Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 15, 1912, Page 4

anru;ith @u iletin and Goufied. 116 YEARS OLD. Subscription p;i;-. 12 a week; 50c a l:n’nkh; $6.00 a year. Entered at the -Postomce at Norwich, Conn,, as second-class matter, Telephone Calls: Bulletin Business Office, 480. Bulletin Editorial Rooms, 35-3. Bulletin Job Office, 35-6. Willimantic Office, Room 2, Murray Building. Telephone 210. Norwich, Friday, Nov. 15, 1912. CONNECTICUT HIGHWAYS. Much is being said at the present time concerning the state road work, its good and bad features in the past and the expectations for the future. No one can deny with justice that High- way Commissioner McDonald has done a great and lasting service for this state in- the progress he has made against great obstacles in the work- ing out of the good roads problem. Every section of the state has a chance to know and appreciate the benefits therefrom. Every section has its bettered roads, and the system is steadily being extended. He has met with criticism, but that is only what every incumbent of that office will experience. It is a job, like the street commissionership of a city, which everyome considers the target for adverse criticism. The problem of road building is steadily changing and it experienced a setback with the development of the automobile. Macadam roads give ex- cellent results for ordinarzy travel, but they are not the thing to withstand the wear and tear of the whizzing auto. There is the backward push from the auto wheels which raises havoc with the roadbed unmless there is a binder of some sort used. Tar or sim- flar preparations have been found to serve with good results, but at an in- creased expense. The auto owners are demanding the best of roads, a condition which everyone will join with them in seeking, but there is much doubt over the claim that a change in the commissionership is go- ing to bring it about. Whoever holds the office, for the democratic legisla- ture is bound to make a change, is go- ing to be subject to the same sort of criticism as the present holder, if not more. The administration of James MacDonald as highway commissioner will always be an important one in the good roads history of Connecticut. THE NEXT POSTMASTER GENERAL President-elect Wilson is as mum as an oyster as to the makeup of h cabinet, and in that relation he is pur suing an excellent course. He has im- portant work before him in that rela- tion ang it is well that he should give full consideration to the positions which he will fill. In relation to a postmaster gen- sral he must choose a man capable of BlMng an office of great responsibility and one who will measure up to his predecessor. He will be required to deal with numerous quedtions of great fmportance and the problem of making Bhis department show a surplus, as has been the accomplishment 6f the pres- ent postmaster general, ¥, H. Hitch- cock. He must have administrative ability, business experience, a free- dom from political obligations and in- fluences. A number of important questions face the new administration in relation to postal affairs, The par- cels post will only have just been launched and the postal ‘savings sys- tem is yet in its infanc The up- building and extension of civil service should be the aim bf the department, a worthy precedent in that regard having been established by the pres- ent administration. It is to be hoped that for-the good of the country and the service that the return to the spoils svstem which the democrats in the last session so strongly advocated, will be squelched. By the naming to the office of a man, equipped by his oualifications rather than his political record, the president-elect would indi- cate his determination to make the eonduct of the department a non-polit- Jeal one. BIRDS AND CROPS. The prdtection of migratory birds i3 one of growing importance through- =ut all sections .of the country The destruction of insect-eating birds is being felt by the agricultural interests to a severe extent, while the loss of many trees and the expense entailed in attempting to erad e the pests which flouish because their enemies ar» fewer, amounts to large figures. In view of the fact that state legisla- tion does not seem to handle the sit- uation properly, three measures are now before congress for the purpose of securing national legislation. Rob~ ins are shot in seven states of the union because th state law does not forbid it. In five states, blackbirds are the prey of the hunters by per- | mission of law and doves are listed as game birds in twenty-six statés, The killing of these birds means that just 80 many more insects are allowed to exist and raise havoc with crops and | trees. What price the farmers pay for this fostering of the ins pests is indi- cated by the government estimates that endeavors to overcome them cost the fruit growers § 0,000, while #he shrinkage of crops amounts to at least $12,000,000. The boll weevil is of great injury to cotton, and the cinch bugs are as harmful to wheat. each causing a loss of probably iwenty mil- lion each -¥ear. Government experts in geoing through the list figure that these losses reach an approximate total of $420,000,000. 