Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 11, 1917, Page 4

o= Slorwich Fulletin ahd goufie . at Norwieh. Toimbes e Bl gWen ¥ Wtk Wt Thi " -—i-v- e MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED The Assoclated Press is exclusive- Ip-#ntitled to the use for republica- tion of all news credited ta it or not erwise credited in this paper and #iso the local news published herein. Al rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. — ’ G@OD HIGHWAYS, The action of the town meeting in fuszishipg the amount of money eall- ed for In the estimates for the run- ning of the town during the ensuing vear makes it evident cuee more that there iy thorough coifidence in the offictals who will handie the fundsand that there is no disposition to hamper them in the administration of their dutles, or to place any handicaps in their way which would be detrimental to the town's interests. Few oxtras ouiside of these which are voted each year were petitioned for, but in providing for the $5,000 for highways, it cannot help being felt that a wise course was adopted. Good highways are of viial Impert- ance to every town and there should PRESS | Ition upon the part”of some to look bringing back sgoeds which ave awalt- E um-whélon n-‘on ports in these triea to the United States. are of oourss ributing to the re- list of the problems in-| this country but they are at the mame time eDgAging in & prefitable trade and oyercoming the leas which was pilipg up steadlly juat as as they $dle in New York harbor. is a good sized fleet of Dutch wvesdels which can neither get away from port to return homse nor §° to other points without coming to some agreement with thia govern- ment. The situation has existed long enough to show that this country is determined in the matter, and the ac- tion taken by the Nederland company indicates a thorough appreciation of this. The quicker others come to the same conclusion, or are forced to by this government, the better it will be for all congermed.’ - THE SUPPLY OF STAPLE FOODS. The announcement which has been made from Washington to the effect that federal contrel of staple food wecessities will be put into effect by the president's ' proclamation on November first is only what has heen expected. Efforts have been made to get the same result without taking such a step but it has been impossi- ble. Those who are n a pesition to Jo it have continued to take advan- tage of the purchasing public, the gpeculator has lost no eppartunity and prices have not come down with the speed that they went up even though the actual or fancled short- age does not now exist. Thero his been no justification for the unfair profits, the hoarding and speculation and the waste which has occurred, and in some cases been forced. in order to affect the, supply and therefore the price. The govern- ment has endeavored to relieve the situation but it has been brought to the realization of the fact that a firmer grip must bs taken on the sit- uation, and as is usual in such cases Cie innocent must suffer with “the _guiity in having the new regulations imposed upon .them for all whole- salers, retailers, packers, cold storage men, apd grain dealers will he in- cluded in the order. They will be li- censed and will be required to observe the rules. E It is the intentign of the food com- mission to keep in closer touch with the faod industry fer the better pro- tection of the nation as well as the individual. There miay be an Inclina- upon the move as drastic but when it comes to dealing with pirates In this direciion as well as those 1n others siern measures have got ta bhe em- ployed. THE EPISCOPAL PENSION FUND. The idea of pensioning employes who have given faithful service for lang periods of vears, and to -whom fn a majority of instancea ean be.at- | tributed a large share of the success' of the business with which they ar connepted, has been growing as the vears pass. lLarge corporations, and small ones ag well, have seen the lizht and are responding. Mynicipaiitics have to some degree - followed the caurse which has been adopted by in- Justries and the government in some be a disposition to provide not only for maintenance but for betterment] especfally when the state is swilling to. furnish three for every dollar that {he town expends. Where ‘the state "Nands so openly for the improve- ment of roads there ought to be suffl- cient interest taken by the town, es- pecially when it