Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 22, 1916, Page 4

120 YEARS OLD price 120 o week; 50c & Fear. s matter. | Bulletin Business Office 480. " Bulletin Editorial Rooms 85.3. % Bulletin Job Office 35-2. Willimantic Office,, Room 2, Murray ‘Building. Telephone 210. 3 4412 ; Feb, 22, 1916. --5,920 ¢ The Circulation of 10,100; The Bulletin has the largest Seseescesiseecensssssssesarssassessesssesases circulation of any paper in Eastern 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- nine towns, one hurdred and sixty- five postoffice districts, and sixty rural free delivery routes. The RBulletin is sold in every town and on all of he R. F. D. routes in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATION 1901, average. 1905, average. Februaryl 19........ WASHINGTON AND PREPARED- NESS. The arrival of another birthday an- niversary of George Washington at {this time suggests the comparison of | conditions at the time of his presi- dency and those of today upon the important question of preparcdness. The situztions are not identical but national defense is not to be disTe- | 8arded now any more than it was at that time. ‘Washington's advice upon such a matter was not accepted without op- position and it is well known that his was not an ageressive spirit unlgss the rights of this nation were tram- pled upon. He was an advocate of peace but he didn’t believe in peace at any price. He believed in holding aloof from all foreign alliances but he aidn’t belicve in neglecting prepara- tion for war in times of peace though it was his advice that the sword should never be unsheathed so long as justice, rights and respectability could be preserved without it. In his own words “To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. A free people ought mot only to be armed, but disciplined to which end a uni- form and well digested plan is ro- quisite” and further does he say, “What madness then can be greater, or policy and economy worse, than to let the enemy again rise upon our folly and want of exertion? Shall we not be justly chargeable for all the blood and treasure, which shall be wasted in a lingering war, procrasti- nated by false expectations of peace, or timid measures for prosecuting the war? Washington had not thought of en- couraging militarism and yet he coun- selled only the same sort of prepara- tion that is being urged today. His words displayed wisdom at the time they were spoken and they are like- wise applicable to the present day sit- uation. DANISH WEST INDIES. Whether the strike of the Negroes in the Danish West Indies is sufficient cause for the renewal of talk concern- ing the sale of the islands, the sug- gestion that an offer in excess of what this country made in 1901, when it was willing to pay $4,000,000 for the group, would in all probability be fa- vorably received by the Danish par- liament brings this matter to life again in a manner which cannot be overlooked. This country i= anxious to get pos- session of the Danish ‘archipelago not for the purpose of extending its. ter- ritorial limits, for there is a feeling that it has too many island posses- sions already, but with the idea of protecting this hemisphere against . further encroachment of foreign na- ~ tions and being in possession of such 1slands it would have less trouble in upholding the provisions of the Mon- , Toe Doctrine. 3 Denmark has not been able to give @s much attention to the islands as it t or as they deserve. Conditions ere are far from the best and it bas been long understood that Ger- Snany was anxious to get a foothold there even as it has a similar desire to do in Hayti for the purpose of es- | tablishing military bases. So anxious | has Germany been to carry out such " & plan that it is reasonable to believe " that its influence was sufficient to _ have blocked the sale of the islands " to this country on previous occasions. | _If the islands are to be sold through Denmark’s desire to throw off its re- * sponsibility there, it is for the pro- tection of itself that this country parry out now what it has attempted do in the past. It is a situation | Wwhere this country is naturally inter- ested. TREATY WITH COLOMSBIA. While the Nicaraguan treaty has . been ratifled by the senate there is " nmow much concern as to what will be done with the Colombian treaty. Nei- | ther relates to the other but the lat- ter has been hanging fire for over a desado during which time there has continued to be a resentment on the part of Colombia towards this eoun- ‘try which of course does not serve to improve tke feeling which exists be- ‘tween the nations of Latin-America ‘and this country. Under the treaty as proposed by former administration there were ns which were satisfactory to bia and the ocongress of that mtry without much opposition rat- it but it falled to get similar on in this country. Now it has n changed. There