Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 22, 1917, Page 4

Forwich ulletin and @Goufiee 121 YEARS OLD | Subsctiption price 12¢ a weeks S0o &l month; $4.00 a year. ¥ Norwien;, Bulletin Business Office 480. Bulletin Editorial Rooms, 35-3., Bulletin Job Office 35- Willimantic Office. 625 Ma'a Street. 1 Telephone 310-: Norwich, Saturday, Dec. 22, 1917. CIRCULATION 901, average el 482 1905, average Dec. 15. 191/ MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusive- Iy entitied to the use for republica- tion of all news despatches credit- ed to it or not otherwise credit- ed in this paper and aiso the local news published nerein. All rights of republication of special despatches herein are also reserved. | soldiers. THE LUXBURG INTRIGUE. When the previous despatches bes tween Count Luxburg and the German government were made public, in no such equipment will get into the hands of the ememy- or be allowed to to Russia for the purpose of Eiving aid to Germany should peace be de- clared between those countries is quite right, but that hardly justifies the haiting of such necessary work Should the boisheviki government fall and a zovernment be set up Wwhich would be as much opposed to Ger- many as was the Kerensky adminis- tration the closing of this plant means so much valuable time has been lost in the production of such needs, but even If that change should mot take place this country is in meed of all the freight cars that it can get and there should be no let \up permitted in that particular line “of Industry. Those 6500 cars would come In mighty handy to relieve transportation con- gestion in this part of the country right now. UNSANITARY CAMPS. It was well that an investigation was started as early as it was concerning the conditions of the training camps ibout the country and it is gratifying that General Gorgas foumd as magy as he did which were in_satistactory condition. It might have been antici- pated that some would de in better shape than others for one regsén or another but the health of the soldiers. in some of them made it evident that sanitation had not been given the at- tention that was required and that proper precautions were not being ob- servea regarding the new arrivals in the camps who had every opportunity to bring in disease and spread It among the others. - The speedy application of the ne- cessary remedy will now be applied and it is well that there be ro sreater aelay aithough it is to be regretted t preventive steps sufficlently broad could mot have been taken from the very start. Having once ascer- tained the trouble there should be no relaxation of effort until it is not only checked but made impossible for the tuture. ' There can be no measures too strict and no steps too thorough when it comes to guarding the heaith of the Unheaithy camps are a men- ace. The soldiers are entitled to ev- ery possible protection and as far as indicated there is nothing which can- not be overcome by the prompt ap- plication of sanitary precautions. I we are going to have an efficient army we must certainly have healthy troops and certainly the fitncas of men amounts-to little if their health is not properly guarded. Unsanitary camps cannot be tolerated a minute after the trouble is pointed out THE MAN WHO TALKS A great many thiogs in this world would be less troublesome if no at-| fempt was made to explain or defend them. Foolish remarks and mean acts are never remedied by a multipli- cation of words. The real whay and ‘wherefore of some things are past finding out: and go_substitutes will’ suffice. Among the moat painful mis- rakes of all our lives in this verbosity when silence is_better. Foolish and mean acts will fade away in time which can never be explained away. The person who calls for apologies has dcne a thousand things he should have apologized for and wouldn't. Some people think this is a curious world when only the creatures upon it are curious. Too many people are teo easily oftended and too free to allege an offense has been committed when such a thing was never thought of. We need to cléw up our tempers and to be dull to the little things which cause trouble. We nep-smokers do not know much about the solace or quality of tobacco. its use is considered as one of the smail vices and mankind as a whoie appears to think none of us should do without at least one emall vice. I am inclined to think vices of any kind are unnecessary, although I may be cousining one or two myself. W are ali mighty blind to our own little vices. Non-smokers decline to con- tribute 16 the tobacco fund for the boys over in France. I should, had 1 not read a non-smoker’s statement of the comfort a smoke brought (o the suffering wounded men. Thé opposi: tion is fiercest against the cigarettes, ond a tobacco user desirés to know why. He Slaims the smoker of sight black cigars a day uses as much to- This smoker