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THE BOSTON GLOBE TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 26, 1918 Tomboy Taylor Doesnt Seem to Give a Rap Where She. Hides By Fontaine Fox Boston (Slota HEAMIG Ml WAGE REPEAL BILL REPORT BILL TO STOP CONSECUTIVE TERMS create property and life. It Is cer tainly not less important that the vital sources of our civilian activity be kept unpolluted. There is no more i deadly foe to social health than the i conspiracy of silence.

army, approximately 250,000 strong, which Switzerland maintains. In considering such invasion, it is probable that the Germans count on cooperation inside the little republic. Of the Swiss people about 70 percent speak the German language, and only 30 percent French or Italian. The anomie nenetratioa of German i Switzerland has gone far, and no-j i j. where has their propaganda been more active.

Yet it Is well-nigh cer- more active. le tain that invasion would find the peo- pie and Army unified in self-defense. And the victory must be quick if crossed the Swiss border, armies or i the Allies would be summoned to Eatabltbe4 March 4. 1872. (reniog Edition Fir.t iMucd March 1878.) The Boston Sunday Globe.

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Typewritten copy will always have the preference. MEMBER OF THE PRESS The Anao-lated Pr-a- entitled to the nee for ilillratlnn of .11 new dliqiatrhea credied to It or not other-wiae rredited in hi 'i i-'T and alo the loful ikw ii' Ail r.ghU of rpufatl ntion of rpeclal dispatch here.ii an? tv! 'ed. Original and Stolen Thoughts If man is a little world, woman is a little heaven. IF GERMANY VIOLATED SWISS NEUTRALITY? Mr Ford, putting the whole energy of the defenses French and British ast factory, into building sub- well as Americans would in turnjmarine killers and declaring: am for the German flank; while threaten the uerman uana; more common sense than Mr Italians poured through the Orisons Ford showed when he financed his idealistic peace mission to cross the Atlantic EDITORIAL POINTS Make the most of the few remaining days of February. We shan't hay any more February days for almost a year.

The title of the book written ori said written-by Prince Adalbert of Prussia, third son of the German Em- peror. i3 -With My Battalion in the Front LJne Trenches Have any of the Kaisers sons been in the front line trenches- give up everything-unlbss, of course, it 6omethingr of their own. chartered steamer and the boys out of the trenches before Christmas, The case of the German aviator who landed at Switzerland and Is to be interned as a deserter suggests that it is easier for aviators than for other soldiers to desert. Some of the New York politicians must be relieved to see so many women who are entitled to vote at the special Congressional elections neglecting to register. It had been estimated that 1,800,000 New York women might go to the polls in the next general election, practically doubling the States army of voters.

Probably the women wouldnt vote a strictly womans ticket; but if they did they might outvote the men, for there are more women than men of voting age in New York State. If the reader who wrote to ask the Globe to publish the words of the patriotic song, Uncle Sam, sung by the wife of Sec Baker at Camp Mdade, had signed her name, she would have been told by mail that the words of the song were published in the morning Globe for February 20. A woman can dress well on $125 a year, according to a document based on an investigation by the Bureau of Labor Statistics at Washington. A good many women would like a chance to try. Alfred Noyes, back at Princeton, says that during his recent visit to England ho found England has changed during the last four years, to such an extent that it causes one to look on in amazement and the assumption is that he regards the change as an improvement.

Billy Sundays language In Washington has been quite mild, but he is capable of doing full justice to Chicago, beginning Sunday week. Until recently in England nobody ever asked for oleomargarine excepting with a soft g. Now oleomargarine is often asked for with a hard g. Why? Because the highbrows are beginning to use it, and they know what the right pronunciation is. Other Winters you would never- have thought of carrying your purchase home when you were buying coal.

