Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 30, 1915, Page 4

orwich Bulletin and Goufies 119 YEARS OLD Sul lon price 12¢ a week; 50¢ a meonth; & year. 5 Entered at the Postoffice at Norwich, Conn., as second-class matter. ‘ Calls: Bulletin Business Office 450. Bulletin Editorial Rooms 35-8. Bulletin Job Office 35-3. Willimantic Office, Room 2, Murray Building. Telephone 210. \ Norwich, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 1915. t'l'lie Circulation of The Bulletin The Bulletin has the largest circulation of any paper in Eastern Connecticut and from three to four times larger than that of any in Norwich. It is delivered to over 3,000 of the 4,058 houses in Nor- wich and read by ninety-three per cent. of the people. In Windham it is delivered to over 900 houses, in Putnam and Danielson to over 1,100, and in all of these places it is considered the local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hundred and sixty- five postoffice districts, and sixty rural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is soMd in every town and on all of he R. F. D. routes in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATION 1901, average 1905, average....... November 27. A COMMENDABLE. ACT. The account which is given by Eleanor F. Egan of the experience which she and the others aboard the British ship Barulos had in the Med- iterranean when a Turkish submarine fired a shot across its bow after hav- ing sunk another British steamer car- rying freight, the crew of which had just been taken aboard the Barulos, reads like a fairy tale. It is filled with harrowing features, but the sur- prising part of the whole affair is the conduct of the submarine and the dec- laration by its commander, “Go back to your boat, we are not murdere: Coming so close after the sinking of the Ancona, which likewise was a passenger ship without contraband and bound for this country, and displaying such consideration for the human cargo, though the panic, which had been caused by the appearance of and shot from the plunger following 80 closely as it did upon the rescue of the freighter's crew, resulted in the loss of 25 lives, it presents a con- trast which is decidedly strikine. Whether it was an isolated case where a_humanitarian is in command of a submarine or whether it indi- cates a disposition’ to respect the rights of humanity and not fill the role of murderers when there is no military advantage to be gained re- mains to be seen, for certainly if that Is an example of the manner in whicK the submarine warfare is to be con- fucted in the Mediterranean in the fu- ture it is a most gratifying and com- mendable change, and the whole civil- Ized world cannot but take such a view of it and express the hope that it is permanent and not a solitary in- stance of trying to keep within the bounds of international law and Jjus- tice. PERPETUATING MEMORIAL DAY. Looking to the future, and it is with regret that it must be recognized as being at no great distance ahead, patriotic eitizens of Indianapolis have begun preparations which will insure the perpetuation of the observance of Memorial day, after those in whose hands the details now rest are num- bered among the heroic dead. This has been done by the organization of a society termed the General Memo- rial association, the object of which Is to inspire patriotism and to pre- vent the loss of interest in Memo- rial day which promises to be serlous- ly affected by the passing of the old soldiers. As long as the veterans are able either by act or enthusiasm, they will continue to keep green the memory of their comrades who made such great sacrifices in behalf of the nation, but those living who participated in the Civil war are getting to be old men. Their enthusiasm does not abate, but their infirmities increase as their num- bers decrease and the time is coming, #s it inevitably must, when they will have to relinquish the Memorial day Auties to others. There are, of course, the Sons of Veterans, upon whom such work would naturally devolve, but they are a much weaker organization ‘han the Grand Army and there are nany places where they fail to exist. Thus it would appear that Indian- apolis citizens have made a move in \the right direction and to obtain re- , 8uits it has been made none too soon. The last organized march of the vet- srans has been made in many places ind the number is constantly increas- Ing and the example which has been set by the Indiana city .is one -that ought to spread throughout the coun- try. FEDERAL RESERVE DISTRICTS. Ever since the makeup of the dis- tricts under the federal reserve sys- tem was announced there has been