Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 20, 1918, Page 4

i ves: will justify the' in power, Rooms 358, Bulletin Job Office 38-2. Willimentic Office, G625 Maln Street Telephone 21 ——n. Norwich, Wednesday, March 20, 1918, —_— 0-2. GIRCULATION 1901, RVEPEES ..oieuneeeensens HA12 1903, average March 16, 1918, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusives Iy entitled to the use for republiea- tion of all news despatches eredit- ed to it or not otherwise credit- ed in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republicstion of special despatches herein are also reservy *Right is More Precious than Peace” —— e GOVERNOR WHITMAN’'S POINT. Ordinarily it might be supposed that the people of any state could better deciare by their own votes thelr Ilkes and disilkes on such an important matter as nationgl prohibition and that & referendum gpon such a ques- tion as is proposed fn New York state would come nearer to being the real Aipreszien of the psople than as if the J:presentatives to the legislature were Jeft to pass their judzment or to vote in accordsnce with what they thought 10 be the desire of their constituents. But according to the message of Governgr Whitman to the New York Jegiglature in regard to this very mat- fer swch & referendum as is planned {here weuld have 1o binding effect up- on the legislators, It is because of this that he believes that the present Jegisiature shoula,act upon the prohi- Jition amendment, whatever the result may be, instead of causinz a needless gelay and the tuking of a referendum yote which would amount to nothing. Acgonding. to the federal require- gents the action upon the amendment must be taken by the legislature, There 45 mothing which would bind the leg- dslature to act In mccordance with the yeferendum. and the referendum vete Would not decids, whether the state ratified the amendment or mot. Should the people declare in favor of the Amengment the next legislature could Tefuse to ratify, or yice versa. Such heigg the case the referendum appears 10 be & needless move and other states besides New York have reason to give heed to the point which Governor ‘Whitman has brought out. UPSETTING THE KAISER'S PLANS Indieations are prevalent that the central powers are now making prep- aration for the opening of a drive on the Macedonlan front. That is a sec- tion of the fighting front which has mo great change of late. The ammies on both sides have been active In raids but no extensive oper- ations have been attempted. Germany ahd its allies have been consolidating the gains which they have been making in Russla. They are plannihg to get the benefits which such territory will afford them in. the immediate as well as the gistant fu- ture. Werkips down from the morth- e of thele Tature: action in keeping it g e TAKING THE DUTCH SHIPS. 1In response ‘to the efforts which have been made by the.allied: nations service which will take them through the barred zome. There can be no question, but what Germany has been bringing pressure 0 bear upon Holland in one way oOr. another, the same as it has been do- ing throughout the war, but whether it has or not such res! ions are not satisfactory to the allled 'nations, and as was intimated w the proposition was made to Holland the ships will be taken even though Holland does not become a party to the arrangement. Such_a course may work out fully as well as the one proposed,” Halland understands what the allies propose to do. The ships are not to be sunk, they are not to be taken without compen- sation and they are mot going to be used unprotected. The tonnage, vary- ing according to estimates from 500,- 000 to 1,000,000, will be seized in ac- cordance with ghe right given to bel- ligerents under existing conditions ang it will be employed as ths eountries taking it see fit, - By its action Holland escapes be- and it cannot therefore be charged against it by Germany that it has been. conducting itself contrary to the way a neutral should. Whether this will prevent Germany from bringing addi- jonal pressure to bear on Holiand re- mains to be seen, although there can be no certainty that it will not for Germany acts according to its own Jikes and dislikes and’ not in accord- INCREASED RAILROAD RATES. There can be no question but what the increase in rates which has been granted to the eastern railroads by the interstate commerce commission 1s en- tirely justified. ‘The commission makes the rates effective as soon as the roads file their tariffs and over $50,000,000 it is anticipated will be se- cured as additional revenue. This of course under the existing control goes to_the government. i It has taken the commissioners a long, long time to come to thjs decis- ion. As long as the roads were ynder private management ‘they encountered dental after denlal. Conditlons calling| for such an increase were thg same then as they