Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 17, 1915, Page 4

onihs SO0 8 Fear, Eatered at the Postoffice at Norwich i ot soeond-sless matter. Telepnone Callnt Bun tin m ’\fl"-' : l"’ el R T B Willtniantle Offics, Room 2, Mursmy pullding. Telephone Sle. Norwich, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 1918, SR e The Circulation of The Builetin © The Bulletin has the largest circulation of any paver in East- ern Connecticut and from thres to four times larger than that of any in Norwich. It is dclivered to over 3,000 of thy 4,063 houses in Norwich, and read by ninety three per cent. of the people, In Windkam it is ¢...vered té over 800 houses, in Putnam' and Danielson o sver 1,100 and in all of these rlaces it is consid- sted the lccal daily, Eastern Connccticut has forty- . nine towns, one hundred and sixty-five postoffice sixts rural free del town on all of the R. F. D. routes in Eastern Connectisut. CIRCULATION 1901, average 1905, average November 13 . GERMAN OFFICERS’ FAULT. It was realized at the time the party ©of officers. from the interned German | pee, auxiliary cruisers at Norfolk escaped that it was bound to work hardships upon those who were left behind since the action of their superiors was suffi- elent to cast suspicion upon the rest ©of the crews. It was thus only what might have been expected when the order was issued that they must re- main aboard their ships. This deprived them of the courtesies and privileges which had been previously allowed. They were denied the freedom of a limited territory which up to the time of the sailing away of the vachting party which never returned was gen- erally appreciated and respected. They would be enjoying that shore liberty today except for the advantage’ which has been taken of it, but when officers to whom the sallors are supposed to look for guidance take French leave, Sypce 1s notningelse Tor tia govern. nt to do for the protection of itself the neutrality which it is obligated maintain in holding interned crews but to take steps which will make it certain that others do not do like- wise. It is not surprising that the restrain- iag order causes restlessness, but the trouble does not lie Wwith this govern- ment; it ds entirely the fault of their own officlals. They should have been the last of the interned men to have attempted any such violation of parole. Thus such resentment as may exist among the German sailors should be directed solely against their superiors who are imposing the penalty for thelr actions upon the innocent men who find that they were placed under un- trustworthy leaders. CHILD LABOR LAW. Throughout the entire country in- creased attention is being given to im- proved conditions for the children with - particular reference to their employ= ment, and when it is announced that 45 states and territories have passed laws affecting them it gives strong evi- dence of what has been accomplished by the educational movement which has been carried on in this direction. ‘When 27 states amend their provi- sions for dependent children; 18 pass laws which improve the treatment of juvenile delinquents; 16 strengthen their laws colicerriing chil labor; 14 concern ‘themselves with the needs of the méntal defective or feeble-minded: threo states and the District of Co- fumba join the list of those which specifically permit the use of public school buildings for soclal centers; nine passed playsrounds laws for the first time and four pass a model vital statistics law. it is apparent that the menner in which light has been thrown upon these questions has brought re- _lts. ' At the last session of congress a § effort was made to secure the e of the Palmer-Owen bill. This h‘:!."n: legislation was for the pur- Pose of prohibiting the shipment in in- lerstate commerce of the goods in the production of which children under a tertain age were employed in fac- tories, mines or quarries and in the sase of others who were employed, night or day, for morz than eight bours. It received favorable actiom In the house, but failed to pass in the genate. It was intended to improve sonditions in states which had refused lo give the desired relief. The need ot it overtops the failure of the last _ Songress to act favorably and the ef- fort which is to be made by the na- lional child labor committee before the ext session ought to succeed. HELPING THE FARMER. n recognition, of the. troubles which surround the farmer and the agricul- jural taterests of this coufitry, the idea 3 studying the methods of Buropeen tountries which had worked out a so- . jution of many of the problems which here resulted in the commission- auring the former administration ‘)¢ Myron