Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 18, 1917, Page 4

Glorwich Bulletin and Qoubies 121 YEARS OLD Subseription price 12¢. a weels Sve a mouth: $6.00 s year. Entered at the Postoffice n.. #s second-class matt Telephone, Call: tin Business Office 480. Bulletin Editortal Roome, 35-8. . Bulletin Job Otfce 35-2. Willimantic Office. 625 Ma'n Street. phone 216-2. ueldny. Dec. 18, 1917, ' CIRCULATION .. 4412 5,92 1301, averade 1905, average Dec. 15 191/ MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th ociated Press is exclusive- eptitled to the. use for repubiica- tior of all nevs derpatches credit- ed to it or not otherwise credit- in paper and aiso the local published herein. rights of republication aof despatches he are also THE RED CROSS CAMPAIGN. During this weex and until Christ- mas eve the American Red Cross will wage a nationwide campaign for jhe purpose of bringing into its mem- bership the millions of people who are interested in the welfare of the £ol- diers and humanity in sereral. This great organization ls now endeavor- inz to secure ten million more mem- bers than it has at the present time which would bnng its total member- ship up to 15,000,000, or about one- seventh of the population of thiscoun- try Membership in this organization means the payment of the annual dues and vour faith in its great work. As President Wilson well says in his prociamation in bebalf of a Red Cross Christmas: “The times require that every branch of our great national flort shall be loyally upheld and it is peculiarly fitting that at the Christ- mas season the Red Cross should be the pranch through which your will- ingness to help is expresscd.s In view of the masnificent service which the Red Cross is performing and that which it stands ready to do, there ought to be an éarnest desire on the part of the people of this coun{ry to give it their uimost sup- gort. ‘The country has responded loy- ally to the appeals which this organi- zation has made for assistance in car- rying on its work because the cause is a most worthy one and the service which it is rendering deserves sup- port, but the chance to make it stronger and more effective ought not to be overlooked and it is confidently believed that the people «f Norwich as well as those througzhout the coun- iry will push the membership far be- yond the desired goal THE DANGEROUS CLUB LICENSE No better demonstratiag of ‘the evil of the club license could W furnished than that which comes from Bridge- port wherce the leeper of a black and tan dive, a elub licensed to sell Hquer, proved to be the leader of a gang of cunmen who not only defied all law and order but resisted police super- vision to the point where several deaths may occur as the result. From all indications the authoritiés. have known of the existence of this place for a long time. -»The proprieter has been frequently before the police court on various charges and vet in spite of that he was able to earry on a disreputable resort and sell liquor ven days in the week. some subtic power which he possessed, political or otherwise, he had gotten the impression that he was beyond the reach of the law. He was keep- ng a place which was a decided men- ace to any city and one which should have been cleared out long ago but it was also one which should never have received the iicense under whieh it was being operated. To the Bridgeport police, when they @ecided to - tackle the job, belongs much credit for making it thorough. They have rendered a service to Bridgeport even though )it may have come late, but it is Hme for that eity to ascertain if it is tolerating any more such dives and if it is to wipe cut every place of the kind within. its confines and see that no more spring up, while the propgietor and thosa| who .were responsible for_ ihis resort should be made to feel the full penal- ty of the law. Itbrings tolighta ‘con- ditlon which is a disgrace to any com- munity, MISDIRECTED LI'TT!R'. Carelessness prevails.in doing small as well as big things, and thié is per- kaps no better shown than by the statement of Postmaster Geperal Burleson to the effect that there were 13,000,090 misdirected letters whith could not be delivered during the de- partment’s year. That many of these letters were very importamt is prob- uble. Others vere less important and there were some which it was passi- bly just as