Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 12, 1918, Page 4

upen the en- to Bumnu n Py i l'!w to go into this busis ness mw and that there ing 'h? priv. ate barge owners out of business and the threat which they make of taking their boats out ef service if the statq votes' to build barges is ridiculous. They are doing thelr utmost to handi- cap rather than assist the state and government in the transportation bus. iness, at a time when every possible facility sheuld be brought into. use« There ean be no question but what there will be enough business to keen them all busy but the danger is that there will not e enough canal boats to handie the business which the ca- nal ean take care of. It is to over- come that danger that ‘the state. is asked to help. It ig time for it to do what private capital bas not done and is not prepared to do. *Right is Mors Precious than Peace” ———— gy SUPPRESSING THE LIST. Much has been said from the enm- trance of this country into the war about the maintenance of s concerning the movement of troops, their designations, destination and in fact anything whicH would be of value to the gnemy in figuring out the strength and character of our par- ticipation. There has been a general recogni- tioh of the importance of keeping such information from the enemy and from agents who are always eager to CASUALTY bring t dinner because -re else he is asking het mg uonhoirt:mmcm 'orewln“ ne told him opu wuahgdk . Ml“ him those l (’b M languidly how. she Ilnll( single thing she ‘Wwore or had in house in New York lwm;‘ the gm stores . carried w.nw exch 3 “Such little mtreunm do not:add to the peacefyl ,,3"“"’ of gr tea 'y when, fluth urns from the phone—and fl.m husband! When . he gefs night! - “Pd be perfeetly happly when the waiter leans over the man whe has taken me out to dinner and tells him that, beg, pardon. sir, but this bill SM listening to what a person is saying— | cashier shys s no good if T could mer- unleses she has the exceeding bad taste | rily hum a little tune and breathless- “have ‘gsked you - Whether you|ly malntain an interest in the 3m k the gown she has on is —but. I can’t do one thing ex- 100 YOUNE Tor her- s’ hABpened once | cent. show that 1 am horrifiedly Awars e iy grsce i that everyboty 1o with Wintana who na Jens e s that every 28 im—and wi m the table is as foolish as yoursel casually that a man acress the reom A photograph of their lnnlzcd faces | wants to speak vmh him a minute he would seli for 5 Is¥ge sum of money.|knows perfectly well t T know he is going to leave his pearl cuff links in which & . | with the implacable cashier. And The faintest whisper of the lady at|when he comes back both of us are ! the head of the table resounds like a|struggling with ~dumbness because | bass drum and she hates all of us.|there isn't anything to say and 1 It ism't our fault at aill It is the|haven't wits enough to say even that! same kind of paralysis that swoops|It's an awful affiiction:” down upan the person caught in the “H'm!” said the patient listaner. path of a speeding métor. He doesn’t | “I'm mighty glad to find there are % want to stay where he is, but he i few occasions in-life when you can't can't help himeelf. tatk -Chicago Neéws. TTERS TO THE EDITOR the farmers should rise right up and take off their ts to C. 1. Perking, Someéwhere in Connecticut. If {Cummings keeps up such controversy thé farmers may ‘boycott him, then under such eircumstances he will have to go way, way, way back and Sit down and forever hold his peace, A LADY PRESTONITE. Mothers of Norwich. ! Mr. Editer: Would you prefer to | »HE CENTAUR COMPANY MEW YO j wildered Germans. 1B For Over 30 Years ' The Kind You Have Always mm mons, when . suddenly into the smoke and murk of battle there dived . a Britiéh airglane, Fifty feey from the . ground it' flat- tenéd out and skidded along the line, dropping its bombs among the Db Wheeling swiftly at the flamk of the attack, it came skimming back Iike a swallow charg- among. theif foes. R He' was flying his fourth machine when darkness settled down, putting an end to the conflict, with the Ger~ mans securely checked. LATEST WAR NEWS HEARST—PATHE WEEKLY - TUBSDAY and w:n_nwv' I FEATURE EXTRAORDINARY. In the 5 Part Triangle Featurs A Counterfeit Scent—Komedy NO ADVANCE IN PRICES “LIBSRTY THEAT Pickett’s Famous Dance Orchestra Pulaski Hall FRIDAY, Heve M Built in Al !fil&elll Guard Petionn) Army Federa! NY soldier. ite $1. e at the following places: The Porteous & Mitchell Co Reid & Hughes Co. (Bosten Stvfi). Store. fi ’G‘. {m"‘s’im tel Office. 