Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 12, 1916, Page 4

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CIRCULATION 001, BVerage.c.eeeeecenscins $412 1905, average...vsrssensessss5,920 .. 9247 PROMISE DISRE- GARDED. 4 This government has thus far been fMumable to eecure any relief for the from the practice which has instituted by the Germans of de- the able bodied people of that to Germany for the purpose of the fatherland in carrying on war, either by work which is di- military or by putting them mon-military work that those who shave been thus engaged can be re- for the army or other govern- | jment service. " This country has exhausted its pow- jers under diplomacy, It has set forth “what was done and it 15 awaiting de- " lwelopments, which from the replies | thus far made, are not likely to de- {{welop. It is not the only neutral, how- that has expressed its disap- of such methods, but is none among the neutrals cafi be expected to have more 106 with - Germany than the 8- States unless it may be Hol- l'.mm ¥ ;| ‘Whether or not Holland anticipated that deportation would be resorted to is nevertheless a fact that follow- the surrender of the city of Ant- werp the Dutch consul in that city gnd from the Germans the prom- that the Belgians would not be de- and Holland is now calling at- to the fact that that prom- is not being respected. The Ger- excuse is that it was ex- that the war would last but a fow months, but nothing wes sald the length of the war and Ger- 48 now confronted with the fast it 1s treating the promise as a matter of_words or a scrap of similar to its interpretation of treaty concerning Belgian neu- . Holland is thus colling Ger- to account, in a manner which has & right to do and its position this matter appears to be the emong the neutrals, ONE CENT POSTAGE. In ‘accordance with a statement #ome time ago, the annual re- 7t of Postmaster General Burleson ‘comtains a recommendation for the of the ono cent rate for city This of gourss 1s a step Tias long been advocated in cer- ‘fain circles and it is possible that the gemeral looks upon the of the department as so highly and so profitable that ef- ghould be devoted to such a re- in rates. _ The mail service is carried on for Rhis conwentemce of the people. They A the cost and they are entitled to - service as they demand. It is fore highly important that the tal business ehould first bo such it can be generally claimed to requirements before an attempt o launch out into & cheaper 3 for however much a reduction i cost may be destred in each and direction, it cannot help being fated that mail delivery that is. and sure =t the present rate is r ferable to one that happens to , it nothing is to be done o the general improvement of E service. B mail service has not reached ) degree Of perfection that nothing n towaeds an Improvement, _inasmuch as the people are ev e .3 i a they arise and expedite matters in general, without waiting to call togwther the entire cablnet has recognized the manner in which his hands, as war minister, were tled and the plan now set forth is for the pur- pose of overcoming just such handi- caps. The new cabinet is therefore in ac- cord with the ideas of the new pre- mier. It will therefore be expected that it will accomplish what he ex- pects of it. He at least will have the opportunity to try it out and put into practice the ideas which he has per- sistently advocated. It will be up to him to make it succeed if such is Dossible and as far as cabinet or coun- cil work s concerncd he must be, and doubtless will expect to be, held re- sponsible for the future course that is pursued. For that reason much more attention will be directed to Great Britain's part In the war. David Lloyd George is on trial and it is a case where he has the whole nation at his back. e e PROBING THE HIGH PRICES There cannot help being widespread interest in the steps which have been taken by the attorney general of the United States for the purpose of in- vestigating the high cost of living for the purpose of bringing about a re- duction. The people have for some time been aroused. The price.of food- stuffs and in fact of all commodities has made such tremendous jumps that it is time that something”was done to ascertain the facts in regard thereto. Evidence has been presented to show that in certain instances such in- creases were not justified, but that speculators and those in control either as producers, or middlemen were tak- ing advantage of the tendency to gouge the public. Attorney General Gregory in setting theggovernment machinery to work is doing so with the idea in mind that the prevailing high prices are due to combinations in restraint of trade and to well. laid plans to squeeze every cent that s possible out of the con- sumer. 