Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 11, 1917, Page 4

civ Bulletin and Qonfied 121 YEARS OLD on price 12c = week; 50e a ® year. . d at the Postoffice at Norwich, €'n B alletin Baitorial Rooms 35-8. £ Bulletin Job Office 35-2. tio Office. 67 Church St n. 11, 1917. The Bulletin bas the largest eirculation of any paper in Eastern Connecticut, and from three to four times larger than that of any in Norwich. It is delivered fo over of the 4,053 houses m Nor- and read by ninety-three per of the people. In Windham be a new adjustment. /That this nation is being looked to, and that it has an excellent opportu- nity has been indicated for a long time by those who are familiar with the requirements of Russia. The need of getting better aecquainted with Russian demand and Russian markets has been pointed out, and now Rus- sla has licensed the National City Bank of New York to transact busi- ifess in that country and especially to_finance railroad construotion. The lack of railroads has been one of the big handicaps of that nation. It has obtained a new view of its predie ent by the struggle of the last and a half years and it is but natural that it should be eager to overcome the defect and that it should declare that Russia must have rail- roads—plenty of them. The American opportunity to partieipate in such de- velopment cannot be disregarded for where the railroad goes other things follow and .American built roads would of course mean increased trade in other American goods. There cannot therefore help being an increased in- terest in the Russian awakening. PROHIBITION IN WASHINGTON. That consress is responding to the efforts of the prohibition movement which has been 30 successfully car- ried on throughout many of the states of the nation, and is recognizing the merits which are back of the steps taken Dby the nations of Furope to curtail the use of liquor in order to have more efficient and effective ar- mies and workmen, is indicated by the action which has been taken by the United States senate in declaring for the Sheppard bill which abolishes saloons in the national capital after November 1, 1917, though it permits importations of liquor for personal use. Determined efforts made to have this question submitted to the people on the ground that they are the ones who are most affected failed. The effort to get such an expression was unsuccessful even though it was not obligatory for congress to abide and in all of these places it . Eastern Coni ut has forty- towns, one hundred and sixty- Fural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold In every town and on all of he R. F. D. foutes in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATION 1901, BVOrage....ccceereeaca.. 4412 2905, average....svssvesse..-5,920 Janvary 6 ...ocoies 9,290 . REFORMATORY FOR WOMEN. There can be little question but Fywhat there is need for a reformatory ‘for women In this state. It has been pointed out, cases are con- 7, coming to light which prove and’the legislature has been urged “on different occasions to make pro- | wislon for such an institution. | i2In the last four years there has % 2 valid excuse in the fact that 2 finances of the state did not war- “yant such an outlay and that this was . ome of the things which could walt | without any greater harm than has | prevafled in the past, but with the State looking up financially it is time 3t & start was made towards sup- this need. "The state board of charities has fa- it and the governor in his mes- jage commends it, but in keeping with g..qcy of doing“away with a lot ‘meedless commissions he believes Sthat the wisdom of combining such a _reformatory with the state school for _girls, or at least on the samo grounds and under the same management ‘qught to be considered. The sugges- tion is a meritorious one and the pos- | \sibilities should be looked into. It is _in keeping with the plan of conduct- ing the state inebriate farm in con- on with the state hospital here, “Put way cannot such an investigation f@s is needed resarding the reforma- be conducted in time to permit St action by the present legislature if Ithe proper attention is devoted to it? (Bt certainly ought not to require two QIR & fatsrmine and revort on the flity of the governor's sucges- ~ fion, and the quicker a decision can 3 reached upon this point the quicker " Something can be done towards start on the woman's reformatory. A “DRY” DECISION. A decision of far reaching mport- ance is that which has just been ed down by the United States su- court relative