Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 25, 1917, Page 4

ET— Glorwich Bulletin and gau?ici 121 YEARS OLD bacription price 12c 8 weelk; 50e a month: 36.00 = year. Entered at the Postoffice a1 Norwich, Conn., &s second-class matter, Telephone Callss Bulletin Business Office 480. Bulletin Editorial Rooms, 35-3. Bulletin Job Otfice 35-2, Willimantic Office, 625 Ma'n Street. Telephone 210-3. Norwich, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 1917. MATTEEERI R () Vi SATREAG S CIRCULATION .. 4412 .5,920 . 9496 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusive- 1y entitled to the use for republica- flon of all news despatches credit- ed to it or not otherwise credit- ed in this paper and aiso the local news published herein All rights of republication of epecial despatches herein are also reserved. v 1901, average .... 1905, average Dec. 22, 1917 CHRISTMAS DAY. Even though the world is involved in its greatest war, with this country + imcluded therein, we cannot overloolk this great season of “Peace on earth, gooa will toward men.” Christmas day should be made as bright and cheerful as possibld under the exist- ing (conditions. There canmot help being thoughts of these who are away, those who may be across the waters or thdse in the training camps of this country waiting fo complete their training hefore going but such eoniy emphasizes the lesson ,of peace .and the nced to continue the fight for the bringing about of copditions in those countries which are opposed to it and which will insure in the fu- tyre the rights of humanity and the love of fellowmen. This is a time when those who love and desire peace are forged" to fisht for it instead of sitting idly by and acknewledging the supremacy of these who are deter- mined to exert their crushing eontrol whatever the cost may be. ‘War is to be deplored, but thers are times when it is necessary even to secure peaee, the meaninz of which can be no better understood than at this very season and under the exist- ing_conditions. Christmas day should therefore be a day of cheepfuinessand joy. We can- net overiosk it. On the other hapd we ;inust use it as ap inspiration In the “carrying out of our progrnmme. And 28 one has well said: “May the sweet- ness of giving sctuate us all. Let us iremember God's poor. Let' us feel {within us the spirit of the Son of God “who came upon earth to set us free from the bondage’ of sin. A merry :Christmas to all” ‘WHY THESE IDLE INDUSTRIES? i The needs of this country are such $in most lines of industry 'that there {should be no idie hands, This is par- fticularly true when the shutting down Jot any kind of a factory which is ;lmklng or can make supplies for ‘the farmy and navy is concerned. Atten; ivion is directed to this by the inves- itigations which are nderway at ;Washington before the congressienal icommittees where the lack of proper quipment for the soldiers, including clothing, has been brought.to light, nd by the fact that through spme A\sunderstanding between fhe em- loyers and emploves in New Nork there is =sald to be 30,- clothing workers who are idoing nothing when the government is #n need of their product or could make bs it use of that which they are hold of valuable franchises and tax »{'dedging was rampant. These who were affected by such inquiries as he had started, the re- forms he bad instituted and the elimi- mation of the deadwood which he had accomplished were résentful. They didn’t like thé idea of having their soft nest broken up and by means of the recall they Wgped to put an end thereto. That the' people of Oakland were not in sympathy with such an attack is indicated by the result which sustained the mayor, but it makes it evident that where the recall was in- tended as a benefit to a community there are opportunities where it ean not only be made a.great bother to the voters but where if sufficient strength prevails it can replace the good with evil. Fortunately the dis- gruntled Oakland were not suceess- ful in their effort. BARBAROUS GERMANY. That Germany has not changed its attitude towards humanity and that it is still determined to spread terror wherever its army goes, regardless of the manner in which it is received by the' rest of the world, is plainly in- Zjeated by the doeuments which have been