Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 2, 1916, Page 4

Jlorwich Lulletin and @oufied 120 YEARS OLD weription price 12¢ a week; 50c a month; $86.00 a year. , Entered at the Postoffice at Norwich, Jonn., as second-class matter. Telephone Cnalls: Bulletin Business Office 480. O et Baiorial Rooms 85-8. Bulletin Job Offics 35-2. Willimantic, _Office, 67 Church St relephone 210-2. D Norwich, Thursday, Nov. 2, 1916. S e REPUBLICAN TICKET. President. CHARLES EVANS HUGHES of New York. Vice President, CHARLES W. FATRBANKS of Indiana. Preuidential Electors, E of New Haven, of New Londo: SON of Bridgeport, of Stafford, B. CHENEY of Hartford, THOMAS BAYANT of Torrington, ARTHUR T HOWERS af Manchester. United States Semator, GEORGE P, M'LEAN of Simsbury. Representative in Cougress, Sccond Distriet, RICHARD P. FREEMAN of New Lon- don. ‘\ ILL(A\I PAR: Governor, MARCUS H. HOLCOMB of Soutaington. Lieutenant Governor, CLIFFORD B. LSON of Bridgeport. Secretary, L. PERRY FREDERICK Haven of New Treasurer, CHAMBERLAIN ain Comptroller, MCRRIS C. WERSTER of Harwinton. Sinte Senators. ANK Q. CRONIN of of New Ion- of Norwich, NCKLEY of Ston- ADAMS of Plainfield, MACDONALD of SfoNS —Am‘flu‘ ALD Putna 35— WILLIAM H. HALL of Willington Judge of Probate, AYLING. NELSON J. ALBERT J. JOSEPH H STANDS FOR ALL AMERICAN RIGHTS. Among the democratic newspapers there are those which have expressed satisfaction that Governor Hughes has declared himself in favor of the maintenanee of the right of travel and the right of shipment.” The Spring- fleld Republican even says it is to his credit that he has declared himself upon this point, but as a matter of fact there was nothing in the reply which he made to the heckler at Co- lumbus, Ohio, which had not already been covered. in his previous state- ments. Mr. Hughes declared: “I am in fa- vor of the maintenance of every right, including the right of travel and the right of shipments. It is a very im- portant right that we have as a neu- tral nation and it is very important that at this time when the great war is raging that we should vindicate neutral rights and maintain the in- tegrity of international law. To my mind it is a very thoughtless policy that would surrender any of these im- portant rights because of any senti- mental consideration, when we have the vast necessities of neutral com- merce and the importance of the rights of neutrals to consider with respect to the future of the United States.” Way back in his speech of accept- ance Mr. Hughes said “I stand for the unflinching maintenance of all Ameri- can rights on land and sea.” That, without going into the enumeration of everyone of them showed his position, ind it was only the disposition to find some subtle meaning therein, or to judge him by another, that left the least iota of a doubt as to where he stood. Charles E. Hughes has never been two faced in private or public life. He means what he says. KEEPING US OUT OF WAR. In his debate with Senator McLean at Waterbury Tuesday night Homer Cummings made reference to the fact that the president had kept this na- tion out of the vortex of war. It is the claim upon which so much em- phasis is being laid by the democrats throughout the campaign in order to appeal to those who woulds be in- fluenced by such a statement without a full consideration of the facts. Peace is desired no more by the president than by the entire nation. Candidate Hughes and all those who have spoken for him have made it as plain as words can that he stands as determinedly for peace as anyone ever has or could, but ba does not stand for peace without honor, or peace with humillation by refusing to uphold American rights, and it is difficult to understand how any one with good red blood In his veins could doso. The facts of the case are,however, that never before in the experience of the in- dividual, nor in that of the nation has such weakness, hesitation and vacilla- tion been shown and whatever danger there has been of war, and even that war in which we are at present en- gaged with Mexico, has been due to the policies which have been carried out by the present administration. To claim credit for that is like asking for applause for running away from duty. Senator McLean hit the nail on the head in this respect when he declared that the president kept us out of war ibout as much as he prevented us trom falling into the big dipper or getting drowned in the Milky way. THE DEUTSCHLAND’S RETURN. The return of the Deutsch'and to this country, and its arrival at New TLondon, places another feather in the cap of Captain Koenig, th commander of the craft. It was he who first ne- gotiated the m; across