Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 18, 1917, Page 4

_NORWICH 'BULLETIN, SlTHRMY, 1917 GQorwich Bulletin and Goufied 121 YEARS OLD Subseription price 1Zc a week; 50c a month: $6.00 a year. Entered at the Postoffice at Norwich, onn., @s second-class matter. Telephone Crlls: 1 _n Businass Office 4S0. billetin Editorial Rooms 85-3. Bulletin Job Ofice 8!'-2. Otfdce. 67 Chureh Si W Tel Norwu:h Slturdny. Aug. 18, 1917, 11mantie hone 210-2. The Circulation of The Bulletin The Bulletin has the Jargest circulation of any paper in Eastern Connecticut and from thres to four times larger thun that of any in Norwich. It is delivered %o nver 2,000 of the 4,053 houses in Nor- wich and read by ninety-three per$ cent. of the peopie. it is @elivered 1u over 900 aouses. in Putnam and Danielson to oves 1,100, and in all of these places it is considered the iocal daily. Eestern Connecticut has forty- nine towns. one hutdred and sixty- five postoffice districts, and sixty iural free dellvery routes. The Bulletin is sold in every town and ou all of ke R. F. routes in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULAT:ON average....... 1901, 1905, &Verage.:.c..eeeee.- o LY August 11, 191 TAKE THE BULLETIN ALONG Readers of The Bulletin leaving the eity for vacation trips can have it follow them aa 1 thus Keep in touch with home 2 s Order through The Bulletin busi- ness office A MILLION HOUSES. This world-iwide ar is to end when it can end ght: and when it has end- ed right life no nation engaged in it will be r\—u-' the same. The end of the war sheuld not only give assurance of permanent peace, but a ct welding of the people to- B er—the breakinzg down of ecaste and classes and people in hope and Germany Is planning alreadyworld- wide business schemes for the recov- of her inteilectual ndustrial and England planninz t her great landed estates and homes to her returning pa- the number of one million five-room houses to be built at a cost dred and fifty milllon dol- that the miillon Great Peace shall be the lifting up of the act prestige: for the ens: generation, savs the committee hg the greaf; enterprise charge America expect to take on a new character fence and for deve closer unity for de- lopment. governing the fopr greatest nations of earth ry ought to becoms an example of de- mocracy after the war, and fo lead in nal, governmental and WAR PRICES. as the prices seem to ba ded central empire of Eu- ey do not approach the prices odities in south during the Salted goose lazs at 94 cents aplece in Berlin look no worse than lard at 1 in Richmond in the six- butter at 35 a pound in Vi- compara with flour at coffee at 10 a pound, or wood £75 a cord here These hizh ce of a distressed imminent speculators munition and munitions never patriots, and in tries at war they have *been making from 30 to 100 per cent. upon their stocks: but the warring nations have compelled them to surrender by tax- ation a large portion of their il-got- ten gains, Will America do likawise? nation whose The food and the am- profiteers are all the eoun- BEER OR BUST' The English workmen consider heer as necessary to life as beef; and they are not calmly submitting to the weak beer which has been ordered for them by representatives of the government, and complain of the shortening of the beer draught and the selling of “swipe: A labor leader notifies the prime minister of England that “there is plenty of foreign malt and barley in the country that could be utilized for the brewing of light beers. The addi- tion of 0 per cent. of water is not only a fraud, but the most cynical and cruel blow to the workers that conld be possible. On top of this, the price is increased 100 per cent. to 200 per cent, while the brewers and di tillers and some of the publicons are reaping a large profit.” They demand that twenty-six mil- lion barrels of beer be brewed of a higher gravity than is required by the government regulations. John Buli had to yield to the har- vesters and give them the old beer al- owance to zet his harvesting done; and it is probable he will be oblized :0_compromise with labor agatn. Labor must have its beer or it will vust the government. FoN P e dependable | I NOT TO PROFIT BY THE-'RAISE. The salaries of postmasters are not to be raised during the war. - The enhancement of receipts by the increase of postage would under the old rule of fiving salaries have ad- vanced their pay, hence section 1105 of the war revenue tax Dbill, provides that the salaries of postmasters at of- fices of the first, second and third classes shall not be increased af- ter first. nineteen hundred and seventeen, during the exist- ence of the present war. Ana it has been passed by the house and approved by the finance commit- tee of the genate. Postmasters of fourth class offices are to have their