Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 12, 1915, Page 4

, orwich Bulletin: and Goudied 119 YEARS OLD that was made by this country and @oes mot. prevall at the present time. The Lusitania was therefore but an ordinary merchantman carrying in ad- dition to.its freight over two thousand people. It was not a war ship and ‘while the fact that it was carrying contraband made, it detrimental to the German cause, there are prescribed tules which should have been follow- d in attacking the vessel. It was mmmn-&m- . e Bullet: n 80, hunl‘nfl'm I Bulletin Jo! Villimantic Office, Room % Murray. Nulldieg. Telephone 318. v The Bulletin . has' the largest _* cireulation of any paper-in East- * ern Connecticut and from three tofour times larger than that of any in Norwich, It is delivered - tosover 3,000 of the 4,053 houses in Norwich, and read by ninety- three per cent. of tie people. In Windham it is delivered to.over 800 houses, in Putnam and Danielson to over ‘1,100 and in all of these places It is-consid~ ered-the local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hundred and sixty-five postoffice districts, and eixt- rural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is.gold in every “town ~ on all of the R. F. D. routes in Eastern Connmecticut, CIRCULATION 1901, average ..........cu 4412 1805, average .. May 8 AUTOS FOR VETERANS. Norwich has great respect for its [members of the Grand Army and the belief has been expressed on more ithan one occasion by The Bulletin that there are enough patriotically i clined automobile owners in this city to provide automobiles for the trans- iportation of the veterans in their Me- morial day parade. There is therefore 'eause for gratification in the ar- nouncement that has been made to the {effect that this innovation will be put ‘into operation this year. ranks of the “Boys in*Blue” are thinning and the defenders ‘of the republic are not increasing their activity on foot, but there is no oc- casion in which they take greater de- /light than participating in the exer- clses connected with Memorial day. “Whatever the distance may be the de- sire to get into the ranks and follow ‘the flag through the line of march on that occasion is as great today as it 'was over a half century ago. It is a case, however, where the spirit is will- {ing but the flesh is weak and while it is always possible for the soldiers of the Civil war to make a good show- !ing, many are forced to abandon the {idea because of physical infirmities. They are not able to do what they !could in years gone by. | The response which has been made iby the automobile owners to the idea of furnishing cars for the members of ‘the Grand Army is a most commend- ‘able one. There was a time when /hese men didn't consider such a thing ‘as overtaxing their energies. Today it is a different matter and the Norwich autoists are to be congratulated upon their recognition of the call to ser- vice. GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBLE. This country has received an ex- pression of regret for the loss of jAmerican lives in the torpedoing of ithe Lusitania from the German gov- ernment through its gmbassador. It has been said that Germany must dis- avow and denounce the action of her naval commander who sank the big lner if that country is going to re- tain our friendship. ‘What will be asked of Germany Ly this country has not been disclosed. Nelther has there been any intima- tion of what it intends to do regard- ing the loss of ‘American lives in view of the previous declaration that it ‘would be held to a strict; accountabil- ity. From past incidents, however, there appears to be little chance of a disavowal of the act of its submarine commander. That is not German pol- icy and it has not been displayed in any diplomatic response to this coun- try. In the sinking of the Frye Ger- many readily agreed to pay not only for the vessel, but for the cargo, but it did not declare that the German commander was wrong and denounce his act. It simply promised to make good. The commander who was respon- sible for the sinking of the Lusitania was simply carrving out the German naval policy, a policy which had “not been modified since this country en- tered its protest. Even though Ger- many may be willing and anxious to express regrets and make reparation for the torpedoing of American vessels ,and the loss of American lives, it is a @ German policy that evervthing that is done for the kaiser is right, how- ever wrong it might be if it were !done against him. It will be a great surprise if Germany disavows the act for which the government and not the commander is responsible, NOT AN ARMED VESSEL, As if to lend greater support to the claimed justification in sinking the |Lusitania statements emanating from German sources allege that