Sir Johnston Forbes Robertson may have been right when he told that London audience that thpre is so little trouble with the workingmen of the United States because the American workingman Is under the thumb of his wife and she is a highly intelligent woman, but he showed ignorance of one of womans innate prejudices when he went on to say: "Personally I am prepared to give over everything to the females, because I believe they are saving the situation. Cheer up! It wont be so very long now before popular interest will turn from directions how to get the most out of the furnace to directions how to get the most cut of the refrigerator. One man who has been keeping track of letters sent to and by the soldier boys in France, reports that of 27 letters sent abroad the one that went quickest took 17 days, the slowest 40 days, and the average 27 days; while of 19 letters sent from France, the one that went quickest took 17 days, the slowest 34. and the average 25. Now, can the service be improved? Here is a table showing the current exchange value- of foreign money in dollars and cents, together with the intrinsic gold parity, as' calculated by the United States Mint: (Copyright, 191.

by the Wheeler Syndicate. Inc.) LITTLE FELLOW SEEKS BIGGER PAY Measure Opposed by Labor and Welfare Workers Favored by Manufacturers East Boston Gar Seryice Scored Two bills, one calling for the repeal of the law establishing the Minimum Wage Commission and the other that the duties and powers of the commission be transferred to the State Board of Labor and Industries, were given a hearing yesterday before the Legislative Committee on Administration and Commissions. Those who appeared in favor of the bill were Moorfleld Storey, William P. White of the Lowell Paper Tube Company, Pres Frank W. Whltcher of the Massachusetts Board of Trade, Arthur C.

Comins of Worcester, Alfred E. Lunt of the Massachusetts Merchants and Manufacturers Association, Walter C. Baxter, John A. Sherman of the Sherman Envelope Company, Donald Tulloch, Worcester: Miles Illingworth, Berkshire; C. E.

Cleveland, Worcester Textile Association; Pres Foster of the Massachusetts Confectioners' Association and Edward F. McSweeney. Mrs Florence Kelley of the National Consumers League. Mrs Susan W. Fitzgerald, Joseph Bearak, Henry- Sterling, Miss Florence Adesska, Anson B.

Edgerley and Miss Anna Weinstock opposed the measure. Mr Lunt. in favoring the bills, said that the minimum wage was merely a "counterfeit remedy for ills other than those appearing merely in employment problems. Massachusetts is the only State attempting to apply this law, he said. Moorfield Story said: "This law Is contrary to human nature.

I want to bring you the viewpoint of the older men. There are so many older men who can earn $1 a day. of a little more or less. They will be employed if this small wage can be given, and will not be subject to charity. But, under a minimum wage, these men are not protected, and must give way to younger men.

Retention of Commission Urged Mrs FitzGerald, speaking for the League for Progressive Democracy, a non-partisian organization, said that the society favored the commission and the minimum wage. Mr Bearak, representing organizations of women workers in Boston, and jewelry workers in North Attleboro, said that the substitution offered for the minimum wage, piece work, had already in proven cases caused ill health and disease Mr Sterling, representing the American Federation of Labor, made an appeal for the retention of the present law, by which a minimum wage can be established. Before the original bill became law, he said, there were more than 70,000 women getting less than a living wage. It Is the responsibility of this committee to protect the working women of the State. Miss Adsska and Miss Weinstock told of successful work of the commission in places where they worked.

The Womens Educational and Industrial League, the Womens Industrial and Civic League and also several other organizations were opposed to the repeal of the law. Miss Julia G. Locke presented the opposition of the Girls League for Community Service. Miss Grace Scribner of the Methodist Federation for Social Service presented their opposition and that of the Massachusetts Federation of Churches. Miss Mary C.

Wiggln, executive secretary of the Massachusetts Consumers League, presented statistics showing the work of the commission in factories and stores for several jears. Robert A. Dean, Fall River, opposed the proposed bill. Workmens Compensation Bills The subject of greater compensation for workmen employed In occupations coming under the provisions of the Workmens Compensation act was considered by the Joint Judiciary Committee of the Legislature yesterday afternoon. Several bills covering the subject were favored by Frank J.

Donahue of the Industrial Accident Board on the ground that conditions had so changed since the enactment of the law that an enlargement of its scope was necessary. The legislation was also favored by Henry Sterling of the American Federation of Labor and A. M. Moriarty, representing the Association of State, County and City Employes. Endicott P.

