Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 3, 1917, Page 4

Glorwich Bulletin and Goufied 121 YEARS OLD Subscription price 12¢ s week; 50c a month: a year. Entered at the Postoffics at Norwich, onn., es second-class matter. Telephome Calla: Thetia Baitortal Rooris 35-8. alletin or! oorus Bulletin Job Oties 352 t Builg Willimantle _Office, 67 Church Telephone 210-2. uesday, July 3, 1917. The Circulation ¢f The Bulletin The Bulletin has the largest eirculation of any paper in Eastern Connecticut and from thres to fous times larger than that of any in Norwich. It is delivered *o over 2,000 of the 4.053 houses in Nor- wich and read by ninety-three per cent. of the people. in Windham it is delivcred tu over 900 aouses. in Putnam and Danielson to over 1,100, and in all of these places it is considered the local daily. Fastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hundred and sixty- five postofice districts, and sixty iura! free dellvery routes. The Bulletin s sold In every town apd on all of he R. F. D. routes in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATION average ceersone NS e June 23, 1917.4...‘..... 9,394[ THE RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE. The renewal of activities by the Russians along the Galician front, while the early .eports do not indi- cate that they have thus far gained much ground, makes it apparent that the army is going to do its part in upholding the determination of free Russia to fight for the establishment of an early peace. The rest which those forces have had for several months has made it pessible for them to bring up any supplies that may have been needed in the way of equip- ment and ammunition and they are in a position to carry on a vizorous of- fensive along the line which Germany has been drawing reinforcements from in order to give greater support to its armies in the west Thus there appears to be not only an opportunity for the Russians to accomplish much that will be of great assistance to the cause of the allies, but it is bound to cause Germany and 1901, 1905, average. Austriz i ty at the very time wh y are confronted with sericus p ms elsewhere. s significant at this time that Germary shculd be offering Russia an armistice for its coming elections. That country knows what Russia has done fo during Its period of inactivity. It was in hopes that its peace proposi- tion would be accepted and still great- er benefit be obtained by the retire- ment of that country from the war, but that having failed it is dcing ita best to cause another Iull on the east- ern front. That it believed will meet with no great success, and with the resumption of the offensive in all theaters of the war the central powers will be subjected to the great- pressure that they have experi- enced since the war opened. The en- tente has lost much valuable time by the attitude of Russia but the time has not expired when the big Russian army can be of tremendous benefit. NO SIMILAR REPRISALS. The British government has been giving serious thought to the demand whicn has been made upon it that it scrt to reprisals as the result of the large loss of life among non combat- ants during the recent air raid over London. Tt has taken time to look at the matter from both es and in reaching the decision’ which it has, hat Great Britain will not resort to cannot help being felt that it is the wisest course. Britain has decided that it not attempt to outdo Sermany i its frightfulness, its brutality, its savagery It realizes that every at- tempt to pay Germany back with the same kind of coiln Is going to drive hat desperate country to greater out- awry, harsher cruelties and more bar- barous treatmen: of the innocent, and Zreat Britain dces not intend to re- sort to that kind of warfare which neludes women and children. No sountry can have an ambition to out- -ival Germany in such methods. That sountry has zained a reputation hroughout the world which no one ¥ill envy, and inasmuch as the resort o Wke endeavors would only force he imperial government to commit worse deeds, it is but natural that no rovernment outside of Germany and ts allies wants to be responsible for such horrible measures. The entente nations can well put ‘orth their efforts In behalf of driv- ng the Germans to a point where it will be much more difficult to carry sut such ruthless plans. This can be wccomplished by forcing them out of ‘he coast towns of Belgium and it will sot be surprising if such a prozramme s opened in the near future. PLAYGROUNDS. With the opening of the playground eason in many cities and the plans or the opening in others, there can- wt help being a widespread interest n the activity and accomplishments support. been gathered by the census depart- ment for the year 1916 there are but 18 citles out of 213 having more than 50,000 inhabitants which