Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 18, 1915, Page 4

Glorwich Bulletin and Qondied 119 YEARS OLD Subseription price 12c a week G0 a meonth; $6.00 n year. Entered at the Postoffice at Norwich. Conn., as second-class matt “Telepmone Calln: Bullet!n Business Office 480. Bulletin Editorial Rooms 35-8. Bulletin Job Office S5-2. Willimantle Office, Room 2 Ruilding. Telephone 316. Murray Thursday, March 18, 1915, Svecssseresstassesesssesssssesessrescacese The Circulation of The Builetin The Bulletin has the largest circulation of any paper in East- ern Connecticut and from three to four times larger than that of amy in Norwich. It is delivered to over 3,000 of the 4,053 houses in Norwich, and read by ninety- three per cent. of the people. In Wiindham It is delivered to over 900 houses, in Putnam and Danielson to over 1,100 and in all of these places it is consid- ered the local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hundred and ty-five postoffice districts, and sixtv rural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold in every town ar~ on all of the R. F. D. routes in Eastern Connecti CIRCULATION 1901, average ............ 4412 L PRISE. 1t is hard to believe that there is anything serfous in the report that another effort will be made to put through an appropriation by the state legislature in behalf of the Taylor history and souvenir. The general as- sembly has taken too good a stand thiis far against the waste of state funds to believe that it would reverse its action or permit such an appro- priation to slide through with some- thing else. This does not, of course, mean that it will be impossible to publish such a book, since a volume of the charac- ter which Souvenir Taylor has pro- duced in the past has its good points and there is nothing surprising about the fact that many members of the legislature would like to possess such a book as might be compiled at this session, but whatever is done should receive other tacking than the funds in_the state treasury. Whatever appropriations have been voted for such a purpose in the past have been entirely unjustified. It was a wrong use of state money and it is impossible to justify a continuance of the practice by pointing to the errors of other legislatures. If there is to be a legislative history let it be the re- sult of an outside business undertak- ing. There is nothing to prevent the members and a great many others from subscribing for such a volume, but there are the best of reasons why the expense should not be met by the state and from the attitude expressed through the unfavorable report and upon other matters involving state ex- penditures there is ground for the be- lief that further efforts will recelve like treatment. Norwich, sut. 1905, averace §900000000000000000 20000004 2080 HOE 000 E00000000000 700008 300050000050400000050700 000000084058 0000000005 DANGEROUS PATIENTS. It will be surprising that any such double shooting as occurred at the Undercliff sanatorium at Meriden, a state institution, was possible. That there might be little reason to sus- pect any such insane attack upon a nurse is understandable, but it can hardly be sald that such is the case relative to the possession of such a deadly weapon as a revolver by a pa- tient. A hospital can hardly be re- garded as a place requiring any such protection upon the part of the pa- tients, while for those who may be despondent or whose mind might be- come affected no weapon ought to be obtainable. The shooting will probably result in stricter attention being paid to such a sitvation in the future, but it calls attention to a matter which has been advanced by the state tuberculosis commission concerning the care of those who are not disposed to abide by the regulations deemed necessary by the authorities. That they are call- ed upon to care for all kinds of pa- tients sent them, regardless of their tendencies, makes it apparent that the problem of handling them is no sine- cure, and the Meriden affair only em- phasizes the request of the state com- mission that proper provision be made through legislative action for over- coming the handicapped position of the commission. It is perfectly logical that those who are a menace through unwillingness to conform to sanitary requirements, or those who are disposed to shoot up an institution should be placed where there can be proper restraint. e THE PENNSYLVANIA. The launching of the Pennsylvania makes it -evident that Uncle Sam is adding another magnificent ship to his navy in the carrying out of the pro- gram considered necessary for main- taining our proper defense. Like so many others it is an instance where for the time being this great fighting machine as soon as it is equipped for service will be the leader of all such