Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 4, 1914, Page 4

Willtmantte Offics, Reom 3, Murray Beilding. Telephone si6. e —————————————e—emmeete— Norwich, Thursday, June 4, 1914, P————en The Bulletin The Bulletin has the largest circulation of eny paper in East- orn Comnecticut ana from thres to four times larger than that of any in Nerwich. It is delivered to over 3,000 of the 4,063 houses in Nerwich, a. 1 read by ninety- three per oent. of tne peopls. In Windhem it i8 delivered to over 00 houses, in Putnam and. Danisison to over 1,100 and ia al of these places it is consids ered the lecal daily. Bastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hundred and sixty-five postoffice districts, and sixty rural fres delivery routes. s The Bulletin is sold in every town and on all of the R. F. D. routes in Eas Connesticuts CIRCULATION AVErag0..ceccrceces 4,412 e 5,920 1901 1905, averaj NEED THE ENLIGHTENMENT. With the demand which has arisen for the development of foreign com- merce it is timely agitation which has been started by the national trade convention at its recent session in ‘Washington in behalf of the bullding up of a merchant marine. Such is nothing new except that it is a re- mewal of the important question which has been before the coun so long, and in such contrast with ler coun- tries. ‘When it is realized how extensively this country contributes to forelgn shipping, some estimates running as high es a million doliars a day, and the great decrease which has taken place in shipping in American bottoms outside of the coasting trade, even to the point where Old Glory is a rare sight In many of the busy harbors of the world, it can be readily understood that there is plenty of chance for de- termined effort in that direction. The problem is not an easy one, but the convention hopes to make some head- way through a trade council which will work: To imnress upon congress the ne- cessity of putting American industry upon an equal footing with foreign competitors; To secure increased appropriations for the trade promoticn functions of the department of commerce; To urge the president to negotiate treaties for the extension of foreign trade; To expedite the upbuilding of a mer- chant marine and to secure the con- sent of congress to the formation of combinations for the development of foreign commerce. Buch an undertaking 1s likely to Tun up against the great question of subsidy, but that of course is inevit- able. Enlightenment upon the subject is needed, both as to how other coun- tries and this look at the development of forelgn commerce and such a coun- el is in a position to furnish it. ATTACKING THE MOSQUITO. This 18 the season of the year when ‘widespread attention is directed to the eradication of the mosquitoes. Study and experiments have demon- strated that to be successfully attack- ed it Is necessary to sesk out and either remove or use preventive meth- ©0ds at the breeding places. Mosquitoes like flies may be swatted until doom: day without making any appreciable inroads against the mighty army, but attention properly directed to the breeding places stamps out the pest at the source, The use of crude oil for spraying the low, swampy places has been found effective in many sections. Where un- dertaken it brought excellent resuits, but in such cases it is evident that all and not only a few of the breed- ing places must be treated. The ex- its have heen sufficient to show the mosquitoes can be conquered if given the proper amount of attention. one mosquito does not anni- hilate a whole swarm and oiling one marsh does not eliminate the breeding places if there are other lowlands ‘which are slighted. Mosquitoes are a detriment to any l.‘mllt! ;:’ nmb an !u!;em that most y cam; or out would be ad- visable for the relief which would be The mosquito 18 no friend of humanity and to the shore resorts nity. Barly and comprehensive as- sanit upon the breeding places means an amount of comfort. 'ARMS FOR THE REBELS, ciréumstances any Utder ordipary request which might come from the head of the rebel forces in Mexico s federals. ~ Th has been Mfted snee and it s ‘We played into oo war aid, but they must be convinced | ‘before thiy that whatever may be the in the way of rendering such tance they can be removed if there i SR LEISS AR P CLASS LEGISLATION. However justified or needed an act of leglslation may be, or how admir- ably it ig drawn to fit the situation, it is rare that it receives an unani- mous approval as did the labor amend- ment to the Clayton anti-trust bill, in the house of representatives at Washington this week. With such approval being given a change which is in such direct contrast