Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 30, 1917, Page 4

Florwich Bulletin and @Gouies 121 YEARS OLD Subseription price 1Ze a week; 50c a month: $8.00 m vear. Entered at the Postoffice at Norwich, Cona, as second-class matter. Telephome Calla: Bullgis Businses Offics 480, Jiletin Editorial Rooras 35-3. Bulletin Job Ofics 85-2. Willimantle Office, 67 Church St Telephone 310-2. Norwich, Wednesday, May 30, 1917. The Balletin i The Bulletin has the largest$ cireulation of any paper In Eastern § Connecticut and from thres to four times larger than that of any in Norwich. It is delivered m over 2,000 of the 4,053 houses in Nor- wich and read by ninety-three per; cent. of the people. In ‘Wincham it is deliv: id 1v over 9500 nouses. 1,100, and In all of these places it is considered tbe local dally. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hundred and sixty- five postofiice districts, ant sixty The Bulletin is sold in every town apd on all of he R. F. routes in Eastern Connecticut. 1901, 1905, average.. REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET. For Aldermen GEORGE H. LORING BLMER R. PIBRSON. For Councilmen WILLTAM S. MURRAY DR. JOHN S. BLACKMAR. R. C. PERRY HERBBERT W. GALLUP. For City Clerk ARTHUR G. CROWBLL. For City Treasurer. HENRY W. TIBBITS For Tax Collector THOMAS A. ROBINSOX For City Sheriffs GEORGE W. ROUSE CHARLES H. RAYNES For Water Commissioner ALBERT S. COMSTOCK. MEMORIAL DAY. With the return of Memorial day a mew significance given to the ob- servance which take place throughout the country today by the fact that the United States Is now in a state of war with another na- tion. Memorial day quickens the memo- ries in regard to the Civil warand the Spanish-American war, and recalls the conflicts which took place in the earlier days of this government, but with a knowledge of what war means, emphasized by the terrible struggle which has been going on for the past three years across the water, thers cannot help being due consid- eration given to the situation which is prevailing foday and added thougnt to what the future hoids in the veterans of other wars are markins the graves and pay- ing tribute to those who gave their services and their lives in behalf of | their country. Those who fousht for | the principles for which it stanas can. not be forgotten and as the number of the veterans grows less each vear it behooves each ana evervone to take an interest in keeping green the mem- ory of those who =o valiantly served this nation In other crises A vear from now the list of soldier and sailor dead, including those who will have fallen in the world conflict as part of the army and navy of this country, will be much larger. There would be an increase under normal conditions but with ghis nation at war Memorial day this vear cannot fail to be one of unusual solemnity and ev- eryone should lend his assistance to the veterans in making it the success that it should be. THE FOOD BiLL. In spite of the efforts which were made to delay action thereon, the lower house of congress has shown that it recognizes the need of making & serious start in regard to getting the situation well in hand reiative to the food supply of the country. By the passage of the Lever bill an appro- priation is mads for nearly ¥18,000,- 300 which will permit of a focd cen- 1us of the entire country, which pro- vides for increasing production and orhich will result in the conservation of the supply and the prevention of waste. It provides further for coop- eration with state and local officers in contributing to the success of the movement and it plans for the inau- guration of a campaign for the eradi- cation of pests and diseases of plants and llvestock. This is an fmportant step in regard to the regulation of food and farm products. It is ineptres by the knowledge that food conservation is net practiced as it should be, that food speculators are causing a bardehip to many pecple and that the problem which is faced by this country of loaking out for the requirements along this line of the people of the United Memies and so far as possible those of the Huropean ‘countries ‘who are fighting with the entente group, be- sides of course those neutrals who do not use such supplies for trading with the enemy, requires immediate attention. The need of this action has been disclosed in many wave. If we must feed many others besides ourseives, provision must be made for it, and the time to start upon the task of getting the food supply uncer proper control is at the start and not after it has been demonstrated that seri- ous handicaps have resulted from failure to appreciate the size of the problem. HUSTLE THE SHIPS ALONG. It is quite evident that