Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 3, 1916, Page 4

NORWICH BULLETIN, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1616 and Goufied 120 YEARS OLD Bubscription price 12c a week; 50c a mionth; $6.00 a yenr. < Entered at the Postoffice at Norwich, Conn., as second-class matter. Telephone Calls: Bulletin Business Office 480. Bulletin Editorial Rooms $5-3. Bulletin Job Office 85-2. Willimantic Office, Room 2, Murray Building. Telephone 210. Norwich, Friday, March 8, 1916. gThe Circulation of iThe Bulletin The Bulletin has the largest$ 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 18 delivered to over 900 houses, in Putnam and Danielson to over g 1,100, and in all of these places it is considered the local daily. s0s0000050s0sss00s. Eastern Connecticut has forty-s nine towns, one hundred and sixty- § 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. H H CIRCULATIOR i 1901, average.......c.ceee... 44123 1905, average................5,920 10300000004000000800000 000000000000 50EvO0us0 0000000800000 WHERE THE COUNTRY STANDS. When President Wilson declares that it s not a vote of confidence which he is seeking from that letter which he sent Congressman Pou, and which matter he subsequently took up with the foreign relations committee, but an expression by consress directly upon the question of armed merchantmen, he makes it apparent that he wants no beating about the bush and cer- tainly nothing of the kind can be tol- erated. It was only a few days ago that the president was anxious to block such resolutions as certain members of congress have been threatening to of- fer warning American citizens to keep off of armed merchantmen in spite of the fact that such would be a curtailment of their rights, but the impression which has gone abroad a the result of such agitation makes it important now that there should be a clearing up of any possible misun- derstanding in regard to that point upon which there appears to be a conflict of opinion since the govern- ment has taken the stand that mer- chantmen are within their rights un- der interpational law in arming for defensive purposes. Thus it is plain that it is not a vote of confidence but a direct vote upon the main question which is needed. It is well understood that there not the least possibility of an ch re olution as would turn down the atti- tude of the government passing, but as long as the @ifferences of opinion are ‘elng used to imperil our negotiations with forelgn nations, there is nothi else to do but clear up the situation and make it a matter of record just where congress does stand in regard to it. It is time to let the world know that the country backs up the gov- ernment. PRICE OF GASOLINE. The question is frequentiy asked as to where the price of gasoline, which is steadily advancing, is going to stop, and at the present time no one appears to be willing to definitely answer it. This commodity has shown an up- ward tendency for many months and it will probably go higher before there is any substantial drop. Today it costs from 23 to 24 cents a gallon at wholesale and 27 at retafl, or about twice what was formerly pald for it. That the rise is due to the war in a very large measure is a fact since there is a limit to the supply. It was only this week that Senator Mec- Lean, speaking in behalf of a meas- ure before congress - which seeks a more liberal attitude toward the use of water power by private companies and the encouragement of the develop- ment of such privileges, declared that under existing conditions there will not be a gallon of gasoline. left in this country 20 years hence. That may seem unbelievable® but there are terrific drains being made upon the supply at the present time. Better prices are being obtained for shipments abroad than are being se- cured here and during January there Were nearly seventeen million gallons of gasoline exported, or about four million more gallons than were sent abroad in the same month last year. For a period of seven months ending with January the increase over a sim- ilar period a year ago has been over 36 _million gallons. Thus with exports increasing at that rate and the local consumption great- er each yvear there is no telling where a halt is going to be called, and in the meantime there appears to be little progress towards providing any sub- stitute for such fuel. MORE MEXICAN TROUBLE. If Mexico is ever going to be given a chance to get back onto its feet it is to be hoped that the belief, ex- pressed in certain quarters, that the rebellion organized against the repub- lic in the state of Oaxaca by Felix Diaz is doomed to fallure, is well founded. ‘Whether or not it is destined to amount toanything, every