Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 15, 1916, Page 4

oo G412 ONSCRIPTION IN ENGLAND. en atter a long delay for the pur- of giving the people of England to display their patriotism ly and therefore &void as long possible _the opposition which fatenea conscription, the vote for ory service as taken at the sec- freading showed that the bill had 50 drafted that the opponents are only few but rapidly disappear- Irish opposition has faded away, although the sentiments of the ntatives of”Ireland in parlia- have not changed as far as the cation of conscription to Ire- is concerned, they have ap- ly recognized the Inconsistency pposing a measure which Eng- wants and which applies only to nd. can be appreciated that England be desirous of affording every nity to those of military age me forward and enlist under the plan in existence, and it must mitted that every encouragement might be expected in that direc- given, but when the men of country failed to respond even h it was evident that the army B in need of teinforcement in order 8" carry the war to a Successful con- cl there was nothing else left do but to draft the “slackers” for ice and the conscription plan gets val that it deserves. It is time when England expects every to do his duty, but failing In such ation pressure must be resorted fo. If the nation is going to exist as is everyone must do his part and § It is plainly evident that there is a 6 dous amount of work to be ne in the trenches instead of re- ning by the fireside and finding t with those who already have ficed their lives and those who have shown their willingness to. Con- iption was the logical outcome of situation that exists in England. MERIT OR POLITICS. _ For some time a determined effort been made to fix upon a satisfac- candidate for the postmastership It is being thoroughly" recognized that the objects sought by the pro- gressives can best be pushed inside the republican party. The danger of continuing along other lines is realized and it is evident by the constant re- turn to the old party that the folly of their former courss is recognized and they are glad to get back. ESTABLISHING A LEGAL BLOCK- is interfering with American com- merce, word comes from London to the effect that Great Britain iz planning to draw the net still tighter about the central powers and establish a real blockade. There is a twofold purpose in such a course of it is finally adopted. It will not only shut off those goods which it has been felt right along have been getting past the British blockade as {mperfectly maintained at the pres- ent time, and going via neutral coun- tries into the German empire, but it will sittle effectively the protests whicl have been made by this and other countries against the interfer- ence with trade, for there are block- ade regulations. which when strictly observed are bound to be respected. One country has & right in war to blockade another belligerent if it can, but in this war the German subma- rines have proved a menace which Great Britain has not dared to fool with, while Germany has lacked for vessels whereby it could shut off Great Britaln's outside trade. Yet how it is soing to be possible for Great Britain to establish a complete blockade now and offset the risks which have existed right along and which will continue remains to be seen, if such a course has really been decided upon. None better than Great Britain understands what it means to establish a legal blockade. PRESERVING THE FORESTS. New, York city. This is a position much importance in the postoffice tment. It is one that requires man of proper qualifications and if has had experience in handling the ny probiems which are always crop- & up there he is all the more val- ‘The two factions of the democrati¢ ty are having a hard time advanc- men who will be satisfactory to party. Strong Tammany support given to the politicians bearing its ump and Senator O'Gorman is work- to have placed in office a demo- at suitable to him, but this does 3t of necessity mean that such men lll get the administration’s approval, The fight between the Tammany men the anti-Tammany men to get candidate into the postoffice has in a compromise candidate advanced, but all are men who e never fllled such an ofce. It simply patronage which is being idered rather than the selection the best man for the place. | Even though the prosent postmaster i the metropolis is a republican he established a record in the office h ought not to be overlooked when : to making an appointment. would of course be a dangerous ime for the president to name a man e politics are allied with another g | though the manner in X has administered the duties shown him to be the man for the but he has nevertheless an op- y to put the country's inter- first by reappointing the incum- if he is willing to give consid- tothat important fact. ¢ e ey GLAD TO GET BACK. the tactics of the progres- irty as revealed by certain lead past few weeks and at Chi- ‘not appeal to all e who n faithful to the ization B¢ Jo a oumber of instanoss e seen a growing oppo- - possibility of Roosevelt The whole of this part of the coun- try cannot fall to be interested in the movement