the liner i was a reserve ship of the British navy iand that it was armed with big guns 1and carried contraband of war. It is shown by the manifest of the vessel that it carried quite a quan- ity of contraband and it is a fact that the Lusitania was subject to call iby the British government for naval |uses if desired, but it was not armed. {This is made certaln not only by the {statement of the owners, but by the |statement of the collector of the port of New York, who made a careful ex- amination of the vessel before it left. ‘Though the arming of merchant ves- sels was started several montbs ago, _Was abandoned- upon- the protest e ————e— Norwich, Wednesday, May 12, 1915, /sdbject to seizure inasmuch as it was British property and it rested wifh Germany to determine what disposi- tion should be-made of it, but not un- til opportunity had been given to the people aboard ‘the liner to get away in safety. It was not armed and it was due for different treatment than a warship, LAW*NEEDS ENFORCEMENT, Déwn in New London an auto driver has been arrested and fined for pass- ing a standing trolley car at an ex- cessive speed. Up In Springfield a driver is under arrest charged with manslaughter for . having knocked down three women killing one of them and injuring both of the othets who were about to board a car. In both instances there was an improper re- gard for the rights of individuals and these two ‘instances are but charac- teristic offmany other failures almost daily on the part of reckless drivers to ignoresthe regulations which have been adopted to meet just such con- ditiona. Swch failures to assume responsi- bility and such acts, which can be Woked upon in no other way than a determination not to be guided by re- strictions which have been found nec- essary to give proper protection to life and limb call for the strictest kind of law enforcement. Experience shows that the least incliration to leniency towards this class of drivers meets only with abuse. What is demanded and what would result in securing a proper respect for laws governing such violators is to bring each and every one to the bar of justice. It is time that there wa: a decrease in ‘such accidents, but it is not going to be obtained by lament- ing the injuries which are caused but by arresting every driver who breaks the law whether anyone is injured or not. It is only by such enforcement that careless operators of motor cars can be brought to a realization of their dangerous actions and the prevention of the needless deaths and injuries assured. No law or regulation gets Tespect until it is enforced. BUSINESS AS WELL AS SHOW. There is on display in the Hudson river many of the warships of this country. They represent several dif- ferent types of fighting ships and viewed from the standpoint of those who judge by the outward appearance they look pretty good. They make a good impression and create pride in that branch of the country’s defense. Each class of vessel from the latest dreadnought to the tiny submarine comes in for its share of attention, There are those, however, who look upon the display with a more critical eye. They see what the casual ob- server sees, but they also see more. They see that while it is a. navy in which there cannot help being pride as far as it goes, it reveals many weak points when compared with the other navies of the world. These ate not de- fects which have just been brought to light by this display, but those which have long been recognized and which it has been impossible to improve. The navy is something which must be considered otherwise than from its appearance on dress parade. There is its efficlency in case of war which is a matter of vital importance and that is to be disclosed only through com- parison with other navies. There is to be noticed the absence of the import- ant battle cruisers in the Hudson river display, the inadequacy of its hospital ships and the small number of sub- marines. It is impossible not to admire the naval display, but recent events have revealed in a stronger light the im- portance of that department of the government and the necessity of keep- ing it at its proper state of efficiency. It must be ready for business as well as show. EDITORIAL NOTES. The jury says Mrs. Carman is ‘not guilty. Who killed Mrs. Bailey? It is a good thing to get in the swat- ting early lest the fly decides to adopt a sub-policy this season. The man on the corner says: It is fine to be cheerful, but the underdog can’t_be expected to wag his tail. Ambassador Von Bernstorft says of the American people: “Let them think.” = How that man's ears must burn. The clapper has been removed from the Liberty bell, but no one has suc- ceeded in getting the clatter out of the lawn mower. The coroner's jury at Kinsale charges the kaiser with