Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 1, 1916, Page 4

and @oudfied 120 YEARS OLD e fon price 1Z¢c a week) 50c a At the P , &t Norwich, ComB. as seosnd-ciass matter. Busin ce_480. B e .%“Z'..‘“?.._ 55-3. ( : Sulletin Job Office 35-1. Bullding. T&Cmm a5 E—— Norwich, Saturday, Jan. 1, 1916, 1,100, and in all of these places it is considered the local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hurdred and sixty- five 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. CIRCULATION 1901, ave cessescncessces HA12 1905, average...... .5,920 oecember 5 .......... 9,100 GROWTH OF EASTERN CONNEC- TICUT. However certain one may feel that a community or section of the state is growing, that the growth is indus- trial as well as numerical, and that advantage is gradually being taken of the opportunities and business facilities Which exist therein, there is nothing which places it beyond the realm of doubt like the cold hard facts and figures. The spirit of build and boost has been prominently displayed through this end of Connecticut during the past twelve months. There has been recognized the need of cooperation and the in the foreground of thought the promising future which is in store for Norwich and for New London and Windham, counties. How they are growing is shown in the in- creased volume of business, larger payrolls and the present prospects of much greater advancement during the coming year as clearly set forth in this issue of The Bulletin throughout the territory in which it has-an exten- sive circulation. Though there are lines in which busifiess has not meas- ured up to the past there are others in which it has shown a substantial boom which mu more than offsets the instances where it has suffered from conditions beyond its control. ‘The manner in which manufacturing plants are expanding, the way in ‘which mills which were previously idle have been started up and their ca- pacity increased, to say nothing of the volume of new building demon- strates as nothing else can that re- sults such as have been aimed at are being obtained and that the movement for a bigger and better Eastern Con- necticut is responding to the awakened Interest in a gratifying manner. It is, however, no time to rest on the present record of accomplishments. The limit has by no means been reached. Norwich and Bastern Con- necticut are only in the early stages of development with the progress in the past simply pointing to the pos- sibilities of the future. The New Year holds out great promises and there should be no relaxation in the effort to see that they are fulfilled. NEED MORE SMALL PRODUCERS. For a number of years meat prices have been on the increase, and even ugh this has resulted in curtailment a certain extent, the increased pro- duction necessary to bring about a change has not materialized. As was pointed out by President Waters of the American association for the ad- vancement of science this week the United States has been losing ground in animal production for nearly 20 years and it is neeessary for science to find a way by which small farm- ers can raise meat animals profitably. Whether such a means lies along the same channels followed in inten- sive agriculture may need to be de- #f the small producer, for where the tle and sheep industry was found be a profitable venture in years gone by and participated in by a large number of the farmers whose contri- butions to the supply was considerable in the aggregate, there is nothing to- A proper understanding of the re- quirements in running a farm in or- der to eliminate the waste and the lost motion and to get results in com- parison with the outlay of time, ef- and money has accomplished won- for the tillers of the soil who willing to get out of the ruts of eand it is open té lication of similar sing of meat ani- petus for action and result in advancement. Without education lit- tle progress can be made. under adverse conditions to take care of the large volume of business which has been thrown upon it in the past few months. He shows that the road has been adding to its equipment as extensively as good judsment under the situation would permit, but it has been restricted and is today restrict- ed in the extent to which it can go in. meeting requirements. In no way is this better shown than by the uncertainty which exists over the future of its Sound lines. That the steamers thus operated have taken care of a tremendous amount of bus- iness is a matter of daily record. They rendered a most valuable service when the steam lines were tied up by the recent storm and through them the rallroad recognizes the opportunity for still greater relief of the congested conditions as is indicated in the letter ‘when it says: “The company consid- ered seriously placing an order near- 1y a year ago for two additional freight steamers on Long Island sound, but it did not feel that it had the right to borrow the large sum of money necessary, considering the fact that within a comparatively short time the company might be ordered, under the Panama Canal act, to dispose of all of its water lines.” The possibility that the Sound lines would have to be divorced has met with opposition throughout New Eng- land ever since the act was advocated and it would appear to be time that any probability of such action should Dbe set at rest. It is an important part of a transportation system, the development