well that the persons they were intended for didn’t receive them. This number does not include L of course those where the proper address was supplied by the postofiice em- ployes or the carriers, which must have exceeded those undeliverablé by 2 good margin. There are several which might be assigned.for address was possessed by the sender, the directing of letters to wrong places is another common occurrence and it is not infrequent in large oities es- pecially that no .street address is given.and under such conditions it is like trying to find a needle in a hay- stack. But it is impessible to over- look the part which carelessnessplays in the sending of ietters with wreng addresses. If greater care was taken in giving attention to the small details in such matters considerable aid would be given to the postal service, but re- zardless of what the reasons may be for the iMability to deliver millions of letters, the fact cannot be lost sight of that all of them could be re- turned to the sender if he made it a point to place his name and address in the corner or on the back thereof., INTO GERMANY'S HANDS. Notification to the world that the armistice Detween the bolsneviki and Germany ‘has been signed creates no uew situation. Bver sinc: it evident that such plans were under- way and,the announcement was made that steps had been taken to bring it about it was evident tha: it would have such an ending. It s interesting to note. however, that the leaders of the boisheviki de- ciare that it will have no Serious ef- fect upon the emtente nations. The reason for this is that the bol- sheviki have insisted that there be no withdrawal of troopé, from the casterm front other than those who are already departing. That of course may be sufficient to fool those who are supporting the bolsheviki but to others it cannot be viewed otherwise than a feeble attem; to justify the ithdrasval of the Russian forces from the war, and this is particularly true when it is deciared tbat plcns are al- roady being made for the arranging terms of peace. The claim (that ne mere Germa: roo] =il be withdrawn from the Russian front amourits to nothing. Ger- many has aiready withdrawn large numbers, possibly as many as it con- siders wise ot this time and they have' been shifted either to the west- ern or Italian fronts, and Austria has done the same so that the agreems: o withdraw no more for the four weeks the armistice covers is no con- cession. The bolsheviki have thus fsr met all the German demands and the same can be expected wher peace terms are considered, while very fact that Germany is already getting much needed supplies from that coun- try makes it evident how usefu:i the bolsheviki plan is going to be to the Jaiser and hew much of a handicap it is placing in the way of the entente. AN UNEVEN DISTRIBUTION. As the reeult of the manner in which he criticised the federal fue! adminis tration, the effort which he wnade to upset its pians his own state and the demand made upon him by the fue! administrator that he refrain from interfering with his orders as carried out by subordinates, Governor Cox of Ohio has made it plain that state authority ought not te be antaconistic ‘o the government when Le declares “the federal pian of fuel administra- tion is mnquestionably necessary,” but he is still of the opinien that the ad- ministration should bave zivem more consideration te eéetions of the coun- try which are in just as great need of fuel as the northweet. Fe believes that the sending of coal to the north- west shculd have been stopped weeks before it was and that if such had been done thers would not now be the shortage which many states arc cxperiencifg. In other words while he Bows to federal autherity and believes that such an administration was required by conditions he does net sanction the manner in whick it has handled the task for which it was named When one section is favored to the detri- ment of others this feelinz is bound to prevail and there is reason for it. Had the needs of other sentions been catered to even as the relief which has beer. sought and recognized Was promised the fuel sitmation might have been far different than it Is tb- day. Whatever justification the ad- ministration may put forth for its ac- PLAYING was] | “Thank goodness, that's ovei sighed Mrs. Conuery as she closed the door on the last guest. “Everybody