Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 26, 1917, Page 4

i orwich ulletin nnd @oufied 121 YEARS OLD scription price 12c @ weeks S0 a $6.00 & ycar. Entered at the Postoffice Conh., &8 secohd-class matter, Telephone Calls: Bulletin Business Office 480 Builetin Editorial Rooms 35-3. Bulletin Job Office 35-2. Willimantic Office, 625 Ma'n Street Telephone 210-2. : Worwich, “Norwich, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 1917. CIRCULATION oo dat2 .5,920 1901, averali® ........iie.. 1905, average . Dec. 22, 1917. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusive- 1y entitled to the use for republica- i of all news despatches credit- ed o it or mot otherwise credit- ed in thi er and aiso the’ iocal news publis! here All rights of republication of special despdtches herein are also reserved. GET THE SPIES, STOP THE MES- SENGERS. 4 Thé recent Qisclosurés which Have been madé 1o the éffect that erews of ships plying between this country and Scandinavian ports have been carrying messages between this coun- try and Germany call net only for the prompt suppression of such commu- nicatibhs but the punishment of those who are éngazed in StcH wotk. At first thought it might appear that the messengers are the ones who should be taught ‘a lasting lesson. They . certainly cannot be absolved from responsibility but whilé punish- BiEnt 1s being mated oiit to them those #ho “are eéven thore Hiility, thé prime ®overs i the scheme .and the feal brains of the plan, should Be sousht out and be siven the full penalty for their 8pying operations. Although a less rapid méthod was resorted to, this system of the agefits OF Germany in thi§ couhtty 18 much the same as that which s used by Count Luxburg in getting the Swedish legation in Argentina to. send his eommunication in which he forwarded lis famous “sink without tradé” mirs= sages to Berlin. Those who lent their services in both instanées are toois of master minds and it would be gréssly iiprober to look upon the punishrment of the hirellngs as suffi- ciefit to pwt a 5top to such opefatisns. The leadefs afe the mhore guilty and no efforts should be spared in giving themm a taste of the law. Until sueh is done it cah be expseted that they will continue to carry on thei ties and keep the enemy informed to the best of théir ability. ~ This coufi- try must likewisé aflopt soie method of making it less easy for such mes- saze8 to be gotten into the hands of crews going to neutral pofts. TN ey by WARNINGS. / Profiting from the experience of others is a great thing if fo}- lowed. The great troub o‘t liowever, is that it is too quickly for- gotten. Ii doesn't make much differ- ence what it is, whether it is the fail- ure of the driver of a vehicle to stop, iook and listen at a railread crossing, the refusal of some peovie to stop pouring oil on a lizhted fire, the dis- tegard for highway regulations or a @isrespect for natural or Min-madé laws there are repeated instences Which show that when théy are per- Bisted in there is a serious penalty which ¢dh be antigipated. Thut pen- aity has been paid by mapy and vet cthers fail to profit thereby elther through disregard for dangers, lack of miemory of carelessness. Warnings too frequentis fiothing. People read about what has happened to others, take the lesson home to themselves tempérasily or tarow it off thinking that there is no ¥hance of such a thihg happening t6 them and before they realizé it they are demonstrating te others what should not be dohe. This has been sufficiently illustrated in the case of a New Britain educa- tor who was asphyxiated by the gas from his motor which hé ,wés running In a closed garage, It has.caused the iieath of many others, to sdy nething ®f the large number of narfow es- tapes. Every case has carried its #arning but it is to be expéctéd that the list will continue to increase. CONSERVATION 1§ HELPING. The wisdom of keeping up the agi- tation for the observance of the wheatless ‘and meajless days and theals and the substitution of such food as we are plentifully Supplied with for that which is not so pienti- ful, but which is needed both in this eountry amd abroad, cahnot be oveF- loolged. ere has been a widespread com- pliance with the urgént' apbéals fof €onserving on our foodstuffs. As Was lo be expected