Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 2, 1917, Page 4

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D. routes in Eastern Connmecticut. CIRCULATION 1901, SVerage..c.ccccccccen... 4412 905, AVErage...ecxsescesss..3,920 iy ... I MUST GIVE HEED TO DUTY. Germany indicates by its note to the neutral nations that it cannot longer abide by the promises which it has reluctantly made. It makes it evi- dent that there are no rules of naval warfare which it plans to respect henceforth, if such respect would stand in the way of attaining its object, or if such respect would In any way contribute to the assistance of its ene- mies. Tt has gotten to the desperate state where it is not only willing, but it is determined to resort to any means of crushing the allies and it has the temerity to ask the neutral natlons to abandon their rights, not by proceeding according to the rules of war, but through fear of the meth- ods which Germany is prepared to adopt. Germany has a right to blockade any of the allfes that it can provided it does so legally. Recognition of the handicap which it experiences in that relation leaves it like a wolf at bay. It is not satisfled to continue the raid- ing of allled commerce, which has in the past few months been meeting with marked success, but it intends to go outside of legitimate action and to destroy whatever shipping it en- counters, belligerent or neutral, that does not obey its unjustifable orders, and help it to carry out its object. Germany demands that the neutrals depart from their position as neutrals, and it threatens them if they do not. This calls for resentment upon the part of each and every one of them. Some time ago Germany was inform- ed what the consequences would be if such a policy was adhered to and its latest note forces them to the duty-of standing up for thelr rights. The sev- ering of diplomatic relations between this country and Germany was never nearer. It is a case where a self re- specting' nation must give heed to its duty. THE RESULT OF CARELESSNESS. Some idea of just about how much of the responsibliity for fires can be attributed to carelessness is furnished by the report of the fire marshal of the city of Philadelphia,. who In his annual report for 1916, which shows a total loss of two and three-quarter millions or an increase of nearly three- quarters of a million over the previous year and that seven and a half per cent. of the 5521 fires were due to smokers. Besldes the 413 fires jat- tributed to smokers there were ' 681 which were caused by the improper handling of matches. It is reasonable to suppose therefore that if there had been the exercise of the proper care aimost a fifth of the fires in Philadelphia would have been prevented, anad there is no reason to believe that the people of the Quaker city are any more careless in this re- gard than those in other cities. There would be great savings made if every- one did his part towards the preven- tion of fires instead of relying upon the fire department to put them out after they have been kindled, for fires are mo respectors of persons or things combustible. The report of the Philadelphia fire marshal should therefore carry a val- uable lesson. It should cause more thought to be directed to the service which each and every one can per- form in wiping out the large fire loss which occurs every year, but until in- creased attention is given to the mat- ter slight reduction in the waste from fires can be expected. BELGIAN RELIEF. There has been no end to the ap- peals which have been made in behalf of the Belgian people. There have been large contributions made in this country in addition to the ' millions’ which are sent there each month by the allies for there is a general rec- | ognition of the need of outside assist- tressing situation which In this connection it is gratifying to- learn of the success which is at- tending the effort of Herbert Hoover in the solicitation of additional funds |nag in this country, and in this respect a most valuable example has been set by The Rocky Mountain clud of New York composed of wealthy mine owners who had been a fund for a million dollar clubhouse, bdut . who after hearing a statement of the conditions as they exist in Belgium which had already been raised for the clubhouse to the relief work in Bel- gium. It showed that Mr. Hoover had not only touched their sympathy but that they were willing to sacrifice a|chair pet project for something which was uch more urgent. It may have been ‘but e slight sacrifice on their part, |ing but it counts nevertheless. THE POISON PLOT. Naturally Great Britain is deeply aroused over the arrest of several men and women charged with being the backers of a poison plot which has for its object two members of the British cabinet, Premier Lloyd Georse and Sir Arthur Henderson. These people represent certain factions who are fighting the government because of the continued refusal to give the women the ballot and those who are opposed to the measures taken to prosecute the war. It is fortunate indeed that the plot s discovered before it had made any greater progress. Sueh an un- dertaking, if it is actually proved that #t was underway, is most dastardly. It savors of the action of cranks or fa- natics and -the full facts in the case should be carefully unfolded.” That this will be done and the proper pun- ishment handed out can be expected. It is not only probable, but a fact that the new premier has made many enemies by the course which he has found it necessary to take in order to wage a successful war, but these steps have been forced upon him. Theé na- tional welfare demanded it, and ft is not to be supposed that should the al- leged plot have been successful, in- stead of being nipped in the bud, that it would have resulted in any change in the national