Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 6, 1917, Page 4

the Pastorfics at Norwieh, 8 & a5 sessnd-class matten Tetmphone Calla: The Bulletin is sold in every town and on all of he R. F. D. routes in Eastern Connecticut. * CIRCULATION 1901, average...... 490%, average. March 31, 1917.. GERMANY’'S ATTITUDE. ~_Interest is bound to be arrested by _the announcement which comes from Germany to the effect that regardless of the address of President Wilson, or the action which congress may take as the result thereof, it will not caiife any change in the attitude of Germany towards . this country, that that country has not dedg)d wir with the United States and that it will make no move to carry on one. That all sounds very nice. One might get the impression that Ger- many was never guilty of any wrong, that it held all thoughts of war in ab- horrence and that it was determined to have peace at all cost, but it is to be noticed in connection therewith that Germany does not say anything about calling a halt on its submarine warfare, that it does not mention the fact that it will respect the rights of this country on the high seas, that it does not even hint at any elimination of ruthlessness, or draw any distinc- tion between the belligerent and the neutral. The fact of the matter is that Ger- many declared war upon the United States when it issued its order of February first and put into action its unrestricted submarine policy as the result of Which American lives and property have not only been placed in jeopardy but destroyed. By the set- ting up of its own rules of naval war- fare did Germany bring about a stats of war even after it had been carry- ing on its plots and intrigues on this side of the water. Germany is already foing all it can to make war on this fountry go that, it is no wonder that it gives notice that its attitude will a0t be changed. Such a position ought ot to hoodwink even the pacifists. CANNOT WEAKEN THE LAW. It ean be appreciated that the law if any state which declares that the driver of an automabile who is under the influence of liquor is subject to arrest and punishment would _call forth considerabl> opposition from those who are inclined to indulge fn the flowing bowl and then consider themselves capable of guiding an au- fomobile throuzh the streets without \regard to the danger that is involved for those with him, the occupants of cars which might be encountered on the way, or others who happened to using the highway. They don't M the 1dea of having a chack placed upon the recklessness in which they have been inclined to indulge, for in thelr case their pleasure must get consideration before the safety of oth- ers is given 3 thought. A number of states have decided that those under the influence of li- guor- must nmot drive autos. It was legislation that was forced by the many accidents that resulted from the combination, but in Massachusetts an J effort das been made before the pres- ent legismture to have the law amend- ed so fhat a man must be so under the infiuence of liquer as to be In- ‘capable of driviig his car before’ he \ ' could be convicted. .That of course would hedge the law about with one of thoss sncertaintles wiich would make it almost impossible to get a conviction and it was so recognized by the decisive vote which was east mgainst the proposed change. The Massachusetts legislature has taken 4 ghe right course. The law is nome too Strong as tt stands, and no step should e taken which would weaken the pur- ‘Pose for whieh it was established. - - BREAKING THE NEW LINE. That the combined effortsg of the British and French uvpon the Wew ling F the Germans are endeavoring to hold in northern France are at " eomplishing just the same reaslts Sehich were obtained during the days the’ &rive was opéned on the » is Indicated by the steady ap- which they are making to tife . centers® which are being we- r by the kaiser's. forces to e_so-called Hindenburg line. “Attention is directed at present ug- Office, 67 Church St tion that this country is in a state of war with Burope is for the purpose of satisfying Wall street. President Wilson in his message urged the imposition of taxes upon the people for the purpose of meet- Ing in a large degree the expense which will be involved In meking the necessary preparations for the active entrance of this country in the war. Plans to this end have already been considered. They are practically ready for action and they include an addition to the income tax as levied at the present time and an_addition to. the excess profits tax which has but recently gone into effect. The plan now before the ways and means committee provides for levies upon individual incomes approximately as follows: incomes from $1,500 to $5,000, from $5,000- to 325, 10 per_cent.: from $50,000 to $100, 25 per cent.; above $100,000 not than 50 per cent. Incomes to be exempt may be fixed as low as $1,000. The scheme for taxing _corporations has not been definitely ‘settled but there has been proposed a heavy tax upon all profits above 6 per cent. per annum and virtdal confiscation of profits above 10 per cent. and the gov- ernment has demanded stock lists of every corporation in the country for the purpose of locating dividend pay- ments. ‘With such a demand upon incomes and profits, Is it to be supposed that Wall street is clamoring for war for the sake of having its present fat pickings removed? CARELESS SENDERS OF MAIL. From time to time it is necessary for the postoffice department to send out warning to users of the service that they are not tsking the proper precautions to insure the prompt and safe delivery of their mail. At the present time it is directing attention to the complaints which come from foreign countries to the effect that there is a serious neglect upon the part of those who are sending parcel post packages across the water inas- much as they fail to provide the pro- Der wrappings or containers. Pack- ages which have been done up in thin cardboard or thin wooden boxes and Insecurely tied have been founa on reachigg their destination or transfer point to have been broken and the contents become loose in the sack as the result of the long trip and the changes which have had to be made. Warning is given in this connection that those who are sendins packages abroad may give more attention to providing the proper protection, but whether the mail matter is to go abroad or whether it is to be deliv- ered in the city where it is mailed there are many instances to show that too little care is exercised by the sender. There are the incomplete ad- dresses, thoss which are aimost im- possible to decipher and those where some senders seem to think that a letter addressed to John Smith, City, whether it happens to be Norwich or New York ousht to be ydelivered with despatch regardless of the.fact that there may be a dozen or hundreds by that name. It only requires care in these mat- ters to have the trouble which is ex- perienced by the postoffice department overcome, and a little thought proper- ly directed will o much towards in- uring safety, makine the task lighter and the service better. - / EDITORIAL NOTES. That pacifist crowd which has been trying to stir up Washinzton is fool- ing Do one but themselves. From all indications the Hindenbursg line is not going to hold as long s the one which was maintained on the Somme. The man on the corner says: From the stories which some fishermen tell, every worm must have been good for a trout. There has been no opportunity for a true test of Americanism in many years equal to that afforded by the present crisis. If Kaiser Wilhelm’s ears were burn- ing Mofiday evening, he will know the canse just as soon’hs he reads the ad- dress of President Germany claimed that it was re- treating to get the allies out in the open, but reports now come that they are straining every enerzy to fortify the ceflars in and about Lens. Germany has called out its unfit and its old men for military service. This shows its desperate straits and ity -willingness and intention to add to the slaughter. It is not surprising that peace taik is filling the papers of the central powers, but it must be understood that it will have to be ed in different terms than any have as yet been present s milkman coming, and his wife had to make over her wed- ding trousseau each year to the end of Ler days. “Enoch always was inventing some- thing to do away with unnecessary labor, and it kept him so busy that he had very little time left for the neéc- essary work of life. He sald he thought the man who lifted one iota of the burden of toil from woman's shoulders was greater than he who made laws to rule nations—so he up a contrivance on pulleys to run the water pail down to the well and back winter morni thus sav- ing him the necessity of getting up until breakfast was smoking hot on the table. “To be sure, his wife had to wrap up and stand outdoors in the cold to work the pulleys and usually the pail couldn’t fill itself because the well water was frozen, and if it did get filled it tipped over on the way up or drenched OMrs. Riffkin when it arrived at the door. However, as Enoch said, it was a great idea. and if more hus- bands would expend a littie thought toward helping their wives as he did the world would be a happier place. “Then there was his patent kindling chopper. After Enoch got that going he never had to waste time from or miss the daily meetings of the dis- cussion club that centered around the stove in