to the pur- s a trust,” interest 1s whetted as to what the senate will see fit to do with it. Tt also remains to be seen whether the president will withdraw from his attitude at the time of the passage of the sundry civil bill when he excused his signature on the ground that the appropriation would not be needed for any action which might arise in en- forcing the anti-trust law against la- bor or farmers' organizations. In that bill, as in the present one before congress, the exclusion of any organizations from the provisions of the Sherman law has been open to the claim of class legislation and it is upon such grounds that opposition has arisen in the past. Of so convincing a nature has been the arguments in that regard and so desirous the labor ad- vocates for equality and not- special privilege that they have agreed such exemption should not pass. The mat- ter has been fought out in years past in the senate where rejection has al- ways followed but with such an atti- tude as was taken in the house there cannot help being a keen interest in the manner in which the senate of the present day will handie the matter. Such an important matter cannot be properly handled in a careless man- ner, L DOMESTIC FOODSTUFFS. One of the best indications that there is plenty of opportunity “for greater production of foodstuffs in this coun- try is furnished by the report from the bureau of forelgn and domestic commerce for the period of six months ending with March which shows a re- markable increase in the consumption of domestic foodstuffs even to decreas- ing the exportation to a point less than the amount of imports. The growth of the country and the fallure on the part of the producers to keep up with it has had its effect| upon economic conditions for a long time. Fifteen years ago the exported food amounted to 530 .million dollars with importations of 190 anillion. ' Last year the exports totalled 502 million With imports of 405 million while for six months of this fiscal year the ex- portation is 317 million and imports 244 million, It is thus shown that while there has been a retention of foodstuffs at home and the importation of an in- creased amount it has not served to flood the market to such an extent that the consumer has felt the benefit there- of. On the contrary there has been revealed the opportunity for even a greater production of domestic foods both for home use and exportation. 1t must be realized that while the cat- tle, dressed beef and corn have been brought into this country in consider- able quantity the United States has by no means reached the limit of its re- sources in the production of these very things. It shows rather that there is opportunity for greater production in hese lines for domestic consumption tb say nothing of the export trade wherein there has been a noticeable decrease, the resumption of which even leaves plenty of room for bumper crops. EDITORIAL NOTES. The fact that John D. Rockefeller has ventured out to church must, of course, mean that times are improv- ing. The Dominican rebels are active again. That has been a foregone con- clusion ever since Zlatinsky's comet was discovered. Until the mediators realize that the constitutionalists hold an important key to the Mexican situdtion mediation cannot do all that it ought The man on the corner says: Lots of begutiful days are spolled by per- sons who can't help feeling that there’ll be rain before night. A swimming contest ought to arouse plenty of interest, but a chance to learn would hold out something of value to a much larger crowd. There would be more satisfaction if the prisoners at Sing Sing were anx- ious to6 atténd the peace conference instead of desiring to go to war., Joy riding reaches its height on Sun- | day resulting In broken laws and broken necks and yet some people can- ot wipe the blue laws out fast enough. A while ago the president declared | that all business needed was greater efficiency. Now the prescription has been changed to faith but the gibbet has not been used as yet. With the bursting forth of,the Sierra Nevada volcano’ so &oon after the *Frisco earthquake and Hiram John- son’s tirade, California must feel that section is full of upheavals. The Baltimore city council in con- sidering a saner Sunday has referred the ordinance to the committee on po- lice and jails, probably for a report on their ability to handle it. Horace Johnson suggests stateroom doors . for rafts when a vessel sinks. Good 1dea, but when people don’t have time to put on life preservers state- room doors possess little value. Young Nixon has thought hetter of the appeal and has ‘paid his $200 fine for the assault upon a New Haven