Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 26, 1916, Page 4

Glorwich Builetin 5 and Qouficd *—____.a_.______ p 120 YBARS OLD Subseription price 12¢ a week; 50c a B e yes. il Entered at tt fce at (OB as secondsciass matter. O [ Telephone Calls: Bullgtin Businses Office 150, Bulletin Bdiorial Roorus Bulletin Job Office 85-3. lmantic Office, 67 Church St fTelephone 210-2. Norwich, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 1916. The Circulation of The Bulletin The Bulletin has the largest eirculation of any paper in Eastern Conuecticut and from three to four times larger than that of any in Norwich. It is delivered to over 8,000 of the 4058 houses ‘n Nor- wich and read by ninety-three per cent. of the people. In Windham it is delivered to over 900 houses, in Putpam and Danielson to over 1,100, and in all of these places it is considered the local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hundred and sixty- five postoftice districts, and sixty iural free delivery routes. The Bulletin s0ld in every town and on nll of he R. F. D. Toutes in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATION averag 1901, 4412 5,920 1805, average THE PRESIDENT'S DEFENSE. By his address at Shadow T.awn President Wilson has offered his de- fense for the action taken in bringing apout the Adamson law. Ho has ad- mitted therein that he immediately took sides in the controversy between the raiiroad employes and the roads And supported the eight hour day pro- position because he does not be- lieve it arbitrable and beeause it has the sanction of society. , Here nhe indi- cates that the legislation is for the Purpose of securing the eight hour day when as o matter of fact the whole purpose behind the demand for an eight hour day has been the securing of an increase in wages, for there is nothing in the law which says that the railroad emploves must stop after they have completed elght hours' work, the period in which the president #ays “a man does better work than he does within a more extended day"” for it 1s expected that the samo hours which have been worked in the past will continue ta make up the railroad men's day, but the ten hour, day’s pay will be secured In elght hours and thereafter the rate will be half as much again, and this is not of course for all workingmen, or for all railroad employes but simply for four classes of them, who had the country by the throat and under the president’s di- rection congress ylelded without a strussle. What the country thinks of this ac- tion has been revealed by the action of the voters in Maine. No better ex- pression could come from the south than that which has already been given by the press of that part of the country. The president’s defense of his action is no more convincing than his course in dealing with tho matter. CONSTRUCTIVE LEGISLATION In opening his campaign for reelec- tion Governor Capper of Kansas sets forth to the people of that state a sit- udtion which while intended for their ronsumption alone might weli get the thoughtful consideration of the people of every other. In speaking of Kansas and its future he says: “Our need is not more laws, but greater respect for those we have. We constantly make too many laws. We actually have need of very little new legislation and it should be con- structive legislation.” in what state of the union could Bovernor Capper have gons and not 3aid the same thing and have it apply squally as well as it does in the state of Kansas? There is a great tendency to do a lot of lawmaking. The inclina- Hon is to flll up the statute books with many laws which are forgotten as ¥00n as they are made. Now laws are passed in a great many ivstances simply because there has mot been an enforcement of those which are al- ready at hand. The result is that they 2re constantly piling up in number but they are not serving to meet the re- launched for the cutting down of the enormous fire waste. Each year shows the good results of the regulations which have been put into operation and the effects of the increased inter- est in reducing the hazards, and last year was as profitable in that Tespect as some of its predecessors which in- dlcates the kind of cooperation that is necded if the amount of loss sach year from needless fires is to be checked. Last year New Yori’s fire loss reach- ed the handsome sum of $5750,000 which is a million lower than the year before. Ordinarily the fire commis- sioner has been satisfied to let the fig- ures speak for themselves but this vear he proposes to picture to the peo- ple by means of a float just what such & loss would look like in gold bultion. That_it will be an object lesson of much value will be readily appreclated and there is as much reason to belfeve that @ lesson of that kind will be the means of calling additiona] attention to the part which the individual can play in reducing the amount of prop- erty that annually goes. up in flames and smoke. el S e Mol SOMETHING FOR GERMANY TO DISPROVE. There are reasons to belfeve that there are conditions in all prison camps about which the country