Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 27, 1917, Page 4

NORWICH BULLETIN, TUESDAY. 'NOVEMBER 27, 1917 inuidt Bulletin and Qeufied 1321 YEARS OLD price 13¢ & week; Gbe & Norwich Business Office 480. Bulletin Editorial Rooms. 35-3. Bulletin Job Office 35-2. imaAnt i g ¢. 625 Main Street. “Norwich, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 1917 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusive- iy entitiad to the use for republica- tion of all news despatches credit- ed to it or not otherwise eradit- ed_in this paper and also the local neWe pudlishied herein. lnw ts of rehnub:lcluon lnr spec! atches hefein are also reserved. ON TO CAMBRALI. It is not to be expected that fur- ther ‘operations of the PBritish in the cofitinuation of ths effort to securc CamBrai and to break down other defenses of the ememy in northern France can be made In the nature of surprise attacks. The enemy is con- scidus 6f the aim of the Dritish and they 4re alert at every point in an eficrt to defeat it, but in spite of the stiffened resistance and the bringing up of additional reinforcements Gemy eral Pyng is pushing his men forward a little at a time and has gained a point of much advantage by the cap- ture of Bourlon wood and the village béuring the same name. From all indications the delay which is neces- safy in order to aliow the British to consolidate gaffis will permit tne Cieymans time to withdraw most r sur from Cambrai but antieipated that the British sn the effort to cap- raad center of whith they arée now withih striking distance and about “whic : possess the commandiag positl, . The dash and drive of the surprise attack- may nét be possible but even the return ta lower method which gradually ©rindgs a hole Into the- defenses of the cpemy can ac- complish much in view of the advan- tage which has besn gained by the recent sma:hin ow, and with dfives beibg made at Verdun and fo 1he east of Ypres at the same time the shifting of the enemy resérves irom one front to another is going w0 be kept down to the minimum_ and Laving -secured .2 new advantage it is for the aliies to make the most of it ir He A" GOOD START. The Wwhole country has zood rea- son to be interested in the launching of the firet of the steel vesséls which are to make up the great fleet mérchantmen’ Which this country is expécted to proéure in the next year or so. This vessel of $300 tons is the prefiuct. of the Pacific coast where it roquired just 78 days from the time the kéel was laid to get it ready for the water. There are over 100 more uch-ships and almost as many miore 10 be built of wood which are now under contract by the government. Bach launchihg of course means the making way for another vessel of the same or similar typé and as the work is speeded up and the delays in getling the matbrial ere cut down it can be anticipated that as good time if not betfer will be maintained in the pro- Auction of other necessary ships. It is anticipated that frem now.on it will be possibie to produce a*sip of this type_each week. The possibili- ties of beating that time are good if ali the interests involved work to- gether, but whil> this progress Is be- ‘ng made in steel ships weoden ones are also being completed and it was but recently that the announcerent ‘was made that the goverament ship- Pullding programme was turning out ahips at the rate of one a daw The country needs ships. the allies jmeéd ships and the favorable outcol of the war lafgély depends upon the nuiber of ships that can be pre- duted to overcome the U-boafs and to make up for deficiencies which have long efisted in this direction. But it is gratifying to know that this eountry is responding to the demand as well as it is and the hope must certainly be that as time goes on *Bé rate of production Wil steadily improve. TAKE POB}E!S!ON. From time to time the federal fuel s@ministrator has been baliked in his efferts to straighten out the coal tan- gle by the deglaration on the part of the operators that they will réfuse to sell coal at the pfices fixed by the govefnfnent, or by the refusal of the caal g*ur- t6 work unless they get an vahce in wages. There . have been ‘some cases where justice de- manded a readjustment of rates out of fairnéss to both the niiners and the dperators and-where the rates and the are rot fair such changes :m prices as will make them fair to inyolved and to others similar- | should be‘made. ~when operators tell the gov- agents that they will refuse of | ’ | [ the officiaty {und the elimination of the overlap- | wollld havé been in keeping higher prices, and.there is no leziti- mate excuse for such a stand other than the desire to increase profits, there is only ome thing for the fuel administrator to do and that is to take possession of the mines and op- erate them. This Fuel Adminis- trator Garfigld has threatened to do in certain instances and just at the