Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 2, 1917, Page 4

dountry wes unable to control mat- ters within its_own confines, or else it would be_ susceptible to the inter- pretation that the goverriment rec- ognized the- fact-that the law was wrong.... Both of which impressions would of course Be incorrect and un- and Goudied § 121 YEARS OLD . ™ Susscription price 130 & week; 50, Entered at the Postoffice Norwich, Cozn.. as second-class matter. Telephone Calls: Bulltia Businsss Ofsice 480. 1 Bilietin Baitorial 35-3. ‘ Bulletin Job Ofies 35.8 | _ Willimantle Office, 67 Churchd St ‘Telephone 210-2. June 2 1917, _ L for the laws of the country and the _ponents: 6f the: draft law-is- to give them to understand that such will not Ba tolerated and By deing so be- fore the movement spreads any- more than ft h"!._ PATENT MEDICINE RIGHTS. Norwich, Saturday, — e e Tnited - States” is'“in" & State of war i with Germany the_ guestion of patent i rights ‘s bound "to be raised. : are many. United States patents which ! are held in Germany, and inasmuch as ithere” has Besfi’Such a restriction i placed upon the importation of Ger- man products, many of which are ex- tensively used in this country but natural that there should be a ‘dernana made “for the rémoval of the ! restraint of the .patent rights. ij This is particularly important in “the case of- medicines. "There is no | question but what they can be man- ufacturéd in this country just as wel as they can be put together in Ger- many., and that others than those having the Fifht can produce tie same goods, and the only rTeaSon why such is not done ig that the owners of . s ¢ n 0! oy the Ppatent medicines are protected nu Blllkfill - sgainst such a procedure by the pat- ik ent law of ‘this country which they The Bulletin e have complied with.. i > R B With the shutting off of such neces- Comnecticut and from thres to sities,” or thé pronibitive prices that times larger than that of any Inj|exist, which have the same effect al- Nerwich. It 1s delivered most, this country is placed at a se . rious Mieadvantage as long as the e MR e patent rights are respected, but in- o e PP 008 mousea. §|-asmich -as the medicines cannot be in Putbam and Danielson sent to this country little or no ben- 1,100, and in all of these P efit is- being obtained therefrom by is considered the local dally., the possessdrs of the rights. Thus it must be appreciated that if, such Eastern Connecticut has nine towns, one hundred and eixty-§irights are abrogated for the exist- ence of the war it will have no serl- five postofice districts, and sixty Qus effect. upon the German producers 1ural free delivery routes. but it wili be of marked advantage The Bulictin i sold in o e b e e in dealing with disease in this coun- try, and that is what needs to get se- routes in Eastern Connecticut. rious consideration at this time. We CIRCULATION Tmust ook out. for_our own interests average.......... and see that no unreasonable handi- caps are allowed to prevail, especial- 1y when ‘the removal of such would vork no hardship upon anvone else, and the rights would be restored fol- lowing the establishment of peace. ey D. 1901, 1908, avera May 26, 1917 DEPENDING ON UNITED STATES. How great the demand is that is being made tpon this country by the other nations of ‘the worla, and par- ticularly thbse engaged in the war vhich “have nof “experfenced a shut. ting Off “0f their shipping, is shown by the statement which has just been ‘made by the bureau of foreizn and domestic commerce, when it reports that the exports from the United States, for the first time in the his- tory” of the country, exceeded six bil- lion.doliars In the twelve months end- inz _with 3pril of this vear. This counitry has been experiencinz a growing: foreign trade ever sin¢s the war opened in°supplylng the needs’ of belligerents ~@nd "also ‘of _neutrals, ‘which formerly traded with the bel- ligérents but which <were forced to seck new- markets -because their or- ders could: fiot be" filled by the coun- tries which had_formerly looked “after their needs. This_gain_is of course attributable to the war. It has been steadily growing ever since the struggle open- 24 but. the - past -year showed a tre- mendous advance as Is disclosed by the fact that with the.close of April 1916, the exports for - the -twelve months. period amounted to less than four bifiion" dollars while for similar periods previous to that time it has not exceeded two and a half billions and was more frequently less than that. This