Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 9, 1915, Page 4

Jorwich Bulletin and GoufieP 119 YEARS OLD * Subseription price 13¢ a week; 50c a month; $6.00 a year. Entered at the Postoffice at Norwica, | Conn., as second-class matter. & Telepnone Calla: Bulletin Business Office 450. ;B B etin. Bitorlal Rooms S8, Bulletin Job Office 353, Willimantic Office, Room 2 Murray i/ Building. Telephone 210. Norwich, Saturday, Jan. 9, 1915. ——— Yho Bulletin has ths larges® civculation of any paper in East- ern Connecticut ana from thrae to four times larger than that of any in Norwich, It is deliversd to over 3,000 of the 4,053 houses in Morwich, a . read by nirety- three per cent. of +1o peopls. la Windhem it s delivered to over swu houses, ' Putnam and Danielscn to over 1,100 and in als of these places it is consid- ered the local daily. Eastern Sonnecticut has forty- ons hundred and nine towns, o eixty-five postoffiue districts, and sixty rural fr delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold in svery town and on all «f the R. F. D. routes in Eastern Connectiout. CIRCULATION 1801 a 98 ccrsssensess $812 1905, avarag®icesessscsne 532” Jan, 2 . 0000000000005020000500050008980055055000004664903003000005303900009000605050350000000000¢8 509040590000 | | i | HASTEN THE EXCHANGE. Having been in progress for a period Zof five months, during which millicns )f men have been ensaged, there are the resuit of the war in Europe eat numbers of soldiers who are be- fing held as prisoners. There are those who are in good health, those suffering om wounds and who in time would ible to do further service and still sthiers who are totally incapacitated any further army service what- 10 length of the war, Encouraging are the results which ve attended the efforts to secure an ‘exchange of these last named officers and men and it is to be sincerely hoped that the nkgotiations will accomplish i2he desired end. While they may be zetting decent care and food wherever ihey are located, there is no advantage tained by the respective countries in Fontinuing to hold them as prisoners, fvhen just that much bugden might be difted and a like amount of Telief ex- < 3 #ended to such men If a fair exchange Svas effected. = Injuries and amputallens which fully Sncapacitate are easily determined and HRnere is not involved the same mili- Rary situation as when able-bodied Sprisoners are concerned, for while the Sermanently disabled prisoners may 8nclude some of the best trained men Jhey are not going to turn up again at nt. % 1t is a matter in which there should e no delay. In fact a fair exchanze 4s as advantageous for one side as the other and if by chance there is a pos- sjbility of relieving the ansuish of ihese mutilated fighters, and their de- bendents it cannot come too soon. ver & WAR MUNITIONS EMBARGO. It can hardly be expected that con- ess will take favorable action upon the bill seeking to prohibit the sale of munitions of war to any of the belligerents. That the promoters of such a measure could have expected it to be adopted is byond belief. Aside from the justified opposition *which it E und to receive the greatest appli- cation of cold water has come. from Germany which has said in reply to the Efforts of the German-American hackers that it does not desire such situation. is perfectly clear in to -this kind of business for tional law makes it plain that neutral ‘nations ean legitimately carry on this kind of trade with the bel- ligerents they are able. In this 1 icular case Germany is un- able to derive great Dbenefit from the privilege because the allies are in con- of the seas and its goods in the to seizure. ontraband ' class subject As a neutral nation the bu: ermany as with Great . They are not show- : any partiality in the matter what- ever and any indication of one sided- s is due solely to the fact that Great Britain can protect the delivery of its orders and Germany cannot. This government is not going to step n and say to the manufacturers of this country that they cannot accept -orders from any of the bellizere¥ts just because this sltuation exists. It is pursuing its neutral course by the existing procedure and it is not dis- posed to pass legislation which would e advantageous to Germany any more an it is inclined to do -anything to ald the allies. It is purely a business vroposition and must remain so. SPEAKER HEALY. The selection of J. Frank Healy as speaker of the house in the 1915 gen- cral assembly pays due recognition to his qualificitions for the position. The -onfidence ‘in his ability is reflected in the unanimous choice by the republi- can majori back of which was of course the record he had made as re- =publican leader in the house during the previous session, which must have impressed ' the democrats as well ag _republicans. Speaker Healy possesses the very “experience which fits him for the im- (portant place to which he had been clected. That the general assembly is overwhelmingly republican does mot jessen the duties’ which go with the «peakership. It cannot be forgotten that it is in session for the render- ing of the -greatest service to’ the people of the state. It must keep such in mind. It must realize that it is | work-. and.