Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 6, 1916, Page 4

120 YEARS OLD » price 12c a week; S0e o 00 a year. Entered at the Postoffice at Norwich, ‘Conn., a» second-class matter. Telephone Calls: k-ugfi Business Office 480. Bdltorial Rooms 85-8. Sy Bulletin Job Office 35-2. Willimantie Otfice, Room 2, Murray Builditg. Telephone 210. i o s b AN AT Norwich, Thursday, Jan. 6, 1916. ——— e e H H ICEisciout wal-chom Gt (o to?ri times larger than that of any in Norwich. 8t is delivered to over of the 4,063 houses in Nor- inety-three per cent. of the people. In Windham it 1s delivered to over 900 houses, “in- Putnam and Danielson to over 1,100, andin all of these places it is considered the local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- ‘nine towns, one hurdred and sixty- H 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 £ 4412 -eee5,920 .. = PLAYING WITH THE 8. O. 8. For the past week much anxiety has been manifested «over the Greek line steamship Thessaloniki, which has been seriously crippled at sea with several hundred passengers aboard. The liner has been sending out S. O. S. calls and_ there has been an effort made upon the part of several vessels to locate the ship in distress, the gov- ernment coast guard vessel Seneca even having been sent out to give it assistance, but imability to obtain its location has made the search fruitless, except in one or two instances when help was refused. The fact that assistance was de- clined until a ship of the same line made its appearance indicates a studied effort to avoid salvage, but if such was the case, there appears to have been little excuse for sending out the S. O. S. calls and without countermanding them refuse all prof- fers of help. From the different phases of the case it would appear that the captain was making a farce of the distress call or else for the ' sake of saving the salvage he was taking unwarranted chances with the lives of the passengers and crew for whose safety he was responsible, . An 8. O. S. call commands the at- tention of every steamship which is within reasonable distance, but it is nothing which ought to be fooled with In such a manner as to call ships off thelr course only to tell them that they are not needed. WNothing will render At less effective in case of real danger and especially when such a perform- ance is repsated several times, as it was in the case of the Thessaloniki. Better judgment than that should be displayed by the captain of a trans- atlantic steamship and the matter should be thoroughly investigated as soon as the officials of the vessel reach port. OVERLOOKED GOOD CITIZENSHIP, In view of the great amount of pub- licity which Heanry Ford has received in connection with his efforts in be- half of the workingrman and his mis- mionary work in support of peace, it is a surprising statement which he makes to the effect that in all of the 21 years he has been a voter he has made use of that right but six times. It indicates that while he has been seeking.opportunities in which to help others he has failed to measure up to the requirements of a consistent cit- izen. The cpportunity to set an ex- ample for the betterment of citizenship and the conduet of public affairs has been entirely disregarded. Mr. Ford is of course no different than a lot of other men who fall to respond lo their duty and who fail to use their influence for the benefit of mankind. He has overlooked one of the small but neverthsless a most im- portant redponsibility arnd put himself in the class with those who make no effort to improve conditions in public life, but thereby enlists in the small army of those who stand off and crit- io1se berause others take advantage of Wefr inactivity. = Fven though his vote might not in fsclt have made any difference dur- ing the 25 years he remained away from th= volls, it, is Impossible to overlook the effect of such an example UDPOT a larcé number of others. Cor- rupt practices and ruls are stimulatea ty jJust such actions and it is indeea interesting that'a mon who has set c~ut to 1e¢torm the world should not lave first given cons'deration to the necessity for reform 'n his own cit- izenship. Nir. Ford may vet get his eyes opered in regar? to other things 'nan the colossal question of world " peace. Jf the small things are ‘well looked after the big ones will be able to take care of themselves. 1901, average.. iflfi;cvmgo....... H e INVESTIGATING GASOLINE. In view of the advances in the price of gasoline and the intimation that -the stopping point has not been reached it is not surprising that steps have been taken for the investigation of the situation as indicated by the offering of resolutions in .the lower ,house of congress seeking information as to whether any combination In re- ‘etraint of trade exists or whether any conspiracy te control prices prevalils. ‘While the jump in price 1s enough to set in motion an inquiry to determine such a radical change is le- gitimate and warranted, it is probable 1t has Deen hastened by the re- of the United States Geo- survey which showed no short- age, but an lm:r]::-fl reserve of the commodity over ‘year. This report decared’ that “fhe present year began ith of petroleum in fleld is the tic and