are now. It was impos.. sible to see why, in'view of the in- orease cost of operation, the jumps in wages permitted and the greater cost #f materials, this action was not taken lpng ago. The roads were entitled to just compensation then as much as they are now. It is true that the goverament can make gopd use of the revenue that will be received, but so could the railroads. Had they been given this additional findncial assistance they would have been {n a much better position to have provided increased facilities with which to have better handled the transportation demands. it is held that the increase is justified now it simply shows that it has been justified all the time, and that the rail- roads have not been given the benefit of the facts produced in support of their demands. With the government in control the view of the commission- ers changed, which indicates that it was the ehange in centrel rather than a change in the facts which brought about the decision, EDITORIAL NATES. The man on the corner says: ‘Twould he easier to get up with the sun if it made a naise liks A hoot ewl. ‘There are many Yale graduates who will mourn the passing of Former Dean Henry P. ‘Wright of the unfver- sity. Bach mew report shows, that the people are not relaxing their interest in the purchase of thrift stamps. a good sign. e By the verdict of & web-preof jury orn lme in Russia they have grabbed A Big alice of Russia, brought Rumania to terms prescribed by them, secured | the comtrol of the valuable grain re- #lons in’ southern Russia and the Biack ssa and now it is only natural that they should seek to push through the allled Mne to the north of Saloniki and get an ontlet into the Mediterra- mean fom that point as a means of shutting off the allied operations which are gofng In in Palestine and Mesopo- It is pot to be sypposed that the al- in the west but they have likewise been giving attemtion to Macedonia, ‘Whether these preparations are suf- be mo guestion but what if Japan's was breusht into the fray THE UNSINKABLE SHIP, Bven though the committee named 10 investigate the method of making lines worked out on the former Austrian known as fhe Lucia has not & favorghle report following semsible- thing appears tinuing that for the purpose of making investigations along this very, ship unsinkablé along the effort. are many ideas which have advanced regarding the making not recognized this danger that they have not been preparing agaiust this Pradual swing of the cen- those Atlanta blackmallers got' what they deserved’ but not What they were working for. coming & party to any understanding | ey ance with International understanding, | te Inasmuch as|s It's future endeavors | di St benefit . T 1 ‘tao wwmxn:«mm axl‘»ul sending. the ‘punitive . 'The seizure of Vera Cruz was hastened to prevent the unrecoznized president, Huerta, from receiving shipment of arms from' Germany. urely would not be inconsistent with t procedure to acquiesce in the Jap- anese seizure of Vladivostok where far moro than o shipload 6f sup- | pliag now li¢s at the mercy of the un- |’ recognized Bolsheviki or the openly hostile Germans. England, the ally of Japan since 1905, has ever found her an honorable friend and is not at all ap abont allowh linquish hex hold when, in the view of the allies, the fitting time should come. True to their established practice in dealing with ties, the Germans bave disregarded their agreement with the Ulkraine and have - deliberataly seized the great port of Odessa. The entire western coast of the Black Sea had already been taken from Rumania and by the treaty with the Bolsheviki the eastern end about the port of Ba- toum id now in Turkish hands. Thus| the entire Black Sea littoral is under the ¢ontrol of Berlin. A glance at the map shows what this means to the British emipire, Though the operations in Mesopotamis have destroyed the Berlin to Bagdad dream, a new all- | route clear through to Jndia is now within the kaiser's grasp. Al but four hundred miles of this is act- ually in eperation. From Moscow the routs runs southeast to Samara, and thence to -Orenburg on the border be- tween Ruyssia and Siberfa. Thence past the Sea of Aral to Tashkeml in Turkestan, from which a branch line is well along toward completion ‘lead ing to Afghanist Herg the ‘great ranfe of the Hindu Kugh would have e surmounted or tunneled in order to reach Peshwar, the morthern term- inus of the railway system of Briti; Indin. Once this rotts weré in oper- ation, the time between Bein and India would be cut from the Sixteen days to five, s6 much quicker would the all-tail route be than the water route by Suez. This trans-Russian ! route may. seem only a possibility, in volving as it doss the complote 4t gnntkm and control of -alt European Russia by Germiany, Other feasible w“ to India are already ler reach. There are even now Aect rail lines from