Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 11, 1915, Page 4

Gorwich Bulletin and @oufied 119 YEARS OLD Subseription price 12c » week; G0c a month; $6.00 a year. Entered at the Postoffice at Norwlich, .Conn., as second-class matter. Telepnone Callsr Bulletin Business Ofiice 480. /" Bulletin Editorial Rooms 35-3. Bulletin Job Office 35-2. Willimantic Ofice, Room % Murray Rullding. Telephone 210. i Norwich, Tuesday, May 11, 1915. R vt st Mo Sesd o X — The Circulation of The Builetin The Bulletin has the largest 4 eirculation of any paper in East- ern Connecticut and from three to four times larger than that of any in Norwich. It is delivered £ over 3,000 of the 4,053 houses in Norwich, and read by ninety- three per cent. of the people. In Windham it is dcl.vered to over 900 houses, in Putnam and Danielson to over 1,100 and all of these places it is consid- ered-the local daify. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hundred and sixtywfive postoffice districts, and cixtv rural free delivery routes. Thes Bulletin is sold in every town - ° on all of the R. F. D. routes in Eastern Connectizut. CIRCULATION 1901, average ............ 4412 31905, average ...........5 92 sesscessesconcessessoecascesssessesas GERMANY’S ATTITUDE. “Germany is not waging war upon neutral shipping and commerce,” says an official associated with the kaiser's sovernment in this country. If it isn't, it is time that there was an explana- tion of the large loss of American life and an assurance that nothing of the kind would happen in the future, as the direct result of the policy which Germany is carrying out, It is impossible to consider the loss on the Lusitania separately. It is so closely connected with the other at- tacks upon American property and life that they must be considered together for while the greatest indignation has been aroused by the sinking of that ship, it is not to be forgotten that it ‘was preceded by an aerial attack upon the Cushing and the torpedoing of the Gulflight by which latter attack three lives were lost, and in these two in- stances the vessels were of American registry and flving the American flag. That would appear to furnish substan- tial grounds for believing that, con- trary to what a representative of the kaiser's government may say, Ger- many is making war upon neutral shipping and commerce, and in this respect this country is not the only meutral which has suffered. In deprecating wild talk about war at this hour, the Springfield Republi- tan believes that “in the Lusitania's case,” one must concede to Germany, efter all, the fact that there was no desire whatever to destroy Amerftan tives on the British ship.” The one ®dmission which can be made in con, nection with the brutal affair is that no effort whatever was made to save American lives. The fact is that there ‘was no regard whatever for life. There was a mad desire to carry out a hell- ish naval policy and nothing was al- lowed to stand in the way of it. Hu- manity got no consideration, regard- less of the nationality, and the worst of it is that there was absolutely no meed of any such colossal crime. The one thing that can be conceded in connection with the affair is that Germany displays no disposition to respect our protest. If that is a final decision it is time to know it. HOME RULE FOR CITIES. During all the time that it has been agitated the move in behalf of home rule for cities has received generous support from all sections of the state. It has been looked upon as a right to which every municipality is entitled within reasonable bounds, This is the view which has been taken of the matter by the commit- tee on cities and boroughs in the home rule bill which has been reported to the legislature. Upon favorable action this will give to the cities the right to remake their charters as occasions)| demand and what is far more import- ant it places such authority-in the hands of those people who know what they are doing, who are thoroughly acquainted with the conditions an@ understand where ‘and why remedies should be applied. It is the people who are directly concerned who have the most interest in such matters and who are likely to give the best thought thereto. By the provisions of the bill the matter of charter changes can be brought before a meeting of the people upon the petition of ten per cent, of the voters, and with favorable action by the governing power it will be sub- mitted to the people to name a com- mission for the proposed alterations end when such revision as is deemed advisable is made it must be ap- proved by & majority of 60 per cent. of the voters. This will do away with the unsat- isfactory method of carrying such matters to the legislature, overcome needless delays and eliminate the unsatisfactory method of trying to convince the legislators of the merits or demerits of a question with which they are not acquainted and have lit- tle or no interest. » BIG WHEAT CROP. In anticipation of an unusual demand upon the agricultural resources of this country because of ~ the conditions across the water a much larger acre- age has bzen devoted to raising wheat. “Grow wheat” was the advice given a mumber of months ago and from the report of the department of agriculture wherein it is predicted that the crop this year will reach the big