Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 4, 1915, Page 4

119 YEARS OLD Sul Price 12c a week; S0c & month; = year. Entered at the Postoffice at Norwich, Conn., as second-class matter. \ _ Telephome Calls: Bulletin Business Office 480. Bulletin Editorial Rooms 35-3. Bulletin Job Office 35-3. Willimantic Office, Room 2, Murray Building. Telephone 210. B ] Norwich, Saturday, Dec. 4, 1915. 2 c 0! 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 4,053 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- ne towns, one hundred and sixty- ve postoffice districts, and sixty rural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold in every town and on all of he R. F. D. routes in Eastern Connecticut. study of the conditions than has ever been done before. If such work in this direction as has been done before was hasty and inaccurate as General Goethals has been to believe, they will have a chance to make the necessary corrections and render val- uable aid in devising a plan which will ald the operations now underway, and it must be recognized that what- ever services they can render will be of great importange at this time. THE HOCKING CASE. From the action of Great Britain in requisitioning the steamship Hocking which is under American registry without waiting for the prize court trial, it would appear that that coun- try is positive of the outcome of the case. It is indicated that in British opinion the facts which are possessed in substantiation of their position are such as ‘will not permit of any doubt existing but what the change in reg- istry was against the provisions of international law and that, as in the case of other transfers, the deal was not bona fide. Such an inference is supported by the attitude which Great Britaln has maintained before and since the seizure. The Hocking and other vessels which are owned by the American Trans- atlantic company were thoroughly in- vestigated before they were admitted to registry “under the American flag. The claim of the company is that it is controlled solely by American cap- ital and that all its stockholders are Americans. Thus it would appear that one side is as confident of its position in the matter as the other. Notwith- CIRCULATION averag 1901, 1905, average 4412 -5,920 November 27. DECEIVING UNCLE SAM. Much interest has been centered in the trial of Dr. Karl Buenz, director of the Hamburg-American line and three employes of the company, which has been underway for a number of days in the federal court in New York. The case had to do with the sending of a number of vessels with supplies to the German warships during the early months of the war from Ameri- can ports, and while the violation of the neutrality of this country was charged, together with conspiring to defraud the United States through making or causing to be made false manifests, it is only upon the latter charge that they were found gullty. The jury was not called upon to con- sider the charge of neutrality violation as it was explained by the presiding judge that their acts in chartering ships and sending the supplies was not a violation. That this will not be the end of the case is probable, but it becomes evi- dent as the result of the verdict that representatives of belligerents cannot play free and fast with the port reg- ulations of this country and expect to escape responsibility and the attached| penalty for transgressing our laws., That is no more than what should be recognized by the represemtatives of every belligerent nation for laws which apply to everyone cannot be expected to make exceptions of anyone, whether: they are citizens of this country or subjects of other nations, or whether their country is at peace or war. De- ception cannot be tolerated under any | circumstances and especially must it be guarded against when one country is trying to get the advantage of an- other through its efforts to deceive a third which is friendly with both. TIME FOR ARBITRATION. Threats of mob violence as the Te- sult of the conditions which have de- veloped in the traction strike at Wilkesbarre call to attention again the great injustice that is possible when law and order are disregarded and ef- forts are made to carry demands by force, Instead of resorting to mob rule and the committing of illegal acts in their endeavors to secure demands the ex- ample which has been set in many other communities of referring their differences to arbitration ought to be adopted in Wilkesbarre. If the de- mands are just it is possible to dem- onstrate the fact. If the demands are too much and cannot be met by the traction company that likewise is open to proof, but when violence is resorted to facts are departed from and an un- just method of reaching a settlement is undertaken, regardless of the side which instigates it, which cannot com- mand much respect from an impartial onlooker, however great