Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 7, 1918, Page 4

Goruich Fullein and Geueice 122 OLD & weeks S0o a $6.00 a year. at the P ‘ostoffice at N C , &8 second-clasa matter, 1901, BVEPREE .ii.cecriciinine 4412 1008, weANSES (ooievcecess--5,925 - B2 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS e Associated Press is exclusive- entitied to the use for republieas of all news despatches credit- 46 it or not otherwise credit- in this paper and also the local #Ptblished berein. fights of republication of' despatches herein are also ressrved. COAL FOR NEXT WINTER. In eonnection with the advice of the fuel a@ministrator to the people of the ol § § | ¢ f i L l Hf Ea 1 H i l I i if ! { f l? ! ! 3 £ g INCREASE THE TONNAGE. While Sir Eric Geddes tells the British house of commons that grati- tying progress is being made in the destrwetion of the Germah underwa- ter boats, that they are being sunk or captured as rapidly as they are being built, it is perfectly evident that they are still an important factor to contend with and that there can be no relaxation on the part of any of the allied comntries in the shipbuilding programmes which are underway. While the destruction of the U-boats means that the effectiveness of the from being the success which Germany has relied upon, it cannot help being realized that in spite of the success to which Sir Eric re- fers the submersibles are each week sending to the bottom a number of ships, and that the necessity exists for the building with all possible haste of as mamy merchant vessels as the resources and facilities of the countries will permit. ‘We have got to make up not only for those which are being sunk but in view of the depletion which has already taken place we must bend ev- ery epergy to put forth 2 greater ton- nage than the enemy is able to dis- pose of. The shipyards of this and other countries must be depended up- on for this acecomplishment. It is war work of the greatest importance and nothing should be allowed to stand in its way. The vietory which is de- sired and the shortening of the war will depend in a large degree upon the activity of allied shipyards. TESTING THe UNSINKABLE SHIP In view of the needs of increasing our shipping, the large losses which bhave been suffered and which con- tinge to be experienced each week; the importance of an upsinkable ship cannot be overlooked. Time and azain have jdeas been worked out with such an epd in yiew only to have them quickly dashed to pieces as soop as the vessels were put to the test. Oniy recently a shipbuilder has presented the ides of equipping ves- sels with a large number, many thou- sand, airtight boxes, which it is be- Meved will be sufficient to give buoy- ancy to a vessel evgn though it should be torpedoed more than once. In keeping with this idea bne of the seized Austrian liners, re-named the bas been fitted out. It is ail with- ‘fldeu o It is, therefore, net surprising that the indications are very strong that the government intends te take the ves- sel out and torpede it. This on first thought might seem like a needless waste of a good ship but it must be understood that it is the.only way in which the efficacy of the device can be at- once. Done at the proper plaee the vessel could be reclaimed if it sank. If the ship proves to be unsginkable the gov- it seeks and can immediately pro- the same protection for ether vessels. e WHEAT AND . OTHER GRAIN PRICES, racted” little attemtion - been af umbatm"&mm certain sections of the country were feeding wheat to the livestock at the very time that the nation had a ‘bumper crop of corn and a nationwide effort is being made to save on the consumption of wheat that the de- mands of our soldiers abroad and our allies for that grain can be met. Out in New York state the explana- tion advanced for using the wheat in that wey was that transportation fa- cilities made it impossible for them to get any other grain and it was necessary in order te keep their stoek alive to feed that which was pess sessed. In Oklahoma last fall-it was argued that the price which the far- mer could get for his wheat promiscd to be so low that it would be more profitable to shovel it into the hogs. Now comes a statement from an Ida- ho farmer to the effeet that he was forced to feed wheat because it was worth only $2.25 a hundredweight, while corn-wauld have cost him $4.26 2 hundredweight and oats $3.55 a hun- drddweight, and he contends that while wheat is made the cheapest food we have, and a prohibitive price is al- lowed for substitutes he ought not to be forced to pay twice the price of the value of the grain which he pos- sesses in order to obtain substitutes. That is a situation which certainly in due fairness to all comcerned ought not to exist. The fixing