Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 25, 1916, Page 4

price 12¢c a week)-50c a {" 0'a year. d at the Postoffice at o] 25 second-class matter. Telephone Calls: o o ome % ‘be placed on a higher level than whttments e o 3 “array | through the efforts to eltminate ignor- e e e 2k ance. ich, Saturday, March 25, 1916, FRANKING ABUSES. ——==t=| While the government {s urging the ........_...-.-‘ saving of waste paper in order to meet the shortage of raw material, the opportunity is presented to con- gress to take a long meeded step in blocking not only the unjustified use of white paper but in preventing the expense which goes with it. This oc- curs in connection with the much abused franking privileze and new at- tentlon 1s called to it by the report of the house printing committee which charges that members of congress fur- nish great quantities of franked en- velopes to individuals, committees and organizations interested in promoting The Pilletin has the S§@fetation: of any paper in Eastern f Connecticut and from three to four larger than that of any in ch. It is delivered to over ‘of the 4,058 houses in Nor- largest H wich and read by ninety-three yert B e s dattvamed o over 300 houml a particular propaganda at public ex- In Windham pense. The opposition to the manner in which the franking privilego is carried far beyond the limits of justification is nothing new. There is as groat need for reform in that dlrection s there is In many others, especially when it is pointed out that this waste runs up into millions and millions of envelopes, to say nothing of the cost of handling them for <which there is no financial return to the government, and the quantities of printed matter which 412§ zoes with, them that may also have been provided by the:government. 5,920§| TFrom aisclosures that have been in Putoam and Danielsop to over 1,100, and in all of these places it iS considered the local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hursired and sixty- ypostofiice distrficts, and sixty free delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold in every and on all of he R. F. D. foutes in Eastern Cornecticut. “=* CIRCULATION 4901, average. H made in the past and those which are | constantly being brought to attention, oy 2| there ought to be sufficlent evdence L4 $| before -congress to convince it of the necessity of taking some remedial ac- tion to overcome this unwarranted waste. It may call for the sacrifice of past practices on the part of many but if it is the interests of the coun- try that are being considered they - 1%. WHAT VILLA IS DOING. !> From all appearances Villa is devot- "4fg his efforts in two directions. He (Written Speclally for The Bulletin.) There are few of the old Norwich families who have not an interest in the names and fates of the seamen of Ria Ta- evidenced lancing over s is e enc in g the records of disasters and tragedies at the perlod when going down to the fea In ships was one of the lesding nes of luets iereabouts. e Pl T DN T have | ,, Referemce s been made already to DT I e oo compalled o have] the unhappy fate of a.number of Nor- A e inrs they d0 not want, | Wich-bullt” craft. In tribute to the % BUGd IRl e 0 Ot eneni | Prave and hardy sallormen who risked You may hl“hn"“fl“dm'-‘“ e eod [0 Much in thelr voyages on almost e a9 ot 5 broken leg or | Unknown seas, it is deemed meet to a lawsutt, it nothing wores. The man continue this chronicle for a time, Who gots a fashio end self-indul-| g long ago as August 22, 1788, the gent bride often gets a call from the |,rig” Narciss arrived at Norwich from ot and may mave & bankunt ol | " Conet of Wicn, Zaharian ou_may 15 atralght and marfow Dbut there-is|leving Deen Ger master. Four dave from the African coast, Capt. Bill died Do s Tath Deeween =f§::n§:°2 and Capt. Mortimer took command, Xtravagance—soms Dem $1000-foot precipitous slide on the left- | FOLTRIng home by way of e hand side of the trail. If you are care-| 'n,. g 1789, dlsasters appear to ful mever to get more than you Can|have been exceptionally numerous. Py T e e The sloop Nancy, Capt. Ellas Lord, lost her whole deck-load of stock dur- Do not cultivate too much preju-|ing a gale. Capt. Hezekiah Perkins, dice against putting on style. Putting | ;€ 7 SLF XEBE, GG 0T Aux on style is not one of the worst of | Gy es” Jost the mainmast, and thirty- humaen faults by sny means. Thero is|giy horses from his cargo. 