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THE FARMER: DECEMBER 31, 1917 (FOUSBEB 1TB0.) N " I'hed by The Farmer Publishing Co IT FalrBeld Are., Bridgeport, Coon. 50c month, ik?0 per year WEEKfcXn tl.00 per year la ad ranee PHONE EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Bantum 12S7 PHONE BUSINESS -OFHCE rartsam 1208 TOtlETGN REPRESENTATIVES 6 Brjant, Griffith A Bran son. New York, Boston and Chicago ' , , - MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press ta escl naively entitled to the oac for republication ews 4lpe4cfees credited to It or net otherwise credited In this paper I ts ' to the local news pwfeHsaed herein. J See! Saw! Margery Daw! MOAAY, DEC 81, 1917. THE NEW NAME EGINNIKG TOMORROW ' The Farmer! will become The . Bridgeport Times and Farmer. ; The change has been contemplated, but i reluctantly accomplished, because of -riations and. traditions' attaching to the old name, which Teea carried for more than a. century. Hie Farmer wai begun Vfv give effect to the principles of , ?oaian DMnpcracy, Jefferson was a farmer, as most of ; . iinders of the jftatioh were, and his stat'ecraf t was largely A to increase tha material well being of the farming class, -i in his day constituted the great bulk -of the American ' Fairfield County -was a farming community. . It was natural that a newspaper published to gyve expres i to such'viewS), should take the name of the class it intend represent; ' ... V"; . V.-- . j-'V-V !-. line, has worked many miracles Fairfield county is no r an agricultural, but an industrial community. The in ' s , of, Fairfield 'county , are no longer parochial, they are 1 wide. " The old name had become too exclusive, a caste so to speak,' and it is increased by the addition of a name !i indicates more accurately the function 6i this newspaper. Yvhen The" Farmer was started, advertising was purely a 1 aiaiter. It is Uot so Tlbw. .The advertising columns of a rn daily hewspaper contain the communications of adter 3 doing business in all parts of the United States. . In dealing with this great business interest, tie old name i ecamfii'misleadingi It was difficult for strangers to asso- i iha i&ct of a widely read daily newspaper, printed in.a ' moustrial center, with" a, title suggesting: a purely agri4 ral and specialized circulation. , " AA': ; ' v Uadsr new name, as under old, this newspaper will do Its ! tost to represent the jjeopla. It will be brae to Qfiir inier s loyal to the truths devoted to the interests of city, state and .. and zealous .in" oolldctmg,'' printing and interpreting the ::. Tie Times and Farmer extends to its readers its best for ax'ELappy New Year. v ' ' . ' ' KELP JFEOM THE HELPFUL W DAYS ago, the negro Dive Keeper, Baby Doll, found himself in the middle of a riot and about to be appre- i, following a nxurder. ':In his hour of trial he called upon -?forheln. ' - ., ".'.' Jarday a Bridgeport indnstry 'came into' court It rieed rgunizaiion and Mr. King was appointed receiver. The : called hnn'to help. -.-- King is not a dive keeper, and he is has. no experience rating dives. He is not a policeman, nor a prosecutor, nor . t, yet' he ha3 gifts -which made it seem to Baby Doll that :li help. ' 1 Mr. King is-r.ot notably a manufacturer. He is not 6spe 7 known a's a lawyer. Yet ne has gifts which -made ijt seem ccrart that he -wooild he a good man, or acceptable, to take ,'3 f a 'consLderable industry.5 V V'X" 'X: V-X1 Vfiat are the talnts in. a man that command recognition i sources widely, separated. jSaid Mr. Kipling, "The col : s ady and Judy CGrady are sisters tinder the skin." ' : Ir King seems tp he a sort of nnrversal brother. They all t I'm -when there's a job to he done. ATTACKING FARM LOAN BANKS HE EAST has no body of men who make a specialty of loaning on farm land. : But the south andjwest are well : :ied with land loan sharks who practice usury in the trood f ishioned way. This interest is preparing tq make an" at-' upon me farm loan banks, when the loan law comes up t nendment, as it will soon. ; Their method is very simple. ;y will claim an impairment of capital. v-" ; Tbe' farm loan banks; started, each with, $750,000 capital, : or eight months, ago. v They had to pay organization ex . es, buy furniture, pay for the appraisal of land upon which i' madeoans, and incur all 'the expense of getting ready. se sums cameout of capital, and constitute technically an airment of capital. 1 The banks are now just receiving their t payments on loans, but the interest account represents al- t entirely sums not due. ,s ; ,. ' :;. :.v; v.'