to the constitu- 5 ity of the Webb-Kenyon law, " iwhich upholds the statute to the full- - fest extent. Wherever a state has voted for pro- | hibition and laws have been enacted Sto bring it about, much trouble has ‘mlways been experienced, aside from in overcoming outside interference. It been maintained that liquor could sent into a dry state from a wet te upon the order of a resident of dry state for personal consump- This has meant that those who able could maintain their wine rs while those who could not were o go without. The claim has that the state had no right to with interstate commerce, a which was under the control of \federal government. By this ebb-Kenvon law thjs is changed. is ds consress =ald - that the states _have the right to prevent this the exercise of its e power when it so voted, and \is- this position which the highest urt in the land has now sustalned a vots of 7 to 2. The power to 'do as they please has been delegated 2o _the states. It is but natural therefore that the ohibition workers should be elated the decision for they see a greater tunity for a fairer test of the ciple for Which they are and have So long been working. “TRADE WITH RUSSHA. has Jong been recognized that the - opportunities of this country e bound to be increased by the which are sure to take place following the war. Before n of 1914 this country did export business to Rus- ‘nothing in comparison with did. _Germany market in the, czar, but that - = ! by such a vote. This bill must now be passed upon by the house. That & hard fight will be put up there is to be expected. The advocates of the bill .are already claiming that it will .get favorable action in that body, but it is possibl that that branch of congress will be favorable to the proposal for a refer- endum, should it be possible for the matter to be pushed along to a vote at this session of congress which has but a few weeks to run and many ‘matters of importance stil] remain to be acted upon. That prohibition s gaining in strength is indicated by the senate laraticn of peace there is going to l “Hullo, Bill, got home first, did you?” sald the younger brother. ‘Whereupon William Merrill, stretch- ed almost full length in a most fuil length in a Morris chalr, openel his eyes and Dbiinked. The words Lac roused Rim from the deepest slumber. Yes, 1 got home,” he rephied sleep - fly. “Why, mo, I didm't go ouw! Heavens. Joe, what time is 1t?* “Just 12:15 dear” answered Joe with mock tenderness. “It's Teally time you were in bed, Willy boy.” “Great Caesar, I've slept all the eva- ning.” Merrill chalr and cast rumpled clothes. Laura.” “My word, you dom't mean it? Too bad, old feilow. Miss went with a handsomer “I must telephone her. “You're crazy, Bill! .You can't cali 2 girl up at this time of night.” “That's right, of course not. But I don’t know what she will think of me “Oh, you can fix it tomorrow, Try a sudden attack of iliness, or an au- tomobile smash or even an unshak- able client whose case means mon>v and reputation to you. Why, it’s easy “Laura Bell has heard of those rea- sons for delinquencies before, worse luck, and more, too.’ “You don’t mean to say that you've used all those excuses? Why, Wily boy, I'm surprised at you. I had no idea you were such a gay deceivec” rueful glance at his I had a date with “I'm not. I'm as honest as the day is long, but luck is against me. When I didn’t meet her train and take her to lunch, as I had engaged to do. oi:e day last summer when she was com- ing in from the country, I told her it was because I had had a heat stroke, and I had had one. I was in a half stupor all the afternoon in & doctor’s office. “Did_she believe you, Bill?" “Most assuredly. She felt sorry for me and urged me to go to the coun- try, which you may remember [ d: I stayed a week end at their country place and had a bully time. The first thing I did when I got back to the city was to look up some information that Laura wished for a paper she was writing, and sent it to her with my very prettiest bread and butter letter. “I was a little surprised because she never wrote to_ thank me for the research work I had done for hev, and when I happened to meet her a month I STORIES OF THE WAR actfon and should the house pass the bill a greater effort than ever could be expected to be made in behalf of the cause throughout the wet states or possibly in behalf of national pro- hibition. THE LITERACY TEST. From the attitude taken by the sen- ate of the United States relative to the Immigration bill, and therefore the much discussed