have not made provision for playgrounds in one way or another. They have seen the need and appreciated the benefit to be gained thereby to the extent of maintaining 2190 playgrounds averag- ing a trifle over two acres to a ground, and facilities for games and supervision are provided in nearly all of them, some cities even furnishing swimming pools, bathing beaches, golf courses and polo fields. Where swim- ming pools and beaches were main- tained, Including indoor as well as outdoor pools there was an attendance during the fiscal vear 1916 of more than 26,000,000, and this of course does not apply to those who were attracted by other than the natatorial features. The extent towvhich the playground movement has gotten a hold upon the people is disclosed by the fact that during the year the expenditures for such efforts in behalf of the young, in cities over 30,000, amounted to $21,637 097 or an average of 67 cents per capita. This of course does not in- clude the thousands of grounds whaich are maintained in smaller places but in which there is an equal amcunt of interest. It all goes to show, however, that the movement has come to stay. that it Is doing what it was said it would and that it is worthy of proper MORE COAL SHOULD MEAN LOW- ER PRICES. Just at this time when the attention of the country is centered upon the lowering of the price of coal, as at- tempted through the efforts of cer- tain administration heads by present- ing to the coal producers their patri- otic duty, the official fisures which have been given out by Secretary Lane of the department of the interior re- garding the production of coal for the past six months are especially inter- esting. In declaring that the production of coal in this country was the largest in its history, he stated that a new record has even been established dur- ing the first six months of this year when fully 270,000,000 tons of bitumi- nous coal were produced, or more than 20,000,000 tons in excess of the cor- responding period of 1916, and that the limit has not been reached. This means than an even greater tonnage can be anticipated for the ensuing six months with the prospects that it may reach the 300,000,000 mark. There have been greater demands of course for coal throush increased industrial activity, but at the same time the added output this vear with the indications of a still greater pro- duction stands forth as one of the best reasons why there should be a dropping in the price so that the con- sumer will receive fair treatment. In- creased production of course means increased profit for the producers. A fair price therefore is only just and if the government has not the author- ity to see that the consumer gets proper treatment there should be leg- islation enacted which will give it that authority. Because there is a big de- i mand the users ought not to be un- fairly treated, especially when there is such a great amount being mined. PLENTY FOR DISTILLERIES TO DO There appears to be no prospect that there will be any abandonment of the prohibition of whiskey distilling during the period of the war as called for in the food control bill already passed by the house and which the senate must take action upon very soon. Although the effort which being made to put beer and wines un- der the same strict prohibition, it is possible that a compromise will be reached whereby such action will be left to the president with power to take such a step if and when he con- siders it advisable. In connection with this fight for the prohibition of swhiskey manufacture, those who are opposine it are laying stress upon the number who will be thrown out of employment by the closing of such distilleries, but it is pointed out by Dr. Allen Rosers of the American chemical society that such need not take place. These es- tablishments can and should be turn can be utilized in the manufacture of alcohol not for the purpose of provid- ing it for drinking purposes but for the manufacture cof explosives, the manufacture of ether and other me- dicinal articles, for fuel and for dves. This makes it plain that the distil- lertes will not have to shut up. In fact they should not be permitted to. At a time like this, or in fact at any time, there is need for turning every establishment of the kind to the best possible use and there is a wide de- mand- for such an important article as they are well equipped to turn out. EDITORIAL NOTES. Early success in canning ought to in- spire further activity in that direction as the season moves along. The man on the corner sa The man who wields a hoe successfully has mastered one branch of the simple life. Strenuous efforts are being made at Washington to put King Alcohol in archs of Europe. While there is so much attention being given in Washington to the pro- hibition of the manufacture of whis- key, beer and wine, there