such effort is bound to stir up discontent and arouse fac- tions which are ready to make trou- ble provided there is some sort of a leadership. Carranza is far from be- ‘which it is only just beginning to emerge. It makes little difference who it is that starts trouble in Mexico they can bank upon a following if they are well supplied with money. That Diaz claims to have, which, with the pres- tige that goes with the name, fur- nishes the rebel leader the optimism with which he undertakes his conquest of Mexico. Carranza is not so strong that he can disregard such trouble making regardless of how insignificant it may seem at the first glance. His power now and in the future lies in his ability to control and to stamp out just such uprisings. STILL AFTER VERDUN. The renewed activity on the part of the German forces in the vicinity of Verdun indicates that, though they did not gain all that they expected through the great sacrifice of men that was made in the assault upon the strongest point in the French line, they are not discouraged. The letup may have been solely for the punpose of reorsanizing or shifting their troops to other points where they can gain a greater advantage as the result of the progress which has been made. Germany has stopped at nothing. It has provided cannon fodder as fast if not faster than the French were able to dispose of it, and as the result it has moved its line nearer to Paris by four miles, making as great an ad- vance at this point as the French did some months ago at Champagne. France has used different tactics. It has believed it was far more advisa- ble to draw in its lines and save its men at the expense of a little terri- tory than it was to have them mown down in attempting to hold it and thereby weakening its supply of men. Germany has lost tremendously for what it has gained but France has not revealed its real strength when it comes to making a determined stand, and its losses will be small in com-, parison to those of its enemy. Thus the French must be regarded as bet- ter prepared for the resumption of the offensive on the part of the k ser's forces even though the determi- nation to get possession of Verdun has not abated, and new wavs of get- ting at the same end are apparently being used. It is a point which Ger- many would certainly like to get pos- on of and it is demonstrating that 11 leave no move untried to get it. It is for Joffre to see that they do not succeed and the smaller the sac- rifice he has to make the better for him, UNACCEPTABLE EXCUSE. In view of past experiences there can be no great amount of surprise over the fact that Austria offers the weak excuse which does for the ttack that was ma it de upon the Amer- ican tanker Petrolite in tbe Mediterra- nean. It is in accord with replies which have come from the cent powers concerning the unjustified at- tacks upon humanity. The Petrolite was not torpedoed but it was fired upon, one or more of its crew was injured and it was forced to give up provisions to the Austrian commander of the submersible. It was a neutral vessel engaged in legiti- mate trade and there is the testimony of its crew to support the account of the treatment that it received at the hands of the belligerent vessel. Thus when Austria tells this country it was thought by the submarine commander that the Petrolite was going to attack him, that he suspected that the Amer- ican flag was flying over an enemy vessel and that the supplies were vol- untarily given up to him there are 500d reasors for believing t he is endeavoring to cover up unjustified acts. Austria’s explanation fails to jibe in any particular with the story of the tanker’s commander, but it much the same kind of excus put forward following the the Lusitania and the Arabic, the tor- pedoing of the Nebraskan and the shelling and sinking of the Ancona, in none of which cases was there the least justification for the acts, or any g00d excuse for not observing the pro- visions of international law, so that the explanation which Austria would have this country accept regarding the Petrolite in the face of the testimony of the tanker's commander, which there is no reason for doubting cannot be looked upon otherwise than unac- ceptable. * — EDITORIAL NOTES. There is an ominous silence just at present concerning the date when the war will end. In spite of the snow those who pay attention to the calendar are already making plans for their first fishing trip, The price of hogs is reported to be the highest in sixteen years, but then it can never be told what hogs are going to do. The man on the corner savs: Some people want sunshine all the time, for- getting that today’'s clouds make to- morrow’s blue sky bluer. However