Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 12, 1917, Page 4

and Goufies 121 YEARS OLD i price 12¢ a week; 50c a mouth: a year. [Entered at the Postoffice at Norwich, Corin., s second-class matter. Telephone Calls: Bulle _n Businass Ofrice 480. Billetin Editorial Rooms 35-3. Bulletin Job Ofice 35-2. Wilimantic _Office, 67 Church St Telephone 210-2. Norwich, Saturday, May 12, 1917. _ the work of this great organization but that they are inspired by the op- portunity which presents ‘itself ~ for them to do their part. g : There are plenty of ch to @ Somethinig in Viéw. of the existing W situation. Patriotism can be ay- ed in many ways since it is not con: fned to enlisting for service . and shouldering a rifle important as that may be, and the jump in the number of Red Cross chapters from 272 at the opening of the year to 562 at the close of April shows that thére are many throughout the country- who are deés termined to make such contributions as they can. They have heard the call of the Red Cross, the organiza- tion whieh is always reddy to admin- ister to the suffering and to human- ity in istress as well as to aid_the sick and injured on the batt] In times of war the work of thie Red Cross is manifoldly increased. It is in neéd of all the assistance that {t can receive and that can be rendered not only by the membership fees but by the opportunity for personal ser- vice which is open to those who re- main at home. Thus while the noted increase is encouraging there still re- mains plenty to be done and there is no danser of the number of chapters, mmembers and workers becoming too large. %The Circulation of iThe Bulletin The Pullenw. has the fargest | cireulation of any paper in Eastern §! Cernecticut and from thres to fous imes larger thui that of any In Norwich. It is delivered ‘o over 2,000 of the 4.053 houses in Nor- wich and read by ninety-three per cent of the people. In Windham it is delivered 1w over 900 houses, in Puinam and Danfelson fo over 1,100, and in ail of theso places it is considered the local dally. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns. one hundred and sixty- five postoffice districts, and SiXty§ iural free delivery routes. 3 The Bulletin Is sold In every} town epd ou all of he R. F. D. feutes in Eastern Comnecticut. - CIRCULATION average...... .. 412} 5,920 1901, 1905, average. uat SUBMARINE | DECREASING THE TOLL. i Every decrease that is recorded in the toll exacted by the submarines h gratification. must be accepted w How long it is going to continue, or whether the slump is anything more than a temporary matter, s decidedly uncertain, but hope centers in the fact that the greatest week since such warfare was inaugurated is now fol- lowed by increased effectiveness on the part of the British vessels and such devices as that country is using to_combat this menace. From what Germany is depending upon the submarine to accomplish— the starvation of the allies—it cannot afford to permit any, decrease what- ever in the activities 0f its underwater boats. Every better than week that it fails to do t did during the previous or when it allows more gland, just so much e task which it has undertaken, and thers is correspond- ingly just that much encouragement siven to the allies in their efforts to does it increase t. overcome this danger. Germany has caused much embar- rassment to Ensland, France, Russia and Italy by the manner In which it has been disposing of their shipping. but it is still a long way from its goal for it has by no means checked im- portations by those countries and plans for new shipping wre bound to give them much relief. The task of starving a nation, and particularly several nations, is not an casy one That it is not feazing Great Britain is indicated by the s George who declares need for alarm because of that nation wil taining by 191S. This cannot give much satisfaction to Bermany which is placing so much dependence upon the submarine to win the atement of Liovd that there is no the. activities make it self sus- THE MACEDONIAN OFFENSIVE Following the marked which has been made Ly and the French on the western front, the plan of the allies to keep the ce: ers busy and give them no nity to draw reinforcements other theatres of the war them into battle in France is indicated from the new offensive which has been opened on the Macedonian front. The army under General Sarrail in that region is made up of British, French, Italian and Serbian troops be- sides 2 sizable Greek contingent who are supporting Venizelos. Little headway has been made by that army for various reasons, one of which has been the uncertainty of the position of the Greek government which was in a position. by espousinz the Ger- [ man cause, to strike at the back of those forces. What