Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 17, 1917, Page 4

&nrwu'h Bulletin and Goufied - 121 YEARS OLD Subscription price 1Ze = weeks 50c o month: $6.00 a year. Entered at the Postoffics at Norwich, Conn., 2s second-class matter, Felephone Calls: Bulle zn Business Office 480. [ Billetia Editortal Rooms 358, Telephone 210-2. Norwich, Friday, Aug. 17, 1917. tin “Job Ofiqe 85-2. Willimantle Office, 67 Church St -lEThe Circulation of iThe Bulletin Connecticut and from threy to four times larger than that of any in Norwich. It is_delivered 2,000 of the 4053 houses in Nor-$ wich and read by ninety-three per § cent. of the people. in Wincham 3 it is delivered 1o over 300 nouses, ¥ in Putnam and Danielson to over 1,100, and in @it of these places it ts considercd ®he local aally. Esstern Connscticut has forty- nine towns. one hurdred and sixty- % five postoftice districts, and sixty § al free delivery routes. The E n is eold in every utes in Eastern Conaecticut. CIRCULATION 1905, average.. TAKE THE BULLETIN ALONG letin leaving can have AMERICA WILL BE THE CHIEF ONE. cent aa S he = and hate oppressior crual- ations, to < of whom she ss as all the to the n until lib- ocracy and peace oned in mens' tutions of natioms, e chief one.” THE FLYING SQUADRON’S PRES- ENT AND FUTURE. Of the propose 1 trained for arm; quota of Connec- n section of the Signal undoubtedly offers the best of the service. All avia- oon pilots when they wine a training of six commissioned as first reserve corps of salary of $2000 uty, with addi- tional compensation when in active service at home or abroad; @nd dur- ing tuition, they receive soldiers’ pay, rations, 2nd lodging, also expenses to the schools and ning camps. An appeal to 0 graduates of New England tions of learn- ing from the years 1909 to 1817, in- clusive, will be started early in Sep- tember, and it is ex will be a response actual requirements After the war, probably 20,00 aero- planes and many dirigidle = airships will be available for the mammoth commercil airfleet of the United States, Canada, Mexico and South graduate mont annuall excess of the America. The youns men, now learning, will be the operators of this fleet of alrships. The future em- ployment of all entering the air ser- vice is almost certain. THE WORLD-WIDE DELUSION. A letter from Madame Viebig, one of the most prominent novelists of Sermany the present day, printed In the Cologne Gazette in reply to Hall Caine’s address to “The Moth- ers of Germany,” which appeared in the London Chkronicle, says: “You re steeped in the delusion that it was Germany, who picked the guarrei in this terrible war. German mothers who, e the women of an- clent Sparta, with bright eves sent their sons to the field, are in your #yes really gullty ones. They should 2 sen in revolt. I am a woman, and you must credit me with the sim- ple natural logic of woman. That logic tells me that the country which Buring forty-four years, alone of ail fhe - zountkies in question, bad not bewn the sword, the government of Fhich avoided An critical times the ippeal to the final abitrament in or- ler, to obtain the realization of its FRES e SRR I T The Bulletin has the fargest} l:irc.;‘n! n of any paper in Eastern } town end ou all of ke R. F. D.; H 1901, average........ L daiad ating ted that there wars within 30 years. In 18§3-1889, 1891~1892 and 1905 and 1906 Ger- many was three times at war with and finally conquered the. Arabs and blacks in East Africs, Blacks slaugh- tered 120,000. From 1908 to 1907 the Herrero war in German Southwest Africa was the most_bitterly contested war between whites and blagks known to the twentleth century. Five thousand German soldiers and settlers and 20,- 000 to 30,000 natives perished. In 1887 Germany seized Kiao Chau because of the murder of two Cat olic misslonaries, and rattled the sa- bre to such an extent that when in 1900 the Chinese Boxers.began a war with the world it was primarily be- cause of Germany's acts. The Ger- man minister to China was the for- oign offictal against whom the Box- ers srtuck their first blows. In the Boxer war of 1900 that fol- lowed, Germany as the leader of con- tinental Furope, sent Fleld Marshal von Waldersee as the international commander-in-chief, and waged a {Hun like war without quarter. Germany has been making war for conquest instead of maintaining the peace of the warld the past 40 years, and the war for world supremacy has been in contemplation all of this time. The delusion belongs.wholly to Ger- many, not to the world at large. THE CAT AND A STARLING. A great yellow Bridgeport cat aroused a neighborhood by killing a starling, and The Telegram of that city ventures to assert that the blame is ot with the cat but with the own- er, because he never half tamed his pet. The paper