of which ought not to be denied to the manufacturing interests of New England. THE SHIP PURCHASE BH.L. ‘With the new ship purchase bill about to be presented to congress pro- viding as it will for the purchase or construction of vessels by a govern- ment shipping board, with a view to chartering or leasing them to indi- viduals or private corporations desir- ing them for use in the transportation of the commerce of the United States with foreign countries, and giving the government the right to operate these vessels which would be secured through an appropriation of $50,000,~ 000 obtained from the treasury funds or through a sale of bonds, new inter- ast is directed towards this proposed legislation which has once been de- feated. This course to secure a larger num- ber of vessels is prompted by the be- lief that private capital is not respond- ing to the demands, but from inquiries which have been made and from.act- ual figures which have been secured by those interested in the shipping question, in addition to statements advanced by those who are actively engaged therein, the quantity of ton- nage under construction on July first and ordered up to December first amounted to 202 merchant ships of 761,511 tons. This discloses the or- ders which have been actusally placed and indicates how the shipbuilding industry is responding but it does not reveal the amount of business that is withheld because of the inability to ®et orders filled within two or three vears. From. it all, however, it is clearly demonstrated that capital is not only ready to do its part, but is actually doing it and under the existing con- ditions the greatest service that the government can render !s in lending encouragement to American shipping through legislative acts rather than trying to enter into competition with vrivate business. EDITORIAL NOTES. Passing from the old té the new ‘wasn't so much of a stride after all. To each and every one The Bul- letin wishes a happy and prosperous New Year. Strange how it is possible to go from one year to another by simply shifting calendars. A lot of people will get much sat- isfaction out of the fact that 1916 did not open on a Friday. It requires all a person’s energies and wits these days dodging the mean and merciless grip germs. ‘There would be something sad about the passing of the old year iIf there were not brighter hopes held out by the new. The man on the corner says: It is the fellow who keeps his good reso- lutions to himself who forestalls any adverse criticism later. There would be greater welcome for After getting the expression of two town meetings there can be little doubt ‘Norwich feels about the idea ‘of establishing medical super- vision in the schools, ——e e Even though President 'Wilson has ‘as ambassador to the qualifications of the i E, i i aF i ; 5 il ! 4 | would saying the LI.IS{ and doing the right thing at_the righi time—and mostly doing! There no doubt selfishness and meanness of every - description have their delights, some of which are infernal; but they are of short duration. A knowledge of spiritual truth and responding to its inspiration—a service of good deeds done rmmtlhovoho! t?e hmh‘l‘l‘: ‘man—produces the happiness whicl abides and which fits”man for theé companionghip of angels in the realm of eternal light. procl you will' know and love, what you will possess and enjoy, and where you will dwell you learn and love and do -today.” It would be better for us all if we were conscious of this all of the time. 1t is day by day we mould our future not Sunday by Sunday or year by year. Too many people frame up a passport for use when they meet St. ‘Pm the Cloud-digger who compelled the clouds to wet down the parched earth! “I'm Deacon Toplofty, multi- millionaire, and philanthropist.” They do not seem to realize it is St. Peter's duty to keep lame ducks out of para- dise. Old “Bombastes cannot get by whatever his self importance since it is simplicity ‘and humility which counts there. “As ye have done unto the least of these so have ye done unto me,” is the keynote. It must be heeded. You do not know how any person can short-circuit themselves. I will tell you. It is easlest done with a bad habit of thought—it ' is readily done by a strong habit of action, like the liquor or tobacco habits. The man who is anxious to know himself can take an easy lésson by being temperate in eating or drinking—or in thought or speech-control. Very few men are masters of themselves for the simple reason that they have surrendered to some cowardly im- pressions, or been untrue to positive convictions of right. How many, think y« stand true to what they think is right regardless of results? One can stand true without being blatant, or firm without being furi- ous. Fear. dominates our lives too much—love dominates them too lit- tle. You and I know that we are at heart too often slumpers, and who- ever slumps s short-circuited. The worth of calmness and silence seems to be to well known to the villlan and too little” appreciated by ‘the virtuous. We do not enter upon the trae way of living even when it is pointed out to us. How long the rage for “Don’ts” has has lasted. The list of ‘don’t: that have been issued in every imaginable direction would fill a book as big as the Bible. Do is of ten times the consequence of don't. We are put- ting toe much negative and. too. little positive in the minds of the people.