Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 4, 1916, Page 4

of the Austrian embassy in this eves that his government “to “satisfactorily ad- . ¥From that it is to i that in his opinfon Aus- imediately disavow the act in the case of the Ancona, ‘of reasoning being appar- the commander of the sub- ‘had not been iInformed of the n poliey of the Austrian gov- 1ald down in the note re- ward to this government. ~of course entirely possible, diffieult to believe that even fine that this country is satisfied with repeated dis- § when the promises of the dual iy are being violated as fast i %, | § s “the 5l il ?i;i i’fi! m E H ?EF -} 1 i i’ : gi E : i i § 5 | is with the 1 A DEPLORABLE SITUATION. Despite the “of laws, the knowledge of right ‘wrong and ! i Eé nine. Tt is more than occurred in Arkansas, Florida and Texas, each of which had five and it just equals the number which took place in the nine other states where such acts in con- tempt of law and order were reported. Even the states where only one such act of lawlessness was committed have | enouzh to do to put down the element that is responsible for it, but it has been fully demonstrated that nothing can be expected from the authorities of Georgie in bringing about an im- provement of the situation. The mat- ter there rests with the people and the responsibility for such a shame- ful record falls entirely upon them for unless public sentiment sanctioned such a state of affairs it would have Deen ended long ago and the number of Iynchings for 1915 would show a decrease Instead of an increase from 52 in 1914 to 69 the past year. No state which tolerates the taking of life in the way it is done in Georsia, Mississipp! and Alabama, can lay any claim to having established the high- est standards of justice. There is something seriously lacking in such civilization. THE TARIFF. In discussing the possibilities of the capepaign for the next presidential election the remark was recently made by a man of considerable prominence that he hoped that the old question of the tariff would not continue to be an issue. Though he may hold the opin- fon that it is a matter which ought to have been adjusted long ago or that it should be a subject free from pol- ities, he must nevertheless recognize that the business of the country is bound to feel the effects of the uncer- tainty which is sure to prevail until ‘made. Under such circum- promises mor disavow- fed upon &s a subisrfuge to keep ry writing notes and nego- or_something which they do 1 to respect. al amounts to mnothing ne commander repeats fore the Ink is dry in the with demands made to ‘wrongs. 'Whether Aus- : of its pledge was in- ‘ .. S the result of failure to : B touch with its submarine com- s ‘discloses a situation which ‘ tolerated and .unless that ‘ £y hastens to do what its charge jes it will and gives full explan- ‘ « ‘position, the crisis between : Ir has by no means passed. TED COASTING. N. J, is in mourning be- tragic death of two young o were killed in a coasting hen a bobsled, in an en- avold an auto which had pped on the course, was driv- (@ telegraph pole, resulting in of two and the pos- injury to the young man eering. b the course which they was known as one of the the country and they were express train speed when nt occuried, no effort had ‘been made to guard it ivel by vehicles or to pro: there as a measure of life and lmb. Under the distressing ac- such as might have It was the logical conditions existing action taken now in until necessary reg- ean be adopted is only _y,,hm been done a long “situation at Caldwell be- was not so different fls In many commu- streets furnish a nat- ng place and invariably .« tion as to their use rs or vehicles, even as they do in many onto and across -the 50 that as the result ‘conditions which sur- it is surprising that accidents of the ceurred in the New Jer- It is apparently a matter ty first principles should the protection’ of the n.as well as reliev- sibility of thoso the pursuit of bus- regulations “for such - ys in that question is settled and settled right. There can be no stability if every four years the tariff is to be torn asunder without ‘regard to the. effects it is going to have upon the industrial life of the country, but with consider- ation solely for the carrying out of pet theories concerning a matter of such vital importance, There has been a sufficlent demon- stration to the effect that unless this country and its lawmakers are gov- erned by the facts surrounding that great. question when it comes to enact- ing legislation a deplorable situation is bound to prevail. It is not neces- sarily new facts that are demanded but an open minded and conscientious consideration of those which are avail- able as they apply to the conditions of the country. If the tariff continues to be kicked about as it has been there can be little improvement, but if it is handled on the broad basis of the welfare of the country and acted upon without regard to partisanship, but with the nation’s needs in mind as supported by the cold hard facts which exist, or which might be made more available through the services of a tariff commission, it can be safely, quickly and effectively eliminated from among the issues of a presidential campaign, but not until then. EDITORIAL