is the town that is golng to get the greates:t henefit. Certainly Ncrwich is willing to spend 85,000 for $20,000 worth of Im- proved roads and while there Is no certainty that the state appropriaticn wiil be sufficient {o mset all the de- mands of the towns, it be appor- tioned in accerdance with the appli- cations, with Norwich getting its share. The town mesting has shown by its aetlon that the people of this community stand for better highways and that they are anxicns to do thsir part to get them. NEW ENGLAND COAL. That the coal situation for the New England states is not all rosy has been indicated for scme time and it is not surprising that the chairman of the New Fngland coal committee, James J. Storrew of Beston, 1s glv- ing warning of the possibilities of a ge of steam coal and the p-s- es of such a condition regard- ing hard coal. This has been antici- pated for sonfe time by those who have been foilowingthe situation and not a few have been dding their ut- most to prepare for it. When Mr. Storrow refers to the manner in which the navy depart- ment is interfering with the ccal transportation to this seciion and points to the faet that last week thers were five tugs with a towing capacity of three-quarters of a mil- lion tons taken over by the govern- ment and away from this service, it is oniy explaining in greater de- tail what has been apparent for months. The fact of the matter is that there should be nothing to pre- vent the tidewater points from get- ting plenty of coal if there were the | American count: vessels avallable for such service, and Germany, that natlen will soon the shortage in this diratcion is plain- indicated by the statement of deal- ors to the effect that It is chedpe: in spite af all the congesiion that ex- ists on the rallroads, to get coal to Norwich by rail than it is hy boat. This may also be the a ton cheaper at inland noints than it 's at tidewater. But it is thus made all the mere apparent that the govern- ment must give due attgntion to th: matter. With New Engiand engaged in the manufacturing that it is, and with the government depending upcn it for a great many of its war sup- plies, it must be impressed with the| ticipgtion in the 1eed of doing its utmcst to prevent a fuel shortage and indusirial stagna- tion. THE RIGHT MOVE. ° The action which has been taken by the Nederland Steamship company in * acquiescing with the conditions, imposed by this country regarding bunkering facilities, and the agree- ment to bring back from Java cargoes sxclusively for TUnited States or of ths departments have established the pension system. It is- not surprising therefore that the ldea 1is being taken up by the churches, where several of the de- nominations are busily engaged in raising funds for this partioular pur- pese. In this connection the report which has just been made by those in charge of the work of raising a $5,000.000 fund for the purpose of tak- ing care of Eplscopal clergymen during their old age must be highly sgratify- ing, for not only was the desired amount raised which would assure the success of the plan but meariy four-fifths as’ much agdin, of which amount over the desircd sum has al- ready been paid in. rgymen are by best peid people. In tco mmny in- stances are they far underpald and it is but oroper that some provision should be made for taking care of them after they have reached the x;e' where peor health or feeblencss makes it' impossible for them te carry on their work. The success which has been attained by the Episcopal church in this direction~”cannot fail to sive much encouragement to ether denmomi- nations which are striving for the same end. It is a wise solution of the much debated questicn as to how the aged ministers shouid be cared for. no means the EDITORIAL NOTES. Anyone who is looking “to make a safe {nvestment cannot go Wrong on one or more of the Liberiy bonds. Why not a Liberty bond for a Christmas present? It's a chance to get that much of your rhopping out the way early. reason why [ which Germany’s coal is being sold from 50 to 75 cests|out. The man on the corner says: When it comes to unraveling a mystery, scme people find that a ietective story s preferable to knitting.