Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 30, 1916, Page 4

and Qoufied 120 YBARS OLD price 12c a week; 50c a a year. @s second-class matter. ‘Telephone Calls: Ofsfice etin ' Editorial Bulletin Job Saturday, Sept. 30, 1916. The Circulation of The - Bulletin The Bulletin has the largest circulation of any paper in-Eastern Connecticut and from thres to four times larger than that of any in Norwich. It is delivered 'to over 3,000 of the 4,053 houses th Nor- wich and read by ninety-three per cent. of the people. In Windham it is delivered to over 900 houses, in Putnam and Danielson to over 1,100, and in all of these places it is considered tbe local ‘daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hundred and sixty- five postofiice dlstricts, and sixty zural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold in every town and on all of he R. F. D. routes in Eastern Conpecticut. ~ CIRCULATION avera; Norwich, 1901, 1905, avera a412 -5,920 MR. HUGHES’ RECORD. | During his tour of the middle west a4 while speaking in Toledo, several iof the hecklers fired this question at r. Hughes, “How about the Danbury ‘Hatters’ case?” That was manifestly entirely out of place. In rendering his _decision in that matter with the other members of the court be was passing upon the law which governed in that ~case. Had those same hecklers been anxious to ascertain his position relay tive to labor, or his record as a hu- manist, they could have been satisfled i they had turned to his record of ac- complishment while he was governor ot New York, or they could have even secured their answer from his action which on the supreme court bench “=when cilled on to pass on the legality “of legislation adopted througnout the eountry. . Justice Hughes wrote the opinion - -when the United States suprems court upheld the Illinois child labor law. Justice Hushes wrote the opinion w when the supreme court of the United %-States upheld the pure food law of Willinois prohibiting the sale of food preservatives containing adulteration. %S Justice Hughes wrote the opinion ‘when the supreme court of the United States upheld the California eight- bour law for women. Justice Hughes wrote the opinion when the United States supreme court ‘gyupheld the Towa law prohibiting rail- Toads from making contracts with thelr employes limiting the right to f.ecover damages, in advance of the injuries received. Justice Hughes wrote the opinfon . Wwhen the United States supreme court held unconstitutional the labor con- tract law of Alabama which in effect ~amade the fallure to perform contracts “"6t 1abor a crime. And in the case of Leo Frapk of . Georgis, Justice Hughes with Justice Holmes favored the application for a writ of habeas corpus, saying “It is . @ur_duty to act. . . now and to de- clare lynch law as little valid when practiced by a regularly drawn jury as * when administered by one elected by * @ mob intent upon death. MUST BE A DECISIVE VICTORY. . When Lloyd-George declares that #there is no end'of the war in.sight, that Great Britain is to fisht to a lknockout and that Great Britain would resent any peace talk from the -/ Wnited States as taking sides, it rep- resents only the attitude that has been taken by thatscountry, and in fact all wsthose at war, right along. It bas been frequently asserted tbat no meddling is;wanted and it can be appreciated that any aotion which would look to the securing of favors for one side as against another, and which would simply mean delay in e sottlement offthe quarrel, Instead “of fighting it out’to a finish now, is ¥ . welcomed. %% Bveryone would.like to see peace ‘declared but it is equally important that it should be permanent, and it must be recognized that peace talk that is pro-German is as much out ‘when the entente appears to % the upper hand as it.would have 0 have launched it Tn behalf of allfes when Germany was galning ail fronts, and walking through the detenses almost at will. : Théte are grave questions which heed to be settled and that cannot be for, the good of all concerned in “way manner. 