Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 5, 1916, Page 4

Fear. . tered at the Postotfice at Norwich, mfi. as .‘.ionz.a’.'.‘. matter. Calls: - Otfice, 480. kg leot 35-2. " Willimantic Office, flding. Telephone 210, 8- 2, Murray Norwich, Wednesday, Jan, 5, 1916. The Circulation of The Bulletin ‘The Bulletin has tl:e mlm!'m eirculation of any paper in € Connecticut and from three to four times larger than that of any in - Norwich. It is delivered to over 8,000 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- fine towns, one hu and sixty- five ' postoffice districts, and sixty rural free de'ivery routea. The Bulletin is sold in every town and on ail of he R. F. D. Toutes in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATION AVErage.....ceeeraanenn 1901, 4412 --5,920 TWO-FACED POSITION. Just how much attention the cen- tral powers apd those allied with them intend to pay to the rights of neutrals as set forth by the notes and nego- tiations which have been carried on with them by this country has been clearly set forth by the submarine ‘warfare which they are carrying on in the Mediterranean. It is apparent that they intend to wipe out all mer- chantmen which are encountered in that highway of commerce regardless of the rights of humanity and regard- less of the protests which have been made by this country in its behalf or even in behalf of the American cit- izens who may be among the passen- Such being the case, it is evident ‘that this country must recognize that it is futile to pursue a course which I8 non-effective. Germany has dis- avowed certain acts which have vio- lated international law and Austria has done likewise in one instance, but only to be immediatly followed by acts which wholly remounce its pledges. The situation is the miost serious which has been confronted and. while it is recognized that something else must be done the administration can- not hesitate long in determining what it will be. If strict accountability means anything now is the time to apply it. There may be complications which need full investigation in or- der to obtain all the facts and be sure of the ground upon which this coun- try stands, but it cannot tolerate the deliberate murder of non-combatants, among whom are included citizens of this country and to whom proper pro- tection is not only due, but has been promised. Such a two-faced position on the part of Austria gives the best evidence of just how much reliance can be placed in its word and future conduct. EXORBITANT SALARIES, Experience is a great teacher and it makes little difference in what direc- tion it is obtained. There is nothing like an inside study of affairs in or- der to bring about a realization of the great amount of iInjustice that exists in administering public affairs, and this has been disclosed in a striking way by the recent statement of Max Grifenhagen, a retiring sheriff in New York state. There are not many who are willing if they have the same con- victions to make them public, but when the result of their experience is glven and their ideas for correcting existing conditions advanced they are usually worthy of serlous considera- tion. Sheriff Grifenhagen, like a few others who have manifested a sane in- terest in public welfare, has not called attention to changes ‘which ought to be made at a time when he will be affected thereby since he is leaving office and it will be his successors ‘who will be affected should any change be made, but he points out that the com- pensation of his office is altogether out of proportfon to the service ren- @ered. In his opinion $15,000 a year % a good fat salary for sheriff of New Yeork county, but according. to his declaration, and he should know the salary he has received together with ments of the consumer and realize that such demands catered to by ‘the fafmer as by the manufacturer in order to the profits that .homdp::i“ 4 The railroads are to coo] ‘results done so much to hold them back. FRANCE ADMITS ERROR. BEven though there was much sur- prise when the French cruiser Des- cartes began stopping American ves- sels on the high seas and taking off German subjects the result of that ac- tion has been no different than what was expected now that this govern- ment has been informed through the French embassy that the protest of this country has been heeded and the men removed from the ships will be released. This is in accordance with the dis- position which has been made of cases of a similar nature in years gone by and France by its action makes it evident that it does not intend to de- part therefrom. The men who were taken from the American, and there- fore neutral ships, were not on their way to join the colors. They were going between neutral ports under the protection of the American flag and were in no way involved in the war. It was virtually a .repetition “of the famous Trent case, in which this country by removing the confederate commissioners from a British ship was in the wrong and admitted it and that is what France