— From the wayv in which the South s are breaking with be without a friend on this side of the Atlantie Beriin is ordering the darkening of German cities to baffle the air raid- e But that ‘is, only cnme way in light is peing put Help is new being sent to the flood sufferers fn China. It makes little difference where want exists, appeal to this country is seldom made in vain. No one should hesitate over par- Liberty loan. It means not only support for the gov- ernment but finaneial backing for the béys in olive drab and the upholding of liberty, 5 The probability that Greece will be actively participating in the war is only what was anticipated with Veni- zelas directing affairs in that coun- try. Greece is now assuming its proper role. Those who play with loaded shot- Canada, furnish n example for the| guns, these wha dispute a railrosd other ships tied up in the New York or at other paiits. port of | eressing with a locomotive and thoge who persist in changing wseats in a Large sums of money are being 10st | canoe must have all been brought up 5y the inactivity of these vessels and there does mot appear to be any pos- sibllity of a relaxation on the par: of in the same school. Of course Christmas gifts are going ‘his eeuntry in its determination not|to be sent to soms, hrethers, hus- ‘o grant licenses for theso stranded | hands and sweaethearts acress the wa- :argoes. Sensing the situation a fow ter, But it sheuld be remembered if ressels have decided to do business on | they ape going to met them by the his side of the Atlantio by earrying [ holiday they must he mailed by the argoes to South v % P Amerigan ports and | middle of next manth.- | “Since Saturdan’; said the girl who likes to talk, “T have become & hope- less pessimist, misanthrope and gan- erally disiilusioned person. It is all because I tried to do a good d.ed ‘1 have come to the conclusion that geod deeds in this world must bs rare as otherwise the populace wouid be mor accustomed to them, and :ha accom lishment of one would not be fra t with so much ex ent. . If I started out with a and drum corps to call attentfon to the fact that ! was in the act of dolns sametntils ralseworthy I could not have Jrawn S ought not to do A th you ought no ng you are at once crazy to do fl}ntlr &;‘ and nothing else, which probably ex- plains why the robl: ‘Ifi the trouble acted as m‘hm No mm the cause ~goes er 3 s mother knew perféctly well that she had no business to bull she did, in o spindling 2 street that averages fifty-eleven gu- tomobiles & minute, sp, of course, she built it there. “And when young robin fell out of the nest he fell info a hard paved world of tooting machines, _yelling small boys and dogs and oats. A cro@d of small boye followed him, making futile grabs as he hopped and stumbled out into the roadway. plar tree on “So I dropped my magazine and went out and picked him up, where- upon he opened a cavernous, yellow lined mouth and yelled his head off. People popped out of doors and win- dows and I hastily deposited him on a front yard bush. He fell off, having no tail feathers to balance = himself with. 8o I chucked him up on the grass and fled. “In two minutes he was back in the road, and again I rescued him, circled by small boys. full of carying advide. A soldier in khaki and an agent wit a bag joined the interested onlookers. Meanwhile the robin had hopped down a house areaway and was bat- tering himself against the cement. , “The soldler and the agent and I resplved ourselves into a board _of managers and be came chatty. We agreed that it was tee bad but were ynanimously veoiceless when it came to suggesting remedies. Between small boys and dege and cats the robins’ hold on_life seemed fragile. “So, finally. I went into my house and got a bird cage and popped the voung adventurer imside. ‘Was he rratefu He was mot. He yelled his head off, so I hurriedly took him to the back yard dug a worm and pre- sented it to him. He scorned it. It was a perfectly, good wriggly worm, and hie should have been delighted. All he was interegted in was batter- ing himself against the cage bars in a clumsy, determined way. ‘While' I was leoking fof a fuzzy worm or a pink ome or something calculated to tempt his appetite tha cat from next door made a spring and krocked the cage over, and when I cuffed the cat its ownef came out and LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Four Dollars an Hour. Mr. Eaitor:—I cannot help but be- lieve that there must have been an error somewhere in the article pub- lished in this column last Friday in which the writer siging himself Far- mer said that his bov raised two hun- dred and fiftv bushels of potatoes on one