aggre- Rate of 693,000,000 bushels, it would appear that there had been a general recognition of the soundness of the suggestion. Last year's wheat pro- duction was a bumper crop raised un- der favorable conditions and without the anticipation of any unusual de- mand, but with increased attention and the sowing of more wheat it is evi- dent according to the indications that not only will the feature of an extra good season be overcome, but from eight to ten million more bushels will be raised. This does not mean that the United States will by any means be able to supply all the demands abroad for there will be big calls made upon the other wheat producing countries which are equally alive to the opportunity existing in this direction. There are increased demands each year in our own country and a large proportion of the vield will be required for home consumption, leaving a third or possibly more for the export trade. The prediction furnishes good reason for the farmers in the wheat belt to believe that the prosperity as the re- sult of the war is not yet at an end. STATE HIGHWAY TRAFFIC. Among the questidhs in which every state is interested is that of the safe- ty on highways. This has become ap- parent in each passing vear with the betterment of the roads and the in- crease in the number of automobiles. The necessity of a iform law which will give the user of a highway in any part of the state some degree of assurance has been recognized in the state of New Jersey and hecause of the demand for it there has been passed and put into operation a new traffic law which sets forth the rules which govern every user thereof. This-is not confined to the auto alone, but to every user, horse drawn vehicles, pedestrians, eques- trians and animals which are being led or driven so that those who go through an entire state know what to expect on the highway wherever they may be. It even takes precedence over local ordinances with proper regard paid, however, to the thickly settled com- munities in comparison with the coun- try highways. It is a law filled with much detail, intended as it is to correct many abuses which exist at the present time, but drawn with the intention of giv- ing everybody a fair show and elim- inating the great objection to restric- tions which are maintained in one lo- cality and not in another, which are in a great many cases unfair to high- way users who are desirous of obey- ing the law. That New Jersey has made a move to solve this problem means that it is going to De carefully watched in the task of maintenance. The success of it will to a large extent depend upon the manner in which it is enforced. If it gets no more respect than some other efforts to regulate highway traffic it will prove to be no improve- mént over past conditions, THE FAR EAST SITUATION. From all appearances the crisis in the far east has passed. Japan and China have been able to come to terms through the stand which China took supported by other large nations and the decision of Japan to modify its demands. It is indicated, as surmised some time ago, that Japan included sufficient in its original demands so that it could withdraw certain of them and still secure all that it wanted and all thai, it could reasonably expect. It was a golden opportunity for the island empire and it has made the most of it though it must rest with the future to prove that Japan has been working for the welfare of the Chinese empire without a generous re- gard for its own interests. Even from China's standpoint, how- ever, it is to be recognized that the agreement under the existing condi- tions is preferable to war. China is a big nation of nearly a half billion people with Japan boasting of sixty millioms, yet the size in population by no means represents the fighting strength of the nations. Nothing would have been worse for China than war. It is in a hopeless position in that respect and the modification by Japan removes the particularly objectionable demand whereby China would have been forced to vield its sovereignty to a partial control at least by another. Japan sought to get a hold upon Chinese territory and institutions to which it was not entitled. Tt sought to force its big but powerless neighbor to a relinquishment of vital rights. It was an unfortunate predicament, just at this time, and more than China will be relieved at the way in which it has resulted. EDITORIAL NOTES, In peace or in war ocean tragedies are no respecters of persons, There is no reason for hesitating in awarding the title of Jack the Ripper among nations to Germany. There have been a lot of new vari- ations discovered since General Sher- man was forced to remark about war. Japan continues to maintain that it has all been done for the good of China. Let us hope that they practice what they preach. “The discovery of another crack in the Liberty bell looks like an eleventh hour excuse for not sending it to the Pacific coast. The man on the corner says: Becom- ing reconciled to disappointments is not an art when followed by a sour grape attitude. While New Jersey is bragging about the biggest lemon ever raised, a lot of states are not doing the same about their legislatures. Fortunate is the householder who has his clean-up work done. There will be many a neighbor who will appre- ciate his