Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 27, 1917, Page 4

N s ua, z 121 YEARS OLD l-hel‘ml:- price 13e's week; 50c a months rwic! Conn., as second-ciass mastar. o Telephone Caliss’ Bulletin Business Office 480. a Bulletin Editorial Rooms 35-3. > Bulletin Job Otfice 35-2 SwWiilbantc Omco, 675 Main Street. fi!fl#fi”;‘”‘ oo 1901, average 1908, average . October 20, 1917.. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘The Associated Press is exclusive. ly entitled to the use for republica- tion of all news despatches credi! ed to it or not otherwise credit- ed in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of lpeclued‘despatchel herein are also THE LIBERTY LOAN. With tqday, Saturday, the last day before the time expires in which sub- scriptions can be made to the second Liberty joan it is already assured that It will be a huge success. The three billion dollar mark has already been passed by a very wide margin and ‘there appears to be every prospect _that the five billion dollar goal will be reached. The aim of the govern- ment is to cbtain $3,000,000,000 by this Asgp and a-half of whatever oversiib- scription there is. This means vhat if - the $5,000,000,000 is the total amount of the subscriptions there will be but R total of $4,000,000,000 accepted. That Is In accord with the authority which b been granted in floating this iasue of bonda. The magnificent manner in which the people have ccme forward with “ihef* subscriptions shows how thor- sughly théy stand back of the government and the principles for which it is fizhtinz. It shows that the country Is afire with patriotism, 4 Mat it is determined that lts rights fzaunot be trampled upon with im- lo raise, equip and zend an army to France. and to do its utmost with its|wisdom of dealing fairly in the matter savy, but that it fs ‘coing to give ! backing that is bout a successful sonclusion of the war, and at the ear- liest -possible moment. The people of America have thowoughiy awakened - lo their responsibility and their pri Ther have cpened their pock- Stbooks for the honor of the naslen and it should be the amhitinn ~f +h~ who have not done so already to get In their subscripiion before it is tov +late. "It is well that the spirit should “be shown even if o1l the money sub- scribed is not required at this time. - Norwich has not only -passed the minimum but the maximum amount, substantial figure. The number 3 subscribers is not as large as on the first issue as yet, but it is confl- “Yently belloved that today will see the 1,000 mark pasced. It is a highly gratifying ana commendable respons The chance, however, is still open for ythose who are anxious to do their OUR SHIPS. It cannot help beinz felt that the Sunity ama that it is not only going|fore anything rash is done which will THE NEW HAVEN ROAD. After what might be considered a stormy _session, though the strensth of the o on is not manifested in the vote, the stoékholders of the New Haven @ hayé “approved “the idea of issuing $45,000,000 of . preferred stock bearing interest at seven per cent. - The privilegs to take this step was grantea by the legisiatures of Icomuetlc\lt, Mansachusetts and Rhode Tsland. It was action which had been THE MAN WHO TALKS ; T 4 - You do mot think your Jia your i giale i o e ot the. peraone, araund sanmue. ua It Your thowsiis are 4 il not cure you, mor the ather. ‘s Hght: threatened for some time because of |DV. the financlal condition of the system and it is action which gives promise ef being the needed tonic for placing the road in a position {o reeover from its years of trouble. - ‘The preferréed stock issue will be used to take up the floating indebted- ness of the road. It will overcoms the necessity of doing a lot of new fi- nancing every year in order to meet " Nasure req o t ] "M l:;:fl- 'g ?fim TBomselves into: lnnil:h who might just as -well have thonght o L AT B M Sl T e 25 Tor-may worl for, our plvasure’ . o talk @ put. we. a notes as they come due and In thef. long run will seve much money. The floating indebtedness a handicap and the effects of it have been more seriously felt in late ysars as financial difffculties have multi- plied. that eliminated, Prasident With Pearson and the officials of the road have good reason for the optimistic view which. they take of the road’s future. By their action the stoek- holders have given a vote of confl- dence to those who are administer- ing its affairs. The work of reestab- lishing the system has been under- way for several years. Some prog- ress has been made and with the prop. er cooperation on the part of the.gov: ernment, which the officials believa is more favorably disposed than it has Dbeen, and the continued support from the people of New England, who know and believe in ‘the future of the road, the desired end is sure to be attained. LABOR TROUBLES. Regardless of the difficulty which exists in this country at the present time in securing sufficient help to meet