Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 17, 1912, Page 4

dorwich gt;llelin and Gourier. = 116 YEARS OLD, luhnflgln price, 12c & week; 50c a months; 00 a year. 4 Entered at tho Postoffice at Norwlich, Conn., as wecond-class matter. Telephone Calis: Bulletin Business Office, 430 Bulletin Editorial Rooms, 35-8, Bulletin Job Office, 85-6, Willimanitc Office. Room Dullding. Telepnone 2310. e e Norwich, Wednesday, April 17, 1912 2 Murray THE TITANIC DISASTER. Nothing in all marine disasters has ever approached the terrible loss of life as the wreck and sinking of the Titanic. Though of the latest pat- ten in steamships, the pride of- ail leviathans, and the pride of the high scas, the result shows that while it was supposed fo be unsinkable, it was crushed like a shell in the grip of a monster. Ocean-going vessels have reached such a stage of perfec- tion, a8 to construction and equip- ment, that there was believed to be no danger in transatlantic trips, but such disasters point out too plainly the unreliability of human provision in a battle with nature. The Titanic siruck, evidently, head on, an iceberg, probably many times its size and from the fact that it could stay afloat only four hours indicates that it must have been golng at full speed and met a resistance like a mountain of stone. That the bulkheads failed to keep the vessel from sinking is ground for the belief that she was sprung from stem to stern. There remains to be gained much information concerning the cir- cumstances about which little has been learned; and what a harrowing tale can be told by the survivors who must have waited for hours, hovering over the unmarked grave of she ili- fated Titanic before their rescue. It is a catastrophe which one would hardly believe possible, and yet every decade or so some big steamship has disappeared, no doubt meeting a sim- flar fate, That anything was known of the Titanic's trouble is due to the wireless and its far-reaching appeal. Icebergs have always been the terror of the North Atlantic and many have been reported this spring, so it is pre- sumed Captain Smith had taken the mecessary precautions, yet it can but seem as though the endeavor to break transatlantic records was being con- sidered first and the safety of pas- sengers given secondary thought, when such disasters occur. The longer route would have avoided the ice- floes, or reduced speed in the ice sone, where possibly fog was encoun- tered, would have been in the inter- ests of the passengers. Though both would have made a longer trip, what greater satisfaction there would have been in saving rather than sacrificing those 1,300 lives. Tt is the worst dis- aster in modern history and strange §t is that it should happen to the fargest, newest and best of ocean greyhounds, equipped with every known device, a veteran captain with but one accident in his forty years' experience, and on the maiden trip of the ship. The gloom from such a disaster is international, the horror is appalling, PLAYING THE PEOPLE. From the manner in which he is avoiding the issues of the campaign he is conducting, even to the point where he has been challenged to an open debate by Representative A. P. Gardner of Massachusetts on the cam- paign issues, Roosevelt is playing the people to gain his object. That he is doing it shows how gullible some of the people are some of the time, but there is the strongest belief that all of the republicans as represented Chicago will have something to and it will be against the ex-pr dent, s Great as Grant was, he was turned down as a third-term candidate, and the preposterous assumption that there is a demand for “me and my policies’ merves as a vehicle to ride in before the people and stir up dissension and @lscord through the party, to end in defeat bef he convention. Roose policies are no more pro- gressive ‘than those of President Taft dut he is throwing the bluff and tak- fng every advantage of the easy-going Taft campaign. The recent d ments will have their good The president could not be expected | to chase s predecessor about the land in an endeavor to cope with his tradition-breaking endeavors. Noth- ing of the kind will be done, but the friends of the president will purs: different course and make it plain a the representations of the Colonel are| not as he claims, and to the thinking public it is evident that the countr would be in dangerous hands with the Colonel and his big stick in charge under his latest proclamations.: The party