Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 9, 1915, Page 4

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 to over 8,000 of ths 4,058 houses in Morwich, and resd by ninety- three per cent. of the people. In Windham it iz c...vered to over 800 houses, in Putnam and Danlelson to over 1,100 and in all of these places it is consid- ered the local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nifie towns, one hundred and sixty-five postoffice districts, and cixt-- rural free delivery routes. The Bullétin is sold in every town on all of the R F. D. routes in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATION 1901, aversage ............ 4412 1905, average ...........5,920 | e THE NOTE TO GREAT BRITAIN. Although it may be a question of dollars and cents rather than the rights of humanity and the safeguard- g of life, the note which has been placed with the British government de- mands that the rights of this coun- try as a neutral be respected. This country protests against the establish- ment of a blockade of neutral ports, the holding up of American vessels bound thereto and their confiseation because it is action not warranted by law. Advantage is being taken of the circumstances to injure American bus- fness with neutral countries because of @ belfef that such goods may ultimate- Iy get into the hands of the belliger- ents, instead of carrying on a legal blockade. ‘When Great Britain stops American trade with neutral ports because it appears to be larger than normal, re- gardless of the fact that those coun- triss are forced to buy in:other than their regular markets because of the war, and then proceeds to supply those demands itself, with the chances equal that its goods will got to the bellig- erents as quickly as those of this coun- try, it presents a situation which calls for a protest. The stand which has been taken in the note has not been reached without full consideration of the circumstances and the rights of all concerned. It is proper that law and not expediency should rule in this case the same as with Germany and its submarine pol- icy. The note is a friendly one, with the position of this country clearly defined. It leaves no opportunity for misunderstanding what this country is insisting upon and as a champion of neutral rights, this country as a neu- tral is performing its duty. DANGEROUS CONDITIONS. Bvery now and then there are held conventions and other meetings, the purpose of which is to aid in the con- servation of human life. It seems im- possible that they should not make the widespread appeal which they are Intended to. For the time being, at least, it is probable that they cause a certain number to give serious thought to the subject and institute needed re- forms, but when lofty buildings in large cities continue to have fires caus- ipg large loss of life in each instance, regardless of the glaring lessons which have preceded them, it is a question ‘whether those who most need the en- lightenment are receiving it. The death of a dozen employes in a Brooklyn factory and the injurles to many of the others reveals a sit- uation which ought not to have exist- ed when it is found that the build- ing had not been equipped according to the direction of the authorities and especially when a means of escape which had been provided for just such 2 econtingency was rendered useless and made a trap by keeping the door closed and locked. The revelations which have been owners, for nothing effective had been done to urge a compliance with re- quirements which had been insisted upon months before and the owner afi delaying the work, regardiess of like many others where laws and reg- ulations amcunt to nothing unless en- tamd and in the meantime human life is being sacrificed as the penalty for other people’s negiigence. HUMANE EDUCATION. To the home must the child look for a large share of its education and yet ars homes which do not moas- iré up to thelr responsibilities in a many instances. It is because of he fallure of parents to do their part that theé obligations have to be as- sl ! g:ln; amount of atten- ;Ep 1? £ 88 quality of the accomplishments, but It is necessary that whatever is done should be done through or d out without regard to what is at stake. The coming session of eonlt- is going to be one of much importance. There are many important gquestions which will be brought before it for a decision and they should get the care- ful and thoughtful consideration that they deserve. There are to6 many in- stances of pushing through laws with- out regard to what they mean or what detrimental features are involved therein and with such matters as proper preparation for the nation's de- fense, a modification of, the seamen’s act, the need of greater revenus and ht and not hustled | 72N unngeth-r unattractive. _ “Nowadays 1 nnlenhml t girls mob him on sight and he i§ and haughty and pasha likel him Sam In a trembling voice. I felt, the night I was there at dinner that the advisability