Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 30, 1917, Page 4

Gorwich Bulletin and Goueies 121 YEARS OLD R 1= e Entered at the Fostoffice at Norwieh, Conn., &s second-class mat! Telephone Calls: Bull¢tn Businass Ofrice 480. Balletin Egitorial Roorg Bulletin Job OF) Office, 67 Church 25-: Willimantic st Telephone 210-2. Norwich, Saturday, June 30, 1917. The Circulation of The Bulletin The circutation of any paper Tonnecticut and from thres to four Bulletin _has _the jargest Eastern times larger than that of any in Norwich. It is delivered o over 2,000 of the 40563 houses ‘n Nor- wich and read by ninety-three per 3 cent. of the people. in W[ndm; it is delivcred w over 9500 houses. in Putnam and Danielson to over 1,100, and in all of these plac it is considered the local dally. Eastern Connecticut has forty- routes in Eastern Connecticut. ; 1901, ceeeee 44123 1905, average...............5,920 : 9,394§ nine towns. one hutdred and sixty- Sesesesescesessessassnsescsasasessssessassassed five postoftice districts, and sixty iural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold In every town and oun all of he R. F. D. average.. June 23, 1917 BREAKING NEUTRALITY IN GREECE. Right on the heels of the calling of Venizelos to the premiership of Greece and the selection of the new Greek cabinet comes the breaking of relations by that country iwith -Ger- many and its three allies. No time has been lost in making change and it has been made quite plain that a new state of affairs is existing in that country today from what there was when Constantine was king and matters were guided in accordance with the wishes and dictates of the kaiser. Greece has been undersoing a housecleaning. It has made a clean sweep of the pro-German advisers. Tt has put its stamp of disapproval up- on the German press and it has made it plain that the much talked about friction with Italy over matters ter- ritorial is simply that which has been created by the royalist inluence which is unfavorable to the entente ard thus doing its utmost to bring the new con- aitions into disfavor among peo- ple. This break in relations is only what can be considered preliminary to fur- ther action by Greece. It is not img- probable that that country will be- come actively engaged in the war at no far distant date. With elimi- nation of Con, 1 move which the entente a2 1d have made with sreat b, t Greece and to themselves a leng time 2 he dan- ger to the allied army under General Sarrail was remove At the same time the centra understand that that force c pected to displ some of the activ that was expected of § it was sent to Saloniki and exander in full eympathy with Venizelos and his ideas a new polic in effect there which is bound to be felt in the Balkans. It is entirely ible that Venizelos will endeavor to put into eftect his plan of removing the Bul- garian menace by some cuch plan of Tielding territory which he favored at the outset but that remains for the future to reveal The action cf Greece, however, makes it apparent that Germany has a new cause for worry and the allies an added cause for elation. FIXING COAL PRICES, Some prosress appears been made by the & to have ernment officials in their conference with the coal pro- ducers looking to the reduction in the price of that commo It was a curious situation which arose when was claimed that the attorney eral would proceed against them if they got together in a price fixing scheme because such would be a vio- lation of the Sherman anti-trust law, when Secretary Lane and other lead- ers at Washington were urging them to do this very thing. But such was set at rest when it was declared that there was no intention of applying the Sherman law under the prevailing conditions. The prospects are therefore that the it Zen- price of coal will be lower. It will be brought about by a reducticn on the part of the producers, by lowering their charge at the mines from a dol- jar to a dollar and a half a ton and by the fixing of a limit which the brokers can charge for their services. This indicates that something is be- ing accomplished under threat of drastic steps being taken by the gov- ernment to bring about the same re- sult, the hope having been expressed however that it could be accomplished without a resort to such action and the wisdom of it apparently made its =ppeal to tha producers. This, however, applies simply to bi- tuminous coal instead of to both bi- tuminous and anthracite coal and Iit- tie consolation is to be gained by the individual from the declaration that there Is little prospect that anything will be undertaken relative to the bard coal situation. Soft coal has ~hown much more of an advance than 3. Ses 85-2. barrassment but there is much need same sort of attention and brinsing the same pressure to bear upon the anthracite producers. In fact there are many avenues in which the government authorities not only can but should pursue the same dlligent efforts which they have made in re- gard to bituminous coal. It is time that all should get the benefit of low- ered prices when it is realized that consumers are being forced to pay far more than there is any sound reason for their doing. AIRPLANES ANC MORE PLANES. 