2«& l‘nfln 425-: Store) Rlnd £ oo gists. fl::fb?:%‘ A Dflu MEN WHO GEORGE VON L. MEYER. The death of George von L. Meyer removes a proginent New ®nglander. who while out of the hfibfle‘eae for he past few yeaws, - previeusly been prominently wulmd writh gov- ernment affairs. !wwtn with the Roosevelt edministra-~ tions he had ma sueh- important of- fices as postmaster general. ambassa- dor to Italy and Russis, where in the closing days of thke Russo-Japaness war he performed’ important seérvices in connection with the treaty of peace between the. natfons, and as secretar: of the navy. Previeus r:m that time fic had been a i in con- nestion with m“"fifim setts legis lature and :qub-lmn politics. in that | state. i 4 ing a swarm of flies, its machine gun snfilading the advancing foe and driv- ing him back to his burrows. A storm of German bullets swept through the planes, and a black flame- ntered ‘burst _of ememy shrapnel emothered the airplane in vapor. The watching infantry saw splinters fail trom its‘quivering frame and the sil- very fabric of ifs underwings were torn in several places by shell splin- ters. But the daring pilot finished his course and vaniched into the smoke ciouds, leaving the panic-stricken en- emy cilnging to his shell holes too shaken and thinned to press the at- tack further. transmit such facts, directly or‘in- directly, {o Germany for whatéver use codld be made of them, and those ‘who have bBeen in a pesition to con- “tribute to the secsecy have been only 100 glad to comply. ver any oppesition has been k ifested to the censorship or to thé suppression of the news regarding ac- tivities it has been because it has not resulted in keeping such matters from those who are supplying Germany with the Inf As long as its agents are able to get the facts it can be re- alized that it does no good to keen thess things frem the people of this country. s The latest ruling in rezard to wer news is that the addreases of thoge who are killed or wounded in France bave your son spend the night at the| Y. M. C. A or at the police: statioy when alone in a strange city? Twelve young men from the sub- marine_base found all cats occupied at the T. M. C. A. Saturday night, and asked that a policeman be sent for to show them the way to the police CAME BACK Near Preston Plaing, March 8, 1918, back, never to retutn, we succeeded in taking two prisoners. Those two were very glad to find themselves safe and sound after seeing the fate of their comrades. The Hun artiliery made the remain- der of that trip preity warm for us. But Fritz found a stubborn crowd of men in this company of the 42nd Rey- al Highluders and he had to give it up s a bad job. For in spite of the heavy shelling the boys carried on as usual, Appreciative of Help Norwich, Mr. Editor: On behalf of the re- cruiting mission 1 wish most heartily to thank vou for yeur splendid ce- o g operation and appreciate also .the val- tatian. . Thise mese theve cets thets, bugpis services o F. Libby, our also oceupied. They placed them to- chairman at t] held in your Eether and gight young men slept. on oy tagt evéning' a6 well as the ap them crossways. sistance rendered by the citizéns of Several King's Daughters undey schools and private individ- OTWICH which should atlhelp to uals havé given money for cots, but they failed to accommadate twelve | n"\":“;s':‘:n~°"3‘;; young men Saturday ni The pa: . 