assistance. It will be interesting to have Ger- many point out just what advantage it has gained by taking the lives of non- combatants and neutrals. Turkey must realize that when it comes to civilization it isn’t so back- ward after all, when it has a chance to review the product of kultur. The rejoicing over the loss of the Lusitania and the many lives com- pares well with the laughing of the German submarine crew while pas- sengers on the Falaba drowned, The bringing about of peace in Eu- rope ought to be an easy task for the The Hague conference of .women, but when they promise to establish a dem- ocratic form of government in all Eu- ropean countries they have a fight on their hands. Maude (scrambling to her seat ten minutes after the raising of the cur- tain, causing great disgust in two irate, fattish ladies, who are propping up on their scarcely distinguishable laps various handbags, hats and opera glasses)—* please escuse me 8o sorry to be so late, but I simply couldn’t get here any sooner. I walit- ed and walted for Pauline and she never did come—why, Pauline, you old thing you! Girls, hold me, don't let me get away from you! I'm going to kill her! Dom’t let me struggle from your ! I waited twenty per- fectly good minutes for that—that. Oh, I know I'm going to kill her. I can feel it coming on. “Why, of course, I'm going to sit down as soon as you take your thinge oft my seat. Hold my muff while I get my coat off. Oh, dear, there goes my bag! “Why, under the seat, of course, No, no, not that seat. The one that fat man's sitting in. “Well, he is fat! I'm sure I'm not responsible for it. I didn't mean to hurt his feelings, but if fat men come to matinees they’ll just have to make up their minds that people will know about it. “Thank youw ever so much! Now, I wonder what I did with my handker- chief? Hand me my coat, please. What on earth did you put it over there for? ‘Thank you ever so much! “Why, of course, I'm going to take my hat off just as soon as— “No, indeed. I don’t want a choco- late now. I want to find out why that Pauline didn’t wait for me. I'm too mad to eat. “I thought of course you'd be late —you know you always are. And so I waited five minutes. We'd planned to do that, you know. And when I'd waited five I thought Td better wait ten and so I waited twenty and here you were sitting just stuffing your- self with chocolates! “1 don’t suppose you do consider it your fault, but if you'd only even left word at the box office. “Why, no, I didn’t ask there. Why should’ 17 I only sald you had— “Oh, well, please don't let's talk talk about it any more. Giv me a programme! “Is that man the hero? funny looking. But then the girl’s nothing to go crazy about. “Do give me a chocolate! I'm famishing and I can’t seem to get my mind on the play, anyway. Maybe a chocolate will settle me. “Oh, my goodness! What did you give me the squashy one for? I— “Why, of course, it did! All over me! Al] over my gloves, too! I sup- pose T'll have to have my dress and my gloves cleaned and they just came back day before— “My dear, I never said you meant to do it. Of course, it was an accident, ENJOYING THE MATINEE I'm | like girl ushers, anyway. Kind of | but it's just as annoying as if it hfl} ‘bml planned from the beginning of ime. . ““That usher certainly has her nerve with her! 1 was not - talking loud enough to disturb anybody! don't I ‘They ways act so smarty. “My dear, isn’t that a perfect peach of a gown? I'm going to make my new crepe de chine just like it. Can are People who have swollen veins or bunches should not walt until reach the bursting point, which means much suffering and loss of time, but should at once secure from any relia- ble st a two-ounce original bot- tle of erald Ofl (full strength). By using this powerful, yet harm- less germicide treatment improvemen is noticed in a few days, and by its regular use swollen veins will return to their normal size and sufferers will cease to worry. The Emerald Oil treatment is used by physicians and in hospitals, and is guaranteed to ac- complish results. It reduces all kinds of enlarged s, goitres and wens and is used of | exclusively in many large factories as Ask Sally if she has some. “No, no, not a pro e— a plece of paper, that I can draw on. how dense they are. “I wish that usher would attend to her own business. I shall certainly report her. I never did like girl ush- ers, anyway. I think a woman is en- L}rel'y out of place in such a posi- tion! “Do -give me another chocolate, ‘Why, you old meany you! You've eaten every one of the squashy ones. “What 1f T did? All I said was that you should have told me it was squashy. When you know how to eat them—just pop them in whole and eat them afterward— “Oh, preelous, can you &ee how the trimming is put on around the neck? If that woman down there would only sit still. I'm going to ask the usher to ask her— “Just ask her if she can't sit more quietly, please. “Well, I don't see why you can't ask her. I'm sure it's your duty to see that the patrons of the theatre are not annoyed— “Do you know, I really can't hear a word she says, hardly. I think the way the actors and actresses enunci, ate these days is perfectly inexcus: able. Now, some of the older actors, don’'t you know—you can tell the dif- ference the minute they open their mout “Isn’'t that evening coat the most gorgeous color? Of course, it wouldn’t do for the daytime, but at night it's simply wonderful. “Oh, I must tell you about that model I got to drape my gowns on. My dear, you can't imagine how it simplifies things! I can make any- thing with it, literally anything. “Oh, is that the end? Well, of all the perfectly stupid, uninteresting plays. I must say it seems downright silly to me. TI'll confess I couldn’t make head or tail of it. “Why of course, I'm glad I came, honey! TI've had a perfectly dear time, and that one gown she wore in the first act was worth the price of ad- mission.”