Saltonstall, speaking for the Boston Elevated, opposed on the ground that it would increase the expenses of his company greatly. The measures were also opposed by Walter J. OMalley, for the city of Boston, because it would increase taxes. James Fortesque, for the Massachusetts Automobile Association, in speaking against the measure including chauffeurs in the compensation act pictured them as the successors of the old coachmen and consequently not skilled laborers. Arthur Cundy, for the chauffeurs, said that the drivers were more than ordinarily skillful.

The hearing adjourned until today. East Boston Car Changes Promised East Boston service on Boston Elevated lines was declared by a large number of persons at a hearing before the Public Service Commission yesterday to have reached such a degree of inadequacy that the State must take a hand and bring relief to the thousands who, it was claimed, have suffered all kinds of inconvenience. Chairman Frederick J. Macleod said that as a result of an investigation by the commission the company had agreed to make a number of changes March 9, which, it is hoped, will help to remedy the conditions pointed out. Among the advocates of decisive action by the board were Representatives Hearn, Kelley and Cashman of East Boston, Representative Magee of Win-throp, Ex-Representatives Kearney and Niland.

Richard C. Kirby, James Burns and James E. Maguire. State Councilor Lewis R. Sullivan, in opposition to a bill to compel the establishment of dontinuation schools throughout tle State, heard by the Legislative Committee on Education yesterday, Urged an inquiry as to the attitude of cities and towns toward the proposition.

State Deputy Commissioner of Education Small and R. L. Cooley, director of continuation schools in Wisconsin, advocated the measure. EMERGENCY WAR COURSE HAS 1100 APPLICATIONS Sec T. Lawrence Davis of the Boston University College of Business Administration announces that 1100 persons have applied for registration in the Free Emergency War Course, to begin March 5.

Registration began last night The course will be given Tuesday and Thursday nights, and is open to men and women without charge. EOSTON RED CROSS ASKED TO MAKE 5117 PROPERTY BAGS National headquarters of the American Red Cross has notified the Boston Metropolitan Chapter to provide as quickly as possible 5117 property bags for sailors and soldiers. The material has been cut and distributed to the branches The Boston allotment is expected to be finished March 6. JEWISH CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY CONCERT AND TEA Under the auspices of the Jewish Childrens Aid Society, a concert followed by a tea was given at th Hotel Westminster yesterday afternoon, the proceeds to be given to war relief work Among the artists who volunteered their services were Mrs Martin Heyde-mann, well known in theatrical circlea as Lily Carthew, who gave some original monologues; Miss Gertrude Lemon. danseuse, accompanied bv Miss Mary Campbell; Miss Katharine Ricker, vocalist; Miss Edith Thompson pianist, and Bernard Fielder, violinist grV)mnaniH hv icthu accompanied by Arthur Fielder.

The hostesses were Mrs Peter M. Leavitt, Mrs M. I. King. Mrs.

A. L. Gordon and Mrs Isadore Kiditch. Measure Does Away With Recall of Boston Mayor Senate Reconsiders Rejection of Convention System Plan The Legislative Committee on Metropolitan affairs reported In the State Senate yesterday a bill which provides that the Mayor of Boston shall not be eligible for reelection at the end of his term, but that he may be elected at any subsequent time. The bill also does away with the recall.

The committee reported leave to withdraw on the petition of James A. Watson, a member of the Boston City Council, that the Mayor shall be recalled if a majority of the votes cost at U'e election when the question is raisl are in favor of the recall. The Senate, after some debate yesterday, reconsidered the vote by which it had rejected last week the bill providing that candidates for the offices of Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, and Attorney General shall be nominated State convention Instead of in the primary. Gavel Checks Senator Beck The bill has attracted considerable attention, probably more on Beacon HUI than anywhere else, and the discussion in the Senate yesterday was rather animated. Senator Beck of Chelsea, one of the opponents of the bill, said that it should be entitled a bill to make votes for Samuel W.

McCall, but he did not have time to explain what he meant, for Pres Wells promptly pounded with his gavel when the member made his reference to the Governor. Mr Beck said that the pas-sage of the bill would be a serious blow to the Republican party, and that the Progressive party, which was by no means dead, would resent the reversion to the old methods of nomination. Senator Cross of Royalston, also arguing against the bill, said that it was designed merely as an opening wedge, and that its piomoters would try next to have the whole system of primary nominations abandoned. Senator Cavanagh of Everett was th principal supporter of the bill. He said it gave the voters an opportunity to express their judgment on the matter and to say whether they preferred the existing method of nominating the officers mentioned or nomination in convention.

