Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 8, 1915, Page 4

NORWICH BULLETIN, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1915 Jorwich Bulletin and Qoufied "119 YEARS OLD Entered at the Postofice at Norwich, Conn., as second-class matter. Telepnone Calla: Bulietin Business Office 480, ulletin Editorial Rooms S$5-8. Ball Bulletin Job Office 35-3. Willimantle Office, Room % Murray Nuflding. Telephone 210. The Circulation of The Builetin The Bulletin has the largest circutation of any paper in East- ern Connecticut and from three to four times larger than that of any in Norwich. It Is delivered to over 3,000 of the 4,053 houses in Norwich, and read by ninety- three per cent. of the people. In Windham 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 sixty-five postoffice districts, and sixtv rural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold in every town ~-~ on all of the R. F. D. routes Eastern Connectizut. CIRCULATION 1901, average ..........c. 4412 1905, average ...........5 920 | | ! 0as0000acccssensssssnesssenssssssnses THE DEER BILL. All are not of the same mind at Hartfora as to what should be done with the deer. The senate says let things continue as they are, protect the deer, let them multiply, do all the damage that they can to the crops, but do not take the life of one for what another might have dome unless it is actually caught red handed. In the house an entirely different view of the amount of protection that should be given is taken, There it is felt that the deer are mumerous enough and before there is a larger number there should be a smaller herd at Iib- erty to feed upon and destroy those very things which the farmers and others who depend upon the produets of the soil are being urged to raise in_greater quantity. ‘When the house by e rTousing vote pagsed the deer bill as reported by the committee on fish and game, there are reasons to belleve that the mem- ‘bers gave expression to the sentiment of a large proportion of the property owners of the state who have expe- rienced the results of this increasing handicap to the production of crops. They know whereof they speak when they voice their belief that there should be given to.the landowners of the state the right to shoot the deer, with shotgun only, whenever and wherever they are found. This indicates that some compro- mise in the. bill is likely and the chances are that it will take the form of a restricted season in which such shooting, and the delegation of such rights to others may take place. It is quite evident, however, that some new legislation on the deer will follow and with the change should go the right of raising deer for the market, ENCOURAGE HOME INDUSTRY. There can he no question but what the situation in which the textile in- dustries find themselves as the result of the cutting off of the supply of dye- stuffs from Furope is a bad one, but it is not to be believed that American capital and resourcefulness are going to sit idly by and wait for the war to end before attempting to relieve the situation, Germany has made great strides in the development of this industry and but for the war there would be no thought of attempting to set up an opposition to its well established plants but the removal of that source pre- sents a helplessness which this coun- try canmot lgnore. Some are already at work for the purpose of relieving the situation, others are getting in- terested because they are forced to while the existing conditions demand that this country be not driven to the point of admitting that while it is at the mercy of the German monopoly now, it is going to remain in that pre- dicament indefinitely. Much the same situation Gevelaped in Great Britain and it did not take the government there long to furnish the necessary assurances which set the wheels In motion to overcome- the shortage through home productfon. Were there reasons to belleve that this government would back the outlay ‘mecessary for the establishment of such an industry here with proper leg- with its great cell blocks which have been made about as inviting as they can under the method of construction has reached its limit and that the re- forms which have been so long advo- cateq are going to be given a trial The state has no small amount In- vested in the prison and the idea of furnishing a bridal chamber for the criminal may not be consistent, but it is a fact that health and sanitary conditions should be proper, while whatever can be done in the way of providing betterments which will tend to hasten reform must not be over- looked. New York has made a good start. STATE COMMISSIONS. In his inaugural message Governor Holcomb urged the reorganization of various state and county boards and commissions with a view to greater economy and efficiency. Since that time, in accordance with such recom- mendations the duties of the building and loan commissioner have been merged with those of the bank com- mission and that department has been changed from a double to a single head. Such was for the best interests of the state, There has now been submitted to the general assembly the recommenda- tions of the commission which was named to consider the consolidation of state