foreign consumption is read- fly understood, but ‘it needs to be shown that it is such as to justify the great advance which has already been made and the still ‘further -increase which is threatened. DEER AND THE Pflm“. According to reports issued by Su- perintendent Crampton of the.fish and game commission the law passed by the last session of the general assem- bly is resulting in the quick disappear- ance of the deer of the state. Though there are restrictions under which the deer can be shot it is possible that there have been evasions of the law, but it is evident that the nui- sance which the deer have been found to be is being abated. Those who have been put to the expense of main- taining these animals for a period of years have been given the right_to shoot them and they are thus gett rid of the big game which has done a larse amount of depredations throughout the state by destroying crops and doing an untold amount of damage to orchards. It is being urged by some that each and every one of the deer killed should | be turned over to the state to be sold the proceeds to go to the state treas- ury and it is claimed by Dr. Powers of Westport that the state would have been richer today by $20,000 had such a provision been incorporated in the existing deer law. Because the state has protected the deer and turned them loose cn the property of indi- viduale to get their living and do whatever damage they may in get- ting that lving is slight reason for maintaining that they should be sold for state revenue. That the deer killed ought not to be allowed to go to waste must be recognized but it is difficult to understand just what claim the state has upon them, for, having con- tributed the forage and feeding ground, it is but proper that the farmers should be alowed to sell the carcass of deer legitimately killed and get the benefit therefrom the same as they do from the domestic animals which they raise. 7 REFORMATORY FOR WOMEN. The movement for reformatory work is having its good effects throughout the country. It takes shape first in one place and then in another, but it is steadily moving onward and the results are speaking for themselves, After working for 82 years Maine has secured the necessary appropria- tion for a reformatory for women which is in keeping with the progress showr by other states throughout the union. This kind of reform has won recognition in taking care of boys and girls who are inclined to stray from the straight and narrow path and in- stead of placing young men in prison after the commission of crimes and forcing them to assbciate with confirm- ed criminals, the good results which have followed the establishment of in- stitutions in which they are made to feel that they are being given a chance before being branded with a prison sentence are not hard to find. Maine has recognized the need of extending such assistance to women as a logical step in the cause of modern and hu- mane treatment of those who have fallen by the wayside and appropri- ated 320,000 for such an instifution which promises to meet a long-felt need. Cennecticut can boast of no such institution, Jbug it will probably not be many years before it will be se- cured. The question of flnances is alone responsible for the delay in this state, for it is fully recognized that the servico a reformatory can render in the case of women is cqually as important as in the casa of men, even though the number of female prison- ers is much smaller than the male. Having made a start in the way of a state home for inebriates Connecticut can well afford to give serious consid- eration to a reformatory for women at its next session. It should at least keep up with other states. EDITORIAL NOTES. The older the year gets the harder it is to live up to the New Year's res- olutions. —_— A few days’ thaw at this season of the year ought to give the new seed catalogues an early start. The grip appears to have a firm grasp upon the country and it is en- tirely non-partisan in its action. The man on the corner says: There are many conditions of happiness, but nothing beats that of not wanting a political office. _— Of course Austria has reason to think it can do about as it pleases after the manner in which Mexico has stood off this country. e e & The scientists who have discovered the canals on .Mars changing color may yet find that they have started slifles like the Panama waterway. If the liner Thessaloniki goes to the bottom, much responsibility for it will rest upon the captain, who refused help after asking for it a week ago. Is it possible that that New York bomb maker, who was found with 78 death dealing contrivances in his room was getting ready to go to the trench- es? The fact that there are 2,000,000 Britishers of military age who have not volunteered for service tells the Wwhole story as to why consgription is being urged. While it is being decided whether Ireland is going to be ellminated from conscription, & lot of its men and sev- eral of its regiments are showing that they know how to fight, ' Thomas L. Shevlin left an estate of $3,500,000, but If it was possible to put a valuation upon the esteem in ‘which he is held by all lovers of good sport -it will be impossible to express it:in