-not - play for-which it is assemwbled. It must he impressed with the need of wise and considerate ac- tion and it must be kept in motion. Flor such and the multitudinous other things devolving upon the speaker Mr. Healy has shown that he is the man for the job. N That he received the entire vote of both parties from his own town in election to the house, and the vote of all the republicans for the speakership shows the reliance placed in him and there is every reason to believe that his conduct of the position will justify his selection. ILLITERACY DOOMED. There is the proper spirit displayed in the announcement from. the govern- ment buréau of education when it is claimed that illiteracy in this country is doomed. This is probably based upon the progress made in recént years and the manner in which the problem is being tackied at the present time, for when it is shown that in a period of tep years there has been a decrease of neariy 50 per cent. among children of ten to fourteen vears, it is quite evident that resuits are being accomplished and that the assertion is justified. How soon that doom will be sealed depends, however, upon the manner and method of attack. ‘The public schools through the compulsory at- tendance laws is bound to eliminate illiteracy among children in a com- paratively short time if there is a proper concentration of interest to that end, but it is a much more difi- cult task that is faced when it comes to wiping out the illiteracy among the adults. Time and death will do their part, but extraordinary measures must be adopted if the illiterate millions are going to be taught to read and write. Night schools are doing much in this direction wherever they are to be found and it is the claim of the commission- er of education that forces could be put {6 werk by an average annual ex- penditure of $20,000 that would elim- inate illiteracy among the adults of the country. Connecticut has reduced its illiteracy oy at least one-half and only one child in a thousand between the ages of ten and fourteen cannot read and write. ‘It is far ahead of many other states, but what it has done others not only can but shopld do. UNIFORMITY IN NEW ENGLAND. Many are the occasions when the different states in New England have found it advisable to follow in the footsteps of another. The need of uni- formity in certain legislation has also made its appeal and where it has re- ceived favorable action it has been fol- lowed Ly anticipated results. Just now when the legislatures of the six states are holding thelr ar nual or biennial sessions for lawmak ing, attention is called to the conflict which is caused by the subdivisions of New England acting in their own way irrespective of the others where- as the state of Texas, several times as large, would be handling all the prob- lems as under one jurisdiction. Con- cerning this the Springfield Republican well says that “New England s pay- ing a price for being six instead of one and the effect should be made to min- imize the efficiency handicap by execu- tive cooperation and legislative uni- formity at all possible points. Trad tion, pride in origin, historical devel- opment along individual lines and po- litical self interest dictate: the p. it . perpetuation of New England as it is. So long as states are equally repre- sented in the United States senate, regardléss of population, New FEng- land will remain six states witk 12 senators. The other aspecc of a de- centralized New England, however, jshoulé be considered more and more in the future in order that no serious harm may be done to the inhabitants of these states. They should cultivate teamwork in legislative policy and en- deavor to make ‘one for all and all for one’ more nearly a reality.” There can be no doubt of the value to be derived from such action, but it would have to amount to more than the recent get-together movement of the governors of the states EDITORIAL NOTES. New years may come and the old may go,” but the war goes on un- abated, The war with the Balkan nations appears to have removed all the ter- ror from the Turks. Every city without a subway is con- gratulating itself that it hasn't such troubles to worry about, The man who has to buy a ton of coal these days- gets a reminder of the higher cost of living. Is the ‘sending of babies by parcel post going to call for traveling nurses and nurseriés at the expense of the railroads? In_ its new orders prohibiting ab- sinthe and restricting sales of liquor, France appreciates the benefits attain- ed by Russia. ~ ‘The weather man couldn’t have con- ferred with the health department be- fore sending this touch of spring in the middle of winter. Huerta may claim that he has hard- Iy enough money to maintain himself, ‘but he cannot forget the fun he had while the cash