is the need for a change. In many other communities the wis- dom of getting down to an early and fair adjustment of affairs under sim- ilar conditions has been recognized. It has resulted in a determination of the disputed points by an impartial board. It means a sound and sensible solution of differences without resort to riots and disorders. It is upon the facts alone that such trouble should be ad- justed and they get no consideration whatever when mob violence and threats fill the air. In the interests of all concerned, and the people of ‘Wilkesbarre are in no small way in- volved, arbitration should put a quick end to the unenviable reputation which that city is getting through the stories of the demands for vengeance and terrifying conditions which have characterized the strike from the start, SOLVING THE CANAL SLIDES. General Goethals in his latest reports on the .condition of the canal slides and the progress that is being made In the endeavor to overcome them sets no date when the waterway will be again open for traffic. There is_no note of discouragement in his com- munication’ but it is evident that he realizes that much Wwork remains to be done before the problem is finally solved, although it will be in all prob- ability long before the slides are con- quered that transportation is resumed through the canal. Daily progress is being made towards that end, but when he proposes to devote ten months to prevention work which means the clearing away of ten million cubic yards of earth for the purpose of checking any future tying up of the canal, it such a thing is pos- sible, it is evident that it is going to be a long time before the Culebra sec- ~ tlon of the big ditch ceases to hold . the nation’s interest. . Tt is therefore probable that much ST standing this, however, and Great Bri- tain knows the attitude taken by this country, England is@not disposed to wait for a fair trial and a disclosure of the full facts. It has acted in ad- vance of judgment one way or the other under the idea that it is right and that therefore this country is wrong. The proof of the contentions as far as submitting it to the court has been disregarded, and until there has been a decision rendered by the court it is impossible to look upon the action as other than high-handed and calling for the protest of this gov- ernment. It cannot be conceded that Great Britain is right just because it happens to think so. RESTRICTING THE PASSPORTS. Only just what might have been ex- pected is the action taken by the state department as disclosed in the an- nouncement by Secretary Lansing when he declared that no special priv- flezes will be extended to the members of the Ford peace party in the i¢suance of passports. They will be treated the same as other applicants for such papers and because they cannot show that necessary business calls them into the belligerent countries their pass- ports will be restricted to the neutral nations of Europe. The party goes without the sanc- tion of this government. It goes with- out the solicitation of the countries at war and its mission is to bring about peace for which, while there has been much talk, there is no apparent indication that it is being sought un- der the terms which would be, possible at this time. The countries at war fully understand that any peace at this time would simply be temporary until there could be a reorganization and new preparations when war would break out again in all its fury. The ke(eping of such a party out of the counfries which are at war by the denial of passports does not mean that this country is not willing to do what- ever it can to reestablish peace there whenever the time is ripe, but it does mean that the complications which are UKly to arise through what may be interpreted as unwarranted, meddling are fully understood and that this gov- ernment intends to forestall them. Without passports they are not likely to want to get into the countries at war because of the difficulties which can be expected especially since such endorsement is withheld by this Zov- ernment, while in neutral countries no objection is to be anticipated from such a campaign as they propose to conduct. EDITORIAL NOTES. A daily lesson in geography Is neces- sary to keep up with the progress of the war. The man on the corner says: Char- atter is better than a reputation for good intentions. I If Germany has shot 200 food agi- tators, it certainly indicates a con- servation of supplies with a vengeance, ! While other and bigger things are attracting attention this month, the Red Cross seals ought not to be over- looked, ‘Wonder it Mr. Ford is prepared for the outbursts when he attempts to tell all the belligerents that the other fellow is going to win? The samples of snow thus far ob- tained indicate that the quality remains the same, but the quantity is lacking in the epinion of the small boy. The