this fight around Verdun has caused less trouble for those who are inclined to talk about it than did the battle before Przemysl. It looks as if Davy Jones was being relied upon by Germany to furnish the proof as to whether torpedoed mer- chantmen were armed or not. ing firmly entrenched as the de facto president of Mexico. He has not dis- posed of Villa in the mnorth, and in the south there is never any difficulty in getting together those who are spoil- ing for a fight, but he has neverthe- less gotten Mexico to a condition where its prospects are brighter than they have been for several years and 1t would;be most unfortunate to throw it back*into the unsettled’ state from Now that Billy Sunday has opened his campaign in Baltimore that city will be closely watched by the rest of the country for some time to come. With the opening of auxiliary kitchens in Berlin by an American association it begins to look as it this country would soon have a chance to feed all Europe. It is now claimed that the German loss at Verdun is 125,000 men. At that rather for the four miles gained it would mean the sacrificing of 5,- 000,000 before they get to Paris. If Germany plans to find out whether liners are armed before it sinks them it is to be hoped that it will not base its action on any such false affidavits as it presented in the Lusitania case. Now that a milllon and a quarter has been secured through a compro- mise with the Billard company, the New Haven might profit by bringing suit against the “thin air” into which many more millions vanished. ‘While congress is being asked for an appropriation to extgrminate the dogfish which is a mende to fisher- men, greater interest is being shown in disposing of the submarine which 1s a _danger to all sea travelers. . R e e S e BULLETIN'S SPECIAL YALE LETTER Norwich Club Arranging to Have Yale Films Shown in This City—Prof. Taft Addresses United Workers’ Boys’ Club —Coach Nickalls Arrives and Begins Work—Financial Condition of Yale Dining Club. New Haven, March 2.—The Febru- ary meeting of the Norwich club of Yale university was held last 'Wednes- day evening in Lawrence hall at the room of Robert L. Johnson, secretary of the organization. The meeting was In charge of Barl R. Bragg. The regular monthly business was trans- acted, the most important of which was the discussion relative to bring- ing_the three flims of moving_pictures of Yale undergraduate life to Norwich, There are at present three sets .of these films being shown throughout the country at the varlous Yale gath- erings and plans were made for their appearance in Norwich. A commit- tee was appointed to make arrange- ments for the exhibition of these films in the very near future. At the close of the business session the meeting adjourned to the Wight Hall grill where R. L. Johnson entereained the ten members with a Welsh rarebit. Lest Friday afternoon and evening the members of the D. K. E. and Psi Tipsilon fraternities were entertained at tea at the home of Mrs. Patrick A. Valentine, in New York, and the mem- bers of Alpha Delta Phi were enter- tained in a similar manner at_ the home of Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Myles also of New York. In the evening dances were given at Sher in the private ballrooms. Preceding the dances dinners were given by the pat- ronesses, Mrs. J. D. Nagle, Mrs. S. Z. Mitchell, and_ Mrs. R. C. Myles. Supper was served shortly after midnight aft- er which dancing was resumed and this was followed by breakfast. The annual entertainment and reception by the Cutler Comedy club was held on Friday evening in the ballroom of the Hotel Plaza. Before the reception which wa followed by dancing there were threc comedies given by the pu- s of the school acting in conjunc- ion with the members of the Yale Dramatic assaciation. The fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the Yale Mus izations was most fiittingly observed last Friday eveninz by a gala concert given in Carnegie hall by the universi- ty's glee, mandolin and banjo clubs on the occasion of their annual vi New York. The affair was one of the most successful presented by the uni- versity organizgtions and the house was well filled with the friends and relatives of the students. Many per- sons prominent in New York served as patromesses for the cert. society con- The closing exercises of the senior class of the Yale Forestry school were held last Saturday morning in Marsh hall. The principal speaker at the meeting was Raphael Zon, chief of forestry investigations. United States Forestry service. Eleven men ended their class work in the school at this occasion. In about three weeks they will go to_the property of the Vredenburgh Sawmill