present time he has given warning to the Michigan operators that this is what he will do If they persist in their refusal to ship their product. There is a_time, however, when the administratof has got to show those who fefuse to comply with his erders that he has the authority and that he means business. Let him actually take possession of a few of the mines ‘and put them under government oon- trol and it would be the ‘best kind of lesson to the other recalclirants. As lohg as’some can play with the gov- ernment they will continue to do.so. UNITING THE RAILROADS. In view of the handicaps which are being experienced in this country through the lack of adequate trams- portation at this time. it is impossi- bie to overlook the announcement which has been made that the war beard of the railroads is to operate the raiiroads of the east as if they were merged together and directed by one head. As it is now, with each road doing its utmosi to render thed sérvice required of it, there is much duplication, needless delays and no end of confusion which can be cleared up and greater efficiency obtained by pooling the facilities and aperating them ior the interests of the coumtry ead of for the bemefit of the in- vidual systéms. - There is as much need of this ac- tion regarding the railroads as therc is of the ehtente mations uniting in the conduct of the war as if under one flag and under one head. Unity is required .in both cases and it ean te appreciated thet with the motive nower and rolling stock used where + will do the most good regardless »f the sysiem to which it belongs, pinz which is bound to exist while several heads are endeavoring to Ho their utmost regardiess of what the uthers are doing or required to do, that even though the facilities are not as gréat as reguired better re- s¥fs will be obtained and that Is what is beihg sought at this time. Such action when the country is at war may cause a different viéw to be taken of similar action during times of peace, even though it has been rigidly forbidden in the past. THE AZORES BARRED ZONE. Perhaps Germany has discovered a very important secret of the, allfes, includihg this country and perhaps it has not. Evidence that it thinks it has is furnishe@ by the fecent state- ment of a Germsfl admiral to the ef- foct that the Unitéd Statés was for- Ufying the Azores and direcily Ger- many estabilshes a barred zone aroved the islands and gives notice tha: all ships encountered therein _whether those of the enemy or neutrais will be sunk. The Azores beloni to Portugaland that country is nufmhered among the entente nations. Its térritery has not been seized by the United States or any other of the nations with which it is fighting. Thet the har- bors of thé islands are being used as those of other countries is probable, but evidently Germany thinks that such use is not only extensive but that we consider their use so vital that we are aking every arrange- ment to defend. them. It may be that Germany figures that the upe of thg harbors is one of the reasons why its submarine activity elsewhere is not reaping a greater toll But regardiess of the character of the information which it thinks it possesses the waters about those is- iand$ are goinZ to be infested with the U-boats and all vessels encaun- tered are zoinz to be sunk without warning. 'The most striking feature about this, however, is that Germany shotld give noties of such a move for it has been violating rules of warfare right and left and sinking vessels wherever encountered 80 that 1t with its prgctige If it had started in on this rew field 6f -operations without this special notice. EDITORIAL NOT‘@-‘ The weatherman has cAught the fever. He is now exacting an in- creased tax on-the coal Bin. Those who started ths salt panic arc entitled to be called fresh anr | inconsiderate. i The man on the corner says: THe| sovernment hasn’t got to the point; where it can prevent a merger of the coal and the weatherman. Unless the fuel administration hur- ries the mavigable streams whiich can aid in reliéving the transportation prablems will be, frozen up. Out in Arkansas a federal court| has said that minérs cannot damage property witheut paying for it, and it eertainly sounds sensible. The British and ¥rench may not be finding as big holes in the Ger- man line as the Germans did in the Italiad, but they -are"finding them. As-the French fought at the Marne for the proteption of Paris,\the Ital- ians must now conéibue to fight .at thé Piave to keep Venice out’of the hands of the vandals. The barlpd zones estdblishéd by the Germans in the eastprn Aylantic cov- er a broad expsnse of water but mot so large but there are teo fre- quent collision of transports and ne- val vessels. & When it is declared’ that there are 200,000 young men within the araft age who are tuberculat théere appears to be good reason for contributing your mite to u-sc-m--m