for the preservation of the timber lands of New England and the Appalachian reglon. It is not a new subject for national consideration, as it has won the approval of congress on several previous occasions and there is nothing but commendation for what has been accomplished in this direction. From the way in which the forests are disappearing and the wa- ter supply question is making itself felt it must be evident that none too much thought can be given to conser- vation along such lines. Millions of acres have already been transferred to Uncle Sam's name by purchase through funds provided by congress. Wooded lands of great nat- ural beauty have been secured and are ‘being properly maintained with such cuttings permitted as are warranted by the growth of the trees and these lands are in many cases the source of many of the important rivers of the east, but the point has been reached Where such acquisitions must soon stop unless- additional provision is made for continuance. It is now proposed that another ap- propriation of $10,000,000 be made for the carrying on of this work and the securing of such forest lands while they are available and before com- mercial interests step in and take con- trol. For that reason it is important that full consideration be giver to this matter at this time despite the many othér ways in which the ex- penditure of iarge appropriations are being urged. It is a matter which concerns the whole country even though the land which may be pur- chased is located in the east. PET LTl oy EDITORIAL NOTES. That prisoner” in the condemnea cell at Sing Sing Who committed sulcide ;:hen.ted the executioner out of a fat ee. The University of Pennsylvania by the abolition of the bowl fight has given immediate attention to a needed reform, The man on the corner says the divine spark in the fellow that kindles his desire to swear off some of his meanness. e s ‘When Hiram Maxim declares that the war will last seven years longer he doesn’t 100K for an early end to the preparedness talk, It begins to look as if the cause of the sinking of the Persia was going to become as much of a mystery as the assailant of Billy Patterson. If the weatherman has been moved by criticism to furnish a new variety of weather, it is to be hoped that he hasn’t any more spring days planned for this month. —_— New London has beerl getting some new rates preparatory to improving its strest lighting, but Norwich is hav- ing difficulty keeping lighted those which it already has. The way in which the United States is holding Carranza to the task of running: down the bandits might in- dicate that otherwise they would be dliowed to do as they please. « It begins to look as If opportunity instead of; knocking .at the door had stalked right in and is making itself at home, even though it hasn't appear- d o et a very rousing welcome. | Now that it is. the president ‘will accept another nomination it Would appear that he does not attach thuch importance to the watchful waiting policy when it comes to run- ning for office. - | While the- allled forces at Saloniki have been increased by ' the. 200,000 from Gallipoli it s not to be forgotten that an even larger army of Turks ‘was released for activity ‘wherever needed. L How | has someth] Tk SR EIEETS Frankly | did not hurry to open the Mmissive, ' Throughout the morning, as I chanced to notice it, ‘would recall experiences with e, and 1 grew a little cowardly, and put off erli" the envelope, as most of us Uke to defer unpleasant duties. When, at last, I _had courage to break the it was a great relief to discover that the com- 2 harmless and t of m“mum'gnwflurncufl' mas. So I breathed a sigh t and was glad that this was For L| one of those tiresome and wea individuals who generally for her friends to do, Once when she wrote, it was to ask my aid in the endeavor to sell the homemade . which she manufac- tures so skilfully. Now, why Lizette could not find a sufficlent market for her wares in_her home city, I fail to understand; but I did some thinking and some telephoning, and some cor- . | respondence, and aftér much more ef- Sickness is not the thing to focus the mind upon—health is the natural and supreme condition of body and soul Gloomy thoughts and fear do not pro- mote it. Health is man's inheritance, but if he eats inordinately, thinks un- wisely and wastes his strength he can easily impair it. The price of health 1s_obedience to the laws of our belng —belng true to our convictions and the order which we recognize as the sup- port of health and strength. When we review our lives it is sur- prising how many have confided the fact that they have been disappointed in us without even furnishing a bill of particulars. We do not feel sorry over it either, for we know in many respects if they had not been disap- pointed in us we should have . been disappointed in ourselves. We were not born to fit any schedule anyone could prepare for us, and if we have lived according to our own convictions instead of the plan of someone whose scheme might have brought to us more material gain and more applause I am not sure we are not more honor- able than if we had buried ourselves in the scheme