staggers, by the tool Roosevelt is making of it, but being aroused by the situation the president’s friends will fight now for everything in sight| and they will win, CLARA BARTON. Though death 188 imed Miss| Clara Bartor will )\ long of time mory devoted effo behalf of world-wide humanity is dimmed Her record in the ‘battleflelds the camp where plague or famine needed the attention | of the nurse, was one of unrelenting devotion even duripng her increasing | years. She showed just as great a generalship and organizing propensity in the Spanish war as in the civil war or in her experiences in the German and French army camps. Her life will ever be an incentive to those who can be influenced by the breadth of self-de ion and social service that 1e was the founder organization, the Red Cros termed the Florence Nightingale of America. Though not ely engaged in the work for the t several years it had her d interest, and as a monu- ment to her ‘it also stands as one of the world’'s great assets. She was the good Samaritan of modern times and shov a rer able evolution from a modest New England girl to a wo- man of world-wide fame u Fanny Crosby’s y. Dr. Daniel K. earsons, philanthropist, offers a much similar plan, when he says worry, senseless “stewing” and fretting, are banes of existence. longey Colonel Roosevelt defends his seiz- ure of the danal zone in Panama Those who believe might makes right can applaud him. at | i EMPLOYMENT OF PRISONERS. The advocacy by Governor Baldwin of having convict camps established to give outside werk for those in prison, is along the line of similar ex- periments which have been tried in other states, and Windham county in Connecticut is an example of its suc- cessful operation at the county jail Under the present system prisoners of whom the great majority are la- borers are kept indoors, provided with good food and warmth, but languish out of the sunshine and air. Many of them have a better place there than at home and in the majority of cases prisoners would prefer the outdoor work that is proposed. It is healthier and better for the men. It would also mean that where the prisomers at the present fime are an expense to the state their correction can probably be better accomplished by such a meth- od than by having them in jail to mull over their predicament. Many who go to jail do so purposely for the living they get out of the state, and putting them to work might be the means of inspiring such a source of livelithood to them after their sen- tence had been worked out. A farm for the men to work is the plan that Windham county is successfully oper- ating. The Colorado plan of having the prisoners work the roads is to be tried in New Jersey this year if Governor ‘Wilson concurs, the legislature favor- ing it. In this state there averages over a thousand prisoners through the year, the average expense of each be- ing $118, and the average income from each one about $22.54, through the work that is now done inside the jaiis, showing a loss per prisoner of $95.46. In Windham county the average of 27 prisoners earned $9,585 in 1909 by out- side work, while in the three largest counties of the state the average num- ber of prisoners was 772 and the earnings but $12,960. THE LATEST NEWS, The desire of the public is always to get the latest of news of any such great disaster as that which befell the Titanic. How thoroughly The Bulle- tin provides that service is fully dem- onstrated in comparison with the big New York dailies, not only on occas- ions of great interest, but in the daily course of events. Monday morning, only one of the New York papers had any reference, and that was uncertain, to the Titanic striking an iceberg. All the details obtainable, even until Monday evening, were given in The ‘Bulletin Monday morning at the ‘breakfast table. Again Tuesday morn- ing many more details of later devel- opments were recelved by the public through The Bulletin, which has the benefit of fully three hours’ later serv- ice than the metropolitan journals printed at midnight. As far back as the blowing up of the Maine, The Bulletin, with one or two other New ‘England papers, was the first to an- nounce the news in its regular edi- tion and in connection with all im- portant events such service is daily maintained, as the readers of The Bulletin from time to time have oc- casion to notice, EDITORIAL NOTES. After the recent breaks, machine- repairing will be a long and tedious job. is not hard and continuous