Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 7, 1915, Page 4

119 YEARS OLD Bubscription price 13c & weecks Géora | POUnds went out of the country a year £$6.00 a year, % Entered at the Postoffice at Norwlen, | 2 Much but they jumped from 12, —;} E-. as second-class matter. Telepmone Calls: b—m Business Office 450, Bulietin Editorial Roo! Bulletin Job Sullding. Telephone 310. The Circulation of The Bulletin h. ern Connect any in Norwich. three per cent. of the people. 800 houses, in Putnam all of these pla ered the local daily. nine towns, town -- - on all of the R. routes in Eastern Connectizut. CIRCULATION 1901, -average .....civeev. 1905, average . May 1.. CLEAN-UP WEEK, | The announcement which has been made that Norwich is to have a clean- p week, the last week in M: wail in every community. There are plenty of yards, remaining unbroken, it ter time than the spring. many of the health menaces tauses cf needless fires. The clean-up movement is one in avhich there should be a general par- Evervone should put his ghoulder to the wheel and help in the It doesn’t mean 8 period for cleaning up a yard and Aumping the debris over the fence onto 2 neishbor or carting it across a high- way to decorate an otherwise unoc- cupied Iot, but it should be in reality 2 thorough cleaning up in which the city can be expected to cooperate, not only in getting the streets in condition and oiled, but in carting off the rubbish The ef- fort to improve the appearance of the city should meet with a generous re- cleaned up thare should be a persistent endeavor to A little thought and attention can accomplish a great deal ticipation. commendable cause. to proper dumping grounds. sponse and once keep it clean. In this direction, "GOVERNMENT NOT GUILTY. sovernment. set forth its position in regard to the sale of firearms to belligerents, and in madition there has been much printed Tor the purpose of clearing up any mis- That there cannot be too much publicity in this regard is evidenced by the ques- tion which was asked of Sir Edward in the British house of com- mons when one of the members de- sired to know if The Hague conven- tion, wherein reference is made to the = sale of arms, was being violated by the government of the United States. It is to be supposed that the ques- tion was prompted by the amount of agitation which has been started in the endeavor to get this country to declare an embargo on the exportation In this connec- tion it is easy to give the impression} that this country is selling firearms Several times has this understanding in that regard. Gray of munitions of war. to the countries at war, As 2 matter of fact, however, this is This country has been carefully following the requirements of international law and it intends to continue to do so. The reply of the British foreign sec- retary left no question for doubt as This country Is not sell- ing arms to the allies despite the fre- quency with which that statement is not so and never has been. to this fact. made. Business houses of this country, with swhich the government is in no way connected, have the right to sell fire- one of the It is not a violation but a practice recognized as perfectly proper and which others have alwavs followed. These transacticns, however, are open to all who can take the goods away end tn no way can be looked upon arms to each and every countries at war. of international law, As an act of the government. HELPED BY THE WAR, Many more t! past, are large, cspecially year at this time. From these it is indicated that the raisers of beef and the packers are getling their ghare. During the month of March this year there were ex-|Rockefeller lald the foundation for his ported 6,920,000 pounds of canned beet | fortune is being razed, and as far as against shipments of 39,400 pounds a|known it is being accomplished with- ‘There were 3,421,078 pounds | out the aid of the federal industrial et sent 15&4::- coun- ! relations commisaton. = b ¥~ e o - SR -a. &5 fice 35-2, AVIllimantlc Office, Room % Murray | Norwich, Friday, May 7, 1915. the Targest ‘eireulation of any paper in East- ut and from three to four times larger than that of It is delivered o over 3,000 of the 4,053 houses in Norwich, and read by ninety- Windham it is delvered to over and Danielson to over 1,100 and in it Is consid- Eastern Connecticut has forty- one hundred and sixty-five poctoffice districts, and sixtv rural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold in every F. D. 4412 --5,920 - 9,167 is one %o be welcomed throughout the city. It is in accordance with action which has been taken in past vears and it 38 in response to the needs which pre- alley- ‘ways, back lots and places where rub- bish has been allowed to accumulate which ought to receive attention. The fact is that they never ought to be allowed to get into any such condition, but the habit having been formed and is desirable that there should be a cleaning up at Jeast once a vear and there is no bet- It is the time of the year to get things start- ®d right, to put the city in the pink of condition and to eliminate thereby and certain lines of in- Gustry which cater to the munitions of war market are feeling the benefits from the war. The demands from mcroes the water, and from those coun- = tries which Europe has supplied in the for food- stuffs. This is well indicated by the export figures in comparison with last try in March in comparison with the total of 1,703,203 pounds in March, 1914. These show large gains, but not so great as do the figures for the fresh beef exports which reached the large