1t is not long since that we were told that the need of this country and the allies was ships, “ships and more ships. It was an indisputhble arzument. But it is not the only need which exists today if the entente forces are going to carry on the war with the effectiveness which they must and if they are going to show their supremacy in the alr as well as on land and in the water. Another great need is airplanes, airplanes and more airplanes and in supplying this requirement there is as great an op- portunity in this country as there is | for shipbutlding. | A grand fight is underway for the mastery of the air. Upon the out- come of it will depend to a large de- | gree the success of the allied armies. | The airplanes have been shown to be one of the most impertant modern war machines. They are necessary not only for the valuable scouting work which they do but they are im- portant in carrving on offensive op- | erations and in breaking up the plans | of the enemy 1t is Admiral Fiske of this country who declares that torpedo planes should be emploved for the purpose of making a great offensive move asainst the naval bases of Germany in Belgium and in Germany for it is upon this agency that great reliance must be placed for the carrving out of effective assauits, inasmuch as they offer specal advantages for this work and it is important to strike at such points and to strike hard. Thus it is not surprising that the suggestion of the national council ef defense to the effect that provision should be made at onee for the funds which will permit the construction of 35,000 airplanes in this country is being reeeived with pronounced ap- proval. We are in the war to stay. We desire to hasten the end and we must make every move which will contribute thereto and there can be no question but what an air navs of the cize called for will be none too large to meet the requirements, and the quicker it can be secured the ter, AIR- KEEP THE SCHOOLS OPEN. While the war s drawing heavily on all the resources of this country its industries, its shipping, its fi- nances and Its men, and among the last named .many must be appreciated that during the period of the war there must be no disposition to iInterfere with the edu- cational system of the country. It is of the utmost importance that the schools and the colleges should go on as they have In the past. It is neces- sary for’ the coming generations and it is vital to the country. Young peo- ple, including many school children can be of much assistance in hand- ling some of the problems which will arise, but their services must not be sought at the expense of education. Whatever they can do during their spare time can be taken advantage of but they should not be taken away from their studies. Should sueh a thing be permitted the country would pay and pay severely for it in the end. In connection with this matter of education and the war, Dr. P. P. Clax- ton, United States commissioner of education, sounds a timely warning! wlhen he declares: “Schools and other agencies of education must be main- tained at whatever necessary cost and against all hurtful interference with their rezular work except as may be necessary for national defense, which is of course our jmmediate task and must be kept constantly in mind and have right of way everywhere and at all times. From the beginning of our participation in the war we should avoid the mistakes which some other countries have made to their hurt and chich they are now trying to correct. When the war is over, whether with- in a few months or after many years, there will be such demands upen this country for men and women of sclen- | tific knowledge, technical wkill wnd general culturs as have never before come to any country. The world must be rebufit”. And it must be appre. clated in this connection that it is the ! vouns people of today who must be { depended upon to meet their share of the responsibility. But if the schools | and colleges relax in their efforts { how are they going to be able to re- | spond as they should? The schools feel the effects of the war but must not be neglected. EDITORIAL NOTES. ¢ The man on the corner says: The bov who can do a man's work usual- Iy finds plenty of opportunity. The Germans are said to be saving their coffee gmounds and using them for cattle fodder. Probably there's a reason. [ Whether it was an olive branch or a twig of poison ivy, Russla is taking no chance with the German offer of a separate peace. Emma Goldman may claim a resi- dence in this state but she might as well understand that that is not con- ferring any honors upon this com- monwealth. 7t should be fully understood that the sermons which are to be preached on Sunday for the prevention of waste in foodstuffs are not intended eolely for the cook. The drop in the price of potatoes makes it evident that the producers have gone about thelr task in a way to suceesstully overcome the efforts of the speculators. When the Germans expect a new offensive by General Haig but cannot suess at which point it is going to be made, it looks very much as if their spy system had broken down. Residents along the Thames have figured the opening of summer from the first trip of the Block Island for so many years that the taking off of that excursion boat is going to be not only the cause of much disappoint- ‘ment but many miscalculations. the eollezes, it] ¢ | (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) that we acquire a pas- e Aowera, or that Prosezpine was captured while admiring the flow- ers of Sicily by Pluto in the mythical ages of the past. It is doubtless true