is a stranze silence on the part of Col. Bryan about grape juice. Not much has been heard from Villa of late, but there is no telling how long it will last. Villa is much like the New York horsecars which are reported gone today but still doing business tomorrow. Venizelos is not, likely to start his job by telling the new king that he was well acquainted with his father. He will get busy at once, let such a discussion of the past wait and de- vote his attention to the business at hand. Those Boy Scouts of Virginia who are digging 400,000 bushels of pota- toes are furnishing an excellent ex- ample to the members of that orcan- ization scattered throughout the coune try for their idle hours durirg the long vacation Those who caused the digging of potatoes to stop because there has been a drop in the price ought to re ceive a visit from an agent of Uncle 1 this organized play movement hroughout the country. According to the data which has o JaP o as =l Sam. Potatoes can still continue to drop without the consumer [finding them on the bargain counter. ed to the best use possible and they | the same class with the deposed mon- | “I am so glad,” said the bride, “ta¢ ‘Tom has such a sympathetic nature! So many men are positively unfeeling! Why, when he came last evening and found that 1 had a headache you should have seen him! He went out to a restaurant for his dinner and made me a cup of tea himself, and was positively anxious! As though 1 were going to die or something!” “That is very beautiful!” agreed the woman who had been married a long time. “Enjoy it while you may, be- cause it is a_fleeting flower!"” “You talk,” indigantly eclaimed the bride, “as if husbands were in the habit of beating their wives with the broom or the coal shovel if they ever felt_anything but superlatively well!” “Not at all!” said the long married lady. “I consider my husband the prize gem of the race, but be never hangs over me as though he feared I was about to pass away when my head aches. He stands around on one foot and asks whether I don't want the window shade raised and then says he guesses he can't do anvthing for me and he's sorry and then he goes downstairs and spends a pleasant evening with the paper and a book and when he comes upstairs again, gives a violent start at the sight of me and says: “Great Scott! 1 for- got all about your headache! Any better? “I think that is perfectly awful declared the bride. “Why, Tom couldn’t enjoy himself a minute if he thougnt I not happy! Last night he sat beside me and held my hand and put cologne on my forehead—' “Oh, dear, dear!” commented her friend. “Now you know perfectly weil that vou hate having your front hair all mussed up with stuff and that you were desperate’y uncomfortable trring to look beautiful when you wanted to be let alone to look the way vou felt’ When vou are trying to concentrate on a headache it is no time to be distracted by endevoring still to remain cha-ming in the eyes of vour husband! ‘Well, never mind! When once you begin sympathizing with Tom you'll be too busy to have a headache! “Never shali I forget the time my husband had a swelling on his finger. It was inflamed and tender around the nail and I could not bear to see the poor boy suffer, so 1 remembered a lotion that my. mother had used at home. I wet somé cotton and ban- daged the finger tip and he sa:d it felt fine. In half an hour he Inquired in an injured tone whether I was not going to moisten the cotton again. sa'd the finger was in a terrible state and he was certain t‘hl&l blood poison- ing was going to set in. ‘.:I r-bnmd the injured member eight times before bedtime and all night long Henry kept awakening me to heip him dip the cotton and tie it up again. I never knew a human be- ing to enjoy anything so thoroughly as he did that little first aid to the injured. We kept it up for a s0:id week. The first thing Henry did when he returned at dewy eve was to give me breathless bulletins about his fnger. It became so well in one day that it shriveled up the rest of the week from the lotion he kept constantly on it, but when I suggested that it was all right he looked at me as though I had offered to slay him on the spot. “He said it was very queer I could not see what a state it was In and how dangerous it might be and how he was suffering or apt to suffer. If 1 was too busy to take care of a sick husband, why, of course, that was a different affair, and maybe, he was asking too much to expect me to be interested in his sorrows._ Oh, but he was pathetic "Sopl turned right in and bandaged that hand to a finish and when peo- ple called I said that Henry wms't feeling very we:l and had been having rather a hard time with his hand and Henry would brighter vp and _tell them all about it and how many times it had to have medicine put on it and Low it woke him up in the