commissions and these bear out the bellef that a change in their makeup would result advantageously. It finds that there should be a con- solidation of state departments and lsuzgests that an industrial commis- sion be given the duties now taken care of by the labor bureau, factory Inspector and state board of arbitra- tion and mediation. That they could be well abolisheq and the work com- bined under one department with bet- ter results and less expense is easily understood, The same is applicable to the sug- gestion relative to replacing the state board of egriculture, dairy and food commissioner and commissioner on domestic animals with a department of agriculture that the work can be done with more co-ordination and co- relation. It is a report which is worthy of study by every citizen of the state, ‘but especially by those who are called upon to pass judgment thereon and the conditions which it endeavors to improve. STOPPING MUNITIONS OF WAR. The effort to have this country re- fuse to manufacture, sell or ship pow- der, shrapnel or shot of any descrip- tion to the warring nations of Europe, which of course means firearms aiso, has not abated. It was tried before congress in an endeavor to secure an embargo upon the exportation of such munitions without success, but it is now taking the form of an appeal to the American people for the allevia- tion of human suffering and the pres- ervation of life. It is based upon the bellef that if such action is taken it will bring to a quicker end the prevailing war on the ground that without ammunition and firearms i¢ will be necessary to make peace. Such might be true enough if it af- fected beth sides alike or if this coun- try was engaged in actively aiding one side in the conflict without being per- fectly willing to render a like asgist- ance to the other. Any such policy should be advocated and urged in an- ticipation of war rather than after it is well underway. Then it would be possible to show absolute disinterest ame act without bias or partiality, It would, however, only_%e an encour- agement to militarism. It would sim- ply force each and every mation to develop its facilitles in that regard and pile up enormous quentities of fight- ing material both as a means of pro- tection and against a2 rainy day, The country which places an em- bargo upon such articles for the vur- pose of bringing influence to bear upon the war takes steps which are unjus- tified, especially where g neutral stand has been taken. EDITORIAL NOTES. Swat the fly isn’t to be compared to what the allled vessels were pre- pared to do to the Prinz Bitel New London is having more trouble over a plece of fire apparatus than it did over its miilion dollar piler. Now that the big fight s over the prophets are left with only the weath- er and baseball pennants to adjust, There is always consolation in the fact that the legislature of ome's state isn’t as stupid as that of some others. Given a chance to tell their story there is no question where the people of Norwich stand on the petition for division, When Chicago goes republican by a big majority for e first time in five years it is a straw which shows bow the wind blows. “Nicaragua reported near banlk- ruptcy.” It is a bad locality for an individual and one which no republic should eyer approach. ‘The man on the corner zays: Some men are so gifted in the art of story telling that they can make the plain truth appear as a burlesque, ‘When it is reported that the German army has lost over half of its officers in killed and wounded the enemy is operating against a vital spot. The wireless was not able to save the Prins Maurits but without it no islation the reason for hesitancy would be eliminated. Could this have been furnished at the time of the first cur- tzilment this country would be in a far better position to take care of its demands in this line than it is today. PRISCN REFORMS. For a long time those who have been Interested in the improvement of pris- on conditions, especially in the Empire state, have been directing their ener- .gles against Sing Sing penitentiary. That it has resulted in crystalizing sentiment against the conditions which exist there is indicated by the action of the legislature of that state this week in voting an appropriation of $300,000 for the establishment of an entirely new prison at another point instead of applying such an amount to the construction of a new cell block at the old and disease-breeding insti- tution. It is not the first accomplishment in behalf of better conditions in penal Institutions, but it marks a great ad- vance in that direction in the state of New York and gives the opportu- ity for those who are’guiding such work to show what results can be ac- narplished. It means that Sing Sing’ one would ever have known what be- came of it or where it happened. Turkey may be short of ammuni- tion, but if what it has done to the allled flest is possible under a short- age, what can be expected of it fully stocked ? A German general points out the necessity of crushing Servia. That is the ambition which Austria has been trying to satisfy since lohg before the war started. The senate d1d the wise thing in the approval of the unfavorable report on the