Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 4, 1913, Page 4

Borwich Fullefin and Goufied 117 YEARS OLD Subscription price 12c a week; 50c a month; $6.00 a year. Entered at the Postoffice at Norwich, Conn. as second-class matter. Telephone Calls: Bulletin Business Office 480 Bulletin Egitorial Reoms 35-3 Bulletin Job Office 35-2 Willimantic Office, Roem 2 Murray Building. Telephone 210. Norwich, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 1913, The Bulletin has the largest circulation of any paper in East- ern Connecticut and from three to four times larger than that of any in Norwich. It is delivered to over 3,000 of the 4,053 houses in Norwich, and read by ninety- three per cent. of *1e people. In Windham it 1s deliverad to over 900 houses, in Putnam and Danijelson to over 1,100 and in all of these places it is consid- ered the local daily. Eastern Connectic'at has forty- nine towns, one hundred and sixty-five postoffice districts, and sixty rural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold in every town and on all «f the R. F. D. routes in Eas' .n Connecticut. CIRCULATION 1901 average............. 4,412 1806, average............ § 920 i The Circulation of } The Bulletin ! i 060000080000060082000000000008003000000080000050000000000000400500000000000 000 65.000000000000060005060 VEHICLE LIGHTS AT NIGHT. When the last general assembly pasged the law requiring lights on all| vehicles using the highways and such lights as would show both ahead and to the rear, it was for the purpose of making the highways at night much safer. It reqguires but little travel in the country at night to demonstrate the worth of such warnings, especially since the auto has come to be so com- mon. The autos are obliged to carry lights but it is as proper that they should be given the benefit of timely warning that a team is to be met, as vice versa. The purpose of the legis- lation is to reduce accidents and fa- talities to the minimum from the sud- den meeting of vehicles on the highy way and it is such a worthy effort that it should arouse the strongest de- termination upon the part of all con- cerned to abide by its provisions. Many there are who realize the ne= cessity of self protection and are pro- viding the lights, but that not is indicated by the action Connecticut Automobile association which has decided to demand the en- forcement of the light law through a svstematic appeal to the selectmen of the various towns of the state. The henefits of a law are not to be gained unless the law is observed or en- ferced. The statement that two-thirds | of the owners of vehicles are violating the law justifies the interest and activ- | ity of the automobilists. If laws are | not to be respected they might as well be kept from the statute books. The autoists have determined upon a step which is of as great value to thosel who are violators as it is to those who | are seeking this added, protection. The conditions are only reasonable and| should be met. others are of the —r POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS. The value of the postal savings banks| i= being demonstrated each month as | the number continues to increase and | the ameunt of deposits steadily rise. | As one of the new departments of the | postoffice the savings bank idea is be- ing warmly received. There is no bet- ter indication of this than the revel- | ation which is made by the monthly increase of a million dollars which the | reports show. There are today 13,000 postoffices which are doing a banking | business and catering to the demands of those who place the safety which | eomes through the government stand- | ing back of them, ahead of the amount | of interest received. It is reasonable| that many who have formerly hoarded | their wealth without getting the ben- eflt of interest, are taking advantage of this government guaranteed insti- tutfon. Foreigners in particular have great faith in Uncle Sam’s reliability. That such are not desired in every place where there is a postoffice of sufficient size is revealed by the ex- periences and the statement of the| government officials that several thou- sand eught not to have been started, or could profitably be closed out. Such pertains particularly to the east where regular banking facilities are much better and more certain than in many of the western states, It is throughout the west where the greatest interest and growth are to be found that the system is meeting with the greatest| success, and the fact that it is suc-| ceeding is the best indication that it is meeting a long felt want, BANKING AND CURRENCY BILL. Time promises to be a serious han- dicap to the passage of the currency bill at the special gession of congress. The