Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 5, 1918, Page 8

Ir you wush it ‘with. = Most eoaps and prepared shampoos eontain too much alkall- This dries the scalp, makes the hair brittle, and s very harmful. Just plain malsified ocoanut oil. (whieh is pure and en- tirely ), is much better than the most expensive scap or anything else you can use for shampooing, 35 this can’'t possibly injure the hair. Simply molsten your hair with seater and rub it in. One or two tea- ®poonfuls will make an abundance of wich, creamy lather, and cleanses the Bair and scalp thoroughly. The lath- er rinses out easily, and removes every particle of dust, dirt, dandruff @nd excessive oil. The hair dries wuickly and evenly, and it leaves it |8ne and silky, bright, fluffy and easy | to_manage. You can get mulsified cocoanut oil {@t most any drug store. It is very ehieap, and a few ounces is enough to, last ‘everyome in the family for | months. CANTERBURY | Worms Damage Chestnut Shingles on Grange Hall Recf—Special Features of Easter Service—Fifty-Sixth Wed- ding Anriversary of Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey. Frink. mum:mtmrm mdmon.beuntnlwhnyou (Written Speciaily ¥or The: Bulletin.) According to one poly-syllabic ex- pert, present high prices’ are ‘Gue.to four things, to wit, namely, that is to say: goods, disruption . of distributing processes, shortage of ‘labor, and a.d crease in préduction of pro- ducts.” H'mym. This is fillin’ if not.so very enlightening. piece by plece. mbers of the local Grange i f " dem: for Johnson, Walter C. Sag- ¥ =ity “Intensification goods:” This means in plain. Eng- lish, I suppose, that the destruction caused by the world-war has. created a great demand for . stuff to. repair damages with, as well as to kegp the Aefenses’ of civilization intact. ;. That's simple enough. Wm‘m: Damage Shmgle& £ There is a Sinzular case of leakage nge hall roof. Worms in the boards bave ‘eaten through les simpler to say Special Easter Servic, T « One bhundred people came to the ‘church the Green Easter at 11 “Disruption. of .umlbmmg process- es:” This means doubtless that, when the extra demand came’ for the sup- pFes and repairs referred to above, our railroads and.canals; and shipping new time. C: given areful . attention to decorations and to s went along in the ¥ up to the time of the ser- n r left the plat- nr wie preached by lad in white, who e asle singing The Bor- 1d then took their re- the Easter choir. auty, Fame, Music and ne before Louise and made for acceptance, but she dismissed them all as unworthy of her chmice At 1 me Christianity. vith her attendants, Faith, Hope, and Love, _Who spoke in such a convincing that she vielded to her claims then knelt beneath the mam. tains of industry” whom we have been taught to look up to as geniuses and giants of commerce, our. transporta- n systems were geared up to e mal, everyday traffic. The - .system able to adapt itself to unustal -headed, big- thick-headed —railroad ‘and e managers weren’t brainy enough to make it. This is also fair- Iy smple, and that our slowly open ing eyes are beginming to see With what cheap zas the apparent.size of moth cross of evergreen and Easter|Mmany “big business” chiefs. was: in- s came in and|flated ik and all sang “Just| AZun, it would have been simplbr out One Plea The|to say “the war” and stop there. s deeply affected dur- “Shortage- of labor” and ‘“decrease in ‘production” are the other two ‘fea- sons. Weil, when a million and a half hitherto producing workmen are with- dravm to the army, and probably twice that number more ' are :-Substracted from the ranks of farm and factory to be added to the cohorts of destructive munition-making — why - shotldn’t there be a shortage of labor? And when there is a shortage of‘la- bor, of course there is a decrease of production. Substractjon always. de- creases'the minuend. That is the ob- ject and intention. It seemed to not only in name two _teachers on in New York, me home from his T