figures. = gk S The time for Norwich to mobilize in behalf of better housing facilities is dt hand and there should be a rousing getting together on this important Question. Now is the time and this can! those perfectly lovely lace | ing ked down- to $1.50! get onel!” “What are ing it? inquired the taiflored woman. “#Why—I don't know!" said her friend. “T haven't anything just now but those things always come in han- dy. Yes, charge and send. So, as I said, I've been trying to do my best. “Last night John groaned when hambhurg steak came on, but I simply reminded him that he wanted to econ- omize, and as lo as he did we’d have hamburger three times a week. I alternate with lamb stew, and my butcher’s bill is cut in two. Men don’t seem to appreciate what you do for them! John is so growly at din- ner time these days. “The trouble is they want to keep their cake and eat it—aid you ever in your life see handkerchiefs so cheap? Just look at them! Regular 50 cent quality and only 26 cents! .I simply must take advantage of it! No, I till T do need tbem, and they are such have plenty, but I can lay them aside a bargain! Send these two dozen Ive necl Wi THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Socloty Lake Van lies in the heart of the region, where the Russians and Turks are once more at grips, in the heart of the region least bespoken in the war despatches, around which a zone of silence seems to have been drawn, enclosing the age-long adversaries ang concealing the latest acts of their implacable hostility. Van, which is described in today’s primer on war geosraphy by the National Geographic Soclety, Lisetcs, according to recent reporis from the Caucasus frent, the battle line. The primer reads: “Lake Van is the Great Sea of the Armenian people, and easily the most striking physical feature of their high tlateau. It is the largest lake in Asi- atic Turkey, and. roughly, marks one of the wildest borders of the Near Bast, a border to which the authority of Constantinople has seldom reached and to which the ordering endeavor of the Russian Cossack has not yet ceme. an lies near the border of Per- sia. and Russia, and upon the bounda- rics 6f Armenia and Kurdistan. It is a lake of respectable size, havind an area of 1,400 square miles. Its great- est length is 8¢ miles and its great- est width %) miles. The mighty Eu- phrates and Tigris rivers rise in tie mountains near the lake. “The rkysical aspects of the coun- try are as savage as is its history. Densely-wooded, massive mountains, succeeded by chill bare dark rocks, girt the lake. Much of the irregular shereline is rugged and dangerous, whiie the forests behind form a ‘no man's’ land, where the hasty usuages of tre race feuds hold swav. water of the lake is bitter s drinkable, and, in the aut1 ard winter, its surface is swept by Jerce storms tkat make all navigation hLuz- ardous. It stands more than 5,000 feet above the sea level. navigated “Lake Van has been from earlfest times. For a short time in the anclent world, it played a role as a highway for commerce. Before the cutbreak of the present war, it floated 90 sailing boats, of 20 and 25 tons burden, which were engaged mainly 1 the transport of wheat and firewood. The chief town of the re- sion, near the eastern shore of the lake. is, also, called Van, and is a piace of some 30,000 people, of the oil-and-water mixture of half Kurks and half Armenians.” “He tried to excuse himself by ing there was an Ftant mee anyhow, he k{.eY mauldn lfl\rfll‘l’ it, people ju 2 man’s finances way his wife dressed. I him that I had a new gown col home soen, and the rather large, because I knew that didn’t want me to be seen in horrid cheap things. He was real selfish and grampy about it, and said I had plen- ty of clothes. “There! Did you ever see. ferneries equal to these for double the money? It would be a crime not to take ad- vantage of the sale! No, I haven’t any place for it now, but Im bound to move this spring into an apart- ment with more windows and I can use it then. I think it improves a home so much to have these little Wwomanrly touches about it! R “Did you say you had to stop and phone about cream? Mercy! We ‘haven’t had cream since John told me to cut down! I stopped that right away, and he has to use milk in his coffee and on his breakfast food. I always take my coffee clear, anyhow, and, besides, cream makes me fat. “You wouldn’t believe how unrea- sonable John has been during this period of close money. First he tells me to cut down and then he ages be- cause I do! Let’s stop at Biekle's an our way—they are selling 80 cent chocolates for 50 cents to-day and I simply must have some. I think chuc,ol!(e is so good one’s health, don't you? “I've had to exercise my strength of mind to help John save, because he gets crazy every once in a while to go to some concert or lecture, and I say firmly, ‘No!” It is so foolish to spend maoney for luxuries like that when we don’t need to. I saved enough that way to give a luncheon and’ card party last week, but he did not seem to appreciate my clevermess at all! Oh, come on! You don’t have to get home—give them canned stuff for dinner! I'm dying to see the star in this musical, comedy, and Pll treat to matinee tickets! “You simply can’t? Well, I must say youwll make yourself a slave to vour family and they won't appreci- ate it a bit! I think a woman owes it to herself to brighten up her life all - she can! Good-by—I'm going, anvhow!"