appeared to be the opening of an offensive earlier this year fajled to accomplish what was expected of it and it may be that it will be impossible to do any better this time but the object is unques- tionably for the purpose of keeping the enemy busy at least in defending that line that they cannot withdraw their divisions which are being used for support and utilize them else- where, while if sufficient strength is possessed by the allles to break through or to push the Bulgars and Germans back so that the railroad line to Constantinople can be cut a dou- ble benefit will be derived. This of- fensive is therefore capable of ac complishing much and it is time that at army was in condition to do what was expected of it when it was as- sembled in that region. A CHANCE FOR ALL. With a full recognition of the great service which is rendered at all times by the Red Cross and _particularly when nations are at war, there is sothing surprising in the announce- ment that the number of Red Cross shapters in this country has more than doubled in the past three months. Fhat is as it should be, It shows that ihe people are not only cognizant of i <h from and send HOOVER THE MAN TO CONTROL. Durinz ail the time that he has-been warze of the work of the Ameri- on for reliet in Beigium work of Herbert C. Hoover hecrtiest approval on both He has devoted his time efforts unsparingly In_this ce for humanity and he has ac- At the same time he has had a re- markable opportunity to make a study into the food situation and ft 1s not surprising that he now declares that thic countfy 1S in need of properly controlling its resources in this re- spect Rizht to the point is his statement to the effect that this country needs to bend every energy for food pro- duction, to the securing of a praper amount of such material for the use of the peaple of this country and for the creation of as large a surplus as pos- sible for the purpose uf taking care of the wasnts of the allies. And he doesn’t beat about the bush but comes directly to the heart of the matter when he declares that there is no need for the present high price of wheat na flour. Thero is plenty to be had and mone would be denied his profits if wheat and flour were selling at just half the present prices. What is needed here in this country is the regulation of the foodstuffs sit- on, the elfmination of the manipu- and fair _treatment for all con- cerned in regard to.food supplies. It can Le done and the time is coming when : will have to be done. Mr. Hoover cciares that he doesn’t want to be fo0d controiler but that he is willing to zive the government the benefit of his advice, but it will be generaily recognized- that he Is just the man for the place. PROTECTION AGAINST FIRE. With the food question before the pecple of this country as it has never been before, déep concern cannot help being manifested in the larze losses which have already taken place from the destruction of grain clevators and other warchouses where food products have been stored. It is bad enough to have a poor season and a-decreasé in the supply but it is more unfortunate rain and other foodstuffs have aised to have them destroyed We cannot have a food sup- permit condition which allow fire. ana it to be burned. In this connection It is appreciated of course that there are certain agen- cies who are pleased by such destruc- ply tion. In fact they may have had a hand in causing fires for the very pose of diminishing the supply be- cause they are sympathizers with the enemy. They of course deserve to be ferreted out and given the full pen- alty of the law, but it must be re- membered that such fires have occur- red and are likely to happen in times of peace because there is not the prop- er amount of attention given to firc prevention. ¢ all times, therefore, there should be the most careful thought given to this matter, but particularly so when the country is in a state of war, when plotters are at work and when every effort is belng put forward to secure not only enoush to feed this nation but to take care of a certain amount of the requirements of others. It is necessary to remove every hazard, to surround property with every device for protection, to use every precaution and to exert the individua® responsi- bility which is possible of such excel- ient results. As someone has so well said you cannot comtinue to eat il you continue to burn wp the food. EDITORIAL NOTES. From the way in which the reve- nue raising bill has been drawn it is net intended that anyone shall es- cape. From the taste of the city water it is quite evident that with the algae the volunteer system is too much of a success. The man on the corner says: Man should never have to go away from his home town to find 'the spirit of