murder. It is a conclusion the sanity of which can- not be questicned Germany sank the Lusitania to strike at Great Britain. It has result- ed in a marked increase in English enlistments for war. It makes little difference where the Lusitania was or which course it took, the commander is bound to be blamed anyway for not having been in some other place, Roosevelt says that action is needed, Probably be means the same kind of action which.he took at Chicago and from which the country has been suf- fering ever since. Japan looked upon it as an insult to be asked to put its promise con- cerning Kiau Chau in writing, but it insisted upon a categorical instead of a blanket reply to its demands. If the German government Is act- uated by the same ideas which the apologists for it in this country are using to justify the torpedoing of the Lufitania little hope for any change can be expected. Up in Hartford a considerable amount of the work of decorating the veterans' graves Memorial day will be done by Boy Scouts. There can be no question but What they will do the work well but where are the Sons of Veterans? The people and press of Germany rejoiced over theesinking of the Lusi- tania. The German government ex- presses regret over the loss of Ameri- can lives. ‘WIll that bring any one of the dead back, or justify the action of-the submarine? ‘When I saw a messenger boy mount- ing our steps & week ago last Sunday 1 ran to the door, for I felt sure the special delivery letter in his hand was for me. It was a surprise to find that it was for Cousin Fannie, who rarely receives any interesting mail. “Why," she said, “this s exciting— an invitetion from Aunt Rachel to pass her birthday with her in New York. She will pay all expenses, and she wishes me to come at once. wonder whether I ought to go.” “Of course, you ought to, said mother, “There's no reason in the world why you shouldn’t, and I'm nice trip. You must begin to get ready immeaiatel; heve to do? “Now, mother,” 1 said, 4t will of clothes enerous Aunt Rachel is. York shops with Aunt Rachel. If I were you, I wouldn't get a single thing here.” “Well, perhaps youwre right, but I do_hate to wear my old winter hat.” “I'll let you take my pretty new blue barnvard straw. It will be just the thing for traveling, and then you Fon't have to waste any time shopping ere.” “Why, Lucile, how good of you; but I don’t think I ought to take—' “Then all you'll have to do, Fannie, is to pack your trunk,” remarked mother. “But what about the little silk frock Cousin Fannie promised to make for me this week, mother. I've counted on her doing it, and now it will be impossible to hire any one to do it, while the rush is on now, and I simply must_have it “Why?" demanded mother. “Because I need it dreadfully. ¥ou know Cecil Clarkson is giving a tea on Sunday for his pretty English niece, Beryl Florence, and I can’t g0 in win- ter duds. For the honor of America, I ought to have something new and modern. There are likely to be any number of delightful bachelors there, Yoo ‘Perhaps I can make it before I go,” said Cousin Fannie doubtfully. tested mother. “Lucile has pienty of things that she can wear it ehe only ) es; don't let me keep you, Cousin Fannie” I sald. “I can’t go to that tea if I don’t have my new frock, for iys essentially a spring affair. 1 was aSked to assist, but it won't matter, for I suppose Mr. Clarkson will have no trouble In finding some one to pour tea in my place.” “I'll not be the cause of your miss ing a bachelor tea” Cousin Fannie laughed. “By pitching in and work- “I don’t think you'd better try,” pro- | | Fannie,” | FROM LUCILLE’S DIARY ing hard, I'm sure I can get your dress done by Thursday. We'll begin it early to-morrow morning.” “Can't we plan it now?” I asked. “That wiil expedité matters, particu- larly as I have a lunch engagement to- morrow, and wiil have to be away a good pert of the day.” “You can break that engagement.” 'Why, mother, if 1 followed your advice, T wouldn't have a friend left. 1 do|The sacredness of engagements is one of the bulwarks of friendship.’ “Really?” said mother in the annoy- ingly superior tone she sometimes as- sumes, and I was glad father called awfully glad you are to have such a|her from our conference just then, Cousin Fannie end I “settled on ‘a What shopping will you | very chic design, and by Wednesday night it was all done, except a little be | finishing in the way of hooks and eyes, foolish for' Cousin Fannie to buy a lot!and hemming that dear grandmother here, for you know how | was delighted to do. It's always such 1 envy you,|a pleasure to her to feel that she is ousin Fannie, the tours in the New | heipful. Thursday evening Cousin Fannie got eway in a good deal of excitement. Poor dear, she is not used to traveling much, and she found fatiguing even the packing of her trunk that morning. I tried on my dress for father's ben- efit after she left. “Why, it's a dandy, Lucile! You don’t mean to say that Fannie made that for you? It looks actually pro- fessional.” “Yes; isn't she clever? Of course, I suggested it and helped a lot “Well, what did you do for Fannie in return?” “She didn’t have time to get a new spring bat, so I let her wear mine, and she looked lovely in it, daddy.” “That was square of you.” “I'm just thinking how perfectly ab- surd my velvet and fur hat will with this spring finery,” I said. “I'm afraid I'll have to wear some dowdy old winter clothes, after all, to the Clarkson tea, and that will be horrid. 