that the worid never knew such beau- flowers as adorn tif parks and gasdens of today, for man learned the insects the primary princi- ples of hybridization, and has become a wizard in the art of creating vari- as much more beautiful than the that_they are hardly recos- nizable as relatives. From a few varieties the lilac, the petunia and chrysanthemum have been increased to hundreds; and the pansy, the peony and the dahlia to thousands, with no horizon the limit of possibil- ity. “The meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do_often lie too deep for tears,” wrote Wordsworth; and Mrs. Hemans declared: “A pas- sion for flowers, is, 1 think, the only one which long sickness leaves un- touched with its chiiling influence.” Have you ever noticed the limita- tions put upon freedom? We can take our religion from our mother and our politics from our father, but we cannot put oyr mistakes off upon our parents. W& may inherit the vices of both our parents and the vir- tues of neither, but that is no defence for our conduct 4n a polite court. Nature has declared every tub shall sit upon its own bottom: and be re- sponsible for its own leaks, Respo sibility cannot be inherited or con- veyed, for it is personal accountability to man and to God. We have freedom to Bevelop or degrade ourselves—ye have a will that may overcome enil tenflencies if not itseif possassed of evil. Our freedom depends upon self- mastery and a_tolerant spirit. To be free all must be able to pursue their own good in their own way; but they must be conecious that he who does £00d to another also does good to himself. Bishop Halil pointed out that “a good man is better to his enemies than a bad man is to his friends!” When any one tells you “Lite, after all, is oniy a big bundle of little things,” you wil not think of ques- tioning it if you have paesed 40, for this is the age when a man ceases his efforts to capture the moon and de- votes himself strictly to the stunt of getting the whole earth. Most people count life by years, but the biggest they have accomplished have matter of minutes. We make selves long promises, but our deeds short affairs. “Every man’s life be a plan of God,” as Horace Bushnell declared, but it doesn’t look like a divine plan’as most men live it. Life is said “to swarm with ‘ost op- portunities,” and in many lives ‘the garden and the glacier are only a step apart.” Life is our inheritance and our duty lies in.perfecting life, in pro- ducing life and in elevating life; and if we have failed in this, some believe we have failed in all else. There is nothing takes the piace of the progen- itor in the walks of time, for it is he who Keeps the race walking ard gain- ing in power and force. To get on well in life it is just as necessary to know what you cannot Go ‘as what you can do. A good pavi- gator seldom ventures in strange waters without a chart, for uncharted waters are always extra-perilous. We may safely measure our capacity and capability” by what we have done, hence, there is no reason why any one should take the chance of a leap in the dark. The man who is expert at running a sawmill might make a total faiiure of running a picycle; and the man who is dependable as a locomo- tive runner might not be dependable as the driver of a motor car. Every- body for his business as the hawk said when he seized the sparrow. Nothing ventured nothing sained, be- came a fact before it became a prov- erb; but at this the cautious, even, have failed. As men and brethen we may doubt who we will, but it never pays to lose confidence in ourselves. Emerson was right when he said: “The best lightning rod for your protection in yous own spine.” | have to smile at the way in which the word “slacker” is passed out to us as a menace for not doing some- thing some one eise wants us to do. We are slackers if we do not enlist, if we do not join the Red Cross, if we do not buy a liberty bond: in fact, if we do not respond to any kind of a funds colecting campaign any com- bination of men may decide to start to compel the prudent and thrifty to give. This coercive spirit is being worked a little too freely, and is not more than half as meritorius as the pikers who are back of much of it think it is. Worthy causes do not need any of the equipment of petty tyranny to promote them. There are lots of good reasons why citizens ca not do what others think they shoul and there are many good men who have always done their whole duty as citizens who are not slackers if they do not respond as ordered. Many of these people who are calling others slackers are old rounders who are a:- ways with those who shout and sel- dom with those who pay. asked: “What would become of us if we had to follow our own advice?” Just what would hap- pen doubtless to those who declined to take it, had they not wisdom enough to reject it Advice is one of the cheapest things on earth and one of the most disagreeable, for it must, like liniment, covers a raw spot to become Some one ha: effective. “A thousand times listen to the counsel of your friend,” says Hardy, “but seek it only once” The man 'who prospers aiways has a mouthful of advice for the man who doesn't; and the woman who has been jilted has a heart filled with counsel for the woman who has not been. There is no doubt all of us need ad- vice occasionally, but we all take it as we do disagreeable medicine—with 2 grimace; and abide by it