will tell you that bridge is a nice. quite game, but really and truly I thought once or twice that we'd have to send for the militia to quell the riot.” Connery smiled as he gathered up the cards and emptied the ash trays. “it wasn't my idea of a peaceful eve- mung, I'tl admit” he repiied. “but the way some people play auction is the limit. Take my case, for an example! At the very last table I drew Mrs. Blake for a partmer.” His wife nodded appreciatetively. “Well"” Connery went on, “my ecore was high, and, of course, she knocked it galley west. Her mind was, every- where except on her cards. She trumpted my tricks; she disregarded all conventions: she pjayed exactly as if she were trying to throw the game. After it was all over and our oppon ents had made several hundred on us, she smiled at me sweetly and said, ‘Dear Mr. Counery, 1 do play rather an awful game, now don’t 17 But you know I never play to win—just for the fun of the thing!" “I caught Smith’s eye. He was playing with that cute little Miss Lyle, and she's some bridge plave: they were our opponents, and he was having the time of his young life. Of thing. as they’'d done the scoring. 1 remembered that 1 was the host just in ‘time to keep from telling Mrs. 258 el smeton bridse waesd & ‘funny’ ‘game, and it required concen- tration. finesse and average intelli- gence to make any kind of a decent showing. “it takes a man to playv bridze any- Connery continued. “Women always have their minds on a dozen other thinzs, and vou can't taik style, swap reci pan your neighbors and what cards have been play- “Ts that so?’ demanded Mrs. nery, indignantly. “We haven't thing on you men, my -dear imagine any Con an Can you woman ‘in the club get- ting as nasty as Harry Browning did when he was playing with Grace Gregg, and she was the dummy—" - course, he could see the humor of the | “Supposed to be the dummy, mean,” broke in Connery. Mrs. Connery ignored the interrup- tion. “You know when Grace’s hand is on the board she has an awful habit of looking over her opponents’ cards and then fidgeting whenever her part- you ner makes a play that doesn't meet | with her approval. Now Harry is a very conservative player and he hates that eort of thing. ‘Finally be threw his cards down ieaned back in his chair and said sar- castically, ‘Miss Gregz, I'm sorry my game doesn't meet with vour approval, but you have the advantage of kno ing what's in all three hands— I doi “1 happened to be one of the op- ponents, and I calmed him down. but telieve me 1 was glad that they didn’t h to play together again.’ ou couldw’t blame him.” said Connery. “A thing like thal exasper- ates "a man beyond enduranc? “I'm williag to acknowledge that it's provoking.” said Mrs. <Comnery, but how would you have felt if some one had sat on your bald headed triend from the office? He drummed on the table until I theught Id screem; he asked what was the tramp when- ever it was his turn te play: he re- turned the oppoments lead instead of his partners. He certainly was a liv- ing exponent on what mnot to do in tridge! He actwally passed a hundred aces in his band, two kings and every- thing well protected, and let his par ner_take it on three clubs. ‘Mrs. Jackson wns plaving with him. and she aimost fainted when ne laid down his hand. She zasped. “Partner, why didnt vou make it a no ‘Aw, mow, Mrs. Jackson. dve T mever saw all four of those And let me tell you that Mrs. Jacksen never said a word— piayed for all she was worth and made a grand slam.” "She may not have eaid anvthing, iut il bet she could have been a rested for g she was thinking,’ uckled Connery, “What of it?’ demanded his wife. No matter what she thought so long as_she didn't tell it to the world. It only proves conclusively that though sperated beyond endurance, to use your very own words. a woman can control her temper.”—Chicago News. 'LETTERS TO THE EDIiD ¢ Credit Where It Belongs. Mr. Editor: In your issue of Dec. 1 in a report of the Red'Cross raliy at Davis theatre on Sunday. it is stated that the stage was decorated by the undersigned. assisted by Otto F. Ernst. Belleving that credit should be given where credit is due, 1 respectfully ask that a correction be pubiished of that part of the report, as the stage was dscorated . by Otto ¥. Ernst, assisted by Robert McNeeley, Archa W. Coit the undersigned. ARTHUR F. LIBBY. 