patriotism. From the stiffenea resistance which the Germans are offering, it would seem as if they wer: irying to make strategy 2nd retreat part company. When it comes to fighting there can be no question but what the Cana- dians, with whom are many Ameri- cans, are ziving an excellent account of themselves. The experience of the home gar- deners is bound to run a close second to the discussions of the baseball fans as they gather about the stove dur- ing the coming winter. The government is to have a daily paper called the Official Bulletin. Be- cause it is there the news can be re- lied upon but that will not necessarily mean that it contains all the news. If there was an agreement made in connection with the sale of the Virgin islands that the German ships would be, protected it must be respected. United States promises are not scraps of paper. The number of those who will sub- scribe to the largest denomination of the liberty loan bonds may be limited, but such cannot be sld about those who should possess one or more of the lowest denomination. ’ physical and mental ex- ercise t e to the road on these progressive spring days. The muscles need the action and the lungs the. stimulating fresh air, and the eyes. the inspiring beauty of h.:d;en 5_which E abi ever moving and ever cl nature. The road is as for the dreamer as it is. for the scholar, or the tramp, or the rs fof herlis or s, or the the flowers and -birds and buw@r?t _The little butterflies” with wings bluer _the sky are flittering ‘about lool for the houstonia and I nestles in willow butter- is” taking ac e willow catiins by the _ Bob White is calling, the woodpeckérs drumming, the biucbirds warbling, the song’.sparrows trilling along the way. New bird voices are heard weekly on country rgads, and the greening wild rose on the banks is the prophecy of the fragrance and beauty of June. _ o3 0 de oo threats, for x o nations has shown “those that are the loudest in their threats are the weak- est in the exécu ¢ The world on without even mlssing those who make faces at it and tell what they are #0ing to d The threat of one nation to another is just|* as weak and ridiculous as the ihreat of one indfviduul to another. The yawper is only a_yawper whether he vocalizes in Washington, _London, Berlin_or Petrograd. You rémember the Kafser going to at his Christmas dinner in_Paris and make a settiement of the war in London. John Bull was sure the terms of settiement would be made in Berlin; but now it looks_as if the only. place acceptable possible might be in Spain. The German_ threas to “make Wilson bite granite,” must make the President smile, although, it expresses the Ger- man love and respect for himt and all his people. Tradition telis us “the threatened man lives long.” “Get together!” has been regarded as a commercial slogan, but it has Do limit when and where unity is re- quired. Its force in politics has been effectively demonstrated by voters who wanted something. It fs the spirit which is needed whenever there is a crisls of any Kind. It is in brief a declaration that in union there streneth. There is no d oubt the value of getting together was discov- ered by man in the most ancient times. The heathen came to resard the figure 2 as accursed because it expressed a departure from: unity, a lessening of strength, an increase of peril. New Englanders have not es- teemed it as they should. -In their conservatism they have not made the use of it they should even to preserve the traditions of the fathers or to maintain their rights. Men have no hesitancy in getfing together for sel- fish purposes, but they are siow to stand shoulder to shouider for the common good. Tt is in that which effects all that they most need to get together! Réading books does not always in- crease knowledge. Many people read books without getting a #lampse of the authot’s purpose in - writing them. There hae to be an intent of more im- portance than making money. ‘A book may have been designed to excite in- terest and amusé the reader, or it may" have been written to awalken him to social or other conditions which are a_cryihg shame and .need reforming. Many a book is intended to; widen our vision and to- equip the mind with facts which may increase -the intel- lectual power of the reader. Milton found “a man might be deep ‘versed in books and be shallow in himself:" and Macauley tells us “a page digest- ed is better than a volume hurrledly read” To read where taste and in- terest directs is to read with profit, but to read as.a task Is.to dull the| intellect and weary the body. If read- ing the thought of others .does not stithulate your own thought you are making little progress. There is something more to a new idea than just being able to remember and re- Dbeat the wording of