Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 20, 1912, Page 4

NORWICH ‘BULLETIN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1912 &Yrwich §it iletin and g'uui’ie?. 116 YEARS OLD. Y ———— Subscription price, 120 a week; 50c a month; §6.00 a year, = Endered at the Postoffice at Norwich, Conn,, as second-class matter. Telephone Calls: Bulletin Business Office, 480. Bulletin Editorial Rooms, 35-3. Bulletin Job Office, 35~6. Willimantio Office, Room 2, Murray Building. Telephone 210. worwich, Friday, Dec. 20, 1912, SAFETY ON THE FREIGHTERS. What need and value there was in the action of the government in es- tablishing new regulations for ocean liners is indicated by the period of extremely bad weather which has been experienced on the Atlantic for the past fortnight and this is particularly true in relation to the freight carry- ing vessels. It was the Titanic dis- aster which brought attention to the need of more stringent regulations and {t will be remembered that it was the inability of the freighters to play the part they should have in giving ald to the sinking ship which accounted for the loss of many of the lives. The Weighters make up a large part of the ocean travel and carry crews of thirty or more men besides valuable cargoes, That they are considered much greater risks than the passenger steamers is indicated by the fact that the insurance rates greatly advanced when the fact became known that the number of vessels unaccounted for or overdue was the largest in a period of thirteen years. It shows that chances taken by these smaller freight vessels are greater, and that should be sufficiently convincing to cause par- ticular attention ng given to that important branch of steamship traffic in the interest of sa It is better to take such a step when the lack of provisions is apparent rather than wait until some great catastrophe oc- curs to spur on beneficial regulations. COMPULSORY VOTING. It §s an Propo which Ormsby McHarg presents for the stopping of the expenditure of large sums of money at election, when he urges compulsory voting. It is well known that at every ection the ex- penses run up into large figures and there is even then a too large per- centage of voters who remain away from the polls. Th A plan w has been tried in Belgium, where it has met with much opposition and al- ready two plans are being consid for its adoption in Franc fine the voter who polls and the other the voter of his right of suffrage if he remained away from the polls on elaction d It is very evident that the endeavor to adopt any such plan in this count would meet with in- stant opposition. It is unAmerican in the first place and would deprive the voter of his liberty. While at first thought it might seem to.be a means of reducing some of the expense en- tailed in getting voters to the polls, it can hardly be imagined that any plan of compulsion would be workable in this country. Such a scheme would provide for the arrest and punishment of hundreds of voters at every electiol It might cut down some of the legitimately used money, but it would not have any ten- dency to reduce corrupt practices or money used therein. On the other hand it would increase the fleld for operation of money, with the larger number of actual voting voters to work upon. As has always been the case, it is belleved America will rely upon education of the voters to bring them out and keep down the evil in- fluence at the polls. interesting on would deprive PROFITABLE TO WALK. Whatever is the outcome of the suf- fragettes’ walk to Albany they have nevertheless revived interest in the best of dll exercise, walking. It has many devotees but the inclination, wherever it is possible to indulge it is to give way to the trolleys or auto. The walking of ten miles a day is not an effort which is unreasonable. That such an idea has arisen that walking ten miles a day is a feat even for a woman causes the New York World to be astonished. Tt says: “There miles an hour is a moderate pace. An eight hour day is not con- sidered too long at toil much more severe than walking. Any normal in- dividual of elther sex between 10 and €0 years of age should be able to walk the larger part of 24 miles a @ay without training and without dis- comfort. “The woman who gets breakfast and clears it away, goes shopping all day, ktands up in a crowded car and upon her return home gets dinner for the mily has done more than the equiv- alent of a fair day's walk; yet she would not commonly think it possible to walk even 10 miles, A man will walk around a billiard table two hours who would refuse to try seven miles etraightaway in the same time, “The automobile for the rich, the Wrolley car for the poor, have done walking an il turn. Any desk worker ‘who lives within three miles of his office can snap fingers at the trolley trust. Most women would find It profitable to take a lohg walk every day” Walking has everything to commend it. It is invigorating, favored with thefresh air and a necessary require- ment to a healthful condition. How that part of the campaign will appeal to Governor Sulzer remains to be seen Baldwin it would be a weighty co aration, a direct ments five sid the chief ppenl of Connecticut's to &€ % ¥he courss pursued and #ands mads by Bervia have g00d reason and it is in g ¢ with the sume good