7 The public has to a certain extent taken the reins into its own hands by the declaration of boycotts on certain food supplies. The move has already begun to bcar fruit as shown in the docroases in eggs and butter, which though slight indicate & move in the right direction which promises to con- tinue under the exertion of the same influence. But there is plenty of op- portunity for the government to do its part and it should bring to bear every ounce of energy to relieve the situe- tion, and ‘to punish those who may be found gullty of unjustified price rais- Ing. NEED MEN AS WELL AS SHIPS. The letting of the contracts for the building of a number of powerful ships for the navy, and the advocacy of still more vessels in order to bring the navy up to the required strength and keep it there, keeps attentlon cen- tered on that branch of the national defense. But while this great’amount of effort and the large expenditure of money is being made to produce the ships, it {8 only natural that there should be some concern as to what is being done to secure and train the men who are going to operate them. ‘Within the last year a half dozen of the modern ships of the navy have been placed out of commission and on the reserve list because it was neces- sary to take the crews therefrom to man half that number of new vessels which had just been turned over to and been accepted by the navy de- partment. This was because it was impossible to obtain the officers and crews otherwise. Now we are inform- ed that the navy" is 20,000 men short of its authorized quota and it is but proper that the inquiry should be made as to where the men are to be obtained who will be put in charge of the vessels which have been ge- cently contracted for, and those which are recommended. It will not amount to very much to have a lot of first class vessels un- less_tnere are men properly trained to Mindle them and that training can- not be secured in a minute. It re- quires as long if not longer to ac- quire the right kind of training as it does to build battleships and deter- mined efforts need to be turned in that direction befors the time agtually argives when they will be required, even though it is to be hoped that they mever will be. EDITORIAL NOTES. The return of the Deutschland to Bremen calls for further decoration of Ceptain Koenig. The man on the corner says: Where there is a disagreement there must be something to arbitrate. There is elation over the discovery of a new ofl well in Pennsylvania, but it 1s not a circumstance to what the Teutons found in Rumania. From the freatment that is being accorded the Belgians, after ail they have been through, it is surprising that the kaiser can sleep nights. s Vel g No' one would blame Greece very much it it reached the conclusion that it was neutrality rather than night- mare from which it is suffering. Germany couldn't have done more towards malking a martyr in the Bel- glan cause than by its action in mak- ing a prisoner of Cardinal Mercier. —_— . There are a lot of people who like to complete their shopping early so that they will have a longer time in which to talk it over with their neigh- bors. If the protests against the ill treat- ment of Venizelists amount to no more than those -made in behalf of the Belgians, they might as well not ‘have been made, Germany now says that the Arabla was sunk without warning because it used by transports: v of determining the “teamship. " 7 of the Greek royal- not being suppressed what {s left of the :nt must be getting ready to Jo he central powers. A loosencd silver plate in the skull of an auto driver is given as the rea- son for thiec Pennsylvania deaths. | Well, there is no question but there ists, which by Constar Greek gov. “Come tn! visitor. “Leap the fir coat and hur- dle the summer dresses. I think you,| can sit down in that cormer if spill things off the chair!” “Any woman with as many clothes as this,” began the visitor, “ought to be eshamed of herself: She—" “I am!” conceded the girl who likes to- talk. *“There are about a million dresses here and among them all only three that I car wear without causing a riot! “These are things I have saved because they w; too good to throw away and finally the closet threatened to burst its sides! I've come out of | my france and sorted them out stern- ly and have cast that hupe pilo from me! When P've had a garmont hang- ing around for from two to seven years and haven't had time nor inclin- ation to do thu nocessary fixing over why, it's time to pass it o 1 agree with you—" - “My goodness!” cried the visitor, making a dive at something vellow in the pile, “is this that perfectly lovely THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Soclety Odessa—If it should happen that the converging Bulsarian and Ger- man armies, advanciog from tee Do- brudja, and the Austro-German forces, descending through the Transylfanisn passes, should approach thresteningly near to Jessy now that they have uc- cup‘ed Buchdrest, tho Rumaniun gov- ernment will be forced to transfer the natignal capital temporarily to some adjadent any friendly city, just as Bel- gium, Serbia, and Montenegro were forced to do, and as France did wihen the first rush of the Germans