T. Herrick, ambassador tc ce. to make an Investigation of larmers’ selling societies and farmers’ ‘redits in Europe, - N This he did with much thoroughness, ith the resuit that he is able to see ‘ere this country is far Dehind those f Burcpe in this respect. trmer may be doing his best there are | vastages and losses which seriously 't his profit and these M:. Herrick, o has placed himself in a position an autbority on tho subjoct, at- 1o & lack of orgenization. In ‘way in which Europé e very problems which have arisén in this country. ENOUGH LAWS TO REACH SPEED- ERS. 3 New York is having its troubles with the auto speeders Who have neither re« which goes with them. Those who give the most trouble in this respect aré found to be those Who are able to pay the fines*which they do and then pros coed to go out and violate the law sgain as If in defiance of all efforts to eliminate the dangér which they im« pose upon the public. They apparent- 1y look;upon thé fine and costs as & license which they are willing to pay as long as they can do as they please in satisfying their craze for speed. To overcome_the situation, Police Commissioner Woods has suggested that finget prints be taken of such violators of the luw for the purpose of preservation and refererce, that bet- ter grounds may be had for the im- position of more sévere penalties. How such would work out.any bet- ter than the provisions that already exist is diieult to. see, since the cars and drivers are licensed in New York state the same as they are in Con- necticut and éven though it might be difficult for the different courts in the big city to become familiar with the features and habits of such law break- ers, their license numifers should fur- nish the necessary information for showing how many times they had m arrested for speeding and dis- close to the courts throush records kept throughout the city when the speeder had stich a record which would warrant the taking away of his licen: The license number serves the same Ppurpose as the finger prints, but what seems necesgary is the keeping of a better record of cases and its distribu- tion among the courts that they may be prepared to enforce the existing provisions of the law whenever oc- casion requires. NO CAUSE FOR DISMISSAL. ‘Without regard to the merits of the question which the assistant postmas- ter at Winnetka, Ill, was discussing and on which he unquestionably has a fixed opinion, it will be generally rec- ognized that President Wilson has done the right thing in ordering his reinstatement. The fact that he thought the president ought to have waited longer before ma’rying again @oes not necessarily display any dis- loyalty to the head of the mation, and it is impossible to discover that it shows him in any way an inefficient official. Rather does it look like a tempest in the teapot in that particular post- office, where the first opportunity was used for creating a vacancy, and this is supported by the announcement that the postmaster who had done the de- posing had been quick to select his brother for the job from which he had fired the other fellow. The fact of the matter 1§ that, how- ever bad the taste may have been, the statement by the assistant did no more to aisqualify him than the expression of his opinion on the president’s choice of a summer home or his style of dress and this is fully recognized by the president in his act of reinstatement. EDITORIAL NOTES. The man on the corner says: What is good for man or beast is found to be of Nttle use for a sick auto. it is always advisable to ‘do your Christmas shopping before it becomes necessary to exceéed the speed limit. Thotigh women have not been given the right to vote over in Greece, it looks as if the queen was running things. ittt The kaiser's hope is stantinople soon, but it that it will be too late menians, e There are'a few volcanoes on this globe which insist upon participating whether they are urged or not. Strom- boli is the latest, California, it is announced, pro- duced 30,000 tons of olives this year. That ought to be a great state for a peace canference. i ks Raphael, the English seer, sees vic- tory for the allies in the stars. With a little better teamwork he may yet feel it in his bonmes. 5 i With coal $17 a ton In France and $30 a ton in Jtaly, a iot of otherwise unexpended sympathy is going to be sent across the water. ‘While one ‘congressman complains: that there “is too much marrying in - Washington; .he must have realized long before this that Cupid is & hard fellow to suppress. ‘When fifty per cent. of. the toys for the Christmas market in this country are m;l-hea.by United States makers, it simply shows what the edujvalent of protection will do. 3 T il b i There is nothing strange that Mr Mellen should forget or get mixed in his testimony. 