Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 30, 1918, Page 4

> @ - S MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusive- 1y entitled to the use for republica- tion of all news despatches credit- ed to it or not oth - ed in this paper and also the local Dews published berein. < All rights of republication of special despatches herein are also reserved. 4 SECRETARY BAKER'S TALK. That was a long heart to heart talk which Secretary Baker had with the senate committee on military affairs in which he occupied a great deal of time going into details of explanation, but from the statements which he made he realized that such explana- + tion was called for by the impression which he had "left as the result of his previous testimony. Mr, Baker spoke at great lemgth upon the criticisms which had been made of the department and told of the effect of the advice which wsa received from experts abroad who were in direct touch with the very conditions which must be met. He doubtless gave much new light as to the great task which the department has shouldered and he certainly has reason to feel proud of the army which has been raised in this coun- try and made ready to be sent abroad, t say nothing of the large number who are already in France and the work which they are engaged in there. Mr. Baker has told a great story. He has told more than he otherwise would have but for the unfavorable criti- clsms which have been publicly made. It i as he says it is, a tremep- dous undertaking and that the people of this country want to do a great thing greatly, but with all the intri- cate and complicated tasks, with the overworked experts, with the gizantic problems which they have got to solve, even with the great measure of suc- cess as compared with the small pro- ! portion of failure as set forth by the ! secretary, doesn't it appear reasonable that the department should be given all the possible and best assistance that it can get such as would be fur- nished by a war cabinet? CONDITIONS IN GERMANY. | ‘What the internal troubles which are being reported as occurring in Ger- many are going to amount to no one can tell. 'We on the outside lopking in have reason to hope that they mean the dawmng of a new light in that country in spite of the fact that we know what kind of & bringing up the people there have recelved. We can imagine what sort of a handicap sucl trouble will mean to the imperial Ger- man government if it continues and we know what assistance it will be to the belligerents who are fighting the central powers. Germany has had trouble of this kind before and though conditions there must be steadily growing worse instead of better there s no certainty but what the kaiser ‘will be able to straighten out the tan- gle. . It is to be remembered of course that Berlin has played its cards in order 1o embarrass its enemies by just such trouble. It figured on the Irish revo- lution to check Great Britain. It trusted that Mexico could keep this country busy and if that was not ®enough that Japan could be won over to an alliance with Carranza for in- vading the United States. It has tried to play South American countries against the allies while its efforts against Italy and Russia are likewise well known. Inasmuch as it has been able to foster such trouble for its ene- mies even though its ambitions were invariably defeateq it may also pos- sess the cleverness to keep Austria under its thumb and to keep the Ger- man people from doing some thinking of their own, but it must realize that of it is going to do so it has got to put forth every possible energy, and in the meantime it remains for us not to put any false reliance upon these con- ditions about which we are none too well informed. We must put our main ependence on ourselves. CANAL BOATS. In connection with the talk which has been indulged in regarding the use of the canals of the country and the fear that the work on the Erie canal in New York state will not have pro- gressed to the point where that im- £ 3 fix g i TEEIEE Ul é i i i their full capacity in alding this coun- try to wage the war to the greatest advantase. Great surprise has been manifested over the fact that General Wood is not and has not been called to mote im- portant service than he has been asinee this country. entered the war. From the report of General Pershing it is not indicated that he has sus- therefore to bo anticipated, but it is also realized that he shotuld be so placed that the country through the army will get the sreatest benefit from his services wherever that may be. The nation must make the best use of its best men and when it comes to military affairs there can be no ques- tion but what General Wood occupies a commanding position. PATRIOTIC SERVICE. For