men- aced Paris. In the event of Suck a transfer it is probadle that Ovessa, known as the capital of Southern Ras sia, and, next to Petrograd, the greaf est seaport in ihe Czar's domains, will extend its hospitality to King Ierdin- { and and his ministers. The National Geographic ~ Society scribes this prospective asylum of thc Rumanians | in the following war geography bul- | ietin: o “If Odessa wers as gay and frivo- | lous today ns it was prior to the out- | break of the Buropean jvar the of- ficial set of Rumania would feel en-; tirely at home in the great Black Sea port, for life among Lhe upper classes | of this South Russian metropolis was | almost as rapid as in Bucharest, fa- | miliarly known as the Paris uf the Near,East. In fact, before the war no other ci 4 Bucharest, so closely resembled Paris and Vienna in ‘ts hectic nignt-life as did Odessa, | with its hundreds of side-walk cafcs, its municipal opera, its palaces of | chance and its gilded halls of the half- world. “With its half a dozen excellent har- bors to which came ships of many climes for cargoes of wheat ~from Russia’s tuexhaustible grain _fieids, and its level plains to the nerth over which produce could be Shipp and imports could be distri every part of the empire, 5 remarkable growth to o city of more than 600,000 inhabitants in the course of Jess than a century and a quurter Is not altogether surprising. Its total imports and exports before the’war were valued at a hundved million dol- lars a year. “A unique analogy between this prospective temporaty capital of Eu- mania and of the capital city of the United States may be drawn. Both were started at about the snme times “—during the last decade of th> eighth- eenth century—and both were begun not through the natursl demands of commerce but through the far-seeing wisdom of the chief cxecutives of the two nations. And periiaps the oddest coincidence is the fact that noth were planned by foreign civil enzineers of the same nation, for while Major L’ Enfant was devising the ‘city of mag- nificent distances’ with its squares, its diagonal avenues and its circles, to be erected on the banks of the Po- tomac, Volaad, also a Frenchman, laid out Odessa on the shore of the Black Sea. While President Washington was dreaming into beinz the benutiful city which bears his name, the czar- ina, Catherine the Great, was giving her energies to the upbuilding of a municipal bulwark wkich would mark a further advance toward the chief ob- ject of the Russian Bears desire— Constantinople. “Like Washington, Cdessa was laid out in the midst of a virtual wilder- ness and swamp. An isolated Turkish fort, Khaji-Bey, stood on the site, of the present city at the time (1789) when it passed Into the possession of Russia, although Greek colonists in the early years of the Christian era had taken advantage of the Bay of Odessa. A French captain, de Ribas, was in command of the Russian 1roops Fhu stormed the fort, and to him. with the aid of Voland, the czarina entrusted the work of erecting a city and building a harbor. After de Ribas ceme Armand, duc do Richelieu, in 1503, a refugee from the French Rev- olution, who was made the first cap- tain of the new]y formed municipal district, and who was largely instru- mental 'in the early levelopment of the city. Richelien was _succecded Governor by Prince Woronzoff, Rus- sian born but edueated in Cambridge University while his father was serv- ing as Ambassador to England. 1t is not surprising, therefore, in view of the enligntened government accorded the city by these three men of occi- dental training, that Odessa should early have assumed the aspect of a western Europe metropolis. “An ‘imperial palace’ is at hand for the occupancy of King Ferdinand should his court be removed here. In ordinary times this handsomo buflding, with its classic lines, and its beautiful gardens, is e residence of the com- mander-in-chicf of the Eighth Army Corps, for which Odessa is head- guarters. Tt was erected by Prince Woronzoff_and occupied by him for many yeors. One of the striking ar- ahitectual features of the palace is a beautiful pergola of granite columns of the 160-foot bluft which rises pre- cipitously above the harbor and along which is the fashionable promenade of the city. D to two years ago the rallway distance between Odessa and Moscow was more tkan a thousand miles, but a new line, via Baihmatch, retently completed, reduces to 814 miiles the length of the irom artery connecting the great seaport with the metropolis of central Russia. 