was available. In Poland the Germans are unable to move their big guns because of the mud. It is for Russia’s interest to keep vp this warm reception. "Fhie governor of New York has de- clared for equal suffrage, and it wasn't necessary for the girls to hike up the Hudson or adopt militant methods either, The man ©n the corner says: It is always possible to congratulate the average girl on not looking as ridicu- lous as the pictures in the fashion journals, It didn’t take Germany long to de- clare that it was a submarine that sank the Formidable, but it Has not made any such claim regarding the Audacious. The fact thal congress has power to pass the literacy test whether the pres- ident vetoes it or not should make no difference with Mr. Wilson. If he is opposed to it, as claimed, he should veto it. The great sunprise in connection With the close of Governor Blease’s term in South Carolina is mot so much that he pardened another crowd, but that he left the penitentiaries standing, to be filled: again, I { phrase. We are apt to think the best polit- ical conditions require that the office should seek the man, but one cannot help noticing the office that seeks the man nowadays has nothing in it for him or anyone else. The office that pays is in such,demand that there is Sreat competitioh for it, and the poli- tician is often embarrassed because in its bestowal he can please but one par- ty while he may enrage and make ene- mies of the nineteen other men who wanted it. There are now and then men who are so surprised that any office came their way after they and all their friends had pulled every wire to obtain it that men of experience smile to think their political vision is so obscure. When the office seeks the man it is usually a man who will fit it; but when the man seeks the office there is great danger that a misfit will be the result. The inefficiency which worries the government and an- noys the public is due to the number holding offices instead of ahly filling them. ! have heard many a man say ”Don’t be a elam!” who was ignorant of the fact that the clam meets every requirement of his life squarely while very few men do./ The clam should not be held in derision because in propor- tion to his size he has a bigger mouth than man; for the clam has never been known to talk about his neigh- bor: The fact that the clam never invented a flying machine might be used against him if he did not move from pond to pond by catching upon a swimmine fowl's foot and getting free transportation in a flying machine ready-made for him. The man who first gave currency to the expression “Don’t be a clam!” would not have done so had he known the clam lives right up to the laws of , his being, which no human being has been quite able to do. The one weakness of a clam is that he will spout whenever a human foot invades his domain, and this is one reason he is so often in the soup. There are a good many real pious people who do not approve of the way the Rev. ‘Billy Sunday bats the pre- cepts of divine truth to his great au- diences, and as the result of his work is shown up Satan must feel that he ought to be thrown from the pulpit back to the pitcher's plate. Through his ministrations it is sald 25,000 con- verts have been made and these would form 50 churches of 500 members each. Judged by his works, the Rev. William Sunday is not a misfit on the dlamond or in the pulpit. There is no reason religious truth should be made as uninviting and flat as cold mutton broth. Doesn't most__everything good taste better served hot? Billy Sunday does not believe in smokeless powder or noiseless guns, for he real- izes that the evidences there is something doin~ have a magnetic ef- fect. He shoots at the enemy straight and knocks him out and has a warm heart and hand for all his purblind fol- lowers. It is a real fault when a preacher or lecturer is able to exhaust his hearers before he exhausts his sub- ject. There was a day when the per cont. of clergymen capable of doing this was far in excess of what it is today. Who is most to blame for such a condition of things is not so clear. 'When a congregation demands a great deal for its money the preach- er in his ardor to meet the commer- cial expectation may be forced to so dilute the spiritual tonic that it loses its stimulating and inspiring energy. There was a day when a preacher was great: who reached his. “nineteenthly” reason for his position: but in these days that would be evidence he was totally without reason. us the times change. The lectdrer or preacher who is today guilty of ex- hausting his audience before he ex- hausts his subject has no such ex- cuse for his offense; but it may be he .likes to hear himself talk better than -his auditors like to hear him. At all events this iIs a fault which should be corrested. | suppose there are many people who feel thankful in the holidays if they find themselves getting a few crumbs of comfort. There are those among us who make little blessings count big; but they are