salaries computed as heretofore, and in the event of a decrease will get the benefit of in- creased postal rates, provided that in no case shall the compensation be greater than for the fiscal vear just ended. There is no provision to prevent a decrease in salary, but the assump- tion is that with higher postage the receipts of no post office is likely to be less. The postmasters are not worrying. OUR WORST ENEMIES. Too many peopie are prone to re- gard our alien citizens as our worst enemies, but they are not. The worst encmies any country can have are those citizens who oppose the gov- ernment when it is menaced by ene- mies from without, and who attempt to_embarrass it within. These slackers we arc now com- plaining of are the fruit of the pacifist and the socialist campaigns which have been going on for many years, and both of these movements origl- nated in Germany as an anticipatory counter influence to their well-plan- ned campaign for world supremacy. If the government finds it necessary to make any examples it should take the agitators high up rather than their weak minded followers. As exam- ples Americans should be handled first, and most severely. EDITORIAL NOTES, When duty calls some people the line is alwavs busy. A high-priced loaf of bread seems to be a shrinking thing. If you are enjoving poor health the doctor can’t spail your fun! The resiliency of the Hindenburg line must be puzzling the Kaiser. There are times when a timid wo- man can make a brave man afrald. The whole world 1is feeling the pinch of war and of the speculators. “Lots and could.’ The Man on the Corner says: of misfits break into society; lot more would itke to if they A man with a swelled head doesn't always have to change the size of his hat. As a disturbing force the I, W. must be credited with more | than sense. W.'s valor Men who_talk well are always in danger of getting the habit of talk- ing too much. is nothing good ‘about There war. As a world parasite it should be classed as a sucker. Turkey must be enjoving pretty An effective blockade larders lean. short rations. has made her As ghe people come to praise Hoover a protector, the speculators will up their. condemnations of him. Mississippi called upon for 3500 men has not furnished one-third of them. This for five, months showing doesn't shine! as pile It we could forget the mean things cnow about we I ourselves we should not worry lest someone else should find them out. Soldiers god-mothers had not heen invented in the days of the Civil war. 2d they heen they would have been in quick demand desire to start a rev- n in this country is shown by meetings in German centers to have | the araft Jaw repealed e German When Wall street cannot defend the high prices it should be forced by the government from extorting money from the people, war or no war. While 23 northern states have fur- nished more than their quota of men, Iv one southern state has come nup to the scratch. Is Col. Bryan's paci- fist influence the cause. It is fine to be a German prince to be praised for nther men's achieve- ments and to have other office blamed for vour mistakes. We are not ratty. the seas for our told naturally America was The rats come from across in ships. Does this account superabundance of old rats? The combinations Turkey is able to make with professedly Christian na- tions afford no reason why Christian- ity should command the Turks' re- spect, The congressional debate has heen running at the rate of a million words a month for the past five months: and it costs the taxpavers more than one dollar a word. The suffragist pickets at Washing- ton are proving the little ditty: “There was a little girl who had a little curl right on her forehead—when she was good she was good as she could be, and when she was bad, she was ‘or- ria! Don’t Be Disagreeabl Nothing better illustrates the gov- ernment’s charge that we don't realize that we are at war than the protests against putting restraints of the pro- German press and the ugly speakers who are preaching sedition. It is only creating hard feeling and advertising ‘hese newspapers, we are told. If we were in the war for our lives, as Ger- many and France and England are, we would not stop to temporize with the enemies in our midst. They are either for us or against us and if they are against us they ought to be put out of business. If we are simply go- ing through the motions, hoping the war will be over beforewe lose any lives, it doesn't matter, of course. and we can be good natured and never mind_what trouble-makers may do. But if they get the “jump” on the country they won’'t show any of the tolerance they are profiting by now.