total of 15,334,330 pounds last March against the puny 506,722 pounds 8, year ago. What is true of beef is also true of pork. Bacon exports in March amount- ed to 66,820,000, where only 13,606,000 ago. Hams and shoulders didn’t gain 211,485 last year to 25,843,673 this year in March. This all means much of importance to a certain section of the country 2nd when those cattle and hog raisers, like the growers of wheat, say that they did not know that prosperity had Been away, they have reason to think that their good fortune is one of the results of the devastating European war. We were found with the goods and are reaping the benefit. ANOTHER WIRELESS ACHIEVE- MENT. Though for the present it will be used solely for government purposes it is impossible to overlook the im- portance which is attached to the an- nouncement that the experiments ich have been made in behalf of direct wireless communications be- tween the station at Arlington and that at Darlen in the Canal Zone have resulted in success. The Canal Zone is a locality: with which Washington has need-of being in close touch. It is vitally concerned in the investment which has been made there and most certainly will be hence- forth in its development. Many ques- tions are likely to arise on which ‘Washington will have to pass and no greater advantage could be secured than such a means of quick transpor- tation of messages. The recognition of this has resulted in the setting up of a powerful radio station under the firm belief that de- spite the intervening mountain ranges communication through the air would be not only possible, but entirely prac- tical. The attainment is therefore the cause for great satisfaction. It has gous beyond the experimental stage even as many other tests made with wireless have. Even though the Canal Zone is look- ed upon as a commercial enterprise it is also to be remembered that it is a point of vital strategic importance the defense of which this country has already anticipated and for which it has already made extensive prepara- tions The necessity of overcoming the isolation could not be overlooked and the wireless gives an added and most valuable protection. It is an- other wireless victory. AGAINST WALSH. The report from Washington to the effect that “the White House is not in sympathy with the publicity meth- ods” of the industrial relations com- mission should cause no surprise. In view of the manner in which Chair- man Walsh has been making public addresses relative to the matters which have been before it and about witnesses who have been called to tes- tify, the president would have been justified in stopping such methods some time ago. It was plainly not the purpose for which the commission was created, but regardless of the object for which it is working, the endeavor of the head thereof to render a public chastise- ment and become engaged in public controversies with those who are un- der investigation deserves only con- demnation. Whether or not the pres- ident has contemplated asking for the resignation of Chairman Walsh, who, it is declared, has split the commis- sion and promises to make useless the work of the body is only a mat- ter of rumor, but there can be no question but what he has good cause for so doina. Such would not be because he has singled out the elder or the vounger Rockefeller for his attacks, for he has as much right to select them as any- one else, but because of the usurpation of his authority as the head of the commission to attempt to do what ‘belongs to those to whom the commis- sion’s report Is to be made. As an investigator his work should be con- fined thereto and whatever comment or suggestions he has to make con- cerning their testimony and deserts should be embodied in the report. It will be well if the White House atti- tude holds him to it. EDITORIAL NOTES, Italy supports the idea of looking at both sides of a question thorough- 1y. ‘Wherever Ttaly may be, there ¢an be no such opinion held in regard to Japan. ‘ The man on the corner says: Jonah was the first to prove that it is im- possible to keep a good man down. Seeking enlightenment by exploring a gasolene tank with a lighted match usually results in a person getting his eyes ciosed. It is not always possible to judge 2 motor boat by the noise it makes, but some of the speedy ones make the greatest racket. When the highwaymen turn their attention to the robbing of the jitney drivers it would seem to be an indi- cation of where the money is. The German embassy is warning travelers of the dangers on the ocean steamships. Ardently anxious of course that they should see America first, This government objects to sending the Frye case before a German prize court. It would be more fitting for Germany to ask the bill collector to call. A New York jury has fixed the price of a weman’s hair at $20,000. That of course was the real thing and not the oft-encountered second hand ar- ticle. Great Britain explains its retreat near Ypres as the straightening out of its line. From the advance of the Germans they might say the same thing, The governor of Tennessee has ve- toed a bill for the abolishment of cap- ital punishment. There is enough mob violence in the south without invit- ing more. house in Cleveland where The New Haven, May 6.