not those who have much. Being able to havé all the heart desires doesn’t seem to im- press the heart. Nothing seems to be precious which is to be easily procur- ed. Want stimulates the spirit and work brings a realization of our am- bitions. So neither to be in danger of want, nor to be obliged to work is to become the victim of two neg- atives. ~ Not being called upon to do or to dare one has increased chances to die. This 1s doubtless one of the most profitless and unavoidable po- sitions to hold in life, and yet not a few are so blind to the benefits of activity that they yearn for this idle- ness. It is better to be where vou can appreciate a few crumbs of com- fort than to be'where you can't ap- preciate the having of plenty. It was when a man becomes conscious that his own blunders have been baneful to him that he sits down in a state of azitation and feels compe- tent to tell himself how many dif- ferent kinds of a fool he looks like in the mirror of his own mind. The man who does not have these little sesslons with himself isn’t keved up right, or is in a degree abnormal. Man is fonder cf complimenting than condemning himself, and we should catch him patting himself upon the back if it were possible for him to do 50 in the true rather than in a figurative sense; but God created him so it Is easier to pat some one else on the back. That man is wise whp can recognize his faults as well as his capable for achievements. It is pleasanter to call ourselves down than to have some one else call us down. It does us good when in a spirit of ourselves. There is hope for the man who can call himself and promptly respond to the call as if called by a better man. It is strange how we differ in our ideas of a good time. #Having a good time has little relation to being good in the general acceptance of the It means the breaking away from regular habits—a loaf, & picnic, an excursion, a hurrah, or many other things. Such times are pleasureable and usually without evil intent, but through excesses evil results are wrought. It cannot be truthfully said no good comes from them for any- thing which adds merriment or joy to life without harmful results to our- selves or others are beneflcial. Seel- ing orderly pleasure cannot de re- garded as a waste of time. Evil of- ten results from taking life too se- riously and rigidly holding to depres- sing thoughts. A life of {ndustry, bus- iness of any kind, or even of piety, needs diversity to maintain the stim- ulating effect. It was not intended life should become prosy, hence the great number of good times to which man turns for relief. There.is a saying that ‘heaven hides the book of fate” but a great many people do not believe heaven has anything to doc with it. We pro- fess not to believe in fate, alhough the expression is common: “he met his fate like a man” Most of us laugh at those who frankly say they believe in fate, but we do not know what to say when, in the midst of Christmas merriment in one day four members of a family gre suddenly (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) A Norwich gentleman of keen ob- servation and exceptional intglligence directed my attention recently to a ‘problem which, it is safe to say, has not occurred to many of our towns- peuple. 3 He reminded me that there are in and about this city at least four hun- dred automobiles and that one might sately estimate their average value at $1,000, since of course many of them cost much more, - That would mears| that local cars aggregated in value over $400,000. Futhermore, the gentleman pointed out, we have a wide-spreading trolley service, with cars on cvery line liber- ally patronized. Now each ° trolle: car, to be rated as profitable, mus have an annual earning capacily ¢ $5,000. The number of cars starting from Franklin Souare on regular trips each day is about twenty. Leaving out the extra, or special cars run as occasion demands, these cars then, to be profit- able, as we know they are, from the company’~ annual reports, must mean $100,000 at a low estimate, to keep them running. Now the problem which the gentle- man propounds is this: Before there were 400 motor cars and before there were twenty trolley cars, where was this big sum of over $500,0007 Who had it? Was it being stored for use in this generation? Wo know that the people of early Norwich worked for and accumulated comfortable fortunes. They built res- idences, many of them much finer than people of this flat-loving, ease-seeking generation are erecting. Is it due to their thrift and hoarding propensities that we of the latter day have automo- biles and trolleys? But our people are hoarding, too! Go into the savings banks at the first of any ouarter and see the long lines | of people of all classes, each with sums of comfortable proportion to be deposited. The increase in postal sav- ings deposits, too, has surprised stricken down. The other day a ter dled, a sister fell and broke arm and another fell and broke her ankle and an Industrious brother was