—Chicago News. Stories of Conditions In Holland. The immense drains made by the refugees from Belgium on the go0d- heartedness of Dutch women have by no mean exhausted their efforts for the betterment of social conditions in their own country. The strain of Bel- gian relief work Fas undoubtedly been very great, and still is especially heavy upon the wives and daughters of the Netherlands. Holland was to- tally unprepared for any such emerg- ency as the arrival over night within her borders of more than a million neighbors. It was the women of the Netherlands who had to find immed- iate accomodations until the relief work could be systematically organ- ized. They did it magnificently and without & whimper. Thousands of homes in Holland still shelter refu- gees, notwithstanding the general pro- visions which have been made for the unfortunate Belglans. One house in The Hague, alone, has afforded asylum to 71 destitute Belgians for nine months. But in addition to this work of pressing necessity, the women of Hol- land are carrying on theinr sufirage campaign, are knitting and sewing for their own soldiers and their families, and are keeping up such work of so- clal improvement as the schools of household arts and the schools for working women, which exist in many of the larger cities. In the former, young ladies of the better families of the Netherlands are taught house- keeping, the care of children, teach- ing, cooking and whatever else may be necessary or useful in the formation of a model wife and an efficient mother. These schools are, of course, paying organizations. « The schools for working women in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Ha- gue, however, are in the nature of charities. Here the daughters of the people are taught to be independent or of aid to their families. They are trained as housemaids, cooks, seam- stresses, laundresses and nursemaids. If they are able, they pay a small tuition fee; if not, they are received just the same, and no one but the treasurer knows who has paid and who has not. The schools are pro- vided with babies for the nurses to practice on, and even with older children, who serve as the raw ma- terial for kindergarten instruction. Inthe school for working women in Rotterdam last year, 109 girls were turned away on account of lack of accomodations for them. This year the number has been less, since the general condition of hard times has forced many families to send their girls to work earlier than usual; also the absence of many men mobilized to guard the neutrality of Holland hes greatly increased the demand for Wwomen workers. In the school for working women in school for working women which has just been issued to cover the year 1914 shows that the tuition fees re- ceived in this school amounted in that year to $37 . The expenses, how- ever, were $13,099.20. The deficit was met by private gifts. Many of the girls are forced to leave these schools before finishing the full three years’ course, to earn their own living or to assist in the support of their families. But ‘even these are snapped up at once by watchful Dutch housewives, anxious to secure good servants. The girls themselves are only too glad to be employed in domestic service in Holland, for the wages of women ‘workem in the factories are notably ow. Nor are these the only practical measures taken by the women of Holland for their less fortunate sis- ters. The war has brought, even to this neutral land, some of its ghastly train of mediaeval horrors. There are Red Cross buildings in many streets of the larger cities, and one of the royal palaces in The Hague has been turned over to this work. In this country there are not, of course, any wounded to care for. But there are the sick and the needy, and they are cared for. The Home for Destitute Babies, too, since the mobilization has shown a cahritable endeavor. It is really an charitable endeavor. It ise really an organization devoted to the care of the unfortunate children of unmarried mothers. The babies of such of the voorer women as die in childbirth, ' whose fathers are prevented by the character of thelr work from giving or providing proper care for the very young children, are also taken in. The infants received in this home are kept from two to thre years, upon a sflght payment by the mothers, whose plight the sudden calling of the men to the TColors has revealed. Prisoners Well Cared For. The system hurriedly instituted by the American embassy at the outbreak of war, for the relief of German and Austrian residents of Russia, has been developed by Montgomery Schuyler, special agent of the State Department, into a smoothly working machine which handles the details with utmost