Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 11, 1915, Page 4

2l ¥ The3Bulletinshas sthe stargest - rautation of -any-paper invEast: flern Connecticut and from three e larger than that of .‘\lfly in Norwich. It is delivered ‘to over3,000. - all_of these places:it is:consid-, " ared'the local daily. 3 Eastern Connectioutshas forty- 8\ nine towns, ome- hundred and 18'% sixty-five postofficerdistriots,and Yoixty. pural free routes.: \, TheBulletin Is eold in every b town - - on.all of the R. F. D = routes in Eastern Connecticut., CIRCULATION 3 “lm.!cwun~<......a. 4412 §9908 \average .ovea...§ 820 August. HAVE THE'BULLETIN FOLLOW You Readers of The Bulletin leaving the city for vacation trips can have it feliow them daily and thus keep in teveh with home affairs. Order ‘;hrou‘h‘Th. Bulletin ‘business of- Rce. 4 i The democratic national committee Hs very much pleased with the united do not.seem capable of realizing the country may stand.solid for in his forefgn policy and be 2 ydivided upon home;policies. L There is no better:evidence: that the iblican party is-coming to fts own in 1916 than. the un’m,neement ot Roosevelt that he still 18 a bull- . Seeing the shadow of com- g events -cast ' before the : wrecker the old party that to & position of influence he must o an exteént retain his following if le. Hisihope 1s to.lead a dic-| on. 5 The old storm cloud hangs over emocratic prospects of success in 916; and it never has.gathered over Big treasury defleit because of an lependable economic. policy that it [aid not prove to be a good omen of ifepublican success, | The republicans seesthe necessity for ting together and Chairman Hillis rof the republican national committee isays he has plenty of documentary levidence that the ‘republicans are do- iing it The Deople are with.President: Wil- $on now because he is for the right. [When he comes to stand for partisan- “sm the sftustion will change. 'CRITICISING ORGANIZED LABOR. « It 1s so natural for all organized bodies to have a selfish way of doing things, it is not at all surprising that organized labor is being used as the taxed people are most always used. The every day man is the goat in gov. rnment and elsewhere. Organized labor is opposed to leg- islative and congressional junketing {and it is being taunted with being Blind to the fact that its delegates are Junketing to San Francisco not be- 4ause their lasues could not be just 4s- well settled nearer home, but be- {€ause it is & great thing to see the exposition at someone else’s expense. The Bulletin does not propese to join those who are calling this a de- {liberate waste of the people’s money, or it 15 educative, and if labor doesn’t object it doesn't see why The Bulletin should. Belfishness s always bdrazen, and why men tolerate the tax of much of it ie because they look upon it as cus- tomary if not necessary, and the tax doesn’t seem heavy and they listen ‘with interest to the reports. The People pay for a great many pleasure trips under the guise of bus- |iness, ana are ltkely to continue to do BO.. Officialdom always likes to put up a great front at the expepse of the fpeople, and officlaldom feels sure it 1s worth it. 3 A SIGN OF ECONOMY, The German submarine campaign ‘has beenimade extravagant by the high icost of the torpedoes and the large iper cent. of misses. Five hits in a ‘hundred with torpedoes which cost iover $8,000 aplece canmot be called |successful campaigning when the vic- ‘Willlameburg, Vi, reports: “We use the shifting group plan of grading pupils and a form of reports to par- ents that keep parents thoroughly in- formed -as to the pupil's standing dur- likely t | ltved every child who is in danger of fall- ing behind his class. it & pupfl is weak, efforts are made to ascertain the exact nature of his weakness early in the term and remedy it.” The teacher's nride inm bright and easy scholars should long ago have shifted to the pupils they have aroused to thought and scholarship rather than been given to those who naturally take to books and are the show pupils on special occasions. ‘The pride and con- ceft of these puplls needs no inflating. It i3 more creditable work to awaken the ambition of the slow and to quick- en the imagination of the dull. The new: education 45 going to_be the real thing. THE FLOWER OF THE NATIONS PERISHING. ‘This Buropean war is sweeping from 1ife the young men at the rate of 30,- 000 or 40,000 a day, Bright and prom- ising and dependable sons of’families in all these countries have perished by the thousands in a year, Handsome, educated and efficient lads swept out of existence as never before. The London City School prints a'roll of honor containing & thousand names of bright boys in the trenches of Belglum