statement thus lends emphasis to the_great mneed of -this nation to look carefulls after its supplies. There is need for giving every attention to inereased production and “to making the best use of what is possessed that our own wants, as well as those of the nations which are allied with us in.the war, and the neutrals who are not impréperly dealing with the ene- my may be taken care of. Much de- pends upon this country in supplying the world. REPUBLICAN CITY TICK For Aldermen ~° GEORGE H. LORING ELMBR R. PTBRSON. For Councilmen WILLIAM S. MURRAY DR. JOHN S. BLACKMAR. R. C. PERRY HERBERT W. GALLUP—— For City Clerk ARTHUR G. CROWHELL. For City Treasurer. HENRY W. TIBBITS For Tax Collector THOMAS A. ROBINSON For City Sheriffs GBORGE W. ROUSE CHARLES H. RAYNES. For Water Commissioner - ALBERT S. COMSTOCK. CENSORSHIP DEFEATED. It has ta3 time ~to—guBEte the advisabi of the press censor- ship plen fu congress, but from the action wiich has been taken for the secona timme v the lower house it would appear that the decisfon-has finaliy been reached that such,a cur- tailment of the freedom of the press is not only considered unwise Rut.will not be authorized. 8 This of course is in opposition to the wishes of the administratforf ‘but it ‘cannot help but meet with the Weh- eral opinion prevailing throughbut the country that there ought 15" be no step taken which would shut’ o a Just criticism of inefficiency and~the furhishing of the people 3ith_the news which they should have,.svith events which will not be detrimental to the interests of the country-emd which will not be of assistance to = the enemy inasmuch as fofSiER—FEp- EDITORIAL NOTES. s ot oo & ‘;‘:e“‘:'fi». . Theré are Both rare days and raw prevented from printing themgrs & |days i the veautitul month-of June. The press of the United Stati posed to give away The newspapers are not v should be allo to publish the movements of troofll, the sailing of warships, transporfy, commisstons or in fact anythi which ought to be kept quiet in o to secure the advantage which souzht. No such unpatriotic moti can be attributed to the Ameri press. The papers have alwaye readw to rive their cooperation such matters and are doing 8o tod: but in spite or the secrecy. they have done their utmost.ta.. tain leaks have taken place for which they were in no way responsible. To curtail their rights because of such would be preposterous and ~COWERESs mpparently takes such a view of attempt to that end which % in the censorship bill. 1t should be kept in mind that there is but one day for registration, and that-1§ Tuesday, June 3. The man on the corner says: Too many people measure success by the results which they have in looking for trouble. King Georgg and ex-Czar. Nicholas are busy hoeing potatoes..THat is one of the things which the kaiser must , | wish he had pald more atténtion to. _From _those who are. working against the .conscription- law, it -can be .readily seen -who are not patriots and who are net imbued with patriot- 4snr. ' i Germiany is now stopping the im- ports of fish because of the large | quantity that is on hand. Possibly it _expects this .condition to turn the scales in its favor. a0 SEMS I the mayor ot Chicago cannot see his duty in the present situation and resign_from the office which he has repeatédly discredited, it ought to be ggested to him and in no uncertain terms. 2 DEAL WITH THEM PROMPTLY] Prompt and effective measumey ai called for from the deparfment Justice in dealing with that smalY'pr portion of the people of this—cofint: who are using their influénce: and-e: forts to interfere with the DroyRr forcement of the conscriptior, 204 such are apparently beizy by the arrest of certain indlvidua who have been busying themselves propaganda work which has for object the encouragement of o evade the law of the nation mma—to embarrass the government in the ful- fillment of its undertaking, and the haiting of those who -are attempting to feave the country to escape the ef- e of the draft for militaty ser- vice. & 1t is .impossible to look upoR such mctivities otherwise than well dtudied efforts which are calculated ot only to evdde the law of the Uni States, The ftalians are .keeping. up the fighting .on the Austrian front while the rest of the allies are gettiny ready for-a new thrust on the -western line and possibly along the Russo-Ru- manian front. With a few Virginia mountaineers opposing cenaeription, - the country cannet help looking on with surprise. 