Mr Cavanagh insisted that th offices in question were much less important that many others in the State service and that the voters might well delegate their authority to delegates in conventions. Senator Gifford of Barnstable said that if the bill was advanced a stage he proposed later to offer p.n amendment which would include the Governor and Lieutenant Governor in its provisions. The motion to reconsider was adopted, 24 to 12, and then 22 to 15, the bill was ordered to a third reading. Court Sessions in Brockton After debate in which Senator Dahl-borg was the chief advocate- of the measure the Senate accepted as an amendment to a pending bill an act providing that an adjourned sitting of each criminal term of the Superior Court shall be held in Brockton. Most of the lawyers opposed the bill on the ground that the court needed no instructions as to the necessity of sitting in Brockton.

A bill establishing a minimum wage for Worcester city laborers was sent back from the Governor with recommendations for certain changes and. at the request of Senator Hobbs, the Senate voted to reconsider the bill and then laid it on the table. The following bills were passed to be engrossed: To permit the sale by life insurance companies of Liberty Bonds and similar Government securities; to allow the State Board of Agriculture to buy farm machinery and lease it to farmers: to provide a penalty for unauthorized banking and for a refusal to submit to examination by the Bank Commissioner: r'or the appointment by city and town governments of weighers and surveyors for firms or individuals engaged in the sale of foods which have to be weighed; for the reimbursement of small towns for salaries paid to superintendents of schools; for the pardon of female prisoners about to become mothers; exempting household furniture from taxation; to penalize tho fraudulent transfsr of stock to evade taxation. Committee Reports The following additional reports were received: Agriculture Leave to withdraw on the petition of the Massachusetts Forestry Association that forest plantations be established for demonstration pur poses. Public Service Leave to withdraw on the petition of the County Treasurers Association that county treasurers be allowed such clerical assistance and such conpensation for the same as the County Commissioners shall approve.

Banks and Banking No (legislation necessary on the annual statement of the Bank Commissioner relative to the condition of incorporated banks; reference to the next General Court on th petition of James T. Harris for the establishment of trust companies to invest only in real estate. PASS SYSTEM IN EFFECT FOR WATER FRONT WORKERS The Federal Government, through the office of United States Marshal John J. Mitchell, began yesterday the issuing of passes to wharf and dock owners. The pass system will gradually expand until such time as it will practically close every wharf and dock to those not armed with proper credentials.

The pass system calls for a photograph of the holder as well as a description of the individual, his signature, as well ns that of his employer, and it states his business. PERMIT LANDING OF TWO GERMAN OFFICERS WIVES Mrs Luiza P. Bruhn and Mrs Irma two of the German women who were brought to America from the Philippines and who have been held at the immigration station on Long Wharf for several days, were released yesterday in care of Rev W. A. Maier, a Y.

M. A. secretary, who took them to the Altenheim. in West Roxbury, where they probably will remain for the duration of the war. They are the wives of officers of German steamers seized at Manila when war was declared against Germany by the United States.

Arrangements for the release of the other women and children held at the immigration station are being made by Carl F. Kaufmann of the Swiss consulate. The expenses of those landed will be paid from a fund in the hands ef the Swiss Legation, which it is understood was provided by the German Government. LONG SEPARATED, REUNITED AT IMMIGRATION STATION After being separated for more than three years Stonatos Calafatos and his wife were reunited at the Immigration station on Long Wharf yesterday. The couple are natives of Greece, but have traveled all over the world.

Thev left Brazil in 1914, the husband going to New Orleans and the wife returning to her home in Greece. Mrs Calafatos landed here Jan 10 and has since been held at the immigration station while the officials tried to locate the husband. It was learned that he has a good position in a tin can factory in West Virginia. He was communicated with and came to Boston yesterday. He greeted his wife affectionately and the couple took an afternoon train for New York, whence they will go to West Virginia.