1In_the no use of kicking agalnst improve-|ssme gale, the ship Josephus B. Hun- ments. No doubt the old cave-dweller | fT08 FIG (NG D @ O izzen mast had a:grudge against the first of his|gng pearly fitty head of cattle. tribo who decided to crawl out of the earth and live on top of it. That was & brave and courageous step; and man | g,y Decemben, advises were recelved has not gone by leaps and bounds from | gopooner Modesty, who had salled the his Teady-made hole in the ground to|elo%eeT MoAtery, Who Bad Palel g the palace, from flg-leaf to fashion |, pis'mate, Robert Wattles, Thomas plate attire, or from roots and herbs | 50 s mate, Fobert Wattes, Thomad and nuts, squirrel fare, to the bill-of- [ eoTEe: & seaman, and foshup Wco, & fare of the 20th century. These things, | uer TSN oL SITOCT, Yo% 112G eatth, which at first seem to be €0 eXira-| Dyring the same season, the entire ordinary, become the common, €Very-|crew of the sloop Lively, of Norwich, day affairs of later life. The dude|gney O "o 2100k LAVEw: of NOTwCh may be the forerunner of progress. It|Cqpt. Mortimer, died on the African 1 better to push than to knock in|copt ortimer died on the Africas most of the new affairs of life. A|Soast from the deadly mma great many new things do ne]l at flrlsl - < excite our admiration, but they win : Gy their way. The average man is & slow | in January, 1790, the brig Freind. follower, but it is shown by the|3rabr Jonn Flerce, bound to Sux Cayes course of events that he gets there at|png qoroi i€l " last. The sioop Negoclator, Zebadiah We are not careful how we lve; but | Sraih, sailed for Demerara, - Dee. T, the resuit of careless living is some- was striuck by a heavy sea, w‘hlcfi thing we do not like to have our at- swept the captain, who stood at the tention called to. Many of us go tum- o1 " gverboard. The accident oc- biing .lhlough life as though no re. curre'd at midnight, while a furious sponsibility attached to our conduct, gale was raging -'AY\L\. nothing, of cous and without even noting the effect it - While the period under considera- oot e Ferniaiat Age, an- thek. it an > dent related by Miss Caulkins will surprise most readers. In September, 1792, Capt. Isaac B. Du ibly he gave his name to the thoroughfare now known as Durkee Lanc—sailed for Eustatia in the sloop Betsey, be- longing to Samuel Woodbridge. He had shipped & portion of his crew at New London; and his eurprise may be imagined when, before reaching his destination, it was discovered that two of the saiiors from the Old Whaling Town were females! One of the most harrowing tragedies of the sea, which caused mourning in many Norwich families, occurred in March, 1794, one hundred and twenty- two years ago_.this month. The sloop Harmony, of Norwich, was met with at sea, not far from St. Domingo, drifting about, half full of water, with no one on board, her sails gone and what rigging remained useless. Ap- parently her whole crew had perished —just how will not be known until the sea gives up its dead! In March of the following year. the brig Nancy, Capt. John Webb, with a cargo of rum and sugar from Jamaica, after touching at New London on her return voyage, and taking on several passengers, sailed on the 12th for New York. That same night she was cast away on Eaton’s Island and vessel and cargo lost. The pasengers escaped with difficulty; among them was Dr. Benjamin Butler, a large owner In the vessel and cargo, and his sister, Mrs. Denison. The ship Speculator, J. S. Billings, bound to the West Indies, met with a gale eighteen days out, In which she broached to, overset, and had all her stock swept away. But cutting away the mizzenmast, e righted, and be- came manageabl but having lost her ‘1'?3":“- she returned into port Nov. In 1796, also, many heavy losses were reported, both from hostile ele- jments_and foreign belligerents. In March, Park Benjamin, in the brig Nancy, lost forty-five mules ov- erboard in a gale. Moses Benjamin, LAST CHANCE TO SEE THIS HARRY LUKEN'S WINTER CIRCUS 7—BIG CIRCUS ACTS—7 | MASTER PICTURI Trained Wild Animals | vhe phe Monday Tuesday one will drive the other out. Now there are several private companies which would like to get in on us. One has a charter covering our territory. If we do not keep our plant up to the highest grade of efficiency, or by hav- | ing to purchase power make it possible for a competitor to under sell us, we are lost. PAULINE FREDERICK in BELLA DONNA TODAY-"Jack the Giant Ki Next Week AUDITORIUM Big Musical Comedy A Return Engagement By Popular Request of the FEATURING JOE TAYLOR, ASSISTED BY BOB ALEXANDER, ALICE WALLACE, NOVEL BY THE SAME NAME » An Attractive Toda, THREE THREE PARTS PARTS LIFE’S PITFALLS Featuring Mariam Nesbitt BETWEEN FATHER AND SON THE LOST MESSENGER. ABBOT AND DUTELE AND A BIG CHORUS TAKEN FROM THE Bring the Children Musical Comedy to the Matinee, 5¢c =COLONIAL. - Toda ..Two-part Biograph ..Beligi THE EBONY CASKET....Comedy making sure that he will keep out the way of the United States troops ho_are seeking him under General R eshing and o the same tims o is Iadoing his utmost to arouse the people \Siot!Mexico to join his cause and side in the schooner Beaver, lost two men | It is conceded The Bulletin reports and nineteen horses. On his return|prove, that we, the consumers are get- like