— ‘Waterbury American. Successful ‘men do not believe much in genius because life with them has been full of hard work. It is others who speak of them as geniuses. Mar- shal Joffre of France declines to pose as a genius, All that he has done is the result of preparation—exact, painstak- ing, laborious. Edison puts this in another way, thus: “Genius is 2 per cent aspiration and 98 per cent. per- spiration;” or as Joffre says: “Exact, painstaking, laboribus.” Genius see- ing the way does not hesitate but walks in it to achievement. It does not knmow how to wait only how to do. When Edison visited John Bur- roughs the naturalist spoke to him of a stony lot that had been a knotty. life-time problem to him. Edison said “Let's go and clean it up now, John, and hard work solved that old prob- lem in four days. Genius grapples with problems at once—it strikes now and keeps striking. Emerson noticed “Great geniuses have the shortest bio- graphies.” Do not think things are not worth saying if they are not original. Soio- mon discovered in his day that there is no new thing under the sun: and the greatest authors of modern times recognize that before their day every- thing had been said better than they were capable of saving it. In these days it is pretty generally agreed that the original man believes for himself not for another, and that the original utterance is simply a common truth expressed in an uncommon way. Orig- inal thoughts are so scarce that Clu- low ventured to proclaim: “I would rather be the author of one original thought than to be the conqueror of a hundred batties” It is a mark of originality to dress an old thouzht up €0 that it looks new: or to tura out an oid idea so that it will make a new or stronger impr ion. Voltaire said: “Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.” A person in any employment is not likely to win preferment by keepins his eves on the clock. It requires no skill to watch the clock, and wishing the time away doesn’t lend ambition or_inspiration to one’s endeavors. The mind that is always takinz note of time has no tima to do anything else. If laziness is not the parent of this habit I do not know what is. It is a cign the watcher would rather ioaf than ecourt industry for the opportu- nities there are in it for him. There is always a tired feeling lurking be- hind this habit—always a desire to Guit rather than to be a profitable hand to an emvploying concern. Such an employe unwittingiy sets a black mark upon himself, he classes himse!f with those considered below par. If men only realized in how many wavs they may mark themselves unworthy workmen they would put a closer guard upon their conduct. Don’t do any worrying today, savs a near-philosopher, that vou can put off until tomorréw. This is zood advice. There is nothinz but folly in antici- pating trouble. It is time enouzh to grapple with trouble when Its tenta- cles can no ionger be held in abey ance. Do not get trouble on the nerves for it is bad enougzh to have it on hand. It is poor policy to invite trou- ble. It represents poor judgment Most of the trouble, public and pri vate, ke most disease, is preventible and right alonpg this line an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Do mot think becanse it is wise to take time by the forelock, that it is smart to tackle trouble in the same way. Lots of t ihie may be avoided by judicious e: reise and plenty of fresh air. Some heart iroubles ar- good things to sit on; and never thir} vour trouble comes freo God, until you know vou or the devil are not the author of it. You can think a lot of things It is not safe to sav. Saving things that are thought is the cause of nine-tenths of the suits for libel. What you think m: be true: but the evidence which satisfies vou will not convince a judzce, In a courtroom they want what you know, not what vou suspect: and there' is the place to discover that what you think and what Yo ow Ao not have a very clos relation to one another half of the time. We may think what we please, but we have no right to say what we ousht not to. Some people are so simple they con- clude the truth will bear its own weight, is lts own defence, and have paid dearly for their error. Some uths are as dangerous to play with as a two-edged knife. A voice from the distant past tells us the truth is not to be spoken at all times. One as- sumes a great : who ventures to speak the truti half of the time. The truth sometimes is enough to frighten a person-half to death and becomes a harrassing secret An exhibition of temper Is a free show that shouldn’t be too often iged in. There is nothing in it but ill-repute for th> actor, and unavoid- able annoyance to most of the wit- nesses. What we sav or do in temper we may repent at leisure, but there is no fun in doing it. They say the ma- trimonial quarrel is sweet In the clos- ing scenes, but it is not wise to ven- ture a trial. A religious quarrel we know is flavored with zall, and