Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 1, 1915, Page 4

D . The Bulletin has the largest : ulstion of any paper in East- ~ern Connecticut and from thres to four times larger than that of any in Norwich. It is deliversd ‘over 3,000 of the 4,053 housse in Norwich, and read by ninety- 3 per cont. of the people. In Windham it is deicvered to over houses, in Putnam and ‘Danielson to over 1,100 and in all of these places it is consid- local daily. Connecticut has: forty- one hundred and free delivery routes. Bulletin is sold in every * on all of the R. F. D. routes'in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATION 4812 H H : FIGHTING THE GYPSY MOTH. From the mction which was taken by the legislature in providing for a Im cuympalgn against the gypsy H ‘ecoperation with the, various “towns is indicated 2 recogni- tion of the mienace which this pest Qms in certain sections and which i threatens in othems unless “thers i u determined effort to stamp ftonto. Not does the presence of the ‘mother damage to wegetation mobilisation small corps of along similar lines for common terror. Combined action in the -upholding of requirements and in the education the people therein as well as forcement of the laws means mu: every state though no more than should be expected. This apparently is the idea under which the new head of the Massachusetts health depart- ment is operating. CHIEF OF OPERATI The appointment of Captain Wil- lam S. Benson commandant at the League Island navy yard at Philagel- phia to the new office of chief of naval operations comes as a_surprise only because of the fact that his name had not been mentioned in congec- tion therewith. That he has the abil- |, ity to fill the office and that he is be- ing advanced in rank, only a few months ahead of the time to which he would be entitled to it, is thor- oughly understood. Though it is probe able that Admiral Fletcher, or Rear Admiral Winslow could have received the appointment had they so desired, it is no reflection upon the new ap- pointee that he is third choice, for his record fully discloses his ability to administer the office. The change which resulted in the establishment of this office instead of that of aide for operations provides a real naval head. There has been ex- perienced from time to time the need of such an official for while there is a civil head of the department, his experience in the practical field of operations is of necessity limited and the mistaken policy of being gulded by such alone has been repeatedly revealed. The new official will have charge of the operations of the flest and the preparation of plans which will have to do with is operations in case of war. He will be over all the navy bureaus for the promotion of greater efficiency in the navy. It will ceatralize responsibility at a needed point which should overcome much of the difficulty which has ex- isted in the past. The new officlal will be in touch with all branches and next in power to the secretary of the navy. FORCING THE DARDANELLES. Operations have been commenced for the forcing of the Dardanelles which experience shows should have been undertaken in the first place. Whatever. may have been the pur- poss in sending the mavy of the al- les, large and powerful though it was against that narrow and strongly fortified channel, the results thus far ‘men, and women, too, who are misled by their thoughts and put into & sad plight by thetr. tonguss. - Silence: may confuse a foe when words would f utterly. . The owl is a wise bird be- cause he looks it—the parrot because he became aware he could talk too much. Silence may be the defence of the fgnorant, but it is also sald to be the way to hear the whispers of the gods. It was once said of a great gen- eral that he could hold his tongue in ten languages. He could never have been in danger of eating his own words. The man who has to must have a good digestion. The greatest preacher in nature is said to be the ant and it says nothin We have to control our ideas or they may make worse than slaves of us. 1deas of economy persistently enforced have brought about queer resuits. It is excessive prudence which produces the miser. A mania for saving has made of many monomaniacs. An Ens- lish titled lady felt so poor she did not take nourishment enough to sustain life, and while the evidence was that she starved to death, it is a matter of record that her estate exceeded two An English miser who would his clothes brushed because it took off the nap, or his shoes brushed because of the wear and tear, who never allowed himself but two meals a day, and but two hard boiled eggs at his best meal; who went with scant fire in winter and slept upon a plank, left to Queen Victoria a million and a half. What good is money to people who live in squalor to’hoard it, and who worship it and live in want for the remainder of their days? They just prove the saying: ‘“Money is a good servant, but a poor master.” A balancing rule in the affairs of life is this: “Make all the money you can, save all you can, and give all you ‘a quarantine which is not ouly an em- ‘Darrassment but a serious chock to certain lines of business. This means that the shipment of lumber, tele- phone and telegraph poles, -ties, nur- prove that it was'a mistake to have considered that it was a job for the navy alone. It quickly developed that the opposition that could be brought to Dear from the: forts and by the use of mines and