there is & difference of opinion between William Denman, chairman of the shipping board, and General Goethals, the sen- eral manager of the federal ship- building corporation, in regard to the vessels which should be constructeé for the purpose of overcoming the existing and the threatened shortage in vessels as the result of the opera- tions of the U-poats. That such a difference is not likely to lead to anything more serious is indicated by the statement .of Chairman Den- man when he declared “No person, nor any interested group of capital- ists, can draw us into a controversy ith General Goethals, nor do Wi | think that the general is seeking it It is not a matter over which therc should be any controversy and s Chairman Denman believes, there i no chance that General Goethals lf endeavoring to bring such about. From what the country knows of him be is not one who would lend fum- seif as the tool of an individual or capitalist. In advocating steel ships there can be o question but what he thoroughly convinced of the wis- dom of such a course, but, as has been aid before, there Is no reason why there should mot be an effort made tc turn out both steel and wooden ships. Te it is certain that the steel ships can be obtalned, and the very fact that they are constructed when it is possible to get them in preference to wooden ones is certainly a strong ar- zument that they are more desirable, they shculd be built, but there is an opportunity for wooden ships as well. Their construction would mnet inter- fere with the buildinz of the steel vessels and there are many ways in which they could be utilized with good results even if they were mot put Into the transoceanic trade. Let us have all the steel ships that w can get, and at the same time no ob- stacles should be put in the way of the wooden ones, but it is important that we should get either kind just as soon as possible and every effort should be bent to that end. BRAZIL AROUSED. Brazil does mot intend to dleker with the Germans in their ruthless submarine warfare. That country recognizes that Germany does not in- tend to respect its rights, just the same as this country did seme time ago. and it is not satisfied to simpiy make aprotest against it. Following the declaration of the unrestricted policy _concerning ' the underwater boats Brazil protested. Tt understood its rizhts and it did not propose to have them trampled upon. The pro- test amounted to nothing and follow- ins the sinking of ome of its ships Brazil promptly severed diplomatic relations. Such a step did not neces- sarily mean that ady further actlon would be taken. Tt depended entirely upon Germany but that country has continued to show its disrespect for the rights of that nation, the same as it has snapped its fingers at those of other countries whieh had desired to remain neutral and had done their ut- most to do so. Another Brazilian ship has been torpedoed without warning and with- out justification. It is but natural therefors that Brazil should be aroused and that President Braz of that re- public should cail for a cancellation of the decree of nentrality between the United States and Germany whieh was adopted a month ago. The almost unanimous action which has been taken by one branch of the congress of that country shows how the people of that nation feel in regard to the methods Germany is pursulng. Brazil has no more provocation than has Spain but it is taking just the actlon which any self respecting nation ought to take under the conditions. EDITORIAL NOTES. The onion trust appears to be weakening under a strong attack from the outside. Times certainly do change. Boys are now running away to work on farms, instead of fighting warans. The man on the corner says: The fellow who depends upon a game of chanee for a living has no visible means' of suppert. From the shortage which is exist- ing in tin cams, isn't it about time that the junkman should be gathering up the surplus that is lying about the country? That German raider, fiying a Swed- ish flag, which was given supplles and coal at Cape Town, is likely to get a warmer reception if it ever attempts to repeat its trick. Berlin repeats that it is golng to sink all hospital ships. It is about time for it to get busy and blow up all the hospitals and fondling ssylums just to prove that its terror knows no limit. When the U-boat torpedoes the American habit of eftravagance, it is of course doing this country an un- intentional favor, but we cannot thank Germany for the way in which ft is doing it. The American destroyers have dons their part in putting 28 German sub- marines out of commission. Possibly Germany still thinks the part which this country can play in the war is