requirements in operating in- dustrial plants and commercial estab- lishments, there is an_ unfortunate in- clination upon the part of a great many workmen to add to the confus- ion and embarrassment by stirring up labor troubles and going out on strikes. Such has been the cause of a great handicap to the shipbuilding which is belng carried on at every available point. The demands for in- creases in wages are in many in- stances justified, although in most cases the demand is usually placed so high that less can be accepted and the ends of justice will then be met. But there are few ‘cases in which bet- ter pay is sought where it cannot be obtained without rescrting to strikes which cause large losses to the wage earners and invariably mean the crip- pling of the industry while it lasts. In this connection there are many instances where demands for higher wages are_made. in spite of the fact that agreements between the employer and employe have been made for a period of years and do mot expire un- til next year or the year following. Such agreements are being entirely ignored by those who insist upon more pay and threaten to strike. The: are going back on their own prom- ises. In cerlain of thsse cases the employers are taking into considera- tion the fact that it is costing mcre to live, and regardless of the agree- ment’ the “employers are offering to grant a reasonable Increase. during the war, although. they cannot meet the figures which the men -are de- manding. Where such offers are disre- garded reason Is sidetracked, but be- Wwipe out the benefit of an increase the ought not to be disregarded, This 1s a time to look at such matters from both sides and use common sense. FEIT Tnmaes i EDITORIAL NOTES, There shouldn’t be any Ameriean home which cannot boast of its Lib- erty bond, or bonds. History is only- repeating itself when the deer hunting season in New Jersey opens with the death of a man In mistake for big same. The man on the corner says: Seek if you will the germ in the milx of human kindness but it will only be found in the imitation brand. Out in Chicago the grocers are tell- ing the food administrator that they cannot meet his prices. They, how- ever, expect the public to meet theirs. If everyone has done his duty, there wiil be no chance for anvone in the future to fay that he has never ex- perienced the pleasure of cutting cou- pons. always been |to. wheeive and, trust. ve & min ¢éne can hold you down. : Thia. sentiment was not. only mi in 4 , but is the endorsed Tont of e ‘wrong - bu to ed - peeple: t_right hes been donp Belgium.” the same thing been done to Germany it would aéem to glt Germans to be as defenseless an utrage as it teday to be to the of the world. Selfishnéss makes man bilades than love éver can,.and it makes him meaner than the most ferocious beasts. To defend hearth and home, church and country against invading hosts whose purpose is simp- ly power and pelf is the neblest sacri- fice any man can rake, and no na- tion can put a blight upen the ‘worth or honor of ome_ one well said concerning world ‘condil s to- day: “Man is not a fighting animal; he is fighting because he is not an ani mal” Tt is obvious that we are ap- proaching the end of the strife not because Right is weakening but because the forces of wickednees are wobblin, and crylng for a peace which woul condone rfidy and crime and blind- fold Justice. The only peace accept- able will be a peace that wili endure Dbecause founded upon divine princi- ples. Great Scott! An English alderman has discovered that “a policeman is the superlative of all that is good!” We all sense that a policeman can get more generous abuse for doing his duty than almost any one on earth. He is despised by the criminal class and not fully appreciated by any other class. When he accepts his perils-and goes about his business like a man he cannot tell what is coming to him. When he isn’t being berated for doing his duty by violators of the law, he is being menaced by another class who ‘would suppress him in spite of the law. No one in the community knows how the lower world and the higher world interlace, or where, as he does. He has traced them where hypocrites awell with the saints and where the most villainous dwell together. White- necktied wickedness forces him to keep his mouth shu‘: and he is not per- mitted to penectrate municipal dark- ness with impunity. He is best when he is most discreet, not when he is most alive to duty Perhaps you have not realized that 2 new commandment is in the mouths of the natlons of the earth: “Hit back! Hit hard! And keep hitting!” This doesn’t_sound much like the greater| commandment we were taught In Sun day school: “Love the Lord thy o?