using a pipe smoked two bacco as the smoker of 80 cigarettes. ounces of tobacgo a “day, or cigars: but 20- cigarettes a day. fled him, or the equal of two This is worthy of investigation. should not It pur prejudices interfere with kindnesses. . Since men admire pluck it surpfises me_that more of them do_mot more interested in our winter birds, those two ounces of flesh and feath- ers and beauty -classified as finches— the gold-finches, spafrows, smoky- hued snowbirds—not to mention’ the jays, nuthatches, grosbeaks and wood- peckers, which face the cold amd- the storms ‘and the deprivdtions of the winter months. With all their skill in selecting shelter from the cpid. and flerce winter winds many of them be- come victims and hundreds perish. Theé winter” birds do net- gt their daily bread, but are comipelled to take long fasts. They are nmot like God's dormant creatures - that - go ~ without food or drink for months in each year which the sinking of Argentine ships| WARDEN GARNER'S RESIGNATION |of their liveso but they are equipped without leavink a trace was advo- cated, it was indicated that there were cthers which had not been revealed: It has taken s)me time to ge: t comsent of Argentina to their publi- ation but the most of them have now been made public and they reveal the fact that German diplomazy had bsen working hari znd fast for tne purpose of greating Jissension among the na- tiofs of South America, with the idea In view of not only strengthenim Germany’s position but for the pur- pose of handicipping the United States and dcsiroying pam-Americans tsm. In view of pist revelations no oms can be surprisec ot the new discles- are in keeping with what|not surprising tha: the beard of di- |thoughts more sublime. fore, but it will he inter- note what effect they will have upon Arge=itina. It wagy followe« ing the previdis pablicity regurding German ‘ntrigne t"at Argentina broke off Aiplomatic relat’ofs with Sermany. Sentiment in that comntry runs strongly agains inkling as to the strong neutrality stand of President “rigoyen .is furnish. “ed by this new information. German pressure and infinence has been brought to bear upon him whil sult has been hesped upon the tary of foreign affairs because he 'was mnot of the same mind, but with the Argentine peopie demanding a declara. tion of war against (iermany the op- position thereto by the president 1s likely to amount to little in the fu- fure. That the ndtes will .have an important beariny upon the coming conference of the Latin-American countries is als> probable. PEACE TALK. In view of the fact rhat the pea offering which ‘the kaiser haa brom- ised to make on Chrigtmus wiil in all probability be along the me lnes as those which have been previously made interest therein is not what if ‘would be if the coming announcement’ was his first. ‘That his country :& anxious to end the possible cannot be doubted in view of: ~the reports which are somins to. light| regarding the conditions which exist] in all parts thereof. But even more] pressing are the demands which are] hel.l‘_mda for peace by the people of] Austria where conditions are even| worse with a hard winter staring them in the face. Unless the kaiser is much further than he before relative to ths adjustment of conditions in Europe, his forthcom- ing peace talk has been discounted al ready by the statement of Lioyd George of Grea: Britain, who! after pointing out the improvement; that is being made in ship construc-, prepared to g has ever gone: In view of the commendabie work which he has done since being named to that position and his excellent quai- ifications for the job, there cannot help being sincere regret throughout the entire state that Warden Garner of Wethersfleld has been obliged by im- paired health to resign his position. After having been identified with with a courage and endurance which keeps them from being annihilated by the merciless performances of Nature's triumvirate — Jupiter Pluvius, O1d Moreas and Jack 7Trost. Our ‘soldier boys have called our hearts across ‘the sea but omly- the man who has been at tie fromt can fully Yense how their hearts _come back to us across the ocean: Stern such work for a score of years, ur-|duty and daily peril raises an altar to ing which time he has gone from the|home in the heart of a man and Ne bottom to the top of the ladder and|daily thinks of it as the devout thimk (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) The Colonial records of Connecticut show” that Abel Buel, referred to last week as a siiversmith of early New London, did important work in the colony and was considered a skilled craftsman. ’ In-17%1 the general assembly, desir- Ing to show its Eraitiu. scuse of the many important services rendered by Richard Jackson, Eeq., of London, Wh for some time had acted as the agent of the colony at the court fo Great Britain, manifested its