in- significant. According to the latest despatches the allies were repulsed in an offen- sive against the crown prince’s army with heavy losses. But that is a stereotyped phrase which Berlin uses in all engagements in which the kai- ser's son is Involved. (s bai—— Ex-President Clemenceau of France asks to have Roosevelt sent to that country. President Wilson declined to srant Mr. Roosevelt’s request because it was against-advice he had received from both sides of the water. This latest petition, coupled with what has been jurged before, indicates that “Doth sides of the water” are desirous of his presence in Frange. “I telephoned you to-day,” observed the young man who was calling. T wanted you to fome downtown to lunch and go over to the Art institute for an hour or two. “That would be nice” said the young weman who was being cailed upon. “I'm sorry I missed it So'm I” returned the young man. ‘And it seemed like a genuine griev- ance to me. You know you really: ghiould be home - when 1 _te You are a lady of lesiure and your time—" “Las n;“‘:l;, hat? the you ‘wm man with assumed bitt ness, T he exact trosble! - Hor mstnuonmyuaounumvm as I think you were just about to af- firm it was. Kindly let me give you a history of this day. In the first place, for once I had ne engagements, and I intended to be deliciously la&v in a negligee, and answer twenty of the letters that I Avq owed for months. Farly in the morn- ing 1 was awakened from my slum- bers by a telephone call from Mrs. Tearse. She apologized for disturb- ing me and then said: “It’s too bad to bother vou, Alice, but you are about the onl per- son T know. All my other friends have husbands, children, housekeep- ing or business to take up their time, so I'm going to ask you to take my place at the efficiency meeting of the club to-morrow, for 1 have to %0 to Milwaukee to see my sick aunt. I shall be awfully gratéful to you, and it you can run over here to my house now, while I'm packing, I'll give you my ‘report that I wish you to read for me, and I ean explain about one or two things that may come up in the discussion.’ Of course I dressed and went. “Well, she certainly had her nerve,” commented the young man. Nonsense! 1t wasn’t nerve at all It was mere fricndliness. We have known each other for vears, and if she couldn’t ask a favor like that from me, from whom could she ask it? T shall be glad to read her re- port to-morrow, now that I have de- ciphered it and got it into shape on my tvpewriter. That task took more than an hour after I came back from her house. I was interrupted several times by tclephome calls. Don called from the university to ask me to lock up a certain French quotation for him. He sald teasingly: “ ask my little spinster aunty be- cause she has nothing to do but im- prove her mind while I'm rushed with special exams, frat initiations and basket ball. I have to turn for first aid to a highbrow like you, Alice. Of course one couldn’t refuse to help eut such a dear of a chummy nephew.” “Chummy nephew! Lazy cub, I call him. Pe isn't mnl ‘1t ‘was, atchals g l%s:‘ "m quotation brary. ou don't mean to say traveled ali the way dowstown to find lan out of date, good for mothing French sentence for that nephew of at_poor, dear I was not > o ‘as our own. We must e meneyi ws' m many vessels —3‘5& = bl ma mfl”figa 10 mil! well as common carriers, wise to make even the : : 0:1.,.::...'“ eyl “Don’t Don. A e !.!- in delving Hbrary tele- the publio i,“.:'i"{m ¥ phoned me.. ready to do 80 Chiidren’s pleaded with me ovar the phone to g0 at once to the distributing reoms to il the requi- ;mu. that had piled in during the oli l-oudn of you, Alics’ she said y, becauss 1 Know you have isure then most Fdly m«l» ‘you Raven’ -w Vol Dastrans to occupy your time, u ‘most of us have.” It's & long journey across town, with two transfers on the strest cars, but I got flur’ as quickly as I could, stopping only for a bread and but- ter lunch before I left home. “I was glad T went. There was & mountain of work to done, and only two faithful members of the so- clety to do it. I put up sixteen large bundles of clothes and then, dirty as I was, 1_proceeded to the library, where, after “considerable search, I found ' Don's_question. I was late to dinner and T hadn't yet ehu‘nd my dress when' you rang the bell to-night. I knew you didn't mind waiting.” “No, 1 didn’t mind that much,” the voung man’s reply was just a trifie slow. “What I object to is the way evervbedy imposes upon you, just be- cause you're such—" “Such a lady of leisure. Tfe about decided that Il have to get a steady Job in order to have a little time to myselt.” “You are aware, Alice, that there's a steady job waiting for you. If you take it there won't be any mere talk about your not having the care of a house or a husband or a—- “When I think of all those istter I want to find time to write T'm’almost tempted o accept the position, but—" “‘Positively no buts this time, 1 have been waiting for you to sign up for a deucedly long while, Alics. T'm shy on French and not particularly strona on committees, but T know I need your services more than does any any 6ne else, and, when your friends importune you, yeu'll always have the handy excuse dear, that your husband can't spare you. “That,” answered the goung woman who was being called upon, “sounds rather nice.”"