Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 24, 1915, Page 4

and Goufied 119 YEARS OLD R e =+ e e v Office 480, Willimantle Ofice, Room % Murray.| Nullding. Telephone 316. Norwich, Tussday, Aug. 24, 1915 —_— e TheCirculation o i The -Bulletin has the- largest § circulation of any paper in East- ern Connecticut and from three to four times larger than that of any in Norwich. It is delivered | te,over 3,000 of thy 4,053 houses in Norwich, and read by ninety- three per cent. of the pecple. In " Windham it is delvered to ever 900 houses, in Putnam and Danelson to.over 1,100 and in all of these places it is consid- ered-the local daily. Eastern Connectiout has forty~ nine towns, one hundred and sixty-five postoffice districts, and * cixtv rural free delivery routes, The.Bulletin Is sold In:every - on all of the R. F. D, Eastern Connecticut, CIRCULATION - 51001, average ...eeeveean. 44127 ..-5,920 { August 21 ....... 9,208 JAVE THE BULLETIN FOLLOW yYou m:"nf ‘The Bulletin leaving utes. 49053 average -. CONVOYED SHIPS. . Ofuch-emphasisihas been placed.upon ithe point ag to whether ‘the steam- {shipi Arablo:was under.convoysat the {time it was' torpedoed and & ‘further {lack -of ‘justification for:the attack is \dieplayed by the:declaration that it ‘'was recelving no such protection as 1t was passingithrough the war sone. To convoy asship through the waters ‘which the German order-includes in thes taliooed territory is to furnish it iwith. armed protection. The vessel it- self ‘may 'not be armed, but the con- voy can.be depended upon to be and Nlikewise ‘be expected to possess much speed in addition in order to provide as great a menace as possible to the ‘war vessels of:the enemy. Such con- Vvoy, therefore, operates in a manner which virtually amounts to the con- voyed ship being armed and thus classed as & ship of war, for it has that defense which would be the same as if the guns were mounted upon its own ‘deck and an attack can be made upon an enemy ship or repelled. Thus the fact that the Arabic was not convoyed:removes it from a class which might be looked upon as an iobject-of attack without such a warn- ing asiis called for by the rules of \warfare when a merchantman is stop- ped. Even though it might have had & warship escort during any part of its journey, but not at the time when the attack *was..made leaves it still an unconvoyed ship and it should have been dealt'with as any other un- armed steamer. Reports show that it ‘was treated a warship, when as a matter of fact It was not one in any sense of the word and there was no Justification for the methods used. MORE THAN INDIGNANT. ‘When the Cologne Gazette scouts the idea that the sinking of the Arabic can have any serious effect upon the relations Dbetween this country and Germany and declares that the report that it has caused indignation in America is “an English fake,” it shows how thoroughly misunderstood is the attitude of this country upon the vio- lation of its neutrality and its rights. Just what is responsible for is mistaken opinion, which may exist to a much larger extent in Germany, is mnot disclosed. It may be due to the effect of the Bryan declarations while he was in office, or it may follow as the result of the German policy of suppressing the real attitude of this country, but whatever it may be, it couldn’t be any farther from the facts. However the German press may look upon the destruction of the Arabic and other English vessels as a natural and necessary incldent of the war, it is impossible for it to ignore the fact that this country demands respect for international law and a pro- tection for the lives of its subjects. This is what Germany through its submarine policy has failed in a num- ber of Illl&l-lwlei to give and which according to the interpretation of the Arabic incident it does not intend to insure. Germany may have the| 7 a commercial - ves- TIME TO ENCOURAGE IT. The announcement which has just attempt being made to injure him take his life. Following the hanging of Frank, Governor Har- ris, pursuant to the responsibilities which devolve upon him as the head Of the state, set about to run down and punish his murderers and a re- ward has even been offered for such an accomplishment. Because of his actions in behalf of the state and the |y, Tecognition of his sworn duty in en- deavoring to uphold the law and order as well as the honor ‘the state, he now finds himself being made the ob- ject of attack through threatening let- ters advising him to “go slow.” tention 1s to be expected, but from the attitude thus manifested, Georsia suffers from conditions which have been permitted in the past. It is time the whole state was aroused to ac- tion which will remove the blot which | ¢, threatens to become indelible. JITNEYS DISAPPEARING. From all indications the jitney bus- iness js on the toboggan. It came in with a rush, bringing with it such conditions that regulation was imper- ative and it is disappearing as fast as it came. Many have gained an experience in that business which was enlightening. It showed that the operation of a mo- tor car with any degree of regularity over any territory with the varying business which could be secured was mot a profitable undertaking. Trens- portation at five cents a head with the expenses as low as they may be with some kind of autos is not a gold