craft afloat. Just how long this will contlhue to retain such honor de- pends upon the progress in naval architecture, but it is possible that before it has an opportunity to be put into commission .another may slide down the ways which will in some manner excel this formidable fight- Ing ship. The entire country must take pride In the possession of such a vessel and its addition to the navy gives it no greater strength than it needs. Much has been learned from the naval en- gagements which have taken place across the water relative to the mer- “s of the different types of warshipa. and while the little submarines have| established their value and light cruisers have rendered excellent ser- vice, nothing has shown that the bat- tleship can be dispensed with. Rather has new evidence been gained as to its importance and particularly so as re- gards the battle cruisers. These fast and powerful ships are due for more attention in the future and while this country is only filling requirements with its battleships it cannot afford much longer to overlook the place which the battle cruisers hold in a well balanced navy. It is the com- bination of speed and armament that counts. WASTING HIS TIME. Every now and then there develops a strong resistance to the enforce- ment of vaccination, and such a case hgs been occupying the attention of the authorities and the court in New Haven. Following a second arrest for failure to send his child to school be- cause of his antipathy to vaccination, a New Haven resident has been fined six dollars and costs, because as the court declared he had violated the school attendance requirements and it was not within its province to decide for or against vaccination. . Whatever may be the merits of the contention by the authorities or by the accused, it is a strange attitude which he takes in insisting on going to jail to work out his fine and costs rather than take an appeal, in view of the fact that a repetition of the arrest can be expected. What is needed in such a case is a determination of the rights of the individual concerning| compulsory vaccination and that is not going to be obtained by going to jail, but by carrying it to a court which can decide. This is not the first cas¢ which has arisen over compulsory vaccination and the defendant is not the only one who is interested in having the ques- tion settled once and for all. He may be willing to make such a sacrifice as the time called for in jail represents, but that does not advance the matter | to a final adjustment and for a con- tention which bobs up so frequently the greatest satisfaction is bound to result from carrying it to a conclu- sion and not keep traveling over the same ground. BUDGET SYSTEM NEEDED. iz | There is nothing surprising in the statement of Congressman Fitzgerald, | chairman of the house committee on appropriations to the effect that the government is suffering from bad bu iness methods. This very situation| has been pointed out time and again, | and when he urges that steps be taken for the Tighting of the wrong and the establishment of a budget system, he is simply backing up the demands which were so insistently made while in office by President Taft. If that was the sole reason for the demo- cratic administration being in the hole it is, it would be simply the reaping of such results as had been pointed out to it, but that is only one of the causes for the pending deficit. A demonstration, however, of the ill effects of the present method of mak- ing appropriations has been furnish- ed this administration. It is a per- sonal experience which if it carries weight should result in a much need- ed reform and one which was delayed through democratic action. The dem- ocrats aid all they could to block the efforts of Mr. Taft in paving the way for a budget system in handling na- tional finances, and now it is suffering from the narrowness of its partisan action. The conversion of Mr, Fitzgerald after going through the hard school of experience should be productive of | desired results at the next session of congress. He is in a position at least to lend strong support to the idea through insisting unon profiting from the folly of the past. EDITORIAL NOTES. It is impossible for the war to over- shadow the advent of the new bonnet. Not the least concerned are the Ger- man submarines as to whether or not there is a hole in the bottom of the sea. The man on the corner says: The reason history repeats is that human nature changes so little as the years g0 by. ‘Billy Sunday has spoken to the New Jersey legislature, but if that is like others it will need something more than being spoken to, About as much trouble is being ex- perienced in getting the right spelling of the Prinz Eitel Friedrich as of some of those places in