—Announcement was made Tu: morning that the permanent officers of Yale college, with the approval of the prudential com- mittee of the Yale corporation, have voted to make certain changes in chapelervice exercises beginning with the next college year. Some of thesa changes were made imperative by the inadequate accommodations of Battell chapel, which seats about 1100 per- sons while over 1,500 academic stu- dents, the largest in the history of the college, are expected next year. The daily prayer service for the academic students will be continued ag at pres- ent, except that the freshmen will meét separately in Lampson Lyceum. On Sunday, in place .of the single preaching service now held at_10.30, there will be two services in Battell chapel, a brief college prayer service at 10 o'clock, and & university preach- ing service at 11. ~ Attendance at the former will be required of all academic students, but for the exception of those men living with their families, those students who are required to at- tend church resularly, elsewhere; and these men of satisfactory record who may express their intention of _at- tending the second service and have seats assigned to them. Under the new plan it is expected that there will be sufficient accommodations at the uriversity preaching service for the students in all schools of the univer- sity who may wish to attend. Inasmuch as the mass meeting held last week to take actlon on the pro- posed changes in the athletic associa- tion constitution resulted in the de- feat of the new regulations with the stipulations as to the cholce of as- sistant manager between the college and Sheff, a second meeting was held Friday to take action as regards the new constitution with the omission of the clause which pertained to the change in the managerial system of the association. This meeting was well attended, and the proposed changes were accepted with very little opposition. The most significant of the changes was that there should be seven graduate members of the as- =ociation instead of five. ‘The old constitution contained no require- ments for the eligibility of a member of the university crew squad to vote for captain. Though for some time it has been an unwritten law that only men who have rowed in the uni- versity boat against Harvard were en- titled to a vote for the captaincy it has been carefully inserted in the con- stitution which was adopted last Fri- day evening. . Among other business at the athletic association meeting held on last Mon- day evening, the assoclation voted that the university “Y” be awarded to se- niors rowing on the second university crew, and to men who have rowed for two years on the second cdew. This ac- tion of the association is to be retroac- tive on last vear's second eight. Un- doubtedly this action was largely the result of the substitution of the sec- ond eight oared race for the: four oared, and thus lessening the number of men who could win their “Y” in crew. In order to raise sufficient funds to satisfactorily complete the missionary work of the organization, the Shef- field Christian association started on a twenty-four hour campaign on Mon- day evening to solicit $600. Collectors were assigned to the various soclety houses and dormitories. A thorough canvass was made of all of the Shefr. students with the result that on Tues- day evening when the collectors re- ported it was found that nearly $700 Fad been pledged for the work of the association. The campaign was brought to a close by a meeting in Byers hall, the headquarters of the association, at which meeting a nur- ber of the instructors in the Sheffic Scientific school addressed the stu- dents gathered there. The work of the association together. with loyal support of the undergraduates was highly commended by the members of the faculty. The meeting was suc- cessfully brought to a close by a so- cial hour followed by the annual elec- tion of the officers for the coming year. BULLETIN'S SPECIAL YALE LETTER| FRECKLES Change in Chapel Service to be Effective Next College Year— Y to be Awarded Members of Second Varsity Crew— Complete List of Phi Beta Kappa Members—Studying Social Conditions in New York. Kappa honorary society has recently issued a new volume which contains the names of all the members of the Yale chapter since its founding in 1780. It also contains a list of the honorary members, a_revised print of the constitution, and the names of the chapters in the various colleges. A special feature of the book is a complete geographical index of the living members. The statistics pub- lished in the catalogue show that since the chapter was founded in No- vember, 1780, a total of 3,778 under- graduates from the Yale chapter have Won the key. There have also been 48 honorary members not graduates of Yale college. There are at present 1,- 549 living members, including those recently initlated from the class of 1916. It is a decade since the last catalogue was issued. The society is the oldest and the most honored in the college. The admission standard was recently raised in order to establish a higher standard in the society. Hith- erto members have been elected in the junior year. Under the new ruling no one will be admitted until the be- ginning of the senior year, when the sixteen men who have = the highest standing for the three years will be elected. To be chosen in this first sixteen is one of the highest honors a_ Yale student can attain. At the end of the senior year, these sixteen members may elect from their class, in order of standing, enough members to bring the total to ten per cent. of the class. In no case will the total membership exceed this number. At the Brayton Ives sale in New York last week Alexander S. Cochran, Yale, '96 bought for the presentation to the Elizabethan club the first edition of the first English translation of the Essays of Mantaigne, published in London in 1603, The