l"v‘m her visiting at the doector prescribe for them. Married Fifty-Six Years. Chauncey Frink had their fifty-sixth So that, again, the: same ome word , Apri the “war,” sums up tersely but fully Fiise Hawes and . Maude | thes nileged causes. s visited at Jewett City last To the observant American. proud of his country and keenly sensitive to its honor and repute, there has been much in the last year affording grati- fication. The smoothness. and celerity with which the first selection for the ierce of Central Fails, R. a short time in town. Pellet Place Sold. Mary Pel- has been 570t Baain Comeen | srmy was made and the universal of South Canter- |/ ity with which the conscripts an- subject of next Sum ' swered their country’s ‘call, ‘for one RS o By smermmon | o Cenitsity elfh’ whioh' the Cross meeting at Mrs. Carp’s|PeOPle who couldn’t fight bought y ARternooh - bond! another thing. . The hear- Ald society in which the minority party’in Tuesday s sank politics, for ~the time g © 7 lbeing, and joifed in supporting with all acked-for legislation an admick- tration it hed opposed and tor which cannot be supposed to - have any sreat admiration, for another- thing. will meet at | our observant and patriotic American may well find new causes for f clerk to Leo A ctor for Connec 1 States Public TUnited ke him heng his have been 2 vear haven't yet ' enough ns or ships or air- to amount to anything -practic- the actual fighting. Amateurish- in Dbiz bnsiness as shown in its ty to cope with an emergency oresight *wquld have dis- arrived ould have prepared for, has been llelled by. amoteurishness in zov- ment which has been d prospects “short”’ in. actual ac- er- pplying labor to _ conditions. explorer, is serious- Isiand | know from frequent réports to * where he is city friends that life in tac is not now "“one -soft, sweei It is a struggle and a strain— Mr. Mantilini would call “a demnition grind.” The pot .must be kept boiling, though' the wherewithal | to boii it and the whatsoever to boil | in it are as .hard to get as diamonds LEGAL NOTICES. SPRINKLING NOTICE it (nl\m have opportunity {to blow off “their eteam if necessary. | Their heignhbors are: close by and the cidewalk travel i5 at their doofs. At the worst there is the “Letters from the People” column in the local paper. =on who. obtained a wr on er Com. fer the ason We farmers, on the other hand, have {smail opportunity for relieving the pressure in any of these ways. There's no comfort in bawling out your woes to a neighbor sixty rods away. And if vou're like most those I know -of, ks too busy trying to do two men's work to have the time to go across lots and confab.with him. To be sure, there are the cows and the hens. But, when ‘you teil the cow that she can have onily half her usual feed of grain because the stuff costs more than her ril | whole milk and butter output will sell for, she doesn’t seem to appreciate it. She looks at you hungrily and, after a vain trip around the still brown pas- ture, comes back to the yard plaintive- 1y mooing for something more, or, at least, better to eat. And T never saw a hen ' yet that i, |seemed to care a sinigle cackle whether ou paid $4.25 a hundred for her corn tenants in- M a wrirten permit. nou'_n OF WATER COMML: CHARLES W. BURTON, Cashier. AT A :nn\r OF PROBATE HBLD and for the District e 4th day of A LSON J. AYLING, Juage, i jshn Famage” late ‘of Pr S Db n said District, deceas B Hamage of - Neswin,| Yet we farmers, also, have our war Conn., appeared in Court and filed a|troubles. The powers that be are call- petition praying, for the Teasons there- |ing on us to work harder and do more In set 1. that an instrument pur- and they are propoaing all sorts ‘of amateurish schemes with the avowed object of helping u to do that same. are to be supolied; with women helpen and Boy Scout helpers, and vacation helpers from city clerks, etc. Dear, dear! Tve alwa in_my we nelp in such u:lngl s plcking peas, But yon can’t raise’ onions 16" be weeded: nor . peas- to <be. picked . the ground is properly fertilized and plowed. ‘Imagine a woman or ‘a. Boy. Scoutor o uxofkta:‘undod city . clerk panking and pic hure for a couple \‘#m». ana 3& plowipg for another fortnight! porting to be the"last will and testa- ment of said deceased be admitted to probate Whereupon, It Is Ordered, That saiad g?n be heard and determined at obate Court Mn in the City of Mrvh:n id strict, on the 11th Ray of Apri, & D, 1313, 8 30 o el the forenoon, and that notice of the r‘dw’fl:‘ luobpe(;‘llan :ndthnf said earing ereon, be ven by e ub_ catiba of this order-ons tishe it ‘o 2t u.'.'f‘ o aats larn be circulation in sa]q three days, prior to that irc- Alm I The abuve and foregoing 5 & true % PooredS "n. o TR BN 4 “Intensification of demand for Let's consider it a bit, |1 fell down. As mahaged by those “cap- ]| " eomen o foct h éfl;!fin!y “and terference by, which the_ prices of Btaser while i‘m‘é’."oz"'““" consumer, wl e ‘no mpl are fixed to smn\ee the producer? Farmers are ‘ma hbor the supplies tHey ‘use are their | zaw' materials. . Said one logical farm- er the ‘other da _“Who ever heard of'a manufacturer his ‘raw -material at retail and selling his product at wholw.le" Yet that is ‘about what 'the"farmer as'a manufacturer does. In most cages’ he leforced to ‘sell ‘his nn)dm:t at_whole- sale” Has anybody hurfl of- aw .govern- 'mental agency . rm»&nc and foundation nct?b blaze a ‘way ont’ for, the farmer? A westérn paper the other, day. called attention to Tecent_ strong advancds in the prices of corn, oats and barley. Wwhile wheat remained at a. fixed maxi mum much less than ejther. “Stro% sentimént in' ‘favor 'of . establ maximum prices on all grains is cm- talizing,” says the paper. : y,not? Isn’t sauce for tHe goose sauce (or the gander, as well? - In ‘the west they want mximum prices to stop certain - gralns from sky-rocketing out of sight in price. Here in the cast.many other farmers are wondering, if maximum prices are established on some grains to protect the consumer from loss, why mini- mum prices—prices below which pur« chases are forbidden—sbould not be established to protect potatd: and on- ion growers, etc., ‘from having. to sell their :products at less”than gmsng You in the cities are still having te pay high prices for many if not most of your vegetables, A, neighbor:who has just returned from a thousand mile. auto trip through the middle ‘west, tells me that he found the farm- ers in Ohio just béginning to:-husk their corn. In one place he passed a dump of several thousand big, noble- lcoking cabbages which = had - been thrown into a'swale because.the own- €r couldn’t get $2 a hllndr!d _heads for them. At another place he passed a long row 'of huge piies of fancy car- rots. The farmer told him :that he had paid $2,000 in wages alone for their harvesting and piling.. Yet he couldn’t sell. them for-one-half that sum. Another mend just back from Flor- ida, telis. of.orchard- - after :orchard where the soil is simply .covered with wasting . grape-fruit, sbecause’ it can't be solg for enough to pay wages -of ng -and- packing. ure,” said ‘the owner, when my friend asked Him for some; ‘“take-all you can eat. They're worth no'.hmg to “But I want some nice cnes to-take back: north ‘with ‘me,” sald my. friend. ' “Take the best you can find on-the trees” was the answer, “and Tl be glad to get two cents apiece for them” Somehow _or other, such don't :indicate so’ mueh-a-Jack of pro- duction on the part of the farmers, as they do 2 lack of gumptign in ‘other quarters. Of gumption' and of efi- clency. incidents Are we really confronted by the dis- gusting discovery. that . th big, bouncing, brainy ‘hundred-mil- lion-peopled United States can't hold 1thflr own end up in a real emergen- ey? ‘We hope not, you anfl ¢ X But, When some -well-meaning rep- resentative of aythority calls me from the mhanure-wagon.to urge on me the necessity of further.increzsed. produc- ion, though I try to.keep my.temper, can’t_help’ thinking of that historic chap with an eye full of beams “who criticiced the other fcIloW with a_mote i his optic. THE FARMER. ! ; : BRIEF STATE NEWS Bridgeport, — A B’riflgevm man wants $10,000 from the - Connecticut company. for a. dmoeu.ted kxcne New Cl!laln. — F‘n Snyder cf New Canaap bhas made 1,800 needles for the use ‘of Red Cross kniters. AO-kv-lIe.