it. If this backyard gardening move- ment will only teach New England householders and tenants to keep the weeds down and grow grass_it will be a great improvement upén the crops of burdocks, plantain and rag- weed which grow and mature and ro- seed every ~year. The unnecessary ragweed pollen borne upon the air is ufficient to treble the hay-fever pa- nts who weep and wheeze because of it every season. We are slackers in this respect and several others which would tell -for health and the general betterment of the community. Cleaning up once a year as a sanitary measure is something like taking a bath_ once in a dog's age: to keep sweet. The price of keeping - clean and sanitary indoors and out rests upon keeping everlastingly at it. Let us hope necessity, which is confront- ing us now, may teach us new and profitable . out-of-dcor and in-door habits. | was talking with an American cit- izen of German descent not long -ago Who was surprised to.find that net a boy in his Sunday. school class could correctly repeat the first verse of “The Star SpangleG Banner;” and he-in- formed me there was not a child of. Germany, or one of German descent, Who could not repeat from ~memory “The Watch on the Rhine”” He aid not know the worst for a Connecticut valley teacher gave 150 high school students four days’ warning that they Were to write from - memory: = “My Country 'Tis_of Thee,” and -this is what he heard from the disgusted pu- pils: T was “bawn and bred in dis yer brier-patch.” “We knew that in the kindergarten from the girls, “Knowed that all my life! What have I got to write that for?” When the test was made not one of them wrote it correctly. This is an example: “My country 'tis of Thee Author of Liberty To thee we sing, Land where my Fathers' died, Land where the Pligrims pried From evry mountin side Sweet fredom’s- song! It would not be a bad idea to have these patriotic songs so thoroughly taught in the schools that they can Dbe repeated from memory, Iswt it as important that we should teach the national hymn as well as how to salute the flag? What is neutrality? Is it ever any- thing creditable? Isn't it rather be- ing neither hot nor cold—the kind of A creaturé the Lord is said to spew out of “his mouth. Blood js_thicker than water and Tueton blood, Celtic blood and Saxon blood responds to its own in sympathy. The Teuton mil- tarist may decry sympathy as a fault When exercised toward enemies; but Le recognizes the divinity of it when it responds true 4o call: but it can- uot be called away fi loyalty ' to Iiberty &nd popular reignty as symbolized by the stars and stripes. We may be wide apart ffi ouf foreisn sympathies, but our homor and man. ar ged to America first, and o ENnREA NS WS (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) utle intimate relations existing be- ween the towns _of Lebanon. Norwich since edfilést times -rf“ fi ndicated by his tion per- taining to_the T _m - in “of- ficers eémmissioned occurs in the ac- count of 2y session of : R e Al S Norwic] inted captain_of _Jeremiah Fitch Was as_a . second in probably - in _ the Gosnen. e town was . or- Spae, TR Saren train bmz ana out to take its plice in the General Assembly with the other towns of the Colony, ~ its _settlement. was . long hindered because of the uncertainties and _contro wing out of the bounds and _tifles to lands.. es the frouble résulting from the unceér- taifity of thé boundary between this town and Colchester, as late as 1705 there were complainis of sundry dif- ficulties and inconveniences under which the seftlers were laboring, re- specting the purchasing of a. traft of land five milés square from Owaneco and the four proprietors. The historian of Lebanon, Hzfi;v writes: . “It is .not surprising that there was ~ this. uncertainty -as to bounds and titles svhen we -consider that gifts ana cessions. were made by Indian chiefs, and -Sir Edmund An- as individuals with sovereign rights, the ablest and most thrifty people on the face of the earth. Our friends and our interests are all here. We are not neutral, but we are loyal Americans. A bird-loving ‘friend called our at- tention to the fact that the magnolia warbler, or “what is known as the myrtle warbler, arrived the last week of April in goodly numbers. It is called the magnolia warbler because it arrives when these trees are in bloom. It is a pretty little bird of queér nest- ing habits, 4nd a sweet song. Al- though supposed by many to be a bird of passage, it nests here in southern New England, as well o5 in the trop- ics and in_'the sub-arctic regions. This gayly dressed songster with four Adistinct patches of yellow on Dbreast and rump, bold and is often seen in zardens and is readily recognized As a nest buiider he varies his ma- terials and nests ‘on the ground