has been cut of the amount which Colombia would receive should it be passed and that is likelv to result in the refusal of the South American country to accept it even should it get favorable action in the United States senate, It is time that the matter was clear- ed up.. If the faith of Latin-American countries has been shattered by the manner in which this country through Prosident Roosevelt “took” Panama it is time to consider whether an ad- Justment ought not to be reached as speedily as possible. To have such a matter hanging fire does no credit to this country. There is no call for a demonstration of the idea that this country can be looked upon as a dis- penser of charity under such condi- tions but there ousht to be the dis- position to reach an honorable set- tlement of the claim and the quicker it can be done the better for this country. BRITISH VIOLATION THIS TIME. It was only a short time ago that this country had reason to protest to France egainst the removal of Ger- man subjects from American vessels proceeding between neutral ports, and in response to the representations of this country the release of the pris- oners were ordered and the practice which was being carried on about the West Indies by the cruiser Des- cartes was stopped. Now comes the report from Shang- hat to the effect that a British aux- fliary cruiser has held up the Ameri- can steamship China on the high seas and taken therefrom 38 Germans. How this differs any from the operations which the French were engaged in, or where the right exists for such an act cannot be discovered from the details which have thus far been furnished. To all appearances the Britislf cruiser is as much in the wrong as was the French. Those Germans were under the protection of the American flag and were not destined to any port from which they could slip into Ger- many or territory of the Teutonic al- lies, so that the ground for protest in their case appears to be identical with that taken in the case where the Des- cartes was found in error, which in turn was based upon the ruling in the Trent affair. Therefore it will be expected that this government will seek the release of those German subjects from Brit- ish control or at least upon Great Britain to explain, if it can, why those men were taken from an American ship which was proceeding not to a German but to an Amerlcan port. THE SOUND LINES. The interstate commerce comm sion has been receiving the protests | of shippers against the divorce of the New Haven railroad and its water | lines, a chanze which rests with that | commission under the Panama canal act, since it has the power, if it finds that conditions warrant it to permit that and other railroads to retain steamboat lines. e evidence has thus far gone to that not only the manufactur- d business interests in hout New England desire t ronds operating through its terri- continue their water service, that those outside who are get- the accommodation of those e desirous that they be not More evidence remains to the = but ting lines disturbed. Dbe obtained and it is safe to predict that it will be of character. It is pointed out by the New York Commercial that “common manage- ment of rail and boat lines expedite the transfer of freight between boats and cars. This gives shippers prompt- ness and accuracy, expedites tracing shipments and simplifies the adjust- ment of claims. It does not create a monopoly because the Sound is open to all American vessels and competi- tion is and always has been vigorous. The New York Merchants’ Associa- tion has gone on record in favor of the present system under which a vast volume of business has been de- veloped. The life of New England as 2 manufacturing district depends on superiar service to overcome lack of coal and mineral deposits.” Inasmuch as it is the people of New England who are going to benefit or suffer by any change, and they are demanding that there be no change, it would appear that conditions are much more satisfactory as they are than they would be if a disposal of the lines was ordered, and it is in the interest of the people that the com- mission is supposed to be Working. EDITORIAL NOTES = A few more of these cold waves and the standing room only sign will be hoisted along the Florida coast. the same general Prominent in the doings of baseball magnates is James H. O'Rourke. Where have we heard that name be- fore? It must be evident to those who listen and read that there are safer and healthier places to live in than Armenia. The man on the corner says: Now that there is a scarcity of goats there is a golden opportunity for the re- turn of borrowed property. There have been blizzards in March and ice crops hdrvested in April but every dealer in frozen water knows the value of making hay while the sun shines. The determination of Germany to put its new submarine order In effect as planned would indicate