tompedoes was too great for the warshims to overcome alone, and that land operations in connection can!” If no one thought they were sick until they had some manifest phyBical impairment the doctors wculd lose one-third of their patients and some of their best patrons. One of the ar- tistic practices of physicians is their sery stoc™: and similar products must inspection by a federal officlal they canibe sent out ofva quar- antined district. The spread of the pest has: steadily continued despite the fact that state “and federal opposition has been thrown “against it. It has progressed from one small section of New England Suntil it affects some portion at least of all the half dozen states and Connecticut has not as a state any great outlay in fighting it, come to the realization of the it ought not to be delayed longer. Whatever efforts have ‘made In the past should not be ‘because of this action. Rather it be increased for with that ‘work of the state and gov- combined can the best re- Be. obtalned -and - they certainly st.be secured any too soon, ROOT'S ECONOMY, state of New York appropri- the sum of $500,000 for its con- Stitutional convention. Elihu Root 'wais chosen president of that conven- tion and as might be expected he is being criticised for doing his utmost to keep the expenses of that import- ‘ant gatbering within the prescribed Hmit. i Ay “ It is a cass of having fault found Zbocause of what isn't done as well as ®or what is done, but the former Unfted States senator Is to be com- mended for the stand which he has faken. It §s to be noted, however, Jthat the complaint over the economy _program comes from the members of the convention who are disappointed over the fact that each member has not been provided with Mndtvidual sta- tionery, knick knacks of various kinds upon which considerable amounts oan "bs easily and uselessly expended and Yhecauss there is no provision made for tage, clerks and stenographers. In some of the avenucs whereby the large expenditures of such gather- ings are rolled up have beea elim- Mnated, ¢ In other words it would appear that 4t is to be a work convention instead ©of & general good time at the expense of the Empire state. Lesg attention given to the personal gain than what can be donme for the state, and it §s time that such.a policy was adopted. It is the business method of handling such a problem, and there =is mo reason to believe that the re- .Suits of the gathering will suffer in _the least therefrom. Wasteful expen- Lditure of money, when it concerns na- tion, state or city, has been going on b enough and President Root sets a “magnificent examwvle in cutting it “down. His economy is cause for praise, tmot criticism. Y - UNITED ACTION FOR HEALTH. ¥ The necessity of communities work- ¥ing together for the attainment of the results has been demonstrated 2nd again. Cooperation not only things, but it does them more and better then by action is not uniform and ineffective. can thus be appreciated that the “Bringing together of the representa- of the health departments of cities and towns of Massachusetts By the head of the reorganized state \ department means that an ini- move of much value has been ‘made, for the future activity concern- £ ealth conditions in that state. It # important that all sections of the state should work tcgether, ‘each city and town should know others are doing in the - of thelr many problems and (herewith were meeded. ~Nothirig pre- vented the Turks from bringing up reinforcements and more big guns to replace any which might be put out of business and they made the most of their opporfunities. _ The landing ‘of troops on both sides of the Dardanelles, to be covered by the guns of the fleet gives promise of different rasults. It means that the allles are golng at it in the right way to get results, though from the size of the forces the Turks possess an advantage. They have also had the benefit of the warning which was given by the attempt to make the navy do all the work and the time to bring up necessary field artillery to overcome the handicap under which the forts operate since their guns are trained upon the straits and are thus virtually unprotected at the back. The distribution of the armies along both sides of the straits shows: considera- tion for the fortifications which line both banks. From the campaign as now outlined the fall of that strategic point can be expected if such a thing is possible. EDITORIAL _NOTES. The Wweather man has an effective ay of cooling off the prophets of a warm summer. Something to worry about: Human hair exportations from China have decreased because of the war. It has proved that torpedoes right- ly placed have the same effect upon French as upon British warships. The man on the corner says: Pos-, sibly the dust that fills the air is that kicked up by the prosperity parade. It the reports are to be belleved there will be nothing left of either army operating around the Darda- nelles. Neither side in the war has express- ed any nervousness over the fact that Spain has decided not to enter the contest, Harvard’s tuition fee has been ad- vanced to secure needed income. An- other indication of the tendency of the times. e Austria has stopped its operations against Servia, but the latter coun- try has enough to handle with the typhits epidemic. A resumption of the trolley strike in Springfield is threatened, although it was supposed better judgment had gained control there. After