as most preachers do by their own sermons. We know good counsel when it iz £iven us, but we hate to let the coun- seilor know that we are conscious of our need, or have ever felt the sting of conscience. | have sometimes thourht Satan's book of humor must be made up of the obituaries of men written by their earthly admirers. Many a man looks Iike a pismy to every one except he who wrote him up as a giant. A string of misapplied praife looks like a joke ewen when strung by a genius. If a fine obituary boosted a soul through the golden gates the new Jerusalem would not look so very much different from the old. Some eminent ass cautioned the world to speak well of the dead without adding, when they deserve to be thus spoken of. Tt woud be severe punishment enough for some men in the future to make them read their own obituaries; and of %some scribes to make them read and correct the obituaries they have written. Many a man who had Tess respectability than a horse-thief has had a fine sermon preached at his funeral, not because the preacher meant to be-dishonest, but because he aid not know. ' If only the truth were Continuing his account of the cele- bration of the guarter millenium of the town of Norwich, in 1909, William C. Gilman, in his valuable book refer- red to last week, reviews in an inter- esting manner the early period when the ariginal ‘“Nine-Mile-Square,” by reason of its topographical situs.tion, naturally became a group of smali dis- triets, Norwich, Franklin, Bozrah, Lisbon and Preston. After these ha: been set off as separate towns, in 1786, the e pradustl g B gradually became, as it contin- ues to be, a cluster of semi-detached villages, radiating from the Landing as a common center, including ‘the pleasant piains ‘helsea, half a mile from the Norwich port Falls, Up-Town, Bean Hil, West Side, Thamesville, Bast Norwich, Greeneville, Taftville and Océum. Thesa2 are surrounded by hills, Plain Hill, Ox Hill, Wauwecus Hiil and others, occupied for the most part as farms-and woeodlands. These villages have sometimes fancifully regarded, Mr. Gilman writes, 'l.- ahe petals of the Rose of New Eng- and. : And while on this tepic, he explains that the authorship of this felicitous appellation for Norwich has been as- scribed to Henry Ward Beecher, but it does not appear in his published writings, not even in his famous “Star Paper,” which, after sixty vears, is still as perfect a pen picture of the ©0ld town as if he had written it in the celebration vear. _Mr. Gilman writes: This tradition as to the name, received by Jonathan Trumbull from Edward T. Clapp, re- mains undisputed, and may be aceept- ed as veritable history. “When the committee on decora- tions for the bi-centennial celebration in 1859 was considering an appropri- ate designation Yor the town, the chairman, James Lloyd Greene, said, spoken of the dead the would be short. obituaries It is a good thing to test our own opinions to see what they are worth. We are a bit surprised to find that more opinions are based upon rumor and reports than upon reason. We have a habit of thinking we are better than some one else when we have not a bit of evidence to prove it. It is not a worthless mental exercise to take the person you hoid in lowest esteem and compare him with all his fauts to vourself just to find out in what particulars you are superior— just what vour virtues be. It is not easy to discover why you ase so good and he is so bad. .If you are honest with yourself you will be pretty sure to congjude he is not as bad as you though? he was. and that vou are not 80 zood as you think you be. We have so many exaggerated notions of our- seives and others that we are con- stantly floundering in error. When we fhink we are better than someone else it is well to try to find out how much better. Sunday Morning Talk THE. DIGGING HABIT. Most of us have been called upon to @i’ quite continuously of iu.e. Some of the Qigging haw been in gar- dens—but a lot more has been in pock- etbooks. Has there been a time in the memory of man wnen so many causes were asking for money as at present? The generous 1olk of u.l our commun- ities nave “dug’ till, in some cases at least, the botom golar is almust in sight. “Digzing down” for benevolence is a habii, Like a/mosi everything else in e. 1 not formed in youth, 1t is dif- ficult to acquire atterward. = Most lib- eral givers besan Lmeir benefactions during the age of pinafores. Tne mis- er, on the other hand, finds it a posi- tve pan to part with the smalest coin, becauss as a boy he never learn- €d to share so much as an apple with his companions. both the stinginess that curses the world and the gener- osity that blesses it, are largely due to long_continued habits of thought and action. Some years ago, an exceedinly rich man spoke, according to published re- port, to a company of youns men in ~New York City on the subject of giv- | ing. During the course of his remarks, he drew from his pocket a worn little account book which, he declared, no money would buy. It contained the recorl of his receipts and expenditures during the period when his income ranged from four to six doliars a week. He was earning scarceiy enough to keep soul and body together. The record showed, however, a gift of one cent each week to the Sunday schooi; there was a regular conrtiQution of ten cents to foreign missions, and of twelve cents to the mite society. The speaker