1t has m. been supposed that those people were constantgy on the alert for a fizh The task of Miniater of War-Keren- 3¢50 2 This country has experienced enough| At sich a time as this when the There, {man -came to. but to give comfort and encourage- | sky of ‘fs not-an easy one, but ment to the enemy. While the num. | he sets-ahout.it with a confidence and ber of those who are éngaged” tiéres | dstarmination which gives promise of in is smali, the knowledge that siich| getting the desired results if such a axists and the“fact that it -wad=tsl- | thirig i~ possible. et proper way fo treat these active op- |- eam- ot all. ‘Sunday's cam- they did more. 5 cas & thinker. - This ~raises: the question which came fiest, thought or occupa- tion; just -as we guéry about the egg | and’the hen, and there i€ no probabil- ity that thie question Will: be settled. But there is proof ;a_ plenty ‘that oc- cupation ‘is ‘a good thought stimulant of which the Inventor is"a recognized product.. « T suspect thé reason men are such poor thinkers, although they have thought they were good think- ers for uncounted agds,’ s because they seek to ‘think from Wwithout in, instead- -of ~from - within —outwéard. It has been said that the best ‘think- ers are self-examiners. " If Wwe know what we lack we may think what we need: and-what ‘we need may be ex- actly what the world needs. ‘Second thought is said to be best, but a first class thought doesn't need to be re- vised or revoked. - . Do you know “that we have. imore suffering pensioners of the civil war living in Germany than ih the other European' nations. The pension department -at° Washington when the war broké out ‘was semding over $100,000 ~ annually to European countries to 488 men who fought in America for the Union; and of these 410 live in Germany, and they must be feeling the loss of their $82,515.47 a year income; but this money is just as good to them “if they survive the conflict as_money in the bank. How true and manly and brave our.Ger- man-American defenders of the flag were In’ the sixties: and we surely hold them in honor and respect. The survivors are doubtless more annoyed by what happened.in the reign of Bernstoff and his emisaries than we know or can realize; and ‘they will show they stand for America first be- fore the indignities which drove - this country into war have béen -atoned for'. Woman cannot be. kept from taking her place in the Dattle of life or the fierce conflicts among men. In France it has been felt the front of the bat- tie was no place for her, but the commands_of men cannot-keep her in the rear; and in battle-scarred Bng- land today Lady JForbes-Robertson shouting aloud: “That even one child should die from preventible causes is a disgrace to us, and we lose thous- ands” The truth is,.man cannot ac- complish any greai work without the aid of woman. She. lacks neither ac- ‘cumen, valor, skill or persistence. Her actiyity at the battle front has saved thousands oflives which -with- out her aid might have ebbed" out: and’ she prevents epidemics by her loyalty o cleanliness in ali the walks of life. Man at the tront majms man and leaves many. blind. legless; arm- less_and helpless, and . woman. takes these” victims for despair and poverty and inspires in them hopé.by teach- Ing them new. ways to be useful, new forms of industry, which insures com- fort Woman as the partner or equal of men’cannot be denied her achicve- ment or her place, An English_judge has attracted in- ternational notice by the declaration that Tt .is more honorable to wear old ciothes than new ones in war time.” ~We all- recognize” that it Is in time of stress when. England greets such a sentiment as most eloquently representing pure patrioti¥m and love of country. The world is not o getting shorter and shorter of fo but shorter and shorter of elothing. Germany already is so short of both that her whole people are limited and not a rag is-allowed to be thrown away; and here in-Aemrica we have reason to note our own drift in this very direction. because of the insane ambitions of a-few hundred rulers and the submissive barbarism of miilions of subjects. whose only busindss is the destruction of human lives and’ pro- perty. The peace and comfort of the whole. world is menaced and its sub- sistence imperilled by the unjust de- gns and wickedness of the minority. I wonder if here in-America we- shall come to the adoption of this eenti- ment: - “It-is more- homorabie to wear 0ld clothes then néw ones in times of A Philadeiphia writer recently no- ticing a flag-raising at a woolen mill in Jamestown, _pointed