'As much as the s regretted it must go to fts cal conclusion and tbat is a “de- lve victory for one side. SHOULD BE NO REPEATS. F clogely upon the horrible “whith was presented by the of Lima, O. in their tortur- threatening with hanging and in- ng of the sheriff, in addition to at the Postotfice at Norwich, 85-8. ffice 35-2. tlo Office, 67 Church St Rt g T S ———— similar effort in the state of Kansas. The man was fllegally strung up to a tree after being taken from the sherift despite the appeals of _the judge who had heard his case. They insisted, however, upon capital pun- ishment which is not senctioned by the law of that state. ‘With such examples it may not be surprising that another mob in Geor- gia has added to the lawlessness of such character which lhias prevailed in that commonwealth by adding another to its list of lynchings. This is a crime for which Georsla has secured an undesirable notorlety yet it has not put an end to the crimes which it is supposed to discourage. In such flagrant violations of law apd order the southern state is no more guilty than the others, except that it is the leading one in the nation. in that re- spect, but whether lynching Is on the gain or whether it is declining, every time It is resorted to, it calls for the rising up of public opinion to prevent it in the future and civilization will not be true to its name until it puts an end to that kind of mob rule. UPHOLDING THE NATION'S HONOR. Richard Olney, a member of the Cleveland cabinet hag come out in support of the Wilson admintstration but he apparently fails to abide by the great contrast which exists be- tween the course pursued by Grover Cleveland and that followed by Wood- row Wilson when it comes to a mat- ter of national honor. George W. Wickersham, a cabinet member during the Taft administra- tion, expresses his astonishment at Mr. Olney’s position by allowing that some of the statements which have been attributed to him regarding the Wilson acts are,not autbentic, but if they are Hie With conSlstency wants to know if he is not acquainted with the fact that “the position repcatedly stated by Governor Hughes is that 1 national honor had ibeen consulted and vigorously upheld we would have avoided the humiliation and danger of war into which we have been brought by President Wilson's fajlure to up- 0ld American honor and protect American lives? Mr. Wickersham further wants to know if the nation was mors com- pletely armed_when President Cleve- land wrote his Venezuelan message, or was it less peaceful or was the chief executive less afraid? His inquiry as to whether this country was better prepared to support an ultimatum a year after the Lusitania affair that it was when it occurred or even when Germany threatened to sink it, Is equally " pertinent, and. Mr.. Olney is given an opportunity to express his stand upon Americanism when he is asked it he approves of the volicy of watchfully waiting to see whether a guilty natlon is willing to abandon its course and send an ultimatum only when it seems safe to do=so and pos- sible to secure a cheap political ad- vantage without substantial danger. The treatment of the nation’s honor in the case of Cleveland and Wilson affords a_contrast which cannot be overlooked. THE FIGHT IN THE DOBRUDJA. There is a conspicuous lull in the operations of the Teutonic forces un- der General Mackensen, the famous leader of drives,. in the, Dobrudja. To the surprise of the Rumanians he threw a large army into that Ruman- ian province bordering the Black sea which had been secured from Bul- garia as a recompense for its neutral- ity during the Balkan war. He made such progress that it became appar- ent that unless more determined re- sistance was given he.would become a serious menace. The Rumanians were not able to stop his offensive and it was necessary to fall back un- til reinforcement could be brought up. Little definite is obtainable regard- ing the operations in that quarter but from the character of the despatches of late from both sides it is apparent, that the Rumanians have recetved the help which they expected from Rus- sia and there is nothing in the claims of the Teutons -to- offset the report from Bucharest that a decisive vie- tory has been secured over the Mack- ensen army. Certainly thelr advance has been stopped and the resistance which is being offered by the Ruman- fan-Russian forces appears to be suf- ficient to check furtber advance if not the inauguration of a movement to drive the German, Bulgarfan and Turkish army back Into Bulgaria. Such an offensive has been expected from a time long before Rumania act- ually entered the war, and while the efforts of King Ferdinand’s country has been devoted chiefly to the in- vasion of Transylvania, it appears to have the situation in hand now so that it can strike back in the Do- brudja when the time is considered ripe. EDITORIAL NOTES. It seems to be possible to can most all of summer's products except the heat. It appears to be g case of throwing out the life line with King Constan- tine of Greece. ‘When Austria says it does not want to stop, it ought to make It plain whether it means fighting or running. No one had ever expected that the announcement of the arrival of the Bremen at New London would come from Berlin. Probably it would be daiffcult to convincs ‘Bulgaria that it has played an important part in forcing the hana of Greece. The season of the year is approach- ing when everyone is liable to look upon each chestnut tree as a com- munity affair. The man on the corner says: If we cleared up tomorrow’s list of things to do, there would still be plenty for the day following. The American-Mexicas commission bas abandoned Groton . for Atlantic City. . Possibly it is ng for a place that will inspire more speed. e B The defeat of the Wilson gandidate In the New Jersey primary gives fur- ther evidenge of the unpopularity of the administration.’ If the Germans bave any old fur- Peronne which they want to retain, it might be well for them to commence to move them out. . X —— e Since the war broke out the loss in revenus under our t tarlff has amounted to $28, to make up witich the people of this country have been forced to go down in their was the successful carrying out of a The last humming bird I saw was on Sept. 7ith; and that seems to have been the hummer's farewell visit to the flower garden. This little all- American bird has started on his two thousand mile journey in order to keep in floral latitudes until tbe frost re- treats again, when he can follow Flora’s parade clear to the edge of the ice-fields b/ the North, where these birds seem to be very much more abundant than in New England, be- ing seén hovering over a single plant in the isolated Garden’s of God to the number of fifty. New England has only the ruby-throated varicty, but there are elght varieties common in the United States, and nine more Vari- eties_ which comé occasionally across the Mexican border, making the ful number of varieties found within our boundaries 17. There are three times this number in Mexico; and they are found most numerous upon the flower dotted mountain pastures a mile and a_ half above the level of the sea. Three or four varieties remain in warm and flowery California valleys the year round, These birds are repre- sented by 300 varieties. Among tue pretty South American names for them are: “murmuring birds” and “tresses of the day star.” It would be good for us all if we could have indelibly impressea upon our minds that nothing good ever comes of violence. It is an old truth that he who resorts to the sword shall perish by the sword; and we have plenty of evidence that they who be- come violent are iikely to become the victims of violence. Might has never been defined as righteousness unless manifested through love which is the greatest dependable force known to men or angels. Compulsion is never welcome whatever form it may take. Man revolts at being compelled to be good, even. The fact is he cannot be forced to be just because justice is the frult of a free conscientious act, not compliance with a decree or re- sponse to dictation of any It A man may be compelled to d just act, but this accomplithed e i5 no juster than before. Where mutuality presides there is no need of violence. Where therc is fairness there is little need even of organization. When men learn to play the game of life fair there will be no resorting to violence. “The essence of Christianity” soid Hepworth, “is first to be good and then to do good.” As most people live it you would not even think this could Dbe trye; but a_person who has really been born to the spirit and is of the spirit is not dead to, but constantly and persistently alive to good. “By their fruits ye shall know them,” says the Scriptures, and too many people are deaf and blind to this truth, or they would not constantly be out of harmony with their professions. If a soldier was as neglectful of duty as the average Christian how long do you suppose it would be before he would be courtmartialed? There was an age when to be a Christian was to be in dally peril of losing one’s life; and the fact that the followers of the Way were true o God and to one another is the reason that the truth survived. They first hecome good and then se- cretly did good, overcoming tyranny and heralding world-wide that men were not claves but heirs to freedom, as sons of God It seems strange to hear hard-heart- edness_commended in a Christian na- tion of good-heartedness. There is no-doubt ‘when sympathy is put in . the -place. of suggestion,’ or arouses fear, that it is injurious; but it is not something to be scouted as it is by some of the leading German writers today. The repetition of the work of thé soldiers of the Central Empire in Rumania of _destroying villages as it has_done in Belgium, Northern France, Poland and_Serbia, seems to indicate that the