the advice from the gradua- tion day platforms there ought mnot to be any further delay in adjusting Europe's difficulties. The season appears to be well ad- vanced in many respects, but when it comes to licensing the dogs it has been just as backward as ever. The superstitious have nothing to complain of at the Duke-Biddle wed- ding, since what would have been pews 13 and 23 were numbered 12B and 22B. The name of Culebra cut has been changed to Gaillard cut, in honor ef Col. Gaillard. Fortunate -would it be if they could get the slide out of the cut as easily. Japan is willing to yield a little in its demands of China. It has prob- ably asked enough so that it can let up on many of them and still get what it wants, or should have. skillful humoring of patients who think they are sick when the' doctors know there is nothing the matter with them that calls for drugs. A story is told of a titled English woman who could not get a night's sleep without a hypodermic injection. A wrong doctor who took her case while the regular physician was away injected a few drops of pure water nightly to quiet her nerves and she slept well. One night he forgot to call and ad minister the dose, and the next morn- ng he met a sieepless maniac who could not excuse his neglect of her. The young doctor ventured to tell her he had never given her a narcotic, simply pure water and in her rage she boxed his ears. This kind of a patient is always more or less dangerous: Doctors could never keep popular and prosperous by telling patients the truth—they must soothe them with words as well as with soothing syrup. They earn their fees. What do you admire in a good ser- mon? The beautiful periods' or the stimulating truths. Some people so adore scholarship and ability that they miss the point of good sermons. The only thing to cherish in any sermon is the truth which makes us see that we have been blind, and which prompts us to live in the new light better lives before our fellow men. The thing to love is the truth whether it hits us or mot, and the one to honor is the truth-teller. Beautiful language does not make a beautiful sermon. What the average man regards as eloquence is froth not power. The power of God lies in Divine precepts. Truth makes man free because it is a living force. ‘Many a so-called fine sermon is made up of mortal conclusions and well- dressed errors. The sermon that touches the heart is different from the polished discourse we read and ad- mire in books. The man who really makes his heart the sanctuary of the ‘Lord is a man of power. The Saviour did not call to his work the great and the pure—the true and drave were good enough for Him. No, William, I do not endorse Billy Sunday. All I endorse is his individ- ualism and his up-to-date figures of speech. 1 like the fire that is in him. He doesn't give thought enough to the counsel: “Judge mot lest ye be judged!” I wish his religion was so good to-him that he couldn’t find any mean language to abuse those who do not view religion as he does. No man can fathom the deserts of his neigh- bor, or-the judgments of God. Nobody is likely to be found with Lucifer be- cause Billy Sunday says he is or will be there. - Billy Sunday knows just as much about the future disposition of those he classes as wicked as he knows about the future of himself. Billy Sunday’s aims are right, but his judg- ments are open to question. = The sensationalism of the Saviour consist- ed of his calmness and self-possession and unfaltering example of faith under all circumstances; and this is where he was so different from other sen- sationalists. There is room for all with their eccentricites — their mis- takes may be pardoned. The demand for false legs, arms, and other parts of the human frame are in as much demand now as ammuni- tion, and although the factories are running night and day there is no dan- ger of‘an over supply. The great Eu- ropean war is making cripples faster than it le flling Tayes or making ho- roes. What differench. does it make who is maimed or killea when royal lesues are to be settled The greater liberty for men is not the aim, but greater power for tyrants. Contrast this selfish strife for power with the unselfish sacrifices of Christ for the supremacy of the holy epirit—of love. Is there any wonder the Turk taints Christians with slaying one another, and tells us Moslems never do! What a loss must the nations sustain in the hundreds of thousands dead—what an abiding_ burden in the millions im paired for life! Germany must have elbow room, Russia a seaport, England supremacy, poor Belgium the help she (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) 1t was Bulwer sald that that is points. We can understand meant” when ‘we stop to consider the wonderful amount permitted some mo: stanca Clever Ones have. ShougHL out es have out some device or aid which has meant untold saving of time and and labor for those who have All the e where. In other for someone's may | dasher, a atented plow, a planter or harvester, new style egg-beater, some twist in the barbed wire of the fence, an eco- nomical kind of mfi. a way of pre- serving pictures books or mag- azines or papers 6o as to increase their mission of uefulness and beauty, even a ;.d”fl"l:“m will make Dll?hbl; fnd ourishing some coarge on. of the grain or vegetable or m&ojln any case it spells the brains and thought and practical usefulness of some human. Measures of efficienc individuals and are as