—;L Revh E. Champ iAan cheson, suffragan bishop was at All Saipts’ church, Tuesday evening to confirm a class of 12 boys. erbw-yrlflu Culhane, “super- visor of music in the public schools has recently been appointed contralto soloist in' St. Margaret's ‘church. Middietown. — General Mansfield courcil. No. 9, Junior O. U. A. M, wm celebrate its eighth anniversary af 0dd Fellows' hall© Friday even!ng, April 13th, Winsted.—State policemen, on mo- torcycles, were on duty Sunday between Winsted - and Hartford and instr-d and - Waterbury--for violators of the motor vehicle laws. Waterbury.—March proved to be the hoodoo month for the' Waterbury Fire department. as a’ total of 84 calls were answered by the members of- the-de- partment_ and .the loss from fives will total about $100,600. © South , Manch ~—Hereattor ' Che- Do e :‘:,Lygd‘hfflmr et 2 weekly honus ins o ly. as) heret otore h plan goes. into ef- The la.st Uuafl.er hn!m wilt be wd ‘April‘ 1: J ildersieeve, . Pwfllnt—-fl(fl.‘oflyfl' Gi Kon. e fi"’sf"“‘“"‘m o P a1 Pa., Mabel” M., Burk: hart.mg:wotur.udlfis WE hullflfl, of! Cincinnat: the new! s fl“rldl.y\ évening at which ity bumlns B Georee B. Chamdler of Rocky, Hm and | je grand-danghter of foed| sy products. The fextfllzq the eeefl!, the .Ymnryhh!:dq:;: that'%»e trob Annie_Scovilie, ul"flanry Wanrd Bmmr will The Liberty Chorus .and the ! Sl farain sic A :E edicine Co., Lynn, t foot and one. oz‘ his s bma‘l!fld. sh When Wheat,. Molasses, Sug 'Salt Were: Scarce in' Norwich—Miss essie’ Brownin, to Teach at Boz- | Digfing the Revolutionary. war. thero was very great shortagl: of wheat, sug- ar, molasses and salt, .especially. dur- ing the “winter of 177" Lherz was actually 'd Narwich so :that the . wére chliged to ascertain the amount| n_ hand, 1o see that “greeas monopolies. and . avaricious ‘That . winter ciency” of. wheat authorities people did not .withhold from them the necessities of life. Each family ‘was visited and account taken of the found in_their possession. grain “After this canvass: this' statement was put on record: This may certify. * that whole ' number -of inhabitants i m.“t, Norwich is-l'mnm', deficien- oy, the Earlier”in: the' war, in- July,- 1715, a -brig owned by ‘a‘royalist'was forced by stress .of ‘weather. into, Stonington harbor,! where it was-seized ‘and with its cargo of-18 or 19,000 gallons of molasses - brought to - Norwich. This molasses ‘was set a8 a- medium of ex- change for rpublic purpéses. ‘Molasses could be obtained only by capture ‘The scarcity of 'molasses and- sugar continued for ‘was difficulty in ‘procuring:salt at any price, 'however high, and when 300 several years There bushels- were ‘obtained by eapture and deposited at Norwich, the governor of state and councildirectsd its dis- the tribution: to‘families in accordance with their size. i To 'Teach .in Bozrahville. Miss Jessie Browning ‘of Plain Hill i§. finishing . her school. term in Led- yard and wil begin teaching in‘'Boz- rabville next «we Sacred - 'Heart' League Devotions. For ithe First. Friday of- the’ mionth there will be devotionis with benedic- tion at Sacred “Heart (Friday) evening. Shelering Arms ‘Service. church this . Rev. J. H. Selden, acting pastor - of Broadway chureh, will be ShEltrrlng Arms for the Sunday aft- erndon service. in New. Husn!ss trip. * C. M. Welte ‘of Bast Town street is York and Poughkeepsle on at the ENStark of FitchvHle is spendinx 2 féw days with his-danghter, Mrs. D. Thatcher’ of Tanner street, Miss Emuy Hopkins of Plainfleld is the guest’ thtough' this” week. of . Mrs. A F. Greene of West Town. street. C.” Stone of S(Onhlgum vis- iother, Mrs. J. O, her