the Atlantic in a submariae merchantman by get- of that vessel not having been able to reach this country, and yet Captain Koenig in face "of the strengthening of the British blockade has repeated his first performance. Since his first visit this country has been visited by one of the Ger- man naval submarines, the announce- ment of its return to Germany having been made but a few hours previous to the arrival in this country of the Deutschland, so that it has been clear- ly demonstrated that the Atlantic of- fers no serious obstacle to the under- water boats whether they happen to be merchahtmen or warships. In this connection it is in- teresting to note that the an- nouncement of the arrival of the Deutschland was made in the reg- ular edition of The Bulletin. The New York papers printed around mid- night contained no word of it, all of which shows the advantage of taking The BuHetin to get the latest news, THE CANDIDATES AND CIVIL SERVICE. v Just previous to his election Presi- dent Wilson decldred that his hobby was that” of publicity. He . declared that the Toot of all evil in polities is privacy and concealment, and fellow- ing his election he immediately de- clared for the policy of ‘“pitiless pub- licity.” Notwithstanding that he has pro- ceeded to go contrary to his own dec- larations as is shown in the work- ings of the “third house” with which he surrounded himself and in his at- titude in supporting the -civil service commission in its refusal to permit an inspection of its work because such publicity might prove" an embarrass- ment to the administration. With such reversal of his announced policy in mind. and recognition taken of the fact that he has shown a hos- tile attitude towards civil service dur- ing his term, the National Civil Ser- vice Reform League, during the lat- ter part of September, sought his views, as well as those of Charles E. Hughes upon the question of extending civil service to the third, sécond .and first class postmasters. That was five weeks ago. Mr. Hilghes upon his return from his western tour has replied to the question and he says “I beg to say that I favor such legislation.” Th has been no response from Mr. Wil- son and this in spite of his hobby for publicity and his declaration that the root.of all evil in politics is privacy and concealment. Under such cond. tions the inference that Mr. Wilson opposed to such legislation is justifis ble. ADVERTISING ON COINS. It is a pretty state of affairs in the treasury department at Washington when the announcemert is made that the coinage of the new ten cent pieces may be stopped because it is found that they contain the monogram of the designer. This it will be remembered is the same sort of a situation which arose during the coining of the Lin- coln penny, at which “time new’ dies had to be made to overcome the ini- tials which the artist had placed thereon, and in view of that very circumstance it is peculiar that an exactly similar situation should now be raised in the colning of new silver pieces. Having gone through that experi- ence so recently it is difficult to un- derstand how the treasury officials should have passed upon the: design for the mew ‘dimes and apparently sanctioned the appearance thereon of the artist's monogrem and permitted $180,000 worth to be coined before there was any thought given to its removal. There must have been.little consideration given to this mutér at the time of inspection. There is of course no law against i the appearance of initials or 2 mono- sram on such coins, but if the pre- cedent which was established in the previous instance was to receive any attention at all, in order to exclude advertising from the coins of this country, it should have been done at the proper time and before the design Jwvas arproved instead of after hun- dreds of thousands of them had been minted. EDITORIAL NOTES. Carranza's envoys feport that Mex- ico is being restored. And Viila ap- pears to be keeping his end up also. The man on the corner says: The fellow who is always unlucky thinks his long suit is in getting the short end. There is talk of a separate- peace between Germany and Russia, but that doesn’t quite jibe with the latter about to launch its greatest offensive, The official announcement that the U-53 has returned to a German port successfully torpedoes the report that it was sunk by the British off Nova Scotia. a Ses ‘With Mexico seeking the loan of $100,900,000 in this country, there are some at least down there who still think that this is a good place to bor- row money. From the way in which the value of a dollar bill has-decreased during the ‘Wilson administration, it is about