and France and at the Dardanelles and in the British navy on_every sea. We talk of money losses, but what are they compared with the loss to a mother of four boys and her legle ‘baby boy left as a representative of such an array of splendid manhood sacrificed. And the English schoolboys are put- ting in song such sentiments as thi: 4 “They are gone and aloft the old school-bell Mourns their loss, as it sways in the autumn wind; There was no regret in their last fare- well; Regret is for us who are left be- hind. We that are still too young to go And serve our land in its hour of need. Oh! that the days would not seem so slow Before we can follow our comrades’ lead.” i ‘What is this war costing these con- tending nations in flesh and blood, in undeveloped genius and mechanical and spiritual force? These are losses that cannot be estimated in dollars and cents—the losses that set back progress and civilization. Material things can be made good, but divinely inspired youths are lost in the fray and the spiritual force of a million young men can never be estimated or regained. EDITORIAL NOTES. A radiant face can carry a lot of freckles without being handicapped. The people in the little old Fora do not motor any more—they can only jitney now! The government's weather probabil- ities are becoming past events right along just mow. B Those who have their vacations ahead of them are still being thrilled by anticipation. Those who advocate lack of war ma- terial for its moral influence should study the fly and the spider. The first of August 1,200 newspapers and periodicals were suspended in Germany. War blights industry. . No woman was ever foo] enough to ‘say she wouldn't.have & haircut till ‘the war is over and live up to IC,A for rain and T & drouth. Man gets too much or too little of everything bdut - pwar. get' near!encugh they : her if she does not ‘surrender. " | 'This new-submarine gun so quickly Itrained. Into . position and 'so quickly 1a pussting John Bull. Tt must welgh {a'ton and if it fires alshell three miles [ S — The -Kaiser is ambitious to give England a little taste of what Wil- liam the Conquerar wasn't lke in the long ago. e —_—— ' The Man on the Corner says: Love in a cottage has been told in song and story; but_ifcompatibility in & bun- galow will never be so interesting. ‘The fellow who says when an inter< fresting conversation is on: “That re- reminds me of a story,” is grefit at the club, dut'in no demand in_soclety. The Kailser employs a large force of able writers to show up the perfidy an easy prey for military designers. The new story about Paradi: to be aoccepted. in Paradise and that one King ruled 34,000 years. That must have been the King of Heaven. ‘Germany's explanatiohs why she ruined Belgium and made 50,000 chil- dren fatherless and motheriess for Holland to support doesn’t remove the stain from her escutcheon. ‘The charges and counter charges of the representatives of the fighting na- tions that a crfminal course is being pursued simply resolves itself into the pot calling the kettle black. The little neutral countries abutting the English channel have increased their fmportation of cotton a million and e quarter bales in ten months. That would heve aroused Uncle Sam’ suspicion. The Englishman who says there are 1o men in America who could per- form the official duties of'a monarch pays our great Americans a high com- pliinent. They-are qualified to do bet- ter business, There is no escaping the cruelties of war. Those who remain secure ag %ome seo the national debts doubling annually. It looks as though repudi- ation would be the eventual method of lquidatin — /A representative of the Czar is on the way to Washington with photo- graphic illustrations of the barbarity of the invaders, for President Wilson. If the pictures are not entertaining. they will be convincing, Germany dld not demand a heavy indemnity of Russia; she tendered her a liberal gift to make peace that Von Hindenberg’s army might be free to take and hold the English channel coast. Nicholag couldn't be bought. The top-motch players for the movies get $1,200 and 31,500 a week by repute; but in a recent California court it was testified that a star sel- dom got less than §150 a week. There no doubt one star differeth from-an- other in glory. Colorado has learned nothing from Missouri and her houn' dorg. Until 2 man in that state has kicked his wife around for a year she has ro grounds for divorce; and if she can't stand it he gets his bill. What are the women voting for in Colorado? A broken-fingered ball player called plied the doctor. “Then I'll praise you to the boys,” he said, “for I never knew how to play before. The United States billt the first armored naval