Berlin to five 4 ferent ports o the Black Sea, Odes- 8a, Constanza, Varna, Burghas ana Constantinople. From any of these ports the trib the length of the sea is but" six Hundred miles. - to From there o railrond is already in operation three hundred miles to the Caspian Sea, Across the narrowent part of that ereat inland hody cf wa- ter lies Kraspovods the - western terminys of the Russipn Trans-Cas- plan system of raflways, v the connection with Rritish India is as abave described.. The map of Europe will no lonzer serve to give one a comprehensive view of the stake in this great world strugale. The cntire ster: Hemisphere must be =eon -in its enormous breadth, if one would have before his eves the mighty prize that the cpllapse of Russia has ~put within easy reach of Gerrian imnerial- ism, Nogeven in the days of Rome's greatest” extent, was so much newer wielded by one man as the Kalser w almost within his srasp: vot in story have all the forces of risht and justice been so umited in their de- termination to put down the ruthless power that would enslave humanity. The present is nat the only ecca sian on which Caillaux has been sus- pected of treasonable actions toward his country. In 1908 while he was minister of finance, the natarions swindlor Rochette was permitted to escape to Mexico and ‘loud were the public clamers against Caillaux him self and his fellow-statesman Malvy Another charge brought against him, this by’ Figaro, was tWe ease of the Prieu heirs. In 1876 the Fremch pov- ernment had received from Bragil fif- teen millic) francs in payment for thirteen ships belonging to a mer- chant named Prieu that had been seiz- ed-0n a charge of smuggling. But the Prieu heirs had mever been able to collect this claim from the French mov- ernment in all the succeeding vears until Caillaux became minister of fi- nanco. He informed the heirs that as a result of his study of their case ¢ government was ready ‘to pay their claims=~but on condition that they would pay over te the party of Cail- laux 80 per cent. of the amount. This demand was later Teduced to fifty per cent, Figaro also had a considerable 1ist of names of financiers, many with ithin et sl While the aflies are debating the partieipation of Japan, Germany is or- for genizing the released prisoners war service in Siberia. The number of new organizatiens in connection with the war is so great that reference to them by simply canses eonfusion, The coming of the seasom of mud means much to the fellow whose water pipes ‘have been frozea for a conside erabl¢ part of the winter. be no time but the mew timey Von Ludendorft mentions a number Germany is stronger than its enemiés, but curi- about of things in which he el ously enough he says n mercy, justice and brothetly love. inelu building it. B is little use in trying to whitewash i by calling which the Turks are again inflicting upon the Armenians. Both countries are in the same class. Holland initials It is good news to the people of this state that Camp Devens is the health- iest cantonment in the couniry, and the hope will be that it will be kept s0. . For a shert time after the new day- light saving plan gees into effect the time of day will be sought more fre- quently than ever, but there should The time when an improved road-te the submarine base from this city would be of the greatest service t6 all, s the gavernment, is now and ibat should be & potent reason for After what Germany is doing there g e Ll A ought ‘net to have hesitated] German names, with whom Caillaux had business connections and to whom he had granted many favers during his term in offiee, both personal and financial. Far the most serious explaingd. “ cn:flul down on his exercise s, Whe in and loafed.” roons as lon he didn't would r be sorry., It didn't seeem to scare him Siberla, confident that she would re- | % things I told my rain he' even If he knew that a deluze was coming. M about " some things,” harge against Caillaux was his conduct of TODAY and TONIGHT ONE DAY ONLY HAROLD LOCKW00D ! IN HIS LATEST AND BIGGEST METRO OFFERING Broadway Bill time. “the past ths winters he has been yes, he's all right now,” Mrs.|bothered a lurte.beouu- he thousht the conceded. He's had thelair in the rooms was -too dry, so I ice. He went"to | bought contrivances to put on the radi- betor.” ators and the air was molster withoul like it,” the ealler | making him feel any bettdr." 3 inf “We just uso old china bakers, caller /said. “I used to have fancy radiator dishes, but the childran always broke them. The cheap things never get hurt. “It didn’t help Mr, Simmons any,” Mrs. Simmons said. ' And he develop- ed a cough in addition, He began to be very much altrmed about himseif and, to tell the truth, I was very much wor- ried, too.” “When a man is ailing the family s upset.” - “Tinally.” Mrs. Simmions went on. “he decided to go-to a doctor. Our own family dootor is agwee bit old fashioned, so, as Mr. Simmons was wesured in hig mind that he had a very modern trouble, he selected a physician that ebarges $25 or.