—Exchange. et perso; tiee in ] oervice; they v HoBal” Sengaind .‘:f"n-"-—ua-c ey aveiiavie ar. oheties bat Treahin ”}Z Wouid help to Slenity “'fi o Tgem of commares. e i e S i el f ey e "mer. te the o o Chant who regards himasit in hin Bro: Por lignt as & private am it formation, as well as o «nbm to his neighbors at home. HOME GARDENS Intensive Cuityre. ‘Let me suggest that b ovaty cue wito creates or cultivates a garden help, Shd helps sreatly, g0 soive the Drob: Tem of the. fecding of the President Wilgon. An idle garden ls like the prover- bial pair of idle hands—Satan finds cork for both of them—and the gar- den Satan makes a speciaity of weeds which seatter their seeds and so per- petuate themseives, saye today's bul- letin from the National Emergeney Food Garden Commission, cooperat- ing with this paper in urging food sarden ecultivation. The best way to aveid weeds i to | plant so many vegestabies that the weeds will have no epace to grow in.| He can pick up many useful ideas making little Sunday excursions to the city and see soms of the methocs used by the gardeners thers, whn must make every inch of ground work all by the time to pay a decent inter- est on the heavy cast of the lznd. STORIES OF THE WAR Valor of Australians on Doomed Ship. From a trustworthy source we have received the following account of the sinking of the Ballarat troopship No. 70, says “The London Telegraph.” This story affords a fitting pendant to those of the Tyndareus (sunk by a mine off Cape Agulhas, South Africa, on Feb- ruery 9 last, and the immortal Birken- head. In this case they were Australian troops who faced the imminent pros- pect of death with cheerful heroism and coolness, and their conduct, like that of the Middlesex Regiment, under Colonel John Ward, M. P., adds fresh lustre to a great British tradition. There had been a great send-off when the troopship left Australia, for this was the first time a shipload of Australians was to make the voyage to Bngland, with an_unrestricted sub- ] marine warfare advertised by the German artists in murder. Most of the men, nearly every one, in faet, came from Victoria, and it will be & proud moment in Victoria when the news comes through fhat her sons came up to the very top as they did. Boat drill is aul. Many of the men used fluent and flowery parts of speech to say how dull it was. No sooner in bed than the alarm was sounded, no sooner back in bed again than the alarm was s ed again, and then the “advance,” that found sleepy, almost depressed, men at at their boat stations. They re- peated their drill until it took but four minutes to get the men out of bed and standing by their stations. At the time the Ballarat was struck it took, with a second or two, exactly the same time—drill, discipline, tra- dition; above all, tradition. Why? The men knew they were in for a big thing. and they wanted to do it in all bigness, Bven the parrot was saved, and is now having his rations given him by naval officers. It is a soldiers’ parrot, but they say he takes very kindly to sailors’ customs. A hawk elected to come abroad during the voyage and make himself agree- able, and the hawk is now goodness knows where, for he flew away when the ship was sinking. The hawk and several cats are the only missing. It was Anzac day (April 25) and the officers were planning to hold a me- morial service. The officer command- ing the troops was dealing with a re- manded case. “And what have you been doing?” he asked, when there came a dull crash, a sound that seem- ed, as he said, “to lift the skin off your face,” and the ship began to take a list, The “alarm” was instant- Iy sounded by the bugles, instantly followed by the “advance. Without confusion of any kind the men fell in at their boat stations. This was real. During the voyage they had heen told the stories of the Southland and the Birkenhead, of the behavior of the troops and men on these occasions. Those men who had used flowery and fluent parts of speech condemn- ing the boat drill now used equally literary expressions In praise of it. “It's all right boys,” a man called out, “the old man is on the bridge.” “Don't sing too loud,” sald an officer, laugh. ing, “becauss I can't give orders'.’ “Stand easy” was given out. The turn of the nmavy came now. These men knew. instinctively knew that the navy would turn up. It turned Up. Destroyers and trawlers appear- ed like magic. There was a moderate sea, and the ship, having been struck near the propellor, began settling down by the stern; she did not act- vally sink untfl about four hours later. While walting for the boats to be lowered some of the ryma sang, ety Settied down o, DAY carde and most of them smoked The nurses remained with the medical staff until all the patients had been provided for, and the wholo medical staff remained Jith the patlents untll they were safely placed in boats. Bvery pet was saved, with the exception of some of the ship's cats, and ecats, 2s Kipling says, prefer to walk alone. Over the side went Bill Anzec, an Australian parrot in a cage; a gray sauirrel had the run of a raft, e fox terrier and her puppies are now guests of the officers of a destroyer. And it was ail done decently and in order. No heroics, no fase, and a great leal of humor and absolute ofignmy. $n what? Training? The train- Tor instance, he may see dwarf peas planted early in the spring. As S00n as these have received sufcient cultivation, sweet corn will be planted between the rows. The peas are har- vested and the vines to be turned under to enrich the soil with their humus by the time the eorn is ready for cultivation. When the corn is tilled enough, turnips will be plant- ed broadcast between the rows, and they will be ready just whenm frost comes in the fall. Tn a small garden a desTes of at- tentlon can be given to intensive cul- tivation that cannat be squalled in the market garden because of lack of labor. For that rcason the home zarderier should use his ingenuity and do better than the commercial gar- dener in the volume of faod produced on a square fost of soil. With suf- ficient fertilization plamts may grow so thickly together that the gardenmer has only room enough to get into the beds for cultivation. ing was the training of the raw troop Trust in officer, Partly. The offi- cers knew the men and the men be- lieved in the officers. Skill in handling the ship? The men knew that weuld be all right, and it was all right. The feeling of security when certain details of the navy turned up? (“By the way, says a man, “they treated me top- hele—bath, smokes, food. Td like to thank them.”) That feeling of security is always there. No. Something more than that—something that is in Brit- ish Dlgod which says, “One does the decent thing.” It is not exactly courage, because heaps of the men were ina funk; and it is mot exactly b.uff, because you cannot put up a bluff in a sinking ship, and the sea looks awfully big when one cannot eee any land, and there's just a handful of officens run- ning the job and enoush boats, and a. fearful ignorance of maritime geos- raphy. It is a thing which is very difficult to define. It is the voice of the emplire speaking to each man. and it says: “Look hare, old chap, we do the thing jolly well. and we always have, and we are always soing to. Are you game? All right, come along.” ‘And nobody e'se, least of all a German, understands it. In the words of Tord Roberts, in the words of any officer who has had to do with our men—*The men were 6plendid.” It isn't easy to stand on the deck of a sinking ship weiting for the word, “Go.” but Great Britain ex pects of her sons that they will be bave as these Australians did, as the men of other ships have done, under like circumstances. Play the game. THE WAR PRIMER By National Gecgraphic Society. Rostov-on-the-Don, a thriving eity of southeastern Russia where there was held recently one of the strangest mass-meetings in history,.—a mass meeting of thieves who demanded a share in Russia’s “new freedom’— is described in the following war geos- raphy issued by the National Geo- graphic Society:— “Probabiy no other city in the Rus- sian empire resembles and American municipality as ciogely as does Ros- tov-on-the-Don, situated 13 miles above the mouth of the great river which flows into the Sea of Azov. A foreigner walking down the main street of the town is impressed with the idea thai there are move Ameri- can and English shops on every side than there are Russian establishments for this is the great entrepot for grain-producing Russia, and it is said that, with the possible exeeption of Marseilles, more agricultural impley ments are brought inte Rostov than into any other port in the world. “Rostov is the amusement and shop- ping center for a hundred Provincial towns ecattered throughout southeast Russia, and