'The steamship dis- tance between Odessa and Constanti- nople is 260 miles; between the re- cently captured Rumanian _city of Constantza and the Russian port it is 170_miles. “Five and ten miles respectively to the north and to the southwest of Odessa are these ‘limans’ or lagooms, famous for their mudbaths, which are zaid to be highl} beneficial to persons suffering from rheumatism, gout and cutaneous diseases. The most popu- lar of these lagoons is 200 miles long, about a mile broad, and ten feet deep, and lies 16 feet below the lével 1 of the Black Sea. The saline slime whict the o lagoon is standing on a promontory at one end | p evening gown I always liked so much? You aren’t t3 “Too tight now, and in shreds, and 1 wore it at least fifty times!” inex- orably stated, its owner. It's ih;ce years old and utterly passel” “You're crazy!” declared the visi- tor. “Why, I know a woman who does the most marvelous things with old clothes! She could take that dress and wiggle her fingers over ‘t and make you think it came strajght from Paris! There’s all this lovely bead trimming on it—’ “The beads are all falling offt—" “And the lines ars perfect: Don't you throw that away—have my Wwoman fix it!" “We-e-ell to talk, dubiously. think—' ‘Oh-h-h!"”. shricked the _visitor. hauling out sometaing blue, “if I don’t remember this dress! You woie that garden party thing wh White was just home from college— and he tagged you around like a New- foundland puppy dog! What did you ever do with him finally, aryhow? I sort of lost track of that affair, but T remember that He was crazy ' about that dress! I should think “Well!"” cried its owner Indigrantly, , “you ought to know that if I at-) tempted to keep ail the dresses that | kind mascuiine friends have raved | over I'd havo to rent a storeroom! It's | a habit of “ masculines! Harmless | enough—they don’t mesn anything by i jt! As to Wayne, returncd him! with thanks to his mamma, and that: agreed the girl who likes “it you really | “Why, you vertainly could use the' lace on it for something!” persisted ! her friend. “I's a shame, to throw it Of course, there i¥ a hole now and then, but you could pi something. I know! Put blouse! But I nevi make v 1, you might!” insist er. “You put this dres low one and—my good gracious She drew out an embroidered blouse. “Tnis was the prettiest waist any one wore all last winter to the card club!™ she said. “What on earth— “Handkerchief lincr explained the owner. “Falling to pieces front and back—one slecve split and it ster tno embroid Ol waist about. “It docs seem as though you could fix it up some know! The woman who of course! She can and set these bits of set embroidery in you'll have a perfectly scrump- st' The idea of throwing it isn’t six inches of it good vou can do something with 1 at's the matter with this crepe negligee? Yes, 1 see it is-worn all ground the edges, but you can make corset covers of the crere.” “It’s been waiting three vears now and I'll never get around to it as long as I live—besides the crepe isn't good enough to pay for the work! “Well, you keep it, anylow’” sald the visitor. “it's extravagant to throw it away! And you can rip off the vel- vet of this hat and steam it—! “I know it!” cried the girl who likes to talk. wildly. “I know all these thirgs that could be done with ‘em And they’ve been waiting vears to get it done—just like your own closetfuls at home.” “Well, don't you throw ’em awav!” inexorably ordered the visitor. “Hang ‘em all back in your closet! Some time—" “Oh, how T hate yon!” grumbled the girl who likes to talk, wearily getting to. her feet and obeying orders. “I was just going to do it when you came in, anyhow! T don’t believe the wo- man lives who has brains and self- control enouch really_to clean out her closet!"—Exchange. © LETTERS TO THE EDITOR We Must Live Right Up to the Law. Mr. Editor: 1 still like the mayor because he thinks being Mayor of Nor- wich is something more than an hon- or—something of a responsibility. Mayor Drown proposes to do things, and if he can't do everything that should be done we needn’t lay it up against him. He has 25 years of example to be economical with the city walks. These walks have been the meanest, the most neglected and'the most danger- ous. ~We have received notice that everybody must keep thelr walks clean —must live right up to the law or pay the penalty. I have been shouting “Thanks be for that!” You may trust Mayor Brown to see the city sets a good example where it has been notorious for setting a bad one for many yvears. The mayor cannot do everything; but he is trying to keep strangers from the conviction that Norwich has the poorest streets of any city in_the United States. Sometimes economy is a durned sight worse than extravagance. Let's give him a good fair chance for both. BILL. Norwich, Dec. 11, 1916, ‘The New Kingdom of Poland? The Kaiser's Manifesto. Mr. Editor: On the 5th day of No- vember, 1916, dispatches announced the proclamation at Warsaw and Lub- lin of a joint German and Austrian imperial manifesto, giving a part of Russian Poland a separate statehood, whose King will be chosen or appoint- ed at some future period. The new Polish kingdom will have a constitu- tion and a degree of autonomy. The manifesto further declares that “the exact frontiers of the Kingdom of Po- land shall be outlined later.” Coupled with this proclamation is an announcement from Vienna that “Galicia shall fecelve autonomy,” but that it will continge to constitute