Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 23, 1916, Page 4

Subseription price 12c a week; 50c a month: $6.00 a year. : Entered at the Postotfice at Norwich, Conn., 88 second-class matter. U that it should retain loans would be lost. Just why it appears necessary for Germany to think it must inform this government upon such a subject is not quite clear for it must be understood that the Belgium government still ex- ists and if it is aeble to negotiate a loan those who advance the money can be depended upon to recognize just what the element of chance is that they are taking. That it is a matter which those who make the loan must look out for. They could be expécted to do that whether Telephone Calls: ~Buligtin Business Otflcs 480, Builetin Editorial Rooms 35-3. - Bulletin Job Office 35-2. Office, 67 Church St ‘Willlmantic Telsphone 210-2. —_— e Norwich, Saturday, Sept. 23, 1916. e The Circulation of The 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 4,063 houses n Nor- wich and read by ninety-three per cent. of the people. In Windham it is delivered to over 500 houses, in Putnam and Danielson to over 1,100, and in all of these places it 18 considered tbe local dally. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hundred and sixty- ve postoffice districts, and sixty iural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold in every town and on all of he R. F. D. outes in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATIOR 1901, average BlQ INCREASES UNDER DEMO- CRATS. It doesn’t require a report from a Jistant city to acquaint the people *With the fact that the cost of lving is high and steadily rising. They are well aware of the situation but there is interest nevertheless in the report which comes from Chicago to the ef- _fect that while there has been an . alarming advance within the past year, #Tierchants and producers say that £ prices will be even higher this winter. { This is a situation which cannot be £ very consoling to the democrats, for Tit has not been forzotten that they ¥ promised a reduction in the cost of £living when as a matter of fact it has Lbeen steadily rising since they took Joffice. The democrats in 1912 in their Uplatform charged that ‘“excessive Sprices result in large measure from 7 the high tariff laws enacted and main- tained by the republican party and from trusts and commercial conspir- Zacies fostered and encouraged by such laws,” yet in spite of the introduction go( thelr tariff for reyenue only policy, ¥and the wiping out of the high tariff flaws, there has been no drop in the £ cost of living. Instead prices have ad- % vanced far beyond what they were un- fder the republican tariff, which indi- goates that the republican policies are ftar preferable as far as regulation of fthe cost of living is concerned to say nothing of their effect as a producer revenue and the protection of Amer- ~ican industries. The democrats have not only failed to carry out their (promise of lowering the cost of living t they have proved the fallacy of their own claims. -HOW SHIPPING HAS SUFFERED Just how much American shipping has suffered in the Pacific as the re- sult of the seamen’s act is discloged by the report of Commerclal Attache Arnold on the relative positions of the Upited States, Great Britain and Ja- pan in the transportation business be- tween this country and the orlent, [There was a gross tonnage at the oflening of the war of 350,000 in the Pgcific. It was to be expected that there would be a falling oft of the British, because of the uses which that government has had for the ves- sels under that flag, but it was to be expected that this country will be in a way to benefit from the situation as much 8o as it has on the Atlantic, but the legislation against shipping was of such a character that many Ameri- can owners could not see their. way to a continuance of business and the way cleared for Japaneso .expangion emd they lost no time in taking ad- vantage of it. Today they control the greater part of the shipping. There has been a gain in the British—from its low point and the Dutch have even ‘shown a marked increase in their ton- there, while war conditions en- rage some of the American owners fo attempt a revival of their business t with only 22,100 tonnage now under. e American flag it can be appres ted what harm has been done to American business. Whether our former position will ever be regained epends upon future events. That re is still a great shortage from t there was previous to the war dicates that ship owners in this ntry are still scary of the condi- s under which they must do busi- ess In view of the advantages for apanese lines with which they must pete. ! LENDING TO BELGIUM. %apnis country 1s in receipt of a com- munication from Germany to the ef- fect that it will not sanction any loans Which are made to Belglum. This of refers to the part which indi- or institutions may take in for thers is no nor_possibility of a govern- Germany made such a declaration or not. The value of the security is bound to be carefully weighed. Ger- many is undoubtedly endeavoring to discourage such a loan but it is plain- ly a matter which cannot be expected to be handled through diplomatic eir- cles. This government is not guaran- teeing any loans which may be made by financlers to the allies or to Ger- many. Nelther is it protesting them, and it is not likely to take any action regarding any which may be under- way in regard to Belglum. WEAKNESS IN PRISON DISCI- PLINE. There appears to be good reason for the superintendent. of prisons in the state of New York to think tbat efther the system that is followed in the prisons is wrong or else theré afe Jax methods, when he is confronted with the fact that since he took office, last March, a matter of six months, there have been 35 prisoners who have es- caped from five of the state institu- tions, and of that number only 13 have been captured. Tt is quite evident that something is wrons. He sees the need of creater restrictions when he says: “I need not say, however, that it is understocd that there will be no return to