Kaiser's troops are heartless enough without any special campaign to increase the hardness of heart of the home peo- ple who are, according to the latest reports, being advised to put aside pity and to rid the nation of helpless, non-productive members of their fam- ilies not only as a relief to them, but as a benefit to the states. We have been taught that “next to love sym- pathy is the divinest passion of the human heart,” not a wenkness capa- ble of destroving an empire. Young man, your boss is not like- ly to sgy: “I've seen many a brass tack with a_better head than you've got” if you find pleasure in your work and_keep your mind upon it. Today is the day to be conscious of, pot pay day. When thoughts of pay-day flood the mind there is no room for an ef- ficient conception of things. Pay-day is important, but it is o often made glorfous by an advance for good work. that the work is worthy of the utmost thought—pay-day needs the least. What pay day is, or is to be, depends upon your skill and your worth. Watching the clock and longing for pay-day are both habits of indolence which tell against the development of a pay-day that will be a joy to you. The reason there are so many pay days not equal to nceds or expecta- ttions is because the work is common work,* and__common workers are abundant. The way to less compe: tion is by strict attention to business and conscientious service. He who makes himseif worth most to his employer by skill and dependability has a pay day that is satisfactory. Wherein is a day in June so much rarer than a September morn. It is the glad harvest time, and if Jack frost does ride a high horse, nature doesn’t wince, so why should we? Not only the gardens glow, but the forests gleam, and every maple tree seems to be waving an immgense bou- quet to departing summer. The asters and salvias make the gardens bright with color, the great hydrangeas wave their pink and white racemes, the golden-rod adorns ten thousand hills and pastures. Every September morn bas business for man; and a bracing atmosphere which bids him hustle, and which assures health and com- pensation. It brings to the front the apple-dumpling and pumpkin ple and the sweet cider and the grape-juice. Tt is the month of good things—a month in which nature makes every day a festival. September morn bids us wake up! brace up! and make up for the days misspent in the months preceding her. It is only occasionally that & man realizes how homely he is; and few plain-visaged men are conscious some beauty is apt to select them as a be- coming contrast, just as she would select lace for the neck or a bow of ribbon for the hat. Oecasionally a man will complain of his looks. A Chicago man récently complained to a surgeon that he had & hook-nose that was a_mortification to him and_eaid if surgery could correct this facial fault he was willing to undergo an niture or war relics in Bapaume of | operation to be repaired. The surgeon simply said to him that as repairers of God's work surgeons had not met with eminent success, so he would advise him to give strict attention to the development of his brains, as in- tellectual brilllancy has _overcome many a physical blemjsh. Books, hot drugs, could mgke him so radjant that & hook-nose would not be an im- pediment to matrimonial But_a man-with Hls e t his (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) Reference has been made to that era in Norwich history when women, were censured by the straight-laced for their extravagance in dressing. ‘But the loquacious sex did not have a mpnopoly of gay apparel or vain adornment. ™ History tells that before the Revo- lution, wigs full and curled, for clergymen and_ other _dignataries, white and powdered, red cloaks or roquelaurs, axfd buckles or bows of ribbon at the knee and in the shoes, were worn by gentlemen. Even young bovs were often array- ed in cocked hats, and small. clothes with knee buckles. On ceremonious occasions, if wigs were not worn, men had thelr hair “craped”—crimped, as_we Say TDOW, curled and powdered by barbers. A full dress for gentlemen was mostly made of silk, with trimmings of goid or silver lace, the waistcoat often richly embroidered. As to the hair-dressing of the ladies of that time, cushions stuffed with hair and covered with sk were usod in dressing the head, the hair being carefully combed over the cusion. This mode of dressing the hair made a calash necessary, instead of an or- dinary sized bonnet. The calash was large and wide, a vast receptacle for wind, and an awkward article of at- tire, ‘we are told, “often shrouding in its ' depth a health-beaming face, necding no other ornamept than