there are those who are saving more than others. There Are those i thé first pldfe who were Hving frufally anyway and always abhorred waste. It éannét be @d that tHey Will accomplish as sreat 4 saving by following the suggestions fhadé as those Who have hever made 4 practice of comservation. They are #ndoubtedly doing their bit, however, By the use of substitutes for wheat 4na meat when possible. There are others, however, who have fought the iflea of entering into. the scheme of e Pood administration Gnd are coM- afount to plying only when they are forced to it. . But regardless of the Mitches and drawbacks it is apparent that a large number of the people bave ziven thelr cooperation to thi& effort in recogni- tion of the need of doing their part. This is shown by thé eStimates of government authorifies that 390,000 tons of food necessary for the earry ing on of the war have been saved in the past six weeks throush self de- nial. It is cerfainly an impbrtant de- complishment and ome worth working cor but it should be an inspiration for those who are not participating to join in the great movemient. It is a vital way of meeting war condi- tions. BREATE; CRIME OF THE WAR. The departure from the accepted rules of warfare, the disregard for in- iefnatiohal law 4nd the outrafes if- flicted upon humanity have all come in fe® extended attention ever since the opening of the war. In connection therewith the question “What is the zreatest crime committed during the war?” was put to a number of thé prominerit men of Europe. “The tor- pedoing of hospital ships” was the answer given by one. In the opinion of another “the declaration of war” covered all the crimes while a third looked upon the 'destruction of thz Rhelms cathedral as the greatest. A fourth considered” that the murder cf sailors whose vesse] had been tor- pedoed was the limit, while it was the opinion ©f a fifth that the most dbothinable deed of the ivar was the invasion of Belgiurh. In the opinion of another it “the troubling of the course of hu- man “thought and proclaiming the periority of war over justice” while another Jooked upon ‘“thé mtirdér of thousands of inrocent Armenians with the tacit consent of Germany" as the most glaring act. James Bryce said that the most abject crime was the carrying of hundreds of thow ands of French and Beigian girls in to Germany to work asainst their stricken countries, and a proféssor of intérnational law looked wpon the ruin of the Mmoral foundation of fn- ternational relations in setting up the fight of ihe strongest %o violate pledged faith with other nations. Still another viewed the' war itseif as the £ atrocious act. i each ana every oné bof these cases the crimes which have heen pieked out As the greatest has been committed by Germany. I8 it_any wonder that this country wiil have nothing more to do with sueh a gov- ‘ernment or that the entente nations insist upon the crushing of Prussian: ism? NEEDLESS LOSS OF LIVESTOCK. "Mahy valuable plans afe being cir- ried out throughout the country for tite- purpose of overcoming waste. The fieed Of this work has existed for a long time. Conditions have caused fiuch sreater attefition to be ziven to such a matter mew ~than there would otherwise have been, but while there afe fany wd¥s in which cofi- seryation is being puacticéd there are still otrers which are gettifiz too lit- tle thought. Oiie mstance is pretty ciearly dis- closed by thg statement of the gen- eral manager of the Central off Gedr- §ia railtvay when be reports thht féod anithals valued at $20,000 wWeré lkilled on the tracks of that railftad during the first fniné months of this yéar. Fine qalfy cows, Besf cattle. hogs, sheep anfdl geesé, In all 1582 head of stock were 165t through the failuré to keep thém from the railroad tracks. When that took place on one rail road it représents a serious l1oss, for With one animal Killea to Tvefy mile of -trck & 108s 4t that faté thicugh- 6t the entiré country would mean the destryetién of ihrée to threé and a half mil#on dollars wotth of live- Stock in a period of nine months. In vieWw of thé neéd which the country hds fof . such livéstock and the na- tionwide effort being made to save food the génera) mahdger 6f that fail- road is fully justiféd in asking “Woula it nbt Be fAif and right for fne