banking and currency committee of the genate is giving the proposed legislation more thought and consider- ation than was expected, From the time which is being taken and the de- termination to improve the bill the in- dications are that it will be from ten days to two weeks before the com- mitiee i3 ready to make their report to the upper house. Such would leave but littie time for the discussion of the bill in general, and the proposed changes of the committes if the bill is to be passed af this extya session of congress, The indicatiens point to the carrying of the matter over to the reg- ular session which opens in Decem- ber. It must be recogmized that while there is need of reform in the banking and currency laws that wha(ever‘ changes are made sheuld be the resuit of preper deliberation. Some delay will be eaused by heldiag the bill for snoter session, but such legisiation , eught net 1o be characterized by undue 1 public has a right to know what kind haste. There are some changes under- way and others may result as a com- promise but in neither instance sheuld they be rushed through without a suf. flcfent understanding” and diseussion.' The result of any such hurried legis- lation stands the chance of deing more harm than good and bringing about unintended conditions. Delay may be on the side of safety, TODAY IN OTHER STATES. It is election day today in several states of the union and a number of important contests and gquestions are to be decided. Particular interest cen- ters in New York city’s vote because of the need which exists there for shaking off the grip of Tammany hall, an obligation which has been realized by its opponents and which they are endeavoring to meet through the aid of fusion. It is a fight for better things which fusion has upon its hands and naturally it has widespread sympathy. In Massachusetts and New Jersey state electlons are ‘'underway, with four preminent candidates for guber- natorial honors in the former and three in the latter. The presence of the progressives and independents in the field makes the outcome uncertain but gives hope to the democratic cgn- didates as has been the previous result of splitting the republican vote. The peculiar conditions surrounding the candidates, however, only Increases the interest in the expressions of the voters. The experiment of keeping the polls open at night to increase the vote in several Massachusetts cities is one which will be closely followed by students of election needs. For the first time the states of Mary- Jand and Alabama will be engaged In the selection of United States senator by vote of the people. The adminis- tration has taken a deep interest in the candidacies of I.ee and Underwood in these states and their election would not surprise. Altogether for an. off yvear there is sufficient in the elections hy other states to arouse no little in- terest. DISCOURAGE FRAUD. It doesn’t require extensive investi- gation to réach the conelusion that it is a constant fight which the people have on their hands to keen down fraud and squelch the swindler. Tak- ing advantage of the public through eircumventing the law and false state- ments is to be found in every direc- tion. A breach of faith or confidence has come to be ome of the greatest get rich quick sehemes in existence, even though it has come down through the ages to be perfected. Tt was but a few months age that it was found necessary to protect the people of Copnectiecut against the mis- representation of cold storage eggs in a somewhat similar method as pur- sued in Ma, chusetts, by marking such as “cold storage” or ‘‘preserved” eggs. The benefit of that is already being removed in the Bay state by false marking concerning which the Boston Post savs: “The crusade of the state board of health against egg deal- ers who are violating the law to the marking of cold storage eggs when exposed for sale is commendable piece. of work and one that will doubt- less have good result ready a num- ber of offenders have been fined in varions parts of the commonwealth, and others will be if they do not.learn their lessom# from convictions already obtained. “This particular law Is not essen- tially a pure food regulation, but rath- er one that will prevent fraud. The as of eggs it is buying, and the label ‘cold storage’ will classify them. No longer will placards reading ‘fresh’ or ‘fanc)y be permitted to adorn baskets! of eggs that really come from the re- gions of perpetual chill.” Fraud is to be discouraged wherever discovered and there is mo more jus- tification for realizing an improper profit from the public from misrepre- sented eggs than from apy other com- meodity or purchase The Massachu- setts board of health is making an