Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 27, 1917, Page 4

&, and gi-?id 121 YEARS OLD ubseription price 1Zc a week: 50 mouth: $6.00 a year. Entared at the Postoffice at Norwich, Conn.. as second-class matter. Telephone Calls: Bull ¥n Businsss Office 480 . Balletin Editorial Roorus 33-8. Bulletin Job Office 35-2. Williman! Office, 67 Church st Telephone 210-2. Norwich, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 1917. | | seceseccses. The Circulation of §Tl|e Bulletin The Bulletin has the hw{ § circulation of any paper in Eastern 2 Connecticut and from three to four fines larger than that of any in Norwtch. It is delivered %o over 8,000 of the 4,068 houses im Nu-l £ wich and read by ninety-three per cent. of the people. In Windham it is delivered tw_over 900 houses, §inPutam and Danielson to over 1,100, and In all of these places it 3 is considered the local dalily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hurndred and sixty- five postoffice districts, and sixty ural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold In every$ town and on all of he R. F. D. routes in Eastern Connecticut. "CIRCULATION | 1301, average .. 441 *905. -ver-nt......-.-.......5,920; 9,353§ THE PRESIDENT'S APPEAL. In his address to congress President Wilson clearly and briefly reviews the situation which has Meveloped since Germany put into effect its unrestrict- ed naval warfare,and his action in go- ing before congress with such a mes- sage as he did, pointing out the fact that this country does not want war and that he is not proposing or contemplating any steps that need lead to it, but that the present situation is-fraught with the gravest possibilities and dangers, that action of vital importance may be rgguired on a moment's notice and that_he should possess the authority to meet such situation as may develop is justijed by the state of affairs which e: ts toda Just what his plan of action is, if in fact it has been determined, the § i § § H H i $ H § February 24.... H . presidgnt ha¥ not stated further than indicated in the request for authority to supply cur merchant ships with de- fensive arms should that become nec- essary and adequate to protect our ships and our people in their legiti- mate and general pursuits on the seas, with a sufficient credit to provide ade- quate means of protection where they. are lacking. While, as the presidents points out our shipping has not suffered from de- struction like that of other nations, there'is no- telling how long this wiil st; and in the meantime American shipping is tied up because of the lack of protection or convoys. There is need for insisting upon our rights and furnishing the protection to those en- gaged in legitimate errands on the high seas. Action towards this end has not been hastened but it is time that shipping was given the assurance of support that it deserves. If the president thinks he needs addit%nal authority for this he should have it, and the eare which he is exercising in this matter doesn’t indicate that he would rush into any more serious step without due provocation and deliberate thought. THE NAVAL BILL. It has taken some time to bring the members to the realization of the need of making proper preparation be- fore this country actually-finds itself engaged in serious trouble with an- other nation but congress is showing evidence of having reached a sensible conclusion concerning this necessity and will have put it into effect when it completes action upon the naval ap- propriation. This naval bill calls for a large ex- penditure of money but such is needed in order to properly protect this coun- try with its long sea coasts. It pro- vides extra funds for hastening the work on battleships and the construc- tion of the much needed battle cruis- ers, it provides for the completion at once of the projectile plant, for the creation of a national emergency fund of $115,000,000 which the president can draw upon in case of an emergency to secure quicker delivery of materials, equipment, munitions and ships, the enlargement of navy yards and.dry- docks, the building of 40 coast sub- marines at a cost of a million and a third each and ten fleet submarines to cost $1,900,000 each, the sum of $3,- 000,000 for reserve material, a* high powered radio station at Porto Rico, the increase in appropriations for bat- teries and ammunition for merchant auxiliaries, the ‘suspension of the.eight hour law in naval work, the change in the, course at Annapolis from four to three years and an increase in the number of midshipmen and the strengthening of the naval defenses and the naval bases. It is one of the strongest defense measures which has been presented to congress, and it calls for a large ex- penditure of money but it is defense which must get first consideration at the present time. < office says that In case of the loss of shipping and the