Harding’s grocery and gen- eral store. Al Riffkin had to do whe she needed kindling was to put on her arctic exploration costume, if it was winter, and hike ouz to the woodshed behind the house and start the con- traption going after filling it up with gasoline and _tightening up the joints and taking it apart several times to NEW BOOKS A Retrospect of Fity Years. By James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore. Cloth, two volumes, 622 pages. Published by John Murphy Company, Baitimore Md. These volumes contain a collection of essays and sermous by the venerat- ed dean of American cardinals. The first volume is devoted in great part to the publication of the cardinal's diary during the first Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, of which as he writes, he is the last living Father. In these chapters are recorded the principal events of the council. the chief dogmas defined and the cardinals personal impressions of Pope Pius IX and of the visiting prelates from all parts of the world. In one chapter he treats of the at- titude and_activities of the church with regard to the rise of labor unions in_America. Here is described the “The clutch wasn’t. much seizing a stick of wood and it, usually dropping it midway, then she could sort of scrape it alo the ground, dragging the wood near enough so she could grab it and pull it In. Then— T don’t believe ond word of all that, newpaper a that was a little work!” - “You bet I am!” the man assured her fervently. “No, darling. I'll do =21l in my power to save you from being The Crimea—‘“Hanging down into the Black Sea like a butcher's cleaver with its handle pointed east and the near corner of the blade joined to the mainland of Russia, the Crimea, where it was first planned to exile the abai- cating Czar, is about as near to being an isiand as a peninsula well can be, cven though a very narrow strait is the only water that lics between it and 2 second connection with the main- :and. On the one side—to the west — iies the Perekop Gulf, and to the east, shut out from the Hlack Sea by the handle of the cleaver, is the Sea of Azov.” Thus the Crimea is outlined in a bulletin issued by the National Geo- graphic Society from its Washinston headquarters for geographic research concerning this Florida of Russia jut- ting out into Europe’s inland sea. “With an area matching that of New Hampshire, a population equal to that of New Hampshire and Vermont to- Fether, and a climate that borrows good features from Florida and South- ern California_and bad ones frcm manv places, the Crimea is one of the most fascinating bits of territory be- tween Portugal and Cochin China. Its populace & comgress of races, its in- dustries ranging from the srowing subtropical fruits and the housing of Russia’s elite as they flee from the cold, to the herding of sheep and the growing of grain, it is a place of many sided activities. ‘As the men of wealth of America delicate situation in which the prelates found themselves, the crying need of an settiement which woud be just to employers, to the suffering poor, and at the same time compatible with the doctrines of the church. Here are re- corded his own fruitfal efforts to pro- tect the laboring class and to uphold sorkingmen in their endeavors to or- ganize for mutual protection. The second volume is made up of serons preached upon important oc- casions many of them being dedication of consecration of cathedrals or churches, golden jubilees and recep- tions. The remaining essays are each of moral or political significance treat- ing In many instances of the happy relations of church and state in this country. In his gwn easy style, mark- ed by his persénal simplicity and grace, stand out serenely, fearlessly and optimistically his_enthusiasm for the church of which he is an admit- tedly venerable exponent, his devotion to_his country and his tolerance of the opinions and enthusiasms of all other men. It is a sincere profession that he makes when, he speaks of himself as “one who, after the service of God, has desired nothing so much as to serve his country.” The volumes are dedicated to the right reverend rector, the faculty and the benefactor® of the Catholic Uni- versity of America and both are care- fully indexed. The Treatment of Armenians in the n _Empire 1915-1916. By Viscount Bryce. Board, 634 pages. Published by Sir Joseph Causton and Sons, Ltd. Eastcheap E. C. England. Price two shillings. Following a preface by Viscount Bryce this volume is a_collection of documents presented to Viscount Grey secretary of state for foreigr affairs in Great Britain, which have been sathered from many sources for the purpose of informing those who may wish to know.and form a general idea of what occurred in the