out 'that the buntin’ was made from-the wool of an American sheep, sorted by an Amer- ican, scoured hy an -Albanian, carded by an Jtalian, spun. by a Swede, warped by a Gefman, dressed by an Englishman, drawn_in_by- a_Scetch- man, woven by a Belglan, supervised by ‘a- Frenchman. inspected by an American, dyed by a Turk, examined by an Trishman and pressed by a Pale, thus representing the skill 4nd indus- try~of ‘our composite population as well-as the soveréignty and human rights: our Conatitition guarantees. And the people who show most zeal in salutimg the flag are the colored peopie -who - beheath its starry foids have been made-freé, fnd the aliens Who in -America - have found new homes, greater privileges ‘and protec- tion" from tyrants. 1 shall never for- get the negroes who looked upon Old Glory with tear-glistening eves and asked God to bless it: or the little Italian girl of four years who seeing it floating from- the” masthead pointed her finger at it-and with' glowing face sald “The flas! The flag!” as if ft Were the ¢horus of a song: and- then with _half-closed - eves - murmurred: “America, America.” as if these two words were a prayer. A western paragrapher has written “Sharps who keep-potatoes hid bring to mind bold Captain Kidy Thesé cornerers -of ;the necessaries of iife are no “better than pirates althotgh many of them spend their ill-gotten gains in support of the church and various -altruistic organizations. - -They 8o not often “wear the yoke of plety since they profit by putting the yoke of poverty on other people: but they are classified with the religious and love to be praised the church for their liberal gifts. .For vou know the church is not so mindful of great. gifts as the Christ was,. who pointed out they were . heart-gifts, not surplus giffs. The widow’s mite represented feeling and sacrifice, not arrogance and plen But the church and the Sovernmel neve got to st Hicls tacas againat suen crimind] acts eventually s = (Written Speclaly for The Bulletin.) Erar ot et stauach SeEn- D e bor ot Norwicn, Lebanon, too much em. Dhasis cannot upon o town’s principle that -words al - were not st jent, but must ever be Wd The people could adopt resolution: practice vigilance - within- the town’ limits, and express by words eympa- thy with other- localities which n- dured hardships during the strugg’ for liberty. - They did all. this,: but ‘When the “alarm of the battle of Lexington -was brought by a rider on a foaming steed, on thé Sunday fol- lowing the memorabla 19th of April 1775, the messenger éntered the meet- ing-house in S midst of the ser- vice, and beckoning for attention, an- nounced that the blood of their breth- en had been spilléd ‘in Pattle and that the erisis in colonial affaifs had come. The service was abruptly ‘suspend- ed, 'and soon the béeat of drums called the eitizens to take' up arms. and march to the ‘désistance of those who wére resisting the trobps of Gen. An account of moneys paid by the colony to forty-nine téwne for ser- vices and expenses in this Lexington 4iarm shows a total amount of £7,624. The sum paid to .Lebanon was £339 Os 2d. more than was paid any other town, with but two ex- <eptions. Windham \eceiving £378, 15s. 5 4. and Woodstock £352, 13s ought to be a state prison offence to corner foodstuffs, since a big fine is only a joke to men who make a mil- lion and who can get clear for a fine of $100,000. Have you ever thought how few of us have manners enough to last just one day out. You know from your own personal experience that it is quite difficult to make the supply last until midday, even when we are armed with the coriceit that we are good or kind. Of ourse, we have quite a variety of manners: fablé, soclety, church. street and home: and we are all well aware that the least of these are home manners. Some manners are compulsory rather than voluntary —for instance, business and society| manners. In seif interest we have to be polite to folks we do not like, just for proft. Manners really at first were the output of seif interest rather than innate goodness. When You come to think of it, isn't it surprising how bad ones wil uslée good manners to get your confidence and do you: and how some good people will be ill- mannered until they disgust you. Good manners are Theap—if they cost more we might appreciate them the more. : Sunday Morning Talk THE RIGHT WAY. A recent traveler in Russia reports tiat his train stopped onme day at a station where a c¢rowd of peasants had assembled. No reason for the delay was