dispatch. Mr. Schuyler's work is done and he has turned the manage- ment of this relief work over to H. H. D. Peirce, another appointee of the State Department, and has left for home to look after his pereonal af- fairs, pending posible similar assign- ment in another field. Before leaving for home Schuyler made a tour of the military camps as far to the southeast as the Turkestan frontier, returning through the Trans- caspian ang Caucasian country. He traveled 6,000 miles, inspected eight camps containing approximately 50,000 prisoners. On his return, he said that on the whole, the prisoners were well fed, well housed and well clothed. Their daily rations were three pounds of black bread, half a pound of meat, unlimited tea and a small quantity of sugar, besides a substantial soup, which after gastronomical test, he pronounced equal to that that served him at most of the railway restau- rants en route. A Wounded Soldier’s Prayer. “Lord, keep us wounded men mod- est and open our eyes to the purer heroism of those men and women who, denied the brave show of the battlefield, sacrifice themselves day by day to the tedious tasks for which we have not the courage,” is the prayer with which a wounded soldier con- cluded an article in the London E press, pleading for less hero wor- ship. “Am T a_ hero?” he asks. His an- swer is “No, I am not, and the wounded hero stunt has fed me up.” Too much attention spoils the man angd it is besides unfair to the com- rades in the trenches, says the writer, who_continues: “Now I am living like a lord in a beautiful improvised _convalescent home in a select suburb of London, where lovely ladies wait on us and equally lovely ladies come to visit us, generally bringing gifts. I am_touch- ed by the kindly thought, but I think of the wives and children of my com- rades at the front.” Helmets Rare Trophies. German helments, nothwithstand- ing the thousands of Germans who have been killed, wounded and cap- tured, are still rare trophies at the ‘British front. There are two chief reasons for this. The first is that the Germans of late have been wearing caps, the sec- ond that the dead and wounded be- tween the lines, on whom most of the helmets are to be found, are in no man’s land where it is almost sure deatn to venture. The ‘British soldier appreciates that these helmets are bfln‘ly fancy prices in Paris, London and New York and he is lo;zh to v-a't with eny tro- phy except for a good sum. Tegu- lar clearing house for them has been established and hun are being sent to England for sale to dealers and others. Disease Prevention. The British health authorities are preparing for erboli:ta measures to Prevent any widespread epidemics of diseases like cholera, typhus, scurvy, dysentery or typhoid, either in this country or among the British soldiers abroad. There is wid anxiety that some diseases of will make their appearance in force in the Western part of the Continent during the next few months. Professor Simpson of King’s Col- lege, London, points out in the Lancet that the armies of Germany and Aus- tria will be in a very different physi- an unfailing first aid to_ the injured antiseptic. Lee & Osgood can supply you. e ———————————— not likely to be confined to the par- ticular armies first stricken, nor wiil the civil population in the devasted areas escape. : Scarcity of food, it is further indi- cated will play its part in reducing the disease-resisting power the population. The combination of L‘i‘; flood and famine will favor the spfead of epidemics. ‘“Indeed”, says Profes- sor Simpson, “the terrible taint in the air that already characterizes the in- undated aerea on the Yser tells its own tale. Under this flood lie a hun- dred thousand corpses.” The Yser i not much farthér from London than New York is from Phila- delphia. Lonéon, therefore, must take strict measures to protect her- self. “At a moment when health is of such vital importance,” comments Professor Simpson, “we cannot afford to overlook any precaution. The ef- fect upon hours of labor alone would be immense if en epidemic should arise; the effect of aicoholic excess would be quite insignificant in com- parison. “Various measures of protection are now in force. Everyone who has crossed the Channel recently knows that a medical exauination is carled out at Folkestone before passengers are permittad to land. This meas- ure should be more vigorously applied as the summer advances. “It has been recently suggested that inoculation against typhoid should be carried out among the civil population of England. There is much to be said in favor of this idea. England is at present full of camps in which large numbers of people are crowded to- gether. These camp# are models of good management, nevertheless there are certain dangers which are un- avoid@bie. The typhoid ‘carier’ is one of them; he is not himself ill, but he carries the germ of the disease and infects other people. “The question of fly destruction has already been dealt with. The best way to avoid flies is to keep scrupu- lously clean premises and to leave nothing of an edible character un- covered.’ L OTHER VIEW POINTS Be it resolved, by the senate and house of representatives, that the 1915 revision of the statutes be printed in gold ink on parchment, and bound in c¢rushed levant with hand-tooled cov- ers. The state is rich.