affairs of that country. It is easy to appreciate, however, what a sérious loss would be experi- enced by the death of these prominent cabinet, and war council members, and fortunate indeed is it that it was dis- covered in the nick of time. PROTECTING THE BIRDS Throughout the country there has been deep interest in the past few vears over the efforts to protect and preserve the migratory birds. This has been shared in by sportsmen as well as bird lovers, because it has been recognized that such a step was necessary if the number of feathered songsters and game birds was to be maintained. For the same reason strong approval was given to the mi- gratory bird treaty which has been entered into by this country with Canada, and now there arises the need of properly enforcing that treaty indrder to secure the results which it was intended to give, and in connec- tion with this it is of the utmost im- portance 'that the legislation which is sought to enable the terms of_ the treaty to be enforced is of gri = ‘portance. < It is a sttvation ke many others where laws are passed without pro- vision being made for enforcing them, in which case the laws might as well not have béen passed. There is, how- ever, need of the bird laws and the international treaty and the provis- io? should be enforced. The enabling act gives the secretary of agriculture the authority to enforce the treaty terms and carries an appropriation of $170,000. According to the chief of the bio- logical survey, even the many weak- nesses of the past legislation with the imperfect enforcement of the federal 'aw has resulted In a wonderful in- crease in the game of the country, and with proper provision made for sup- port of the new treaty the results will not only be more satisfactory but it will be the means of preventing the extermination of certain species which are gradually disappearing. The bill appears to be reasonable in all partic- ulars. I TORIAL NOTES. Consi ng the quotations on brass, it is not surprising that the cost of getting something for nothing is high. There doesn’t appear to be any dis- position to break the speed limit in reaching peace over in Europe. The man on the corner says: Few are the times when the idler gives any thought to the minding of his own ‘business. No doubt Charlie Chaplin is right when he says it is hard to be funny, but he appears to be succeeding f- nancially. ‘Germany appears to be very grateful for the mixing in which President Wil son has done with the war struggle across the water. —teim The talk about two people lving as cheaply as one may depend upon whether the two are consumers of calories or just food. o Jesse Pomeroy doesn’t indicate by his actions that he has reached the stage where he is willing to take the advice and help of others. ‘With the order given to get the United States troops out of Mexico in a week, Villa must be looking forward to the day when he can have his own way. The democratic congressional caucus has approved the administration reve- nue bill by a vote of 113 to 13. That double 13 ought to be highly pleasing to the president. Russia is now said to be suffering from a shortage of food supplies. It might be an act of mercy to those menus which have been used feeding the New York police squad 25 cents a day. E From the number of have been presented to Willie's wife— you know I've told you about her—doesn’t do much except listen and enjoy her- self, having more sense than all the rest of them because she was a chor-’ us girl before she was Mrs. Pye, Jr., and got'educated by hard knocks in- stead of being gently finished at a cost of a couple a thousand a year. ‘Says Mrs. Pye: *“I simply cannot make up my mind whether we should go to Palm Beach or California this year. I fear Palm Beach is going to be rawther common—there was such a mob down there lawst season. “Oh, but mother,” wails Genevieve, ‘think of the golf! And the swimming' What on earth would I do with those two silk bathing outfits I just got? “California is going to be more swag- ger,” offers Willie. “We ought to have a place of our own out there. “Gracious!". moans Mrs. Pye. ‘Don’t expect me to take care of another house when we've got three already. They nearly drive me crazy with the servant question and the way house- hold linen wears out these days—and it's such trouble getting it mono- gramed. Last time the woman stamped the pillow cases an inch too high and just ruined the whole doz- T'm absSlutely sick,” says Genevieve, “about my knitted ~sweaters. I've broken my neck to get. the largest possible assortment of colors done, So that I'd have more than any one else, and now nobody is going to wear knitted sweaters any m Every single solitary thing is to be made of jersey cloth. "I've got to give them all away and it's such a nuisamce find- ing le to give them to. You can't give give even the laundress a pale green silk sweater trimmed ir lemon yellow.” “Tve looked the town over,” moans ‘Willie, “and blest if I can find any golf hosiery to go with that suit of mine. It's a perfectly exclusive suit and nobody will have one likt it, but 1 can’t wear it if I can't get any Tve looked three times in every shop in town. Youwll have to knit me some to match. “I can't” says his wife sweetly. “I'm too busy monograming your handker-~ chiefs in the colors you want. I'm putting my eyes out, and it's lucky you are“able to pay the oculist's bill, be- cause it's going to be a large, healthy bill from present indications. No. Mothef Pye, I can't hire it done, be- cause Willle is so particular that no- body can suit him unless he can over- look the job. If I get one thread too LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Armed Eye. Mr. Editor: Another year has rolled Into eternity, and civilization con- tinues its flight on the ‘wings of destruction. ‘When will this great wrong