discontent in certain cities because they were not chosen.as.the location for the reserve bank of its district. This feeling is based upon-size and| the financial strength of the cities. There are also sections of certain dis- tricts which believe that district lines should be changed so that they would be placed in districts where the bulk of their business is done. For the purpose of straightening out these conditions appeals have been made to the National Reserve board under the belief that it had the power to make such readjustments as it was considered wise and in the interest of the communitiss served. That they have not that power is revealed by the legal advice which has been given to the board by Attorney General Greg- ory, who maintains that it is beyond the jurisdiction of the board to act on such petitions. According to his opinion the districts must remain as board, the members of which are in clese touch with the /conditions and fully undersiand the which the dissatisfaction rests, and therefore in view of their other re- sponsibilities ought to be capable of with the facts. PRESIDENT ELLIOTT’S ADVICE. is indicated by the order just issued by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western road to the effect that no more freight for export will be re- ceived until further notice. Despite all it can do its terminals and sidings are choked with cars loaded with goods which it is impossible to move because of a lack of steamship fa- cilitfes for handling them. It is en- tirely due to the unprecedented move- ment of commodities to Europe and how great the volume of business is at the present time is well disclosed by the fact that goods to the amount of $175,000,000 and carried on 393 ships left New York during the month of October and yet there is freight which has stood in cars for 80 days. It is not solely the Lackawanna road which is experiencing this trou- ble for all are feeling it, but the best must be made of the situation until the needed relief can be obtained. The situation is not so acute in New England, but there is need of devoting plenty of attention to the matter of relief and preventing a con- gestion such as exists elsewhere. In the opinion of President Elliott of the New Haven road the difficulty in New England is not so much car shortage as shortage of tracks, terminals and private sidetracks at factories so that ears can be placed and unloaded promptly. The country, he believes, should encourage the investment of capital in ships, railroads tracks, ter- minals and equipment. There can be no question but what President EI- liott hits the nail on the head when he refers to the part which eapital can play if properly encouraged. FOOD FOR THOUGHT. While the question of preparedness is before the country, much food for thought is furnished by the statement which has just been issued by the British war office to the effect that since the opening of the war there have been killed, wounded or captured nearly 21,000 officers. That means a tremendous loss in view of the small number of troops which Great Britain was able to put into the field during the early stages of the war, but it shows the necessity of providing the proper quota of officers. The disclosure which is made by this statement is one of much im- portance to this country when the need of a larger army is being point- ed out. While it is possible to get volunteers in large numbers or pos- sible to resort to other measures in raising an army it is an entirely dif- ferent thing when it comes to getting officers to, direct them. Even militia companies in times of peace fully un- derstand that every soldier is not cap- able of becoming an officer and with the amount of training that is required to make them efficient where would this country be able to secure at once the necessary number that would be required in the event of war? Great Britain has lost in 2 year and a half in officers alone practically one-quar- ter of the entire standing army of this country. Even under the proposed plan of reorganizing the army and the estab- lishment of a Continental army it would require much time in order to get officers to command it, and an army well equipped in that respect needs to have proper consideration in advance in line with the improve- ments which are sought under the effort in behalf of preparedness. EDITORIAL NOTES. Servia is having as much trouble getting the location of its capital fixed as Belgium did. If early Christmas shopping is going to be a success there is something for the shopkeepers to do as well as the shoppers. e The man on the corner says: To be up to date one must do something more than tear a