paid off and found himself indefinite- Iy in enforced idieness because it was impossible to procure the raw ma- terial upon which his industry depend- ed. It is not to be expected this fam- ily should take this group of disas- ters as a Christmas present. They are not open to serious criticism if they think fate is against them. It is the unexpected which is always happéning and the unexpected makes fate like Bangno's ghost—it will not down, her FAMOUS TRIALS TRIAL OF DR. CRIPPEN. Never had the cables hummed over the Atlantic with such rapidity, sel- dom had such a chase over_ the sea been recorded, as when in July 191 Dr. Crippen, together with his Fr stenogravher Miss Ethel Le Neve, who was dressed in boy's clothing and who had fled from England, away from the .and which was the mute witness of the atrocious crime, were discovered in mid-Atlantic on lhe Montrose, bound for Montreal. It was on the 22d of February that Belle Elmore, the actress wife of a former Philadelphia dentist, vanished from sight following a quarrel with her husband, and it was not until July, 1910, that the sleuths from Scot- land Yard dreamed that murder had been committed, for Crippen had ai- lowed the rumor to circulate that Belle had gone to America. On July 9 the doctor was questioned, and the follow- ing day practically convicted himself of the crime by fleeing from London, acompanied by Miss Le Neve. For the following five months this great drama of two continents occupied the swaxe of the worid. On July 21 the captain of the Mon- trose sent the eraphic message by wireless that started Scotland Yard buzzing like a hive of bees, to the ef- fect that Dr. Crippen and Miss Le Neve, the latter disguised as a bo: were on board, Then followed the sen- sational chase, Inspector Dew boarded the Laurentic, bound for the same port as the fugitive pair, and in the race against time landed before the law- brealkers. They were quickly arrested. brought back to Liverpool and from thence taken to London. At both places Crip- pen was mobbed by the crowd, who had been shocked by the atrocity of the alleged murder. On Sept. 14, the first stage of the trial was held. Prof. Augustus J. Pep per testifie® that the remains he had examined were undoubtedly those of & human body, also that they were dis- membered by a hand skilled in surgery and anatomy. The rema had been buried in guicklime from four to eight months, and therefore no trace of the sex could be found. After muc heated, argument between the profe sor and two doctors for the defenc the case was adjourned until the fol- lowing Friday. On that day, the 17th, Dr. Willlam Henry Wilcox, scientific analyist to the Home Otfice, said that the srew- some remains, found in the floor of the cellar in Dr, Crippen's Hilldrop Cres- cent house contained _from - two sevenths to half a grain of some dead- ly poison. Solicitor Arthur Newton, for the defense, cross-examined, buf eficited nothing to throw fresh light upon the mystery. Inspector Dew was put on the stand, bui he also could throw no more light on the tragedy. The Crown then tried to show that the remains were those of the Amer- ican actress, but although the scien- tists were ready to swear that the re- maing were human, none were able to swear positively regarding the sex of the victim. Miss Le Neve was charged with being an accessory after the fact. Al- though Crippen was cool, Miss Le Neve was 80 nervous that her answers were alnuost inaudible and her lips quivered nearly all the time. It was proved that the night aftér the murder Miss Le Neve had slept at the house in Hill- drop Crescent. Aliso, although she d nied any knowledge of the murder, had gone with Crippen at a minute' notice, and at his suggesiion cut off her hair, to disguise herself as a boy. The verdict returned was “Guilty” for Crippen. Putting on his black cap, the judge then solemnly declared Crippen guilty under circumstantial evidence and (o be hanged by the neck until dead. Mise Le Neve, who was sentenced laier, was e pronounced not guilty. In conse.ue: of the British law a-guilty person c: not be hanged until 30 days after the sentence, Crippen’s hanging was. fixed for Nov. 15, but owing to rumors that gained circulation pertaining to the fact that some evidence had been found about Belle Elmore being in Canada, he was not executed until Nov. 23. At 8 o'clock in the morning he was taken into the yard at Penton- ville prison.. He was acompanied only by his spiritual companion, Fr. Carey. Very few were present, only the court officials and those necessary. Miss Le Neve, who had béen acquitted. sailed the same day from Southampton for New York on the Majestic. ——a even the most hopeful advocate of the system. Incidental to the ownership of motor cars, comss all the expense of their up~ Keep, iMiiying LUIOCIS 0L §ATABLS, repair shops, dealers in oils, gasolines, tires and the like. More money re- juired; and where did this big sum, 1180, come from? So, too, for trolley fares. When the irst line of cars was