Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 10, 1916, Page 4

120 YEARS OLD % Price i3 & week S0a a 2t the Postoffice at Norwich, 88 second-class matter. Telephome Onlls: SR, Bulletin Job # 85-2. Offics, 67 Church St Toal " Norwich, Friday, Nov. 10, 1916. The Circulation of The Bulletin The Bulletin bas the largest etre: m of any paper in Eastern oufium and from thres to four times Jarger than that of any in Norwich. It {5 delivered to over 8,000 of the 4,063 houses ‘n Nor- wich and read by ninety-three per gent. of the people. In Windham it is delivered to over 900 houses, in Putnam #nd Danielson to over 1,100, and in all of these places it 18 considered tbe local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one huzdred and sixty- five postofiice districts, and sixty ural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is cold in every town and on all of he R. F. D. routes in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATION 4412 REELECTION INDICATED. Not for a great many years has there been so much uncertainty over a presidential election as there has been this year. States upon which so much dependence had been placed in past years to determine the result ‘were this year, with the exception of Ohio which was formerly a rockribbed republican stronghold, responsible for the creation of wrong impressions and those which had in the past played small part in determining the actual winner became the pivotal states. As goes New York so goes the na- tion 'had come to be looked upon as a firm basis for predictions. With the early swing of the votes in that state, together with the tendency of the east and certain of the big states in the middle west to Mr. Hughes, the con- clusion was reached that the rest of the states which were looked to to give viding this short cut for the vessels of the navy. . Likewise it was understood that it would be of inestimable bene- fit to the commerce of the world. There was lttle or mo thought of making it a revenue producer, but in view of the heavy expenditures there is no reason why it should not be so regulated as far as the rates are con- cerned that the income received there- from will be sufficlent to meet the op- erating expenses and the interest charges on the capital involved. ‘This is one of the things which Gen- eral Goethals has advocated even to the extent of putting the canal on & paying basis. This he holds can be done by fixing the tolls of the vessels in accordance with their earning ca- pacity, and it seems to be common sense that the receipts from the canal should be sufficient to prevent the pil- ing up of a yearly deficit. There is no good reason why all the benefit should go to the steamship lines. PINE BLISTER RUST. The American Forestry association is making a widespread appeal in be- half of the white pines throughout the country. It is endeavoring to arouse interest in the waging of a more de- termined fight against the blister rust which is ralsing bavoc with the pines wherever it gets and retains a foot- hold. This disease appears to have a erip upon all of New England, a number of the eastern and some of the north- ern states, and it has extended across the border Into Canada, and in these localities it {s progressing, and when it is realized that this trouble ig] threatening the destruction of trees which are valued at $261,000,000, of which §75,000,000 worth are in New England, it can be appreclated that the assoclation’s efforts are devoted to an excellent cause. In the case of the pine blister rust, as in that of the chestnut tree blight there is no known cure. All that can be done must be done in the way of prevention such as 2 rigid quarantine, the destruction of infected trees and the gooseberry and currant bushes on which spores are known to exist. By so doing the spread of the disease can be prevented, which holds out more encouragement, than in the case of the chestnut blight for it has been shown that the destruction of trees affected with that disease does not apparently make any difference with its progress With so much at stake in valuable trees there should be incentive enough on the part of the owners to make a determined fight and from all indica- tions it cannot be started any too soon. WHAT THE NEW POLAND FACES. There are of course those in Poland who are gratified by the action which has been taken by Germany and Aus- tria in setting up a new kingdom of Poland in a small part of what was originally Polish territory. They are apparently showing appreciation for small favors, but they have food for thought as to just what it all means by the fact that a Teuton prince is to become king of