proceeds to say the de- struction of birds by cats costs the country a billion dollars a vear, but he seems to be unmindful of the fact that the rats and mice destroved by cats saves the farmer two billions a vear, hence the cats still pay their keep. The cat is also spoken of as a germ carrier, but it is questionable still whether any cat carries more germs n her fur than doctors’ tell us men carry in their whiskers and on flthy paper money in their pockets, or is any more dangerous as a disease car- ier. Now as to starlings: This imported bird was introduced from England to Brookiyn, N. Y., thirty years ago, and a5 a nuicance ic classed with the En sparro: - have multiplied 20,000 could be spared as wel der such conditions what is ng. worth? REVIVAL OF COIN. The New Bediord Standard thinks t is evidence of fussiness to agltate for a six-cent coin to meet the new trolley car rates, but evidence of gond sense to advocate for the resumption of the cld half cent for the accom- modation of & =s. The nickel-and-one-penny-plan is rather awkward. and s likely to-cal for a larze addition of cents to tie circulation which may really be avoided by the revival of a three-cent coin larger and better adapted to bus- ness than the thin and dimunitive silver of vears ago. In the old days when it was fash- ionable to veckon profits in cents-and- a-half such a coin as the half cent s necessary: also, when the 12 1-2 cent silver piece was minted as a conveniert trading coin. We have grown since those davs charming biog: LESSON NO. 5. First Days in Camp. Lessons: 1, Your Post of Hanoes s Naking Good 1n the Army: 3, Nine Solfllerly Qualities; 4, Getting Heady for Camp.) ‘When the time comes for you to enter the army, you will be instructed to report at some convenient place in your own neighborhood. The exact in- Structions will be given later. As quickly thereafter as proper arrange- ments can be made, you and the other men who are assigned to report to the same officer will be transported to the training camp (or cantonment, as,it is sometimes called). There will be nearly forty thousand men in each cantonment. The task of preparing for your arrival is enor- mous. Fach cantonment will require 25,000,000 feet of lumber, 7.500 doors, 00 window sashes, 4,660 casks of Portland cement and 5,000 yards of broken stone. The water supply of a cantonment will be 2,500,060 gallons a day. It will have its own sewerage system, fire department, bakerles, ice plants, and hospitals. It will even require a gigantic steam heating plant. Sixteen cities. each with a population of 40,000, well cared for—that is the task. In spite of the best efforts, it is pos- sible that some of the details may re- main unfinished at the beginning of vour camp life. There will be a cer- tain_amount of bustle and apparent confusion on the surface. Bear in mind that underneath it all lies a well- thought-out plan. In working out this plan everything possible has been done for the comfort and convenience of individual soldiers. Don’t grumble if you run into some temporary delays or nconveniences at the beginning. One of the tests of a good soldier is his cheerful willingness to take things as they are and make the best of them. You are naturally interested in forming come idea of the camp life of a soldier. The description which fol- iows will help you in forming this idea. However, there will be many changes as you go along in your training. As the men in the national army must get ready in recorl breaking time, their training will be more stren- uous than that of soldiers in peace. You will find there is plenty of hard work ahead of you. The average en- ersetic young American will be glad of it The soldier arises for the day usual- Iv at about 6 o'clock. a little earlier in the summer and a little later in the winter. The buglers sound the call known as reveille. The men dress and fall in. Your first experiences of military will probably consist of “setting- exercises,” which ordinarily occcu- the first few minutes of the day. consist of certain movements of the head. arms, trink and legs which |are carefully designed not merely to develop vour muscles but also to in- crease vour ski | ana self-reliance. At the same time M, grace, self-control they will also put you into the right frame of mind for s vigorous day’'s the mornings when the bugle ings out the reveille. and vou crawl out of vour bunk reluctantly. possibl tired and sore from the previous da: work. you will find_vourself wonder- full freshened and cheered up by a few minutes’ vigorous setting-up exercises. ‘Watch their effect on yourself and you will see why they are &5 highly re- garded by the most experienced sol- diers of the army. It will be only a short time until you look upon the early morning setting-up drill as