has. now done. The action by the French govern- ment has been prompt. It has been guided by the facts and precedent and there is no reason to believe but what the end of such unjustified removal of foreign subjects from American ves- sels plying between neutral ports has been reached. It stands out in marked contrast to the manner in which the protests of this country concerning its rights are being respected by other nations in- volved in the war, but it gives em- Dhasis to the fact that this country is pursuing impartially its neutral course. JUSTICE LAMAR. By the death of Associate Justice Joseph R. Lamar the country and the United States supreme court loses a Jjurist of long-recognized ability and whose services during the five vears he has been on the bench of the high- est court in the land have beon mark- ed by consclentious effort and inde- fatigable work despite the infirmities which were gradually increasing though one of the voungest members of the court. Ordinarily a man of his years, 58, would have been looked upon as likely to serve the country for a much longer period of time, but his Il health has for some time been giving warning to the. contrary and legislation had been under considera- tion, which would have made it pos- sible for him to have retired under full pay. Justice Lamar was one of the ap- Dointees of President Taft, selected because of the manifestation of abil- ity which had come to the attention of the chief executive through his work in his home state of Georgia. In naming him, a democrat, the presi- dent demonstrated his belief that qual- ificatione rather than politics should govern in the makeup of that tribunal and Justice Lamar throughout his career on the bench justified the con- fidence that was placed in him, Though the name of Mr. Taft is now being urged when it comes to filling the vacancy, and such advocacy comes even from Georgia, the fact that there now remain but two dem- ocrats in that court is likely to elim- inate all possibility of his choice de- spite the fitness which he has shown for the place. EDITORIAL NOTES. The man on the corner says: Clothes do not make the man, but they help him make a bluff. Villa is again reported killed. News must be once more scarce in the re- public to the south. i e S When ex-President Taft calls for a real republican to head that party's ticket he again shows his opposition to the hyphen. 1915 may be referred to as a back number, but when it comes to sub- marine activity it had a better grip on the situation, From the price which William A. Astor coughed up for his peerage it is quite evident that he has learned the advantages of tipping. Congress is once more in session and every day brings forth new reasons for adequate preparedness in the mat- ter of national defenses. the perquisites amounted to the sur- prisingly large sum of $100,000 during the two.years he has been sheriff. There may have been a time when the administrator of such an office re- celved no more than he was entitled to under such an arrangement, but it is apparent that the time is ripe for the elimination of the fee system and the bringing of the office down to a salary basis alone. And it is highly probable that there are other offices than that held by, the sheriff whers such conditions should be brought to Ught and undergo a similar reform. HELPING THE FARMER. Long and persistent campaigns have been waged for the purpose of bring- ing the farmer to the realization of his position and his opportunity. The seed has fallen upon fertile soil in many instances and the results in such cages speak for themselves, but there is a great stretch of barren ground if the failure of those who till the soil to respond can be taken as a criterion. It 48 not, however, a cause for dis- couragement for the need of improve- ment is too great, but rather should it result In a greater determination to bring to the attention of the farm- er the many ways in which he can overcome his shortcomings, and there appears to be nothing more important in this section of the country today than to get the man who is engaged in agriculture alive to his chances. ?fih connection a promising nlan i to come from a commission Any sudden and otherwise unac- counted for windstorms at this season of the Year can be attributed to the turning over of new leaves. Even the baseball fans have reason to be thankful that the Federal league gave them something additional to talk about during the off season, These seven states which entered the prohibition column January first did much to support a certain num- ber of the good resolution makers. The message of Rhode Island’s gov- ernor empliasizes the need of in- creased revenue. Economy is a watch- word which should be adopted in many states. —_— It is too bad to break up that de- lightful Virginia honeymoon, but even the president recognizes that there is -business at Washington which can- not be neglected. — T .The punishment inflicted upon. the submarine commander who sank the Ancona could not have been so severe in view of the way in which others have lald themselves liable. —_—_— Now it is announced that the real Wwork in the Ford movement for peace ere- ated in this country. If it amounts to o more than the party now in Europe it is doomed to failure. soon get out of the ruts which have i a_ blue serge a tuxedo and a new dress suit—good- by!’ n.ndtfi on about his business! A man’'s es always look just the same ®nyhow.” 