Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 22, 1916, Page 4

every on all of he R. F. D. Eastern Connecticut. e . ' INDUSTRIAL EXHIBIT. . For several years New Haven has maintained a ent ®exhibition of goods manufactured in that city, it 3 : and maintained by the assoclation for the purs fo nmot only of giving publicity to e products and resources of that ity to get the New Haveners and the ors to that city acquainted with ‘the wants of the people. doesn’t take the residents of a 10 learn that there is a mill _one section, a large factory and that other industries about here and there, but bly little 15 known about What by the average citizen. name of the concern may be .and a general idea gained t as to what the product must . when it comes to telling jJust it.is actually manufactured but s are prepared to say. th the idea of getting its ple better acquainted with 1 city is doing in all lines of New Haven manufacturers: n the idea of a permanent ex- manifesting is not only ben- ne?,'tm. it provides a con- edueating the present. generations along lines ly neglected. is one which ollll'g to appeal to every city. for= s tried the idea on one or two “might well become an feature at least. TING ITS OBLIGATIONS. ring closely on the heels of the hatters who must meet the % as handed | that Montenegro waa @ proper amount of protec- tion and what the shortcomings are that need to be remedied to get the first line of defense in satisfactory condition. 1t has taken some time to learn what the opinion of Admiral Fletcher is in this respect, s shown in his report to the head of the navy department which up to this week had been kept secyet like a similar report of the gen- eral board. There is undoubtedly good reason for keeping under cover the defects or recommendations which would be of use to any possible enemy but, in general such reperts should be avallable for the use of congress in reaching its decision instead of being furnished only such portions of them as the secretary is willing to approve. Admiral Fletcher reports that the navy is seriously undermanned, that the number of officers is below the requirements, that there is a lack of fast armored and light cruisers, that the compulsory school for enlisted men seriously interferes with the training of the men on shipboard, that there is a Jack of target practice on long ranges, that there is a lack of aircraft and that limitations of the submarines are a serious handicap. In many respects this report sub- stantiates some of the criticisms of the navy and-Awhile it neglects to go into a detailed recital of the good points, it shows .up the defects in a ‘manner which further demonstrates the need of remedial action. TARIFF AND POLITICS. The opinion prevails among a cer- tain number that it is impossible to take the tariff out of politics, a change which has been advoeated for insur- ing stability to the industrial activ- Sty of the country and preventing the uncertainty which always accompaniés the change of administration from one Party to the other. The situation regarding the tariff is no different, however, than that concerning preparedness. There - is need of a fixed policy concerning both Which should be carried out from year fo -year, with such changes ‘as new conditions ‘make necessary, but with the general idea of looking after the nation’s interests instead of chasing theories which bob up every now and then to throw a scare into those Who are directly affected thereby. It may never be possible to entirely eliminate politics from the tariff, but it ought never to be admitted that it isn’t possible to strike a middle course Which would overcome the glaring which are revealed by the pres- ent attitude towards that great eco- nomic question. At the present time there is a grand overthrow every time the admiinistration changes and these revisions sre not made as the result of ‘the actual conditions which exist, but because one party thinks it can better the .accomplishments of the other by a great upheaval, by the tegr- ing down of existing regulations and the building up of new along lines of its own simply because politics would never sanction the endorsement of the other fellow's ideas whatever |, , a fixed tariff policy is en- dorsed and earried out and tarift changes are made in accordance with the requirements of the country then will industrial uncertainty be reduced to the minimum and not unmtil then. ~ EDITORIAL NOTES, The frouble with Carranza appears to be that he isn't a self starter. The man on the corner says: Sneeze and the world sniffies with you, laugh and you snicker alone. It takes but little Investisation to @isclose that the good resolutions grow weaker with age. The ‘only unusual thing about the reported capture of Villa is that he has not as yet denied it. Although hie has at last been rec- | ognized, it was the one kind of & rec- ognition which General