company at Vredenburgh, Alabama for practical ficld work. Last vear the class of 1915 had its final field instruction on the lands of the Kaul Lumber company in Bibbs county, Alabama. The other cpeakers were President A. T. Hadley of the, university, who gave the open- ingaddress, and . B. Avery, 1914, rep- resenting_the senior class of the school. The members of the graduat- ing class of the School of Forestry to- ther with the members of the facul- helq their annual banquet at the Hof-Brau Haus Saturday evening. The new United Workers' Boys club P on Jefferson street celebrated a gen- eral public house-warminz to over two hundred guests on last Monday eve: ing. The main feature mme was an address William H. Taft, who dwelt on the oppor ty afforded to the ¢ » mem- bers for acauiring the training that will enable them to develop themselves for the service of the community. He cited the fact that rarely were bovs who were among the ranks of the boys’ clubs brousht before a judge for prosecution. Ten nations were repre- sented at Monday evening’s celebra- tion and Professor Taft expressed himself as being favorably impressed by this fact. of the pro- Ly Professor Guy Nickalls, coach of the university crew, arrived from England Satur day on the steams! Amster- dam after having heen abroad for over three months. Upon New Haven he took chars coaching at once, spending several hours with both the university and freshman squads which have been practicing for over a week. As re- zards the 1916 crew and its prospects Coach Nickalls said that the squad contains a wealth of excellent material and that there was no reason why an- other championship crew could not be turned out. It is true that seven members of the Harvard crew which rowed against Yale at New London last June are rowing in the first boat again this year, while four members of Yale’s championship eight have been lost by graduation, nevertheless the squad on the whole looks like one from which a winning crew can be de- veloped. ~ The chances are that it will be possible to get out onto the harbor within a week. Tt is hoped that the ice will be broken very soon so that the crews will be able to start real practice as soon as possible. the In reference to the new course on the Housatonic river, Coach Nickalls said: To my mind the Housatonic course offers tremendous possibilities. The chief advantage of it is that the crews will be able to row in calm wa- ter no matter how hard or in what di- rection the wind is blowing. We have as vet not determined the depth of the course. It may be too shallow to per- mit rowing at low tide in which case the practicability of the course will be greatly diminished. This is the only objection to the Housatinoc and further {investigations will be made immediately. In any event the first and_second university and the first freshman crews will go up there after Easter to prepare for the Yale-Prince- ton-Cornell triangular regatta on Lake Cayuga, May 27. Of course no action concerning the moving of the Adee boat house to Derby will be taken this year. It will be a very expensive proposition and, to say the least, it is exceedingly doubtful whether it could be done at all. A temporary wood- en structure will be erected for the use of the crews in the spring, and speclal street car transportation will be ar- ranged for in order to make the trip to and from the new course as easily and quickly as possible. Mr. Nickalls was very much pleased to learn that M. A. Abbott and C. D. Winan have been secured to assist him In _ the coaching this year since both of the assistants are personal friends of Nicl(lall! and harmonious coaching will result. The University Boat club has pro- vided a great deal of new equipment for the use of the crews this spring. Louis Stoddard, of New (Haven, has i has| _Each ruler has absolved’ himself. | given the navy a new shell which to- gether with a boat for the second crew is being constructed by Davy in Cam- bridge. These will be fitted with thole pins and flat sides. There will also be two new barges for the fresh- man crews to practice in. Bight sets of oars have been made in England and will be ready for use this spring. The new coaching launch, the Buzz, ich is the gift of Colonel Charles i". Robinson, '95 S, of Hartford, will be ready when the crews get out onto the harbor. This boat will undoubt~ edly be a valuable acquisition to the coaching equipment. The report of the financial condition of the Yale Dining club which was filed with the treasurer Wednesday, offers some very interesting figures. The total income for the last year was $170,841.68. Of this expenses of the <lub were all but $304.56 which con- stitutes the balance for the vear. Of