citizen, What has New Haven and Yale done about preventing such pos- sibilities in the future? It will be recognized through the state as well as the county that the Judges have made an excellent selec- tion for state’s attorney in Fairfield cu‘umy in the selection of Homer Cum- mings. He has the qualifications for the office, | pose of the measure termed “anti-tfroj us! to be a ‘when 1s itsn’t. Your best suit is gstting too shabby to wear to place at all. You'll just have to stop at ths taflor's and put in a rush order. The wedding is to take place a week m next Wednesday.” Chumly snorted. “Gosh! that is in a hurry. I'll vénture the woman is back of it—probably afraid he'll get Mrs. Chumly flushed and seemed about to make a tart rejoinder, then evidently thought better it and held her peace as Chumly continued: “You known very well that 1 have to make a big ‘interest payment on the house this month, and my insurance policy is due for a premium payment week after next, and we've either got to. have two new rear tires for the car or quit going out, and I for one can't afford any pew clothes. And what)s more”—he ‘cast a _suspicious glance at his wife—"“we, I say we, can’t afford any.” Mrs. Chumly assumed an_injured air. “Now, ,” she demurred sweetly, “you know just as well as I do that you simply can't go in that old suit. They'd talk about it for the nexi fifly years. You just must get a new one!’ N “That's always the way,” snapped Chumly glowering, eteranlly after me to spend money. Do you think I'm made of it? Not more than a month ago you were hinting for a new dress, too. Well, T'll give in this once. T'll go and get the suit, but we'll have to scrimp to make up for it, I tell you. 2 ) s ¢ & i . k2 . instant. grumbled “I might have known it,” he as soon as he got his breath, “I might have expected something of the sort. Tl bet a dollar and a you fixed up that wedding just so you might have a good excuse for demand- ing that very dress you asked for a month ago.” “Fred Chumly, you know very well T had nothing to do with those young people getting e "> retorted Mrs. Chumly. “If they decided to get married iedfately after my 1 having them here to dinner together | that is certainly no fault of mine. And anyway, if your Cousin Will proves to be just one-half as good a h a as some other members of his family I {could mention, Susan ought to be thankful to me all the days of her life.” “Maybe you'Tre right, after all” agreed Chumly, looking foolish again. “Go ahead and get your dress. But for heaven’'s sake be as light on the price as yqu possibly can.’ “Oh, it didn't cost much” cooed Mrs. Chumly happlly leaning over to kiss her victim on the bald spot, “and you're such & darling. I knew you { wouldn't care, so I got Susan to go with me last week and pick out the Continued coughs, colds and bron- chial /troubles are depressing weaken the system. Loss of welght FISH stubborn cough: and lung troubles. Mr. O. H. Brown, Muscatine, Ala., writes: “M and I honestly believe Dr. Discovery saved her ‘life.” children. 50c and $1, at your druggist. —_— wires must come down—New Haven Journal-Courier. —_— ‘The ice season is here and yet therg is no municipal ice except in the house at Shuttle Meadow, and that is too far to walk. The common council, ‘however, has empowered the commit- THE TRIAL OF DANTON. Danton’s name stanlls pre-eminent as one of the better class of tne French revelutionists, if any man be so called. At any rate to his name can- not be linked those which send a feel- ing of terror through the history of that period for their biood-thirstiness. It was. because he lacked this quality that his place was taken by such men as Mirabeau, Robespierre and Marat, who more nearly met the views of the terrorists, the dominating element. Danton had the same desire at heart that had these leaders, but he believed that a revolution could be acomplished through much milder methods than did the others. For a long time his magnetism and his ora- tory held the people within his grasp, but finally the revolution grew to be | greater than Danton. Conditiohs were quickly changing for the worst and he who would survive was compelled to keep up with the procession or be trampled in its path. Upon many occasions Danton had given wise council to his countrymen, ang infused them with courage. The: in the course of events, Robespierr and Danton came face to face as rivals for the leadership of Paris and ce. Danton was reckless, generous and frank; on the other hand, Rebespierre was cold, severe, cautious and un- compromising. Feeling that the con- test was unequal, Danton withdrew to his native town of Arcis, but not for long for his associates keenly felt his absence from the fleld of action. Shortly after returning to Arcis Dan- ton met Robespierre and was accused by him of having embezzled the pub- lic money. Robespierre a sanguinary tyrant. This dispute fixed his doom. His wife and friends urged him to flee. “Wither flee?” answered Danton. “If freed France casts me out, there are only dungeons for me elsewhere. One car- ries not his country with him at the sole of his shoes.’ Danton heard there was a warrant for his arrest, but he said: dare not: they dare not! But he forgot that he had Robespierre the in- flexible to deal with. On the night of the 2ist of March,” 1794, he was ar- rested, and was brought up for trial on the 2d of April. Upon _entering the Luxembou: prison the first man to grasp Danton's hand was Thomas Paine, author of the “Rights of Man.” Paine was now a naturalized Frenchman and a member of the French national convention, and because he had voted against the death of Louis XIV. the Jacobins had cast him into prison, where he re- mained until the death of Robespierre brought his release. The trial of Danton was a mockery of the forms of justice. St. Just, the Jacobin, had read the accusation against him to the convention, and that body weakly voted his arrest. On the 2d, 3d, and 4th of April he was tried with other prisoners by a pack- ed bench and packed jury. But so un- certain was the temper of the vast throng that filled the streets outside, so violently did Danton struggle to burst his bonds, that for a moment it seemed as though the immense rever- beration of his voice, heard, it is said, even across the Seine, might have awakened the force of the people, as so often before, and_ overthrow the Jacobin rule. A hasty message to the committee of public safety—a hasty decree rush ed through the convention—and Dan- ton’s voice was quelled ‘and judgment delivered before the accused had fin- ished his defense. At the trial when Fouquier Tinvillo asked Danton his name and place abode the prisoner said: “My name is ton, a name tolerably well known in the revolution. I am 35 years old. My abode will soon be in nothingness, but my name shall live in the pant! eon of history.” In prison Danton affected indiffer- ence. T have enjoyed my moments of existence well. I have made plenty of noise upon earth. I have tasted well of life—let us go to sleep.” As he mounted the scaffold from the cart In which he was conveyed to execution he was heard to say: “Oh, my, wife, my well beloved, I shall never see thee more!” Danton’s Jast words were to the headsman: ‘You will show my head to the people—it is well worth show- ing.” Danton was executed on the 5th of April, 1794, Robespierre's triumph was brief for his ewn head fell on the 28th of July, . 1] | FAMOUS TRIALS If . i pickine up the paper again. He retorted by calling | of | Massachusetts House oame from very dress for the occasion. She has | such excellent taste, and she seems to know just how to make the clerks do anything she wants them to do.’ “Does she?” inquired Chumly grimly, “Know how to make people do as she wishes, eh? I guess it must run in the family. Poor Will—he don't know half as much as he will know some of these days.”—Chicago News. WATCH YOUR STEP! BY THE CONDUCTOR Clerks “I got a idea. The reason why they's s0 many clerks an’ so few store- keepers is 'cause th’ clerks go to sleep at th' switch. “They’s & gents’ furnishin’ store down near th’ old postoffice where I got some socks once. I kinda liked th’ looks o' th’ littie peaked face clerk, an’ th’ socks was purty good, too, so I | took Danny Lynch there when he was gonna stock up on shirts. Little old peak face tried to look pleasant an’ Danny bought three good ones for all winter. “*En I told Uncle Bob to go there, an’ when Lizzie’s Uncle Henry want- ed a new crop o’ collars I towed him right in. You'd think I'd get a ‘thank you' from Willie Peak Face. No, sir, he only looked like he seen me before 'somewhere. So I got peeved an' says to him “’Say, Willie, you're gonna die just lke you lived—a clerk, nothin’' except a clerk. But you ain't gonna die on my hands. I'm gonna spend my coin an’ take my friends somewhere else.” “I felt sorry for th’ mutt’ ‘cause he dlan’t know a good thing when he seed it “If I was a clerk like him I'd find out th’ name an’ th’ house number of |ev'Ty man that bought a nickei's worth from me. I wouldn’t get fresh ‘Wwith 'em, but I'd get next to ev'ry man ;T waited on. Some of ‘em might {never come back. It wouldn't be my fault if they didn’t “If good, smart clerk would do that he’d have a list o' customers that'd make his boss crazy for fear th' clerd set up for himself. Them customers’'d ask for that