appreciation by adopting a vote of thanks and appro- priating a sum not to exceed £250 to procure sdme proper and elegant piece or pleces of plate to be presented him. It was to be engraved with the arms of the colony and inscribed with some proper motto expressive of respect. commission for this work was Abel Buel, and he forthwith to fashion the plate; but some months later, because of the certainty that, there would be large duties to pay when the plate entered England, as well as the fear that Buel would mot be able to comiplete the work in ime, the commission was withdrawn him and given to-a silversmith in England. Just west of Buel's stand Haven were the house and ehop of Ebenezer Chittenden. He was born in Madison in 1726, and for a number of years worked at his trade in that place, . moving . to New Haven about 1770, possiply in company with his son-in-law and apprentice. Abel Buel. Thirteen beakers and a flagon, 17 1-4 in New the enemy might do. It is time. we pulled ourselves together and put to the front “the merve which never re- laxes, the eye which never blanches, the thought which mever wanders, the purppse that never wavers” if we would see our country win. Do not yield to discouraging emotions, do not ndulge in talk akin to treason, but be a force for ‘humanity, Justice crd victory. It is better to have demand touching your wallet than to have a Hun bayonet searéhing for your spleen. The moral force of America is exceeded by that of no other nation, and you and I must be a part of that orce. Sunday Mormning Talk “O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLE- - HEM." What a Chrietmas this one must be in tHe Holy Lend! The outward dev- astation everywhere apparent might. make the angels weep. In the light of present conditions, every beautiful pastoral scene tradition has made dear to us must be revised. Hills where shepherds “watched their flocks by night” are torn by the tread of marching armfes. The roar of Brit- spent seven vears of it in charge of the Conmnecticut state prison 'all of which has been in perfee: harmony with the directors of that institution, it means a decided loss to the state to be deprived of his services and it is rectors accepted his resizpation. with reluctarice. His departure from that post brings the same regrets that were caused ‘when his predecessor, Albert Garvin, left the state prison in 1910. Warden Garner has long been deeply interest- Germany and some|ed in the work of prison reform as|heaven on earth. one in such a position might be ex- to be and he has put into oper- ation many excelient péiicies. He has every reason to feel promd of the ‘work which he has accomplished dur- ing his stay in Conpecticut. Tt has always been for the best interests of the imstitution and those YWho were sent there as can be attested by those who are in touch with his activities. Successtul prison admini:strathrs are not to be found on every cerner. His place will be hard. to fill but as was the case at the time of his selee- ‘tion the prison directors will do their utmost to get the best possible suc- cessor in order to carry on the good work which he done. EDITORIAL NOTE The longer the vacation the better it will suit the army of schooichildren. Among the happlest persons these days are those who have completed their Christmas shoppins. prots B et A 1 The fact that we are to have lisht- less nishts does not of course mean that they will be lifeless. If you haven't become 2 member of the Red Cross -don't wait to be asked, step right up and Join. The man on the corner says: No one ever has cause to complain that the | worn out collars get lost in the laun- |ch! ary. No ene can properly deny the Ger- man claim that it required the sub- Premier| marines to speed up the activity in)quiet shipbuilding. The weatherman must be given of paradise, and vyearns for the love and the kind words and.tender atten- tions which he guiltily remembers he did not fully appreciate. There i3 a halo of sweet memories about - the word home in the heart of every sol- dier, and only heaven hoids for him it we. could gee wirat busy hands prompted: by Joyal and admiring hearts are doing for the soldiers. in this country, if we cculd bebold the gifts now on the way to them in His name, we should be amazed: and we should understand better how Jove responds to love and produces an _ atmosphere akin to A just cause mails the - American soldier with . courage, and his courage is our protection. Tears may hinder sorrow from be- coming despair; but they may also ex- haust the patiénce of the most con- siderate of friends and destroy 'the peace ‘of a family. re” are other: tears than “Efaceful tears that’ siream cr_other's “woes:” Thefe are sloppy cars “from / those’ who ‘ultivate a weepifig habit. The grief that is in- consolable (is' more imaginary than real when the weeper Weeps herseif blind. “There is no doubt great