Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 25, 1917, Page 4

. Glorwich Fulletin and Coufier 121 YEARS OLD Sulscription price 1Zc m week: S0c a month: $6.00 a year. _ Entered at the Postorfice at Norwich, Conn., as second-class matter. Telephone Calis: Bullc in Businass Office 4S0. Balletin Editorial Rooris 53-3. Bulletin Job Offics 35-2. Willimantic _Office. 67 Churca St Telephone 210-2. » Norwich, Thursday, an. 25, 1917. secesccs The Circulation of The Bulletin The Bulletin has the largest $ circulation of any paper in Eastern Connecticut and from three to four times larger than that of aay in Norwich. It is delivered %o over $3.000 of the 4,063 houses : Nor- $ wich and read by ninety-three per cent. of the people. In Windham it is delivered to over 900 houses, in Putnam and Danielson to over 1,100, and in all of these places it is considered the local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hundred and sixty- five postoffice distrtcts, and sixty iural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold in every town and on all of he R. F. D. routes in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATIGN average. 1901, 4412 805, average......sssee.....5,920 9,163 January 20. PUBLIC BUILDING COMMISSION A resqlution which ought to receive the serious consideration of congress is that which has been offered by Congressman Tinkham of Massachu- setts calling for a public building commission to investizate “the build- ing needs and methods of the United States, In order to recommend a pub- lic building policy. At every sessjon of congress, re- gardless of which party is in power, there is always a strenuous effort made by the members of congress to secure certain appropriations for their districts. In some cases those ap- propriations are actually needed, but in the majority of them the needless expenditure of money is callea for, whether the country has the money to devote to such purposes or not and through the log rolling methods, which have long since been resorted to, this is one of the means taken to build up a strong political machine. It is high time that there sound business policy adopted was a in re- gard to the expenditures for public|of its police powers by the nighest|alive, while the women who were not 7 - buildings. The idea that every little [ court in the land. Kkilled were left to the mercy of the [One [:?1"!( to vl‘aflzter‘t ;nother is open | 15 members to have charge of the state 15th Chapter of “THE CRIMSON STAIN MYSTERY” hamlet, where the rental at present| This plainly sets forth the rights of | Turkish soldiery. e B does not exceed a few hundred dol- lars a year, should have a magnifi- cent granite structure to carry on a business the entire revenue from which would not begin to pay the in- terest on the cost of such a building is_preposterous. The move which has been made by the Massachusetts congressman is in line with one of the important needs of the government. It offers a means for blocking the waste of millions and it is to be hoped that the piling up of other business will not prevent it from receiving the thought it deserves at this session. HIGHWAYS TO THE SEA. present to s There is little at indi cate that the nati of Europe will be inclined to accept the susgestion of President Wilson regarding the es- tablishment of \permanent peace. There is too stronz an inclination to insist upon victory before peace, in- stead of bringing about a peace with- out a decisive victory, since that is what the entente powers have per- sistently claimed would have to be obtained before an adjustment on a permanent basis could be arranged. And when the president refers to the important highways which lead to the seas and proposes that they should be free to all who might use them, he runs up against a similar obsta- cle. There can be no question but what he has reference to the Darda- nelles, which are now controlled by Turkey and which accqrding to the plan of the allies will be turned over to Russia provided they can be won. But there Is a serious question whether there would be any advan- tage in having Russia exercising con- trol over that outlet to the Black sea nstead of Turkey. It would of course be better for Russia but that would not necess uarantee freedom to all who might want to use that wa- terway. There ean be no question but what there is need of a neutral state at that point which would be respected by all nations and which would not attempt to interfere with the commerce of any nation. That would be the most sensible solution of that problem, instead of putting any nation in control, but there is seri- ous dcubt at the present ti whether such an arrangement would satisfy those who are nwilling to let the welfare of all nations take precedence over their own selfish interests. SHEEP KILLING DOGS. New York is one of the eastern that has been reached in other states || that the decline in the sheep indus- try