labor makes life seem Illke one grand It | that song. As long as the Mississippi continues to keep full, it is showing how utterly uncontrollable such a condition is. Roosevelt is not the only honest | man in the country. His Ananias | clubs have more than one on him. There a vital need in every state { where delegates have not been selected | and that is to get out the Taft vote. When olonel Roosevelt is looking for a pelt, he strikes the trail hard, | and keeps the game more than guess- ing. The insurgents’ slang dictiona | having new additions every day We | !slugged ’em through the ropes is | ‘lhe latest. | Happy thought for toda It is not | necessary to speak of our fault our acquaintances and enemies can attend to that. Roosevelt isn't quite sure now but | what he had better try some mission- |ary work among the delegates in- structed for Taft. b Lo | Senator Dixon has t style of a| | “dead game sport,” and is leads to! | the inquiry why the loudest sports| are given this title, SR I O ! Harmon's friends declare he will| have 400 votes in the Baltimore con- vention; but no one can see where| they are coming from. When the retur came in m nsylvania the Colonel shouted | “Bully!"” Nothing looks fraudulent that is coming his way. The world stands still but a minute, | even with such a great tragedy as the | Titanic disaster. Sad as it is, it will be forgotten in a fortnight, The republican party is getting a shaking up that it richly deserves. Pit that it has nct a Lincoln in| d of a pretender. 'he vacuum cleaner has a taking way, but hardly strong enough to! cause the man of the house to spend { his spring vacation at home. There is always a first time, though | it comes late in life. Senator Cullom | | of Illinois had never been defeated | until last week in the past 60 years. The friends of President Taft are | still confident one good term deserves | | another. In 1908 he was not favored ‘with the support of Illinois, Pennsyl- { vania or New York. Orozco made a bad blunder, in try- | | ing to get recognition from the United | | tion THE BULLETIN'S SHORT STORY. THE MINISTER’S WIFE'S PART “And on Thursday evening of this week, at the home of the pastor, the annual donation party. All meinbers of the parish will be gladly welcomed. The usual morning offering will now be received.” Thus Parson Bradley ended the notices for the week. “Flumph,’ sniffed Bethiah Hicks. “Guess they will now be gladly wel- comed. And the things they bring will be, too!"” Later, as she was folding her lace mitts and carefully pinning them into the crown of her Sunday bonnot, she spoke to her sister. “Parson Bradiey's going to have an- other one ¢' them donation parties on Thursday!” she snapped. “Do tell” replied Susan. “I'm glad you spoke of it. I'll make a loaf o' that butternut cake he’s so fond of. Miss Bradley don’t have much time fer fan- ¢y oookin’.” “No, and if she did have time, she wouldn't have mothin’ to cook with! The way that man spends money on himself an’ the rest o’ the heathen an’ lets his family go so theyre a dis- grace to the parish is enough to make a body sick.” “Why, Bethiah!” Susan. “T don't care! I'll bet Mis' Bradley ain’t had a mew dress since she was married, an’ she admitted to me the other day she didn’t have two night- gowns for one child in the family!™ Uncle Jabes slowly removed his pipe from his sunken lips. “Why don’t you g‘idv. her a donation party?” he quaver- It remonstrated Bethiah looked at him admiringly. Then she put on her second best hat and her shawl and departed. “Bethiah!"” shrieked Susan, amazed. “Where be you goin'? You ain't had vour dinmer.” “I don’t want any now.” called back Bethiah from the gate. “‘You an’ Un- cle Jabe eat yours, an’ I'll get a cold bite when I come back.” “Where do vou suppose she's gone?” asked 8usan as she cut the bread. “I dunno's 1 know,” replied Uncle Jabez, chuckling to himself, “an’ then again I dunno but I know.” Bethiah made a great many calls that Sunday afternoon. When she re- turned her sister was cracking butter- nuts. She looked up apologetically. “It might be wicked,” she said, “but I thought as long as 'twas for the min- ister T could do it on Sunday. 