literacy test which it contains, it is apparent that If the support which was given to the bill as it passed that body is adhered to, 1t is more than sufficient to. pass the measure over the, promised veto of the president. This is of course not the first time that the senate has declared Its ap- proval of a similar clause. It has occurred on at least three other occa- sions and had the support of the low- er house of congress, only to receive the disapproval of the president, which has been respected in each instance, since it was impossible to get the necessary two-thirds vote in each body which is required to make a law of it when vetoed by the chief executive. What action will be taken by many of the congressmen who have favored this clause when it comes to acting upon it a second time is not Indicated, except by what has transpired on previous occasions. That there will be many who will refuse to insist up- on it folowing a veto, and the veto having been applied once by President Wilson there are good reasons for he- lieving in addition to his statement that it will be forthcoming again, has been the case in the past and it will without doubt be the case again. Get- ting a two-thirds majority to over- ride a veto is not as easy as a simi- lar vote on the first passage of a measure, and this is particularly truc in the larger body, the house of rep- resentatives. EDITORIAL NOTES. I the headline ‘Mrs. Cornwallis- West Silent” is correct, she has adopted a very wise course. All the body blows that are being dealt to the “wet” forces are not be- ing delivered at the ballot hox. The man on the corner says: Little is left to the imagination of the list- ener by the chap who has secured all the information. . The number of drownings and near drownings which are occurring be- cause of thin ice shows how little at- tention is being paid to rising tem- peratures. Now that the congressional library has received 10,000 volumes of Chi- nese literature, that will be a more popular spot than ever for Washing- ton visitors. Those who have found a gas leak with a lighted match can appreciate the explosion by T W. Lawson From the fact that a Los Angeles paper has put forth a New Year's edition with 172 pages, no one would ever suppose that there was a paper scarcity in the country. Many are claiming that people can live on anywhere from 17 1-2 to 40 cents a day, but that does not seem to be having any apparent effect upon the high price of foodstuffs. It is an excellent stand which has been taken by the farm iloan board when it declares that ability and nat politics will govern the appointments. Let us hope it will be followed from stert to finish. When the enforcement of the law in the state of New Jersey results in fewer accidents, it is time the atten- tion of other states was directed to that much needed recognition of duty. Everybody is refraining from talk- ing about the weather for fear that the bureau manager will throw on the polar draft all of a sudden and then. ‘here will be still more dissatisfac- ipy the dweller of the country, All That War Left Was Basoment Wall, The following letter shows what a French soldier found on leturaing home: “I was_on horseback as far as the town of M., and then 1 went alone on foot as far as Le Forest. I followed no road or path, and yet I met no ob- stacle in my way. There was not the least bit of wall, not the least iiitle hedge. That alréady made up my mind as to what our family’s home must be. “The cemetery is just at the en- trance to the village, on the side where I came. Poor cemectery—it s all upturned from bottom to top, to.a depth of three yards! Without a plan, you could not find the place of a s gle grave. If you did not ses lLere and there a few scattered bones, you would never guess that it had been a burying-place. “Our house was dred feet further helped me to get recognize the spot. and one apple tree ill marked what had beeh the yard. f the house, nothing was left that rose above the ground. Of the solid part, notung remained but scattered pieces o? an oven. 4 ! about three hun- on. Two things my bearings and A little pear tree “Happiness of Rural “I stirred up the earth find something to reraem first_object I brought to iight was a| ook of my younger brother By ! the irony of things I read on the cov er, under the heading ‘Happiness of Rural Life, verses from Virgil: “Hap- knows his hyppiness! Far from strife and batties the duly generous sa showers egsy food upon him.” (Fo; put in Enzlish verses like thers but I can only give the French boy's text literaliy.) “In_such a place of desolation, don't ou find such verses a piercing con- trast with realit Virgil did rot foresee that, centuries after him, civ- ilization would see such horrors. “The spirit of good and the soirit of evil arc two ravening workers and the latter has crossed our home ix its devastation. The other must now re- pair the harm—but how? “I gathered up next a few old pos- tal cards from before the war. But the find which interested me most was the little blank book of the wash lists, which belonged to my sister. & marked down the linen she had L wash for the Boches.