of wheat prices is unquestionably Justified but there is no good reason why the sub- stitutes should ba allowed to go sky- high and keep going, THE ALAND ISLANDS. The future of 'the Aland islands is interesting Sweden as well as Russia. These islands in the Baltic have been under the sovereignty of Russia with a large Swedish population. They are off the Finnish coast but they are nearer {o Sweden, politically and com- mercially, than they are to Finland and their trade is chiefly with Sweden. These islands .were once the property of Sweden and it was in that vicin- ity that the fleet of Peter the Great won its first viclory over the Swedes back in 1714, The islands were ceded to Russia in 1809. ‘When the Finns broke away from Russia and declared their independ- ence Sweden’ felt the need of sending troops there to protect the large num- ber of Swedish people and they have been serving as a police force for some' time to the people who if their preference was respected would prefer to be linked with Sweden. Such has of course been opposed by Russia even as has the independence of Finland. Finland in its revolt is not in a posi- tion to oppose such a move by the Aland islanders inasmuch as it stands ¢| for self determination. But Germany, however, looks on with a jealous eye. Regardless of the fact that the Swedish troops are there it has sent troops te the islands which it intends to use as a hase for the purpose of sending troops into Fin- land. Sweden has protested but what does a protest to Germany amount to even when it is made by a natien whether neutral or inclined to be pro- German? The fact of the matter is that Germany is going to use the isi- ands as it pleases for its own benefit and ‘when its object has been attained it will have the leading voice when it comes to self determination. EDITORIAL NOTES. Instead of getting off his chest, Trotzky must feel as if the Germans were nailing him to the ground. ettt s ey ‘While farm labor is & serious prob- lem there is still a chance to raise bigger crops through intensive farm- ing. Germany has reason to feel that it has the Lenines and Trotzkys in Rus- sia doing a2l the stunts of a trained bear. 't Now that a waterproof match has been invented, the next thing to be desired is one that will be mouse- proof. Reports have it that the dlamond output of South Africa is increasing. And so is the outse of those who are buying them, The man on the corner says: What a lot of the joy of life is missed by the fellow who Jets the other beople do the applauding” As March adyances on its way there is almost daily evidence of the advisa- bility of getting down the shovel and the hoe and staking out the backyard garden. Austria has been sald to stand against indemnities and annexations but jts army continues to plunge inte Russia after the casily acauired RBus- sian booty. Although his actions have forth one rebuke from the president, ‘W.L. Hutcheson of the carpenters and for apother. The price of eges is coming down. called joiners unfon aprears to be sparring “Hvery omce in a Wl ' said the girl who likes to talk, “it berne in upon me that the human rage is with »I:v'v exceptions mighty funny to look at1” - “ Well!” exploded the vatient listener. “what's wrong with me, while you're about it ?” . “ Nothing,” diplomaticaily said-the rl who likes to talk. “ever is wrong with those one loves! I might modify it by saying that the human race as seen in cafes is.exceedingly curious. No—we didn’'t eat four times a day, 8¢ you needn’'t get on your Hoover ex- pression! We went without dinner so we could have an aftertheater supper dmm«wmhr n:m eun:gx‘z.\ce:. E - know where b came from, because I have a large and varied acquaintance from t gilded hose of 5 eents an hour laboring folks and I assure you I don't ever remember having met any just Hke them! “There was one man whom I watched with bated breath, expecting to see him choke to death any minute, but he never did. suit, for one thing, because it humped in ‘the back and bulged in froni and his _shirt bosom rippled like a corduroy | kn: road. Moreover his collar was far too high. He was eating lobster. one finger in the air and his face growing more and more purpie. For some reason the lady with him remained calm and unconcerned. ‘Choke if you insist on it!’ her attitude . seemed to say, ‘but let me eat in peace!’ His misery grew by leaps and bounds, but he stuck it out. ‘Perhaps’ went on in the inside of his head, ‘this is the way 2 feHow always has to feel when he dresses up in spiketail clothes! Heaver pity the rich who have to do this every night . “1 was profoundly thankful when he at last completed his lobster withou* catastroph® and departed. I know he had an awfully good time because he endured such suffering for it. You know, we appreciate the things we agonize to get. I nearly broke my own neck be- cause -of the table one-guarter hehin me. It was oecupied by two eminentt respectable couples from some thriving town westward, about 10,000 in popu- lation and they grimily knew what was what when they tackled the bright lights of Michigan boulevard! They were extremely serious about it. I think one of the men owned the largest dry goods store in town and was on a buying expedition and his friend was the head of the electric light company. I am sure of it because he h MEN WHO CAME BACK In the Antwerp Battie. By Sergt. C. Jones, D.C.M. 31st Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. (Sergt. Jones, an Englishman, who when the war broke out, was a lad of twenty, driving a motor car. He did his bit well, and after being re- leased from “Blighty” with his dis- charge from the army. no longer physically able to serve in the army, Sergt. Jones came to Chicago to hunt for a job. About the first man he was introduced to was Sergt. W. A. Desmond, to whom he needed noin- troduction other than the memory of a friendly hand reaching into the shell hole where he lay helpless in ‘No Man's Land.”) I was in the Antwerp battle with the infantry. 'We were short of am- munition for, the guns, the twelve and fourteen-inch guns, and they gave us rifles and bombs. The Germans came on us and took us by surprise. Before I knew what was happening they were on top of us. There 1 was in the bayonet charge. The guns were left outside the city and we went on throwing bombs. It was a tight fight in the streets. I-had a hard tussle with a German. He thought he had me; he aimed at my stomach, but he only got my thumb. It was as bad a wound as a thumb could get but that was nothing, nothing to -what came later. I got him down Kkilled him. Capt. Martin,, at my side, gave orders to advance. We heard a noise among a lot of Boches, and we came upon a lot of Germans. There was another good fight. It was tight. They got us in a corner, walls all around. But some of the men man- aged to get behind the Germans, went around the block, and that saved us. It was a four-days’ struggle, as I re- member it and at that time we drove them back. They thought they were on their way to Paris. There was another attack afterwards there but our company was not in it. We had been sent out for a rest. At Mons it was tight work—and that driye at St. Eloi. I don’t like to talk ‘about it. It gets my blood up and I want to fighht again. They say T still haye shrapnel near the brain and in my neck. near the wind- pipe and in my shoulder.. I have spent a long time in hospitals. I volunteered as soon as the war broke out and wernt over to Eelgium with the first army. I had already had two years in the army. They gave me the D. C. M. for tak- ing tremches. Later Sergt. Desmond found me in a shell hole and helped me out: but he fired on me first. It was in No Man's Land somewhere. I don’'t remember mueh about it, ex- cept that Sergt. Desmond is all right. (This story will be supplemented tomorrow by Sergt. W. A. Desmond.) 1la_hailstorm e | Worst! but it is a question whether it is be- cause the American hen is doing her bit or whether the storage houses are being forced to sell. skin troub 1f you have a friend suffering with eczema or other itching, burping eruption, what greater kindness could you do him than There is bound to he gvidence now and thep that winter has not com- pletely disappeared, but it looks very much like a -straight tobosgan siide 10 piy for beautiful spring. & s “ Why don't you try Resinol ? I know you have experimented with 2 dozen treatments, but 1 believe Resinol is different. it does not claim to be a ‘cure-all’ —simply 2 soothing, - healing intment, free from all harsh drugs, that physicians prescribe The great trouble with the Russians is that they look upon thoge who are their friends as their enemy, and is Inclined to trest their enemy as 2 frieyd and benefacto: ¢ There is mo question if China de- Just like the electric light head in Aunt e's town and everybody hated him and I myself argued with him six hours once about-an overcharge of §11 's bill. He a on’ Aunt nie's A id arguer he knew that K nf%flmrm. v tog, were clad in evening o @ ‘was So could not sleep ht. Her fin- wmi‘:oflmm;fimflw mmn' MW&T&. eruj He had on a rented dress |vam McDonald, R. 1, esar Falls, Me., june9, ‘17, ‘“u-e flxz:,mm q&flhnu for every- ilet purposes wvent these distreasing troubles. 