Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 10, 1917, Page 4

monthe . . Entared at ti Conne & second-class matter. “ m.a-sxlc phone B10-2. ARMING MERCHANTMEN. President Wilson has decided to act upon his own initiative and has or- dered the arming of American mer- chant vessels that they may protect themselves n their rights on the high seas. .This action has been anticipated and it has been forced to a large de- gree by the manmer in which the for- eign trade of this country hes been held up by the German submarine warfere gnd. the baited zone, which in coptrast . to,.the - ghutting . off of the trade of neutrals with the gcentral powers are not in acocrd With the ws of nations. When President ‘Wilson asked con- gress to grant him the:authority to do “what he bas now ordered dome, he took that course to overcome the doubt which existed as to his rights to pro- ceed without such action by congres: He desired to have the uncertaint: eliminated, but i has since been de- termined that what was considered an obstacle to such action under the power which he already possessed does not exist ‘and he can proceed to do what has been needed since the Ger- man order of January 31st was issued. No. time has thus been wasted in proceeding in accordance with the ad- vice which has been given him by the secretary of state and the attor- ney general and this should bring about the relief which has been so greatly needed in overcoming what has amounted to a partial blockade at least of certaln American ports. Had Germany blockaded in the legal manner the perts of the allies noth- ing could have Deen said and there would have been respect for it even as there has been in the case of the Workading of German ports and those of Russia reached via the Dardanelles. Germany, ‘however, set up rules of its own, relyinz upon ruthless warfare for respect by meutrals and it is that which this couniry caanot accept. B SIS T THE EXTRA SESSION. While the call for an extra session of congress to act upon the large amount of business that was left over from_the sixty-fourth “congress may not have been anticipated just at this time, the very fact that over a hun- dred members from the western states have remained in Washington, until some idea .could be secured. relative to the time when it would be called, shows that there will be no surprise at the action which has been taken. In calling for the sixty-fifth con- sress to assemble in extra session on April 16, President Wilson has siven due conmsideration to the fact . that there is a large volume of b:flnm whhhnqfiwbanctealm’rhi t appropriation s which have been left unpassed despite the fact that several tranches of the government “are deygmlm “mpon the money which must thus be provided to @0 busingss. These apprepriations must be had before the first of July to be acted upon without extended de- lay. ‘The opportunity for siich is pro: vided. for by the.-bringing of congress toceu:et m:xt-month Tt is far preferable to waiting until the first of June, for if there is going to'be any delsy in the organizing of the m-o heeausé of the manher in which bers are aivided po- litically, the that {s required for that is" thus drovided for, wherpas it would not be if congress were not as- .gmmea “umtil four weeks before, the whéh the appropriations which u is expected “to 'make dre needed. - N N 2 DMVING THE TURKS. For the time being atterdtion is again turned by those who are following the grest European war to the progress that is being made by the British forces in Mesopotamia. Folowing an embarrassing repulse and loss in that region and after the great fallure that made in the attempt to take the Dardanelies, the British under Gen- eral Maude are again. proceeding with strikingly the blocking of the armed neutrality bill when a preponderance of the mem- ‘bers ‘were favorable to its passage. It was thus shown that one man had more power than .the entire senate and all that was necessary to bring about a change was the illustration that has just been given to ™ that power. While the rule may have been intended to ‘bring about full and free debate and not allow discussion to be unjustly shut off, it was evident that it was subject to great abuse. But all that. has® been changed. Henceforth the one man power .will not exist. When the senate believes a Vote should be taken and two-thirds vote for the cloture an hour will be permitted to any senator who wants to be heard further. That will give him ample time to set forth any ad- diticnal statements which he may have but it will not be possible to block a vote, and in the adoption of this rule the senate had taken a step which could’ have been taken with good results a long time agd. STONE SHOULD GO. Somehow or other Senator Stone of Missouri labors under the impression that he possesses such power within the upper house of congress that he will not be removed from his impor- tant post as chairman of the foreign. relations .committee. Just - why he should cling to any such belef is diffi- cult to understand in view of the course WhicH he has followed in. that body relative to armed neutrality, the fact that his diplomacy has been look- ¢d upon for some time with disfavor by the