af- flictions put shadows in our minds no bright thought can overcome. It is doubtless true’ that the bitterest tears have been ehed over words uhsaid and deeds' undone: - ¥he way to check weeping is to think more. of the bless- irgs we have:enjoyed and less of our misfortunes - and afflictions. - Thought with the aid of these can fill our eves with tears .any moment. Gratitude commands a tear equal to a smile, but of short dyration; and Grief tears at. burn; but Love ‘can pooth them. ‘o weep unreasonably and wrecklessly of itself becomes a sin. The poet who wrote. “Childhood shows the man, as dawn shows the day,” must have been a man of ex- cepiional perception. A wiser man declared “children have more need of models than of critics” and t what the world sadly lacks for them. The good advice children are born Thelr S parents. Some. Deswls tront own_parents. people treat fldren a5 if they were. created o fnd fault with; and the children re- taliate by becoming their tormenters. A bad child is, y a child.who has. not been ghown how to properly direct ts energies, or. been gently led into and improving manners sod ‘habits. Poli 13 due toa child as well as from it, _We expect more.from = child than '‘we give it, and are tion and the betterment of the foodj credit £or starting suficiently early to{amazed by what it lacks, wholly un- situation in that country declared, in referring to the war aims of that gov- ernment, that the complete restora- tion of the territories taken by the enemy t8gether with compensation. would be Insisted upon. This makes: it quite evident that Great Britain doesn’t intend to be swerved from its. purpose by anything which 1t 1s be- lleved the kaiser will say, and In this stand it will have the support of the, other entente nations. The United States hash't altered its declaration to| the effect that it will have ne dealing with the present imperial German PLENTY OF NEED RIGHT HERE.|the Austro-Germans shall not knock |Pu to the effect that eight hundred em- ployes of a steel car dnd foundry nom- pany in that state are out of work be- the prevent all possibility of an ice fam- ine next summer. depends _upon whether there will be a closer rel tion with turkey Christmas than there was on Thanksgiving day. B It ail these - mew investigations amount te no more than the one con- cerning La Foliette's St. Pauls speech, they might just as well not have been started. i From the reststance whieh the Ital- ians are offering, it is quite apparent that they are fully determimed that If Germany hasn't as many divis- fons by one on the western front, as it aid during the attempt to take Ver- dun, there can be little fear-that it o5 —_— If the imprisenment of the g off family in a fortress takes. w"fio motion - pleture privileges, aled doscopicconditions tecd conscious of the fruits of our own negligence. ‘The child is too -often a victim of impatience and ignoramce. God pot only gave them to perpetuate the race, but to show. to us the charm of pure innacence and trust. “One must be poor,” wrote George Eliot, “to know the luxury -of- giving” —must feel the pleasure of - Jove. ‘which prompts. the heart to make a sactifice for its sake, a feeling wholly unknown to those who dole out. m’mflr ance. . There ix mudh cheap. present making daysewe m‘ko‘? imemerial .ot One who gave Himsglf. for -the redemption of -man- kind. To, many, because of-their man- ner of . givi the gift is . oftemer a S ve mekes mean speculation. 8 loaf for e than those w and are = ot £ ‘which are circumstances” should made grudgingly. AGi iR R teR you dare to. think.” !have raged for more than 300 {of Mecca' and Medina: |)->u upon Islam’rests mainly ‘worse |of all ish guns has awakened Bethlehem from s “deep and dreamless sleep.” The whole land of Syria is so terribly smitten with death, disease, and star- vation that, if the Founder of Christi- anity should return in bodily presence to his birthplace, be might feel him- self a stranger in a strange and dread- ful country. t is a sad commentary on world’s acceptance of the Christmas g0spel that conditions like these can prevail on the very. soil where Christ Iwed and did his marvelous deeds and spoke his matchless words. When we reflect that. wthin the last two years, in this part of Asia. a million human beings have -suffered death in forms that may be called vielent, and that other millions are at this minute fac- ing starvation, «al} because of man's inhumanity to man,- we - reaiize that there is neither peace on earth nor 004 will among men. The immediate - view. -is gloomy enough, but there.is another side to the picture—a brighter one. We may yet behold the very - wrath of men made to praise God. Nothing can call back all the countless slain, and on prompt assistance can . save the liv- ing. Only in the :world: beyond this present one can answer be made to some very hard questions. We