ad- mirable move. EDITORIAL NOTES. The man on the corner says: Have vou solved the new income tax puzzle? It is the tale of the hunter which is now taking the place of the irrepres- sible fish story. Mrs. Pankhurst refuses to go to Den. ver. Probably nothing was said about providing a guarantee. For the man who precipitated Huer- ta upon the Mexicans, Diaz is getting adequate pay for a bad b. Stamps valued at $2,500 were stolen from the philatelic exhibition in New York. but for once Uncle Sam fis not the loser. In Massachusetts “Foss’ position on railroads” has no significance as to any future business which the governor is contemplating. When King Alfenso of Spain de- clares that he is for a republic if the people are he ought te make a good run for president. Anyone who may have felt slighted by not getting on the Income tax list | may stand a chance yet if he can rake up a coupon or two. Now that President Wilson has taken to writing his speeches on his cuff, he may be inclined to get his Mexicar policy on his thumb nail, The advocates of a safe and sane Hallowe'en are going to have plenty to do if the list of accidents and fa- talities increases each year, ‘Whoever declares that Huerta is in- sane must recegnize the fact that he is taking pretty good care of himself, | which sane people often overlook, Now that the president has accepted a fine southern 'possum as a gift, it remains to be seen whether he is will- ing to turn down a toothsome Con- necticut turkey. The longer Governor Felker of New Hampshire delays the decision on Thaw the lenger Matteawan authori- ties will have to make provisions for celebrating his return, With 14,000 barrels of apples going from Beston in one shipment to Eng- land, it is regrettable that the market capnot be extended to include the big unharvested crep threugheut New England, ' 1t i3 & good thing for New York that election day is at hand. The candi- dates and their friends have been mak- ing savage attaeks and it is time the people were given & ehance to say something, When the Chicage Tribune, the strong Buil Meose paper, declares that the only resuit of that party has been ‘ground and persuaded the senate, with to put a lot of undesirabies in affice, it is a sensible though a belated view of the movemeni, ‘I wish I wasn't a slave,” mourned the girl who likes to talk. “I wish I had an atom of common sense. I wish i 1 had a particularly loud voice and al few milliop dollars. Then I'd fix things 8o the poor, suffering women of this land could have a little. peace and comfort and time to read the maga- zines and new books instead of having to spend twenty-three hours out of the twenty-four adjusting themselves to the new fashions hot off the griddle each week or iwo! “When 1 came back to town after a long summer in the country I hadn’t a scrap of a wardrobe fit to be seen except worn out warm weather things. So 1 dashed madly to the tailor and wag measured for a suit. From the tailor's I flitted to my dressmaker’s. There I ordered several gowns. Then I drew a long breath and proceeded to shop for little things. “Just here it broke upon my con- sciousness that I must have some new stay; “I den't know why corsets aren't an entirely respectable subject for con- versation, since every other shop window is full of them and all the papers would talk about corsels, be- cause they are weird creations! The corset lady bestowed upon me an ar- rangement that extended exactly two inches above my waist and an incred- ible distance below it. “*But isn't it comfortable? she de- manded, when 1 had ceased gurgling and gasping and exploding about the contrivance. ‘And think of the lines!’ “Oh, yes, there were lines! 1 looked exactly like an old fashioned cut of pie stood up on the point of itself! The way 1 could draw deep breaths was something scrumptious—if vou dido't mind my walking along like a Chinese beauty with crippled feet. “She wouldn’t even lace it in around the waist. I don't know where my | perfectly good waist, of which I have always been rather proud, had gone to. She said I mustn't have any waist and intimated that I must wear the thing precisely as she had adjusted it. “I always was tender hearted, so I| succumbed. I wanted to be able to wake up ‘in the middle of the night and think of the corset lady sleeping with a sweet, happy smile upon her lips all because she had succeeded in leading me into the proper path. “When I went to the tailor's for my ;| first fitting naturally I wore my new , purchage. I was gazing at one cor- | ner of the ceiling, thinking how I could make a ten dollar lace fichu out of mother’s dizcarded set, of parlor curtains when 1 beeame aware that the tailor was leaning against he table clutchin at me while his