of another. Success is not always what it seems to be. What is material gain if one has to be false to himself to win it? The place every man fits in life is the place for him. It is not so difficult ‘for a person to test the quality of his religion. Re- ligion rests upon goodness concreted in conviction when it is of the first quality; and when it doesn't seem to do more than to weakly sustain a hope of salvation it wears the garb of false pretense. It is an excellent habit and a true test of religion to discover each night how it has demonstrated itself during the day. When we make re- ligion our business God makes it our blessing, we have been taught. As men sum up results in this life some of them might think they recognized the result of religion in the dollars they had made during the day; while others might see the demonstration of it in the dollars they had given away. Some might find the blessing to have been illuminating thoughts and others the performance of helpful service. Re- ligion that is.real bears fruit daily, not once in a while. It will fit every day life as perfectly as a No. 6 hat will fit a No. ¢ head. If your religion doesn’t fit the daily affairs of your life it is up to you to know the reason why. There is too much misfit re- ligion. A sen: nal preacher took for his subject many years ago: “Why do the wicked live?” “What he said upon the subject did not come down to this seneration, but the comments of a newspaper paragrapher did: “If they were all dead this would be a cold world for the ministers.” The wicked have made things lively ever since Lucifer was cast over the battlements of heaven. Those who cater to the vices of men get rich quickest; and the wicked will spend ten times as much on their evil habits without a murmur as is spent on all the church- es and schools of this country. It isn't the ‘saintly qualities_of men that is calling for an expensé of $45,000,000 a day, the price required to keep the ferocity and carnage of the present world-war up. “Why do the wicked live?” To reap what they have sown; and the harvest which brings with it no divine blessing. They couldn’t live, of course, without divine consent. It is a true saying Nancy, that there are just as many good fish in the sea as were ever causht, but they fight shy of old bait. There can be no bungling With the good fish that still remain in the pool of experience. The gold fish and the bill fish are taken by shrewd anglers; and yet, they are more plen- tiful than ever. ' They seldom fall to the devices of lone anglers, but are captured in the dragnets of society. In certain classes of society Cupid no longer finds an inviting mark. It is only common people wWho love one an- other; and plan to rise by industry and ecenomy and persistence. There is more joy to be found in looking up to love than up to wealth, but it will not be easy for you to see this. You should remember a golden calf led the Children of Israel to turn their faces away from God, and the golden calf continues to be a mighty attrac- tion. A calf of gold still attracts more attention than a man of wisdom. Don't despair, angle in a common pool and ¥ou may catch a winning lottery ticket. In these days a great many men are dying s::lt as Nathan Hale, the patri- ot, died, regretting that they have not more lives to sacrifice for thelr coun- try. They do not whimper, Tut meet as though it was the golden op- portunity they had been looking for. Not 1ong ago the Russians rounded up a_wounded suspect in their camp. When the bandages were removed he proved to be a Prussian spy in dis- guise. He was immediately condemned to death. While he was waiting to be executed a Russian officer saluted him —as he was a commissioned Rrussian officer—tendered him a cigarette from his case and a match, and he took a smoke as If it were not the last smoke he was to have on earth; then the squad arrived and he was marched up to a nearby tree and stood as a target as stlent and immovable as & wooden statue, and he fell to the volley with- out a murmur or a groan. Men who act like devils when jt comes to death put on fronts like gods. This Is what We call nerve well sustained with defi. ance; but it doesn’t have the lasting influence nerve does backed by love. Did you ever notice some people will cuddle up to a lie like a saint cuddling up to the truth. No one can tell just Wwhy they do it. It is not because they have to, for they do it most naturaily. Just as’other folks take to stret the truth to put spice into it. Some- how most of us take to things highly seasoned and have no stomach for anything plain whether it be cake or facts. Telling the truth 18 so uncommon that those who fort than I should have had time or inclination to expend myself, 1 was able to secure customers for Tdzette, At another time she had written to interest me in getting my friends to go'into a silk petticoat club with her. 8o many persons pald =0 much for e many weeks, etc, and in the end each received a silk petticcat at a re- duced rate. Since I am tetotally opposed to any scheme which diverts business from tiome merchants, I flatly refused to be & party to the petticoat plan, although Lizette