time to expect the price of a postage stamp to advance. . P The Hughes wave that is sweeping over the country is so mmch greater than that which the democrats pre- tend to see that it makes it look as small as, if not smaller, than a ripple. Japan has gathered in the Pacific shipping which American shipowners were forced to relinquish because of the seamen’s act. Are we going to open this country to the cheap labor of that country by refusing to stand for a protective tariff? » ——mit The voter, if he does any thinking for himself, must have reached the conclusion long before this that if he is going to insure us condi- tions beyond the war he must give his support to a protéctive tariff. The poll at Princeton university and among the alumni of that institution shows a big majority for Hughes. The institution of which 'Wilson was presi- dent refuses an endorsement and he .will find that the same will be done by nypmuumun blockade . and | his state and country, (ud around the house ex- hnded back to a side street that most um.u.n;m d. * In fact, the paved gutter ran a rather stream of water with intemllttn‘- vn- of sand, mud and gravel left by construction gang a block or so ahud- It was while pursuing a barefooted course through this.. b that Pletro arrived Bt peused. Then gutter, slunk beuno m- hedge of lilac bushes and finding a tolerably open spot gazed. inated. It was certainly a lovely party. The woman giving it rather prided herself upon the suogess of her soclal affairs, and she had devoted just as much en ergetic thought to th of John’s as though the guests had down been older and critical. All the,guests | had on their very best clothes, so Ple- tro could see, and they were more marvelous than any fairy story. Pletro, being dressed in a single garment of blue denim, was able to get a perspective in the judgment of clothes. Any boy who wore such glittery shoes and snowy etockm.z and suit of equally snowy . white clof must be a prince, at least. As for the girls, nobody but girls in palaces wore lace things like those! Piero hecame rapidly sure that he had stumbled up- on an entertainment of royalty and he pressed more closely into the hlac hedge. The assemblage - behaved very dif- ferently from the -erowd that lived down in his street. They did not shriek and yell and nobody got knock- ed down and no girl's braids were vanked nearly loose from her head. They moved slowly when they moved at all. Mostly they sat in garden chairs and watched a slight-of-hand man do tricks—tricks that aroused feverish excitement in Pietro's breast and caused his eyes to pop out, but which the guests looked upon with calm cqus There was a game with bailons, too —balis of silver and rose, pale green and lavender, which they blew up and batted at each opher through the air. Some of them would not even trouble to blow up_their ballons, but watched the others indifferently. Once when a ballooni was wafted toward the hedge the ragged watcher's excitement near- Iy bounds. but it fell short and bounding away into a big bed of phlox. There was muw and dancing on a platform, more like fairy- land than ever. But when the refreshments arrived, then the iron entered Pietro’s soul. He had been able to bear the rest as something outside his ken, but food ‘was common to all and he could under- stand it. He had never seen siach things to eat and the ravenous appeal from his stomach terrified him, He hung onto the lilac bush hard with hands and his nostrils di- happening in- too, and, while he could he suffered from the first of envy of the ve i s head. not name it, bitter flood ¢ curse the very poor. v should those boys have all those tan- talizing things to eat when he couldn't? And they did not eat Plates of salad went scarcely touched and crumbled up The ice crem 1 grapes and p it al, W some Piotr h, f‘los»‘] is eves in 1 faintn At the moment, he would have sold his soul, had he known he had one, for a double hand- ful grab into the big frosted cake bé- ing passed around. of the univer: Seemed*an inferesting. corefree place, was centered in this garden and these LETTERS TO THE EDXT OR Appeal to-Railrond Trainmen. Mr. Editer: I appeal to the railroad trainmen of the United Stat It has now been fifty-eight days since the so called eight hour law was enacted. It is of vital importance to vour fu- ture welfare that vou immediately take some definite action regarding the true lnlerbr(td!lun of the same, and find out the actual effect the law will have on the wages you carm, béfore you vote next Tuesday. Immediately after the law was pass- ed, several railroad presidents pro- tested against it, but they soon stop- ped doing so. In