then emphasized the peint that it is a mistake to wait for large wealth before beginning to con- tribute to worthy objects. He spoke with authority on the point, inasmuch as the poor boy who set aside ten cents for missions, now, as a man, not infrequently passes out a million dol- lars at a time for benevolent enter- prises. We imagine that it is always easy for a Croesus like this man to give money, but that it not to be taken for granted. It depends c¢n what one's enducation and training have been. As a matter of fact, sSomething like a surgical operation 'is required to sep- arate some very wealthy people from even a small contribution It is be- cause they have never learned how to give, have never cultivated their gen- erous impulses. Children should be encouraged to give to worthy causes, according to their ability. It is the only way to avoid an unlovely generation of tightwads by and by. It is the only way to train up a generation of princely givers. If even the little tots are made to feel early in life the priviege of helping on good causes, they will be generous stewards with their money later on. At a mass moeting recently at which funds were being raised for a worthy object, this note in a childish hand was sent up to the platform: “I give two cents, and here it is.” Those two cop- pers doubled themselves many thous- and fold before the evening was over. The little lad who gave them has in him the making of a philanthropist. It is not so hard to give when one makes it a matter of purpose and principle. If something is regularly put aside, even thougn It be but a tri- fle, for benevolence, one would never be' without a personal fund to draw upon in the presence of worthy ap- peals. Has it ever occurred to you, reader, that the chisf, and practically the sole commandment in the New Testament relating to Sunday has this duty in view? “‘Upon the first day of the week, let everyone of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him.” He who obeys the Scripture rule will never lack something to “dig down” for. THE PARSON. \ oindlt 8% S T Rose of New England!’ “The was accepted; and on an a on Broadway, near ' Broad Street, were insoribed the memorable Tords, ‘Norwich, The Rose of New England’ That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell sweet: and whether Norwich be c: Dorothy Perkins, or Killarney. General Jacqueminot, it will stiil the American Beauty, the Rose New England.” Writing of the celebration of 1909, Mr. Gilman directs attention to the fact that comparatively few were then living who remembered the celebra- tion of 1859. Of the prominent men who had served on the committees scarcely a ecore remained. Al the settled pastors of Norwich, ali the leading physicians, most of the prom- inent lawyers, the spectal orators of the day, the after-dinner speakers, Death had claimed all; and, most di tinguished of all, Governor Willlam A. Buckingham, “whose grace and dig- nity as the presiding officer were un- disturbed by forebodings of the im- ding national conflict—not two ears in the future—in which his pa- triotic services were to gain for him lasting remown as Connecticut's War of pointed out: new faces were seen at the windows and in the streets, new preachers were in the pulpits, new lawvers at the bar, new doctors at the bedeide, and names once famillar on eign boards in the business districts had been replaced, in_jarge measure, by those of new comers from foreign lands. If any survivor of the Norwich Bi- Centennijal could in a moment roll back the wheels of time for half a cen- tury, and, reversing the moving pic- ture, could see Norwich as it was in 1859, writes Mr. Gilman, his amaze- ment would be as great as was Rip Van Winkle's. The same skies, the same rocks and hills, the same rivers and meadows, all that was created by God, would stand forth in perennial beauty: but the work of man would appear strange'y quaint and crude: the old houses of the Antient Town would seem asleep, and the daily life of the good people, their habits and customs, dull and old-fashioned. He would look in vain for the com forts and conveniences of modern civ- ilization, and would realize that the golden days were mot in the past, but in /the present and the future: and that, on the firm foundation laid b the ' fathers, a new Norwich had arisen, surpassing all that was dreamed of in their phi‘osophy. summary by Mr. Gilman of the changes during the half cen tury between the celebration of t town's bi-centennial and of its quar- ter millenium, suggests how valuable are books exactly like his own. All that Norwich residents may learn of life and events in the early vears of the old Nine-Mile-Square is preserved in such few price ess hooks as Miss Caulkins' History, Miss Per- kins’ O1d Houses of The Antient Town of Norwich and Stedman’s record of the Bi-Centennial Celebration of 155 Without these and a few historica and geneaogical papers, the modern seeker after records of the doings when the forefathers and foremotl ™ of _this city were making histor: would be as helpless as one who must excavate in orfental ruins in the hope of finding some chance stone hearing puzzling inscriptions to be deciphered. The Blleti 's priceless files of the ancient Norwich Courier, beginning back in 1797, furnish most valuable eimpses of early iife and affairs: but these are not within reach of general readers. For that reason, when Norwich will be_ready to note its 'tercentenary in 1959, and_that is fortv-two vears ahead, with what joy will those who set about preparing for the celebra- tion peer into the pages of Mr. Gil- man's scholarly volume: and to how many others will it furnish interest and information and inspiration in the forty-two years between now and then! THE DICTAGRAPH. under which the procession | Views of the Vigilantss RUSSIA AND THE RED CROSS. By Edward Hungerford of The Vigi- lantes. Much has been written about the work of the Red Cross along _the Western theater of the Great War: little_is known about its efforts along the Eastern front. Yet it is upon that very front where the need has been the greatest, and the least has been accomplished. Lieut.