be- lieve that such answer will come and that, meanwhile, the only safety is in the faith. that, somehow, good shatl be the final goal of all this ill. With the historian. Bancroft, we must see that “Eternal wisdom . marshals the great procession of the nations. work- g in patient contiguity throush the ages, never halting "and never abrupt, encompassing all events in its oversight and ever effecting its will, though ' mortals may stumber in apathy or oppose with madness.” The swift events of these months will doubtle, hasten a consumma- lon .done devoutly and . property wished by the whole world that calls itself Christian. A thrill of joy will usalem. that city around whicl years 13 almost unbroken and “which, for been in the hasds of centuties, has tne is readily explained. Experts tell us it is to drive a permanent wedge between the seat of the Turk- ish - Empire and the Mohammedan holy land, including the sacred cities “The Turi’s upon lon 'of ““these cities, If he lose them, his control of the Arab _tribes of ‘the great thern [deserts would become very precari- ous. i A ‘Who could hot wish to see the “un- speakable Turk” ' as_ Gladstome ' truly culled him, driven wholly oyt of Eu~ fope, and closely confined _in Asia? He has grown old in crime. His hands are red with the bigod of succassive generations of. his subjects. FHe has run amuck these past two years ih even more dastardly fashion than ever before. Unlgss the world were sated with “horrors, it would _stand aghast at his new chapters in ini- .~ He_richly . deserves. the .doom fhat is shapins for him. . Amid all the -crash of war stanids Bethiehem with {ts narrow streets and its mud-walled houses. < It is among the-least impressive outwardly the locations -abeut ' which ' the parison with -its: the morth. But:it a time can never' dim: ¢ It is the birth- some | remain whes the |, inches hish, made by him, have been located in Connecticut churches. He was a man of exéellent connec- tions. His mother was a sister of Rev Dr. Samuel Johnson of Stratford ther of Episcopacy in Connectl ke is called, and first president of King's_college, now Columbia univer- sity, of New York, while his brother Thomas was the first governor of Ver- mont. He was QJuite intimately associated as a_skilled mechanic and friend with Eli 'Whitney, inventor of the cotton Zin, and for many years he was either Warden or vestryman of Trinity church, New Haven. He died in 1512. On the other side of Church street, New . Haven, from the shop of Robert Fairchild, was located the home and shop of Captain Phineas Bradley, who was a skilled workman and who saw | service in the Revolution. His brother, Colonel Aner Bradley, was_also a siiversmith. He was born in New Haven. in 1753, learned his trade there, and served in the Revo- lutionary war at Crown Point and Ticonderoga, and was.wounded in the Danbury raid of 1777. He retired as a colonel of militia. _After the war he settled in Waterbury, following pis trade until his death in 1824. Marcus Mermiman, who was born in Cheshire in 1762, mo~ed to when a boy. He saw military and naval service in the Revolution. part of the time in the company of Captain | Bradley. His first advertisement apoearad jn 1787, and thereafter he was constantly asking for custom. He apparently 2 large business for those times in his shop in State street. Thirteen of his beakers uud a eaudle-cup have been found in on- necticut churches, while his spoons ayc Tt uncommon In New Haven corrty. It is probable that he producsd more silver than any other Connecticut s versmith. Amos Dooliitle, born in Cheshire in 1754, certainly began his busines career as a_silversmith, having learncd his trade of Eliakim Hitchcock of tnat place. He advertised several times that he worked in silver: but the greater nuvin- ber of his advertisements had relot to engraving and are of interest. He successively advised the pub that he has published a mezzo-tint of Hon. John Hancock, in colors; Y Law’'s Collection of Music; that does printing on calico; that he graves ciphers, coats-of-arms, and vices for books. or book-plates, -inl maps, plans and charts; that he has published the Chorister’s Companion, and that he does vah\‘mg and gilding; and in 1792 that he Is publishing an elegant print of Federal Hall, the seat of congress, with a view of ihe chan- Cellor of state-administering the oath of office to the president, - He died I 1832, Other New Haveén silversmiths of the period included John and Miles Gorham, Charles Hequemburg and Samuel Merriman, who. all did meri- torious work. \ né en- ds- In ‘Hartford, after Potwine’s perhaps the most skilled craftsman was Colonel Miles Beach, who was born in Goshen in 1724 and followed his trade in Litchfield until 1785, when he moved to Hartford and opened a shop about ten rods south of the bridge, on Main street. day, His first phrtner was isaac San- ford and later