bill abolishing <capital punish- ment. The time has not arrived for taking such a step That apparatus for diving deep which the government is investigating in order to reach the F-4 might be preserved afterwards for investigation committees in 'Washington. Not much but kind words of advics can be given to the Eskimos who it is claimed stuffed the ballot box in the last senatorial election, after the ex- ample furnished by Terre Haute. " GRIEVANCE ENOUGH She had a chubby face and she was fifty pounds overweight and she had just ordereq a particularly sticky and Whipped-creamy French pastry and hot chocolate and was looking long- ingly at some rich raisin pie going by in_the hands of a waitress. “It's true,” she mourned. “What the paper said—that if a woman weighed over 140 this year she might as well go and jump in the lake! I hadn't minded so much until I started out to get some spring clothes, and now all I want to do is to leap out and bite some one savagely! Nothing else will relieve my feelings! Haven’t the peo- le who design clothes any hearts? 'l warrant they're fat themselves and take a malicious joy in making other fat women miserable. See what they’ve done this year! The clerk put on me a skirt five yards around the lower edge and a short jacket about as full around the bottom and tight on the shoulders, and what did I look like? . Precisely llke an Edam cheese with a frill around the middle or a crazy sort of lampshade! “ ‘Of course, madam,’ cooed the clerk, who was nice and thin like g lath, and inspired me with a mad desire to throttle her because of it, ‘of course, when one is a trifle beyond medium size'—wasn’t that tactfully put?—‘one has to be careful. The styles are de- signed for—er—medium figures.’ “Medjum nothing’ saia I ‘Ap- parently they were designed to look beautiful on a slate pencil, not a human woman! They were designed to rediice the average woman and the stout woman and 9) per cent. of the women to tears of helpless wrath! Why, when I think what Michigan avenue is going to look like right after Easter when all the women are out in thelr spring clothes, it is enough to make me pause in my mad career, if I had one! If a good, strong wind comes along all those women will go careen- ing down the street, like & bunch of tumbleweeds out west! Nothing on earth can prevent it!" “The clerk looked at me pityingly. You go and get a nice strong cup of hot tea,’ she told me. ‘It's so djficult to adjust one’s self to the new styles.’ «‘All right’ I told her gratefully. ‘That's a good !dea! Maybe by the time I've had my tea the styles will have changed into something else that I can wear!’ But she wrecked that idea. "No’ she murmured. ‘They never do that. They're either too tight or too loose—did you ever notice; That is, unless your figure is just right!’ And she walked languldly away to show me how just all right her figure was. They ought to have fat, ugly saleswomen to reassure the customers into the bellef that they themselves were 8o mhuch bette rlooking that everything was alright! “When I went to get shoes,” the chubby woman mourned on, “they brought out heaps of shoes with putty color tops and white tops, and sand tops, until I got breath to cry help. I transfixed the salesman, who was young and innocent, and, locking him straight in the eye, I asked him, as man to man, how he fancied I would look trotting along with white topped shoes, shrieking a block off that I was on my way! He hesitated, glanced fearfully around to see that a floor- ~walker was not present, and whispered that the relgn of white-topped and sand colored shoes was what was driv- ing so many strong men to untimely graves. “‘Young man,’ said I, ‘I thank you! Now it you will please tie my hands and feet so I can’t get away, and pay no attention to my ravings for putty color spats, I wish you would sell me a pair of plain, blacit shoes!’ And be- ing a young man of real possibilities he did so with alacrity. He said when I wore those shoes in public I would be the one saving spot amid a wilder- ness of women gone wild over light top shoes, “Then I looked at hats” The volce of the chubby woman shook with her emotion. “Oh, I know that somebody who hated her sister women has been busy over the hats! If it was®a man he’s revenging himself for all the girls who have turned him down in the course of his life! One daring clerk placed lightsomely upon my head a baby blue straw effair with two cun- ning little ribbon streamers dangling down my back and a bunch of pink rosebuds in the foreground. It was the sort of hat Flossy Flimflam wears when she dashes out right after the performing seals, wearing a white rufiied pinafore to her kness and an arch smile while the orchestra strikes up—and there it was on my settled and respectable head, “In reply to my accusing eves the clerk yawned and said all the hats this spring had ribbons down the back, and of course it was unfortunate if one were—er—a. trifle stout. But, she as- sured me, every one would be wearing them. “Not I’ I told her. ‘I shall tie a shawl over my head and let it go at that!’ “Oh, 1t’s a hard world!” mourned the chubby woman. T simply doh’'t know what to do about it! Of course, I'll have to reduce! Let’s have some more chocolate and whipped cream!”