vessel, invented and perfected the first submarine, brought out the airships that make 110 miles an hour and can destroy dirigibles, invented and fought in the first trenches, and these European fighting nations pretend not to know they ever borrowed anything from us. Stories of the War Princess Pat’s Men. ‘With his kit-bag on his shoulder, and still mudstained and blood-stained, & wounded Canadian, in the course of an interview, told a_dashing narrative of the gallantry of Princess Pat's men in & recent battle. “If the ‘Pats’ haven't proved them- selves fighters this trip, then I don’t know what it is to be a soldler,” he sald. “The Germans took us for a lot of mice, but they jolly soon found out that we were men of the old John Bull sort. We simply walloped them so much with the bayonet _that you couldn't spot a German for miles around when we had done with them. “We been ordered to assist a Border Regiment (I think it was), and our artillery were exchanging eompli- ments with the Germans. This can- didn't last long, and the moment arrived when the s’ were to e their salt. e enemy’s first-line _trenches JgTe ouly & hop, step, and Jump sway. The word came. We were up and over the parapet like lightnirig. There was & chorus of ‘John Bull for ever,’ and in 8 second We were entertaining the m‘- to a bayonet display. The ‘would show no fight. They were h although they had eight or, nine men to the British one. “We cleared the first line of trenches and then attacked the remainder. English boys who were with us did some of the finest fighting of the war. xl aid what ‘were of sing ahd lark as 1f they had been to a music ball. They sing all sorts of eongs. 'We used to one thing, the first line of which raq, "flhilllnxi shelling. sl volabgling! L St Tini SN You 8oon Get Used To It Many letters continue to reach Eng- 1and giving details of the ure of German trenches at Hooge and Festu- rt. Signalman James Clark, of ?flntfi Liverpool Regiment (Sentinels) os ippose you have heard about the blg ‘40’ we were in. Glad to say I got through all right. We were in the trenches for six days. I was sent over “B" Company when they ad- vanced on the German trenches, We had a job to find our way in the dark, and the enemy soon discovered us with their starlights, and shells and maxim bullets beégan to rain down. “It's wonderful how one feels at such a time, 1 felt quite calm, and saw men fall dead or get terribly wounded, and yet did not take any notice. If 1 were to see the slightest wound in peace- time it would sicken me for a While, but out here things are quite different. “You soon get used to it, and find it best to go about not worrying about anything. ~It's the gemeral rule out here that those who get ‘wind up'— Loy Trishtened—are usually the first nie Didn’t See Much Fighting—All Murder. | atr. Private Thomias Dean of the Can. adian Contingent writes home: “I am still in bed. 1 was wounded on April 23rd. I was gassed and re. ceived a bullet wound in the right side. When it entered it splintered one of my ribs, went down through my spine, paralysing my right leg, and was removeéd from the of the spine. It also. shattered the nerves. “I am still glad T Aid my little bit. I did my very best, as I sald I would before leaving Ottawa, and I should have done better if I could. I aid not see much fighting. It was all murder. But I shall teil the story ‘when I arrive in Ottawa again. I am to be shipped back one of these d I am very sorry to hear about Sparke (Wiltred Sparks. who also enlisted from the home and is now a prisoner Of war at Geissen, Germany). I have written Alec Lioyd. I hope he is get- ting on all right. “This is & splendid hospital and the doctors and sisters are ripping. The éisters are just like mother. I shal\ never forget them.” Nineteen American Fliers. Nineteen of the most enced aviators in the United States, it was mounced last week in New York, have been employed to operate air craft by the English, French and Ru: lan war departments. A weekly ship- ment of sixty hydro-aeroplanes and military tractors is to be _made from New York to England, France and Russia. Already more than two hun- dred and fifty machines have been sent over to the war. “Mercy, Comrades.” Private J, Riley, “C” Company, 7th Irish, writing to & friend in Liverpool, “We were told to retake the three trenches gained and lost by the Scot- tish regiments at all costs, and it proved very costly. The Black Watch who were behind us in the reserve, also lost heavily. “The Germans must have got know about another charge, and when we all jumped on the parapet of their BOSTON in it8 new school Guards, and some were-waving handkerchiefs and shouting, ‘Mercy, comrades,’ but they didn't get it while our rifles woula