judgment she iz w willing to leave the o sire for o port en the the pewers, Her entire won werldwide admira. with fe has New York an effort is being to establish an American style lutely - independent of eanything 8 may devise, We are getting old enough @0t only te knew what Wwe want, but to design it, and the drop- ping of the “direct frem Paris” ought to cut the price ia two, Gesd matovial is being sought, Cab. makers ara werking evertime just -_u in this country end Japan, the | petition when the canal but were they going before Governor THE IMMIGRANT QUESTION, The effect which the movement to place a check upon undesirable imml-l grants, now underway in congress will have remains to develop. The senate has passed the Dillingham bill and| the house has passed the Burnett bill] concerning the literacy test. This house measure restricts all those over sixteen years of age who cannot read and Is almed at getting a better grade ' of people from foreign lands to come and make their homes here. In the house measure there is the loophole provided for those over sixteen and unable to read whereby they can come into this country if it is to escape! religious persecution at home, but they must prove it. The measure is far from comple- tion and many changes are likely to be made. What .is aimed at is to eliminate the crooks and the scum of Europe from coming to this coun- try and creating endless trouble, but how successful the literacy test will serve this purpose is rather difficult to foretell. It is doubtful if it will serve to check the anarchists or the! disturbing element for they are not to be placed among the illiterate. There: is need for getting the best possible as immigrants but it is also important that they be given some attention af-! ter they reach these shores. The dis- turbances such as that at Lawrence has demonstrated the fact that it is best that the immigrants should be led by good influénces rather than by the bad, and that unquestionably strengthened the feeling of congress in behalf of improving the immigra- tion law. CANADIAN RAILROADS AND THE CANAL. rom the fact that this country has decided that railroad owned ships can- not operate through the canal, Can- ada felt that it had been deprived of an important aid to the commerce of that country, but from the statement by Vice President Bosworth of the Canadian Pacific they do not intend to carry on their traffic through the canal. Their steamers are operated in connection with their transcontinental vailroad for the increasing of its bus- iness and if the routes of the ships were changed 5o as to go through the i have serious effect upon silroad in the amount of freight It is the interchange of bus- one line through the other which ess, for the railroad or 1t is quite evident that there is no need for such a large road to oper- ate other than over its own lines and it will simply be a stimulant to com- is operated. The decision of the road is to the ef- fect that Canada does not propose to lose any business even should it be possible to use the canal, in which case the exclusion of the railroad owned vessels works mno hardships upon the northern neighbor. Prep- arations to meet the competition by canal are of course underway and as be the case in this country on the big.carrying lines which cross from ocean to ocean a readjustment of rates ! to meet the situation can be antlci- nated, EDITORIAL NOTES. Happy thought for today. The box| and label sell many i [ If Turkey has her way there’ll be| no Greece mark on the peace parch-! ment. | That naval engagement hetwe?nt Turkey and Greece doesn’t arouse the ' interest of an exciting target prac- tice. The revelations at the money in- quiry indicate that J. Pierpont Mor- gan is the octopus of the financlal situation. " There is more than one late shop- | per, but it still holds good that If; you can't shop early shop as early as| you can. i Mr. Wilson from his New York| speech seems to be getting worried byt anticipation and nervous lest theary goes wrong. While the price of eggs is dropping ! kerosene is going up. It wouldn’t| do to have both of these commodities | dropped at the same time. Every rule has its exceptions. As the result of a railroad wreck two prom- | inent people are to call in a minister, usually it is an undertaker. ‘When reform in New York is cost- ing $260 an hour, it shows the effect of procrastination, and even now isn't making any too rapid progress. Politicians are now blamed for the dynamite plots. However it is usual gas which s associated with political blow-ups rather than dynamite. Mr. Wilson is bothered more by | those who might precinitate a panic than by those who ha threatened ' his life. The whole ¢ | | { imous that neithe take place . Westerly seems with auction wh electric roads. ) its several lines than the past, ay the futu with | be more successful The appointment of Willlam J. Flynn as chief of the United States| secret service system places the title on worthy shoulders. As has been his record in the past he can be relled upon to fill the bill With the majority of those suffra- gettes who started for Albany with- drawing before the second day they fail to adlsplay the stamina required for the necessary running around to conduct a successful campaign. While Mr. Wilson has found {t nee- ' essary to decline the