nostrils. it and glaring flercely reathing hard through % “‘What it is?’ he cried in tragedy tones. ‘I cut my. goods—my good goods that you can’t find any better in this land—I ecut it, I say, out of the book where I wrote it down—your measures—and now, look! Look at heem! He does not meet at the waist —no, not by three inches! He is too big here—and too leetle, much much too leetle, here! Himmel! I tink I go crazy! Vot? “I felt it was a moment for diplo- macy. The first rule of diplomacy is to make the other fellow feel it-ig aill his fault. So I brought my gaze down from the corner of the ceiling and lookeq at him coldly, severely. ‘Dear me, Mr, Witter’ I said in a disgusted manner. ‘I should think you would be more vareful in setting measures down! Such carelessness is deplora ble. Consider all the trouble you have made me. This means an extra fitting and my time is valuable. I am very much annoyed!” “I know it was a sin, but there was nothing else for me to do. Only half convinced, the tailor transferred his glare tp his measuge book and got out his tape line again and effervesced in- to exasperated gutturals when he found I did not match the book. ‘Be sure’ I told him coldly, “to get it down right this time!’ “He was quite humble when I left him. But when I considered the dress- maker I was frightened. 'I was afraid that I couldn’t fool her—and she had three gowns in the making. “After fitting the first lining she sank into a chair and called for smelling salts. She is an artist and therefore she is entitled to emotions and All their trimmings. ‘It is so try- ing,’ she murmured reproachfully. ‘the way a customer will trifle with her figure! 1 presume you have been out to a lot of dinners and luncheons since you returned—and see—see what it has done to you! You really must diet—your walst—or by any chance have you on a new corset?’ “I choked, but I couldn’t do it, not before her steely gaze. 'Yes'm,’ I con- fessed humbliy. ‘I—I'm sorry to cause you so much trouble.” ‘Jane, called the dressmaker to her assistant, ‘will you finish here? I am too indisposed to complete the fitting!’ “She turns you over to Jane when she’s mad at you. And if her mad lasts through my ten dollar a yard velvet dress I'll havs a fit. And I can’t wear a single living thing 1 had last year over this year's corset! It's a tragedy! What ecan poor woman do?” “But consider,” said her listener, “how you are helping the weorthy manufacturer earn money to send his family to Europe and buy another set of automobiles, dear!”—Chicago News. a LETTERS TO THE EDITOR' Senate Repeating History. Mr. Editor: To say greenbac. to some men has about the same effect as to shake a red rag at a bull. To. hear some peoplé talk would lead some people to believe that greenbacks were some deadly instrument that would destroy the government and all ifs in- stitutions. 'I'he trouble is the people have never stopped long enough to | give it a thought. One good reason Wwhy is because they are so busy chas- ing the dollar that they don’t take the | itime to think why they struggle so hard to cateh it. The greenback is a i nickname given to it by the soldiers, | because the color Wf ihe backs were | printed with green ink. If you will| take one of those bills and read the printing on its back you will find this | language: "This note is a legal tenaer | at its face value for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt.,” When the bill authorizing the issue of the greenbacks v passed on the 6th of Yebruary, 1862, the word “except’ was not in the b The tollowing is ihe language used: “And such notes, herein authorized, shall be receivable in pay- ment of ail taxes, duties, imports, ex- cise, debts and demands of every kind due to the United States, and for all | salaries, debt and demands owing by the United States to individuals, cor- porations and associations within the United States, and shall also be law: money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, pubtic and private, within the United States It passed the house by a vote of 93 for it and 59 against it. Notably, the first name on | the list for it was Aldrich. If I am not | very much mistaken, his given name | was Nelson W. This Aldrich voted for | the very law, as it passed the house | on Feb. 6, that the much derided | greenbackers have demanded for more | | | than 40 years. Read the .wording in quotation marks again carefully, and then point out anything wrong about it. Had that become the law, those notes would have been “lawful money and a legal tender for all debts, public and private, in the United States.” Thig bill then went to the senate, and after it passed the senate.the word | “except” was embodied in it, as you | can read it on the