one of the pleasantest features of your day. Then comes “washing up” and break- fast. Usually breakfast is followed by a half hour for cleaning the barracks and bunks and putting clothing and bedding in order. Frequently the com- pany commander will insyect the bar- racks immediately afterwards to make sure that every man has attended to his part of the work. Thre is then often some time which the trained soldier vses for attending to his per- sonal needs, tidying up his clothing, and the like. The remaining two or three hours of the morning are likely to be spent in drill—a: first in “close order” and later in “extended order” also. These terms ~will be explained in another part of this course. As vou advance, the drills wiil become more and more interesting. During the drill there are numerous short periods of rest. In most camps guard mounting comes about noon. This consists of re- lieving the men who have been guarding the camp and turning over *his duty to new men. FEach soldier mounts guard not oftener than once a week. After guard mounting the men £o_to dinner, which comes at twelve o'clock. At least ome hour is always allowed for dinner and rest. During the afternoons the work is iikely to be caried and to include ad- ditional, _setting-up _exercises and cther drills, target practice, bayonet exercises, and later more advanced drilling. About five o'clock comes the evening parade and ‘retreat,” when the flag _is lowered or furled for the | night. "The band plays “The Star Spangled Banner,” while all officers and soldiers stand at attention. The ceremony is desizned to deepen each man’s respect and love for the flag which he serves; it is always im- After the flag is lowered, it folded and escorted by the 0 headquarters, where it is kept until the next morning, when it is_again raised. Supper comes between five and six o'clock, and is usually followed by a period of rest. In the training camps there will be many opportunities for a variety of healthful amusements— Zfor sports, music, the theatre, and so on, as later prescribed. Taps are nrded by ten o'clock. Thie is the signal to put out all lights, retire and keep quict. “It closes the day for the ol mis blankets a tired and sleepy man.’ This :s only a ay in camp. On some d: our company will go off on “hikes.” ~After a time there may be lonzer marches, when you will carry your shelter tents with you and will make vour cwn camp each evening. These are days that I be especially interesting. You will learn the soldier's art of adapt- ing vourself to new situations and making yourself comfortable. Your officers will ask you to do nothing that they have not many times done themselves. They will ask nothing of vou which any normal, healthy man cannot do. Afteg a month or two of this training you will find that you have bemun to take on some of the skill and self-refiance of a real soldlers. GLEANED FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES Two kinsmer. of Robert Louls Stev- n have just received horors. His biographer, Graham Falfour, has been knighted, to the great pleasure of his many friends who are proud of his edfication. as well as of his phy of “R. L. S. work_fo. and do not propose again to do things [Tiour. Col. Arihar M. Baifour, Who by halves. Two three-cent pieces would make the fare, and avoid the pressure upon the nickels and cents now in circulation EDITORIAL NOTES. A skillful workman alwavs makes his job lock simple to a bystander. It takes seventeen languazes be- sides gasoline to run the aliied fiving machines! The polltical method of raking off the velvet doesn’t work on examining board service. The I. W. W.'s since they have so many dictators, naturally gravitate toward the kais Mexico finds the German sples and plotters dangerous material for any country to tolerate. Senator Reed cannot help velping at Hoover like “a houn' dorz,” but Hoover doesn’t mind. German militarism has laid itself out, but the allies are going to permit it to do no embalming. The dove of peace appears every now and then, but he doesn’t have the olive branch with him. One of the wonders of modern times is that so many good people are ready to follow a bad leader. Germany is planning great reforms to be carried into effect after the war. Fritzie takes time by the forelock. Some people will never be happy again because the Lord doesn’t as- sume all responsibility and end the war. Good firemen and apparatus cannot save a city that builds firetraps and ignores the advice of the underwrit- erst The Man on the Corner says: “A girl ambitious to change her name should first learn to make good bread. A cook gets $90 a month in the army and Uncle Sam wants 4,000 of them. That s better than being a sharpshooter. “Double rations to couples on their honeymoon” is a German way of