most companionable winter bird is the chic-a-dee, and the most per- sistent, for he sings his cheery song whether winds blow or snow drifts. Early in November at mid-day when I was cutting chrysanthemums this crested titmouse came within a foot of me to get his dinner and he enjoyed his sunflower seeds while I gathered a bouquet. His tribe now covers the country from Pennsylvania to Nova Scotia and wherever wood- choppers camp this little soclal bird picks up the crumbs. He is a feathered acrobat and can hunt the trees for in- sect eggs like a nuthatch and balance on the wing to intercept a midge like a fly-catcher, and Thoreau says his song is like “tinkling bells,” and some writers claim/that he can sing “sweet- heart” to his mate like a fairy. He never scolds at man like the pugn: cious sparrow, but follows the wintet walker on the open road, cheering him with his chick-a-dee-dee. I like to see him in the garden looking over the trees and pecking away at the suet, or visiting the feeding place. He is a little friend and helper and worthy admiration. If you have a poor memory do not blame your tors or your teachers, but yourself. It is up fo us to keep ourselves impressionable by havin® a live interest in everything we observe. Be alive to the whys and wherefores of life in every direction and strive to understand them. It is poor powers of observation and lack of interest which make the plate of memory unimpres- sionable. If vou cannot remember names it is because you do not pay attention enough to them. Repeat The recent arrival of a thousand or more sacks of peanuts at Washing- ton just now might be another bit of evidence that congress was about to open. If the question as to whether gaso- line is a luxury or a necessity comes before congress this winter, there will be plenty eager tw offer their opinion thereon. The suggestion that the Germans take to wood for food may be the rea- son why such a hard fight is being made to conquer the forest-clad moun- tains of Montenegro. England has placed an order for 70,- 000 cases of eggs in New York, but 1o one has as yet discovered that they are to be used in the y=pring attack to offset the gas bombs. There is little surprise that a Lon- don library has withdrawn all its fic- tion from eirculation until peace is de- clared. War stories certainly beat anything in the fiction line Now that all the mafl that is des- tined for this country is opened and read in England thase censors must make the postoffice employes, who are restricted to post cards, envious. The fact that Heary Ford nearly forgot his passport in his efforts to get his party together ¥y indicate that he will be so solicitous for their comfort on the way that he will for- get his mission. names when persons are introduced to you to yourself and spell them—sget a grip on them. The whole science of memory included in the study of Mnemonics consists of simply connecting things you do not recollect with things you do. No one ever had & good memory for just wishing for it. They get it by working for it. You can have a good memory by just culti- vating it—paying the price. 1 like to meet the man or woman with love and good cheer so confirmed in their hearts that the winter of old age cannot freeze it out. These con- genial souls are not so few as we think, and they possess no power which could not be our own. There is no surer way of making life chilly than by reviewing our trials and nurs- ing grudges as a habit. Sensitiveness and senselessness go hand in hawd. The hair-trigzer temper has to be Sultivated, for there is nothing sensi- | ble about it, or natural, It paves the way to the deeps of despondency, to the arctic regions of thought. We cannot keep warm if we turn our hearts into artificial ice-plants, live in a chilly atmosphere, make every soul cool who approaches us, and blame everybody but ourselves for our self- created and self-sustained miserable condition. Somehow we all have an aversion to darkness, and perhaps this is why we neglect to peer into the dark spots in our characters. We all have them, and it is common for us to leave them for the Lord to inspect instead of lighting them up and cleaning them out for ourselves. There is too much of this so-called leaning upon the Lord, it is s0 much easier to lean than to, with His help, extricate ourselves. T! are the physically lazy and the spi ually lazy, and the last named are ten- fold worse than the first. The spi ually lazy think their attitude is divine when it is nearer devilish. It is easy to misjudge our own crude conduct. In our conceit most of us not only con- struct our own religious code, but have the face to elevate ourselves and con- demn our neighbors. There is one thing Satan has not the power to do, and that js to make tho blind see. The Lord represents love and light, and truth; and the clear sight and divite gentleness can only come