1t is hoped to check this waste by the enactment of national laws con- cerning insect-eating birds. It must be admitted such birds are preferable to the pests. ct Lyman Tingier and Daniel P. Dunn say there'll be no lobby in the gen- eral assembly at the coming session. Let's see; haven't they been residents of the state and in politics for some little time? Is it the lobby or the lack of the proper men with moral courage that the legislature suffers from? Bridgeport is considering the City Peautiful idea. Norwich has been in that condition for months, and it is being realized that it is a movement whicl needs plenty of enthusiasm and attention. It will not run itself, though the idea 1s an excellent one. The publisher of The Appeal to Rea- son has committed suicide. What's in & name, anywny? ¥ BUILDINGS AND SANITATION. Over in Meriden, an effort is being made to secure a sanitary inspector, an official who will make it a point to look over the tenement houses of the city with a view to better conditions and an improvement of those needing it for the better health of the city. In urging it, the Meriden Record says: “Property owners are sometimes ¢rim- inally careless about the condition of the houses they rent to unsuspecting and ignorant tenants. So long as they get the money on their real estate in- vestment, they are content to let the sanitary conditions go below par, The result is illpess und death, the dis- ease often being «f such subtle char- acter as to completely mystify the uninitiated.” There is doubtless need for such an official in every city of any size, but whether his duties should be confined to the one line indicated by the title is doubtful. With it there could be combined other duties' of a like na- ture which could be done at the same time and for an equally good cause. Such would be a building inspector, who is an official of importance in every community. It is necessary for a growing city that such work in the interest of building ordinances and sanitary conditions should be dome. The city, property owners and tenants all receive a large amount of good from such duties faithfully performed. GERMANY’S OIL. This country is taking an interest in the oil fight in Germany, not be- cause it is the Standard Oil company in particular that is concerned, but because it is against an American industry that the attack is directed. When it is found that the exclusion of American oil is being undertaken for the purpose of stimulating oil wells and business of German bankers it is of course within the province of the kaiser’s government to make the restriction what they will, but it is manifestly against the interest of the German people. The supply of oil for that country comes from this country and Russia, to a large extent. Ameri- can oil is depended upon and the price I8 lower than unsatisfaetory oil which | other countries furnish and which alone would not begin to supply the dgmand, The expense of developing the oil {ndustry to supply the require- ments Is going to add to the price of oil in Germany, and the exclusion of American oil is an act in restraint of trade with this country in that com- munity. ‘What success the efforts of this country will have in attempting to prevent the monopoly remains to be seen. Germany has a right to place what tariff it likes on foreign busi- ness, but in doing so it should treat all countries alike and not discrimi- nate against the trade of one. EDITORIAL NOTES. Maud Malone was found guilty, but the judge refused to make her a mar- tyr. Why wouldn’t she appeal? Happy thought for today: Paying an election bet always seems funnier from the outside than it does from within, Before the Balkan war with Turkey is over, Austria is trying to sit on Servia in such a way as to give the powers an attack of nerves. It only takes a warm spot to dem- onstrate that nothing, not even the swatter, has been able to disturb the standpatism in the fly world. If the Bulgars continue their prog- ress there will be a scarecity of tin sol- diers by Christmas’ time unless the toy makers can increase the output. The A. F. of L. has withdrawn its objection to the Boy Scouts. The boys are demonstrating that they are not such terrors as some tried to make them out. A Philadelphia chauffeur has been given ninety days in jail for killing a street cleaner. At that rate we'll soon have societies for prevention of cruel- ty to chauffeurs. Every port on the Atlantic coast 1s looking for increased business as the result of the opening of the canal. It is the proper thing and none too early to be hustling for it. When Professer Meeker of Princeton declares that laws forbidding teachers to administer corporal punishment are unwise, it's only sayving in other words, Spare the rod and spoil the child.” That Pennsylvania girl who shot her mother for a burglar was evidently im- pelled by the desire for notoriety. Hearing a noise and making no inves- tigation, her excuse is of the