$50 for one Iaak at him through his office door. We had had & number of extra. expenses and 1 was dubious about the wisdom of the expense when our own men was SO satisflctory, but Mr. Simmons was determined. The day he went I was as nervous as a witch and when he came home I was fairly frightoned. i A DRAMA OF RARE ARTISTRY he has be Burton Helmes Travelogue steadily of all home he stayed - S e e s s en he came Coming Thursday—Mat. and Night CONNECTICUT WAR FILMS Endorsed by the Public and Press and Accepted by the State for H torical Preservation. Special School Children’s Matinee - AT 4P M. 4 to-get a man to 4o any+ businiess hours,” interrupt. ealler. “1 began p ing that at Mr. Sim- ten years ago,” Mrs, old him :hat if them his muscles to work and then he'd “It's ha whole exercie . A man's wife can never maie him Tight" said the caller. “IIf husband it was going te he'd leave: his umbreila at home TODAY AT 2:15, 6:45 and 8:48 ALIMONY - SEVEN PARTS THE TIE THAT BURNS So I gave up long aso. s has learned_wisdom Mrs, Simmons 0 . But he never would ligtenn to- me about his health. He » .'\Days—Con.k : Night prices.... ..,. %¢ and 3c 1§ A few at 80¢ RESERVED SEAT SALE - TODAY AT 10 A, M. vl WILLIAM FOX Presents ““Did he look 0 bad?" “Oh, no, smiled Mrs. Simmons, But he was so gentle and so very kind and unusually thoughtful that T was sure the doctor had told him he was a very sick man. I did not let him sge how worrjed I was, but the next morhing I could hardly wait for the doctor’s offico hour in order to telephone him regard- ing my duties in the care of Mr Simmons. “What was the matter Well,” Mms. Simmons sald slawly, “he said thero was nothing in the warld the matter with My. Simmons but lack of lubrication. He =recom- meanded, he said, that he take walks of increasing length and drink quantities of good ccol water. That was Wl eventually got so_that he couldn’t walk more than a couple of blocks without fatigue ind it counts up in taxi bills, can you. “1 suggested thaf we take walks of 2 few“blocks every day and increase the length from time to time. so that by ang by he could walk a mile or two and not mind it, but he said that it 't be done and it was all foolish+ The Story of An Unwanted Wife Crooked Lawyers and Divorce Traffic The Gown of Destiny A GOWN AND-A WOMAN A SLACKER AND PATRIQTISM 5 Part Triangle Feature From the Saturday Evening Post Story o Wrong Right—Komedy TOMORROW 3—Big Keith Acts—3 And WM. S. HART In “Between Men” Also CURRENT EVENTS WITH ALL THE LATEST NEWS lounds like a good idea to me.” 1 thought so,” said Mrs. Simmons eamfortably. “But he diGn’t. Then there was the matter of drinking water: Years ago I.made up my mind th: none of us drank enough water and T made it a practice to drink whenever val's temper and a test of the atti. tude of a third power. In this case, as_earlier at Manilla, England 1ot it be ‘known that she would stand by the offended party. and Germany agreed to arbitrate. Here Caillaux figured, for as premier of France at the time, it fell to him to reach ‘an _agreement with Germany. He arraigned ‘hat Germany should receive a considerable | slice of the French Congo in return %23 surrendering her claims in Moroc- %, Interncsonally the affairs was hut there up a fe i France that too much had been und ugly stories that would not down were ail about, that Caillaux’ tions on the stock exchange dw crisis indicated that as a financial op- erater he know more of what (er- mery wouid do than he did as promier of France. ' sounded and the toll has been pal But the world g0es on.- Not the way you would have it go, perhaps, but day by day the sun rises and sets, and day by day it seems that you are contented to let it go at that. There is a duty to be dome, and duty 48 a hard master. It is a relentless duty that oftén requires self-sacrifice, and self-saerifice is a generosity offered {for others without any consideration e i e THRIFTBITS. Our Government must have funds to “oarry on.” These funds can be safely drawn from twa sources—in- creased production and increased saving. Buy one - Wat-Savings Stamp every week. o R — performed. What, ? Ts it necessary ta turn to the Z% in your encyclopedia of experience for the answer? Must You resort to a vast research for the reply? The decision must be nezative, absolutely negative in each instance. Let these words be branded on your memory, We Are at War. Enough! The flag, the president, the country is truth that her work is the grandest and most important work in all the world—giving to the world the coming generation, and meulding the ideals and charaeters of future men into dauntless souls, of the kind d to make men free” loval, ours; and we are for them to the very brave and