Villa had bee: hoping to aveld. " Gt Hven though appearances indicated soing to take the full count, it is still displaying some of its old time tenacity. In New York state nine mice inocu- lated with pmeumonia germs were caught by a cat. It isn't often that pneumonia 1§ as negligent as that. ‘wages throughout m‘ ad | It e it | bound_for There are too many gaps in domestic luaxud unhappiness more or less ihtanse. of married P e joys than to unbal warrles and your joys o ance confidence. Love is a good deal like lightning—the reason it doesn't strike in the same place twice is be- cause the same place is not there. Keep true and you will surely keep happy. A western paragrapher says: “Wom- en remind us of angels because they are always flying around.” This truth garbed as a joke contains self-sacri- fice and constant, patient service which keeps them ever busy and commands our love and respect, and excludes the women of cosmetics, frills and flutter wh vanity and jdleness makes a burlesque of life. If a mistake has been made in the artistic conception which made Stone angels for ornamen- tation, represent the female sex, no mistake has been made In_symboll: ing the divinely inspired wothen whos good words and 2004 works and un- daunted courage and loving faith and glowing huge have ennobled the race, by angels, beautiful in design and ex- pressive of the heavenly graces, What is money good for but to spend? This is a Question oftener asked by those who spend money than by those who save it. It is good to look at until you have sufficient to give you a feeling of security, or to purchase that which you most desire; it is good to loan af a legal rate &f interest to promote bubiness and in- crease-it; and it is good to use in business, ‘or for the promotion of spe- cial laws which will enable you to in- crease what you have several hundred per cent, because you have been made a monopolist. It s good to have so other people can tell you how to spend it, and so that your heirs may feel the eagerness of desire and the hope that your demise may not be too long delayed. It is good to give away, and it is good to burn if there is dan of its burning one out body and soul. Ws are all looking for happiness, but few of us seem to get what we consider our share. It is doubtless something we could not enjoy too much. of, although we dream of eter- nal_happiness when we really desire everlasting peace. What is happiness? We are told that whatever a man's possession may be ‘no _man . is happy unless he thinks himself so.” What is peace? A condition produced by be- ing free from fear, avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. A thing mot so very easy of attainmént. Happi- ness is a state of enthusiasm result- ing from material or mental attain- ment, and peace is a state of “lovely concord.” Happiness is a song—peace a prayer. There is a distinct differ- ence, but. we need both, and both aro heavenly. The worst enemy of both is selfishness—the guide to both ser- vice to man as well as to God. y we do mot enjoy more of either does not need special In these days of so much sickness do you think of the pain and anxiety ‘'of those who watch and wait. We are e to lose sight of this great army of watchers and waliters whose service en only ends when the silence of death relgns—when loved ones have departed. ‘“Beautiful is the activity that works for good,” sald Robert Col- and the stillness that waits for good: blessed the self-sacrifice of the one and the self-forgotfulness of the otber” The valley of the shadow of death is not pleasant, but those Who can sa} ‘Thy rod and thy staff, even there, comfort me”, find it to be & place’ of peace. Love presides where these watchers and waiters serve re- gardless of weariness or vost. ~Love flows down from God to man and surges back from man to God—down parents to children and back again, and the only thing better than being loved is loving, just as giving is Detter than receiving. —Heaven bless these watchers and waiters. System in all the walks of life de- serves to be carefully ‘cultivated. The people who have most in this life and enjoy most are not the ones who lack system. Material disorder has much more to do with ill-health than many people recognize. The merchant can- not find one clerk in five who recog- nizes the worth of system—the doctor cannot find one patient in ten that is conscious of the value of system. Man doesn’t wish to be orderly and tem perate in the walks of life. Physl cally and materially he is oftenest the victim of disorder, He dislikes to do 28 he is told, even when his life de- pends upon it. He seems to be a non- conf t by ‘birth and a rebel from choice. Lack of system spells failure everywhere from the schoplroom to the hospital. Every board of health is system asserting itself against the evils which arise from lack of it. Sys- tem is mecessary to obtain the perm- anent peace for which so many are now yearning. 