dis- closing their rations are not what they should be. The editor of the Detroit Free Press says the mentlon of a balanced ra- tion makes him think of dried ap- ples and popeorn. The kaiser promised vietory in four months at the start; and at the end of 36 months of war he predicts peace mn three months more! Japan has two million seasoned troops ready for service; Russia has ten million under arms, and Uncle Sam has ten milllon to draw from: and the entente have twelve million in the fleld. There is no lack of man power. £ a place full of “R. L. S.” memori: Stevenson’s for thr cets as had never before been re- Vil Sumatra. has received the D. S. O, is a cousin £ Stevenson, and grandson of Dr. ewis Balfour, minister of Colinton, ame was epelt “Lew till his early manhcod. very worthy little effort that ex- plosion of ours this week, which Mr. Lloya George he: —but compared with what nature can do in this direction, a popgun affair. When Krakatoa head off four and twenty her rage was heard 3,000 miles away. 4 at Walton Health w her crazy old ears ago, Her comminuted dust drifted, miles }igh, round and round the earth, years, and gave us such eun- rded. As to damage, the vixen set up a wave which rocked the water: f our British lakes and swallowed §00 zes and 26,500 people in Java apd Three years ago the little Bosnian town of Serajevo was early astir de termined to make the visit of the Austrian Archduke a notable event in its municipal history. Little did the inhabitants think as they hung up their national flags and banners that before many hours had elapsed an even midst which would make the day memorable not only in local history but in .he history of the world. Be- fore the Archduke had bten an hour in the town, the spark had been fired which set a country, then a continent and eventually a world aflame. The would have nappened in their bomb thrown at the roval carriage was the beginninz of the greatest struggle in the history of mankind. The Bishop of Hereford, who has signified his intention to resign next spring, if his_health does not im- prove, is one of the many clerics who have taken high episcopal office after a successful career in the schools. For 16 years Dr. Percival was head master of Clifton College. then serv- ed eight vears as president of Trini- ty College, Oxford, and eight as head of Rugby. His life at Hereford, where he has been for 22 years, has been dis- tinguished by his broadminded liber- jsm and his great fights for educa- tion. He is the oldest spiritual peer now sitting in the Lords. Parisiang remark on Pershing’s likeness to their late popular General and Military Governor Gallieni. The American Comander-inChief, they say, lLas the same alert and energetic fac in consequence he Is extremely symp- athetic to them. There was a pretty little scene at the Opera CAmique tr other evening, when the General and his staff attended a performance of the charming opera “Louise,’ o Even' Mrs. Amelia Bloomer would be astonished, if she could see what numbers of wearing the venient_dres: high priestess. The dress advocated by Mrs. Bloomer was first brought practicaily before the world at a ball held 66 years ago tonight, at Lowell, Mass. But, like many other per-, | formers, Mrs. Bloomer lived before' e fair sex are today light, graceful and con- of 'which she was the forth. The warning-bombs were a success that they may actually have and en which called 0 the 9 o'clock service an hour before “All clear” was sig- nalled! |home of the Bru her proper day. and it has taken tne | war to make her dream come true. have to sacrifice a bishop ¢r a bell-ringer. For an hour and a morning the authori- all that human inge- ty could sugzest to keep Lgndon- ers within door: while church bells were clangorously bidding all been guns. Sluggards sprang from bed like larks from dewy nests. Early communicants, returning, heard the “signals, and together with one consent, raced for home with speed urance. But that felon bell Powans, now placed on the market | trom Loch Lomond, have a cousin of | greater culinary mierit in the vend- ance of Lochmaben—the ancient home s—said to have een brought from France by Mary ueen of Scots. Unluckily for the legend, this delicate salmonoid her- ring seems not to be found in France though it oceurs in some English lakes | as well as in Sweden und Western Prussia. The women's rights prob- lem has long been settled in vendance circles, for the two sexes swim in separate shoals. No good bait is &nown for vendance—which must be netted. CANNING LESSONS VEGETABLES CANNED AT HOME. Can Them Now—The U. S. Depart- ment of Ag Do 4t. ulture Advises How to Wash your jars; wash rubbers; test rubbers for quality. Set empty jars and rubbers in pan of water to heat and keep hot. Fill washboiler to cover jars two