and low down in pine trees: but he isn't as wonderful a nhest builder as the 'w warbler, for one of these birds. buflt a nest five stories high to fofl 4 cowbird that insisted upon laying an ez in its nesf, and which it as per- severingly pocketed with a_new mest over it. accx®ling to W. H. G he naturalist. Sunday Morning Talk | FISHERS OF MEN. There was once a Gloucester cap- tain _who, according to Kipling, brought in such full faces that his vessel could hardly accommodate the| men eager to sail with him. When this skipper would steer his vessel to grounds whére the cod were plentiful, he was wont to retire within himself In silence and profound cogitation. At | such times his shipmates treated him with especial deference, as he _was supposed to be thinking and reasening | after the manner of cod-fish. Surely, human nature requires as careful studv as cod nature, and this truth should be borne in mind by any- one who wishes to influence his com- panions for good. No man is likely to Serve my spiritual welfare who has taken no pains to understand my pe- culiarities. = Of old. certain fishermen by the blue lake of Galilec were called to a new ventin “Come ye after me.” said our Lord. ~and I will make you to become fishers of mén.” . We krow the | spendid response to the, invitation: how Peter and Andrew and the others left their mets and_went everywhere spreading the glad tidings of -the Kingdom. Those were daya of .glory for the Christian cause. The. church of the first century grew because of the individual efforts of its members. Note the mannér of increa®s. First, there were two men following _the Master; then five men; then twelve: next we hear of 70; then of 3000: and at last of an uncounted multitude whom no man can number. It all came about because the first disciples thought of their faith not as some- | thing to be gotten and kept. but as something to be passed on. Each oné became a missionar; If modern church life is orgdnized on. the principle of passivity, under the idea that believers become merely sponges to absorb truth, that, atTeast, was not the . genius of 'primitive Christianity. Here the good gift was held as something to be communicated and shared. Each member was #» be a herald of the faith that was in him. One zood result of the past winter's evangelism !s that a host of men have been aroused to work for thé spiritual welfare of other men. It is probable that in the end more men will be won to religion through the efforts of their awakened companions than directly from pulpit apveals. and this is ex- actly as it ought ta be. Let us now seek to apply to our gospel fishing some of the principles that we may have learned at the trout brook or down the bay. First we must know the habits of the fish we want to catch, and them: provide ourscives with appropriate tackle. Tt is not wise to go after minnows with a harpoon, nor to dangle a bent pin.befare cod, Said Georze Bliot once, to a couple of disappointed fishiermen, ‘as she sur- veyed their empty creels: “Gentlemen, 1 advise vou to study the subjective life of the trout. He who angles for human lives in the streams of time has need of sim- ilar advice. Human _temperaments differ strangely, people fall before dif- férent temptations. Prejudices and misconceptions are to be-met with ‘in wide variety. All meén are not brought into the Kingdam of God through the same appeal. The infinite diversities of human nature must be recognized. Another rule of vetéran anglers to be remembered by fishers of men is this—keep yourself out of sight. To intrude one’s personal opinion is often to obscure the main purpose, which fs cat s Ty 1705, e Gemaral bly n g i passed a Bread ronting sat conRtrmin e Sednton: Brewaier and Birchard, and the deed of tHese to the A3 , Rroj TR of o were e, P B o B -m -:;'g quiet seems to have been established. 3 is May session of um,w tnat William - Clark was sent as deputy from the he first whom it sent. At the October session, _Samuel Huntington — was deputy. ‘Lebaron was “listed;” 1. e the property was put into thé grand ?fl to taxed for purposes, or the first time in 1704. In the roll of persons and estates presented to the General Assembly in 1705, embracing thirty-three towns, Lebarion is rated at £3,736, and is the twenty-first in the list. It has ninety taxable inhabitants, indicating a pop- ulation of about 350. The next year it stands 24,330, and 105 taxable per- sons; in this year the town sent two deputies, Ensign John Sprague and William' Clark. That the early settlers had any special amount of danger or annoyance from the Indians does mot appear, the Indians of that section being friendly to the whites, in league with them and | very much dependent upon them. But though the Indians did not seri- Ously trouble the