brutal- ity or undue severity, but discipline must be obtained for the good of the state prison department” That this demand for better suarding of the copvicts is not directed solely agatnst the rcform methods of Warden Os- borne at Sinz Sing is indicated by the fact that there were ten who zot away from that prison while 1§ took French leave from Auburn, but he does demand the overcoming of any laxity which may exist in the development of the new ideas of prison conduct. The test which is being made of Warden Osborne’s ideas has not been carried on long enough to condemn or approve them, but it must be realized that if there are any weak spots dis- closed they should be quickly reme- died for certainly there can be mo tol- eration of anything which encourages and aids prisoners to escape, whether they are under réform treatment or not. PUSHING GREECE TO A DECISION Conditions in Greece have been go- ing from bad to worse. King Con- stantine by his arbitrary holding to the attitude long since taken has cre- ated great discord throughout the na- tion. This has been manifested in a number of ways but nothing discloses it more positively than the uprisings which have taken place among the soldiers and people. The latest of these is the revoit on the island of Crete, that valuable pos- session which was placed compara- tively recently under -Greek control. The spirit back of the revolutlon is only the same that ‘has broken out in other places but it is, if anything, more determined and goes farther inasmuch as the revolutionists are said to be preparing to proclalm a provisional government, if they have not already done so, and intend to take up arms with the entente powers. That this is an expression of confi- dence in and a demonstration of loy- alty to the policy advocated by Veni- zelos the former premier during whose term the entente allies landed their forces at Salonikl, must be recognized. Venizelos is a native of the island and the Cretians are fully convinced of his ability and are entirely in sym- pathy with his position relative to the part which Greece should play. What effect this action will have towards hastening the decision of the Greek cabinet to enter the war remai to be seen but it is stronz and sub- stantial evidence of the kind of feel ing which nbt only is, but for a long time has been existing throughout that nation. EDITORIAL NOTES. The early arrival of cool weather ought to make the coats of tan disap- pear in good time for the opening of the social season. The man on, the corner, says: When some men meet an obstacle in their path they appear to be satisfied to lie down in the shadow of it. That determined cffort of the Ger- mans to drive back the allies mu: have been an extra effort to make up for some of the rainy. day: The demoerats admit having picked their best state ticket, which only in- dicates that the republicans will have greater cause for elation after Nov- ember 7. The appearance of the chain gang each day of the criminal superior court session is an excellent lesson on the wisdom of following the straight and narrow path. It would be interesting to know whether traction fighting machines which are doing so much service for the British on the Somme front bear the words “Made in America. Germany announces that it will not recognize any loan to Belgium, which is not surprising, for wasn't it its own promises to Belgium which it long ago refused to be governed by? The federal authorities will not do their full duty unless they make such an example of that Chicago black- mailing gang that others will pe dis- couraged from engaging In such prac- tice. A Constantinople newspaper calls the bulk of the American press hostile to Turkey. What has that country done which would tend to make it otherwise, regardless of the side on which it is fighting? From the way In which they have beep Wiped out of existence there will not be enough left of many of those villages in northern France and Bel- glum to hold an old home week cele- bration if the idea is ever suggested. Von Falkenhayn's order to ccnserve the supply of firearms since it was be- ing exhausted faster than they can be produced, has been found. That there is also a shortage of men might be indicated by the appearance of Turks on the Riga front. possession those THE MAN WHO TALKS ‘When Zacharias was edyised: “Learn to hold thy tongue it is.re- corded that he remained silent for 40 weeks, or eight times as many wWeeks as there were words of advice. In this Zacharias has had no equal since his day, although the statesman ‘‘who could hold his tongue in ten different languages” must be recognized as a g00d second. We all know folks talk too much. Doubtless you know all least one talker to whom you might say (to quote Shakespeare), “You cram theso words into mine ears inst twe stomach of my eense.” t people who are voluble rare short of ideas. Those people who in- dulge in putting words together for their sound instead of their sense never cease to be wearying. -This is a good rule for us all: Speak when you have something to-say; when it has been said stop.” In old times the pater used to say as a cautio “Speak when you're spoken to.” Those who learned this in their youth are in no danger of hecoming butters-in. Do not yield to the temptation to “free your mind,” for if you do you will say too much, and perhaps much that isn’t so. It took 4 bright woman to discover “you cannot break a law, but the law breaks you” The law is the legal thus-far-and-no-farther barricade, and you may course along with it in peace and joy, but if you butt against it it wili impose upon you perplexity and pain. No one but an artful lawyer can impair a law, and this is some- times done under the pretext of bet- tering it. Some laws are S0 un- worthy of respect that no gne can be found mean enoush to enforce them. It makes no difference whether you test this affirmation upon natural law or statutory law the truth of it be- comes just as apparent. It is possi- ble to commit crime within the stat- utory law, or in a relation to it which checks its operation; and those who know how