apparent, and the wonder grew when the train was sidetracked, ae were several others that came along. Soon, it was whispered about that the Czar's train was to pass that trafic way. Accordingly, ~all _other along the entire line had been sus- pended. After half ‘an hour’s wait, a’ pilot train _with armed sentries aboard steamed past. Immediately, guards entered the waiting, side tracked coaches, warned passengers to keep their seats, and pulled the shades dowri close. ' No ordinary citizen must be allowed éven a chance to see ghe imperial party. Presently, a heavy train rushed by bearing the precious, royal person of the Czar of all the Russias. That was about The scene will never be repeated. longer the’ traffic_stops for plain Nicholas Romenoff. The stupid blundering autocrat has been himself sidetrackeds The current of the na- tion’s ‘ife rushes past him unhecded. Other men and other motives hold the right of ‘way in Ruseia today. five months ago. No Is there a prophgcy in that change, of a bigger changé in human think- ing? Are we not coming to see be- hind_the_tinsel royaity, behind all er and pride of birth, the essential rights of man as man? 'That, at least, is the sole Rope remaining ta iovers of humanity everywhere who eurvey the present frightful chaos. = The whole creation’ has “‘groaned and travailled in pain” in these latter years. The agony has not been fruit- less, if this torfured old world Is to come at last into a new birth of frée- dom and_righteousness. i That there 1§ bound to‘ come a re- arrangement of the world’s moral train schedule almost everyone agrees. Some of the littlé puffing, smo¥y lo- cals that have cumbered the main line are to be shuntéd onto the sidings. The really big trains of life are to be siven the right of way. Unléss all signs. fail, war, work, economy; sac- rifice are to call out the more sterl- ing qualities of life on this side the Atiantic, as they have on the other side. We shall learm to make - the same distinction the Britishers make —that between essential business and non-essential business. Of some things we .must.learn in these months to let go. They “have done us no good in-days past, and much harm. Let us now send them to the rear. A ‘considerable list of. ar- tificialities, frivolities, and extrav- agances ought to be taboo. Women must_buy no more jewelled coliars for lap dogs, and men given no more ainners at $10 per cover. The time in which wé live is a crucial time for the world. - Each hour is big with des- tiny. They who appreciate the signi- ficance of the present struggle winl shake off the senseless tyranny of fashion, réfuse the demands of pam- persd appetites, end the trifing waste of daylght hours, the criminal-folly of wine-bibbing and card-playing eve- nings, the idiotic quest of show. sport. and pleasure that have been sapping the best life of America. pretense of pow- The situation calls ot for funeral sombreness nof moroseness of spirit— which never help any situation any. where. It does call for earnest, pur- poseful views of life, for 'a girding up of the powers of body and’ spirit, for a resolute doing of the things that count. In the time of King Henry Third of England, letters boré the picture of a post boy swinging from a gal- lows, with the legend, ~“Haste, post, haste for thy life” “Now as then, infinitely more than theme—the “king's buglness requives haste” 1f war is the terrible form of .that business at present, we must, with Mr. Britling, seo it through. Eyery superficial as- pect of human life must take the sid- ing, that the stern realities must find a Ciear track ahead.- e THE PARSON. J and gold lace of all} 3d., these towns being nearer the site of ‘action. The store of Jonathan Trumbull since cailed the War Office and standing, was the center from which Fhe ‘soldiers of the vicinity, Who at that time went to the relief of Bos- ton, were supplied. It is recorded that the Govermer of %thé colony, his sons and his son-in-law Willlam TS 2, B crowd of n: ¥ and ‘hast ‘these supplies. in the battle of Bunker Hill, the following June 17th, Lebanon was sented. Capt. - James Clark y and has- usetts battle field. Oh hearing the call, men at bnce Teft their work and made ready for expedition. “Miller” Gay, as he was ‘familiarly was needed as ‘a drummer. He left his hoe standing in, the row and went to the house to consuit his wife. She had the true started the next morning w. company. The Lebanon contingent reached the low ground of Charlester Neck on the afternoon of the 16th. having march- || ed