usual- Iy remains a bitter thing. An ungov- ernable temper is usually governor of its victim. Haven't vou noticed that temper, temptation and tears get all mixed up with woe? The happiness which might result from a large for- tune may all bs annulled by a bad temper. There is no reason why you <hould be more ashamed of the itch than of a temper you can't control. A: temper is the atmosphere of character it constantly gives one away. Girls all desire to marry rich, but those who do discover that riches of- ten are accompanied by trouble intol~ erable if they do keep the wolf from the door. A warm tenement is not enough to take the ice out of a cold heart, and all the things money can buy cannot pay for some of the sor- rows deception creates. The face of a pretty girl is said to be her fortune, but the fraces of true womanhood are a protection as well as a blessing. The price some girls have paid for a rich husband cannot be computed in dol- lars and cents, any more than can be the happiness which some girls have realized by wedding a just and indus- trious one. Peace and happiness dwell with honesty, faithfulness, justice and thrift. It is not money that makes for happiness, but the quality of those Who unity not only to promote life but to make a better world for future gen- erations to live in. Purpose cants more than wrath Have you observed that the success- ful man never tells anyone what he is doing to do next? He is doing well what is in hand now, and may not know exactly what he will do next. It is not a man's vision but his know- ledge an dindustry which keep him pacing along the highway of success. He is not wondering how the other fellow made his way up, or walting for some successful friend to give him a cue or a boost, but is manifesting ca- rability by doing things which count in his everyday employment. Success- ful men are dependable men, are rec- osnized as competent assistants. Do- 1ng is climbing in most of the business of life—not the expected, but the un- expected, that which discloses initia- tive, indicates live interest and in- creasing worth. The man who does only just what he is paid for doing is iosing himself in the mass, is standing as a cipher instead of striking ten. (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) An interesting occurrerice in Nor- wich history is recalled by the writer Of the sccount of the celebration of t orwich quarter millennfum, in narrating the events, when, on the Fourth ‘of July, 1901, Faith Trum- bull Chapter, Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution, unvefled a bronze tablet near the Town Street entrance of the Up-town burving ground, in memory of the twenty nameless French soldiers of the Revolution, who, serving under Lafayette, died while in camp on Norwich Town areen, in 1778. The exercises at_the unveiling inciuded addresses by Rev. Charles A. Northrop, George Shepard Porter. and Mrs. Sara Thompson Kinney, state regent, with the sing- inz of the Star Spangled Banner by Mrs. Martin E, Jensen. Two_years later, July 4th, 1903, Mrs. Frank A. Roath-—now Mrs. Charles W. Gale—regent of Faith Trumbuli Chapter, presided at a large gathering near the East Town street entrance of the burying ground, to dedicate the iron gates that had stood for seventy-one yvears before the man- sion of the late Amos H. Hubbard, on East Main street, on the site now oc- cupied by Norwich post omfice. The gate posts support bronze tablets bearing the names of fifty-nine Revo- jutionary soldiers whose graves were known to be within the enclosure. Following are the names: Capt. Issac Abel, Rufus Backus| Abel, Capt. Elijah Backus, Corp. Eze- kiel Barrett, Sergt. Zephaniah Bliss, Capt. Joseph Carew, Eliphalit Ca- rew, Paymaster Gardner Carpenter, Sergt. Nathan Chapel, Jr., Edward Conoy, {ol. John Durkee, Capt. Eli- sha Tdgerton. Capt. John Fanninz, Thomas Fanning, Stephen _Gifford, Capt. - Silas Goodell, Abel = Griswold, Lieut. Andrew Griswold Dr. David Rogers, Col. Zabdiel Rog- ers, Jonathan Starr, Capt. Frederick Tracy, Jabez Trac Dr. Philemon Tracy, Uriah Tracy, Simeon Thomas, Capt' Asa Waterman, Capt. Nehemiah Waterman, Asa Woodworth, Corp.' Joshua Yeoman: Benjamin Huntington. Commissary Andrew Huntington, Sergt. Caleb Huntington, Gen. Ebenezer Hunting- ton. Gen. Jahéz Huntington, Gen. Jedidiah Huntington. Lt. Col. Joshua Huntington, Sergt. John Huntington, Gov. Samuel Huntington, Capt.. Sim- eon Huntington, Abiel Hvde, Theo- dore Hyde, Capt. James Hyde, Drum- mer Parmenas Jones, Ensign Azariah Lathrop. Darius Lathrop, _Jedddiah Lathrop, Jonathan Lathrop, Zachariah Lathrop, Andrew Leffingwell, Col. Christopher Leffingwel. Lieut. Daniel Leffingwell. Capt, Samuel Leffingwell, Ensign Elisha Lefngwell, John Lef- tingwell, Phineas Leffingwell, Drum- mer Diah Manning. Capt. Bela Peck, Capt. Joshua