the individual items in the expense column, it is interesting to note that over $45000 is required to pay the wages of waiters and the salaries of the officers; more than $103,000 was raid out for provisions while the mu- sic costs about $1,600 vearly. The colump for repairs and replacements totals $11,706.78, of which about 33,000 was spent in replacing broken dish it took $300 to straighten out the dents in the silverware and to repair the silver pitchers, while nearly $2.000 was consumed by table linen; two seamstresses are constantly emploved in mending the table cloths and three women are employed in the work of the laundry. In addition to over 1 700 visitors and exclusive of banquet football and commencement meals, the Yale Dining club has been giving {hree meals a day to students averaging in number 837, at an average cost of $5.50 a week. In 1914 students to the num- bher of 845 were fed for $5.49 a week. There are at present over 900 men eating at Commons. The one hundred and annual banquet of Phi Yale’s honorary thirty-sixth Beta Kappa, scholarship society and the oldest social organization in the university was hela last Friday evening in the palm room of the Ho- tel Taft. Professor Chauncey B. Tinker, '09 presided as toastmaster and introduced the speak fessors E. T. Morris, '76; Ric John Erskine of Columbia uni- sity and Henry A. Perkins, acting dent of Trinity college and Mor- Hadley, of the class of 1916. Pro- fessor Tinker, as toastmaster, spoke in his opening speech of the difficulties of the path which leads to Phi Kappa, and in an allegorical way analyzed the vagaries of the candidate. Professor Morris delivered his speech in Latin. Professor Tinker then introduced Mor- ris Hadley, 1916, undergraduate pre: ident of the Yale chapter. He all ed to the new Phi Beta Kappa quirements that are to go Into ris of- fect next vear and pointed out their worth, but also defended the present system. The other speakers of the evening commented upon the various phases of the Phi Beta Kappa stand- ards in the activities of the business world. Thirteen universities and hav A colleges entered teams in the I C. A. A. meet to be held _ in Madison den in New York nex u eveninz. Cornell leads the list with 198 entries followed by Princeton with 109; M. L. T. with 108, and Penn- sylvania with 100. Yale has entered 5 men while Harvard s sending only 7. The meet will consist entirely of competition. The track events consist largely of relay: Five will be entered from each uni- and the avernge performance entrees determine the winner Yale has entered teams the 6-lap relay, the sprints, the rdles, the medley relay, the pole and the high jump. The strong- are the medley and the 6- \ A Sauare G team men versity of the of the event. in At the annual meeting of the foot- ball rules committee, held at the Ho- tel Biltmore in New York last Satur- day, no radical changes were made in > ‘present football rules, In as much the code as it is has worked out luring the last few years has given ceneral satisfaction. Yale was repre- ented at the meeting by John R. Kil- atrick and C. W. Carrington. Al- though it had been anticipated that the committee would make a _definite rule in regard to the numbering of plavers, after a lengthy discussion the measure was put to an_informal vote a was defeated 7 to 5. Yale voted n the negative. It was admitted by the committee that the numbering of rs would be an aid to the of the game, but it was al- so maintained that such a _course would create difficulty for both play- s and coaches by making it too easy for the opposing players to identify each other. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Preparedness Feeds a Mi Mr. Editor: The question of pre- paredness been presented to the people. Preparedness that we might the Dbetter protect ourselves against attack from a foreign nation. That nation by assumption, is one now en- saged in warfare, though it has been ed by some of those who claim to tary Spirit. make it their business to investi such matters in detail, that not one of the foreign powers, whichever should win out in the struggle, would be in condition to g0 into battle with a prosperous and fresh country for a good while to come. If such be the fact then the question forces itself up- on us why the necessity of prepared- if an adequate and efficient complement of men and ships only, as formerly recommended by the presi- dent, why “the greatest mavy in the as demanded in one of his later speeches? What the American people want are rational reasons why from a reasonable addition to our navy “for defense” we should want the largest known? Every citizen has a right to his opinion, therefore he who favors peace