—Chi- cago News. Stories of Three Weeks in the Field. A British observer with the French forces in the fleld, who has the per- mission of General Joffre to report on the work of the French army, has sent in to the Official Press Bureau an ac- count covering the three weeks since February 15, in Champagne. In the district midway between Rheims and Verdun, on a fighting front of some five miles, he says the French have been attacking one point or another every day for three weeks. “IJt is a sustained operation, of a different king to those which we have seen @uring the winter months,” he says. “Those were local efforts, last- ing a day or two, designed to keep the enemy busy. and prevent him from withdrawing troops elsewhere; this is a sustained effort, made with the ob- ject of keeping a constant pressure on his first line of defence, of affecting his use of the railway from Bazan- court to Challerange a few miles to the north, and of wearing down his reserves of men and ammunition, It may be said that the 15th of February marks the opening of the 1915 cam- paign, and that this first phase will find an important place when the history of the war comes to be written: ‘““The mnature of the country, is en- tirely different to that in which the British army is fighting. It is one vast plain, undulating, the hills at most 200 feet higher than the valleys, gentle slopes everywhere. The soil is chalky, The only features at the pine woods, which have been planted by hundreds. As each rise is topped, a new stretch of plain, a new set of small woods ap- pear, just Hke that which has been left behind. The villages are few and small, most of them are in ruins after the fighting in September; and the troops live almost entirely in colonies of little huts of wood or straw, about four feet high, dotted about in the Wwoods, in the valleys, wherever a lit- tle water and shelter is obtainable, “Lack of villages means lack of roads: this has been one of the great difficulties to be faced; but at the same time, the movement of Wagons across country is possible to a far greater extent than in Flanders, al- though it is often necessary to use 8 or 10 horses to get a gun or a wagon to the point desired. From the mili- tary point of view the country is eminently suitable for troops, with its fwssibflitiefl of concealment, of produe- ng sudden surprises with cavalry, and of manoeuvrs generally. [t is, in fact, the training ground of the great mill- tary center of the Chalons; and French troops have doubtless been exercised over this gound in every branch of military operation, except that in which they are engaged at the present mo- ment. “What commander, training his men over this ground, could haye imagined that the area from Perthes-lez-Hurlus to Beausejour Farm would become two fortress lines, developed and improved for four months; or that he would have to carry out an attack modelled on the same system as that employed in the last great siege undertaken by French troops, that of Sebastopol in 18556? Yet this is what is being done. Every day an attack is made on a trench, on the edge of one of the lit- tle woods, or to gain ground in one of them: every day the ground gained has to be transformed so as to give pro- tection to its new occupants and means of access to their supports; every night, and on many days, the enemy’s counter-attacks have to be repulsed. Each attack has to be prepared by a Violent and accurate artillery fire: it may be sald that a trench has to be morally captured by gun fire before it can be actually seized by the infantry. Once in the new trench, the men have to work with their entrenching tools, without exposing themselves, and wait for a counter-attack, doing what dam- age they can to the enemy with hand grenades and machine guns. Thus the amount of rifle fire is very small; it is a war of explosives and bayonets. New Japanese Siege Gun. The announcement by-the war de- partment that one of the lessons of the capture of Tsing-tau was the ef- fectiveness of the siege gun which was brought into play on the anniversary of the Emperor's birth, makes inter- esting some culars concerning this weapon ‘which appear in the Japan Magazine. - The detafis of the gun's construction are guarded secrets, but it is an- nounced ‘that the cannon is the inven- tion of an trtfillar{ ng,cier gt the !::- perial army, Lieu! gata, who had_heen srorking on his_idea for some time prior to the war. As soon as the move against Germany began the inventor set out for Tsing-tau on 2 ship bearing his gun, with a view to setting it up and having it ready for action on the emperor's birthday. It was on that date that it sent its first shells into German forts with telling effect, Instead of bursting into fragments at the first impact the shell penetrated far into the objects struck, burst them apart and then scattered the pieces in all directions. It proved itself much more powerful and destructive than the guns used at the siege of Port Arthur. Pointing out that the main work of good siege guns is to strip an enemy’s guns of shields and redoubts, the mag- azine declares that the new Japanese gun did this in short order at Tsing- tau. A careful study of