inches with water. Heat water in washboiler. Use only fresh sound vegetables. Wash your vegetables. Place in a colander; blanch by set- tng in a vessel of boiling water or steam, covered tight, for some five to ten minutes for beans, one and one- half minutes for tomatoes. five min- utes for sweet corn and beets. Remove an plunge quickly into cold, clean water momentarily. Remove and pack immediately into hot jars. Add hot water and seasoning. Place rubbers and tops of jars in po- sition, not tight. Place jars on false bottom of wash- boiler. Submerge jars two_inches. Put cover on washboiler and let the water boil hard for 120 minutes for which | beans, 22 minutes for tomatoes, 130 deals with scenes in a workgirl's life. |minutes for sweet corn, and 90 minutes Some mindinettes” who were present offered flowers to the. visitors. you are mot on strike this evening observed the General with a humorous twinkle. “There_ will be no strike whilst you and your soldiers are here,” declared the young Parleslennes, in the real spirit of the Boulevard. for beets. Start counting when water begins to boil. Remove jars. Tighten covers. Invert to cool and examine for leaks. If leaks are found. change rubbers and boil again for ten minutes. Wrap jars in paper. Store in cool, dry place. Meriden—The Meriden ambulance cbmpany, formed by the northeastern department of the army and composed of 100 men here and 50 from New Eritain and Middletown has been or- dered to a specified camp for training. At the time enlistments were taken the men were told they would see ser- vice with one of the new armies. l'l, 1911 THE mlcfl ELECTRIC Gflm’lm ‘Mazda Lamps .7 c. p- burns 10 12 c. p. burns 6 20¢c.p. burns 4 30 c. p. burns 2 1-2 hours for 1c 46 c. p. burns 1 2-3 hours for 36c 60 c. p. burns 1 1-4 hours for 65¢c 100 watt 100 c. p. burns 1 THROW AWAY THE OLD CARBON LAMPS WE CAN PROVE TO YOU THAT THEY BURN THREE TIMES THE ABOVE TABLE THE NORWICH ELEGTRIC COMPANY 42 FRANKLIN STREET hours for 1c hours for 1c hours for 1c hour for $1.00 ARE WE CHAMPION WASTRELS? for The Bulletin.) |he has mighty little to spend and no That was rather sharp talk of Sec- Vrooman's the other dav whe: (Written Specially But was he or was he not a wastrel, last Spring? “champion wastrel: “wastrel” is somethinz more than The latter, as the used, means one Farmer Biank, just west of me, has He had to hire help and wages scared him. He was charg- for the same help he used Going_ through a mere spendthrift. Agished DEymss ed $8 a day tp pay $4 a day fields with him, different errand, T noticed one meadow a fair load of £ood hay bunches here and_there. other a big acre of good grass stood “Got all 1 need “Can't sell who throws away foolish spending <ome better man I nce_which inherited or recetved, | With certainly aléo fails to save coming to his hands. cubstance: constantly spendthrift wastrel wastes not only substance but opportunity. I asked why he answered: it for enough to pay cost of cuttin’; burn it over bimeby when it gets dry Throwing stones at ot There was enough wasting on two 3 of his flelds to keep a cow. give milk, managed, will Louses ourseives, that the primal self-protection endangering our bombardment Therefore most of us try as moderate as we can. often shut sale for all - Blank is very. veine a spendthrift. very far from Indeed, he is re- to Keep cur almost a miser with hie is he or is he not a wastrel in gs about other people which impelled to. the excaption |of a few cross-zrained scolds of both we'd rather unpleasant I have heard of a big dairyman who of his skim milx at cents a hundred pounds and owing the rest awa )s selling a - we'd rather sav unpleasant Hach hun- make abtout pounds ‘of cottage cheese. after analysis food experts and actual feeding experiment, which 'can ¢, is worth, for as a pound of triend, but of an enem; are deceitf: taten as freely never a flattercr. .~ But with that effect nothing whatever to do. the truth and swim smoothlv deceit towngds the brink of some Ni- It is one of the marks which distinguish a_real tation and make-bel man really desires and sooner or later appreciates cather know a hundred pounds for Better kncw act axcordin B it something wasteful The particular John Farmer who is ve that the real beans. They But one of patches of marrow bit out of the wi not watched n mistakes, in an everlasting ana’ practically approbation. present dcmand r prices, are too expen- sive a ration to feed wild woodchucks Secretary Vrooman doesn't know T don't know oved reader “Mea cuipa, mea cuipa” . and I played the w What spec: strel’s part of dum foolish- this season, in the derogatory fail other folks their faults and reformation. We are none f us commissioned to act as author- itative mouthpieces for truth. We none of us know for certain, exactly