4 brns ! HENRY ‘MERENDEZ, tle by little, however, the Ger- Domet ot (hasage: s evar 2t Nes. [Chairman of State Commitice, Rritish |%an suppotts came up, agvancing by and ‘Canadian lting” iston. iuhort. rushes over the open, reinforcini wich must do her share in caring for o 1y St T e N CAIng for| New Haven, March 9, 1915 their comrades by twos and threes in lodging at the Y. M. C. Received in ONE MORNING AT WOLVERGHEM. By Sergt. Major J. R. Falconer “Canadian Black Watch.” I believe if you're going to be killed you'll he killed at home as well as oh {the battiefield. And-if you are over | there in the thick of it vou'll escape, if only by a hair's breadth, if it isn't time for you to “get yours” ‘or ingtance, take one moming at Wolvershiem: ~ It was just after ‘stand down” and we were in our dugouts preparing our breakfast. All ,0f & sudden we received a rally of rifle- grenades from Fritz. I went out with Nick Nevill who was with me in the of the three ig of use, not any two of the thrée will serve, without the other. Men are of no service ‘with- out ships to carry them acyoss and 160d to sustain them. Food is worth- less without ships and- needless with- out men. But men and food cam dssured, if only the ships are pro- sity o get and the slowest to supply- There is' sométhing disturhing in the Inment ‘of Sir Eric Geddes that, after all this time of dlmur, argument and :spite of British fire. Scores and jseores of their dead littered No Man's ¢ are o be withheld. It can he appre- cizted that Germany might make good use of the fact that a certain number were killed or wounded -in a certain zas attack or in a particular raid but by the time information that Jobn Emith of Chicago, whose father is Willism Smith, his been severely wounded in France, is published here thers are reasons to believe that Ger- man cothmanders have beén able to obtain facts from prisohers or other means which furnish them what they want to know. It is because of this and no other reason that the suppreéa- sion of the casualty list as planned meets opposition. DIRTY AND ROCKY COAL. A zreat many sections of the coun- -eciate what is béing doné consumers in Philadel- is réported tha® the The service which he his country was Dy no. ns As' & secretary of the mayy ‘he tosk the that the Unitéd States should te adequately by’ puilding & navy in keeping with the size and safety of the nation. His ar- gument at the time was that we should build more ships and. eyen though he may not me had anything in In!nd exeeft the musintenanee of with other leading natisns he was strongly opposed by those of the op- posite party Who considered’ that the | expenditures for the mavy should be curtailed. The, result was that in- stead of a programme according to his ideas being carried out it was seri- oysly eut. The stand which he tack., however, prévented congrees. from interfering much more serfously with naval prep- administrator has con- |arations and handicapped as we were demned 109) tons of anthracite coal|in naval equipment at our entrance * in the markets of that city because of | into. the war the situation would have the impurities. This is a protection|Dbeen much different but“for his fore- of the purchaser to whichy he is en- titled a:t oll times but especially now Because of the difficulty which is be- ing experienced getting coal ang the price which is being paid for it. When it comes to forking over double the price of what a ton of coal coit a few years ago only to find that it is made sight and work. EDITORIAL NOTES. It is still a bit too early to do much werious planning for the summer va- cation. We are gotting about as much from Up 10 & large extent of dirt, slate and | Kerensky thése days as from the la- rock it is time that those who are|conic John L4nd. dooking after the coal distribution should take a hand in the matier and| It -muSt not be fergotten that they see that the consumer gets a square|21S0 serve who plan, and ploy and deal plant and reap, - . ¢ The pi i o Thce 10 do the condemnink,| 1wy not be many days now be- however is at the mines and not after it has been deiivered. The transpor- tation facilities should not be utilized for the hauling of such material any more than the people should have it thrust upon them. When the pro. ducers are made to realize that they have got to send forth the reéal thing they will vo so but just as long as they can get away with the sale of Flack dirt, real estate, as enme railroad man has called it, and stones which @s not burn but clog the heater or Stove, it can be expected tbat it will Be continued. It is, however, a dou- ble wrong to the consumer for it weighs more than coal and it cammot be made to burn. Whatever the fuel administration