NOTES. January isn’t winning any praise or friends over the character of the weather it is producing. Court records show that some peo- ple have a peculiar idea as to how they should start the new Year right. There is plenty of evidence that European countries did" not include peace among their New Year's reso- lutfons. . It is a sane demand that exists in mnany states for new laws which will make it necessary to enforce the ing .ones, = . Whatever pessimism has prevailed as to Norwich's opportunity to grow ought to have been released with the departure of 1915, ‘With the new passport rules in ef- fect it is possible that those securing such papers will appreciate what is being done for them. e g peacé party realize a mined sea offers no more attractions to neutrals than 1t does to the belligerents. The man on the corner says: There appears to be a steady improvement in other vehicles, but it is the same old model for the water wagon, Servia has a new commander-in- chief of its army, but apparently it was easier to Wll that position than it will be to securs a new army. Now that Turkey is seeking a hun- dred mfllisn dollar loan from Germeany possibly the kaiser might induce Bel- ilater and at a dance that i as the members of the Ford | “Naturally, you would suppose human woman, meeting Derby for the first time, would have = gone away quietly by herself in a. corner and painstakingly imprinted upon her mind his_every little feature, so that she could thereafter see him coming a mile off and be able to say carelees- you mever can count on en! Of course, it was six months she saw Derby again, and he was in his glad rags and his complexion had taded out to a white man's color and al that—but Derby is Derby, you know! What did my wife do but Jook right through and over him and cut the poor man fiendishiy! “Sho pointed out in extenuation of her crime the fact that of course he knew her, because she was with me but there was no similar tag on Mr. Derby, and 1 was crazy if I had ex- pected to kiow him! She added a man in evening clothes bore about as much resemblance to himself attired in a golf rig as a butterfly did to a caterpillar, and that nobody on earth was expected to recognize the yel- low and crimson butterfly among the rose bushes as the brown caterpil- lar ome had knocked off his neck a few weeks previous. So why on earth was I making such a fuss? She doesn’'t seem to have the least trou- ble remembering women. If, after a casual introduction a year before, she meets a woman she spots her instant- 1y as the Mrs. Smith who wore the seal brown velvet with the topazes at the Uppity club's annual reception. And if Mrs. Smith is wearing the brown velvet made over and smoth- ered and disguised in tullse and satin and dewdads, you bet your life she recognizes the dress as well as Mrs. Smith! It's a caution!” ‘“I know it” glommily agreed the Hyde Park man. ‘T've suffered so severely that nowadays I.say stern- ly to Beryl: You are going to meet Mr. and Mrs. Jenks to-night! For heaven's sake, take a long look at Jenks, because he's on the member- ship committee of the club I want to get into! Make a good impression. Make him think we are somebody! Get his face fixed in your mind so that the next time you see him you'll know him from the milkman or the grocery_boy!” “Beryl is really anxious to please sometimes, so she tries to obey me. She sits all evening with her big eyes glued on Jenks' face and hangs on his every word—and the result is that Mrs. Jemks gets mad and sa) Beryl is trying to flirt with her hus- hand and she won't stand it, and she makes Jenks blackball me when my name comes up;” “When we're out,” mournfiiy add- ed the Woodlawn man, “and I see anybody coming whom we know 1 jab Imogene with my elbow and hiss into her ear that here comes Jangler. whom she met on the steamer. and for heaven’s sake, speak! ‘Where? says Imogene in a ‘troubled, wild voice, staring over the surrounding land- scape in all directions except at Jan- gler. “Before I can tell her he is located in this county instead of in New Jer- i L : Australia Has 150,000 Recruits. is the irreducible minimum,” said “We want over 9,000 a month—that | lar war song in England in their na- | the liners of her ally, Japan, and en- tive tongue. able her to use the route through the Senator George F. Pearce, minister| When the natives left the Cook is- |Suez canal with safety.—Bridgeport for defense, a few days ago in refer- |lands their. friends and relatives bade | Standard, ence to recruiting in Australia. “The army council hes asked us to them farewell in native fashion by Kkissing their feet. When Wellington The State Highway Safety league of increase our percentage of reinforce- | was reached the recruits marched to | Massachusetts asks that applicants ments for the expeditionary forces.|parliament house singing Tipperary {for licenses as automoblle We have heen sending them forward in a proportion of from 10 to 15 per cent.