the most part, and as far as learned there has been very little op- up business on such days as it has designated. It has natfirally called forth much eriticism, but under the belief that those who .are responsible for the onder are thoroughly in touch with the situation and know more about it than the individuals or con- cerns affected compiiance has been general. - And it is therefore to be hoped that all that is aimed at will be accomplished even though it is be- ing done at a great sacrifice. It calls the people’s attention to the situation|® in a more definite manner than would otherwise be possible. But while we are making the sac- rifices in thig direction, the oppertu- nity ousht not to be averleoked of giving further aid to the government and thosa who are delsgated with the responsibility of furnishing supplies for the nations, its soldlers and its allies by so regulating our food con- sumption as to give the greatest pos- | tion sible assistance. This doesn't mean a sacrifice in the same way that the workiess day does, It means a - justment whereby we will got Sust as much nourishment and get It just as cheap and pessidly cheaper, but 2 the same time we Wwill be overcoming the shortages in certain directions and utilize the surplus in others. And in making a response thereto it should be remembered that it is & duty for all and not simply for a few and if all participate the quicker and better will be the results. It is a time for pa- triotic service in all directions. e EDITORIAL NOTES. The. workless Mondays ought to make a great hit dufing the summer time. ‘There is more reasen than ever to remember that thig is wheatiess Wi nesday. Even the fellow who likes to fish in the winter time is complaining be- cause the ice is too thick. et Well there is some satisfastion in the fact that there are but elght more of the workless Mondays. The need still exists for morve ac- tion and less talk about the speedi up of big movements of eoal to the east. oo reoee There are repdrts to the effect that wild geese bave been seen flying north but if that s so It is only what might be expected of & goose. - It Iight be expécted of Emma Gold- man that ghe would want 2 rehearing, but the trouble is that we have heard too much from her alreally. FACTS AND COMMENT Before the ‘war broke out there fon had just by conclud- gy m:tfll-t i The session had just been conc! no po: gt bl 4 il | ed and it was a baffled and mutinous m""‘““ ‘Prussia and emperor of | small boy who bent his back to slav- . He was the very picture |ery, horrid doom and humiliation, and tall and straight, calm and fdonned the necktie which his cruel complacent. His whole bearing was|parent had insisted upon as part of -{-unruvo and imperious it is true, mool attire. For some obscure but this was eminently fitting in the the small boy had decided to wmonarch. But|wear no cravat whatever that day, world's most powerful the kaiser's latest pictures bring out|and had given in merely to force. clearly how the burden and horror of| He surveyed stonily this incompre- the great war have weighed him down. | hensible woman who could go cheer- Hollow- ked, stoop-shouldered and|fully on sticking pins into her hair wo, onlmhe sharp eyes and flercely | after her outrageous treatment of her ed nfoustache are left to remind | offspring. She even looked as though ©ome of the almost jaunty monarch of |she were smiling! 80 few years back who ap) equal-| “T wanta know something,” he burst ly at home hunting or yachting, re-|out haughtily, standing very strasght. celving an ambassador or reviewing| “Well?” inquired his parent polite- kis troops. The self-satisfied air has|ly., Yes, she was—she actually had a gone together with every trace of light- | smile on her face, the sort that one heartedness and he looks the disap-|wears when things are all right and pointed, broken and peevish old man, | nothing tragic has happened! and yet he is just fifty-nine! “I wanta know,” he proceeded cold- All the kaiser can now_hope for is|ly, “wheth TRt b ahbantens T wildest| Koy SE IR & boy. Soca away dreams I home—if he has’to have an aw- may show him “Deutschland |ful lot of money.” There! Now ‘thete ueber Alles” in' his son’s time or hiS|would an end to that infuriatingly ’s, but never in his own. The | cheerful expressio long roaq must be traveled again from its beginning, the army rebuilt, fi- He was a trifie taken back when nanges arranged and alllances formed, | she fajled to shriek and clasp him to and this by disappointed and beaten |her bosom. “H'm?” she asked, turn- men who have been within sight of |ing, two long hairpins between her victory. ltlém :e surhveyed him just as ough he might have been the bo; For “""hyu" the plan had been|from across the street! i forming. The foolish France of Na-| “Why, yes! T think it might take poleon 1IL haq been such easy prey|quite a lot of money! There would for the unserupulous and ruthless Bis- | be things to buy, you know—to eat. marck. The huge indemrity, to say|And he'd have to pay for a place to nothing of the territory acquired, had | sleep— Oh, is it yourself you're emply paid all expenses of the war.