that Ad- miral von Tirpitz had returned from his vacation. From the pugilistic and too realistic way in which Geraldine Farrar is playing Carmen there is likely to be a lot of sympathy expressed for the bridegroom. Much s being said about the fal of Erzerum but there are a lot of peo- ple in the past few days who have gone through a similar experience in much less time. It Germany simply meant in its Arabic note that it would not further molest those vessels which have al- ready been sunk there ought to be no hesitancy in saying so. There are a lot of people who fall to remember that if it is impossible to get the ice off the sldewalk there is still a chance of contributing to safety and comfort by applying ashes or sand. : The only trouble with that fight in the Oklahoma legislature is that it was not caught by a moving picture man for displaying to every succeed- ing general assembly as an example of the wrong way for legislators to get into action. “Yes, mom,” sald the butcher who owned ‘the fashionable provender shop, speaking politely into the telephone receiver. “I don’t understand, mom! I marked it speciall It must have besn & mistake of my helper! No, mum, it won’t occur again! He jammed up the receiver and sighed hugely as he turned to the waiting customer. “I just hate” sald the butcher in a burst of Eonfidence, “I just hate to hear of any of my customers’ daughter getting married nowadays! If they don't como here to trade they'll go somewhere else, and I have a heart to feel for my fellow sufferers! THonest, you wouldn't be- lleve what the brides order and how they take it out on us when they get what they ask for! “Now that young Mrs. Phipps” went on the butcher mournfully, as he got out the porterhouse steak joint for the sympathetic customer to iook at, “that was just on the phone—why, she was so mad she couldn’t talk straight! T'll betchu her ma or some one has told her that ehe must be very firm with ue tradesmen and take no nonsense, because if she does we'll think she doesn’t know anything and try to work off old goods on her! “She said she ordered a shoulder of lamb, boned, so's she could have it rolled and stuffed—and when she went to fix it at 4 o'clock it wasn't boned at all! She said there were some hor- rid Tibs and things in it! Well, you know, you have to leave in the rib bones and they dom’t matter at all if you know how to roll it! She said she called up her husband and just told him what I had done and he was most indignant and told her to come right downtown for dinner! “She mever got over the time T recommended boiled ham and saure- kraut for dinner on a zero night,” con- tinued the butcher. She came in next day furious. She said the sauerkraut was the most awful stuff, and why I should expect any human being to eat it she didn’t see, end that her husband said it tasted llke no sauerkraut he bad ever met on the earth or the seas beneath, and when I got a chance 1 asked her how she cooked it. “‘Cooked it!" said she. “Why I supposed it was already cooked when I got it! I just served it cold as it was! I am sure that is the way we were tausht in the domestic science class!’ She had got it mixed up with coldslaw, you see, but I didn't dast tell her.” Nothing makes them brides so mad as to be told their mistakes! “I lost young Mrs. Meeker for a er just because I talked too went on the butcher sadly. e had kept house just a week aft- er getting back from her wedding trip and came in and looked everything er a e chops. A said she guessed she'd have lamb chops. ‘How many? s 1 with my knife in the air. She Jked kinda wild and I pretended not notice. Thre sorta_sw it. T “OF i She that's prompted. said ‘Yes, ‘I'll fix 'em all fine for your dinner part: Then she says, surprised like, that she has no din- ner on, only herself and Mr. Meeker. 1 just grinned then and said I guessed she meant four chops. “‘No,’ she said in that frozen voice that ladies use in place of handing Yyou one with their fist, T mean exact- ly what I said—four pounds!” So I sent her four pounds of lamb chops with a Dill for $1.60. And after they had lived on chops till they hated the ht of them and her poodle and the neighbor's cat had died from overeat- g lamb, she had a deep ingrowing dislike for me and never came near this place again. Her mother told me she said 1 forced my opinions on a customer and she couldn't endure it “T had a terrible time with the last bride who moved into them Honey- moon flats! She traded here a week and then came in with fire in her e She said she had heard of dishonest tradesmen, but she never expected it of me. Then she produced a list and read off of it that I had charged her Monday for a pound and a half of chops and she’d weighed the meat on her scales and And she was charged for a _three pound chicken and it weighed two and a quarter. And her roast was a pound and a half shy end what did I mean by it? LETTERS