started, peopie ~ill tell you that a ride was account- 2d_a luxury, if not an extravagance. Now watch the crowds boarding or eaving cars! Inquire of any number >f passengers their motive of riding istead of the old-time method of hik- ng in from the suburbs. What varied =plies you would g “Well, I ride o sa shoe leather!” “By riding 1 in live in the suburbs where rent is heaper, or where I can own a little ouse and have my own garden.” “T am going to town to get eomething for dinner! There is an advantage in do- ing one's own marketing; a Dbetter choice, saving of money, etc.”” So the replies would run, with a thousand varying motives. As a straight line, in mathematics, is the shortest distance between tw points, so the trolley line is the guick- est connecting agency between where we are and the point to which we wish to go. o Few of us realize just how we are contributing toward that $5,000 which each trolley car must earn to prove a paying propesition for its road. But suppose I make but one round trip weekly, costing a dime. That means $5.20 for just myself annually—and if each merson of the nearly 30,000 mak- ing up the population of this town of Norwich take but one ride a week, it will be seen that at the end of the year it means a nretty round sum! And few limit their riding to once & week or even once a day The gentleman who called my at- tention to this matter was one of those who, when in the Legislature, worked to put through the franchise of the Montville Trolley line, one of the best paying routes in the country. He ad- mits that he was fearful it might not pay, until he was insvired by that hustling and ontimistic promoter, B. P. Shaw. the line's first manager, and the late Solomon Lucas, who also worked for its success. Now watch any car on that line! Even runnins half-hourly, as its most ardent well-wisher never believed it would prove canable of doing, the clrs are aiw filled. Seeking “the shortest distance be- tween two points” people come from miles inland to catch a car. In fact, it would surprise any inquirer to dis- cover the home towns and the destina- tions of vasenrers on almost any trip, although of course during the summer this surprise would be most pro- nounced. _ [ recall hearing of some residents of Southampton, on the south shore of ong Island, who made an excursion trip across to catch the boat at Sag Harbor, taking the sail over to New ‘ondon, then boarding a Montville Iine car for Norwich and from Frank- lin Square continuing to Norwich Town, and return! Some trip? Well, it would have been o considered sev- eral generations ago; but it proved so easy and so pleasurable to those Long Islanders that they vowed they in- tended to take it again! thy raj :s th Tt Going beyond the source of this un- acounted-for ,000 in motor cars and trolley cars from Franklin Square, if we let our minds dwell on what is going on hourly, or even half-hourly at a wider radius about Norwich, the wonder grows_proportionally. The Shore Line tramway system, | with headquarters in this eity, oper- ates a total of about seventy-five care. Considerin~ all the nickels and dimes vhich these earn annually on the divergent lines, we reallze more clearly the wealth of this section. Hundreds of thousands of passengers, who earn their car-fares on farms, in stores, in shops and factorfes, in a dozen different ways, board these cars at Plainfleld, at East Lyme, at Thomp- son, at “aybrook, at Central Village, at Yantic, at Connecticut River, at Sonth Coventry or at scores of other points, each producing on demand the equired nicke., which, like the tradi- m th c co; no nstrated ?::r?lng in high schools and colleges would tend more toward general ef- ficiency ualifications for producing the latter would be wanting.—Meriden Record. cause several classes of advertisers are finding out that billboard advertising is not, for them, business advertising. advertising mays. : discovery of a good many advertisers who have pinned thelr faith to bill- board advertising alone that it is the least profitable way in which to spend only as a-supplement o advertising—New Haven Register. walk) ordinances means that a certa.n >umber of citizens will meet with ac- ~idents which result in broken bhones and other painful injuries. these every year with heavy resultant tivity on the part of officials and the police authorities will greatly lessen the number of injuries and reduce the ounce of prevention in such cases is worth many pounds of cure—Ansonia Sentinel. The Ladies’ Specialty Store OUR ANNUAL JANUARY SALE IS IN PROGRESS - Many of our patrons have been benefited by our ex- tremely marked down prices in Women’s and Children’s Coats, Women’s and Misses’ Suits, Women’s, Misses’ and Girl’s Dresses. $ 6.50 COATS. $ 8.50 COATS. $I5 D0 COATS vvis e tvine $20.00 and $25.00 COATS.. .Sale price $ 3.98 -Sale price § 5-00 .Sale price $ 8.95 .Sale price $12.95 esian . WOMEN'S AND MISSES’ SUITS $12.50 SUITS. . cvivvvewiin o #ains.Sale price § 7.95 $15.00 SUITS: . ciccivs vais