is due entirely to dogs and that the dogs must go. They are ruining the business and are responsible for the decrease from 5,500,000 sheep in that state 43 years ago to a half mil- lion today, for though they have not killed that number they have been the means of the farmers disposing . of their flocks, and furnished sufficient discouragement so_that others would not eagage in the business. — It is the recommendation of New York’s committee that dogs should be prevented from running at large and that this could ze done by placing a tax of from three to five dollars on each dog vearly and a $20 tax on kennels, that all dogs running at large should be killed and that a bounty be paid for them the same as if they were timber wolves. With the demand for more sheep and the recognition of the trouble which stands in the way of raising them, it is apparent that all the east- ern states have 4 common problem, the solution of whick lies in taking action which will get rid of the sheep killing doss. NAMING THE NEW ISLANDS. Not a little thousht is being turned to the renaming of the Danish West Indies. All that remains to make them the property of the United States is the pavment of the pur- chase price of $25,000,000. When that has been done it will be inconsistent to continue to refer to them as the Danish West Indies, for they will not bé the property of Denmark but of the United States. In view of the death of Admiral Dewey at this time the suggestion has been made that they be named the Dewey islands in his honor, but ap- parently without any satisfying reason for he was in no way identified with them and in fact it was in the Pa- cific rather than in the Atlantic where it would be more consistent to attach his name to a group of islands if it was going to be done. Another suggestion has also been made in this connection to the effect that they be called the Seward islands in honor of W. H. Seward, wholi brought about the purchase of Alaska and who years ago recommended the purchase of the Danish West Indies, which deal would doubtless have been put through at that time at a much less cost had congress been willing to accept his advice. There is therefore perhaps more reason why the name Seward should be applied to the islands than that of Dewey, but in view of the fact that they have been the property of Den- mark in the past and are to be the property of the United States in the future, there appears to be no. good reason why they should not be known as the American West Indies. STOPPING THE BILLBOARDS. In many communities throughout the country there has been much discus- sion regarding the billboard nuisance. There are few but what have given more or less consideration to this question at one time or gnother and some have even taken steps to rem- edy the situation, particularly when the residential sections have been in- vaded, and the United States supreme court has by a recent decision upheld the action which was taken in Chi- cago. There an ordinance was passed by the city council forbidding the erec- tion of billboards on any residential street without first securing the con- sent of the property owners thereon. The effect of this can be readily ap- preciated for any residential section, which is opposed to such disfiguring of property and the unsightly effect which it has upon the entire neigh- borhood, can easily put a stop to any contemplated structure. Those inter- ested in the billboard business were not willing to accept the city’s action and the case began its course through the courts with the result that the much on one side or breadth bigger on one end than the other! to me all wrapper, as though watch and expected me to knock my head_three times on the floor before at all! yellow ones?” asked his daughter sud- denly. father. yond the pump. find a_sheepsnose in Chicago_ toda the whole police de ted the city! names to match their marvelous col- orings! ing good, too! stairs the minute you got home from school and came up with one in each hand. Susie “No, they hain’t!” said the nice old gentleman with sudden enersy, when his married daughter had called his attention to a window display of fruit and asked him whether the thinss weren't perfectly beautiful. He nodded his head still more ener- getically when she cried out in pro- test. “Now, take them apples!” he said. 1 expect_you're crazy about those apples! “Why, there were srown ;men who ought to've been hard at work earning their daily bread, stand- ing there with their noses glued to that window, staring at those baskets of apples, with their mouths watering! Shucks! I wo give 2 cents a bushel for apples like that! “Whatever do you mean, father™ asked his married daughter helplessly) “I'll tell you what I mean,” the nice old gentleman offered. “I'll admit that those apples were handsome works of art and far too good to be true. It doesn’t seem possibie tna- thev Srew on just common ordinary trees