17, 1917 1 Norwich, STORIES OF THE WAR THRILLING EXPERIENCES ON A SUBMARINE. (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) Death in varied forms menaced and played for many hours with the crew o fthe British submarine E-17, wreck- 2d_and fnally sunk, after a nt fight dr life, off the ccast of Hoiland, according o the Story of her com- mgnder. now for the first time told. iis sn -all-night struggle to save the sub- marine and her v from the bat- tering of the waves which hammered the little vessel the shoal, of a: fight with fire jn her hold, against Jeaks that threstened to fili her with ér, and to catch and secuYe a tor- thrown from its lashings with its war-head in place. menacing all with instant destruction. Freed from the shoal only to be con: by an apparently hostile cru.uer bent on théir destruction, thu bmarine commander tells how he Fax fiven to ihe: desperate resource of submerging in a water-logged craft and of the suspense of the critical mo- to dive were rather exciting. account gives a vivid picture of tion, it is impoasible to overlook thelments when he discovered that his fact that industries are shutting down |vessel was filling at the bottom of th: and hemes are withont coal because|ocean and of a fight back to the sur- Through | the fuel has been semt elscwhere. EDITORIAL NOTES. Anyone whe has trisd it finds it ny easy job fo camoufiage the coal bin. It took a long time and it reqyired. a hard fisht bring the dark side of Bridgeport to light. In this rugged December weather everything 's to be comimng in sufficient quahtitiés except coal. The man om the cormer says: It takes & lot of sand for the grocer to. 585 Do 0 some sugar buring custom- | ers. 8 We are now getting somie of that old fashioned weather when the cab| drivers used to warm their hands by slapping their sides. It is clajmgd that the coa! shortage is due to lack of transportation. Per- haps Whe [priority board wili have to revise its regulations. —_— The suggestion that it is not illegal to sell below the fixed prites is not{ a4 likely to arrest the attention of these behind the counter very long. — Now it is claimed that there are ne Japamese at Viadivestok, but all thaf has, been said in fim of such an act holds gocd if they do go there. That British officer who f0; is pajamas dufing the Ges vance can place sll the fact that he lacked his fishiing togs From *- way in which the weath- erman is furhishing us with snow and lmumnh-buymmm electric roads and the street Bluner.. ——— ‘With good sliding. and the of an extra vacation, it is - hard to make the children understand the many complaints about the weather{after and the coal smpply. . Again a warning - against the danger of contagion kissing. Isn’t it abemt Aime WAE a vacgine brought férth against any such dhn.u-* It should not be tw e Red " Cros “'::'{" Souna l’fl- t you help some ct the soldiers % to face the guns of the cruiser. rmn‘ from a Dutch internment the E-1T's commander, after of the strandjng of the sub- f-% tel '{marine and the vain struggle to float ‘her. adds: “The antics of the boat proved too | muth for the lashings of one of the, geaze loes; the tail held firm, the ; with the heavy war- hg:dt in place, commenced thréshini abou done.a iot of damage if it-had not-been rapidly re-secured. Large tities of water had come down the ning tower and made an awful mess of things. It got at the electric switchboards,/ fused thel police lights, and started a fire be- hind the switchboards, which had to '& out with one of the patent fire = tul-l;u- -rg. vrnmng fumes of urnt re extinzu: & otk Snpleanant. condiaation, s vnrnmflefinyrorflie rest o nigh “'Q\‘ was a hfltfle time, that period . ,None of th it un ‘m na gt h I;-t out, and e my at of to the men that mul% her; it was e v Simply :hondcrlul amount o w o ok Afiy inspection hat the rudder ad ‘gone, and the after compartmert Lad a large diréct connection with the sca, lbl‘.mnsh the hole wherela The b-!khelfl of ghis ewipartment had sl been and was Jeaking. Both pro- been slightly bent and botn main en- amp and were full of six of the big main tanke weu lmhd and the ship was unklns luhuly in about a dozeh fi ho‘g*rflty hm!m nfi 1 start- 4 to ~tm hx &e electric’ a lnd then powdered nm:i). of wnr -mn and cof is being issued | from |, by | B in] in the boat and would have: up behind her whieh blotted her ou | before we could distinguish