possible loss of life. vesult in Germany crosing the for there cap be no doubt but what the Holland ‘tw it would like noth- ing better ¥han a chance to set hold of such supplies as Holland now pos- sesses. > 3 The excuse which Germany puts forth for the sinking of the vessels is however weak and unsatisfactory. The destruction of the vessels has on the other hand resulted in no good to any one and no harm has been done to any nation but neutral Holland which is in need of this grain that the ships were carrying. Holland has therefore every reason to be indignant even to the point of taking drastic action. The destruction of these ships was as un- called for as the sinking of a Swedish vessel bound home with coal. There was not even the chance of resorting to the excuse that they were destined to an enemy port. It was nothing but the rankest kind of piratical action, inasmuch as partial protection had been assured these very vessels if they sailed upon that fixed day, and the worst feature of it all is that while Germany claims to be suffering from a shortage of foodstuffs it does not hesitate to destroy that which is being transported to a neutral nation, which has, none too much although it may be in a better condition that way than PROTECTING CHILDREN. What must be looked upon as a move in behalf of safety first and the prevention of a large number of deaths, to say nothing of the many accidents which should be avoided, is the order which has been put into effect by the police of Philadelphia that children must not jump onto the rear of vehl- cles to steal a ride. Such a practice under ordinary cir- cumstances might not be annoying to the driver or dangerous to the chil- dren if more serious consequences were not involved than merely catch- ing a ride, but it is through the dar- ing used by some in dashing in front of other vehicles in order to “catch on” in clambering onto trucks and wagons wherever there is a place re- gardless of the danger of going under. the wheels and In dodging in the way of others while getting off from a moving vehicle, which makes it nec- essary to give stringent orders to stop such practice. And the order given the police is intended for enforce- ment when it says “You will at once stop any car or other vehicle on which children are stealing rides, arrest the offenders charged with trespess and send the children, if under 16 vears of age. to the House of Detention. If more than 16 send the prisoners to the station house.” Many a life would have been saved, meny a person would not be a cripple today and much money would have been saved that was expended through lawsuits if such an order had always been in effect and enforced. Highway traffic will doubtless welcome this ef- fort on the part of the authorities to impress upon young people the neces- sity of protecting themselves. ‘ THE REPLY TO BRAZIL. There is precious little satisfaction that is given to Brazil by Germany in its reply to the protest from that na- tion against its unrestricted naval policy, and the .announcement that Brazil would hold Germany responsi- ble for any harm which befell Brazil- ian ships on their way through the war zone. Germany makes it empha- tic to the South American country as it does to China that it will not al- ter its submarine warfare, but it does not tell Brazil as it does China that it will respect the lives of its people | and their property. Regardless of international law and the rights of neutrald on the high seas, Berlin’s statement to Brazil is to the effect that if it attempts to oper- ate its ships it must expect to take the consequences, although it ex- presses regret that neutrals must suf- fer as the result of the method which has been determined upon to strike at the enemy. 2 It can hardly be a source of relief to Brazil when the German forelgn Brazilian ships the German govern- ment will suggest diplomatic negotia- tions. Such means that no' at- tention is going to be paild to the rights of the neutrals. They are go- ing to be treated the same as the al- lies and if any harm comes to them they are going to be offered financial compensation for the crippling of the This is hardly to be looked upon as satisfactory and it is difficult to be- lieve that Brazil or any other nation, so situated will allow its neutrality to be bought by threats of punishment and possible payments of indemnity. EDITORIAL NOTES. There are a lot of states-which are in the way to find out just what the meaning of “bone dry” is. From the way in which Dutch ves- sels are being sunk one might think that Holland was in the war already. The man on the corner says: Listen- g is a severe mental strain on the person who is aching for a chance to talk. From the progress which the Brit- ish are making on the west front, they appear to be warming up for th spring drive. f The fact that the new British loan was oversubscribed by