that got blown and hailed on and lit on by birds and bugs that were hungry and inquiring, does it They might have been made by some of these feliows who do things like your enameled lamp, they’re so shiny and nerfect and have such a wonderful color. “Somehow, vou don’t dast sidle up to an apple like that in a friendly way. You feel that it should be ‘n a rliss case and 19 cents asked at the door. It's too pretty for ordinary uses-— you've seen women like that. Suste That one who came to see you about the bridgze club yesterday, who look- ed as though she’d melt if she zot rained on! Why, I'll bet the man Wro grow those apples sit up nights and say prayers over 'em and bark at their wives and pace the floor and make dogzone nuisances of themselves all the while the apples are growing, for fear they’ll get sunburned too be a hair's that comes separate a gold “I don’t like an apple dolled up in a it ‘was That isn't my idea of an applc When I want an apple I want to go down cellar and fish around in t! a barrel and drag out as many as I like without having to conmsider that Iam ea each apple! the ways bad apples by the barrel in the celiar at home—" g up 5 or 10 cents with each That takes away from flavor, somehow! Whv. we al- “What were those long, pointed, pale Shee promptly said her s the I expect They have enameled Those sheepnoses were lick- You always tore down- Nobody said anvthing if vou gave 'em to all the kids in the neighborhood. I'd like to see your Estelle lead a pack of youngsters out into your pantry and tackle the choice l STORIES OF THE WAR | Turkish Atrocities Seen by a Woman. The charge that German missionaries refused to heed the pleas of American men and women to intercede jointly with the Turkish authorities in the hope of preventing the butchering of thousands of Armenian men, women and children has been made by Miss Mariam Levonian, an Armenian teach- ¢, who after three months and a half of danger and suffering managed to reach this country. Miss Levonian says German officers and soldiers were very friendly with the Turks, and though taking no part in the excesses, failed to , protest against the outrages. As a result, thousands of men of all ages were dozen of gold-plated apples yau'd just ordered in, pawning your tiara o pay for them! N “And we always had a barrel or so of cooking apples, so that an apple :’:;:r bowl of nu‘ce crun:d no excite- or comment on the increasi Wealth of the family! We ate appies just as naturally as we drank water, instead of having a brass band play when the fruit bowl is brought in and set before the overpowered guests! “Somebody usually popped corn “to go with ’em, too! You wouldn’t think of having popcorn with those fruit stores -apples any more than you'd put crocheted lace on your new velvet party gown, now would you? \“I'm just as unhappy surrounded by these new apple dreams they have nowadays as 1 be! I'm not com- fortable! I can't eat one and stay . I feel as though I should have prime minister on one side of me and the council of state on the other and the populace hurrahing on the outside and the herald booming the news that I've just bitten intc An Apple, and 3° th~ oxchequer holds out I intend recklessly ana to finish it! it ain't natural, 1 tell you, when you consider what a moa- est,’ comfortable thing an apple ought to_be - ‘All right” said his married daugh- ter cheerfully. “I'll see if I can fird some of the old kind for you when I £0 to market next time—the kind that are speckled and have soft spots on the far side and usually a wormhole or two! I want to make you perfectly happy, father, while you are with —— ‘Aw!" said the nice old gerntleman with a grin. “Can’t you let me be sentimental in peace? “You have such wads of horrid common sense, Susi Come on, let's go back to that store, and Tll buy you some of those nicc red apples—I guess they’d taste pretty good, after all!”—Chicago News. | OTHER ViEW POINTS If automobile users are not com- pelled to pay a very much higher price for gasoline than they have ever paid it will be due to something now unforeseen, says a western oil man. This is not the fault of the oil man, but a condition growing out of the In- creased consumption of gasoline and the extraordinary demand for fuel abroad, coupled with a rapidly de- creasing production. He looks for sas- oline to reach 30 cents a gallon be- fore many weeks and it will not be surprising if it goes much higher— New Britain Record. The trained farmer is doubtless as essential as the trained soldier to any scheme of nation preparedness. And better farming processes mean cheap- er food for the people in times of pea. Provided—the distribution of foox stuff, its transportation and methods of marketing, are managed in a fair way The annual fall spectacle of acres of choice fruits left to rot, on acrount of car shortage, and of thousands dozens of eggs spoiled in cold ltom‘!" on account of price manipulations, is one of to, discourage the great goddess not to mention her farmers.