- There were only two places where payment was marked—received 2 rharks’ and ‘e ceived 1 mark’ My sister indicated the owners of each bundle of linen 3s best she could, by their name or hy their features—for example, ‘blg nose’ ‘big mouth,’ ‘white eyes’ ‘Ted eves— or again ‘orderly in such a house or ‘officer in M.’ and so on. “In the liftle blanik book there was other writing in my sister's hand, ani it must have charmed the Bocaes if they read it: ‘We are the children of France, the country of liberty. Our motto is—Hope—and our ideal—¥ra- ternity.’ T was looking with great salness at all these things when a sergeant came up to me; he had been cha:red with the direction of road-mending in to tr ber. to The later on_the it was what never o st street I asked recels n - 5186 sicepticar when T Swhen must have been loat in back from ! came shie el wesk. T had it abl tion for nsin’ so = ly that it went to Cambri, M chusetts, instead of Cami Wis consin. “The minute I got it back I ca.ed her to come downtown to lunch and told her ! had something to show her. .Just as I was starting from my office to mest lowly rose from his|her, Billingsly came in to discuss the embezzlement. You know, Joe, that's one of my biggest cases. I simply had to listen to what he had to Laura up and asked say, and he had to say it right ‘heu. 1l probally | for he was to New Y P going ‘ork on an oon train. I was three-quarters of an hour late at my appointment, and there was no Laura. “I called in the evening, propcrly contrite and penitent, and she be- haved splendidly, and actually blamed herself for not waliting longer. 1 my hand in my pocket to draw out the dead letter to show her and it was not to be found. 1 don't know to this day what became of it.” 5 r as Laura is concerned I've no doubt it's classified as a very in- genious excuse. “You needn't try to be funny. I know there's no reason why she shouldn’t think me a Munchausen and a candidate for the Ananias club, and yet I've always told her the truth and the whole truth about every on: of my derelictions. I swear it, Joe' “Well, for Pete's sake, don’t teil her the truth about to-night, old Rip Van Winkle.” “But, Joe, how can 1 explain? You see, T:+* “Now, Bill, kindly allow me to toke up the thread of this narrative,” saic the younger brother. “I went ty the Bell's _house to-night to take little sister Helen Bell to our dancing cl I saw Laura all dressed up and v ing for eomebody. I did not dream it Was you, however, until we returned at 11:30" and Helen asked her sister how long vou had been gone. 1 must admit, Willy boy, that your fair lady showed some temper when she io- plied that you had not been there at all. “Behold in me the hero! I simply jumped into the breach with both fect. “Why' I said, ‘1 am ubsolutsly shrouded with mortification at my forgetfulness! Willlam asked me to tell you, Miss Bell, that he has been unexpectedly called out of town to- night to see a_client on a most im- portant case. Nothing but a life and death matter would have taken him. T don’t see how I could have been so careless. If you have any pity fo- me at all, Miss Bell, don’t vou ever tell my big brother on me.” “She sweetly promised not to give me away to you. Now, old man, what Go I get out of it?" “You've got me, Joex! price.” “Well, if I am to be best man Tl need a new dress suit. Bill grinned.