fund for their benefit Saea Fro: seritencés which are be- ing @t the-training camps for disregarding Jaws and regulations and for nduct it is fuite nt that ficialy see the need of thorough- ly impressing thé importdnce of dis- cipline upon the others. While the Fremch premier declires :?L'"%awmafiy Witdon an n has fliw e ] be o d-u *Fal “To think of the ties T bought! And the shirts!” groaned the very yqung man to his friend in the course of the Junch hour. “And I loaded up with Beach suits and tennis shoes more duds than I can wear out in a year! All because I wanted to do my family proud. ‘Henry’ my mother began as long ago as last January, ‘why don't you spend your vocation this summer out at Jasmine Cornas, where all your relatives live, who haven’'t seen ou since you were a baby! Evyery one.is crazy to have you Aome and visit them, and you'd have such a good time! The town is-full of nice young people and there arve more pretty girls! And our Neshit owns one of the there, and they'd do evel you You really ought not to miss1 i” Well, it began to sound good to me —fine old families, sane lives, peace and quiet, in contrast to our hectic existence in the city, you know! I had a sort of a dream, too, about meeting the ideal girl apd all that—" “Weren't there any girls?” asked the friend. Millions of 'e; declared the ve: young man recklessly. “I am certain I met at least six who were the on] girls on earth. and each time I got Gueered because of the fiendish mem- ories of the eld®: inhabitants! 1} met a dream the first evening there— a little wisp of a thing. with Mgrie Doro eyes and a peachy complexion and the sort of pink dress you read bout. She said I could call. which did inside of tw four hours, W were getting on famously till he father eased himself into a chair be- 8:de us and met me. “ “Well, well!” hoomed the ‘!d gen- tieman. ‘So u're Grace Iixon's hoy! You don't favor either her c¥ your father, do you? Yes, T knew yourl father—fine chap! Absclutely 'differ- 1 ent from the rest of his family! Come to think of it, vou lock a little like! that uncle of his that was run ‘out of the county in the ’60s for stealing.’ “‘He was-a bad ecg! He'd forged all the county -records for vears and | vet they couldn’t get a hold on him! But they chased him out—everybody turned out to do it! He was a good looking cuss—the women all fell for him. You look a good deal liks him around the ‘eyes and forehcad. You've got the Burstine mouth, though. What? Never heard of the Burstines? Well, I suppose your mother wasn't ve proud of them. “They were tge children of the second wife of old Arthur Burstine, her grandfather. Callie was tried for bigamy and Zeke never did pay his bills. Absolutely different from- the rest of the family, but still they aid belong to the family. Funny how resemblances are handed down? Well, T hope you'll have a nice visit here! “Then he'd creak away, but some- how there was a_damper on the con- versation when we tried to resyme. Those dark eyes zazing into mine 1 felt were trying to trace a likeness to horse thieves and bigamists in my in- nocent. lineaments, and it made me nervous. “Then I was greatly taken with the girl 1 met at the church picnic who had the most wonderful hair and the sweetest smile, and we were rapidly discovering that we were exactly suited to one another until it was time for dinner. A bunch of the old ones sat near us. “‘Don’t tell me you are Grace Hix- on’s boy!” chortled a nice fat old lady, ladling out potato salad. ‘My, my! Don’t 1 remember the time my neph- ew was crazy about her and - she turned him down unexpected-like and he started west and got killed by a train! I expect he couldn’t keep his mind on where he wac. goiag! It's awful to be so fickle—not that I blame her, of course—for my nephew had only one eye and never earned a cent and she hadi’t promised to marry him, ‘any how-—but that fickle strain! Well, the ‘girls better look out f#or you, young man Yeu've got the Bur- stine “dimple in your chin, too. Have some more chicken? x “By the time she had finished my sirl was regarding me speculatively and just then an old gentleman with a set of teeth that did not fit had chimed -in. ‘You remind me so much of your second grandcousin, Henry,' he said, passing the mustard pickles. ‘Henry was the one who got arrested for ‘beating his wife—the neigitbors couldn’t stand it and had the sheriff after him. You'd never dream it to look at him—just as quiet and_gen- tlemanly looking as you are! When you turn,sideways you look just like him. Well, have a good time while you're here. young man.. Pass the ham sandwiches!’ “I'd_catch the girl trying to look at me when I turned my head and the peculation would keep growing in her venly eves and by the end of the day “she was regarding me in just as friendly a way as she would - have lcoked at a rattlesnake. It was that way every time and 1 was so horrified at the dissraceful family connections whom I resembled that I came back a week ahead of time and bitterly re- proached by mother for havi con- cealed from me that my ancestors were such impossible people. . “Why, ehe just laughed at me! Sh= said statistics showed that if you went back five generations in any hu- man being’s family you would rout out about 985 individauls who would be spurned by any decent jail, and I guess it's so—but what good is that oing to do me with all those girls back there? Tll bet they expect to see me behind the bars in convict stripes before the year’s ou Well,” comforted the other young 'man, “when you get real rich you can |drive back through the town in your sixty-horse power car and splat- ter mud over the whole L then th sob_themselv with regret!"—Chicago Ne LETYERS TO THE EDITOR This Country’s Food. Mr. Editor—Gold, sixty-eight years ago. started the downward trend of Conectic agriculture, In the year 1849, the great California zold boom started and, for some years after, many New England farmers went west in search of untold wealth. Congecticut's farms were deserted and our agricultural conditions, received a hard jolt. The farmers used to raise their own milk, mutton, vetgetables, beef and pork. They raised enough for themselves and enough for everyone in the town, too. The farmer may not have had very much money—ncbody did in those days—but he was marv- ously well off. The more our farms were deserted, the more the great west grew and today practically everything we consume is freighted one or two thousand miles, and who pays the freight. The West sells the goods and the West gets the money, while we eat the produce and have nothing left. Why shouldn’t we grow our own meats and grain as our grandfathers did? We can and we should keep' more stock, both for patriotic and economic reasons. If we haa an abundance of stock in proportion to the increase of population, it would be easy to realize how the fertility of the soil would in- crease. It takes very little imagina- tion to compreHend how conditions would change. The millions upon millions of dollars which are now go- ing West and South for our mainten- ance would be spent and kept here in Connecticut. The following figures will perhaps convey some idea as to why we should keep more stock grow more grain, and, in every way possible maintain our- selves. We can’t grow crops without stock and stock only answers half its purpose without crops. They go together. In 1914 the United States exported $97 000,000 worth of meat products and in 1916 the amount was $201 000,- 000. And further, in 1914 we exported 1,700 000 bushels of potatoes and in the first nine months of 1916. potato ex- ports amounted to 2,700,000 bushels. A million bushels more were shipped abroad and 110,000 bushels less were grown. Do those figures convey in any way, the explanation why foodstuffs cost more than they did? 1f they don't just look at the following figures which have been compiled with equal care. In 1845 there were in the State of Connecticut 162,717 sheep, 206 229 cat- tle, and 139 000 hogs. Roughly 508,000 head of stock. In the census of 1915. it was found that we had 18,000 sheep 119,000 cattle and 59,000 hogs—a total | of 196,000 head. The population of Con- necticut since 1845 has grown to near- ly four times what it was then. Then there were enough potatoes and there was enough meat for the people. Mul- tiply the figures of 1845 by four and you will easily find how many head of livestock Connecticut should have, or how many we would not have to pay transportation on today. In brief, our farms only carry a total of about 196,000 cattle sheep and swine today. (United States. Department of Agri- culture, census 1915.) If the numbers were commensurate with the increase of population there should be 1904682 head of stock, or 1,798,682 more than there are mow. In 1845 thers is no_record of meat being shipped into Connecticut but statistics show that noW 404 850,000 pounds of slaughtered meat are shipped in annu- ally, beside thousands of animals eon the hoof, for slaughter. At the rate’at Children Cry for Fletcher’s CAST ORIA eENuINE CASTORIA ALwavs (4 In Use For Over 30 Vears which meat is now eaten in Connecti- cut we should have over two milllon more head of stock than at present. Think of the potatoes that could be srown. Think of the possible magni- «de of increase in the agricultural 'stry and remember that there is home mariker s.x i al. Connecticut could support a packing house like Ar- mour’s or Swift's and keep it mighty usy too. The formers naturally say that the cost of grain makes it too expensive to keep more catle, that the cost of labor is prohibitive. With manure, grain will not cost so much; with beef cattle the mrain_ bill will be nothing, except for . month or two of feeding before mar- keting. and the cost of labor, perhay the hardest