pronounced me very disoblig- ing and what not! But no matter. In due time, Lizette up again, this scheme being one for the il of a certain electric device to ease up in a department of household work. 1 was modestly asked to make arrangements for her visit to my town for the purpose of establishing an agency. In case she succeeded in sell« ing a lot of the devices above a cer- tain number, she would be willing to share her commissions with me. Promptly I declined any share in the promised rake-off, as I did also to help her in any way to start an agency for her sales. Again I held that the merchants in that line of deal- ing, who have to pay rent, maintain a business, meet clerk hire, etc., come rain or shine, good-trade or bad, m ited my loyalty, rather than a stranger from another town. | set these facts forth politely but firmly, in my reply to Lizette, She was displeased with me for a long know how to tell it are In danger of being suspected of lying. Years ago they used to teach us “in Adam's fail we sinned all” and we have neveF bestirred ourselves to challenge the atatement It doesn't take long to find out that the half of what is eald about people_has no foundation In fact. Per- haps ‘many people cuddle up to a_lie because a lie well stuck to s better than the truth wavering. Truth is & slow conch compared to scandal magnified! Sunday Moming Talk BLUE MONDAYS, Just how Monday got its deep-dyed hue no one ever really understood till recently, when the Russell Sage Foundation set one of its acientists to worlg on_the problem. Dr. Thorndyke essayed to discover the reason why manufacturers, merchants and em- ployers of labor in many lines report- ed Monday to be a day of glooms. grouches, ~ irritations and general slackening of zest and efficiency. Monda: a time of depression, would seem to be no modern phe- nomenon, as a glance at the past shows. The various adjectives used in connection with the day since the time of our forefathers of six cen- turies past reveal its ancient reputa- tion. At various periods it has been “black” Monday, = “bloody” Monday and “saint” Monday, this latter in facetious reference to the fact that convivial spirits who had spent Sun- day in carousal chose to spend the day following in idleness. In his au- toblography, Benjamin Franklin states that he galned the goodwill of his master in his apprentice days by never making a “saint” Monday. It will be gathered, therefore, that Monday has Inherited no particularly savory repu- tion. The scientific investigator finds, in brief, that the average “blue” Monday victim is not in as good physical shape for work on that day as when he fin- ished his task on Saturday. He may be tired for lack of exercise, or be- cause he has taken too much exer- cise. He may be suffering from in- digestion because she has eaten and drunk not wisely but too well. He may have a headache because he has smoked excessively, or pored too long over the fine print of bz v Physiologically he has been set instead of ahead by the day of rest. The same general conditions obtain in the case of women who have their own pecullar forms of self indulgence. In a_word, Monday is “blue” be- cause Sunday has been ill spent. The hours of Sunday have been mistaken- Iy used to rob men of physical strength, to sap them of courage, to lower their general morale. The color one Yy @oes over, deepened anc intensified Into the next, If one has been allowing a “blue® tinge to spread over his M and to shroud them in is time he inexcusable M“‘: ‘week, upon of which we enter a romy it what be, & time gladness gags 7 i i i : Fak . prices, Again, I ruled against Lizette, and In favor of the home merchants! N there is altogether too muoch «Immm of D'm‘ social peddiing going ‘Women who pay nothing toward the city's revenue travel from house to house, trying to sell dress goods and various odds and énds. They do not have to take out a city license as do peddlers in other lines.” They are cut- ting into the revenues of the legitimate merchants, whose expenses go on, ir- respective of the weather or the grip epidemic or heat or cold. Easy, soft people take pity on them, they wriggle thelr way into the house, with some hard luck story: but the whole principle of their deaiings is wrong— an injustice toward those who are the backbone of every city’s life and trade. Much of the stock which they dis play is merely trash—cheap stuff in inferior dress goods, linens, coarse laces, plated jeweiry, glass (iamonds and the rest, forwarded from some distant agency house, to which the bulk of the profits resulting from any possible sales must be returned. It always seems a pity, when women or girls feel obliged to take up such an agency; for they do not get enough out of it to pay for the shoe leather they wear out, they are doing & man- ifest injustice to the merchants of the town and they are most unwel- gome visitors to the majority of house- 0l - Possibly, in some such a perambulating saleswoman may be welcome, as she brings supplies which the woman of the house can- not get to the store to buy; but this is only a very remote and Trare con- tingency in these days of trolley lines and automobile trucks and