é with all thy hesrt and thy neighbor thyself.” The divine things we learn ih _youth are completely knocked out by ‘the exigericies of manhood or the duties of citizenship. A retired mer-| chant in Chicago deplored the cost of Eis success because to be commercially great he was compelied to forget the honesty and honor taught him at his mother's knee when a boy. Today when Might is énthroned above Right in the name of Almighty God we are compelled to use force instead of pray- ers. and in the name of five miilion dead and twice as many more ruined we find a promise of salvation in hit- ting back—hitting hard—and in hitting continuously, Dut he who prays be- Meving still has an unquenchable faith ard an undying hope. It doss nmo karm to think that the synshine of heaven may be just kindli- ness. Isn't it strange so many things which are best and eternal do mot cost anything? And isn't it stranger still that man does not make more of some- thing which the deaf. dumb and blind can understand. and ‘which_overcomes the strongest prejudices? Unexpected kindliness touches us like a divise blessing, and through it in No M Land in Europe flerce . enemies are made the closest comrades. the sincer- est friends. The gospel of kindliness does not need fine words or fine fig- ures of it needs not the tongue as'a herald, orly the heart as a rompter. Like all other good things, t is often counterfeited from selfish motives, and this is one of the endur- ing evidences of its worth. The whole barvest of eweet remembrances since the world began may be safely charged up to it It lends strensth to the church and agreeability to business. shipping board of this country has lone the very thing that the situa- Hod callea for when in response to the appeai from TItaly for ships it lurned over, or made arrangements to lurn over within a month, 25 steel Jhips with a tonnage of 100,000 for thé use of that country during the war. This action is in keeping with i4he sama decision reached in regard to the appeal from France and it is based upon the sound reasoning that it is through such extensions of as- sstance that this country is goinz to e-of the greatest aid to the nations with which it is allied in the big war. +.-We ecould of course claim that we are inadequately supplied with ships and that there is not sufficient to take rare of our own wants, such as im- proving our coastwise transportation, getting our army and the necessary war supplles to France and for the maintenance of our foreign trade. We are going to require a big tonnage for our war operations aione. But it Is to be realized at the same time that Italy and France already have their! armies on the battlefronts. They are oot in training but are fighting and ting some of the greatest battles af the war. It is impcrtant that we should do nothing which would crip- ple their effectiveness or tie up the industries for lack of material which are supplying them with the neces- sary guns, ammunition and equip- ment, < Thus it is apparent that our assist- ance is going to bring quicker and better results through the course that has been adopted, and at the same time there is emphasized the need Svhich exists in this country to put forwara every possible effort for the Rurning out of new ships. It is bound Fo - bei.a, great contribution towards #he ending of the war. z = It is well enough for Germany to claim that it whipped the Russian fieet but when it is claimed that the Russiary, silenced 15 German war- ships it shows that they were doing ?u-- fighting for a sick nation. The bond subseriptions will end to- day and let the finish be & rousing one with a large oversubscription and a bigger number of buyers than was anticipated. There is little use trying to dlspute the claim that a rainbow has been seen around the moon. There are people who can see them around an electric light. With the socialist candidats for mayor of New York declaring that he has not and will net aid the United States in the war, the duty of every voter in that city is apparent, The capture of 20,000 prisoners by the Germans will save Russia the necessity of demobilizing just so many of its troops because it had more in the service than it could use. Cattle Commissioner ‘Whittlesey be- lieves that cattle raising in this state can Dbe carried on with profit. There ought to be no great trouble in re- peating what was deme years ago. Those who were kept busy pushing the lawn mower a few weeks ago are now having their hands full looking after the falling leaves just as a re- minder that the season- is_changing. With the stock of meat and eggs in cold storage far greater than it was iast year at this time, the reason for the high prices can be understood. But s there any justifiable excuse for them? ~° With millions of tons of sugar stored in warehouses. under false markings, discovered in Buffalo, a careful in. spection -of : all_such storage places might reveal moré evidences of hoard- ing and profiteering. When Germany ~withdraws troops from the northern Russian front to help Austria, it appreciates the dan- Ser from the Italian armies and it considers Rusaia ‘powerless to take advantage of the chanse.., Kindliness 1s something everybody meeds, and