administration, the course which he took, when it could easily have been avoided, of revesling the methods which this country was con= sidering for combatting the subma- rine warfare upon our ships which have a right to go where Germany says that they shali not, and the ac- tion of the legislature of his own state in refusing to pass & vote of confi- dence in the stand which be took in the closing -days ©of ths last session ot N CONETCSs: - The chairmanskio of the foreign re- lations committes is a most important one. Tt shouid be held by a man in whom the utmost confldence exists He 15 frequently called upon to confer With the president and there should be in that office a man who not only has not committed the offense of giv- ing away a vital secret of naval de- fense, but one who can be relled upon not to do so in the future. It ought not to be fof Senator Stone to say whether he will get out or stay in. . If he is determined not to resign thers is a way in which the chairmanship can be given to another and the senate willfhe lax in its duty it it does not look out for the inter- ests of the nation in this important respect. EDITORFAL NOTES. The man on the corner says: Thers are t0o many Deople who think that a knock is preferable-to a boost. It remeins for Germany to convince China that it ought not to treat its indemnity promises as scraps of pa- per. According to Foreign Secretary Zimmermann, the old claim that what- ever is done for Germany is all right still holv Even these who favor a vegetable diet haven't been getting any too much encouragement from the high cost of foodstuffs. . - Even though the plot- was discov- ered, Carranza and Germany of course understand that McLemore and ‘Calio- way are still in “Texas. LaFollette will “hereafter be known as the man held responsible for hav- ing paved the way for the blackening of both the 1's in fillbuster. By sending its telegram of inquiry to Count Bernstorff on the Frederik VEI, Germany has taken the first stepis toward a leak investigation. When it is announced from New York that alcohol is a great aid to pneumonia‘,is there any probability that the le in that state will in- sist upon its soing “bone dry.” et Sk A New York bootblack dead at the age of 42 has left $50,000, all of which goes to show that where there is a will there is a way, providing one Is not afraid of soiling his fingers. Inasmuch as Japan has 4700 Ger- man prisoners, it is possible that Ger- many figured on augmenting it army with these if Japan had oniy been en- couraged inte peace by Carranza. - The president has now decided to put all postmastéers under civil ser- vice by executive order. That step ought to have been taken before hc mede, nominations for ‘the New “York and’ Chicage oflm 3 s by it left wide open. > world hit the trail one hundred thous- ahd weeks ago it certalnly was nevar slack=r in its acceptance and practi- Whose cause u God;"” that “naturée and- revelation are alike ‘God’s books;” that “nature is *n Aeolian “of - olism,” etc.,-ete, know that in nature ca quence closely f6How one amoth lead us to conclude she s heroh”-. but through what Bmerson learn “nature is too thin a men gh. glory of the One “breaks in .every. where.” This is the one thing It is well to be conscious of. There will be Under pros- perity. e men’s passions .wax..fat and their virtués take on.a consump- tive Jook. It takes a level head and & humble heart-to, make the man fit success and success At him. iency does not all rest in ability, for it ne to be . well rooted in good judgmen and broad-mindedness. It is a pititul sight to witness attainment . wrecked by evil habits or *ack of moral stam- ina. Vanity often leads success @ wild and wearying dance. ' The concept of life must be rignt to make the most of achievement. One must know how to live right te make pPosperity of real value. When succéss develops all sorts of selfishness and conceit and ill- manners and intolerance it has really checkmated itself and wrought odious prejudices instead of the admiration and praise which is its due. No man Is a success who in all things but money-getting has failed. —_— 1 suppose this is what may be called a psychological fact: “As we .grow better we meet better people.” People | of guality and the people of no quality appear to have a natural at- traction to one another. . The two powers by which we can advance i by our moral sense and our self-inter- est both of which reinforce the will. The trend of humanity is.upward and the powser is with every.soul to . ed- vance ‘We cannot move up without exertion; w2 gamnot attain quality un- less we put the right value upom it ghen we become scious of it "Worth always commends -itself to worth. Good people find their pleas- ure in -smq.