delivery wagons and parcels post service. raistant Friend Lisette ass thore Mt persistent frien: e those in- dividuals to whom the humoriats re- fer as “testimonials fiends.” The peo- ple Who are always suggesting. “Say! Jones has lived in this street ten years. Don’t you think it would be nice to have the neighbors give a dol- lar apiece, and buy him a Morris chair?” Or they are eternally planning sur- prises in stores and offices, starting ubscriptions for gifts for this one or that, levying on sometimes poorly paid help who do not have the courage to refuse; a half dollar for a traveling bag for the boss—who has half a dozen— a quarter toward a set of books for the head accountant—who, during his free hours neer reads anything more hefty than the sporting page of his favorite paper—a dime to get a pair of opera glasses for the stenographer— a nickel to buy a loving cup for the overworked janitor, and so on. Such good-natured, busybody indi- viduals revel in “presentations”; but they are the bore of neighborhoods and shops and business establish- ments. heir demands are frequently a serious drain on the limited funds of friends and asséciate workers. “Every pocketbook,” somebody says, “knoweth its own bitterness! The only way to check all such forms of social blackmail, on the part of those who cannot afford to give to the va- rious testimonials, etc., continuously proposed, is to say courageously, as I have learned to say to the demands of my versatile friend Lizette, a big and emphatic e < THE DICTAGRAPH. +LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Medical Inspection in Schools. Mr. Bditor: While reading this morning’s Bulletin, I noticed_another letter from Observer on medical in- spection in the schools. When I read Observer's other two letters, I was sorely tempted to an- awer them, but thought I would leave the answering to someone competent to write on a medical subject, that someone 1s @ doctor. A person could read hundreds of medical books and still not be competent to talk on a medical subject. The only way he can become quite competent is from personal talks with doctors, and 1 want to say right here that if Observer doubts that medical inspection in the schools is good, he should go to a re- liable doctor, and if he doesn’t believe in it ‘after hearing the doctor's argu- ments on the subject it is because he is stubborn. Observer in today’s letter writes that he is pained that Another Viewpoint finds it necessary to juggle with sta- tistics. That is what Observer has done in the three letters he has writ- ten. Statistics has been the whole sub- stance of the latter's three letters. Observer writes: “The standard of health representation in figures has been 17 to the 1,000 for haif a century, d anything above that in death rates simply shows the unhealthy condition of the community, and if they could the medical fraternity would be proud to reduce the standard, which they have not” Yes, aad to say, it has re- | mained at 17 to a 1,000 Why? Be- cause many cities insult their doctors by asking them if they will for $100 or more a year inspect the school chil- dren. In other words, they ask the doctors to protect the children from sickness and dissipation so the latter fay &row up healthy in mind and , and, when they marry, their children will be healthy and kept healthy. They aek the doctors to do all that for a measly of the country would “leave more to_the doctors” (I don't mean money) @ hundred years or less from now the ple then living won't have a chance remark: “Isn't it too bad that boy ol Y;; know he inberit: m his people;” or “Isn't it too it nice young irl has that i She inherited it from her peo Don't think from that, that I all sickness and disease is in- ited. It isn't. Those that don't in- it those get them because ‘were not protected by meédical in- sum. If the peo- ¥ 2vs =z £95 i Yours truly, Norwich, Jan. 13, 1016, o Miss Sisters of Lédyard, Thank you, but The Cloud not “guess” at the weather only make predictions along an old seaman’s log hundred years was fol generations of captains who sailed ‘seven seas” and never lost a ship. Cloud Digger makes predictions at the last ci 'he o1 January weather is just as and the big storm for the middle o month 1s due, preceded by severe cold. The girl “who loves to have a sleigh ride” may be accommodated sooner than she thinks, but even if she is not she may look for zero weather and much lower possibly before this letter is printed. Cheer up, icemen, February is ahead. THE CLOUD DIGGER. Jan. 13, 1916. Stories of the War | Last of House of Obrenovitoh. The last of .the house of Obreno- vitch, the murdered Alexander, lies in a little chapel in the Belgrade ceme- tery, forgotten by conqueror and con- quered alike. Beside him rests Queen raga, the woman for whose sake he broke off relations with his father and Wwhose influence upon him undoubtedly led to the sordid tragedy that extin- guished this royal line. The chapel stands in the center of a neglected graveyard. It is a primitive building, a larger sample of the typi- cal Serblan peasant's cottage, without ornamentation of any kind. It is of brick, rudely plastered on the outside. Only