main- taining them will be unwilling to do much bragging. It is probable that there has never been a war when there have not been plenty of complaints bout the manner in which prisoners are treated, but that does not neces sarily mean that all who are captured by the encmy are subjected to out- rages and inhuman treatment. That prisoners of war are not treaf ed as guests, whoever may be in con- trol of the camps, must be taken for granted but when it is claimed, and the claims are supported by What ap- pears to be substantial proof, that Drisoners are deliberately infected with tuberculosis, that the labor camps where the men are kept are not fit for human habitation, which charge has been placed against Germany, un- ger the claim that death is being used to reduce the number of the cap- tured, it is apparent that either such stories are false or else there is need of a thorough investigation for the purpose of disproving such storfes. Thera have been reports whick have v 2d the conditions in certain of the prison comps, but the reason for noth- ing Dbeinz sald about those of which the complaint is made is that they are not knewn to the American embassy whose duty it s to inspect them. That being the case the world looks to G many to do its part in proving that such tales are both untrue and with- out the Jeast bit of foundation. LESS AFRAID OF THE RAIDERS. In spite of the havoc which they arc expected to cause, and which to a large extent they actually accomplish by destroving buildings and taking the lives of defenseless people, the Zeppe- lin raiders are nevertheless giving t British some excellent practice fn per- fecting their defense against such ae- rial operations. 4 It is quite evident also that the Brit- ish are takinz full advantage of it for not oniy have they established their anti-afreraft guns at polnts where they will be of the sreatest value attacking such invaders, but they have also arranged au clabopate system of | powerful searchlights for spotting th. high filers and have a flest of high powered acroplanes with skiltul oper- ators for driving off the bomb drop- pers. The best eVtdence of the value of these preparations is the results which have recently obtained. Tt was on a few days ago that the L brought to earth near London and to which two more were added by the latest raid which demonstrates that the British are showinz stendy im- provement in the use of their defenses. To lose one Zeppelin on the occasio; of each rald is expensive and when two are brought down out of possibly three or four which actually take part in the London attack it must be ap- parent to the Germans that at that rate the game fs not worth the candle. The #sh at last appear to have gotten to the point where they are able to give the airships a reception which is decidedly discourazing from the view- point of the visitors. EDITORIAL NOTES. The man on the corner says: Beans are making another pitiful effort to get into society. With a great political crisis develop- ing in Germany, the kaiser will have something to worry him besides the war. Tven the school children have a chance to realize that it has been a long summer, but no more 50 than their parents. Things Mr. Wilson would like to forget: William Jennings Bryan, “Too proud to fight,” Vera Cruz and that one term plank. When the president hands over the Mexican problem to Mr. Hughes, he can rest assured that watchful waiting will be abandoned forever. If King Constantine continues to insist “that Greece will not meet the Teutons, it begins.to look as if it would be a case of Greek meeting Greek. From all accounts General Macken- sen is playing with those Rumanians and Russians with as much success and delight as a kitten does with a mouse. Now the tobacco trade is informed that the price of smoking material will be advanced. More hard luck for those who lpok forward to election yuirements of the commonwealth any more efficiently. Constructive legislation is something which every state needs to engage in and in addition it is as important that such laws'as are made should be en- peted with the idea -that they are. go- Ing to be respectod. Otherwise the »ymight just as well devote time and efforts to thelr regular line of work, and that is a eriticism Which 1s frequently heard today fol- Efln“mnch that is put down as leg- itive action. A STRONG OBJECT LESSON. Fire Prevention day is to be ob- in New Yori-on Oct. 9 on which, there is to be a parade for purpese of, getting the people in- in_this highly commendable and from all indications not the important?of the floats are duled to appear therein will be the 4 ‘Adamson. He has reason to be proud of the £ which has been accormplished in since " the “ campaign was e e cigars. There is much satisfaction in the thought that those who follow the straight and narrow path have lttle to fear either from the Mann act or the blackmailing syndicate. There is no wonder that Greece is putting up a holler over the kid- napping of its army. This country has had its experience with Bulgarian bandits as Miss Stone can testify. ‘Whether