8 people think if every one do just as they please this ‘woul be a better world to live in, when such freedom would produce @& state of disorder which would border it arter the following Apei, 16341t to for the bateaux ol 3 {upon’a requisition‘ of Gen. Schuyler. purposes. In 1686, Capt. James Fitch, the first of these i was al- lowed sufficient land at the watersis to accommodate a wharf and ware- Capt. similar house. Not long _afterwards Caleb Bushnell claimed a grant. These facilities were near the mouth of Yantic cove, in and about the present Central wharf. It was here, Miss Caulkins tells us, that the wharfing, building and commercial en- prise of Norwich Landing began. The town records ‘contain the fol- lowing minute: October, 1694—Mr. Mallat, a French gentleman, desiring liberty of the town that he might build a vessel, or vessels, somewhere upon our_ river, the town grant the said Mr. Mallat liberty to build and also grant him the liberty of the com- mon on the cast side of Showtucket river to cut timber for building. This probably meant the privileges of cutting timber from what was then the wilderness of Laurcl HUl Mal- lat's shipyard was not long occupied and the fee in due time reverted to the town. The first masters of vessels at the Landing of whom historians hayve any knowledge_were Captains Kelley and Norman. These, In 1715, were engaged in trade with Barbadoes. From a diary kept in New London are gleaned the items: May 11, 17 Capt. Kelley, in the Norwich sloop, sailed for Barbadoes. Sept. 8. Capt. Kelley sailed for Barbadoes. Dec. 13, 1716. Capr Norman sailed. Capt. Kelley soon established a reg- ular shipyard at the Landing, as per the following minute: Jan. 10, 1716-17. Joseph Kelley, shipwright, has free liberty to bulld vessels on the Point where he is now building, the town to have the use of his ‘wharf. (This grant was not re- voked till 1751.) A record of the same year reads as follows: Dee. 8, 1717. The town grants to Caleb Bushnell 20 feet square upon ye water upon the west side of the rockie Point as ye Landing place. Simon Lothrop, Joshux and James Huntington and Denfel. Tracy were inter granted ~simflar privileges, “twenty feet square on the west side Sunday Moring Talk THE CAMEL QUESTION. e It is related,that Henry Heine, the Jew. one of thé most sparkling talkers of Europe, sat silent at a banquet u til his Christian hostess asked, with some anxiety “Why are you so dumb?” He answered, “ am studying a prob- lem which I cannot solve. I have been looking at these gold dishes, this fine linen, these splendid waiters, your great diamonds, and wondering Wwhat you Christians ‘are going to do with the camel question.” Most of us, were the truth told, are doing nothing with it. If, as the Mas- ter taught, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eve of a needle than for a rich man to-enter into the king- dom of heaven, the'peril, at least, has not deterred most men from trying for riches, When it comes to facing the dangers that money brings, the ma- Jority of us are as brave as lions. We are willing to take a chance. Yet the camel question cannot be dodged. It is a mistake to put it up to the millionaire crew alone. As a class they cannot be regarded as lov- ers of money more than the rest of us. Avarice is as frequently in low {places as in high. The mere quantity of pelf has little to do with one's per- sonal attitude toward it. One can be as devoted to ten dollars as to ten million. Some of the most sordid lovers of money I ever encountered have been workers for a small wege. Wealth on the other hand. is accomplished not seldom with a generous indifference to dollars, It is cowardly for your mor- alist to shy all his brickbats at the Morgans and the Carnegies. You yourself, Reginald of the dress gpods counter, must solve the camel question, no less than must el- Jer. What is your personal attitude toward money? Are dollars the end of all your the t and effort, the su- ,inxdm sell iout soul e or do you keep money in place as & good servant, although a bad master? - It is so hard as to be practically impossible for one who trusts in rieh- to enter the king of heaven. ote well the form 'of the proposition. It is true the kingdom con- sists in other and more it Vi ues than We about the almighty dollar, but the term is A mis- nomer. dollar is Jot almighty. Mlny“uf £oods we all erave meney The Confederacy, of 32 guns, was one of two ordered by material and workmen. chiefly of Tory-timber, her keel having been the confiscated land of Browne, in the mneighboring town of Salem. ' Locust trees for her trunnels ioning her hull and laying her deck. She was launched Nov. 8, 1778, and towed down the river on the 30th, to be rigged and recruited at New Lon- don. Capt. Seth ‘Harding was the first and only commander the Confed- eracy. She was ordered to France, carrying as