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^he R U RAL. N E W-YO R K E R 
Unarmed Arms 
Men from the battle front 
who have been holding the 
line for months and years com¬ 
plain of the monotony of war. 
The soldier’s life in the trenches 
soon ceases to be a novelty 
and becomes a tedious routine. 
The morale of the army is 
of supreme importance and 
the greatest military authorities 
of the world are enthusiastic 
in their praise of the organiza¬ 
tions which make it their 
business to keep the soldier 
in good spirits. 
This work, like that of the 
Signal Corps, has been more 
highly developed in this war 
of the Service 
than ever before. Huts for 
amusement, comfort and re¬ 
cuperation of the fighting men 
are in the trenches as well as 
behind the lines. The un¬ 
armed workers go about their 
duties under shell fire as 
coolly and as self-forgetfully 
as the telephone men of the 
Signal Corps who are fre¬ 
quently their neighbors, and j 
who keep intact, often under 
a hail of bullets, the indispen¬ 
sable lines of communication. 
It is for us who remain at 
home to support these un¬ 
armed heroes to the utmost, 
with our gifts, our labor, and 
our unbreakable morale. 
The Passing of An Old Connecticut Fruit 
Grower 
In the (Icnfh of (iporRO F. I’latt of Mil¬ 
ford, wlio o(‘<-iisioiiall.v oontribut<Hl li(']i)fiil 
arliolos to The It. X.-Y., (^onnoctiout 
loses one of its earliest i)lanters of coin- 
inereial fruit orchards. As early as 1870 
or 1875 he planted an acre or an aero 
and a half of <ininees, mainly of native 
sorts with which the Milford hackyards 
had previously been well supplied. 'I'his 
orchard he maintained, and it has been 
fairly^ successful, though at the present 
time it shows signs of growing out from 
old age and the inroads of borers. A 
little later, or in 1881, ho planted 2t^ 
acres of pea 1 % al.so peaches. The pear 
orchard is in its prime, and bore a fine 
crop this season, when the fruit was in 
demand on account of the scarcity 
of peache.s, the Rartlett in the long run 
proving the only satisfactory variety. Ten 
years later, in company with his son, W. 
h’. IMatt, he purchased 110 acres of land 
aTid planted it with peaches and apples. 
The peach trees are long since gone, but 
the apple orchard, now 24 years old, is 
one of the most desirable and successful 
orchards in the Stnte. Good location, good 
soil and good care contribute to this .suc¬ 
cess, but two other points not followed 
by many have also contributed to this end. 
(file is that the trees are quite largely 
Autumn and early Autumn varieties, and 
the other is that the trees are ])lanted far 
apart, viz., 45 ft., thus giving sunshine, 
air and root room to every free, also, 
what is now very imimrtant, allowing 
easy access on all sides for spraying. Mr. 
I’latt cxpre.ssed himself as satisfied from 
long e.vperience that this wide i)lanting 
was correct. A spray of red apples and 
one of yellow rested appropriately on his 
coffin at the burial, lie and his son also 
jilanted a tract of ,50 acres with pe.aches 
in the early days of the San .To.sfi scale, 
about 1000, when spray methods and 
materials were not adequate to subdue 
the then very virile in.sect, and this or¬ 
chard Avith many other fimit trees in 
Sotithern Connecticut weakened and went 
down. After the Spani.sh War Mr. I’latt 
spent .several Winters in Porto Kico, 
starting there a inirsery and orange grove, 
but the difliculty of securing good manage¬ 
ment by an absent owner was very dis¬ 
couraging, and ho sold out his iiiterests 
there. n. s. p. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DO.ArERTTC.—Mrs. V’illiam IT. Chap¬ 
man of Elmira, N. Y., has Ix'cn licen.sed 
to preach by the Chemung County Pre.s- 
bytery. The license overturns all pre- 
<'edents of the Presbyterian Church in 
the Fnited States, and violates Ihe rules 
of the Presbyterian Gei(>ral A.ssembly. 
The action is a war time measure. Mrs. 
Chai)man has been filling the puli)it of 
the North Presbyterian Church here while 
(he pastor is engaged in war work in 
France. 
William ITeinemann, alias William 
Ilemmeyer, a dentist of Irvington, N. .T., 
was cfinvictcd Sept. 27 at Trenton, N. J., 
in the Federal ('ourt of h.aving attempted 
to blow up with a bomb the munition 
Tilant of^ Gould & Eberhardt, Irvington, 
on the night: of .Inly 28. ITeinemann was 
indicled with Dr. Frederick W. BischofT, 
also of Irvingtpn. 