1 believe I just won't go.” “Would you accept the price of a hat from an admirer?” “Oh, daddy, you old dear! I can get a perfect beauty for $20. If I get the one I made in mind, I can give dear Qousin Fannie the one I let her wear I know she will be awfully glad to have it “Well, I suppose I'm in for it” grumbled father, handing me a yellow backed bill, but I know he was really happy i3 the circumstances, and I was delighted, for the hat that I lent Cous- in Fannie didn't really sult me well at all. When mother saw me dressed in my new frock and stunning hat, instead of being pleased, she appeared vexed, and accused me of gross extravagance, She was not mollified even when I told her that father gave me the hat. I - | firmly belleve at times that she would like me to dress like a quakeress.— Chicage News. Stories of Auto a Necessity. “A nation which had exclusively the secret of fhe internal combustion en- gine could conquer the world. Under Present circumstances, a nation which could conquer the gasoline supply would be the dominant military power. The automobile has without question been the most important factor in modern warfare.” It was at headquarters of the First British Army thet an eminent Brit- ish staff officer made these observa- tions. He had been delivering a quasi- lecture to a group of correspondents, explaining the many uses of motor- transport. Without motor traflic the present eat war of SEurope would have been possible. There would have been sreat batties to be sure; great battles such as Gettysburg and Waterloo; but an army crushed would remain crush ed. Today reinforcements can be thrown here and there almost as a man would fling a handful of grain. Thousands can be moved miles ove night; thousands can be poured into the trenches in a few hours. One has but to motor over the shell- pocked fighting area of France and Belgium to appreciate the importance of the automobile. Painted dull grey, olive drab, or daubed zebra-like, on the principle that the splotched colors prevent observations, they lumber or whizz, according to their load and power, over the magnificent roads of France, most of which are still in superb’ condition motwithstanding the traffic of war, bearing food, ammuni- tion and supplies, at a rate that the general of old never dreamed of. A correspondent of The Associated Press, motoring southwest from Ypres, a few miles behind the lines of par- rallel trenches, passed hundred of mo- tor lorries, making their way to rail- head there to collect supplies which they would carry toward the front the next morning. Driven by bus chauf- feurs from the Strand and Piccadilly, by taxicab drivers from the four cor- ners of the earth, many from Canada, some from New York, Chicago and Pittsburgh, these great cars, lights dimmed, crept along in an unbroken stream for miles, reminding one of the roads of Long Island the night before the Vanderbilt Cup Rece. . From the trenches of the contend- ing armies searchlights thrust thin fingers into the black sky; and every now and then a magnesium flare, also sent up from some trench, would il- luminate the heavens like sheet light- ning. Riding with an officer of the General Staff, driven by an American chauf- feur, formerly mechanic for Barney Oldfield, the correspondents swept along at fifty miles an hour, thread- ing thelr way through the line of lor- ries, here and there.passing infantry moving to the trenches, or a battery changing its position. Timidly the carts of the French peasants hugged the far e of the road. The horses were Invatiably white—a color not ‘wanted by the army—or so decrepid as to,_be of no military value, “Hi there! Out of the way yo the American chauffeur would shout. At a peasant slow in turning his old horse from the roadway the chauffeur would shake his fist and swear. He was driving an officer, and he had no patience with civilians. “They got no usiness being where armies are any- way,” he commented ingenerously, as if the poor peasants could have moved if they had so desired. Life In Trenches at Argonne, After seven months of continuous service in the trenches of the Agonne