leaf off the calen- dar every month. It is now claimed that China will remain a republic until after the wat is ended. By that time it snay not be =0 anxious for a change. Perhaps Col. Bryan in declaring that he will not oppose the president real- | izes that opposition from sources really means a boost. certain One reason possibly that Col. Roose- velt has not been asked by Henry Ford to sail on the Oscar II is the fact that it is going on a peace mission. Those who go into the woods after deer and return with a dead or wounded companion must wonder whether the sport is worth the price. ‘That Brand Whitlock has not been caught jumping at vice presiden:ial nominations furnishes further wroof of the claim that he is a good diplo- mat. From the reception the Ford peace ship idea is receiving across the wa- ter it wouldn’t be surprising if Uncle Sam recelved a request to keep it at home. Correspondents returning from Eu- rope manage to tell an interesting story where they managed to approach the front or figure in a submarine attack. The weather man has been restrict- ing the operations of Jack Frost, but judsing from the determination which he has shown in the past he will have his way before spring opens. The Charleston,. S. C., News and Courier mentions “these hard times,” but it wasn't supposed that such a ref- erence would be tolerated in the south during a democratic administration That English c6lonel who made a parachute, jump from an airship at the height of 10,000 feet to prove that it was feasible cannot be charged with sending subordinates where he fears to go. handling ruch matters in accordance Just how the large volume of export freight is tying up certain railroads evening’s entertainmen movies in what might be described as a curd- led state. “They began the minute the screen was flooded with travel pictures show- Rockies. One of the uealed goody, !* she cried. ‘I simply love seeing pictures that I have seen! I mean where I have been! Of course it won't be as good as real- ly seeing them—that is, if you haven't been there—but if you wve it's better than the same—that is—oh, my good- ness, you know what I mean! Isn’t that perfectly be-yutiful!’ “‘You were right there, weren't you, Agdeline? chimed in the other woman who had a plaintive voice. ‘How in- e: the fluffy one. H member that? O » Why, when we were going by spot we had just beaten those New York people at bridge and he was so disagreeable about it! Remember how he always raised one eyebrow when he didn’t like anything? I think THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic ‘Soclety Kossove—“With the Servian army of the north drawing its lines in upon the ancient battleground of Kossovo, the bitter struggle in the Balkan king- dom is thering upon a fleld sacred to the Muse of History; for the Ser- vians fought their greatest battle at Kossovo, ventured their all to stem the advancing Ottoman, and there saw their empire smashed beyond repair” begins a statement on war geography issued recently by the National Geo- graphic Society. “Kossovo was fought on August 27, 1389. No event in all their history has left such an im- pressicn upon the Serb mind as this fleld, whose results were so fateful to their state. Although a losing battle, it was the great battle of the Ser- vians; the flavor of their aristocracy remained upon the field; their Tsar was killed, and their independence was lost for nearly five centuries. “The battlefleld itself is a long val- ley lying west of Prishtine, and its plain is called the ‘Field of Black- birds’. It lles almost -in the heart of present-day Servia, being about 125 miles from Monastir and 150 miles from Belgrade. Thirty miles behind the plain of Kossovo runs the bor- ders of modern Montenegro, while to the west of the plain and the town, Prishtina, runs the Morava River val- ley and the Uskup-Mitrovitza rail- way. The plain is watered by the Sibnitza, a tributary of the Ibar. It is fruitful, rolling and banked in by mountains, in which are located some of the mines famous in Roman times and during the early Midie Ages. “Lazarus, Tsar of Servia, command- ed in person on the field of Kossovo, and to him was oppossed the brilliant conqueror, Murad I, Sultan of the Turks. The advantages of numbers and of position lay with the Servian army, but these advantages were more than offset by the skillful tactics of the Turkish commanders and the tra- ditions of victory behind the Turk- ish soldiers. Tsar Lazarus had .an army of 100,000 Serbs, Moldavians, and Walachians, while the sultan com- manded a force of but 40,000. The day was decided by the Lgfi’ant, fierce charge led by Yildeprim Bayezid, and