to legitimately rob other people are sometimes known as wharpers, and sometimes as sharks; and_either name fits @hem. Laws are made to break men if they Go not re- spect them. If half the law in this country was cancelled, and one-half of ihe remainder annulled, there would be twice as much law as is ac- tually necessary for the protective of the people and promotion of gov- ernment. When it comes to booming our own town it is not likely any one of us an beat Old Dan Hanks who used to v: “Well, now I vum! I know by gum! T'm right because I be!” This was his testimony about his “eld hum town:" “This town is just the best on earth: there ain’t one up or down, that's got onc-half her worth: there ain't no other state that's good as ourn, or rear; and all the folks that's good and great is settled right ‘round her “Dier ever travel, Dan,” says L You bet I hain't” said he. “I tell yer what, the place T've got is good enough for me.” You see Dan never strayed away from home, or traveled away from home, or did a thing the board of trade or chamber of commerce in his town could criticise, unless it was that he wore the same hat for 10 years, and the same suit of clothes about as long. He was so economical that he didn’L boom trade much. The ideal boomer is the one who doesn't tradec else- where, but spreads himself at home. It is a good man who . plays the game of life fair, and, this type of £ood men is not as numerous as most Deonle think. The reason the natlons of the earth are in such strife and turmoil today is because men do not play fair. The game of life will never be piayed fair so long as less than a hundred men can put millions of men to slaughtering one another as they are tdday in Europe. The reason that less than a hundred men in this coun- try control its finances today ls be- cause the game of life has not been played fair: and. the reason we have continuous labor wars is because men are not disposed to act justly toward one another. The :so-called biz men in the game of life who shuffle the cards, and always have an ace or two up iLeir sleeves, have a great deal to answer for. The common people can- not detect their tricks, but there is One who can. They slould get what comfert they can here for they are not likely to get any comfort else- where. The young man or the young woman who think - they than a fighting chance in this life need take another look. The only de- pendable conditions in this world are the self-created conditions. The conditions we are born to are tempor- al. Holst your faith in yourself right upon a par with your faith in God, and forge ahead. If your foundation is rizht you do not want the hat passed for you or facoritism boost- ing you to positions you are not alified to, fill efficiently. What the ive young man or_ woman should t is the chance efficiency opens to them. The idlers, whether rich or poor, are not the pace-makers, or world builders. It takes the thinkers and the workers to make the world a better and better place to live in. The idler just feeds and flutters and dies and fills a grave. We all must do something to be something: have more v It is good to belong to common folks, and not to act as ¥ we are ashamed of our ancestors. Common folke today live better and are bet- ter than were the kinss of 1000 years ago. “What's in a name? Would not the rose by any other name smell just as sweet?” God makes us all common people, and we have to make ourselves uncommon, not by pretence but by achievement. There fis no offence in beilng urcommon, the of- fence lies in heing conceitedly, con- scious of jt. All things in nature which contribute to our pleasure or sustenance are common. A true poet has sung: “No common’ thing is held apart from us, or pent with lock and key; but in the goodness of his heart God made them all for you and me. It always eeems God loves the Best, things he has made the commonest.” The common people make the earth productive and keep ~the uncommon Dpeople from starving to death. If God will forgive those who ven ture into wickedness because of this hope, such a mean Christian ought never to be able to forgive himself. 1f there is a more despicable form of ‘meanness than that which encour- ages 2 man to be wicked for ten hours because he has the promise of being forgiven if he asks forgiveness in the eleventh hour we have never heard of it. Truth and right are the foundations of righteousness, and the spirit of righteousness is moved by love not by the expectation of a re- ward. Ts the spoilt child the only one among us who depends upon sel- fish gratification to hold them fast to truth? Truth is - te magnet which lifts all men up, not the lodestone of expectation or hope. Some people mistake the magnetic power of sel- fishness for the redeeming power of love, because through selfishness they have become as blind as sticks or stones. Those avho do right for right's sake only know the real sSweetness and beauty of truth. If man only realized that ft is the multiplication of his wants which in- will be market. To the majority of Norwich resi- dents the Banker-Poet is a far-off, visionary personage, of commanding presence, great wealth, and occupying a high place in the world of letters. All these he was, and more; but be- fore he reached manhood’s dignity and Tesponsibilities and cares he was quite like every ordinary little that perhaps even In his boyhood he save promise of the great man which he was to become. boy’s habits and traits and facility “getting into everything,” staid relatives complained; and when he grew to manhood he remembered naughty boy ways, émusement in some and a tinge of sorrow in others. For four vears Miss Fuller was his secretary in his New and since she, too, had lived at Norwich Town, in fact for a time in the very house where Mr. Stedman’s boyhood nad been spent, it was his joy to recall the days of his youth for her amusement, to reveal the childhood thoughts and ‘iopes and fears and pranks, which made up the active months and years of his stay for all his York home; vy ey 4 A NEW ENGLAND CHILDHOOD (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) The