War Fund Drive Extended The drive in the Lutheran churches of Greater Boston for the Soldiers and Sailors War Fund has been extended until March 5, and final reports on tne drive will be made that eight bv Dr C. M. Casselberry. to turn the Austrian line. The one physical gap in the Western front would be closed, and from the Yser to the Piave there would be a single frontier at last.

Straight across Switzerland, from Alsace to the Trentino, the distance is 170 miles. The actual fighting front might well be 220 miles. Teuton reserves of man-power are perhaps not enough to stand the strain of such extension. And while the Versailles Conference insures real military cooperation by the Allies, German invasion of Switzerland will be met man for man. Uncle Dudley.

ONE CONGRESSMAN REBELS THE puzzle of how to make a democracy run the machinery of a Nation, and run it smoothly, continues to plague us. It has goaded Representative Alvan T. Fuller, a keen business man, whose career has been remarkable, to some pretty plain, but wholesome speech. He resigns from a committee because he says It is useless, and he resigns out loud, because he believes fully half the Congressional committees are equally useless. He is convinced that there is necessary work which they could do and that they ought to be doing it.

Mr Fullers grievance explains why our political life lacks the seryice of so many of our ablest men: they will not endure the restrictions which it lays upon their effectiveness. The standing reproach against our political establishments is that if a large business concern were conducted with as little economy and system It would last Just long enough to fail. There is another side to the question, however. Our political servants are what the country makes them. The majority oft them probably enjoy the flaws in the system less than we do, and would he glad to mend them if given a chance.

There is the Congressman who views the National capital as the fair ground of a political horse-swap; and there is the Congressman who, under heavy odds, tries to give his constituents and his country the best that is in him. Since our entrance into the war. Congressmen have complained that they have been shelved. Then let them, like Mr Fuller, speak out in meeting and ask for some real work to do, if their political work has grown meaningless. There is surely enough work to go round.

The real value of Mr Fullers eruption is that it is testimony from the inside. He is in a position to know. He is commendablv dissatisfied with things as they are and is voicing a popular demand that they be changed. When Congressmen themselves rebel against the nocuousness of their political desuetude, better conditions ought to be in the brew. Congress might reform itself as well as the War and other Executive De-parmtents.

LIGHT ON A DARK SUBJECT rJ'HE tables have been agreeably turned on those alarmists who were exercised over the morals of our draft Army. Conditions surrounding camp life were' painted so gloomily a few weeks ago that more discriminating people felt obliged to stand up and testify that the mere transference of an American boy Into uniform did not necessarily transform him into a would-be Don Juan. That testimony has now been corroborated by figures which are as gratifying as they are authentic. Briefly, these show, as pointed out by Bishop Lawrence, that the number of men afflicted with disease in the Regular Army in a given period was less than those in the National Guard that those in the National Guard were fewer than those in the drafted army, and that in the six months since the draft the number of cases in the last-named group has remarkably diminished. Regulation under military authority has decreased this scourge to an average per thousand men far below that of civil life.

The conclusion is inescapable. The military authorities, obliged by the sheer necessity of keeping men fit to fight, have been in a position to face the problem frankly and to attack it scientifically: to study, cure and prevent evils which. In civilian life, the community, by an evil heritage of prudery, has too long mistaken agreed to ignore. Yet there is more reason for regulation in civil than in military life. The soldiers function is, theoretical ly.

to destroy property and life. The The I to civilians function is, presumably, i WITH Russia collapsing, Reval captured and Petrograd completely shut off from access by water, Americans must be wondering about the effect events in the East will have on the military plans of the Germans regarding the Western front. The Hindenburg drive is still awaited, though possibly a drive of a new character and in a new field. Instead of trying to break through the line, Hindenburg may try to turn the end. His chosen route into France in 1918 may be by way of Switzerland.

Americans are particularly interested in this end of the line owing to the presence of American troops there. As German strategists see it, such a course has much in its favor. Von Freytag-Loringhoven in his Deductions from the World War recently expressed the regret that, after the Marne, operations on the West resolved into the war of position, trench fighting, in which they have since remained. He believes that only in the war of movement can German military genius reach its hight and, as in the East, reap iis full rewards. There is little, if any, chance for Germany to get out of the trenches between Alsace and the sea.