that territory, the ap- parent fact that the Poles are expected to pay for the action which has been taken by joining the central powers in resisting the enemy, and by the sit- uation which is to be faced in regard to_malntenance. Heretofore while Poles have been fighting on both sides in the hopes that the promises which ‘have been held out to them for fulfillment after the war would be kept, those sections which have now been set off as a kingdom have been suffering untold ravages from the war. They have been denied the food supplies which they have raised and they have not been permitted to receive the assist- ance which the outside world was willing to forward to them for their relief. But with the new Poland standing under the wing of the cen- tral powers and complying withtheir requirements in the way of recruits for the armles, it is to be expected similar results would do like- wise. This process of reasoning and figuring has been the basis for early predictions in the past and 1t has invariably been correct, but this year it falled. It was the west which controlled the balance and in those states the candidates were running so close that it was impossible to tell until all the votes had been counted, or nearly so, what the result would be. The country has therefore been held in long suspense. The early predic- tions have been shattered. Hopes have been revived and dashed repeatedly but with the state of California placed in the Wilson column the indica- tions point strongly to the fact that the complete vote will show that President Wilson has been reelected, though by a narrow margin. THE SUBMARINE ACTIVITY. There can be nothing surprising in the fact that reports from Washington are to the effect that a serious view is being taken of the submarine warfare which Germany is conducting. Within the past few weeks there has been in- creased reason for belief that that country has disregarded its pledges and that it is resorting to the policy which was in vogue when the Lusi- tania was sunk. " There is the Murina case about which nothing has been done, and which as far as is known is still in the investigation stage. This has been - followed hy the torpedoing of the Ara- bla in the Mediterranean, which was sent to the bottom, if reports are true, without warning, despite the fact that 4t was a liner on which there were 450 passengers, and now comes the story of the Hawalian-American fp Columbian sending out calls for help because it was _ being shelled by a submarine. % cans lost their lives on the Marina, one American it is beleved aboard the Arabla and the Co- " Jumblan 1s owned in New York, is un- _der American registry and files the | Btars and Stripe: - | These affairs do not show that any gréat amount of care is being exer- “eised to respect the promises made to this country. Rather does it look as It it considered that it could do about " 8 it pleased as long as it was willing o answer notes and ma¥ke more prom- Jses, in keeping with the coursesschich &b-bas followed in the past. e oo MAKING IT PAY. ‘The idea of this in buflding g Panama canal was for pur- of opening up a wate across sthmus for the aid it would be to. It was recognized that it ld be of inestimable advantage to | eountry in increasing the factii- for trade between the east and @ west coasts, of shortening the dis- pes for foreign trade with many countries on the Pacific and for for our «coast lines by pro- i that those same benefactors must be looked to to see that rellef is given to overcome the existing conditions, to say nothing of the fact that their ac- ceptance of the Teuton gift must of necessity line this new kingdom up as the enemy of Russia. EDITORIAL NOTES. This is the season of the year when the hungry fly adds recruits daily to the swatting squad. Election predictions on one side ap- pear to have suffered about as se- verely as those on the other. The European war of course could not expect much attention until the national election was determined. Regardless of the number of-times Villa has died, it doesn't seem to change his characteristics one iota. The man on the corner says: There are some political prophets who would make some excellent trench fighters. The announcemont which is made that the department of justice is to probe the high cost of living comes several years too late. There are a lot of political prophets ‘who will have to wait for four years before they get a similar chance to || recover their former reputations. stakes are forced to adopt the watch- ful walting policy, whether they like it or not. There are of course a whole lot of politicians throughout the country who will doubtless