ssen s« - Sule price $10:00 $20.00 SUITS....civeievnerie.a. .Sale price $12:95 WOMEN’S AND MISSES’ STREET DRESSES % 6.00 DRESSES......c..vvs.....Sale price $§ 3.95 $10.00 DRESSES....ccsveee ... .Saleprice $ -6.95 $15.00 DRESSES................Sale price $10.95 House Dresses, Kimonos, Waists and Sweaters at greatly reduced prices. It pays to give us a call. We save you money. THE RIGHT PLACE IS Franklin Squir:. Norwich, Conn. 248 Main Street, they have shown the friendly attitude. You remember the experience of Pol- lyanna when she got hurt and couldn’t Ionger play the “glad game.” Her aristocratic aunt was astonished at the motley. crowd who called at the door to inquire for their little helper. It is simply an illustration in fiction dupl cated every day in fact of the proverb: “He that hath friends must show him- self friendly.” Why should not one start this new year in the practice of friendliness? Letthim cultivate a sincere purpose of kindness, of helpful interest, of will- ingness to “do a good turn” as the 3oy Scouts say, in largg matters or in small to as many as puss. '\ of those Who cross his path. Starting beneath one’s own roof that purpose may ex- tend to the whole circle of business, school, shop and social acquaintances with whom one has to do It is an al- most unfailing recipe for making 1915 a year rich in blessing. e United States possesses there is danger of militarism becoming mpant. That lack of preparedmess no more a sefezuard against war an preparedness has been amply in Europe. Military than militarism. for ail the The billboard is losing its hold be- | not saying that no billboard h It is recording the oney, and should be" used, if at all. to . newspaper Yeeligence on the part of the au- b be who will re= orities T rigidly enfarcing: (wides Some there may be who wil sist the kindllest overtures. Of course, one cannot make friends with those who stubbornly refuse to be friendly. The Incorrigibly cross-grained peoagto we must leave to the good Lord, wno knows how to get along with them, But the greater part of the world waits for friendship, friendship which is the heavenly note, in our human rela- tions and the essence of religion itself, One is not going to stagnate in the new year if he catches the spirit of these lines: I3 I would be friend of all; the foe, the Why have st to the city, when a reasonable ac- st of these liabilitles of the city? The The governor's views on home rule tional nimble sixvence, is the real g : friend:éss, making of the trolley road's success, . |Will meet with favor here. Legisla-| ; L CUrRGIES, o o4 gorget the Now,. before the roads were built, |tive interference with our city charter o where ‘was all this money? Who, to|has been almost a biennial occur-|y Lo 8% "0 e for 1 know my repeat, had it?, who hoarded ~ it?|rence. Economy in state expenditures, oot Where does it all come from? It is certainly an interesting financial and social question! It brings u~ too, a vista of the times we are told about. when travel meant a leisurely sail down the Thames River. first on some sloop or schooner vl at the caprice of winds and tides: later an excitin~ adventure in the shape of a train-ride, behind some pufiv. wood-burnir- locomotive, to Allyn’s Point, there to board one of the valatial Norwich Line steamhosts to New York. Fares were not so easily gotten in those prithitive daye. but there were travelers just the same only of course not {n the hyriad rum- Ders of the present day. Something of this old-time delibera- tion and atmosphere come back, when we read semi-occasionally of a schooner leaving from a point on the river bank to carry a load of cord wood, icc and vegetables to Block "sland. It seems about as far-back a mode of transportation as does the voyage of Columbus o to Unaccounted for as is the $500,000 to which reference was made at_the be- sinning, reflection must convince the most dofibtin~ Thomas that we sre all growing richer, without knowing i We unconsciously claim as our rights daily conveniences which would have been gasped at as luxuries but a few generationsago. Itappears to bea sort of financial “As thy days so shall thy strength be!” We fling around our vearly $500,000 for motor and trolley car expenditure, and although we may owe for the former, the latter means spot cash! At any rate, when what we have is spent, more comes our w a good share of it, doubtless, through the very expenditure on both sorts of cars, which transport customers from re- mote points to our doors and our stores, quick to exchange their money for our stocks; keepirg 1t in healthy and constant and rapid circulation. Which, after all, is what means wealth ot re th tr se of to th s | and prosperity for any and every com- munity! RBut ' the problem remains un- answered: ‘Where was that tangible $500,000 and over, before folks began to spend it? THE DICTAGRAPH. OTHER VIEW POINTS A New York manufacturing firm has paid the city $750 by way of compensation for the extinction of a fire for which the company