has a right to his. Would the “largest navy in the world” insure us lasting peace? Did it for England? All Europe has been prepared or in preparation for ages and today the greater kingdoms of Europe are a bloody shambles. The old theory that peace rests upon fear, that nations would not make war on one another if each were ready to take up arms has been proven a fallacy. Wars in the European na- tions have ever been recurring. There has been no guarantee of peace. With a military power back of them mon- archs have provoked and engaged in war whenever the lust of aggrandize- ment possessed them. Obsessed by a military despotism they have plotted and declared war while their soldiery and subjects knew naught of the cause but to go and kill their neighbors. No cause is really known for the pres- ent destruction of human life. GENTLE RUBBING HELPS VARICOSE VEINS Rubbing the swollen veins nightly for sbout two minutes with a gentle up- ward stroke brings benefit to sufferers and 1. 'mlnty &good vice, says aa t] E o ,tht rubbing, which should Afte 2lways be toward the Dbecause Ehe Blood th the velns fiows that L0 nvpLy Em:;ua Ofl (full strength) wi or haod. Ty this simple home treatment for & few Hays and mprovement will be no- ticed, then continue until veins are re- duced to normal. It is very on- trated and penetrating and can be ol tained at any modern drug store. It is 80 a;owsrml that it also reduces Goitre and Wens, It can always be secured at Lee & Osgood all blame. It is the natural outcome of a military authority in dictatorial heads. But “War's a game, which, were their sub- Jects wise, Kings would not play at.” It has been sald, too, that if kings had to take up arms and do their own fighting there would be less desire for strife and fewer wars. This might be put another way. that if the members of congress, English parliament, reich- stag of Germany, and so on, of every nation, were obliged, in case of con- flict between two or more countries, to settle the dispute, “peaceably if they could, forcibly if they must, would anyone be surprised if, under such circumstances, the world should suddenly reach that stage where peace would be more honorable than war? And if battleships and munitions had i be donated to the government as a share in the campaign of war or gquipment would interest in the mat- ter be lacking? Preparedness, insofar as it may be considered as a basis for peace, has fallen far short of accomplishing its Conqueat means war. It is as inevitable as the rising of the sun. History proves it The old world is an example of it. Franklin wrote “There never was a good war or a bad peace” It has been argued that we have not yet ar- rived at that period of intellectual de- velopment tending to make interna- tional peace possible. Now every po- litician knows the truth in that. You an know it and not be a politician, but you cannot be a politician and not know it. That is, a dependable poli- ticlan. It is very explanatory. Be- sides it shows why we must prepare for strife, and might be reckoned a forecast that there will continue to be “wars and rumors of wars” for some tme to come. W tain big armies and navies, drilling nd schooling mankind to fight, and, making it impressive that militarism is the all essential factor that must be, to secure and hold each country's hts, universal peace cannot be had. u cannot preach and practice war- I¥le nations main- and refine, and in time man would be- gin to so realize he was human that the scourge of war 1d be shunned of . It is lesson that and means whereby be re- settied without t the close of the favoring on world-wide war efficien- of keeping cool; of mediation, of get- ting at facts. If historlans be correct 1 some wars have been of peculiar zin. In lockouts, in strikes and in c trouble we rightly favor arbi- tration. And it does not seem an im- possible ideal state that we should have international arbitration as well. We ‘are a liberty and peace-loving peo- ple and, while, after the manner of our bringing up, we render unto him due need of praise who achieves a ble victory in war for his coun- sake, we owe in far greater ure honor to him who can pilot avert a catastrophe. For “Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war.” age to resist the pressure of the lobby ist or the gain of party advantage to capture a city? Napoleon, w military skill, and bravery almost to rashness of its kind, swept over al- most the entire eastern world. Talent, enius, power, these he had—charac- he had none. But he was a pro- of his time. Include in the course at_schools military training and not only the best part of our young men's lives will be taken up with the tactics of war but they will daily