-Col. M. C. Grow, of the Russian Army, who is in the United States for a few weeks be- fore rejoining his command. speaks eloquently of this need. It has been his pet care. A voung Philadelphian, a graduate of Jefterson Medical Col- lege, Grow went to Russia at the be- ginning of the war to aid in the work of the Red Cross there. Hhe showed remarkable abilities in organization work—abilities that were quickly rec- ognized by the Russian military au- thorities, with the resu't that he was made a commissioned officer, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. “When the war broke out.” savs Col. Grow, “the American Red Cross rec- ognized the necessities of the Russian situation by sending a base hospital unit over there, consisting of twelve doctors and fifty or sixty nurses. This hospital was quartered by the Russian government in_the School of Tchnol- ogy at Kief, where 900 beds were as- tablished. There was plenty of work for it. Its beds were always filled. Nevertheless the hospital was with- drawn in September, 1915. Tt was an- nounced then that a lack of funds had caused its abandonment. “By. private subscriptions among the American colony at Petrograd a very few of the doctors and nurses were retained. These were sent to Tiflis, where they were of immense service. But the subscriptions dwindled and sa, in turn, the American doctors and nurses. Finaily there were but two doctors and six nurses. And within the past few months even these have returned to this country. “Of course Russia has not been en- tirely dependent upon the labors of the American Red Cross. It is fortu- nate for it that it has not. TFor while it has one of the oldest and best equipped Red Cross organizations in the world, dating back to the days of the Crimean War, that orsanization was entirely unabie to cope with the exigencies of such a war as this. The English Red Cross established and still maintains a splendid base hospi- tal in_Petrograd. And both the French and the Japanese have been of almost invaluable service through their Red Cross establishments. “A very great problem upon the Russian front has been the question of obtaining sufficient ambulances. cars a year. As this sitnation the 1. ern front have had but 6000 motor ambulances, as compared with 75,000 upon the 400 mi:es of French and Bel- gian front. - And the norse-drawn am. bulances of Russia greater part of them are the typieal Russian springless carts, Wwhich go jouncing over the unspeakable roads of the Empire — many of them corduroy— with infinite pain to their wounded burthens, whose shrieks and cries are heard for a long dlstance roundabout. But even these transports are very scarce. Men pitifully wounded have had to walk five or six miles to reach them, for a -cross-country hauj of a few more awful miles to the hospital trains. And when these trains ga- up their burdens at Petrograd or Mos- cow the greater part of the wounded had been in their original dressings for five or gix days. And the stench from the supperation of those wounds were almost intolerable. it is mot a pretty etory that Cel Grow teils. But it is one that ought to go straight to the hearts of every American that reads jt. “It js not base hospitals that Rus- sia needs and needs so greatly at thiy time,” he says, ‘it is transportation for her wounded—ambulances, not by the dozens, but by the hundred and by the thousands. Hospital trains are need- ed too—modern, sanitary . affairs, npt the box-cars fiiled with Afthy straw that many times have had to serve for the carrying of wounded men in Rus- sia. She does need hospitals, of course. But these should now be specialists’ hospitals. For instance, there is great need of orthopedic institutions—surgi- cal-mechanical plants which can fit and turn out braces and artificial limbs of every sort. Today if a wounded Russian soldier loses a leg he is turned out of the hospital when the wound is healed, given three rubles and sent to beg upon the city streets. Nothing is being done to- ward making him a useful citizen of the nation once again. ‘The question is not, in its final analysis, one of humanity alone. Great as is that appeal, the question of diplomacy is even greater. If America can aid in the comfort of the Russian in the fighting field, if she—in an un- mistakable manner-—can convince him that she is going to nurse him it he falls wounded, she is going to keep him fighting. He is the finest of sol- diers, a loyal, tremendous fighter. But after’ all, he is on'y human. And hu- man comfort and human sympathy. human care, are the things that make the greatest appeal to hle imagination and his understanding. - T .. Here then is Russia’s cali