Forest, Sergeant Gabriel David, of the French infantry, is a visitor in this country, Sergeant David was wounded twice. Once a bullet crashed into his thigh and caused a superficial Injury, but hi: cartridge box saved him in a measure; and, again, he was struck by a plece of shrapnel and his Jeft arm wes shat- tered. This. and the fact that he was greatly run down in general health rom exposurs, caused his_ officers to grant an indefinite furlough to him. Sergeant David is one of the repre- sentatives of Strawbridge & Clothier at the Paris headquarters. He took adva?r'yase of the furlough to visit this country and more fully acquaint him- self with the nresent needs of the store here, as regards French production. Also he desired to inform the manage- ment and buyers concerning fashions, gowns, millinery and other goods ob- taining in Europe. “Life in the trenches makes a dif- ferent man of one,” he said. “You for= get about mother being at home apd about all such things. I am fond of reading, but I did not read in the trenches. I like good food, but I never had much appetite while on duty there. Christmas Eve came before we knew it. You see, we must change our method of living to keep up un- der the terrific -strain of bombs and shot. However, the life has its at- tractions, and the care-free spirit that obtains in the trench hardly cannot be duplicated anywhere. ‘One afternoon we built a good- sized fire under our regiment soup cauldron. Soon it was apparent Ger- man aviators had peported it to their artillery control, bombs began to drop near the boil We ell scurried to points of safety. _Hardly had we done so when at least 100 shells were dropped around our soup befove the| firing ceased. When we returned two hours later the soup still boiled, but it was unfit for eating, as the bombs had kicked dirt into it. Another time one of our men came across a chicken in the forest. It had been killed some time, but we hurled it out in front of our forward trench where the Germans in their front dug-out could see it. Many of the Kaiser's troops risked their lives to get it, and finaliy one courageous fellow got it by a qulet sortie about nightfall.” Sergeant David described the odd Magee Bo 74 eftect of pee) over the top of & trench for weeks Into the same pair of German blue eyes. don’t know who this man was of what he might have been” he said, “but wherever I go I can yst see those sad-looking eyes. He 1 gazed at each other for three weeks in one stretch; his watch seemed to always be the same as mine. We came to re- spect each other. I am sure that I would always know those blus eves, and I would like to meet that man when the war has ended. * Sergeant David expects to Teceive e summons to return to the at any time. He if about 35 years old and wears a typical French beard. Crazed By War, A Dill to protect eoldiers disabled by nervous breakdown from the stigma. of lunacy has been introduced in Parlia- ment by Cecil Harmsworth. Nervous breakdown from the effects of shell fire involves a mental breakdown, with a complete loss of memory along with the loss of tasting, smelling end fre- | quently of speech and sight. Many of the men are temporarily deranged, and are kept in the lunacy wards of hospitals. Their cure comes with com- with complete rest and the building up of general health. Mending Broken Soldiers. Germany is patching up and mend- ing her broken soldiers with remark- able speed at the new “Krankenhaus” in Barmbeck, a suburb of Hamburg. This great hospital, which covers sev- cral acres of graund was completed early last fall at a cost of many mil- lions of marks, and has a capacity of 2,000 beds. Nine hundred of them now contain_soldiers, The most interesting part of the hospital is the orthopaedic institute, where the soldiers are being massaged, and bathed and exercised back into usefulness, either on the battlefield or in private life. A heretofore unheard of percentage does get back the use of paralyzed limbs and damaged func- tions. When the bullet, shrapnel or shell wound that put the soldier out of bus- iness has healed, it leaves him dis- abled in almost as great a variety of ways as there are wounds, and fre- quently with greatly impaired ability to walk or run, or to use his hands, arms and fingers. According to the nature of his dis- ability . therefore he is first glven a series of baths—mud, sand, hot water, acid light, and electricity. He lies for hours in a bathtub of rich, black, hot mud, or he sits in queer looking recep- tacles while hot sand pours down onto him and makes his nerves tingle. He is lowered on a chair by means of a pulley into water as hot as eny man can stand, and after a time, un- der the soothiils, softening influence he is able to move limbs that before were immobile. He sits with an arm in an acid