treatment by the Turks of the peopie. have their winter homes in Florida and those of Western Europe have theirs along the Riveira, the people of position in Russia have their country seats in the Crimea. And beautiful places they are, for in Russia the rich are very rich. The height of the social season s from the middle of August to_the first of November. “The peninsula is occupied by 855,- 000 people, according to the last cen- sus, mostly Turkish-speaking Tartars, with a scattering of Russians, Greeks. Germans and Jews. Cleanliness and morality are said to be roverbial traits of the Crimean Tartars, who have veen undergoing the influences of rus- sification for several generations. They bave taken up vine culture, fruit grow- mg, and kindred occupations with a zeal seldom equalled east of the Aegean. “Of course most interesting of all things Crimean are its history, its fortress, and its imperial palace. In the second century B. B. the Seythians founded a kingdom there, and the land passed through many changes, now under one-sovereignty and mow under another, finally passing to the Tartars, who in’ turn_were brought under the rule of the Turks. In 1783 Russia forced the last khan to abdicate, and made the Crimea 2 part of one of her provinces. The Crita Ttartars, who give the peninsula its name, by rea- son of their substantial admixture of Gresk and other ~bloods. have lest Mongolian features, being slender in build; possessing aquilline Doses, eves that have lost the orien- tal slant, and countenances not quite S0_inscrutable as the Hastern type. “In the Crimean war fousht. by England, France and Turkey against Russia the final test of strength came at Secvastopol. Here the factors of unlimited resources operated in the Allies’ favor. Through their command sea they could sscure every- thing needed, while the Russians could bring up their supplies only across the steppes, whose highways were marked at every step by the dead and the dyins, both man and beast. “The novels ef Tolstoy give a gra- phic picture of the Crimean war from the Russian viewpo: i miseries of the march, the anquish of the life in the casements, and the nerve-destroying ordeal of manning the lines under shellfire, there to await the night attack that misht or might not come. It was in this war that “It is estimated that fifty thousand British soldiers lie buried in the cem- etery ouf of Sevastopol. Before unpn—i:’wnm.vmmwotm Dead was watched over bp a German who could speak no sb; but_who was proud pri Sites of those who Zell af Balak lava and Inkerman. “When Stephen Graham visited the cemetery the 0ld keeper told him they thirty-five variéties of oleander in the cemetery. imperial Large Palace, to which the dethroned monarch was to retire is situated at Livadia, surround- ed by a magnificent park. It is of fecent constryction, and was com- i only six years azo. the simply constructed Small Palace, in an upper room of which Alexander III died. In no other country in the world was the reigning ruler possessed of so many lands or such extensive is belleved that thousands who wear | su £osd can now discard them in & - HOME GARDENS For Early Planting. In a general way, the soil may be, if it will grow any- thing at all, it will probably arow cvery vesétable you select. If your garden, or part of it, hap- pens to be moist and low ground, such crops as celery, onions, and late cu- cumbers will do best there. It it is high, warm, and dry soil it is p: ticularly adapted to early peas, beans, and other crops which you mean to force. If you have plenty of room, you may grow sweet corn, melons, squashes, and ether spreading plants in addi- tion to the ones which may be planted closely together. Around the edges of your garden you have probably discovered places for permanent beds of asparagus and rhu- barb, for a few strawberry plants, and possibly for some other small fruits, ike currants, the bushes of which bear As for the bulk of your produce, please your own taste and that of your family. always remembering that it is better in a small garden to spec- ialize on a few yegetables, preferably those Iike string beans, peas, and radishes, which taste better the fresh- er they are, than to grow little dri iets of everything, but not enough of any one thing to be worth the trou- Dle. Suggestions for early plantidg in an ever so small garden—peas, beets, carrots, radishes, parsnips, lettuce, salsify, kohl rabi, onions, spring spin. ach, and (if enough room potatoes). Later crops be pianted when some of these have been gathered. Now as to quantities of seed The following quantities sum- cient to plant 100 feet of row for each vegetable given. You can buy in pro- portion for your own needs. meas- uring your rows on your paper