its own good-natured smile.” At one period, feathers were much nose like this would find it difficult to concentrate upon books! Some people think a man’s best friend is money, but Robert Colyer, called ‘attention to the.fact “Man's best friends are his ten fingers.” Those who have lost them do not have to be told why. They are the indus- trious members of the body which re- spond to the brain in all the mani- fold needs for comfort and success. Perhaps you have never thought that all useful things are first conceived of by the mind, and then given ma- terial form by the fingers. They have produced all the instruments for the promotion of the comfort, the inter- ests and the pleasures of man. They have made not only everything which produces money but the money itself. The ten fingers represent us as noth- ing else upon éarth can. They have found_positions for men in the bank- ing houses and the -penitentiary. Through them we may manifest our skill or our character, or our bone- headedness. They are our best friends if we do not make them our worst enemies, which thousands of thought- less people do. These ten best friends of ours created husbandry and indus- try of every kind, and made 2nd pre- served the Scriptures upon which are founded our spiritual hopes. P ———— Spnday Morning Talk I LIMITATIONS. A man’s native ability represents a gift; never an acquisition. He may develop his gift and splendidly use it ‘but by no personal exertion. can he increase or change it. The vigor and range of his faculties are determined in the very hour of his entrance upon this mundane arena. With his first faint breadth, the limit line is set, a line never to be crossed. The God who framed us out of dust made us as we are and measured our capacities ac- cording to his own decrees. The fact might well seem a hard one to millions of the sons of men. except for other facts that supplement and soften it. The discovery of one's own relative incapacity means an hour fraught with pain. To know that the next man works with a larger en- dowment of mental gifts than one's own amounts to a personal handicap. It takes heroism to iry to match one's own pint cup against the gallon meas- ure of his neighbor. Failure is barder in ourselves Than ‘tis to watch another fall To know, however hard one A thin soil is of no avail; To see another lightly do The task impossible to you. The dull etudent who sees the boy at the next desk solving those diffi- cult “originals” easily, and getting his lessons without half trying, Is chal- lenged as he will be at fow other points in his career. The girl, cast in prosaic mold, who notes the inborn social grace the musical or artistic abilities of some companion, is put to an _important test of character. To look upon the more brilliant achieve- ments of others without bitterness, and to continue one’s own steadfast en< deavors, this is success of a high or- der. Let us rot, at ary rate, rail against the ordaired limitations of life. Re- bellion here is, of all places, the most useless. When the famous dictum of Margaret Fuller that she ‘accepted the universe” was reported to Carlyle, the grim old philosopher ejaculate “Gad, she’d better!” Not otherwise is it with ail of us mortals. We must accept ourselves as we are. There is, however, a very deep sil- ver lining to the cloud, if cloud indeed such facts as these can be called. In the first place, limitation of power means limitation .of _responsibility. The little dummy engine puffing about the vard is not condemned if it cannot swing along at 50 miles an hour the heavy vestibuled express. fact as old as human history—namely, that the hare Is alwavs being out- pointed by the tortolse. T disposi- tion of nature to equalize things is so plain that he who runs may read. Perserverance and industry are daily winning on a thousand fields where brilliancy fails. The world was not organized for the exclusive use of geniuses, nor is it at present, being run by them. The work of life Is done by very ordinary people. Practically, It has appeared through all the years, that the man with one talent, rather than the man with five, has been most likely to dominate our human_affairs. He knows that, if he ‘would win, he must summen every re- source to the struggle. He knows that a foot traveler like himself, must start betimes. He knows -that he must keep everlastingly at 1t. How often the world titnesses a strange. paradox—the ungifted man wielding a scepter of power, while the gifted man becores a_mere lotus eater sitting in the sun! How often are the words of George Willlam Curtis proved true: “Better an engine of one cat-power running all the time, than