—Exchang LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Disease Prevention. Mr. Editor: Health Officer Brophy’s address at the banquet of the New London County Dentists is _timely and contains much valuable advice in way of disease prevention. One thing, however, has evidently escaped his at- tention; that is the custom which is almost universally observed among young ladies and especially school children in wearing woolen wraps about the neck. Such apparel I think the doctor will agree with me in saying is extremely hazardous ow- ing to the fact that the temptation to remove it is very strong on days when he temperature is above normal for the season. In the main we can all Name your |agree hat the doctor is giving sound advice. It is evidently a great advance from the doctrine now being promul- gated by the secretary of state board of health who evidently entertains the belief that a few years from now no- body will have an opportunity to get sick. Each citizen of the republic will be vaccinated. He will be inocu- lated with the antitoxins of diphtheria, sariet fever, mumps, measles, anthrax, glanders and tetanus. His blood will be sterilized, his lungs fumigated, his alimentary canal ascepticised, and once a month he will submit to the tuberculin test and the Wildal react- ive. He will drink pure hydrogen mo- noxide, bottled in bond and his daily pabulum will consist of extra-inspect- ed double-digested _cero-bovi-gluten- gritlets flavored with pepsin. . After that we will have to buy o license to think. It is to be hoped that the city health officer will soon inaugurate a campaign of sanitation which is doubly needed in this aiternating thawing and freeizng weather. A. W. DAVIS Norwich, Jan. 10, 1916. Will the Receiver Please Data Asked For? Mr. Editor: In acknowledging the receivers’ invitation to call and find out accurately about the affairs of the Thames Loan & Trust Co. as stated in his letter of the 5th Inst. to the editor, will say, that aithough I have already called there several times to get this information, vet, 1 have never been able to find him there. As “T am from Missouri” when he answers this letter, if he would state exactly the actual amount of money he has collected during 1916 from the assets, and also tne actual amount of money he has spent dur- ing 1916 in expenses, including his own receivership charges, all the de- positors can then see what has bean done during that period. ' 1 believe that we will all agree with him, that whatever assets there are still left cannot be collected any other way than by litigation, which is al- ways long drawn out, and very expen- Give the al the village. He sald to me—-You must be from here. to be so moved? Then he told me they had founl, at the spot where our house was, a sack of beans and another of green coffea— and a school prize of my sister “when she got her certificate studies at C.| and this he gave to me. | “So, from my pilgrimage, I brought | away a book, a copybook, and four ii- | lustrated cards. If it hadn’t been for their weight, I might also have car- ried off the church bell and things which had been on the altar, Nothing Left of the Town. “I went back and sto at the town of M. There is nothing ieft of it but a basement wall emerging a foot and a half from the ground. Not a-tree is left unbroken. The fields are full of holes like a sieve. ‘How are we to go- back to tnese ruins without tools, without buildings, without money? ¥or we must live while we wait for the first crops—riho crops that shall heal the 'wounds of the field: While waiting for this first crop to grow, nature will bring her own first remedy, next sprng, to the ruins of our poor village whick the infantrymen are leveBing now. Over what was once peace and tran- quillity and is to-day nothingness. it will cast a vell of green. We shall be able to mow the grass, for there i not a brick to blunt the scythe—destruc- tion has spared nothing.” sive and finally scttled on a compro- mise basis of about, 10 per cent. of its face value. When you come to deduct lawyers' fees, raceivers’ and other expenses incurred during that DESERVES GOLD MEDAL FORTHIS CINCINNATI AUTHORITY TELLS HOW TO DRY UP A CORN SO IT LIFTS OUT You corn-pestered men and women need suffer no longer. Wear the shoes that nearly killed you before, says this Cincinnati _authority, a few T aching stops oo a er. corn soreness. at once and soon the corn loosens so it can be lifted out, root and all, with- out paim. = A quarter of an ounce of -freezone costs very little at any drug store, but is sufficient to take off every hard or soft corn .or callus, This should be tried, as it is inexpensive and is said not to inflame or even irritate R A R A A e Send 2¢ stamp today for L W. Lyon & Sons, Inc., time “Good Night” as far as anything being left for the poor depositor is concerned. Now while the expense account has been piling up during 1916, what did the depositors receive? aceounts Nothing, Savings Bank Ac- counts 10 per cent. April 12. Do you blame the depositors for asking the question, how much longer is this farce going to continue? T again repeat, sell the assets