CONG. GARDNER’S DINNER 
Town AND’ Crty® COMMITTEES AT- 
TEND IN’ Fut, NUMBERS. 
“Whatever Bryan..and the other 
extreme, pacifigsts may claim concern- 
ing the brutalizing effect of war, the 
European training camps are. trans- 
forming. millions. of comparatively 
\ orthless men.into.the best types of 
efficient individuals, with devotion to 
high .standards, self-denial and_pat- 
riotism, thus presenting to us the 
strongest argument for compulsory 
military training,’ declared John Bar- 
rett, director-general’ of the Pan- 
American Union, at the dinner given 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
at the City club, Wednesday night by 
Congressman Gardner to the Repub- 
Hear: town and city committeemen of 
the 6th congressional district. 
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The congressman presided, and fe- 
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for “the greatest plurality given any 
Republican congressman in the com- 
monwealth, and almost throughout 
the country.” 
He told his hearers that they repre- 
sented the greatest historical district 
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THE REPUBLICAN, Springfield, Mass. 
WAS: 
Dee. 29, 1916. 
in the state, containing more than 
twice as many cities and towns cele- 
brated by historians as any: other dis- 
trict, and more than twice as’ many 
names of famous men, if the gazet- 
teers and biographical dictionaries: are 
criterions. 
“Perhaps, therefore, you ieeahise 
how much it means to me tobe elect- 
ed year after year ftom such a. dis- 
trict—and old Essex is by no means 
always an easy district to “satisfy,” he 
said. ie 
Mr. Barrett, after eulogizing Con- 
gressman Gardner as “a true Ameri- 
can,” related interesting experiences 
in a recent trip to the western front 
of the European war. He said. in 
part: 
“The camp of the German officers 
imprisoned in England contains a big 
swimming pool, tennis courts and a 
football ground, where sports are 
freely indulged in. The Germans 
are allowed to govern themselves, 
maintain their own discipline and 
their own cooks, and most surprising 
of all they are paid the same salaries 
by the British government as they 
would receive from their own goy- 
ernment. Mr. Gerard informed me 
that the British officers imprisoned 
in Germany are receiving practically 
the same treatment. 
“The development of efficiency in 
all ranks of labor is astounding. The 
capacity of all plants as formerly 
computed has been exceeded 60 per- 
cent. Our manufacturers will have 
no easy time at the close of the war. 
The part taken by women in labor, 
as well as in nursing, is remarkable, I 
saw 1000 women doing heavy work 
cn the docks, yet singing at their 
tasks,” 
Mr. Barrett described in dramatic 
language the announcement he heard 
made from the stage of the Gaiety 
Theatre in London of the coming of 
2 fleet of 20 Zeppelins. The picked 
beauties in the chorus merely low- 
ered their singing to a humming, 
while the orchestra continued softly, 
all constituting an obbligato to the 
announcement ‘‘made by order of the 
government under the Defence of the 
Realm. act.” 
He also told many other incidents 
occurring during his trip abroad— 
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