21 e v ous time which enthralled me. over them like a nimbus hung the en- trancing thought that they were up at midnight being devils—end if they were back home {he furnace wouid have been banked for the u{h; two houts ago and slumber would have wrapped them. “And there was the fluttery lad: She wafted from her own table to ex actly 4 others, greeting the occupants ; THRIFTBITS joyously, Hew any human being can WE SEND SAILORS to keep the find four tables of friends simultane-|| seas clear of German pirates. Back ously 1 any one restaurant is beyond|| up our mavy with your gquartery vy dollars by huying Thrift and and my range. $She wasn't old and she o Bevings Starane wasn’t young, but she had been yaunger | and her smile was a trifle haggard, her color too high and her hair too crimped and blowy. Chiffon and tulle things waved about her and her progress was that of an April breeze, a bligzard and j combined, beeause she jchattered as much: as she Huttered. e didn’tvin the least look like an: hody and Zhe worried me a lot beeauge I couldn't put my mind on my food. “By the way” said the patient listener, “what did you have on your- self The.girl whe likes to talk chuckled: “Say,” she confided, “of all fhe queer people there, Arthur and I werz the ‘We hadn't expected to ge, you know, and I had on my storm hat and galoshes and he wors woolen mittens land a eap with earflips. Yes, we! The sons of Ttaly have set the ball jhelped add to the gayety of thejrolling in commendable manner i jom,; if any one teck notice!”--jabout the state by Dpassing resolu- tions of permanent boyecott on Ger- man and Austrian geeds. The reso- lutions read: “To buy Anstrian or German pro- ;ducts means to help said nations to {pay their war debts, and not ene pen- iny of the Italians from now on, {shall ever be emploved to pay for the ammunition which has killed their brothers.” That is consistent common sense— OTHER VIEW POINTS { i i It is announced that before launch- ¢ any building plans to house ship- ¥yard workers the shipping board will seize empty hotels and houses. Pos- sibly this means that the Hotel Gris- wold, at Eastern Point, known as the finest hotel on the Atlantic Coast, will become a ghipbuilders’ boarding house. —Hartford Post. 1 Life in Frozen Finland. (Correspondence of The Associated | Fristol Press. Fress): The Torneo river is frozen m’eri Supporters of the administration again and business is good in 2~ ) who object to any criticism of it are glers' haven. From far up in the Arcpointing to the success of the Brown- te tandra of Laplard down to ice-|ing machine gun as satfsfactory refu- filled Torneo bay, thirty miles south|tation of Senator Chamberlain's of the circic, sledges drawn by r charge that the War Department had deer, dogs and pon: practically ceased functioning. The afress the river by n “1e 1point they conveniently ignore is that runners with tea, coffee, rubber and|11 months have passed since-we en- sugar, all bound for Sweden, wherejtered the war and the selected ma- they are worth their. weight in gold. |chine gun has only just arrived at the Their sources are Russia and Fin-|beginning of the quantity production land, and their iminediate destination|stage. Nobody said we shouldn't get ‘Haparanda, on the Swedish side of the | to making machine guns some day, if Torneo river, where ex-sailors, hotel| we lived long enough. Every good waiters and a typical collection of| American refoices 7.t ythe apparent frontier tow types are making money [success of the new zun and at the hand over fist and drinking champagne premise of its rapid manufacture. So, 'for breakfast. too. does every good American rejoice Haparanda is Swedish, as diffrent | that Senator CGhamberlain’s applica- from war distracted and revolution- |tion of the pulmotor was made in time ridden Russian Torneo as of it were|t0 resuscitate the War Department hundreds of miles away, instead of | Defore its state of suspended anima- being separated only by a ten minute |tion became transiated into death,— sleigh ride, i winter and a ten-minute | Waterbury American ferry trip in summer, across the mile- wide, salmon filled river. Haparanda is the Dawson of the new Klondike, and its gold comes from sledges that slip by the Russian frontier guards, fuil of the commodities Sweden needs. It is nearly Arctic, and, now, in the heart of winter, there is daylight only five hours. The town doesn't awaken until ten in the morning, when the champagne—at about twelve dollars a quart—hegins flowing and bubbles in| the coffee room of the hotel until 10.30 at night, when the eleetric lights are extinguished because Sweden is short of coal. And then it bubbies and fizzes by candlelight in bleak looking wooden houses, warmed by porcelain stoves and made ahtight by sealed-up win- dows until some one insists on break- up the game. i i i By National Geographic Society. THE DESQLATION OF LUNEVILLE A faithful picture of a typical French city which has feit the crush- ing hand of the Hun invaders is given in a communication to the National Geographic Society