it vields its best frults when ‘we manifest it to others. Man talks a great deal about justice, but it is something he wants little of and something he has little eapacity e e e nwe tains. The justice of man hinges upou eelfishness. not upon blindness to ev- erything but the cause—cold impartial- ity. The world is calling for justice more unanimously and earnestly than ever before in fts history. A great Fnglish statesman declares: “Our aim is that the kind of justice which Ger- many has meted out to Belgium shall in future be impossible upon this plan- et” Nofhing else he says, matters in comparison with that! Belgium's of- fense is in being smdll and weak and by compulsion & neutral or buffer state. How a nation may stray from true justice s shown when invasion and rapine and murder and the de- struetion of 10.600 villages and the cre- ation of a hundred thousand orphans, and the making of a civilized country into a desert waste can be regarded as a just _retribution instead of a diaboli- cal offense. There can be no justice while tyranny is afoo | Attention is being called to the fact that whatever the change In the map of rope may be because of the war, it will be as nothing compared to the attitude of nten toward their fellowmen and the change made in the map of men's minds. Tack of fellowship among denominational Christians is ointed out as a spiritual blight. and rd Morley has ventured to liken the Christian pulpit to a beit that has slipped off the driving wheel of the world. by which touch with the reall- ties of life has been lost. and the power of Christian brotherhood h been weakened. The thing looked for 2nd hoped for and prayed for by the people today s mot for larger oppor- tunitles for the men who make money, but for a closer brotherhood and a ‘warmer fellowship and larger opper- tunities for the men who have ne money and who are striving for things money cannot buwy. Peace and new treaties will not make a new world, but closer Christian aMliation afid sin- cerity of purpose Will. 1 must confess 1 do not know how the wrens teach their young to fy. (Written Speaially n-!-.n-n-_u‘ai'.m.) * While the® pepular fmpression’ ex- ists mn'f‘)‘fu pl‘i-.p ‘€onpecticut during . times: Was | Spartan in fis * simplicity, - the - {hvestigations of tke late Gedrge Munson Curtls, as set’ forth in his book, fiaflfiwin Con-| mum and Tts' érs,’ prove other- rding t6 Mr. Ourtis, as early as the man who had amassed fortune could P chocolate pots, 5 $Ths, when ton had so far arop- ped in price that it had = become & Decessity, beautifully chased tea-pois had t60 vogue, in delicate and puse. in forms now as 1 pear. — o .':'.':'.M sauce and -r.t'c.y ™ s-aauce boats, quaint _steeple-topped peppe casters, beakers with and dou ble handles, cans with Sbuble. scroll handles, ‘three-legged cream pi | candlésticks and -salvers shaped patens, and ‘in othér forms, & century beautiful téa sets and punch bowls became popular, as graceful in sbape and line as the Heppelwhite, Adam, and Sheraton furniture of that period. One of the-most frequent of motives was the olassical urn, which became as common in silver as in architecture. Meantime, -the tankard had increased iz height, the-flat 1id had been re- laced by a domed cover with a njal, and a band had been moulded around the ‘middle of the body. It should be remembered, writes Mr. Curtis, that no tankard was made with a spout. 1t was g drinking ves- sel pure and simple. The spout now ec frequently found on these old pleces is quite a modren addition— an attempt to make a pitcher. To the collector of antique spoons, Mr. Curtis has much valuable #ffor- mation to impart, in this manual of his, from which _these excerpts are roade through the courtesy of Mr Flisha Edgerton Rogers, of Norwich, tc whom Mr, Curtis’ book was an ap- preciated gift. Spoons in the seven- teenth century, according to Mr. Cur- tis, were invariably rat-tailed. From the handle dowr the back of the bowl to about the middle ran a ridse, shaped like a rat tail. This is come. times thought to have been an at- tempt to strengthen the spoonm, but it use must have been purely orn- amental, since it adds little strength tc these stronsly made spoons. Sometimes the rat-tail was shaped like a long V, and_grooved, while on each side were elaborate scrolls. The bowl was perfectly oval in shape, while the end of the handle was notched _or trifid. This style of spoon was continued, with modificaticns, through the first third of the eighteenth century. Then the bowl became ovoid, or egg-shap ed. and the end of the handle was rounded. without the notch. The rat-tail was gradually replaced by what is known as the drop, or double drop, ~frequentiy terminating a conventionalized flower or eheil. or anthémion, while down the front of the“handle ran a rib. Later, the bowl became more point- ed, the drop was repiaced by a tongue. vhile the handle, ‘about 1760. instead of slightly curving to the fromt at ‘the end, reversed