—a total of about 6,500 per month. and Are We Downhearted? in the lan- guage of the Cook archipelago. The Maori members of parliament address- tors be compelled to pass examinations as to their mental, moral and physical fitness. A bill to this effect, seeking It has now been asked that we shali|ed them with patriotic speeches, after |lo prevent accidents, rather than to increase this to 20 per cent, which | which there was a haka or Maori war | Punish drivers by suspending their will mean over 9,000 a month. ‘This intimation should stimulate recruiting throughout the commonwealth as it shows that the need for men-is in- creasing, rather than decreasing. 1 feel sure that the manhood of the commonwealth will be capable keeping up the requisite supply for the front” Thus far about 150,000 men have enlisted in Australia. Gilgandra, a town of 2,500 inhab- itants in the wheat region of New South Wales, has since blossomed into war fame by reason of the fact that a squad of 30 volunteers from that place have started on a 820-mile march to Sydney, to go into training there. The residents of the town contributed a thousand dollars toward the initial cost of the march and all along the route donations of cash,and articles of general use are being made by In- terested men and women and at al- most every stopping place fresh men are joining as volunteers. The move- ment was originated by the captain of the Gilgandra Rifle club, Willlam T. Hitchen, a storekeeper, and has the approval of the defense department. The march is attended by many picturesque features. Most of the men have lived all their lives on the western plains of the state, among the wheat flelds, and a number of them, including a former Methodist minister named Lee, have, like Cincin- natus in the old days in Rome, left their ripening crops to be reaped by neighbors while they do to war. Lee is a good speaker as he is doing most of the speechmaking for the recruits at the rallies in the country towns. The men have been dubbed “the snow- ball army,” and each man is called & A group of forty-five South Sea. Is- land volunteers, also recently arrived in Wellington, New Zealand, from the Cook group, sonorously singing popu- The War a Year Ago Today Jan, 4, 1915. Russians occupied Suczawa and again threatened Cracow. urks ravaged Persian territory. Z British _ships shelled _Dar-es- Salaam, German East Africa. French aviators dropped bombs near Brussels. Germans put Young Turks under oath to support existing regime. i § g S° Bium to provide the necessary cofn. ‘Without going into BEypt it looks as 3f the Austro-German forces would be kept busy taking care of the new drive which the Russians are making in- Bessarabla. Reforming a reformer may be, as declared, one of the hardest things under the sun, but those who oppose ‘have no conscientious scruples when it ‘comes to launching an attack. It might not have been courteous has long THE VELVET HAMMER A Good Natured Treatment in Verse of Some of Norwich’s Prominent Men By ARTHUR 'BROOKS BAKER GEORGE B. LINTON ME years ago he left the mill to join our fine police, to make the deeds of wicked men diminish, It was extremely kind of him to help the city out and see that crime_aid mot become too chesty hereabout, tho long before the day of swarming friendr of s the solemn ordinance with very littie heed. wE need some careful discipline to keep us in control, to help us curb the fresh and’ wild impulses of our soul. gentle admnoitions printed in the books of law we often 0 pieces in a manner coarse and raw; and clvic calm would dis- - appear before the howling mob, but for our wise and careful George, who's always on the’ job. 4 WWE hardly need to state the fact, so' easy ago actuired the veivet job of Chief. For has ceased to flourish—it has sort of petered out, and Geo tting sleek and stout—our people tend Pause or cease. that was ‘Wwho greet ¢ shoot of belief, that he dance by the Maor] legislators. Conditions in Lodz. When the Germans first occupled Lods permanently they found-the in- dustries in a bad way because of a shortage of coal, due to the crippling of the mines by dynamiting, and to the difficulty of getting freight cars in which coal could be imported. This difficulty was overcome, but coal no sooner began fo come in than & shortage of raw materials tled things ©up, and, If it continues, ~will bring every factory in Lods to a standsti not later than March, it is estimated. If this condition of alairs comes it is feared that the present very great need will increase, and that thousands will-face starvation. Todz in the past has been a large tmporter of cotton, both from Ameri- ca and from Turkestan. Neither mar- ket is now open to them. The little that remains from old supplies is be- ing doled out in. quantities sufficient to allow a few of the mills to operate three days a week: About 40. per cent of the full quota of laborers in the textile mills now work 30 hours & week. In sdgition to the food. and fusl shortage that exists today everywhere in Poland, Lodz was particularly handicapped from the very start by a shortage of cash. The Hussians had taken every rouble they could lay their hands on, and such factories as were running could pay off their hands only with difficulty. The city accordingly was necessi- tated to issue paper currency in 20 and 50 kopeks, and one and five rou- ble notes. A total of 12,600,000 rou- bles was put out. Of this sum, 1,650, 000 roubles were issued on the strength of the promised loan of 2,- 000,000 roubles from the Russian gov- ernment. This sum had been prom- ised before the German occupation to