4 “Hold on!” interrupted the .young man who was calling, in accents or horror. ‘I've been wanting to mnafl that little fiction for some time, and here’s the chance! Why, Iif women realized anguish a man goes through _replenishing his wardrobe they never would have the heart to speak a cross word to the patient suf- ferer again! OQur clothes always look alike, do they? Everything’s always the same, ‘is #t? “Pickled prunes and little fishhooks, but is that all the attention you wo- men pay to our getup? - I suppose you think we can buy everything by the yard or the dozen, or over the tele- phone. “Don’t you know that some years if a fellow uses a handkerchief with a narrow hem instead of ome an inch wide the pol on the beat spots him as a dqub a block off? Let him.go much as flirt the tip of that narrow hemmed kerchief and some percy boy at the club is going to grab it and say pityingly, “Great Scott, son, didn't you know these went out with the! ark? I bought all mine in London last summer and this is the sort of hem You really must use, you know!"” “You gaze on-the hem, chastened, and go away and sulk in shamed sor- row because you have none like it and no prospect of getting any. All your female relatives, you are dead sure, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Real Question. Mr. Editor: The question at issue is not whether Observer would like to employ “typhoid Mary” to cook for him, but” whether the people shall be free to employ their own physicians, and why the old school should be al- lowed not only to tyrannize over the people, but over the other schools of mediciné which it refuses to recog- nize. If I remember correctly there are at least 12 different schools of medical healers in this country, three of which heal by drugs and serums and nine of which effect cures without drugs or vaccine of any kind; and these drugless healers had over five mil- lion patients last year. It cannot be denied that the people have faith in all these different classes of physi- cians, and none of them are without remarkable cures. If Pasteur and Koch and all of the other serum makers have achieved such a success, how is it the death- rate of 17 to the 1000 has remained century Why are doctors among themselves ‘warring over the vaccination of patients with “the dry point” and “the wet point,” and taunting each other that such practice is criminal—unless the use of both is senseless and brutal. ‘Why are the doctors divided upon the germ theory and a part declaring there is no evidence whether these germs, 2,500,000 of which have been found upon a horsefly without seem- ing to burden him, cause the disease or_are only icidental to it. Why are certain classes of doc- tors claiming that cancer has in- creased rapidly ever since vaccination for small-pox has been enforced, and that from the use of of these other serums diseases have resulted which are incurable. Cancer has doubled in the past forty years, despite all the wonderful preventive measures. There were 71,000 deaths from cancer in 1914 according to the government statistics. ‘We should be ashamed to be behind the procession, should we? Birming- ham and Leicester, England, were compulsory vaccination cities in 1871-'72 and they had a small-pox epidemic—they both had 35 deaths from the small-pox to 10,000 popula- tion. Leicester declined to continue compulsory vaccination, and 20 years later they had another epidemic— 1891-’92—and Birmingham (vaecinat- ed) and 68 cases and 5 deaths to ev- ery 10,000 of its population, ‘while Leicester (unvaccinated) had 19 cases and 1.1 deaths to the 10,000. This is where it paid to be behind the pro- cession. OBSERVER. Norwich, January 4, 1916. the normal death-rate for the last half | ti iy seld 8 ! ] | g can go out of my derby hat one inch lower prevailing mode! Boy! Step around the corner and bring Mr. Bingle a $6 derby—no trouble at all, my dear sir! He'll be back before I have finished taking your measure! “ “Why, for a new business suit! The {der out weakly and wonder whether it'’s worth while living at all! I want to go where I can dress in cocoa mat- jting and a glad smile and get away with 1 “Well,” gasped the young woman {with the brown eyes, “it <certainly i sounds as though you had your trou- |bles, but unless we women went around with a tape measure and a fashion chart and checked up on you, you would be perfectly safe!” | oiDoggone it!” sald the young man. | “Then I'm not going to try to be sty- llluh any more!”