the position. A little later, the handle became pointed, and ‘was engraved with bright cut ornaments and a cartouche at the end, in which were engraved the initials of the owner. During the first-ten years of nineteenth century a popular was the so-called coffin-shaped han- ale. succeeded probably about 1810 by a handle with a shoulder juet above the junction with the bowl while the end “became fiddle-shaped. or of a style now known as tipped—shapes produced to this day. Tp to about 1770 spoons were of trree sizes—the teaspoon, as small as an after dinner coffee spoon; the por- ringer spoon, a little smaller than our present dessert size. and the table- epoon. with a handle somewhat shorter than that of today. So few forks have been found in ccllections of old silver that it forces the belief that they were generally made of steel, with bone handles. There seems no reason why,. if in general use. silver forks should not now De as common as spoons. In the great silver exhibition held few ysars ago in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. where there were more than one thousand pieces, there were only two forks to be fcund, and they were of course two- In the manufacture of silverware, as in every other form of industry, modern methods have worked a rev- olutien, according (o Mr. Curtis, Now They have nested on my premises for rearly twenty vears and ] never, have seen a young bird. It makes n8 dif- ference whether they occupy a house on a pole or in a tree they are never in sight. They are reputed to raise large broods, too. This may reveal to some charp-eyed bird-lover that I am a dull-eyed student: but I am in the garden several times every day and J HISTORY TOLD IN SILVERWARE ~ I thrive whether we will or no. have an eye fcr not only garden birds but birds of passage. I saw- a litle cock-sparrow with its parents this morning (Oct. 19th) on the sunflower, teasing for a_ helping of seeds, buf the birdling had apparently passed the age of indulgence and he was not humored. Two days before the wrens left their house in the crab-apple tree this vear I heard the chattering of a large family, and their sudden depar- ture is evidence ths voung birds were ready for fiight. T miatrustdheir play- ground and muscle developinz exer- cise consisted in hopping and fiying ahout the branches of the tree early in the morning when the heavens are declaring the glory of the day and mankind is wrapped in slumber. that a majority of our good habits never get found out. A bad habit appears to have a way of parading itself as if it was a virtue jastead of a vice; and little mean- nesses can get themselves talked about ten times as much as little kindnesses, This is doubtless due to the bad mor- tal habit of making a great fuss over disereditable performances, and deal- ing with excellent deporiment. good manners and kindly deeds as if they were a_matter of course. There is no fear of having successfully di-puted the fact’that the first advewtiser on earth was the human torgue, or that for 50,000 years it has .ot once failed in business. —The nese have a proverb that “the tengue is but three inches long. yet it can kill a man six fect high” "It ‘represents the best that in a mar-{s, ard the worst. The tengwe gives fleat movement to tales of life's senmy. side, and is a slow con- veyance for truth. Dowertul lathes and presses accom- | Dligh in seconds’ the work of daye undeér old conditions. Neverihsices. e declares, we can no better silverware than produce couid the old craftsman warking with bis .primitive tools. The silversmith of -Colonial . days knew thoroughly every-branch of his trade. - He was a designer, die-sinker, forger, solderer, burnisher, chaser, and engraver. He ‘was a many-sided man, and he did thorough work. Let no one fancy him as other than & man of might, for muscle and sinew were as needful in fashioning ‘D.'-:tc as in the trade of blacksmith- With _his hammers, anvils, beak irons, testers, swages, punches, plan- hammers and stakes and draw- ing benches, he skilfully shaped the beautiful white metal, putting a feel- ing_into his work that is generally missing . in modern silver. ‘Owners of.old silver will, perhaps, value their poseessions the more, for wiat Mr. Curtis has to say of these forgotten craftsmen, although ~Nor- wich residents are profoundly thank- | £ul - that one ot its most flourishing industries, the local branch of the International - Silver Company, at Thamesville, is turning out thougands of .dozens of the modern forr® - of the ware, machine-made, albeit lack- ing that artistic feeling which Mr. Curtis extols! THE DICTAGRAPH. Sunday Morning Talk UNNOTICED LOSS. Most people take it for granted that they will have forever what they once have had. Such strength, character, or ability as they possess must remain Wwith them. What a rude awakening it is for multitudes of the sons of men to discover, some day, that gifts they supposed were theirs have quietly tak- en_their