|thinking about, Donald®" The only mistake had been that| “Yes!” he exploded the bomb at hed not been bled deeplylher fair and square. She actually enough but that could now be recti-|went on doing things to her hair as This' time it was to be an in-|though he had not spoken, “I don't demnity sufficient to keep the victim|think” he stated distinctly, “that Drostrate for generations to come, | you'll see me any more. I dom't think money enough to repay all Germany’s ']l come back here again!” expenses and enable her to outbuildy “Oh!" said his parent seriously, 's fieet, and & channel port or| turning around and d two from which to strike at England’s | goiffure, “Well, {fllv,‘:fi Z’;‘nf sEf’ heart. prise! Where are you going?” The time was ripe. Germany’s pop- | " He glowored at her darkie. “Oh, T ulation had reached the point of great- | know of a ‘place!” he said distantly. est fncrease. Her numerical superior- { “They don't care if you wear collars ity over her opponents would never be | or neckties or nothin'! Mebbe I won't greater, France was as lighthearted {eyen write you and vou'll wonder and as ever and the Russian court more|wonger where I am!™ German at heart than Russian. Then| "“On I suppose I might think about the murder of the Austrian}y ;0 and then” his parent told heir at Sarajevo. One week later the| pim caimly. “But of course if you'd secret conference at Potsdam had de- | ot 220 B Of course if vou'd cided that this should.be the pretextihave vou stay here for worlder “0‘1':‘1; for the war. Der Tag nad cOMe. tep|ItS Dretty cold weather and I would O D oY i Ty & teP I ot try to go very far if I were you!” arrons J‘ ‘:mén et Frgland come |, Mebbe Tll fali in a snowdrift and sia, an e 8 ;| freeze to death,” he surmised hope- on when she would. . She was surely 4 i 3 too busv with internal problems of her — DESPERATE PROJECT fully. “I guess youwd be sorry then! Mebbe they'd never find me and peo- ple would say, ‘Oh, Mrs. White! ‘Whateyer could have become of Don- ald? ‘Don't you feel dreadful not to know what has happened to him .or where he is? Then I guess youd wish you " “Yowll want to take some clean clothes to change into,” his mother interrupted practically, “Don't for- get your handkerchlefs, either, May- be you can get them in that little school suitcase.” He kicked one heel agalnst his other foot and swelled with wrath. It was awful to find-out such heartless |1 things about your own mother. “Tll bet yowll be ofry,” he insist- ed, “when I don't come back any more. I bet you will” : “Oh, no doubt,” she said corlally. “But Il simply have to stand it. If you've made up your mind there’s not a bit of use of my saying anything, is there? 0 “No,” he admitted firmly. “I'm just going away and you can't stop me. 1 just won't stay in a place like this. And I don't care for my handkerchiefs or_nothing.” d He stalked to the spot where stood his bank and began shaking out the pennies and nickles valiantly. She did not try to stop him by orders or persuasion. Once when a coin stuck she even handed over to him her sil- ver botton hook with the advice, to try that. Why, she acted as though she actually was trying to speed up his preparations. He jingled the money into his pocket, stalked out, and returned in his cap and mvercoat. For a moment he stood in the door. “Good-by,” he said in what was meant to be a loud and defiant voice, but which somehow wasn't. “Good-by, Donald,” his mother said, just as though ho were Mrs. Jones from downstairs or the laundress, “It's too bad you're gaing—becruse we're to lave dumplings for dinner to-night. And creamed potatoes.” “Huh?” the small boy asked, taking one step forward. Not really! They wouldn’t be so mean as to have those two pet dishes on. the’very night he ran_away forever, He hesitated. ‘Well” he sald at last trostily, mebbe I won't go to-day. Mebbe I'li P4t it off. I guess I'll come home for this night, anyhow." 3 “Pine!” said his mother. “I'll be awfully glad to see yow. And now run along or you're going to be late ' for school.” “I' guess I'd better leave my money, too,” said the hero, emptying his pockets hastily.