a sixth shows that the people are not slackers when it comes' to providing funds. Nature appears .to have worked much quicker and more thoroughly than the govérnment in clearing the channel in the Thames of ice. That London scientist who declares that the sun will live but about 13 million more years must be one of those fellows whois always taking the joy out of life. Of course there must be one solemn resolution adopted by everyone to the effect that they will not starve to death while any investigation that is started of the high cost of living is underway. The potash industry in this country 1s reported to be growing, but it can stand tremendous development if it plans to satisty the demands of those who are going to plant kitchen gardens this coming season. but mother ness of candy. d I never got a sin- great pleasure in informing my critics of short memory that the storm pre- dicted for Feb. 24 came just exactly as predicted and a perusal of today's habit won’t let me. a contrary tangle from the start. “I_was born with “straight hair on my head and a longing for cur.y hair in my heart. I mean in my heart a that I prayed and my chin. bocks in a hidesvs, homemade bag. in_summer. Colonial Laborers in France. Sixty tall Kabyles, mountaineers from eastern Algeria, descendants from ‘the bhardy and redoubtable Berbers, have lent a useful hand to the solution of the Paris street clean- ing_problem. Garbage boxes that are now set out auartcrs as esrly as evening, to the dam- : age of a great many shins in dimly | Begin tonight. lighted strcets. are encountered giher quartors as late as 3 oclock in the afternoon, ali on account of poo with Cuticura Paris thus has been enjoying 17 hours of continuous con- templation of city refuse that is stir- red, shaken and overturned meantime for rags, The Kabyles have done so well toward remedying this aituation that 300 more of them wil be utflized dn the work. “There are now 20,000 of our people working in France for t! says Si Salah caid or governor of the Douar itkas of Tizi-Ouzou in _ Labylie. the ‘climate nor the conflict daunts them,” he added. by the 9,000 inhabitan to tell the French government it may count upon them for anything it wants. The experiment of Algerian help in the field and factory been a great success. These men, par- ticularly those from the mountain re- gions, have wonderful endurance, very industrious and easily contented. They are working alongside other Mus- sulmen from Morocco and Tunis, while a great many others are in the ranks of the Algerian riflemen at the front. They have proven a great deal more than the Senegalese in this climate: they have shown quite a taste have learned quiekly the use of machine tools In factories, and their apprenticeship in municipal work has perhaps been the greatest success must clean out the closet under the longing ~ for curly hair—the Mary | staigs.” Pickford kind. Sut mother explained | “Hm!” said the woman in the er- that etraight hair was more sensible {mine cap. becausc it never snarled- I was a skinny littie thiny and craved sweets, irated the foolish- | sible life. “But surely you must have some time or other done some happy, thing in all your proper, sen- Haven't you?* “T'll tell you,” solemnly said the sensible woman, ber weeping for a | beautifully foolish thing I did in ali i 2 gorgeous pink;ay life was to get married. And bow on it—and sasther bought me a:did it in a brown euit instead of the gray woolen bounet that tied underisoft, traily white dress I reaily want- ed. ' And the only two nice, “I ceuldn’t hava 2 smart book strap|things I've ever owned are my hus- like other children, but carried mYband and my little girl, Dorothy.” “But my dear,” said the woman in My first real winter claak, all new and | the ermine cap. not made over, was _pretty enough, | but miles too big, so that I could wea it three or four reurs. I never rode a, woman with the merry-go-round, but was made to put my nickel in the bank. I never|getting me things that I'm longing ™ stayed overnight at anybody’s house or bad any company of my very own. I always wore homeknit stockings in |ion sets, he brings them in one hand Germany. i winter and never, postively never, had land in the other he has a feathery {even a pair of tan shoes or stockings|fern or the little sewing basket for which T've been sighing for weeks. “I had one doll, the kind that cam’t) And when I get a brown dress when break and has its hair painted on. It{I really want a pink one he comes didn’t break and I've been saving it| waiking home with all tihess years for Dorothy, but she |brooch to wear with it. won't even look at it. And it's beeni just like that all my life! when'I could have of doors in 10 oclock in tl lack of help. paper and boncs. is the most foolish and the happiest man I know,” explained the “And he's always laughing at me and get myself, but don’t dare. tell him to bring home a quart of on- fah was sent of his Douar in France has I “And he makes me go out right in And now | the midst of my ironing to see how the things I want |the new little ducks waddle or what and could do the things I'd like that|soft clouds are floating in the sky, old drilling spoils my fun. My sen- sible habits are fixed. maybe—or I keep prom-; And time and again he's ising myself the new dress, the new !lizhts upstairs burning full blast so’s picture, the mew friend, the trip to|to make the house bright and cheer- my sister's in Indiana, but I keep on scrubbing floors and washing dishes, | think saving and patching. 