details, {but she altered her course toward land just before goine ont of sight. The most hopeful scheme scemed to {be to get straight out seaward, in hope tof clipping awa+ unobserved the mist. Tt was painfully’ slow work: ages passed, amd we began to cheer up. trinking all was well. Then suddenly we spotted her. She had alterca her -course again and was row eriving up al a great rate on a course that looked as if she meant ramming. “When ,she was a_short half miie away 1 made out the blurced outfine of her. guns and immediately afterward saw them swinging forward! It is ab unwritten law of the sea never to train suns on warships of a mnation with whom ene s at peace—for obvious reasons. Therefore her action in train- ing her guns on us at this moment scemed to prove copclusively that she was hostile and about to open fire. To stay on the surface seemed certzin death, either from gunfire or ramming, Iso I.took the 1 to 5 chance for life under water. “The moments following my order When 1 tried to close the conning tower 1ifi 1 found to my horror that it had jam- med. By feel of it 1 fancy a piece of waste or a rope’s ond hal fouted the counterbalance weight. The water was half way up the conning tower. No time to do anything, so I started down again with the idea of closing the lewer door. 1 had barely got to th: edge of the hole when the water camv. The first wave hit the id a great 'smack and luckily broke the obstruc tion and closed the ld with a bang although an avalanche of water goi into the boat first. “I found things pretty serious in- side, for as soon as the pressura came on the leaks had opened up, apd the boat had taken charge of itself, sink- ing like a stone. The water inside had run aft, depressing the stern to such an agle that it was impossfble to stand without holding on to some‘hing. “It was out of the question to re- main submerged, Guestion was rather. whether we would be able®to get back to the surface at all. The boat had gone right down until sk touched bottom with her tail. As she 1@id so the door of the after compart- ment commenced to gape and give. If ‘the boat had staved at that depth it would have gone. But immediateiy on teuching. the bottom she com- menced rise again, because the b out of her tanks = was t to give her a slight buoy- # as her downward mo- mentum was stopped. “Thete was a tremendoys lot of frec e interior. Some of the terally washed away from ‘their stations. Who were wash. ed away their billets as possible, & back and work their valves it it reguired it. They might heve bt aung: routine ptac- kflmm ‘waters all the differ- "We were now tising very slowly, sud@enty the motor blew out, water ha g réached it and short mum it. mfi mhhfly S b ‘Pointer crept then went %o then for & !he again. there “This 1. .: and then started to rise was the cflflw . e have sived us. she made up ‘her mind to come up, lhe h. We emerged | Iying P i &M But u g and I was astonish -a&onn t_sight :-‘hawu;buteh mnn Her e n rly visible and her meh now saw oy, the fret”time, waa: Somistakanie “My Dboat was " 1y in a sink- ing condition Jed to the S bt el Boats '!;e sent over t ‘promiptituds and £ :ahon ourssives ahonr fl the Noo of tné Dutch <-:1 m-y, mu»n"l at the Helder. © ‘wer: red IIII] 1 WRrn r 1 went up om the bridge watcm my boat Ats last e. c she went 2 busle “Aitention*’ and the Noo; mnmd her .while she TODAY AND TOMORROW MARY PICKFORD “THE LITTLE PRINCESS” Her Latest Artcraft Picture in 8ix Acts CHARLES RAY HIS MOTHER’S 20Y A Corking Story of Making Good Six Acts ' ANIMATED WEEKLY Mat. 2:15; Evening 6:45 and 8:46 ALWAYS THE BEST THE WOGD DANCE Plant Hail AUDITORIUM Matines 2:15. Evening, 6:45, 8:45 REE THEATRE TODAY AND TONIGHT The Master of Screen Craft J. STUART BLACKTON Presents THE JUDGMENT HOUSE A Great Spectacular Picture of a Woman'é Part in the Fate of Na- tions. BIG BANNER DOUBLE FEATURE BILL WILLIAM RUSSELL in SHACKLES OF TRUTH —~ Six Acts GLADYS BROCKWELL tn a Fox Super Feature Afl Star Cast CONSCIENCE Wm. Duncan and Carrol Holloway In the Great Western Picture THE FIGHTING TRAIL NO ADVANCE IN PRICES Biggest and Best Show In Town HEARST-PATHE NEWS ‘THE FLIRT” Comedy A Red Cross Christmas The distinctive feature of the Christmas Membership Campaign Is the use of enrollment booths. No house to house canvass will bé made. There will be no personal solicitation. All our people krow the inestim- NEW LONDON i TOMORROW NIGHT i PICKETT'S 9-PIECE ORCHESTRA from th who volunteercd for the Ambulance Service in Irunce and was at the Bat- tle of Verdun on his twenty-first birthday is in reality the American Spirit —and 1 will leave comment to you who read thi “Dear Mother and Father: letters eame to me yesterda row 1 wish I had said wothing about avia until nearer the end of ambulance service. 