—Waterbury Republican. Out west the jitneys are raising their prices. The nickels and dimes do not look as big as they used to. And when the real hot weather comes along and the tires of overloaded cars begin going off with reverberant bangs, we look to see a drop in the value of jitney securities—Hartford Times. Probably no more practical methoa of hastening the education of the Fili- pinos could be amered than to spread the Boy Scout movement throughout the islands as rapidly as possible. Two generations of Boy Scouts should go far to accomplish a social revolution that would be of inestimable benefit to the natives and make them appre- clate the opportunities and responsi- bilities implied in self-government.— Bridgeport 'Standard. Americans are not so easily offend- ed artistically as Europeans. Every year, however, there is greater indig- nation against the Dbillboards and painted signs that spoil so many of the wost beautiful scenes visible from train windows. We are more tolerant in the towns than in the country. Few self respecting farmers would stand for the hideous advertising signs that form the dominant scenic note of nearly every city.—Torrington Register. Peace appears to be about as dis- tant from Mexico as the milky way is from our earth. Gen. Huerta is on the point of making his little contribu- tion to the prevailing anarchy by throwing into the country an expedi- tion of his own. The United States has urgent reason to wish to keep its hands off the bad boy to the south of us but it begins to look more and more as if the only permanent solu- tion of the Mexican problem was in- tervention for the best interests of Mexico itself, to say nothing of the best interests of the Americans, who are now marooned there.—Ansonia Sentinel. The Providence ordinance requires that the jitney owner must furnish a bond equivalent to $500 for each pas- senger seat, which would mean $2,000, $3,000 or more for each vehicle. There is also a license fee of $3 a seat. Other cities are passing equally radical laws. If the legislators at Hartford are more lenient, they will disregard the experience of towns and states ‘which have known this deluge not for weeks, but for months. It is desirable in Connecticut that we have state rather than local legislation, for al- ready New Haven has two lines be- tween this and other distant towns, while the majority of our lines run outside of city limits—New Haven Register. While Meriden has developed with- out a predetermined policy as to its development of streets and buildings in what would naturally be its civic center, such few undertakings as have been made to widen and improve streeis show what difficulties may be expected in the future should by any unexpected good fortune there be thrust upon the city such an_ unher- alded growth as is assured for the eity of Bridgeport. Accldents will happen and it might not be unwise to ILD' OVER BY POPULAR DEMAND SEE THE SHOW THAT HAS CAPTURED THE CITY -HOMAN’S MUSICAL REVUE Bigger and Better Than Any Other R evue Ever Seen Here NEW SONGS—NEW DANCES—NEW SKETCHES THE.BIG SPECTACULAR BOARDWALK NOVELTY SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW . 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Barrows of Norwich Town has written an en- tertaining book setting forth the in- teresting experiences of a young Yankee school teacher a half century ago, fact and fiction being furnished in about equal parts. It i§ the story of a young IMan of good caracter, tact and generous dis- position who becomes the teacher in a district which is known as a “leetle hard,” but by his clever makeup he not only makes a successful teacher but wins the heart and hand of a beatutiful girl, one of his pupils. The “Corner district” like many others has its/ sewing societies, ministers and strangely odd characters and Mr. Bar- Tows brings out their delightful and amusing traits in a manner which will make a lasting impression and make many others recall their experiences in like circumstances. None of the odd characters brought to view how- ever are imaginary personages, all having lived at one time in the “Corn- er district” or its vicinity. They were well known to the writer in his boy- hood days and what they are repre- sented as saying and doing, is a fair specimen of what they said and did. It is a revelation of human nature in its many phases skillfully woven in- to a story which fascinates and pleas- es. James Ray Sears is the yvoung man and his experiences fill twenty two chapters of school district life in which that which happens outside school hours gets clever treatment. Mr. Barrows is also author of “On Horseback to Cappadocia.” THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Society Courland, Livenia and Esthonia, the three Russian governments fold- ing themselves around the eastern elbow of the Baltic Sea, deeply brok- en in coastline, swept by an air crisp with cool in summer and biting in winter, form the Baltic Provinces. Th.y comprise 36,560 square miles, supporting 2,700,000 inhabitants, of whom the great majority are Letts ana_Esths, the first-mentioned akin to the Lithuanians, the latter a Fin- nish people. The natives are the lab- orers and the peasants, the Russians are the military and administrative officials, while, until