and one-half acres of land, selling same for ninety'cents per bushel, an thus made a wage of four dollars per hour. I cannot believe that hour is meant. T think that four dollars per day would sound better. Such statements are read and quickly belleved, by many city people thaf don't know about labor, ete.. on one and one-half acres of potatoes. Then these people begin to hewail and holler how the farmer {s wmetting rich from them. Therefore if the four dollars per hour isn't an error, I think it would be very instructive and interesting for Farmer to write anothar letter, tell- ing us all abcut the boy's patatoes, how he could possibly plant. attend te the growing, and harvest one and one- half acres of potatoes in fifty-six and one-quarter hours. For as I figure at ninetv cents per.bushel, two hundred and fifty bushels would tome to $225. ¢ four dollars per hour, would six and eone-quarter haurs. enough time for one man to them. vet he zot the two hundred 2nd twenty-five dollars for the whole eron. Now when the cest of seed and fertilizer is taken out it would reduce the number of hours a rood many; therefore ome may readilv see my grounds for not crediting the state- ment as it read. Hoping that same wss an error, and will be spoedily ad- justed through your letters to the ed- itor. T anxiously await developments. Yours respectfujly, FARMER NO. 2. Seuth_Coventry, Conn,, Oct. §, 1917. Nothing to Do With Suffrage Question Mr. Editor: T have been asked to state’ whether there is any connection between the pink slips, issued by the Women's Liberty Tdan Committee or the committee itself and woman suf- frage and I wish to state clearly that there is none. Further than that the Connecticut Women's Liberty TLoan Committee has among its chajrmen Mrs. T. Hepburn, president Con- necticut Woman's Suffrage Associa- tion, and Mrs. D. A. Markham, pres- ident Connecticut Branch of the Na- tional Association Opposed to Woman Suffragze, who are working harmoni- ously together. I have already sent an_invitation to the Norwich Anti- Suffrage Association to appeint a rep- resentative to act with me on_the Norwich Women’s Liberty Loan Com- mittee and have received a reply that they would do so. , ¢ would be a pity If the first direct call to'the women of the country from their government were to be miscon- strued in any way. The only belief required of any member js a bellef in her country and its ideals. ADA R. CHASE. Norwich, Oect. 10, 1917 A Mother's Viewpoint. Mr. Editor: I have read Bill's and Mrs. Hall's letters in your papers, and would like to make the follpw- ing reply. The Red Cross is certainly doing a worthy and helpful work in our city, and we should and do appreciate the time and money our wemen are giv- ing to make the work successful. But, the suffering caused by drafting the married and family man ean never be alleviated by the charity of either the Red Cross or any_ether organigation. Perhaps if Mry. Hall had small chil- dren tq whom /the giving away of “Daddy” means the giving up of home, and the loss of future oppertunities, she, . too, would appreciate the fac that the unnecessary \ir;ttini of the family man is gofng to Teb wives and children of homes and heme influences that no amouht of material comforts given them by- the Rad Crass or the United Missions can compensate.. A home is not based entirély on one’s ncial resoyrces. . A husband gives his love, influence and personality to T Y o - OCTOBER 11, told the sun, moon and stars what she thought of me. 'Then I bore my squawking prey back to the front po: set. h% down and sternly su im. e was amenable neither to reason nor ad- All he wanted was to escape and probably be run over for his pains. There was nothing doing te my suggestion that he remain pa- it winmet wa S for a ta‘;‘ daave till_his leathers grew 80 could balance.” There was nothing to do but to put him where dangers not threaten. « So. tle cage, B the . little. lake shere park.- way I met one _thousands Dersol ‘each of whom was either shocl jurprised or pained to see a robin in eaptivity. And all of them. whether they knew me or not, desired to tell iy o e e Rapidly cal- culating, I saw that if T paused te tell my lfe's- story to each objector I should ba 75 years old and the rohin long~dead before I ever reached the park. Therefore - I strode om with eomments whistling shrapnel-like about my eeething ears. “* A robin!