flimsiest character. It is apparent that more revelations are necessary in the Grand Trunk- New Haven deal before the entire story is out. Keeping them back, only adds to the agony of Rhode Island and Massachusetts. An Iowa paper thinks if the pro- gressives would steal the election ma- chinery of California before election, they will bear watching when the count is being canvassed. California has certainly gotten in bad. The McNeil family, as the new own- ers of the Bridgeport Telegram, have secured an excellent newspaper, and from what is known of the new own- ers the newspaper readers of that city are not going to suffer by the change. The force of good example will doubt- less have its effect. P i I IDEAS OF A PLAIN MA. l e e P WA A N Y PSS TS The Beast in Us. “It's a fine day,” says the traditional Englishman; “let us go out and kill something.” The wild beast in us demands some- thing to pursue and slay. Even those who have no taste for slaughtering game have somewhat of the hunter lingering in them which one finds on looking closely. There are little corner cages in all our minds where we keep bloodthirsty thoughts against certain classes. I had always regarded Mormons, for instance, as proper food for the ex- terminating sword, and was amazed, one time when I went among them, to find them as a rule as genial and bhu- man as those of my own sec In fact, human nature is A‘.boul the same, in Fez or Toklo, and when you come to-know men you see that the difference is mostly vemeer, Yet the southerner keeps a little bloody thought for the negre, the Gen- tile for the Jew, the Christian for the Turk, the white man for the yeilow, the North Siders for the Bouth Siders. It is wholesome for any man to think that under anether man’s cir- cumstances he might be as bad or worse, “There goes my wicked self!” ex- claimed an English bishop on seeing a criminal led to executien, BULLETIN'S SPECIAL YALE LETTER New Haven, Nov. 14,—A considerable hnumber of eastern Connecticut stu- dents are pursuing advanced courses of study in the graduate departments | of Yale university, according to the directory issued this week by the umi- versity. In the department of philoso- phy and the arts, the candidates for degrees include Joseph Alfred Ambles of Norwich, in chemistry; James odore Hillhouse of Willimantic,i lish; Gerard Edward Jensen of Nor- | wich, in FEnglis! Dickson Hammond Leavens of Norwich, in mathematic In the same department teachers and | others not candidates for degrees in- clude Annie Walker Buchanan of | Mansfield Center, Frances Griffin | | Cowles, Mary Ellen Davison, Jennie | Elizabeth Dennehy, Sara Emily Lew- is, Mary Ann Quinn, Frederick William Staebner and Florence Gertrude Wood- | ward, all of Willimantic, all taking courses in education Frederick Lor- | ing Tapley, formerly of Willimantic, | is listed here also. In the first year class of the Medical school is Robert Hinckley Flocken, of Willimantic, Wesleyan 1912. In the third year clas: of the Law school is Arthur Thomas Keefe of New London, Yale 1910, and ‘William Hawthorne Shields, Yale 0, is entered as a member of the f veur class in the Law school. Otto B! marck Robinson of Willimantic is in a | special class in the Law gol. Nich- |olas V. Walsh, B. 8. Trinity 1912, is | another Norwich young man who the graduate department of the Shel | field Scientific school, hig special stu¢ | being bacteriolog; . For the November meeting of the Yale corporation, which takes place next Monday, President Taft will he | |in New Haven, extending his trip fro | New York fo that purpose, and retur | to Washington Monday afternoon, Among the twenty-three men from | the class of 1914 initiated into the jun- for fraternities on Tuesday night of| this week was Philip Johnson of Nor- | wich, Psi Upsilon. The initiations from | the sophomore class will take place next week. Three football mass meetings have been held during the past week in preparation for the two big games of the year At the first, J. D. Swain told the undergraduates tI new coliseum and pla. ing that besides the “bowl,” fifty tennis ecourts, twenty baseball diamonds, & new track and! other facilities will be provided, with a central club house providing locker | accommodations for 1,500 men. To| utilize space in the present field that| is unused, the present baseball stands will be moved back to the street, ac cording to the plans. The coliseum, of course, is the thing needed, and all efforts are bei made to raise the funds necessar About $165,000 has been subscribed art $300,000 is needed. The total impre ment cost will approximate $700,000. Following the speaker, the new siren cheer was tried out. This is to fill the| place of a short Yale cheer, and is to| be used when new play are put in| or any other time when the long cheer is not advisable. Its words, Yale! with a siren effect, followed by Rah! Rah! Spalding! or the name of any other player, makes an effective cheer and one that has been received with) enthusiasm. | The new songs published this year| have been given a trial, and one of| them, Parabalou, or