nightfall found the Servian army en- tirely cut to pieces. Murad I, as well as the Servian Tsar, was killed upon this fleld, which, if anything, is one of the most celebrated and legend-sur- rounded battlegrounds in all the Bal- kans.’ ence! Why, of course you do! had lunch at that very hotel and the chicken disagreed with you and you m&onwud with a terrible head- e!” ‘Not at alll’ growled Clarence hot- ly. “It was at Lake Louise that I had that chicken! I ess I know—I was the one who the headache, wasn't 17" “No, Clarence; insisted the flufty one patiently. ‘You know, you have no head whatever for locality! It was right there at that inn, the gateway to something or._other—they're 'way beyond it now—that you had your headache! ‘1 was so worried, Estelle! You never can tell when a man falls ill what was going to happen and—’ “‘There!’ broke in Clarence in a loud, satiefied voice, ‘there’s where I had my headache! That's Lake Lou- is See—' ‘How perfectly be-yutiful!’ breath- ed the plaintive one. ‘And you were right there, weren’t you, Adeline? - “Right there!" agreer the fluffy one. ‘But, Clarence, you know it couldn’t have heen Lake Louise where you were {ll because— ““I tell you,’ broke in Clarence firm- ly, ‘that I guess I know where I had that headache! It was the worst one I ever experienced and I was glad my will was made and all that, you know! Why, that chicken—' “‘Now, dearie’, patiently began the fluffy one, but her plaintive friend in- terrupted. “‘Aren’t those mountains perfectly be-yutiful’ she gasped. ‘Did they reaily look as big as that, Adeline? “‘Heaps huger,’ said Adeline. Now Clarence, listen! You know I always remember detail much better than you do! Don’'t you recall that when you were sick they sent up a breakfast tray with loaf sugar cut in a peculiar shape? And I said “‘It was at Lake Louise,’ Clarence asserted stubboruly. “ ‘It certainly was not!" snapped the fluffy woman. ‘Tt—' “‘Im so sorry the Canadian Rocky film is over,’ sighed the plaintive per- son, getting to her feet. ‘Wasn't it perfectly be-yutiful though? ‘Oh, my, yes!" said the fluffy onme. Now, Clarence, listen!—and they walked out still hard at it.” ended the girl who likes to talk. ‘Td give a nickel to know whether that headache took place at Lake Louise or the inn, but I've got to go through life unsat- isfied. And T didn't see any more of that ‘mm . than they aid!"—Chicago News. : OTHER VIEW POINTS Tobacco culture is to be extended in he state of Connecticut, to a section eretofore not given up to the culture of that product. It is an encouraging sign. This is a natural tobacco state and one of the products of the land making agriculture a profitable un- dertaking.—Midletown Press. This abundance of food in the re- gion which Stefansson has been ex- ploring adds to the probability that there may be yet undiscovered Es- By ARTHUR B! THE VELVET HAMMER A Good Natured Treatment in Verse of Some of Norwich’s Prominent Men ROOKS BAKER he first selectman of the to T judgment, and we use it with cide that Casper Baily fills the upon which to stake your life, ica or wife. e serves us in the Clg ors more extensive CASPER K. BAILEY wn, as people would expect, is unmistakably unique, decidedly select. We have a lot of some skill, and when we all de- bill, his excellence is something your reputation, salary, harmon- Council faithfully and well, with lab- an we've room enough to tell. some strong opinions which he doesn’t hesitate to set minutely He has forth and very eloquently state; for how could Casper criticise the other fellow's acts unless h ance with the facts? has a fund of wisdom garnered known to hasten in where es studied as a sclence th just how to mingle in, to shake their hands and mix. e’'d put his mind in full acquaint- e affairs of politics. He k.no!'{l e in his careful head; he’s never angels fear to tread; and like an Elk whose intellect is polished clear and bright, he goes to bed an hour before the middle of the nigh as a contractor, thus derivin t. e still conducts a livery with horses to engage for those Wwho wish to use them in this semi-horseless age. He acts certain gains from other people’s exercise, fidelity and pains; hé has a pair of skiliful hands for ornament and use, and when iU's necessary he can labor like the deuce. | was $442,000, and in that e . EVERY PARTICLE OF DANDRUFF *DISAPPEARS AND HAIR . STOPS COMING OUT. —_— DRAW A MOIST CLOTH THROUGH HAIR AND BLE ITS you care for pretty, soft hair and lots of it et Knowlton’s Danderine from any drug- gist or tollet counter, and just try it Save your hair! Beautify it! You ‘will say this was the best 25 cents you ever spent. Take Care of That Itching! All oh- ing Borders On Eczema. Do you Pfis‘lrd that itching as a serious thing? It is! 1y to cling on for months and years. Scores of grateful users say: “Why did we waste those months and years in agony when so tested a remedy was on the market” Thi is no experiment; it is healing in its power. Do not allow it to become serious. Buy a box today lobflzhl the beginnings of eczema. 