He was in business with his former apprenticé, James ‘Ward. Spoons bearing his mark are found in Hartford and vicinity, and there are four interesting chalices>made by him in 1794" belonging 'to the Congrega-. tional church in Kensington, Berlin. He saw active service during the. Revolution: it is aiso noted that he was chief engineer of the Hartford fire department . from its orsanization 'in 1789 to 1805. He died in 182, James Ward, just montioned, was one of a family of silversmiths. His father, brother, and probably grénd- father, all followed the trade in Guil- ford. - He was born in Guilford in 1768, and as already stated was apprenticed to Colonel Beach. After the firm of Beach & Ward was dissolved, in 1798, ‘Ward' for 3 time continued alone at a shop about ten rods nortl® of the bridge, at the “Sign of the Golden Ket- tle.,” “ A numbér of silver pieces made by him have been found in Connecticut churches, as well as spoons In private’ hands. He was a good craftsman, and, like other Connecticut smiths, did not’ confine himself to his trade; for we later|find him making and dealing in pewtdr worms for stills, dver’s, hatter's and kitchen coppers, and va. rious sorts of brass and copper goods, and easting church bells. He became quite prominent and _influential -in Hartford, and died in 1856. And_now the chronicle of early , Tileyy, a man of talent and skill, who was the big advertiser of his times. =Attontion will be paid to him and his publicity methods in a Iater paper. In connection with the account of the work of James Ward, in the book on Early Silver of Connecticut and Its Makers, by George M. Curtis, from which these records'of an important Connecticut industry in its early stages are taken, through the courtesy of the owner of the book, Mrs. Elisha E. Rogers, of Norwich, two business cards are shown. One is that of ‘the firm of Beach & Ward of Hartford, a circular card found on the back of an old watch; the other is the oblong card of Joseph Carpenter of. Norwich, recently pic~ tured In The Bulletin, also through the courtesy of Mrs. Rogers, who owns it, and who has done so much to bring to the attention of the late Mr. Curtis and other writers the existence of an- clent silver in churches in and about Norwich. g ¥ THE DICTAGRAPH. By National Geographic Bocisty. Mecca the Mystic—A ‘striking pic- ture - of Mecca the Mystic, capital of the new kingdom within Arabia which was established recently by _ghe Grand Sherlf of the Moslem faith, js contained {n'a communication to- the National Geographic Society from Dr. S. M. Zwemer. A part of the com- ¢|munication has _ been_issued by the O iittle town of Bethishem, how stilt Above thy a‘-’é%‘ and arsamioss Yet in. thy ...‘Mfin., sleep |dom, With the Grand Sherig of Mecca Soclety as the ing - — " follow! w}.r‘ geogra: “Ot a1l the provinces of Arabia, El gb’-& ‘which recently revolted against ‘urkish rule and set up its own as 50 , undoubtedlv has most . _withi. the outside. A RED CROSS CHRISTMAS HONOR ROLL Firms, all of whose members and employes have enrolied as members of the Norwich Chapter of the Red Cross. LEE & 0SGOOD CO. THAMES NATIONAL BANK DIME SAVINGS BANK CHELSEA SAVINGS BANK MERCHANT NATIONAL BANK UNCAS NATIONAL BANK JOHN & GEORGE H. BLISS UTLEY AND JONES THE PLAUT-CADDEN CO. the coast province on the south, and Nejd, in the interior. Its sole import- ance’ is due to the fact that it con- tains the two saered cities. Mecca and Medina, which for more than thir- teen centuries have been the centers of pilgrimage for the Moslem world ‘Before the railway was completed frofm Damascus te Medina, the port of that city, Yenbo, was as fourishing as Jiddah is mow; but at present it has almost the appearance of a de- serted city. The whole pilgrim traf- fic has been diverted, and even. the caravan route from the coast to Me- dina is at present unsafe. “The importance of Mecca is due to its resident population of per- naps 100,000, but to the more than 200,000 pilgrims who visit it each year from every nation of Islanm. Statis- tics are hopelessly contradictory and |confusing regarding the number of nnual visitors. According to Turk- h official estimates. in 1907. there were no less than 280,000 pilgrims. It is a marvel hcw so many thousands can find food, shelter, and, most of all, drink in such a desert city. “The religious capital of Islam, and now the temporal capital of the pew Kingdom of Arabia, affords an index to the zrowth and strensth of Mo- Lammedanism in various parts of the world, for one can, rightly gauge the strength of religious fervor in _this great non-Christian faith by the num- ber of those who gn pHgrimage. From Java. Bengal, West Africa, Cape Colony, and Russia, as well as from the most inaccessible provinces of China, they come every vear and return to their nmative land—if,they escape the hardships of travel—to teil of the greatness and glory