i0i.arH (n i,l0narv vvcuk in llu'-ia Ormans the b-st tradition- of lie old
of the o'd county .-ml Camden county , durtnK th- lst forty v'e.iir . Ituian de. Slxt -ninth will -urely be nM.ntnined
Rni a portion of lb.- ntlgina! sui plus . miK.racv would hav'e "stor.d f.rnt in the ! The regiment i anMc.us for Hie dj to
r.v nil fmH tlil ,.iit U.n It.lM itv-i.r I . . .... .... ... i .. ... .... hu '
revenue fund that oad been paid over
to the original large county of Ciouet"
ter First Instalment anlahe.
Tlie lecords are mity as to what
nioin ester county did with its Mr-t in
stalment of tlil i"!overnment money, the
bofcl of fieehnlders of t,at period cov
ered up fie transaction so that there is
r.o way of tracing the money Tho
county filed with the State Treasurer,
however, a bond pledging to pay back
iw portion of the surplus revenue fund
at the call of the Federal 1 ive-nment.
The county secords !et forth that siuh
bond were filed t.y ail of the old nrig
Iral sixteen countle. but the statement
wis made that none of the new coun
ties rteated after that time hul fa.
filled tins requirement.
The rjueftion therefore arises as to
v. netner tne Mate of ew Je--ej can
call in the fu'l sum for which it stands
pledeed to the national tiovernment.
but for which .t la -ks -nn bond" and
pledges from it newfr counties, should
the Fedrni authorities. 'W fit to ca'l
In this old lo-m at th s time.
Th s same condition
TOWN'S POSTMASTER 52 YEARS.
rl-i of revolution and this would have j Ko ovr the top
been worth forty billions in hastening
th determination of the war upon prin
ciples neces'.ny to the future sedulity of
the natinr." nf the earth I Joaliun (irlffllh. 'J. uf l.nilliiRtan
"There is b-it one t nn-tt uc tlv e pr4- , ........ ..
gramme, and ,t upon this programme J ,llle '" -
tli.it the Method.st Church, thtough its I l"rt sele-ted by FreMdent Lincoln
foieign and home m'fcsions is to concen-and leappointed oy evety l'resident slnt-e,
trate ' IVwuimsii r Joshua nnRlth nf Ludinston-
I tile. I'utnam county, has at lat retired
' fmm the mil service after more than
, flftv-two vears In office Mr liriftith.
'who Is v; vcars nld. handled mat' for
Drlxrrs Flee. I.entliiic T"o ilell .old'ers in the c ivll w a r
and llo I nc onsclnns In llnnd. I hen lintilth decided that he would
' rett-o the I'nited States aldir.ed the
Autumni.ne cir-vrrs i.en ou ruav alter . r.flo, -,! haa jUM established rural free
3 MOTOR CAR VICTIMS DYING.
leaving thro victim? two in-n .im. a
un'"r:ou n road coe to NVw
York Two nf the ;trr-tiJMt were it1'
New Jerfv ami the third it, Que-n- ,
All of the mjurerl are In hoptt.il. nif
fermtT from fr.irturetl skulU and int-nal ,
injur. e ati'I aro not iitp-ri in rM'r.e- j
Joseph Sherr. 3.".. of in tnht trnf.
.Ier CU. . was i-lrked tin on a trollex (
frik m flraml treet ar-1 taon t-i let - '
.pv Cit Mrwriit;il l.atr lit gr th ,
yaitl to is tru ; tuiMre th iinc tumor an am
ile'.n ery out of Itolni!- tor a hll
'JnfTlth '-e-:ied to cet tMo rural for i e
W"r tic Me -nJ'- ef,,ll?"t health
lr t.r aii
ll it C ill
II rook- j
n o;. f-r .iaio- w.rn nart-.l mt J - ' n.nhtk' uw ned tv a man
OfHi tioti -r surpM revenue the Im ,5:0 Mm
bens made a orclfna to i.-pijlat o; W-.tlnm Dudcke. 1. M M ! oa l
In tne cup of G o'jepjtter ooun'y, l"!.Iore (.':... wa found m Mnntpnmer,
Inom-e: "Vhe'Sr 'Xmfun mI 1 lh lnA w"' " nrn lnv"t"1 i '" al'Vlill 'road. 'Thomas Sullivan ,
Ing cfilcer. About the same time his i , v.,j ,i .,...,. i , . , , , . , ,..