under which the human family groans be righted? What has come over this world of crawling things, human and otherwise.” As we look back into the past; back into the be- ginning, until creation, time was not the pendulum of time swings to and fro in eternity, and calls to account all things. God is the first and the end- ing of all things; He alone is im- Eneasurable. The miraculous ‘workings of nature; the light and heat; darkness and cold: the fresh vigor of spring- time; d winter in its robe of white, all the ®hings of life, to Him we give thanks. What must God think of Christian ministers; who profess de- votion to Him; the first prince of peace; when they appear as thampions of further bloodshed, in a war fast church history as a parallel? They act on the supposition that God has re- linquished His charge of the 4, or was it the whispering of the God of Mammon that caused this flow of ora- tory? To keep life's fluid in a fast dving cause. A student of the world’s history, smiles when He hears of Britain or Russia demanding repara- tion and restitution; two mighty em- pires; in whose grasp _lies half the land area of the earth and dominate the seven seas. The foundations of these empires, built on the whitened bones of small nations; pulverized to dust under the iron heels of despot- isms; more cruel than the world has ever seen. This war fades like mist before the rays of sunshine, when compared with the two or more cen- turies of depredations, of Britain and Russia, in_their policy of world ag- gression. Britain has her sails trim- med for every passing wind; for years the defender of Turkey; she now wants the Turks banished from Europe. The Near East question has grown large in the past quarter of a cen- tury. In 1877 came the Bulgarian rev- olution. In 1877 Turkey followed by intervention by Russia. The treaty of San Stefano imposed by Russla up- on Turkey, E:u the making of a great territory now in dispute), to keep the peace and repeal all Gee! It would be flerce sald the other girl, doubt- ] fully, “I'd take a chance.—Exchange. OTHER VIEW POINTS ] Shortweighting customers is a con- offense ‘anywhere, and at stand for the out- In all conscience coal prices are high enough without any dishon- est addition through the deceit of under-weight. In Massachusetts com- plaints have been so numerous that the sealer of weights and measures has given notice of intention to prose cute offenders for larceny as well as for the technical offense.—Bristol Press. President Wilson in applying the veto to the immigration bill did ex- actly what the nation expected him to do. He is the third president of the United States to uphold the idea of democracy in this way. He has re- fused to clgse the gates on those de- serving citizens of the old land who are ambitious to start life anew on a soil free from the handicaps im- posed by Europe. The literacy test attached to this bill is what fore- doomed it to the White House veto. Because a man cannot read or write is no sign he is an unworthy candi- date for admission to this natiou. against _the nation have come from Some of the heaviest blows struck men who knew how to read and write far too much for the country's good.—New Britain Herald. - No better work has ever been done by any fire department than was done by Hartford's in confining the flames to the stores of G. Fox & Co. and F. W. Woolworth- & Co. The de- partment was prompt to arrive and it worked even nmore intelligently than is usual in big fires. The value of automoblle apparatus was never better demonstrated, for it loyally, and their officers Chief Moran down guided their efforts with rare_ discretion. Heavy though ‘Hartford generally and suffer at least have the satisfaction of feeling that everything to check the damage made possible by human ingenuity and effort, was done by the men whom the city employes for that purpose. The fire department rendered a ser- vice value of which cannot be calcu- lated simply in mere dollars and cents. —Hartford Post. It s an old saying that it is always darkest just before the dawn. The New Haven has been going along fair- 1y well the past year and business has been exacting on the executives in all branches of its service. spects it has made notable progress toward general improvement and to those close to its workings ,its pros- pects are not so very gloomy. haps a little more time will be pro- ductive of a notable change in public sentiment and suport and conse- quently in the movement of prices on the stock market. It is the sincere hope of the people of Connecticut that this may be ized, for it is the widow and the orph- an holding small blocks of stock and the old man who once was considered rich because he held so much stock who are the principal sufferers by The diseases which threaten and af- flict the human inhabitants of_ the country are not alone those which en- tail a heavy loss upon it. meeting of the American sociation er $500,000,000 was destroyed by ln: sects. It is quite probable that these figures are exaggerated, but Mflb is no doubt tl).