realize that now is an excellent time fo leave the same for keeps. It as claimed there was an Ameri- can citizen on the bia and it was sunk without warning, it looks Iike an- other chance for the resumption of note writing, There 1s a lesson for & great/many in the disclosure which comes from a Rhode Island city to the effect that a $25,000 fire wag catsed by an ac- cumulation of old paper in a cellar. Con anyone imagine. the people of Mexico conducting such an orderly election as that took place in this country? And yeb Sedrstary Ba- ker says that some of our early pa- triots were-no better than the Villa bandits of the present day. Lloyd George is now charged with Diana of Gommar Whtner B der unu%«mn or not there 13 no doubt about the fact that he made it plain that peace could not be ar- that would be|ranged now except on the allies’ Not only those who have their money | up but those who are holding the || visit. “We did most per- gorgeous time!" < “It couldn't heve been much Of & rest however” observed her mother. “It tan’t 7 o'clock yet end you have Jewned thres timesi ' What hoor ala ¥ou girls go to bed nigh “We just lved in the water," Car- oline hastily offered, gracefully igm ing the guestion. “it was so hot, you know!. The reason my new bathing stockings are all worn out is that somhow I lost my bathing it must have been the time we went in at midnight “Midnight!” chorused her parents, *Why, yes,” said Caroline in mild eurprise. “Didn’t you know the latest thing is to go swimming at night? I thought every one knew it, but some people are so fussy! “P1l tell you about it. Mrs. Phil- 1ips woke up and found that we wers not home from the pavilion dance and she was certain that the' auto had tipped us over into a ditch. So she made Mr. Phillips get up and dress and rouse the neighbors and a whole lot of people went back down the road to the pavillon looking in the ditches for us. “Mr. Greyman mext door was bitten by a snake he stepped cn and he was awfully mad_about -it, especially as they didn’t find our mangled bodies in the weeds. Then the Baggots’ cook sald she had heard voices on the wa- ter, and they all tore down to the Jake and we weren't there, of course, because we had to take.Isabel home. “That's where we were when they decided we had gone out in canoes and were drowned. Mrs. Philllps had hysterics and made them start drag- ging the lake, and Mr. Smith—the fat one—fell out of the rowboat when nis hook caught in a log and, he shouted out that he'd found us, He cap't swim very well and it was deep out there. I guess they worked protty hami to make him’ breathe again. “It was all_the boys' fault, anyhow. It was so hot when we started home from the dance that_they thought of going in swimming and cooling off— 50 everybody had to semeak into the houses and get their bathing suits. We thought it would be unkind to wake up the older people and, besides they are so apt to be fussy and want to know why and what for and they Dbother so! 2 “They being in a huffy was why I forgot o take off my braceler watch and my pearl beads. The W has not gome since then, but ifilcan be fixed, can't it? Well, I don't see why —you got it fixed the time it was full of sand after the beach party and the tilne it fell over the stair rafl, so I don't see why a little hit of 'water chould ruin it! eAnyhow, it ‘never does keep zood time, so mayhé it's just as well. E “No, I didn’t bring home my pearls. 1 guess the string must have broken or something—I don’t see why they can't string things so they = won't break! If those beads had been strung on good string I'd never have lost them, so T think it is very un- falr, mother, for you to say it's my fauit! I guess Pve had them most a year and that's a pretty long time to haye anythinz. “There were ten of us went in swimming and we didnit swim much, because the water was wfully cold— s0 we played games in the water like crack the. whip.songuEthel Phillps, who is having her teeth straightened was on the end and got cracked against the pler—and I don’t see why her mother chould have adted 80 when she found Ethel would have to make a trip into Chicago so the den- tist could put the things back that got knocked off. Ethel nearly swal- lowed some of the wires and screws and_ things and I should think her mother would have been glad she was not choked to death or something, in- stead of being so cross about it. “That wasn't half o bad. either, as Dolly Smith being swished clear un- der the pier when she was on the end and her bathing suit got caught on a nail, and if Tom Greyman hadn’t been a shark under ‘water I guess she would have been there yet hanging on to_the