mother's letter, with t copy of the birth
crrtlflcaf, teached thetn Th Colonel
said. 'We don't want that kid here."
and on November 1.1 last Jaffe was dis
charged from the service at Knatc'iurch.
He placed before The fr.c reporter
his certificate of d.liar?e and "Chirac
tr sheet.'' whereon H recorded that
Sydney Jeffrey itbe name; urder wh.ch
he enliMrri) was discharged "In cnne.
quen 'e of having mide a misstatement
as to ace of enlistment" In vmUthn of
paragraph :!iJ of the King s regulations.
The papers say lie was born at Dalston,
county of Ijndon, England, on July It.
lin.l thJt he enlisted on June IT, 1317.
that be was 16." clavs with the colnrs
and that his age at the t.me of cji-.
chirge was II je.vr. and .". months. But
the ont-y that pleacs the boy nrit l.
this, siKned. n.s are the others, by
"Mnrland, Major"
"This is to cert.f.v that No. S 3.1.101;
rank, rifleman, name. ,ydnev Jeffrey,
has served with the color- in the .sixth
Reserve llattallon. the rtlfle Brigade,
for five months, and his chira.ter Is
good."
Thus his mrrathe a tn his fSe and
time of service Is attested oftlc ial'.v. The
papers do not ment.m service in France
cr Reigium, but the hoy ays that what
he hay is all true, and that tie doesn't
rare particularly about gong back,
though if the war Is going when he's IS
he'll lie thc
lie Is a ceri for Kvemption Hurd 03.
at ;J! Fast Broadway and when bo
Hints that tak expcti to co ti work
for an unele In N' ttli Inkota
Tin: rifN as'ed fevor.i' ollhrrj nf the
British rerui"ne ml"vi what c-e
thought of Sydney .laffrc's etory. They
said It whs Incredible, ihit the bov's
mother set out tn in him discharged
soon after his enlistment, ind that it
wa unlikely he ever got further than
an Kngllsh training camp. The minimum
in bonded mortgages and the Inc me d-
voltd to rciiool purposes. Miout tho
time of the building of the Court House,
l-.o.v ever, this fund eems to have heen
Incnrp rated wi-h the general county
fund- Thi was atithnrlxerl under .1
spcvjal act of the legislature, xhlrh
I rovide.1 that the county should raio
by taxation the equiv llent of the Income
at C per cent on this special school fund
for n go'd mil-, year- the county
has been payine over to the school fund
the sum of $1,51 1 ,",a. representing tiie
annual interest at c per cenu on ap-p.-ojclmatcly
I30.0ia
Fares llnnd or MnrlRngrs.
The fact that the public schools a-e
the heneflcia'les of this fund, not on'.y
in Gl ,uceter cviuni y l.ut als.1 it the
res: of this State and In the other State,
which eharc-d In the div'sion in 1 fi C . and
th-tt injury might be dore to the educa
tional systems hv deirlvlnir them of this
money, ma deter rnele Sam f'tim put
tins thLs old po. kem.ece into cir illation
bv calling fo- the st.Ves to return this
surplus levenue to the Kederal Treau.
School otti,-lal take this hopeful o.r
lo"k in view of the fact thu the na-inn
apparently took no steps to rash the
pledjes given hv the Stater, for the re
turn of thee funds ewher in the Me,
can war. which sh rtl followed the''-d.-trihut.on.
nor In the civil war, when
the Federal Treasury was at fire, hard
pressed for funds, Neither was t
touched during the Spin'sh American
a a r.