or not Bulgaria broke its piedge not to attack Rumania, it is a certainty. that it is doing Its best to push forward into the latter coun- try, but of course all is fair in love When Willlam J. Bryan's Com- moner says “The president is a lucky man. The ‘ravens’ brought him the strike and by doing the rignt thing at the right time and in the right way he made a good political meal out of #” it substantiates the opinion of a good many about the political part of 21 was | _NORWICH BULLETIN, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1916 “Welll” gasped her father and mother in relief as a touring car drew up in front and spilled out their Gaughter, Immétliotely dAFURE away as one.wearful of pursuit, “wherever have you been, Caroline? Here it. is midnight! And when you started on the beach picnic—" “My goodness—are you people still up?” Caroline asked in genuine sur- prise. “Why, I supposed you Were asleep hours ago! . Whatever—" “Oh, nothing but a perfectly ridicu- lous frame of mind that led us to take a slight, uneasy interest in your whereabouts!” her father told _her sternly. ‘Now—" “Now, you needn't start that way!” Caroline said defensively, “It wasn't a bit my fault! When I've told you everything you'll eee it wasn’t! Why, didn’t I tell you when I left the house at 5 that I'd be back by 8 o'clock? And when I say a thing I always do as I say—only, if you can’t help your- self, why, you just can't! I should think youw'd know that! “Why, we'd have been all through our supper long before 8 except that two of the girls who were to bring the corn and potatoes to roast got lost finding us and it was quarter of "8 when they found us. And by that time all our wood was burned up and we had an awful time getting more. “Why, of course we had to stop and cook the corn and things or else Ruth and Isabelle would have been awful mad—after all their work finding us and everything. And they didn't have anything but_corn and potatoes to eat, for we had finished the sand- wiches and cake and fruit before they got there, and had given what was left over 'to some hungry little boys. It wouldn't have been polite at all to have made them go without cating and when we got through with that we had to take Isabelle home, because she lives south of the park and was afraid to go alone and when we got there we saw a perfectly won- derful new moving pic— “Caroline!” her mother gasped. never went to a movirg picture show at 10 o'clock at night, did you? When vou kncw—" “Why imed her daughter, with elight evidences of irritation. “why, of course, I know I'm not al- lowed to zo that way ordinarily, but 1 couldn’t help it, could T, when ail the other girls shricked, ‘Oh, iets!'—and besides’it was Mary Pickford, and you always let me go see her, and it was a perfectly nice theater. “They had pictures 6f how butter- flies lay egus and the caterpillars eat up all the leaves on the vines, too, d vou ought to be glnd I like fo see entific thin like that! Why, voure always scolding because I'm | not interested in developing ny mind! “Well, when we got out of the show e found that somebody had stolen’ ‘We had left it right out in front,| and she felt perfectly awful, because THE WAR PRIMER By National-Geographic Society Orscva—The National Geographi ciety’s war geogray bulletin s ued recently gives the following in- concerning Orsova, _the on the Dan- tly occupied by Rumanian a few miles above the Iron the last defile of the Danuie, and about an equal ditance below the | mazuificent Kazan Defile, quaint and picturesque free ova. It is 94 miles east of | nd a 10 hours voyage from on “the' DanuBe e ean et | ch i peace times leave the Ser- | bian capital at five in the morning. “Orsova 1s a dowble town. Old Orsova, with a population of about 5,000, clings to the west bank of the Cerna river which here mingles its waters with the Danube New Or- sova, on the east bank, is mainly a Turkish colony with a population of | 3.000. & former times the town was| a Turkish fort but since 1878 it has been in the p of Austriu- Hungary. “On the outs two miles from there is an att the midst of which shr e rts of Orsova, about he steamboat pier, ve little park in one of the holi: ungarian people. It is the Kronen Kapelle (Crown Chapel) erected by Emperor Francis Joseph over the spot where Louis Kossuth and his fellow patriots bur- jed the Hungarian crown of St. Stephen and other regalla of the kingdom in 1849. The story of the hiding of the crown is one of the most pathetic chapters in the lifte of the man who is generally admitted to have been Hungary's greatest orator and most incorruptible patriot. The revolution against Austria (1848-19) having failed, Kossuth and his de- voted followers were seeking safety in flight, taking with them the na- tional insignia. As they neared the Turkish frontier their patriotism would not permit them to bear the emblems of national existence beycnd the borders of their country, so in secret the regalia was buried, each participant in the act vowing to re- veal the hiding place except with the consent of his associates. Some