piling. “¥/hy, of course it wasn't danger- ous, mother—nobody expected to_ go under the pler at alll That was just an exception! If Mrs. Phillips and the others hadn't fussed so it would have been all Tight! “Of course, after we took Isabsl all the way home she asked us in and got something to eat in their kitchen. Ang_ her ¥olks were hopping because We left the icebox doors open and all the berries and cream for breakfast were gpoiled. They ought to have Stond.of ucn Himi ’“caful il flimsy es “And then when we did start back with all of us in that one car and our wet suits and everything, some water must have got into machinery— oF maybe it wma when & wave swash. over it when Harry was diving from the tomneau down at the beach —anyhow it wouldn't go and we had to walk two miles home through the pitch dark. “Bthel and T came in just as quiet- 1y, Caroline concluded, “but the fam ily dign't eeem to appreciate it be- cause Mr. and Mrs. Phillips both had hysterics when they saw us—and most of the other cottages had lights in them, too. Tt took Wthel and me 80 long to explain that it was too late 1o zo to bed after that. The cook was getting breakfast By that, time. So that's why I do feel kind of eleepy—" “Well, you can go to bed at oncé said Caroline’s stunned mother. “I need peace and quiet in which to compose a letter of apology to Mrs. Phillips “Oh, my gpodness!” said Caroline disguestedly. . “You're just as fussy a3 the mothers over there!”—Chicago rews. THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Socioty Abyssinia—"When the daily press of America published the brief an- nouncement recently that a great bat- tle had been fought in Abyssinia 25 miles outside the capital, resulting in a complete victory for the new gov- ernment, the average reader” says a war geography bulletin issusd by the National Geographic Society, “did not realize that this battle affected 8,000,- 000 people living in a country larger than the combined areas of France, Holland, Belgium, England, Scotlan Ireland and Wales. ‘And inasmuch as the despatches failed fo give the name of the capital, few Americans could recall it—Adis Ababa, the city founded by that re- markable black monarch, Menelik II, in 1882, the third year of his eventful reign which extended over a period of a quarter of a century. “Abyssinia is a_wholely inland na- tion, being cut off from the Red Sea and the Guif of Aden by French and Italian possessions varying in width from 40 to 250 miles.. To the north is the Itailan possession of Eritrea, to the east British, French and Italian Somaliland territorles, to the south British East Africa, and to the west the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The whole empire, which was formerly known as Ethiopia, lies within the tropics, al- thoush most of the interior has sich a high e’evation that the climate is temperate and healthful. “Adis Ababa has an .elevation of more than a mile and a quarter above scalevel, so tlat although it is in the same latitude as the Isthmian sea- port of Panama, it enjoys a most sel- ubrious climate. “Except for its royal residence and grounds, which occupy a hill com manding a view of the country in all directions, the city resembles a tem- porary military camp more _closely than the capital of a vast kingdom, for white tents and mean huts cover the country in a circle whose diameter is about three miles. No railroad con- nects this citv of 40,000 inhabitants “highways” of the country arc scarce- with the outside world, while the 1y more than narrow trails traveled by pack mules and donkeys. Even Har- rar, (population estimated at 50,000), the only other settlement in the kingdom having more than 5000 in- habitants, h: not vet been reached by the raillway which is being con- structed from Jibuti, .the French Som- aliland seaport on the Gulf of Aden. Harrar is 230 miles inland from Jib- uti, and Adis Ababa is 220 miles still jfurther west. “Of the four general groups of peo- ples innabiting Abyssinia the two most important are the Gallas, a pas- toral and_agricultural tribe Compris- ing fully half the population, and the Shoans, the warlike governing class. The Tigrians are lighter in color than thelr fellow-countrymen and retain many evidences of therr Semitic ori- gin. The Dankalis are a practically independent people of the Moham- medan faith, whereas the other groups have been Christian eince the fourth’ century, being allied with the Alexan- drian_Church: “Education has made slow progress $1000 to the 1o the largest London er Windham Counties. these counties. The turkeys must in ‘addition to tho market ook Home, prize of $6.00 in mddition to the The