1 come out here in the shed so's folks wouldn't hear me.” Bethiah threw the nuts on the wood- pile. Then she sat on the chopping block. “This ain’'t the minister’s party,” she said, firmly. “This is the minister's wife’'s party! Where's the fruit of the Joom you got down to the store yes- terday?” “In the lower bureau drawer,” an- swered Susan, beginning to compre- hend. “Come upstaris,” commanded Beth- iah. Susan followed meekly. In the front room Bethiah dropped on her knees before the lower bureau drawer. “Pull down the curtains, Susan.” she said briefly. “Now here's your shears an’ heres’ mine. Heres the cuitin’ table; here's the cloth. We're goit¥ to make a few night dresses—6 year old size. I've got Mis’ Griggs’' pattexn. The better the day, the better the deed!” On Thursday night the minister, re- splendent in a new suit, sat in his Mor- ris chair in the parior. A pair of slip- pers, worked by a faithful follower, adorned his feet. His wife perched on the edge of a cane seated chair. She drew her shiny black skirt to one side to hide the break in the chair seat. The five chil- dren hovered about in varied attire. The door bell jangled merrily. “Sounds like Deacon Palmer's pull,” remarked the miniz'er as his wife hur- ried to the door. “Deacon gave me this chair. 1 wonder——" The deacon and family entered, all bearing bundies. “Where shall we put these?” in- quired Mrs. Palmer briskly. “Suppose we clear the table and pile them all up on it. We ain't going to open any till they all gel here,” she added, as she saw the minister. They came now in quick succession, young and old, till the house was filled to overflowing and the parlor table had long since given up trving to hold all the bundles. Excitement ran high when old Mr. Fisher, who never atiended domation parties and who was not on the best terms with the parson, drove up in his democrat wagon with & huge bundle sticking out under the seat. After much julling, hauling, puffing and resting, he and the minister got it into the house. The door bell had ceased to ring. Conversation was perky. Only the minister seemed really at ease, and he beamed satisfaction. Bethiah Hicks fidgeted in her chair. Then she rose and everybody looked at her. She cleared her throat nervously and the color came in her thin cheeks, “Always before at these parties.” she said, “it has been the custom that our pastor should open the bundles. At this one, however, we all join in the re- quest that Mis' Bradley should—should perform that office. Mig' Bradley, will you please begin?” The minister looked about him. Mre. Bradley, nervous and flurried. vaguely anxious, hitched her chair up to table. Someone handed her the sci sors. Mr. Wisher appeared with clothes basket for the waste paper. The first bundle was small and knobby at the end. As she tore the paper off a delightful squeal broke the oppressive silence. Little Lydia Palmer's voice then pierced the air. “Oh, ma! That's the rattle I bought for the baby!” A new dress for Mrs. Bradley fol- lowed, another and another, 2 bonnet, and gloves, 6 year old night gowns, toys, and gemes, sho<g (for Mrs. Brad- ley and the children). Now no one was quiet but the min- ister. When Mr. Fisher came in with the baby's new crib Parson Bradley slipped out of the room It was, indeed, the minister's wife's party, her first and her last. They never needed to give her another.— St. Louis Globe-Democrat. a OTHER VIEW POINTS The Mexican revolutionists took lots of trouble and risk to dynamite the El Paso bridge, but if anyone had sug- gested that they go blast a few stumps out of the cornfleld they would have been too tired.—Meriden Journal. The experience of western states shows a number of that convicis can be worked upon honor and with- | out manacles and armed guards. This being so, the field to road work is open.—Bridgeport Farmer. 1f the party cannot now win with Mr. Taft, it cannot win with anybody. He is, in the circumstances, the strong- est candidate the partv can nominate. Both he ard his managers must re- member that fact and the consequent duty to the party.—Providence Tri- bune. Mayor Gaynor's idea that there should be a federal constitutional con- Vention every 20 years in order that the constitution might be revised is his special contribution to current political discuseion. It's a conservative sugges- compared with some others.— | Springfield Republican Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh is to recommend to congress the adop- tion of smalier sized paper money. Good! Provided the new bills are not made too small, the plan proposed will save Uncle Sam something on his pa- per bills and permit of less reluctance in the retirement of soiled money.