clerk all th’ time. He'd send 'em word when he hed somethin’ good to show ‘em. “Whats' th’ use o' talkin’' about it! That's why they're only clerks an’ gonna die clerks. If they'd get next to their customers right, their boss'd be workin' for them ’'stead of them workin’ for him. “Mechanic and Asylum Streets! jerson’s next! “This way out! That bar doesn't go u; “Look where you step!” OTHER VIEW POINTS It now looks as though the vacation joy of several raiiroad directors might be seriously marred, either by iliness or by an unsalubrious sojourn im ‘Washington—New Haven Register. Yale accepts half a million-from the Rockefeller general education board, the same board the senate of the United States has put on the government black list as being morally unworthy to aid in extripating the boll weevil in the south. The difference between the Yale trustees and the j United States senate in moral sensi- tiveness is startling. — Springfleld Republican. As was expected some opposition to the Merrimac river acheme in the the inland cities which have contributed very substantially the few years | to the improvement of the port of Bos- ton. It would really be hard to say why Worcester and Springfleld would by the develop- ‘ment of Providence or New London as by the port work at Boston.—Provi- dence Bulletin, The fewer wires, the better pro- tected is the property of the citizens. New Haven has been remarkably fort- unate in the mater of fires, but that should not blind us to the importance of protection in every conceiv- !able way, It would seem, therefors, | that the public service companies u ing the streets oftnxnu ucl::y could come to some agreement upen a pol- icy of gradual elimination. This is the wise way for it is as sure as preaching that sooner or later the tee to bulld a storage house, but it did not give the committee any money, and the comptroller says that there i: only a small sum left out of the origt nal appropriation; not enough to bulld | / ‘the storehouse, and when is gone the committee will not be given any more funds. This i a nice how-do- you-do with the mercury up near a hundred and no municipal ice—New ‘Britain Herald. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Farewell to Bachelor. Mr. Editor: If I read the signs of the times aright, Bachelor is about ready to quit. Being himself, he will not admit defeat, but wishes to leave the fleld gracefully, with at least the appearance of victory. He thinks now that a newspaper is not the place to discuss a mother’s training, but only a short time ago he thought it the place to ridicule women. He did not expect to be answered, but he has found in this little war of words that there have been “blows to take as well as blows to give,” to quote from Daniel ‘Webster. How often it happens that the poisoned arrows we alm at others glanco harmlessly from them and, act- ing as boomerangs, plerce ourselves. ‘Bachelor dozed over his jimmy pipe o long that he awoke to find & new order of women—capable of thinking and speaking for themselves. In his an- swer to the woman who remarked that he might remain a bachelor for all of her he has given us his true meas- ure. I would not be too hard on him, however, and in bidding him farewell would say that perhaps after all he is “more to be pitied than censured AN ORDINARY WOMAN. Plainfield, June 3, 1914, Not a Fable. Mr. Editor: In your issue of May in DRAMATIC READING of the School of Expression, Boston, Friday Evening, June 12th, Selections by Double Quartette from Admission OLO FOLKS’ CONGERT TRINITY M. E. CHURCH, Candy, Cake and Ice Cream for sale. en have had the franchise for many years and the women have forced a minimum wage law on books which compels all employers to pay their women workers at least a | living wage. <hild in Australia is paid a maternity . benefit of $25 and free medical attend- | Pr f mal M ance. They have the towest aeatn |k I OICSS] en rate of any country in the world, both states, and in other countries, Ve oo BNG R Someby Brame Colonial MHW,” Edison Col. Heeza Li MATINEE 5c a3 “Ul FISH “THE CONSTANCY of JEANNE; Superb 2-Reel Patheplay Shipwrecked,” Convulsing Animated Pathe Cartoon Theatre ration’s Spur” Kalem EVENING 10c FISH FISH FOR THIS WEEK NICE NATIVE MACKEREL Ib. 15c. Soft Shell Crabs, Lobsters and Littl Fish of all kind. Neck Clam The prices the lowest. Give Us Your o A very fancy stock of r or call. Broadway Fish Market Phone 517 0. LACROIX 40 BROADWAY f “Within the Law” by MYRA G. FRINK at 8 o'clock in Y. M. C. A. HALL. the Bass-Clef. 50¢ Tickets on sale at Davis’ —at— Friday, June 5th, at 8 o'clock p. m. Admission fifteen cents | the statute Every woman who gives birth to a children