—Chicago News. Stories of the War Women Work French: Farms. Inquiry of the French farm women brought out some interesting phases. They have organized the work .much as the men did. The women workers are ed and paid, acoording to ability - and position. 'Those in re- |sponsible places make five and six francs a day, and more in the busy harvest season, besides board and keep. Women in common farm work make from one franc centimes (about 30 cents) upwards, and much more during the rush season. - Young wo- men between 18 and 24 get the best wages and do the most work. Get- ting enough women farm-hands has been difficult, but recruits have come from the women refugees from the de- vasted regions of Northern France, from Belgium and from Poland. The THE VELVET HAMMER A Good Natured Treatment in Verse of Some of Norwich’s Prominent Men By ARTHUR BROOKS BAKER FREDERIC fought the battles at the front. 10,000 Miles of Trenches. . There are at least 10,000 miles of trenches now in the western theatre of the European war, according to H. Warner Allen, special correspondent of the British press with the French army. He writes: “In the section of the French lines that I have just been visiting there are already, on a front of just over ten miles, 375 kilometers (or slightly over 234 miles) of trenches. To make certainly still more sure another 75 kilometers . (or forty-six miles) of trenches are being diug, so that by the end of the vear there will be in that neignborhood 280 miles of trenches on tn mils of front. “Elswhere a certain division has tior. one will certainly he under the k in estimating 'that thére are twenty miles of trenches to every mile of front, so that between Switzerland ard the North Sea the British and Frenck armies have at ledst ten thousand miles of trenches to guard and keep in order.” | OTHER vIEW POINTS | Former Governor Baldwin would bar politicians from codifying inter- national laws. The judge did not have much success in keeping them away from the levers when he was chief executive of Connecticut, so perhaps that is why he is so earnest now.— Meriden Journal. Henry Ford has returried from Bu- rope a ‘wiser man. He has found out that the continuarce of the does not depend upon kings nor arfmament manufacturers, as he once guilelessly thought, but, that it goes on because the people want it to go on. He has discovered that the part the militar- ists play is not in the carrying on of the war after it is started, but in starting it—Ansonia Sentinel. ‘When all the states are for prohibi- tion a national law will be asked for, making’ the mantfacture and sale of Hquor illegal, To help the accomplish- ment of this end, it is now proposed to ineroduge a law into congress tax- ing the production of alcoholic drinks $1,000 a gallon, thus forcing it to the wall. While a national prohibition law could not be passed now, it is thought that some such. arrangement as the tax spoken of could be coaxed through and the desired result secured by in- direction.—Bridgeport Standard. When there is plenty of money in the treasury there will be people with plausible plans for the spending of it. That is the experience of the past. Our only hope that the state may me saved from it rests on the efficacy of the work of the new state board of finance. The permanent members of that board will be ex-officio members of the committee on appropriations of the general assembly, and it is expect- ed they will be better informed of the conditions relating to financial mat- ters than thelr legislative colleagues. If the state has “money to burn” in the future it will be the duty of the board of finance to see that the fire is not kindled.—Hartford Times. If we must have Roosevelt radical- ism, by all means let's have it through the medium of such a man as Mr. Wilson. It would be desirable, judg- ing from the past three years, that such a man be found in the republi- can party and elected by that party. For with all his virtues, Mr. Wilson is a Poor Tray in the company of de- signing democrats, who don’t demon- strate great capacity in good govern- ment. But as the prospect is poor of | the republican party rising eriumph- L. 0SGOOD HE druggist is a friend of man; the great bipedal bluff who takes a tablespoonful of some well-selected stuff, and with i imperishable hope and confidence and pride he pours it down the tunpel and deposits it inside; and after making faces for a brief and formal spel swears that he is well 1, he grabs the roctor by the hand and F:RED DSGOOD wholesales everything the friendly druggists need. He mixes up the chologogue with ‘workmanship and speed, by which unhealthy Infants who preposterously roared have been to joy and happiness extensively restored. He also used to oceupy the mayoralty chair—a thing a democrat must do infrequently and rare. HE mixes into all the sports longs for more whose name and game have mever been re- vealed. He motors and he fishes and he fans the. merry steeds which trot upon the oval to herds among the brother Hiks, and gathers social Joys in other claps and companies of the fraternal boys. emory embraces all the things he ever heard, and he could tell the stories with precision, word for word, but we prefer to hear them in his own every face a most appraciative wide, enthusiastic vote as master of the gentle art of pleasing anecdote, our town's resources yleld, and compare respective speeds. He peculiar style, which brings to smile; for he could win a very ant above the malign control of the man who will have his way or wreck it, then if we must have Roosevelt policies, let’s have them through Wil- son. Only it is doubtful if there is any_justice in trying to identify them as Roosevelt policies after they have passed through that process.