from Mrs. Harriet Chambers Adams. A part of the com- munieation is released as a war geo- graphy bulletin, as folows: “Luneville is a gray, industrial town of 20,000 souls, in French Lorraine, prospering before the war in its manu- facture of railway carriages and mpotor cars, chinaware and chemical salts. A gorgeous chaj au is all that remains of its former glory, when the dukes of Lorraine made it their playground. In their day this place was gayer than Versailleg, and its gardens were noted They Want to Know. Not contept with demanding to be told all that Secretary Baker knows, some of the Senate committeemen in- sist on being told how he found it out. —Savannah News. ' | Closing Out | This Big Shoe Sale Take this advantage of the great sale on MEN'S, WOMEN'S and CHILDREN'S SHOES offered at still cheaper prices. . Men’s and Women's Shoes of the finest quality, high and low and every day shoes. You can save more than half on shoes of- fered you by buying before the sale closes. Hurry to The Brockton Sample Shoe Store 138 MAIN STREET IN A HURRIGA} UGHS AND THRILLS “WILD AND WOOLLY” THURS, FRI, and SAT, -KEITH . VAUDEVILLE - FEATURE PHOTOPLAYS First Appearance in Vaudeville of the Popu'ar Stock Favorites KIRK BROWN and MARGARET FIELDS In the Comedy Sketch “THE AMATEUR HUSBAND” REGAN and REYNARD EVELYN BATES e New Hotsl Cloe | Wi i Sorpe (4 2 (13 9 Douglas Fairbanks in “The Lamb A REISSUE OF HIS GREATEST COMEDY DRAMA IN 5-PARTS A BEISSUE OF HIS GREATEST COMEDY DRAMA IN & PARTS CURRENT EVENTS—ALL THE LAT EST WAR NEWS COMING mE ZEPPEL]N’S LAST NEXT WEEK RAID THOS. H. INCE'S GREATEST PR ODUCTION i British & Canadian Recruiting RALLY BREE THEATRE TODAY and TONIGHT TWO FIVE REEL FEATURES EFFIE SHANNON AND NILES WELCH " FRIDAY EVENING, g March 8th, at 8 o’clock, HER BOY TOWN HALL AR Brincipal. Speakers, LiEUT. H. B. CARMEL MYERS PEPLER, M. C,, LIEUT. J. J. TODD, 2 | SERGEANTS McKENNA and PIM- LOTT, all from the Firing Line in France. Chairman, ARTHUR F, LIBBY WAR SONGS, LIBERTY CHORUS Ladies Invited Admissién Free —_— MY UNMARRIED WIFE Burton Holmes Travelougye throughout Europe, serving Watteau's pupils as a model when they painted the gorgeous fetes of the Far Basi. The chatteau is now occupied by the mayor, M. Keller, who played an im- portant role during the German in- vasion of the town. “Madame Mirman motored us out.to Lutieviile. Although she is the wife of the perfet of this whole department and known by sight to every seatinel on the road, the automobile was halt- ed every quarter of an hour for in~ spection of passports and information as to where we were bound. “In the fields women were mowing hay. I was reminded of a woman I had seen near Rheims. A shell struck a near-by haystack, but she kept on mowing. “We ascended g tortuous road to the summit of the hill of Leomont, where a decisive battle had been fought. Theré was a most compre- hensive view, back over the plain of Nancy, north and east over the French, front. In a hollow. at our feet, lay a ruined village which is now being re- stored through the generosity of a group of wealthy Californians. “From this hill to the one opposite, the battle had raged. We picked up fragments of French and Cerman shells, and the soldiers-chauffeur ex- plained “which was which” one being bluer than the other. There were many graves on this hill, and ahove one I saw a soidier’s. tattered cap hanging on the little white cross. “‘I placed it there over two years ago’ Madamé Mirman said, ‘when I came out with my husband. He buri- ed the dead. We did not know the boys’ names, but we marked each cross with the number of the régiment wherever we could.” 3 “On the grave wild flowers were bloofning—red poppies, blue corn- flowers, white daisies. Even in death, nature in France greets her soldiers with the tri-color. “Luneville shows the hoofmarks of the Hun, those terrible 20 days when the enemy was master of the city. The townhall and the prefecture were destroyed, the industrial section burn- ed, shops pillaged, homes looted, men and- women murdgred. - Cultured peo- ple, like the Kellers, tell ~ the story quietly; but their eyes have a danger- ous gleam. ‘T would gladly have given my life; the mayor said, ‘if I could have spared my fellow-citizens those horrible atrocities.” “Unarmed men fired on; an old wo- man run_ through with a bayonet; a mother driven insane at seeing ner son stabbed and her daughter carried off by drunken soldiers—such stories are so common.in the foothill towns of the Vosges that the very air is polluted. The bdirde in the chatteau garden have almost forgotten how to sing since the Prussians passed that way.” Wash That Itch Away ‘We know of no sufferer from Eczema ‘whe ever used the simple wash D. D. 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