'The wonder i that don- fusion didn't exist while the sehemes were being worked out. Winston Churchill blames the mis- takes which have béen charged to hitn to Kitchener and the French. Mean- while Kitchener is getting busy at the weak spots in the near east. —_— Starve the people of the éaptured territory is suggested as a means of BriSging peate, but It that was going | to be effective results would heve been shown some time ago, after the bleed- ing they have reseived. |80 I unpacked three 23 g = tioned it to me. t their sewing club thought it De such fun to have a mas: and ask the boys and What d go as? She being 15, aid conventional thing, I“'l‘lld ”l it woul perfectly love! 3}’“{" to. as_a flower, and that we eould a pretty costume from 44 £ 82¢ % { Hly, and she was delighted. That is, il the next day. “She tore home from school “‘3 found meé stirrounded by billows ink crepe paper ruffies and shrieked it me to stop. She said she had de- l.dmd n't want to g0 a8 & f e se nohe of the other girlé v to. 'l‘h?y s4ia Howers warg and Isabel was going as Lady Macboth and Anne was to be the queen of Sheba and I must think up something quick for ~her equally splendid “When 1 indignantly inquired as tg the disposal of the forty-five yards of r-u paper ruffles my daughter said could- put them in the missionary Box for eome poor persons to use in en I remarked that I thought an expensive costumé for a simple little children’s party was foolish she burst into tears and said she'd die if she couldn't wear something glittery like Anne's and grown up. She eaid she wanted to go as a Spanish dan- cer, and pleasesto put.on millions of spangles. 1 remembered a discarded yellow satin evening gown of mine, trunks till 1 found it and turned up the hem. “Then my little girl rushed in and said that she -had been looking at fashion pictures at the .corner dry goods store and must have a tull gath- ered white blouse to wear under the velvet bolero jacket. This was the first I had heard of the jacket, but it seems that ome cannot be a Spanish dancer without one.. I gave up a luncheon to make the white waist and then I started out after spangles. “I fpent years searching for those necessary adjuncts. The department store directed me to a_theatrical cos- tumer's, and the theatrical costumer stopped talking baseball with a friend long enough to weep on my shoulders and confess that he expected to g0 into bankruptcy because he couldm’t import any more spangles from France. He said that if he owned a spangle at the present moment he'd lock it up in his safe and sit on the safe with a shotgun, but perhaps if T'd go to such and such a dry goods store they might have them on the seyenth floor. . “T walked to such and euch a store and journeyed seventh floorward and they ‘said yes, here were nice Span gles, 10 cents a dozen.’ As I wanted & thousand, more or less, I decided it should be less in this case. “So I arrived home in the. winter dusk a broken hearted woman with an aching back and feet that felt though they really belonged to some elephant. only to find my child before the glass draping my pet party scarf. around her head like a Spanish turban. My 330 imitation pearl necklace was draped around the turban and a dia- pmond brooch adorned the front of t. “Pd hate to give you her verbal opinion of me when I swooped down and rescued my jewels. Anyhow, she said, she had decided mot to go as a Spanish dancer, after all. Nobody else wag going as one. All the girls were going to be peasant girls and she wanted 'to be a peasant girl. “Thereupon 1 sat down and gently but firmly, explained to her masquerade was not a series of ditto but a grand mixture of all sorts and every one had to be differ- ent from the rest and anyhow her Spanish costume was almost _done, and wear it she must, after all my labor. “She burst into wails at that. She insisted she would be utterly miser- able as a Spanish dancer and she didn’t see why I was so cruel. And Harvey Smith was going to be a bull fighter, and if she went Spanish he'd think she was trying to make up with him, and she just hated him. And why wouldn't I let her be a peasant? ETENEY cloth. 585 Fy2E H 5§ g 45 | e just how you feel,” agreed sympathetic listener. “My daugh- to .om last month an ,‘m ming to myself!”