from Him. ‘We cannot turn to Satan for anything which strengthens tope or lends color and beauty to the human soul. This is a truth which should be allowed to sink deep into the human mind; to become indellible, to malke itself ineffaceable. We are free to seek delights of sin: and to commit every act which entails its dis- tresses, but when it comes to release we must look up. not dow: We must turn to the Son, not away from Him. Just as vigor and development, and beauty come from the sun in the Heavens to Nature, so from the Son of God mes to the human soul the clear vision of spiritual possibilities. Just as | happened in at a place ot business recently I heard the conversa- tion between two youth which clos- ed with this remark: “Four hundred members on the books of that church and twenty present to listen to the ser- mon. Ain’t that punky?” Young eves cbserve and young minds form con- clusions. This lad must have thought’| the case he was publicly citing was a bad religious example—a disgusting- Iy manifest dislovalty to professions. ‘What do the unfaithful think of this? Four tweeks from now are they going to turn over another new leaf to look hack upon with remorse. Why doesn't the church grow? Did lack of enthu- siasm or unfaitbfulness ever make anvthing flourish. A boy beholds a religious body’s efforts and says: “Ain't that punky!” Don’t you think In modern phrasiology that it is about time to get a move on? If you patronize the trolley cars much you have been surprised to see the passenger manouever who cheats the conductor out of his fare. Did you ever get on at Franklin square and pretend you were a through passenger, gaze out of the window so the con- ductor could not catch your eye and get through “scott free?” Mot of the time the conductor knows you did it, but your general respectable appear- ance makes him avoid a dispute with you, because between dishonesty and lying his very bread and butter may be put in peril. How free is such a ride as this? _Being _self-conscious that you can be a successful cheat for a nickel seems to me to be about Bs expensive a ride as anyone ever took. And this is happening every day, too, and the conductor doesn’t speak of it, he only looks after us sharper and keeps getting a poorer and poorer opinion of us. He is not to blame. That is the price we pre- fer to pay for a trolley ride. It takes severer weather than we have had to stop things growing in the garden. The auackigrass and the chickweed are making sturdy roots and sowing seeds to clutter the garden next spring. Before man became a cultivator of the soil it was such per- sistent weeds as these that .worked eight months in the year and clothed the lean places of the earth with beau?y. The chickweed is often found in flower in sheltered spots in Jan- uary and February. And this little mouse-eared plant must be recognized as one of our oldest inhabitants. It the toad preceded man by fifteen mil- lon years, these weeds preceded the reptiles perhaps by as many more millions of years. The chickweed pro- duces a million seeds to every piant, €0 it is not strange it is one of the most numerous of weeds and the birds love it because it is tender. Man dis- likes it because it is so prolific and inconquerable. The hoe can only check it. It cannot be annihilated any more than the mosquito. Iries ago by (Written Specially. for The Bulletin.) “Going homs¢ How _often that phrase has been sounded during the m il i ke, Defors. . and * attet Fiow It haf apimated the ured york: encumbered, making work light and dissipating the clouds of sorrow and dupr!'llion and gloom and discourage- ment! ‘What new elasticity it has given to the feet of those in the long lines of the bag and suit case brigades, hurry- ing toward trains and ferrles and tubes and trolley cars and L roads and post roads and all the other kind of roads which, no matter how diverg- ing, ultimately led to that sacr spot called home! thousands of mortals who home to go to, as the holiday neared! Who lacked the expectancy of glad welcomings, the greetings of loved ones, the warm hand-clasps of friends! Soclal workers in the big clties state that there is no grief like that which settles upon those disconsolate on who seem fated ever to be the world's derelicts, as the time of a holiday nears, and they, alas! realize that they have no home joys awaiting them. Friendless, penniless, wanderers, cheaply paid workers who can claim no better shelter than some cramped, cheerless, chilly, shabby hall bed- room; prodigals, male or female, who through sin or weakness or evil-doing of some sort have cut themselves oft from all home ties. It is said that their depression is deepened a hun- dred-fold at such times, especially as they see their associates joyously go- ing off to homes, poor though they may Dbe, but nevertheless homes. Those are the times ~when euicides | increas when the river