Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 9, 1916, Page 8

CHAS. 08GOOD CO., Wholesale and Retailers, URGES THE %D_OPTION OF HAMILL BILL New London 'Man Addressed Civil Service Employes’ Convention. Frederick 'Williams, ' delegate from New Liondon to the convention of the National Association of Civil Service Employes at ‘Washington, D. C., last week made the following remarks on civil service _retirement: “It gives me great pleasure to be present at this convention today as the representative of the civil service employes of New London, Conn., or- ganized as Branch 238 of this asso- ciation. - While I do not expect to be able to throw any new light on the subject of civil service retirement, I wish to say that the civil service em- ployes whom it is my privilege to rep- resent are solidly and sincerely in fa- vor of this measure. “It would be no more than proper to expect the United States govern- ment to take the first step, to be a pioneer in establishing the policy of providing for the retirement of its servants to Show the way to private enterprise. But such is not the case. Private enterprise has/ adopted “this system in many cases, and our em- plover, the Uniiéd States government, is the’ unprogressive one; although it is only fair to say that the chiefs' of bureaus, ‘the men who are in a posi- tion to know, have in many cases gone on record in favor of this step. “We believe that adequate provis- on for the retirement of falthful em- ployes is not only a just and equitable measure, but that it wili be found decidedly advantageous to the United States as an employer, and I think this is the opinion of every responsible person who has investigated the mat- ter. We believe that a non-contribu- tory system is the best one for all con- cerned, and T think you *will find that the large corporations = which -have adopted the policy of providing for superannuated employes, have gener- ally adopted this s¥stem. Five Hundred on St Members 6f the Laborers’ union, No. 1, of New London, to the reported number of more than 500, went on strike Monday morning, in accordance with the notice which they served on employers Saturday. They demand an eight-hour day with a wage of $2.25 or a nine-hour day with a wage of $2.50, in place of the nine-hour day at $2.25, which is now the general schedule. The members of the union| are practically all Ttalians. Engagement Announced. The engagement of Miss Lena Sha- piro of Franklin street to Isaac Rosen of the West Side was announced Sun- day evening at a party given by her ‘brother, Reubpn Shapiro at his heme on Franklin street. There were about 25 friends present .and following a supper the guests were entertained by music. =N There are 51,490 passenger cars on the railroads of this country. Kesinol heal sick skins Resinol Ointment, with Resinol Soap, usually Stops itching instantly. Unless the trouble is due to some serious internal disorder, it quickly and easily heals most cases of ec- zema, rash, or similar tormenting skin or scalp eruption, even when ozller treatments have given little relief. Physicians have Prescribed Resinol for over twenty years. Resinol i dandruff. Sold by all druggists. For trial size fro - i Yiirct &wflimmzlnk.mb -made.- You T ‘ A Y *Come in—we'll tell you all EXPECT 100,000 VISITORS AT SHRINE SESSION Millions in Money Will be Expended by the Mystic' Shriners. ' The work of getting ready for the annual session of the imperial coun- cil of nobles of the ‘Mystic Shrine in Buffalo has progressed to a stage where officers of .Ismailia temple of that city, which is to act as host, are assured that not only will the gath- ering be one of great magnitude, but also its stated events will be moved with smoothness and precision. George K. Staples, general chairman of the convention committee, pre- dicts upwards of ,100,000 visitors. Most - of these will be nobles and their wives and families, coming from the 139 temples.of this coun- try, Canada and Mexico. The patrols with their bands will make a creditable army, nearly 5,000 uniformed men and-almost as many bandsmen. The sums that will be spent by visiting delegations on their special train equipment, traveling expenses-and other outlays, will run into -the millions. ‘Buffalo will disburse a . $100,000 entertain< ment fund. One San Francisco tem- ple is spending ,$75,000 on a special train journey. They Chicago temple will lea s the T st passenger steamer on the Great lakes for the trip to Buffalo, quarters while there and the return trip. The boat and supplies is to cost it $40,000. Other temples from -various ts of North America have equally elaborate plans for the 1916 pilgrimage. Many patrols will take mascots with them. One from -the desert region of the southwest wiil have a flock of camels. That from El Paso, Tex., will bring 