back of the present | greenback, After it came back to lllei | | | houpe this is what Thadeus Stevens sald of the senate amendments, in part: “It is true there was a doleful sound came up from the caverns of bullion brokers, and from the saloons of the associated banks, Their cash- fers and agents were soon on the but little deliberation, to mangle and destroy what it had cost the house months to digest, consider and pass, They fell upon the bill in hot haste and so disfigured and deformed it that | its very father would not know it, Instead of being a beneficent and in- vigorating meagure, it is now positive- ly mischievous, It -has all the bad qualities which its enemies charged on | | fits. | curren | ery guy chosed his own words the original bill, and none of its bene- 1t now creates money, and by its terms declares it a depreciated 1t makes two classes of money—one for the banks and brokers and another for the people. It dis- criminates between the rights of dif- ferent classes of creditors, allowing the rich capitalists to demand gold, and compelling the ordinary lender of money on individual security to receive notes which the government had pur- posely discredited.” (Spaulding’s His- tory, page 142) On pages 128-129 Mr. Spaulding himself said: “The very discrimination proposed cagries on its face notice to everybody that although very the notes are declared to be ‘lawful money and a legal tender in payment of debts >t that there is something of higher value, that must be sought after at a sacrifice to the government, to pay a peculiar class of creditors to whom it owes money kind of ab- surdity and self-stultification which does not appear weil on the face of the bill. It is an unjust discrimination which does not appear well now, and will not look well in history.” We read about depreciated The Hon. John Sherman We purposely depreciated our enbacks in order to sell our bonds.” Yes, and the government sold its bonds and took its pay in (depreciated) | greenbacks. Mr. Spaulding on page 2| ! of the appendi nfirms the abova| statement. History is being repeated by the senate on the present currency bill. J. €. VALLETTE. North ‘Franklin, Conn. WATCH YOUR STEP! BY THE CONDUCTOR Songs and Words. “Don’t nobody know nothin’ any more? 1 been laughin” ever since July 4 th’ way a bunch o' Americans sung th’' ‘Star Spangled Banner.’ Th' minute th’ band struck it up they all jump to their feet an’' start after it like a' bass afier a minnow. One lin was enough, 'Oh, say can you see an' it was all o From that minute 1t was th’ ‘Star Strangled Banana.'! Ev- Most a-dah of 'em said ‘Dah-dah-da-da- -da-da-dah-da-da-dah’ and’ looked like they'd choke to death. Lizzie was th’ only one I could hear that held up for three lines, an’ she went under in th’ fourth.'I don't believe th’ mut that wrote that song got it all eut of his system. “It's th’ same way with ‘Dixie’ It | glves me th' woollies to hear a crowd go crazy on that quickstep. They get 80 busy hollerin’ they act like people throwing a fit, I'm goin’ on forty or fifty an’ I ain’t never heard th' second line o’ ‘Dixie’ in all my life, I bet I've stood up an’ yelléd at it a million times, Th’ fellow that wrote th’ tune Sulpholac WV L remove that Dandruff S This seclentific remedy—removes | dandruff, stops itching and restores the scalp to natural, healthy state, SBULPHOLAC is the meost efficlent remedy because of its scientifie origin, and contains a well-batanced combina- tion of the mest highly-prized skin benefactor and germ-destroyer known to medical seience. > Entirely free from alcohol, which parches and dries the scalp, impover- ishing the hair. 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SHE CAN LAUGH AT THE ELE- FOR SHE BUYS BY TELEPHONE Have You One In Your Home? is a bird, but th’ fellow that wrote th’ | words is a dead one. “It's th' same way with any other | tune. “Annie Laurie gets a glad hand an’ nobody can talk it. ‘Old Kentucky Home' falls down right where you | want to know what it's all about. Bv- erybody says ‘Weep no more my lady, oh tum-tum-tum-tee-di.’ Ragtime ain’'t no different. There's ‘Alexander Ragtime Band’ I want that played at | my funeral, but T can’'t get a word of | it more than ‘Come over heah, come | over heah,’ an’ if that ain't angels hollerin’ to me I don’t want fit. “Ain’t there no place where people learn them mongs? What's th’ singing school doin’? Th’ tunes is_all right, but nobody got th' words. Why don't th’ fellow that's got 'em tell 'em right out loud. Learn ’‘em to me, I'll say ‘em. ‘Both doors! Both doors, please! “All right there, all aboard! “Look where you step!” Missouri last year produced lime ued at $721,896. 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