Vvears later however, after Kossuth had gone to England and thence to| the United States, and the cause of JHungarian | independence seemed hopelessly lost, the place of hiding of the regaila was revealed to Emperor Franci Joseph, who had the precious articles unearthed and the spot coa- secrated by the chapel in which is a stotue of the Virgin and Child, one of the masterpieces of the Austrian sculptor Meissner. The chapel is ap- proached by a splgndid avenue of tall poplars. - “Another interesting spot in the en- virons of Orsova is Mechadla, a cel- ebrated ‘cure’, also called Herkules- bad, the medicinal value of whose hot springs 'has been appreciated since Roman times. “Orsova is esteemed by travelers as| fone of the most delightfully restful villages of eastern Europe. A fa- monus woman gldbe-trotter has paid this appreciative tribute to its charms: : “There is a ‘cértain little town, named Varenna, lying on the brink of the Lake of Como and looking down coquettishly on its own fair image reflected in that pure mirror, which used to be my beau ideal of a aquiet retreat, for one' wearied of the world and its follies; but as soon as T had seen this little, romantic, smil- ing Orsova, I abandoned my former favorite, feeling that nowhere =lse had I seen a epot at once so bright and peaceful.” “The little idland af Ada Kaleh, with its Turkish bazaar its attractive little cafes, and its low blue-an-greén houses, is to he seen a short distance down the river from Orsova. When this one-time fortified stronghold of the Turks passed under the dominian of Austria-Hungary in 1878 the in- habitants are said to have made pre- parations to return to Turkey, but they were induced to remain upon the promise of the authorities that the Sultan would send them each year a shipload of coffee, tobacco: and other suplies dear to tneir hearts and avatites.” B - WHEN CAROLINE EXPLAINED she haan't had time to explain to her folks how -she simply had to take it this evening in order to get us to the picnic and everything. Her father makes a perfectly terrible fuss if she cven asks to drive it evenings. they were at her aunt’s for dinner and she expected to get the qur back in the garage before they knew about “No, Elsle wasn't decelvirg ‘them at all! She was going to walt till her father felt in a real good humor and then explain to him how he ought to let her drive the car evenings because she had already driven it in the eve- ning! Well, of course, when we found the car wasn't there we were awfully excited and told a policeman, and he took us to the station—" “Caroline!” “Well, we had to get Elsie’s car, didn’t we?’ demanded Caroline. “And there were six of us, anyway, and the man at the station was real jolly, and everybody seefned just as interested in our telling what had happened! I think police _stations are real nice places, and I don't sce why you act 50 about them! The man at the desk sent out two awfully good looking men to find Elsle’s car, and she was crying too hard to go home, and any- how we didn't have car fare so we Just sat there for an hour, I guess— anyhow, until they brougnt the car. “No, it hadn't been stolen at all The moving picture doorman had pushed it around the corner to the side street, because Elsie had left it right in front of the entrance—and, of course, we never thought of looking ound on all the streets in the neigh- orhood! - So we were so glad to see the car that we just piled in and then there wasn't any gasoling, and we had to wait again. “The man at the desk sent the big- gest policeman along with us because he was fussy just like you folis, and said it was too late for us to be out alone. ' Yes, he was in the car when it brought me here—and I guess Eisie is glad to have him along, because good- ness knows how her f will act ‘when she gets home, 2nd maybe a big policeman will sort of cal mher father down. “But you see, don't you, how it posi- tively wasn't my fauit at all about not ng home eardie ‘Oh,”s aid her we knew it wasn't fore vou her relentlessly, ur faul long be- got here—and now suppose you hustle to bed—and stay there to- morréw until you fisure out Jjust whoSe fault it really was! We're not able of doing jt! T th-think vou' Caroline wailed LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Fecls No Sense of Surprise. Editor: T do not feel a sense of over the modification of the The mayor has never wav~ ercd, he has seen his supporters shrink erfectly horrid “When I explained hicago News. before the organized force against him, and this force is no more satis- fied today than it was before the llowed at the curb was nearly rwicvh has long suffered from poor sireets, poor crosswalks h have been taken out €0 the automobilis ill not be tco severely jounced). a handicapped fire protection and a b d police pro- tection (the police have to be very 1 who they arrest for m ners and how they interfere with the people who ride in motor car- riag /). 