voyage, Capt. Benjamin, having a|ting electricity cheaper than almost cargo_valued at 350,000, was carried [any other city In New England. into Grenada, where he was obliged to| Would we do so if we were in the pay largely to get cleared, and during|hands of a private company. Assured- the detention, lost his mate and all his |1y not. has upon our welfare. It is easier for us to forgive a person for lying about us than it is for us to confess and correct the mean things we may have should get attention where the small things are concerned as well as the large, self to correct the error, since. several other human errors, this is seld about him. We get relizion and | Self-correcting. What we are regu- 36 ot Zeel the necessity of lving it; |1arly thinking ism't of the _slightest tendent, mentioned the issue of the New BEngland Southern Conference Of- fictal Year Book for 1915, stating he had just received his copy and had wearing the same hat for two It =he bought a new one this yeur per haps some of her church benevolnces might te five dollars shy: and vet I RUSSIA’S OFFENSIVE. ‘While Germany is pounding away S with him in resisting this COUNEV:|gor the possession of Verdun, a fight E: ,gw‘f:;algmi:‘h“l‘lgf‘(;’c:n““:gai'j‘“ which has already lasted for a month, e e e . |1t 15 impossible to overlook the im. 2% v e 100k 10 se Me=- | portant factor which Russia has be- fean sentiment especially when efforts - Cmdgii B e o T aoaoncy | COme in the early spring operations. It ; e ey e e e et | Ras followed up'its drive through the e thiag oo 3% | back door of Turkey and the capturs u'!!nglxave flopped from one s‘ide AiO of Erzerum by pushing through Asia e o e o e 0| Minor and into Persia. until the resist- 7 B oo o bor r:_“o" he stde whore | 20Ce Of the Turks has become feeble iy and a desperate situation prevails in e o e secured or the | Constantinople £ reports which come ki acaastal = mppoaTs | from that city are to be believed. Not she © most successful. Thus it} .n)y pag Russia signalized the end of #dinot such a dlfficult matter to ranly | GUT TS ISR TERS 150, the end of e exioans 0 ihe defense of heIr| ture of Ispahan but there is revealed i @Busitry through the launching of false| ; gorry plight in Turkey where A * “fales concerning the motives of the | S0 PUERC S ey fltedl' States government, or the claim | &U0% ) 874 Cerman Soldiers are re- Wiat “tiere is collusion between thefJI"S0, o Drevent the Turkish sol- ‘éWitson administration_and_Carranza. | gie 479 POP el - For that reason much {mportance is [ "R SCAT0E FONCHANS L tached to fg:fl’i%:‘;‘vt:;“},ofi flfflmgg; a @etermined fight against the forces that the: Horrora forecs to the | O Austria in an effort to regain the 3 006 D dmarees to ihe | territory lost in the Galician rout of Bt o e mwoerted to wa- | last year, a movement which s bound tod” ation upon the part of LEO have its effects upon the attitude f Rumania, which lies just t T Bn"fl*d"l that he has not Loyt i the undemkmg’:utecega:he 1 legiance and that he IS[" 1 t}e north also are the German te :if\‘x‘;tl;;ecl::::nho::eie:mt forces finding a different enemy than msaaibre o tenonoTever 1t | they faced in months gone past, and e Srevats aoq 1o no |2l these operatfons are bound to have e i ®}a certain effect upon the operations v_course that canwhich are being carried on about Ver- ued Is to make preparations|gun, even though that may be Ger- mflz: 5:1&‘;:"{,“;}"& 7ot get|many's supreme effort, and at| pres- 2 s settng. | ent its only offensive action, Russia has demonstrated that its past reverses can be attributed to a large extent to inadequate prepara- tions, and now that it does not lack for munitions it can take the part in the war which was expected of it. ———e EDITORIAL NOTES. Isn't it about time that we got the details about some new discovery be- ing made in the West Indies? SPER CHECK TO SWINDLERS. The revelations which have been _through the arrest of tobacco 2 urers and dealers In New i York and vicinity and the charges - Brought against them for falllng to ;Wt‘ the provisions of the internal £ 6 laws indicate that it 1s neces- | 8357t be alert at all times to detect _ dthe;schemes of those who are endeav- ‘oring ‘to get money under false pre- tenses: Gv?