translation was made by John Florio, who is supposed to be connected with the Tempest, for Shakespeare used this translation of Montaigne for the speech of Gonzalo describing his ideal commonweatith. The Club copy has two extra leaves not contained in any of the three coples in the British Museuni; and an inlaid portrait of Florio, by Willlam Hole ,engraved in 1611. The copy was formerly owned by the Rev. Dr, Peter Gunning, and later by Robert Hoe, at whose sale in April, 1911, it was pur- chased for $605. It was bought by Mr. Cochran last week for $700. The Club Florio is of unique interest be- cause it was Queen Ellzabeth's own copy, authenticated by the heraldic stamps impressed in the center of both sides of the original calf binding. The Club already possessed Elizabeth's copy of Philemon Holland's transla- tion of Livy, published in 1600. On last Saturday a party of univer- sity men interested in industrial work under the direction A. DeWitt of the Sheffield Christiafl association vis- ited lower New York to study the so- cial condition there. In the morning the living apd industrial conditons were studied at Ellls Island. In the afternoon the party inspected the rest rooms of the National Suit and Cloak company and other industrial house: Dinner was taken at one of the Mills hotels. These hotels were founded in order to afford the poorer classes the comforts of larger insti- tutions at a minimum charge. In the evening Chinatown and some of the missions of that section were visited. ‘The: industrial trips have been pop- ular in the last few years in that they usually form a part of the courses in social problems given by professors who have had extensive experience along these specific lines. A few Yale students have availed themselves of the opportunity offered by the Bureau of Appointments to en- ter the volunteer service of the Ameri- can Ambulance hospital in Paris for the coming summer. The service is entirely volunteer, and the men who enter these will be employed as chauffeurs. The men who enter this service will gain considerable ex- perience and at the same time become a factok of the great help in .the re- lief work which the United States is carrying on abroad during the European war. At present there are over sixty volunteer chauffeurs, the The Yale chapter of the Phi Beta majority of whom are college grad- uates, three being from Yale. Fight Near Suez.Canal. There were two steamers bound from England to India which passed through the Suez Canal while the attack by the Turkish troops was actually in progress. Qne of these carried a con- siderable number of passengers, who were privileged to get a more com- plete panoramic view of a big battle- field than has probably been the good fortune of non-military observers in any other fleld of action. They not only saw fragments of the repulsed Turks at Kintara, but also the advance of British troops into the desert in their wide flanking movement further down the canal. A letter from one of these passengers says in part: “A few minutes after we left Port Said a notice was sent around that passengers were to keep to the port decks, as Turkish snipers were at work on the north side of the canal, “For the first ten miles all the low- lying land had been flooded, but from there onward we commenced to see troops entrenched. Every tenth mile was a camp, and about every hundred yards between were small trenches containing about a dozen Indians. Further up the troops were mostly New Zealanders and Australians, “About the thirtieth mile we passed the Indian marine cruiser Hardinge, and here was our first evidence of there having been a fight, for her funnel was gone all the way down one side, and the other side was riddled with bullets and her bridge gone. Of course ships in the canal pass within a few feet of each other, 5o we could see everything. Her captain and pilot, who were on the bridge at the time, were killed, and about sixteen others were wounded. “From this time on we passed sev- eral warships, and troops were on both sides of the canal. We amused ourselves by throwing tins of cigarettes out to them. We cleared all the cigar- ettes from the bar. “All this time we were golng at eight miles an hour, which is three miles more then the speed limit, so it was evident that they wanted to get us through the canal as quickly as possible. “At the fortieth mile the men in the trenches told us that they had been engeged with the enemy of the pre- vious day and that the Turks were now about eight miles off. I went up on the deck and saw troops in the dis- Stories of the War tance, but could not say whether they were Turks or not. From the forty- second mile the banks of the canal are high and I could not see any great distance, except between occasional gaps. “But at the forty-sixth mile I saw a dead horse, half on the bank and half in the water, and a little further a dead camel. Then the excitement be- gan. First one dead Turk was seen, then two, then a batch of seven or eight, and at the forty-seventh mile, a crowd of them, with a number of broken small boats, full of dead, sim- ply smashed to pieces, some hanging over the side with a les gone, others without an arm, and some you could not recognize as men at all. Just here the banks are quite high, but they slope down to the water, and on these slopes were dead Turks in all sorts of positions. Some had fallen with their heads and shoulders just in the water. I climed up in the rigging to see what was over the top of the bank, and there I saw almost hundreds. “It appeared that the Turks were seen coming, and the