few books of permanent value relating to Norwich and its history supplemented today by an- other; for it is today-that the pub- lishers of Miss Margaret Fuller's story of the hoyhood of Edmund Clerence Stedman are to put her book on the boy, onl But he had all 25 his finding reported as belng staunchly pro-ally and there is every reason to believe that should the entente allles win the strugsgle, he and his hride-to-be, the royal Princess Elizabeth of Rumania shall reign from the ancient capital of and under the same skies as did the gifted man whom she alded in his most important literary work, it is logical that she should manifest a rare understanding of his nature and child-soul, as she tells for the edifica- tion and insiruction of interested readers the tale of his life's unfolding. Edmund Clarence Stedman was not born in_Norwich, as some have sup- posed. He was a naiive of Hartford, born Oct. Sth, 1833, and he was bap- tized in the North Congregational church by no less a personage than the Reverend Horace Bushnell, whom for the early years of his babyhood he tried zealously to copy in his ways ‘and “pweachin’ His mother was a mere baby her- self; a butterfly lady prone to write poetry, and depending helplessly upon her grave, earnest husband to fend her from every earthly care. Edmund worshipped Iis mother, ~somewhat frivolous though she was; and all the best impulses and ambitions of his life he attributted to her influence, words and admonitions. ly a He was but a mere baby when his father became ill, =0 that he was obliged to take a sea voyage in the ‘hope of restoring his health. Before sailing, the dying man talked earn- estly to the baby boy, winning the latter's promise never to grieve or neglect or forget his mother’s delicacy of mature and of tastes. Throughout the boy's life this promise was kept under the roof of his uncle, Deacon| wyp a fidelity almost tear-igciting, in Uil Sy its contrast to the motherfs selfisi- SR ness and flagrant neglect ofithe little All _these interesting confidences | lad; but perhaps it was the very force Miss Fuller has remembered; and|needed to give his character that having lived in the very atmosphere|sweetness which was its charm. His father died before returning to creases his misery sclous of the truth of the statement of Socrates, that “the fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble Why should man keep his wants far or capacity? We are likely to regard such a per- son as a man of hizh ideals. Ideals are the images of aspiration— wants the material things we desire. some one has said: ahead of his winni idealize the real ideal,” which Is do but little b life, industry a waste of time, the. fruit of Many know known waste. one's acquaintances even along these lines. action—of he wouid be cor the ngs, “It is better to than to realize the for that would be doing instead of dream- ing. The poet who wrote: re belew, but wants that little long,” doubtless had reference to v and sustenance. Want- ing to be rich, or famous, or good is ince these things are achievement. want because they have It 's well to beware of ubtless true, “Man wan Sunday Morning Talk THE HEAVENLY BLUES, If one must have the “blues” by all means let them be of the heavenly va- riety! For then depression will give 4 \y to cheer and emiles will van- Grandfather Dodge grew stony in quish tears. A it of the heavenly|horror and consternation. The friv- blues is, indeeq, first rate experi-|olous, possessed-by-Satan Jad was ence for us, and, may be bathed, all f the fit can develop into a permanent mood of the soul it is so much the better. voutly to be wished. Blue is the color of the sky over- arching our earth, which is the most spiritual object on which the eve can philosopher Delitsch te'ls us, “the color of the at- gaze. It is, as mosphere, _illumine through which shine the dark depths the color of the finite per- the color taken by that which is most heavenly as it of space; vaded by the infinit comes down to the earthly.” = When|at Norwich Town. Once, grieving for one looks into the marvelous blue of| his self-centered mother, he ran away heaven, transparent as sapphire, he|down to “The Landing”, told a tipsy beholds the symbol of the High and gkipper, captain of the Schconer Ann Lofty One Who inhabiteth eternity.|and Emily that he was trying to He turns his face to the abode 0f| his passage to his widowed mother in power and of peace. It is that kind the d by the su = of “biue” that we are talking about. Thousands of people are creatures without realizing that they the Or- of moods, may, to a large e: kind of mood they shall live in. dinarily, we mean by our mcods those uncertain and reprehensible states of their tendency to the settled convictions of our happier hours and the resolutions mind which are of our better will. many of us find our moods holding us back and ruining our better aspira- even as mariners find it diffi- o sail in dull and foggy weather. All people, for illustration, are will- ing to do their duty, when they “feel It is probable that there is no criminal behind prison bars in all land who does not intend to do right when he or she gets good and trouble is like i the ready. The rarely do “feel like to good and to bas life waver Now we're up and like the stent, choose opposed in It is thus thi that_we it. d now our depression or our exaitation. No one can study men and women of great faith with- out discovering how they have taken of bad moods. In crises where others would be swayed | But the story ends happily; for almost completely by feelings of fear | after his college years at Yale, his anser, or discouragement, these have| time spent in the office of The Nor- held their steady course, intent only | Wich Courier—now the weekly edition on doing God’s will. In blackest hours|©f Thke Bulletin—his short editorship fhey have learncd to pierce the fog to|Of the Norwich Tribune which died the blue above and to see the sun shining in splendor. The Psalmist writes, My flesh and my heart faileth.” of body He is, as we Yet what might be his black mood is overcome