TC THE EDITOR The Possibilities. Mr. Editor:—The contrast has been made clear to our citizens that the examining physician for the public schools gets $100 a year while the vis- iting nurse gets $70 a_month. Per- haps this is so that the doctor will not do so much that be_required. The nurse has a double job—visit the schools and visit and inform the families. Her occupation opens the door to no other opportunit The $70_a month is her whole hope. How is it with the physician? He may increase his patients by from 100 to 300 a year and swell his income. If he only gets the business the town has to pay for he is quite likely to get $1,000 2 year or more from legiti- mate practice resulting from this close relation to the people. A good many children may go to the dentist, and as in other places it may be in this, the physician may re- ceive a_ percentage upon the business he sends. These are progressive times when shrewd business and shrewd doctors do not get left. two nurses will OBSERVER. 21, 1916. Doing Their Level Best. Mr. Editor:—Observer in your pa- per under date of Feb. § and Many Citizens of Feb. 18 seem to think the school board are autocratic in regard to school matters. If there is any doubt in their minds that the school board as servants of the people are ignoriug their creators _application can be made to the Chamber of Com- merce and no doubt they would be willing to take the matter up with the public be (—) and if the Chamber of Commerce displays as much executive ability in dealing with school matters as they did in the gas and electrical situation there will not be any_fur- ther cause for Observer and Many Citizens to worry as the welfare of the little children will be properly looked after. Mr. Editor, there are other citizens who believe the school board are doing their level best to comply with the medical inspection law as enacted by the general assem- bly of the state of Connecticut and if Observer #nd Many Citizens do not like the medical Inspection let them 80 to the proper place and have the law repealed instead of finding fault With the school board for complying With the law, and now, Mr. Editor, through the efforts of Mayor Murphy and his commission of five and the chamber of commerce, municipal ow: ership of gas and electricity as prac- ticed in Norwich has been fully ad- vertised in New Bngland, and now if we can let New England know how we are trying to compel the school board to jgnore the medical inspection law of the state of Connecticut there will be nothing left to be desired in the advertising line Norwich for progress as displayed on the coal bin. ANOTHBER CITIZEN. __Norwich, Feb. 21, 1016. Norwich, Feb. - SORROWS OF THE BUTCHER it was just a pound.| “If I thought she was ignorant I Was mistaken, because she had taken & thorough domestic science training and weighed everything, and she was very indignant. When she stopped for breath I sald meekly that maybe she didn't know that meat was al- ways welghed before it was trimmed and chickens before they were drawn and lost their heads and legs. And then she was madder than ever! She said ehe should stir up all the women's clubs in town to protest against such robbery and she should tell all her friends what I haq just confessed. The telephone jangled again and the pessimistic butcher glared at it as he rolled up the porterhouse steak. “I'll bet,” he said between his teeth as he strode toward it, “that it's one of them there brides trying to tell she let the sausage fry by itseif while she read a novel in the parlor and when she looked at the sausage it was noth- ing but queer little, hard, black, smelly lumps, and what do I mean by send- ing her such meat? Sometimes I get real discouraged!"—Chicago News. OTHER VIEW POINTS [ Connecticut receives full credit for the success of the hanging which took place at Concord, N. H. vesterday morning, for those in authority car- ried out the instruction which they recently received at Wethersfield. Per- haps, however, it is an instruction in Wwhich we may take too much pride. However, if hanging must be done, it is admittedly desirable that it be done well—New Haven Register. School officials will be astonished beyond measure to hear that five thousand Philadelphia school teachers have petitioned that school shall re- main in session on three customary holidays of the second half of the year —but ‘wil recover somewhat on read- ing further that it is proposed to ex- change these three days for a week's Easter vacation. Philadelphia may be slow, but the teachers are not. Providence Bulletin. The Panama canal law contains a clause against railroad operation of steamships that prevents the New Ha- ven railroad from cont steamship service and makin water frelght rates to New England Points. Our experience of the last few months shows that this might bo very unfortunate. But even if the combined control