departure! Everywhere there are men and women who are trading on the repu- tations of yesterday, relying on pow- ers that have long since slipped away from them. Like Sardis of old, they have a name tb live, and are dead. Life tragedies abound more pathetic than those of sudden fall—namely those of such gradual and unconscious deterio- ration of character that the victims are wholly unconscious of the change that has taken place. The sudden fall is, indeed, generally speaking, resultant from the gradual decay. A tree that stands apparently green and firm may still be riddied by insect enemies un- der the bark with such havoc as spells in in the day when the tempest sweeps the wood. The years come to us as angels bearing gifts, but to most of us, ‘withal as ‘vandals despoiling our treasures. As regards physical strength, for instance, half the race is steaaily sliding down hill. One may be biiss- tully unconscious of the process. Be- hold these college men of the early “90s” playing ball at some commence- ment season. Where is the prowess where the star stunts of yester-year? They gallop out on the diamond feel- ing as fit as ever, but iimp back to the benches after the fifth inning for treat- ment. The veteran may think he looks as well, plays as well, sings as well as in the fiush of youth, but his iriends smile, knowing bette: As the prophet says of Ephraim, “Gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he know- eth it not. ~ = they are just what we claim they are. NO MEMORANDUMS SILKS and SERGES Mostly one of a kind 10" ‘Actual Values to $19.75 saves you from $1.00 to $10.00 on a garment. because no|the residue of the state in measures for_self-protection? They tell us that there has been an increase In operating expenses. Are wrecks, méney spent to break a strike, 2nd mistakes in management chargc able to operating expenses, or are they chargeable to capital account? Must tigations d, secondly, men, however able, uniess they have the assistance of expert accountants, are competent to conduct such am in- estigation. To render a fair decis- ion, in such a case, the books of the company must be thoroughly audited * Due to the Unfaverable Weather A DRESS SALE You cannot afford to overlook this Big Sale if you really care to save money. The values are really too good to be true, at this time of the season, but when you seé them you can’t help but appreciate them as SILKS, SERGES and WOOL JERSEYS SAMPLES '16* Aetual Values to $26.50 Smart Winter Coats 150 to choose from, in all shades, sizes to 44—prices from $16.50 up. These are all marked very reasonable due to our CASH SYSTEM, which Suits, Skirts and Waists are also marked on the above basis which means a big saving to you. Wauregan House Block cooking " is two-thirds don sugar which settles on the a_barrel of New Orleans mo excellent for this purp scr gallon is usually this amount is a matter is also the amont of cinnamon, and uclove to be aded when t; Not otherwise, mental powers may flag during years when one is least conscious of such loss. The youth of fair native endowments who yet binds himself to no endeavor. concentrates his energies on no task. may awake some fine morning to find his powers fled, He does not know just when or ow the thing happened. He only knows that in some crisis, he seeks to rally resources that are not there. Hartley Coleridge was not the only idier who has realized the Nemesis of sloth: Oh, woeful impotence of weak resolve, Recorded rashly to the writer's shame! Days pass away, and time's large orbs revolve. And every day beholds me still the same, - Till oft-neglected purpose loses aim, Ana Hope becomes a Hat, unhecded lie. It is when spiritual capacities fail that the loss, with most of us, is most stubbornly ignored. We take the atti- tude that the inner life can be trusted to take care of itself. It is bound to 1t re- ligion be real at all it will, somehow, break in upon our experience by force. Our own capacity is constant and un- changeable. A man may ignore ev- ery religious motive and scorn every religious exercise. but call all these powers back to him, we assume, in the hour of need. He has but to wave a wand and his soul garden will spring up and bloom. There can be .no greater mistake. ‘While onc imagines that ‘his religious faculties are only locked up for a time awaiting his gracious word of com- mand. the tragic fact may be that they have well niigh disappeared altogether. Of Samson in his later years it Is ro- corded that “He wist not that God had departed from him.” When the Phil- istines attacked, he thought that he had but to go out. as aforetime. to scatter death and ruin. In fact Sam- | son's strength was gone. The giant was an easy victim for his cnemies and thereafter he ground in the mill, ‘When God departs from a man. it is with no blare of celestiai trumpets. There may be no outward sign in a human life to indicae the heavy loss | that has been sustained. Men go through the years assuming that the treasure of faith is still somewhere in the baggage they have accumulat- d along the way. It is hetter to keep such valuables in hand and ready for use. lest some day we seek them in anguish, and find their place vacant. THE PARSON. LETTERS TO THE EDITO3 Increased Trolley Fares. Editor: On my return to Nor- vich” from Hartford on Wednesday 128t I had oceasion to come from Wil- | Limantic to Norwich via The Shore | Line Electric company. T was not a little surprised to find that where for- merly a five-cent fare had been col- lected the company mow cxacted nine cents. 