rent. Not alone in practical, that' is material affairs is efficiency shown, but in what we are pleased to call the lighter side of Hving. He is a highly efficient and worthy differ with deserves. May the American legs and arms and eyes not only carry a balm to the crippled, but a baptism of - thi 8spirit which recognizes the sovereignty of the individual and the right of men to rule themselves. If fewer women had nerves it is more than likely fewer men would have drunks, not because they bnlonfi in, pairs, but because diegust an despair must express themselves. The woman who weeps and the woman who nags, and the man who swears and the man who jags, have considerable to answer for. A woman who yields to nerves and the man who surrenders to the worst that fs in him, are both making havoc of life. They are both inviting adversity for themselves and their progeny—they are exposing themselves to the very perils all who live well-ordered lives shun. Perhaps they are well-matched, for an hyste: ical woman has no sense, and a drunk cannot see the use of having any. They are poor-afflicted creatures you say. Verily, poor because of their folly, and afflicted by their own miserable habits. The world likes a woman who fights better than the woman who faint: and the man who strugies to overcome the burdens which stagger him instead of crooking his elbow with Despair. Womanhood and manhood call for true conceptions of life and loyalty to the best standards. Sunday Morning Talk SPRING DAYS, I doubt whether even the sourest pessimist wholly misses the appeal of spring. There is a charm about this season that none can escape. The veriest clodhopper hecomes something of a poet and sends in sonnets to the editor. Who can blame him? If au- tumn stands for thoughtful melan- choly, spring stands for exuberance and hope and cheer. That man may be still alive but he is at least getting ready for the undertaker who can gaze unmoved on the faint green film flung like a veil over the tops of trees, on the delicate coloring of woodland flow- ers, on the fields growing vivid in the sunlight. The words of Lowell in his “Vision of Sir Launfal” are so beautiful and so true, withal, of May as well as June that today they must be quoted, Now is the high-tide of the year And whatever of life hath ebbed away Comes flooding back with a ripply cheer Into P every, bare inlet and creek and y: . Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now becausc God wills r No matter how barren the past may have been, "Tis enough for us now that the leaves are green ‘We sit in the warm shade and feel right well How the sap creeps up and the blos- soms swell; ‘We may shut our eyes but We cannot help knowing That skies are clear and .grass growing; Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how; Everything is happy now, Everything is upward striving; 'Tis as easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue— 'Tis the natural way of living. This yearly renewal of life cannot be lost on anyone of thoughtful mind. There is more to be observed .than swelling buds and freshening land- scapes To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms She speaks a various language. She speaks of power. Who can view all this order and design without con- viction of a mighty Worker behind it? Who can observe all his evidence of thought without conceding the presence of a Supreme Thinker? The common- est phenomena of nature are wrapped in mystery. Study a single leat or a single blade of grass. How can earth and air and water combine to produce this wondrous thing? The science of the world can only hint at the answer. Nature in the springtime speaks of spiritual renewal. That, which goes on in the world natural is 3 parable of what goes on in the souls of men. A few weeks ago the earth was frost- bound. The fields how bursting into bloom were hard and barren. The warnx breath of spring is the miracle worker. And not .otherwise the breath of God’s spirit wakes to new life the hearts dead in trespasses and sins. It is the old yet ever pew miracle of grace that helps us to belleve that things are not always as bad as they seem and that there is a better day coming for ourselves and for the world. As a prophecy of nmethinf vet to be spring speaks of immortality.” Tt is a time, not t fulfilment, but of im- Not yet do we see the of grain, nor the red The coming har- adowed. - Is It mot human careers. e the sons of God, mense promi fe. golden " sheavs applesc on the vest is only for 80 @as regards “Beloved now are and it doth not ;'@ appear what we shall be” Our '|present . state. is prophetic. We are :figde for something better than is nowj@pparent. These years are the spring We come to perfect age in the experien lies. beyond, of a world that PARSON. battle in the defence of right or the heart saddened by the evryday cares |of life, manifests one of the highest forms of eficlency. His, if we mi believe Longfellow, is a divine mis. God sends His singers upon earth, With songs of eadness or of mirth. He gives a varying gift to each— To charm, to strengthen, or to teach. The world acknowledges the mar- velous efficiency of the printed page: in the book, the pamphlet or the per- lodical or the daily paper. The word goes forth - concerning mse action, achievement, discovery, accident, abuse, local, national or jn- ternational, and like wildfire jts influ- ence spreads, until within a few hours it is the topic on every tongue. If the