éfiakau little difference whether it e evasion of the law by some care- . concocted scheme, which it is ieyed after studied efforts will es- tHe vigilance of the collectors, or | ‘the Imposition upon the gullbility of B8’ general public who jump at el- bait, there can be no toleration £ the swindler, and the federal au- T can do nothing better to se- ure proper respect for regulations hich are supposed to apply to all érned than bring the violators be- *the bar of justice. en it is declared that frauds have unearthed whereby manufactur- mokers’ supplies have been dis- 3 g 'of their goods without affixing he'required revenue stamps, that . have been using boxes which contained expensive cigars to cigars of cheaper brands for wthe price of the most costly 3ids obtained, and that this has “going on for a period of 15 years It begins to look as if President Yuan of the Chinese republic is stand- ing on a constantly moving platform. The general impression gained from the contradictory storles from Mexico 1s that you cannot belleve everything you hear. And still there ars some who are dissatisfied with the manner in which the weatherman is overcoming the dust nuisance. —_——— Possibly the purpose of the presi- dent's visit to an occulist is for the purpose of getting a botter view of the many problems before him. From the way in which merchant Vessels continue to be sunk there ap- pears- to be less respect for the un- armed than there is for the armed. Henry Ford is to have Thomas Edi- son for his guest on a Florida fishing 8 J0s5 10 the government running | {FIP: Put the chances are that ho didn't &‘0 the millions, it can be ap: |Bave to offer him & milllon' dollars to clated that this action by the fed- | 5> gral authorities has come none too soow. “Not only is the government the g but the smoking public has been fndled right and left, while it has a matter of gross injustice to manufacturers and dealers who been obeying the law. Those who -foind guilty should be made an| It IS to be hoped that Explorer ple of. Amundsen doesn’t have any trouble on his polar trip satisfying the demand among Doctor Cook’s friends for gum- drops. -_— The man on the corner says:- So long ds we have them thers need be nothing alarming'in the claim that it takes all kinds of people to make & wor RCOMING ILLITERACY. None too guuch attention can be i i i ‘o the work of overcoming illi-| 1¢ Maine fs agal . whether it is in the state where e e B barometer, the signfficance of the tn- e o e 1% el orlinstructed_delegation and the senti- e o Tt ion ohy oo | ment for Hughes there cannot be over- Tooked. - read nor write is high. “golution of the problem lies in ‘educational facilities, compul- b g = Hven those Who are charmed by the chool attendance laws and their | Offerings of March realize, from the ment. The examples which|Warmth of Old Sol on his occasional & been set by the states which |aPpearance, that it cannot last much the fewest illiterates ousht to |longer. fclent to inspire those where flourishes to change their| From the good results which are be- ds. There are, however, occa- |ing obtained in reorganizing the Serv- Bits of evidence that such is|an army it can bp appreciated that a ally taking place amd even|force of.150,000 can be gt to valuable ¢ is slow the effort{use this sprins. ey, we repeat the golden rule and never | SOnsequence to others. We may think become alive to the beauty and power | father meddles and that ma is slow of it; we pray doubting, live halting|and that Sally Is senseless, but it and dle without having known the|Would be the height of folly to tell power of love divinely declared and|them so. We can think government Peade manifest. We ~ disresard the|is rotten, liberty a fraud, etc. etc., but finest attributes of life and glory over |t Will not pay to get out on the street the selfishness which excites the fric-|corners and publish it. There is noth- tlon, strife and brutality which always | thing divine about our thinker for it has marked human history. We talk depends too much on the state of our about common honesty as though hon- | Stomach or upon the stress of life. esty was a common instead of a rare|AS a popular poet expresses it: “The virtue. The record of our wrong-|Man Who always speaks right out such doing may be the eternal menace of | {Boughts as he may have about, must o Bt walk nine miles to find a friend, and he is lonely to the end.” Our thoughs It is queer that the man who talks D2V (0 be carefully viewed and many lofud:st usually (hln}l;s he has the best|f . M, ROt our fellowmen of the argument. e’ never seems to s Wo have too many wild opinions. We realize that there is a big difference - y between sound and sense, or that the | MUStA't let the savage In us get loose. special purpose for which arguments ‘were designed was to make the worst side of an issue look best. The truth never needs an argument, but error finds In it a refuge. It is no more natural for a man to argue then it is for o dog to bark. Wild men do not resort to loglc, nor wild dogs to self- Sunday Morning Talk betraying sounds. - Civilization and - domestication furnish new methods of B T expression. There isn't a juryman Some time ago a few of us, while passing along a country road, were confronted by a sign painted in herolc letters on a cliff. “Prepare to meet thy God!” was the warning of some graphic preacher who had placed his text where even the most ungodly of autoists could not evade it. The legend was logically displayed near