warships in the canal allowed them to throw a pon- toon across. When they were all gath- ered at this spot the warships let fly. They had to retire after losing several of their guns. This place was Kintara, a few miles from the Bitter Lakes. The battle occured on the previous day. “On_arrival at the Lakes we an- chored for the night wWith all lights out and among about thirty other ships, “Fighting was golng on all night a little further up the canal, and we thought we should be held up in the Lakes, but we started off the next morning, with our bridge and deck protected by sand bags. From nere to Suez we passed camp atter camp of soldiers. Most of them had been in action. The Turks were about eight miles away. “A little further on we heard the guns and saw the British troops mor ing off to the attack. The battle was quite a distance inland. I could see the smoXe from the guns through my glasses. There were some low sand- hills about five miles away, and I could see men on this ridge. The British had several thousand men and six guns marching over the flat ground for this ridge. “T don’t suppose many people have had or will have the chance that we had to go straight through the middle Don’t Hide Them With a Veil; Remove Them With the Othine Preseription. This prescription for the removal of freckles was written by a prominent physician and is 8o successful in removi freckles and giving a clear, beautiful -complexion that it is sold by drugglets under guarantee to refund the money if it fails, Don't hide your freckles under a veil; get an ounce of othine and re- move them. Even the first few ap- plications should show & wonderful im- provement, some of the lighter freckles vanishing entirely. Be sure to ask the druggist for the double strength othine; it is this that is sold on the mohey-back guarantee. _— of a battlefleld, before they have even had a chance to bury the dead. The effect of these naval guns must be awful, and from the curious position of the killed they must have been dead almost before they reached the ground, Occasionally you would notice a man who appeared to have struggled, but most lay evidently where they fell. “Not Yet.” An absent-minded employe of a French business house recently ad- dressed a letter to a London client to “London, Germary.” It reached its destination here safely, but in passing through the London post the - word Allemagne (Germany) was underlined and endorsed in red pencil: ‘“Not Working in Khaki. “The success which has attended the experiment of placing workmen at Liverpool in ’khaki is very interesting from a psychological standpoint,” writes a_colloge professor to one of the London newspapers. He explains: “I have frequently been told by re- cruits in the army that, although they may have felt some sort of enthusiasm when drilling in civilian costume, it has been of a lukewarm character compared with the intensity of spirit which seemed to develop after they had donned_their uniforms and been sup- plied with rifles. “In this emotional elation through change of clothing is illustrated a very common rule of life, which has been felt by most of us in the course of evervday existence. The bishop or parson who discards his clerical attire and gets into his golfing garb throws aside memories of theological argu- ments and concentrates on the hope of emulating the strokes of a Braid or a Vardon. A hospital nurse lives up to the glorious traditions of her uniform. A change into evening dress is a much more potent appetizer than a sherry and bitters.” French Warfare and Gardening. Among the many incongruities of the present campaign mot the least strange contrast is that between the waging of trench warfare and the gar- dening which is carried on in many places by the British soldier. The gardens, which are mostly near the dugouts, are not of a very ambitious order, but when circumstances permit, considerable care is devoted to their cultivation, In some cases the small plots of growing primroses and daffodils ars not more than 200 yards from the enemy, close behind the breastwork protecting their owners from the bul- lets which whistle overhead and bury themselves with a vicious thud in the sandbags a few feet away. “Fresh Vegetables. Seven cars, supposed to contain min- eral water for Germany, have been held up at Como, Switzerland, having been found to be loaded with iron ore. At Brigue one car labelled fresh veg. etables proved to be filled with ma- chine guns. The inspection of all through freight has become very much stricter since the beginning of April. Things Observed by An Inspector. New light is thrown on social, in- dustrial and military conditions in France, Belgium and the province of Baden, Prussia, by Lieutenant Oscar Wuchner, of the 1ith Infantry, an army inspector who writes under date of April 8: Though Lieutenant Wuchner's du- ties hrought him to the eastern end of the great conflict, he writés only of what he saw in the western war zone. He was in the trenches at La Chap- pelle, where there was the flercest of fighting for several days in succession. In speaking of this feature of the war he sa “I know of fighting on land; I heard of it on sea, and in the air: but it was the first time I ever saw fighting un- der-ground by the contending forces. “Hand grenades and bombs were used. First the fighters drove passages in the direction of each other under ground; and, when the wall between them was blown out or down, a dread- ful battle was fought by desperate sol- diers. They went at each other like dcmons in the dark, one mot being able to see the other, and continued