news has been told in terse, telling, effective—In another word in an effici- ent way, it has worked the miracle of moulding all men's minds to one line of thinking, almost miraculously. It is only of late years that efficiency has been brought ‘into prominence as a potent factor and a valuable asset in ‘business life, although of course the man or woman of ability has been ever recognized as a leader. Now the Efficiency Expert is en- trusted with many odd and strange commissions. For instance, only yes- terday the papers stated that, in Lon- don, an efficiency expert had been as- signed to special duty at the front, studying poesible economies in equip- ment and supplies. Already he has reported to the government that there are endless opportunities for prevent- ing waste. He claims that theseop- pgrtunities would be fully as proft able to the sum total of production as a ten or twenty per cent, speed- ing-up of the overworked factory hands in Manchester or Liverpool. As a result of his inevtigations and the check which he hopes to put upon the waste which seems synonymous with war, it is expected to save untold millions,_fo the nation. o While the English efficiency expert is’ thus trying to save for his nation, across the channel in France another kind of efficiency is making an ef- fort for national profit. There the industrial experts are combatting the manufacturing inefficiency which re- sults from drink. One of these experts, Prof. Joseph Beinach, has published a program of the average daily labor of a dock workman in ‘a typical Freggh port, demonstrating, what many #ndustrial experts have long urged, that exces- sive drinking among the manufactur- ing populace in France is chargeable with a heavy toll of inefficiency. Bverything is working toward an anti- jdrink crusade such as that which is gaining ground in England. As:a matter of course, every person cannot be an efficiency ‘expert in the wide scnee of these English and French authoritles; but each one can Dbe animated by the highest ideals of efficiency in his own little sphere. Milton tells us of the heavenly host, ,“They also serve who only stand and wait’ Again we are told, Who sweeps a floor as for Thy laws Makes that and the action fine. ‘We have heard much of late about the favorite hymn stng at the Billy Sunday meetings, righten The Corner Where You Are.” When it is .,‘ StoriuoffluWAr_l every pest of the potato bugs will have its inning this year. THE CLOUD DIGGER. April 30, 1515, Devastation of Eastern Prussia. The devastation and destruction that have been visited upon all of eastern East Prussia cannot be more striking- ly appreciated than by & trip from this little town to Crajevo, a few miles standpoint of population, customs, and the general appearance of the country. From Lyck to the border every house, without exception it is said, has been rified and partly or entirely torn down. The broad, well-paved road is practically lined with the rem- ants of substantial buildings that in some cases, particularly in the border town of Prosiken were once attractive, Along the road, as along virtually every road of its kind in Germany are shade trees—except where they have been cut down to allow of ar- tillery fire. They are so universal that one gefs used to them quite uncon- sclously, and immediately feels the lack when they disappear. The peasants, largely of the Polish type, appear to be self-respecting and pleasant. They greet the casual passerby much as the farmer in Amer- ica says how do you do,to the stranger along the road, but with the same tinge of equality in the greeting. The once pleasant and prosperous country-side from Lyck to the border has been turned into a desert waste. In_viliage after village there stand only the firm, substantlal chimneys that even fire will not level to the ground. Almost without exception the remnants of the houses are of brick. Then one comes to the line and al- i 1‘1 U 194 Main Street, provisation and remarkable initiative soon enabled them to do better than their teachers—with their teachers® tools—otherwise the “rupture of Saint Bkl would be Sodey WAL 1t WeE in September. General R- , & specialist in the engineering arm of the service, was entrusted by Joftre with the work of ferreting the Germans out of their burrows into the Woeuvre. His task is not finished but it is so well begun that the Germans at Saint Mihlel are somewhat in the position of the man who had the bear by the tall; they can’t let go without grave danger of being captured, especially since the taking of Les Eparges gives the French possession of the heights that com- mand the plslus to the east inside the ongle, In ‘the Woeuvre not far from the point of the angle, Gene: organized a school of sapping and mining, where men at rest were exer- cised in the construction and destruc- tion of underground fortifications. There he had reconstituted for their WAIST SALE | 19¢c From9a.m.to 1 p. m. R ——— ol Wauregan Block - October, However, it is only entire- Iy free rom ice during the months of July ana August, sithough, in the average year, it is free for navigating purposes for a period some weeks longer. The city lies on the Dvina River, 26 miles from the White Sea.