Pendleton, The graves of Corporal Jabez Av- ery, John Bliss, John Bushnell. Sam- uel Case, David Hunn, Ebenezer Jones, Drummer Benjamin Tracr, John Morse, John Williams and Solo- mon Williams have not been located. by by Addresses were macde Charles F. Thayer, Mayor Jonathan Sunday Morning Talk GOOD LOSERS If one wishes to read the record o a gentleman, let him open the page of the journal of Sir Walter Scott | found after the novelist's death at Ab- botsford. Amazing industry, generous hospitality to all sorts and conditions of people, and, withal, a notable sweetness of spirit under stress of va- rious ill fortune are revealed in these pages. Take, for instance, the entry after the lang threatened failure of Scett's business partners had become a fact and it was certain that his lord- Iy highland home must be sacrificed to pay his debt of honor. “I feel neither dishonored by the bad—now really bad news I have re- ceived. I have walked my last on the domains 1 have planted, sate the last time in the halls I have built. But death would have taken them from me if misfortune had spared them. My poor people whom I have loved so well! . . . In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least-a tonic and a bracer; the fountain is awakened from its inmost recesses, as if the spirit of affiiction had troubled it in his passage.” No defeat is possible for a man who will take adversity in that temper. The worst injury of misfortune—that done within the ~spirit—he cannot suffer. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune cannot fly high enough to hit him in any vulnerable part. He has learned one of the greatest lessons of life to which Stevenson in his Christ- mas Sermon calls us “to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered.’ Loss of one kind or ancther is an inevitable experience for the sons of men. We are each day, candidates for privaion. No credit resides . in the mere fact that we renounce things since this is a universal human por- tion. The only question is as to how we shall renounce—in morose discour- agement, or with high purposes still undaunted. The good loser is after the Apostle’s ideal. “pressed on every side. vet not straightened: perplexed yet not unto despair; pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not de- stroyed.” Few Americans have suffered more or harder defeats than did Abraham Lincoln. “With me the race for ambi- tion has been a failure—a flat failure”, he said only four years before his countrymen sent him to the White House. Any ordinary soul would have succumbed long before that. Defeat with the rail splitter was only an in- cident. never a finality; he was a good loser. The world writes its odes and hangs its banners for those who gain prizes. That is inevitable in view of the plane of thought on which the world gener- ally moves. Only the obvious and the material can be taken into account. There is a success of too fine and spir- itual a kind to be gaged by such stand- ards. It is_the victory of him who may be well battered. but is never down; who can “renounce without be- ing embittered” who . is a good_ loser. Such a one may forfeit health. wealth, friends home and all the other goods of life, but keep a grip on courage and faith and manhood. He who has “failed” after this brave fashion has not truly failed at all. but is himself a conqueror. A colored man. Paul Lawrence Dunbar, once sang a song of which none better than he knew the meaning. The man who is strong to fight his fight, And whose will no front can daunt. f the truth be truth and the right ve right, Is the man that the ages want Tho' he fail and die in grim defeat Yet he has not fled the strife. And the house of earth will seem more sweet - £ For the perfume of his life. THE PARSON ) | Trumbull, who told the history of the gates, and by Capt. Henry P. Goddard, who paid a graceful tribute to the men and women and institutions of former days. The late George 8. Porter, who had identified . the names and ‘graves ol the soldiers, read a carefully prepared aistory of the burying ground. Mr. Gilman pauses to mention that about that time, 1903, Mr. Porter vol- untarily uhdertéck the extremely ar- duous task of deciphering and trans. cribing the stone records in the bury- ing ground, then being rapidly re- duced by the effacing fingers of Time, It is believed that not one of thir- teen hundred graves escaped his ob- servation, and that he copied with scrupulous exactness every legiblo word and letter. Mr. Gilman adds in his narration: ‘Mr. Porter died in 1906. It is to be hoped that by the generosity of some public spirited descendant of a Foun- der of Norwich, Mr. Porter’s invalua- ble manuscript, which is now in the hands of his sister, Mrs. Jean Portc* Rudd, may find a publisher.” Since that wish was expressed, Mrs, Rudd