—Bridgeport Demeter herself, devotees, the Standard. The bill introduced by Representa- Killingly to_safeguard in savings banks and tive Back of bank deposits trust companies has more to com- !mend it in spirit and purpose than in the means sought. Connecticut has been disgraced within the near past by a aumber of savings bank fail- ures that were inexcusable. To a good many, however, those breaks appeared to reflect as much on the state as on the institutions because the state assumed a protectorate by virtue of its bank commissioners and examinations that proved utterly in- adequate. ‘The state should either give a real protection to depositors or withdray, entirely. Protection that is such in name only is a sham and a “I always have lived, and I al- ways' shall,” he said on one occasion to a visitor at his home in Middle Haddam. “I shall come back to earth in some form after the death of this body, it may be in as the meanest crawling thing on the face of the earth, but I shall come back.” Of course, “Uncle Horace” was pe- fl;r in his views on religious mat- and rather enjoyed shocking his orthodox friends and neighbors. Eut he was honest and kind-hearted, and ‘was genuinely liked those who knew him best in his home and else- Pphies, gion well, had known many notable persons in Hartford, Middletown and vicinity, and could tell interesting stories of the old shipbuilding indu: try and of the doings of the sea cap- tains whose homes were near his own, especially in their voyages to foreign ports in the old sailing vessel days. “Uncle Horace” will be greatly missed and sincerely mourned, even by many. who have regorded him as a harm- les wather enthusiast and smiled at his predictions.—Waterbury Ameri- can. School reform is to take place now and already a start has been made in some large cities. Leading authori- ties on the question say that much taught scholars now from 6 fo 19 years of age is a failure. In face of the expediture for education the coun- try over, such information is not of the encouraging type. However, a board is to make an experiment and see just where the difficulty rests. Middletown Press. The inconvenience caused the post- office department by the thankless task of trying to deliver all these mis-sent letters is incalcuable. Every one of these 11,000,000 letters means a pains- taking quest, wasting the time of postmen, costing in the aggregate an enormous amount of money and inter- fering with the prompt delivery of other mail. How conscientious the department is in such matters is shown by the fact that of the $2,250,- 000 found in the letters that went to the dead letter office last year, all but $50,000 was returned to the owners. It goes without saying that post- office employed shouldn’t have to do so much repairing of other people’s mis- takes. It's easy enough for the aver- age citizen to kick about the postal service, but the postoffice people have just as' much reason to criticise him.— Meriden Record. LEGISLATIVE LORE | YOU MAY OBTAIN PERUNA IN TABLET FORM FOR CONVENIENCE. The Peruna Company, Columbus, Obio Representative Fox to have minority representation on the board of assess- ors'and board of school visitors in New London. He would have the mayor appoint the assessors. The visitors have been few thus far during the eession. It's about time “Souvenir” struck something worth while, is one of the busiest men at the capi- tol, a veritable bureau of informatio which he dispenses with his customary cordiality. The committees on appropriations, banks, cities and boroughs, judiciary and military affairs have commenced public hearings on matters of purely local or minor importance. Sort of clearing the docket for constructive | legisiation. The appropriation commfttee has appointed Miss Alice Brown, stenogrs pher for the committee, as the clerk Aubrey L. Maddock, formerly of West- erly, now assistant city editor of the Hartford Courant, was a candidate for the clerkship, prison, reformatories, jails and kin- dred institutions. Another bill would abolish county commissioners and give the sheriffs charge of county affairs. Senator O'Sullivan, son of the late Dr. O’'Sullivan, a native and former resident of Norwich, is sponsor at the present session of the annual bill to provide for the election of county commissioners by popular vote. Philip Z. Hankey, the new corpora- tion counsel for the city of New London, made his first official visit to the capitol Tuesday. Senator Quigg and Representative Dan Smith, who served with Repre- sentative Henderson of Norwich in 1915, now his associates on the excise commission, ‘are awaiting the arrival of “Friend Joe” before opening _public hearings. They are three of a kind. New London and Windham counties have their quota of seasoned legisla- tors, with corresponding influence in the legislature. There is doubt as to the republican legislature favoring the proposition of DAVIS TR NEW SHOW TODAY KEITH VAUDEVILLE TRIANGLE PHOTOPLAYS . sROADWA “My father was a subscriber for the daily Norwich Bulletin from its first issue, and as long as he lived, and I had been a reader of The Bulletin ever since I have been able to read.”