and our mets were sharp enough. “Then they started to bombard their own trenches with shrapnel, and it was then I got hit in the face. 1 was lying for an hour and & half before the fire ceased; then I got through to the dressing station.” Herocic Stretcher Bearer. In the great charge of the 8th Irish on June 17th, the officers gallantly led the men into action. Henry, St. Pau’s Road, Seacombe, who was wounded in the advance, and is now in hospital, in a letter to his par- regiment won undying fame with their bayonet charge, capturing and holding two trenches that _the British lost in_ the counter-attack of the previous day. le maxim and rifie fire was terrific, but our boys, led by our gallant officers, were not to be held. “We were facing the pick of the | army, too, Prussian gunners and Sa: ons. 1 went right mad. They re- treated crying for mercy, but there was none. “The bodies were lying six feet deep. and the groans of the dying rent the “Deeds of herolsm were performed in hundreds. One of our stretcher bearers, a lad of 18, was working like & nigger while bleeding from half a dozen wounds.” OTHER VIEW POINTS It's hard to get excited over the announcement that Henry James, the novelist, has surrendered his Ameri- can citizenship and become a British subject. Some of us are surprised to learn that he ever was an American— ‘Waterbury Democrat. Kansas City Jitney operators have decided that a Jitney is a dime, and the tariff has been doubled as a resuit. It is saild the public has taken kind- Iy to the increase, and there has be no falling off in the number of pa: sengers carried. Wonder how such an innovation would take in, old New Eng Evidently the ' wild and wooly westerners have no sense of the value of money.—Hartford Post. One of the many charms of New Britain is the almost total absence of street beggars, Pedestrians in this city are not forced to run the gauntlet of extended palms. Once in a great while & son of vagabondia ambles through the portals of our city and takes up & position on Main street, but this does not often happen and the visit of the favorite son is short lived. He is_promptly given his passports. New Britain Herald. \ Beginning on Monday, it will be lawful to shoot deer in Connecticut for the first time in fifteen years. Any farmer may kill a deer upon hi own farm, whether owner or leased, and any member of his family, or bon- afide employe may kill a deer but only upon said farm. There will be no in- discriminate hunting. - Shot-guns only may be used. This means cheap meat for Connecticut ‘farmers for a short time, also the speedy extinction of the e accompanying {llustration is shown General In the charge of the French forces operatini & at the PIpmtmama cult as and conte tively hates Private George | I bury American. || THE WAR PRIMER || By National Geographic Society t retreating. armies are Polish government, which is now as- suming its great historic Interest as |a theater where the most events of the world war may place. The following description this great battlefield has just been sued by the National hic clety: ‘Sledlce government heart of Poland, ecreened Vistula and Bug Rivers, toward the Wwest, north and east, and_ by the Wieprz River in the south. It is, more | closely related to Russia than any other part of the Polish ince. The great trunkline railways Wi saw with Petrograd and Moscow cross Poland within this govermment, and some of the most favorable Polish wagon roads also run over its plain toward the Russian border. boundaries all around, together with extensive marshes in the north and low hills. in the south invest it with unusual advantages for defense, while its level character faclitates “There are a few ‘sloping hilly trac in the government, on the bank of Bug, around Blala and in the middle. The marshes in the north &re treacher- our, and worthless. However, only about 5 .per cent. of the governmen: total area of 5,533 square miles is productive. It is one of the richest ag- ricultural areas in Poland. Nearly half of it, or 48 per cent, is under crops, and another 17 per cent. is in meadow and pasture land. The prin- cipal crops are rye, wheat, oats, barley and potatoes. The breeding of live stock is second in importance to ag- riculture. About 19 per cemt. of the land is forested. The government is of no importance industrially. It sup- ports about 1,000,000 population.” LETTERS TO THE EDITOR No Oid Home Day. Mr. Editor:—It is our very painful task to inform the scribe of Packer that, in spite of his generous offer to give free space in fifty papers for which he writes, there are small pros- pects of there being an Old Home Day in the fair vilage of Baltic. 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