found upon soldiers o? that coun- try who have been captured by the Italians. These show that they have received instrucfions from their com- manders to the effect that they should hot vield to pity but must cast it aside when it comes to dealing with women and children. This of course means that they are to follow the same tactics that were pursued in Belgium where women and children were tortured, violated and murdered and where no effort was made to check the terrorism which was indulged in throughout the en- tire country whenever opportunity of- fered. } That the same practices should be used against the people of Italy is therefore not surprising. It Is only what might have been anticipated. The Germans have apparently looked upon such a policy as a means of making their offensives the more suc- cessful. They care nothing about what the world thinks of such bar- barism so long as they can attain lieir object. 1It. is simply another case where anvthing that is~done for | the kaiser is right regardless of the enormity of the crime. But if anything was needed to bring the people of Italy together in a firm determination to offer every possible resistance to such people that should prove sufficient and. it is fully be- lieved that it will get sueh an Inter- oretation from the Italian znwu. SAFETY ON RAILROADS, Investizations which are being eon- ducted into that wreck at Shepherds- ville, Ky., where many lives were lost wher( a fast express train crashed in- to an accommodation, which had just leit the station, and ploughed its way through three coaches ought to deter- mine jwhere the responsibility lies without great trouble. If the fiyer had the right.of way being due at a known time and making no stop at Shepherdsvills it is hard to under- stand why a slow train should have heen sent.out ahead of it without tak- ing the needed ‘precaution of warn- ing the encoming express. When the operator claims that Le left his key to help with the baggage after the ac. commodaticn left his station it weuld gppesr that there was carelessness displayed in protecting the lives of | the passengers on both trains. Short- age of help may have required this; double duty ef the operator but if that was the case the safety of hu- man life must be regarded as uch greater importance than the speedy moving of baggage. = Until the investizations have been completed, however, the real trouble will not he disclosed but if the road is guilty of lax operation of its traina it is time that immediate reforms were instituted. Such terrible acci- dents usually result in thé employ- ment of new methods or devices but it is most unfortunate. indeed that there has to be such a sacrifice of life in order to bring about an under- standing of the negesmaity of glving every possible protection te the trav- eling public e EDITORIAL NOTES. A merry Christmas. i T Let the Christmas Epirit prevail for more than one day’ Those who'get the greatest pleas- ure out of the Christmas toys are not always the children. The man on the corner says: After the worst has happened there is more room for improvement. Even at the Christmas dinner it is always well to remember that there are other days coming. The very fact that you have enlist- ed in the Red Cross army of mercy should. make your Christmas happier. ——— After an inventory of the presénts -{of Austro-Hungarian atrocities, le to make. The situation there appears to be on @ par with that in an Illinols town| has been made the stores can antici- where eight hundred employes jof a|pate big bysiness making exchanges car factory are out of werk use | Of misfits. ;he c;::tmct to vml::ly cars to Russia as been abandoned. The very fact! We are told that the egg market that we are not going to supply the| wobbly but the consmmer will not b‘: bolsheviki with material which can| satisfied until the Humpty Dumpty be turned to the advantage of Ger-{stage is reached. many does not mean that this country . ————— Bnd its allies are not in need of the Anyone who has had muck experi- very cars which that factory has been | ence doesn’t have to be remded that making or can make. We need cars|the shortest days of the year are those | he here the worst way. The lack of them | Jupt before has been a serious -handicap to the ST — fransportation systems 'of this coun-| Now that the Red Cress member- try and ‘yet no effort appears to be|ship campaign has ended there ought made t¢ turn these very cars, for (!0 be a vote of thanks te those whose which we were willing to undergo | effcrfs have made it such a syccess. sacrifices in order to furnish t6 Rus- du;uw our ozi: uses. If the inves-| Bven though there has been a hitch on committees can put an end to first efforts rman these inconsistencies they will at least :‘;hr:x peace, the k::.:;- ?v?ll ‘.t.