mine in every city. And when it be- comes necessary for the safeguarding of the public to impose the restric tions upon such cars end demand that there be some guarantee for the pa- trons in case of accldent it imposes a condition which is justified, but which few of them care to meet. In some cases exorbitant demands have been made of the jitney drivers, but for the most part the resulting legislation and regulation have been directed by a spirit of fajrness and with a proper consideration for estab- lished transportation lines which oper- ate under Nke restrictions. The decline of the jitney was pre- dicted. It has run its course and those which remain in the business are finding it advisable to shift the rate] so that in reality jitney becomes a misnomer. EDITORIAL NOTES. Norwich has good cause for declar- ing war on bad sidewalks. The might or position of a nation never les in its lack of necessary preparation. From present indications it Tooks as it the Bulgarian ‘colors might come back into prominence, I there has been any question over the need of adequate preparation for defense the doubt has long since pass- e Georgia gives warning that even the law has no standing when it goes contrary to desired wishes of lawless people. Any community struck by a storm as was Galveston and St. Louis, has reason to protest, but it is not likely to amount to much. A full description of just what took place during that lynching of Frank has been given, but as yet not an ar- rest has‘been made. It only requires a brief perusal of the statements by Roosevelt and Bry- an to disclose that neithe? has made a convert of the other. The sinking of eleven German war- ships shows what a problem tgpat country is up against when it comes to fighting on the sea. \ ‘The man on the corner says: With £ H 18 £ up from his paper and said in a sur- prised tome: ‘Worried about what? and then began to think. “ 1 noticed that all the men who came with their wives to call talked about little else than the hard times and the things were gcing to act, and that men had grown so used to cautioning their wives to be careful that they couldn’t stop. They probably were saving a dy sum and liked the sensation too.” “A man never realizes how much it takes to run a house” Mrs. Drake sighed. “Andghey imagine that women spend untol hundreds on their clothes.” “Well, I investigated personally and privately,” Mrs. Wilkinson chuckled. “I found that all the apartments we | of own are occupied and everybody is paying promptly, and then I asked In- nocent little questions of my brothers- in-law. about the business. You see, there are three brothers in the business together and I could ask one thing of one of them and another of his brother, so I finally.put all the replies ther and discovered that this has the best year they ever had had, and the coming vear promises to be even better. My husband had remarked to some one that for them the war In Europe was the greatest thing that ever occurred. Then, 100, every one of those partners had furnished his that I went right down and bought the most expensive hat I ever pos- “I don’t blame you in the least.” “I told my husband that as long as the times were €0 hard I'd better have a hat that would last and be worth the money put into it. He said this was a good idea, but he siched and added that there was no telling which way the cat would jump. The same evening I overheard him telling the janitor that he expectéd to retire from business in a couple of .years, so the very next day I went down and bought a good suit. It was only a week later that he agreed with a caller that pov- erty was staring this country in the face, a0 I went the following day and got the parlor curtains I've wanted for LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Who Was Mr. Winter Green Who Died in 18097 = Attl recent date the ter was one a party, oy ed, about 3 miles more or less, north- east of Jewett City, and not far from the Plainfield-Griswold town lines. While rambling about the crest of the Rill, one of the party discovered a headstone, marking a grave, perhaps @ dozen yards back from the brink of the declivity in a dense mass of brush and young trees, Examination revealed the grave to be the resting place of “Mr. Winter Green,” aged 72 years, wha died in 1809. Further Mr. Editor: one tell us, through the columns of The Bulletin, who the above Mr. Green was, and his relation to the community in which he evidently lived, and event- ually was buried, and the identity of the others buried in that little ceme- tary for from highway, and in such an unusual situation. The 4 And also, why the Many unnamed hills and ledges in Southeastern Connecticut furnish e much broader and panorama than Syp Rocks, though the View across the valley toward Stone Hill and in a limited way, both N. E. and S. E. is well worth the time and Any definite information con. cerning the above will be much appre. clated by ONE OF THE RA! Norwich, Aus. 23, 1915. ark Dhmm Condition, hegan park prompts me to write this short article in regard to it. The diamond for the the pestiferous mosquito around 1t 18 | Facr of 1o ditlon? A MEMBER OF ONE OF THB CITY LEAGUE TEAMS, Norwich Aug. 23, 1915. The War a Year Ago Today Aug. 24, 1914, El} ; il it i 1 £ ? aé H | i i ] % ] ! § i jl il Anyhow, i g § gz i ;5 il f i g - 3 » Ht e il By National