1 do get the opporturity to go mavhe | er. my sister's new baby has grown fr®1 a fat, soft, pink ¥ittle bunch of sweet- ness into ‘an_ordinary nau one with a dirty face. “And there was Mrs. Halley. 1|l did so want to know her well from |dandelion the very day she moved into thel neighborhood.- Fer months I was!ine cap, “E don't see that you have promising myself to just lay off some | much afternogn and go wnd get really ac foolishness. to anybody passing by. And then when | “And Dorothy is just like her fath- Do you know what she did last T've never told any one be- fore. because I thought they might ty young |think ehe wnsn't right in ! But that child went arouna the lawn ingz, actually kissing, The Avinamites from the French col- ony of Indo-China, also unskilled, have been quick to learn and are probably | more fastidious in their work than the as gleaners in the harvest fleld last summer they were said to have never overlooked a spear. The Moors are better fighters than they are farmers, yct they are taking to agricuiture. and French observers every new said the woman in the erm- of.” - Chicago Weather for March. Mr. Editor: Feb. 24, 8 a. m., I take papers will show that it spread over considerable territory. The cold wave will surely follow, don’t forget that. In 1897 I well remember Capt. Tom French of the schooner S. D. J. Raw- son, Camden, Me., of which I was steward, sailing out over Maypori, Florida, bar when sixteen other cap- tains were hugging the harbor owing to a gale blowing from the northwest. I was steward of the Rawson and hav- ing had censiderable experience in Florida waters felt just a little ticklish about going out. The old rules that four generations had followed with- out losing a ship proved itseif all right, for long before midnight we were scudding swiftly towards “the Trades” with a_fine so’ west breeze blowing. After discharging cargo at San Juan, Peurto Rico, where we met your Judse John Hall, the American consul at that point, on one of our trips, and had the pleasure of securing a few Bul- letins. ~ Capt. French was the only captain in the harbor that ventured to sea with light ship in what looked like a heavy storm coming on. We bhad nothing but plain sailing all the way back. The one or two eritics who appear to be very anxious to call attention to errors in my predictions make the one great mistake of thinking that they are the only ones that read and re- member. To begin with, a navigator would not consider Voluntown or any other one little spot in weather observations but what would interest him would be general weather conditions over large area of land and sea. The “as predicted” often seen in The Bulletin in connection with the U. S. weather reports does not appear in one out of a hundred times with mine. For the past four weeks my cor- respondents , from Voluntown have been quite numerous and unless ail of them are surely. awry—and I guess they know what they are talking about ~—There’s a Reason. Now For March. A howling old storm will be with us the opening days of March. An icy period, trees and fences and telegraph wires, ice-coated, from 4th to 7th. A spell of very warm weather for March will follow the icy period and continue a day or two, quickly followed by a sharp, storm period. - Cold for the St. Patrick’s day celebration. ‘While March has long been cailed the windy month second only to Sep- tember. The past three or four years has proven contrary to this rule but March, 1917, will return to its own and gales, high winds will be rule. A big storm will be with us from March 20 to 24 and the month will go out as it comes in, like a lion. March, 1917, on the whole will be one of the most changeable, disagreeable months of the year and “this year” in- cludés both November and December next. There will be at least two electri- cal displays in the month of March. All mariners will do_weli to watch their barometers closely before going to sca There's nothing to e. a e b who are watching the experiment look to the result of a most beneficial in- fuence upon d-velopment nf Morocco. questtn was ralsed in French chamber of deputies recently to what complications might ce of so many cotonial laborers in France at the end of the war. The