out at auction, and stop this recefvership expense. A DISGUSTED DBPOSITOR. Norwich, Jan. 10, 1917. OTHER VIEW POINTS Albert McLellan Mathewson makes a plea for the abolition of the county system. Mr. Mathewson is a republi- can, a lawyer, a resident of New Ha- ven, and familiar with administration in Connecticut. It needs little famil- larity with any but business methods, however, to realize that the county commissioner system is costly, cum- bersome and inefficierit. Eight coun- ty sheriffs and 24 county commission- ers for a little state like Connecticut are very much too many. The sys- tem got itself instituted in 1841, has become a part of the party mechan- ism, a purely political arrangement, chiefly useful for whipping the liquor interest into line for the party in pow- er, whatever that party’s name may be—Bridgeport Farmer. Dietary standards differ, of course, in every country, in every clime. But those who make a study of dietetics claim that after the war there will be a readjustment of the food scale the world over. The experiments that are going on in Europe on such gigantic proportions will serve as a measure- ment for the rest of the nations. One of the radical changes may be a re- duction in the number of meals eaten during the course of the working day. Where now in most countries peopic partake of collations three times a day, this number may be reduced to two. Habit, more than anything else, has brought about the three-meal-a- day system. Those who have tried the simpler method, breakfast and dinner, claim to have benefited there- by. Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.—New Brit- ain Herald. If Manchester cannot get its ap- propriation for the federal building at the Center without the passage of the “pork” bill, linking with deserving enterprises like this hundreds of un- called for buildings of a monumental character for southern and _western villages and cross roads, then the Herald for one would prefer to wait until we get a congress which will use more discrinmination. The congress- man who thinks he must get for shis constituents all the government favors he can acquire by hook or crook, whether the expenditure is justified or not, has a wrong conception of his duty. But we know that in the past it bas been impossible to get the votes for meritorious appropriations with- out conceding to those congressmen who hold the balance of power appro- priations for sections where they are not needed.—Manchester Herald. In its biennial report just made to Governor Holcomb, the state board of charities recommends the women's reformatory so often proposed and in fact mentioned in the governor's mes- sage to the legislature, the chief ex- ecutive proposing that a commission be raised to continue discussion of the matter. But why continue to talk? Why not start the reformatory? What is the use in raising a commission to go all over this matter again and re- port two vears hence. Here is a state commission of ability, the hoard of charities. recommending the reform- atory after years of careful study of the subject. Governor Holcomb pro- poses that the legislature duck the problem of building the institution by raising a commission to talk it all over again. Why not build it and end several vears of were talk? Nobody denies the need—New Haven Union. The firemen have already hcen shown by the voters of Meriden that {they are In-favor of the pension fund. What is needed is a clarifying act by the present session of the legisature [so that there may be no guestion about the commissioners or the se- lectmen being instructed to turn over the percentage of the license money. That ought to be easy, as the assem- ibly has once passed the act. The town counsel declares that it would not be legal for the town to give the money, because of the fact that the money’ from the licenses is collected by the county commissioners and then portions of it turned back to the town, according to the statute provisions. If the statutes are not clear about fire- men’s pensions a town meeting would Ledgers. PRk s e 7 s Dr.Lyons - For The Teeth Powder —~ Cream Dr. Lyon's Perfect Tooth Powder or Dental Cresm Commercial THE CRANSTON €0.'S Big Book and Stationery Store is the place to go if you want anything in the way of a BLANK BOOK. We carry a large line, from vest pocket Memo. Books up to the big Loose Leaf We call special attention to No. 104 LOOSE LEAF MEMORANDUM BOOK, neat, compact and durable. Just fits your coat pocket. THE CRANSTON CO. 25, 27, 29 BROADWAY a generous sample of eithe 511 W.27th Se, N. Y. City not hélp maters. The legislature must do that. The town meeting call has and will ure after it is od it can do when the selectmen are advised by the law- yers that the meeting is illegal, is & Question.