judges will be disinterested ‘atSomers AN the mai ‘test 18 Fourteenth Year - Attention, Farmers! "DOLLARS BONUS be natives—hatohed and grown in these two countles. The Bulletin will buy the prize birds at the regular market price in addition to the prize te be awarded. The turkeys offered for prize must have feathers off, entralls drawn 104 wings cut off at first jolnt. Heads must not be cut off. to the second largest/and fattest young turkey; The contost is open to any man, woman, boy er girl residing In weighing the Tueatiay before Thankegiving at 12 ooleck noon. | For the largest and fattest young turkey $10.00 will be awarded the sesond yeung turkey in size a prize of $5.00 price will be given. This turkey will furnish for the Sheltering Arms. largest and fattost turkey over a yearold a County Home for Children for a Thanksgiving ‘Bros’ market. rice, 80 any turkey ralser wi bird in the com- muumsmhmm-m?u':-nmn . For Fattest and Big- gest Turkey Raised $10.00 Next Best $5.00 Third $5.00 " The Bulletin proposes to capture the three fattest and largest Turkeys to be offered for_the Thanksgiving market in Windham and New London Counties. largest and fattest young turkey; and fattest turkey ralsed in New bo_submitted for examination and turkey will be given to the market price. This will go to the dinner. persons who will weigh tha tuckeys monarc i rnment’ will_have battle should R it an_almost impossible years for parent wes an excep. remarkable energy. striking picture of the nmmpnfly of details handled by the old soverign is_ given by A. Henry Savage Landor in’ his account of a year's journey across “Widest Africa” "Mr. Landor says: “ ‘Bverything in Adis Ababa is re- ferred to the Emperor. It is quite amazing what an amount of mental work Menelik must go through dally. While attending to most important political matters of the most trimial character are brought to him for assent. This Is ly what happens every minute of the day at the palace; Menelik, with his head bandaged in a white shash, (a sort of silk handkerchief) and with.a cheap felt hat far back upon his skull, is ponds with some minister over some political problem of great im- portance—let us say, the projected rallway between the' sea and Adis Ababa. The Emperor is deeply ab- sorbed in thought. “‘Enters a servant who whispers in the Emperor's ear, regardless of the presence of the foreign representative of a great European country: “Your Majesty, the carpenter wants some more naiis to mend the veranda.” “‘Here are the keys. Givel him 20 nails,” says the Emperor. “If he needs more, come again to tell me.” “‘The Emperor is again deep in thought, Intruder number two comes up and whispers that a mule has es- caped from the palace. ‘The Emperor jumps down from his throne—a high packing case cov- ered with Oriental carpets—slips quickly into the shoes which he has discarded, and hastens to his telescope, scanning ‘the country all around with it, in order to see whether the miss- ing animal can be detected upon the hills near Adis Absba. The escaped mule is much more important to the Emperor than all the railroads in the world. “‘The foreign representative vain- ly attempts to drive the Emperor again to his throne. The Emperor on his side endeavors to induce the min- ister to come and look for the mule.’ “Abysinnia has a regular army of 250,000, but every man in the kingdom capable of bearing arms is subject to call.! Roumania’s Hopes and Fears—What Roumania hopes to get out of the Eu- ropean war and what she feared would be her lot if she failed to take sides with the Entente Allles are questions logically set forth and answered in a striking communication to the Nation- al Geographic Society from John Oli- ver BaGorce. The Society makes pub- lice a portion of Mr. LaGorce's letter in the following war geography bulle- tin just released from Washington: “Few state in history have Dbeen called to such momentous decisions as Roumania faced when it plunged boldly into the Niagara of blood and carnage that has rolled down over Europe for these two long ycars. “But both hope and fear beckoned the Roumanians—the hope of o great- er Roumania, and the fear of a strang- led homeland. “The brave people of this little kingdom—for it is less than one-fifth as big as Texas—have many proverbs. “The water passeth and the stone re- mains’ they say, referring to their own persistence as a people in spite of the floods of humanity that have swept over their territory. “In the whirlpool of racial rivalries of southeastern Burope—whers Roman and Goth, Hun and Slav, Magyar and Mongol, with all of their descendant Deoples, have run over one another and have