— New Haven Union. If the Yale graduating classes adopt the practice of planting class ehms, the reforestation of New Haven with the tree which gave the city a dis- tinctive name will not be soon ac- | complighed, but a good beginning will be made and an example set which { will be sure to be copled all over the town—Waterbury American The most dependable tabulation of | tha republican delegates elected thus far stands today: Taft has 348 votes in the convention to Roosevelt's 178, counting in Pennsylvania. It takes 539 to win In the convention; therefore Taft has 191 to get and Roosevelt 361, in order to win. “On with the dance, let joy be unconfined."—Bridgeport Standard. ‘Will the Titanic disaster cause the builders of great and greater ocean steamships to pauze in their expand- ing and reflect that perhaps the limit of safety has been passed? Probably not. But it must inevitably teach them some lessons. For some beautiful theories went down when the sea en- folded the sinking hull.—New Haven Regisier. { made perfect Bible Question Box Your Bible questions will be amn- swered In these columns or by maill It semt to our Bible Questien Bex Editor. i | | | ' Q.—What is man? Is he haif spirit- | ual and half fieshly, or is he entirely } a human or earthly being? | Answer.—There is not a single ex- pression to be found in the Scriptures | in which it is stated that man was cre- ated in any sense a spirit being. On the contrary, the Bible distinctly as- | serts that man is of “the earth earthly,” | that he was foriaed of the dust of the ground ana that the breath of life was | breathed into/ his nostrils and he be- came a living soul. I Corinthians xv, 45-47, Genesis i, 7. The Scriptural ex- pression “And the spirit returns to God who gave It” has reference to the life principle or spark of life which the Lord imparted to Adam when he was created from the dust of the ground. This breatn of life is the active princi- ple that makes the when removed from the body it re- turns to the Creator who is the source or fountain of all life. The Psalmist declares that man was created a little lower than the angels, the lowest of the spirit beings. Man is the highest of the animals or earthly beings, and in the divine arrangements was to be the ruler or the monarch over the earthly realm having dominion over the beast of the field and the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air. In view of this the plain teaching of the Bible on this matter we can understand the words of our L.ord and His Apostles that one must be begotten of the holy was the first one to be developed as a or earthiyv conditlon. Althcugh He was | 2 perfect man, we read that He was | through sufferings (He- | brews 11, 10) as a spiritual “new crea- ture;” “being, indeed, put to death in flesh, but being made alive in spirit.” 1 Peter ili, 15. Diaglott Fordham Professor for Yale. Ralph Waldo Gifford, at present Fordham law schoo!. has pointed Lines professor of testament- ary law in Yale Jaw school. Profes- sor Gifford was graduated from Har- vard law school in 1501. He was for some years a practicing lawyer New York city and planned and has since directed the course of study of the recently organized Fordham law school Professor Gifford will take | jup his, work at Yale next fall.” He succeeds in the professorship Prof. William Raynolds Vance, who has be- come dean of the department of law at the university Not of Value. When people ask for bread and are given a stone it is never a precious stone.—Deseret News tving being and | spirit in order to have a spiritual ex- | { istence in any sense. The Lord Jesus | spiritual new creature from the fleshiy | professor of law and pro-dean of the | been ap- | in | BREED THEATER FEATURE PICTURE TODAY How States Are Made--Vitayraph Tremendously Strong Western Story Miss MAE LA JESS, Contralto. POLIS THEATRE TODAY--Motion Pictures and Miss ETHEL STUART, Soprano TOMORROW NIGHT—DURKIN'S MINSTRELS. FRIDAY NIGHT—AMATEUR NIGHT. Featuring Ratcliffe Trio. Cortlandt Barker Lessee and Manager, —liN—AUDITORIU M—Ill\l— SPECIAL TWO-REEL FEATURE—HAND-COLORED THE MARGRAVE’S DAUGHTER--Gaumont THE ANIMATED WEEKLY NO. < OTHER ACTS AND PICTURES NEW WAL DON T. MURPHY Lyceum Theater FRIDAY, APRIL 19 Frame & RICHARDS (ifih CAR L E LON I Lederer (‘o. Present in his Latest Laugh and Song Show, JUMPING JUPITER with Edna Wallace Hopper. An excellent Cast and Some Girls Prices 25c to $i.60. Sale opens Wednesda) Cars to Norwich after performance 13-sive thin modsl. We equi) Hamilton Watches wi Safety Numerieal Dial (s shown) when s The Hamilton Watch, the best in the money. We recommend it above all vthers. If you have an old style case we can alter it to take one of these up-to-date watch movements. If you want to know how well a Hamilton keeps time ask the ! man that carries one. | . Ferguson & Charbonneau 239 Main, St., Franklin Square. & ‘Watch inspectors for the N. Y,, N, H. H. R. headquartey Brief Staie News New Britain.