of readjusting the ex- & isting tariff scheduies to conform to the needs of the country, to say noth- ing of the many other matters which will be presented for action, there is need of legislation of the best type. Nothing should be llowed to stand in the way of a thorough examination of all the. country's woes and action to relieve them as soon as possible. The fact that a long session is not restrained by a_limit does not call for action being strung out indefinitely. It does not mean that there should be & delay in getting down to business, but, as at any session, there should be a disposition to face the situation without prejudice, settle down to the task at hand and give the country the benefit of sane and sensible legisla- tion. There has been enough of the half baked variety and no more is wanted. A WISE DECISION. Down in Pennsylvania there is the same aversion to grade crossings that there is in other states, and the same demand for their elimination, but as it is everywhere else, such work costs money and it is possible to do only a certain amount of it each year. This means that there is always something waiting to be done in this line and with that in mind it is not surprising that the public service commission of that state has turned down the peti- tion for the right to build another spur track across a much used highway at grade. % When a state is working for the abolishing of grade crossings and pro- gress is aggravatingly slow because of the great amount of work that is involved, it is a poor policy to con- tinue to add to the number of dan- gerous crossin, Little is to be gain- ed by removing those in one section of the state and creating others which will be just as dangerous if not more so in another locality. > 1t grade crossings are going to be abolished, !t is necessary to block the building of new ones, for if favors are going to be extended in one instance they must be rendered, in all fair- ness, in others, and once such a pol- icy is begun there is no telling where it will end. The one sensible thing to do is just what the Pennsylvania com- mission has done and that is the de- nial of all such petitions. The time is coming when such crossings would have to be eliminated and that being the case it is far preferable that the work should be done now before another death trap is created. It can be done at less expense now and it will be an effective step for safety. EDITORIAL NOTES. ; It begins to look as if a Vote of thanks was in order for the weather- man or November. There is no credit to a community ‘when conditions in its midst brand it as a city of fire traps, Ammunition is wasted in war and political battles, but the latter never result in any being captured. From all indications Greece does not intend that anyone will have the chance to taunt it for rushing into the ‘war. It is noticeable that a shakeup in a football team isn't always followed by as good results as a reconstructed eabinet. The man on the corner says: Pity the man who has to decide where a mean disposition leaves off and an artistic temperament begins. This’is the season of the year when the turk is entitled to grow suspicious over the amount of interest that is manifested in its daily bill of fare. There are only a few people who can truthfully answer “Does it pay to be- come a millionaire?” but there are few who would not be willing to make the test, ‘The report that measles have broken out in a Massachusetts penitentiary indicates that that institution is tak- I'.:ng away the rights of a children’s ome. Great Britain admits 78,000 have been invalided in the Dardanelles cam- paign. That is what might be expect- ed in the locality where the Sick man of Hurope lives. New York has not succeeded in to- tally eliminating the bomb thrower, butnm"ntsudwflm:mdtm fact that there are no more instances tributed than there is the rush of ths 4| holidays to anticipate. A young woman has been denied an American passport because of, the claim that she used her former one to | aid Delligerent interests. It i time that proper respect for such a docu- ,mtwnwm ible jumble of six feet, legs, dins:hots. dress suits and bass voices! as obnoxious as small Hu-riet was the prim, ntinflod kind that always knows the golden text and whose teeth stick out -nfl m spell down every ome sch correct you on_the date ot the W of Waterloo. Martha was the roly- poly, sticky kind who always is eating molasses taffy and sitting on your hat and howling because she wants to do something she has been forbidden. “I endured them both in the old days ‘with resignation and. fortitude when I had to come within gunshot the premises. I did’nt see how it was that Sue, who was the sweetest thing on earth, should be so afflicted. And the strange part of it was she sel really to be fond of the two. This time the children were not in evidence. However, I knew that it had to be, so at last in a faint, hurried -voice I said, ‘And how are the little ones, Sue? “The same expression