night once, it palned him so. He wavered be- tween amputation and a permanently crooked finger as his ultimate fate, and I believe he really was aggrieved when at last he had to admit there wasn't a thing wrong with the finger any more and he had to look else- where for amusement. “But, you eee,” concluded the wo- man who had been married a ‘ng time, ‘it gave him an idea, and ali my life since I have been engaged b@sily taking care of Henry's wounds, sprains, bumps and bruises. He en- joys it so that I haven't the heart to Speak to him firmly. Anyhow, what's the difference, so long as the child is kept amused and happy?” “I can’t understand you at all" eeid the bride. “And anyhow, I know Tom never would be like that—so wrapped up_in self!” “Maybe not” agreed the long mas- ried lady. “But you watch out—if he never acts that way they'll catch him and put him in a museu Ex- change. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Roasting a Distinguished Irishman. Mr. jtor: It is an old saying in Ireland “That when one Irishman is to be roasted vou can always and anoth- er to turn the spit.” Mr. Jummings today in vour valuabie paper gives an illustration of the truth of this adage. He is of opinion that the Hon. T. P. O'Connor, representative of a large ang respectable constituency in Ire- land, shculd be roasted, hence he hastens to offer himself as the spit- turner. Turning the spit—is allow ed to be a mean service in any case, but in this particular ome you will note that Mr. Cummings plays also the triple role of accuser, judge. and executioner. The writer of this letter air play, and as Mr. s a distinguished leader of a large Irish party which represents home rule, he is entitled to a fair hear- ing in regard (o his policy, and. if aft- er that, anything can be said in rebut- tal, it should be done in respectable, convincing argument, and not in Bill- ings, The charge of possessing an Irish name, brought agai Mr. O’Connor (of which he may be justly proud), cannot, of course, be said_of Mr. Cummings—but Irish as Mr. O’Connor is, cne thing is certain—he will not use sc much English in the ef- is a believer in O’Conner _is fort to make himself understood as Mr. Cummings requires. The main fear with him seems to be that Mr. Tay Par will be listened to, and will he understood—and he should also realize that the clamor of one man ——in Norwich. not &xtinguish Mr. O’Connor, nor his misston _ DATRIADA. Norwich, Ju THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Society. Stockholm—The National Geogra- phic Society issues the following war geography bulletin on Stockholm, now so prominently in the public eye as the convention city of the socialists: “Although it is frequently styled “the Venice of the north,” owing to |the fact that it is built upon a_num- iber of jsiands and peninsulas, Stock- holm, the picturesque capital of | Sweden, bears small resemblance to jthe Queen of the Adriatic, for whereas the Italian city is built upon a num- | ber of delta-formed fragments of land jonly a few fect above sea-level the slets and promotories on which | Stockholm stands are rugged granite | rocks, which must be blasted away ! whenever a new building is erected. “Few European capitals have exper- ienced such rapid prosperity as Stock- ho'm. It has much more than doubled In population since 1880 and in 1913 ihad overtaken and passed Washing- | ton, D. C., by more than 30,000. Among | the’ commerctal and {of Steden it is in the vanguard, with extensive iron foundries. ship-building | plants, sugar, tobacco, leather, cotton, tories. “Stockholm owes its foundation to Birger Jarl, a broad-minded and able | statesman who married the sister of | King BErik Erikeson and who upon the I zent for his own son Valdemar for 16 years, during which time he inaugu- rated the establishment of Sweden's | empire by leading an expedition into | Finland in 1249 and building the for- tress of Tavastehus. Five years later i be established a fortress on the rocky isiet which lies in the mouth of the channel connecting Malar Lake with the Black Sea. This was the begin the heart of the present Swedish capi- “Being built of wood, Stockholm was frequently swept by fire during its early history, and it also suffered greatly from periodic raids by the Danish kings. On one of the latter ocsacions (1520) the Danish monarch Christian TI, in order to make sure of his sold upon the Swedish country, as- sembled the leading nobles of the kingdom In the Stor-Torg, the central and highest point on Staden island, and there had them decapitated. Thus the “Stockho'm Blood Bath” phrase came to designate this spot. In the Stor-Torg is the Exchange, where the leading factors in Sweden’s business aworld congregate at one o'clock each ay. industrial centers | soap, furniture and food-products fac- | [death of that sovereign ruled as