Should this old surplus revenue fund
lie ruiied n Olou. es-cr c ounty would
have in give morigase on ' the old
CNurt House -r float a speed) bond is.
sue It 1- believed thit most of the
counties in th s and In other States that
were in the fnion in 1S38 would ho In
similar s'ri' s
31. a mechanic, was found n Lincoln
avenue near Korkawa Boulevard Omnc
Tail.. lie was taken to St Marv s Hns- I
pttal, Jamaica.
CLASSES I.W.W. AS BOLSHEVIKI.
-- . ;
I'osley ( rltlrlsev ehTtnli nnrl,
Thninpkon titr tpon!nK Cnnae. j
llalpi, M lVvdc. 1 tf'n.ui o' the ex-I
ecue've comm'ttec nf the Naiinna1 Ci-j
I I'eratlon. peak.ng o.tensibiv for his
organlr.atlnn vesfirdiy. give ntit ,1 state. I
ment In which he afiac'Ked f-o I V V I
element in this country n a counterpart
of the I'olslievikl in Itunda. and crltl
clsed Charles M Srhwah and William
I! Thompson for e.pous.ng the Bolshe
vik cause.
Two leading A'neri-a-i c.ijnt.ilist. in
dorsing the I.enir,e-Trntr.k Bolshevik
nin-,nienr nica reuue,i m me ai-- j
ruptlnn of Itussia and a surrender to
ilerman militarism, sav- i;.isie. pie-!
sents an amarlng spectacle Bolshev- j
Km. he declares, I'nlt Its parallel m the!
I't.iteil state. In tlie rcvoluthinarv So-!
clallt... an.irr'-lsts and the I V V .
who If powerful enougu. would end all
Industrv and the prolu tmn of U'eful
thln?e.
$500,000 CHOCOLATE FIRE.
Million I'n 11 nils llnrnnl ni llrrsliey
tumpnn)' Plnnt.
II vntitsRrKil, I'a . Ki'b. 1. -More tnae
one mill. on Julind" nf ihn.n;.ite 1:1 pow
cere,l form, one of the advancer stage,
r.f manufacture, was ce.tr ,yed bv flre
at Ihe llerMiej ("hccol.ite Condu v -plant
at Her.'liev. JM . rarlv to-cli.
causing a lo-s e-tlmated at ssoo.flaa
Although the blaze vcas , .pt,,e 1 to
an i.ngiiMi irainmir camp. 1 ne minimum 1 . ., ., , ,. ,,
jKKiri W0MAN R0UTSTHIEF ,r.p,.:r "r;
time, the British officers sild. and three
of them who enlisted la-t ear were
wounded In battle and have returned to
America were mentioned But tne officers
could not believe that a mere bo could
have the same experience.
"But ife all true, just as 1 have told
it,"'fls Sydney Jaffte's final word
CARDINAL FARLEY APPEALS.
Inn Contributions tn Italrr
,.-.(M,0(M) War I'and.
An uwent appeal tn all CatlijHrs to
cooperate in the ti, 500 000 drive for the
war cmp fund of the Knights of Colum
bus, beginning March 17. was made es
terd.iv at all ni.ises li) Cardinal Far
ley throueli the pimrs of the various
churches of the Unman Catholi' arch
diocese nf this clly
The Cardinal emp' nlzed his interr.t
In I'atl.olli' war work, the Knights nf
Columbus artlvlt.e. csp.vlallv. and ap
pealed to all to as.cume their hhare of
the burden which tin great organization
has undertaken
Her lni fionil When Mie I'lnila In
truder In Mrlbol Home,
Two thieves found Inciting tlie ho'ne of
her sister In Methol were routed bv Mrs
Florence Drinan of Barrwille, she te
ported e.-terda after the ielted nr.e
v Itli n bottle and smeared hini with Ink.