- L am designed _for = succes: child of the king. I am blessed with health, -strength and ‘ambition. m equipped to achieve. I am resélved to make the best of life apd the some reason hope is born in every mind gl:h the dying of each December and the New Year is certain to bring us better fortune!” _On the face of it, this is a bit un- | grateful to the year which has just expircd, forgotten, while fiickle crowds were acclaiming his baby successor. Few_ of us there are who cannot look back over the twelfvemonth, yet fail to recall some merry, if not some happy and-fortunate moments. It must be a dull, dismal existence, in truth, which has not been lightened by at least a stray gleam of pleasure, exciting happy recollections, if not Lord ever created. When excited to vengeance a bee is the one creature that makes no note of the size of the enemy, and when disappointed in love drops down and dies. ' It exterminates, the lazy, and when it dies always leaves a surplus, of sweetness as an evidence of its industry and good will. Fooling with a bee may be per- ilous, but being with a fool is weary- some and degrading. Of course, & bee was not made to fool with; had he been he would not have been equipped with enough temper to out- fit a bull. Men pet elephants and crocodiles and tigers, but there is no such thing es taming a bee. Their first state is not worse than than their last, nor their last state worse than their first. Imagination has been pictured as the ruler of our dreams, and it cer- tainly is the originator of half the orid’s miseries. It is one of the ngs- man must be master of, or it will master him. We must beware of our.mind-images—what we pic- ture may please or irritate us. Habit gives imagination shape and violence or beauty. Shakespeare says: ‘“The lunatic, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact” It (holds up to us a glorious vision, or a pic- ture of despair, and we can accept or reject either; it introduces us to hope or despondency as we will; it magni- fles mortal needs, or pictures our spiritual desires; it is debasing or en- nobling as we we may will. Imagina- tion is a faculty not a quality and should be ruled by the mind. It in- spires us to look up with hope, faith and joy. Imagination can intensify disease or blast hope. It must be sub- ject to reason or it has power to destroy. It can stray wherever light leads, or conjure up all the imps of < I.am the| darkness. 1 | There is no such salutary alaclxmnaz retiring to our spiritual closet, to t-of-January inventory, lookiag backward, that we may be warned by past lapses to avoid similar ones dur- ing the bright New Year whith stretches so invitingly ahead. With Patrick Henry, we may say: “Experience is the |-'z‘p by wh%h my feet are guided!” And in the time of retrospect, the rays from Experience's lamp may and must shine on many pit- falis, chasms, deadly ruts and furrows, crooked paths, swamps of folly as well as sloughs of despond, in which, if we have not fallen, or dailied, or lingered, at least ‘we have escaped many and multiple dangers; and for this last reason we have cause for being thank- ful, while we start ahead into the un- certainty of the New Year, a trifle scared, maybe, a bit sobered by the backward vision, yet strengthened by the conviction that what we have en- dured, and suffered, and escaped, and resisted, must make us wiser, more wary, gifted with more of fortitude, as we go courageously onward to face the unknown future as represented by the rosy and laughing and lusty little infant year. The newcomer, for all this, is no stranger to us. Scientists have com- puted all about bim, designated his seasons, months, weeks, days, hours; set down in cold print which all who run may read the facts about his woons and stars and tides and planets; eveh made a guess at what kind of weather and crops and political and religious and social events he will bring us. “They have set down in the almanacs interesting things about the days he will have to work—and we with him— and those playdays which we designate as his holidays. Even the very young child ecan look ahead to the most important changes which he will bring; after the chilling days of frost and snow and ice and sleet, the joys of coasting and skating and sleighbells’ jingling, the tardy and then the swift advent of spring; the sudden coming of summer’s heat and flowers and languor and pleasures. Then the almost unexpected slipping in of autumn, to color the world In the gayest of hues, all too quickly winter again, and the expectancy of a new heir, another New Year. There are the visions of seedtime and. harvest. There is the surety of sorrow fresge EE? have calmness in the face of sorrow, a new urcefulness to meet emergenci which cannot fail to stand us in stead during the year to come. Man needs this renewing of the New Year ;rlrfll ‘There is salvation in this trait of human nature which causes us to forget the parti separations of the like the children w! minds us that we are in the really big things of existence, we are diverted by the new toys, the baubles of promise, lgxe glitter, the gay melodies of what now. | Then it should be ours to remember the rich heritage which has come to us with the year so recently dead. ‘We have had the inspiration of the ilives of heroes, of men and women whose self-sacrifice has uplifted all mankind. The Creator has worked through the minds of His creatures to find expression in marvelous inven- tions, perhaps; in words of wisdom, in rare harmonies, in books and sermons which have brought us nearer to that plane where, we are told, man some- times stand when he is but a little lower than the angels.” 