1 see the automobile law vi- ted cvery day flagrantly; ang the general air of the men who drive their through our business streets from 20 to 40 miles an hour is: “Who cares for law? Who is afraid? So long as Norwich represents ex- cessive libense every direction it cannot expect to enjoy a good repu- tation BILL. Norwich, Sep! 1916, The Balkan Muddle. Mr. Editor: I have read with in- terest Mr. Earle M. Wood's letter in Saturday’s Bulletin and have con- cluded that he is as much in the dark about the status of Greece after the war as he was when he insinuated s was pro-ally. h 3 he savs, “If the en- allies win the war there cer- will be a dispute over Con- must hand that much coveted city to one of the other Balkan states to prevent another grand quarrell among _themselves.” Paragraph 4, he savs, “He can see no reason why the hopc is lost that a Hellenic prince shall not rule from Constantinople. The sentence should read, shall rule.” Please read his let- ter, for it is evident the writer has not kept himself well informed on the Balkan situation. A little over two that the Ameri Iu varag: tente years ago when Czar Nicholas re- fused to demobilize his army on the southern frontier at the demand of the German Kaiser, the world believed that the war stake of Russia was the Dardanelles. It did not know that there was an agreement to that effect between the entente allles. The world, excepting perhaps, Mr. Wood knows it now and knows from official sources, In an interesting speech delivered recently in the Russian Duma, Pro- 2off, leader of the consti- tutional democratic party, and creator of the,k “progressi bloc,” told the sto) In the beginning of April, a Yvear ago, Lhe agreement between the entente allies was reached and each to all and all to each bdlind them- selves that, in the event of final vie- tory, Russia should control the Darda* nelles anq have an ice-free way to the sea “Our Russian interest in this war can be defined very briefly. We need an outlet to a free sea. We did not begi the war for thi but with- out it we shall not end it,” said Pro- fessor Miliukoff, while the hall of the duma rang with the cheers of its members. In the case of victory Ger- many would create in Europe a cen- tral state and would capture or sub- jugate Turkey economically and then politically. Berlin-Bagdad, thet is the German idea, and, sincc it has been created we have no other choicq The ques- tion now is not whether the straits will become Russian or remain Turk- ish. but whether they will become Russian or remain German, Contin- uing the profesor said, such a Ger- many would menace Great Britain in India, and Egypt, and imperil French prospects Jn Syria. With such a ter- ritory to defend and develop, every great power in Furope would have to match Germany in armies and arma- ment, or be held at the mercy of mil- itarism.” " With such a statement as the foregoing from a Russian official it does not look as if any of the Greek dynasty would rule in Constan- tinople, and in view of the fact that patpiotic Greeks have purchesed a gold crown for M. Venjgelos the pros pects are favorable to v being pro- claimed King of Greece. The reported revolution in Crete, an@ the approach- ing abdication of Constantine in favor of his son, George, are indicationsthat the Greeks are tired of their rulers, and the proverb ‘changes are light- some,” may hold good in the Balkans. JAMES E. RINGLAND. Norwich Town, Sept. 24, 1916. » Boomerang of Great Magnitude. Mr. Editor: If we are to judge from the editorial metropolitan . -newspapers of recent date it looks very much as if they had commenced to realiza that their unqualified endorsement of every thing emanating from the medical trust and political doctors, was provig a poom- erang of great magnitude The fol- lowing from the columns of the New York Telegram is a sample: “The marning’s news suggests pain- fully ihat officlaldom throughout the country is losing its head—what there is of it—over the infantile paralysis peril. The guarantine hold-ups are as unnecessary and as futile as they are oppressive. There is no occaslon for panic, nor wild hysteria. Ordinary health precautions and cool. common sense are more needed than the hip- podramatic activities of policemen trying to live up to the public appe- tite for sensation. It is not open to doubt that nearly all of the things that are being done are without warrant of | law. Perhaps a crop of law suits, not only against the municipalities, but officious individuals, who are I terferoing - with other people's rights may put a sudden end to the crusade. This from another New York news- baper: “It seems as if it would soon be nec- essary for the common sense of the community to call a halt upon the ac- tivities of health boards. The pres- ent tendency is to strive for the pro- longation of life by making life not worth living.” Tiappily the citizens of Norwich for fifteen vears have resolutely combat- ted the tendency on the part of the modern medical politician to ride rough shod over the right of the cit- izens, and today after the experience of the past summer are able to view with satisfaction the fact that on every occasion when importuned to get into the modern medical