whites, wild animals did.. As late as 1730, the town offered a bounty of £10 for every full grown wolf that ehould be Killed. Col._James Clark, of Bunker Hill celebrity, who died Dec. 29th, 1826, at the age of 96, used to relate to his grandchildren that, in his boyhood, on coming from Norwich in the evening, as he reached the low ground near where Jeremiah Mason's house was afterwards buflt, he was obliged to draw his feet up on the saddle, to protect them from the wolves, which he heard at intervals barking and howling in the thickets on either side of the road. That the town grew and prosperéd, is proven by the fact that, in 1730, the town's list was £19,972; in 1733 it was £23,803, being in amount the eighth in the colony. In 1740, it was £31,709 and was the fifth among the fort ht towns in the list, and more than that of Hartford or New London. By 1743 it had reached £35.570. From 1730 to 1760, Lebanon evident- v mained rapidly in population and wealth. The colony of Connecticut had greatly prospered. In 1730, the number of inhabitants, according to the census then taken. was 38.000, with about 700 Indian andNegro slaves and 1,600 Indians. later, the consisting set- total In 1756, twenty-six years population of the Coiony, then of seventy-nine towns and tiements (Connecticut now has o of 168 towns). had grown to 130,612, an increase of 90,312. Iebanon then had a_ population of whites, 3.171. blacks, 103; the” Colony total of 3,274. Oniy five towns in had a larger population: the largest, 5.664: 5. New Haven, 5.085: 4.435 and Farmington, 3,7 artford had only 3,027. In 1774, the year before the battle of Lexington, there were but seventy-six towns and settiemen the Colony, some of the smaller settlements having been given up. The population of the o had increased to 195,010. The ation of Lebanon was _then, blacks, 119: a total of est population the town Only six towns in the Connecticut Colony then had a larger. By 1784, the population of the state had grown to 208,800, and Lebanon had hites, 3.867; four less than ten vears earlier: blacks., 91; twenty-five less than sixty years before. Total loss, 20. Only eight towns then had a larger population, New Haven having the largest, 7,960, In 1775, only eight towns had a larger grand list than Lebanon, it be- ing them £41.600, equal to $130,200, the pound-then being $3.23 1-3. During 1804, Columbia, with a pop- ulation of about 600 wa< <et off from the town of Lebanon, adding to the noteworthy diminution. The thirty-five or forty vears previ- ous-to 1774 were not only 4 period of great prosperity to the town as re- gards population and wealth. but. more important still, in the matter of men of character and enterprise, who came in and grew up there. Capt. Joseph Trumbull migrated to Lebanon from Suffieid in 1704, evident- Iy without any considerable means, since it is recorded chat when he bought the vlace which had been oc- cupied by Rev. Joseph Parsons. he mortgaged it for £340. However, he had vigorous traits. became a pianter and trader, and in due time had a ship which carried cargoes of his own, or belonging to members of his family He was democratic through and through, as was proven by the fact that. his business often calling him to Boston. he would occasionally meet Rev. Mr. Wells, whose parishfoner he had been and who now lived in Bos- ton. The parson appeared a_ bit shy of him, evidently avolding Trumbull, in hig homespun and perhaps dusty at- tire, as not quite in trim to be famil- iarly recognized by a Boston gentle- man. Trumbull got even, however. when Mr.. Wells would occasionally visit Tebanon, where he still owned proper- ty, and. meeting Mr. Trumbull, ac- costed him as an old acquaintance. The latter refused to shake.hands with him, but turned away, saying with honest self-respect. “If you don’t know me In Boston, I don’t know you in Lebanon!” THE DICTAGRAPH. HOME GARDENS Tomatoes. The city gardener who has only a small space for cultivation must be an intensive farmer, and there is no crop to induce men to -love and follow righteousness. Christianity needs not S0 much to be defended with clever arguments as to .be exhibited in ac- tion. The Founder of our faith can never fail to make His own -appeal when properly - presented. Lifted. up He will draw all men unto Him. Your true apostle will only aspire to be as that monk in a European cathedral who draws aside_ the curtain from a sacred picture and himee'f - stepping from sight, leaves his ge_face to face with fhe Saviour of the World. ©. . THE PARSON. with which intensive farming gives better results than with tomataes, says today's bulletin from ‘the Na- tional Emergency Food Garden Com- mission, which in cooperation with this paper is promoting more home gardens to insure a sufficient f00d #suply this year. When tomatoes are grown commer- claily in the country the vimes af= usually allowed to eprawl out along the ground which they do to the ex- tent of several feet. Many of the fruits thus grown are iost by rotting. If this were the only method of In hot houses, where every faot i mfebie’, ipidicey Lry Vel they can be tied to 5-foot poles, and in this way other crops can be planted close to them. 2 One way to do is to pinch off the i ot her thé main up a prune the plant but to o row flfl‘-i fence about. both s! _the row and I across this e to '“g the ria i as » "«'h (P the bine £ splant u’:r{lnkr.lcfl' na e R0 0F i e g is long, they are usuaily started seed in pots or boxes mdoors then set out after the weéathe: warm. A Few Live Wires. o Mr. Bditor: It is pleasing to flnd a féw live wires on the farm. & is not dangerous handling a live wire if you know how. e farmérs know how to milk a cow, but théy do not know how to millk for facts their opponerit. Were I to take Mr. Peck at hid word he would bé a loser of valuable stock because of his folly. I not only namé any four-footed or two. beast he can turn out, but his to bugs and plow-goggers and a few pests perhaps he could not readily name ‘himself. New London county milkmen are ot quite as unreasonable as the Plymouth county (Mass.) milkiien, who, having demanded 12 cents a quart, and received it, are now d manding 15 cents a quart. I _can keep a cow and drink milk at 5 1-2 cents a quart if I want to; but, oh, the bothér of it! 1'know 80 long as 130 of the 173 milkmen of Norwich keep reasonable I shall gét my milk at a fair price, as T always have done. BILL. Norwich, May 11, 1917, An Admirer. Mr. Editor: As 4n interested réader of The Bulletin, I for one wish fo state that 1 greatly enjoy Cloud Digger's prediction of the weathér all dlorig since they first appedred in your col- umns. This may sound like flattery but T mean what T am talking about and hope they will keep a-coming. J. A. RANDATIL. 1917 Yantic, May 11 Don’t Neglect the Volunteer. Mr. Editor: The volunieers should not be neglected. let them be used from the age of 16 to 65, wherever most needed by the government, on land or sea, in the army or navy, or on the farm, or in the mine, shop, store, rafi- road or hospital. Give Roosevelt a chance to take his volunteers to France under the United States flag. Give the government food cotitrol and national prohibition, and let woman's right to the franchise bé speedily given her in all parts of Co- Iymbia’s domain, pass the conseription Jaw speedily, and make the limit 21 o 40, and give us a free press for a free people. WILLIAM K. PALMER. Norwich, May 11, 191 The Home Rule Sham. Mr, Editor: At this time, while wo are watching the greatest trouble that ever vexed the waters of humanity, and we see the red waves break in ghastly foam At our very feet, wé have nopes that it wili be the ultimate heal- ing of the ndtions, and that the blood flow of today will bring the dawn of | hope and resurrection to mankind. At this hour, when the destinfes of hu- manity are trembling in the balance. the children of Ireland who inhabit the four corners of the earth live in hope of seeing TIreland arise from these waters of blood and fire, 4 free nation. The so-called home rule bill which iwas put upon the statute book is known by those who have read the bill to be the greatest fraud ever folsted upon any people. This act expressiy declares_that the power and authority of the British parliament to legislate for Treland will remain unaffé®ed and undiminished after thé Irish parllament is established. And at any time the British parliament may impose a tax on Iréland, without reference to the Irish parlidment. And so it runs. Un- der this home rule act the Irish people are forbidden all the rights England aftects to he championing for smak nations. The fundamental proposition on which Ireland’s case rests is that she is a true nation. She is not an Eng- lish colony; she i§ not a province or even a state in a British empire, or confederation: she is a nation In the same sense that France, Germany or the United States Is a nation, and her people will be content with nothing but national independence. This, and this omly, will eweeten Ireland's wrong. Perhaps then the tvranny of seven centuries, from the days of the penal laws, can be erased from the memory as nothing but a hideous dream. Nothing but complete inde- pendence will ztone for the massacred many, while the bravest suffered the igonomy of the scaffo'd or the firing squad. If Ireland cannot Have her independence, then let her die grace- fully. The reason Iréland exists at all (so it seems) is to afford the su- perlor race (7) the luxury of senti- mental tears, other reasons being that the Trish make