Poland and Russia. Mr, Wilson is of course going to be able to support his stand on economy by pointing to his reduction of per- sonal traveling expenses. The prompt death of the big appno- priation bill in behalf of armory and site in New Haven indicates that the leglslators are onto their job. This country of course knows that it can get along for a while without the trade with Germany, but it doesn’t like the way Great Britain insists upon it, When Italy expels German press correspondents and restricts its mail relations with Austria, it can hardly be considered as a favorable sign by the kaiser. The administration can get very lit- tle consolation out of the fact that the United States “treasury has not ‘been so empty since the Cleveland ad- ministration.” If Lincoln Beachey’s end proves no more profitable a lesson to those who are wont to follow in his path as an aerial contortionist it will fail in one of its strongest points. Back to Matteawan is the course prescribed for Thaw by Justice Page, which of gourse is only another signal for his attorneys to try and get hold of another technicality. It is promised that the murderers of McManus will be punished, but if all Mexican promises had been kept that republic would be enjoying one of its most peaceful periods. The announcement by former Sen- ator Root that he will not be a candi- date for the presidency will be a re- lief to a certain colonel who declapéd he would crawl on his knees to help him into the White House. At the present time Connecticut no sooner gets through with one murder trial than one or more s ready to g0 on. This commonwealth must im- prove greatly before thinking serious- ly of removing the capital punishment law. |to their . Simmons_told her husba; E from the telephone. dces all the way that woman loses things.” “Has she the habit?” Simmons ask- ed idly. “I should think she could tie things on herself some way.” “The first time I heard of it she had 1 * Mrs. Simmons went on. “She had washed her hands some- where and left the ring on the wash- stand. That very day she lost her best handkerchief, and she felt rather depressed. Such double losses, I told her, were not apt to happen twice, but I failed to comfort her. She told me a few of the things she had lost in just the last few vears, and they were too ma to try to remembe: course there were several four pu dozens of handke; six hatins, books without number and all sorts of cuffpins and brace nd things. She said she had long ago given up telling the family about it, as they thougit the whole thing such a joke. I suppose that her husband was often a little provoked with her, too. It sounds so easy to keep from losing thing “I fancy I'd be a little peeved my- t» Simmons said. “It's quite an ind the ontinued. worries 1 She to think herself such a goose. Why, only the other day she lost her muff and to help her out I had to advertise for it, and give the reward and everything, so that her husband wouldn’t know hing about e “Deceiving creatures, you women. “Well, yes, mayhe going to say w queerest thing yet. I tk already lost about eve be lost, they had E e? A train? unusual at all to 1 Simmons scoffed. done it lots of times. You know the Dunbars have just_come back from a family reunion in Denver, where the; met _for the holidays?” ¥ “No, I didn’t, but T take your word for Well, they have. They had a very y time with theater parties and gz and_visiting with a lot of ople whom they hadnm’t met for a . Mrs. Dunbar sald they iy tired when they got on > n to come home. When they got here it was storming hard, and the t n was several hour: te on account of snow or somet They took a taxi and went to bed as soon as they got home. Mr. Dunbar didn’t even buy a paper. He always buy his pay ands, she says, an ne m . He likes ariety and distributes his patronage. Well, the next morning he wanted an early start, because Satur is only a half day, and he wanted to do a lot of things. The mail piles up so rap- idly in a big office like that.” Tt does in every office,” Simmons declared feelingly. “And ‘the harder ap you are the more automobile and piano ads you get.” “Mrs. Dunbar got up at about 5 o'clock,” Mrs. Simmons went on. “Of course the maid hadn’'t come back, a ow it now. T'll Stories of the War War and Crime. Never has Paris seen so little friv- v and disorder as during the first months of war. Only two crim- inal acts were committed during that period and only one—of them was of capital importance — a divorce mur- der. “The police have little to do,” says Prefect of Police Laurent to The Asso- ated Press. “The public itself main- tains order. For instance the other ght a moving picture show produced a_Chinese dance resembling Tango, which had escaped the notice of the Dpolice censor; the audience repaired