or the rallroad or the gas route offers a temptation to the discouraged to give up the struggle! Houses and homes. The thought was suggested to me today, as my eve chanced to fall on a newspaper par: graph referring to the estate of the richest man I ever knew. There has been a quarrel about this estate, and _after much unpleasant publicity and delay and expense and wrangling and family bitterness, the estate has fipally been devided, so that “the daughter of this rich man by his plain and humble first wife is to receive $35,000.0000, while his sec- ond wife, the fashionable mate of his successful years, it bought off with $5,000,000. The man | am referring to had made his way up from poverty in the fairy- story stvle possible only in America, where fortunes are made in a night. Hence -he knew all about poverty, privations. grinding work, the baffling, discouraging, up-hill ~ struggle in which so many fail. At e time that I knew him he had homes—and an abundance of money to keep them up. In the first place, he had a home in the western city where his fortune had been made —no matter just how: but it was an anormou one; then he had built a wonderful mansion in a fashionable summer colony in Connecticut, where thirty-seven men kept the grounds in order and almost as many more in Sunday Morning Talk GRIP FAST, The coat of arms of the ancient Scottish house of Leslie bears three golden buckes and the motto: “Grip fast”” The device was granted centu- a grateful sovereign to Bartholomew Leslie for his gallantry in saving the Princess Margaret .from drowning. The young lady's part in the exploit was hardly less creditable than that of her rescuer, she cling- ing fast to his stoutly buckled girdle while he swam with her to the shore. The old motte may well have been recalled by the Countess of Rothes, a descendant of the brave Leslie, who, in the terrible Titanic disaster, first took the tiller of the life boat she was in and later pulled an oar for three hours in agonizing pursuit of the slwly receding lights of a distant vessel. The legend is one for all of to write indelibly in the memory ahd in the will. Whenever life comes to a crisis, when courage burns low, when foundations seem slipping from be- neath us, it Is time to bring the words to full consciousness and to respond to_their ringing challenge. There are some ‘things of which no mortal should ever let go who wishes to maintaim, his serenity—we had al- most said his sanity. Losing them he is in sorry straits indeed. Think, for example, of that great trilogy of graces named by a mighty Christian thinker of long ago. “And now abld- eth,” says St. Paul, ‘faith, hope, love, these three.” Because they abide, these are realities to tie to. He is lost who ceases to look out upon life with a heart of faith. To lose grip on the doctrine of Divine Providence is a tragic loss. Nothing so saps a man's courage, when com- fronted with the world's problems, as skepticism. The dismal confession of Ernest Renan, written after he had abandoned reiigious faith, is appro- priate for anyone under lke condi- tions. Says the gifted Frenchman: “Since Christianity is not true to me, nothing interests me or appears worth my attention.” Unbelief everywhere and always is a_brief for pessimism. Whatever difficulties stand in the way, let one cleave to faith. . That is to walk through life on the sunny side of the road and to discover, even in the midst of trial, the secret of a great peace. - Hope is a second spiritual fact of which one may strive not to lose grip. No “fell clutch of circumstance” can conquer one who clings to hope. It is a beacon light gleaming across the stormiest sea. In one of his most elo- quent orations Daniel Webster speaks. of the hope that animated Columbus and held him to his course across un- charted wastes. A ‘touching and pa- thetic scene it was, indeed, When the discoverer stood on the deck of his shattered _little caravel, raining westward his anxious and eager eyes till Heaven at last granted him a mo- ment of rapture and ecstasy in bless- ing his vision with a sight of the un- known world” Aren't we glad that the intrepid sailor held on to hope? Third, and supreme, in the immor- tal trilogy stands love. It is what Drummond called it: “The Greatest Thing in the World” It is philoso- pher’s stone that transmutes all the Daser elements of our human nature into gold. No one can mieet ultimate loss who clings to love. He carries his riches safe within. Van Dyke comes to the heart of the matter in the hymn:, Who looks to heaven alone to save his_soul May uicnp the path but will not reach - the goal But he who walks in love may wan- der far Ana_God will bring him where the blessed are. THF PARSON. help were employed Wwithin the great house. He had & shooting-box in the Adiropdacks, a ranch house with ev. ery comfort on an estate which he had bought in Texas: in winter