help Lodz bear the expenses of the been paid. The balance of the issue was guar- anteed by industrial firms and mer- chants, who were required to back the paper with securities and credit in twice the sum of the issue. This paper flows back and forth and tem- porarily supplies the needs of the population, but will be taken up grad- ually by the notes of the proposed na- tlonal bank which is to be established for all Poland about the first of Jan- uary. Lods’s debt gradually piled up_be- cause with the withdrawal of the Rus- sians all taxation ceased. The Ger- mans found it out of the question to impose taxes for the simple reason that the people had no money With which to pay them. In place of col- lecting taxes in fact, the Germans have had to pay out some 3,000,000 marks to the wives of reservists and pensioners, whose incomes from the Russian government have stopped, and in addition are feeding between 100,~ 000 and 150,000 of the population. A force of 900 German-speaking Po- lish policemen has been appointed to take the places of those who fled with the Russians. The old force comsist’ ed, on paper and the payrolls, of men, in actuality of only 300, hardly licenses for 30 days, is up in the Massachusetts legisiature—Waterbury Republican. On_Christmas day 2¢ patients in the Cook County hospital at Chicago dfed. That made a sad Christmas for ny people. ‘They were talked to death,” asserts Dr. R. T. Vaughn, the night warden, and goes on to explain that the municipal authorities against the protests of the physicians permit- ted 4,000 visitors in the institution on the holiday. The excitement was too much for the weaker patients. On Sundays and holidays the death rate always rises, says the doctor. The killers and those who abet them ‘are not Dratali - only stupld—Hartfora imes. A man who expects to do large things must be impervious to ridicule. The people who envy his success will always find his ideas absurd. Hence it is excellent practice to make and keep a resolution in the face of the jeers of one’s friends, After you find you cannot do it, you have an excuse for quitting if it seems best. But usu- ally the resolution proves permanent- ly useful. New Year's resolutions are said to be out of fashion. Perhaps that is because one day a year for new beginnings is so inadequate. Every day in the year ought to. bring some new purpose and larger hope— Meriden Journal. One object lesson, impartial and de- cided, is enough as a rule to secure the Proper cleaning of sidewalks for the rest of the winter. It does mot pay, with the ordinance in force to meglect this duty to the public. What is need- ed in Ansonia, as elsewhere, is action by the city officials to show to the residents that the law means some- thing and that it will be enforced in every ease of neglect. Once let this lesson get home to the public con- war, but only 350,000 roubles have]3Ciousness and there will be an im- mediate and radical improvement. The public will cooperate with the author- itles, when it is convinced that the au- thorities mean business and very sei- dom will it take the trouble to do its part unless it has some such vigorous reminder.—Ansonia Sentinel. ITALY’S TWIN CITIES ARE NOW REBUILDING Messina and Reggio di Calabria Re- covering From Earthquake of 1908 The twin cities of Messina and Reg- glo dl Calabria which were wrecked by earthquake in 1908, are, after sev. en years of hesitation, just now be- ginning to rebuild_themselves along permanent lines. Notwithstanding all the time that has elapsed since the disaster, the havoc to be seen R-R-RI” “SNOWBIRDS,” THINLY CLAD, ENJOY LIFE one of whom remained on December 6, 1914. Until February of this year the ad- ministration of Lodz was purely mili- tary. Hindenburg at that time ord- ered the creation of a city government after the German model, with a mayor and a city council. This latter body, which at the start had to appointed, eventually will be elected from the Polish, German and Jewish popula- tion. There are at present some 600, 000 persons living in Lodz and its sub- urbs. About one third are Jews, 100,000 German and the balance Po- lish. The industrial crisis has been helped by the emigration of some 30,000 Lodz workers to Germany, whers working conditions are more favorable than ever before in history. Thirty thou and, however, are little better than a drop in the bucket in a city where not only men but women and children have always been workens. ‘The government has installed both a coal and a meat monopoly, for the purpose not only of regulating the | distribution of the available supply but also to stop the pernicious iv- ity of speculators. e police presi- dent of Lodz, von Oppen, has charge of the distribution of coal to whole- salers and factories, where the civil magistrate of Lodz watches over the distributions to the people direct. OTHER VIEW POINTS This is the time of the -nmanw-;-:&ltt?awm tle stores-and pick out real bargaine. Holiday stocks are being ~marked Roll-—Hartford Post. ‘Japanese liners are said to have k. the route through the Sues the danger of being Friday, Jan. 28th seats in advance. there is even greater than that in war torn Ypres or gutted Louvain. With a few exceptions, every single house will have to be rebulit from the very foundations. A very