—Rep- resentative Kelley of Killingly. The same eclement that prevented Senator Willlam H. Hall from being elected president pro tem. was array- ed against himo in the Tolland county | caucus in the fight for the county commissionership. Senator Hall's candidate was William B. Sprague of Andover, who was pitted against H. R. Howard of Union, the present in- cumbent. The Hall man was nom! nated by a vote of 11 to 9, one mem- ber of the house being absent. Score one for Hall. Senator Barnes is ever on the alert for the good and welfare of his con- stituents. He has presented a biil to fix the salary of the clerk of the court of common pleas for New London county at $2,500 for the civil side and $500 for the criminal side, with $1,200 for assistant. Commission consolidation seems to have the, call, and the end is not yet. A bill is under consideration for the THE THREE KUNDELS SENSATIONAL WIRE ARTISTS A WONDERFUL ACT MOHR & MOFFETT MORGAN AND WEST Preserting a Story in Song and Jolly Comics in Songs Rhyme Dane: RIANGLE Douglas Fairbanks UANGLE “THE MATRIMARI AG CARTOON COMEDY CONCERT ORCHESTRA B THEATRE n TODAY AND TONIGHT HAROLD LOCKWOOD AND MAY ALLISON =N “BIG TREMAINE” f Two and IN THE COMEDY || Elaborate Musical Program by the Breed Quintette SUPREME FEATURE PHOTOPLAYS. city has been upheld in the exercise |sjaughtered, 800 children were buried deceit. Mr. Back’s scheme of taxing |appointment of a board of directors of The account of how the whole popu- lation of a central Armenian town where she made her home was wiped out, except a dozen men and their families, was told by Miss Levonian in one of the rooms of the Presbyterian Board of Missions in the presence of H. P. Ford, secretary of the Armenian relief committee of this city, and se eral others. Early last October Miss Levonian. her sister Arax_and her fiance, Misak Asadoorian, fied from their mnative town. Making their way on foot through the mountain - passes, they managed to reach Erzerum, wihich was captured last spring by the Rus- sians. On reaching Tiflis they cabled to relatives here for money. Later they proceeded by way of Russia and Finland to Gothenburg, Sweden. where they took steamer for New Yorlk. Miss Levonian yesterday came_ to this city to stay with a sister here. - One day a month after the Gregorian Easter, 1915, according to Miss Levon- ian, an order came from Constantino- ple and all students, teachers, priests and prominent men, numbering some 3,000, between the ages of 20 and 50 years, were seized and imprisoned by the Turkish soldiers. At night groups of these men were taken out chained and were shot in the outskirts of the town. SPECIAL FEATURE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY OWEN MOORE AND MARGUERITE COURTOT IN A PICTURIZATION OF EDGAR SELWYN'S BROADWAY SUCCESS ROLLING STONES” a community. It makes it certain that billboards can be controlled and what has been done in Chicago can of course be carried out elsewhere, and with the verdict of the supreme court supporting that city, it is not improb- able that other cities will profit by the initiative which that municipality took. Anti-vaccinationists will find fresh ammunition for their campaign in case of a sodier tried at Kansas City on charge of rifling the mails. Federal Judge Pollock imposed only a min- imum fine because he found the sol- dier to have been weakened mentally by the heat upon the border, and by the injecton of anti-typhoid serum. Oponents of vaccination will not be slow to seize upon that decision as an argument against serum treat- ment as a preventive of disease. The decision, if well founded, is rather of a blow to the medical theory that no harm can come from anti-typhoid in- oculation. At best the introduction of diseased animal matter into the human body by vaccination is disgusting, but we have come generally to approve of the practice because of the benefits most doctors assure us the human race derives thereby. And such cases as this, while they do not by any means prove that vaccination is ail wrong, make it easier for the antis to get converts to their cause.—Hartford Post. “Just the one box of Foley Kidney Pills re- Eeved my backache.