for help. The answer to it rests in America — not along in the official America which concerns itself with diplomacy — but aquite as much in individual America: in the hearts and minds of American men and women. The answer as to { whether the Red Cross shall help poor Russia rests with vou and it rests with me. It is a question for individ- val consciences — for vours. for mine. What is your answer to it? CANNING LESSONS Asparagus. Tt is of the greatest importance that asparagus for canning be fresh and tender, says today’s bulletin from the Jational ~Bmergency ‘Food Garden Commission, which s cooperating with this newspaper in its nation-wide food conservation campaign. Select stalks of uniform age, and color, wash them well in cold water with a stff vegotable brush. cutting off the woody part of the plant, and then cut into right length for cans. Space may be saved by cutting Into inch lengths. Tie into bundies and blanch by set. ting lower ends into an inch of bo: ing water for five minutes, then im mersing the who'e tips for about five minutes longer, depending upon the age of the asparagus. Plunge immed- fately into cold water and pack tight- Iy into jars—with tips up if the whole stalks are used. Add a teaspoonful of salt to each guart and fill the jars with hot water; then adjust and partially tighten the tops. Sterilize by placing jars In beiling water from an hour and a half to two hours. depending upon the aze of the aspargus. Remove jars from boiing water. tighten tops,” invert and place out of a draught to cool — Readers of THE BULLETIN By sending this coupon to the National Emergency Food Garden Commission, 210 Maryland Bidg.. Washington, D. C. with a two cent stamp to pay post. age a canning and drying manual free of charge. All you have to do is fill out the space and enclose the two cent stamp for postage. These are twelve page manuals, fully il- lustrated and are sent out in eo- operation h this paper as a part of the personal service we at all times aim to give our readers. size Name .. Street .. City By National Geographis Society. ~ Janina—"The city of Janina, which Italian forces operating in Macedonia have eseized as a military necessity, has only been a Greek possession for four years,” says a war geography bulletin issued today by the National Geographic Society from its Washing- ton headquarters. “It was captured from the Turks in March, 1913, and by the subsequent treaties of London and Bucharest was formally ceded to the Greeks. “Situated at the foot of the towering Mt. Mitzekeli, on the wesgtern shore of the shallow Lake of Jania this éity is one of the most historic centers of population in Greek Epirus. It was for many years a part of the Byzan- tine Empire but during the eleventh and twelfth centuries suffered repeat- edly from the raids of Norman ad- vénturers who endeavored to estab- lish in Greek and Italian territory a kingdom similar to that which Will- iam the Conqueror founded in the British Isles. “One of the most terribie periods of suffering and persecution which any City was ever forced to undergo feil to the lot of Jania during the latter half of the fourteenth century when Thomas, son-in-law of Simon, the brother of the sreat Stephen Dushan of Serbla, held sway here, pillaging, persecuting, blinding, burning and sawing-asunder those who aroused his wrath. Imp of Darkness and Son of Satan were two of the ‘affectionate’ epithets which the people connected with his name. His peop.e were fin- ally relleved of hiz cruelties in the same fashion that Rome was rid of y came at the end of th century and extended almeost thro the first quarter of the nineteenth, for it was d g thls period that it was the séat of goversmenmt of that re- markable Albanian chieftain, Ali Pas- ha, ‘the Lion of Janina.' At this time it "probably attained a population of 50,000, Ali held éourt here in a fash- jon almost as sumptuous as did the Suitan at Constants Fitteen undred peopls were palace, and the ehiefcaln or wives almest riyval omon, there being 600 tes of his harem. “Many and varied are the stories told of the manner in which All sus- tained his court, one of his favorite ‘methods of securing revenue from his trembling _subjects being to mak them presents of wheat, snuff-boxes, watches, and what not, for which they were always ezpected o present the beneficent ruler considerably more than (often e) the market price in ¢ofn. The scheme was not an in- vention of Ali's students of English history will recali a parailel practice of Brii sovereigns in a much earlier age. “The last episode in the career of the Lion of Janina reads as if it might have been borrowed from the ‘Arabian Xights" or one of the Moorieh legends of the Alhambra. Finally brought to bay In his ‘iron castle’ on the prom- ontory which juts out into the shallow lake, ‘Ali tried to come to terms with the chief of the sultam's forces. He went to the island in the lake where the opposing forces had estabiished their batterles and there offered sub- mission _on certain conditions. But before placing himself in the hands of the enemy he left his faithful siave Achmet in the castle to guard the Breat store of treasure which he had been accumulating for decades. Ach- met's orders were to stand day and night with lighted taper in hand ready to fire to a powder magazine which would scatter the riches to the winds if any harm should befall his master. “After