he oc: cupied another house which he had purchased in New York, and, as though these were not enough to af- ford him shelter, he next leased & splendid house in Paris. Six homes! But one day, a few years ago, that man grew discouraged, use he was not In good heaith, and he blew his brains out. In his Connecticut heme he had everyihing that art and science and wealth and taste and discovery and ingenuity could provide toward mor- tal's comfort. He enjoyed the grand place, as an of what he had achieved; but a pistol shot separated him from that, as from all the rest of his possessions, when he suddenly grew discouraged and sick of life. ‘Which goes to prove that the rich man, as he advances in the miilionaire class, is not nearly so happy with his multiplication of homes as is the ob- scure, struggling individual, to whom the building of a modest litfle home is a real achievement. Home! Certain lln&:flm have no word which is its equivalent, we are told. Yet it is human instinct to try to establish it, even under the most forbidding and discouraging circum- stances. Those of us who heard the wonder- fully interesting and informing lec- tures of our distinguished Norwich- born traveler, Frank Edward John son, recall how he described and pl turéd the crude homes of the cave dwellers in Tunisia—like nothing so much as the nests of the bank swal-: uows—mere holes In a big cliff; yet their sheltering homes. | remember once, in a western town, I mentioned how strange it seemed to find 50 many of the older houses with their entrance doors opening directly into the living-rooms—no halls, as we have in the East. “Yes!" said my host, originally a Conmnecticut man; “But we were too busy trying to. establish any sort of a home, when these houses were built, to bother about frills like entries!” “Each man’s chimney is his mile- stone!” wrote Longfellow; and this is true, when, at such holidays as Thanksgiving or Christmas, thoughts turn Jovingly toward the old _hom when the sailor nears the glad home port; when the tired worker realizes thet the day’s labor is ended, and at last he can turn his face toward home. “word may mean merely a shack, or it may mean such a home as the papers tell of today—an apart- ment in New York for which a mag- nate is paying $30,000 a year: some twenty-four rooms, eight ‘baths and every avallable comfort. It may mean the Weather-beaten farm house on the homestead grant, from the worn door- stone of which sturdy boys and red- cheeked girls have gone forth to wrest fortunes and sugcess and “the bubble reputation” from the hard and un- willing and repulsing warld. Its roms may be bare or ornate, cosy or cheerless; but if it only has the true spirit of homeliness and hominess within its four walls, it possesses a charm which serves as a magnet to draw the thoughts and the affections and the footsteps of the wanderers back to its welcoming door, when the “going home” spirit pervades the air. How lovingly the old home re- éalled, in spite of or after, the changes of the years! What it has meant, in so many families in this land, with its humble” beginnings of Colonial days; the times of plain living and high thinking! How parents and children have worked together, to secure, first one little comfort or luxury or ad- vantage after another; these are the happy achievements remembered, as the train or steamer speeds toward the little town which may not even be important enough to be represented by a dot on most of the maps, but which occupies such a big space in loving, vearning hearts! Home! May not be like tiat mournfully described by Dickens in Barnaby Rudge, “that home itself was but. another bead in the long rosary of his regrets.” May it not be the home of Dombey, with its false show; but may it be to us all that home described in ~ Nicholas Nickleby, “the place where in default of a better, those I love are gathered together; and if that place were a gipsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.” THE DICTAGRAPH. Stories of the War German Effort in Poland, The enterprise with which Germany has undertaken the development of Poland during the past few months puts rather in the shade the efforts that the Russian government put forth at various times in that portion of its domain. Apart from the re- construction of the net work of rail- ways, special attention ie being given by the Germans to the roads and to agriculture. Lodz has been repaved, and_the important main roads as far as Warsaw have been restored and multiplied in accordance with plans prepared by German engineers. The paving material is sald to be of excel lent quality, brought from Germany. The work is practically all done by prisoners of war. In localiitics which suffered severe- Iy from the blight of war the houses are being rebullt with brick and mor- {ar brought from Germany. Devas. tated flelds have been ploughed and sown with clover