ninety miles in thrée days—not over. macadam or asphalt roads, or when fitted with special army shoes, either. The balls from the enemy’s ships whizzéd by them and rolled at their feet. One of the men, thinking he could stop a rolling ball, rashly put ‘|out his foot—which the ball instantly ook off. In an orchard somewhat protected by the hill, Capt. Clark found three companies ‘without officers—one from Connecticut and two from Massachu- setts. He ordered them to fall into line, leading them upon the hill to Join the other troops: and he and his men assisted in_throwing up entrench- ments on the night of the 16th, and fought in the engagement of thé fol- lowing day. The year before his death, when he was in his 95th year, Col. Clark, —known then under that title-—was one of the forty survivors of the bat- tle who were present at the laying of the cornerstone of Bunker Hill monument by Lafayette in 1325, the fittieth anniversary of the famous I\Lt. tle. The gallant Lafavette, who di ing the war had repeated'y been in Lebanon, specially noticed Col. Clark, and in the ardor of his Frenchman's heart, affectionally kissed him. On being told of Col. Clark’s three days’ march from Lebanon during 15, and of his pressing into the engagement, he exciaimed in admiration, “You was made of goode stoof!” It is estimated that there were per- iods -during the Revolution when as many as five hundred men from the old town were serving- in the army at the same time. This would be one to about every eight of the inhabitants at that time. Nor was the town the home of slackers during the Civil War. The quota of Lebanon during that strug- gle was 205, and the population in 1860 being 2.1e74, that would mean one to about every ten of the inhabi- tants. ‘About one hundred actualy f{went from the town. or a proportion jof one from every twenty-one of the linhabitants. Year after year, in the earlier period the town records furnish evidence of the resolute efforts made to meet the demards for men—which taxed the endurance and resources of the colomy —and to provide for the familics of | those absent in the army. | it came to pass that after the re- lizious services nearly every Sun- day, -and on Thanksgiving and Fast Day, especially in 1777, contributions for ' the suffering soldlers were re- ceived in the meeting-houses: then jewelry and every article- of clothizg and provisions were presented, we are told. “and the ladles. as individuals |and’in concert, with the discreet and earnest Madam Trumbull encoura- ing them, and setting them an exam- pie. ~bore their part in these contri- butions. There is special local interest in this latter statement, since the Madam Truombuil referred to was the Gover- nor’s wife, for whom Faith Trumbull Chapter, Daugh of the American Revolution, of Norwich, is named. Lebanon contributed six governers of states—five of them of this state— who held the office thitry-seven vear and one of them (William A. Buck- ingham) a second War Governor and a worthy successor of the first: four senators in Congress, seven represen- tatives, five judges of the higher courts,’ and two_chief justices. Dart- mouth College had its foundation in the old town: while Prince Saunders, a colored man, became minister from Haiti to Great Britain and attorney- seneral of that government. THE DICTAGRAPH. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Water Department Salaries. Mr. Editor:"Two of our citizens have touched on the water question lately, owing to its unpalatable qualities, one of them implying that it may bé the resu:t of the recent law passed by our peanut legislators at Hartford making the office of superintendent permaneérit. It may be news to many to recall the manner in which the present office- holders of the water department were elected last year. Through- some means or other the democratic councilman from Greene- ville was induced to turn traitor to his party and all his party pledges in regard to nominations and vote for Councilman Murray, a republican, of Greeneville, for water commissioner, thereby handing over the control of the water department to the republi- cans. It was by this dishonorabie method that the present superintendent was assured of the office, and it would seem an insult to the decency and in- telligence of the citizens to o further and try to make permanent a position acquired by such doubtful methods, and it seems strange that our repre- sentatives at Hartford should lend their aid to such a scheme. Why didn't they introduce a bill to make