the Team Tri- umphant, may be used at the game. One of the encores givem by | Sousa and his band at thelr appear- | ance in Woolsey hall this week were | these football songs, and though they are in no danger of displacing the ola songs, they made a good impression o:. the big audience, new The Brown game was as usual en- livened by the performances of the “Whiffenpoofs,” one of the pet soci- eties of the senior class in academic. | Headed by them and a band, the un- dergraduates marched out to the game in a body, and occupied a cheering sec- tion The enactment of the Hotel Metro- pele scenes, with Rosenthal and the | ladies dining at a table, in the middle | of the field, followed by the entran: of the “murder car” with “Lefty Lou ie” and all the others, and the thrill- | ing events that came after, w the best features of the an | The Sprint for the White House w | another stunt that was cleverly got- | ton up, and Wilson, in his academic | | gown, got through the crowd and jumped into the house just ahead of the “Rough Rider Roosevelt.” One in- dividual climbed up to the cross-plec of the goal and was almost tied th by the big hawser rope which figured |in “Bunty Pulls the Strings.” The game itself was tame until the| { last half, when Yale pushea the bail| “ over for a touchdown and Flynn kick-| ed the goal. Later Pumpelly (]x‘oppn‘dI a goal making the score 10. Yale re- i fused to show any special plays and| the forward pass was rare. The same policy of keeping Yale's development | as pecret as possible is shown by Cap- | taih Spalding’s request that no pic- tures of the team in action be prinfea | |in the college papers until after the| season is over. There have been lonz signal drills at the field this week, and hard scrimmages. A small army of coaches has been on hand. | The fall regatta was held last Friday and marked the end of the season’s outdoor rowing although the universit: ‘boats will be kept in the water as loug | as practicable. The fastest time over| | the one mile course was made in 5| | minutes 2 seconds by the Second Ades | university. John Kennedy, former pro- | fessional coach, was among the spec-| tators and said that the work was of high standard and very encouraginz There were six races in all | The system followed this fall has jbeen the division of the university candidates into the two boat clubs, tha| Acaderaic men being placed in the| Adee and the Sheff. men in the Dun- | koff E. S. Worcester, D | land e, { whole Many From Eastern Connecticut Taking Courses in Graduate | Department of University—Philip A. Johnson Initiated in Psi Upsilon—Total Improvements For Coliseum and Other Grounds Will Amount to $700,000—The Fall Regatta—National Academy of Sciences Meeting. ham boat club. The freshmen dre sim- ilarly divided by the new plan begun last spring. The autumn meeting of the National Academy of Sciences was held in New Haven on Tuesday and Wednesday, a* the Sloane Physics laboratory of the university. Another conference held in New Haven this week was that of the Congregational churches of the state, among the clergymen attending from Norwich being Rev. H. G. Wy B. MacLane, J. O. Barrows. Rev. Dwight C. Btone of Stonington was also in attendanc:. After winning decisively from Prince- ton, the Yale cross country team was just as badly beaten at Harvard last aturday, The Harvard men set a ter- rific pace, and Copeland, their leader, made a new record of 3¢ minutes 4 seconds for the course. The first Yale man finishad eleventh. The Harvard freshmen won from the Yale freshmen by a score of 25 to 31. The soccer team on Baturday defeated the Brooklyn Central Y. M. C. A. 3 to 1, and the freshman football team tled the fresh- men at Princeton. Despite the fact that Yale has with- drawn from the Intercollegiate Basket- ball league the management has ar- ranged a programme practically as strong as ever with the advantage that it does away with the expensive trips to Cornell and Dartmouth, Wesleyan, which last year had the team than won the championship of the New Eng- e will be the first team that comes to Yale, on Jan, 7. The follow- ing Tuesday is open and the rest of the schedule is filled as follows: Saturday, Jan. 21—St. John's at Brooklyn. Saturday Feb 1—Unlversity of Penn- sylvania at Philadelphia. Friday, IPeb. 7—University of Penn- sylvania at New Haven, Saturday#Feb. 8—College of the City of New York at New York. Wednesday, Feb, 12—Princeton New Haven. Tuesday Lee 4 Saturday, Princeton_ Tuesday, Feb. York. The Yale material is strone. at Feb. 18—Washington and Feb. 22—Princeton at —Columbia at New Contrary to their custom in the past, the Harvard football squad is not go- ing to Farmington this year for its final preparation for the Yale game. tead, the backs, kickers and cen- accompanied the manager and iners, wiil leate Boston .on Thurs- day morning directly for New Hav>aa. 1y afternoon they will practica field, in order to accustom ves to the lightt and other con- Late in the afternoon the players will go up to New London, where they will stop at the Hotel Mo- hican. The rest of the squad will join them there Friday evening, coming 4i- rect from Cambridge. Indoor practice will be held in New London Friday ight, Saturday morning the team will come to the Hotel Taft, New Haven, and Saturday evening the football ban- quet will be held there. Then the team will disband. HER VIEW POINTS Miss Eleanor Wilson won't say whether she intends to have a studio at the White House. This “silence” ailment is becoming epidemic in the Wilson family.