general sentiment was that no apprehension need be enter- tained on this acore, and that it was even less menacing that the formidable extension of the use of women in me Kabyles, Indo- it is held, wiil, have 'aid wp a little money, be ziad enough to go back home, where their savings will enable them to play the future agricultural LETTERS TO THE EDITOR except deep sea craft, coasting wi unusually dangerous. that the most carefui server of weather conditions and my predictions wiil bave to aaree with me that the rule I follow, iIf followed to the letter, is as good a rule for pre- dicting weather followed by | Chinese and Moors, In a quarter of a century the only times I have come anywhere near mak- ing a mistake was when I allowed a little guesswork to slip in. tions have been printed in nearly ev ery state in the Union, in Canada. Mex- ico 2nd Cuba and to m¥ personal knowl- edge, have been rcad by more pecple who read them (because thy fe] that the weather rules I follow are good ones) than similar articles written by any living person. THE CLOUD DIGGER. Nearly every ship arriving from Al- meria now brings more of the Kabyles, who are more and more counted upon to solve the question of labor. are taller than the average Algevion, with features those of the peasants of central France, They are mot uniform in complexion, ne being dark and some light, with Their language is the Ber- although they The possibilitles of the ex- periment may be judged from the fact that Kabvlie is the most nopuleus part of north Africa. having 158 inhabitants per square mile. resembling . I _am field correspondent of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 1 have a large lot of seeds at mu also_a larze quantity by United States Senators McLean and Brandegee. Icpfilv:l.cr. Read directions zround Soap. Nothing purer, sweeter than Caticara _ Cuticura Ointment. You can have national } eamples free by return mail forthe ask- i Abmed, | ing. & TEAM HARNESS : EXPRESS HARNESS A new line at old prices. Some good values in FUR COATS, AUTO ROBES, HORSE BLANKETS. Just received a caribad “of BUSI- NESS WAGONS at the right prices. THE L. L. CHAPMAN (0. 14 Bath Street, Norvrich, Conn. danger zone. They fall to realize, the seas, where these ships go, are pub- lic property and it is the right of the entire world to use them. Suppose two men were fighting on one of our public streets ia Rockville and you had business to, go along that street and did so and got knocked down. The first thing you would do would be to hunt up Chiel of Police Krause and enter a good stiff complaint. Sup- pose the chief assumed the same at- | titude and sald: “Well, it is your {fault; keep off the street.” What wouid you think about Chicf of Police Krause ?—Rockville Journal. 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I also raise OTHER VIEW POINTS It is rather surprising to read that automoble owner who possess jitney car: bill now before the general assembly, which was given a hearing recently. Among other things that bill demands | running of vehicles on schedule time. As the makers, garage men and gasoline dealers have never been able to do the trick with certainty one wouid expect heartily welcome Legislative BIIL he can succeed where so many others | have failed why not give glad hand and the trial?—Rristol especially those object to a chauffeurs, What a Blockade Is. Mr. Editor: In view of certain let- ters which have b cently in your columns, would it not be well to print this expianation cf given in Current Events? It may prove eniightening to others as appearing re- “blockade” A good many argue that if Ameri- cans do not want to get killed let them keep off the ships that go in the Q=00 Every N For Constipation inking an occasional ship on the high seas does not make a blockade. Nor, until very lately mans even called their submarine war- fare by that name. law “paper blockades, lamation, are nothing. A blockade, to be recosnized by neutrals, strictly enforced. “This is not to say that a block- ade must cease to be rscognized such if an occasional vessel slips by But praetically all have the Ger- interrational made by prog vessels must be the escapes must be rare and BEVERLY BAYNE in SUPREME n E E Concert FEATURE PHOTOPLAYS THEATRE TODAY AND TONIGHT PAULINE FREDERICK “CASHES OF EMBERS” FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN TLIE CGREAT SECRET —————————————————————————————————————— COMING WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY HAROLD LOCKWOOD & MAY ALLISON in “PIDGIN ISLLAND” ATRE TODAY AND TOMORROW COMFORT & KING W' 10 ete exceptions. “This is why the British blockade of the German coast is counted by | neutrals as lawful and the German at tempts as unlawful. y enforced, as a recognized blockade ! so that in more than two scarcely a German ship has slipped through. 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