50c a box. o kimo tribes in the Arctic regions. It has been usual to assume, because of the supposed scarcity of food, that no tribes of people would be found in the region which the Stefansson party has ventured. It is possible that there are other and . larger branches of the breed called the white Eskimio, a colony of which were only recently discovered.—Tor- rington Register. The International Silver strike in Meriden is being prolonged over a dif- ference of one hour of working time a week. The men will take ten per cent. increase and a fifty-four-hour week. The company will give ten per cent. incret and a fifty-five-hour week, and says that this is the maximum concession possible because twenty- one out of its twenty-two competitors are running on a _fifty-five to fifty- nine-hour basis. Is one hour a week so important? The company has put into effect already, another demand of the strikers and has established a min- imum wage of twelve and one-half cents on hour for women workers.— ‘Waterbury Republican. Bridgeport today compares very fav- orably with other cities of its size and has probably as good a class of boys and girls as other cities, but for the g00d of the nation it has, and they have, altogether too much loose talk. loose thought and loose morals. It may not be possible to reform those who are grown up, but the minds of the children can be so impregnated with the thought of purity and of their duty to themselves, their coun- try and their God, that they will not participate in clandestifle meetings nor ally themselves in marriage to those physically or morally unfit— Bridgeport Standar: Yale can hardly be expected to be thankful for what she has received this fall but after all, considering her circumstances, it may well be that stingjng defeat was just what her headstrong undergraduates needed. If they cannot see the handwriting on the wall now they will never be able to read even in the largest of type. What Yale wants most is the subst: tution of graduate control of football for what mow prevails or at least graduate participation in the council that settles football problems. The students have had their chance and woefully messed it ‘as the record of the last few seasons shows. Now they should gracefully drape themselves over the rear seats and let older and wiser men help them out of the slough in which they are cast through their own bad judgment. What Yale really lacks is someone who can impress on the tender undergraduate just how little he knows of the broad scheme of life. That belief of his that the sun rises and sets coincident with its ad- | vent upon the campus will have to be toned down.—Ansonia Sentinel. Norwalk’s liquor bill for one year year Nor- walk paid $30,000 to assist the poor The War a Year Ago Today Nov. 30, 1914, Three big battles were fought in Poland. Russians captured ten miles of German trenches m owicz, but failed in attack on Darkehmen. Russians won successes in Carpathians and Galicia. ships again , bombarded the Germans were expelled from Pe- trograd for raising funds for war- ships. HAIR AND SCALP Beautiful Hair is Within the Reach of All If you value the appearance of your hair you should treat your scalp as often” and well as you brush your teeth and rub into the scalp pores twice daily a little Parisian Sage. This treatment is not a mere “hair tonic.” It is bottled nourishment for the hair roots and it is simply wonderful what an improvement its use for even a week will make in the appearance of anyone's hair. It never injures, is de- lightfully cool and pleasant to the scalp and takes out the dull, lifeless look in the hair, making it soft, flufly, glossy and beautiful. Two or three applications remove every trace of dandruff, and daily use will prevent its return. Lee & Osgood Co. and the leading druggists everywhere can fur- nish you with Parisian Sage-—it costs but a trifle. ¥ a 35-cent bottle of ointment absolutely | Colonial THE CO 78, $1, $1.50] -l"Al..l~ TODAY Tho.tre S PLAYERS FOR TODAY WILL PRESENT “THE SHERIF *> A Nestor Drama “CASEY AT THE FRONT,” a Roaring Farce i A— Song Success “HELLO FRISCO” by Matis at 2:30 Adults 106, Children 5o Today AUDITORIUM Pickford:. o= Mary ; THE DAWN OF “A SEASHORE ROMEO” . TUES.