has died, and so far no publi spirited Founder has caused Mr, Gil- man’s hope to materialize; but ones the world war is ended, let us hope that the painstaking work of this quiet, scholarly, modest man may be vut in permanent form, to add to the | ton. annals of Norwich in’ Revolutionary sime, while perpetuating Mr. Porter's name, as a -true benefactor of the town in his ‘own' special way. The Daughters of the American Revolution have also caused suitable inscriptions to be placed near the for- mer home of Governor Samuel Hunt- ington, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, also near the homes of General Jabéz Huntington, and his distinguished sorns, Jedidiah, Andrew, Joshus Ebenézer .and achariah, of Revolutionary fame. w Thus Mr. Gilman recalls the pa- triotic work of Falth Trumbull chap- ter along various lines, and promises that the public benefaction of the Daughters, in providing a memorial fountain to be placed on the Little Plnlkn‘ is to be referred to later in his book. Daily the tide of life goes ebbing and flowing past the quiet and quaint burfal gronnd wherein sleep these Norwich soldiers who did so much.to preserve the honor and the perma- nency of the old town during Revo- lutionary davs, and where are buried the valorous French allies who came with characteristic courage to fight ithe battle of the struggling young Re- public, America. Few pause to. study the names on the gate posts, or to pay the tributs of homage and gratitude to the brave men whoss_debtors -ve all are. To them as well as tp the chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution wnose members have: preserved - their names and memories from oblivion. Mr. Gil- man's book is a worthy tribute. THE DICTAGRAPH. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Foe of Patriotism is Greed. Mr. Editor: When the moral life is viewed. golely by the light of reason, | we cannot but help regara -patriotism as the brief of many virtues: devotion ‘o the public good is the ideal of duty. It is the proneness of the human heart spontaneously to admire this nobie sentiment of patriotism that en- ables €0 many of the undeserving to obtajn applause and advancement by the hypocritical adoption of its exter- nal indications. We have good reason to trust in the doctrine that religion is the basis of all those rights which patriotism aims to defend. For -is there one thing within the universe that vindicafes the dignity of human personality like the gospel of our Lord,| and Saviour? Patriotism is but the assertion and vindication of this dignitv of human personality through the agercy of the natural society of the state. Patriot- ism calls for the sinking of private in- terests for the public good, and the seeking of the public good before pri- vate gain. The peril of patriotism is greed. In the modern world today everything is measured by the standard of money. The relations of mankind instead of being governed by sympathy, zood will -and friendehip, are placed upon the altar “of bargain and sale. The nations of the world have lost the sense of social unity and sre formed into antagonistic groups working un- der the influence that the cause of 4 nation is best promoted when that nation seeks its own private interests. The principle is sound enough as a statement of the advantage that comes to the state from individual liberty and initiative. While it is true that some appeal to self-interest is necessary to evoke and uphold this initiative, there may be much good and little harm when the power of the individual is kept within reasonable limits: but when the law of the land allows individuals pureulng a particular and private interest to combine in groups, and gives the priv- ileges and sanction of a corporate or- ganization and life to such groups pur- suing an interest wholly private and unrelatel to the public good, and when the industrial system is the prey €f conflicting and competing groups of such interests, then the public wedl is the last thing considered, and the love of the common good—the common friendship—is at an end. It is then that patriotism is a mere pretense and the life of the state is In danger. Selfishness, the antithesis of patri- otism, is the cause of most of the dis- orders of the body politic today. Where is the American who fears fo meet bravely and successfully every exter- nal danger with which we may be con- fronted? The solution of the internal problems of our national existence calls for patriotism of the very highest order. The supreme need of the hour is that every one of us. rich or poor, emplover or employe, official or citizen, look In a calm and patriotic manner, with good will, moderation and mutual forbear- ance. into the evils of our day, and consider the eacrifice which the solu- tion of these evils demands of