homic on West'Town street, Dues- day. Mr. and. Mrs. 2 -,F. Greene.of West ‘Town street will spcnd the week end s, Mary.. Bishop, of Bishop's Jobn Mitchell, ‘who' passed the win- ter in’ Mystic,” is spending a few weeks E‘mnk Skinner of with' his sister; Mrs. Peeks cornt of fl!dlm. G. To Mrs. Jo)nwn sand du.ughter, Bettey, ‘Brooklyn, New York, are th guests Randall* et her no'me on rest. m-;.' Rutherfora H. Snow ot Hunt- “Sisited - her -Drother, Frefletick ' Burdick and his family in | ington ‘avenue ‘iew Londm his “we Lawm uplown ' are. ‘green, crocuses atr Sentry Hill " are ‘in' blossom, - the Bean '] year P showlng firie growth, * Julian” m! and -Harold Stmy 'students- at “the New ‘London * Voca- tional School, are having a Week va- cation at-their homes uptown. Green ‘newly grassed last Mrs. ' Frdnk' ‘Way, and daughter, Miss Ethel Way, of Otrobando’ avenue after o fow days’ vis- it with' relatives in ‘New London. have, return: : Miss' Grace D. Whesler of -North Stonington, ¥rs. Phoebe Ford of Mys- tic' and Miss: Susannah’ Swallow of We Town ‘oonsocket. R. 1., wers recent guests at”the “et{lodhl parsonage on West street Recruiting For British Army. “The people.here are naturaily Vcry much interested. at this time . 1y to . know. whe! ther the wi going to hold or not,”. John S, line. is Colonel Dennis, .officer cflnfl-nflhg the’ British and. Canadian Btcmiu Mission, in. the White. “If it it will - be Qoesu't wa, s for. the of its long experience is at your. Your Child’s Skin will be free from chafing; scalding | soreness if you use Fot more than 25 years it has been: bealing ud preventing skim soreness, 25c at the Vinol:and other drug ‘stores ‘The Comfost Powder Co., Boston, M: line back, but. they have got a. iong Wiy -to, go, ‘and they’ve got a.lot of fighting to do, and they got enor- moQus losees to suifer ‘before they've 3ny chances’ of breaking tbrough. ,‘Germany’s efforts at terrorism ‘al- ¥s have a salutery effect British temperament. apply” to_ Britishers i States just as-much as in Britain and Canada. The first effect of ‘the big battle in' France was_to days than in any other three days here. shipped to Canada for the British and Canadian fore: during the last month men by the way t! is 28 yet producing in Canada. first three days after the news of the fight came in (Saturday of last week and Monday and Tuesday of this) we 700, This - result was to be expected, but T Delieved it shipped just under would be less prompt and spontaneaus, “We have been telling . Brit over here for the last six months that man power is the one essential thing today on.the western front, and it'so happens that the number of British- ers'and Canadians in-America form the reservoir that itish_man pow. SDVCHJ‘H“H! has .go into 1 s'and’ o all the esse althongh thes red for. munition usefn] n this emember Is that he y get: to' the front quicker than any man that goes in to the American army today and therefore is more use ful as.a fighting man at this minute than an American recruit. In the 1 for b to the fir:m; line where every cded than to stay over here nny industry whatever, whether ho it essential or. not. of peaple fn . f] v on the essential mostly needed. from in this country is man power. for the' trenches. ' We have said this before, but the great battle in France brings this fact vividly be- fore' us in v that no. man who looks in the face can pos- sibly ‘fail to sec. where his duty 1i The great battleisn't over vet.and.it is-quite possible that at any moment a_sarplus: of 100,060 or of only 20,000 men on_one side or . th other may just upset the balance an ng victory to one side or the oth- er. -Any man eniisted today in recrui ond get to France in time to.fight this summer. He may even get there in | time to taie part in the battle: which 1% now. golng on and which will con- tinue to so-an possilly for - several | months with various phases. PROTESTS SHIPMENT OF SOLDIERS' TOBAOGO Former Norwich Man Feels Weed Should Give' Way to Food. Writing to the Santa Cruz = (Cali- fornia) Surf, E.