* hissed a lady in osange jersey cloth. ‘In that cage! The idea! She ought to be reported to the Hu- man Society!" ‘Lookif TLookit!’ chied a small ‘boy. Aln't that ‘She’s got a robin! orful, mummy!’ “ ‘Yes dear’ sald mummy, wither- Ing me with a glanee. ‘She must be a crew-sl. erew-el persen! I -hope you will not grow up to be like that’ “Madam,’ said a lady with a large nose. ‘if you will give me your ad- dress I will call with pamphiets! You cannot know what you are doing! By shutting op one robin you allow nim ty-ome thousard, thrse hundred and eighty-eeven bugs and destructive in- ects to flourish all summer ‘and their descendants will reach billlons and trillions!* “ ‘Gee!" sald a young man, just lately graduated from the bird's ne: ing_epoch, Aln't scathing dislike of my fellow man, T at laet reached the park., sought a thick clump of bushes and into their midst dumped by squalling captive. * ‘There! sald I ‘For goodness” sake ®0,4ig your awn worms and shue #pt* - uawk!” sald he and vanished. Breathing freely I started home, swinging the empty cage. “ “That's her said a disapprov- ing voice on the corner. ‘That's the gir] that has the robin. ‘TNl never live It down. In my neighborhood. whenever I appear they will paint me out as the savage who and_ little Do you makes robins into - pies children will run from me! wonder T am peeved?” * “Well’ gaid the unwilling lstener, “being a philanthropist is & hard job (And T1H bet that bird sot paralipsis ‘because he hopped so fast aerose the park to reach the street and the au- tomobiles again!”—Exchange. o. pursued by the objurgations and| ihe homa he has provided for his family. Bill and T may be “small cubs in this jungle” of public opinion, but we cannot sit quietly by and see here- tofore independent families thrust upon the charity of friends, or the public, in order that by selective draft, the father and husband may serve in the army to protect single men or married men with no ehildren. It is an injustice to permit the opin- ions of unmarried and childless men and women to carry weight in juds- ing the rights of the family man in tkis question. No one but a father or mother can appreciate how seri- ously these separations of famdiles will yitimately affect the family life and society of America: only they can know the unnecessary and unpardon- able suffering rhese decisions will cause of persevered fn. ‘Why must we, at the beginning of calling uPen our resources, enlist the men whose services are going to mean the greatest macrifices and add un- necessary sorrow to our already brim- ming cups of misery caused by the war? A MOTHER. Norwich, Oct. 10, 1917. THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographio Society. The Trane-Siberian Railroad.—The vastness of the problem which Russia has to face in maintainmg herself by the side of her Allles in the great world war is nowhere better exempli- fled than in the story of the Trans- Siberian railroad. When it is remem- bered that in normal times it takes a mail train thirteen days to make the run from Vlaivestok to Moscow, and that the total distance between the two cities is 5,391 miles, it will be seen what a tremendous haui is required for a very large pencedtage of the muni- tions which Russla must have to wage her war. In this connection, the fol- lowing bulletin, just issued by the Na- tienal Geographic soclety from its headquarters in Washington is of in- terest. “Few people realize how great some of the difficulties are which the Rus- sian government has to face in keeping its armies in the field, provisioned and munitioned. These ~ difficulties are strikingly exemplified by the story of the Trans-Siberlan raflroad. The dis- tance from the Pacific terminus at Viadivostok fo Moscow .is_ 5,391 miles. and to Petrograd 5.481. In the days before the war, when the line was well equipped and not unduly burdened with traffic, the fastest express train required nine days to make the run, while ordinary mail trains, which prob- ably made better time than the best freight time now ¢an be, toek thirteen days. The first-class fare on the Trans-Siberlan between Moscow and Vladivostok was approximately $160. “Much of the Trans-Siberian road is still single track, and the tremendous- Iy heavy traffic of the past three years has levied a heavy toll on both equip- ment and roadbed, with the result that it is reported to be in far from prime condition. While in the main grades are fair, vet it is not to be expected tat on a road