a province of the Austrian empire; and the corollary is that the Rolish prov- Inces of Prussia will remain in Prus- sian hands. It appears, then, that only a por- tion of “Russian Poland” will consti- tute the little land-locked Kingdom of olarid, promised in the manifesto. The press of Germany has hitherto from time to time, discussed three different plans of a Polish buffer state under sonsideration in the official cir- cles of the central powers. One of such plans has now been prommuligated through the manifesto in question. The Kingdom of Poland, according- Iy, is there, but without the Kking, without boundaries, without constitu- tion, or any form of government: It is only on paper. It has been prom- Ised to the Polish, nation by Germany and Austria, and it is interesting to know what promises of these two pow- érs are worth in the light of hi tory. During the Scngee in Vienna, in 1815, the king of ssia and the em= peror of Austria solemnly bpledged the inherent themselves to respect inhabiting_ the rights of ths Poles provinces allotted respectively to Prus- sia and Austrla, They promised to ive them home rule, and to maintain the Polish language in achools, cotirts, ‘public monarchs b e Polith Ia 1If it isn’t an Eastman, itisn’t a Kodak. There’s wwinter fun too—in a KODAK Outdoors with all ifs healthful, invigorating sports and indoors every time the boys or the boys and girls have a party, big or little, there. are pictures worth taking. And in the long winter evenings ot when rain and sleet make the outdoors_imposdb]c there’s good fun in developing and printing. Every step is simple by the Kodak system. Kodak catalog free at your dealer’s. EASTMAN KCDAK CO., ROCHESTER, N. Y. THE CRANSTON CO. The Leading Camera and Photographic Supply House of Norwich Carry the Eastman Kodak, and the other members of the Kodak family, the Brownie and the Premo. The gift of a Camera will please anyone, young or old, and we have them at all prices, from the 75c Premo, to the big 3A Folding Kodak with the autographic back. CRANSTON'S 25.27.20 BROADWAY bidden in schools and public offices, including the courts, under both gov- ernments. Many decades of violent prosecutions and tyranical oppressions followed. The imperial government of Austria, not content with ruthless economic ex- ploitation of Galicia, nor with cruel oppression and attempts at German- ization of a generation of Poles, con- nived at one of the most crimes”of the nineteenth century of the Christian era by permitting her official henchmen to incife 4 peasant uprising against the nobility of Gali- cia in 1846. Crazed by a drunken orgy of these days, at which barrels of whisky were freely supplied by governmental agencles of western Galicia, led by inhuman and treacher- ous Austrian officials, they massacred more than two thousand men, women and chftdren of the Polish nobility and burned and robbed their land owners' estates. Not until twenty vears later, after the defeat-at Koenig-graets by Prussia, in 1866, did Austria mend her despotic, cruel and barbarous ways, and change her inhuman policy to- ward the sorely tried Poles whom fate laced under the rule of this most ackward of all Furopean govern- ments. Under the constitution of 1867 Galicia was granted a semblance of home rule, and not till then was the Polish language restored, and _given the rights guaranteed by the imperial Austrian word of fiftv years before. Such was the perfidy of Austria. In Prussia the Poles fared no better. And after the victorious war with France (1870-71), the Royal ssian and imperial German government in- auguratéd a systematic and most brutal policy of extermination of Poles, the barberity of which was never equalled even in Russia. In fact, after ihe Japanese war, Russia gradually became more tolerant and liberal toward the Poles; while Ger- many’s motto, oppenly proclaimed in parliament and advocated by the Prussian press continued to be “A: rotten!” “Exterminate the Poles! ‘The story of Wrzeenia, of beating children to death for saying prayers in Polish, is well known even on this side of the Atlaritic. Every page of the history of the Polish “provinces under the Prussian rule is a story of perfidy, broken promises, and_cruelty, and barbarism on the part of the rulers. The Poles have therefore as much right to doubt Prussian promises as they have ground to distrust AWstria. The present manifesto proporting to rehablitate the Kingdom of Poland is only a promise. The prociaimed kingdom has neither bounderiss, nor king, nor government. The German and Austrian armies are there, their miiitary goverriofs are there, as is their iron rule. The promised kingdom is only on papsr. In the light of history not much weight can be attached to the paper _manifesto. Conditions may arise rendering it “a gcrap of paper,” liks the Belgian neutrality treaty. Assuming, however, that the ex- Ingencies of the war will make it good wli:x to earry out the promise con- veyed by the manifesto, the creation of a small portion