Geographic Society Duenaburg (or Dvinsk), the prin- cipal gate guarding the road from the southwest to Petrograd and the key to the defense of the great Dvina River, through which the Germans are apparently aiming at interior Rus. sia and all the line of military and industrial scribed by the National Society in today’s war primer as fol- lows Duenaburg, on the noreastern bank the broad Dvina, is the heavily for- tified front door to Great Russia, that division of Russia which stands in the same relationship to the Empire that Pruesia holds to Germany. It is situ- ated where the Dvina makes a sharp angle toward the west, midway on the river's course from Vitebsk through marsh and lake land to the opulent colmercial and Industrial city of Riga upon the Gulf of Riga. The line be- tween Riga and Duenaburg is 110 miles long. By way of the river it is considerably longer. The line from Duenaburg, east-southeast, to Vitebsk is 162 miles. This line roughly divides Great Russia from White Russia. “White Russia, to the south of the Duenaburg line, is probably the poor- est, most_backward part of European Russia. While some 6,000,000 acres of swamp lands have been drained within its water-soggy surface, its general aspect 1s still largely that of marsh. swamp, lake and spongy meadow land. In general, the peasants of White Ru: sia_are very poor, and have a severe struggle to wage for their existence. One writer says that the memory | which he held most characteristic -of this land was the picture of a weather- scarred, gray-headed t standing ‘waist deep in the chill waters of the marsh cutting sedge. This poverty- blighted country, where no great com- mercial, industrial or cultural center is to be found, is that which now lies Dbefore the German armies. Beyond the Great Russian door at Duena burg lies the richer industrial and aj ricultural country of the central em. ire, while west from Lemberg and ‘holm lie the rich agricultural lands of Little Russia, or the Ukraine, and the sreat city of Kief. “Duenaburg is a fortress of the first class. ‘It is also a fortress with tr: ditions; for here In July, 1812, poleon’s headlong troops, under the command of Oudinot, hurled them- selves again and again in vain against the strongly defended bridgehead. It was not untll some weeks later that the town was captured by the French under Macdonald. The city was or- iginally founded as a fortress, in 1278, by the Livonian Knights of the Sword, It was mortgaged by one of the grand masters of the order to the king of Poland; was overwhelmed by _the legions’ of Ivan the Terrible of Rus- sia; retaken by Poland in 1582; held alternately by the Swedes and Rus- slans during the 17th century, and fi- nally incorporated in the Muscovite realm in 1772. “The city is situated at the inter- section of two main railway lines and a very important branch. These are the Warsaw-Viina-Petrograd line, the Riga-Vitebsk-Smolensk line. and the branch to the fortified Baitic port of Libau. the only port that Russia pos- sessed before the war whose roa stead was .always open. The main features of the city are its fortifica- tions. It has a population of about 75,000, about ome-half of which Is Jewish, Its industries include saw- mills, flour-mills, brick kilns, match factories, tobacco factories and tan- neries. It enjoyed a moderate degree of importance before the war as a commercial center, doing considerable trade tn grains, flax, hemp, tallow and timber.” There seems to be a general mis- road conception ment of the American o toward Three copies Copyright Fiction, $1.50 value for $1.00. for $1.00. , $1.35, $1.25 value Gift Books, $1.50, $1.35, $1.25 value for $1.00. Three copies Boys’ and Girls’ 50c Books, $1.50 va'ue for $1.00. Five copies Boys' and Girls’ 25c Books, $1.25 value for $1.00. Children’s Books (any combination), $1.50 value for LEATHER GOODS $1.00. Pocket Books, Purses, Bill Folds, Music Rolls, Collar Bags and a variety of Leather Goods, $£2.00, $1.50, $1.25 value for $1.00. Fountain Pens, $2.00, $1.50 value for $1.00. We will accept any old Fountain Pen, no matter in what condition, as $1.00 in cash for any Crocker Ink- tite Fountain Pen. Pound Paper and Envelopes, $1.25 value for $1.00. Lead Pencils, Pens, Ink, Boxed Stationery and cther Stationery Specials, $1.50 and $1.25 value for $1.00. Hammocks, $1.50 and $1.25 value for $1.00, BARGAIN CAMERAS With any of our Bargain Cameras, in addition to ex- isting low prices, we will give absolutely free £1.00 worth of materials of your own selection with each sale. Don’t miss your opportunity. pared for it. Complete preparedness may stave it off altogether.—Water- bury And now China proj to have a force of 6,000,000 mi trained in the use of modern arme for defense purposes only. If we do not lurry up Chiua will have the reality, while we are still dreaming acout it. But how Mr. Bryan will grieve at this fall of the only nation which has lived up to his teachiag into the toils of militarism.—A: Sentinel. Miss Jane Addams may know where- of she speaks concerning the stimula- tion of soldiers on the battle front with drug and alcohol, but the hiding of the names of her informants doesn’t 2dd to the weight of her charges. It places her story in the :ealm of rumor, where statement is made. Then, how about the Russians, who are fighting without vodka, and also. as reports have it without ammunition? Is there any case left for Miss Addams’ statements concerning that vast army?