a cross carved into a tablet giv- ing the date of erection shows that it is not an ordinary house or even a substantial barn. " Bullets have bored neat holes through two of the plain- glass windows, and have made blisters in a half dozen places on the plain sieet-iron doors. The street fighting was a half mile away, but the modern infantry rifile has a long range, and the chapel stands on ground elevated somewhat above the scene of the street Eattles. A few Hungarian soldiers are quar- tered in a building a hundred yards away from the chapel. None of them had any idea where the key to the chapel was to be found. The Associa- ted Press representative finally crawl- ed through a small hole in the wall, which apeared to have been made by a shell which failed to explode. Scat- tered bricks and mortar lay on the floor inside. The scene was depressing. In the middle of the floor a box, contain- ing books, dust-covered and in disar- ray. The high altar had been shoved back into a small anteroom. The sa- cred vestments, some of them torn and muddied, were strewn about the floor and on the altar. A picture of a saint, its protecting glass spintered, lay face down. A bullet had found its way into one of the crude mural paintings. Mortar dust lay deep over everything. The correspondent had been in- formed that the murdered king and Queen were buried in this chapel, but there was nothing in sight even re- motely resembling a royal tomb. Near one corner was a plain lettered slab, flanked by two wooden crosses. In Cyrillian letters on the slab were the names of two of the older members of the Obrenovitch family. Right and left stood a crude Roman _cross of wood. On the crossbar of the cross at the right was rudely lettered “Alex- ander Obrenovitch.” ~The correspond- ing bar on the cross at the left bore the name ‘“Draga Obrenovitch.” There Wwas not another letter on either cross, no_date of birth nor death, no word to indicate that the persons buried here had once been king and queen of the country. In the more than thirteen years that have elapsed since the murder, the crosses have'not even been set up- right. They are simply leaned against the whitewashed wall. A nickeled candlestick stands near the squalid tomb; at the other side is a tall, cyl- indrical sheet-iron stove, sole means of heating the chapel. No guard rail separates the tomb from the place oc- cupied by the worshippers The mean tomb in the little chapel recalls the regicide that stirred all the world—with the exception, according to the contemporary reports, of Serbia itself—in June, 1903. Trouble had been accumulating for years at the Serbian court. Alexander had allenated his father Milan and offended various Eu- ropean courts by marrying Draga Maschin, widow of an engineer and a former lady in waiting of Queen Nata- lie. Nepotism and general favorites still further embittered the old court party at Belgrade. Particularly was there wide disaffection among the army officers. What gave greater impetus to the growing conspiracy against King Al- exander was his act in suspending the constitution on April 7, 1903, declaring void the mandates of the senators and councillors of state, dissolving the Skupshtina and setting aside various laws, including the press law and the election law, Late in the night of June 10, 1903, a band of conspirators, chiefly officials and army officers, and including Colo- nel Maskin, brother of Draga’s dead husband, overpowered or shot down the weak .palace guard and forced their way to the door of the royal apartment. This door was blown down with dynamite, and the king and queen were shot and stabbed to death, and their bodies thrown out the window into the amall garden surrounding the ace. Konah. The correspondent was told here in Belgrade, however, that the tragedy occurred in a small warden- house which etood midway between the old and new Konahs. This “mur- der house,” as it was termed, is said to have been torn down at the order of King Peter, who did not care to have & perpetual remainder of the tragedy be- fore his eyes. The mutilated bodies of the mur- dered king and queen it was reported at the time, were thrown into rude wooden cof carried to the chapel on the handcart of a sewer-cleaner and buried unceremomiously a few hours after the murder. Thus ended the rule and the line of the Obrenovitchs, 35 years to a day after the greatest of the line, Prince ‘Michael, had bee in the Ay fer o fathar n repect to ships engag: trade, and when comparison is in this respect the United States mer- cantile_marine_trails behind not only Great Britain, but behind Germany; France, Italy, Norway, Holland, Spain, Japan, ‘and even Portugal. Germany's foreign trade shipping s just at pres- ent out of business, but an immense tonnage is'in readiness to resume as s00n as the war eml lifts. has been a considerabe increase in the The decision of the general assem- bly leaders to fill the vacant Eighth district judgeship by the election of Representative Dunn shows that the abuse of dual officeholding under thi state_is not to be ended without a constitutional amendment prohibiting the practice. One public office should be enough for any citizen of Rhode Island. If he attends to its duties faithfully ahd efficlently he is doing all that the state can expect of those who volunteer for its service. When he aims to fill two officers which yield him two salaries he is not necessarily open to the suspicion of avarice, but he may be falrly suspected of exces- sive egolm, Surely thers are enough men of al engaged in public service who can be induced to enter it, and until the supply of such citi- zéns is exhausted it is not good busi- ness to let one man do the work of two.