the offices of selectmen, street commissioner, city attorney, town clerk and tax collector permanent, offices in which experience is worth much more to the citizens than the one which they favored? It is costing much more to run the department than ever before and those in power have raised all salaries by a strictly party vote. Years ago W. W. Ives as cashier conducted all the office business. and did it wel, for $1.200 a vear. The salary has since been raised to $1,500 and a lady ®s- sistant added at $500 per year. They havo recently been increased to $1,500 for. the cashier and $800 for an assist- ant, a total of $2,600, as against the former $1,200 for the same service. The superintendent expects not only to have the position steady but expects 25 they-have everything their own way to have a substantial raise in his sal- | ary also, in order, perhaps, to counter- balance the saving which they contem- plate making from the reduction in the~salary of city treasurer. The citizens ought to have some say in the expenditures in this department as well as in ‘the other departments. especially as taxes kéep soaring, and they ought not to be bound to a con- dition brought about under such cir- cumstances. JUSTICE TO ALL. Norwich, June 1, 191 Weather for June. Mr. Editor: Some of my critics chuckled considerably because there was_some rain the first of May. My predictions distinctiy said: *May would be a dry month: three frost periods. the worst about the middle of the month,” The Bulletin, both May 16 and 17, had reports of bad frosts in several parts of Connecticut. 1 also said distinctly that “the last two weeks of May would be very dry, end- ing with a big storm the end of the month.” T leave it with your readers. Now, then. if you fellows &ot scared at planting potatoes in April or May, Zet busy this old_moon in June; plenty of time, and you will skip one crpp of potato bugs. There aré two weli de- fined frost periods in June, one from 4th to 7th. Hive plenty of watér ready to water your plants beforeé sunrise and vouwll get by all right. A bad drouth and extreme heat from Junc 14 to 20. Near the 90 mark a dozen different days in June this year. There are four storm periods in June, but the ten- dency of the wind to swing to the west will make at least two of them dry storms, and possibly all. When it looks most like rain this June, it will end in a parching wind. About the only relief I see from dry weather is electrical storms, that will be numerous, but more noise than rain. Keep your courage up. you young zardeners, for July conditions will be much betier than the average July and will help you out. THE CTL.OUD June 1, 1917, DIGGER. Packer, Appropriations Made at Special Meeting. Mr. Editor: Last Thursday morning Alderman Dolbeare had a letter in ‘our paper making the statement that City he had looked over the records and wes unable to find where the court of common council of 1913-1914 had any authority to spend the money they had received from the insurancs company for the fire loss at the crusher or the money received for macadam répairs from the Connecti- cut company. I wish to ask him to look again and of appropriating 3854.04 received from the crusher insurance for the ordinary street expenses and $827 reccived from the Connecticut company was appropriated and added to the mica- dam repalr account. And, further, no court of common council can expend any money except the same is ap- propriated by a city meeting and no council has done this while 1 was a member thereof. HENRY GEBRATH. Norwich, June 1, 1917 THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Society. Duino, which the Italians are re- ported o have taken recently in their renewed drive toward Austria’s great Adriatic seaport of Trieste, is des- cribed in the following war geography bulletin jssued by the National Geo- graphic Society: Many American traveiers are famil- jar with the environs of tiip : little hamlet of Duino with its 500 inhdbi- tants, its quaint old chateau and its ruined castle by the sea. It nezfies on the eastern shore of the Bay of Panzano, a northern arm of the Gulf of Trieste, and is twelve miles in an airline from the important Adriatic seaport. "Traveling by rall from Trieste in a northwesterly direction on the line which runs to Venice, the tourist de- trains at Duino-Sistiana, the station which erves both the village 6f Duing and that of Sistiana. It is a walk of less than a mile to Duino. Back in the midd'e ages Duino was the seat of the Counts of that name who occupied