It hehooves us ali to | not to_ gzet bigot class by assuming that our con- the one and only »arn_you a share is the truth Through no fault of ours but be- tause of the monstrous and arbarity of a Prussianized Germany, realiy free peo- are ensaged in defense of independence and our We are fishting . the most thoroughly organ- the most unscrupuious mili- despotism which ever sought to bring the whole world under its mer- ciless heel. We ‘are fighting to win, we don’'t win, we will under the domination of a junkerdom which will make short work of public ception of truth we and all said_the wise Autocrat the Breakfast Table, but the Smith-ate of truth of- ten differs from For which deep reason it is not ad- as if I were an inspired bellefs as if they were abso! Any more than it would be commend- able in you to do a similar thing. necessarily have to spend We cannot have that with which to spend unless we save it. admitting and fullv heeding the caution zests to us fallible creatures, remains that we do make mistakes: that we do fall into error: omission as well We don't like to be told so others, either to our faces or be- But we admit it for ourselves when somebody else doesn't At the present time and in the ex- g emergency. zrain, every ounce of food, every pen- lost or neglected is a civilization—a treason cause of freedom—a crime our own children, endangered as that we do hind our backs. whose fu- s ture is now T and the rest of us take Secretar: harp criticism as some- onal—not addressed to us but to some other fellows—and, our- turn its edge across our own thumbs to see if it cuts us any. Vrooman's thine e Economy, thrift, saving of wastes— these must be our watehwords and our rule of I read of big hotels which are ask- ing their patrons to go without meat, “It is for the 1 read of others which are butter whenever We farmers can save much We can substi- tute cottage cheese and fish and beans and similar products for some of our We can substitute for four in many cases, and raise our own corn to make the meal of. When I was a boy haif the bread of this whole countryside was " ‘n-injun”, made from home-grown rye and home-grown corn. flour at $15 or 516 a barrel, to the brown bread of our sires and our own chillhood fs not a hardship but simply a bit of common sense. in the week. isten to the parable of the sap- < tuting peanut A certain man in my home town owns a fairly good number of sugar Last spring when began to run he found that he would have to spend about $2 in Raving his evapdrating pan repaired, and wouid have to pay the wood-chopper 25 cents ¢ more wages to cut wood for it. So he refused to tap a single tree. have made over s thousand pounds of maple sugar. You can always sell maple sugar; also be used—our grandmothers used ft—for a sood many domestic pur- He might have sold five hun- dred pounds and kept an equal quan- The money he took in would have more than paid for an equal number of pounds of “s * and_the supply he kept would have cnabled him to dispense with at least half his normal purchase quantity. Now “store” sugar is high and go- higher. 'He can afford to buy it only in small lote and use it only in He is not a spendthrift, for | gree. along similar corn meal He might easily With wheat | say nothing about tion of waste fruits, etc. by canning, is full of canning ex- perts and every week, almost, “demonsirator” neighborhoods. But there are wastes in the flelds and barns of practically which might be'stopped, In some de- At present and prospeoti its canning DAVI P8 Thors., Fii, 5o THE DELIGHTFUL FASCINATING PARAMOUNT &7AF MAE MURRAY in “The Plow Cvrl" A Novel Photoplay that Carries the Spectator frem the Sout Veldt to the Dglv{lnl Room of Fashionable Sccisty. Five Acts LOUISE CLAUM in A STRANGE TRANSGRESSOR The Graphic Story of a woman, scorned and deserted, whose Coo venge i aled h the transformin: ower of mother lo HIS THANKLESS JOB—Comed Blooded Stock Fruits and Vegetables Mammoth Midway Juvenile Contests Monday, Sept. 8 LABOR DAY 216 Pace....Purse $500|2.20 Pace.. 2.22 Trot.. Colt Race o NEW LONDON COUNTY l i Tuesday, Sept. 4 GRANGERS DAY .Purse $500 | Free for All.P: Fair and Races NORWICH, CONN., SEPTEMBER 3rd, 4th, 5th $5,000 IN PURSES AND PREMIUMS Free Vaudeville Farm Implements Balloon Ascension Grange Exhibits Wednesday, RED CROS THE BEST ATTRACTIONS EVER OFFERED EY ANY COUNTY FAIR IN AMERICA 2 prices for all sorts of food supplies it is for our own profit that we put a summary end to them, So far as pos- sible. Moreover, it will be greatly for our own good if we and our wives can be forced into a renewal of the old-time | spirit of economy and thrift which far too many of us have lost In the courss of the last easy-going half-caatury. We have drifted, imperceptibly, into habits of