\nt ‘with - g00od people; Nothing i: ? which. . undermines heailth or chanmter. Many things are called good which do both. -Nature is an exacting task master and rewards us for our virtues and taxes us for our excesses to the limit. To be right we must do right. Man of intellicf and’ senes Teajine the value of dreparedness ‘in every field of life. A pacifist is put down akling -because he lacks the which shonld characterize man- A Methodist minister who was cailed to a California putomte was informed of the violent :character of nis congrezation, but it @id not"seem in the jeast to interest him, to say nothing of exciting fear: He enter- ed the churck on the Sabbath day as a2 man of God should and when he rose, looked his tough laymen in the face, took a revolver from, each Rip pocket and placed them on either side of the Bible on the pulnit, and then “Let us pray!” His fellowmen id: realized that the man before them was | Se! prepared to shoot as-well as to preach. They felt the magretism of a man's presence and they did -not venture to interfere with fhe word of God as he saw fit to preach it... He put.- his trust in the T.ord and in himself—as though 5f the the Tord would take care of him he would take care of the congregatior. . .- Those who juggle with figures and find plegsure in -them féel sure that the one-hundredth-thousandth Sun- day of the Christian era will be reach- ed on July'sth, T917. Tt must have re- quirea a great deal of figuring to have reached -a definite conclusion; and no doubt the door for a_controversy -is T the Christian cal demonstration of -the Christlan code than it is today, that it should be a than great Tt seems to us son of deep a Jubilant foot rather contrition festi A many prints ‘have been made on the sands| of Time in one hundréd thousand weeks and a great many hundreds of thousands of kindly deeds and noble personal saerifices been made by. the devout, but compared with, what might have been done the record is not so sublime. Lived up to_faithfully one houndred thousand. weeks is long enough to have produced the mmenmm in the Christian world. Perhaps man is: not to blame for thinking women areé queer. There are many things about ‘women they" have never n able to solve. They have|Are never been able to ‘tell why women with new false teeth always laugh the most, or why a woman s for a Took ‘of her lover's hair, but after she has married him takes {t without ask- ing. They daughter Naomi did not marry until { Ven! she was years old, or how s happeried to say ves at so ldte a date; or when it was the women bégan to kindle flames with their eyes against ‘which there is no.insurance. It is past finding out why a “divorced ‘woman changes her religion for fear she may meet her 1 1 since she fisbfi:n enough of him in this: or why when the Monday Wash is Dlown into the mud she loves dear- Iy to be all alone until .it is all straightened out, -Why a woman will not give up her. more jingly than a man is; is not the flower of - the family that always makes the best bread? Tt will take more than & “genjus to solve these les. cannot tell why Fnoch's | suppose there a in the next world |2 é to him. euv‘dvmxmacrlpputhm- where upon the earth who are livins the ideal life which necessarily must: m all his wealth; and thén wed ‘the tnnily the draft Md safely hidden in a de- ml walet, the amount $29,760. Hu ocentile were delighted ¢ friends and land. the father of the family began ad- vmn&hflms ‘lmw ‘best to im Sfi weall ut the aged man r‘g:dl ideal | gdvice. “You see, I vas a Schiemiel! our ideals, like the horl.wn, ways receding as we ad thing hoped for but not_reai: upont this’ mundane sphere. ©an the' ideal life be" anything more than a pure, normal, contented life with nothing to harrass one or to make one afraid? Our ideals are Supposed to be the lure of an immortal soul to attract 't to something approaching heavenly con- ditions: but is not this really the dream ‘of the cuitivated of which the plodder has no ccmceumm, al ever hoped for. of something for- Sunday Mornin; Talk VENEERS Hark to a parable. Once upon a time there were two balls. One was made of wood ,overed with very brl“ht mew gilt. He was shining and han : other was made of solid gold clear to his heart, but he hadn’t been polished up much and he looked a trifle dull. They were put to- gether in the same box. The 'gilt ball was placed on a soft bed of cotton in one corner, but the gold ball was left free to roll about. Pretty soon he be- |gan to explore the box, rolling from side to side and from corner to corner. The more he traveled about the brighterhe | grew. in his journeys about the hox he began to roll across_the bed of “Don’t do tHat,” ex- It ®all in terror, “Don’t ou’ll rub it off! “Rub ball in sur- hard for people conscious of in- tegrity in life and purpose to under- stand how thinly spread are the virtues that some other people assume. They never quite learn that all is not gold that glitters. They do not realize that the bright surfacé that looks so beauti- ful will rub off under rough handling. Whether it be true or not that beau- ty is but skin deep, it is true that much politeness is. Parlor tricks and rules of deportment vanish under the stress of some crucial occasion. Shipwrecks and theatre fires have been hard tests of the “After you, my dear Gaston” philosophy. It is then generally wach man for himself. The native instinct for self-preservation surges up fhrough all outer wrappings of convention. Against this, however must always be the glorious behaviour of the men of the sinking Titanic. There is at present profound depres- sion in many minds over the net result of all. our centuries of training in hu- manity