the castle now in ruins and who held sway over considerable territory in this vicinity, including the town of Fiume which came into their possession from the bishop of Pola in 1189 and was held by them until the 14th century. “A mile and a half from Duino ie San Giovanmi, where the River Tim- avo or Timavus gushes from the ground in such volume that véssels can sail to its very source. This is supposed to be the River Reka which| see that if in July or August of 1913 | he will not find "that a specla] city meéting was called for the purpose Our success of the past thirty years has been due to the policy of giving our customers a disappears among the grottoes of Sant Kanzian many milée away. The source of the Timavo is a place of pilgrimage for tourists on account of the many classieal allusions to it. Vir gl In his Aeneld says that it rushes out of the mountain from nine noisy mouths, but six of those strsams have now disappeared ‘and the remaining three come from the hills in a very orderly fashion, unite and make their way tranquilly to the Adriatic a mile and a half away. Tgtil quité recently Duino was a possession of Prince Holeniohe, but at the time of its occupation by the Ital- ians its villagers owea allegiance to Prince Alexander of Thurn and Taxis.” Views of the Vigilantcs CHRISTIANITY AND THE WAR. By Lyman Abbott of the Vigilantes. Much can be said for the belief that Jesus Christ condemned self-defense. “Whosoever shall smite thee on _thy right cheek, turn to him the other al- 50" refecs to personal assauit; “if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also” refers to judicial injustice; “whesoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain” refers to government oppression. And these counsels are interpréted and confirmed by the practice of Jesus. He ncither defended himself by speech against slanderous tongues nor by act against criminal violence. When his enemies {charged him with being a glutton and a wine-bibber, he reported the fact but did not deign even to deny the charge. When they accused him of seeking to overthrow the iaws of Moses, it was not to defend himself but to make his meaning clear that he told his hearers he did not come Lo destroy the law or the prophets b to_fulfil them. But there is nothing in teaching or his conduct to sanction to the notion that either his Bive any he coun- whip as the symbol, if not as the in- | strument. of his attack. At the end of his ministry, when the Jewish and Roman police came to arrest him, he put himself between them and the ha'f-awakened disciples, and the po- lice, it Is_sald, fell backward to the ground. Whether the force he used was natural or supernatural, moral or physical, it was sufficient to knock them down. Then when the disciples had taken his hint and fled, he al- lowed himself to be arrested ried to his death. and car- It is true that when Peter drew the sword in a perfectly futile attempt at resistance, Jesus told him to put up his sword. Jesus was no anarchist He had already made clear to the peo- ple that he did not believe in the mor- ality of those who accept the protec- tion of the government and refuse to give it their support. By his rebuke iof Peter he sanctioned the right of poiice officers. to use force in the ex- ecution of the law. Nothing in Christ's is inconsistent with the mainténanes of that right. It is tho teaching of Christ not that force should never be used, but that its use should be in- life or teaching trusted to unselfish and disinterested hands. That teaching modern civiii- zation almost universally accepts. A brave man will his rights rather than use force to maintain theéem. But only a coward will_abandon a duty because to fulfil it involves danger. It is right for the father to defend his childron from the abductor: of the policeman to defend the wayfarer from the highwayman: of the nation to defend its citizensg from pirates on the sea and assassins on the land bedause this is the duty of the father, of the policetnan, of the nation. To charge Jesus Christ with teach.ng that the strong must not defend the weak is to dishenor him and to d's- credit the réligion which he tausht. To absolve the state from the duty of defending its citizens 18 to throw them tack upon the primitive right of self-defense, and undbr guise of pro- moting peace, bring in the barbaric reign of universal private war. often relinquish YOU ARE NOT EXEMPT. Help Support a Soldier at the Front by Buying a Liberty Bond. 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