every one of us, For we know the principle of democracy in the state cannot long co-exist with feudalism in industry and the placing of American industry on a personal basis and on the relation of man to man and of obedience rather than on the impersonal basis of effi- ciency and organization will be a great and indispensable support of political democracy. Reason alone will not curb avarice or support patriotism. Patri- otism will not endure if not based on motives that only genuine religion supplies. It is that power alone which can stem that franzy which precipitates. men and nations with the rage of a torrent into excesses. When the in- justice and Inveterate abuses are elim- inated from the government of society patriotism will have come into it own. It is then we can give the bes: we Havs, even life itself, to maintain our eountry' in her integrity and to safeguard the immemorial rights and E NORWICH ELECTRIC COMPANY 10 watt 7 c. p: burns 10 15 watt 12c. p. burns 6 25 watt 20 c. p. burns 4 40 watt 60 watt 75 watt ; 100 watt 100 c. p. burns 1 30.c. p. burns 2 1-2 hours for ic 46 c. p. burns 1 2-3 hours for lc— 36¢ 60-c. p. burns 1 1-4 hours for lc— 65¢ Mazda Lamps | hours zw 1c | hours mic 27¢ hour for 1c—$1.00 THROW AWAY THE OLD CARBON LAMPS WE CAN PROVE TO YOU THAT THEY BURN THREE TIMES THE ABOVE TABLE f THE NORWICH ELEGTRIC COMPANY 42 FRANKLIN STREET | “‘berties guaranteed by the cnnulllu-l i J. H. CUMMINGS. Norwich, “The Godmothers' League. | Mr. Editor: As a member of the Godmothers’' League for American Bovs at the. Front, I am writing these few lines in the hopes of interesting other | Norwich women in this branch of ser- Vice. | This league has been organized by | the Boston Traveler as a means of | giving the lonely hoys at the front, who -might- otherwise receive no mail. | a weekly letter. Through the chap- lains of the different rogiments the names of these friendless lads are as- | certained. Such names are then as- | signed ‘by the Traveler to the various | women who have enrolled themselves. following the example of the Frenc godmother system. The work has been | perior to the systems of either slow at vet due to the fact that the | chaplains’ lists have not hbeen re- ceived, but within a month's time ev- erything will be in working order. Sending these names has been delayed until army movements have been ac- complished. The godmothers duties are not on- erous. She is asked to write her snl- dier once a week, anyway: to send a paper or magazine once a month, and during the vear to mail him some ar- ticle of comfort. Mjss Esther Harney, secrctary of the league, rites: “Our purpose is to zive these soldiers mental comfort through the medium of = letters. Our motto summed up is this: ‘Let there be no lonely American lad in khak! at the front.’ Bveryone is busy” dsing her hit these days; but the Godmothers' league of fers still another chance to do a little more. Some of us are interested in the soldier boys more personally tRan others, simce our sons or brothers are doing their’ part: hut it seems to ma there must be many patriotic Ameri- *an women who would be gla of this opportunitv to make life more cheerful for some {r‘inndl"s hov MAZIE . CARUTHERS Norwich, Aug. 16th. Killers of Cats and Dogs. Mr. Editor:—I wish to eall attention to the ruthless Killing of cats and an oecasjonal dog, by’ automobiles. If a person has a pet cat it is almost im- heart aches. T have known of six pet cats heing er time nor space to take up his sev- eral sallies in detail Some were not worth notice, but his atement that the English government forbid educa- possible to keep it. While cqte are Hable to get In the way and bother, if automobilists wonid | consider them more and turn out. or stop their machines for them they would save terrible suffering and not a few killed by automobiies in my own| neighborhood in the past few weeks. A READER OF THE BULLETIN yig Education in !reland. Mr. Editor:—In my reply to Mr. Cummings, of vesterday and perhaps tomorrow, there was, of course, neith- i tion is emphatically untrue. Th true would not have been misrule insanity. For nearly a century Ireland ha its own system of education | Irish National School—aAmittedls or Scotland. Its center where are teachers' fraintnz for the whole fsland o A ined and classified and s cording to their ability and tf are visited by inspectors the men of superfor edncatin \ ity. Upwards of 40 e writer attended a public meet our Free Academy at whic R. G Northrop, then S Connceticnt . 