does to improve thé situation will meet with a widespread and héarty welcome. fore the regular spring clean up can be started i full blast.) It looks more and more as if it was necessary for take the great big sigh out of 5 —_— Even those whe are the most af- fected by it canmot kick much over e reduction in the nfl!g price of coal. The man on the corner says: Short- nge of s4ap may be one of the reasons why Germany is shaving Russia with- out any lather, Rt ST DAt S From the way in which Hindenburg lsdmmuumm- in Belgigm it doesn’t look as if he an- tle in Paris right away, e But from all aceounts the Tyrks are engaging in no worse atrosities thaw are the Getmans and Austyians re- gardless of their wonderfal kaltur. Just hew mueh self determinatiom the Finns are going te be allowed is indicated by the anmownesment that they have “asied” t.houh'm to ap- FORCING SCANDINAVIA, frvether or not they attribate it wdlely to newspaper talk, the Seandi- navian countries have réason to take more than the usual amount of inter- est In the articles which have 8p- peared in the German press whereby they are accused of being accompiices of the entente and warning Them that, they can expect no consideration from Germany This is in keeping with the attitude which has been recentiy manifested toward Denmark and the efforts whici hiave been made to prevemt those m from coming to an agree- expofts from m can be little question but what Germany, in the grasping of Rus- point his sén as their Russia ought to heve no trouble in distinguishing the difference between than weve built in December makes it evident that by they come here and stay over night. Ask your own boy why he doesu't stay at home when his work is dome, or why he doesn’t play in his v vard after school? for -work amd food, rest houses, etc., for. paring te go fine work the' ¥, M. C. A's have un-| deraken. let us help them “do their! peace by providing a navy ia keeping | bit. mu ven u-.mg and the effscts netted ho& e $15 for a a joke to let Mr. Cummings cut such a Wide swath in eriticising the farm- ers as he did recently, him tit for tat. ‘who subsists entire] certainly does not partake of the good things raised on the farm, sugh as lamb, veal, pork, beef, mutton, pouitry, eggs, milk, butter, cheese, cream. etc., besides —vegetable all kinds and other farm mdlm}s too fhumerous to mention. sumer of wood during this coal fam- ine just passed, or else he never would have censured the farmer as he did. Lester Main's recent amused me (as I kmow him person- ally) when he answered Mr. Cummings Tights, and don’t allow anyone to eri- [ ionest men who till the s0jl? Where Several peopls have asked'me why ! i STORIES OF THE WAR We gladly give our money nnd time } S The Daring Work of One Aviater. (Correspondence of - ’l‘hs Press.) A stirring story ‘of how oxe daring Britich aviator, like a cuardian angel, held up for a \wholc day repcated en emy attacks upon a weak and cfum- bling British line at Cambral in the height of the desperate stfuggle there by using four airplanes one aftér ah. other as they were tort and crippled by enemy fire, has just come to ligat, It shows. that some of the®most daring and dangerous airplane work of the past vear has been in the new field of attacking enemy infantry from the ai The Germans were trying to recover a poriion of the iost Hindenburg line, pushing with a great weisht of pien and suns at 4 point where it was very difficult for the British to bring up re- The British Battaiion opposing tack had gone to earth in little isolated groups among the shell holes, {grimly determined to hang on to the jend. The German masses’ had alréady moved across No Man's Land into the battered earthworka that once forfhed the British firing line. Other masees were moving up in support, and al- ready the nearest shell holes were heaving and boiling over with the réstless heads and shoulders of men about fo renew the advance. The bar- rage of the British guns was heavy, but . at close quarters only infantry can stop the progress of infantry, and the fire from the British shell holes had arown weak and straggling. -1t lobked as if the scanty British line would be overwhelmed by sheer weight of numbers. The fire from the Germans increasha until the air was alive with their bul- lets. It was the - concéntrated fire which always precedes the rush té close quarters. The blue-gray figutes “over there.” Shall we “neglect boys at » door who ‘are pre- ver there® It is a! Sraicine 7 became ‘excited onee befare over . 