—New Britain Herald. Bulgars is a dangerous word in the composing rooms of the newspaper, but it seems to be getting by pretly well. E y day we have been expect- ing it to come out “Burglars” or “Bug- —Waterbury Republican. A lot of good people in Massachu- setts and Rhode Island expected to make good money selling their prop- erty to the projected Southern New England railroad, and now it looks as if there would be no road to sell to. o wonder they are disappointed.— Hartford Courant. . Mrs. Florence Green, arrested for dancing a hornpipe on the streets in New York, garbed in sailor’s clothes, said the rig was “much more com- fortable than skirts”” She was dis- charged on promise to wear skirts hereafter. More argument for giving downtrodden woman suffrage.—Meri- den Journal. The Filipinos in Manila celebrated the democratic victory in this coun- try by a procession headed by Agui- naldo in which the conspicuous senti- ment on the banners carried was “im- mediate independence,” that being construed as the democratic doectrine with reference to the Philippines.— Bridgeport Standard. It is said that the New Haven road hag cancelled an order for wooden 1 | BREED THEATER FEATURE PICTURE TODAY WORLD’S CHAMPIONSHIP BASEBALL SERIES New York Giants vs. Boston Red Sox BENNETT and CALKINS in Latest Song Hits RHOADS MARIONETTES A Stage Upon a Stage. The Great- est Novelty of the Season ATR Thursday, Friday, Saturday O \'I NYUAARNG November 14, 15,16 Sutton, Mcintire & Sutton Spectacular, Comedy, Novelty, Singing, Dancing and Acrobatic HANLEY & JARVIS Some Comediang Who Will Make You Laugh RED SOX-GIANTS WORLDS SERIES WATCH FOR THE BANNER SHOW WEEK NOV. 18th (| LOCKET & SHEARS [} Eccentric Dancers The Two Concerts public sale begins. Davis’' Book Store on Thursday, Friday Spinning Marvel AUDITORIUM Today BATTLE OF TWO PALMS VIVID SCENES OF ACTUAL WARFARE TAKEN IN THE ITALIAN TURKISH WAR—2 REELS ELVERTON CONNERY & LEGAULT Dainty Novelty THE BASS-CLEF v 5 ANNOUNCES \ FRIDAY, JAN. 31st FRIDAY, MAY 23d Those who subscribe now for tickets for both econcerts become Associate Members of the Club and will be entitled to selection of seats before the Cards may be gotten from the Active Members or at 1913 or Saturday. waited till the pig stealer came nearer, and then said in a low voice: “You are under arrest.” The pig stealer said: “You are right.” ! The man was brought to jail and | was locked up for three monaths, The editor received twenty-five dol- lan;' rei‘ard, bemdes_u. large b;;rel ct | Baldwin apples and a large turkey. He | put he money in the bank, the Bald- win apples he stored away for winter, and the turkey he ate for Thanksglv- ing. CARL ANDERSON, Age 10. Baltic. $ e e e et e e S T e e picture people, United Shoe Machin- ery, United States Steel and Interna- tional Harvester. If the new presi- dent decides to drop any of these suits it will not be because they are not in shape to be carrfed through success- fully.—Waterbury American. The government announces that ap- proximately twenty-eight millions of dollars have been deposited in the | United States postal savings banks up to date. This was an average of $84 for each depositor. The system is in operation in nearly thirteen thousand postofiices. Such a showing clears at one stroke all doubt from the question of whether the people wanted the pos- tal savings banks. They want them or they would not use them.—Ansonia Sentinel: Some editors are trying to deter- mine why Mr. Straus was not elected governor of New York. Being a He- brew, it wias supposed he would com- mand the vote of his co-religionists, and that enough progressives would unite with them to carry the day. As usual, Tammany swept the board both far governor and the legislature. There is little hope for reform in New York so long as Tammany rules.—Middle- town Sun A woman hes been arrested in Den- ver for smoking a cigarette in a public thoroughfare. passenger cars and is going to have them constructed of steel instead. The public will be charmed at the change. The steel car is coming, and all roads will have to adopt it as soon as their finances admit of the expenditure.— Bridgeport Telegram. Thanksgiving day has been apooint- ed by President Taft for an exhibition in a Washington theater of the first motion pictures of the Panama canal. These striking views would be a great attraction on their own account, and interest will be greatly increased by the fact that the proceeds are to be for the benefit of the Red Cross fund to aid sufferers from the war in Tur- key.—Springfield Republican. 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