bath or with electricity coursing through his system until gradually he becomes supple. Then he moves into a room filled with fantastic instruments, each de- signed to give play to some particular muscles. If it is a leg that has gone out of commission he mounts a ma- chine not unlike a bicycle and pedals for hours until at last he has won back the use of his limb, It a bullet has lessened the soldier's ability to breathe, he is suspended by straps under his arms and slowly drawn upward by a sort of hoist which ‘acilitates his inhalations. He learns how to crook his knee, twist his wrist, raise his arm and turn his head. So prominent a part does the use of the vacuum play that there is a “vac- uum room” where the convalescents , one with a vacuum .on a part of his arm, pulling up the flesh about a wound others with the machines on _ their ‘backs, their legs, on almost every part of their anatomy. ‘There are countless patients with arms or legs that have stiffened in peculiar ways. One finds them, also together in a big room, with odd look- ing mechanical contrivances strapped to arms or legs—contrivances that can be tigntened so as to bend the arm a fraction of a centimeter more at a time until joints have been coaxed back into the habit of moving. As the patient lies on a bed with a wounded knee that must be raised a wooden contrivance with screws, under his leg, performs the duty without the usual pain of such an operation. Or, a pulley arrangement on the wall be- hind him lifts his arm and turns is in an arc. So frequent are the operations at the Barmbeck hospital that the huge op- erating room is served by a double window connecting with the antiscep- tic chamber. Instruments are passed out one window, cleaned and passed through the other, where another pa- tient may be ready. A group of a dozen correspondents, many of them men who had frequent- ly been at the front, had been under fire and who had had an opportunity to see some of the horrors of the bat- tlefleld, recently visited Barmbeck. To a man they agreed that the patients in the hospitals, with their twisted and ston Heater and HotWater Combination Retains all the advantages of both systems; perfect venti- lation and equal distri- bution of heat. Ma;e Furnaces have heated New England homes suceessfully for Magee Furnaces Are Reliable, Serviceable, Economical Fresh Hot Air at a Reasonable Cost Sold by SHEA & BURKE i Magee Furpace Co., Inc., Boston, Mass. MUTHER OF -+ SCHOOL GIRL Tells How Lydia E. 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[‘ OTHER VIEW POINTS The average public service corpora- tion is always greatly concerned for the public welfare, at certain inter- vals, especially when the public is wanted to fill the coffers of the corpor- ation—Middletown Press. The attitude which the United States will adopt toward Germany in consequence of the Lusitania tragedy is by common consent left wholly to the president, who is trusted by all patriotic Americans to be cautious, wise and very firm in interpreting what he Dbelieves to be the will of the American people.—Hartford Post. As the result of a year of war Great Britain’s: national debt has doubled. During twenty years of the Napoleonic wars Great Britain's debt Increased about two and one-half times. Yet the greatness of the burden is less now than it was then. The productivity of the world has wonderfully increased since Napoleon hurled his battalions against Europe. The debt growing out of this war will be easier borne than the debt which followed the Napoleonic wars.—Bridgeport Farmer. One gets the impression from some of the proposals made to bring about international peace that the nations will be gxpected to follow tactics like those of individuals who are compelled by law to wait a fixed number of days or months for defendants to reply to a suit, and then to wait and wait and wait for amendments to be made to the papers drawn up by the legal lights on both sides until there's hardly any fun left in suing. That may work for a time, but just as sure as fate there’ll be a strong movement for “speeding ORDER YOUR WEDDING STATIONERY ‘WEDNESDAY Grand Opening of Showing Where and_How the U How Your A LESSON FROM THE FAR EAST Two Reel Chinese Drama Uat versal Favorite Film Star in Actual Life Shows 2:30, 7 and 8146 Mat. 10¢; Eve. 10 and 20c D THURSDAY versal City, Cal. Photoplays are Made. 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Children, 25¢c. and $1.00 up justice” as soon as it has had a few trials.