1 was still further surprised to find that seven cents was collected for the fare to Norwich Town. On_inquiry I found tha: practicaily no steps had been taken to protect the interests of the public. I was in- formed that an investigating commit- tee had been appointed by the cham- ber of commerce, but, in view of measures taken by other cities throughout the state, when confrented by the same question. this procedure seemed singllarly inadequate; first, | because the state maintains a perma- nent committee to conduct such inves- by experts. It seems to me that the action of the company in Increasing the fare without first securing ths permission of the public utilities commisaion manifests both presumptive audacity and a disregard of public opinion. Any business of a public _naturo must submit to a degree of regulation by the state that would be intolerable and unconstitutional in the case of a purely private business. A raflway is “affected by a public interest” in a pecullar desree. Not oniy does it have a monopoly of ransportation in the section it tra- verses, but it has been granted a franchise by the state. A franchise is a special privilege not possessed by the crdinary citizen. A rallway also exercises the right of eminent domain, which means that when private real 1 roperty is necessary in its busincss it possesses the right (o take it with- out the consent or even against the wiil of the owner upon paying him a reasonable price therefor, to br fixed Dy a neutral board, For these rea- sons-a railway, as a common carrier, is very largely subject to public reg- ulation. Although dissatisfaction at the ac- tion of the company seems to gen- erally permeate eastern Connecticut. yet for some reason this section seems woefully behind the residue of the state in regard to measures taken for the protection of the citizen: The Ccmnecticut Company, which cperates the majority of street rail- way lines in the state, gave notice that on October first the fare on its lines would be Increased from “ve to six cents. Immediately a storm of disapproval swept the state. The common council of Hartford colled a public meeting to hear the cpinions of the ritizens on the mat- r. The meeting, which packed th~ hall to its u'most capacity, voted unanimously in favor of a reduction in the fare. The council at a special meeting voted to direct the corpora- tion counsel to appear before the pub- lie utilities commission and oppose the increased fare. In New Haven, David E. Fitzgerald, the democratic candidate for mavor, stated that he would do ail in his Power to bring about a reduction in ine fare. He was elected mayor and Lod the distinction of being the first democrat in vears to hold that office in_New Haven. L The corporation counsel of Bridse- port brought a bill for an Injunction resirain the company from chars- e six cents. The court ordered the company to sell seventeen tickets in ook form for a dollar. The purch: ers were advised to save the covers 214 If the Public Utlities commissicn or, on appeal, the supreme court, =hould find six cents to be {llekal, the company was directed to refund the additional fare upon the surrender of the book covers. Tn ecastern Connecticut no such step s heen takenm, although, instead. of increasing the fare from five tc six cents. it has been Increassd to seven and nine. Such neglect means that if the supreme court should declare the increase illegal the Shore Line Elec- tric company will have illegally takén from the people thousands of doliars. Tn Waterbury, the corporation counsel. Francts P. Guilfovle, brought a petition for an injunetion against the Connecticut Company. but be- fore it was heard the decision In Eridzeport controlled the case There was an ordinance in Water- bury which prohibited jitnevs taking on passengers In fromt of trolley cars. The common eouncil promptly repeal- ed it. Such an ordinance exists i4 Norwich. - The council certainiy ought to repeal it. The Shore Line Com- pany has displayed little regard for public_opinion. y should the pub- lic_protect it ‘from competition? Why is Bastern Conmecticut bebind the public pay for them? T am informed from a reliable source tkat according to records in the office of the collector of internal revenue the chief stockholder in the Shore Line Flectric company pays, under the in- come tax law, on an annual income of tiree