100 burros. If Shrin- ers from El Paso can be prevailed upon to do so they will ride the burros dn the big parade of the ses- sion, in which, it is estimated, any- where from 20,000 to 50,000 Shrin- ers will participate. A Calagary tem- ple has secured a buffalo from one of the few remaining herds, which happens to be owned in that locality. It will bg presented to - the Buffalo zoo, when the convention is over. Representatives from the Shrine temple at Honolulu will have some animal .typical of the Hawalian Island. They have written that it will be one suitable for the ceremonial sessions of Ismailia temple of Buffalo, and will be donated to it, but that it isp’t a goat. The imperial council session will be held July 11, 12, and 13. Most of the hotel space in Buffalo and at Niag- ara Falls has been leased by agents for visiting temples. Every effort 1s being made by the arrangement com- mittee t# give visitors suitable enter- tainment. For the patrols the Sixty- fifth Regiment armory has been se- cured, and here the patrol members will be quartered just as if they were troops billeted on the city. A caterer will use the armory kitchens in pre- paring meals. The armory will . be equipped with all the facilities of an immense hotel. A big event is to be a pl.trzol banquet at which 5,000 men will be guests. Birthday Surprise Party for Miss Wil- ms. ‘Saturday a surprise’ party was given in honor of Miss Edna M. Williams by a few of her friends at her home in Poquetanuck on her - eighteenth | birthday. Those ' present included | Misses Mary Harris, Gladys Hart, An- nie Whitaker, ‘Lillilan Lucy, Grace Willett, Gladys Al der, Cecelia Flynn, Harriett Williams, Helen Wil- let also Maurice Flynn, Joseph Grady, Howard ller, Otis Conrad, Layrance Ahern, Clifford Hecleston, Arthur Brooks, George Johnson. Af- ter games and music supper was served. ' Deeper Waterways Trip. An excursion of exceptional interest has been_arranged by the Connecticut Deeper Waterways association on May 28, for which occasion the steam- ,er Zephyr has been chartered. The steamer will leave City Point, New - Hayen, at 8.30 a. m,, on the first trip of the kind ever made, it being de- signed to give the business men of the state and those interested in wa- ter transportation an opportunity to get together and inspect New Haven ‘ harbor- and all the harbors and gov- | ernment works between that city and i the Connecticut river. BILIQOUS 7= 1f you have bad taste in mouth, foul breath, furred tongue, dull headeche, drowsiness, disturbed ARE SEEKING FUND - FOR EUROPE'S BLINDED. Ameridan Bank.ni and Business Men Issue Appeal to Citizens of Norwich, The . thousands of French, Belgian and British soldiers who have , been blinded in ‘the European war are in a pitiable condition, according to an ap- peal of pists and business. men, B. F. B. permanent bli ;ut.;d, 590 TFifth avenue, New York The appeal was issued in Norwich Monday by F. J. Leavens, president of the Dime Savings bank, who is sub- treasurer of the fund in this locality, and who will receive all local contribu- tions. Unable ‘to ‘work at former trades, these numerous blinded ‘war victims cannot support themselves and their familles. Their governments, overbur- dened with more immediate problems, are able to do very little for them, the appeal states. - To Educate ths Blind. Six months’ training, on the other hand, the bankers, business men and philanthropists say, can educate almost all of these tho s of now useless blind men in practical, paying trades, in which they can support themselves ané at least partially support their tamilies. Work of this kind has al- ready been begun by C. Arthur Pear- £on, the blind English newspaper pro- prietor and philanthropist, at St. Dun- stan's, in Englapd, by M. Rene Vallery- Radot through Les Amis des Soldats Aveugles, in the Maison du Convalesc=| ence, in France, and by Miss Winifred Holt of the Comite Franco American pour les Aveugles, of which the Hon. Joseph H. Choate is president. The B. F. 'B. permanent blind rellef war fund seeks to assist, develop and en- large these efforts. % The American bankers, business men and philanthropists who are issuing the appeal include Frank A. Vanderlip, president of the National City bank; August Belmont, the Hon. Elihu Root, Cincent Astor, the Hon. Robert Bacon, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, U. S. Sen« ator Thomas P. Gore, the Hon. Myron T. Herrick, Otto H. Kahn, Joseph ‘Widener and George A. Kessler. ‘These gentlemen and their associates intend to organize an American fund of sufficient proportions to conduct thor- cughly throughout Europe the work which Mr. Pearson, at St. Dunstan's, M. Rene Vallery-Radot through Les Amis des Soldats Aveugles, in Paris, Miss Holt of the Comite, and kindred institutions are now doing locally. The