a few President T'nderwood of the Erie, announced that he should support Woodrow Wilson for re-elec- tion; his action was followed by sev- eral other railroad presidents and gen- eral managers. Mr. Underwood is not a politician, he is a keen long-headed railroad man, who is not looking for any political appointment, *but doing all in his power to increase the rev- enue of the Erie railroad. The more he reduces the pay of his employees, the larger the net earnings of his rail- road will be. At the present time, throughout the country, the railroad presidents all ap- parently are satisfied with the Adam- son law. It is impossible for the railroad com- panies and their employees both to make more money by a law that does not increase rates. Either one side or the other will be duped. Which will it be? The only way to solve this problem Is to have your grievance committee interview vour president or general manager and get a plain written state- ment from him what he will do when the law goes into effect Jan. 1, 1917. Whether he will continue to pay the old and highly paid trainmen by the mile, or whether he will pay them by the day, thus construing the law to mean eight hours' service constitutes a day’s wages, regardless of the miles covered. If he refuses to make a state- ment, it is positive proof that he in- tends to strictly follow the law as it reads, which does not mention miles at all. If they refuse to make such statements or try to keep you waiting until after election as theyMsurely will, it should convince you that they in- tend to abandon the mileage system of payment. If so, then yon are the dupes of the most infamous swindle ever perpetrated on a highly important class of American citizens. And your vote should be against Woodrow WIi- son ‘as the principal author of this perfidious law. 1f the Adamson law should prove to be all the most gullible trainmen be- Heve it to be, then it is nothing but an undisguised atte: to bribe you to vote for a policy that will destroy not less than one-third of all the rail- road business of the country at the close of the Buropean war. The history of the railroad business of the country tells but one story and it tells it plainly. That when . foreign . compstition closes the mills, -factories and mines of the United States, it empties the freisht carsthat are the prineipal source of raflroad business and em- N s mamber of e numl passengers carried on the ra.llro:fl- ly “ingreases or diminishes In the same ratio as the freight business.. While. they may not lay off as my u.rl. they. will run them only ly full Remembae this wfiln m vote mt TUSSE. . s ar ST DWYBR, mfimu Formerly of Central Divinlnn Brotheflwod of Locomo- -Pietro lering. John _sal! d up and down inmm and fnen spied the stream. In one minute his. glittery party | draggi time.. That was before a man urvanl, hunting him, discovered him, dragged him yelling from his muddy haven. Entirely scandalized, the eervant dis- appeared with his prey toward a back entrance to the big house. To the last. John’s agonized face was turned back to the mudy sandpile. Pietro scrambled down, bewildered. Coud it be—then with a wild whoop he pounced on a large plece of cake that John had dropped upon the side- walk. Cramming it into hfs mouth and splashing mightly in the gutter with no one to stop him, Pletro- con- tinued on his travels. He had concluded that life was pretty -good after all-—Chicago News. / Luther of Trinity Strong for Hughes. The list of a score of coliege presi- dents, all of whom are strong support- ers of Governor Hughes. given out by the Hughes National Coliege Léague POLITICAL last week, could have been doubled, according to National Campaign Man- ager Brokaw Compton, if it had in- cluded college presidents whom he knows to be favorable to Hughes but who_are not members of the League. “The list that we published,” said Compton, “included only enrolled members of our League. President F. S. Luther of Trinity College, for in- stance, is enroiled in the Huhes Alli- ance and a member of the Republican State Executive Committee, and Nich- olas Murry Butler, president of Co- lumbia, is known all over the country %fi an active Republican and a Hughes Supporter, but as they have not en- rolled with us, we omitted their names. Of course, we included President Wil- liam Arnold Shanklin of Wesleyan be- cause he is one of our enrolled mem- bers, From our correspondence with the presidents of practically all the best preminent colleges in the United States, I should say that there are not half a dozen leaders of educational thought in this country who are sup- porting President Wilson, What a Vote for Hughes