—J. W. Etris, Ga. “Last year I was suffering with a terrible backache,” writes J. W. Etris of Etris, Ga. “Every time I'd lean or stoop over or to one side, I'd have a painful catch in my back just over my kidneys. I tried medicines with no good results. I bought a bottle of Foley Kidney Pills, and just the one box entirely relieved my backacke. It has been some time since 1 took them, so I think I am well.” ‘Weakened, overworked, stopped-up kidneys cause stiff joints, sore mus- cles, ‘rheumatism, sleep disturbing bladder ailments, biliousness and various other ills. ' Foley Kidney Pills are a scientific medicine, compounded to clear the kidneys and restore them to healthy action by dissolving and driving out of the system the ‘Wwaste products and poisons that cause kidney trouble and bladder ailments. You will like their tonic and restor- ative action, ready effect and quick &ood results. Lee & Oszood Co. DR. F. W. HOLMS. Dentist EDITORIAL NOTES. The man on the corner sa: ing may be better than resolving to do, but it is not easier. AUDITORIUM CLOSED UNTIL FRIDAY WATCH THE PAPERS FOR OPENING FEATURES The man on the corner says: Tt is quite evident that the homely man can make a success in life even though it appears to be impossible in a novel. Since the appointment of Dr! Gray- son as a rear admiral, it looks as if the rules, formerly believed necessary for attaining that office, would have to be revised. Bass-Clef Concert Slater Hall, Friday. January 26th Soloist: CHAS. HARRISON, Tenor Seven million Egyptian eggs are on the way to London. For the sake of the English people it is to be hoped that they have not been put through In the passing of * “Uncle Horace” Johnson, the Middle Haddam weather prophet, Connecticut loses a unique Mr. the mummifying proce Perhaps the most gruesome incident [Personailty. Many laughed at BMr | -ghannon Building Annex, Room A Tickets $1.00 each All Sents. Nasorvied of the horror perlod was the slaughter |they seemed to have failed of fulfiil- Telsonons s33 Associ. » membership list still open of the S00 children. The children, all orphans from the interior _country, were seized by the Turks to be tuto: ed in “Turkish ideals.” The experi- ment failed and disease caused by hun- ger and neglect. broke out among the little ones. To rid themselves of this .urden the Turkish officials had a n-umber of trenches prepared and ‘into those the children were flung, aliv and buried. Their removal on ox- drawn carts was secretly watched by Miss Levonian, who is still affected by the horror. After all the men had been disposed of an order came for the deportation of the women. They were taken ofit into the mountains, where they were killed. The cruelty of the Oftomans was horribly illustrated in the case of many men prisoners who, according to Miss Levonian, wore , “horseshoes.” The shoes, she said, were actually fastened to their feet by nails driven into the liye flesh. The increased cost of living which has been advanced by the jump in the price of smokers’ supplies hasn't served to bring about any noticeable increase in the T. D. users. ment, but he always pointed out that they had come true somewhere in the d insisted that he could predict the exact locality Subscribers for the season are given special ra = THE CRANSTON CO., Broadway medium better than through the ad- of storms and similar “disturbances.” I AUDITORIUM e GRAND RE-OPENING mu.l FRIDAY, JANUARY 26 FRIDAY AND SATURDAY SELZNICK’S PRESENTATION OF “The Common Law”’ SEVEN REELS—A MODERN SOCIETY DRAMA SELIG TRIBUNE WEEKLY |pROPERTY MAN - - The Most Up-to-date HEN YOU WANT t> put your bus- iness botore the public, there is no With the house appropriating $35,- 000,000 for public buildings, what is the use of carrying on a probe be- cause a “leak” allowed a few millions to chanmge hands in Wall street. Matinee 2.30 u o Evening 7, 8.456 10c Entire House EVERYTHING THE VERY BEST PERFECT VENTILATION When Bonar Law tells the financial slackers that they must come forward with their money or they will be made to, his ambition doubtless is to.bor- row money rather than trouble. The shocking fatalities at Harvard, Mass., show what can be relied upon to happen when automobiles and lo- comotives attempt to dispute the right of way at railroad crossings. CLARA KimMBALL in YOUNG Tt is one of the surest sizns that Norwich is forging ahead when the assessors show an increase in the taxable property amounting to four- fifths of a million without attempting any revaluation scheme. It is now proposed in the interest of | education to do away with the stud- ies of dead languages and devote at- tention to the live ones. It has taken Comedy states which has experienced a seri- | a long time but progress is .beis on the Market comes to the ous decline in the sheep indus-ry and de. { - 2 = g Laughter with iew Shown SE s i AT taNiE mn| : ; Auditorium. Four Days Old. A Peal of Every Vi steps to brinz about a revival of it.| With the placing of orders in this| A committec known as the Wicks|country for $30,000,000 worth of re OF REFINEMENT AND TASTE, SHOWING NOTHING committee which was named to make an investigation of the conditions has made its report to the legislature and i, bhas come ta the same eopclusion BUT THE BEST MOTION PICTURES frigerating equipment, Russia ind cates that all its perishable supplies are not kept in the Arctic ports or Sibaria, 1 Oc | & T [1TOc