owri= ers of livestock t6 kaep their eattle withift ran&é and away froth rallfsad tragks where they trespass to the ul- timate cost of eveéryone EDITORIAL NOTES. The man on the corner says: pocketbooks indicate ' at Flat it would be a poor time to negotiatc a loan. The beef barons claim that they are not guilty of what is charged against them, ‘and of course no oné would éver suspect them. . Now that Christmas and the Red Cros§ Mmémbership cgmpaign are over, storing. up of thrift and war stamps. With the almest -daily report of somé aviatér 1esing His life fn this country the @ nigerty of fiying are b; fo fiedns coh! Y i €l to the battlefronts. - Mbst paoplé will bé gratified 4t the dedision of the coal ininers to take but ohe day off for Christmas. Not 80, however, with the schocl children, It would Be interesting to know just how . riuch. of the disclosures which are beiig brought out by the investigating committees is feal news to Germahy. When Trotzky @eclares that thers is an invincible army ready to attack the Cobsacks from the fer it 1s ent tirely possible that the wish is fathe¥ to thé though: If it is trug that Russians are starvs iffy dnd suppliés are beldz sent.from that country t6 GéfmafAy and Aus- trla, the “Bol8Néviki are undermining their owh govefiment. 3 i everyone can turn “aftention to the‘ The sdgialist newspaper Vorwaerts of Berlin has been suppressed for telling_of the food conditions therd ThIS 166KE very much like punishe ment fér tlling the truth ‘While there. has been a Etreaft 6f packages from the to the homes in the past two or more, a lot of them will be ofi the baekward journey. this ing. stead§ stores week§ stored morns It *is hard for those who have boyé and relatives at thé trgining camps t6 uhderstand Wiy they douldn’'t coms hote wheén miany of the ihterned Gers mans were allowéd the privilege of a turlough for ChriStmas. s ——cmmcia o Reports show that the New Haved road has moved over a third of & miilion more tons of coal intp New| England than it did last year, bul the! unfortunate part of it is th: wats tran: ling THow a2 Tares & gemm e FACTS AND COMMENT The British advance into is_but an application of the German military maxim that the best defen- sive is a bold-offensive. For the first year of thé war the plan for defend- ing the Siez canal was to fortify the canal itself or at most to push out the defensé line a few miles eastward into the desert and there await th& Turks. This plan in itself was a suc- cess in that two Turkish armies were defeated as they approached the ca- nal at Kantara and south of Ismailia and what was left of thefn was driven back toward Palestine. Dut had the Turks obtained even a partial success, the Suéz canal, so vital to the very existence of the British emnpire, would have been blocked. Thetefore early in 1816, Sir Archibald Murray, the new British commander in Egypt started to push a railroad across the desert from the canal to the frontier of Palestine. Added to the natural difficuitics of comstruction in an un= inhabited and iwaterl region, the Turko-German airmen were an evef present menace and a hostile army, of 18,000 men under General Kress von Kressenstein ' was advancing. Thif army, However, was soundly beaten at Romani well to the east of the canal with a 1 of 500 in killed and wounded and 4900 captured So pre- cipitate. was thc retreat tfat the Turkish base at El Arish hear the horder of Palestine had to be aban- doned and with little opposition the British forces pushed their railway with its accompanying water mains to Rafa on the frontier. Early in 191 they were within twenty .mhiles of Je- rdsalém, bit here the tide turned and Murray suffered a defeat hefore Gaza thdt forced hifi to Withdraw for that campaign, especially as the hot months were at hand in which mi operations are impossible in that country. Gen. Martay Allsnby who how succeeded had won a great name for hiniself _in the focmous retreat from Mons, and it was with the zreatest reluctance that Gen. HAlg pafted with his tried and trusted leader for what was to prove more important service elsewhere. No sooner was the hot season past than the British forces tinder their new commander were back at their old task of discomfort- ing the Turks. Deersheba. the south- ernmost Turkish base, fell November