Harry llurcherty was arrested in Pal¬ 
mer, Mass., Sej)!. 27 by Federal detective's 
on the charge of plotting to blow up the 
Smith & Wesson factory. The Smith 
Wesson company is engaged exclu.sively 
on Government’ work and rece'ntly wa.s 
taken over by the Government following 
the refusal of the company to iiccept the 
decision of the War Labor Board in ad¬ 
justment of troubles betweeTi the company 
and its employees which h'd to a strike 
in .Inly. 
^ Alleged by Federal agents to be the 
directing head of G('rman espionage and 
propaganda work in Western Pennsyl¬ 
vania. Charles F. Banning, rc'puted multi¬ 
millionaire. Avas arrested in Pittsburg, 
Pa., Sept. 27 on a Federal Avarrant charg¬ 
ing violation of the espionage r.ct. Ban¬ 
ning is a naturalized American citizen. 
Coincident Avith the arrest of Banning a 
score of Fed<'ral agents started rounding 
up members of the German f’lub of Pitts¬ 
burg, of Avhich Banning is a member. 
Banning is chairman of the board of 
directors of the Banning-Cooper Com¬ 
pany. pig iron and steel manufacturers, 
and is vice-president of the "W. P. Ilues-s- 
ner Company, an engineering concern, 
Kurt Ileussner, president of the concern 
and business partner of Banning, is in 
I the county jail, held as a dangerous alien. 
At the German Club Banning’s address, 
)rior to his naturalization in IfiO.'l, was 
lerlin. After his naturalization Banning 
is alleged to have made annual trips to 
Germany, Avhere he remained dui’ing 101.1 
and 1014. He came to I’ittsburg in 1015. 
He was a frequent visitor at the German 
Club. There, the Federal agents say. 
Banning met engineers connected with 
various industi’ijil plantc. 
The honor of being the first State to 
complete its quota of the Fourth Idberty 
Loan was claimed for loA^^a Sept. 20 when 
unofficial reports from each of her ninety- 
nine cotinties indicated that the allotment 
of .$147,000,000 had been subscribed. In 
the third loan campaign Iowa led all her 
sister States by a wide margin. Fort 
Madison. loAva, was the first city in the 
ITnited States to complete its quota, ac¬ 
cording to uuoflicial Iowa reports. 
Plans for a Chicago-New York aerial 
mail service probably will be abandoned 
for the present befflinse of the shortage of 
airpl.'ines ami labor and the difficulty in 
selecting l.anding idac(*s. 
In Philadelphia, Polish AA’omen are b<'- 
ing engaged to load lumber on railroad 
cars. Tliey receive the sanie wages as 
men, but have shorter hours. 
Eighteen enlisted men from the crui.ser 
Salem are missing as a result of the cap¬ 
sizing of a small boat in Avhich they were 
returning from shore leave Sept. 29 in 
Key West. Fla. 
The C. Kenyon Company, a corporation 
that has the biggest raincoat manufactur¬ 
ing business in the country, Avith three 
factories in Brooklyn, and .six of its em¬ 
ployees Avere placed on trial Sept. 10 ih 
the Federal District Court in Brooklyn 
before .Tudge Chatfield and a jury. The 
defcTidants are charged with conspiring to 
defraud the GoA'crnment by supidying rot¬ 
ten raincoats for the Army Quartermaster 
Department. Tti opening for the Govern¬ 
ment Isa.'fc B. Oeland, special assistant 
of the Attorney-General, asserted that it 
AA'ould be lu’oved that thousands of rain¬ 
coats made by the Kenyon Company and 
rejected as defective Avere remarked and 
jdaced in lots previously accepted by in¬ 
spectors. John W. Andrews, a manufac¬ 
turer of rubber stamps in ^Manhattan, 
testified as a Avitness for the Government 
that he had sold to the Kenyon company 
betAveen .Tanuary and June stamps bear¬ 
ing the names and numbers of inspectors 
of the Quartermaster Department. No 
elTort Avas made to A’oil the transactions 
in secrecy, he said. The employees on 
trial are Benjamin Wolf, general mana¬ 
ger, and Henry Hede, .loseph Smolanski, 
l/ouis Friend, Louis Rosenberg and Frank 
Luzzi. 
WASHINGTON.—A sweeping curtail¬ 
ment in raAV material in less es.sent.ial 
manufacturing has been announced by the 
War Industries Board. It ranged from 
reducing the output of passenger automo¬ 
biles to a deep cut in production of such 
things ns baby buggies, clothes wringers 
and talking machines. But one specific 
industi'y benefits as typcAvritcrs are put 
on the preference list, the only indu.stry 
named to get priority consideration. The 
)urpr)se back of the order is of coui*se to 
essen the consumption of iron, steel, 
labor, fuel and other essential elements 
of industry and apply the saving to purely 
Avar production. 