been run over in turn—fate left the Roumanians in the majority in a territory of more than 90,000 square miles. It scattered more than 12,000,000 of them over these lands— mnore than 7,000,000, in Roumania it- self and some 5,000,000 elsewhere. In Bessarabia, a province of 17,000 miles and 2,600,000 popuiation, belonging to Russia, two-thirds of the people are Roumanians; in _ Transylvania, the eastern part of Hungary, a land of 21,000 square miles, and having a pop- ulation of 2,500,000, 60 per cent, Rou- mania claims. aro Roumanlans; in Bukowina, an Austrian crownland of 4,000 square miles and 1,000,000 popu- lation, more than balf are said to be Roumanians. “And 6o 12,000,000 people yearn for a ‘restored’ Roumania—all ethno- graphic Roumania under the flag of political Roumania. If their country vemained neutrzl, they reasoned, there would be no chance for such a nappy result. They might, they felt, get something out of Russia if the Cen- tral Powers won with Roumania on their side; but Transylvania and Buk- owina would still be beyond their grasp. On the other hand, they be- lieved Russia would give them Bess- arabla as a prize for participation on her side, and the Allies Bukowina and Transylvania on condition of an allied victory. “But if hope of a ‘reunited” Rou- mania_ appealed greatly to the Rou- manians the fear of etrangulation, if not extinction. turned the scale posi- tively to the cause of the Allies. “Just what this fear was and how it obsessed Roumanian statesmen can be imagined from a plea made just be- fore the war by a Roumanian advo- cate. If an unfriendly Russia should gain control of Constantinople as a result of an Entente Allles’ victory, eald this writer, it would inevitabiy mean the strangulation of Roumania\ Bulgaria has her outlet on the Aegean; Serbia, 8o this phophet argued, would no doubt be rewarded for her suffer- ing by a port on the Adrfatic, but Rou- mania_would remain dependent upon the will of the Great Bear astride the Dardanelles, Her eplendid position on the Black Sea, controlling the delta of the great Danube waterway, would be of little worth to Roumania if the hos- tile Crar commanded the Sea of Mar- mora and the Hellespont, for how then would the bottled-up nation get her bulky products—corn, petroleum and timber—which uire cheap water trnasportation to e outside world? © “With the fruition of her hopes and the dissipation of her fears both seem- ingly on ome side, there seemed to be but one horn to Roumanta’s dilemma.” Of the three.regions which Rouman- 12 hopes to incorporate into a “Great- er Roumania” at the close of the war, Mr. LaGorce sadds: “Transylvania has a graphical rather than a_political tence. It is a part of Hungary, although it is almost as much separated from geo- graphic nuw{: the great plateau west _of the Rockies is separated from the Mississippl Valley. It is the great highland region which forms the west- ern slope of the Transylvania Alps and the southern slope of the southeastern Carpathians. ‘The mountains cradled and brought eur race to the manhood of its existence’ say the Roumanians, and this applies both to the gradual western slope of the eastern as wslluwmmmnm . “In this one may find every form of scenic pastoral picture beauty from the idyilic to the majestically. Tugged mountain and the = frenzy- churned waters of the torrential rivers. The region’s ular custo 5 B L B s R all their primitive ity, ami sharply defined boum created by nature and a sternly cold climate born of the high Alps. “From the standpoint of material value, Bessarabia would be worth more to Roumantia than Transylvania. It is one of the richest provinces of Rus- sia, and with the Pruth on the one side and the Dniester on the other, it is ideally watered, no place within its boundaries being more than 40 miles from a navigable stream. Kishinef, which is remembered with horror as the scene of the fmghtful Jewish mas-.| eacre a few yecars ago, is its capital. The southeastern corner of the prov- ince lies oniy a dozen miles or so from the great Black Sea port of Odessa — the New York of Southern Russia. “Bukowina is an Austrian crown- land traversed by offehoots of the Carpathians, and famous for its norses and cattle. It has many fine forests, numerous rich mines, and fts people have been thrifty and Industri- ous. It has belonged to Austria for nearly a century and a half, having been ceded to that country by Turkey in 1777. It is populated by a veritable congress of races, with the Slav _and the Roumanian well in the majority. SPECIAL YALE LE'l'l'!:'.