of old Polana will not solve the great Polish question. Poland m ' reunited second, absolutely free. ost of the people of the United States are fa- miliar with the history of Poland and the crime of the itions, and wiil revolting | made upon Little Russia and Lithua- | nia, which formerly were united to Poland. ~ They are entitled to come into their own, too. Only the ancient strictly Polish territory is, however, wanted. The rehablitation of Poland, as pro- posed by two kaisers' manifesto, re- férs merely to a portion of Russian- Poland and falls short of the Polish minimum demand. It means but par- tial instead of a full restitution. It is |2 makeshift at best, instead of fair and final solution of the Polish question, based upon justice and a historical necessity. That it is disappointing to the Poles cannot be doubted. Always assuming that the central powers really intend to carry out the promise given in the manifésto, their motives are not of a character to command_admiration or elicit grati- tude. They lack disinterestedness. There is nothing magnanimous in the act of presenting the Poles with a por- tion of the territory recently conquer- ed from Russia and held temporarily depending upon ‘fortunes of the war. Shrewd politics s clearly at the bot- tom of the present grant. _The-cen- tral Germanic powers need soldlers @pove all else. The easiest meth obtaining them is by raising a lish army” This need of men, not regard for justice, appears to be the guiding motive of the central pow- ers, as plainly intimated in the mani- festo, of which a significant paragraph veads: “The glorious traditions of the an- cient Polish armies and the memory of the brave comradeship in the great war of our days. shall revive in 4 national army. The organization, instruction, and command of this army shall be arranged by common agreement.” Of course, the new Polish kingdor, situated right in the heart of the great armed camps of Germany and Austria, could not remain eneutral, nor be at liberty to choose sides. The choice has been made for it and the Polish army, “nolens-volens,” would have to fight under the direction of the German general staff. Great Pritain and France are wag- Ing this war to liberate oppressed na- tions, thereby to _restors a political equilibrium in Furope as a conditis- line-qua-non of permanent _peace. With their co-operation, Poland could expect a full measurs of justice. Their alley, Russia, undertook to redeém Po- lish provinces from Austria and Prus sia and to join thes to Russian-Po- land, thus carrying out the first part of Poland's minimum demand. Felendly relations, heretofore ob- taining between Poland and these na- tions will be jeopardized if Poland he now compelled to fight against Rus- sia; and this aspect of 6 present unusual situation, created by the manifesto, causes serious mi as to the ult! e gorrect and equit- able solution of the Polish question at this time, Poland 1s between the devil and the deep sea. Her present political conai- tion as an {nvoluntary appanage to the cedtral powers, if the proc! ed king- dom becomes & reality, is, if anything, worse than on the before the proclamation. . Hee eup of h:t,larn-: overflowing despl paren “3 the manifesto created ameng the students of Warsaw, but the tem- porary joy will scon disappear when STOP r.m‘.fla o Keeley | ‘ e roate oo SINGERS Vaudeville’s Most Pretentious Vosal Offering, A Musical Treat PEOPLE—BEAUTIFUL S8CENERY—NOVEL EFFECTS RAYNO and HOY' BESSIE BARRISCALE in “ Beautiful Five Part E CORNER IN Triangle Drama of Old Ireland Pictures Today AUDITORIUM u....v.?"‘md The Faded Flower = WITH=— MARGUERITE SNOW and ROSE COUGHLAN AND ALL STAR CAST HEARST WEEKLY [L__FRANK DANIELS COMEDY THURSDAY—PRIZE NIGHT ONE-HALF BARREL AND EIGHT 25 POUND BAGS OF FLOUR GIVEN AWAY FREE AND METRO .FEATURE PHOTOPLAYS Matines at 2:30 Eve. at 7, 8:30 All 8eats 100 TODAY AND TONIGHT DONALD BRIAN in “THE SMUGGLERS” |, LONESOME PATHE WEEKLY || KE, . Comedy COMING WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY WILLIAM NIGH and IRENE HOWLEY in “LIFE'S SHADOWS” the students see themselves on the firing line on some of the long stretch- Ing fronts as cannon fodder. FRANK NARUSEVICH. Norwich, Dec. 9, 1916, l OTHER VIEW POINTS _] A thing we are ail reluctant to per- ceive is tha: if we are to have any real national defense we must pay for it in considerably greater measure than is represented by gigantic prepared- ness parades and a great volume of oratory in and out of congress We shal’ all have to pay, some of us Wwith time, soine of us wita _me sy and some of us with bot National de- fence is nct a .hirg w nothing. Equaliy it is not a thing we can charge up to somebody else. Just so long as we insist upon trying to Dbeat the game we shall find that what we have is neither national! nor de- fense—Hartford Time: Bridgeport s more likely to get £ood government by arousing her peo- ple to a sufficient interest in their own «ffairs to sec that they are well man- aged, than by