few have been rebuilt already—the station, two hotels, the building in which is lodg- ed the royal earthquake relisf com- mission, a bank or two, a temporary, hospital and the local building of a world-wide American concern. But the great mass of the people atill live in the wooden barracks turnished them by the Americans who sprang to the rescug of the stricken citiee— though alreax almost all have for- gotten that these buildings came from America. The barracks were splendid for their temporary purpose—easily trans- ortod: amckty put up, comtortable, sufficient shelter and clean. But they were not intended for permanent hab- itations, and having been used as such, there is reason for the quere- lous complaints of them so common among the natives. The corrugated iron roofs catch all the heat possible and the wooden walls guard it and add to it, instead of spreading a coolness of their own as do stone walls. Ver- min lodges readily in the joints of the boards and it is impossible to clean the wooden dwellings by simply by sioshing a bucket of water over the interfor which 15 the customary Italian way of cleaning their stcme houses. Worst of all, the crowding neces- sitated just after the earthquake by the limited number of accommoda- tions available has not been improved in seven years. Indeed, in many hcus- es seven years have 'added soveral more human beings to he lodging. It is probably the general spread of this condition that has finally forced the inhabitants of Reggio and Messina to get rjout _constructing themseives permanent Houses. * With this enforced decision, & re- markable advance in wages 'n the building trades has appeared. The fact that work has been seriously be- gun coincident with the war has only aggravated the situation—there are few men available to do -the work, just when there is more work to do. 1t is an advance taste of what condi- tions will be all over Europe when the war is over and all the hundreds of cities of northern France, Belgium, Poland, Galicia, Serbla and Turkey have to be rebuilt again afteh ravages of war. In Sicily, every man who can lay a brick straight or put a few stones to- gether with the aid of cement has a Jjob ten hours a day. The average Wwages in the bullding trades, which before the earthquake was no more than $1.26 to $1.50 a day, now ranges from $1.75 to or even higher. Ev- en unskilled labor, of which there has always been an excess in Sicilly at 50¢ to 76c per day now commands §1 to_$1.25 merely to tear down the -valls. In spite of paying these higher wages, the building contractors are making what, for Sicily, are fortunes. The contract to bulld a seven room house runs to 30,000 lires—roughly $6,000—and the stone is the volcanic stone found in every Sicilian fie!d and the cement with which it is put to- gether is delivered by boat within easy hauling distance of the work, at 2 minimum freight charge. Among the few things left by the earthquake in Messina, among bits of carved stone walls of churches and graceful arches flung off into space, BASS CLEF CONCERTS 1915 —-SIXTH SEASON—1916 Friday, May 26th Chorus of Men assistzd by Emineat Solcists Associate members secure tickets 8t special rate and may reserve For cards apply to J. E. Vaughn, Secretary, or at Davis’ Book Stors is a tablet on the face of a building below a picture of the Virgin before which a candle still burns. The inscription reads: “Messina re- members with grief the terrible earth- quake of December 1894"—and guarding Vi looks out ‘whole ted, left without form of identity—the re- n, sult of the earthguake later than that of the And again Messina rebullds! the the meaningless wreckage, the shapeless debris of hundreds of what once were left Tigers and Rhinoceroses in Nebraska. Could the traveler in Nebraska re- store the of late Tertiary landscape time, he would find himself surround- ed by scenes greatly different from those of the present. The .swampy lowlands were covered with vegeta- tion similar to that now growing in’ Camels moist climates farther south. and Ilamas were abundant, and dur- ing the Pliocene e sloths and . tives now. habited - western Nebraska. dons with tusks on both the the Miocene epoch, Short-legged live in South America, in- - ‘Masto- upper and lower jaws, much like those of still persisted. rhinoceroses remained abundant, and there was a great vari- ety of wolf-like carnivora. Saber- toothed tigers and true cats, ‘some of them cons‘derably the modern tigers, were aiso abundant. Three-toed horses were still numerous but the modern genus Bqus was not among them. One of the most curious animals of the time in Kansas Nebraska was a gopher-like that had two large horns on its mose. Its enormous claws indicate good" bur- rowing powers and its horns aisb may have been used in digging. One of Teddy's Pretty Ways. McCormick, leader of the Roosevelt said mothing to him about per- That's what drove Vic Murdock, the Kansas leader, into the trenches.—New York being ‘a_candidate. Oversight, haps. It is a way T. R. Evening Telegram. Sale of Axes $1.00 Handled Steel Laid Axes_._._._. 75¢c $1.25 Handled Steel Laid Axes_-_...__$1.00 $1.25 KEEN KUTTER Axes__.________$1.00 | KEEN KUTTER Handled Axes_________$1.25 § Every One Fully Warranted : 25c¢ Winter Window Screens or Ventilators, 2