long negotiations Alf picions were allayed and he sent the half of a signet ring to Achmet as a token that the taper should be ex- tinguished. No sooner had the falith- ful slave put out the light, however. than the messengers slew him and took possession of the treasure house. In the meantime, on the isiand tae aged Ali was stabed to the heart-while owing his adieus to the sultan’s emis- sary. There are numerous mosques, churches, and synagogues in Janina, but the cypress sroved castle of Ali Pasha bears striking evidence that its glory has departed. “The clty now has a population of less than 25000 but it is still famous as in olden days, for its manufa-.are of gold and silver filigree and cm- broidery. The surrounding countr; extremely fertile and the lake supplies an abundance of fish and water fowl The climate is extreme, the inha tants finding it necessary to dress in heavy fure in winter and the lighte t of apparel in summer. Earthquaies are frequent and chroniclers of an early era record that the tremors ‘sometimes cast fish out of the sea.” “Janina has two import cities—Say- ada, opposite Corfu, and Arta. They equi-distant from Janina. the for- ing 35 miles in an airline to mer the west and the latter due séuth. OTHER VIEW POINTS The civilian population of Belgium, by all the rules of civilized warfare should have been fsd by Germnany when she overran their territory, but Germany refused to feed them, Jeaving it to the United States to save men, women and children from starvation. More than that, the food of the Bel- Elans, what little they had, was car- ried off for the use of Germany. When the United States entered the war, £00d that had been sent from this na- tion in to Beigium for relief of the un- fortunate civilians was appropriated to German use. It is a_poor prospect that prisoners of war have ahead of them while in the hands of a nation that has no regard for any of the rules of war as recognized by civilized countries.—Waterbury Republican. Seventy thousand men are wanted for the American army. Seventy thousand fighting men'! ere is the opportunity for those whd can leave at once to serve the na- tion. Americgns, arise! Answer the presi- dent’s eall: Volunteer today for democracy’s ser- vice. Volunteers are wanted. It is a call to stir the blood of brave men!—New Haven Times-Leader. And now there is talk of sending Senator Root and his war mission to Japan, as soon as his visit to Ru is over. From the apparent success of his appeal to Russia. under the most_extraordinarily trying conditigns, his misston to Japan will be a com- paratively easy one.—Waterbury Am- erfean. There is a great deal of difference in opinion among government officials at Washington as to whether aliens are subject to service under the selective draft. That is that portion of the alien population that has declared its intention of citizenship in the Uaited States. Tt is readily seen that an alien Who has made no move toward taking out his first papers is exempt from the dragt. The question then is, Are those aliens_eligible for service in the army who have taken out their first papers and thus declared their inten- tion of becoming citizens? We are of the belief they should be drafted along with the rest of the men between the ages of 21 and 31. They haye lived in this country long enough to lfke it bet- ter than the countries from which they came. They have enjoyed the bless- ings of the land. They have prospered. They have never signified gny Inten- tion of repudiating their citizenship papers by turning them back. Ani so they should be made to conform to the law with the native born. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander—New Britain Herald. It is ood news that within a few hours the Second regiment will be re- lieved of the guard duty which it has been performing and_ placed in the field under canvas. The members of the regiment have had unwelcome du- ties to perform and they have per- formed them with good grace. The rescue from such duties and the sub- stitution of training which will whip the boys into shape for future service has brought joy to the militiamen. It should also prove the final and irre- sistible argument for the men who have not yet mads up their minds to step in and All up the gap in the ranks which a shortage of almost 500 men still leaves. This is “recruiting week,” for the filling of the regular army and the National Guard. New Haven has not failed vet in doing her bit in Wwhatever reasomable demands have been made upon her patriotism. We cannot believe that the men of this [ city will close their ears to the eall which is now sent out or be blind to the opportunities for service which the week points out. There shouid be no hesitation about flocking to the colors. Men of New Haven, fiil up the gap!— New Haven Jourmal-Courier. WHY THAT LAME BACK? ‘That morning lamenses —thoss pains when bending or lifting WOrk & burden and rest imoe Don’t be handicapped by & bad oe look to your ikidmeys. You no mistake by following this resident's exampil Mrs. E. Mulkin, 613 North M= says: “I had dull paine across small of my back and 1 no trouble mostly when 1 sver-d . 1 was on my feet a great dea felt weak and Doan's tired Pills gave me good reiief o why 1 recommend em Price 50c, at all dealers. Py ask for a lidmey reme Doan's Kidney Pills—the same Mrs. Mulkin had. 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