in the power of a supreme confidence. bre situation is illumined by a splen- did beam of light in the religious faith “My_flesh and the strength of my heart and my_portion The dark mood is dissipat- The “blue” becomes sion, His personal and of spi say, “all in” enersi that abides unshaice: my heart faileth, forever.” ed in brightness rit are gone. the biog: aphies. little s both n. but God Is that of heaven rather than of earth. The opportunities and the obliga- tions of life persist, no matter how about them. heaviest clouds reaches the blue sky. It is the truth that a rarely beauti- Mal*bie Babcock expressed we “feel” ful spirit, in familiar lines: A fallen leaf on a flowing stream and on the water a moment’s gleam Of sunshine—and the chilling grey o'erspreads more coldly the au- tumn_day. And once this had brought a pang to me, & sense of pain in my heart to see, The leafless trees and the stubble sere, and the darkening face of the dying year. It is not so now. be sad. For I have ceme to realize that joy Above My heart is glad though every sight and sound depends not on the skies The path of my di springtime’s song. And cloudy the day, or-stormy. the uty . holds ods.” Is he? That our lives the time in the celestial tint is:a consummation de- 50 The impulses in the average lines the nurse draws on the chart of a fever patlent, we're down, and no.one can predict the hour of account on cne occa- His som- the 5 along throush _winter's stream and Hartford; and shortly afterwards, Edmund was taken to the home of his mother's parents, in Plainfield, N. J. Much has been written about the severity of New England households during that era; but nothing in this line could surpass the harsh, cold pitiless discipline of Iidmund's new home at Grangfather Dodge’s, where he received so much and so severe re- ligious training and literal, Pauline “stripes and fastings” that it is a wonder he did not eventually become an out-and-out atheist! ts His first sense of that rhyme des- tined in after years to inspire him to write poems which have a permanent place in American literature is detail- ed by his biographer in a most amus- ing way. Popping catechism questions at the heart-hungry little lad was his grand- father's delight; and on a_ certain Sabbath, glancing benignly about the family circle, he inquired majestically, “What is the chief end of man?” Now that very day young Edmund had found this orthodox .catechism query, but with what he considered an improved version as the answer, clip- ped from some newspaper and pasted on a wall. Consequently when Grand- father Dodge propounded the ques- tion, Edmund’s eves flashed and he was' ready with the new answer: “To keep all he gets and to get all he can.” locked up in the boot closet until Sab- bath evening, when he was soundly trounced, although it was his tender- hearted mother who sobbed: the child was ‘mindful of his fathe®s admoni- tions.and_ would not grieve her by crving. He did manage, however, during: one unusually hard blow, to bring up his heel with such true aim as to knock off Grandfather's specs,| which were broken past mending! | n, Later, the boy was sent by stage coach, railroad train and horse car first to New York, then to Hartford, finally to the home of his uncle James their home in Newark, and was taken | aboard, signing up as “Henry Wilson.” Upon hearing the captain begin cer- tain sentences with the expression “Lord God,” he questioned that srim person about his opinions on confer- ence meeting and silent prayer in a most perplexing way. The schooner went on the flats near Thamesville; and Uncle James, discovering _the abrupt get-away of his lively nephew, quickly pursued him in a Skiff, over- hauled the schooner and captured the prodigal. Delightful days were those he spent about the old Green. at the brick schooi-house, in the old Academy, by the brook in Lowthrope Meadows, even in the ancient burying-ground, where he used to tell the Loys such ghost stories as set their blood a- curdling. Bve and bye his vain moth- er married again; and her son sat proudly on the counter at Fuller's store and told of his new fathers wondrous wealth, his mother’s un- matched beauty and other family af- at fairs. Later the step-father was ap- pointed United States Minister to Italy; the family sajled away, and of once ‘again Edmund was separated from the mother whom he adored. young, and his later vears of success in New York, Fate brought his mother back to him, a widow now, and cured of some of her egoism. 1t is_a fascinating picturé which Miss Fuller draws of the grown-up boy, still with a boy's laughter and a boy’s heart, enjoying that compan-| ionship for which his heart ever hungered, and for which even his mar- riage with the sweetheart of his young manhood did not cause him to cease o THE DICTAGRAPH. |LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Chance for Crown Prince George Mr. Editor: In TFriday’s Bulletin there is an interesting article on Con- stantine, kinz of the Hellenes, which states that the hope is lost of the old Greek_tradition becoming a_reality. The Greek tradition runs, “When a royal Constantine weds a Princess So- phie, the son they have shall reign in Constantinople.” It will be remembered that the Queen of Greece before her marriage was the Princess Sophie of Prussia, sister_to the German emperor. If the entente allies win the war, as the world at large seem to think they will, there certainly will be a dispute ovef Constantinople. As they have promised that Turkey will be forever banished from the shores of Turope, they must hand that much coveted city to one of the other petty Balkan states to prevent another grand quarrel among themselves. Greece stands as good if not a bet- ter chance for the position of keeper of the gateway to the east, than any of her Balkan neighbors, and I can see no reason why the hope is lost that night, the sky of my heart is|a Hellenic prince shall not rule from always brignt. THEE PARSON. Constantinople. Crown Prince George of Greece is the Orient. EARLE M. WOOD. Taftville, Conn., Sept. 22, 1916. What Would Mr. Hughes