strong. To over- The rumors as to Caillaux’s conduct |1ast. Serve your country. Forget your|cqne our enemics we must come of the Agadir case brought about the |Present needs and wants, make all the [through, We must mobilize sufficient sacrifices for the future. A people in want finds a nation in need; not the classes, but the masses, not the mil- lionaires, but the persistence of your million of men and women hold o country’s fate in time of war, We must scrap old ideas ang old ways of living. @he old standards of comfort must be kicked aside. When we have gone through the sacrificial fires of self-dental we -will have learned’ that show and gratifieation of whims and vanities have nething to do with our heart's happiness. That waste and ex- travagance has the mark of either dull wits or profligacy, and unthinkable to her whose eyes have opened to the fall of his ministry in Janyary, 1912, bt he soon back in thes cabinet, this time.as minister of finance for tha third time, aud it was during this pe- riod of his palitical activity that the serics of Fizaro articles began to. ap- pear containing the proofs of what had loug been rumored. Caillaux had en- teved pélitical life as a prohounced §- clalist and had leng continued to play that part, even after his erowing “wealth had brought him the title of the “plutocrat-financier.” Where, his real interests lay is betrayed by his own letter to Mme. Dupree, the publi cation of which by Figaro Mme. Caillaix’s vegeance on the edi- tor. In the letter Caillaux gloated over power to bfeak the German line, no half-way measure will suffice. The struggle and sacrifice will only be half done if we stop at putting the Hohen- zollerns out of power and prevent them from f{urther mischief. hope this war, the greatest of all wars, will be the very last to zo down In histo best. bhow, “Hope is beautiful; like the rain- destined, unless we sepulchre greatness to the highest honor and no- Let us We can at least hope for the t is not only lovely hecause of its seven rich and radiant stripes; it Is the memorlal of a_covenant entered nto between man and his Maker, tell- ing us we were born for immartality, our Auditorium Theatre BIG SPECIAL TODAY ONLY WILLIAM FOX PRESENTS VALESKA SURATT . 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Hape then gathers like a-golden halo around cur heroes over there—and. as they rd he battle 1 The Las & Gusosd press forward in the battle line, fo ¢ Lee & Otgoad Co. weapon of the evil one ecan pierce )‘h‘a& ‘méegm“ tel Office. through that armor. et b J. H. CUMMINGS. il 918¢ 7 3 Engler's Pharma Norwich, arch 18, K. o oms. St . Ring & Bllké Druggists. /A German Peace. The ¥, M ¢ X Ofsee. A peace to the German means only | J. C. Macpherson, that the Russians shall cease hostil- ities while the German armies seize more Russian territory—New York Does No Good. World. ©One way of not winnigg the war Is to be eternally_asking fo01 questions like “Is Ametlca honest?"—Chicago Herald. * Talk is cheap, women are fond of bargains—and that’s all there is to it. his’ suepess in “smashing the income tax while seeming to defend it” It 1§ a strange commentary on the char- acter of the astute politician and an index te his infatuation With another man’s wife that he shodld have thus piaced in her hands such damning evi- dence of his own political infidelity. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Adulterated Coal. Mr. Editor: I. want to thank you, and 1 helieve on behalf of hundreds of others, for your editorfal racently, condemning the shipment of . slate, stones and other forms of Penpsylva- nie_real estate, sold to suffering “hu- manity as coal. It certainly hit the nail on the head. Give it another whack and hit it harder, for we, cer- tainly don’t want any of that stuff in our bins for next winter, and there is no reason why we shouig have. The cars uséd in shipping such a conglom- eration better be standing on a_side- track somewhere—anything else. Next! CLE BILLIE. Eadtebille, March 18, 1815, The Day of Sacrifice. Mr. Editor: Common danger is a great leveling force that has swept aside the sham and the useless—there is no time or place for the idler or the doer of useless work, Every in- 1911, crisis that came nearest ta precipitat- ing the general European conflict. Ger- many, long jealous of ¥French influence in Moroceo, sent 2 cruiser to the port of Agadir ostensibly to protect Ger- man interests. RBut like the German admiral's pncounter with Dewey at Manilla, this was a case of interfer- ence ‘in others’ affairs, a trial of & ri- it to the. borrors '.'l"he_ N the Agadir scttloment with Germany 1n dividual must do his or her snare of é Newest Wonder In Motordom— | THE MULTI-POWERED CAR That was the year that the real work and assume his or her share SOLD —m —— of responsibility. wiil'count most. 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