-'- Yet the actual capital of the banks is about $1000,0000 i.er uwu um uicj wcto Kwirwju, uue io me suoscrlptlons ttock made by farm loan associations. . . The farm ioan banks are a useful institution, not yet tried I here. But they have been most helpful throughout Europe, i wm ne even more neiprui m Amertea. ; ' ONE BENEFITS J NIFIGATION OF resources on the New England lines will it is said, permit 500 tons more of coal per day to, be ;ht into New England. The amount is nrobablv under- Ated. Yet it will take time to make a smoothly working amsm out or tne aisjomtea railroad Bystems of America, s must be devised, In some cases new men must be found 3 will be some backing, in the traces. But within a cem Ively brief time' the country will begin to feel the rood '-3 of a more scientific and mere harmonious method of ad operation. '; ; , LIBERTY BOND LESSONS By HOWARD SPEER Of Hincks Bros. & Co. Lesson No. 21. He Knows AH About Government Finances Today It was a woman. . Yesterday- It waa a young man. The day before It was an older man. And all last week and each week for a month or more It has been a fairly steady pro cession of people who come In, timid or confident, and go out again, per haps satisfied," perhaps puzzled, but doubtless fepfing a bit uncertain abut things in general. Who are they? What do they want?. And what puzzles them? They are owners of Liberty Bonds. They want to sell their bonds. They are puzzled to learn that they can't get as much for their bonds as they paid fr them. .' They thought they could get toe full amount of cash for a Liberty Bond , at any time becaus they understood it to be a promise of the United States and Just like money. And yet at the .time this ar ticle Is being written a $100 Liberty "3 per cent, bond can be sold for only $9. 40, and a 4 per. cent bond for only $97. Naturally they are frightened and puzzled and even in dignant What is, the matter? ' ' In the first place they are, mis takes in thinking of Liberty Bonds as just so much' money. Last June and October a great; many compari sons were, made in speeches and ad vertisements between Liberty Bonds and money. Th -writer of these ar ticles made, such comparisons, but always, to illustrate , howl safe, an in vestment .Liberty Bonds were. Both bond and dollar bill are promises of the same government, and therefore one Is as, the safe as the other. Each is sure to be paid. But the bUl,is payable on demand, while the bond neeo not De paid until i4z or The bill,, being mere money, payable on demand, gets no interest . The bond receives S per cent or 4 per cent interest regularly until it Is re deemed, but if the holder wants to cash his bond hefore It Is due; he must look to some private buyer and not to' the government There are plenty of such' buyers, . but because they axe human beings and because a new set of conditions exist also, at every ' day, -they WU1 offer different prices at different times. Here' Is the whole thing in a nut shell. Suppose John D. Rockefeller owed' you $200. Suppose he should ask yo-u to take $100. in cash and his note for the other $100, payable one year from today, withinterest at 4 per cent Ton . agree. But in spite of the fact that that note is perfectly safe and sure to be ' paid, do you think it would be as easy for ypu to change it into cash as it would be to change your $100'bIU into 20 live dollar bills? . You could take the note to. a bank and they would .pay ypu something less than $100 in OTder to compensate ' themselves for tying up their money for a whole year. There might be times when the bank, would nay. you the full $100, or even more, for the note, depending ', upon what interest rates they were able to lend their money at 1 ' In other words, any ., investment which comes dne at Some later, date will go- up, and. down in price accord ing to the rate of interest it bears, hoW long a time it has to run, and how much of a demand there is. for that kind of investment And in a sense, evferything in the world Is a sort of investment books, lewelry, real estate, machinery, cloth ing, skates, as well as stocks and bonds and mortgages. ' Take furni ture, for instance. Compare the price y6u! paid' five years ago for that diningroom table with the price you would ' have to 5 pay today, and you will realize that you made a good in vestment. Or take your grandmoth er's wedding . furniture. The family wa.s . ready to chop it up for kiaUJJng about, 20 years ago, and now collect ors are ' going . around the country paying high prices .for . that very model, A tandem bicycle or an old b,igh-wheeler -they used ' to cost two or three ' hundred dollars. You couldn't give one away today. Skates -'you can sell a second-hand pair In winter for more than you will have to pay for new ones in summer time. Or how about old false teeth? Thro them in the ash