and adults. If these things can be done in or:‘mr they 30th, that egotistical mountain of knowledge (?) who signs himself Bachelor asks the question, “What about that greatest of all suffrage fa- bles that the vote will raise the work- ing woman’s wages and says that any- one of ordinary intelligence knows that this is not true. can imagine him congratulating himself when he wrote this, thinking he had the suffragists up a tree. To ask a question like this in the face of recent events not only exposes his own ignorance of industrial conditions for thy in *th of can and will be done in Connecticut when the women get the vote. Connecticut should be proud of ail ose noble women who are sacrificing time, money and intellectual ability in order to Improve the condition of their sisters who are more unfortunate than themselves, and they are pursuing the proper course when they are endeavor- gto get the ballot for them, so that ey can help themselves. The names these women will be written with letters of gold when the antis are com- pletely forgotten, Now, helor, you wanted the facts. working women, but also shows that| ygere they are. I hope that you and he belongs to that class of people who do not care to know anything about them. = the antis will be able to digest them. they give you pains in the stomach, don’t be alarmed, for they Wwill act as Instead of this being a fabdle, it is the most truthful of the suffragist claims, and any working woman who is working in any of the factories in Norwich would be able to inform Bach- elor of this and give him the facts, an emetic and enable you to get rid immediately of all the slush, piffie and nonsense, instead of burdening the col- umns of The Bulletin with it every few days. It will also clear your mental let. - 2P.M.—TWICE DAILY—8P. M, FIRST PEEFORMANCE PRECEDED BY NORWIGH Tues., June 9 GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH w5 il Z0oo Downtown ticket office, Engler's Broadway Pharmacy. Tickets same as charged at show grounds. BASEBALL vs. Business Men Under the auspices of the Woman’s Auxiliary Y. M. C. A Thursday, June 4th, at 3 P. M. Norwich State Hospital Grounds. ' Admission, 25 cents. MUSIC BY TUBBS' BAND Westerly trolley for ball grounds. In case of rain game will be played though some of these woman are not able even to read or write. On the 1st of January, 1914, the 55 hour bill went into effect in the state of Connecticut in every manufacturing establishment that employed women and minors. th If you will refer to the newspapers of that time you will find that in near- ly every Instance the wages of the women were raised so that they would bt 1ife age of your convictions, come out in the open and sign your proper name, for here is mine. at the acquiring of votes for women vision so that you will be able to see | following day. the most practigal thing in public today. Now, Bachelor, if you have the cour- FRED HOLDSWORTH. Norwich, June 3, 1914. get as much for 56 hours as they did for 68 hours. and all plece workers got an increase of 5 per cent. Now the 56 hour law was secured by political action, which is the expres- slon of the vote. > The vote has secured the factory acts ‘which protect the women from dange: ous machinery, give her decent tollet accommodations, clean drinking water, fire escapes and other beneficlal things. The vote secured the compensation law, which has already proved a great boon to many working women. There were six women delegates sent to the public hearings on the 55 hour ‘bill, all of whom were indifferent to votes for women before they went, but after their experience at they were convinced of the value of the suf- frage for women, and they are now all enthusiastic suffragists, and one of them was a delegate from Willimantic that made up the 300 working women who interviewed President Wilson. No stronger argument can be put forward for suffrage or the greater need of votes for women shown than the present law limiting the hours of women and minors. In manufacturing and mechanical limited to 55 per week. tries there are about 40 per cent. men who can vote and 60 per cent. women who can- not vote. In mercantfle establishments the hours are limited to 58 per week, an increase of three hours, In this in- dustry there are about 10 per cent. men who can vote and 90 per cent. women ‘who cannot vote. Why did the legislators allow that industry which has only 10 per cent. voters to work their women and minors three hours a week longer than those industries which have 40 per cent. voters? Will Bachelor or some of the antls answer? The vote can and does help the ‘working women. 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