Only a real breaking through, a complete shattering of the Allied line, could effect this. And it is hardly conceivable that Germany can break through. To cut across Switzerland, however, turning the French left flank, where it rests upon the Swiss frontier in Upper Alsace, and to burst into France in the Doubs Valley, south of Belfort, might put the war upon an entirely different footing. France in 1914 defended her German frontier with her forts Verdun, Toul, Epinal, Belfort which have not yet failed her. But she defended -X her flanks with scraps of paper, the treaties which guaranteed the neutrality of Belgium and of Switzerland.

Germany, finding it easier to tear up a treaty than a fortress line, attacked France through Belgium. And no one In the Allied Nations or In Switzerland believes today that the treaty of 1815 would protect that State any more than the treaty of 1831 protected Belgium. Prior to 1815, Swiss neutrality was ifever allowed to interfere with nilitary plans. Early in 1798 the French Revolutionary troops entered Swiss territory, set up the Helvetic Republic there and overran the country. In 1799 Switzerland was the scene of fighting between the Flench and the allied Austrians and Russians, second only in importance to that in Italy.

On the Rhine and in the Grisons the armies battled, and Suvarov, greatest of Russian Generals, made his last campaign In the Alps, storming the St Gothard. Later, under Napoleon, Switzerland became a mere strategic link between Germany and Italy. Switzerland, however, the Highlands of Europe, has another source of strength which the Belgian Lowlands lacked. To turn the French line, German armies must mount the valleys of the Birs and the Aar, which lie north and south of the Juras. In these valleys military action must be confined to a limited space in which huge numbers would count for little.

Artillery, too. could be moved only with great difficulty. It is highly doubtful whether any German force could quickly overcome the resistance offered by the PLANNED TO MAKE GERMAN U. TONGUE Alliance Bulletins Read to Senate Committee Kaiser Said to Have Galled Hexamer Acting Ruler ot Germans Here WASHINGTON, Feb 25 Bulletins distributed among the membership of the National German-Ametican Alliance in 1904 urging that the teaching of German in the public schools be so extended that English would come to be considered the "foreign language, were read to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee today by Gustavus Ohlinger of Toledo, continuing his testimony against the alliance as an unpatriotic organization. Since that time, the witness said, the alliance has conducted a consistent campaign in behalf of the teaching of German.

The subcommittee is considering a bill by Senator King of Utah, which seeks to dissolve the alliance. Officials of the organization are to be heard next Saturday, according to the present plan. The bulletins referred to by Ohlinger were printed and bound under the title German-American Annals and were published before the alliance was chartered. Some of them, as translated by the witness, advanced the idea that Germans cpming to the United States should in thought, nature and acts' remain German, though taking out citizenship papers to gft the vote. Mr Ohlinger testified that the alliance conducted a campaign to raise money to aid in the defense of an editor of a German language publication in Philadelphia, who had been indicted for treasonable utterances: that the bulletins failed to condemn the sinking of the Lusitania or the invasion of Belgium.

and that at a meeting of one of the subordinate organizations in et Louis after the Lusitania sinking a resolution adopted reciting that the United States Government should thank Count von Bernstorff for his having warned passengers not to sail on that boat. In only one issue since America went to war. he said, has there been any commendatory reference in the bulletins to the part played by the United Std The witness referred to a book, Ger- in inelnnrt written bv Wil- man Spies in England, written by Wil liam Lequex. who, he said, quoted the German Emperor as having said in 1908 that C. J.

Hexamer of Philadelphia, formerlv president of the alliance, had been of great service to the German cause. The words attributed to the Kaiser were: If man ever was worthy of decoration at my hands, it was Herr Dr Hexamer, the president of the league, who may Justly be termed to be, by my giace, the acting ruler of all Germans in the United States. In his testimony on Saturday, Mr Ohlinger said that Dr Hexamer received the Fourth Class order of the Red Eagle in 1904, from the Kaiser for his services to German "kultur in the United States. TECHNOLOGY HAS 1956 MEN IN. ACTIVE SERVICE The War Service Auxiliary of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reports that 1956 Technology men are in active service.