—Chicago | Stories of the War The Battle of Champagne. The battle of Champagne, according to information received from most re- liable sources was a series of assaults Dby different sections of the French forces each of which had its partic- ular object in view arranged to har- monize with the general plan but exe-' cuted independently. The lines that were forced were those organized by the Germans after the battle of the Marne and perfécted by a year of sys- tematic labor to a point where their defenders had s0_much confidence in them that the officer in command, though anticipating an attack, were caught in their beds by the first lines of the French rush. The trenches were not only forti- fled by every means that the war of trenches ha§ developed but the posi- tion. was naturally strengthened by a line of heights north of Perthes from Souain to Tahurne vy the _twin heights Mammelle Nord and Mam- melle Sud north of the Mesnil with the strong fortifications of the Tra- peze. To the north of Massiges the helghts No. 191 and 199 furnished e: cellent suport, and were strongly or- ganized. Resting on these heights Were two positions about two miles apart, the first composed of three lines of parallel trenches in some places and five In others with barbed wire de- fenses between them. All the .ground covered by these positions was also fortified with transversal and diagonal trenches permitting .lateral and enfil- ating fire with redoubts so armored as to hold out and coatinue firing even after the trenches had been demol- ished. In the most exposed spots in level country there were labyrinths and networks. Complicated .as were these earthworks they had no_secrets for the French staff. Every one those trenches, redoubts, communicat- ing trenches and labyrinths had been located, named or numbered and plot- ted on the general staff mape, so that each sector kmew éxactly what it would find. The ranges of every part of those lirtes had been taken and when -the artillery opened the 3-inch shells fell with deddly precision upon the defense works, levelling trenches, demolishing redoubts and blockhouses with loopholes, blocking up communi- cating trenches and obliterating barb- ed . wire entangiements. While the fire of the light fleld pleces covéred all the ground covered by the first line and the supporting trenches as far as the second position the heavy guns mttacked general headquarters and encampments further back, com- pletely blocking railway traffic by the destruction of stations and making it mpossible to bririg up supplies to the trenches of the first position during 73_hours. ‘While the bombardment was in pro- gress the officers explained to 'the men of each different sector what the general plan was and what part his particular sector was to take in it The men knew from the maps that were shown them what they would find after they had leaped over the parapet of the firet trench; they knew what their final objective was and when they reached it, though ig- Thirteenth Year Attention, Farmers! DOLLARS BONUS For Fattest and Big- gest Turkey Raised $10.00 Next Best $5.00 Third $5.00 The Bulletin proposes to capture the three fattest and lagest Turkeys to b affsred In Windham and New London Counties. grown in these two counties. The Bulletin will buy the prisc birds at the regular market vrice 15 addition to the prize to be awarded, The turkeys offered for prize must have feathers off, estralls drawn and winge cut off at first joint. Heads must not be cut off. The first prize o $10.00 to the largest and fattest young turkey; . ‘second prize of $6.00 to the second largest and fattest young turke: third prize of §5.00 to the largest and fattest turkey raised in - New- London or Windhar: Countles. The contest is Open to any man, woman, boy:or girl residing in these counties. Tho tarkeys must submitted for examination and weighing the Tuesday before Thanksgiving at 12 sleck oen. For the largest and fattest yeung tu .in sddition to the market price. Rock Nook Home. j To the raisst of the second’ yéung turkey In site in addition to,the market price will be siven. This $10.00 will be awanded will be given to the Sl o B This nish the Thanksgiving dinner for the Sheitering Arms, To the raiser of the largest and fattest turkey over.a ‘yeur-old. &~ prize of $5.00 in addition to the market County Home for Children for a price. This will 1o Thackastving ditom, | 5 i The judyes will be disinterestsd persons who will weigh the tarkeys at Bomers . Bros." matket. All turkeys that are eligible for competitien will the market price, so any turkey ralser who enters a contest is sure of selling the bird Yord o the Dot whether a prize is won or | -Accepting Joffre" s einpd English Prison Population Drops. . Although the decréasc in prison population in England is attributed by the prison commission chiefly to the enlistment of many hebitual petty of- fenders, the restricted hours for the sale of intoxicating liquor, and the great demand for labor which has made regular employment