‘;?:: Sccomplish something. nine and to eliminate a little ] thing lfke Russi: : ———— ! THE OAKLAND RECALL. That the recall can be turned -to Biad as well as good uses, even opposition to Ger- man plans. ‘Three New - York school teachers though the ohject aimed at is not attained is| found guilty of spreading disloyal 8Sisciosed on frequent occasions where | Propaganda in their clags rooms have dence | Pé¢n dismissed. Such was a wise step the | but it" wouldn't be a bad idea to still it is resorted to. The latest of this character is furnished by recall election recently held at Oak- | ke€D an eye on thém. land, Cal, where opposition has been manifested toward a reform The Wi onse company | begs tfation. Those who did not like the | for sugar 10 keep its big plant going; wesults which it was getting wege de- | but that appeal is no more insisten termined to eliminate the mayor, who | than that from the youngster who has had for the welfare of the community gflmflmfld himself been weeding out a lot of figure heads | dissolve all the lumps. in the city government in order to T T r— reéduce needless expenses and to| Noiwthat the keel of the first ereate a more efficient conduct of city | ship has been laid at Ngm affairs. Oakland ,had apparently | fo_be expccted that all el needed a housecleaning for some time }noW be bent toward b% the ti Cemditions were going from bad tc|="quired in constfucting the first stee worse. Pol were able fio‘ gctl ship on the western coast. s ’ . A \ THE SURE ENOUGH PATRIOT “Every man has some sort of & pa- triot to boast about, 1 suppose” the out of towr customer told Wilkinson, “ihese days when everybody's son has been drafted or volunteered or some- thing or other.” “Surely,” Wilkinson _smiled. “It's getting to be such a very common thing that 1 have been wishing that I could think up eomething pew to boast about. There's Hudson, whose’ five sons are in the training camps, and Perry, whose brother is a colonel, and Fisher, who is qoing work on his own account for the country, and Parker, who's on the exempiion board. and Gordon, whose six daughters are in the Red Cross service—oh, and £cores of others. I'm not boasting a %/ more about my own peérsonal efforcs, because there are such scads of men who have done fifty times as much as I can ever do.™ “There wes a man on the train who was going around showing all of uys a letter he had,” the out of town customer eaid, envicusly. “He has a boy in France and ‘the letter was from him. It was a peach of a let- ter. and it made the rest of us green with envy. It's just like that all the time—everybody's trying to get some- tning more patrigtic_than his neigh- bor to tell about. Nobody tells fish- ing stories any .more, they scef so tame in comparison with the tales they all can tell about their cousine in the ambulance division or the sig- nal corps or the secret service.” “It's my impression,” declared Wil- kinson, “that when'a man does some- thing rea)ly quite notable he is im- medjately adopted by a lot of people who never heard of him and is quoted as ‘my cousin in France’ who did a neat thing the other day, A’ lot of fellows who ran away to war are poasted of Instead of ecolded, now that we are in it. P ‘We've always been fairly patrio- ’ the out of town customer said. “My wife and I come of old Connec- ticut stock that fought in all the wars and kept out of the courts: but now. T can tell you, we are nearix burstime with the prevailing emotion. You see. I have a couple of small boys whom we have to sit on continuaaly for fear they will think themselves 0ld enough to go as drummer boy: “The Arunmuner boy stories always use the Kkids'” laughed Wilkinson. t makes no difference that drum- mers are big fellows nowadays. The youngsters have besn brought up on the drummer boy legend and they have the old ambitions we used to have. “T put my Sunday school contribu- tion money into a drum when I was a jad,” sald the out of town customer. “I played it in secret till the neighbors complained of the nolse in our barn and 1_was discovered. 