The Intruders escaped with two new
suits of ejothes, some money and a
watch after they stopped to deposit some
coins In a little clrl's toy bank and drape
a nude statue In one of her dresses
As Mrs Irinau and hl slster-ln-lxw.
Mis I'earl Beattln of Mahopac, were out
walking with Mrs. Conrad Lewis two
men entered the Lewis home in Methed
bv a panttv window, Chancing their
old elolhes for Mr Lewis's best suits,
the took Mrs. Lewis's watch and opened
a handbag owned by Mrs. llccitlc. rrom
the purse containing $14 In ciirrencj and
S.1 cents in rhanee thej ,tole the bIU
but stuffed the coins In the slnt nf little
Muriel Lewis's tny bank. They aln put
one nf her clresres on a nude statue of
Iil.uia The police got a meagre descrlp
lion of the thieves nftet thev escaped
through a window.
looms was damaged bv water Tlie Ore
le believed to !me resulted f ' om spoi
tanrnt'o combust op
Kill That
Cold and
Save Health
CASCARAE? QUININE
The old famllf rrrardy in tablet
form safe, turc. ttty to tike. No
opiatet no unpleasant after effreti.
Cureireldtln 14 hours Olio In 3
dtyi. Money backif Itfallt. Qetthc
genuint Dog witn
Red Top and Mr.
Hi'.l'l picture on it
2TabUuior2Sc.
At Any Drug Star
6 Billions
a year
Depend
On Ships
0 billion dollars' worth of
the pooils America pro
tlui'Cil in 1017 was sold
overseas.
What made this possible?
Ships !
Is it anv wonder that ship
building and the shipping
industrv have become tlie
vital factor in America'
coniiiiercial progress?
Nautical men ami alert
business men must follow
l ho news of ship building
and shipping and the
progress of marine archi
tecture, navigation, port
development, and inland
waterwavs.
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didn't know anyone
could be so happy as
we have been since we
moved into our own home,
said little Mrs. Smith to her friend Mrs. Brown.
We wouldn't go back to a flat
again if somebody gave us one,
rent free."
Is That the Way You
Feel About Your Home?
Any one who has built or bought a home in the suburbs has had an ex
perience that makes one of the big events of a lifetime. Most people buv
or build but one home. Often the event is the result of years of planning
of hunting, of saving. And the day the home is finally occupied is one ol
those days that go down in the family Bible with your wedding day and
baby's birthda. From that first day in your own home a new chapter
begins in the book of life. Your world grows larger; your interest greater:
your influence more extensive- you become a man of affairs.
But far back in your mind remain the details
of that happy time when you started out to get
your own home how you first had the home owning
fever; how you planned your house; how you
searched the suburbs for that ideal spot; how you
saved; how you visited many dwellings before you
found just the one you wanted; how you dickered
with owners, and at last how you bought the
place that now stands out in your mind in glowing
letters
Home!
It is a story you have told many times.
THE SUN wants you to tell it again
for the benefit of those who do not yet know the joys of home ownership.
Tell us how you went about getting your home. Did you buy
or build? How long did you search before you found your
home? How did you finance its purchase? Now that you have
it, does it come up to your expectations? Tell us all those little
details of your experience that make it one of the great events
of your life.
And have you pictures of your home ?
Send them with the story-- exteriors,
interiors, and a floor plan if you have it.
The Sun will publish a series
of stories about "Buying the Home" beginning on Sunday. March 10.
and continuing on Sundays following throughout March. April. Ma
and June. Five dollars will be paid for cvcr article pub'ished
just enough to buy a new porch hammock, a croquet set or a new yet
of garden tools. And at the end of the series the writer of the article
which the editors of THE SUN deem of greatest interest will be rewarded
by a special prize of $25.
Address All Communications to the
Real Estate Department, THE SUN, 150 Nassau Street.
Unused manuscripts will be returned if stamps arc enclosed.
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