first after fleres resistancé. While the frontal attack from the west and outhwest was In progress, the cav- alty bad>fqtched a wids eircuit throuzh the desert to the eastward and fel] on thesrcar ot the fortified eamp. Bightéen hundred prisoners and nine zuns were taken and the ritish were established forty miles from Jerusalem. Gaza fell five days later anid the invaders now held a sea- poft. Then with the Fritish and the Fréneh naval forces cooperatliiz Aske. lon ang Jaffa were taken and the ar- mies were on three sides of Jefusa- lem. Here the Turk i fened and \ith artillery grps advantazeously odted before Péthlehem and on the Mount of Olives as well as before the tvalls of the City itSelf. tué fall of thé city was postponcd for three weeks. This was due ih large, meaguré to hesita- tion on the paft of the AttacKing forees to bring their artillery to bear ©n the sacred place, a factor that the Turks had counted on in piacins their guns as they did. The defenses were therefore in Ereat paft tdken at the point of the bayonet the Turks evac- uated the eity Dee.®8 wiills yet there was a wav opel anpd on the tenth Gefieral Allsnby With the couperai- IR French afid Italian commanders tfidde the forfhal entry into the Hely City that how after seven hundred yedfs of Moslemi riile had definitely passed into Christian keeping. The takina of Jetusalem _bfings vitvialy to mina the lohg series of wars and sléges that have contered abelit the famous city. Even as Bel- giuth has been called the Cockpit of Furope, Palestine has for ages been the bdttléground of Asia. This little fand only Afty miles in width was the only pathway for war and_commerce between the pebplés of Beypt and Mesopotaiia, for the deserts of Ara- bia have ever been difficult for cara- vans and impossible for armies, Jo- séph’s brethren bad but to lft up théir eves to catch sight of a cara- Van on thé way to Egypt to whom they could sell their ed brother, and a thousahd years, latér King ijegekiah’s display of his_ treasures to the ambassadors of the Babylonian king portrays a palitical and com- nierelal intimacy that the’ Hébrew prophets in vain used to deplore, The destruction of Samaria ahd the Great Captivity of the Jews were but steps In the expansién of the Assyfian and Babylonian empires. Then followed the Retttfn by permission of the Per- sian Cyrus ;the period of dofination hy Alexafidef the GFéat and his sud: cessors and the final abserption of the entire éasgern éfid of the Mediter- ranean Sea intd the vast empire 6f all congiiefine Rofiie. All thfodgh these centuries the little country of Pales= tise . was & beffeet hotbed of revolt until the uttef desiruétion of Jerush= lefi by the Roman emberor TituS in one of the most horrible sieges of his= tory. - ——t Reébuilt later, the Holy City became subject successively to Persian, Sara: n, Egypiish afid Turk. For thfce hdred years it was the goal of the ©rusadess afid from J099 t9 1187 was actually in the hands of Chris- tians who, however, treated tlie Mo- hammedan and Jewish inhabif ts -in most unchristiah fashioh. Saladin te- eaptured the eity ifi 1187, sihde which tme with the exsspdgn of rifteen shoft yea eeh fuled or rath: e itiad by the, Moslome, e present condition of the inhabitants is_but one ‘instance of Turkish in- umanity. - Hufl nga of farnilies have én_banished, ali the vou ‘en both W5 and Arménians have n draft- €4 into the TUufkiSh armies i Meso- amia, there is 16 coal, bread has oné iif to twelvé time its forther Rflr g th i are HVIAg 6n fpols hd HEFbE. entPancé of the for w-m&txtummlw Hte e ugm Eeu C' sH s A epehdent Jewish state in_Palestifie under a itee of neutrality from the al- P e e ‘3"" "3: h‘fifin“e'flg tire. e, they will be % K |1;: m? 5, Started ¥ oid e ¥ gtmmy"ivgfia ba E;k’ma\‘m ore the Jeaves fell m the trees. iebne hals ~sfive suggestea that the empertE finst nave meant pine trees. r thé E months of -the Mighty struggzle peo- ple could see .nething in it hut the long-expected. ofitest for the mastery i’ Eirops and iA thls America had no part except that of a mourner for CASTORIA Palestine | DESPERATE ADVENTURE “One reason that Gatchett came on from the eéast,” related the man who had promised a horrible tale, “‘was tc have a gamé of goif with me.'Os- tensibly he came on business and for that reason we had to work of 2olf game in between. “1t was then that I had fay inspira- tion about saving time. Billaand I had been intending to drive down and pliy the LaPorte (Ind.) coursé and we would do it at this time. Sun- day morning I would drive to Mieh- igan City early, frofn La-Pofte, and snatching Gatchétt feot the Chicago train. carry him oft to slaughter on revenge, as It might chance Bill thought this a lovely plan until he hedrd that it meaht arising, at La- Porte, at 5 o'clock ifi the morning if order to meet the early Michigan City train othing doing!’ BIll. announced jirmly and coldly Saturday night at La Porte. ‘I've a prejudice against people 1 meet ‘ before breakiast So—' “‘So 1 told him, ‘vou aré a quit- tér and nb ceritléman—go on and sleep your silly head off if you wi to and leave m# to do all the worl Ana he dia. i “1 arose 4nd fed the car and drove off before daylight to meet Gatchett I neatly froze to death and when the train finally did pull in iy guest did not alight. While 1 was fantielly runfiing up and down the 'platform iookihg undér bumpers and wheels as cne does when distracted the train pulléd out. And I barely caught a zlimpse of an insane man in pajamas grabbing chufiks out of theé air in one of the sleeper windows. It was Gat- chett and he was an awful sight. I leafned later that the porter had failed to call him. The piteous face he turned upon me will aiways linger in thy memor}' as_one of the sad sights of my Ife. Then I got Bill on tong_distance. ““Huh!' said Bili, ‘sefves you right for trying to mix up social affairs With mijk trains and early motning stars and things! Why ~don% vou re Gatchett at the next town to get off amd wail. there for you? “Then Bill went back to bed and I followed the suzgestion. After all, it was only a few miles out of the way and everything would be all zht. In a shower of cinders I halted my panting, heaving car an hour later at the next town and yelled ‘Hullo, Gatchett!” to the man on the platform. His name, it turned oui, was Jones and he thoughi I was insulting him. He was the station agent,_ to, and pot communicative, bu ter - ten minutés or so we' got oursclves sorted cut and it developtd that a rea hw snorting puiple fire an necktie under one ear had emerged pyrotechnically from the Chicago train some time before and hurled hittiself ipon the caboose of freight train going east at that mo- ment and he had carrfed a bag of golf There had been no chaince to deliver any telegrams. The Chicagd train conductor . had the telegrams what tvas my trouble. There was Rothing to do hut chase back to Michigan City aid get Gat- chett So I wasted gasoline szottng back. When 1 arrfved there the tele- graph man Stuck out his head. ‘Say!’ he called: ‘The fellow you sent that wire to three hours ago to wait for you hove in here louking for you. Mebbe he can't read. 1 toid him you, had gone on to the next town, the one he had just come from, and my! They suré do teach lang- uage in them eastern Schools, don't He spoke a real pretty little ‘Where ik he? I jgasped, wiping dust from my eves and tightening up my belt, for you know I had been do- icg all this Marathon on an empty stomach. ‘Why, said the tblegraph man, B fast freight wést was just com'big through und the la saw of your iend I wag hanging on to the last platform witlh one hend while he ar- gued. with the brakemidn with the Gthar, 1 Suppose the brakeman trought the golf elubs weré bombs or something!’ T gentleman with his aian’t like the éxpressioh _on the face of my automobile. You Kfiow you ¢an go just <o far With soffie temperameénts and my car has one of that kind. =o 1 spoke sooti- :ngly. o 1 sasd, ‘1 remuin hére. 1 am through traveling unti) thers 18 a definite object to travel toward! Gim- me a telegraph blank!' So [ wited Jones, the next town agent, €6 seize and hold all hazirds the ddmpefate character with the bas of golf clubs on his arrival and distfact his atten- tion till T could get theré Also to wire me when this wa¥ accomplishéd and I would start. In dnother hour the word came and for the third time 1 traveled that dreary road When [ reached the fatal spot, Gatcheit »nd I, with feeble moans. fell on each oth- er's necks 4nd cried our hearts ot “Then ~we hit it up for LaPorte— and when we got there it was pouring rain_and Bill was still in_bed. - He asked sweetly whether I had had 4 pleasant trip and please have them send up his dinner, too. Now I ask you—" You're heartily change. right” $aid his listene: “It certainly was!”"