re- | ning of Staden (the city), which forms Birger Jarl in 1284, but which was re- built about two centuries ago. The most interesting sacred structure, however, is the Riddarholms-kyrka with its open-work cast-iron spire rising to_a height of nearly 300 fest. This is Stockhoim’s Westminster Ab- bey or Pantheon for in it are buried the kings and heroes of the nation. Here rest the great warrior Gustavus Adolphus, and the able and enlight- ened Gustavus 111 who abolished tor- ture, granted liberty to the press, fos- tered commerce and science, and in return was assassinated at the in- stigation of lisaffected nobles. Here also is the tomb of Bernadotte, one of Napo'eon’s generals who was elevaied to a throne by his master but who fought against the military genius when the latter's star of empire be- gan to set. “There are many magnificent pub- lic buildings in Stockholm, chief among which are: the royal palace with its 300 apartments; the splendid riksdagshus (parliament house) com- pleted vears ago at a cost of more than two and a half million dollars: the roya! iibrary, wnere one copy of every book pub ished in Sweden must be filed and which boasts of one of the greatest collections of pamphlets and manusecripts in FEurope, and the offices from which the Nobel fund is distributed. The roval collection of weapons is the finest in the world. “Although Stockholm is within a few miles of being as far north as Cape Farewell, Greenland, ice break- ers keep the harbor open in winter. | Petrozrad lies almost due east across the Batic and the Gulf of Finland, a distance of 450 miles. is 330 miles in an airli west, and the German city of Danzig is the same distance due south.” Copenhagen Muskmellon Care. A number’ of insects have a fond- ness for muskmellon vines now, says today’s bulletin from the National Emergency Food Garden Commission. and usually the garderner must fight them to secure a good crop. The aphides or plant lice, are the most ruinous muskmelon pests. If the vines are allowed to become bad- ly infested with these bugs they can- not be saved. The only thing to do is to pull the vines and burn them. | Aphides are sucking insects; there- fore the nicotine sulphate spray should be used to kili them. If ap- plied before the lice gain a headway You can exterminate them. If one good aplication does not destroy all the aphides, repeat whenever neces- sary. Aphides can readily be detect- ed by the crumpled appearance of the plant leaves. Beetles common to the cucumber vines are also found on muskmelons. The striped beetle, the spotted cucum- ber beete, and the flea beetle are .smbated in the identical way. Ar- scnate of lead spray mixed in with bordeaux mixture is effective against all these bugs. This mixture can be sprayed on your vines as a preventive to bug invasion, or as soon as the bugs appear. Tobacco dust will also kill beetles. {If the first application does not des- {troy them, a second ome can be ap- {plied in ten days without injury to the plants. | "The squash vine borer—a worm | which bores into the vine at the eur- face of the ground is hard to kill out. Cut the stem lengthwise to remove the borer. Be sure to kil these worms. Throw earth over the vines every few feet so that new roots may {form on the vines. ! Muskmelons are subject to the two most common diseases of the vegeta- ble garden—ieaf blight and anthrac- nose. Leaf blight shows small dark | 8Pots on the leaves and can be cured jwith spraying of bordeaux. Dark spots on the leaves with long, light brown spots on the melons themselves tell the presence of anthracnose. Use the bordeaux spray for this also and repeat the appiication every two weeks while the disease remains. “Food in Canada. Canada looks to Hon. W. J. Hanna, its food controller, to conscript the weaith represented by the high prices that empty the purses of the con- sumers of food and fill the pockets of the providers of food. — Toronto Telegram. Trouble With T. R. Somehow or other you can’t suit T. ne to the south- ! Avoid “Flat Sour.” To avoid what is known as TFlat sour” in peas, also asparagus, beans, and corn, the fresh product should be handled very carefully says today's bulletin from the National Emergency Food Garden Commission. which is co-operating with this paper in _a nation wide campalign to consérve the food supply of the country. Only fresh young peas should be used, the best time to gather thess being in the morning while it is cool. The whole process showd be carried on rapidly as possible and psas should not_be allowed to stand after shelling. 