Have Done? Mr. Editor: I would like to ask you for a little space in your paper. As 1 read the newspaper daily I find that the part that is cutting the most important figurs is the Adamson bill providing eight hours as a day’s. work. Mr. Hughes is hammering, pound- ing and knoeking this bill. What I would like to know is what would Mr. Hughes do if he were in Mr. Wilson's Dplace? Would he let the railroad men go out on strike and tie up the coun- try? It seems to me that Mr. Hughes is” forgetting that the working man's vote counts. Yours truly, ROBERT GOLDSTEIN, Norwich, Sept. 21, 1916. POLITICAL What Would Hughes Have Done? A correspondent of *he New York Sun submitted the following inter- esting, letter: E Inasmuch as the question “What would Hughes have done?’ scems to be the only thing the Democrats have left to hang their hats on, let's see if it can't be answered in the usual Yankee fashion by asking other ques- tions. Does any sane man or woman be- lieve: 1. That he would have appointed a Bryan, a Daniels, a Redfield, a Wil- son or a Baker to his Cabinet? 2. That he would have given the premier place in his official family as a reward for political treachery to a rival Presidential candidate to a man who a few years previous he wanted knocked into a cocked hat? ol 3. That even if in a fit of mental aberration he should have done such an inconceivable thing, he would have stood for said appointee touring the country in the company of vaudeville performers and yodlers for the pur- pose of increasing his private income because he couldn't live on the sal- ary of a Cabinet officer and lay by anything for old age? i That he would have unwarrant- edly attempted to interfere with the internal affairs of California when she passed an alien land law, pre- judging it as unconstitutional? 5. That he would have approved and signed such vicious and reaction- ary legislation as the sundry biil as’ a sop to labor unions farmers' organizations? 6. That he would have refused to recognize_as provisional President of Mexico, the only man who, it is con- ceded by all unbiassed autlorities, was capable of establishing and main- taining any form of iawful govern- ment in that country? and 7. That instead of accepting the word of Henry Lane Wilson, this country’s accredited Ambassador in Mexico, regarding conditions there, he would have publicly disgraced him by recalling and reprimanding him for having done his duty and sent his personal agent to Meaico to confer with Huerta, whom he refused to recognize? S. That he would have attempted to dictate the manner and form of the Mexican election, as well as assuming to say who should not be a candidate for President? 9. That he would have sent the United States fleet to Vera Cruz os- tensibly to obtain a salute for the flag, but really to depose Huerta, for whom he had conceived a personal dilike, and subsequently in a ful- some eulogy over the nineteen mar- ines who were killed while this coun. try was being ‘“kept out of war” should tell us they died in the service of humanity? 10. That he would have fatuously and inanely juggled with the embargo on arms and munitions to Mexico, al- ternately lifting and clamping it down as the favor of one or the other Mex- ican highbinders swayed him, thus making it possThle for our country- men to be murdered by Mexican ban- dits supplied with arms through his own shortsightedness? 11. That instead of protecting the lives and property of American citi- zens in Mexico he would suddenly have contracted “cold feet” and issued a frantic warning to Americans tc' leave that country because of his un- willingness to protect them? 12. That he would later nave sent a punitive (so-called) expedition into Mexico to “get” Viila, and after win- ning numerous “Dbloodless victories” by not capturing the bandit have withdrawn the troops? 13. That after sending an ultima- tum to a foreign government ne would have perrnitted his secretary of state to assure its ambassador that it was only a bluff meant for home con- sumption? 14. That he would have insisted on “strict accountability” from Germany and then, after more than a hundred American _citizens were murdered by the torpedoing of the Lusitania, have proclaimed to the world that we were “too proud to fight.” 15. That he would have approved and signed such a vicious and anar- chistic act as the Clayton bill, per- mitting organized labor to commit all the dep%dations and conspiracies it pleases against capital and the pub- iic and remain immune from punish- ment therefor, thus fostering and en- couraging the disturbing conditions in the industrial world from and for which the public always suffers and pays, as it is doing now? 16, That he would have insisted upon the stultification and degrada- tion of his party in Congress by ask- ing that it repudiate a solemn plat- form pledge to the American people. namely, the Panama canal tolls plank? 17. That he would have taken in- finite pains to destroy American ship- ping at the hehest of demagogues and labor agitafors by signing the La Follette-Furuseth seamen’s bill in a kening attempt to curry favor with labor? 18.- That he would have blindly and arrogantly in the face of expert opin- ion in opposition thereto, insisted up- on the passage of the emasculated MoAdoo shipping bill, saddling upon the citizens $50,000,000 to enable the government to become a corporation promoter and giockholder in a pro- position which is conceded to be of no practical use? 19. That after having been elected, on a platform pledging an economical | and efficient administration he would} have approved and signed a “pork” bill (mis) appropriating millions of The War A Year Ago Today September 23, 1915, Russians _reoccupied Lutsk Volhynia, capturing 6,000 men. _ Russians won battle at Vileika. Germans driven back near Pinsk behind Okinski_canal. Austrian garrison Monte Coston. Germany in note to United States promised = to observe visit and search law. French_aeroplanes attacked Ger- man positions in Lorarine and the Argonne. in evactuates civil | By National Geographic Society Greece—The resources of