Chairman Hurley of the Shipping 
Board, appearing before the House Ap¬ 
propriations Committee Oct. 1, asked for 
authority to spend .$484,000,000 additional 
to carry out the shipbuilding programme. 
Authorizations already passed by Coji- 
gress for the shipping programme aggre¬ 
gate $.‘1,419,000,000, of which .$2,810,- 
000.000 has been in cash appropriations. 
The movement for natiouAvide woman 
suffrage met its doom in the Senate Oct'. 
1. In the face of the pei-sonal plea of 
the Pre.sident. A'oiced in the Senate, in 
Avhich he Tirged favorable action as an aid 
to the Government in Avinning the war, 
and despite eleventh hour appeals of the 
most personal character addres.sed to fo)ir 
stanch Administration Democrats by the 
Bresident’s OAvn hand, the Senate refused 
to be SAverved. It voted 5.1 to .'ll. on the 
Susan B. Anthony amendment to the 
Federal Constitution, leaving it 2 votes 
short of the neccssar.v tAvo-thirds and vic¬ 
tory. The A’ote stood .54 to 10, but Sena¬ 
tor .Tones (N. M.) changed from “Aye” 
to “No” in order that he might bring the 
resolution before the Senate again. Tbi- 
der the rules this can be done only by an 
opponent of a measure. 
FARIM' AND GARDEN.—G. L '’hri.s- 
tie, of I’urdue TTniversity, Lafayette, Tnd., 
has been nominated by President M’^ikson 
to be Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. 
FolloAving a meeting of the special Avar 
com.nittee of the State TTtilities Commis¬ 
sioners of New York, held at Washington, 
D. C., Sept. 19, Public Service Commis¬ 
sioner Whitney m.'ide the announcement 
that express rate throughout the country 
is about to be increased 10 per cent, 
Avhich Avill mean an aggregate of approxi¬ 
mately .$24,000,000, of Avhich $17,000,000 
shall be raised in the territor.v of the 
Chicago lines. The increase allowed .Tuly 
1 amounted to betAveen .$20,000,000 and 
.$25,000,000. The application for increa.se 
asks for a fiat raise of 10 cents per 100 
pounds to existing commodity rates and 
to advance first-class rates about 10 cents 
and second-class rates 12 cents per 100 
pounds. The State commissioners liave 
issued a statement of protest. 
All creamery butter produced in the 
provinces of Alberta, SasKatchewan, Man¬ 
itoba, Ontario and Quebec betAveen Sejtt. 
.10 and Nov. 9 inclusive has been com¬ 
mandeered by the Dominion Government 
under an order in council announced Oct. 
1. The order in effect ])lnce Canadian 
consumers on an allowance of two pounds 
of creamei’y butter a person a month. 
Through the appointment of a commit¬ 
tee to investigate the pre.sent situation as 
to dair.v products the Food Administra¬ 
tion announced Oct. 1 that the first stei)s 
had been taken to stabilize the butter 
market. Increased demands from the 
army, navy and the Allies have ])roduced 
a temporary shortage of butter, the Food 
Administration has been informed by n'p- 
resentatives of the dairy interests. With 
the increasing scarcit.y the price of butter 
has risen steadily, and consumption bv the 
civilian po])ulation has decrea.sed. These 
conditions, dairymen have agreed, sooner 
or later will produce a collai)se in butter 
prices, possibly beloAV the cost of produc¬ 
tion. Dairymen have recommended that 
when stich a fall ocmirs Governmenti pur¬ 
chases Avill be used to support the market 
at a reasonable level. 
American Telephone and Telegraph Company 
And Associated Companies 
One Policy One System Universal Service 
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We hove found your Sprend- 
cr to be moat satisfactory. The 
liiiht teiim, tvelghiiill only 
uliout 2UU0, bundles It on 
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Tlie evenness and streiigtli of 
Ihe growth after top-dressing 
with your machine, shows it 
is u tool no farmer cun afloril 
to be without if he wants 
lesulis. J. H. McCLUEK. 
Two years ago I bought one 
of your spreaders, last year 1 
got a second one. 
A g(K)d Manure Spreoder Is 
one of Ihe best paying tools o 
man can have on a farm. We 
spread lime ns well as ma¬ 
nure with our NEW IDEA 
Spreaders. Would not think 
of running my farms without 
them. A. & WELCH 
1 have used your NEW IDEA 
Spreader for five years Am 
so well pleased with the work 
't docs, that I would not have 
any other. Has cost me only 
30c for repairs and that was 
caused by my own neglect 
P I. WORTHINGTON 
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