a sharp turn in the road where reckless driv- ing would be likely to invite disaster With its_excellent counsel our chauf- feur, although no bigot In religious matters, confessed he could scarcely who “cannot tell you the more argu- ments he hears in a court case the less he knows about it. The masterly sift- ing of evidence {s confusing to him. He understands the statements of the case in the jury-room better. The average man doesn't know half as much about arguing as the stallions of Elberfield know about figuring. But when a fellow thinks it is his forte to argue the point he has become a mighty wearisome companion. A librarian defines a book as “a storage battery of ideas” Now this seems to me to be what most books are not. The book We enjoy so that we resoive to read it again is not com- mon; and the quotable book is the ex- ception not the rule. Reading is a de- lghtful habit apart from its educa- tive compensation. We read books for the acquirement of knowledge and for the entertalnment they afford. quarrel. Even if it did make him smile, it was also calculated to make him slow dow Military preparcdness is urged on us frequently enough these days, and to some form of it at least, miilions of our countrymen have become commit- ted. Even if invasion by a foreign foe be only a horriq specter for men of the present generation, no one willingly }’?“bfless therel is a purpose under-|thinks of it as a possibility for his lying every volume In our lbrariesichildren or his chilren's children— a ut in many books it 1s not so clear|consideration which alone reconciles that a reader of average intelligence |goma of us to thoroughly distasteful can make it out. It is not uncommon | prew 24 T Ig find a b":‘})“ “‘ght’f 5‘:’ free from |~ Ag a matter of fact, there is a con- eas, or anything that is humorous or | yingene: ? . ens, or ahyihing that ls humorous of | tingency before all of ‘us far more im excuse for its existence. The books we are fond of are the ones which ap- peal to our ideas of right, or respond to our taste for knowledge or diver- sion. The book worthy of being de- fined as “a storage battery of ideas” ought to be electrifying. Few books contaln a shock of any kind for the|yery soon, will meet that ultimate con- reader. Thes book which does not|gueror of all mankind named death. leave one vivid impression upon the | rom o hopelcss ANt with ~(he pale mind we regard as mot worth the|norse and his rider” there is no esc: 2 ape reading, and there are many of these.|for rich or poor, for high or low. Y Serious-minded men and women of a former day spent much time in get- ting ready to dle. This endeavor cx- the king, never dies. The author of |Lieins the fastings, prayers, vigils, e e oalnton charithay fio5g Or | otC.. With which thoueands of the best across the sea. It is much to be doubted whether any now on the stage of active life will ever hear the roar of hostile guns. God grant that none of our descendants may hear it, elther! It is, on the contrary, absolutely cer- tain that every one of us some of us Do not cultivate the concelt that it is your duty to combat the opposite opinion. The opposite opinion, like people who ever walked our earth fond mother cherishes her child, and|strove to make their spirits meet for Das made it his he has the seme righe | {he inheritance of the saints in light. to jealously guard it as & mother has|Lt,W2S heaven rather than earth that to suard her ohild, OUr opinions real. | INterested them. Thelr eyes were on 2 ‘ real- | the future instead of on the present. ly constitute us, and we do mot easily | 1 contemplation of what was to be in T e e o scov_ | the blessed beyond they almost lost e Putslsight of the urgent practical concerns the kibosh upon false conclusions. If| o the here aad nowr helr Tamn obe T o concreted In our efrors e | properly to prepare to meet their God. get deaf, qumb and blind to the truth and no amount of argument will stir us. “Seek and ye shall find, ancient philosopher, but there was no |make for What preparations do we moderns the corresponding experi- ence? How would you epend tomor- row, my reader, if you could know that its hours were to be your last on earth? What would you do if in some way it were divinely revealed to you pretence we should all find truth in the same garb or in the same light. We are accustomed to recognizing the shadow of @ doubt, but somehow we never have becomé conscious that truth might cast a_shadow or appear |that at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening you 1h various colors. Combatting the op- | Would be called to exchange worlds? site opinion is time wasted. Give|Think it over, John Henry, for five t time and it may combat itsel?. consecutive minutes; it will do you no harm. Is there a good deal that would One thing which makes man vul-|call for change or not much in the nereble is