—Meriden Journal. TREE PLANTING. Urged by New York’s Park Commis- sioner to Impreve Appearance of Streets. You will be a better man, live a happier life, and your property will be worth more if you plant a tree In front of your house, according to Park Commissioner Cabot Ward, of New York, who has issued an appeal to New Yorkers to let him be the gardener for the whole city. In his guide to would-be tree plant- ers, Mr. Ward said that in Manhattan there were only 15,000 trees, and thes are disappearing five times as fast as they are being replaced. “The streets planted with regulariy spaced trees enhance the beauty of the locality and indirectly of the e tire city,”" the Commissioner said. “They add charm to the finést archi- tecture and improve untidy and for- bidding surroundings. Each dwelling, apartment house and tenement de- rives a direct advantage, not mcrely in improved appearance because =f the touch of green, but in a very real ish Planting Trees. Tree planting on a large scale is going on in Ireland to replace the timber cut down for use in the war. In Cavan county 70,000 trees na e been planted, and in other coua‘ies many thousands have been put down. Agricultural socleties are offering af- forestation prizes. EXPERIMENTS IN NATIONAL GOVERNMENT Being Tried Out On the ‘Island of Hayti—Causes Which Led Up to Venture. (Special to The Bulletin.) Washington. D. C., Jan. 10.—One of the most interesting experiments in | government to be found anywhere in | the world today is being conducted by the’ United- States. It is heing tried-out on the island of Havti, up jon which are located the Black Re- public of Hayti and the Mulatto Re- public_of Santo Domingo. The na- ture of the experiment and the causes which led up to this unique gover ment venture are set forth in a bul- letin_issued by the Natlonal Geo- graphic Society. “After a century of effort to main- tain itself 2s a separate, Independen sovercign nation. Santo’ Dominso in 1905 found itself about to fall a vic- tim to its own excesses,” says the bulletin. “Revolution had _followed revolution almost with clocklike reg- ulotity. There were assassination there were betrayals, there were cun. spiracies, there were wars within 5nd wars without—war with Maitl over boundary questions and civil war over the control of the government. Debts were piled up without thought of the day of payment or even provisiors for meeting the interest charges. o long and so steady was the| orgy of revolution, speculation, defi- | maiing and interest-dodging tha: the nation's credit grew worse than that of its Individual citizens. Fialiy, the day of reckoning came. Foreisn warships approached the ports whose | harbors had given refuge to the areat discoverer Columbus and whose cap- ital city contains what undoubtedly ! are his ashes, and demanded that the ciaims of their subjects be satisfied — ciaims for money advanced, claims for property wantonly destroyed—and they demanded it at the point of big naval guns. “In a predicament from which they | were powerless to extricate thers- cives, the Dominicans were rendy enough to negotiate a treaty turning over the control of the country's cus- toms to the United States, if, in re- turn therfor, the United States would protect them from angry European cre®itors and rejuvenate their treas- ury. “And so it was that in 1995 the United States undertook to se.ve as treasurer of Santo Domingo ard to vouch for her debts. The tari? was quickly revised, the American author ities urging that duties be laid on lux- uries rather than upon mnecessities. upon the things of the rich rather than upon those of the poor. The tariff as a whole was cut down, ‘he general reduction being 50 per cent on export taxes and 14 per cent on im> port duties. “And yet in spite of this great re- auction, in_ spite of payments of $1, 200,000 a year on the debt, there was still left a greater net income for the PRIDAY EVE, JAN 12TH CRS 28, 35, 80, 78c, $1.00, $1.50 SEATS NOW SELLING Al in_ A A ol g L R ern Hemisphere. THE ASAHI JAPS . 