-M. Ryen, a former resident of ‘this-city but now living in Santa Cruz, protests the. shipment. of 30 carloads of tobacco™ to the United States. soldieys. in.. Frante. . Mr. Ryon pens his.views as follows: batco destined for the American troops in France'was given a rousing send- off 'as it started on-its-way. . The above ‘information was given out by the Associated Press on Feb. A ‘woman, speaking in defense of this, said, “We want our boys in the training camps and abroad to havi apything and everything they want. Fortunately our government does not take “this attitude or we would be sendirg them whiskey and dissolute women; for it can not be disputed that many of the men indulged in these vices at' home and would indulge their craving for them where they are if it were possible. ‘But our government has shown its strength and its wisdom by dwaying them indulgence in these things, Evy- erything that can be of benefit to our soldiers at home or abroad; good-food in ‘unstinted quantities; plenty . of warm clothing; comfortable housing; millions and more millions of money; ral | given that they may be provided ‘with clean and healthful mient and the American people ven cheerfully and gladly. pes ‘But—thirty. car loads of tnba.cco go-. and people in these United States hay - | loads * of ‘tobacco - suffered »and died from lack of -fuel because there was a shortage of cars with which to move it! Thirty car 0 be ‘shipped! “and we-are perilously short of ships -m. (| which to-carry. the - necessary supplies to-our allies and. our Thirty car loads ot wb-m' and the| government entreating and demandine produce more British recruits, in three since the recruiting mission came over Our_average of men actially The ers 0,000 or even | ing misslon will go to Canada || A train of 30 cars loaded with to- |, | e answer, “N PearlSoap............. BxportiSodps . <. s, ~Keen chener i Porcela, a bath tub cleaner, ~Sparklene, Silver Polish Silver Cream ... Tarbox- Stove Polish. ... .. Floor:Mops s.v o 3 i i White Deck. Mops. ..... - Long Handle Dust Pans. .. MepeHeadstoit nive Dustless Dusters ... Floor Cloths ... Mopiandies ;oo SteelaWaoli s Siet Grandma’s Borax Powder— Smallsize................ Dutch Eleanser . . 5ot veinnas Liquid Veneer ........... 25c and 50¢ O-Cedar Poli$h .......... 25c and 50c Polish Floor:M&ps. .. ... 65¢c, 73¢, $1.10 Dustless Floor: Mops 75¢-$1-$1.25-51.50 Floor Scrubs with long handles. . ... 35c ...6cacake ... 6cacake Sapolio 10¢ ScrubiBrushes’ | ez wns o108 only. ... 21c Smk. Brushes . S S 6c-bc-1?c . 25¢ and 50¢ Radmtor Brushes Cem 43¢ 25¢ Floor Brushes v . 0. 30 4. 5758119 . 25¢ Wall Brushes .............. 65¢-$1.00 Brooms .... SRS Round Splints .. LS fR0ci500 Willow .... 30¢c S 25¢ RIS = lousecleaning Time * YOU'LL NEED THESE FOR THE SPRING CLEANING Tbuemh&yswhenthemnoflhefamflyhkutothe“tdlhmba for there is llunflwhdxrseuilfls!hecheerfulurpetbatfl,asphshmgwhmhbflsofmp m&,anda.uuul&txgmmhonofthe whole household routine: - Madam is clean- -ing house. : Our helps for housecleaners will lighten the work at small cost. 'READ THE FOLLOWING LIST---YOU WILL FIND IT INTERESTING Wool-Dusterst: oo Mal & il nosee Whisk Brooms. ....... 25¢-29¢-45¢-50c BonsAmipSes. A INenio: 00000 100 Counter Brushes...... EloselyBrushes’ 2. 2 s s s Tona Stove Brushes ClothesBrushes o : iiiwin voie san s 150 Dustless Furniture BASKETS Three-cornered Hampers $3.75-$4.75-86.00 We Have Everything for the Kitchen Brushes WetiWashi =2, .00 .. $1.39-82.19-82.50 Splint Bathroom Hampers ....... $2.507 White Enameled Bathroom ‘Hamp- 10c 13¢-19¢-30¢ R ot e A 98c-§1.25> 8 ... 