went over her face that I had seen on Sam’s. While she was recovering consciousness a couple of callers walked in. They were young women, exquisitely gowned, overpoweringly good looking and at ease. ‘Kiss your cousin John, girls,’ sald Sue. ‘He—he just inquired for— for the little ones!” Finding Missing Soldiers. The “Aid for German Prisonars of War,” an organization with headguar- ters at Frankfort<on-Main and in Hamburg, to which every other sim-. o1 in ing. showing relatives just how they can get into touch with members of their families who are imprisoned, how they can send them monsy and pack- ages, and keeps them informed as to the prisoners’ state of nealth and gen- eral condition. In specific cases the association un- dertakes to make inquiries for reia- tives. Thus if a wife- has not heard from her husband in four weeks (if imprisoned in England or Fran¢e, or emed | I two months (if a prisoner in Rus- sia) the organizatien will attempt, through its agent at the eamp where the husband last was repirtsd as a Dfllo‘;i& to find out why he has ceas- each mwn prison camp, civil and military, is marked in red ink. In con- ujnction w«h the Russian map is a printed. list of the camp, with the name of each in Russian script as well as Latin letters. The government has, from time to “They laughed amusedly in a we | ™ bread, eastern-finishing-school manner. ‘How o0dd!’ said the one who had been sticky Martha. ‘Mah-mah does have such a sense of humah!’ “‘T trust your family are all well” added the once excessively prim Har- riet, bending upon me a gentle smile. “iWhere am I' I asked weakly of Sue. I seem to be just wmlnx out from the anaesthetic! When did it happen? “Those perfect ladies made me feel just as crude and rumpled and back- numbery as I suppose I really am, but I had never known it till then. It The War a Year Ago Today Nov. 8, 1914, res nt afire by German bom- occupied Goldapp, Ger- i wlthd:rwdln'. s - Germans near Wyschtuniz take, hklng 2000 p Btr-hl near Shabats. Russians took Turkish fort near Erzerum and won at Koprikei en River Araxes. Russians bombarded = Boporus ports. drove back Austrians association, work in the main has been-carried by private subscriptions. A consider- raised in Frank- popular Iron Eagle meth- od, that is by ll)bnflpfl\)flj troln fll. public in return.for nails to drive to a monster wooden eagle. Receiving the Wounded. Loug trains of wounded keep rolullt into the La ‘plm -mlou Gare du Nord; train off !fllfl. .m after the. flercest fighting of Cham- pagne has occurred, !or the ebb and flow of the struggle going on with its steady vield of m.im- and stricken soldiers. The French govern- meni gave the correspondent facilities the other day to see this procession inceming trains, and the methods em- ployed for promptly handli this enormcus daily inrush of freight requiring the most immediate and. delicate attention. La Chapitre is the station in most rortheastern section nearcst the fighting line, away, and is the natural peoint for these trains from the front to empty into Paris. Here the trains of wound- eod sveraged 26 a day, with 200 to 300 wounded on each train, even after the lull in the fighting, or from 5,000 to 1,800 wounded to be cared for daily. When the fighting was fiercest these figures were far exceeded, and one of the officers stated 41,000 wounded been received in four days, and Thirteenth Year Attention, Farmers! DOLLARS BONUS For Fattest and Big- gest Turkey Raised $10.00 Next Best $5.00 The Bulletin will buy the prize birds at the regular market price in addition to the prize te be awarded. The turkeys offered for priZe must have feathers off, entralls drawn Joint. Heads must not be cut off. largest and fattest young turkey and f!“mflli Wflvfiu be wg 1o price. “m-. ’h ot | slignt. he rersarkable fact that only two out of the 41,000 bad died In transit. The platforms to which these trains of waunded roll up are all thoroughly for and systematic work. Near at h-nd is a huge kitch- en which can furnish 4,000 meais on short notice, so that the wounded may immeéiatgly receive hot tea and eus- tenance. There are many cooks, and scores of nurses ready to carry dozens of meals packed in wicker baskets. Twelve surgeons are on duty to give first ald in a pressing case, h this station is not for trflmau( ol wounded; it is merely to receive l.nd disiribute them to the hospitals in Paris or in central or southern Franece. A train of wounded from the front had just come in as the inspecting mm arrived under government es- e fifty ambulances were Auwn up on the platform ready to re- ceive the wounded men, and the ambulances were well filled and moving off to the various hospitals. Eaclh ambulance recelved six, two tiers of three, the litters sliding on groves into their places in the ambulances. Only a roll of yellow blanket appeared on the stretchers, with here and there a face, but usually the heads were cov- 'I"d seeking complete quiet. Thq-e ‘Wwas no complaint; no groans. Every- thing