—New Haven Registe: How many automobilists obey this section of the automobile law: “If such horse or other draft animal, be- ing so led. ridden or driven. ehali ap- pear to be frightened, and if the per- son_in_charge thereof shall signal so to do, the person operating such motor venicle shall bring the same immedi- ately to a stop a if traveling in the opposite direction, shail remain sta- tionary so long as may be reasonable to allow such horse or other draft animal to paes, or if traveling In the same direction, shall use reasonable caution in thereafter passing _such horse or other animal?"—Rockville Journal. With industrial affairs and wbulfc gality, household economics and living within our means. when we have any, we will asto the sentl- | 3 its man | o Boston hopes tos improve service by instituting an automobile delivery and collection Mo- 2 » H it must remain until definite | dition: I Stories of the War Medicine in the War. “On the whole, at the end of the first year of the war, medicine is found to have acquiited itself well says the Lon Lancet. of from sanitary faults. On the prineiple that lives saved are lives gained, the ef- ficlency of the medical service has meant a gain of many lives to the bel- ligerent armies. “In France, the care of the wounded behind the lines has steadily improved, gas gangrene, will be of the greatest value in the future. have been sev- eral smart epidemics of typhoid, but neither in the English, glan ranks was the lowed to make grave headway. ing the winter there was much suffer- ing from exposure, but the chief cause of disability was ‘trench foot’ There monta and rheumatism ed. “Concerning the Russian medical service, the information is most sat- istactory, though some apprehension was at first felt about it. The dif- ficulty was not the personnel, but the distances. But the devotion of volun- tary effort and of civilian medical men have overridden the difficuities; army has been show a good bill of health through a terrible year. Berbians from typhus the state of things. But the grip of the disease has been made to relax, and the medical outlook is now hopeful.” Joffre’s Right-Hand Man. THE WOMAN HATER’S BABY || ON HIS WEDDING DAY wes™ind hars. Marguerite Clark in the Goose Girl Today GOLONIAL “THE GODDESS” “LOVE OF LIGHT, Two Parts || “HUMAN CHAIN" “FAIR, FAT AND SAUCY . STEAMER BLOCK ISLAN With "Anita Stewart and Earle Wiliiams THEATRE Toda Eighth Chapter SELIG-HEARST WEEKLY . Hazards of Holen Vitagraph Comedy DAILY SERVICE Until Sept. 7 ta WATCH HILL and BLOCK ISLAND AM. AM. 1025 1130 1200 105 130 P.M. P. 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He is also the man who did much io prevent the Germans getting througi to Calais, for he was in general conirol of the suc- cessful fight made by the ~French, British and Belgians, and enabledJof- fre to say, on & date, “It is now our time to turm.” Foch and Joffre were born within about three months of one another, the former on Oct. 3, 1851, and Joffre on Jan. 12, 1852. In 180 Foch served as a subaltern against the Germans, as did Joftre, and afte= the war bola of them began to win recognition as soldiers of brains, Focn being given a commission as artillery captain when he was twenty-six. Laser he became professor of tactics in the Ecole de Guerre, with te title of commandani, where he remained for five years, afterwards winning rapid advance- ment. Cool, cautious, taciturn, Foch is & 4| man whom Germany feais; but he is Joved by every French roldier, for he is credited with knowing all there is to know about the man who fights in the ranks—his heart, his mind. his capabilities, and the method of getting the most out of those capabilities. Foch makes it his business to get into AND RETURN C. J. ISBISTER, ASent personal contact with ais soldiers, as Napoleon used to do—Tit-Bits. The Safety of the Aeroplane. A French publication calls attention to the fact that the loss of life throusa accidents has been very small among the army aviators, as compared t> the records in time of peace, and the ex- planation is made tha: in this service y the most skilled me. are engaged, and, moreover, they do rot induige in the sensational exhibition tricks that have brought disaster (0 many. It ma: be noted that it s the same esser. exhibition business that has given the general public many erroneous and misleading ideas about fying machmes that will soomer or .ater prove am injury to aviation. = A Food of Fashion. Macaroni, which Belg:ans, being for- biden to wear the Italian colors. are now sporting in their huttonholes in honor of their new ally, was for centu- ries the exclusive dainty of Genoa. Its introduction into England was made in the latter half of the cighteenth cen- tury by certain aristocratic young Grand Tourists, who. having tasted it in Italy, demanded it a* Almack’s, and formed themselves into a Macaroni Club. Eccentricity of dress as well as of diet being character.suc of the club, “Macaroni” soon becamc the symonym of fob.—London Chronicie. Whe Is He? Herman Ridder refers to the Prov- idence Jousmal as an “unheard of peper in an insignificant town.” What a powerful, importaint and august persorage Herman Ridder is. 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