our omission by roundly hissing the film. Even on Mardi-Gras, an occa- sion which generally gives rise to hun- dreds of arrests, everyone docilely ac- cented the prohibition of masks and confetti; the police had no occasion to intervene, “The absence of crime is due prim- arily of course to the elevation of sen- timent by the tragic crisis of war. There's no place in - our minds for things that age base and vile while we have before us so many examples of heroism and sacrifice, and this ap- plies to classes whose state of mind is not always fit for close analysi When a man is flattered that he po sesses an admirable quality that he knows he totally lacks, he immediate- ly burns to possess it. Thus the tur- bulent elements of the population took account part of the praise that was bestowed upon Paris for its bearing at the outbreak of the war and they seem to be really taking no little pride in helping to justify it. _ “Secondary causes are the elimina- tion of the crime-producing elements— misery and vice and the turning of passion from its usual objects to the frontier. There was never less misery in Paris. In normal times many un- fortunate people are out of the reach of charity; at present charity, in the name of relief, acts automatically and these people find it far simpler to be good than to be wicked. The suppression of the sale of ab- sinthe, Monsieur Laurent thinks, has not yet had time to produce its effect, and he does not attribute the decrease in crime in any degree to this cause. One of the most conspicuous cases of swindling since the war began was that of an ex-Captain ruined by ab- nthe—he hadn’t been able to get a drink for three months. The ultimate effect of the reform he expects will be considerable but the man whose moral nature has been debased by absinthe has not yet had time to recover. “As for the ‘Apaches’, the street ruffians who give us so much trou- ble ordinarily, they have disappeared,” he says. “Many of them are at the front, where they are redeeming many a fault; others are employed on the defence works of the entrenched camp; the rest seem to lack inspiration for their customary misdeeds, for we hear nothing of them. ‘I am no prophet,” Monsieur Lau- rent conci®fed, “and I can’t say what permanent effect the war may have upon crime, but I am hopeful. I think that France will be so busy with seri- ous things that the task of the police will be lighter than before. After the scars of war have begun to disappear I think the galety and animation of Paris_will come into its own but I look for the elimination for years to come of many frivolities and differ- ent forms of folly Jobs for the The Paris municipal council has_de- cided to reserve for mutilated soldiers ard widows of soldiers killed in the present war all the posts in the city departments that they are physically capable of filling. ‘The newspaper kiosks in the streets and_ public places, the flower and candy stalls, the street vendors, medals and licenses for the sale of postcards and illustrated periodicals, in the street, the posts of cab-station keepers, the management of public lavatories and the posts of concierges lavatories buildings, are also to be reserved for tha soldidra. Mutilated. | them. and it took Mrs. Dunbar a good while o get breakfast, but they sat down a 6:30 and Mr. Dunbar was on the betore He said it did seem nice to ot a seat, even if it was a cold morn- ing. Mrs. Dunbar id he was so sleepy that she went to bed ag: trusting to wake before it was ti for the grocery order man and other morning callers. ‘About an hour later she opened her eyves with the idea that there was a burglar in the house. But in a few moments realized that it was Mr. Dun- bar who was standing in the doorway. he said he had the funniest look o she had ever seen, and she i She knew that | “Don’t keep me mmons. “What_was i “When Mr. Dunbar opened the office door he found no mail had come and there wasn’t any one down, not even the office boy. for the janitor, and, it fifteen min- utes before®he appeared. Mr. Dun- bar was a but the janitor apol- ogized by saj he never was on duty early on Sunday.” unday ?”" es, it_wasn’t Saturday at all, but Sunday. They had lost a day!” OTHER VIEW POINTS The old custom of the son follo in the footsteps of his father not always have been right, at least mori tendency to something differ herited or natural ton Register. aptn Connecticut will hav ary when the pegple st mand it vociferously, and ubbornly. And t tate of unanim- v has not yet been reached in Con- necticut. In fact there disposition to see how the scheme works elsewhere before it is tried out here— Ansonia Sentinel. It is an interesting comment upon the situation that in every city where the federal law has beg thero has been evidenc whole-souled