his love of flattery. ‘The | eneral program of your life? When a average person is as fond of praise|Similar question was put to a certain @s a ohild is of sugar. It is the one|modern busimess man, immersed in minent than any attack by foes from | people by putrid fever. In the same year, the schooner Chloe, Capt. J. Lord, and the Cris Cyprian Cook, were overhauled by the French; the Lucy, Capt. Gilbert, was carried into Guadaloupe, where ves- sel and cargo were condemned. The records of 1798 include: 11th. arrived Fair Lady, Cap Benjamin, after a dreary pa: 83 days from Demerara. The er Sachem, Jeremiah Harris, at the custom-house down the river in April, bound to the Mole, but before Teaching her port was stranded on the North Calcus and went to pleces. Two striking diseasters, in which not the unfortunate vessels, but those which came to the rescue, were from Norwich, aro recorded in history. April 6, 1795, the Norwich sloop Prosperity, Capt. Park Benjamin, ar- rived at the mouth of the Thames River, 26 days from Eseequibo, bring- ing in the ship Polly, David_Balawin. The Polly was 90 days from Demerara. In March, during a furlous gale, she lost rudder and sails, and was thrown on her beam ends, which shifted her cargo, and stove several hogshead of rum. She was afterwards driven oft the coast no less than seven times, till at last she was met and towed in by Capt. Benjamin. In November, 1795, the Norwich ship Columbus, Capt. Lathrop, sailed for Charlestown. On the passage, she fell in with a echooner from Port Dau- phin, bound to_Boston, with only one living man on board. The others, five in number, had died of fever a few days after leaving port. Capt. Lath- rop put two of his own men on board and the vesel arrived safely at New London, where she discharged a valu- able cargo. THE DICTAGRAPH. 'LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Better to Make Electricity By Steam- power. Mr. Editor:—The letters of “A Tax- payer” and “Observer” were very in- teresting. It was pleasing to me to know that others realize the import- ance of our producing our own current. Observer is however mistaken in as- suming that The Bulletin's figures prove that we can buy clectricity cheaper than we can manufacture it. The figures at the office show, that for one month when the Uncas company furnished no power the cost with ail charges, depreciation, interest, etc., e cept distribution, was $.02 per kilo watt. For a corresponding month when the Uncas Power company furnished all the power, the ccst with the same expenses charged amounted to 3.0203 per kilo watt plus $500 ex- pended for coal. This would mean a difference of about $7,000 per year. Observer says, ‘“Norwich make itd own electricity, but it cannot compete with water power by the use of steam.” Wrong again. Water power may be cheaper per kilo watt, but it is not stable enough. You have more current or power than you can use, or sell, today; three months hen no power, business lost. (Uncas Power company in the hands of a receiver.) With a steam plant install the number of boilers and turbines to produce the power wanted with some extra allow- ance for emergency, and growth and the result is a dependable source of power. Also it costs more to build a dam than to buy boilers. The Shore Line company if it fur- nished us with power would lLave to depend on steam and asks us to give a bonus of $15,500, about half the price of a turbine, and then asks us $.0125 per kilo watt when we can man- ufacture the same for less than £.01. The real question is shall we main- tain our own plant or let private par- ties do our businees for us? ‘Whatever may be the natural laws regulating business generally, political economists are agreed that cerzain public utilitfes tend inevitably to hat- ural monopoly. Among thess are tele- phones, water works and municipal gas thing few can met too much of, and |useful activities, he replied: ‘I should that most people welcome, It is a|Spend tomorrow under those condi- fact no observing person will venture |tions exactly as I have already plam- to deny, that most of us mm ned to spend it” It was a fine reply of praise from persons for we |and one revealing a life fitted to meet have no respect. It is often through |the supreme test. cheap praise that rogues get our con-| FOr right-minded people this matter fidence and then get our money. It is|Of dving is stripped of morbia fear. the Instrument with which rogues gull [Anyone who is prepared to live is, by us and solicitors get us to contribute | the same token, prepared to He 1o the causes they often misrepresant, | i5 like an athléto who does not need to Only those who decline to belleve afy- | train laboriously for some big event, thing seem to be free from this peril. | but who is always “fit” The mortal Praise is out seeking victims every day. It echemes when others sleep. It