to fight until either Killed or wound- el “Of course, the underground fight- ing has for its cbject the blowing up of one party by the other. Not many are being killed above the surface in the night trench fighting: but under- ground there is great siaughter. In Baden and other places the Govern- ment_has ordered a new thing, and that is the public parks, playsrounds, front and rear yards or homes and villas of rich and poor must be turned into gardens for cultivation of pota- toes and cabbages. Hundreds of Rus- sian soldiers are working in these improvised fields end hundreds more in stockades have been asked to do the same thing for it helps to keep taem healthy. “More than 500 of this class of pris- oneis were called before the author- ities in our province recently and zsked if they desired to return to the countries from where they _enlisted. Only 11 wanted to go home and were given transportation to the Russian border. “Others will be given small tracts of land to cultivate so there shall be no. shortage of food as far as they are concerned. Many prisoners have been put to work building highways, dig- ging fleld ditches and repairing oth- ers. Others have gone to work in the coal and ore mines of Belglum, and zinc snd copper mines in Silesia. Sev- cval thousand of them are tilling the deserted farms in Belglum also. Every one of them working under the super- vision of a government official will be paid at the rate of fifteen cents per day. Scme cities, such as Munich, bave assumed the responsibility of giving work to prisoners of all natfon~ alities and also paying them a small amount. “I might tell you the government has ordered tho killing of all carrier Diecns, in some d'~tricts, 30 thev can- not be nsed for the carrying of un- friendly messages to or out of the coun- try. The vyoung of this species make a choice dish when cooked. There is no _scarcity of f00d and to this every- body is contributing nicely. “Prices are not much higher for foodstuffs than in your country. Of course there is a military supervision over all food products. A 309-pound sack of flour, weighing in America 220 pounds, can be bought for 50 marks. Potatoes sell at 87 cents a bushel in our money. The best kind of meat, steaks, chops and such, sell from 22'to 25 cents per pound. Eggs are 25 cents a dozen. Butter, 30 cents NEW SHOW TODAY ENTIRE GHANGE OF PROGRAM !lOMAN’S verything New Today—New Songs— New Dances—New Specialties Everything New But the Company STILL BREAKING ALL RECORDS A DOLLAR SHOW FOR A DIME COMPLETE CHANGE OF PHOTOPLAYS MATINEE 10c, CHILDREN 50; EVENING 10-15-200 Z BROADWAY MUSICAL For REVUE llustrated THE MOST VITAL QUESTIONS OF THE DAY THE TRUTH ABOUT Twilight Sleep D Questions Asked by the Audience. PRICES 75¢, 50c, 25¢ Seats on Sale Friday, May 7, at 10 a. m. MORNING MATINEE at 10.30 a. m. Women Oniy by Authentic Motion Pictures REAL TWILIGHT MOTHERS AND BABIES Lecture by Dr. Kurte Schiossingl of the Frauen- Germany Where Twilight Sieep was r. Schlossingk Will Answer Soecifio a pound, and sugar still is sold for seyen cents per pound. “I have tried to tell you briefly of some things coming under my obser- vation, and not what I have been told, and the future will prove the truth of them. There are within the border of our country food supplies enough to keep the armies and the people well fed for one year. I will not exagerate ‘when 1 tell you every mill and fac- tory and iron and steel plant is work- ing steadily and may make overtime to meet the demand for supplies and these do not include government con- cerne. OTHER VIEW POINTS Change the individual management of your business every two years, let everyone experiment with it, and then see i§ you would have as much left as the average municipality. Under the circumstances political management shows up pretty well, everything tak- en into consideration.—Middletown Pross. Judging by the amount of business accomplished yesterday by the legisla- ture it is a pity that Monday sessions are not a regular feature of the legis- lative curriculum. By working Mon- days the statesmen might tahe their long vacation by the middle of April instead of the middle of May.—Ansonia. Sentinel. Although the average business firm may not be in a position to call in the aid of psychological experts in en- gaging each new assistant, more de- pendence upon concrete examples of efficiency than upon the employers ability to “size up” his man at a glance, might well be advocated.— Bridgeport Standard. “Connecticut is a solvent state and a proud state” Of course, and par- ticularly proud of tne extravagance of its assemblymen with its money. “The bills must be paid.” Some day ‘the million people who don't care” may rise up and demand a commission form of government for their com- monwealth, in order that tke bills may be paid without continually increas- ing the burden of taxation—Water- bury Republican. The increase in the cost of liquor licenses must be regarded as a fiscal measure. It will do little to promote temperance or to decrease the use of alcohol. It is fortunate the principle of limitation was not adopted. Limited high license has proved, in Massachu- setts, to be the mother of corruption. A secret traffic in licenses is carried on, unknown to the general public, much the same as the traffic in votes is carried on in Connecticut. High license in Massachusetts has not de- creased the amount of liquor consum- ed.