expense of all for the furm- er t6 bear. That, with beef cattle is reduced to. a minimum. We do not wish to discourage anyone who is run- ning a dairy. Dairy farms are an ab- solute necessity and some of them are making good, but. on the other hand why cannot these dairy farms, and other farms too. feed seme beef through the winter? To gét milk you must have grain and there must be plenty of labor too. but with the beef end of the proposition no grain need be useq until the cattle are finished for market. And further, the labor cost of Leef cattle can be reduced to a very small amount. What ‘we want to see, as far as pos- sible, is Connecticut providing her own food and not buying about nine- tenths of it from the West. Can’t we support ourselyes easier than we can the West? We can. When there is such an enormous chasm waiting to be filled, the average business man jumps ight in and supplies the market. Connecticut hg# just such an open void in its agricultural conditions. We have no sheep, no cattle. to speak of and no beef or pork. Last year. the people of Connecticut paid freight on and for 300,500 000 pounds of siaught- ered pork as well as for thousands of pigs and cattle on the hoof. The State Council of Défense ap- preciates the conditions and hopes to e Today and Tomorrow KEITH VAUDEVILLE A REAL BIG TIMER 3 HERBERT SISTERS The Jolly English Girls in Harmony and Dainty Dancing CHARLES F. SEAMON “THE NARROW FELLER™ In a Musical Monologue : HAYS & NEAL In the Comedy Skit With Songs ‘“THE SOAP SALESMAN" MAE MARSH LN “SUNSHINE ALLEY” A Quaint Play in Six Parts ANIMATED WEEKLY er————— Mat. 2.15, Eve. Pictures, 7.15, lle 8.30, Pictures 9.16 Sunlight Dance IPLANT HALL, New London| Thanksgiving Afternoon THREE TO SIX 0'CLOCK ! EXHIBITION FANCY FOX| TROT THOS. ROCHE AND PARTNER AT NIGHT Ferdinand’s Banjo Orchestra OF HARTFORD | banks, so far as possible, to advance the money for the purchase of cattle. This is a principal part of the busi- ness of the western banks and it should be so in New England. To those farmers who have hay to spare and barn room for shsiter, we urge that they get in touch with us at once |hm; we may order what they can handle on their farms. We have at our command judges df cattle. pigs and sheep ih the western stockyards, who will_make satisfactory selections and purchases and attend to the forward- ing of any live stock desired. Professor Harry Lucian Garrigus and Professor John A. Sims of the Con- necticut Agricultural college will help in any possible way with ecattle and pigs and Mr. Arthur Guy Skinner. an expert sheep man from Canada, will aid on the sheep question. (Signed) SAMUEL RUSSELL Jr.. Middletown JAMES M. WHITTLESEY, Morris see them remedied. It stands ready at any tinte, through its sub-committee on live stock to do anything it can toward the increase of sheep, cattie or | pigs. It will. through expert cattle men purchase in carload lots for indi- viduals or communities, any ilve stock wanted.. It will arrange with the LEONARD H. HEALEY. z Woodstock Livestock Department of the Conn. Committee of Food Supply. Hartford, Conn., November 24, 1917 REE B THEATRE n TODAY AT 2:30 TONIGHT AT 6:30, 8:30 THE MANX-MAN Picturization of Hall Caine’s Great- est Story LAST CHAPTER OF THE FATAL RING VA R T HEARST.PATHE NEWS COMING WEDNESDAY THURS. MME. PETROVA in More Truth Than Poetry 4 Srows Thanksgiving Day AT 2,—2:30—7:00—8:30 Auditorium Theatre VAUDEVILLE AND PICTURES BILLY NI;ZJW KIRK AN HOMER SISTERS In a New Coliection of Songs and Dances FULLER & MEADE Comedy Singing_and Dancing Montagu Love and June Elvidge In a Five Part Foature Picturs “THE GUARDIAN” THis is & Picture with a Punch HEARTS AND CLUBS A Good Comedy | Mat. 2.30, 15c __Eve. 7-845, 15c-20c Slater Hall Conceri MONDAY, DECEMBER 3RD MME. HELEN STANLEY PRIMA DONNA SOPRANO NET PROCEEDS GIVEN FOR BENE- FiT OF RED CROSS Tickets on Sale at Cranston’s Broad- way. Single Admission .... M, orders will rec tention. . e prompt at- From the Gommerce Reports. Ireland are much In the course Emigrants from fewer than they were. of the mine months epded last Sep- tember the emigrants numbered 1,650, a decrease of 8831 from the previous year. Seventy-five per cent of Holland's “tobacco factory output Zoes to the soldlers, leaving a very emall amount for the civil population. Prices are hizgh. Sweden’s s year potato crop this will thousand tens Bulgaria’s tobacco production has been vastly increased during the war. Sixty FIRST DISPLAY OF Fur Trimmed Hats THIS MORNING OUR FORMAL DISPLAY OF WINTER MILLINERY 'CPENS THIS MORN- ING. 'WE PRESENT FOR YOUR APPROBATION SOME ,VERY HAND- SOME FUR AND FUR-TRIMMED HA TS WHICH REFLECT IN THE HIGH.- EST DEGREE THE CHOICEST EXPRESSIONS OF THE WINTER MODE. WE SHOULD.BE VERY PLEASED TO HAVE YOU SEE THEM AND - EXTEND A CORDIAL INVITATION TO YOU TO CALL TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, THE OPENING DAYS. ~