barrel, of course. And yet a company was trying to buj them last summer. The platinum that fastenedj them together had be come so valuable since the war that it Was worth reclaiming. , , : ; And so it goes. See, Saw, Margejy paw, Teeter, Totter, Bread and Water, - Up and Down, Down and Up Prices, Values, backward, for ward, changing, ' changing, all the time. There is nothing in the wide world that you can buy with abso lutely , certain knowledge that you can get back the exact price you paid for it at any time you wish. "Oh, "yes, there is,"-you say. "How about money?" I can always get five dollars for a five-dollar bill. Wouldn't I have been better off if I had kept my money in a bank instead of put ting it in Liberty Bond's that are sell, ing now for, lees than I paid for them? - - ' Tot have touched upon a big sub. ject that is directly connected with all of this misunderstanding abwt Lib erty Bond prices. We shall discuss it next time and try to show you that even money 'is, no exception In this little game of See Saw 'and Tetter Totter, - v - ' . ) IS L. Si' fcMM''l4i"1l Joseph S. McCoy, United States gov ammanf' orfnrv. is the only treasury department employe for -whom Secre-1 tary McAdoo has Kea raise; in nai- i ary. McCoy .' has .an encyclopedic I knowledge of government nnances ana is always consulted by the ways and means committee of the' house when appropriation bills are being framed. The government has been paying $2, 600 a year for his expert services, but Secretary McAdoo has asked that he be promoted to $4,000. . NEW YORK 1918 PARTIES WJLL BE "A LA HOOVER" . Nw York, Dec. 31 The new year wlU be welcomed in Jfew York after the fashion, of former years that has made the celebration an event of in ternational, Interest except that to night the war promises to place its stamp of moderation on the convivial ity of the celebrants. , , . Hotels and restaurants win enter tain joist as many guests as In times of peace, , but the menu cards in most instances offer nothing that does not bear the stamp of the food adminis tration's approval, and the high prices prevailing for wines and the 1. o'clock closing order indicate that the New Year ttpasts r wjil be drunk in . less generous proportions. '-.' Watch parties and entertslnmenta for soldiers and'' sailors have been ar ranged in greater number' than bej fore America entered tjie war; ok B.ira ? v; ' alia 1 1 ' Ah Csis&lisktd J $57 ALL NEW ENGLAND IN GRIP OF COLD Boston. Dec SL New Englahd: was still suffering today from the .most severe cold wave ever offteialry re corded, In this section. In- this city the temperature remained! below zero all night and to make matters worse the dawn brought a Btiff northwest wind. The minimum temperatupre was eight be tow and at 8 a. m. it was still five below. v Reports from New England stations included Portland. 16 below; Concord, N. H.. 18 below; Hartford. 14 belowj Burlinrton. "Vt. -24 below, while Nan tucket Island registered 10 aibove. : Watertown. N. . Y Dec. 81-The worst oald wave that this section has felt In a score of years continues, the official minimum ' temperature in cthis city beln 19 below aero early today. Yesterday's minimum , was 22 betow. The official thermometer has ranged frm 7 to 23 below or the last 84 hours. LICENSING ENEMY PATENTS ".E GOVERNMENT has begun the poUcy of iieensing the use of eaeflay' patents to, Americans who make prepgr ifion. The first license is for the preparatien of a Ger ?ynthetie drug used as a narcotic. The government re- five per cent ef gross sales to be paid to the custodian of property fund. It reserves the right to, inspeet and pre ie quality and to fix the pricey If the war should last 3 years longer it may be expected that all really useful y processes, and inventions described in the patent office ' m Ainericaa use. HARBOR OF N Y. FROZEN, FAMINE IN COAL FACED New Tori!. Dec 31. Nothing to in dicate,, a moderation of the intense cold, that has held the 'city in its grip for the last two days greeted shiver ing New, Yorkers this morning. Not in 20 years has this city Buffered as it Hid Saturday and yesterday. At S a. in. thermometers registered soven degrees below sero. . Directly Dr indirectly the cold yestredajy resulted in seven known . deaths. ' The city's millions are face t face with; a coal famine that makes the outlook even more cheerless. Rivers and the har bor clogged with Ice made it difficult to bring coal and. food into the city. The weather man announces that the coldest , day, in . the year is In tors for New York city on the last Ada of the day. OOULDf & GREEN INC. ; - V ' - , . ' On January 1st, Conlin'S ,Paint Store at 70 Elm street, will incorporate under the name , of Conlip & Green Inc., The company will consist of James J. Conlin,' the founder of the business, who has successfully carried cn the business for- the past seven years and who is well known In busi ness, fraternal and, political circles, the other mem tier of the organization is Frank 1 3. Green, formerly with Harvey Hu-bbell int In the capacity of purchasing agent and also In the manufacturing department He is a member of the bbard of apportion., ment. ' The object of the new incorporation is to permit the extension of the busi ness, among factories and suburban trade, the present quarters of the con cern are to 'be greatly enlarged to meet the needs of this -rapidly grow ing business. . . EMPIRE -HVhea Rofeert Judson, an expert in criminology, begins to unravel the mystery of "The Devil Stene," in Geraldihe Farrar9 Artcraft produe-' tion of. that title, he undertakes his investigation .with an apparent disin terest in the persons whom he is in terviewing while he seems ito be deeply absorbed in the scrutiny of a miniature ivory idol on his desk. After a few minutes eentemplatien, Judsen startles his interviewors with an al-. most uncanny disclosure of circum stances in the investigation which have been revolving in his mind. The ivory trcnxet is owned by Cecil DeMille, director general ef the Lanky forces, and predueer of the picture, wno values it at one thou sand dollars. "The Devil Stone" will be the attraction at th Empire thea tre today. and tomorrow. The Annual January Clearance Opens Wednesday Morning the second - 1 ! lit, lis This" means that, whatever ne oj rwA" needs may be bought to advantage -jsisL during the first two weeks of the New Year.' It is an occasion parti- . . ' cipated in by every one within -.c ", rpnrri nf this pstnhlishmpnf F.vro- " . ' " V ""wx . V(ril--'-1 aoass. .one waits tor this announcement .-; ts r and whether for personal or house hold wants he knows that he mayv" Duy tne most renaoie mercnanaise carried at Read's at such reductions as will prove a trulv economic investment. Av':i .lAA' to 1 fei rv.n strxti of sAi .fout.ip' . Furniture, Rugs and Carpets, , ,j: House Furnishings, Blankets, Comfortables, , Az Women's Apparel which includes Furs, Coats. ; Suits, Dresses, Millinery, Shoes and Undermuslina i All accessories such as Corsets, Hosiery, -Jewelryi Neckwear and Leather GotCVi Men's Snirts andBatlll'Robesr'',i: .--.I ; : if-sv: o.. ' 1 -I'JUxl or! .-''."as. i-;Si! c.39 - .as. ,:.t; i-.. V'. 1 '' ' - - !.- i rz- -w f': ti . 'v-.jJ 'Oi-'i'v; $ i: -i'-AAA, . j ,'.;o s: 5;. ' ' -: :; ! : : .-. ,.rt,;l '. -.r..i.;.j X ,acBh. '.!: !!,. ? tHT ' .' A4 . , i 4li :: :' ; - '-'" if.'ji'-. as pi J. "C. Mayers, an offlcer of a steamer in Halifax at the time of the great explosion there, said ha was blown half a mile from his ship. 1 Farmer Want Ads. One Cent a Word WHAT IS A PRO-GERMAN? (By Herbert Quick, United States Farm Loan Commissioner.) ;' A pro-German is a man who, by pri vate or pubilo utterances, stands in the way of a whole-hearted prosecu tion of this war and the defeat of the German will to conquer. ' ' ' He may do it by finding fault with the conduct of the war. H may do it by1 Impracticable peace arguments. He may do it through a mistaken pol icy. He may do it because he is in the pay of the German government He may do it because he has been be fooled, and bambooajed by those who are In Germany's pay. v .. The German will to expansion by conquest must be broken by defeat If that rapacious Win be not broken, the war will not give us peace. -In all the history of the world there never existed a conquering nation less fit to rule others than are the Germans. This is true because the German pol icy is so brutal, so cruel, so scientific ally exterminating. In the streets of every town In German Poland chil dren are falling and dying of starva tion. ' Children g to 12 years of age are being carried through the streets by their parents because they are too weak to walk because of starvation. The Poles are being exterminated as fast as the , Armenians the oldest Christian nation in the world are be ing exterminated by the Germans and Turks. Why? .Because Germany wants the property of the Poles for Germans after the war; and because they. want the property of the Armenians for the Turks and Germans after the- war. Their will can ,and must be broken by defeat It is not the will of the Individual German. It is the bloody, brutal, cruel, devilish will of the Ger man government and the German rul ing class, mlseducated in the school which believes that war Is the sum mation of human good. A pro-German is anyone who stands in ths way of our successful prosecu tion of tha ' war. Every- yrori that falls from the tongue of any