morals and religion. The war has \brought instincts to the fore we Underneath the smiling surface of civ ilization have smoldered volcanoes of hate and cruelty that needed but the appropriate occasion to burst _into flame. The step from orderly and re- spectable citizenship at home to blood- thirsty savagery in the field has proved not a long one. In a few short months ten of thousands of men in Europe have taken it. Millions who, a little while ago, would not think of making a dog ‘ncomfortable now judge it their highest duty and privilege _to kill as many as possible of their fel- lowmen—and by any means at hand. How quickly the veneer disappears under the acid test of war! One need not cross the water to face the situation. He can find it in his own nature. Few of us realize how close we are to savagery tifl some un- foreseen temptation or peril swoops on us. At such times we may ver the call of,the wild to be very strong. We feel t¥at we have much in common with people whose deeds, in our better moments. We deplore and condemn. “Let him that thinketh he standsth take heed lest he fall.” Let us beware of Stones at other le while ‘we ourselves in glass hot Kipling has touched the sore spot in his remark that ‘The governor's lady and Susie O'Gndy Are sisters under the skin. Gold that will not rub off in an emer- must be solid clear to th:he::;mr. er foundation than expediency, con- vention or public opinion. It must bo all af 2 piece really what ‘it to be, not matched by = real M back on the sheives. ces. ces w to keep up, being .n thc way . through that which show: surface. He walks\through Ii . ls fact and not as a sham. Life from the center out- soul. The prayer of the Peaimist is for eyery one who wants to be genu- {he metitations of w5 Biert be Bor s of my - Ml;lhyfiht_ O ZLord, my every day The ldeal life ought to be something "' ttainable instead bhe protested, “bount t' haf Dait juck! If he put his money in the bank, that bank would burst; if in etotks, that company would fail; if in govern- ment bonds, the country would get into. war. So he explained that he meant to cash his draft, and ask a | certain neighbor, Solomon Levinson, to 'put it in his safe, from which de- posit vault the old man coud get bills o¥me ire bl Nettls neéded money, !“ v‘t a Schiemiel; 1 don"l 34“.‘,‘." - - wuk Imr. uur- came a letter asking the son .nnd see him, as The fon and hls mother went at once. Then they were told that, in handing over the bundle of money to Levinson, the 1d man had humorously said to him that thase were “old loaf-‘etters” and had seen TLevinson put the bundle on the top shelf of his burglar-proof safe. That was Friday; Sunday night the Levinson house was burned, and with it of course the fortune of the Schiemtel. rrator and the Marshal immediately busy, although the Scheimiel hadl made up his mind that his money was gone forever, as just part of his customary bad luck. In due time, a little third degree work forced Mr. Solomon Levinson to admit to the Marshal that his curiesity had prompted him to open the mysterio 129 Main Street, Norwich, Conn. EDISON MAZDA LAMPS, FLASH LIGHTS ing to get his cash, that he had been forced fo admit niz gullt, been con: sentenc it was almo: Bundie, pocket-the moriey and then set T aocd Taisr oo fire. %o the. place to account for the| isappearance of the cash. His con- fession enabied Levinson to get off with a sentence of but ten vears in state prison, he having pleaded guilty to o minor degreé of arson. And now the Fire Marshal and the Schlemiel’s young friend called at the loser’s home, on the happy errand of returning_to him the suposed burned money. The 0 man could scarcely believe their story. That his neigh- bor Levinson had set fire to the build- allowance, and 1 ain’t gif it oop! aifer But even the Schlemiel had learnsd e ‘“A‘, ,.,,‘:'.“‘ his n. “You cairry dot Doon- tle down-town mit you, and you go to your popper's ‘office, and you gif to him, and ¥au tell him to make all the investments of dot money fiich he likes!” was his command. “‘Dere's no two vays about it; I was & ratkular Schlemiel; and T guess may- be the best ting I can do is to let your papper mainage dot money shust exaictly as if it vas his own! Here, and I ain’t mo Schieimel Néarly 5000 Canadlan ers. Ththaveryimporhntquedion—probnuquum‘ moreimgorhnttbmyon-b-ve'given any thought to and especially in a season like this when so many shapes are to be used and such vivid colors are in vogue. There is one best thing to do. Go to a store where the selection is broad enough to satisfy your preferences and for you to secure a shade that will be most becoming. For rest assured that every good shape and trimming idea ofthese-mwnllbefmmdmmmn«ybepm!. A VALUE ENTIRELY UNUSUAL WOMEN'S SPRING SUITS EATON CHASE COMP.ANY ince 1 vas ®born already, and Tow all of a sudden, 1 change ofer po . :morel Blessed be the name of the Lordl THE DICTAGRAPH miners. are afffifated with the United Mine Weork- at $15.00, $16.50, $17.50 : cause such quality of materials are rarely employed in nnlm.mihd&bpfiu. Unusual becsuse the ‘work. Mnhmm-wu\lflfi-fiwuuul because the suits fit so well and look so smart, . GOTTHELF & €0. “The Sioro of Gfld Valuos" Molll mv - tia