8 speaker. He had just r « Europeon tour of Inspsct's was his statement, t National School Systerr perfect and the most produ resnltg of all the pin he had and in proof of that, t ald T have attended ‘ districts of Irelar . v . bare-footed pupil d ! answering questions t and vears bafors that free text books for pils buv and these were am words: “The proner:y o Schonl.”" and all the text pro<ided by the boa loss t ’ el The t e ! largely ¢ fe sch “A general lessc . tvpe and to be some exce motnt (Christ - Golden Rule rangzeme tom anthem and t ha 4 cerned about t Hiric the an. mor typograp} mine e LESSCN NO. 6 CLEANLINESS IN CAMP (Preceding- Lessons: 1. Your Post s Hono~ T. Making Good as a Sol- Uer. 3. Nine Qualities of a Soldier. 4 Jetting Read for Camp. 5. First Days m_Camp.) When jarge numbers of men are as- sembled in camp it is necessary for the g00d of &l that strict rules of person- al conduct and sanitation should be enforced. Three rilas are by no means u hardship. They are a protection. By inisisting on strict obedience to these vules, the diseases which once took =0 Veavy a toll in nearly all military ramps have been brought under con- :rol; some have heen practically elim- inated. Suppose vou were asked to make a ¢haice; either to live under conditions In which small-pox, tphoid fever, diar- rhea, dysentery and cholera flourish; or to live under etrict regulations, which make these diseases far more of » rarity in military than in civil life. Your good sense would lead you to shoose the latter. Bear this in mind. See tp it that you cooperate with en- husiasm in the measures that will be taken to keep your camps clean, com- fcrtable and healthful. One of the pests of camp life, if per- fect cleanliness is not observed, is ‘he presence of swarms of flies. Flies are not merely annoying. They are dangerous. Somebody. has said. with perhaps a slight exageration, that to toldiers they are more dangerous than oullets. This le because flies carry disease germs. They feed on manure, rarbage, uncovered food, human ex- creta and-the, like. THey also lay their rgEs wherever refuse of the same kind Is found.. The best way to keep flies away from camps is to destroy the places where they breed and feed: in sther words, keep the camp spotlessly viean. - For this reason the daily “policing” (for cleaning up) of the camp is a mat- ter of first importance. You will be free from even small objects, bits of food, and the lfke, which might at- tract flies or other insects. At least snce a day a squad will be detailed to tnspect and clean every square foot of space in or near your living quar- ters, This is a duty which an experi- enced soldier usually performs with more interest and thouorughness thar the raw recruit; for he more clearly re- ulizes its importance. The best safeguards against dises-- soap and sunshine. You will be requir- soap andeunshine. You will be requir- d to keep eversthing in the camp well scrubbed and well aired. It it were not required, you would doubtless be anxious to do it anyway. HOME-READING COURSE FOR CITIZEN SOLDI * (Issued by the War Department and all rights to reprint reserved ERS good eoldie n the care of his bedding and Personal cleanline only your own 1p and mess kit roubles and such 1 infections fe from one person nrticles in common In the train e gt d to othe plenty of shower . nt course, make free nse 1" In tentporary camps or time vo1 cannot obtain a 3 vourself a good stiff ith & @ towel. Twice a week frener necessary, vour shirts. d . socks should be washed an derclothes put on. In case sary to sleep in vour underwear, a probably will be, put one aside at night, so that vou will always fe treeh and clean in'the morning. The sealp should he the rleaned ahout as frequently as the rest of the body. This will be made easter If you keep your hair cut sho The teeth should be brushed at least once a day: twice a day is b glecting this practice will ca tor. N of the teeth, resulting in failire food th>roughly and probably end In stomach troubles. Cleanliness includes e prac tice of emptying your bo once a day. Get into the habit of A Ing this at a certain time each m Ing. Tt is a habit that car vcated. just ltke any other T not let a little persona ence or lazines& stand in the The Medical Corps of the s vour ow. officers will use ever within their power to safe-puard anA improve vour health generalls ¢ recent vears better methods of medic greatly reduced th supervision have losees and the disabiliting tare The increased powe more than met weapons ha been hy increased e ficlency in mafntaining the healt troops and in caring for thone w wounde 1 But the responsibility for lkeep vourself in good he ! : wholly npon vour officers t a9 civil life, you are expected reasonabie amount of gond se Tooking after vourself this partly because comfort and safety of yourself, also, u will ta becausa it is a that every soldiers owes to the co try. You will have plenty of fresh air exercise and good food, which are afi- er all the chief essentiale of 1 health. It should be a comparat easy thing for you to look after smaller rhingi the