the effects of the gun shows that but for its work Tsing-tau would have withstood the siege much longer than it did. Inventive Genius. . Inyentive genius has done what it could to save the country since the be- ginning of the war, but its inspirations have not been entirely practical. Among the thousands of ideas pre- sented only four have been experi- mented upon with Interesting results; the rest remain in a state of embryo. After the first visits of German aeroplanes to Paris o man conceived a plan for the protection of the city from aerial bombs by stretching a me- tallic netting from the Sacred Heart cathedral in Montmartre to the Eiffel tower, A Marseilles inventor proposed a Bortable railroad to accelerate the con-. centration of troops. “It is very sim- ple” he sald. “When a train has passed over the rails you have only to pick them up and place them again in front of the train, and So on, in- definitely. At the war department they told him the idea was of im- mense importance but that there might be some difficulty in working it out. “On, that is only detail,” he replied. When Clemenceau in the Homme Enchaine commenced his campaign for the amelioration of the sanitary de- partment, a man suggested the idea of transporting wounded in trains of bal- loons drawn by aeroplanes, The great development of the use of barbed wire inspired an inventor to contrive a shell with wire cutting at- tachments. The war has had a depressing effect upon industrial inventions in general. The average is 45 applications a day in time of peace. It fell to 14 in Au- gust and had Increased to 23 in Feb- ruary, including inventions inspired by the war. The war of 1870 had the same effect and the records show that it required three years for inventive genius to recover. Cenditions in Serbia, All reports indicate that the dreaded typhus I8 gaining ground throughout Serbia. Over a hundred doctors have dieq from it, as well as 60,000 of the population, mostly women. It was only a few months ago that the dis- ease was brought into the country, probably in December by the Austrian prisoners with vermin In their cloth- ing. There were over 40,000 wounded Austrian prisoners after the battles of Valjevo and Belgrade, These men were taken into the same hospitals with the Serbilan troops and cared for by the same doctors and nurses. Working in these hospitals were the ‘women of the country, from wives of cabinet ministers, of foreign diplomatic representatives, down to the present ‘women who were employed to do the cleaning, all of whom went to the hos- pitals from their homes in the morn- Ing ang returned to them in the even- ing, and notwithstanding every effort for disinfection, before leaving the hos- pital premises, the disease has been carried in this way from the hospitals to the homes. Owing to the lack of sufficient cloth- ing es ally of uniforms, soldiers who have been dismissed from the hospi- tals and allowed to return to their homes have been given the same cloth- ing they wore when they came into the hospital. This in many cases was doubtless already infected with the body parasite which carries the typhus and which is able to lie dormant for weeks. It comes to life as soon as it comes in contact with the heat of the body. In this way the disease has been propagated to distant villages, so that thousands are dying on outlying to which no efficient aid can be sen! by the government owing to.the in: HOW O'I:HERS VIEW DIVISION OF NORWICH To Arms! (From the New London Telegraph) Let it be hoped that the better peo- ple of Norwich will get out their scythes and fowling-pieces and fight to the last drop rather than submit to the enactment of such a calami- tous proposal as that the old town should be divided! A household would be no more per- plexed and embarrassed by a sudden determination of its several apart- ments to seal their doors against all intercommunication, to exist hence- forth as if they were independent dwellings, in complete denial of com- mon roofs and walls, rather than weuld the commurity of Norwich by creating fresh political partitions where the existenece of any has hith- erto been endured simply from the force of habit and the sentimental solace of a commen name. If the town of Norwich had been called Boz- rah it would have been incorporated within and merged under the city of Norwich long, long years ago. Norwich, in Connecticut's conscious- ness, and in the life of its own people, does not consist of a cluster of build- ings, a group of lots and soclal set- tlement around or a-top of picturesque Jail Hill. It is a mutually dependent, closely inter-knit ganglia of neighbor- hoods that together form a natural municipal unit, which, in its employ- ment of business, social, religious, in- dustrial and philanthropical enterpris- es stretches out in all directions about the head of navigation on the Thames, far bevond the constricted political boundaries set in time far back toward the original colonial occupa- tion. “Sloopville” was literal then. To- day the ideal clings only as tradition that sentimentality has as yet had hardly the heart to obliterate. Think, good people! How long would common sense or self-respect be content to tolerate that the Back- us