—l;I New Haven, Nov. 9—Fhe Yale team of ten men defeated Princeton 20 points to 35 in their annual cross- Country run over the new Yale course Saturday afternoon. Captain J. W. Overton, 1917, of the University team, led the field of runners almost from the start, finishing first over the six- miles course in 36 minutes 261-6 sec- onds. D. R. Shotwell of Princeton, finished second, about 100 yards be hind Ocerton. L, D. Levine, Yale, was a close taird. Captain Copeland of Princeton, did not run on account of an injury. In_ addition to first and third places, Yale runners finished in fourth, fifth, seventh, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth places respectively. The first concert by the New Haven symphony orchestra was held in ‘Wdblsey Hall Tuesday afternoon. Pro- fessor Parker, who has conducted this orchestra since its beginning over twenty years ago, is directing this vear. The management was particularly fortunate in securing ‘Mme. Povla Frisch, the Danish dramatic soprano, as soloist. This was her first appear- ance in New Haven. _Mme. Frisch sang in Burope from Petrograd to Paris with brilllant success, and the critics have vied with each other in proclaiming her unusual voice and powers of interpretation. The freshman football team defeat- ed Andover 7-0 in a close and hard fought game Saturday. The 1320 eleven was especially strong on end runs and line-plunging but several bad fumbles in the early part of the game probably held the score down. Captain Kempton agai starred in long gains around end an in running back kicks and and again. Prizer at end did some splendid tackling and caught two for- ward passes for gains of 15 yards, The freshmen’s touchdown was made on a_ plunge througa center by Hixon, after Kempton and he had carried the ball down the fleld from Yale's 40-yard line. “Qurs”, a military comedy by T. W. Robertson. an English dramatist, has been selected as the play which the University Dramatic Association will present on its Christmas trip during the holidays. The final choice has been made after months of consldera- tion and discussion. At a recent joint meeting of the Executive and Advisory committees, it was unanimously voted to discard ally other plays under con- sideration and comence work at once on ‘Ours.” STORIES OF THE WAR Sensation of Belng Shot. A non-commissioned officer in the British Army has written the follow- d Hlxo:] broke through the Andover line time ing skeich of what he felt when he was_caught in machine gun fire and of the care bestowed upon him by the army surgeon who came to his assist- ance: “I don’t know,” he says “what most men feel like when they are wounded. What 1 felt was that I had been hit by a tremendous iron hammer, and then twisted with a sickening sort of wrench so that my back banged on the ground and my feet struggled as though they didn't belong to me. For a second or two my breath wouldn't come. I thought ‘This is death’ and hoped it wouldn't take long. By and by, as nothing happened, I thought I couldn’t be dying. I tried to turn om my side, but the pain stopped me dead. There was nothing to do but lie etil on my back. After a few minutes two men in my platoon crawl- past at a few yards' distance. They saw me and seemed to be laughing, but they dldn’t stop. Probably they were wounded. I could have cried at their being so cruel, “It's being cut off from human be- ings that's as bad as anything when one's wounded. and when 3 lad wrig- gled up to me and asked what was up, T loved him. 1 eald. Not dying, I think, but pretty bad, and he wrig- gled on. What else could he do? Then T raised my knces to ease the pain in my and at once bullets came over; so T put them down. “If dian’t bother me much when the’Germans began shelling the trench about eighty to 100 yards bebind me— Children Ory FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA TECHOW'S CATS B the Kiddles to See Thera VMUDGE MORTON TRIC Music and Singing | A Great Act You Will Like [ELEANOR SHERMAN ........ The Girl and the Pie: e e —— " The Most Popular Star of the Screen In His Biggest Success DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS in- lo Comedy Drama “MANHATTAN MADNESS” Full of “Pep” and Action. . See It. :2!:1 VERNON in the 2 Reel ;22“ HAYSTACKS & STEEPLES DON'T FORGET—First Show Saturday Night at 6 P. M., 2nd at 8:15. Matinee at 2:30 Evening at 7-8:30 All Seats 00 METRO PICTURES CORPORATION PRESENTS THE GIFTED A Stirring Photoplay Which Shows METRO TRAVEL SERI Friday Satur Seyenth Episode LIONEL BARRYMORE and MARGUERITE SKIRVIN in “The Upheavel” Prestige. AUDITORIUM BEATRICE FAIRFAX LOVELY Love is More Than Money, Pewer or DREW COMEDY EVERYTHIG NEW TODAY HARRY FOX JEAN SOUTHERN ot e oo lio el LB A PHIL OTT AND HIS MUSICAL