band wagon we have turned a deaf ear to thelr entreaties and been content to ride in the one shorse shay, driven by the family doctor. In scanning the news columns of the New York Sun of Saturday last, we learn that Mrs, Anton Ander- son of Jamaica, L. I, had been forced or tricked into surrendering her son, aged 19 months, into the hands of physicians of the health department, and the child taken to Queensboro hospital on suspicion of being a victim of poliomyelitis, notwithstanding the family doctor, together with two con- sulting physicians had diagnosed the case as a slight lameness_ following an attack of malaria. The boy's fath- er has retained Lawrence T. Gresser, an attorney, to institute court action to get the child back home. Dr. Will- fam A. Smith, of Springfield, L. I, is their family physician. He and two physicians he called into_consultation, are sald to agree that the child has no sign of infantile paralysis. Al this would seem to indicate that old time doctrire that a man's home is his castic, has been thrown into the discard. he Sun remarks that before long the dog will have to take out a permit to bury his bone. Let us hope that this revolt against the arbitrary methods of the gang in chaige of American Medical Mssociation marks the beginning of the end of medical| tyranny which has characterized the opening_Years of the twentieth cen- tury. ‘We must look, however, to the inteliigent citizenship of the nation to make this hope into a reality. It be- hooves the taxpayer to turn a deaf ear to thei rdemands for funds under the plea of protecting the dear pub- from the onslaughts of microb: otc. With vour kind permis { Editor, I will publish later in your col- umns, the New York Sun's edito: remarks on the arrest of the Anderson child. DAVIS. A W. Norwich, Sept. 25, 1916. POLITICAL . Dr. Wiley to Vote for Hughes. “I favor the election of Mr. Hughes to the Presidency for entirely diifer- ent reasons than those Leld by riost of his supporters. It is not because of the Mexican policy nor the foreign policy of the Administration nor by reason of its domestic policies. It is because of the apparent indifference of the Administration of President ‘Wilson to the cause of pure food and drugs. Practically all of the abuses!| which_were injected into the Purc Food Law by the preceding Adminis- trations are still in force. Emnzoate of soda is still regnant. The fumes of burning sulphur are marching along | | undisturbed. There is evidently a Iull| in the activities of Administration of the law. A well-know beverage, de- clared by the Supreme Court mis- branded and amenable to the Food Law hes not been molested. No at- tempt has been made to enforca thnl law in regard to the bleachingg of flour. The repal of the mixed iour law, that splendid safeguard to the ! purity of our bread, has been tacitiy aproved by the Treasury Department. “Mr. Hughes in fhis activities on the Supreme Court has stood like a one wall for the proper Administr: tion of the Food Law. I believe bis clection would see a radical change in the attitude of the government to- wards ‘pure food end pure drugs, So vital to the welfare of our people. For this reason, I sincerely hope that | Mr. Hughes may be chosen as our next President. ‘T should expect Mr. Hughes as President to have the same attitude toward the pure food and drug law tht he had as a judge on the bench and to apoint a secretary of ogri- cultvge with subordinate officers, Who would be enthusiastic and earnest ‘in the enforcement of the pure food law for the benefit of the physical, men- tal and moral welfare of our people.” Prices and the Ttariff. Before we began to make our own steel rails English manufacturers charged us more than three times as much per ton for steel rails we bought from them as American manufactur- ers have since charged for millions of tons of these rafls. When any Amer- ican industry is sufficiently vrotected it is sure to get into the market and | to break down the prices maintained | by a foreign monopoly. The foreign producer can charge what he pleases whenyhe can control our markets, and with his cheaper labor and generally cheaper cost of production it is easy for him to monopolize our markets unless our own manufacturers and wage earners are protected-by a tar- iff which covers the difference in the cost of productlon here and abroad. What has happened in the case of steel rails has happened in the case of many other “articles of manufaéture. —Philadelphia. Telegraph. What Would You Have Done? The parrot cry, “What would you have done?” keems to be the only an- swer the democrats are capable = of offering to Mr. Hughes’ scathing ar- raignment of the vacHlations and blunders of the federal administra- tion.. To refuse to meet the criticisms of the republican candidates, to re- frain from any defense of the poli- cles and measures that are under at- tack, and to attempt to reverse the positions of assailants and defenders in the battle that is now in progress, is too much like a plea of confession and avoidance to pass for good strate- gY. It is quite