'THE CARBREYS Thires Man in & Gamedy 81 DOROTHY GISH - in “Children of the Feud” Five Part Triangle Feature BLACK EYES AND BLUE Two Real Keystone Comedy Matines at 2:30 Eve. at 7, 5.30 All Seats 10c TODAY AND TONIGHT g 7 MMVIE. PETROV in “EXTRAVAGANCE” COMING FRIDAY and SATURDAY PAULINE FREDERICK in “THE WOMAN IN THE CASE” COMPLETE CHANGE OF PROGRAMME TOMORROW Today AUDITORIUM Tea% MUSICAL COMEDY CO. FUNNY COMEDIANS PRETTY GIRLS art Western Story All Main Floor 100 Matines and Night it had|to perform for the Nicaraguans a ser- use of the government thun vice similar to that given the Dumin- ever had before. “For a long time it was thought|icans was accepted, and here ugain that, deprived of the opportunity of|the plan worked beautifully as long securing customs-house revenues |as hydra-headed revolution remained under cover. Trouble came.. however and only the presence of Americ marines has served to keep the peace. The ‘cuts' are bitterly opposed lo the role being played by the Urited States; but Nicaragua is belng re- juvenated in spite of every handicap that the state of mind of its citizens entails. “If conditions were bad in Santo Domingo when the United States un dertook to help the country back Deace and prosperity, they wae I Nicaragua when we assumed the role of guardian. But even in Nicaragusa they were mild indeed compared with those obtaining in Haytl when our country finally stepped in_thers “Our agreement with Haytl further than thase with Santo Domir g0 and Nicaragua. It provides f an American-officated constabulary which shall have control of the co try and the regulation of all m pertaining to arms and ammenit Furthermore, it provides for tha ar pointment of a sanitary engineer whose recommendations, as aprroved by the United States, are to ba car ried out in the cleaning up of the cf ties of the Republie, througn the seizure of ports, -avoi tions could not support themse've But after six on seven years of peace trouble broke out again, and during 1914-and 1915 it became so sericus that the United States was forced to intervene in behalf of peace and to demand, with marines on shors and naval guns trained and pointed on the ports, that the country return to a tate of quiet. And so today the Dominicans, realizing that the Monroe Doctrine is determined to afford them protection from thelr own excessas. thelr own bitter passions and hlind purposes, have accepted the inevitalle and have secured the blessings of peace from without when they could not attain that end themselves. is a reluctant acquiescence they vield, but a wholesome one, none the less. “It has not been without effort or without expense, nor yet withcut the actual sacrifice of blood and life that our country has steped Into play the role of Good Samaritan to the peo- ples of Santo Domingo, Hayil and Nicaragua., who had lost the blessinzs of peace and were unable to regain them. In Havti alone we lost ons of- ficer and six marines and had a num- ber wounded But out of this aitr:. m;“‘:';\elln":""e dfl,’;’;‘“rfimmfih"':v wi v e eace, quiet, honest adrinis Ipele effqet Sre. L EruwIng ineniiire tration; and if it does, Haytl certain which a nation that covets no cer tory, that reeks only its own security and’ the welfare of its unfortunate neighbors, may well be proud. “In Porto Rico we have reduccd the death rate from 45 per thousand to 19 per thousand, and a beginning along the szme line Is being made In these new fields of American endeavor. In Porto Rico wages have increased fromn 16 cents to and stabls con- 1y will ‘go forward as few small coun tries ever have. Its mountains are filled with mineral wealth; its loys are so fertile that the slightes attention can make them producs like an Eden; its forests contain viet stores of precious hardwoods and dye- woods. It Is, indeed, a region where nature he lavished its richest xifts where a simple population, under a aticns “smow encouraging °reaulcs fa|Arm yet gentle, benifcent guldance the same direction in our ward lands. | Ut FORCCE In Porto Rico the school attendance jumped from 20 per cent to more than 35, and these new wards are trying t» Has All Her Faculti follow in Porto Rico's path. Grandma’s memory is good. She i » b e.|can recall every mistake grandpa ‘'Wherever 'America _has mone, |88 Tecell every misteRe whether to Santo Domingo, Port: Rico, Nicaragua, the Philippines, or Haytl, the welfare of the peopie has been her first concern; and wrile ail colonial history shows.that tho tares of evil are never absent from _the whaet of good, our nation’s record of nelp given where most needed is onc that well may challenge our adinira- tion and quicken our patriotism. “The success In Santo Domningan customs administration led to another experiment along the same line a few years later. 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