Of these men 425 are on the other side, 308 in aviation service and 376 in the Navy. Of the group 1476 are officers or are training in the Officers Training Camps. About 400 men are enlisted as non-commissioned officers and 43 are enrolled as inspectors and instructors in special work. The number of men engaged in war industries is above the 2000 mark. Final 15 Percent From the Cape CHATHAM, Feb 25-The final 15 percent of Chathams quota due to reach Ayer tomorrow went to Hyannls this afternoon to be joined by five men from Falmouth; seven from Provincetown, three from Hyannis.

two from Cotult, three from Yarmouth, three from Nantucket, three from Barnstable, three from Harwich, one each from Truro. Oak Bluffs. Buzzards Bay, Sagamore. Orleans, Wellfleet, South Sandwich and Bourne. The draftees will be entertained at Hyannis tonight.

Nursing Association- to Meet The Instructive District Nursing Association will have its 32d annual meeting tomorrow at 4 oclock, in the chapel of the Old South Miss Mary Beard of the General Medical Board of the Council of National Defense and Miss Anna J. supervisor of the Hyde Park Station, will speak. Mens Club Plans Town Meeting At the Mens Club of Park Street Church, tomorrow night, a Town Meeting will take place. Besides sum monses to attend, the members of the club-have received copies of the "Mul-lensville Marauder," with an editorial on the events, and posters issued by the Vigilance Committee." WHAT PEOPLE TALK ABOUT Anonymous communications will receive no attention, nor will any notice be paid those of undue length. Denominational or sectarian questions will not be acceptable.

Apartments in Vatican Csrrigan Cabot, Everett The Vatican contains 11,000 apartments (some authorities say 7000) of various sizes, 20 courts, eight grand staircases and 200 smaller ones. About Easter Otto In 1818 Easter came on March 22. in 1886 It came on April 25. In 1913 it fell on March 23. Easter Day is always the first Sunday after tbe full moon which happens upon or next after March 21, so if the full moon should come on Saturday, March 21, tbe next day would be Easter.

Island Possessions Curious Onr island possessions are tbe Philippines, Porto Rico, Guam, Tutwila, one of the Samoan Islands; Wake Island and a number of small islands in the Pacific Ocean; Hawaii and the former Danish West Indies, now called tbe Virgin Islands. German East Africa Miss S. A. Reed, Newbury port Germany has lost all of her German East Africa possessions. An official report on Dec 3.

1917, stated that that territory was completely conquered. This means tbe loss to Germany of her last and largest colonial possession. The area, about 384,170 square miles, nearly equals tbe area of both the German and Austro-Hnngarian Empires. John Burns, Hero of Gettysburg If. L.

Slack, Belfast. Me After serving in the War of 1812 and the Mexican War, John Burns was rejected when he tried to enlist for tbe Civil War on tbe ground that he was too old to fight. He went with the Army as a teamster, however, and was constable of Gettysburg when Earlys troops occupied the town. Single-handed be attempted to drive tbe Confederates out and was locked up. In the thick of the battle be got out, secured a gun and fonght like a demon.

He was captured and narrowly escaped execution as an ununiformed combatant. After the war be lived on the battlefield and became known to thousands of sightseers as the Hero of Gettysburg. Gen John H. Morgan, Rebel Raider Private John, Me Gen John H. Morgan, the Confederate cavalry leader and raider during the Civil War, was captured and escaped, but was captured again and finally killed.

He was captured the first time in the Fall of 1863, after his daring raid across Indiana and pursuit Into Ohio, and, with some of bis officers and men, was imprisoned in the Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus. Morgan and several of his officers escaped from the penitentiary during the night of Nov 27, 1863, and some of them made their way back to Kentucky. The Governor of Ohio offered $5GK) reward for the recapture of Morgan, but be got away and resumed his raids. Sometime afterward, while at a farmhouse near Greenville, Tenn, he was surrounded by Federal troops, and while attempting to escape was killed. This occurred In September, 1864.