American or Is Written by him carries with it a responsibility greater than ever 'ex isted in the history of ' this nation. Look well to what you say or do. Germany has in this country hun dreds of papers printed in the Ger man tongue. Whether this ought to be or not is a grave question. i If any of these papers are loyal, I do not know of them. Some of them may be, but I have not heard of them. These and others papers and many individuals say they are for America, but none of them say they are against Germany. ' He who. is for us is against Ger many. He who is not against Ger many, tooth and nail, In this war Is not for America. Tou can tell the pro-German by an other test: If he is against France, or against Italy, or against Russia,. hs is pro-German. . The armies and navies of these powers are fighting our fight. They are dying by thousands every day to make the world safe for democracy. If we win, we must win because they do most of the fighting and dying, while we only do some of It, ' The enemy of Great Britain is pro German. The enemy of Russia is pro-German and anti-democratic The enemy of Italy is against Amer ica. 1 The enemy of France is lost to every claim of patriotism. , Do not let these' pro-Germans pots- FAIRFIELD AVE. VARIETY STORE BE0AJ) BT. CO-OPERATIVE--0411 fare for customers A AAA - rnuiu Biuiiuiu mill juirtiuxiQi s, ., ,.. ti ATjn a txtcs TTj'nu 1 1 TTTixr)o inn Ama" . - on -Dim? mawr TMsriTTirmnw .Yc ViiA-''i There axe coats in all sizes 2 to 14. ( Make you own selection and get a discount of 25 per cent, A'ft '.. Children's gingham dresses are priced much lower than similar goods will be in the spring.x It is a'good time to buy. , ; AAA AA ?!,V.,tfS; on the atmosphere In your locality by slandering our allies without chal lenge. - It is time to call down-the man who fights against our' armies with tongue or yen,' no matter what flag those armies are fighting under. Words are things. In such a crisis they - are dreadful things, -portentous things, things which can . not be al lowed to pass as of no account-,-- . Germany is penetrating every coun try of the world with her hired spies and traitors. She .disorganized the Russian army through traitors after the' revolution. She knew the plan of Russian battle beforehand through, traitors. She has filled this country with spies and traitors. She has fi nanced the I. W. W., without a doubt She has destroyed property , and de-: bauched our. citizens. 3- ,-, .- t : . Is there any American who does not long for peace? Not one! Neither is there a Briton or-Frenchman, or Italian or Russian. But it must not be 'a German peace, leaving, the great spider in the center of his web wait ing for another chance. It must be a real peace. It must be made with the German people or with a ruined Hohenibllern one or the other. But he who talks peace as If he onry ngs for It, as If he only were commission ed to make peace, must -want a dif ferent sort of peace from'-the. sort we must have. Distrust him. He may be slnoere, but he may not be., ;, :, '4 .; The world has in the past been con quered by i traitors oftener than ; it was ever conquered by arms. The Mexican people fought each other into Slavery to Spain. Let us not be bought by German gold into slavery to Ger many. . .,'.' WAR INSURANCE FOR LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE OF U. S. . . . The Treasury Department has., ad vised Secretary Redfleld .of the "De partment of Commerce that the per sonnel of the lighthouse service trans ferred to the service- and jurisdiction of the War and Navy. Departments by executive order are within - the terms of the war risk insurance act of October , 1917. y-. . This decision was rendered by , the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, after submitting the matter for,, .the, , viewsj of the Judge Advocate General of the War Department, and. will apply to over 1,100 officers and employes of the lighthouse service who ..have beast 7 Keep your feet warm and ypu will not .have chilblains. We can fur nish you with warm 1 Buckle .ArcticSr, - $1.40 toi$Mi I 4 Buckle; Arctics . : $3.50and,$3;i 1-Buckle!$1.25 2 Buckle SS . $2.00 Just received a? large shipment of Ladies' Rub bers. THE ALLING RUBBER GO. 1126 -MAIN ST. ' .:,v, r 1 . transferred to the wefVloe-'of-the War ahd Navy Departments" by the Presi dent's order, .efi 'Ki yi;.;;l t; . RUSSIANS PLAN , .... : : nriitv, frimr&x iiTr ,. ... i''BEIZESSELS - . ' . . I- . ' Amsterdam, Defl4i?wurteen Aus trian sleamers seizedby the Hueslans in the, course.. of the ,warMwli.l,be re stored te; their.. Austrian .owners In jteeplrtg" withan" -agreement reached aif'Bi-est" IJtoVskV according' lo a dis patch from Vienna. Tfce total gross