were unwise, what business had congress to end it by passing a law to prevent railroad | owned steamship lines from monopo- |lizing coastwise traffic through the canal? Such _ill-considered legislation is one of the curses aterbury Republi- Much complaint comers regarding Bridgeport. They are patchy, even, Dbroken or lacking in places. Main street, even, immune. In other places they of flags, which were popular ago, and some of them have never been reset since then. The frost has heaved the flags and they stick up at all angles, with depressions in which is heard from new- the sidewalks un- many is not consist 0 years the water forms unpleasant puddles for the discomfort of pedestrains. Un- fortunately for the appearance and comfort of the residents, the city or- dinance requires only a six-foot side- walk. It may be of any material and, apparently, in any state of disintegra- tion. Some work was done last vear in_rectifying this conditon, the sidewalk inspectors either some of the poor spots or authority to enforce their Bridgeport Standard ut overlooked lacked the orders. The sentiment in the Naugatuck valley will be practically unanimous in favor of the dyestuffs bill that ha: been introduced and eloquently cham- ploned by Congressmar Hill in con- gress. The purpose of the bill Is to provide for adequate protection for American manufacturers and workers, who engage in the business of making dvestuffs in this country in competi- tion with the great German monopoly. There will be no difficulty in maln- taining these industries during course of the war but it is imperative that the government take summary steps now to assure to this new and important industry a market for the future and one that cannot be ruined by the making of this country the dumping ground for low priced Ger- man chemicals and dyes after the war is over.—Ansonia Sentinel. THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Soclety “Laon, behind the German lines is one of the pleasantest towns of north- ern France” begins a description just issued by the National Geographic So- clety. “Founded by the Celts, it felt the early waves of Teutonic invasion more than 2,000 years ago; and greater and lesser waves have followed in varying succession ever since. With Laon as a base, Celt and Roman car- ried civilization across the Rhine; taught the rude warrior folk to the north the refinements of ancient em- pire; and brought them weights, money, letters improved weapons; manufactured products, and the glow- ing wine of the southland. “Remigius, who baptised Chlodwig, appointed a bishop to Laon almost before “the Christian morning in Trans-alpine Europe had its dawning. The Normans swept the town in 882, and the next few centuries saw many another horde of wasters follow the same path. By the beginning of the 14th- century, however Laon was a world-city, gharded by strong walls and towers, and _garrisoned by the choncest adventurers of the Empire of the Low Countries. “Henry IV reduced the city in 1594; and, in 1814, the citadel on the flat rock on which the city stands was sucessfully defended by Russian and Prussian soldlers against he despair- ing thrusts of the great Napoleon. In 1870, here in Laon, was performed one of the most renowned of all the va- lorous deeds of the Franco-Prussian War As the Madgeburg Jaeger stormed into the citadel, crowding back the small garrison and fllling the en- clusure, the French blew up them- selves and the victors, selling the place at an unexpected heavy cost. “Where the walls once stood—im- A YEAR AGO TODAY . Fob. 22, 1915, Russians made progress in Gali- cia and the Carpathians. Turks massacred Armeni the Caucasus. United States presented notes to Great Britain and Germany pro- osing modifications of blookade Kill- lecrees. Zeppelin bombarded Cal lna five persons. ermany denied charges of cru- elty to war prisoners. of | Washington Closed All Day Today Business Center of Nerwics ’s Birthday pregnable defenses in the old days be- fore the use of gunpowder and the high explosive shells—today, are sit- uated beautiful shaded promenades. Everywhere in the older own, that part upon the hill, are interesting me- morials of the city’s gray past. In the lower town are the concessions made to modern times—the rallway station, the gas works, beet sugar factories and_abattoir. “The Laon artichoke is a blue-rib- bon winner among vegetables and it finds its way only into the most ex- clusive kitchens of Paris and London. Moreover, it is an edible of literary fame; for, in popular European ro- mances, its presence on the table is the writer's way of marking dinner and surroundings as quite out of the ordinary. “The cathedral at Laon, a wonder- ful structure that many travelers de- serving of opinion treasure even be- yond those of Rheims, Paris, Orleans, Rouen, Novon and Amiens, dominates from its stocky towers all Picardie for miles