—Chicago News. Stories of the War Bread Tickets and Meatless Days. Bread tickets and two “meatless” days a week suggest the verge of fam- ine to the person not familiar with life in the localities where such pre- cautionary measures are being ap- plied. Vienna and the greater part of Austria are at present subject to the limitation in food which the bread ticket, wheat-bread prohibition and meatless days imply. But the fact is that nobody is deprived of anything by these regulations. People eat as much as before with the difference that some of the things they eat have been prescribed. The bread ticket system allows ev- ery person three rations daily each of 70 grammes of rye bread, or 210 grammes, not quité a half. pound, for the day. The feeling the need of more ferinaceous food can augment this apportionment by buying wheat cake and pastry in the restaurants and cafes, and, if still unsatisfied after that, can have an unlimited quantity of “nockerln” dumplings—for which “You haggl quake,” says Lloyd naturally seem so, but you done can't land has alw: The time is coming, many of our criminalogists believe, when the in- institutions will build a good share of our highways. it would mean to Connecticut to have the state roads convicts. What great saving to the taxpayers.—Meri- mates of our penal constructed by den Journal. streets and trians. ., has filed claim to the Checkers at the intersection of Broad and Market in that city counted 229,726 persons passing the corner between 6 a. m. and 7 p. m. in one day, counting the occupants of automobiles. It is estimated that all told, 300,000 ‘went past the corner during the hours stated. The intersection of Park Row Frankfort street, shows an average of 296,200 pedes- hereby file Bridgeport's spot.” We le with an George, it New York, not Toda; “Love’s Enduring Flame,” “Hearst-Selig Weekly,” biid to the hm"'ot n.mlb ul” tun Pa:_{_( City's specimen “busi corne: submit Main street and Fairfield ave- nue. The only difficulty in determin- how many people pass the corner will be In getting enough checkers to take the count. When we do find them they will have to be chained to granite posts, so as not to_be swept away with the crowds.—Bridgeport Telegram. a Germany to clear up-what remains of the Lusitania controversy. She has time enough to comsider every phase of the situation and the fact still sticks in American consciousness that she has only tacitly agreed to our view of the tragedy that took so m: lives of Americans.—Ansonia Sentine! and children have done their best to and there with the questionable assistance of Russian and Serb prisoners of war, the result has not been equal to that In addition to this the army itself has drawn heavily on keep th: of normal times. e crops growing, here the country’s meat and flour «stores. home. etables spoil too quickly. This has resulted in the consump- tion by the army of meat and cereal foods about thirty-five per cent great- er than what the same number of men would have required at home, porkiless’ days. by stuff OWAng to their great bulk and relatively low food values, vegetables | can not be taken to the front to each man in the proportions of vegetable, meat and cereal food he eats when at Another drawhack is that veg- Most of this represents bread, fresh beef and pork, and to counteract the in- creased need for these felt army, the population at home had to make slight sacrifices, hence the bread ticket, andg the “fresh beef, veal and the Vice President Hall objects vigor- ously to the theory that telephone giris have short terms of service be- cause their health breaks down under the condiilons they labor under. He says conditions are of the best and that the girls give up work to be mar- ried. Cupid, he says, is the énemy the telephone companies suffer most from.—Waterbury American. , Looking backward, at least over the length of the year just past, is a fav- orite pastime in this season. One na- turally looks back over the period much as he thinks of making new resolutions, or renewing - old ones at the beginning of the year. Yet it is well also to look forward. Most of the losses, the setbacks, the suffer- ings borne in. the past may have been due to failure to look ahead. Too much looking backward will be of lit- Eyes front! tle help in going forward. —Waterbury Republican. Bristol i§ to be congratulated. Her people heeded the appeal to This would be an excellent time m, trade > World’s Greatest Newspicture “The Strange Unknown,” 3 Reels. Lubin Special Feature 2 Reels. Biograph Drama at home” to an unusnal degree ‘and The result 1z the largest velume of Christmas business - ever a:}:yd here. That means a great deal to th 31[)' kl: ir - 1 ting 1 n:‘ id their part in:put n s of goods desired and in - unusual demands, afnd en- couraged and gratified- in - receiving such substantial _enco: ment. It is an excellent pointer possible when merchant and er are in accord. the The valley of the river in Idaho was flooded with outpourings of lbay lava, spread out sheet on sheet, T 2ld land surface, and . lley with molten rgck, whi ified and has remained to this- Aisturbed except for the gorges that the streams have cut'fh it. In some places old mountains projeci throuxh the petrified lava flood as islands pro- Jject above the surface of the sea, and ol ridges stick out into: it as: capes and promnontcries. : The area covered by thé Snake river lava is about. 