—Providence Bulletin. The Massachusetts public service commission is one of the first bodies of its kind to give serious and sys- tematic consideration to the Jjitney problem, and the review of the Jitney year in’ Massachusetts, ~contained in general summary that may apply to its just published report, is a good general summary that may apply to other: states. In general, its conclu- sfon {8 that the jitney, having sprou ed from nothing but an idea at the beginning of the year, grown up to flourish like a green bay tree in spring and summer, declined with the falling leaves and had almost disappeared, in its common_form, before the year went out. What another season will bring forth, either in Massachusetts or here, nobody can tell. A great mady of the fitneurs will have to get new cars or another set of second-handers. it may be possible to secure reaso able regulation for the reduced. nu ber, and regulation is what is needed. They have not the legal status of common carriers. They ought to have. The public service commissions have no jurisdiction over them. They should have—New Haven Register. There is much truth in the Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Treat a man squarely and he as a natural out- come treats you the same. Speak evil | of him and he does the same to you., Knock and you get knocked. ~Be | peevish ond everybody around you, in- cluding your own family, will be peev- fsh with you Smile aid watch Jhe smiles grow on faces it peer into yours. Frown and be frowned upon. Everything in life is beautiful to the man who looks on things through eyes not muddled with ugliness. Genero: ity breeds generosity. Give liberally’ and you get everything in the world worth having. Be a miser and every- body withholds things from you. Be big, be noble, be true, and you find others the same. Humanity is but a big mirror reflecting the things be recept, H d e ii By National Geographic Soclety “Port Said, situated at the north- ern entrance to the Suez Canal, has, by force of many &ircums be- come one of the most im t out- posts of vast British ire,” be- gins today's study in war geography prepared by the National Soclety. “Port Said is the British storehoule in the Levantine world: it is a British arsenal and troop station of rank; it is the base for defense of the all-important route to India -and for offense against the Mediterranean Mo the “A ploneer city in the m: one entirely the product of modern times, without tra customs, of proprieties, a heterogeneous, undefin- able city of sweaty toil, gigantic dus- iness, of all races, and of all QW castes, Port Said has been & interesting phenomenon since its birth. It early earned a world-wide reputas. tion for wickedness, beside whieh modest fame of the western camp seem to merge into the mild 3 conventional. The most elements in the Eastern tine nations met, life one excitement after Port Sald. And the mate, the incessant ping, the drear scenery, lnha‘xe. he mh: ibined h‘:‘ the eat have com town & renown of & most unenviable sort. “The English, however, have dampened the ardorous sxcesses of £ ‘busy, modern Babel; and, with the ex~ " tensive harbor improvements of: 1908« 1909, with the addition of a large ote ton export to the town! and with the building of & railroad to Cairo, a better class ple have sought new interests in Said. Thus, with the increasing of port’s commercial possibilities and g:t‘nlnl of the merchan been considerbly = ; cial scale and lowered in thi lurid interest. “The port city was and its site was de needs of the great canal It low, narrow, desolate strip that separates the Mediterranean Lake Menzaleh. It is on the side of the canal. The harbors of port, improved by eplendid works, are safe and commodious. Said is rated as the largest station in the world, and it is one the worid’s important depots for - supplies. g s§i§Er§ E 28 i B manner of maritime population of the city is about 50,000, including representatives of every race and individuals representing all at once.” In this country electricity e 8- 000,000,000 industry. The War a Year Ago Today Jan. 15, 1918. British made gains near La New Russian army marched north in Poland. “Von Hindenburg's forces deslar- ed_to be in peril. British took Swakopmund, Afri- sont sup- ind and inia faryland sent reliet ships to Bel gium. French submarine Saphir sunk by Turkish mine in Dardanelios: Allied aviators bom Os- BUY YOUR FORD CAR NOWwW Runabout $390 Touring $440 Cou pelet $590 F. 0. B. DETROIT THAVE SOME GOOD SECOND-HAND FORD CARS ON HAND, INCLUDING TOURING CARS, RUNA- BOUTS AND ONE FORD DELIVERY IN FINE CON- DITION. Ford Motor A 61 North Main Street | | z |