hospital, the Johnson Home, the Rock Nook home, and the Sheltering Arms, for example all distinctively and vitally Norwich institutions and all dependent for preservation upon the skill and readiness of Norwich’'s fire department, should be located in one town, while the ownership and responsibility is in another? How long would the half of Norwich that paid for and maintains the city reser- voirs and the costly apparatus at- tendant upon water supply—how long would that half submit that the other half should enjoy the exclusive priv- ilege of taxing the product of the former’s thrift and foresight? Divide the town of Norwich this year by legislative act, and the next assembly will in justice be bound to re-assert the indisputable sovereign- ty of Norwich the city, the people and the vital interest, if need be, even to the furthest hill in Baltic. ‘What have you Bean-hillers and Taftville-ites to gain by standing out before he world as Bean Hill and Po- nemah mills? Certainly the world beyond you of- fers no congratulation upon the pros- pect. We see you no richer than be- fore in any earthly respect, and un- questionably you will be poorer in the heavenly. Have respect for yourselves, you people of Norwich! Have love for {Dur children and honor for your for- ears! Convince Connecticut patriot- ism that you are worthy its sympathy and support! If one community in Connecticut can be split and balked by the short- sighted, selfish and ungrateful inter- est of a single lesser part, what hope is there for the future of any? It can only be so split by the connivance of venality in our legislature. OTHER VIEW POINTS The indications are that the e tablishment of a State Farm for ine- briates will be again postponed by the general assembly and for the same reason as heretofore—the cost of the experiment. Nevertheless some progress will have been made of the compromise bill to give inmates of jails outside employment becomes a law. It is quite possible a good deal may be learned in this way about the matter of healthful and helpful em- ployment of the class of men who re- ceive jail sentences.—Bristol Press. The committee which has been giv- ing hearings on the bill repealing the death penalty has rted adversely and there seems little likelihood the bill will become a law. There is really little new that can be brought to bear on the subject. The stock arguments do duty every time the question comes up for discussion. The only really new thing is the possible statistics of recent states which have rescinded the death penalty, as compared with those who still cling to the old order of things. If it could once be proved beyond a doubt that the abolishment of the death penalty really aided in deterring crime, capital punishment would im- mediately be abolished.—Meriden Rec- ord. Politicians are not necessarily bad fellows. Under our presént form of government, they are at once the beneficiaries and the victims of the machines system. In order to retain office they must deal first with the machine and afterward with the wel- fare of the city. Their career is pre- destined, for the worse. Under com- mission government, should an old party politician get into office, he will be set free and untrammeled; for the first time, he will have a chance to behave himseif. Should he fail of the chance ( and experience proves that more often than not he will rise to the opportunity) the voters have the privilege of taking sufficiency of doctors, nurses, transpor- tation facilities, and especially of tents and clothing for isolating the cases. The need of the latter is urgent. The Red Cross Sanitary commission has supplieg the necessary scientific knowledge, the surgeons and nurses are offering their services to go into the danger zone, even though it has ‘been stated that the chances of death are sixty per cent, greater than they are in the trenches, but unless the nec- essary tents and clothing are to be had immediately, the work of the commission must fail of any but nom- inal result. t has been suggested by the Amer- icans here that the U. S. Collier Jason should be sent upon such an errand of mercy. This sanitary work is of im- portance not only to the whole of the belligerents but to all of the neutral states as well. The sailors who are handling the shipping at Salonika, shipping which goes to the whole of the world, will be liable to infection and be the means of transmission of this disease as the summer comes on. Improvised X-Ray Machines. The simple and inexpensive flash lights with which all soldiers are equipped are proving, in conjunction with empty cigar boxes, excellent and effective X-ray machines for the detec~ tion of fractures and iron splinters in the hands and feet. Dr. Heuer, speaking before the war clinic of the University of Frankfort, declared that one of the lamps, held in an injured hand in a darg room, or inside of cigar box, was brilliant enough so that it illuminated through the fingers and even the middle of the hand sufficiently to show just what DONT MISS THIS SHOW | Matinee Daily, 10c THOMAS DAVIST? THE BIG SINGING SHOW—A CYCLONE OF FUI:J Musical Comedy GO. The Best Musical Show of the Season SWEET SINGERS, 12—ARTIST8—12 CLEVER COMEDIANS, NIFTY DANCERS MOSTLY PRETTY GIRLS In the Funny Musical Farce “THE MASQUERADER” CHAS. CHAPLIN In the Big 2 Reel Keystone DOUGH AND DYNAMITE The Funniest Picture Charlie Ever A ppeared in Today AUDITORIUM Shows 2:30, 7 and B8:45 Mat. 10c; Eve. 10 and 20c TANGO CONTEST TONIGHT AT 8.30 THE HINKEY-DEE GIRLS Present CHARLIE’S AUNT A Bright, Clean Musical Comedy, Melody and Musio EXPLOITS OF ELAINE ........... Eleventh Episode Entire Change of Programme Tomorrow Colonial Theatre 3 Reels—“THE REGENERATING LOVE,” Lubin Featuring Ormi Hawley and Earl Metcalf “SURPRISE OF MY LIFE, “THE CHIEF'S GOAT” .. With Bryant Washburn . Featuring Wallie Wan Tomorrow—A DAUGHTER OF .THE PEOPLE—Five Parts him immediately by the scrufi of the neck and yanking him out of office.