—Ex the sorrdws of the world and a lovef of peace amohg men. Fven after the war had run for a year Henry Ford could see”nothifiz more in it than this HBuropean question and with this in mifid he Inunched his peace expedi- tiofi with the slogan: “Out of the trenches BY Christmas!” And that was Christmas 1915! But at last the deliberatély planned and ruthlessly exécuted policy of sav- agzery and frightfulness s» carefully worked otit by Geéemany’s military leaders has borne fruit. The eyes of the entire wotld have beén opened to this medern menace to civilization, the voices of the pro-Gérmans have heén hushed, those of the pacifists are becoming more and more Quiet, and louder and louder in spite of pri- watioh and bereavement is heard the voice of united America that the thihg must be séén through to 4 fnisH Frightful as Nas been the cost of the war, it wil] have been worth it all if after -its conclusion the world may discara forevér the standing arm and navy. This edn - never come about until the Spirit of militarism is definitely eonqueréd. The allied na- tions, if free frem the burden of mili- tary expense: will be able in the suc- ceeding zedcrations td pay all that their strugsle for freedom has cast, but if armies and navies must still be raaintained, this will be impossible. Should the struggle end in Germany's victofy oF %even in a draw, general bankruptey i8 inevitabie. It hds.been truly $Aid that unless Ensland wins whe loses but unless Germiany loses she wins. STORIES OF THE WAR What the Water Garriers Have o Do. Ootrespendénce of the Assoclated Press Catrying water to the thifsty fight- ing men in the front line trenches through a double barrage of bursting shells from both British and German gufts, while thé multi-Solored flares from the Germian treiiches cast a weird light oVer a sHéll-riven battlefield puts 0 test the hervé afid courage of the bravest. . Yét thé Wofk must bé done wi the battle is ih PFogress. tumbling dver the fes of aead comrades of failling ted among them, fotndéfing tHreush the mid or into shell Braters, the Water- e yet must stFig#le of till he reaches the fifst line, uniess death Pelieves hiff of the task. A vivid st of ofie sitch journey is told by Victor Grayson, formerly & mannri 'g' lsl:o ndltlh 11?». lament. now servini a private in ‘“-xgrm"g Pavisit one pores “1 found -mysel of a.party, de- ‘tailea {6 APy up ik to the front line tréfiches thfugh a GUal burfade” he writes. “We all knéw that the Bdys up the Hné Werd t6 hop over at day- break the féllowing Mmorning, but we Weré fiot uvu‘munu our sergeant- major told us, that titey had Been With- out Fations fof twelve ?ui». 3 2004 “As mich a3 the mud wowld petimit, D, a O pace was speeded Wwe Were sooh_in mfi.m the duek-boards, (board-walks laid in mud) myself and ny h{g‘dh&- cethpanions each laden with two pétrel tink of Fnter, ““The frofit line was abotit twe miles away. o o?‘fiie Airst part oF the Jour- ney a moon fmad| travelling GAED ;tiflhy by bt suddens the duck-boards endsd, the mobA comn- pletely disappeared, and the resulting darkness acted like a sighal to the on- posinig batteries. The air was torn with the howls and shrieks of shells. “It became a matter of infiniteé care and considerable skill to pick our way between the deep shell holes, which were some tifies so close together a: to be dividea only by a sloping ridge of less than a foot in twidth, The enémy was fiting ‘wild’ and sheils were exploding on all sides with & propin- quity that made us-inveluntarily duck our heads and wait for the inevitable shower of dirt and mud or _worse. Every now and then a man would lose his footing, ahd he ana Ifis caiis Would roll with & splash into a gaping shell ole. “It seems ihconceivable, even irrev- erent, that one should laygh in the midst of such horrors. Hut when 1 saw. my pal in-frent dart.away from a menacing shell:burst oh the right, straight into the arms, so to speak, of a muddy _shellhole on the left, I laughed iill a stitch came into my side. “When we reached the support trenches, a hait was called—not a mo- ment too séon—for a rest. My watér cans had become amazingly lieavy, and all of us were panting as we erouched beside our domradee whe were waiting in the support trench, in reserve. 