sucks the blood out of the credu- lous and bleeds them to death. Be- ‘ware of honeyed words. Very young people get a notion that v Bn oSkl st whtt one athlete never breaks not ashamed to present as a ple of the whole. The only Way to get ready for the soul's final adventure is to be ready all the time. 3 | THE and electric plants. No two companies can continue to W. in tne same district. They will either combine, or War A Year Ago Today March 25, 1915, Russiane rried Austri tion on Beskld mountaine crest and in Bul na. .flmn Poland re- sumed. German submarine sank Dutch steamer Medea. and Kurde massacred the Christiane In Perates shose'at Geog- topa being saved by Dr. u:l-'u’rh.n.” should | This city pays $49.44 per arc Willimantic $80, Bridzgeport 36 New Britain $85 per year. This plant has cost the city nothing. .| We have borrowed money on credit, and this plant has not only given us better agd cheaper power than we could otherwise get, but besides paying the interest on all money borrowed has paid a_profit each year to the city. Finally our success depends upon ef- ficient management. First we must have commissioners who are honest and honorable to the city. No man can serve two masters or interests and be honest and honor- able to both. Then they must be men of judgment and willing and able to give much time and consideration to the work. When in doubt they should consult experts. Are our commissioners such men or is it our city council that i3 lacking. for our commissioners say they need new boilers and our council says they do not? If the commissioners are lacking, we had better ask our genial and obliging mayor to make another trip to Hart- ford; if the council then it is up to you Mr. citizen. We need 1o realizo that mands, more business, will mere investments. ALBERT BOARDMAN. March 23, 1916. The Reason for Bums and Panhandlers. Mr. Editos 1 wish to make a re- ply to Mr. Chapman's letter of March rd in regard to bums and panhand- lers. It does seem bad for our city, the so-called Rose of New England to have these men in it, and we should not be proud to have it thrown in our face from some one on the outside. I thought “My God! What is the matter? Why so many? Word came back, “Over production.” Yes that is it. We read of mills shutting down on account of over production. That is just what we need in Norwich; we have got an over production. Why not shut down for a while? There is another side to it. We have a city of churches and religious organ- izations and the saloons going night and day, turning out this kind of ma- terial. 1 preached on this subject a fe Sunday ago and at that time I put chailenge to the ministers of Norwich to preach for five Sundays on the saloon and its hellish work. 1 said they could rid Norwich of this deadly curse. The saloon is here because the church allows it. I tell you it God were back of the churches of Norwich, the saloon would have to go. I have had _something to do with these so-called bums for the last three years, especlally every Saturday night How many times this saying of Jesus comes to me that the drunkard and harlot would get into the kingdom be- fore some of the professors that go to make up the churches. We have jus the kind of men Mr. Chapman speaks of every turday night at our mis- , 265 Main street. We have given them coffee and sandwiches and talked to them and told them the only way out of such a life. There is hardly a man of them who has not a tender spot in his heart behind that bunch of rags. The most of them would ilke to do better, but what chance do they have? They have lost their name, no one wants them. Your high-toned church- es would hold up their hands In horror to see them come in. I have been found fault with and some have left the Mission on account of these men. But that is just why we opened the Mission. Sometinmes there are half a dozen of them, sometimes eighteen or twenty. Some I never see again, some I see every Saturday night. I will at this time give out an invi- tation to_the ministers of Norwich to come and be our guests any Saturday night during cold weather. They might get a Sunday text and perbaps they would be able to call a stock- holders’ meeting to vote to shut down the mill on account of over production. Yours for the lost, T. H. PEABODY Pastor of Gospel Mission. Norwich, March 26. 1916. The Country Church vs The City Church. Mr. Editor: Last year a quarterly conferdence of a Methodist church, the presiding officer, the district superin- new de- require been busy with pencil and paper and that the book contained some interest- ing figures. It certainly does. Figures which I doubt very few of the officlals of each church on his district are acquainted with and of which the greater portion of the membership of these churches are totally ignorant. BEven thers are some of the ministers who know not how the claims or assessments against their churches compare with those of their neighboring churches. 