changing its system of doing the same things that will have to be done, whatever the form ¢f gov- ernment. Good government cannot be secured by a process so simple as changing one’s coat, although of course, the simpler and more dire.. the system, the eagler it 1is for the pecple to place responsibility and keep a check on officials. But commission overnment isn't good of itself any ore than political government is bad of itself. It is the people who say whether either system shall b gcod or bad and how good or bad—Hart- ford Post. 2 2 - Secretary of the Treasury Willtam G. McAdoo, in an interview, says that there is no cost of living problem—. that we have so much wealth that we chould not complain about the in- crease in prices, but should thank Geod, morning and evening, for our great | prosperity. This is the eame secretary who scouts the idea that there is any evasion of the income tax worth wol rying about. _ Blindness is not only a severe affliction for a man of the sec- retary’s vigor and wide interests in life; but carping critics misht even consider that it impaired the usefal- ness of the head of the federal govern- ment's greatest department. We strongly urge the secretary to con- suit an oculist befors it is too late~ New Haven Times-Leader. Newsdealers are not any longer car- rying big stocks of newspapers which may or may mot bo sold. Neither are newsboys. Nelther aro news- paper publishérs priating great num- bers of papers which may or may not be sold. Practically every newspaper printed after this has got to have a market assured in advance. The socuer the occzsional hilyers of news- papers realize this, and do their part in the readjustment, the better it will be fore evervbody.” They themiselves will_protect themselves against dis- appointment and the dealers and the boys and the newspaper publishers will be saved from the unsatisfactory necessity of not being able to sell a can scctire for | paper which they wotld ke to seil to 8 cusiomer who wanty it, because they wefe. not sure ‘eforehand of the demand which they would have been glad to suppiy.—Waterbury American. s At Havre, Marsellles snd Bordeaux. the conditions are much the same as at the terminais of some Of ovr big raliroad sines where freight so blocks business that cars cannot be unloaded and returned to thelr owners for use in other directions. At the three French ports mentloned there are from 150 to 175 whips lying awalting {he opportunity to unioad, and the wharves are 50 crowded with all eorts of zoods frsm previous arrivals that it is impossible to take on any more or to get the “mumitions,” which are for government and have “the right of way,” out from among the crowds of other goods. Some of the cargoes have heen subjected to months of de- iay already. There Is a lack of the men needed to handle this tremendous accumulation, the able mea having, doubtless, bsen drafted for the war There js no such excuse in ou for we have men encugh, or otght have, but the consejuences are m; the same, whatever the cause.—Brids: port Standard. China’s Density of Populatiou. About 95 per cent of the pupulation of China is confined to one-third the area of the country, With a_density of 200 to the square mile. Five pir cent of the popuiation inhabits 65 per cent. of the area, with 4 density of 10 to the square mile. Lack of trar portation fncflities and inagequate means of protection account for the sparsness of settlement in the out- Iyirg dependencies. About 40 per cent. of China's population is in the Provinces sguth of the Yangtse River, with & density of 220 to the square mile. This territory has twice the area of the original 13 states of the American Union and four times tho population. There are no whesled vehicles in use south of the Yangtse except on the Canton and Yunnan rallways. There ars therefore no roads in this sectfon. Rico 1is cuitivated throughout this area, and tramsportation is over path ratier than roads or by boats or wa- terways. 1In this section the water! buffalo and oxen ars the only animals used on the farms, and gocds are car-; ried on the backs of men rather than on pack animals or wheeled vehicles, except where the few miles of rafl- ways are in operation. i Rice is often spoken of as the staple article of food for the whole of the| Chinese people, yet tens of millions of . people in China have never seen or tasted rice. Vast areas of the countgy in the north can not grow rice, and' even in the rice-growing sections mil-| ifor:s of people are too poor to buy or use rice. In the ontlying dependencies, con- stituting 68 per cent of the total area | of China, the demsity of population is less than that of the Middle West of the United States. Ways of Texas, Texas has raised $25,000,000 worth of peanuts this year. This Lone Star Stato does a sreat deal to make the three-ring’ circus a greater institution than musical comedy. — Lou'sville Courier-Journal. The Thames National Bank A SAFE DEPOSIT BOX in our s S 201 Vaults, at 16 Shetucket St., will