1 had recefitly suffered from a coid, and I heartily wished that my journey might soon end. After sfive minutes we started our journey again, and the sergéant-major S8t a pave that I knew 1 could not sustain. Graduilly I felt myself fallihg behind, and every fresh effort to catch ap with party. only served to increase my ekhauktlon and limit my breath. At last ,with a feel- ing of utter desoldtion, I fell beside my cans. Tie flares révesled to me that T should ston lose conitdct With my hurrying comrades, and the mad music of the hurtling shells stimulatéd nfe to a fresh effort. “For a-couple of hundfed yards, I struggléd forward, but, Wweak and be- reft of wind, 1 went dewn ence morc and watched, with a 86rt of guilty des- peration, the rear file disappear over a ridge bétween tWwo lohely shell- stricken trees. It was terriblé to feel alone on that tortured field, yet 1 was not altogbther alone 'The Atrul giares lighted up for me the upmistakable faces and foris of the dead, comrades who had failén on their Way to the front line. “A great weAriness selzed me, and in spite of the Aolse and uneshiny - sur- roundings 1 coull Haye gg’ne to Bleep. chagtined dread of ng in By He; mé however; to fg final e fort. 1 found my why through the stark Sentifel trees, aha tholigh wand- oinl biRAly, With na fufther senise of aireotioh, T fAnally Heird volees, Beit: i8h voloes, and Was 860A laokhng dowh in A _eomBunication tFech: © ‘Get dbwn quitk, digger,’ cried an officer: ‘Never miid your cans.’ “But tHose tand had becbme & p) cious part of Fy #elfy. and L 1 them meetmultqfi i the trerich and /e salety. The xpetlenics had been theilling and un- FEettable, but there was ter fo Sixtéen mien AB% the ight 6f the boys eagarly |l‘h§ helr a:fi"i Bottles Wh everything wont ully wotth MY mnhefes :&s FALIOR party hang duily- ai vsr% BiF BurdaHs. anc Fetiifned, &5 t y jourhdy back te the dUg-out HNd t8 be ascomplished F0HY adusermii iBAESA, ouc ot © t o that tv::%?x sa\i _ the dreadfil agaih. by fafe. seemeéd to OPEN \’ Satu'rday ; from 6. . for Deposits SEA SAVIN Evenings 30to8 GS BANK | [ THEATRE THURQDAV—ERIDAY AND ,ATUHDAY METRO'S SENSATIONAL PATRIOTIC SPECTAGLE WiTHOUT BATTLE SCENES “DRAFT 258" Starring MABEL TALIAFERRO 7—ASTOUNDING ACTS—7 ‘A Production That is Swesping ——TOD. e the Country Like & Prairie Fire AY: E MARGUERITE CLARK in “BAB’S DIARY” OTHER 8HORT STORIES AU COMING THURSDAY—! DITORIUM T AN 2D s i HEATER EVENING 6:45 AND 8:45 RIDAY AND SATURDAY William Fox Presents THEDA BARA in Eight Acts ODAV'S BiG_CH L T ~ WILLIAM S. HART have for its ssle motive ery of My bver wrouznt eneity. “After Half an hidur of well-nigt hopeless wandeting, a shrleklng shel exploted &b ciosé 1o me that the clission liftéd m¥ steel helntet froth my head and altost blew mee off my foet. At the samé imofneht 1 irippéd over sothething and feli—betweeh two dend soldiers. ’1‘1\93«' had fallen fiacing each Othér, their arms extended. dror a mo- imete 1 énvied them their paln-free sleep. “An Inscfutabie Providence, rathér tham ahy CorScious effort on my patt brought me to fay ddark but welcome dug-out. My comrades were hugdly relieved at the sikht-of e for they had coiinted me aftonz the fallen.” the discov- form to the OTHER VIEW POINTS Individually and collectively con- gress must be tuned up to war time. Politics and time serving must be eliminated. There is only one bus- iness—that of waging war and every- thing must be made subservient to the one end—winning the war. Investigate. but don’t whitewash. There is nothing to be ashamed of in confessing a mistake ond even a crime might be condoned if its dis- covery led to constructive changes.