desire on uthorities to meet the a charitable w Drug fie treated as diseased men and rather than criminals. There disposition to help, r an hinder After a sufficient h: d for the body and mind to T ate, there will be evidenced an rovement in sotiety. —Meriden Record. he part of t eme: women is every Lunch rooms in New Haven have been examined by the local board of health and the examination resulted in rating for cleanliness, sanitation, ven- tilation, etc. The newspap a nted the examination marks it appears that New Haveners ation in restau- inety-four to nine and other: lok as forty-seven per cen tion. New Haven is widely interested in the exhibit and the junch room owners are deeply excited. — Wate bury Republican. of perfec- The lesson of Waterbury’s treatment by the Legislature—not this year es- pecially, but every year—is the need of selecting the right men and keep- ing them. If Waterbury were repre- sented year after year by the same men, with a gift for legislative serv- ice, the city might easily lead in both House and Senate, and have that influence which only experience, join- ed with character and ability, ~can command. As it is, we don't amount to anything because we send men who don’t amount to anything in the first place, or who don’t stay long enough to amount to anything in the need. — Waterbury American. Let us endeavor to encourage our youth to get all the education pos: ble, not discourage them and the pro- prosed legislation of Mr, Fox and Mr. Cheney would certainly _discourage High School education. What we need is a better educated citizen- ship. That has been the foundation stone on which New England has stood from the very beginning and we look with great disfavor on the at- tempt of Mr. Fox to turn the wheels of progress backward. We are sur- prised that members of the State Board of Education should for an in- stant countenance a_legislation which is of the character of this proposed by Mr. Fox.—Bristol Press. There are two sides to the proposed plan to have policemen on their beats visit the carbarets in Bridgeport, or other saloons where women are likely to congregate. The plan calls for periodical visits by the officers. Some cities take just the other view of such matters, forbldding officers to go into saloons without special permission, or on extraordinary occasions. It is doubtful whether periodic visits to s loons by patrolmen would produce any good results, and they might cause much trouble. There is a deal of merit in the plan which leaves the matter to the discretion of the police- man, holding him responsible for the good order of saloons on his beat, but not ordering or encouraging him to make them his frequent place. — Bridgeport Telegram. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Dirtiest Town. Mr. Editor: The doctors’ vote of thanks to the city officials is oppor- tune. We are glad that some one of the democratic faith is able to boom something for somebody, even if it is only sore-throats and doctors, but just think of us poor workmen (that were promised plenty of work and low cost of living if we would only be true to ourselves and support the free trade principles), that are standing on the street (and breathing what the Spar- rows don’t eat) looking for the good things promised us. If Don’t Worry up at Norwich Town could use his influence to induce some' of our city officials, that live in his part of the town that he is so proud of, to get to business before 9 o'clock a. m., and stay until 5 p. m, he would help us poor miss guided city tax- payers who are paying 11 3-4 mill tax, which is apparently not enough to get a breath of fresh air without going up on top of Wauwecus Hill. 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But never d there| is one c solation the aforesaid city officials have to breath the same air and swallow ju. as much of what i left after the sparrows get what the; want as we do, and I suppose this i t they figure will help reduce the 8. SORE THROAT. Norwich, March 17, 1915. BeYourOwn | Beauty Doctor wi high cost of livin Weid AUDITORIUM COMING, TUES. MAR. 23 The Society Event of the Theatrical Season B t ENGLISH C OSION GPERA 0. In a Master Production of VERDI'S BEAUTIFUL ADRY “I, TROVATCRE With the Most Remarkable Cast of Stars Ever Heard in English Opera Including JOSEPH F. SHEEHAN America’s Greatest Tenor The Superb Boston English Opera Chorus and Augmented Orchestra Prices: 25¢ to $1.50.. Seats on Sale Saturday at 10 a. m. Mail Orders With Remittances Filled in the Order of Receipt Shows 2:30, 7 and 3 Mat. 10c, Eve. 10c and 200 THE HONEYMOONERS COMPANY Present “CASEY’S NIGHTMARE” With Felix Martin at His Best—Edith West as the Me- chanical Doll and Other Distinct Novelties. 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