1 didm’t much care; however, because the taing was confoundedly hard to play.” “] never say anything more deceiv- ing than a drum,” Wilkinson com- mented. “It.looks so easy to play and it is worse than a pjano to master.” “My boy Jack has a small one” the out of town customer said. be isn't allowed to play it in town. When we go out on the farm we let ‘The funny thing is that he doesn’t care him beat it all be wants to. much for it out there.” “I guess that's about it,” the out d&f “They Dboth belons to the Boy Scout troop or whatever shy about using military terms—it is such Any- town customer acknowledged. and Billy is a sergeant, they cail them. ! am a little a blunder to use the wrong one. FAMILY DOCTOR'S £00D ADVICE To 6o OnTaking “Fruif-a-fives” Because They Did Her 6ood ‘Rocrox, Jax, 14th, 1915. ‘*I suffered for many years with ter- ble Indigestion and Constipation. I had frequent dizzy spells and became greatly run down. A neighbor advised me to try “Fruit-a-tives””. Ididsoand | to the surprise of my doctor, I began to improve, and he advised me to go on with “Fruit-a-tives” I consider that Y owe mylife to “Fruit-- a-tives” and T want to say to those who suffer from Indigestion, Constipation or Headaches—‘try Fruit-a-tives’ and you willgetwell”. CORINE GAUDREATU, 50c. a box, 6 for $2.80, trial size, 25c. Atall dealers or sent postpaid by Fruite w-tives Limited, Ogdensburg, N.Y, way, he's some kind of a head boy in the troop and he's a great stickler for 1 often Hear him scoldinz Jaek in bad order | authorities. rules. because Jacks reom is and it is very amusing to see how |mail” meekly Jack swallows i “Jack got even the other day, how- ever, pretty neatly. He's rather mus- ical in his tastes, so he’s taking music lessons and besides he can play quite The Official Bulletin is still somewhat of a disappointment to the postofflce Marked “Deliver as letter it is eeldom more than four days late, and occasionally less. How- ever, the debate on the postoffice ap- propriation biil in the house of repre- sentatives last week contained several indjcations that Mr. Burleson is not a lot of things that he picks out with | Without hope of accomplishing a still one finger. It gets a litile monoton- further slowing up of mail deliveries ous at times, but we hope it won't be | during the coming year.—Waterbury long before he will learn to use ail the finzers. “The other morning he began be- fore breakfast and kept it up until w came downstairs. a howl from above, salute. He'd been de twenty. minutes in that at because ner’ on the piano. triotism.”—Chicazo News. Views of the Vigilantes CIVILIAN AMMUNITION. b s it By Clyde B. Wilson of The Vigilantes. Do-you want to Bust the Kaiser? Then @on’t bust Business altogether. Here 8 a Weapon for eagh who wants to| fight: Bconomize—not at the Expense of vour Neighbor;—not at the Ex- nse'of all Business Activity, But by ane Sacrifice and Waste Elimination. Buy—don't Squander: at—don't Fge; Starve only the Garbage Can; jve—don't Miserize: Hooverize— don't Radicalize; Optimize—don't Pessimize. Buy Magazines often; Buy Theatre Tickets moderately: Go to War Mowies frequantly; Let the Wheels turn; but always remember the grim Busipess that is in the « World today. Let all Classes * Work and make Money; then . We? can feed our Allies and our Seldiers, and Buy Hibe: nds. Now we are coming to to the point: We Can_ Bust STORIES OF THE WAR Victims of Austro-Hungarian Atro- cities. Compelled to dig their own graves, drowned, Dbirned alive, hanged, or shot down with machine guns, the Serbians of Herzegovina, Bosnia, Isteria and Dalmgfia wese the victims sur- passing the human imagination, re- cently declared Dr. Tresic Pavicic, a Slav member of the Ausfro-Hungar- tan Chamber of Deputies. Narratives of Serbians made prisoners in Aus- trian jails and fortresses were re- lated in detail before the Austrian parliament by the Slav deputy. 