plan:— Snap beans one pint; pole lima beans, half ounce: carrot, one ounce; bush limas, half pint; early cabbage, half ounce: caulifiower. one packet: cucumber, half ounce: egg plant, one packer; Kale or Swiss chard, half ounce:’ salsify, one ounce; summer or hubbard squash, half ounce: beet, four ounces; sweet corn, one pint; lettuce, one ounce: onion sets, two quarts: peas > to 4 quarts: radish, one to two ounces; spinach, quarter pound; water- melon, one ounce. Detérmine your requirements and order your seeds now. Do not let the plantin weather catch you unprepared. LETTERS TO THE ELITOR Easy to Place Him. Mr. Editor: It is easy enough to guess that whiskey is either the drink or the bread and butter of the writer of the letter signed C. F. in Tuesday’s Bulletin. It is “real interesting” to him to know that some poor old drunkards got drunk on patent medicine because they could not get whiskey. Think you that he is much worried lest the jails become crowded before this evil can be overcome? Hardly! Is he afraid that the bovs will form the drink habit by drinking “bitters?” Fossibly they might, but that is not Ppleading for the saloon. A HATER OF THE RUM TRAFFIC. Norwich, April 5, 1917. l STORIES OF THE WAR What Happens When a German Air Squadron Appears. An example of what happens when a German squadron appears off the Enlish coast and drops a few shells into a sleeping community is vividly tola by Horace Morgan, one of the suf- fers whose wife and child were killed roadstairs. Just before midnight the destroyers appeared off the beach promenade. They sent up a few star shells to light up the slumbering town, sent a broad- side or two in the general direction of the bathhouses, and were gome. Three of the shells, going wide of their mark, back hit a workman's cottage from ‘the beach. Morgan .a car- penter and owner of the cottage, thus described the tragedy that ensued in o preparing for bed when I “I was T when heard a number of explosions. The sky was lit up with star shells. 1 decided to walk down towards the waterfront and see what was going on. had my hand on the doorknob two shells burst almost simulta- neously against the house. 1 went back into the while a cloud of dust and plaster began to fill the room. As I waiked over to the staircase part of the framework of the stairs fell down into the room. “I heard the children crying upstairs and called to my She didn’t an- a > ‘when ust: rities as was the case In Russia. t share of these the Russian peo- ple wil alienate to the family of Nich- olas Romanoff wil be one of the in- teresting, if less important questions of Russia’s new regime.” no matter what Daily 2:30,7, 8 ESSUE HAYAKAY | The Soul of Kura-S| with MYRTLE STEDMAN A Powerful and Unusual PATHE 5 AUDITORIUM Y WM, A. BRADY PRESENTS \ CARLYLE BLACKWELL and JUNE }El.‘, A SQUARE DE. " A Story of Friendship ! Fox Comedy--TOM MIX in HEARTS AND S, WM. FARNUM is THE PRICE OF S SESSUE E—* s s the o druggist and is sold i Lee & Osgood and other druggists. Matinee Evening 7, | swer. The eldest boy, eight vears o came tumbling down the broken H case. asking ‘Where's mother? 1] whole room was-now filled with brlzk, and rubbish. I pushed the boy out of the door and told him to run over to his grandmother's as fast as he could and ask for help. . “Then I ran upstairs. I caught hold of another boy. He didn't seem injur- ed, although he is now in the hospital. T fold him aiso to go to his_ grand mother’s. Then I found my little girl lying half conscious at the top of the stairs, her forehead terribly bruised. | BETEENS She revived as I picked her up and I | === sént her, too, to grandmother. 350~ Housés 1x 250 days, snd one:houss' “Another girl, Doris, who has since - -4 in 24 days from start to completion Jied, got out of bed herself Dlit COUI|there is deeper interest for Water- B e e . L ol to . *|bury in a side remark-of the speaker. come to me, but she cried and said: S ot Mr. Budd said that it is the intention R e e b of these big concerns to make Wa- “I went in, brought her downstairs, han terbury. known throughout the coun- e e L0 O o e oy Tiw evas | try as a city which has developed if- still lingering near the door. He ear- 4 o e e dustrial housing and become & city of e ot T Workingmen home owners. Not only (ounder:yl:vl::eh:;p eo::r-'ih :u'h ,,:,3 stability and prosperity, but content- ter and debris. She was dead, I raised | ment and better citizenship are involv- T E ed here. e T Tl el aneld’ the |“ Building houses at the rate of one seemed 'still alive, althoush she, too, |® day is an athletic feat that requires The Brockton Sample Shee St outdoors and handed her to the first 138 MAIN STREET man T met. . “I went back to my wife, and stood there dazed and helpless for a few