from these places come the pleasure seckers on the thres great rallway lines which radiate from this point to the northwest, the merth- east, and to the southeast inte Cau- easia. And when these visitors reach Rostov they find not only the wares of America, England and Germany in the shops: they enjoy the privilege of sesing theatrical compenies which ave brought hers at great expense from Meoscow and Petrograd. legiti- mate theatres are mot nearly so well patronized, however, as the domen or Views of the Vigilantss THE COUNTRY NEEDS SHIPS. By John Erskine of the Vigilantes. The country needs ships. How great the need is at the pres- ent moment, most citizens are begin- ning to realize. Uniess vessels can be provided immediately, in a space of time almost miraculous.y short, wheth- er or not the war lasts we shall feel the pinch of hunger and the utmost inconvenience in other directions. The average man in all couatries is now awake to the fact that there are mnot enough ships for the world’s needs. It is not so clear to ail of us, how- ever, that we have needed ships for some time, and that after the im- mediate danger is past we shall still need a steady encouragement 8f ship- ping interest. The. fact that it costs more for the United States to undertake its own shipping than to employ the vessels of other nations ought pot to ceunt in any thoughtful consideration of this preb- lem. If the commerce between na- tions is only a matter of the ledger, then no doubt it would be echeaper for us to let any nation that ean carry our gpods for, us; but commerce whether we wish it or not, is more than dollars and cents. The ships that ge to forsign ports are in some sense ambassaders of the heme eountry, cenveying inevitable impressions as to the character of the people’ who sent them forth ~and ringing back certain inevitable fm- pressions of the nations which the; vislt. 1f the United States is to d velpp relations with South America, we can hardly hope to impress the great republics in that part of world with our imaginative vision or with any sense of our enterprise so with coupon fer six months TOTAL as above en say a large part of the gontempt in which many Turopeans hold us, has heen induced by he sheence of qur - sl from B ”‘n ‘waters. o .finflu 3 have done far us in this i and the conviction which they must havo that they are more enterprieing than we, is at least in this one respect entirely justified. ‘Whatever subsidy on the part of the National Government is necessary Ohlld;e Cry smwu QA TORIA e. 4 or more as the case may ba. WHEN YOU WANT ¢5 put your bus. ss bofore tne Pub) Te is ne ] dium Dbett S S %fi, long. S8 our. g&m reach tham in ships| carrving a not ours, might TAL pail you b, 4 T cu St “-{:e TO' paid by in cash, and interest earned st sntiaty that & larga part of the When you make your [Ratiorancs on the gort 5 Burops to- Tard e Cnited Btates ignt hossapl 08 e SELIG PRESENTS THROUGH TH RBX BEACH S “THE B l@%fi ngggg. Mz ‘movie’ pai thronged nightly, the most pepul fims = whi oot ' pistonai rer huir-raising murders, an Ter citals of domestic tangles. e e Ll Popuia; u [ Pod it fa mow tne minth city of Euror pean Russia. If the revolu does not upset ail calculations it will be the third city of the republic in 1937, even wsing Odessa. And this wondes- B mrowts nas taken piace in soite of the fact that the harbor ie extremely shailow and the vessels which bring machinery here and, take away grain of all sorts cannot approach within sight of the city, owing to th i of = dredging. Furt] the Don is frost-bound for more than 100 days out of the vear. “wiih the exception of Wiev and Odessa, Rostov is the best-built city of seuthern Russia, but it gains no architectural distinetion fro mits twe cathedrals which are built in erude imitation of St. Basil's and St. Sav- jor's at Moseow. The strest railway system of the is operated by a Belgian com- pany and the tram cars are notorious for the activitias of thieves and picl pockets—the delegates to the mass meeting recently held, at which an opportunity te ‘turn over a new leaf’ was demanded. “Among the chief industries of Ros- tov ere its shipbuilding vards. flaur mlils, tohacco factortes, iron and €0ap works, distilleries. bell foundries, tim- bor and paper mills. At ane geason of the year the population is increased by 60,000 workmen who gre brought in to handle the lodding of wheat on the grain-bearing ships. “Apparently English is much more popular than the French or German language, and it is gne of the most popuiar courses In the scheols. In true western fashion. the women of Roatov find ready employment in bo®: offices and workships. “Rostov is T72 miles southeast of Moseow by rail.” OTHER VIEW POINTS ‘War is sacrifice, Consider the hard- ship imposed upon the clerks in the city offices of New Haven, who, in 3 spirit of war economy, have ordered to work seven hours instead of five and a half hours deily. That is, they haye been ordered to re- main in their offices seven hours a day.