1 am sorry tzke aviation so hard, for mortai- ity is only eight per cent. mbre than |that oz the infantry. Tne whole ar- gument amounts to this: I am first of somie service, now that we are at war, n phyeically fit for aviation, while there are millions over here and un- er age available for ambulanciers and camions. Do you wish me to be called an ‘ambuscade when 1 come home? And that is what they call us he: now that America is at war. The ai life is a bit more dangerous. but death comes from a little buliet and is quick and clean. One is not blown into in finity by marmite or other hish e: plosives, which leave unbeliev holes in one's body. to man in the air “1 mfust do some military duty, my six- months’ experience and knowledge of ¥rench are of value those whom I am trying to hel After all, if T am not to survive ! war, what ar ce does it make ho I go about it? No onme wants to come {home more than I No one i fed up on tais war, wishes and yvour are nothing. Our sorrow is like =un when you think of the sorrow « by the death of 7.600,090 men who have died since August, 1914, One learns to feel that deaih is easy after watching these Frenchmen dic. And are you, my mother and father, jeoing €0 refuse to sacrifice one son. when millions ‘of others have done far Bl e it “Per] ong to urge you to et me 2o on_but T have all the papers out and take the medical exary - n soon. In America we are taug’ comes first, and am and to e: i Revolution? consicered Can you thousand In France an worth a inagine my aviator is thousand men. being worth a men? However, this is no time for jekinz. Only think of the | millions who have lost more than 1 n ever be. of mothers who have lost several sons, as well .as their hus- bands. and therr daughters. ruitied by German officers; of husbands fightint. never kmowing the fate of their sons, wives and daughters. God is watch- inz me, and if enythinz should zo sorrow a littls and thank God that you could sactifice one so dear to vou in the cause of right. When yon have decided, write to me at once. All my plans shall stop until T hear again. * * “Once more let me assure vou thet T resiiss hog much I owe f you and Dad, and will come home at per- mission: come home only to returm, for 1 could 1+ stay away from Chis war now until it ends.” The permission he asked was given. _OTHER VIEW POINTS The senate starts off its investiga- tion of the apparent faflure of the food and fuel control amd the short- age ofgciothing and rifies ih _camps in good ternper =nd gives apparent of an American boy | all of military age and must take up | One fights man | my § ow to throw over the Jegacy of the | able value of the ministry of comfort and healing the Red Cros= is propared to render to our soldiers and sailcrs in the hours of need that are coming to them in the terrible struggles of tha .war. To every man and woman in Norwich we send this urgent appeal to join in Red Cross service. In every section of our city enrolintent booths have been placed. Their Jocation and the name of the chairman in charge of cach booth is given in another column. Go to the booth that ycu find most convenient. sigh an enrsllment tard, pay a dollar (two doilars of you wish the Red Cross Magazine), and you thereby betome a part of this great army of Amerisah patriots entisted in the service of msrcy. If you are now a mémber of the Norwich Chapter, we ask you to make a gift of the unexpired pcrtion of your present membership, and to re-eniist, your new membershib to date from January 1, 1918. A loyal fri¢nd of the Red Cross sent to the chairmian: “That was a good suggestion you made, that cach membér should get a recruit—l went out at once and got one.” “GD OUT AND GET ONE”—that is our message to evefy friénd of the Red Gross in Norwich. There are 4,300 enrolled in our Chapter. listed who will respend to an invitation. GO DUT AND GET ONE!” Thefe are 4,000 net yet en- JOSEPH H. 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