Greece with respect to that country's possi- ble influence ¢n the outcome of the European war. are set forth in the following war geography bulletin is- sued by. the National Geographic So- ciety: ‘Unlike -Rumania, Greece will not prove to be a food resource of the Entente Allies. On the contrary, this the most southerly of the Balkan na- tions does not produce enough cereals to feed her own people. Its chief ag- ricultural products—currants, the vine and the olive—are to be oclassed among_the luuxuries rather than the necessities. “Including the territory _sacquired through the treaties of the First and Second_Balkan, wars, Greece has an area about edual to the combined areas- of Belgium, Holland and Den- mark. ‘With the Albanian_territory of vorth Epirus, which the Entente Al- lies permitted her to occupy in No- vember, 1914, her total area now ex- ceeds 46,000 square miles, being about as large as the State ofMississippi but with a population (5,000,000) two and three-fourths as great, nearly approx- imating that of Tilinois. “Although Greece is in ‘straitened financial circumstances, her expend- itures im. 1914 exceeding her revenue by $31,600,000, she maintains an army of 60,000 officers and men in peace times and it is estimated that by calling out her reserves of all classes she can put 450,000 men in the field, with her total available unorganized strength adds a half million to that number. “Military service among practically all her neighbor nations, is compulsory, and parlia- ment has fixed upon 25,000 recruits as the annual contingent. The period of active service required in the army is three years for cavairy and artil- lery and two years for infantry. For 21 years after his active traininfi, which begins in his 20th _year, the Greek Citizen belongs to the first re- serves, and for elght years thereafter he is listed among the second reserves —a total of 31 years' liability to miX- tary service. The equipment of the infantry is the Mannlicher-Schonauer rifie, similar to the Rumanian_small arms. The field artillery is the French Schneider-Canet quick firer. “America has an especlal _eenti- mental interest in Greece’s small navy as two of her strongest fighting units are the Kilkis and the Lemnos, 13,000 ton warships which were renamed after having been purchased from our own government in 1914 for $12,500.000. Launched as sister ships in 1904 they were known in the American navy as the Mississippi and the Idaho. An- other Greek warship with an interest- ing history is the 10,000 ton Averoff, which bears the name of a Greek mil- lionaire who, by a provision of his will, left the bulk of his fortune to his country for the improvement of its navy. The two modern warships are the George 1, (19,500 tons) and the Admiral Coundourietis (5,500 tons), both lounched in 1914. A powerful battleship of 23,500 tons displace- ment is now under construction. “On the north and northwest Greace abuts on Bulgaria, Serbia and Al- bania; the frontier touching each of these’ countries being about the same length. In all other directions the peninsula is_waterbound. So indent- ed are its shores that few places in the country, save in Thessaly and Macedonia, are as much as 50 ailes from the sea, and although it has only about one-fifth the area of the Spain- Portugal peninsula it has a longer coast line. With the long-range 15- inch rifies of the modern battleship almost every part of the historic na- tion would be vulnerable to the bom- bardment of a French, Enslish or Italian fleet.” in Greence, as OTHER VIEW POINTS People who are victims of various “ijsms" are getting so fussy that the pristine beauty of everything will be soon rubbed off. The high school music teachers of New York are said to be secking to have music publish- ers and_public school teachers edit the negro dialect of “Dixie,” as sung in the schools, for the benefit of the chil- dren of foreigners who are learning to read and write English. Let the im- migrants get their pure English some- where else, but leave “Dixie” in its pristine state, with all the charm of its original setting.—Meriden Record. French newspapers are to be cut down one half, and that will in some cases mean a pretty serious reduction in space. But the news can be con- densed and so can the advertisements, and if the prices of the latter are not reduced the suffering will not be so poignant! In this country there are e curtailments of size among the big papers, but the shortage has mot vet been very severe. In a few days the issuing of the Congressional Rec- ord will be intermitted till next De- cember, and that ought to result in tasing up the paper supply of the country considerably. — Bridgeport Standard. The wet summer brings us into mid- September with all Nature green and luxuriant. Foliage and grass show none of the effects of time. If frost held off things would show little loss of shape or color for several weeks vet. Light frosts will, little by lit- tle, touch the fresh green leaves with the glories of autumn. Heavy frosts |now or soon will spoil everything by too quick ruin, and rob death of the the public’s money for all sorts of fantastical and chimerical schemes without first assuring himsslf of the honesty and need of such appropria- tions? 20. That he would have flagrantly violated the principle of civil service by exempting thousands of places held by competent employees regard- less of their political affiliations to make room for “deserving Republi- cans”? 21. That he would have demoral- ized our diplomatic and consvlar se vice by displacing trained and trust? ed men to provide “berths’ for con- tributors to his campaign fund? 22, That had he been elected on & platform pledsing its candidate to Dbut one term he wouldn't have had manhood and decency enough to fulfill his contract with the American people by refusing a_renomination? 