and rye for early harvesting. Factories whose machin- ery was not dismantled by the Rus- sians or Germans are being organized for war work of various kinds. Every- where the work of reconstruction is being pushed night and day, with eith- er two or three shifte of workmen to each twenty-four hours, Politically, there are also evidences of German attention, according to the news which reaches Polish refugees along the Russian frontier. For pur- poses of present administration, Po- land has been divided Into German and Austrian shperes of influence. The War a Year Ago Today Dec 4, 1914. Allies made attacks on n fine in Flanders. Ruslsians won a victory at Lodz. Allies Landed troops in Montene- ro. O Brance called youths eightesn years old for mill -wtmlm Mohammedan soldi from Tu- nis. to fight in army of allies. T war againet and her allies; riot- ing in many ‘touns. 2 at merican studenfs took up relief werk in French made gains in Al attacked Germans st 8t. Mihi Germans in , formed new battle line re. and on Piotrkow, | | 11 RUB RHEUMATIC ACHINCJOINTS RUB PAIN RIGHT OUT WITH SMALL TRIAL BOTTLE OF OLD, PENETRATING “ST. “St. Jacobs OII" at any in just a moment you'll rheumatic has been created in Warsaw, posed of all the leading Polish poli- ticans who remain, together with the manager of the Warsaw land bank and the head of the Society of Journal- ists. The populace is not allowed to take any part in local government as wet, however, and Governor General Beseler recently Issued a special warn- ing to Polish cltizens to refrain from political discussion, which he said would be repressed rigidly for the present. There is much poverty and distress in the larger Polish towns, especially in Warsaw. In an effort to provide for this, the local German authori- ties propse to introduce special “hun- ger taxes” on capital, rent, industry ana income. The Warsaw Consistory has ordain- ed that henceforth all marriage 1i- censes and similar documents and of- ficial correspondence must be in Po- lish instead of Russian. Schools Cyprus. j P —— y Just have a bon-bon dish of our delicious Apollo, Russell, Romance, or Progress Chocolates at each table. They take the “4rick” every time for excellence. Then The youthful Cypriot is a dificult subject to educate, for once he gets a bit of schooling he becomes too proud to work and lets his parents support him, states a report from the British authorities on the island of Cyprus. Cyprus's ‘schools are in the towns. The ypuths come from the country in large part. They come in _peasant garb, but return in modern European clothes and strongly imbued with the idea that it is beneath their dignity to lay hands to any sort of toil, even to fetching a_pitcher of water from the spring. They are even encouraged in this idea by their parents. As the result, educated youths refuse to do any work except clerical, and when not employed they spend their days in bed and their nights in cafes. The islana of Cyprus which became a Dritish possesvion on the outbreak of the war with Turkey, was recently offered to and refused by Greece, as the price of joining the Allles. ~In former years it was celebrated for its famous wine, a desert wine of the na. ture of port, but little known in Eu- rope now. Large supplies of livestock and of foodstuffs have been purchased by the British governhment from the peasants. although this year's crops have been poor. The olive crop was almost a complete failure and the wheat disappointing. But the high price obtained for cereals and vege- tables for the use of the British trdops in Egypt and the Dardanelles made amends to the farmers. The British rule here has been pop- ular not only with the Christian but with the Mobammedan population, who were glad to escape from Turk- ish corruption and exactions. Introducing German Educational Sys tem. One of the results of the Turkish alliance with Germany is that a begin- ning has been made by the Turks in' taking over some of the features of the German educational system. Dis- patches from Constantinople tell of the erection there of continuation schools, based on the German model, with a curriculum which _includes, among other studies, bookkeeping. arithmetic, geography, comercial sclence, commercial correspondence and German. The Constantinople As. sociation of Manufacturers and Deal: ers has published a notice calling at- tention to the new schols and urging the Thasters of various trades to see that their apprentices attend regular- ly. The schools are free. The “teffejjuz” school has German an obligatory study. TRe newspaper Tanin, in an article concerning the continuation schools, pays high praise to the German sys- tem. It points out that the Germans, so far from slackening their educa- tional work during the war, not only maintan it fully, but have also main- tained schools in enemy countries, using military men as instructors. Soldiers