enough for Mr. Hushes to make it plain what he would not have done with respect to matters he has criticised, and this he is doing with _emphasis and force. He is deal- utterances of many|ing with something concrete. - He has 8 ONE NIGHT ONLY TUES., Oct., 3 Muesei Lower Floor..... Balcony ... Gallery. .. Seats on Sale F: ay at 10 a. m. would not have intervened in the in- ternal affairs of Mexico even to the point of invasion at Vera Cruz and then pretended that he had “preserved the peace” he would not have put weapons and ammunition in the hands of notorious enemies of law and order such as Villa; he would not have Deen content with the lame and futile results of the government's e fort to hold to “strict accountability’ those guilty of the murder of helpless American _eitizens—women and chil- dren—on ‘the high seas, and he cer- tainly would not have been a party to the humiliating surrender of congress and the executive to the arrogant de- mand of the railway brotherhoods set- ting a precedent that is likely to be far more costly to the nation than anything the brotherhoods cowld have done had they fulfilled their threats. And, finally, Mr. Hughes would not have sacrificed one of the fundamen- tal principles of _republican govern- ment mereiy as a bid for votes!—Phil- STORIES OF THE WAR | 23,000 Saved Paris. M. Louis Rouquette, special envoy to the United States from the French Ministry of Commerce, speaking re- ently before the Alllance Franchise in Carnegie Hall, said that France owed to Aristide Briand, now the Premier, the idea of rushing her troops in taxicabs against the Ge mans sweeping upon Paris at the Dbe- ginning of the war. “M. Briand has not received the fuil measure of credit heretofore for his idea,” eaid M. Rouquette. “The phantom army which turned von Kiuck’s rigat flank was made up of only 23,000 men, carried to the battle- field in 3,000 taxis. This number was sufficiently large to deceive the Ge: mans. who thought it was even great- er, and the day was saved.” “The genius of the French, reunited to that of the Anglo-Saxon,” said M. Rouquette, “has made possible a re- sistance against the organized cun- g of the Germans. That the Cer- s are weakening is shown by tae fact that the prisoners whom we now take at the front are young boys, fresh from the schools and shops, who have had little training in warfare, and whose spirit is easily broken by battlefield.” the horrors of the Tiinnels of Verdun. Miss Kathicen “Burke, chairman of the Scottish Womax's Hospital Furd, has returned to this country from Liv- erpool on the American liner St. Paul, to spend six months in the United States and Canada, lecturing on the war for the benefit of charity. On her visit to this country last spring Miss I c raised $75.000 in 60 dags Since ‘leaving New York on June 10 she had visited the various hospitals in nce and the shot-riddled cities of Verdun and Rhei; “The military authorities gave me a roving permit and a car to take me wherever 1 wished to g0 as well as an escort,” Miss Burke said. “After visit- inz Rhe! which the Germans shell every other day or so, and devasted Bethany, 1 called on Gen. Petain, wlo zave me a leiter to Gen. Robert Niv- clie. commander of the operations at Verdun. “There are 12,000 cars, including ambulances, carrying the wounded, stores, and ammunitions in the Ver- dun sector, and the trafic only goes one way on the roads, to avold con fusion. One thovsand men are em- ploved in keeping them in repair. These are mostly negroes from Sene- gal, who are not much use in trench fighting, as rtillery makes them | nervous. I was told that 30,000 Sene= galese were being drilled in Africa for duty with the French army. “The lower part of Verdun especlally the houses along the river front, is al} levelled by the Germar shells. Furni- ture can be seen in the rooms with tho remnants of lace curtains hanging to the window frames. The headquar- ters of the army in fhe city is situat- ed in the gallerles cut in the rock 220 feet under the citadel by Vauban, the great military engineer of Louis XIV. There are barber shops, candy stores, and cafes, where the Poilus supple- The candy store the favorite resort. It is perfectly fe down there. 1 was invited <o dine in the big room in the gallery ment their rations. i .$1.50 and $1.00 .$1.00, 750 and 50c '35 and 250 made it plain to the country that he B R EE D Matines at 2.30 with Gen. Dubois, who gave dinner for 180 officers, in celebration of ais receiving the grand cordon of the Legion of Honor that day from Gen. Nivelle. “The other parts of the gaileries were divided into small cubicles, all lighted and heated by electricity. Tke with_cross-section at the head, where the General sat wit his staff, and the red glow from the charcoal stoves re- flected in the dim light on the sides I { | _A BG JOVIAL MUSICAL FESTIVAL . wTHE PRINCETON FIVE <~ A QUINTETTE OF MERRY MONARCHS OF MELODY TETSON & HUBER ~" FRANKIE HEATH & CO. 3‘“9*"‘!. Dancing, Comedy Duo | In a Novel Comedy Skit TRIANGLE FEATURE PLAY IN FIVE PARTS LIEUTENANT DANNY, U. S. A. A Powsrful Tale