—Ney Haven Register. ‘When a policeman orders a property owner to clean the snow and ice off his sidewalk the offended citizen is very apt to declare indignantly that the city ought to clear its own walks off first. It is “a poke right in the eye,” too. The walks around and across the Green on both fronts of the annex, from the new city hall around the library and park, right in the cen- ter where thousands walk every hour, have been covered with snow and pol- ished into ice ever since the snow fell. It makes citizens who have to clean off their own walks mad. It is danger- ous, making the city liable for dam- ages. It makes visitors from abroad wonder at such a lack of public spirit. It sets a bad example. These surface shortcomings count more in public es- timation _than many more serious things.—Waterbury American. ———— Ain’t It Awfull The Colonel said Uncle Sam had earned his contempt. Now Mr. Per- kins says our Mexican policy has “in- curred the contempt of Europe” Amid such awful conditions, how is ;_t] that we survive?—Floriday Times- nion. 2 The War a Year Ago Today Jan. 6, 1915. French made further progress at 8t. Mihiel. Geérmans bombarded Furnes and compelled Belgians to move head- quarters. | New Russian army prepared to combat Germans at Miawa. RG.l_!Hlllld and AuuirI:-c checked ussian advance again: Tacow. . Turkish eruiser aubn_dnmnuod by mines. 3 “THE BRAVE DESERVE THE FAI Featuring His Own SNOWIE MAYBELL Singing and Talking VICTOR MOORE in PARAMOUNT TRAVELOGUE | SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION ED. |. BOYLE, The Biind Entertainer R” SR .‘bvwl 2'-*7 and 9:00 Matinee 10c; Eve. HERBERT GLEASON 3 - Comedy Juggler _ e CHIMMIE FADDE! ! ° IMP. COMEDIES DR. GREIL, SURVIVOR OF ANCONA, ARRIVES HOME Dr| Cecile S. Grell, the New York Red Cross physician who was on board the Italian steamer Ancona when the vessel was torpedoed by an Austrian submarine off the coast of Tunis on Nov. 7 with great. loss of life, arrived in New York on the French liner Bordeau\ Dr. Greil said that in her opinion the'captain and other of- ficers of the Ancona did all in their power to save the lives of those on board, while Carlo Lombardi the third officer, displayed great bravery by rescuing two women and a child from the water under fire. China yearly sends $30,000 worth of peanuts to the United States. H ADELE MARGULIES LEOPOLD LICHTENBERG ALWIN SCHROEDER H IN SLATER HALL Tuesday Evening, Jan. 11th- Tickets $1.00 Al. Seats Reserved Tickets are now on sale at the store of George A. Davis R e —— Unanimity Desired. Let us hope that those experts who are going dowr to examine the Pan- ama canal won’t difféer as radically as to the causes and cure of the slides on insanity.—Albany Smilos That Come OF. ‘When he is courting her he always greets hér’ with a smile on his lips. But after he gets her he wipes the smile off his lips and kills it with & clove .before he greets her.—Cincin- nati Enquirer: The American Style. TEey are praising General Haig by saying he i the king of fighter Gen- eral Grant was.. Soon or late they have to take about everything from the United States.—Buffalo Enquirier. Welcome to the Laugh. According to W. Morgan Shuster, Europe laughs at our protests. It Evrope can get a laugh out of any- thing 4t all these days, it is wel- come.—Chicago News. BREAKS A COD N A FEW HOURS “Pape’s Cold Compound” is the Surest, Quickest Relief Known—It’s Fine! Relief comes instantly. A dose taken every two hours until three doses are taken will end grippe misery and break up a severe cold, either in the head, chest, body or limbs. It promptly opens clogged-up nos- trils and air passages in the head, sto n sty discharge, or nose rum- relieves sick headache, duliness, feverishness, sore throat, sneezing, soreness and stiffness. Quit blow- Don’t stay_stuffed-up! ing and snuffling! Ease your throb- Nothing else in the bing head! world gives such prompt rellef as “Pape’s Cold Compound,” which costs only 25 cents at any drug . store. It acts without assistance, tastes causes no inconvenience, Be sure you get the genuine. Don’t accept some- thing else “just as good.” Insist on getting “Pape’s Cold Compound” if you want to stop your cold quickly. are now made easy with the the p;)li:hmg ofh:imdflaohrzh of moldings, tops of hi i the stairs, under the radiator, etc. Thy o the time it formerly took you to ‘ifl&ehfi’rrl other With it you can dust, clean and polish a hardwood floor in do not have to get down on your hands and knees to dust get ready to do it