millions of dollars. Fe is, 1 am sure, a public spirited citizen and not ti:e type of man who holds out before him a gift in his right hand in order that he may clutch triple the amount Lehind him with hig left. 1 feel cer- tain that if a committee of citizens placed the facts before him he would direct an_investigation by experts and locate thé trouble. The Americin people are as the years go on cuming to consider more seriously the question of government ownership of railroads and raflways. The majority of far-seeing mén admit that it is only a question of time un- it comes. Government ownership of raflroads has proved a_ success in Eu- rope, Private ownership has almost failed in America. We Americans, who pride ourselves on our progress. sometimes run neck and neck with Russia. One of the most beneficial laws ever _enacted, namely, the workmen's compensation act, arrived here only after becominz luw in Australia and Europe. This is a fair example. T write this to warn the railway offi- cials that public opinion must be re- spected. Whilé the inc:ease of rates continues i force I have no doubt that many members of the public will prefer walking to riding, and that on some lines the company will ind a decrease in_receipt: The conductors are compelled by the new system to do many times the amount of mental and physical work they formerly did and deéserve as a consequence an increase in their pay. I have begun this agitation, not for eny benefit to myself, because I hope ir a few months to face the Germans on the western front in France, but ir. order that the people of eastern Connecticut may be given the same hearing afforded citizens of other sec- tions of the state. I stand for striking an impartinl balance betweer the just intereais of capital and the just interests of labor. Pecause the people have not been af- forded a fair hearing, I call upon them to_take measures to secure it. ‘When I am so far away on the French front that my voice cannot be Leard, T will not forget the situatfon here, and as long as my hand s able t> hold a pen T will exert it unceasing- 1y, not.in the name of the people, for thus cries the demagogue, mor in the name of eombination and capital, for this is the cry of the trust magnate and the sycophant hireling, but on Dehalf of a more sacred, a holier cause a cause which gives all either ought to ask—the. cause of justice. JOHN E. HUGHES. Norwich, Oct. 26, 1917. Apple Butter Without Cider. Good appie butter is often made without the use of cider, advises to- day's bulletit from the National Tmergency 1°0od Garden Commis- sion, ‘cooperating with thls paper in a world-wide food comservation mov: ment. Enough water 15 added to the i peeled and sliced apples to make a thin applé sauce, and this is allowed to cook very slowly or simmer, over 2 low fire for three or four hour: Brown tather than white sugar i3 usually used, being added when the ing is done. Pack hot into contalner ly fitting covers and steam vessel ket over quart jar, sterilize five minute manner, and increase the ¢ larger jars. This sterilizatic the purpose of preventing irg, spolling or infection of iayer of apple butter ard alsc the place of paraffin, which quite expensive. If the stes method is not followed yaraffin shouid be poured fruit butter to prevent spollage. Apple Butter with Grape It a grape fiovor is desired butter it.may be obtained by of grape juice. To each peeled and siiced apples sauce and st Juice, one cup of ore-quarter of a teaspoonful ehould be aded. These shou slowly and ho stirred often Pours or until of the desirc ness, then stir in one teaspoc cinnamon and pack hot in tainers and stérilize as dirce other apple butter. at brown e. The bottom ¢ lasse th tight lized | th 15 rilization then it from Juice ced of Brape d thi hot . cor ted fo OTHER VIEW POINTS | Vice President Campbell of Haven r answers the ch the preparedness committee we gave publicity a day or tw the effect that it had from its steamboat lines to lines and thus failed to mak the alternative er route fo lief of the mail route. quotes from the annual repor interstate commercc commiss December, after an investiga which it said that the use b Haven road of its water lines b of invaluable service for the ience and the commerce of th: and that it would be a great to discontinue the present o and operation. This he cor sufficient answer to the charge he deplores at this time, “w! railroads of the country are every energy to co-ordinate facilities for the services of the cou ion of the war. try in the prosecy Waterbury American diverted Mr. Ci the New to w 0 ago, to tram its rai e use of r the re mpbell 't of th fon 1a tio: the e people mistake \siders n. hen exorting all the OUT THE FAl RING 1S THE ORIG! meat, fish, etc.; W. G. Bell Company, Boston, Al THERE 13 no aavertising m Eastern Conmecticut equal to letin for business results. IN THE TRUE. BELL'S SEASONING NAL for poult ions. ASK GROCERS FOR BEL LSE, edium 11 The Bul