around ~Around the cathedral in the Upper City are scattered a number of structures of long pasts and fascinating reminiscences ANCIENT “MISSISSIP®I BAY.” The Site of Cairo Would Have Been a Seaside Resort. The lower valley of the Mississipp! has experienced many vicissitudes during by-gone ages. Geologists tell us that during the Eocene era, when the shores of the Gulf of Mexico lay considerably farther inland than at the present time, a long, baylike exten- sion of the Gulf filled present val- v of the Mississippi up to the mouth the Ohio. The boundaries of this ancient bay were not stationary but shifted slowly back and forth from time to time, so that open sea was gradually replaced by backish water and this b vamps and peat bogs. The succeeding ad- vance of the sea buried these old peat bogs beneath accumulations of clay, of sand, and sea shells. The successive recessions and trans- | gressions of “the waters the Gulf | are the subject of a paper by E. W. Berry entitled “Erosion Intervals in the Eocene of the Mississippi Em- bayment,” just published by the U. S. Geological ‘Survey. He illustrates by diagrams and sketch maps the oscil- lations of the strand line back and forth upon the continent and the ap- proximate position of the shores at different periods, Mule Values. Here is the case of the mule. At first it seems only interesting; it may be very serious. According to the sta- tistics of the Department of Agricul- ture, published in the Monthly Crop Report, mule prices have been falling steadily. Every one would suppose it had been just the other way. The war's demand for mules has been enor- mous, and what war requires has a way of going up rapidly in price. But the average farm value of an Ameri- can mule on Jan. 1, 1916, was only $113.87. as against $124.31 on Jan. 1 1913, before there was any thought of war. There are several trial expla- nations. One is that the extraordinary demand for mules arising from the war does not offset the much more ex- traordinary _displacement of mules from civil employment by farm trac- tors, motor trucks, and automobiles generally. That is not very convinc- ing. The economic decline of the mule ought to have been taking place very gradually for a_number of years, and the war might have been expected at least to interrupt it. Another expla- nation is that as the human race rises in pride and self-consciousness mule driving is more and more left to a class of beings that does not exist; but this, like the effect imagined in the other explanation, would have been a slow moving calamity, very apt to_be retarded perceptibly by the war. Still a third explanation is that the mule buyers from Burope picked out the very cream of the mule crop, leaving the scrub stock, which, of course, the agents of the department of agriculture would have had to in- ventory at a lower farm value. That, if true, would be a very serious mat- ter; it is probably only somewhat true. There is still the hope that the de- cline in the value of the mule is only a statistical phenomenon and not to be taken to much to heart. If, as even the economists may now agree, there is no euch thing as an “average” person outside of statistics, it must be obvious that there is no such thing as the government's “average” mule of “all ages,” on which the statlstical calculation rests; if there is no “aver- age” mule, there is no “average” price —_— |l‘.ii||||i [ll!!};:l:u llmll ‘Iimi 0 i ilhbanibndihii the nicely with sugar. iy Foods prepared with Natural Shortening. venient sizes. Bl s I Inuwl il s 7 | Cottolene is readyefor use when you take it from pail. It mixes readily with flour and creams l; are tempting in appearance. Arrange today with your grocer for regular supplies of Cottolene, the [HEEE FAIRBANKEEGD) A SPRING SPORT COAT FOR THE YOUTHFUL HIKER Built of tan novelty cloth is this topcoat with its brassy novedty but- tons and brown velvet finishes. Please notice how smart the pockets are, pendent fro mthe belt. The tan straw hat has an oilcloth band of brown and white check. mule, and the rest need cause us no anxiety, because sta- tistics are terrible only so long as you believe they are true. - Gold Mine Comes Back. In the days when New Mexico was a hinterland an Indian showed some specimens of rock he had found on Baldy Peak to white men who recog- nized them as copper ore and who, gulded by the Indian, found the ledge, and located a mrospect. The men do- ing development work on this copper prospect in 1866 found placer goid and traced it to its parent ledge. The placers vielded $2,250,000 and the gold mine about $1,150,000, but the rich ore was exhausted in a few years, and for over 40 years desultory prospecting for other ore bodies was carried on without notable results. In recent years prospecting based on the geol- ogic relations of the old ore body re- suited in the discovery of a new body of rich ore, which has