of Love and Adventurs Featuring WILLIAM DESMOND AND ENID MARKEY PATHE NEWS CONCERT ORCHESTRA Director A. Brazeau Inthe Two-Reel Keystone FORD STERLING _HI8 LYING HEART ' Feature Photoplays THEATRE Today the Popular Stellar Combination 8 _FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN and BEVERLY BAYNE In “MAN AND HIS SOUL” Coming Wednesday and Thursday RHEA MITCHELL and WILLIAM H. STOWELL In “THE OVERCOAT” Evening at 7 and 830 ALL SEATS 100 Complete Change of Bill Wednesday and Friday All Week AUDITORIURE The Carmelo Musical Comedy Co. PR S e 2urn and Famous Rose Bud Chorus 20—PEOPLE—20 HAZEL DAWN FRANK DANIELS As the “Feud Girl l In A. V. L. S. E. Comedy Mat. 10c—Eve., Balcony 10c, Main Floor 20c placed by new creatlons, With whica cooks, formed a picture that one only becomes fairly acquainted brandt might have painted.” Dbefore they must be banished. And - the business of repurchase is no slight affair. Just as there aro bi- OTHER VIEW POINTS and the faces of the of the gallery, 3 Rem- blimaniacs, Who pursue rare volumes through the trackless lairs of book- stores, so there are necktie fanati to whom the selection of a ne is a sacred rite not to be entere without some fasting and Vanity? Of course. But in prayer. consid- eration of the all pervasive solemnity Age is no safety when you coms to look life square in the face. Along comes _a fair one of twenty-two in New York state sueing a mere vouth of seventy-two for breach of promise. And the claim is made thaat the man |, jont colored articles which he is of mature vears squeezed jer hand| . .oiicq to wear? Certainly not we. more affectionately than she had ever It is nmot so long ago that we, our- i’;fie‘?:“iffi.e"ii";éu? G a8 A anis | selves, were guilty—Meriden Journal and commonplaceness ‘of man's ciothes who can blame him for devot- ing particular attention to the few o e Governor Holcom is rightly credits The bill board law is one that must|ed Wwith a ‘“most proper p: be observed. Its accptance is not op- | SPIrit” in starting off for Nog: seo the Connccticut soldier take stock of conditior by personal observation. Not governor is sufficiently solic to the welfare of the soldiers of state, and Governor Holcomb will 1 be jostled by the crowd of other ex- ecutives, thcre on a like errand! In- cidentally his absence will give us a Bridgeport govemmor for a something to which we have, ever, become accustomed. And, cidentally again, it does the owners of the land- scape nuisance, a they fondl imag- ined awhile ago. The superior court on’ Tuesday imposed penalties on a number who had defied the authority of the legislature and declared that it exceeded its power. These sen- tences were in accord with a recent decision of the supreme court which geclared the law constitutional and active. The law was intended to dis- courage the placing of the grotesque things, and at the same time give some revenue. It is a wise and ex- cellent law.—Bristol Press. tional with down the high school boys, and on the edi- torial force of the Epsilon. His rise has been rapid, but sure, and there are not many that can parallel it, in this _state, at least! — Bridgegprt Standard. ONSTIPATION Is the big trouble in every serious sickness — causing deprossion of spirits, irritability, nervousness, imperfect vision, loss of memory, | floflr sleep, loss of appetite, etc.—stop ‘with a regular course of SCHENCKS . MANDRAKE PILLS car company, wisely recognizing that even a monopoly can do effective advertising, hag entered upon a campaign in the daily papers. The first piece of “copy” emanating from the Pullman company deals with the element of safety as applied to the cars of the concern. When one considers the wrecks on the New Haven' road and the frightful fatali- tles which took place in wooden cars, one perceives that there is a good task ahead in making this advertis- ing convincing. However, there s one very effective way. "Let the Pull- man car company adopt this as its slogan: ‘“When you ride in a Pullman you ride in an all-steel car.” That will guarantec safoty to the public’s content. Wooden Pullmans are an outragei—Bridgeport Telesrams The Pullman Afd so it goes. The virile, inspir- ing cravats of today are the pen- wipers of tomorrow. They mct be re- They act mp’{: -nld freely, t&m j ent oro cleansing the gu&r:l.ly.lgoml!on?gg o n;:xe?.%tilm;‘: In iver— o for ini tion, eadache, biliousness, heart: mn flatulency. Purely vegetable Platn or Sugar Coated. 4 80 YEARS® CONTINUOUS SALE PROVES THEIR MERIT. Dr. J. H. Schenck & Son, Philadelphie The War A Year Ago Today September 26, 1915. Germans suspended attacks on Dvinsk. Germans_ attaciked east of Lida and Vilna. Allies made great advances on west front, taking Souchez and Loos. DR. F. W. HOLMS, Dentist Shannon Building Annex, Room A Telonhone 533 % STATE OF CONNECTICUT. All Residents of Connecticut owning taxable securities are liable to tax at local rates unless the State Tax of four mills on the dollar has been paid to the State Treasurer ON OR BEFORE SEPTEMBER 30th. 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