'Shell and sort, putting peas of same size and maturity together. Be sure not to put hard ripe peas among ten- der ones. When peas are too old or split or broken they should be re- moved before parking as the liquid becomes cloudy. Blanching, cold dipping and peck- ing are very important for it is in these processes that the damage oc- curs which causes “flat eour.” To Panch the peas plunge them - to bolling water for from four to eight minutes, depending upon their tender- ness: then put them immediately in- to cold water for an instant. Pack at once into jars within a ha¥ inch of the top. If jars are too full some peas will burst and make the liquid cloudy. Ada one level teaspoonful of salt to the quart and A1l with hot water. Partly tighten tops and ster- ¥ize for two and half to three hours. (If using tin cans seal completely be- fore sterilizing). After proper ster- ilization remove jars from boiling wa- ter, complete fastening of tops, invert Jars and place out of draught to cool. Wrap In dark colored paper to pre- vent bleaching In storage. —_— 1 Readers of THE BULLETIN By sending this coupon to the National Emergency Food Garden Commission, 210 Maryland Bldg, 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 co- operation with this paper as a part of the personal service we at all times aim to give our readers. Views of the Vigilantss THE‘ PRO-GERMAN SOCIALIST CONFERENCE Vigilante: The famous Petrograd Council Workman's and Soldiers’ Deputies has decided finally and irrevocably that there is to be a so-ca'led International Socialists’ Conference at Stockhoim, in order to bring about an early pcace. The conference is to take place from June 238th to July 7th. Already seems certain_ that neither Great Bri- tain, France, Italy or America will be ! represented, ag the gov¢-nments of all { these natlons Fave denounced the con- | ference as nothing more or less than {a new peace move by the German For- eign Office, wh has rupeatedly [shown that it is ready to use inno- { cent dupes for its purposes. We need not wait ence to know what its action will be. It is only necessary to refer back o the positions cf the German SocialZts (majority and minority aike) on the question of peace as it has been fixed for more than two vears. The Germans and Austrians reasserted their views | for the bureau at Stockholm on May {30th. It can all be summed up in one {word: Burope is to return to the ter- ritorial status quo which existed be- fore the war. There can't be the slightest ques- tion as to the fature decision of any Stockholm conference. Already the various Socialist parties under direct or indirect German influence or con- trol have sent delegations to Stoc holm. These delegations have offici- ally stated their position before the Socialists’ bureau stablished In that clty—and are in substantial accord | with the Germans and Austria Even where differences exist, such differ- ences are usualy on minor points. Where major differences occur there is absolutely no united sentiment, so that it is unthinkable that there will be any opposition whatsoever to Germans. All the delegations have agreed that there must be an early If not an Im- mediate peace. The newspaper organ of the Council of Labor Deputies calls for immediate negotiations, and what is left of the Socialist party in Amer- ica is pledged to immediate peace. “re- gardless of the etrategic situation,” and also s pledged to a separate and immediate peace for the T'nited States by the notorius St. Louis convention resolution. Sacharoff, the Bulgarian leader, was charmingly frank in a St. Louis interview of June the 8th, in which he advocated immediate peace, adding, “If the war lasts long enough | the tide will turn against Germany. Troelstra, of Holiand, who made the toriginal arrangements for the confer- ence, after a public consultation with Zimmerman. the Kaiser's Minister of Foreign Affairs, is even more brutally frank. His position is, “A separate peace may possibly be the only peace that would beget a general peace.” On the matter of territorial changes the position of the conference is i equally unanimous. None of the par- ties so far represented favors the re- turn of Alsace-Lorraine to France. | The Germans do not even mention the | question, for they do not acknowledge | that any such question exists. On this and all other points of foreign policies the German majority and min- ority are united. Petrograd's Work- man's Council takes a definite position against the restoration of Alsace-Lor- raine, in the phrase of this organ that, “historic wronge are not to be right- ed.” Most positive of all is the “New York Call” which eettles the Alsace- Lorrdine and all other territorial prob- lems by the simple phrase—"“peace without any transfers of territory.” When we come to Austria and Tur- key. almost as great unanimity pre- vails, the only exception being Huy mans, representing the Belgian minor- ity. He very timidly demands the transfer to Roumania of such parts of Transytvania as may be voluntarily ceded by Austrfa. As to Trieste, Aus- trian and Itallan Socialists are 1o de- cide. Huysmans does not mention the fact that Itallan Socialists, represent- ing perhaps 5 per cent. of the Italian people, wish Trieste to remain in the hands of Austria. Huysmans also The oldest church in Stockholm is|R., whatever you do. Nothing is right | made some timid demand as to Tur- the Storkyrka (Great Church) which:that he doesn’t do.