20,000 So far as is now known, there is mut one lava fleld in North America of great- er extent, the Columbia river - -lava field, wkhich covers it 200,000 miles. In Snake river canyon below Shoshone Falls nearly 700 feet of hor- izontal sheets” of lava are ‘exposed, but whether this.ds the ..maximum thickness or not can not be told. ~ Children Ory " "FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA Ystands in a- lumflim..‘of ‘: the Austrian kitchen is justly famous or he can order a dozen portions of fame. At a pinch the waiter may be bribed into increasing the bread ra- jon.» It may be asked what, under such conditions, is the value of the bread ticket arrangement. The manager of a large Vienna restaurant supplied the answer. “The bread ticket prevents the waste of bread which formerly obtained,” he said. ‘“We were in the habit of put- ting baskets with rolls and cut bread on the table. Many of our patrons could start to eat as many as four rolls and not finish a single one. The remainder had to be thrown into the swill barrel. Right now flour is too scarce to be fed to pigs.” A “meatless” day in Vienna and Austria is a misnomer. In fact it is merely a “beef-porkless” day, and not even that altogether. Butchers and restaurants may on “meatless” or fleischlose” days sell any kind of meat with the exception of fresh beef, veal ang pork. Pickled and preserved beef, veal and pork may be sold, howeve S0 many fresh mutton and lamb, e ery kind of poultry, fresh and pre- served game and fish. It cannot be sald that the “meatless” day works a hardship on anybody. Fresh beef and pork can be bought the day before for the “meatiess” days. ‘But what really has hit the Vien- nese hard is the lack of whipped cream, without which they formerly could not drink their coffee. Not only plain or condensed milk may be had. Back of these slight deprivations li the fact that the hundreds of thou ands of farmers and farm laborers now under arms can not be both, sol- diers and foed producers, at the same time. Thought the older men, women, e STOP CATARRH! OPEN The War a Year Ago Today Jan. 5, 1915. Germans began moving big guns from Ostend. French forces made advance to- Corna; ward Y. defeated Austrians . in Russians Uzsok Pass and prepared for in- vasion of Transylvania. Germans renewed activities along the Vistula. ‘Pope obtained release of French Catholic missionaries held in Syria. Belgian food ship sent by state Kansas sailed. s aaa agreed not to food to Belgiane by ssians crushed Turks at Arda- han and Sarikamysh. NOSTRILS AND HEAD S AL e If your nostrils are clogged head is freely and your stuffed and you can’t breathe use of a cold or catarrh, just get a small bottle of Ely’s Cream. Balm at any drug store. Apply a lit- tle of this fragran tic cream into your nostrils and let it penetrate every passage your head, soothing afid healing the in- flamed, swollen mucous membrane and you get instant relief. ! how good it feels. Your mnos- Ely's what sufferers from head colds tarrh need. It's a delight. $18.00, $20.00, THE F. A. WELLS C0.’S JANUARY CLEARANCE SALE Overcoats and Suits Now Going On THIS ANNUAL TRADE EVENT IS ALWAYS OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO CLOTH- ING BUYERS BECAUSE OF OUR HONEST AND REAL REDUCTIONS. No fictitious or visionary former prices to make reductions seem bigger, but real and true reductions from actual regular prices. And in this time of dye shortage and ad- vancing prices on. all classes of GOOD MERCHANDISE this sale is of | usual benefit to purchasers at this time. It was our first idea to make NO stable goods, but in view of the fact that we have bou. Black Suits and are fully covered at only a small price advance : WE SHALL INCLUDE BLACK AND BLUE SUITS IN THIS SALE AT A SMALLER REDUCTION THAN FOR FANCY SUITS. Our Men’s STAPLE OVERCOATS $12, $15, $18, $20, $22, $25. Our Men’s BLACK AND BLUE SUITS $12, $15, $18, $20, $25. At 10 Per Cent Reduction . ¥ MEN'’S SUITS AND OVERCOATS $12.00, Reduced to .......... $ 9.75 $15.00, Reduced to ........... $12.50 Reduced to .......... $14.75 Reduced to ........... $16.75 SUITS You will find other Special Bargains in the store not listed. This sale is on Suits and Overcoats and ing the sale. IF IT SHOULD SNOW, COME ght our spring stock of Blue and $ 4.00, Reduced to ............ $ 5.00, Reduced to . $ 6.00, Reduced to ........ IF IT SHOULD RAIN; COME IF IT SHOULD BE PLEASANT, COME YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY SPENDING IT NOW THE F. A. WELLS CO. “COO0D CLOTHES STORE”™ AND OVERCOATS - $22.00, Reduced to .......... 1780 [f § 530 Reduend g 1 0000 i o $25.00, Reduced to .......... $20.00 || § 850, Reduced to .. ... .. ... $748 $30.00, Reduced to ........... $24.75 || $10.00, Reduced to ........... $8.98 el