—Chicago News. own just then to allow her to leap in- to war at.a moment's notics, The world wopld wake up to find Ger- rely seated in power and the means to her success would soon be forgétten. But Belgium's deflance spolled ‘the plan. France obtained the few days needed to mobilize, England did teap in with all the troops she had, the Battle of the Marne was fought and the vision of forty years had vanished. And of the hafeful and hated face of him who caused it all nrewwflt!en disappointment and de- spair. been all along the line a woeful lack of coordination with the comsequent loss of time and material. Yet if any- body. expected that so huge an under- taking could be launcheq without mis- takes and loss he had little knowledge of human nature and experience. The wonder is not that so many mistakes have been made but that o much has been accomplished. A most encouraging result of the in- vestigation is that while much incom- petency has been discovered there has apparently been no dishonesty in high places. The disclosure of shorf ings has already spurred the administra- tion to better its performances, Pres- ident Wilson may be seif-willed, even stubborn, but his persistent loyalty to his secretaries will undouhtedly bring out the best that there is in them, while the very interest that the country has shown ‘in the investigations is proof that the people are heart and soul for the successful prosecution of the war. With such backing even a mediocre ?d‘l;nlni!tration would not be allowed to il Few people will have the time or in- clination to follow in detail all the points brought out in the congression- al investigation. but Secretary Baker's statement. of the number of our forces rlow and soon to be in the fleld will [ Fuel Administrator Garfield is cer- tainly up agaihst it when it comes to gotting e fair decision as to-the wis- dom of his otder to shut down indus- try in this part of the country. Such succession of storms has occurred that little or no real progress has been made in finaliy clearing up the con- gestion in transportation. and no mor- tal can say with any degres of con- fidence how much worse off the coun- try would have been without the five- day shut-down and the subsequent Monday holiday. One of the objects of the order is in a fair way to be ac- eomplished, for there are at the pres- ont moment fewer ships waiting for fuel than at any time since the situa- became aoute, a fact that carries with it the welcome news that more ships a¥e even now on the way across the ocean with supplies for our own oversea troops. settle the doubts and cheer the hearts of all loyal Americans. There were in 1917 well over 100,000 of our troops in ! France and early in the present year | this number will have mounteq to a million, with more ready to go as soon as, transportation is available. Truly the government has been far from in- ¢fMelent. . Last week there was again reported & diminished number of sinkings by submarine. The activities of these pests of the sea have all along dis- playea periodic increases and decreases and it may well be that Germany is 5 preparing for & new bufst of effort in her piratic speeiaity. But the U-boai no lohger has things all its own way. papers themselves admit that tHe many depth bembs used by the American destrovers are very ef- foctive, Formerly the submarine once she had submerged wes nearly im- mune from injugy, but noew the pur- suing/destroyer “arriving at top speed dropé a guccession of these Aepth bombe all ‘about the spot where the U-boat -was last seen. The mechan- ism of the bombs is so adjusted that the explosion will take place at the de- sired depth. Nor Is it necessary to score a direct hit, for the subsurface disturbance caused by the exploding bomb is quite sufficient to start the plates of the lightly-built submarine and set her to leaking, after which the commander’s only choiee is to remain mvz and drown or emerge and- sur- r. MEN WHO CAME BACK The Most Striking Thing. By Capt. Joseph Pringle, M. C. Of the Cameron Highlanders, who won the Military Cross at Ypres, as Recorded by Chas. D. Cameron. Copyright by the British-Canadian Recruiting Mission The most striking thing 1 saw GIRLY’ PAIID - AND WERKNESS Yield to Lydia E. Pinkham’ in If there were in anyone's mind any lingering fears as'to growing pow- er of militarism in United States, they must have been dlspelled by re- cent Washington events. Militarism| Vegetable Compound. Is_the state into which fal B 3 When the military power is in the as. | Thousands of Girls Benefited cendancy over the civil, when the sol- dier takes prec28ence aver the civilian, the officer over the manufaeturer, the court-martial over the regular judie- iary, 'The congressional inquiry into of the war d nt has no doubt’but that in this h mands. and his employe and that St. Lonis, Mo.—*‘When I was only fifteen years old mr‘zherhndloput me bed every month T fartwodnyrnybeuue 3 Iluflerodsudl in. il the war was the complete collaps of German conceit. 