one of a hundred horsepower standing idle!” Here is the brightness in what might be a somber situation. They own especial chance for victory.. No ‘human lot is so humble that it may not be filled with grace and glory. Again, there should be noted well a|' ‘who are meagerly endowed have Y.b!lrl = weorn upon the head, surmounting & high tdrban of gauze or muslin, raised on wire and adorned also with rib- ons. , The wits of the time called these young fashionables “the feathered accusing them of having their heads ‘“martialzied and cockatooed.” A rhymester of the Norwich of that day, describing his imaginary love as a 1ady of fashion, writes of her: I mean she should wear A crape cushion for hair; I wish she might spell, And read pretty well. That my billet she may not mistake: And the skin of my dear Be as smooth and as clear As chalk-eating can cleverly make. In a Norwich paper of 1780, fashionable calash and cushion thus ridiculed: the are Hail, great Calash! o'erwhelming veil, By all-indulgent heaven, To swallow nymphs and maidens stale In sportive kindness given. Safe ‘hid beneath thy circling sphere, Unseen by mortal_eyes, ‘The mingled heap of oil and halr And wool and powder lies. A Norwich lady in full dress for great occasions displayed a rich bro- cade, with open skirt and trall, the front of the ekirt trimmed; an em- broidered stomacher and full ruffles at the elbows. Hoods and scarfs were of _silk. No sumptuvary laws, Miss Caulkins informs us, restrained the feminine taste for rich attire in this colony. The stairists of the day decried the prevalling extravagance in dress, just as such writers do at present. They adverted to the costly cloaks, the sillc gowns, -the powder puffs and cardi- nals, silk stockings and other expen- sive’ feet-trappings, and exclaimed in horror, “Great is the prodigality of the times!” _They dwelt on the day of greater simplicity, when, instead of the rich cloth roquelaur, cven the magistrate and the colonel were satisfied with a cloak of brown camlet lined with green baize, and when the greatest lady in the land had her ridinghood also of plain camlet. However, as the struzgle for liberty gradually ' overshadowed the land Norwich women, as they have ever done, Tose to the demands of the times, and a marked change arose in dress, amusements and display ‘Women discarded all imported o ments and fabrics, attiring themse! wholly in Jomestic goods. _Fine wool and choice flax were in higher estimate an silks and laces, until, as the historian records, ’‘The hearts of the patriots, as w as the lavdations of the poets were given to beauty In homespun garments.” Mer, too, discarded their dainty ap- parel, their shining stocks, cambric ruffles, silk stockings, silver buckles, and other articles of foreign produc- tion, and, following the example of | the patriotic women, went back to leather shoe-strings, checked hand- kerchiefs. an brown hcmespun cloth garments. THE DICTAGRAPH. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A Desperado in Diapers. _Mr. Editor Under the above cap- tion the New York Sun’s editorial com- ments on the action of the New York Health Board’s officials in raiding the home of Mrs. Anton Anderson and kid- ho ith napping her 19 months' old son, s suspected of being afficted poliomyelitis, will prove interesting to_your readers. The article follow Robert Anderson, aged 19 month: whose dastaraly conduct in being sus- pected of having infantile paralysis had aroused - the patriotic spirit of certain Health Department doctors, lay in his crib at the home of his par- ents In New York avenue, Jamaica, a flagrant, babbling criminal. His fel- low conspirators, three reputable. old fashioned doctors of the old town, had abetted his arrogant villainy by as- suring his mother that the son’s lame ness was caused by accident, no dis- ease. "Encouraged by such assurance —so simple and ancient that it must be = false—the mother had slammed the door in the faces of a health de- partment doctor and a nurse who came to take the culprit away. Was the health department to be discouraged by. such a skirmish? Was the hysterical campaign of a sad sum. mer to terminate with the bang of a door and no further publicity? No, a milllon bacilli no! The depart- ment dctors massed their forces on the frontier of New York avenue, but the board of strategy decided that the army of ttree or four doctors was too small How many allies could be got in the shape of policemen? The police have been much occupied with strikes, we are told; so much occupied that the traffic posts were neglected. So only a dozen cops could be spared. The allied army studied the case of Mackenson