5 Even out of the deadly conflict which has racked and rent so much of the world, which has resulted in rivers of blood and rivers of tears, there has arisen a new spirit of fraternal tharity which has welded men and women and races and creeds and colors, differing arkedly before, 4into one great fam-. suffering in anguish that a por- tion of it should revert to the sAv- agery of war, yet, in the very throes of its pain and woe gaining strength, please God, for a New Year not far distant, when the entire world shall have put off the habits and the sel- fishness and the cruelty of barbarism and narrowness, to stand as one in its hatred of strife, and to look back at the things that have been with shud- dering and with repentance and sor- row; while there shall be true brother- hood, full unseifishness, born of the tribulations of those who have died a martyr-death that we might learn! And that will be Indeed the Glad New Year! THE DICTAGRAPH. every agt and every ten. Muscular evitable reaction on thought has its definite mental fiber; tke power of self-registration is a hi God grim. At the last assize facts are all in hand so that runs may read. The dead be judged out of the things tl written In their books. If the book thus far has been scruwled over, defaced and biotted, there is at least this consolation; crean, fresh pages remain. It is pos- sitle to write on them clearer better sentences than on those turnéd dewn. New Year's day presents sreat opportunity. We are throwing away the old calendar and beginning a new one, We are turning back the Wiitten page anll opening a fresh one. It i= a fine time for starting again. A well-known contemporary novel- ist speaks of his waning enthusiasm for many things that lose their fresh- ness with the passing years, but adds; “Not so the sight of that blank sheet of paper. The untroden world romance, the virgin fleld into which one is about to plunge, never loses its unspeakable and indescribable fascl- nation.” f Hew much greater the fascination in that page of time that opens before one on the first day of a new year! The page is unsoiled and unspoiled; it hclds never a blot nor a blur. We can meite on it, clean and fresh, what we will. That is the glory of the new year that should fll ourhea rts with joy. As regards the pages turmed back; what is written is written; nor can all cur tears blot out a word of it. But, that should fill our hearts with joy. is in your keeping and in mine. Let us make it & strong chapter in a noble story. s THE PARSON. he who 5 o 1 am[* most of myself! A mind charged with |- these “I am's” . possesses: dynamic force and the power to the mind which {s &lad thoughts: I ‘am’ hani - unlucky; I am ‘& child”of misfortune; I am no good,” needs a new stoker. The fire of inspiration has been put out and everything seems to be.a cold proposition. Perk up. there, now! Get a grip_on your bootstraps and pull up!” You need not be energy- ess if you do not wish to be. Some of the trench-play between the entente and allled forces in France disclose the under-current of thought running through the minds of the men. Not long ago there came up from a German trench a printed sign which read: “The French are fools,” which was irritating. Shortly an- other sign came up which read: “The English are fools!” and savage blood stirred again. There was a rather longer pause and a third sign appeared saying: “we are fools,” and the agitation in savage breasts was soothed, for this confession carried with it the thought of brethren 'who had no reason to be foe’s except by compulsion or command; they could fraternize at onc they had sym- pathy for one another; and "yet at command they go for each other with- out mercy like bull-dogs in the pit. How dependable is the civilization— when fewer tyrants than we have fingers can set 14,000,000 men to fight- ing and disconcert the affairs of the ‘whole civilized world. I do not see how a devout' person can grumble about the weather, If it were man-made there might be some defense for finding fault .with it, but since it is decreed by God it must fit the needs wf <arth if it seems to man’s expectation to be a misfit. If God is perfect why should not everyone of his days be perfect &om a divine view point? Why not ourselves to his days instead of expecting Him to fit His days to us? We divide the days into fair and foul, but if they exactly meet the earth’s requirements isn't every day a fine day—a perfect day. It is a bad habit to be grumbling about God's work just as we would grumbile about the poor work of a tramp or any in- efficient. If the day doesn’t suit us there is no rational reason why it should. Every day means the great- est good for thle greatest number. J It was Mrs. Spriggins who said: “1 1 fool with a beée than be with & fool” It is falr to assume that she did not enjoy anything ab- normal or monotonous, but she could find pleasure with something normal and lively. A bee is one of the fine- est parcels of compressed energy the The War a Year Ago Today Jan. 1, 1915. uRqu-‘l;‘n Invaded an;n lm into Pol of _Suwalki. Turks invaded Russi. , split- r oper- driy prvvlm but failed ussian