mo- ments, until 2 young man came, bring- have just receive: very latest Spring in High and Low for men and boys ing three doctors who took me away. “The house was hit broadside in the the leading manuf ers. These styles midle of the wall. There was a hole four feet in diameter in the wall, and partitions throughout the upper, part of the cottage were shattered. Where my wife was, she met the full force of the shell. She was aparently stand- Havana brown, bla: suede top gray in and Button; also Cordovan Lage, English Last. can save from $1.00 to $3.00 a pair. Also.a.good Men’s Working Shoe, elkskin, ir and tan for $2.50 and $3.00 2 pair. . The Brockion Sample Shoe Si from the wall. She had just picked u, 138 MAIN STREET United States Governme : SOON OFFER FOR SALE T COMI high ient and su work, and ‘we are glad t! have a widespread show put Waterbury on the nati a light not to be despl yet, though, are the mort results to Waterbury of policy herein enunciated time_publicly. That mea: busy industrial commun comes & better place to m in with the’advance of b the diffusion of prosperity come a better place to live bury Republican. OTHER VIEW POINTS | The increasing number of automo- bile killings should remind every driv- er of the need of care. Law seems to be relatively insufficient to produce the degree of care necessary for the safety of the public. Every driver of an automobile may suffer the penalty of death for himself and his passen- |gers if he is careless. When such a Renalty does not induce intelligent | ana well educated men to use prudence { how can’ mere laws do so. Ne\'cr!.hev‘ less it will be well to enforce the pro- visions of the automobile laws with additional severity.—Bridgeport Farm- ) er. Of the forty-eight governors in _the United States two stand out _prom- inently at this time—our own Govern- or Holcomb and Samuel McCall of Massachusetts. Connecticut’s _official head has attracted attention the coun- try over for his energetic work of pre- paredness as to his patrjotic state- ments. Governor McCail ,t00, has been active in this matter and has _-also shown his Keen interest_in progressive home and world affairs. It was 4 char- acteristic act of his when he sent a message to the Russian duma saying: “Massachusetts, the oldest common- wealth in the new world, sends hearty greetings to Russian democracy.” That 4 is a message that will be received with 7 o enthusiasm and give _encouragement to the workers for human freedom.— Bristol Press, The other day a patriotic demonstra- tion of Coast Artillery and Ambulance corps, together with the Naval Re- serves, was held for recruiting. It was followed by a meeting at the armory at which men prominent in city and national life made addresses in ex- planation of the néed for men to de- fend the country’s horor. Not more than a score recruits was secured as a result of the meeting. Fine showing for a city of 150,000 The meeting was attended by men past military” age, but most of whom had already carried arms in defense of the fag. The eligible men Were busy at their own selfish_pursuits. It can't be that patriotism is dead in Bridgeport. People cannot be brought to a realization that war s at hand. They believe “we will avoid it some way,” but are due to a rude awaken- ing. War will come, and it will evidestly come as a shock to thousands who have a fatuous belief in our. national safety. When a U boat appears off the har- bor and sends a few shells into the city—perhaps the somnolent slackers will actually believe there is some dan- ger. % Maybe there will be recruiting then. Let the rude awakening come—the sooner the better—if we can't get re- cruits any other way.—Bridgeport Standara. AT Rl % Adyertising Car Now Here ABOUT FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND ACRES of valuable Jar southeastern part of Oklahoma in 40, 80 and 160-Acre Tracts. CONDITIONS You do not have to. live on the land nor improve it tract for a few dollars per acre on easy terras—Yearly Payments Iands recently sold from three to seven dollars per acre. NoO ideal Climate, Ample rainfall. Close to market town and railroad the great oil beit of Oklahop INFORMATION Car contains large display of products of the soil, also ph showing the great development of the State wherein these lan be sold, etc., etc. The car is sent out upder the supervision of Alester Real Estate Exchange. Car Located for a Few Days O1 ATN. Y., N. H. & H. RAILROAD STATION OPEN FROM 9 A. #1.TO 9 P. M. DAILY It was an Interesting story which Ralph Budd told the Rotary club mt the first public showing of the film picturing e rtasraiies of the Sco- vill an: rican ‘Brass groups of houses. Dramatic as the idea is of building Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S ww - ]