invitations of the president, it will ever be recognized as a graclous act ow the part of Mr. Taft, & precedent which ought not to be forgotte ceeding presidents report of Enginesr Elwell fol- New Ha- in excellent lkes 'to hear, Probabdly withet Y i name of Geerge W. ¥ mentioned In connee he pres- | idency of the New Haven road. He| is a past master at mergers and by this | time weuld have had the Grand Trunk | deal-ail tied up as he did the Har-: vester trust, Teo Shew Missouri. Wastward the star of woman suffrage | 8tops at the Missouri—Chicage Inter- Ocean, Eleanor Kent has joined the Eddle Foy company in Over the River, In the spring she is to appear in a new A BULLETIN'S SPEGIAL YALE LETTER Christmas Recess Continues Until January Third—Tours of the Musical and Dramatic Clubs—Policy of Developing English Stroke to Continue With J. O. Rodgers Giving It as Much Time as Possible—Other Athletic Activity. New Haven, Dec, 19.—All depart- ments of Yale university were closed today for the Christmas vacation, re- opening again at 8 o'clock on Friday morning, January 3. Since Monday, however, the college has been practical- ly deserted, with the exception of a small group of biologists and the mem- bers of the Dramatic association and the musical clubs, who were holding their final rehearsals before their de- parture on the two long Christmas tours, on which at dinners and enter- tainments in many of the big Yale cen- ters of the country the Yale under- graduates will receive a reward for months of hard work, and at the same time bring the sections of the country | which they visit into renewed or closer touch with the life of the university. The Gles, Banjo and Mandolin elubs were the first to start away, leaving New Haven on Wednesday afternoon, with Cleveland, Ohlo, the place of their first appearance tonight. Friday night they will sing and play in the city of St. Louls and Saturday in Kansas City. The next Monday will bring the mu- sical clubs the farthest they have ever been from Yale, to Denver, Col, where the concert will be followed by a smok- er and alumni gathering at the Uni- versity club, under the auspices of the Colorado Yale association. On Wed- nesday night a concert is to be given in St. Joseph, Mo, the day after Christmas in St. Paul, Minn.,, Friday in Chicago, Baturday night in Detroit, Menday in Buffalo, Tuesday in Syra- cuse, and on January 1 the clubs will be back in.New York. It is perhaps one of the most exten- sive vacation trips that the Yale musical clubs have ever taken, and one of the members of the Banjo and Man- dolin clubs is Philip A. Johnson of the class of 1914, of Norwich, while A. H. Chappell, Jr.,, 1916, of New London, is on the Glee. The Trip of the Dramatic association is somewhat different this year, owing to the arrangements made for a break in the middle of the tour to enable the members to spend Christmas at their homes, if possible. The college actors left New Haven this morning in the special car Forrest,which goes through the whole trip as in former years, and on which meals are served and all oth- er accommodations provided. The ini- tial performance of this season's ve- hicle, Count Leo Tolstol’'s “The Fruits of Culture,” will be presented at the Court Square theater in Springfield to- night. Friday the assoclation plays Providence, and for Saturday night skips to Albany.. Sunday morning the troupe returns‘'to New York, to con- tinue again from that city on Christ- mas night for Pittsburg. Washington, D. C., and Baltimore, Md., complete the week. The party will be at Scranton, Pa, Monday, at Plainfield, N. J, on 'll‘nuday, and in Brooklyn on January The resignation of James O. Rod- gers, '98, as head coach of the univer- sity crew does not mean that he has withdrawn from crew work, for while he Is to be succeeded in the spring by W. A. Harrimen, 1913, Mr. Rodgers, who started the Yale boats last year on the new stroke &nd coaching sys- tem, will continue to give as much time as he can spare to Yale rowing. Captain C. N. Snowdon, 1913 8. said this week that the policy in connection with the development of the English stroke will be carried out during the coming season with Mr. Rodgers’ act- ive co-operation. It is expected that Coach Harriman will make another trip to England be- fore the outdoor work hegins at Yale, to study the system of the Oxford and Cambrdge crews, Last year Harriman was In charge of the freshman coach- ing under Rodgers and last spring he made a similar visit of a month to the English universities. in clesing the fall rowing season at |New Haven, a series of experiments were made with English apparatus bought by Payne Whitney of the Yale rowing committee on a recent trip to! England, and it may depend on Har- riman’s investigations whether Yale | will have American or English equip- | ment for the coming spring. The boat | selected by Payne Whitney is of the model used in the Henley by the win- ning Leander crews, and the main dif- ference is not in lines, though the Eng- lish boat has a slight bulge, but in rigging, English thole-pins replacing American outrigging. Captain Henry H. Ketcham of the 1913 university football team has ap- | pointed Walter Camp as his represent- ative in the Athletic association, and has called a meeting of former cap- tains and head coaches to be held dur- ing