— Meriden Reécord. So cabdrets are an amusemnient, and @ ten per cent. w{r tax must be paid. At the scale of prices paid for food and drink by those who fréqueit this form of “entertainment” in New York, it might séem that the proptietory could afford to pay the war tax. But no’the diner myst pay, the proprietors evidently drguing that if they can af- ford to pay the present scale they will not care for tén per cent. mdre. Pfob- ably the “war tax” vill be set at twenty per cent. following the custom of some New York theéatres—New Haven Register. \ Those who have lived in (&rrany and have been o warm in their praise of the Geérman home life, the kind ness, the industry of the people, real- ly understand the German mind less than do those of us who have fever been in Prussia; for they Know only the nation at peace and do not real- ize how war and militaristi have transformed it from home-loving hu- man beings into beasts of prey. The militarism of Germany, thé absclute obsdience t6 supérior§ and the heaft- less way in which those who oppose them are killed, can only ‘be under- stopd by those who know both sides— Meriden Journal. If thée coal situation continues to become more’ sefious ih Hartford it might” be well for the city to consider very shortly the aesitability of éstablishing a ca¥fd system for dis- tributing the gvatlable supply. Thete is virtually alcard systémi Ifi effect now by rea¥dn of the fact that dealers have been instruetsd to lim- it deliveries to twb tons and hot to delivér codl to pereons who have a_Supply in their cellafs. But it Wi shuufa have & real fahiae it woul be advisable to put this informal a rangément on 4 formal aha of ficial basis “in ofder that thé sitia CAMILLE AS%, UARE DEAL 5 TE FIGHTING TRAIL _Don't LLE Eight Aets RISTMAS SPECTAL BILL_—_ VIRGINIA PEARSON in “Thou Shalt Not Steal” GREAT DETECTIVE STOR_‘Y_‘_ This Picture £ KEITH VAUDEVILLE TODAY A TREAT FOR THE CHILDREN LAMB’S MANIKINS “Tiny Stars From Toyland” Ward, Wilson and Janese Comedy, 8inging, Talking and Dancing Skit A G}ay and Grahani In Their Original Skit “THE MUSICAL BELLBOY” Feature Pictufe REX BEACH'S GREATEST §TORY The Auction Block IN 81X ACTS ThE Lifs Drama of a Milllon Girls In Aerica’s Big Cities and Small Towns. ANIMATED WEEKLY DOUGLAS . 'E-‘AIRBANKS HIS LATEST PICTURE tion might be genty. Uoal cards would be a central aughority ~ and téimpts th purchase would idtéd while compeiling dealers to honor cirds, as fresented, as long as th#y had eoal and forbidding them to &ell coal ekcebt ofi predentation of cards would fegulate distribution i a faif manher. A eard system merels offers a fair and systematic mahner of aghortioning o necesssry cemodity in ich there-is a scarcity and instead of being feared as an intrusion upon dealery’ and cqastimérs’ rghts Should bé welcoried —Hartford Post handled wost inteilt- 145Ued fréf thtis at: be régu Reports of typhus in Senegambia are now denied. Tt is & fact however, that on boartl some ships twhich called at Dakar tases Of acute malaria were di covered. . Cut This Out—It Is Worth Money Don’t miss_this. Cut out this s enclose with 5¢ and mail it to Foley & Co., 2835 Sheffield. Ave;, Chicago, I, writing your name and address clear- ly. You will reeéive in return a trial vackage contaihin® ¥6léy’s Honey and Tar Compound, for coughs colds and croup: Foléy Kidnéy Pilis, for pain in sides and back. rheumatism, backache, kidney and bladder allments, and Foley Cathartic Tablets, 2 Wwholesome afd thoroughly clednsing eathéirtic for con- stipation, bjliolisness, Headache and kluggish bowels. The Lee & Osgood Co: * War Saving Stamps for Gifts “If, instead of giving a $5 gold piece, you will give a $5 stamp and four 23-cent stdmps (which will cost you $5.18) wéu will fend the money to the United Btatss gover Ament and will encourage the re- At Aot to spehd the mohey=although the $5 stamp can be cashed at any postoffice at fixed prices yielding 3 per eant. maturity—and yéu will alse enceurage if cashed befere the resipight to add mofe stamips to the ceértificates a3 he or shic is able t8 save mohey and thére. By t6 lei “We hre agents for thée gsvern would like very ruch 8 have you fore money 8 the government. ment iA selling these¢ stamps and consider Making ysur Chrlswmas presehts 16 your ehildfem, your friends, your empidyés or youf sef- varits i th eertifisates, The owner of thesd gertificates will gradu- ally acquire the habit of46ving, which is sb m-n( nedésshry at this time. The Thames Lo CONSIDER THESE STRICTLY SANITARY OFFiEE ETERILIZED INSTRUM LOWEST PRICES CONSISTENT WITH hraiT Y SRSl W e © BR. P\ & JACKEON DeENT CLEAN LINEN National Bank o st OTHER FEATURES s e DRINRING SUPS E&t WORK ' GokE 8k v Boba sbsid o TTHD - ABE examinetidh PO EL —NORWiIoH SoNN QL3 SAAE BT Fiy