extravagance, of shiftless- ness, of wastefulness. If the shocks of | war serve to stiffen our backbones a Jittle and harden our relaxed moral sinews, they may yet prove blessing. But above and beyond all selfish and ersonal considerations looms imper tively the stern mandate of patriotic For the pregervation of the inde- pendence our fathers won on blodd battle-flelds and in starvation-haunted Vallex Forges: for the maintenance our liberty; for the transmission of thelr inheritance of freedom to our children;—for all these reasons our | duty is as Icear as the sun on a clo less_noon. V/e must see that no fault or faflure or neglect or waste on ous part en- Gangers in the smallest degree the complete victory upon which all we hold dearest depends “Thay also serve who only stand and wait.” B We farmers can do more. We can assure victory,”by assuring the main tenance of the armies at the front rot only our own but those of the Allies who are fighting for us as truly as for themselves. THE FARMER. LETTERS T0 THE EDITOR What is (Not) the Irish Question? Mr. Editor: One of your readers for whose information Mr. Cummings as- sumes to writa ha an assumed name rnis writer is not so egotistical as to think that the addition of his name would add anything to the strength of his argument, and, whatever little ad- vantage Mr. Cummings derives from the appanding of his name, he is wel- | come to. W cheerfully accept handicap, and this will not deter us| from repiyving to his letter, Nevertheless, if we should unroll map of Ireland we could point out Mr. Cummings a townland and Lie in | the county Kilkenny bearing our fam- i1y name since times more remote than | the historic folbles named in his letter Mr., Cummings refrains from reply- ing to A Democrat for the same reason did not reply to Southerner—be- use he was baflled. He breaks other ground lecause his composition look best before it is criticized, but he no more entitled to speak for Ireland than this writer is There aré two disturbing age Treland—the professional Agitator. may be more or less sincere—usually less—and the dupes who are focled by the agitators, but who are really sin cere. The professional by his ex unning can usually save h while the others pav the penal It takes a man born in Ireland to iistinguish these classes which have Yept the country in a ferment for many vears, especially in.times of ex- fremity like the present, for the in- sincere patriat would deceive even the slect, if possible The governmental enigma presented by these soreheads, ard the manner of lts treatment and attempted solution aas given coloring to the charges against Pritish ruls in times past, but are mow stuff which should be for- totten as having no place in the pres- int crisie. The Dublin convantion represents ll Ireland, and not just the Sinn Feiners, who by thelr rebellious and sriminad acts might have weil besu excluded, vet who are granted five 3elegates against five, the saume num- Ser. of the Ulster unlonists The Sinn Fein movement is of rece srigin and noted for murderous acts vet is to be represented in the con- vention, while the Orange organiza- tion, an_extreme loyal and respectabl rssociation, dating back to the time of William Fifth, is not accorded one delegate nor representative. The con- vention is made up of 101 delegates representing fourteen (14) distinct po- Vtieal and religious phases of Trish embitions, and it is presided over Sir Horace Plunkett, than whom there is, perhaps, no more hizhly respected «nd unimpeachable Irish gentleman on the face of the earth. The Irish question is therefore not a matter. to be settled offhand by AMr Cummings in a letter to The Builetin: but Is something which demands statesmanship. of the highest order. and his stuff about military rule and oppression is ail rot. Irsiand is no more under military law than the United States, nor more than it needs 1 lesires to say that he | read the information (?) and noted | what Mr. C. says about hiding behind | 4 TODAY AND THL MARY ANDERSON an ANTONIO MORE? N “THE MAGNIFICEN MEDDLER” The Story of a Breez porter Who Tried to tinies of a Front Succeeded. LATEST WAR NEV Hearst-Pathe We Big V. Comedy Majestic Roof Garde n| AMATEUR NIGHT TONIGHT 5—ACTS—5 TODAY AND SATU VALESKA SURAT THE EMPRESS OF FAS THE SLAVE IN 81X ACTS DANCING 2:30 T Two Complete S 1- | ore | Hinting LEMONS BRING OUT i THE HIDDEN BEAUT Make this lotion for ws cost and just sce for yourselr bring out the roses the hidden bea alone is acid, ther should be mixed this way. Stral the juice two 1 bottie containir of orchard white you have a whole g und complext one usu 4 ordinary e the lemon ju bottle, then this lot and fresh for m daily to the face it should help to biea en and beautify t Any druggist of orchara white the grocer has the lemons.