Officiate at Altars. One of the most characteristic sights in Italy is the officiating of soldiers at the altar in the small churches. At first the people were inclined to re- sent this innovation but when they understood that these soldiers are really priests, some called under arms as soldiers, some as military chaplains, they welcomed them and now prefer them to the regular clergy. The effect of the soldier-priest's dress is exceedingly bizarre, with a heavily embroidered cape over the shoulders and the snowy camicla reaching below the knee, completed by the gaiters of the soldier with spurs and heavy boots. The effect is further heightened, in most cases, by a lux- urious crop of hair where the tonsure should be and a mustache or even a beard. A special dispensation has been issued by the Vaticam to allow the priests under arms to grow hair on head and face to make them like their comrades in arms. made OTHER VIEW POINTS | Bridgeport business men have in- sisted for some time that more pres- sure should be put on the essentlals in the lower gradcs in order that the high school p“v"l.l - no:.l,): ::&:d deficient in spelling, com: - metic and ability to write English that ean be understood. Possibly a review of these pleblan studies in the upper es would do much to keep them h in the memories of the puplls and help them when they are gradu- ated into the work a day world, where Latin is wseful only occ: — The position of Connecticut's gov- ernor and junfor senator in support of the president working out the problem of pi ess in case of attack is to be commengded, and we are glad the administrat! is to have their ald in defense of the country. Important questions raksed by the war can remain in “cold storage” un- til the cruel war is over, as the gov- Somers’ Building & ernor adds: says, and, as he truthfully “It is self-evident that we will How much shall we deliver? Special Today 40c 1b. Mixed Chocolates Only 30c Ib. PROGRESS CONFECTIONERYCD. 218-224 Main Street Peter Strumbelis, Proprietor Franklin Square ed thereby would be so slight as to negliigible. Herbert Chase, mechani be better able to get these questions |engineer for the Automobile club of settled and to have these righus pro- tected if we have adequate arms of defense behind those rights. It is also very evident that we are not now prepared. I do not know of any per- son in the United States who does not agree with me that we are woe- fully unprepared unless it be our ex- secretary of state.” Senator McLean drew a convincing illustration of pa- triotism and preparedness. It is the closing paragraph of his well-timed speech: “You say ‘I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier.” Neither did your mothers or grandmothers, but they raised boys that were good soldiers.| They raised boys that saved their country in '76 and again in "61. But tens of thousands of them died in the attempt. We must not decelve ourselves. If duty calls, your boys will be soldiems. Do you want them to g0 to certain death unarmed and un- trained, or do you want your boys to have a chance to save their country and live while doing it?"—Hartford Times. The average consumption of gaso- line in motor vehicles is more than ten gallons a week per car the year round. Paying 25 cents per gallon for gasoline will mean that the average cost of operating an automobile will be considerably more than $1 per week greater during 1916 than it was in 1914. In the summer when the car owner may require twice as much “gas” the added cost will be felt as a burden by hundreds of thousands of Americans. ~Any federal tax upon gasoline is, therefore, likely to be un- popular.—Hartford Post. There is a law against the use of the muffler cutout at any time in the state of Connecticut, and it ought to be enforced to the iimit, for there is no conceivable reason for tolerating this nuisance. And yet it is no un- common thing to hear automobiles roaring with open mufflers for two or three or four biocks while geting up speed or making a hill. Motorcy- clists, too, are persistent offenders, and there is no vehicle in the world that can make more noise in propor- tion to its size than a motorcycle. Yet there is no advantage whatever to be gained in cutting out the muffler of a properly designed car and even if there was a legitimat¢ demand for the use of the cutout, the advantage gain- America, is authority for the stat ment that only a very wlight advant- age is apparent in the use of the cut- out, even with a motor. running as fast as 1,000 revolutions per minute, which is the equivalent of a higher speed than the law allows. Besides that, the cutout is placed at right an- gles to the exhaust pipe, 80 it cannot relieve any alleged back pressare. Away with the nuisances who drive roaring cars through the streets at all hours of the day and night. 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