FOLLIES CO. Presenting DOINGS OF A DAY A New Bill 20—PEOPLE—20 - 8hows 2:30, 8 p. m—Matinee 10c and 200. Evening 100, 20c and 30c. with heavies. One heard them start- ing a long way off, and coming to- ward one with a glorious rush, like the swift rustling of enormous end in- cerdibly powerful pinions. Then there was a thump, and I was cov- ered with earth. After about the thirtieth thump eomething hit me in the stomach and took my wind. I thought, ‘Thank Heaven, it's over this time,’ but it was only an extra heavy sod of earth.. \ OTHER VIEW POINTS On the authority of Mr. Rudyard Kipling, we are led to belleve that “the doorkeepers of Zion” do mnot al- ways stand ¢ helmet and whole armor, and so forth; and Wwe are con- firmed in our belief that the door- keepers are not always on the job by the announcement of the raid per- petrated by those German destroyers in the British channel — Hartford Times. In Germany the kitchens have been stript_of copper and brass to provide material for shells. In New York city the cemeteries, are being stript of bronze ornaments, railings and tomb- stone nameplates for the same pur- pose. Boys are stealing them and sell- ing them to junk dealers, and they are said to be finding their way into the munition factpries. If the war keeps on long enough. nothing will be sacred anywhere.—Waterbury Repub- lican. The compensation commissioners continue to have nice poinfs put up to them for decision. Commissioner Beers of New Haven made one recent- 1y that resulted in an appeal to the superior court. lda Engstrom asked for an award on account of the death of her hasband, Oscar Engstrom, an employee of the L. Candee Co. The crux of thg matter is that the wife was estranged from her husband at the time of his death. The award was given his mother. The Candee Company appealed on the ground that no compensation should be paid at all, and the_widow claimed 1t should go to her.—Bristol Press. A court decision which nullifies a jitney ordinance In Waterbury, Con- necticut, is expected to be foilowed by a state law in which the powers of municipalities will be clearly defined. The provision for a one thousand dol- lar bond for the protection of pas- sengers, to which the jitney men ob- jected, was not approved by the court on the ground that the clty charter did nt permit the bonding of public carrages. This Interpretation of the charter means that cities and towns desiring to regulate the Jjitney must have authority from the state. ‘The jitney does not seem debtined to, put electric railwaye out of business, but it has a legitimate place in the fleld of transportation. Regulation 1s desir- able, provided it does not deprive the public of the advantages of the special service tor ,which the fitney is pecu- larly adapted. The Connecticut de- cision is valuable in that it points the way to a definite settlement of the the Sitney question hy state authority| along lines that Insure service and| protect the rights of passengers —| Providence Bulletin. As long as the grown people who! walk the tracks are not arrested just 80 long will children take chanees on the iron highways and there will be fatalities like that of yesterday when a boy's life was snuffed out. The rail- Toad is doing its best to keep persons Off the tracks. It is constantly issuing warnings and notices are posted all along the road where people are like- ly to take to the tracks. The police have other things to concern them- selves and people who wish to take short cuts use the tracks. Until there are arrests and the public is made to understand that the tracks are not sldewalks such eccidents as that of yesterday will continue to happen. The children go on the tracks becauss older persons do and because they not sufficlently warned. The fact it is dangerous and against the law walk the tracks has not been r impressed upon them. If the ra would put extra police here for : and arrest everybody who walks : tracks the practice would soon e The ordinary mortal has to have things hammered into his head by force or at least by a show of it be- fore it really makes an impression on him—Meriden Journal. Why Are the Babies Barred? ‘Wonder whether bables are barred from the parcel post as ‘“poisonous animals, insects and reptiles” or as “infernal machines.”—Pittsburgh Dis- patch. ONLY POWERFUL MEDICINE WILL END RHEUMATISM It matters not whether you have had agonizing pains from rheumatism for 20 years or_distressing twitchings for 20 ‘weeks, Rheuma is strong enough and mighty and powerful enough to drive rheumatic poisons from your body and abolish all misery or money back. 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