unusually profitable and attractive, prisons have been further depleted by an order ls- sued early in the war by the home secretary allowing certain’ prisoners a remission of sentence in order that | they might join the army. On the recommendation of the mil- itary authorities, prisoners convicted of minor offenses who had previously served in the army, were aliowed to rejoin their old companies. Arrange- ments were also made to permit se- lected cases of inmates in Borstal re- form institutions tg enlist. Under this provision, 340 boys detained in these institutions had been released up to the first of last May. The con- duct of these recruits has been care- fully watched and .it is reported that thifty have received non-commis- sioned ranks, sixteem have been killed or. wounded, and only seventeen have committed fresh offences. The French Bombardment. The assertion of German war cor- respondents on the west front, base on_estimates of observers of various rank, that 50,000,000 shots were fired by the French artillery in three days preceeding the great September of- fensive, is demolished in an article in the Vorwaerts by Richard Gaedke, one of the sanest critics in Germany. figures as to the numper of guns available for the of- fensive as true, Gaedke points out that/ o reach 50,000,000 shots, each &un would have had to fire some 17,000 charges in the three days. Even new guns direct from the shops could not hold' out, even if it were physically possible to serve them so fast, which it is pot. . This is even more striking in the case of the heavy artillery. At the most, says Gaedke, the fleld guns could not have fired more than 1,000 ghots a day, and the heavy guns much eas. 2 Even the emaller total, however, is imposing enough. It means an ‘ex- penditure in-ammunition of $25,000,000 to $60,000,000. The estimates of 50, 000,000 says Gaedke, shows how terri- ble must have beén the impression made by the French bombardment. OTHER VIEW POINTS | No man who was born in any of the belligerent couhtries can he]p be- ing concerned with the awful ‘events now transpiring. If he were lacking in sympathy he would be sbnormal. If, however, he allows his sympathies to operate against the country where e all his present interests and which has given him the very opportunities denied him in his old home, he is tfnsgressing a law which is potent even if not written.—Meriden Record. It might not be practical cities to issue a wholesome invitation to the community to t any one school or all of the schools at any one time, but it would be a good thing for both the public und the schools of every village and city if a large proportion of the public, and especially the parents, visited them from time te time and observed the work they are doing. Another thing that would help a great deal toward them of greater value would be consultations by parents with teachers in an effort to be of mutual assistance in solving the. problem of educating the children,—Waterbury Republican. in some With “slow but sure” as the un- written fhotto of the present British governmept—and _ nothing but _th slow part of the slogan yet material- ized—a man of Churchill's activity was not wanted. Yet most people would prefer to have him with all his mistakes. Better the man of action the other fellow get the jump. Eng- land got into France to late, into the Dardanelles too late, and into Ber- bla too late. If Churchill erred, it was always on the other side—he wa sometimes t{n hlndm b.b‘.‘t of t.g “cn! gagement.” It was the Detter fault of the two, however.—Bridgeport Tele gram. ‘We raised our tax' rate two mills and before we left the Town Hall unusual’ appropriatipns were voted The War a Year Ago Today Nov. 17, 1914, Allies gained ground on Yesr be- in ind between (AT slions. expalied from Frank. 6 EVELYN BARSOLOW town of Kiilingly is a laughing stock when it does business that nyf Why do you raise the tax rate anyway? There is no need of it. Assess "r' your expenses and debt with 13 mil What is the rcal reason you won't as- sess this property? The law demands it. Come out in the vpen and tell the whole story, you aseessors and board of relief. Wo want te know why it is that one property worth over $500,000 is assessed for only $150,000 and other Droperty assessed at 100 per cent. and at times more than 100 per cent— Danielson Advertiser. -3 THE WAR PRIMER By Natlonal Geographic Socioty Kraguyevatz, before which the Ser- vians have offered such desperate re- sistance, in the arsenal city of the lit- tle kingdom, one of the greatest ar- scnals in the Balkans,” says a state- ment given out toady by the National Geographic Society. “A large powder works is located here, which