excellent clowns and soldiers. Was it Tom Moore, the poet, who was recelved In soctéty, because he could sing nicely of Erin as a pathetic weeping female, claj in rags and piay- ing on a harp? The Irish are tolerabie while they amuse and _serve. When they presume to class themselves with Belgians and Servians and other small nationalities they are no better than Hune. They are classed as lazy, law- less, anarchical bécauss they cannot heaf the music of the spheres in slan- @ers embodied In acts to curb the Irish savage. The Irigh are failures because thay ate unpractical dreamers: riot be: cause fire and sword desolated tneir| country a few times in every genera tion. Why not be sensible and look upon English rule in Ireland as one of the immutable facts and laws of nature, like the mountains, and the waves of the Atlantic? Some Amer- jcan writers who know nothing of Ireland or Irish affilrs profess to re- gard the biil as a modern bill of rights and declaration of independence. They are merely the mere echoes of London. There is a difference between Saving ir and trying to resufi HERPICIDE YR s a hair saver! Appiiéations st the better barber shops by The Herpieids Ca. fiw -zinia a year or two ogo who did not EXIRAORDINARY SALE OF SUITS, COATS, DRESSES AND SKIRTS SUITS by | VALUES TO $27.50 Otnérs Ate Greatly Reduced '15 VALUES TO $2250 DRESSES ‘10 VALUES TO $19.75 L5 SKIRTS 'S5 VALUES TO 3693 WAISTS received a Tust shig very s DYy ette, crepe-de- striped tub sill $1.98 to $6.50 ‘SUMMER FURS WHITE, POIRET AND GRAY, $5.98 TO $15.50 The 7 oJampleaftey ister men_ sh age a selves, apple The home rule bill as it stands spurns and tramples under foot the Irish na- tion ideal and spells nothing for the Irish people as a whole, though a few place hunters may profit thereby. Ire- land . wants to control her own des- tinies, develop her great natural re- sourcés and kéep her people cn her own soil. Thie she can never do while at the mercy of an imperial parlia- ment which is dominated by the spirit while fourth and jast smile to my lips chivairous ., koigt woftien from wor noble ment am 1 sorry that of commercial greed that has always | genticman, but | fancs he n governed England’s relations with Ire- | not disiant connection of land. Ireland can only do this by be- | thinks woman too frall a cr coming an independent nation. cast a ballot but quite squa 3. 1, CUMMINGS. |Ing an axe. when his ® A Norwich, May 10, 1917. looked the woo gz course), or to . . whi nigh Jers, | tion Why Sdch a Crop of Rip Van Winkles? Mr. Editor: Wil semeone Kindly tell | thase four ad me how it is that there seems to be | jagistative hall such an unprecedented crop of Rip Van | orac Vinkles, when onions, heans and po- tatoes are really what the people are | prainfeid, Co Of course, there are The one down in Vir- crying out for? Rips and Rips. know that there was a war Koing on anywhere had some slight excuse per- haps for his Winkleism, as he was Iiv- ing quite “out of sight of land” as it | were and had no wireless. I note in today’s Bulletin that Producer of Can- terbury has discovered a Winkle as r gards the price of milk, and In Wed- nesday’s Bulletin 1 stumbled upon an- other when reading the inspiring (?) Wwords of one of our legislators. A rep- resentative from Lébanon & quoted as | making sevéral especiaily brillfant (?7) statements—one that man would not Count practically every racing-driver in glve up manhood for 4 suffrageite, , s another that he hoped the time would America depends never come when man should be on shielded on the battlefield by the petticoats of women: also that he could conceive of no reason why a woman should évén aeéék suffrage, and he hoped the women would be pro- tected from woman suffrage. Surely, judging by these extraordi- nary statements, have we not reason to think that the 20 years' sleep of the XON crarnrTE i Automobile LUBRICANTS original Rip Van Winkle has been tion considerably extended In ths case of nf] e iod o N this modern Solon(?). R S o The first statemeént quoted is to me last Ignger and give as enigmatic as the Sphinx. I shuld care-free pleasure consider it a great favor to obtuse (7) people Iiké myself if the centleman would turn on a searchlight that the hidden meaning of these myytic words may be revealed. In the second stat ment I fail to see any connection with the question of womian suffrage, but, judging by his entire speech, I should decide that if there might bBe such a man a8 ke pictures his features would probably résémble this gentleman's—a true descendant of Adam. Mry I ask him also to explain the abnormal niim- ber of marriage licenses mecured re- tently. No idea of petticoat protection from thé Hattléfield in this was there? 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