or soon after the vacation to se- cure their views as to questions of pol- jey for next season. No actlon has been taken regarding the coaching sys- tem, and whether the present coaching system gets a thorough overhauling, of which many are in favor, will de- pend on the conference. The University of Pennsylvania, it is reported by some writers, is keenly de- sirous of again meeting Yale, Harvard | and Princeton in football. The with- drawal of Yale from games with them, followed by similar action on the part of the other two universities was due to the fact that in New Haven only undergraduates are eligible to play | football in any of the major or minor sports, while Penn. draws as well from her graduate departments. R VRS O I IDEAS OF A PLAIN MAN l N T T T A D R TR ———” Provincial Worlds. One of the most provinclal ideas men have is their idea of “the world.” What one means when he uses this term is usually his own little world. The tendency of humanity is to co- agulate. Each little clot imagines it- selt to be the universe. 1 know a weazened, near-sighted man who writes for a literary period- feal. Of the two billion people on the globe possibly ten thousand are in- terested in the kind of things he is | busied with, perhaps five hundred read | what he writes; yet he is rossessed of the smuggest confidence that he is steering “the world.” The woman in high soclety in Lon- don or Vienna supposes her circle to include all that is worth while of the human race. To drop out of her smalil clique would seem to her like disap- pearing from the solar system into the void. This narrowness is not confined to yokels and small villages; you find the most amazing provincialism in New York, There are New Yorkers who cannot conceive how anyone could want to live in Omaha. Bo also nothing is more absurdly small than the horizon of the typical Londoner or Parisian. A peculiar literary obsession seems to be that only those with an income sufficient to allow them to play golf comprise “the world.” The ridiculous idea is still rife in Europe that no one except the endowed count really; while as a matter of fact all but very few of the denizens of earth have to work for a living. As for me, I have a homesickness for humanity. I long to feel a kin- ship to, a sense of belonging to, every class of human beings. Intimacy. Intimacy is a fiction. Speak up honestly, and say if there be any one with whom you can be un- reservedly frank. Isn’t it rather true that there are layers or strata of intimacy; that is to say, you can be open with a person upon certain subjects, but not upon others? In fact, the more perfectly you be- come acquainted with a man the more you discover subjects upon which it Is of no use to talk to him; there are reserves of sentiment in him that are sensitive and you dare not touch. There are many things about which a wife will not talk with her husband after living with him for twenty years; yet she will meet a comparative stranger, let us say some sympathetic woman, and unburden her heart. The engaged couple have & very de- bauch of mutual confession; it is be- cause they do mnot know each other very well. There are some friends with whom you dare not mention religion, with others politics 18 taboo, there are others to whom you cannot joke, and s0_on. ‘Where 18 the wide-minded friend with whom you dare to be as bad as you are and as good as you are? Sounds of a Winter Morning. The suggestive power of sounds has never been fitly studied. We are sur- rounded by a series of noises which we do not notice because they have be- { come familiar; let one of them cease, as for instance let the clock stop tick- ing, and we are disturbed. ‘What overtones of feeling lie in the common noises of the household! Go back into your childhood and see how rich and peculiar they are. I remember so many of the sounds; I have just been recalling them; each one has its own splash of color and heart-interest. The crunching of snow under foot on the wooden walk, and ths ~scu- liarly velvet rreak of wagon wheels on snow in the road when it is very cold; the noise of the pump, of the hired man letting his armful of wood fall into the box, the thud of his heavy boots upon the floor (the foot- step of each member of the family is as well known as his face), the rat- tling of the kitchen stove as he makes the fire, the slam of the outside door, the frying of meat, the of the tea kettle, the clank of knives and forks and the double thump of plates as the servant girl sets the table; all these I heard when I, a little boy, lay abed in the morning awake and wait- | ing my father'’s call to get up. It is years since I knew these little sound people of the winter morning, but they still remain in the back of my brain, and always will, No other noises will ever be so real. OTHER VIEW POINTS Governor Baldwin explains that he did not approve of what Governor Blease said, but thought a governor ought to have the right to say any- thing he pleased in a convention of governors. So he voted against the resolution to rebuke him. Perhaps if the governors had let Blease alone South Carolina would have taken him across her knee. As it s, she receives - :.n\l Wi lli Why not put a Victor-Victrola in your home this Christmas? The musical instrument that every one can play; that every one can afford. Its remarkable variety of music and entertainment gives pleasure to every one, and its wonderful tone is a delight every day in the year. You surely don’t want to be without a Victor-Victrola in your home; and you don’t need to be for there's a Victor-Victrola at whatever price you want to pay—81s, $23. 