passengers Mr. Jay, the Ameérican minister, and Count de Ger- ‘ard, a French envoy: but she had not been long out wher she encountered a furious gale, rolled over, lost her masts, and though she righted again, she was forced to steer for the near- est friendly port in the West Indies, to refit. The following notice appeared in_the Martinico Gazette of Dec. 16, 1779: The Continental frigate Confederacy, 40 guns, Capt, Harding, came into our roed. She lett Philadelpifia Oct. 27, destined for France. met with a gale on the banks of Newfoundiand, lost hér masts, had six feet of water in the hold and arrived in the midst of peri. The Count de Gerard, Ilate minister from the court of France to the United States, and His Exceliency, Jobn Jay, who goes to represent the States at' the Court of Madrid, were on_board, They (the ambassadors) sailed from inico for France Nov, 28, in the ch frigate L'Aurore, ate, to which she sul lered, June 22, 1781. The Brit- ish changed her name to the Confed- erate, and sent her to England as con- yoy to a fieet of transports, and with nearly 100 prisoners on board, chiefly the crews of two New London priva- teers which they had taken. At that period, by the way, the pay of a seaman was from 40 shillings to 48_shillings per month. at Norwich did in shipbuilding in after years will, be told later. THE DICTAGRAPH. Stories of the War The Legion of Honor. The red ribbon on increasing num- bers of weather-stained blue jackets, and the frequent appeals to popular imagination by the military parades behind the war zone incidental to the decoration of heroes from the fromt, bave given a remarkable increase in popularity to the Legion of Honor. This imperial institution, handed down through the Restoration, the Second Republic and the Second Empire, was not accepted ,withont reserve by the more democratic Third Republic and has gone through some viclssitudes since. Napoleon's first idea was to reward military devotion and gallant services on the fleld of battle. It was only later, when he realized the importance of - inaking war on .Great Britain's commerce as well as upon her fleet ang army, that he used the decoration to incits civillan effect. Warnings were given at the time that abuses would result. There was no scandal, however, during the Empire and the first known trafic in the decoration came to light in 1822, when an agency engaged in the selling of false decora- tions was unearthed. The scandal of 1887 was more serious. In that case It Was & question of the sale of real dec- orations, involing & son-in-law of the president of the republic, Jules Grevy, and fipally about th@ laiter's resigna- tion. less comspicuous -cases haye developed since, but the supposi- tion put forth at different times, that on of Homor was always for sale at a price, was certainly exag- gerated. There was, perhaps, more foundation for the opinfon of the un- a influence had a great deal to do with the distribu- tion of the honor among civilians. At its origin the Legion of Honor comprised a Grand Council or direc- tory, composed of 7 grand officers and The War a Year Ago Today Jan. 22, 1975, fighting in Hartmanns- army neared Prus- i flg‘ it ¢ g ] ik It f i , a eontinental ship | With cers wear it the same the same rib| but with & sette attached. Commanders decoration around their to a red moire ribon wider of Officers and Knights. G cers in addition to the cross wear the left side of the breast a five decoration attached to passing over the ‘right shoulder also on the left side of the chest an- other double pointed star similar to that of the Grand Officers. It is not generaily known that mem. bership in the Legion of Homor ear- ries with it a pension to soldiers officers who have lost a member or have lost the use of a member as'the result of wounds recelved in battie. Knights recelve 250 francs a year, Officers, 500 francs, Commanders 1,080 francs, Grand Officers 2,000 and Grand Crosses 1,000 franes. Membership in the Legion of Homor is lost for the same causes that a man is liable to lose his civic rights, that is to say, in cases of comviction for criminal offences or in case of bank- The palace of th of H called generaily “the Chancellerie’ a_beautiful building on the left e, struct between 1782 and 1789 Rousseau for the the creation of ‘the ‘Besides pensions to erip) bers, the Legion of Honor daughters of different institu which was established at HEcoun 1805. The second was orgapized in the ancient obbey at Saint Denisl in thers were founded ll’::ub(:; tion, O D three only _survived, t Denis, w instita- tions 400 free members with °q without fortunes. Daughters, grand- daughters, sisters and nieces of mem. bers are admitted to 75 places in each institution at the expense of the fam- 1ly. The date of admission is from § to 12 years of age and the girls grad- uate in seven years. 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