23. That when he said in a recent Nashville speech, in reply to the ques- tion what would he have done in Mexico, he would have protected American lives, he didn’t mean 1t? 24. And as the crowning act of in- famy does any intelligent being be- lieve for a moment that for a possi- ble—but by no means probable— 400,000 votes he would have been a participant in, much less the Instiga- tor of, the Judas role so sweetly played by Wilson in his recent cow- ardly betrayal of the people by his the railroad brotherhoods and then have paraded his shameful and dis- graceful act before the world by pre- senting the “four pens” as souvernirs to the railroad gunmen who held him up? ber 7 pext. un-American surrender to the bluff of ‘What would Hughes have done? Read the answer in the votes Novem- afford slmost instant relief and fortify the system agalnst fecur- rence of these ing ailments. They tone the liver, purify the stomach, regulate the bowels, cool the blood. ‘Purely vegstable, Plain or Sugdt Coated. 80 YEARS' CONTINUOUS SALE PROVES THEIR MERTT, Dr. J. B. Schenck & Son, Philadelphia B e long-drawn out beauty of which a season like this Is caiwble. The warm days yet to come are full ,of ‘wonder if the earth still retains some of the features and the atmosphere of summer in its full maturity, but are garish and seem out of season if the limbs of the trees are bare and the world has been stripped for win- ter—Waterbury Americaz. { In New England the death rate Bas not been cut down in proportion . tc that of other . of the country No reason can be advanced for thi other thau iic ....iu.c seige of weath- er that visited this section last win- ter. As a whole, however, the country at large shows great improvement ir taking care of its inhabitants. Good living and regular habits have alsc had much to do with making a lower death rate. The pace that kills has been ruled off the track of life and the United States is a bettey nation ir which to live—New Britain Herald. Because of the Furopean war Bridgeport has added to her pppula- tion and to her industries in a most surprising manner and it now appears that her growth in numbers is £ood for her banks because the —additions are of folk who save money. The City Savings bank of Bridgeport has said this week that its deposits during the year ended September 18 _increased $1,800,000 in round numbers, the amount being three times that of the year before. On the strength of this and less exact fizures from other banks the Bridgeport papers figure an in- crease of $6,000,000 in the savings bank deposits for the year. Bridgepert's sudden increase in population has brought it various problems but it has now evidence that at least.a part of the newcomers are worth while. Gen- erally speaking the working man who is saving monty it worth having _in any community.—Hartford Courant. STORIES OF THE WAR Marvelous French Coura . “The world will probably never be able to realize the wonderful, the marvelous courage displayel in this war by the French soldiers,” said Mr. Della Torre, a Baltimore inventor who has spent several months in the bel- ligerent countries of Europe. “How those men have fought and are fighting. Those armies of France, in this war, have shown a bravery which has béen unequalled in the history of the world; and, I be- lieve, it will remain unequdlled for a long time to come. The spirit of those Frenchmen is wonderful—it is inspiring. They do not know the meaning of fear; they do know the truest meaning of courage!” By prising France in ths man- ner, Mr. Della_Torre said he did not mean to discredit the spirit of the English people. “England” he said “has but one end in this war. That is final, complete victory. Nothing else matters in England. The English government, the English people and the English armies have-resolved to attain this “end. Everything else iz bein gswept aside. Aerial raids ‘or any other particular attacks which Germany may make an England are only incidents. Engldhd is not whim- pering, but is plugging along steadily Zand surely—to attain her one end.” Asked when he believed that end would be attained—when the strug- gle would come to an end, Mr. Delia Torre said he looks for at jeast an- other vear nd a half of war. “That is, of course,” he added, “ir will most probably last that much longer un- less intérnal dissensions and erup- tions in Germany bring it to an abrupt ciose” ° “Horrible effects and peculisr, re- sults have come from the Zeppelin raids on England” said Mr. Della Torre. “Some people were \blown to pieces” he said. ‘There are many of the victims who cannot be identified. On oye occasion the hospital at Char- ing Cross was a veritable shambles. Victims of the bombs were brought in in confused masses, and until they wehe gotten inside the hospital wards it.was not known who was alive and who was dead. The most widespread property damage, however, is done to the windows. The gla is not blown in-—it is drawn out by the reflex ac- tion of the explosion. Thd streets ™t the vicinity of a.bomb explosion are literally covered with glass’ ‘Who_won the North Sca Battle” Mr. Della Torre was asked. “There’s only one way to look at that” he answered. “Those German ships ran away as fast as they could run. They were chased ack to cover very quickly.” Back From German Prison, Vossiche Zeitung (Berlin's oldest Lib- eral paper), July 3L The Vossiche has tiroughout _the war specialized in information about prisoners and__internéd. _Telegram from an English bank official, ex- changed from Ruhleben. Quotéd in German:— To Commandant Graf von Schwerin. “On my return to Lendon from my imprisonment in Germany I have the honor to send you and your son .dmy most respectful greetings, to * * * the other officers in Ruhleben, whose great personal friendliness during my imprisonment in the camp at Ruhles= ben has deeply touched my heart. ¥ou were all most friendly and sympathe- tic to rug and 1 assure you that I have sinderely valued your attention, My best wishes to all British prison- ers in Ruhleben, to whom you were as considerate and careful as you were to me, under difivult circum- stances.” (This is follew by the address of a branch of a London bank correctly given.) Two million children between the ages of 10 and 15 are employed for wages in the United States. CA STORIA For Infants and Children InUse For Over 30 Years %&lfl 7