1 have been doing some figuring and am amazed at the claims levied on some of the churches. Here are three facts regarding said district superin- tendent, who has 60 0dd churches un- der his supervision. I wonder If he fig- ured it out? First—2$ churches on his district or 41 per cent. of the total, with a mem- bership varying from & to 75 are as- sessed 25.2 per cent. of the claim for his salary. An average of 45.9 cents per member. Socond—19 churches with member- ships varying from 75 to 150 or 8.3 per cent. of the total on the district are assessed 35.7 per cemt. of the claim for his salary. An average of 37.7 cents per member. 3rd—13 churches with memberships of 150 and over or 19.4 per cent. of total on district are assessed 33.9 per cent. of the claim for his salary. An average of 20.7 cents per member. These figures include resident and non-resident members and do not read so badly if you read quickly and without thought: so let me bring 1t down to individual churches. Let me compare one of those in the first group—a country church with a membership of 57—with one of the third group—a city church with a membership of 460 only resident mem.. bers being counted. The county church is assessed 56.1 cents per mem- ber for the claim for the salary of the district superintendent as against 20.6 cents per member of the city church. Another _comparison — a village church of 76 members, with a city church of 575 members. The form- er is assessed 51.3 cents per member for the salary of the district superin- tendent as against 13.7 cents per mem- ber in the latter church. On_another district two churches in which I have been—a country one with a membership of 28 | assess=d 50 cents per member—a city one with a mem- bership of 460 is assessed 20. per member for the claim for the sal ary of the district superintandent of that distric | Now take up the first comparison again. The country church is assessed SL5 cents per member for the support of conference claimants as against 29.2 cents per memebr in the city chu The country church paid for dis: plinary benevolences $3.26 per membe: as agatnst the city churches’ $2.175; o church aid paid 28 cents per member, against the city churches .163; for mis- | cellaneous benevolences pald $1.087 pe- member against 65 cents from the city | pleasme. your parson has? Job? or_at all worried. parson is asking for money? ence what is right? with taxed at a much lower rate? be made a financial agent wit! life insurance as a side line? March 24, 1916. it snowing, and itself; but rej helter.—Middletown Press. church. Rather a high rate to pay for eternal life insurance but being as sured by the company’s agents that it is “more blessed to give than to re- ceive” 1 suppose those dear country folk will receive the best seats, the best harps, and the best crown in the kingdom. 1 hope one of them will get the very best crown to make up for SPECIAL. FOR TODAY! 25c alb will be Park and Tilford’s. THE LEE & 0SGOOD CO. N CONN. 4 ORWICH, ; C FRISBIE’'S Fcr sale by T. H. ELDREDGE verily belleve her pastor would iather Ler at church with the same old hat than see the deficiency in the be- nevolences. Such is the fear of dis- Mr. Layman of the couatcy M. E. church do you see what a financial job Do you think you would sleep peace.. fully each night if you had the same Do you think you would be nervous Do you wonder that thére is no more ternai Mfe insurance written? Do you wonder that more p2opie do not attend your church and give as a reason each time they do go, that the Why not Mr Layman ask the gov- erning body of New England Confer- 1Is it right that you with your small membership be taxed as the above fig- ures show when your city neizhbor a much larger membership Is it right that the country parson eternal How can he devote his best enerz'es to the latter work when he has such a task assigned him in the former? P. AR D ' OTHER VIEW POINTS Waking up in the morning to find that it has frozen tight during the night, must make a railroad man, or a man waiting for freight, or those with cars to place or to unload, or a coal dealer or & family with only enough coal to last a day, and a lot of other people, won- der how much longer their patience will last—Waterbury American. According to_reports from Bridge- port evervone has been led to believe that everybody In that place works for a living while the opportunity offers refute what were heretofore taken as substantial state- mens from that busy of busy cities inasmuch as the police report for the cents | Past two weeks states that 1,043 men without a place to sleep were given Extra Large Walnut Stuffed Dates We are also pleased to announce that we have ac- cepted the agency of Page & Shaw’s Fine Candies and pleased to execute your orders as well as for s