2 e Our first German prisoners seemed to think they were to be prisoners only until rescued. The officers seemed to think the earth was too low- Iy for them to tread on. Now they come in downcast and sad but eager to see their own share in the hopless task come to an end. A hopeless task they know it is. The officers will admit that there is no chance, no possible chance, for Ger- many to win or to make it a draw. The story of some German surrend- | ers shows an utterly abandoned hope- lessness on the part of some of them There are authentic instances of 500 men surrendng to 50, or of one man bringing in a dozen prisoners, or even 20, and in one case 50. The Germans have lost hope since they have found out how fatally they have underestimated the free peoples. The_v{hv.fle war is a story of fright- ful misjudgment of other nations ‘on the part of the Germans. They came on with an overwhelming army. At times we were outnumbered 10 to 1. They came on with full equipment of weapons with tremendous prepara- tions. They saw themselves in Paris or in London—but what they did not count on was the character of the free peoples of the world. They expected to terrorize us all, British and French. And everything they tried only spurred every lagging one to fresh efforts. Six hundred men from the Univer- sity of Washington have gone to war, according to present estimate. The list is not yet complets and as many as a hundred more names may be |added to this roll of honor. Auditorium Theatre MATINEE 2:15 — EVENING 8:30 Is Any Man Safe From a Marriageable Lady? - SEE Virginia Pearson in “All for a Husband” and you'll get the answer TODAY AT 2:15, 6145, 8:45 /TWO BIG FEATURE PLAYS FF;‘RGUSON ‘ROSE OF THE WORLD’ 8ix Part Artcraft Production ROY STEWART | N TR T T T R R T T TR L “THE MEDICINE MAN” . 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It would he no joke to have them arrive after the cold spell was completely broken.—Manchester Herald. day made citizens In New York state and who had the honor conferred on them by a judge whose boyhood was spent in_the Fatherland were given a praciical lesson in Americanism. Every man coming to these shores |has his chance, his great opportunity. DR. E. J. JONES Suite 46 Shannon Building Teke elevator Bhetucket Stree’ trancs How much more one soldier boy sees, or writes about, in France than|He can be either one thing of the 3 2 ] another. In a short half column one|other. He can-be a good citizen, me! The Piano Tuner, describes buildings, people, domestic|Judge Seeger turned out.to be; or, he 122 p"s’“t St,. ife, food, the ways of cooking, clothes, | can be a scoundrel and plot against l how worn and how washed, chureh |the mation that offers him every ad- Phone 511 oing, sports, costs of everything in vantage. In either case he may eventually hope to see the inside of an American court room—as a judge, attorney or attendent, or as & prisoner before the bar. Where there's a will there's a way.—New Britain Herald. detail, notes how nobody is left but old men and boys, puts down the megs fare for the day, opines that the village is a thousand years old at least, finds a fireplace and a sheet iron WHEN YOU WANT to put your bus- iness before the publle, there I3 medium better than through the ad- vertising coiumns +f The Builetin. Pl=ll="=fl==lo ¢ x::::xq OUR SEMI-ANNUAL E TEN-DAY TAILORING SALE * Starts This Morning, Jan. 30th, and Ends Feb. 9th "SUIT OR OVERCOAT The answer given by Count.von Hertling to the entente terms of peace apparently places him petween the devil and the deep sea right at home. If the suggestion that whale skin be used for shoe leather takes, it means that a number of the pld whalers can- pot be sent to the serap heap just yet. The governtnent has fixed a price of $90 an ounce for plgtinum, which is probably just what a lot of the hoard- ders of this metal Bave been waiting for, 7 R The on the corner says: What % great chance the democratic party is going to hevs, if it omly sticks long enough, to reduee the high cost of living. S e e From the way in which the British airmen are attacking the stranded Turkish eruiser they /ere determined that there will be no mére go in the Goeben. If Austria Is really serious about peace there is nothing to stand in the way of it, provided it can summon up enough courage to discard the German influence. The statement by Secretary Baker impressed not only the committee be- fore whom he spoke but the whole there is nothing too secret ér too sa- cred in the government for the publie to know abopt and eriticize. In many ways the facts elicited are most a weakness and mother ook me to a doctor but he did not helpme. Finally mother made me ia E. 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