of their faith, however much they may have been' disappointed in the actual con- dition of the city and its sacred build- not 5 When we consider Mecca, Moham- med's words of prophecy in the sec- cnd chapter of his book seem to have been literally fulfilled: ‘So we have vou the center of the that you should bear witness to men.' The old pagan pantheon has become the religious sanctuary and the goal of universal pilgrimage for one-sev- enth of the human race. “Irom Sierra Leone to Canton, and om Tobolsk to Cape Town, the faith- ful epread their prayer carpess, build their houses (in fulfillment of an im- portant tradition, even their outhou made nations es!). and bury their dead toward the meridian of Mecca. If the Old World could be viewed from an aeroplanc. the observer . would see _concentti circles of living worshippers covering an_everwidening area, and one wouic aiso see vast areas of Moslem cemt- teries with every grave dug toward the sacred city “Mecca is no longer a veiled city. A score of intrepid travelers have un- veiled it. From Bartema, Wild. and Joseph Pitts to Burton, 'Burckhardt Hurgrowje, and Fourtellemor, they took their lives in their hands, heard ed with strange companions, under- went untold hardships, and by Juck o pluck - came statheless out of this ilon’s den. of Islam. According t Doughty, scarcely .a pilsrimage takes place without some persons being put to death as intruding Christians. An educated and pious Moslem here in Cairo_assured me only a few months ago that when he went on pilgrimage and took pictures of the city his life was endangered more than once by the . fanaticism of the inhabitants. However, there are many who believe that the opening of the Hejaz Rail- way, especially as a branch is to be carried to Jiddah, the breaking up of Turkish power in Arabia, and the es- tablishment of the new kingdom vill mean the removal of . restrictions against non-Moslems. ““The’ Turkish. Government was most unsuccessful in introducing liberty and reform in the province of Hefaz as it has been in other portions of the empire. Their task. even had they made a conscientious _effort, would have been especially = difficult here because of the mutual hatred be- tween Yurks and Arabs, the restless character of the Bedouin population, dnd the utter collapse of all respect for .authority after the Turkish defeat in the Balkan War. The Arabs have at last insisted upon ruling their sa- cred - cities themselves. and have Dlaced the Grand Sherif of Meeca, Tl Fusein Ibn All on the temporal throne of the new kingdom, as well as upon the spiritual throne -of the whole Moslem world, save that portion inated by the Sultan of Turkey. OTHER VIEW POINTS Apparently the idea of having motion pietures on Sunday is becomi nfore and more popular throughout the state and many communities now Pt them as a harmless amusement that should bé allowed- As this idea gains sirength it seems reasonable to sup- pose that evry city. will permit such amusement before iong for the Sab- bath. However, the law is specific as t6 what a city should do and as long 2s there is an active opposition to the Sunday entertainment the city attor- ney is bound to pay atténtion to the complaints that are made conmcerning the violation of the law. > Mr. Dryhurst is striving to do what he thinks proper and while he may privately believe that there should be these Sunday picture shows, he does not feel that he can permit them to be given now when there is opposition from that portien of our population -Vhlch"belh‘(fl lao shows llo b:’;llenl as well as morally wrong for first day of the week.—Meriden Journal. President’ Hadley of Yale has been sugested as the man whom President Wilson should bear fn mind if he counts on apRointing someone to_take charge of the railroad situation. Pres- ident Hadley’s chief qualification _is that he is an expert on raliroads. though that could hardly be expected fo count sa atrongly in his favor as having a. son-inslaw: of the president's at_Yale would.—Waterbury Repubii- .. Nothing ‘has developed at the public i i | | | 3 Mp———— B REE FOUR SHOWS TODAY THEATRE At 1.30, 3, 6.45, 8.30 Today at 1.30 and 3 Tonight at 6.45 and 8.30 VIVIAN MARTIN in “LITTLE MISS OPTIMIST “FATIY” ARBUCKLE | HEARST PATHE NEWS i SHOWING CAMP DEVENS AS IT “A COUNTRY HERO” 1S TODAY AND THE LATE POSITIVELY THE BEST YET. WAR NEWS ‘Coming Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday BIG DOUBLE FEATURE BILL MARGUERITE CLARK in “BAB’S.DIARY” WM. S. HART in “GO0D FOR NOTHING” DON'T MISS THIS SHOW THE BIGGEST AND BEST SHOW IN THE CITY “THE CRISIS” In Twelve Parts America’s Greatest American Story by Winston Chu EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTIO! FIRST PICTURES OF THE HALIFAX DISASTER Showing the Terrible Havoe Wrought in the City and the Under Which the Rescuers Labored. 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