—Bridgeport Farmer. The fire commissioners have decided to provide automobile tractors for the fire engines of Nos. 4 and 7 companies and the contracts probably will be awarded o _a local concern. Later contracts will be awarded for tractors for the hose carts of these two com- panies. At the present rate of progress it will be not long before the whole of Bridgeport's fire department is motorized. While Bridgeport was not the ft city to have automobile fire apparatus, it was one of the first to start motorizing its department upon a successful basis. At about the same time, Bridgeport purchased an auto- mobile chemical engine and an au- tomobile ambulance, and both of these vehicles proved to be so useful that everyone wondered how the city ever had gotten along without them.— Bridgeport Telegram. The prohibition movement draws near to Connecticut. It has several barriers to_pass, but the fact that it has crossed the first one—the legis- lative committee on constitutional amendments—gives it a foothold. The committee's favorable report, due in the House Monday, provides that from the first Monday of Jan- uary, 1920, the manufacture, com- pounding, bartering, selling or keep- ing for sale any spirituous, vinous, malt, or alcoholic liquors is prohibit- ed except for sacramanetal, medicinal scientific, mechanical and art purpos- es. Should the House support the committee the measure will be laid over until the next session of the Gen- eral Assembly two years hence. Then if it passes by a tow-thirds vote of both houses it will go to the people for final adoption. Manchester Herald. If the men at Hartford who so far are responsible for that egregious statute revizion bill think they have any support throughout the state, they fail to read the papers. Only one news- paper of any particular prominence has stood for this plan to spend at least four times, and possibly six or seven times the amount needed for the work. Nobody has made any reason- able defense of the principle of a paid revizion commission. The sensible ar- guments put forth by the many news- papers which have opposed the bill have not been answered. The quiet attitude of those who are pushing the thing through is: “We can get it, and we'll have it.” It is not too late for those who have been innocently led in- to the support of this thing—and there must be many of them—to see how hopelessly theéy are in the minority, how much they are against the best sentiment of the state. An effort next week to undo the mischief done this week might be successful. If not, the governor should know what the ma- jority of the people of the state want him to do—New Haven Register. ‘When Senator Bree said that the people of the state are much more in- terested In_what the legislature does than the date when it adjourns he spoke the truth. It is common knowl- edge that many very important bills have been held up by committees or otherwise delayed and the fear of many people is that the members are being led to consider it more import- ant to adjourn at an early date than it is to carefully study and _discuss measures that may have a far-reach- ing effect upon interests that are im- portant to the public welfare. In view of the prominence of influences that are greedy and selfish it is particu- larly important that the representa- tives of the people watch carefully and ‘with a8 much deliberation as mav be et oy Fri. and Sat. 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THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Society Transylvania—In view of the re- peated predictions that _Roumania, with her eyes on the neighboring Hungarian province, is preparing, like Italy, to seize present opportunity for the *rectification” and extension of her borders so as to include within them added tens of thousands of her people, the Nationjl Geographic So- ciety’s descriptive statement dealing with Transylvania carries with it a timely commentary upon the Rouman- fan_ambition. The statement is: “Transylvania is the Hungarian toe thrust deep into the center of the Rou- manian kingdom. With the recent Italian expression that Roumania is ready to act in accordance with Rome's war policy, Transylvania, like every other frontier land of theé Dual Mon- archy except those toward Germany, is threatened with invasion, and, like all of the exposed frontiers, it is guard- ed by a difficult mountain system. Roumanian _territory bends like a drawn elbow around Transylvania, from the southwest to far in the north- west. Along_ the entire boundary run the rugged Carpathian Mountains, re- turning to their junction with the Blue Danube, in Hungary, opposite Servia. “Shapped like an irregular circle, with its 21,000 square miles of area, is a high plateau, naturally a distinct land division, and cut off from Hun- gary, as from Roumania and Buko: ina, by a definite line of mountain bar- riers.” Roumania, at present the larg- est of the Balkan States, with 54,000 square miles, would, with such an ad- ditional area, form a country consid- erably more than one-third as large as Germany, or one as large as any oth- er two Balkan countries combined. It would, further, mean a gain of 2,500,- 000 in population, of whom 1,400,000 would_represent a gain in nationals. The Roumanians, constituting more than 56 per cent of Transylvania's peo- ple, have been vigorously oppressed during recent years through the de- termined efforts of their rulers to Magyarize them. . Five railway lines penetrate Tran- &ylvania from Roumania, Jjoining themselves with the lately developed Hungarian systems. The Hungarian province is a rich land, little develop- ed; ana it would largely compensate Roumania for her loss of Bessarabla to Russia. Some of the valleys are exceedingly fertile, and, the