was in- creased and improved during the war of the Balkan League with the Otto- man Empire in 1912. There are also maintained here an important arms factory, and the central Servian sup- ply depots for war munitions. In con- nection with the arms factory, an fron foundary is operated. “In a sense, therefore, Kraguyevatz represented the backbone of Servia's military aspirations, for here are the Servian Krupp works, du Pont mills and Remington factories amalgamated to form the arsenal city. Highly trained young officers of the Servian army have devoted much painstaking and laborious effort toward. bringing the technical efficiency of these fac- tories up to that of the model muni- tions establishments of the greater Western nations. While not in_ Kra. guyevats proper, the powder mills are situated within'a short walk of the town in_the little hamlet of Chili- cheve. Even in peace times, a strong garrison was maintained in the ar- senal city, and investigations of the curious were discouraged. “Kraguye among lower hills, about 59 miles southwest of Bi grade, on the Lepenitsa River. This tream flows northeast to a junction with the Morava, through a well- weeded valley. One of the finest By- zantine cathedrals In the country is with the city, and here, also, is_the finest Servian college building. It is connected by a_short branch line with the Belgrade-Nish section .of the Paris-Constantinople rallroad, and its population has grown rapidly during recent years to a total of more than 15,000. In the early days of Servian emergence from Turkish obscurity, it served as the capital of Prince Milosh, and, later, as a meeting place for the National Assembly. where the Allies are reported to be landing troops for their operations in the Balkans, lies the historic battlefield, Philippi, upon which Brutus and Cassius lost all hope of inheriting the power of the great dictator whom they had slain”, begins & statement given out today by the National Geographic _Soclety, which describes the point of most re- cent strategic interest in the Near East. “Kavala is a Greek port much nearer to the Bulgarian borderd than that of Saloniki, and one of the most convenient stations available to the Allies for the basing of a campaign against southern Bulgaria, with the obpective of the Orientai Rallway through Turkey-in-Europe. “Sitvated on the Bay of Kavala, 22 miles from the Bulgarian boundary to the east, an Allled garrison at this port wotid be within easy striking distance of the enemy, country, whil with mountains guarding the town around and down almost to the wa- ter's edge, it could be turned into an almost impregnable depot for muni- tions and supplies. The Bulgarian border 40 miles to the north is pro- tected by the wild Rhodope Moun- tains, from which outrunning ranges and hills guard the eastern mafches. The railway between Saloniki and the Bulgarian port, Dedeagatch, passes 16 miles to the north of Kavala, and only miserable ways lie in between. The whole borderland territory is lean, 'Heals & Soothes' ‘Skin of Children 'and Sick People DIRECT FROM ITS PHENOMENALRUN N '%M Here Intact—All - ro y = - "M'“, The World's Greatest Suc '$500,000—18,000 . THE BIGGEST EVENT IN THE MISTORY OF NORWICHW SOMETHING YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO. ‘Special Pricss—Matins 25c, 50s, 78¢.. Nights, L gy 20th Chapter_“BROKEN COIN” 1> Reds PARAMOUNT TRAVELOGUE || THEIR | T T t . 336 THE FLOWER GARDEN GIRLS ,edl.: Miniature Musical Comedy in One Act. Colonial Theatre Frohman Amusement Corp., Presents Geo. Ade’s Comedy ts “Just Out of College” 25 Eugene O’Brien, Amelia Summerville and Mammeth Cast in the Season’s- Most Charming Photoplay. Snappy Story, gHandsoms ~Girts, Cellege Pranks, Beautiful Scenery, Withall, the Prettiest Play Yeot. Crane Wilbur, Ethlel Clayton, Thurston Hall in “The Mirrer,” Lubin savage and rugged. “Kavala port crowns a promontory, reachyng into the bay. It is an insige nil t little village, with a popula- tion of scarcely more than 5,000. The island of Thasos lies before its bay to the south and east. ‘This island, also, is a hilly vantage point for the guarding of the entrance of the har- bor against attack by hostile ships. Altogether, this obscure little town may conepire to give it back a greater fame than it ssessed in Greek and Roffian times. ehemet Ali was born hers in 176, which event is the greatest In the village’s history of 1000 yi until the present coming of the Framen and English. In the country sirround- ing Kavala {s grown some of the finest Turkish tobac~o that finds i CLOSING OUT Every Woman's and Misses’ SUIT In Our Entire Stock at Greatly COATS! 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