at Dobru What did that great general do when the Rumanians slammed the door in his face? Why, he made an encirding counter attack, according to Berlin. That was the thing to try; an en- circling attack. Z Miss Ruth Johnson, the aunt of the infant archfiend, happened to leave the kitchen door open, which is almost as careless as permitting a sailent to be eliminated Directed by the general medical staff, weil in the rear, policemen rushea bravely in, unprotected by barrage, and the cit- adel was theirs. The mother, cowed by the brass buttons, earrted the dia- pered desperado out to the ambulance, and the magnificent victory of the health department was complet.o Some decoration should be struck off to commemorate the day. There were times In New York when doc- tors who accomplished a faat so spien- dia would have had pinned upon them the Ordér of the Tin can. As for the policemen, probably they were obey- ing orders. We Fave nothing to say to them. We leave that job to their efficient_wives. An effort will be made as a result of the forcible removal of baby Ander- son to the Queensboro hospital as a poliomyelitis * suspect, to have legis- lation passed in New Yorjk state re- stricting the power of the Board of Health. ' The Hillside Civic asocia- tion of Jamaica is behind the move- ment. . Lawrence T. Gresser, a lawyer en- gaged to start the legal steps by which it is Intended to force the Health De- partment to return the infant to its mother was busy preparing the pre- liminary papers in the application to the supreme court. A W. DAVIS. Norwich, Sept. 29, 1916. Killingly Town Affairs. Mr, Editor: In an ‘editorial of the Windham County Transcript the fol- lowing appears: “For_the first time in the history of the town the attempt iy being made to move the office of first selectman from the populous business partion of the town to a place remote from the center of population and not easily acsessible.” ‘Such a statement coming as it does from ~our learned editor is not emly Somotern Sl 60y Compieiel, i a modern neari keep the town records, with an- office fitted to transact town bus- iness accessible from all parts of the town there is no desire from anyone to change its present location and to my mind it is too weak an argument to male further comment on. As regards the Leavens incident, I as yet am unable to find a single pér- son in the Becond voting district who has heard anyone say that “Mr. Leav- ens was” to be removed if Mr. Gilbert was elected.” In all justice to every- one of the board of selectmen, I will say that there has never been a sin- gle word said relative to discharging Mr. Leavens from the town farm. Mr. Tucker, my neighbor, remote from the populous business portion of the town and not easily accessible” also says: “It is said that the only member of the board who opposed Mr. Leavens was the candidate at present opposed to Mr. Gilbert”” So far as I am concerned in the matter any such statement is utterly false and I most emphatically deny any such assertion. When I was elected to the board of selectmen last October one of the first Dbusiness transactions on the board was the division of the highways. Mr. Young being elected first selectman took as his portion of the highways the_borough of Danlelson, the_road leading from Danielson to the Rhode Island_line at “Little Rest” so-called, B’nd ail roads south to the Plainfield Hne. Mr. Gilbert asked me to take the balance of the highways as he dldn't care for them. As a matter of fact I took the balance of the highways with the exception of approximately eight miles. My mileage of highways to look after and keep in repair has been approximately 100 miles, I have personally superintended the work, having men at work in different parts of the town at the same time. In view of the fact that some com- ment has been made In regard to my personal services being more than Mr. Young’s or Gilbert's I can only say that I have given my time and best efforts in the interest of the town and fee]l that they are just. , In concludon I wish fo thank the voters of the town of Killingly for thelr loyal support in the past and should T be re-elected to the board on Monday, Oct. 2, I shall, as heretofore, work: for the best intérests of the town and hope to merit the confi- dence you have placed in me, A. D. SAYLES. Danielson, Sept. 20, 1916, POLITICAL A Philiadelphia Legal View. Phiia—J. Levering Jones, a promin- ent member of the Phila delphia bar, says: “The atracity of the four broth- erhoods should be met by indignant and conclusive actibn by every citi- Zen, Labor has already been given class legislation in a way that constitutes a blow at