| It is 740 miles northeast of St. Peters. burg, and is connected with the dis-’ tributing centers of the interior by railway and canal. “Not only is Archangel interesting as a city in the extreme Far North, but it is etill more interesting as one of the most ancient cities built upon. the fringe of eternal arctic white- niess. Before the year 900, the Norses men came here and tradell. They laid the foundations of the present city, a city that has grown slowly but aimost without . halt, in peace by its isolated position in the North. The city has achieved its present-day im- portance as an outlet for the products Of the far northern and western parts of _the Russian Bmpire. “During its short season for navi- sation, Archangel is the busiest potnt in all the North. Between 500 and most in the time it takes to close one’s eyes and open them again the scene changes so materially that one might be a hundred miles away. First of all the devastation has ceased. Not a house has been levelled and not a building damaged. But in their very character the houses pro- claim the marked contrast. The brick has given way to thatched huts, low, benefit an exact model of the best specimen ug, German intrenchment. “You must {mprove on this” he told them. “And, above all” he added, “you must know how to make it useless.” A veritable museum of underground warfare developed from this school and it was visited by officers from all sections of the battle front. It has now been abandoned because General 1,000 vessels call here through tne ‘brief season. The total value of im- ports and exports amounts to about $5,000,000, and, this year under war conditions, should amount to much more. The echief-articles of trafiic in peace times are fish, skins, furs, tim- ber, wax, iron, taliow, bristles and caviar. > one-story affairs that fairly reek with filth and grime. In the doorways stood, as an Asso- ciated Press correspondent made the trip recently, smirking, grovelling peasants, who bowed almost to the ground again and again, as long as the automoblle was in ' sight. They showed the same servility to the mili- tary everywhere in command of the situation, and were quite oblivious of the scornful reception of their abject salutations, As quickly as the character of the houses had changed, so had the trees vanished, and for thousands of yards stretched a bare, black road, cosd and treacherous over which the automo- biles made their way with difficulty. Lyck, Maggrabova and other little towns on the German side of the border but near the Russian line had R- and his ferreting troops have narrowed the wedge and left behind them line after line of German trenches, most of them biown up_ be- fore . being tured. Now on both sides of the 'angle they are finding trenches elready made for them. All they have to do is to repair the blown up sectiops and throw the benk of dirt from their side to that of the and in front of the battle front, and between the many lines of trenches that have hashed the land- scape of the Woeuvre, little mounds, most of them surmounted by crosses, show how dearly each gain was bought and how desperately opposed. In many places they are so thick as to assume the importance of & town graveyard. In the Mont-Mare Woods, where the Germans resisted the slow French advance most vigorously, every OTHER VIEW POINTS Post office department efficiency Is again brought to the attention of this city by the discovery that boxes order- ed for local use nearly a year ago have not yet been delivered. is it pos- sible that they have been sent to ths dead letter office or to the war zona for the use of men In the trenches. Waterbury Republican. ‘When it is remembered that 25 per cent. of the deaths registered in Con- necticut are of children under five, tho importance of taking steps to conservo ch:1d life may readily be realized. The left much to be desired in the way of cleanliness and general attractiveness, but as compared to Grajevo, when it finally was reached, they were models of beauty and sanitation. The nearest approach to similarity was the inevitable market square, al- most as big In size as all the rest of the town together. But in place of the familiar prick buildings, often of handsome construction, there lined the market nothing more pretentious than foot of ground has seen bloodshed. Tnder a continual storm of shot and shell for seven months, the forest presents a fantastic aspect. The trees seem to have been hacked with & sort of delirious rags. The destruction is everywhere, but not uniform. Many tree trunks are split as by a stroke of lighting, some have been plerced through and through by shells. In laces the tree tops look as if they ad suffered from a cyclone that didn't plan evclved by Miss Julia C. Lathrop, chief of the children's bureau, for ,1o- moting child welfare by commencing with a study of the conditions against which infants so frequently battle for lie, is of the most practical and con- structive nature. A thorough un-er- standing of the causes of excessiva in- fant mortalily is the first step to vard eliminating them.—Bridgeport Stand- said by an employer of his workman, dirty hovels. 