flerce summer heat, as in this country, cause the most delicious of European fruits to be raised there. Transylvania is full of agricultural promise. It has a little industry and some mining. It possesses the richest gold mines in Europe, and many of its people live by gold-washing. Transylvania is a country whose value has hardly been realized, and that is, because it is a twisting mass of hill and mountain, ravine and valley, difficult of commer- cial exploitation, and a most unfavor- able military theatre.” The Cossacks—“Apprenticed to Mars at birth, as_were the Spartans before them, the Cossacks, survivals from a youngfi non-industrial, in-tht-spur world are the most picturesque fighters on_ Europe's battlefields. A frontier's folk like the people of our early West, a mixture of many adventurous ele- ments, and constituting -within their own country e class more distinctive than that of the American cowboy, they have finally been subdued to the needs of the great Imperial govern- ment at Petrograd, taken over just as they were into its machinery, and pre- served as a_soldier-caste. A wild, conquering, freebooting folk, the Cos- sacks have been brought within the fold of Russian civilization as soldiers, descendents of warriors and progeni- tors of generations of soldiers to meet the future needs of Slav empire.” “It is with these Cossacks, the men who, in the leisure of national peace, conquered the vast empire of Siberia for Russia, and who, in each Russian war for tge last 100 years, have form- ed the sar's irresistible first-line strenzth, that today’s statement of the National Geographic Society deals. More nearly defining this military folk, the statement continues: “The Cossacks are a people of the limitless steppes, a people of close corporation, situated in Russia as a race apart, a soldier-caste, their state a military organization, their connec- tion with the great empire maintained through the Imperial War Department, SLATER HALL MICE AND MEN, presented by the ACADEMY DRAMAT- IC CLUB. Tickets on fale on and after May 3, at Davis' Book Store. mayid CONCERT By the Norwich Phitharmonic Society (Young People’s Symphony) E. E. BAKER, Conductor in the Slater Memorial Hall assisted by Miss Phyjlis Hammond Harpist Tuesday, May 11, at 8 p. m. Admission 50 cents Tickets may be had of members of the orchestra or at the store of George A. Davis. the administration of their internal affairs practically in their own hands and their privileges as a caste almost as pronounced as were those of the Spartan soldier-citizen, or more com- parable to the soldier-caste of older ssacks Indain _organization. The. C came of the original Slav st they were those Slavs who nev ed their heads beneath a yoke or domestic, who lived a free life on the borders of their race’s civilization, wandering, fighting, bucanneer S tribes, who penetrated deeply into Tar - tar and Georgian lands, who lived by the hunt and by plunder, and Whe maintained themselves on the borders of Asia and Europe iree of all serf- dom. “These sturdy Russian wanderers assimilated many adventurous ele- ments, took up among them many Tartars and Slavs, and, so, today the Cossack type is a more or less di tinct one. The total Cossack popula- tion of Russia is more than 3,000,000, Some years ago, they owned nearly 146,500,000 acres of land, of whict 105,000,000 arable and 9,400,000 foresi land. This land is held by the Cos- sacks in community partition as 2 State reward for their military ser- vice. It will be seen that the Cossack holdings ampunt to about 50 acres fot each man, woman and child of the peo- ple. There is an admiring, half envis ous Russian catchword being as ‘fred and as rich as a Cossack. “The Cossacks are the rough riders of Europe. As the cowboys of the American plains and the gauchos of the Pampas, the Cossacks are an in- tensely interesting, wild, free, plain folk, who live in the saddle in the open places, and whose rough democ- racy is the expression of the same naive, rudimentary culture as that of their New World brothers-in-spirit. None of their members are allowed to starve, and none of them have suc- ceeded in winning overmastering posi- tion through the laying up of great ‘wealth. “The Cossack is State, and_is a main prop of the State’s authority. To be born a_Cos- sack is to be born a soldier. Every Cossack bears the obligation of twenty years military service. He enters in- to this service at the age of 18; spends 2 years in a preliminary Cossack di- vision:; next passes 12 years in active service, and epends his last 5 mili- tary years in the Cossack reserve. It is the picked men from his ranks who constitute the Imperial Guard, a body of the finest type of fighters, whom the Tsar can trust, when he can trust no one else around him. -These Cos- sack soldiers have been the greatest terror with which Russia has been able to threaten Burope: they have been the empire’s most efficient inter- wnal police, and they have marched eastward to the Pacific and southward to the zones of British influence, con- quering for the Tsar a vast domain including many nations. The Cossacks have dearly avenged their fellow Slavs for the hardehips they have received at the hands of the Tartar hordes of Asia.’ favored by the N Another Conspiracy. Investigating committee might in- quire whether passing Steel's com- mon’ dividend was not a malignant attack on the income tax. —Wall Street Journal. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA DURING HOT-POINT WEEK Hay3-8 VISIT THE HOT-POINT STORE FOR BARGAINS THE NORWICH ELECTRIC 0., 42 Franklin Street