live and breathe an atmosphere dwarfing the mind in 1ts_true conception of meace. .ntellect is breadth of comprehension, and this implies gentleness and love. The man whose scope of thought takes in the created world, and com- prehends man’s place in nature, can- not be cruel to his fellows. War is cruel. It has Its conception, not in the greed of a nation, but in the pow- er that creates politiclans, who, in turn, dictate policies of government. That which would involve a nation in war for its own ends is as much anarchy as that which would seek to inflame a revolution. Patriotism is not of the one, nor is their safety in the other. Man always accepts as right any- thing that is in existence when he is born. Because of this, no doud. sowe of our forefathers were inclined to a monarchy in establishing a govern- ment, though finally determining upon a republic. It would be but natural some of them could be quoted as fa- voring militarism as the means of preserving peace, institutions of all kinds being patterned largely after .A YEAR AGO TODAY. March 4, 1915. Hard fighting in the Vi In Melansourt woods sprayed the French with burning oil_and chemicals. Russians checked Austrian drive in Bukowina, German submarine U- British destroyers. : ies began landing 88ddul Bahr, Dardanelles. sunk by Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S nation through a trying crisish and DAVIS 550 ROADWAY GEO. B. ROLLAND & CO. SILENT MORA New Pictures Today 3—BIG KEITH ACTS—3 Mat. 2:18; Eve. 6:45 and 8:48 In “THE VACUUM CLEANERS” A Roaring Farce LOTTIE DWYER Comedy Novelty Trickster inging and Dancing Girl TRIANGLE 5 Acts With FEAFTURE THE WOODNYMPH Marie Doro A Beautiful Griffith Production With Special Music PERILS OF THE PARK ... Two Reel Keystone Comedy Srel AUDITORIU JESSE L. LASKY Presents The B<autiful and Clever Star BLANCHE SWEEI h.m‘ THE SECRET SIN In This Gripping Play Miss Sweet Plays Two Twin Sister Characters TABOR & CLAIRE ok & Alice McAvoy LEROY & BARRY That Dainty Pair Singing and Talking Acrobatic Dancing “TROUBLES OF RUFUS” .......c..... Pathe Comedy Film Friday Saturday PARAMOUNT PICTURES Today = COL ONIiAL - Today Five Parts—JAMES J. CORBETT In—Five Parts “THE BURGLAR AND LADY” “THE RUNAWAY BOX CAR” . With Helen Holmes “FITS AND CHILLS” .. Vitagraph Comedy Tomorrow — sive signals and ran over the brake- man trying_to stop him. How could those they had been said, this is 1916, and, after vears known. But, as has purpose. It stimulates and feeds a|,¢ po;ce the American he do it? What was going on in the i . a 7 people do not | he do r\r;;mmnmbmm:“ior"cg:;‘\:z:f spirit fires | 0, 0°C0% \indly to preparedness. Be- |cab? \ Why was a third man present, isides, there is a Kkeen and sensitive appreciation felt by every intelligent man that a plan should be devised to make wars impossibl that if the same zen ability, thought and the amount 9f time and means given to other channels, were devoted to per- fecting wcrld-wide peace wonders could be effected, and in the words of Sumner we could say: “Let the bugles sound the truce of God to the whole world forever.” E. LYMAN GOULD. South Windham, Feb. 29. what 'was he doing, and what did ho have to do with the catastrophe? What were the three men thinking of or talking about or looking at or lis- tening to that they were oblivious t the warnings of destruction passin by them or lying right in their path It is a short exciting experience of mind to sit down and shut the eyes and try to imagine just what the secret is which the three men in the cab carried to eternity with them.— Waterbury American. Individual citizens are not expected to go armed, because there is a police power to protect them from the law- Jess and the violent. If there were a world's police force, sufficiently strong and vigilant, nations would not ha: to go armed, either: but unhappily there is none. So every nation must guard itself.—Meriden Journal. There is no longer any doubt about the possibility of making the automo- The Zone-Fare System. Mr. Editor: The zone-fare system just introduced into Connecticut is creating considerable excitement among the people and no little confu- sion among the trolley conductors, who because of the change find thelr work greatly increased. The increase at zone points repre- sents from 50 to 60 per cent. and on You v 4 practi tho by fares from 14 fo 20 per |bile freight truck a valuable ausiliary Demucinnkna. | You caunbe aadrta!the| OEaL | What i3 tho significance of this |freteht carier. 