— Bridgeport Telegram, There is, however, a large set of dis- cases of the so-called degenerative type, which statistics show are becom- ing more prevalent and which tend to offset the gains made in other re- spects. To cope with these there is nothing that the state can do directly. The remedy lies in making better known and better realized the import- ance of each person regulating his way of living in accordance with scientific knowledge as to how best to attain the maximum efficiency of which he is capable. A more intelligent re- gard by the average man for his own health would soon result in a higher average of earning capacity and a longer average duration of life in this country.—Bridgeport Standard. All the discussion of this legislative session_over what kind of taxes the state shall levy to make up deficits and provide for expenses will not be wasted if it teaches business men and all citizens to watch the state budget. The trouble in the past has been that only a small number of men knew anything at all about state finances. Now that it Is proposed to tax co porations more heavily, that a state tax has been threatened, suddenly a considerable number of men have be- come interested in state finances. If they will stay interested the common- wealth will not be so likely to get in tangled and extravagant financial straits. But will citizens watch the treasury 7—New Haven Union. The bill for the revaluation of pproperty in Derby has passed both houses in the general assembly and now only awaits the signature of the governor to become law. That the governor will approve the measure is regarded as certain and thus Derby will be in a position during the next year to secure that equitable and falr revaluation of taxable property in the city that has so long been ad- vocated. It is concedeq that an ex- pert revaluation of property tends to equalize tax burdens and is there- fore acceptable to the general pub- lic. It will probably work out that way in Derby where every effort will be made to carry out the revaluation on a basis of absolute justice and oquity. Property will be levied up- on at a fixed ratio. Where the pres- ent rate of assessment is found to be too low it will be increased and where it is found to be too high it will be lowered. As a result there should be improved taxation condi- tions In the city when the work is completed. Ample opportunity will be given for protest against changes made and when an injustice is done it can be remedied.—Ansonia Sentinel. 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The climate of Bessarabla is that of the United States, extremely cold in winter and extremely hot in summer, and, due te its sharp summer season, the province raises fruits that vie with Asmerican fancy fruits in all the best markets of Europe. All of the domestic ani- mals, grains and grapes are also raised. Bessarabia produces 17,000,000 gallons of wine vearly, which, blended with and named for “Europe’s best” are known in every land. The population {s very heterogene- ous. Tt numbered 2,490,000 in 1911, ang of this number only about 300,000 were classed as urban folk. City peo- ple are neither known or appreciated in this part of the world, and are rare- ly seen other than at the capital of the province, its largest town, with about 130,000 people. Kishinev receives the foreign buyvers and the foreign government officials. The original in- habitants of Bessarabia are sald to have been Cimmerians. In the course of centuries, all kinds of people have been added to the “originals,” untol the Russian province might well dispute the so-called “melting pot” honors with the United States, Moldavians, Little Russians, Poles, Rumans, Magvars, Ruthenians, Bulgarinns. Jews. Greeks, Circassians, Armenians, Tartars and Slovaks are some of the leading ele- ments of its population. Most of Bessarabia is flatland, though offshoots of the Carpathians enter it from the northwest, and cer- tain of its central portions are hilly. Parts of the province are well-tim- bered, though, in the main, farm lands are only interrupted by pastures. There is no industry in the province to be destroved. A few insignificant cloth mills, iron works, soap works and tanneries complete the list of its manufactures. Export commerce in agricultural produce is large. Incon- siderable commercial minerals have been uncovered. Most important among these are salt, saltpetre and marble. 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