Means. A vote for Charles Evans Hughes is a vote for sincerity in Government. If Mr. Hughes has demonstrated anything public career, it is that he says he means and means what he vote for Mr. Hughes is a vote for honorable peace. He has no desire to g0 to r. e is no patriotic Amer- ica tizen who wishes tlie country to be involved in the present world-wide turmoil. But honorable peace is one thing and disiaonoratle peace is quite another. A vote for Mr. Hughes is a vote for ‘he protection of American lives and property in Mexico. The number of Americans killed in the southern re- public during Woodrow Wilson's three vears of “peace” is greater than -the humber of Americans killed during the Spanish war _of 1833. A vote for Mr. Hughes is a vote for high-grade official appointments. He s he will start right by selecting trong cabinet. Mr. Wilson’s best friends will not argue that the Presi- dent has been fortunate in the choice of his department heads. One reason for his administrative failures is the’ low grade of his Cabinet timber. To pay a political debt and meet a legislative emcrgency he put William Jernings Bryan in the office of Secre- tary of State. There'is only one re- deeming feature in this appointment— gnce and for all it proved to the voters of the United States the Peerless Ora- tor's temperamental unfitness for high public station. As a sop to the South Mr. Wilson invited Josepius Daniels, a local poli- tician of North Carolina, to become Secretary of the Navy. The result is a deteriorated fleet and maladminisira- tion so marked that it has shocked the whole country. A really strcng man, Lindley M. Gar- rison, was placed at the head of the War Department, but Mr. Wilson's lukewarmness toward the vital ques- tion of national defence drove him out. A vote for Mr. Hughes is a vote for straight thinking. There is no hint of crookedness in his intellectual pro- cesses. He does not argue one thing today and the opposite tomrrow. He does not wax rhetorical in behalf of a cause or a policy in one speech and abandon it in -another. A vote for Mr. Hughes is a vote for characte: ‘haracter in the best and broadest sense of the word. 'The dif- ference between the rock-bottom honesty of Charles E. Hughes and the characteristice uncertainty of Wood- row Wilson becomes daily more ap- parent .as the campaign near its close.—Providence Journal. Wilson’s Foreign Policy ‘Callous.” “In this hour of the world’s emerg- ency we have, perhaps, been neutral; we have not been great,” declared the Rev. Willlam T. Manning, in his ad- dress in St. Paul's Chapel, Trinity par- ish, New York, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the opening of the ghurch where George Washington worshipped. If President Wilson had sat in Washington’s ancient seat there could have been no meore direct ser- mon from pulpit to pew. In the presence of assembled bish- ops, nearly 200 clergy, an array of civil dignitaries and a congregation composed largely of patriotic socle- ties dedicated to the “Spirit of *76” the rector of Trinity assailed the record of this eountry in the present world crisis. His text “What shall it profit a natlon if it gain the whole wnrld and lose its own soul,” a slight ;.gapta,uon of the text of St. Mark, vii., He attacked “peace at any price” pacifigm as a symptom of netional de- cay and expressed the fear that Amer- ica had already diminished in moral power. “War may hurt and kill the soul,” he said, “but there are other things that hurt and kill the soul. Every true American would rather see this land face war than see her flag lowered in Every true American would rather see this land involved in war then false to those principles of right, freedom and humanity upon which the hope of the world depends. “No one in this country wants war. As never before we see its cruelty and its horror. every means that may be we want to see its likelihood less- ened and its causes removed. But evil as war is, there are still deeper evils. comfort, physical safety, Sore Rod nd R Oonflmnll Crac fium Not Put Them ln Water At All HEALED BY CUTICURA SOAP AND OINTMENT h ! i 4 Eef il i b | blegsings. War may hurt and kill the body. Every true American would rather see this land face war than see her flag lowered in dishonor or her name touched with disgrace. There are things that hurt ard kill the soul, Every true American would rather see this land involved in war than see her false to those principles of right. of freedom and humanity upon which our life is built and upon whlch the hope of the world depe ds.” New Jersey Democrat for Hugh Colonel E. L. Price, ex-chafrman of the democratic state committee of New