of snch length these could be compared to the grades ob- taining on our own principal lines. The result is compartively short trains, Gured His RUPTURE I was badly ruptured while lifting a trunk several years ago. Doctors said my only hope of cure was an operation. Trusses did me ne good. Finally I got hold of something that guickly and completely cured - me. Vaars ® have passed and the rupture has never re- ed. although I am doing hard work a carpenter. There was no opera- on, no lost time. no trouble. T have natiilng to eell, but will give full in- formation abmut how you may find a compicte cure without operation. iIf you yrite to me. Bugene M Pullen, Car- penter, $1 D Marceilus Avenue, Manas- guan, N. J Better.out out this notice and ‘shew it ta any others who are ruptured—you may save a life ar at least I'tg the miServ of rupture fnd the wo! and danger of an Sp-ut fon. 1917 BAD GOLD? TAXE “CASCARETS” FOR BOWELS TONIGHT THEY'RE FINE! LIVEN YOU LIVER AND BOWELS AND CLEAR YOUR HEAD. Stars of the “Lilas Bomino™ [® e Cleey Sieping ot Dha ing Offering. Dorothx Dalton in ¢ 5 PART TR NO HEADACHE, S8OUR STOMACH, BAD COLD OR:GONSTIPATION BY MORNING. ALL 8TAR CAST afgbe b clemr " Matinee 2130; Eve. forget the children. They mhfl‘ Candy Cathartic and it is often all i3 needed to drive a celd from little systems. Texas Comedy Four A CRACKERJACK MALE QUARTETTE IN SYNCOPED HARMONY Auditorium TOBAY 2:30, 6:46 and 8:30 B. W. GRIFFITH'S MASSIVE PRODUCTION With MAE MARSH, LILLJAN GISH, H. B, WALTHALL, ROBERT HARRON, DOROTHY GISH 45, 8:30—NO ADVANCE IN PRICES Other Features | EDWARD T. CONNELLY VAUDEVILLE THURS.~FRI—SAT. VALENTINE FOX & Ventriloquial Novelty, Member of the Black and White Club” “p The Ten of Diamonds™” NGLE S8TORY OF A SUPER WOMAN AND SUPER MAN MAT. EVE, 10c.15 ALL S8TAR CAST BLANCHE SWEET, IN EIGHT IN NEW seription “To the Atlantic Ocean.” Aftor passing the junetion of the road te Mukden, the Trans-Siberian dreps down to 760 feet, then climbs again to 2,100, and thence back to sea level at Viadivosteek. ‘From this it will be wssen that whether viewed from the standpoint of distance, which is one and one-half times that acrgss the Ameriean conti- nept by some af the langer routes {rom seabeard to seabeard; whether from that of latitude and elimate, whieh Blacea it at timas 700 miles narth of the main coast of Newfoundland and gives it at some points an average temperature in January of five dearees below zero: whether frem that of ele- vation whieh gives It three mountain ranges to crase: er whether from that of trackage faellitles and rolling stock zupply, ever had such 2 raiiread problem to deal with in a time of great crisis as Russia has in conneetion with the gperatien af the Trans-Siberian 1in STORIES OF THE WAR fhany engines. and slow eas. “8o ‘aifficut ” indeed, Bas' heen task of transporting te the frent even an adequate supply ef munitions, that 21l Through the war fleets of ships have sailed from Bngland and America, through the ice of the Arctic gcean to the mouths of th Yenesei and Obvi rivers. there discha their car into river bpats which have 1ed the freight up the rivers to the points where the railroad eroases tI be transshipped there and hauled to the front. Even from tha Obi river to Moscow is almost as far'as from Den- ver to New York, while the distance from the Yenesel to Moscow equals that from eur Atlantic to our Pacific coast. realize the magnificent hat obtain in Siheria. from the Ural Mountaina to the Pacific ocean, it is one and a half times as large as the United States and forty times aa large as the United Kinzdom of Great Britain and Ireland. If all of our ewn country east of the Mississippl river were added to Europe, that continent would still be sm-u: by same hundred thousand square miles than Siberia alone. When it is remembered that for the major portion of the year Rus- sia’s foreign supply of munitions must crass Siberia, either from the.Arctic ccean or the Sea of Okhotsk, it will become plain why Russia has faced problems of supply such as no other country on either side engaged in the A Refugee's Story. Moeseek Vorperian ‘is a 17-yeaw-old Armenian_boy who eseaped from his home at Harppot during the Turkigh massacres in whith his father was killed. his sister carried away to a ha- war has encountered, rem and his mother imprisoned. With “On leaving Mescow, the Trans-Si- | five companions he made his way into berian road rums through about