Morgan's friends said at the time that he was murdered after his surrender and that bis body was mutilated, but there was no proof of this. His body was sent to the Confederate lines, and after being buried at Richmond, Va, the body was finally reinterred In the cemetery at Lexington, Ky. Requests and Answers Mrs Emily Harris Apply to the State Board of Charities, State House, Boston. George M. Butler, New Bedford Apply to the Secretary of the Treasury.

John Mclntlre Josiah Quincy was Mayor ef Boston from 1896 to 1899, four years. J. F. Ray Charles L. Tucker was executed Jnne 12, 1906.

WHAT IS WRONG Answer Cheerf His Case Presented to the Railroad Wage Board Tip. Defended by Pullman Manager B. M. Clerks Want Increase WASHINGTON, Feb 25-The little fellow among railroad employes was represented today before the Railroad Wage Commission, which was asked not to forget thousands of workers, organized and unorganized, who contribute materially to the operation of trains, but are little known to the public. Employes of the Pullman Company were given official inclusion among railroad men under Government jurisdiction.

Tipping, which car porters recently testified, was relied on to supplement their small salaries, was defended by L. S. general manager of the company. If porters were put on a straight salary, do you think tipping would continue? asked Sec Lane. I think the porter feels that he earns the tips and that the passengers feel the same way, Mr Hungerford replied.

I believe the porters are fully entitled to the tips. You do not think then, suggested Commissioner Covington, that the Pullman Company could readjust the temperament of American people in regard to handing out a dime or a quarter for extra service? I dont think it would be advisable to abolish tipping on Pullmans unless it iwas abolished elsewhere, the witness adswered. L. S. Taylor, comptroller of the Pullman Company, said conductors salaries range from $70 to $100 a month, with certain bonuses.

Porters receive from $30 to $50 regularly, while those on troop trains get $75 monthly. Judge Covington wanted to know if the higher pay of a troop train porter was given because of the lesser tipping ability of soldiers. I suppose it is figured eomewhat on the basis that added compensation is lacking. Mr Hungerford replied with smile. The troop train porters also have larger responsibility, for they act as conductors.

George P. Mann and P. H. McNamara urged increased pay for the clerks of the Boston Maine. J.

R. T. Auston speaking for the Order of Telegraphers dispatchers, agents and signalmen, suggested 40 percent increases for towe-nien drawing less than $75 a month 30 percent for those receiving and $100 and 20 percent for those above An eight-hour day and an annual vacation was asked for the freight handlers. OFFICERS FROM DEVENS TO LECTURE AT HARVARD The Army authorities at Camp Devens will cooperate with the staff of the Harvard R. O.

T. C. during the coming month by sending a number of officers, members of the British and French mis-slons at Ayer, to deliver a course of lectures before the members of both military courses at the university. The lectures be divided into two groups, one for the primary and one for the advanced course. Lectures will be delivered by the following officers: Capts Turner, Warren and Hodson of the British Army and Lieut Mallet of the French mission.

The British officers will speak respectively on "Poisonous Gases. The Stokes Trench Mortar," Machine Guns and Their Uses, and Lieut Mallet on grenades. IN THIS PICTURE? ul news about home affairs. To increase the amount of money that you have, sell Swedish crowns at 33, and buy Russian rubles at 13.25. So sorry to see you going, February! Welcome, March! Solomon Grundy now works on Monday.

The place for strikes Just now is in Austria and Germany. THE MESSAGE OF THE FLAG (By Mrs H. G. Breeze) Quickly raise Old Glory up, Let it stand unfurled; From its flying pinions read Its message to the world: Im the flag that stands. for duty.

Brave, and firm, and strong, And my colors never dip To recognize the wrong. I'm the flag that stands for courage. Steadfast, true and bright; And our lads will rush me forward In the battle for tbe right. I'm the flag that stands for honor. Purity In word and deed; And yon find me proudly floating Where the world bath need.

Loyalty ie written on me. Fidelity almost sublime, And my records swiftly passing, Down the shores of time. Marching on, to glorious victory. Mid host of death and sin. Stimulated by our Watchword, With the God of battles win.

ABE MARTIN SAYS A committee called on Constable Plum tday an argued him reopen th rabbit season. Who remembers th ole song. He Never Cares Wander From His Own Fireside? I.