|| CHORSCON & CO! RLEW, WED. || WAGNER & LEE, Acrobats | Evenings 7 and Colonial Augmented Orchestra SHOWS—2:30, 7, 8:45 Mat. 10. Eve. 10¢ and 20c A TOMORROW Nestor Comed: . Funi Comed; MILLER & within the city limits. So said Rev. James H. Soldant, of the Connecticut Temperance Union, in a sermon South Norwalk, Sunday evening. The speaker sald sixty to eighty per cent. of the poverty in Norwalk is due di- rectly to drink. And nobody has come forward to dispute the assertion. He sald further that $1,020,590.47 was col- lected from the liquor fees In Connec- ticut in 1913. The total cost of keep- ing the poor in during the same year was $1,048,393, and eighty per cent. of this poverty, which cost More to maintain than was received in liquor taxes, was caused directly or indirect- ly from the saloons. He made the as- tounding statement that Connecticut in point of population, leads the Uni- ted States in pauperism. Throughout the jails of the state in 1913 were 13,000 prisoners and in the jails of Fairfield county there wepe 3,000 pris- oners. Eighty per cent of these men and women were. in jail because of “booze."—Connecticut Western News. Patrons of the Bay State Street Railway Company have neighbors in misery in the southeastern cormer of Connecticut and the adjoining part of Rhode Island. The report emanates from Stonington, Conn. that the joy of Thanksgiving was tempered for those who use the Shore Line Electric Railway by the thoughts of the neces- sity of paying higher trolley fare: The nickel has become so firmly es- tablished in a majority of localitities as the basis of car fares that the pub- lic aparently considers it an outrage upon its rights for the roads to think of asking more, even though the gov- erning authorities decided that the advance is justified. The Interstate Commerce Commission investigated the situation in the Shore Line Elec- tric_Railway, radiating from Westerly, I, and then let the new rate be put in force, but a protest by the peo- ple has been voiced. Regarding the nickel, a statement explaining the fin- ancial hardships of the Connecticut road in question says that the coin “has grown constantly smaller in its purchasing power, until it has abso- lutely failed to meet the demands made upon it. The theory that rail- ways can go on forever without ad- justing their rates to meet new con- ditions has been tried out pretty thor- oughly with the result that a very large percentage of them have gone into the hands of receivers and one of our great financial journals published recently the statement that over fifty lper cent of the dtreet railways in ANNUAL SALE AND SUPPER The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church wili ha churc! ors 1915. Useful and Fancy Articles, Can- 47, Cake, ete. will he offered at and after 3 o'clock p. m. Supper will be served from 5 to 7 p. m. ce 20 cents> nov3td ‘Massachusetts last year failed to earn their interest charges.” What we need is a nickel with more power in it!— Boston Transcript. Heavy fines were meted out to pis- tol toters in the city court and this sort of deterrent cught to be the. i variable rule. It will help some but \regulations making the purchase of weapons a matter of strict record and license- would be better. We have Deen , criminally A negligent in this country in the matter of allowing hair brained men to walk the streets car- rying_bair-trigger guns concealed.— New Haven Union. The delightful habit of “bombing” an enemy is growing upom our impul- sive criminal population. Familiarity with exposives may account in a large measure for this desire to substitute death by explosion for extinction by the method of the revolver bu must be confessed that the change is not one that apeals to the victim. Being strewn round the landscape by dyn- amite is such a messy sort of death that none of us would choose it. The gentleman, who had in mind to rail- road John D. Archibald into eternity by such a- medium, therefore must have been seduced from his more log- ical weapon by the success of aliens recently in the use of the explosive bomb. They have eet a bad example and it being followed.—Ansonia Sentinel. The New York police department last year cost $17,996,038. {f you want clean hands- use TENDING THE ELECTRICITY IN THE FACTORY SUNLIGHT BLDG. ILIROS ELECTRICAL PROSPERITY WEEK IS AN EVENT DEDICATED ENTIRELY TO BOOSTING AND EX- USE AND KNOWLEDGE OF Monday We demonstrate Washing Machines Tuesday We demonstrate Flat Irons g Wednesday We demonstrate Vacuum Cleaners Thursday We demonstrate Sewing Machine Motors Friday We demonstrate Bread Toasters Saturday We demonstrate Electric Grills. THE ‘Norwich Electric Co. peiyW) HOME, OFFICE AND 42 FRANKLIN ST. -