was held responsible hecause of neglect to obey a fire department order. If this method was applied generally, after a while there would either be mighty few fires, or the fire depart- ments would be self-sustaining. The other it fu: al in we know people neither rich nor fa- mous, whose lives are of sollcitous in- terest to muititudes simply because. and care in making appropriations If adhered to by bring economy. We venture the opin- ‘on here, however, that the governor’s words in this direction will be about as fruitful as Governor Baldwin‘s ad- n the veto power in order to keep ex- venditures gram. about the treatm ciety is a sort of mirror reflecting our when we do. was Interesting to note how In crowded tired clerks would respond to courtesy -and oo per pot behind the counter if one stood before It. gener: depends on ourselves what and conditions know acters who never such trea: named The friends thou hast, and thelr adop- Grapple them to thy soul with hoops But do not dull thy palm with enter- Of each new-hatch’'d, unfledg’d com- but follow: leave ws in a very There are potential friends all about spirit. yet had too many. may die and leave behind the merest handful of those who really care. Not half a dozen people may attend the I would look up, and laugh, and love, and lift. THE PARSON. WORDS OF APPRECIATION. What is Thought of The Bulletin Away from Home. The New Year edition of the Nor- wich Bulletin was as usual a dis tinctive ons, one well illustrating the originality and individuality of that exceedingly live newspaj The field covered by The Bulletin is o fortunate one, for it has a paper to take pride in. Long azo the Springfield Republi- can became an institution and is right- 1y regarded as a leader differentiated from the conventional. But The Bulle- tin deserves that recognition, too. It is no more an imitator than the Re- publican and its pages have a far more varied interest than many of the big metropolitan dailies. Variety and in- terest and an admirably covered news field are by no means its whole claim to attention. It is the work of men of character, conscience and high ideals as well as ability, men who are not afraid to get out of the beaten path and express themselves frankly and forcefully on any subject, while at the same time showing much more than oréinary consideration for others, The edlitorial, Man Who Talks, Farmer, and other departmenis of The Bulletin are unique. Each of them has a de. lightful guality of its own. The read- ers of this paper ought to be pretty well acquainted by this time with the genial philasopher who calls himself The Man Who Talks, one of the finest characters in New England fournalism. but they are not as well acquainted as they should be with The Farmer. For years I have been reading "farm” cor- ners of all sorts, and in all the years have found only two writers of this ‘| sort who have impressed me as being remarkably strong, sturdy, virile men, men who loom large because of the wholesome manhood that is so mani- festly their foundation with = super- stryeture of keen intellizence, experi- eng and a desire to be of service These men ‘are The Farmer of The Bulletin and the Hope Farm man of the Rural New Yorker. The Bulletin is fortunate in having at command & staff capable of making a paper of its grade—the best grade—and I most heartily congratulate it and its work- ers. They have my best wishes for the New Year. May they never become “just Jike others’—standardized. They are mighty fine as they are. Heaven preserve their independence and indi- viduality, for we have need of this kind.—Bristol Press Notehgok, the legislature, will ces on this sublect two years ago, d it may be .necessary to exercise down.—Bridreport Tele. Sunday Morning Talk THE FRIENDLY ATTITUDE. The worid gi back to us just we accord it. So- It laughs or it scowls The attitude of pe(m;e t the season just past n faces. yward us is ours toward them. shopping ideration and how, on the her hand, there generally was a pep- 1t is true the world over that.they ceive the most ¢onsideration who are e most ready to extend it. If jeal- uepicion, moroseness, are very to be ropaid In_kind, So are ity, kindness and_cordiality, It sort of eatment is meted out. A friendly attitude toward all sorts of men is one great cret of happiness. It yields a. sort pleasure that grouchy spirits never It is amazing and encouraging discover streaks of gold in char- before displayed e. The magnet that brings o precious metal to the surface is indliness. ‘Wise Shakespeare advises tion tried, of steel tainment rade. That is good advice as far as it goes. g it too faithfully might restricted circle. one will approach them in the right And of friends no man ever 2 3 i y in the fiscal year A rich man or one of high statien | o gie 1(s5 autos et the Dittes States and vaid $1.039,249 for them. ~Children C . FOR FLETCHER'S, = CASTORIA neral for other than the convention- reasons of family connection or bus- ess association. Cn the other hand, AP Sl