moved swiftly and with abso- lute precision, and not. long aftéer the men came from the trains they .were on their way to the hospitals. Occasionally some case needed spec- ial attention. One red-bearded peas- ant soldler, well along in years, was ashen pale as he was rolled by in an invalid chair to receive the care of surgeons. Another young soldler was laughing as his chair rolied by, to as- sure the visitors that his wound was Most of the men, the doctors, said, were only slightly wounded, and there were mot the harrowing scenes as when trains bearing the desperately wounded empty into La Chapelle. Wkile t from the ‘Was gcing on among an army of mil- itary clerk- keeping an accurate reg- ister of each man, his wound, which hospital was best suited to his needs, whether his condition permitted fur. ther travel to the hospitals in the in- terior of France, as there is need to avoid congestion in these Paris hospi- tals. The registers were made up with the exactness of a bank. “We find that two hours suffices to ed | qigpose of the most difficult train load said the officer as t.he making its thirteenth annual offer of prizes for the best home-raised turkeys. This competition, as often as announced, always produces in us a longing_to live nearer Norwich.—Waterbury Re- publican. If John M. Hall and the elder Mor- gan were alive now they would prob- :bly have been sentenced to have been hanged by this time, judging from the testimony in the New Ha- ven case. And yet they were looked upon as pretty good citizens.—Meri- den Journal. ‘There are certain wmln.enclel of course when American will cross the Mexican border. One |l when there is indication of a deliberate and premeditated plan to injure American citizens or to attack American Such is not yet the case at Prieta but it may become such case at anytime that Gen. Villa de. sires to have it so. The commander of the American troops is uv.bnt but | he is net so patient that he will sub- necticut, Ohio p state prohibition, refers local and voted ense, the town system but in Ohie, Wwith 88 counties and a population very much more scattered in most of the state, the ex- isting system seems to fit the condi- tions better. The two moet promin- ent cities in Ohlo—Cleveland and Cin- cinnati—are wnot prohibition cities, and the effort to enforee such a law in them would be as hopeless as il would be in New York. tion, which can be enforced, is prefer- able.—Bridgeport Standard. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A Reminiscence. Mr. Editor:—After thoroughly scan= ning the columns of Saturday’s Bulle- tin, imbibing the morals and philos- ovhy of The Man Who and reading the dalns' of fitty years ago which, by the way, are more than in- of us old fel- New London was caught napping and left her court house out of doors over night only to find it mi the next morning. It had gone to Norwich on a raft convoyed by the tugboat Well- ington and escorted by a select com- mittee of O. D. Ones. When I read the tale of woe as related by your correspondent reciting the manner in which the medical polmehma had put it all over the tax of New Lon- don, my heart went out in sympathy to the said taxpayers, but ¥.could not refrain from mentally exclaiming, you have left your courthouse dut again and this time Dr. Black and not Nor- wich citizens has done the trick. If the citizens, taxpayers and par- ents of children in the city by the sea had kept their eyes on Norwich for had read fitted greatly, and easily learned that there is more than one side to -this compulsory medicine question. They also could have seen that in the main this protection of the dear people is | these but a myth and that Norwich citi- zens have amply able feed, clothe and care for their children in health and sick- ness. Hence we have declined most emphatically to pay out our good >. Mmmuh[ realized that they are | {ree Violinist Pianist i Tickets $1.00. All seats reseived. Now on sale at the store of Geo. A. Davis. s —_— money for medical politicians fo in- -m -ehaol c] and ‘when it marking goods o citizens- take & town meeting. With the lekl lppliuuon oF the police power of the te for the protectiow of the pub- h.lr.h by wnw and humane sani- meas ve mo contro- vorly but en t’he power is prostitut- to base, selfish and unworthy ends, when its minjons invade the domain of private medical. opinion and prac- tice and attempt to coerce the public into acceptance of obnoxious and per= nicious medical theories, when it forc- es upon protesting citizens mredical measures that destroy health cause disease, physical degeneration and death we think it time to rebel Moral: Attend the town and city meetings. A.'W. DAVIS Nor"lbb, 8, 1915. - and Nov. Doctor’s Patient Got Good Results Georgia Phys So Pleased With Rheuma He-Qrders Another Shipment. That physicians recognize the value of Rheuma in the treatment of rheu- matism is proved by letters like this majled to The Rheuma Co. 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