1 never have to watch Blank—I am sure he will never slight anything!" when a farmer says about his hired man, “John takes as much interest in raising good crops as I do myself!” ‘when the housemother remarks, “Jane has been with us so long that she is one of the family! She wouldn't waste a grain of salt!” they are speaking of efficiency experts, just as truly as are ‘we who refer to the great English and French leaders who are working for the betterment of their nations. For back of all efficiency is con- science—the desire to do one’s best; to work with a jealous care for the interests of one’s employer even more than for one’s own. And such conscientious work is cer- tain to be recognized in the long run— and not always in Heaven alone, which most of us expect to have to reach before receiving our crown! No person, be his state ever so lowly, need’ feel discouraged in _the present age of the world. For there never was a time when there was such a demand for ideas—something new, something which nobody else has thought of, or-which he has failed to carry to success because he has not quite attained the real finishing touch which it needed. Invention, Science, Literature, Art, Industry, are simply crying out, ap- pealing, for some new idea. Often the possessor of such fails to make his ideas paying and profitable because he is unwilling to work them to the pitch which renders him an efficiency ex- pert; or he is disconcerted by ridi- cule, or discouraged by failure. Of- ten the one who originates an idea has not the money to push it to success; but in these days, when promoters are willing to take any chance which seems to promise ultimate success, a new idea need not wait long for sub- stantial backing. THE DICTAGRAPH. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR What May Has in Store. Mr. Editor: In response to more than & hundred kind letters from Bul- letin readers I wish to say, mo, the Cloud Digger is not dead; neither is he sleeping, and after a record .of nearly a quarter of a century in weather predictions equalled by no one in Southern New England for ac- curacy, has not gone out of business. Am still at the old stand. One or two correspondents like the person who signed “Bulletin Reader,” appear to think it a crime to make a mistake as I did_in March weather. If that same Bulletin reader had been as careful to read the weather predictions printed in The Bulletin day by day from the New York Her- ald, greatest weather bureau in the world, and also the U. S. paid bureau he would have found that they made just as big mistakes as I and did it from day to day, whereas I game him @ month to study on. My April predictions I haven't heard much kicking about as the Cloud Dig- ger was the only one that gave the snow storm for Easter. Now as to May weather. May is to be entirely different from April. Cold, disagreea- The desperateness with which the Russians had combatted the Germans for every foot of the territory was plainly evident in rows upon rows of trenches, always when possible built at the top of rising ground, covered over with evergreen or other branches and made with cunningly constructed loop- holes. Rarely one saw a trench facing the other wav—one that the Germans had had time to build hastily in the night. For the most part the advance had been possible only by storming each separate height and by driving the Russians out of their strongholds. Operations Around St, Mihiel. “The rupture of Saint Mihiel” is the soldier’s characterization of the wedge, at an angle of about 45 degrees, that the Germans have held in the French line since September. It is in the Woeuvre and it's point rests at Saint Mihie! upon the lower extremity of the Heights of the Meuse. Near the point are the Bois Brule the Bols d'Allly and the suburb of Chauvoncourt, all of which have had their days of glory in the war. Along the lower angle about 20 miles long which runs toward Pont- a-Mousson are the Bois de Mort Mare, the Bois le Pretre and Flirey. The upper part of the angle about the same length ran west of Les Eparges until the recent engagements there that made the French masters of the eastern extremity of the Heights of the Meuse. From Les Eparges it runs northeast and rejoins the broken bat- tle line near Etain. This position was particularly strong for the Germans as it had the frontier of Mets directly at its back. In fact it may be imagin- ed to represent the head of an im- /mense arrow that Metz launched with all its might at Verdun, and _which glancing off from the greatest French fortress, lodged in the Heights of the Meuse at Saint Mihiel. All round it there has been heavy fighting since the first German advance and at Troyon. Dieulouard and the Saint German Hill some of the bloodlest work of the war. It was the Crown Prince's army in its attempt to get at Verdun that & dented the French line there by a mighty rush while its artillery was demolishing the interval fort of Troyon. It required 80.000 men to hold it and a simple glance at the map, and a ref- erence to the communiques shows what the French are trying to do to it. At Les FEparges and toward Etain on one side of the angle, and in the Mort Mare Woods and Le Pretre Woods on the other, are gradual- ly closing in and ing the angle sharper. This work is slow and cost- 1y to both sides. Nowhere on the bat- tle front has the art of-digsing in and the art of digging out been more high- Iy developed. The German earthworks here were first-class underground fort- ifications and from them the French learned what they had to do. Weeks of sapping and mining from both di- rections at the same time were re- quired to get at these subterranean fortresses. The question was generally which would get there first; sometimes they met in their burrowing, like wood- chucks come together by chance. If the Germans were masterd in this sort of warfare at the outset, the French were apt pupils. Thelr facility af im- reach quite to the earth; in others careless pruners seem to have left