Jersey, announces that he in- tends to vote and work for the election of Charles E. Hughes. Colcnel Price was for fourteen years head of the Essex county democratic committee and is one of the best known demo- crats in New Jersey. He describes himself as a “true democral, whose grandfather fought in the Revolution™ and he says that since his youth he has followed the democratic fiag. He supported Wilson for the Presidecy in 1912. “But a vote for his re-election means an endorsement of -his foreign polic; says Colonel Prince, "“and believe that the course he-has pursued is a national disgrace.” THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Soctoty Oberndorf—In connection with the recent air raid on the German town of Oberndorf, in which the American aviator, Norman Prince, serving in the French flving corps, lost his life, the National’ Geographic Society is- sues the followlng war geography bulleti “The Mapser rifle factory which was the .objective 0f the air raiders who tiew over the 'Black Forest tc the quaint little Wurtiemberg town of Oberndorf recently, was once an Au- gustinian monastery, but long before the present war began its halls had ceased to ehelter holy fathers. Gun- making has been an’ established in- dustry in this city on the Neckar for a number of years. and only a few miles to the south there is an im- portant powder factory. “Oberndorf lies 40 miles east of the Rhine and 100 miles northeast of the great French fortress of Epinal. It .1is 57 miles by rail souhwest of Stutt- gart on the line which runs to Schaff- hausen, 66 miles distant. The Neckar flows beneath the town, to the east. “It is-only 15 miles from Oberndorf to the birthplace and place of burial of the famous novelist of peasant life in the Black Forest—EBerthold Auerbach. Nordstettin is the name of the little village which gave to the world the author of ‘Auf der Hohe’ (On the Heights) and the ‘Schwarzwalder Dorfgeschichten.” “In the oppousite direction, to the south, is Rottweil, 11 miles distant, an ancient town with 10,000 inhabi. tants which was a free imperial city as far back as the 13th century. The townspeople are largely ensaged in the manufacture of powder, locomo- tives, and machinery, besides conduct- ing and active trade in wines and livestock. A town hall and two churches of the medieval period con- tain some :nteresting examples of old German art and sculpture, while a striking bit of Roman mosaic recalls the fact that an ancient Roman col- ony once existed three-quarters of a mile south of the town at Rottweil- Altstadt. “While the guns are made at Obern- dorf and gurpowder at Rottweil, the people of this part of Germany are more at home in the menufacture of clocks, watches, toys and musical in- struments. very valley and mountain of this region has contributed its legend or folk-tale to enrich German literature. The forests of fir are suppesed to be the abode of the nixe and of witches. But of more interest to the pract minded is the remarkable system of roads which thread all this part of Wurttemberg. Every valley has its stream, and alongside every stream is a wonderfully graded, perfectly kept road fifteen feet wide, resembling the driveways in the most famous of our American parks. These roads are con- stantly tended by a peasant army of || —eeeeeeeeee CATARRHAL DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED by local app! plications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of ‘he ear. There is only one way to cure catarrhal deafness, and that is by a constitutional remedy. . Catarrhal deafness is caused by an Inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rum- bling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result. Unless the inflammation can be reduced and this tubs restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever "Many cases of deafness arc J‘ & y ‘catarrh, which is an inflamed tondition ot ‘the mucous surfaces. 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Third Episode of TODAY AND TONIGHT “THE EVIL A POWERFUL MORALITY DRAMA WITH FRANK LOSEE The Crimson Stain Mystery ON S8ATURI ING THE FIRST SHOW WiLL s DAVM’;VEQCOND SHOW AT 8:15. Matinee at 2:30 Evening at 7-8:30 All Seats 100 THEREOF” Coming Friday and Saturday EMMY WEHLEN in THE PRETENDERS Thiirsday, Friday, Saturday ERNIE & ERNIE JOANNY REILLY | Novelty Hoop Rolling THE IMMORTAL FLAME KRAZY KAT ............ Cartoon || A POPULAR GEO. ADE FABLE AUDITORIU Complete .Change of Programme Today Comedy Acrobats LLOYD & CHURCHILL medy 8inging and Talking with MAUDE FEALY 5 Reel Society Drama i f OTHER VIEW POINTS Shoes have gone up from twenty- five cents to cne dollar a pair; coal is on the up grade and the grocers tell us that between now and the first of January we shall probably experience a rise in the prices of the ordinary table necessities, to say nulhlng of luxuries, of at least twenty-five pe! cent! And yet there is positively no natural or legitimate shortage in any staple article of focod or general use. It s a time of absolute plenty and the shortage, if any, is_artificial and for the enrichment of the few at the ex- pense of the many. Have we no power of government to seek out the sources of this artificially produced expansion of prices and to_ properly punish the authors of jit? Have we no power of governmenf to prevent the exporta- tion of what our people eat, drink and wear until the cost of what is left at home is doubled to the home consu- mer? Must we sit quietiy under this imposition of unnecessary high prices and submit to the infliction without a murmur? In some countries men have been hanged and burned for Jless crimes than this!—Bridgeport Stand- ard. As one walks through the principal streets of this city and looks over some of the dingy, squatty, ill kept buildings that adorn the thorough- fares he wonders if there is ever to be any relief from the present condi- tions unless there is a big fire. Mer- iden has too many of these old struc- tures and because under present ar- rangements they are a paying in- vestment there seems small chance of any of them being replaced by mod- ern buildings. If there was ever an excuse for the single tax system it lies in just such conditions. If the tax were placed on the land along East und West Main street and Colony street property- owners would be mizhty quick to tear down _their old blocks because they wanld not be able to get enough regpnue from them in their present state to make them worth while. If a tax was laid on the front foot along these streets people could not afford to have little one and two-siory buildings and the city would be the gainer. The land T | analyze. did that the shoud pay the tax anyway and not assess industry and curtaii tivity of the man who tries to im- Ne prove his property. Some day this matter will be ordered differently, — Meriden Journal. The swing of the political pendulum toward Charles E. Hughes during the, last few days is merely an evidence that the people of the country, once they actually apply their minds to pol-' itics are keen to observe and quick to, They have caught on ‘Woodrow Wilson, and the instant they election of Governor Hughes was assured. They have| plumbed the depths of the economic| philosophy which led Mr. Wilson to| tell the American people two years ago| that the hard times, the lack of em-; ployment, the hunger and want of| those whose natural supporters could| get no work, were “merely psycholog-| ical” and who now asks them to be-| lieve that a purely war-made prosper- ity is permanent. . They have come to; realize that Woodrow Wilson has an| abundance of _intelligence but moj character, that his every policy lacksi the one essential, sincerity; that he| plays the game on the square with no| man, not even the sugar growers of| Louisiana, Democratic state though §t{ be. And having caught yon to- Wilson, the People Wil elect H nes;-tMerm-.l Record: i 1 These are the days to walk. Country| roads, windswept and dry, or rain- swept and damp, call to yor. The nut crop, we hear, is a failure, but throw-| ing broken limbs into treetops is just as good exercise as it always was. Shoe leather, we know, is golng up in price; but don’t be afraid to wear out your shoes on that account. Long walks in the country, or between your home and your work, or_through the park of an evening or Sunday, form one of the best little insurance policies in the world. Walking is the best of| exercises; every muscle in your body Will respond if yoggswing your arms,, fill your lungs, and’set out for a spot on the far horizon. Wear out your shoes, then; that's what they're made for—to take the wear that otherwise would scrape and cut your feet. The| man or woman who wears out half a| dozen pairs of shoes a year, throu frequent walking, seldom fills an early| grave. A pair of shoes today is cheap- er than a coffin tomorrow—and walk-| ing is more fun than lying in a grave. road-menders whose daily amounts to about 50 cents. “Forestry is one of the chief sources of revenue for the numeroas small towns like Oberndorf, and the conser- vation of tree weaith has been devel- oped to an almost exact science. Both on the royal land and in the communi- ty fofiests the amount of timber cut annually i3 not allowed to exceed the annua! growth. 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