yielded nearly $250,000 in 10 months and is still pro- ducing. Nickel in Soap Making. It will probably be news to the aver- age ablutionist that the metal nickel is used In making his soap. And fur- ther, perhaps, he will be glad to learn that although the nickel, fively ground, is mixed with the other soap ingred! ents the finished product contains none of it. This Is o because the nickel acts as what the chemists call a catalyst—that is, its presence causes certaln desirable changes to oceur, al- though it takes no part in the chemi- cal reaction. Offensive oils and those too thiA for satisfactory use when mixed with finely divided nickel and subjected to the action of a current of hydrogen become deodorized and hard- er and suitable for the soapmaker's use. Cottonseed oll, for example, after the nickel-hydrogen treatment, makes a satisfactory soap.—Pittsburgh Press. Only One Athens Now, There is and has been ror many cen- turies only one Athens. But antiquity knew no - fewer than nine cities or towns of that name in varlous parts of Greece, and even in the time of Plautus it was sometimes feit nec- R F OADW 4--Shows Tod i‘;fl" Y| 1:30, 3:15, 6:45, 8:45 IG SPLASHING O W—TODAY Maids 9 Mist Scenic Diving Offering With a Group of Stunning Girls SPECIAL SCENERY—MAMMOTH TANK—SOME ACT MILO VAGGE Comedy Ju Bag_Puncher ANGLE TURES R CONKLIN Wm. S. Hart == In a 2 Reel Keystone Comedy With All the | Si the Latest Now: me CO. w PARAMOUNT FEATURE MARIE DORO Today AUDITORIU Entire Change of Program Wed. and Fri. MUSICAL COMEDY FIFTEEN PEOPLE ing Bob Alexander and Joe Taylor in THE WHITE PEARL Colonial Theatre “Five Reels—THE BLUDGEON"—Five Reels “Equitable Feature, Presenting Kath ST S tling. and Thriliing Dre is rtling_an rilling ram: ‘Tomorrow—FOR $5,000 cult Phot AY gr EAI “Attic Athens” It was natural that| Greek cities should take their name from Athena, the goddess of wisdom, warlike prowess and skill in the arts of life, who, according to some leg- ends herself founded the City of Vio- lent Crown. Othere ascribed the nam- ing of the city td Theseus or other| mythical kings. The “s” of the ter- mination is a real plural, for the city was given a plural name (Athenai), as being made up of several consti- tuent parts.—London Chronicle. Proving Faith by Work. A clever little girl distressed over a brother's bird-trappins, once pro- vided a very telling example of the faith that is allied to work. Her mother, whose assistance she had im- plored in behalf of-the birds, declined to interfere, but suggested that the child pray for her feathered friends. Presently noting that a serenity had succeeded the sadness, she asked for late details of the affair. “Oh, it's all right, mamma,” came the prompt and smiling response. “T've fixed it three ways. First, I ask- ed God to make Johnny a better boy, s0 he wouldn't want to be trapping the poor little birdies, then I prayed that no poor little birdies would get into that trap, and then I went out and kicked the darned old trap to pieces”™ —Bryantville News. Cassiterite In C. A description of an occurrence of cassiterite (tinstone) in San Diego County, Cal, has recently been pub- lished by the United States Geological Survey as Bulletin 620-P. Mr. Wald- emar T. Schaller, the author, has re- cently visited the locality, but does not consider the deposit of industrial importance, A small quantity of cry- stals found near Oak Grove, San Diego County, in the spring of 1915 is all the cassiterite so far obtained. The region, however, offers possibilities to the gem miner. The same pegmatite dike in which the cassiterite crystals were found has vielded blue tourma- line and columbite. Artificial, Silk in Japan. The busy silkworms of Japan are to find a chemical-mechanical rival Davis Theatre WEDNESDAY, EVENING, FEB. 28 SPECIAL PERFORMANCE BENEFIT ST. AGNES GUILD MRS. FISKE IN THE 7-PART PHOTO-FEATURE VANITY FAIR AND LOCAL VAUDEVILLE Admission 50 Cents Seats Now Selling at Davis Theatre ufacture of artificial silk. This is the first attempt in the industry in Japan. In compliance with the request of the company professors in the Yonezawa Polytechnic Institute have been en- gaged for some time past in the per- fection of the process of manufactur- ing the goods and a patent has been taken ut for the result obtained quite recently. The perfection, or rather invention, of the manufacturing pro. cess has been arrived at Guite inde. pendently of the German invention and is reported to show a great im- provement on the foreign method. — East and West News. A French scientist has invented a microscoue using X-rays. Icock " The World's Greatest ‘Esternal Remedy. Backache, Rheumatism, Lum! —Any Local At Yonezawa a big fllature outfit has been lately secured by the Adzuma Leather Manufacturing Company for the purpose of inszugurating the man- Insist on Having. 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