—Waterbury Republican. All we've got to do around here just now is buy a few Liberty bonds and build & hotel and eniist to fill the ranks of the First Regiment and save the old state house and run a garden patch and register for the draft and rear better bables an? help the Bel- Blans and learn to be economical in food and pay o few taxes and raise the money to pay the taxes and boost pro- hibition or condemn it and read the war news and keep the flag flying and join the Home Guard and sew for the soldiers and back the home nine and predict when the war is going to end and carry on husiness as usual and— but if we go any farther welli have to give up goif.—Hartford Time: The story which reveals the work of spies in informing Berlin of the com- ing to British waters of the squadron of American destrovers is interesting. The Germans received the information in time to get the ontrance to the harbor of Queenstowr mined. Ad- miral Simms, however, received word of the German action in time to make it of non effect. Obviously there is cither an unknown wireless base or else code was used in such skiliful fashion as to elude the censors. Hang- ing is the pemaity for spying. It is 2 matter for regret that this medicine was not administered when we wers acting the role of neutral. Tt might have prevented the loss of blood and treasure.—Meriden Record. Tt must have occurred to many thoughful people that the ordinary patriotic workman or small _shop- keeper or farmer with $160 or $200 to s) might be willing to invest in a o or two of the Liberty Loan bonds Uncle Sam is offering but is de- terred because, after securing the pre- clous papers, he would have not fire proof, burglar-preaf place in which to put the documents. The War com- mittee of the Lawyers' club of New York hae come forward with a_ sug- gestion that gees to the root of this very prbiem. They point out that the United States Treasury Department might Tequest all savings banks, pri- wate banks and banks of deposit to place their vaulis at the service of the How You May Subscribe to United States Government “Liberty Loan of 1917” AND PAY ON AN INSTALLMENT PLAN With your subscriptien you deposit with us and thereafter deposit $2.00 each week for 24 weeks Interest sarned on your deposits....... ..$ 250 48.00 interest attached. For subscriptions larger than fiom multiply the above by 2, 3, THE NORWICH SAVINGS SOCIETY NORWICH, CONNECTICUT 2 u‘;‘-“_*i'»' £, un s been METRO PICTURE CORPORATION IN TEN E'ER DO-WELL" 7 ALL STAR “SPOILERS” CAST JAN WITH THE IRRES COMEDY UNDER THE E ’%‘“h&&?ch‘?u’fl £RYE BHNEE SPECIAL HOLIDAY ATTRACTION Harold Lockwood and May Allison IN A POWERFUL PICTURIZATION OF ROBERT CHAMBERS’ GREAT NOVEL “THE HIDDEN CHILDREN A METRO WONDERPLAY IN FIVE SUFERBE — e s Burton Holmes Travelogue !! Black Diamond ( —————— 4 SHOWS TODAY AT 1:30, 3, 7, 8:30 F. Come The Most Stumdoua Attnchon of L}u— Sea CABARET DELUXE A MUSICAL SINGING AND DANCE PRODUCTION NT VAUDEVILLE'S LATEST NOVELTY “THE JAZZ s.v..; EL. COTA The Xylophone K CHAS. ATKINSON The Man Witheut a Country”™ l WM. S. HART in “THE DESERT MA} A Tense Tale of the Eternal Struggle Sectween Good an NO ADVANCE IN PRICES—MATINEE 10< and 1 CONCERT TUBBS' MILITARY BANP_ vtousT MERSEREAU L His Wife’s Mother, Com EVENIN( IN THE 5 SUSAN'S PA G Metro Travelogue REFRESHMENTS SERVED ALL Majestic Roof Garden Orchestra for Dan Motorcycle Race Under the Auspices of Connecticut Amusement NORWICH FAIR GROUNDS Decoration Day, Wednesday, May 30t AT 3 P. M. SIX EVENTS—FAST RIDERS—SPEED and TH on 35¢ MUSIC BY TUBBS' BAND E Adm In other word: Where Bryan’ll He people free of charge. the banks would be asked to safekeeP | Touring the ' without charge Liberty Loan bonds,|iscreased food provided no one person deposited more | Jennings Tir w than $1,000 worth, the presumption |eiement and - being that anyone, who bought more |a: least one de. if than that amount, could weil afferd [~ Springfieid to rent a safety box. Strikes us as ek rather a good plan. What say the bankers of this city ?—Bridgeport Almost a Certa Standard. The size of tha Australin’s eonrtibutions to the Pa- |millional triotie Fund have now reached the [1\9 to pay f total of £6,620,000. |G1ove-Democra Make your memories into lasting .record of your sentime tal regard for the departed b erecting one of our beautiful an artistic memorials. THE CHARLES A. KUEBLER (0. 39-41 Franklin Street, Norwich, Conn.