1 the Naugstuck val- Sum total of inteliectual development | 5Ystem? It is a new metiiod to make |ley had a large enoust fect of SUSD by educating each zeneration in the ble roads pay the dividends for | vehicles at this thme, With Al the snov bloody carnage of savagery. If war nprofitable trolley lines. The Nor- |an¢_ e, 't Corld Brovaly K s oo Is a state of mind then instruction the Norwich and New London, | frelght embergo Oroer® Wit O nat should be along lines that would soften | 2nd the Groton and Stonington trolley | FASIOR 79 HOTEY: it wi the experience of the present will go far towards Increasing the attractiv ness of automobile trucks as freight carriers in the near 'future.—Wa bury Republican. lines have always pald steady divi- dends and the Norwich and Westerly has not, and the patrons of the pay- inz roads are now under one manage- ment being heavily taxed to make div idents for the road which does not pay. As a regular patron of the Norwich lines 1 am not much disturbed. The Stories oif the War “the greatest habit of riding is rather detrimental to | not likely those pow e going to | health and T am inclined to reduce ‘he remain then arc and watch us [tax upon myself and find by walk- ensth. They will be- | ing more and riding less, it would | Trapped by French. the plan would | strengthen me up to cut down my| “Do you know about the trick w» »cople will not | fares to the road from cents aiplayed on the Germans on Caures have r they will have|week, or $37.50 a vear, to $25, and|wood?” was the question with which been called uj eater prepar- | the zone method will build up my |a French soldier who had been in the edness.” Al this will be formative | pbysical health and afford me pleasure | Verdun fighting introduced his ac- count of an incident at the front. in_some other direction. | 1*"“Well, to the north of Verdun,” There is no ne for wasting he alienists in a |energy or breath upon the change for | continued, “a little beyond Beaumont, aps, about as|it will be speedily abandoned when |lies Caures wood. It was & point to in_opinion. Other wars |the revenues are decreased instead of |which the Germans devoted special 1id probably follow for the skill of | increased. attention and therefore everything tary achievement must be put to A TROLLEY PATRON. |was done to give them as good a re- tual” test nd battleships are not Norwich, arch 2, 1916, ception as possible. ilt for playt . while the possi g “While our infantry on the fringe »n of a corner lot on some cannibal [of the wood held oft the ‘enemy a nd could well serve as a cause. The licutenant of engineers and his men on will not have been heedad. OTHER VIEW POINTS ||made their final preparations in the o i il aey i i are wood, which has been carefully min- ed beforehand. When all was ready the Infantry fell back and the Ger- mans, convinced that our men were Where. was the president of the New | Haven road when that accident hap- | boiting, tore after them in the woods, pened? He was Boston, attending | Velling exuitantly. a hearing of the interstate commerce | ‘‘When the last Frenchman was safe- commission on the question of divorc- |1y out of the woods on the other side ing the Sound lines from the railroad. |Some one posted near Beaumont press- He was not_here on his own choice, |€d a buton. There was a heavy bom- mind you. He would preferably have ;bardment and trees mingled with bod- been at his offices in New Haven or|les shot into the air. Virtually every New York. That is not saying that|man of the many in the wood had his being there would have prevented |been killed. the wreck, but it is confirmation, in a | measure, of what the Register sald recently of he distraction of Mr. El- liott’s attention from the business of t| running a railroad—New Haven Reg- ister. ' WATCH SORE THROATS because swollen glands or inflamed membranes often affect other tissues 3| The board of agriculture, in seeking | and lung trouble easily follows. Does it not require as much cour- to make a good showing with the tax rate, has pared $2,000 off the appropri- ation for the care of helpless consump- tives In Bridgeport. What a magnifi- cent stroke of genius! Many of the consumptives are bound for another world, or soon will be, especially those whom this $2,000 might have saved. Then what do we care for their votes? Slap on more expense, let extrava. gance reign in all city departments, and then, when the tax rate soars, take it out of the consumptives. Let them cough for their money.—Bridge- | port Telegram. As Nature’s corrector of throat { troubles the pure cod liver oil in Scott’s Emulsion is speedily converted into germ-resisting tissue; its tested glycer- ine is curative and healing, while this wholesome emulsion relieves the | trouble and upbuilds the forces toresist | tubercular germs and avert the weak- ening influence which usually follows. 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