—Philadelphia Bcc- [ kev. There is to be a Jewish Zion but is supposed to have been founded by ord. it i& to be created by Germany and iseneas 4 By William English Walling of The! of | for this condme- | the | MONSTER DOUBLE BiLL ETHEL CLAYTON in MAN’S WOMAN _; Jfrs VIOLA DANA in “The Innocence of Ruth” In Five Parts, Miss Dama at Her NO ADVANCE IN PRICES Mat. 2:30, 10c; Eve. 7, 8:30, 10-i8e | A The same excellent Picture Pro. A as offered at the iorium will be shown —7 :45-9. DANCING 8:30 to 11 DMISSION ...... Turkey. Armenta being firmly Russian hands is to remain there. Even these timid demands are mostly nugatory, are not shared by any of the Socialist Parties represented in Stock- holm nor by the Russian mor Ameri- can Socialists. Certainly, if there are to be no transfers of teeritory, even Armenia will have to remain under Turkey. But it is when we come to the atti- tude towards the overthrow of Kaiser- ism in Germany that we find the most stounding resuits. All of these so0- called Democrats and international groups have hailed the revolution of Russia as the new birth of Yuberty and Democracy, but not a singie one of them demands a similar revoiuticn in Germany. On the contrary all agree with the expressed position of the German Socialists that “a cohtinua- tion of war is not necessary to force free institutions on Germany.” This is the position both of the minority and the majority in Germany, Aus- | tria and Hungary. The handful of revolutionary leaders of a third Ger- man group, who, being genuine rev- olutionists,” have publicly recognized that the revolution must occur as the result of the outside pressure befort the end of the war, nearly all are im- prisoned. Hil of America, who itke all other Sociallsts, always advo- cated interference in the affairs pf Rusesia under the Czar, savas trily that the Stockho!m conference does not intend to interfere with the Inter- nal affairs of Germany. But this is by no means the fuli extent of the pro-German and pro-Kalser sentiment among the Socialist factions repre- sented at Stockholm. Stauning, the leader of the Socialists of Denmark, and a cabinet minister in that coun- try, expressed what is undoubtedly the prevalent view among the Stock- holm Socialists, that whereas there is no immediate need of revolution in Germany, there shouid he a further revolution in Russia, which would first result in a separate peace and then in a general peace on the terms of the German Socialists, as endorsed by all the other Socla’ist factions mention- ed. Stauning said In an _interview with the reliable BRerliner Tagebiatt June the 10th, that there will be no separate peace until ‘the present Rug- sian Government is overthrown and a | proletarian cabinet takes its place and sends peace delegates to Germany.” Here then is the final conclusioh of the so-called International ckholm | Conference, to be held Ju 25th to | July 7th. There is to be a further | revolution in Russia, then a threat of separate peace peace which will establish the em of Central rope. which i the m, purpose of the Kaizer and the German ary caste in the present war. and v a OTHER VIEW POINTS i ‘rhe Civil war began in April. B Run was delayed ti July T Spanish American war began in A It was late in June before Shafter's ached (‘uba Tt advahce guard ri is no smail accomplishment, that t Uni- tedsStates has placed men in France before the last davs of June expire. | These troops are completeiy armed and equiped. They are supplied wit" good sanitation. There will be norai of the mistakes that were made I the o'd dave, when American soldfers tied like fiies of typhoid, or of dizeases of the digestive tract, produced by embalmed beef. The goverrment at| Washington may not ba the best gov- ernment possible, but in 2 ty, hon- esty and efficiency it far exceede any government America has known. — sridgeport Farmer. ‘The school board has apparently found a way to cut the red tape that held up the extra money tha was votéd the teachers by the citizens and it will be given them for extra ser- vices. It would be a shame to hold this extra pay back, after it had been voted, and some of them had spent it, just because of some legal technical- ity. Tf there was some real reason why thev shou'd not be paid it would | First Screen Appearance of the ALSO THE BIG TRIANGLE BTAR Five Part Feature Brimful of Action Mat. 2:15, 100 and 15¢ FOUR SHOWS WED., JULY 4TH Davis Theatre —TODAY— 2 STAR FEATURES 2 Famous Yankes Doodls Boy orge M. 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