310 for cots. Let us inia fier will bogr Fruit aise. will start the ball rolling with ‘Gouble decker. MRS. HEREERT W. GALLUP. Norwich, March 11, 1918, In Behalf of the Farmer. Mr. Editor: Jt seems too much ol and mnot give ust be a person on hot air. He He berries, fruits of Neither could he have been a con- letter rather so abruptly. Brave! Stand for veéur t:eise the farm or the famers, What would the world do teday but for the de. we' get our grains from?” Certainly not from the cities. Mr. Thoien, your answer was also very Zood. I think THRIFTBITS, War-Savings Stamps steadily || were already beginning to appear ingrease in value. ping uniforms and hideous gas masks giving them the appearance of Je- Ifeel somuch better now! stopped that itching instantly away "0 tmbln completely. Phy- - itians Mflbe it ugulzvlz above the shell holes. their loose flap- || == A dugout, to see .if anyone had been hit. While we were out going round the trench a rifie grenade went through the roof of our dugout and spoiled our breakfast. It would have spoiled us too, if had not decided to step out to see what was going on off the outside. A month or so later we were trans- ferred to the seetor in front of Kem- mel Hill,- better known as “Bull-ring.” We were warned by o6ur intélligence department that Fritz would make a raid ‘on us in the morning. Se we prepared. Our bombers went over the op of our trench and took up a atchful waiting” position just in- side our wire. They lay down as comfortably as possible in abeut four inches of snow. This was the night of February, 1916. At two-thirty that morning Fritz came over. numbering about seventy strong, and, belleve me, our bombers gave them the hottest reception they had had in a long time. v fow of them got back to their awn lines. Qutside of those who were carried EVERY MEAL A POISONOUS INJECTION Few folks suffering from kidney and bladder troubles ever think that the meals which they are taking are hn.st- ening their death. Every morsel of food taken gives up its quantity of uric acid. This poison is taken into the system through a diseased condi- tion or the kidneys and bladder. In the healthy man nature provides an outlet for this poison. Those in .ill health must take a medicinal help to drive this death-dealing paison from the system. For over 200 yeats GO! MEDAL- Haarlem Oil Capsules hav been doing his work, They . effect prompt relief in all diseases arising kidne and bladder troubles Don put off twis vital matter of at- tending to your health until ii 18 time o make vour fumeral arrangements. Got"a hox of GOLD MEDAL Haariem Oil Capsules today, Look for the gen- uine. \our druggist sells them. Thes Are g nteed or money rafunded. Tneist on GOLD MEDAL Brand. Land put gradually the stremgth of the ‘attacking line was made and the shell holes again began fo heave | and boii, as men rose from the lover! cover and laid heid of the rims to aselit them over the top. “ Thett suddenly they were over and away, Httle spurts of humanity belched out of the crater field, coalescing Into & séething blue-gray, rushing mass, hopélessly. outweighing the handful of British defendérs. But before the! s céuld. gain full momentum a fa- | millar snoring hum sounded above the | of bittle and out of the low iying haze &wept the covering airpiane, ap new machine, but with the same pilot as before. His bombs dropped among the advancing Germans, dispersing those who escaped the fiving fragments and Bis machine guns swept them out of sizht into the shell holes: A half hour passed and again the enemy attempted to attack, this time hesitatingly and with diminishing spir- it. Again the airplane appeared. and the first rattle of his guns sent the Germhans into_cover again. A German airpiane dasned down to drive him away, but another British machine from the protecting patrol came down on the Germam's tail and sent him cartwheeling behind his own lines. There were other German