hblth. Russian Caucasus where Ameriean miles of the great western plain of | missionariey and govermment officials Eurcpean Russla to the city of Vifa |helped him to come to Ameriea, He ‘et the foot of the Ural Mountains. | hopes to continue his education in this Some 520 miles east of Moscow is a |country and alse to rouse the people to pyramid on the one side of which is|send more help to the suffering rem- inscribed the word “Europe,” and on [nant of the Armenians and Syrians in the opposite side the word “Asia.” [the Near East. Vorperian speaks Eng- This pyramid stands on the very apex |lish with fair fluency and mugch fire. of the Urals. The Yailroad at this He has been lecturing under the aus- point ig 1,850 feet above sea level. Be- [pices of the American committee for tween Ufa and Tchelyablusk the road [Armenian and Syrian relief. Follow- rises from 310 feet elevation to 1830 |ing is a short agcount of his trip from feet and drops back again to 760 feet. has writ- At the latter place are huge wooden ’ barracks where immigrants entering Siberia are-quartered in peace times, waiting for transportation., In 1918 mare than a quarter of a million Rus- sians reversed our own ‘going west” of a ration ago, and went “East"” into Siberia. “Across the vast stretches of west- ern Siberia the Trans-Siberian rail- road passes through grassy steppes inhabited by horse-breeding kirghives, through long reaches of virgin forest, and through many important agricul- tural regions. Crossing out of the Tomsk government into that of Yeni- seisk, the road shortly reaches At- chinsk, the ‘northernmost town on the railroad. Its latitude is the same as that of the middie coast of Labrador. Irdeed, at no time after it leaves Mos- cow until it enters Manchuria does the Trans-Siberian ever touch further south than the northern coast of New- foundland. By the time it reaches Lake Baikal, it has climbed again to 1,500 feet, and in skirting that hody of water has to pass through forty tunnels, through numerous glant cufs and over many bridges. It continues to climb until it reaches Sokhondo, 3,100 feet, where it penetrates a tun- nel bearing on its western entrance the Inscription “To the Great Ofan.’” and on its eastern entrance the in- Turkey to America ,as he ten it: “I eseaped from the Turkish soldiers by crossing into the Russian Caucasus. But 1 found in Russia that Armenians everywhere were starving. 1 could not stay in that land of starvation. My kind uncle sent me much mones from America. and with this money I esedped by the help of American con- suls and missionaries. I took a train from Tiflis the capital of the Caucasus. 1 had to travel third class. Now Rus- slan third class is very bad, it is not like American trains. It was full of Russian_soldiers, some of whom were wounded and all were smoking. A few days after I met an Ameriean mining engineer, who was my friend. He gave me David Copperfield to read. “I was traveling alone and it was a lonesome time for a poor Armenian bov, for 1 had no friends. At ope sta- tien two American Y. M. C. A. mis- sionaries got on the train. They were reading English newspapers. Now it seemed to me not good etiquette to in- terrupt them, but T found another way. T held my book, David Copperfield, so that they could see what I was read- ing. They soon sald to'me: e you read English’ and so they became my friends. They gave me & letter to the Y. M .C. A. secretary at Yokohama. “As'I rode in the Rusaian ear one morning the sun arase and filled the And we will deliver to your home this $100 Victrola together with $5 in Victor Records, your choice from the big Victor Catalog. Balance on ‘monthly terms of only $5 - Every Victrola and every Victor Record always in stock YICTOR VICIROLAS AND VICTOR RECORDS / aae Sfi’u:::"“rml Victor Sérvice Supreme Norwich, Conn, REE B THEATRE n TORAY AND TONIGHT Harald Lockwood UNDER HANDICAP Special Eight Act Metro Wonder Play. Burton Holmes Travelogus BLACK DIAMOND COMEDY Coming Friday and Saturday EMMY WEHLEN in MIS8S ROBINSON CRUSOE e e east with a bright red light. I saw the white plains of Siberia, covered with the snew with silver streams rushing across it. I saw the beautiful blue aky and 1 sald, ‘Three cheers for the red, white and blue!' For nature was mak- ing there on the Siberian plain the beautiful American flag. Y] continued my journey threugh Korea China and Japan. 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