un- finished a job badly begun. Every- where the grown is strewn with the awful debris of war. It is in the trees also, hanging on jagged, broken branches in the form of legs, arms, other parts of human bodies, haver. sacks, blankets, torn, ed and hurled through the air by the high ex- plosives of the French 3-inch shells. THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Soclety Enos—Telling of Enos, where the Allies recently landed troops to co- operate with their fleet in_connection with their atack upon the Dardanelles, the National Geographic Society saye “The rocky ridge of Enos is a bock- door way to the ancient city on the Golden Horn. It lies about 155 miles west of Constantinople, upon the Gulf of Enos, in the northeast Aegean Sea. Thirty miles away is the northern shore of the Gallipoli peninsula, around which the Allied flcet has | been conducting operations for months. "Enol.nfndtnlflmnt, built on a rock ledge, and surrounded by broad marshes, becomes of unusual interest to the world in its new character as o base of land operations against the physical heart of the Ottoman Em- pire. The respectable antiquity of the town is attested by mention in Hom- er's Illiad. Formerly, Enos was a trad- ing port of some importance, but it has lately Jost much of its export to the adjacent seaport of Dedeagatch. The city’s harbor is roomy and well- formed, but so neglected that it is too shallow for the larger sea-going ves- sels. Its export which it retains today is due to its position on the Maritza River, the great water highway from ‘Adrianople, 80 miles inland, to the sea. “The population of Enos is largely Greok seatarers, commission. dealers, and merchants. It numbered in 1905 about 8,000. Its climate is supposed to be very unhealthy, malaria and swamp-damp being as great obstacles to the city's commercial growth as the drifting sand bars that have filled its harbor. The first part of the way from Enos towara Constantinople is through a level country, but the brok- en, mountainous reglons begin long before the Bosphorous is reached.” “Archangel, the oldest port of the Russian Empire, in a few weeks more will awaken to vita] war importance; for, when the arctic ice clears from the White Sea, Russia will be able to communicate with her allies through a free Western port and to receive much needed war supplies and other manufactures over a route thousands of miles shorter than that via Viadi- vostock. Archangel is situated at the head of the Dvina delta, as far north as the northernmost shores of Hud- son Bay. It is the largest and most important city in the world placed so near the Arctic Circle. “The harbor of Axchangel is optim- istically said to be open from May to The new law states flatly that stand- ing trolley cars shall not be passed while in the act of discharging pas- sengers, until after the motor vehicle shall have come to a full stop, not less than ten feet away from the trolley car. The trolley car may be passed when it has resumed motion, or when the street is “reasonably clear.” This is a big improvement to the automobile law ané will clarify the situation by making the law uniform. AutomoXile: ought to stop behind trolley cars dis- chargirg passengers, and the state law ought to say so distinctly, so that thers can be no question about it—Bridge- port Telegram. ‘While Connecticut is_earning mil- lions of dollars by manufacturing arm- aments. it cannot be expected to rum its legs oft for the cause of “limited armaments.” It may even be excused if it watches through different gosgles than usual the proceedings of a meet- ing in progress in Boston today, waich has for its slogen: “Cripple war by evibing its creator—armament.” The league back of this movement is not primarily organized to throttle indus- try, it is claimed, or does the fact that it has acquired branches in numer- ous cities of the United States make it appear either very formidablo or very premising.—Hartford Times. ‘There will be a fight. The people of the state of Conecticut will call the members of both houses to answer for the unopposed passage of a Diil which is the most rankly disregardful of the principles of economy of any- thing that has been done at Hartford this year. We can't have a farm for inebriates, because we haven't the money. We can’t properly care for our insane, because we haven't the money. We can't advance the life- saving work of anti-tuberculosis as we ought, because we haven't the money. But we can employ seven hungry lawyers at $5,000 per on the Job of revising the statutes, whether we have the money or not. There gught to be & fight—New Haven Res- ister. One ran have an overdose of even such an interesting thing as party se- crets and party skeletons. The way they are d ng them forth at Al- bany orne might imagine that thers wili soon be a shortage in the market for articulated bones and dirty linen. And the worst of it all is that most of the secrets that are being brought forth are mo_secrets at all. We knew all of the substantial facts before both as to Barnes and Roosevelt. It has been commorplace for long that the doughty colonel hobnobbed with the boszes and llked the sensation when he was young in politics. "It has'been long known that, when he got into hiz stride, he was considerable in the ros3 line himself, always of course for pure- ly altruistic purposes. The public tires of the rehearsing of ancient scandal- Ansoris Sentinel. Children Cry FOR FLETGHER'S CASTORIA