the outbreak of the war, the Germans were the trad- ers and manufacturers of these provinces. “A lesser stream of German migra- tion has, at various times, flowed north by way of the Baltic, many of its elements settling on these coastal lands that_ stretch almost from the Prussian border to Petrograd. A light strip of the Russian government of Koyno touches the sea near Memel, thus dividing East Prussia from the Baltic Province. Germans have founded many families in this terri- tory, and many of the nobles and townsmen of the Baltic lands are of German ancestry. The German des- cended population of the three gov- ernments constitutes about § per cent of the whole, considerably out- numbering the Rusian. German characteristics far more than Russian are found throughout the provinces, which, until within the last few years, had numerous Ger- man schools, German newspapers and German societies. The Russians, however, e few years before the pres- ent war began, turned their attention to the Russianizing of the Baltic Provinces after the same thorough fashion with which they have carried on their campalgns for the assimila- tion of the Poles. The German schools language, press and organizations were proscribed. - The Order of the Swordbearers and, later, the Teutonic Knights made the territory included In the Baltic Pro- vinces the object of Christian cru- sades. They carried their religion to the Letts and Esths by the sword, and after them came German settlers, who expropriated the land, crushing the native population to a position of serf- dom. These northern crusaders car- ried on their operations during the 13th century. Besides. their religion, the knights brought the seeds of Ger- man civillzation with them, and the culture development of this region was, therefore, early far superior to have s little study given to future development and such provision made as would take care of it under rec- ognized agencies. By so doing there may be avoided the hasty eleventh hour scramble to do the right thing irrespective of the number of corns that mey be trampled.—Meriden Jour- Explaining an Explanation. ‘The Colonel while president ap- proved the T. C. & I absorption in order to stop the “Roosevelt panic.” That is_an explanation which ex- plains.—Rochester Herald. that of the surrounding country. ‘With the exception of Courtland, the Baltic Provinces once belonged to Sweden. Courtland was a dependency of Poland. Peter the Great took pos- seslon of ~the Swedish provinces in the beginning of the 18th century, and Courland was obtained in 1795. For a long time, the provinces were allowed a large measure of self-guidance, but, in 1880, the movement began for their assimilation with the rest of the Em- pire. The movement developed more especial emphasis some 6 or 7 years ago. The coastlands and their iaterior CONCERT by the Norwich Philharmonic Society (Young People’s Symphony) E. E. BAKER, Conductor in the Slater Memorial Hall Assisted by Amelia Conti-Berenguer 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. areas are flat, and are dotted with German towns and villages, Wwherein are found the German gables, townh- alls, cathedrals; and guttural German is heard in every commercial house. The provinces are rich in trade and manufacture, and the business of their port cities is of vast importance. Here areysome of the first ports of Russia.” Trent—Principal among the claims of Ttaly upon Astria is that one deal- ing with the town and country of Trent, which area forms the subject of the following war-geography state- ment of the National Gebgraphic So- ciety: “The country of Trent is a fascinat~ ing bit of Italy nestliag in the south- ern hills and mountains of Tyrol, lin- gually, culturally and geographically at one with Italy over the border. The county” embraces about 600 square miles,.a region rare in its scenic beau- ties, and one, within whose smiling valleys—often nearly mountain-locked —more than 100,000 people house. “A large part of this population, about 25,000, is concentrated in the capitol city, Trent, a place that sup- ports itself more By its relics and the charm of its surroundings than by its commerce or industry. The city stands on the Adige River, on the Brenner railway, 57 miles north of Verona and 35 miles south of Botzen. It is 178 miles northwest of Venice, whose sol- diers, during the late Middle Ages, tried time and again in vain to bring it under subjection to the Venetian State. The *Venetian _attacks were finally repulsed in 1487. “Trent, the city, is powerfully for- tified. Some 308 feet above its streets, the modern redoubt, Des Trento, looks cut over the city. The other de- fenses command the approaches to the town. There are a number of fine palaces in Trent and many®substan- tial houses. The city is a center of tourist pilgrimage, and the tolls that it collects in this way are large. Im- portant emong its more work-a-day industries, is its manufacture of sal- ami, a spicy, strongly individual sau- sage, than which even the Germang cannot produce anything more tempt- ing in the sausage genre. “The city and the villages show an entirely Italian character. Trent is the Italia Irredenta of the Italians, the Ttaly that still remains to_be re- deemed from bondage. 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