—Waterbury Republican. “Even if the war in Europe costs $10,000,000,000; if it destroys 5,000,000 human lives and devastates the fairest countries of the world it will be a small price to pay compaged with the value of total abstinence @ong those nations for succeeding generations This is not the ravings of an extrem- ist carried away by the situation which the war has been the means of reveal- ing. It is the claim of Col L. Mervin Maus of the United States army medi- cal corps. Certainly no maudiin sen- timentality attaches to this declara- tion, It is the product of the hard headed man of affairs who tglks of what he knows and on accont of whose experience, the claim tarries welght—Meriden Record. The Shore Line Times, noting that on the one hand the supporter of woman suffrage have sworn to obtain political vengeance on those members of the legislature who voted against it, and on the other hand the liguor interests are after the scalp of those who voted to raise the license fee, thinks that between the two forces “Connecticut will have to start all over again next vear making a brand new body of legislators.” Though these are the least of the reasons, if they are any reasons at all, why the present members ought not to be re- turned, The Register believes it would be far from a calamity if substantially the whole of the present legislature were elected to remain at home from the genera] assembly of 1917.— New Haven Register. We suppose .that even . Germany would acknowledge that certain forms of submarine warfare are a . rever- sion to barbaric, not to say piratical ‘warfare. To sink without warning a great passenger ship, filled with non- combatants and with women and chil- dren, drowning them by the hundreds, is an act that speaks for itself of dis- regard of all civilized standards and hence of all rights of neutrals, be- cause in the last amalysis neutral rights are founded on the recognition of civilized standards. - Suppose the United States should propose to Italy, Greece and Scandinavia even the South American nations, that, as a neutral league, these nations should unite to protect the rights of neutrals. Difficult as it would be to form su. league, the great practice of the Uni- ted States might perfect a successful initiative. Scandinavia, being so close to Germany would hestitate. She would fear the fate of Belgium. But Italy needs only a slight push apparently to bring her in. With ltaly in, Scandi- navia might pluck up courage—Wwater- bury Amcrican. STARTING A CHINESE DAIRY. Eighteen Hundred Miles After the Cows—No Weekend Excursion. Heretofore a knowledge of sanitary dairy methods has not been absolute- ly essential for a missionary candi- date. It may be needed in Shaowu hereafter however, if an experiment just tried there proves a success. A recent Foochow Messenger tell about it: The death rate among Chinese ba- bies is fearfully high, largely for lack of proper food. If a baby cannot have mother's milk, cow’s milk s next best. Chinese cows, however, have been trained for fleld work and thelr milk, though fairly good, is almost literally New Show Thursday THE SHOW THAT HAS BROKEN ALL RECORDS HOMAN’S MUSICAL REVUE 16—ARTISTS—16 Eerything Will be Entirely Different Tomorrow NEW SONGS NEW DANCES NEW NOVELTIES e Complete Change of Photo- plays ‘Also P Mat. 2:30 10c; Children 5c —_—— only a drop in the bucket when con- sidered as a food. Dr. E. L. Bliss, of the American Board’s hospital, at Shaowu in Fukien Province, China, having tried in vain to secure food for the many sick chil- dren, decided to establish a mission dairy. and incidentally to improve the grade of catile in Fukien. After much; earching he learned that a mission farm in ‘Chihli Province, North China, was, advertising _high grade animals for sale. So a member of the Shaown staff, Rev. E. D. Kellggg, accompanied by e Chinese drugsgisi, started on the 1800 mile trip after the cows., It was no week-end excursion, the journey up and back taking forty-six _da; They traveled eight hundred miles by rail, two hundred and fifty mmiles by large river steamers on the Yang Tze, one hundred miles on small steamers, one hundred and fifty miles in small river boats, one hundred and twenty miles in.:iRekibg:«carts and, three” hundred and fifty miles on foot: half the way, of course, the newly purchased cattle, Farmer Boy and Daisy Girl, added to the excite- ment of the trip. Mr. Kellogg declares that cows are a fine advertising device and the pro- cess of milking, both as to the meth- od used and the amount of milk ob- tained, was a matter of amazement to the crowds which gathered-round. The norther inese were almost afraid to touch the milk but the squtherners accepted it and even wanted to buy it. At one village the traveling dairy-men had to milk at noon and even them could not meet the demand. The long journey did mot seriously affect Daisy’s milk supply and the fine san- itary barn which was ready for her when the journey was over was an- other witness in favor of the mission’s gospel of cleanliness and health. 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