democracy. I believe the principal now enumerated in legisla~ tion is unconstitutional and subversive of rights of the genmeral citizens. It it a step in behalf of organizations and | restraint of trade, distinctly bevond any present legisiation. It virtually declares especial rights of a violent and clamorous group of workmen, by compulsory enactment, beyond the av- erage paid anybody else for work of equivalent value. It makes the four hundred thousand the favorites of a doctrinaire and autocratic President. Of all the reckless legislation ever proposed in a free country, this is the most_dishonorable example. “What liberty, or fraternity or equality is represented in this eltua- tion on_Dbehalf of the four brother- hoods? Why mnot, tomorrow, extend the same law to every worker serving in combbinations of capital of a quasi- public nature? Why not make a scale of wages in the banks, under direction of the oller of the currancy: on flways, on all steam- 1 in i‘xcmtme commerce. specious ingenu- interstalte yeom- do it, all trade transactions which touch transporta- tion of products from one state to an- other. The President, as a_specialist as to what compensation should be. has declared himself competent to deal with an advance of wages of 25 per cent. Why not develop a_propaganda hich would permit exploitation of his views in_extending such a social the- ory to_all classes of labor?” A. H. Carver, a Philadelphia attor- ney, and an authority on constitutional law, says: “Thers is nothing inher- ently unconstitutional in an 8-hour law.. The ground on which the prob- able unconssitutionality will be urged will be that the law is confiscatory.” BEdward V. Kanc of Edward V. Kane & Co., says: “Why not nine hours’ pay for seven hours' work: or elght hours’ pay for six hours' work? Why not ten eggs for a dozen: one and a half pints for a quart; 1500 pounds for a ton; ten inches for a foot? 'This may sourd like reductio ad absurdum; nevertheless, it in principle avplies to Mr. Wilson’s idea of justice when secking a second term. The last word will not be said until Congress has en- acted a law making it compulsory to settle labor disputes by arbitration.”— Boston News Bureau. 1 embrace “in ity, merce, or attempt to to | || OTHER VIEW POINTS 1 A Briton traveling in this country has been surprised at the tolerance here of the English sparrow and nat- urally has written to the newspapers about it. He has seen a good deal of this country and is convinced that the scarcity of song birds here is due in great part to the number of spar- rows. Some Americans are just as fa- miliar with the fact as he can Dbe, but none has succeeded in rousing feeling against the sparrows to a very efii- cient working standard. — Hartford Times. The statement that straw votes |show a number of secessions in the solid south from the Wilson support, such straw votes being taken by means of coupons in monthly maga- zines, the paramount issue being the president’s surrender to the four brotherhoods, is something to have been anticipated. Manliness has not died out in the south, although at times it seems be near death. But whether such secessions will make any appreciable dent on the political soldiarity of the solid south is very The War A Year Ago Today September 30, 1915. Russians drove back Germans in Dvinsk region. Von Mackensen massed 250,000 men on Serbian front. French pierced German second line in Champagne. foars, B; crowned or extracted ouf BSO STRICTLY SANITARY OFFICE If these appeal to charge for consultation. DR. F. C. JACKSON 203 MAIN ST. 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BRUCKNER, Proprietor can. STORIES OF THE WAR | Combles a Charnal House. “It was not a village the Allies as- saulted—it was a fortress,” says a French correspondent at the front, in describing the taking of Combles. “When it was captured,” the cor- respondent adds, “it was a charmel house. What remained of the garri- son of two battalions fought furiously, and every corner of the town was the theatre for murderous combats. No ground was ylelded. Every inch of it was_conquered. “The ruins of a church changed hands three times during the 20 min- utes it took the French and British, after they had formed a junction and closed a ring around the town, to re- duce the last stronghold, the fall of which was saluted with enthusiastic cheering by the troops. It was then impossible to take two steps without encountering dead. “In_cellars and dugouts dead and #ounded lay mingled by the hundreds and it is certain that the Allies did not take a greater number of prisoners The Cranston Co. 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