machines in the offing. but the watchful Fritish fighters made the enemy airm®n shy of losing their altitude and the daring British pilot kept his suard over threatened line without further inter- ference. Many times he swept down on the Germans that day, crumpling up every attempted attack with his fire, ren- dering portions of their positions un- tenable with his bombs: often rocking madly in the air gusts from a barrage #alvo, just as often performing wilder manoeuvres to confyse the gunners and riffemen Wwho searched for him incessantly.. Three times hi¢ airplanc was o badly damaged that he had to rurse its failiug strength back.to his: aerodrome, But each time he return- ed on a new machine, encouraging the British infantry by his example, and scattefing death and confusion DR.HESS’STOCK TONIC SPRING IS HERE—your animals have long been on dry feed and need a Spring tonic. Feedloyourlwne,ewt, puundewu DR. HESS’ STOCK TpN’lC contains laxatives to reg- ulate the bowels, diuretics to remove dropsical swellings, tonic to improve the appetite and increase digestion, and vermifuges to expel worms. DR. HESS’ POULTRY PAN A-CE-A will make your hens lay. DR. HESS’ INSTANT LICE KILLER Lkills lice on cat- tle or poultry. _BUY AT— The Household Mem Building - - 74 Franklin Street - Telephone 531-4 plied, -eyen ing for farm as eeriousiy as recruiting for army or Sufficiént farm labor must be sup- ifall non-essential em- ploymeénts be discontinued. Reeruit- labor must be taken navy. But it must not stop there. Men, women and children must en- list as garden volunteers. By a large percentage of ouf food neas our kitchen doors we release other acres for livestdcks, wheat, corn. Not only that, but we reiieve the raflroads of a heavy load of vegetabie hauling. Last, but note least, when con- sidered from the family’s viewpoint, the cost of living is lowered if thers's a garden in the backyard—and a poul- try- - house! ew Havén Times- Leader. Ofe appeal from Furepe is for men, another for féod, anmother for ships. The cheice depends upon the ahgle from which one looks at the situation. But it makeés lttle differ- énce which need is put Irst. We Sell Smileage Books ing of the®Spring Ui those of you who don’t these novelties. “HARVARD MILLS” SPRING WEIGHTS VESTS, PANTS AND UNION SUITS All styles in both high and lew neck medels. - Tell us what your preference is—we can satisfy you. Vests and Pants. Urion Suits ... “HARVARD MILLS"” UNDERWEAR FOR CHILDREN Medium-weight Cotton Vests and Pants for Spring wear. “Harvard Mills” Uaderweac has a reputatien to sustain. 65¢c a Garment WOMEN'S SHAPED VESTS All the different -tyln are and by e bty e models are shown in Drawers of the same grade. 50c and-53 a Garment appeal, Gréat Britain is o fits capacity’ fo pros cause of the mistakes of employers and the indifference of labor.—Water- bury American. 2 better than Baker found this out” said Governor Hol- comb at Farmington the other day “And eo, I am going to back up Baker. 'But 16t us remember that we are first Americans and—if you will pasdon the expression— damn politics untll after the war.” érnot séts an example for men of smaller calibre to follow.—New Haven Journai-Courier. ii far short uce ships be- A cut of thirty: cents a ton im rice of anthfacite coal at the mines announced. But a ton of coal was tade to look like thirty cents long ago. 'What the people yearn for is an increase of thirty per cent. in @éliveries—Bristol Press, or more “T kniow that I can run the war can, hut no one bas True talk! The Gov- SEASONABLE UNDERWEAR For Women and Misses and Children Spnn:’semml,mdlhapprudnfontoldmthptha Of course some of stocks. you wear these lighter weights the year round, but for WOMEN'S STRAIGHT RIBBED VESTS Sleeveloss and sieeved models, and those with the bodice tops and tape shoulder straps. We have the Vest: which will suit you. Only 25¢ SLEEVELESS RIBBED VESTS Seme with plain top and some with band, in both regular and extra cizes. The quality is here, in every gafment. You will get your money’s 37Vec and 3%¢ 2 LISLE AND SILK LISLE VESTS Pink or white as you may choose, and made with bedice top or the regular sleeveless style. There is a vatiety of weights as well as styfe, st 85 850