40 Dr. Pavicic, these out- rages were practiced upon the civilian own. Many women, the deputy said, lay down in their graves with dren in their arms and the soldiers then shot them one after another, the Hving putting earth over the dead un- til_their own turn came. . The ordinary method of executing civilians who shouid have been , sald the Slav-deputy, was to them, but instead the whole Serbo- h: ont in frontier transformed. into a deserts ‘were not executed, the very young and th died of destitution. It was tI us, competent and courageous arrested ,faisely accused, condemned, tortured and 'cnrridors they died { typhus. the dead to clothe the naked. at between 3,000 and 4,000. ers came crowds of ci | trucks. her 1ittl bread. thefr death in these places’ French Field Gun Excols. approaches the French fleid gun in ac- the beginning of the war, by extemding the lemngth of the miles. only between two-and-a-half three-and-three-quarter miles, In making these improvements, the gunners have decreased the fficiency of the field-gun at the short- German er ranges, since the longer ba causes the piece to heat more rapid- ly than the old model and thus pre- vents the battery from maintainina ;zulck fire for more. than a short per- The shells fired by these gums are of five varieties, each battery being furnished with supplies of all of them use accerding to circumstances. The various shells_are: . The long explosive concussion shell The long explosive shell with an in stantaneous fuse formed of an alumi- num bar an inch-and-a-half in lensth in the end of the and causes the shell to burst at the slight- which is inserted projectile just before it is fired est obstacle. The ordinary shert shell with a de- layed time fuse. The ordinary fuse shell. ‘The shrapnel shell. ‘short explosive time- The shells most generally employed. explosive are those of the ordinary kind and shrapnel. All shells are now provided with a driving band made of an alloy as the supply of copper in Germany has become short. He was still play- ing when we sat down and there came | barons that has long existed there it T went up to see | will be one of the most important un- what was wrong and found Biily half | dertakings of dressed, his shirt half on. standing at|about the financial and business con- At Doboj things were worse. Along with Serbian and Montenegrin prison- cromds of civilian old men, women and children driven from home | that are put upon the railroads, but it and forced to travel in open cattle | dons met’ Beve mvae o e i ; Hunger was found to be the|what source anyone shall buy. simplest and cheapest means of send- ing ‘these people to another world. Of- ten the mother would be dead, when | ractor which leads to buying where the _child shook her to ask for L] i L o Shog they | Product ls cheapest s been eliminat- more than 8,000 innacent victims met | mist e carried with the consequent German artillerymen have not been able, in spite of all_their _efforts, to invent a fleld gun which in any way curacy of aim or rapidity of fire. Since ‘hewever, they have greatly improved thejr three inch gun and have increased its l'ung: tul and fixing it on a four-ineh howitzer | OVernment cannot create engines and gun-carriage, which gives it an ex- treme carrying djstance .of mearly six Tts most effective range is stil} American, If _the investigation into the Chicago stock yards goes on thoroughly and uncovers the crookedness of the beof the day. The truth || spiracy centered in Chicago that hae Jack was |so long controlled the meat business picking out the ‘Star Spangled Ban- 1 call that real pa- as completely as the kaiser does his army has been covered up effectually by one disguise and another. Now, thanks to the federal trade commis- sion, we. are in a fair way to know the in masses from |truth as to how the people of America have been held up, deceived and rdb- “As the days beeame colder," sai |bed. With Francis J. Heney in charge Dr. Pavicic, “they took clothing from|of the investigation there is hope of The | something worth while being done.