first work of the fund will be to enlarge and modernize all the pres- ent blind institutions of Europe by means of financial donations, as well as assisting the work of Mr. Pearson in England, M. Vallery-Radot and Miss Holt in France. The fund later in- tends to organize in various Furopean cities additional modern equipped blind schools, blind workshops, blind employment exchanges and agencies for commercializing blind products, so that all this particular class of war victims may be saved from their pres- ent hopeless and helpless situation and may be rendered self supporting for Lfe. A Daily Living Death, “Self respecting, able bodied, pass- ing daily through a living death, these thousands of blinded war victims are being slowly killed, not by their in- juries, not by starvation, but by the apparently permanent hopelessness of their situation. Six months’ training, on the other hand, will educate each oné of them in some trade not requir- ‘ng sight. - A single contribution of several hundred dollars will go far to make one of these blinded soldiers self supporting for life,” the appeal states. ‘The appeal is being sent to 120,000 {yeople of prominence throughout the nited States, ‘The patronage of their majesties, the king and queen of Great Britain, and the qucen mother, Alexandra, as well as M. Raymond Poincare, president of France, and King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, has been obtain- ed for the distribution of the gppro- priations from the fund in their re- epective countries. Among the ladies who are active in Harry Payn Belmont, Mrs. John Astor, Mrs. Peter Coaper Hewitt, Mrs. George A. Kessler, Ifrs, R. Valentine Webster. Acting as treasurers, with Mr. Vander- hip, Sir Bdward Holden, chairman of the London City and Midland bank, ‘Pallain, governor-gen: _SILVERBLOGOM IS SUN-PROOF AND TUB-PROOF . AND IS GUARANTEED NOT TO FADE. WAHL] LAUNDER LIKE A POCKET HANDKERCHIEF A SHEDS DUST. 54 Inches Wide and Only $1.00 a Yard SOLDIERS HOME WILL HAVE A STEWARD Old Position Will “be. Restored by Executive Committee. The members of the executive com- mittee of the hospital board of the soldiers home have decided that it is mnecessary to have a steward at the institution. Formerly there was a steward employed there, but the posi- tion was abolished by a former com- mittee. Application has been made to the civil service commission for a steward and the position has been re- stored % The commission will hold-an exam- ination of candidates who have appliea to be placed on the. eligible list. The date of the examination has not been fixed. . Colonel Robbins, superintend- ent of the home, has informed Secre- tary Wright of the commission that the position of steward carried with it a salary of $76 a month and board, ' and that if the services of the incum- ! bent of the position warranted it, the ! compensation would be increased to $100° a month. i It is_barely possible that the posi- tion of steward may be exemputed from the operation of the civil ser- vice law. Indeed, the first steps have been taken to have it exempted. There are already one or two subordinate positions at the siome exempted. Gov- ernor Holcomb has the power to ex- empt all the positions connected with the management of the home from the operation of the law, but he has ex- pressed an unwillingness to do that. He has suggested, however, that the position of steward might be exempted by the commission if application were made to it. The members of the ex- ecutive committee have been inform- ed of the governor's suggestion. Tent Caterpillar Again. The tent caterpillar has put in ap- pearance ‘again and now is the time to get rid of them. The caterpillars . In the Collars there is a de- cided tendency toward the deeper shapes, many of them extending unique Jabot effects are also ob- of chiffon, pleated extonsively, is most stiiking. ot We are showing many pretty novelties as low as 25¢, more at 50c, and from that up to several dollars. 4 7 _ Maline and Ostrich Ruffs are “. a feature of the latest styles and ‘lend an air of distinction to al- most any costume. In maline the prices run from 50c to $6.00 —in ostrich from $2.50 to $6.00. are small now and can be quite easily ten rid of before they have a chance at the foliage which has hard- 1y begun to come out. The prospects are :hxt' this season’s cmfi will be about as large ever and a great deal of damage v?l.ll be done again this if 6 is not checked. ‘Will' Speak- at necticut College. Richard S¢héliéns of Groton will speak at the Connecticut college at 11 o’clock morning on. Servian National Poems. Mr. Schellens has been a scholar at Oxford and has served in the Red Cross society in Servia during the present war. . M«I'Shl-_l"ELlN THE A. C. SWAN CO. 2-4 CLIFF :CTIIEE" NORWICH, : SHAD WHILE THEY ARE IN MARKET