340, $50, $75, $100, 150, $200. Come in today and hear this wonderful instrument and find out about our easy payment plan. THE PLAUT-CADDEN CO. 144146 MAIN STREET MATINEF BREED THEATRE Today's Western Feature EverY DAY with BRONGHOBILLY SHEART-Essanay MR. G. M. ANDERSON MISS FLORENCE TURNER In Vitagraph Comedy “THE SPR Cars Held at the Square till Afte DAVIS T TODAY Regular Matinee of Vaudeville and Pictures at 2.30 TONIGHT HEATRE BROADWAY. ING MAID” 62 People. 2 Carloads of Scenery Their Own Orchestra r the Show. Curtain rises at 8.15. TODAY AUDIT 3 Reels—PICT ORIUM 16DAY 3 Acts—VAUBLVILLE—3 Acts URES—3 Reels him sympathetically and will probably teel obliged to vindicate him by send- ing him 1o the senate as he demands.— Waterbury American. Those who walk and those who drive horses, whether from necessity or by preference, can shed no tears ov the advance in the price of gasoline. | Perhaps that will help more than traf- fic laws to give them a fair share of room in the Tribune. Interstate commerce commission says that trainmen are the cause of many railroad wrecks, due to expect- ing them to do the right thing always. | Few men do the right thing always, portunities than most men to make mistakes. a hard thing to figure on.—Bridgeport Telegram, £ Becretary of State Rogers stated at a banquet in New Haven the other evening that the state received $275,000 from “automobile licenses last year. {This is a pretty large revenue to se- cure from a single class of highway users, and it is not surprising that they are making counter demands rel- ative to permanent Sentinel. The decision at the Chicago progres- sive conference to locate the national headquarters of the “party” in New York is called a victory for George W Perkins, but it was, of course, merely the cholce of the gentleman without whom there could be no “progressive” {movement. The real headquarters will i be at Oyster Bay, no matter where the |nominal location may be—Hartford Times. It would be just as polite of the people not to be {nquisitive about the detalls of the love affairs of Miss Gould and Mr. Shepard. Miss Gould is one of the wealthlest women in America, to be sure, but she has been a good citizen for all that. She does not de- serve the punishment of publicity in love affairs which is imposed on the ordinary person of wealth—New Ha- streets.—Providence | and railroad men have many more op- | The human element is still | roads.—Ansonia | i | owners woula what a prog s is a from below i en- Ricb far But sucks the whole nation by gambling and Get and by fake mani; Wh do not Wall street ed strict regulation just as much as railroads>—New Haven Union would like, t Baldwin's plans trial, if means of in at Not a ernor number of erf is compelled to maintain, The asing number of these offenders, expense of keeping them in com- ve idleness and the fact that onment in most cases fails 1o reform, makes the average taxpayer | prone to believe it is high time to try the whipping and other drastic remedies suggesied by the governor.— Ansonia Sentinel. of Great Someone has said he government ding the Par t there has been technical v Paunceforte trea want favors nce st rrying tr diminish real fear Britain . s the animus of Having succeeded can shipping from the Civil objections. iving Ameri- gh seas dur- nd has been since to “rule Middletown Sun, dr ing very the Mr. Wilson finds that there is nothe ing his fellow-citizens part with se cheerfully as political advice.—Boston Thurlow Bergen, Agnes Findlay the cast Henry company. Peggy O'Neil and have been engaged for Top o' the Morning in Savage's Irish-American ven Reglster, The demonstration of the value of jthe farm work in connection with al- coholic patients has been too often made plain to need argument, and all there is needed is the proper place and the proper management for it. There is no special sclentific skill demanded, but plain, practical common sense put into every day application. The farm {would be a practical and excellent |addition to our other reformatory work, —Bridgeport Standard. The stock exchange performs a use- ‘ful service to this extent, that it es- jtablishes valuations, The owner of a share of a property can learn pretty closely what it is worth. Otherwise Blood Humors Commonly cause pimples, boils, hives, eczema or salt rheum, or some other form of eruption; but sometimes they exist in the system, indicated by feels ings of weakness, languor, loss of ap= petite, or g lebility, without causing any breaking out. They are expelled and the whole sys« tem Is renovated, etrengthened and toned by Heod’s Sarsaparilla Get it today in usual liquid form or i chocolated tablets called Sarsatabs, OPEN EVENINGS The Place The Gift CARVING SETS and all kinds of Cutlery READING LAMPS and all Electrical Novelties SLEDS, SKATES and Wagons for the boys THERMOS BOTTLES the New Norwich Product CHAFING DISHe Percolators and Aluminum Ware CARPET SWEEPERS that will surprise mother 57 OTHER of useful VARIETIES Xmas gifts THE EATON CHASE (0. + .. 129 Main St