—The old fashioned . spelling matches are being revived in | are RECEPTION and SOCIAL BY ‘Dl‘\/‘,.él‘(‘)‘N’r N‘O_ 1, A.H? H., Friday Evening, April 26th & B ang’s Orchel stra some of the grades at the HKast street | school. West Haven.—Dr. and Mrs. Paul | ted adding the word “revolver | Kumpitsch of Main street have taken of. weapons that are forbid apartments at 208 Campbell aven. discharged day The They will take possession the first eferr to the committes | May. res | Suffield.—Tobacco growers of Suf P & field have been sterilizing their tobacco | Noroton. ‘.w 4 \wnp service »\n | beds under the supervision of an expert | the min Rev. Otis Olney Wrig from the United States department of | has resigned as r~f.vm‘ of St. John's agricniture church and w retire Meriden.—Francis Atwater attended Bridgeport ur generation of the the funeral of Clara Barion at Glen | Goulden fam at f e an Bcho, Md.. Monday Mr. Atwater had | I 3 h birth been an intimate friend of the dead |da f Sam iridgeport | woman for many years. e - | Naugatuck.—March, 1912, will go on { record as the only month in the his- | tory of the borough that no marriages took place. The registrar’s report gives 14 births, but no marriages CASTORIA For Infants and Children. ' The Kind You Have Always Bought Boars, tiis M% New Haven.—Prasident (Charies San | ger Mellen of tha New Haven road has presented a number of rare birds, in cluding five storks, five cranes and fo pelicans, to Fast Rock par Ne Signatu.e of | Haven. The birds are from Mr. Me | len's farm in Stockbridge, Mass Bridgeport,— Mayor . B W { SIGN PAINTING wants a safer celebration of Reagonabla in price, pror Fourth, as Mondayv night in a ,con by J. W “—\fi LETT. 30 3 | munication to the common cour he Telephone 706-2 THE BULLETIN’S CORN GROWING CONTEST FOR 1912 $230.00 in Prizes for Competing Farmers IN SEVEN PRIZES—$100. to 1st; $50. to 2nd; $25. to 3rd and 4th; and $10. each to next three in order To Promote Corn Growing in New London and Windham Counties The Bulletin makes | States, when he had the American | priséner shot. He is liable to get the wrong kind of recognition. ; There i3 a growing opinion that the | day is fast approaching when old parties will be forgotten and the po- litical line-up will be here, as in ‘England—conservatives and radicals. | Pensioned by New Haven Road. | John Weber of New Haven, 43 years in service with the New Haven road, ‘was the other day placed upon the re- tired list of engineers. For 39 vears -he has been an engineer and for the past three vears has been at the lever of a swiich engine at Belle dock. He was made an engineer of the New Ha- ven road by K. M. Reed in 1873 after he had worked for three years in the | machine ghops of the road at Hartford. by boy or man. Who May Compete—Any farmer in New prize. Date of Entry—Notice of intention to compete should be sent to The Bulletin Company on or before May It will be better to enter Amount of Land—Any amount of upon the yleld of one acre only come within and be a part of Survey—The acre The quantity of land within t original posftlon until after The quality 1t will require fifty must be measured and staked off of the corn will be decided by names THE RULES OF London or Windham (¢ now, even if you decide to withdraw land may be planted This one acre must the piece entered in the contest e provide v two disin he lines must be exactly 43 the awards are made and announced a free laboratory to warrant the comp: ‘ounties Only one entry can be made from a farm, which can be made by the owner, his son or lessee. be one piece, and may be selected by 560 square feet. swampy or poor land or for any irregularity, elther natural or artificial, test this offer for the best acres of corn grown THE CONTESI: may compete. No contestant will be awarded more than one 1812 later The is harves in extent contestan 1 it is actually one acre or over awa mads he at or before mus terested parties not in the family of the No allowance will be made for or for missing hills his emain bowlders All boundary walls stakes m made by the Storrs (ollege expert from one quart of selectad corn.