-t the loss causes cited and that a better “”of"fi'; ks ai | a % : b § i | i f | i 4 i 3 ] f § i Bdf i f | | | £ P e gfl'fl""fi?mn—'-"vz ble a dispensable part aviation is playing in _this war. ‘With a candor often uncommon in times of strife, the British commu- nique may end from day to day with the simple statement that one or two or three or four have not returned.” y have either been hit and forced to land in the enemy lines, or have been shot down to a fate more certain. It is no child’s play to circle above a German battery observing for half an hour or more, tortured by exploding shells and black shrapnel puffballs coming nearer and nearer like the ex- tending tips of some hand of death. But they are little more than children —these mere bovs who are bringing the lustre of everlasting fame to the British aviation service. Some are scarce eighteen. It is rare to find a flying man over twenty-five. In the aggregate, however, the losses in the flying corps are as nothing compared with *the useful and vital work the “winss” accomplish. Without them the big guns would have no far- seeing eves to correct their sheils. Without them and the hundreds of photographs they daily take the map- makers could not trace each detail of the trench positions. Without them the genera] staff could not accurately know just what is going on by day and night behind the enemy lines. Without them modern war would lose its most fascinating phase. The “good flying” of a single day on the British front alone may represent a day of a hundred fights, a day of four score aeropianes In wing-to-wing combat—a day of a thousand personal incidents and deeds of daring in the once strange strata of high thin air. It might tell, for instance, of how Lieutenant A In a fast-flying scout machine, encountered a squadron of twelfe German Rolands. The odds were one-sided enoush, but the young Britisher decided to take the chance. He climbed swiftly and gurely until he got far above and to the rear of the hostile craft. Evidently the Ger- mans were intent upon some errand which they proposed to carry out in force, for they paid no heed to the khaki-clad airman until he deliberate- ly dived into them, firing as he came. This threw the twelve Germans into a panic and their formation was entire- ly broken up. Meantime Lieut. A got beneath the nearest machine and fired an entire drum of cartridges in- to it at fifteen yards. The hostile ma- chine collapsed and “crashed.” That is a_supreme word in the lexicon of the flying corps. A machine may fall, or dive, but until it is actually seen to “crash” it is not counted as an enemy “casualty.” After seeing his particular enemy “crash” Lieut. A drew off to think things over. He was somewhat a- mazed to see still more hostile ma- chines coming up in formation. But he dashed at the leader of the new- comers and sent him in a spiral nose dive to a “crash.” This led to still more complications and the intrepid little pilot soon found himself engaged with three machines. His fight with these was indecisive. “For,” says the official record, “hav- ing expended all his ammunition, Lieut. A. set for for home.” A few days later, it is related, he took a running dive into a formation of twenty hostile machines with all the self assurance an eagle might have in the midst of a flock of spar- rows. Before he was through he had sent- three ad: es “crashing.” “This says the record, “he re- turned to one of our aerodomes for more ammunition and returned to the scene of, battle where he engaged and dispe: such enemy machines as remained in the vicinity. One was seen to crash upon a housetop. This same little Lieutenant A. seems to persist in the records of the service. One day he was the enemy lines at 11,600 feet when he found ESSE L. 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Just as he passed over it, the thing burst into flames and was destroyed in a few seconds. The Germans lately have adopted the ruse of “stalling” and shamming a fall out of control. -It is a thrilling, but not uncommon thing to see a German machine, when closely press- ed, turn its tail straight up in the air and dive toward earth for a distance of two or three thousand feet, and Jjust as the uninitiated onlooker would expect a “crash” it flattens out and starts pell-mell for its own lines. One does mnot always get away with this bit of aerial strategy, however, as is shown by the record of Capt. B. After attacking three hostile machines, he saw one of them going down in a spinning nose dive. He suspected the honesty of that dive and degided to do a little diving “on his own.” This dramatic downward duel continued for full five thousand feet, until the Ger man was driven into a spin “and seen to crash. Great Demand for Hardware in Russia Predicted. In 1812 the United States sent direct to Trissia only one per cent of the hardware imported by that country, as contrasted to seven per cent supplied by England, three per cent by Franc and seventy-five per cent by Germany. But abnormal demands for hardware may be looked for as soon as peace is made, asserts a report on the subject made public_today by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. De- partment of Commerce, and it is urged that American manufacturers and ex- porters’ pegin at once their prepara- tions for supplying an important part of these demands. The immense resources of the Rus- sian Empire in iron, coal, copper, sil- ver, gold, platinum, manganese, petro- leum, salt, asbestos, and other miner- als, in chemicals, in wood, in fertile Ahd extensive agienitural and grazing lands, and in large fishing areas sug- gests the possibilities with which this rich field is repiete, says the report. In these possibilities must aiso be in- cludeq the building of transportation, light, and power systems, telegraphs and telephones, and other necessary accompaniments and expressions of industrial growth. In mining, in agri- culture, in industry, the change from old processes to new, from handwork to machine work, has begun and will continue. All kinds of American tools, hardware, machinery, agricultural im- plements, etc., should find a ready mar- | ’.m THE PROFESSIONAL PATIENT COMEDY A Laugh With Every Scene Evening 7 and 8.45 || 10c A GOOD TIME BIJOU HALL, at JEWETT CITY Saturday Night, February 3rd Dancing—8wahn’s Orchestra Cars to Norwich After Dance ket in all sections of the Russlan E pire. Ffom the Consular Reports, Bullding material for rebuilding that part of Dublin, Ireland. which was de- stroyed in April, 1916, be provided by American firms. 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