— mber of deaths at Arad is estimated | Bristol Press. The railroad war board has large power to hold back or set moving raw products, fuel or manufactured goods The government already has taken control of prices for ccal so that the economic Normally the distance that coal cost of transportation will be an im- portant factor in determining where it will be sought. Manufacturers who have been determined’to get fuel, how- 'ever, hawe been glad to make contracts wherever they could get sure supply) regardless of cost. It looks as though the government would have to go one step further than price control and dictate the source from which coal must be brought. Railroad control would not solve the.trouble, -for: the cars by magic, and their lack must continue to hold back the supply.— Waterbury Republican., Scandinavian Trade With the Unijted States and Other Parts of the World. ‘Recent suggestions that certain of the Scandinavian States may be drawn into the war are of special in- terest to the United States from commeréial standpoint, ~ as well as otherwise. A compilation by _Th Natlonal City Bank of New Yo shows that eur exports-to those coun- tries since the opening of the war have averaged about four times as much per annum as in the years im- mediately preceding the war, though on the import side there is compara- tively little change. The average exportation to Den- mark, ' Norway and Sweden in vears ithmediately preceding the azgregated something less than $40,- 000.000; first year of the war) they totale Nib. 000.000: in 1916 $169,000,000; and in 1917 $184,000,000. To Denmark in 1914. exports were $15,670,000; in- creased to $79,824,000 in. 1915; $55, £72,000 in 1916 and $56,729,000 in 191 To Norway in 1914 $9,064.000, jymp- ed to $39,075,000 in 1915; $53,645,000 in 1916 and $82,017,000 in 1%i7. 1915 to $78,274,000; in 1916 to $51,980, 000 _and in 1917 $45,116,000. eorease occnrrad chiefly in foodstuffs, copper, cotton and manufactures. OTHER VIEW POINTS || supplied of the imports of these cou the | were raw textile material war | mately $15,000,000, increasing to $45,- in the fiscal year 1915 (the| cieasing to $60,000,000 in 1915; wheat To Swe- |ta ten years for killing a man while den in 1914, $14.644,000, advanced iy |driving an automobile in an intoxi- This in- |state making it a felony when drumk- Keith Vaudeville —AND— Super-Feature Photoplays 4 Shows Today at 1, 3:15, 6 and 8 P. M. A TREAT FOR THE CHILDREN Lamb’s Manikins TINY STARS FROM TOYLAND—A Real Xmas Offering e m—————————————— e s Ward, Wilson and Janese GRAY & GRAHAM Comedy, Singing Talking and in Their Original Skit and Dancing Skit “THE MUSICAL BELLBOY” Feature Picture—Rex Beach’s Greatest Siory THE AUCTION BLOC IN SIX ACTS The Life Drama of a Million Girls in America’s Big Cities and Small Towns Animated Weekly Four Shows . ;s TOADY and WEDNESDAY CONTINUQUS SHOW TODAY FROM THEATRE ONE TO ELEVEN Marguerite Clark in “Bab’s Diary” A DELIGHTFUL PARAMOUNT PHOTO DRAMA —_—— WILLIAM S. HART in The Good for Nothing A THRILLING WESTERN DRAMA Latest War News in HEARST-PATHE WEEKLY Pathe News Will be Shown Today Hoimes Travelogue and a Vistor NOTE—The Hart Picture and the Bonly and on Wednesday the Burton oore Comedy Will be Shown. AUDITORIUM THEATRE FOUR SHOWS TODAY—1:30, 3, 6:45 and 8:45 WILLIAM S. HART VIRGINIA PEARSON i in “Thou Shalt Not Steal” “A SQUARE ’DEAL” Great Detective Photoplay THE FIGHTING TRAIL WISHING YOU ALL A Everyone Says It's Great MERRY CHRISTMAS A RED CROSS CHRISTMAS HONOR ROLL Firms, all of whose members and employes have enrolled as 400000, iron andsteel $15000,060; col{ members of the Norwich 15,000,000 and cereals $35,000,000. 3 Norway's prinfifpa.l imports _in 1915 | Chapter of the Red Cross. were iron and steel manutactures, 8p-| ) bL 0 oeco0n ca. g con 000000 10.505; comi| THAMES NATIONAL BANK 256,000,000, breadatuffs $25,000,000 and| DIME SAVINGS BANK ‘cther tqm.is'.ufls $15,000,000. - CHELSEA SAVINGS BANK Sweden's principal imporis In 19141 ycRcHANT NATIONAL BANK UNCAS NATIONAL BANK JOHN & GEORGE H. BLI®S UTLEY AND JONES THE PLAUT-CADDEN CO. BARROW SHOE STORE CHARBONNEAU & ANDREWS GEO. W. KIES CO. ——rere ablé—for the unfortunate publie— Baltimore American. nmark in 1914 amounting Dorte Of 00,000, 871,000000 were frosd Germany, $39,000,000 from: Great 13:01i tain and .$11,000,000 from Russia. the imports of Sweden in’ 1914 aggre- soting $194,000,000, $84,000,000 ~wexe Srawn from Germany, $49,000,000 from Great Britain and $4,000.000 from Rus- sia. Of the imports of Norway in 1914 agsregating about $150.000,000, approximately $20,000,000 worth were drawn - from _Germany, _$$40,000,000 from Great Britain and §6,000,000 worth from Russia Denmark's chief ports $2 imports normally ere manufactures, foodstuffs and coal. The 1914 imports, the latest gvaflable inciuded textiles, approximately $13.- 000,000 in 1915; coal “$30,000,000, in- increasing to and flour $13,600,000, the remainder $31,000,000 in 1915; chiefly manufactures. ——eeeeeeee Law of a Sensible State. A Connecticut -man was recently sent to prisen,for a term of from six cated condition, a law of this sensible enness of an autoist causes a fatal accident. It is not until such laws are ‘'ne share which the United States|general and are enforced that “un- avoidable accidents” will cease. Till tries was in the year before the war, | then, they will continue to be unavoid- Denmark 10 per cent.: Norway 13 per cent; and Sweden 1i per cent. In 1915 we supplied approximately 20 per cent of the imports of Norway and about 18 per.cent of those of Sweden though for Denmark no figures are available, nor. are there figures for the year 1918, To Denmark exports of corn which were but $95 in 1913 wevr o © 000 in 1915, nearly $3,000,000 in 1916 and over $5.000,000 in 1917; wheat in 1814 $845,000; In 1915 over $8,000,000; in 1916 more than - 3$2,000,000; while | flour shows, also, a_material ipcrease. Copper experts to Denmark show yery large gains, being less than $100 00 in valge in 1914 and over $1,000,000 in 1916. Cotton also showed very large | inc , from only $7.000 in 1914 to $1,616,000 in 1916 and $827,000 in 1916. Iron and steel manufactures show an increase of about 50 per cent leather manufactures more than double, while of lard and bacen the total jumped from leas than $200,000 in 1914 to over $11,000.000 in 1915. but dropped again 'to_a little over §1,000,000 in 1916. over $3,000,000 in 1915 and $2.250,000 in" 1916. Rye, nothing in 1914, in 1915 $6,500,000 and in 1938 $8,500,000. Flour $1,500,000 in 1914, $5,500,000 in 1915 and about the same in 1916. Copper $2,000 In 1914, in 1915 nearly $2.000,000 and in 1916 Anyhow, we get from the senate’s investization of war tment of- fairg that it will take 40,000 of the officially adopted Browming machine guns to arm the first million seldiers. of the After delivery guns, the men will have to be drilled in the use of course. ite, straight as to a date or a fact, in :lal o, flv'n‘ when there Ig:"t much Ty in fhat Information.—Bridgeport Standard-American. $250, ‘which sbundance of ashes, even if they have clean sand. The eonditions could made 50 per t. better without le requirement of residents. over $1,000,000. Coiton ,000 1914, $2,500,000 _in 5 and g seed oil $500,000 in 1614, $1,500, l’}g $2,500,000 in 1916 to $4,000,000 in a y on and om | To Sweden wheat and flour in 1914 were about $500,000, in 1915 neatly $7,- 000,000 and in 1916 also nearly $¥ 000.060; rye mothing in 1914, n $2,000,000 in 1915° and. $1.250,000 1§ lard in 1914 less than 7,000,600 1in_ 1915 and $2,500 000" ‘in_1916. Copper in | 1914 $2.600,000, In 191§ over 400,000, (000 and in 191§ about $6,500,000. Cot- £ l:_“o.uz',.m inis over % O about 14,000, and about $4,000,000 in 1916. To what Guadeloupe coffee planters will har- vest a crop much larger than that of 1916. The 1917 crop will probably ex- ceed the normal production of 1,875~ 000 pounds. War Saving Stamps for Gifts “If, instead of giving a $5 gold piece, you will give a $5 stamp and four 25-cent stamps (which: will cost you $5.12) you will len money to the United States government and will ent not to spend the money—although the $6 stamp can be cashed eil the encourage the re- at any postoffice at fixed prices yielding 3 per cent. if cashed before maturity—and you will also encourage the recipient to add mors amps to the certificates as he or she is able to save money and thers- by to lend more money to the government. “We are agents for the government in selling - these stamps and would like very much to have you consider making your Christmas presents to your children, your friends, your employes or your vants in these certificates. ally acquire the hal B Thames The ‘owner of the: of soving, which is so vitally necessary at this rtificates will gradu- National Bank Don’t You Want Good Teeth? Ooss dread of the dental ochair cause you fo néjiect them? 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