69¢-79c98¢c $4.75 and $5.50 that the women of America; shall con servé, ‘and sacrifice, and' practice self- denia) in-order” that our allies shall have food. And it asksthem to eat less candy and ‘ice.cream and.the va- rious sweets that. ave;so, largely: con- sumed by. women and: children. But somehow the men séern to have heen overlooked in ‘this: matter of self- denial. ‘We have hadg meatless and ‘wheatless ‘and “porkless and: other “less” days;. but' has any one ever heard a call for/a whiskeyless or beer- less or tobaccoléss day? Think of the amount of money that might be raised and the amount:of good which might be done with it, if every man in the Uniteq States':should -absiain from these unnecessary indulgencies for one day! Think of' what such a fund would muntothearmyY.l( -C. A. or to the Red Cross! But ‘apparently this has" never: oc- curred to, those. who are .asking the women and cthildrén €o.give up their little *luxuries’.and - indulgencies. -~ Of course,' we understand: that this is ne- ceseary, for the conservation of sugar and butter fat: but whatiof the grain and sugar, and other. foodstuffs sill going through the breweries? What of the tobacco trust- with itc strangle hold. on' the . people? Why should any ‘dusiness bej exempted from the law of common necessity which governs the country. today? And:if it be said in extenuation that these. industries do not include dircet necessities for the wfi!, then. that' in.itself’ should con- them. "If a man ask of you bread,will ye give him- &' stone”" askbd’ Jesus. And ‘Ia‘rd !\0'. stones, but tqbacco Thirty" car loads of tobaces! God forgive. us! -and. women ahd children ;re ntl.rv.:‘n: and dying cvelr thoreé ungry. and.. homuu an Somuiter”na the i stratiine every -nd em re. iief. Ang our strugsling snd near- cxhausted allies begeing us to send them food. And we take thousands of acres of our richest land and on it we ra thing that is neither a help nor a ne- cessity in winning the war; that not and cannot be used by at least three-fourths of our population con- sisting of women and children; and we- take the cars wiich we need for moving food and fuel, and the ships we need for carrying food and muni- tions abroad, for what? Simply an ac- Quireq taste for a harmful indulgence. To those who conterd, because of the hardships endured by the men in France, and because of the terrible strain on the¥ nerves, that tobacco is a necessity, we would reply: What of the women nurses at the front whe work over manglef, ilated bodies of men day after day? What of the women who have endured the awful horrors of devastated Belgium and northern France? Surely if tobaceo is the panacea that some are contending it is, these women, especially, should be caught its use. May God waken our government to a new and deeper sense of its respon- sibility in this matter. and the men of the nation to voluntary personal sac- rifice before the conditions of famine are forced upon us. ROCK NOOK HOME. Gifts of Clothing, Books, Fruit Toys Are Acknowledged. and Grateful acknowiedgement is made | by the Rock Nook Home of gifts re- ceived of clothing, hooks, fruit and toys from the follow donors: Mrs; Willis Austin, Mrs. W. S. Allis, Mrs, John ick, Mrs.Alling, Mrs. Georee La: ras Bvica Doden Mrs e F. S, Sayies, tha Osgood, Mrs, C Mrs. W. L. Johnson, Ayling, Miss Mag- D. White, Mrs, 0. T. Willias W. J. From the Infant class of the Central Baptist church two dollars in mon- ey, and from church $2.50. the First Congregational - Also discounts on bills made by the rnllow.ng firms: The William Smith g R. Smith, The Boston Store, e eorge W. Kies Co.,, The Porte- ous and Mitchell Co., N. D. Sevin and Preston. Brothers. ) A new Victrila, in place of the old one, made possible by donor, s givit ure to the household. been donated by several friends. More gifts of records a generous ng a great deal of pleas- Records have ln(zrea\edt anyone has them to spare, would be greatly appré ily. daily gifts. ciated bi" the whole fam- ‘The 'Bulletin and Record aic To Furnish Special Programme. The Male under the leadership of Prof. Geer, will furnish a chorus- of the Bass-Clef, C. G special gramme of music for evening service at the Central Baptist .church coming Sunday. this The following selee- tions will be given: Prayer of Thanks- giving, Flemish Folk Song, The Lost Chord, by Sullivan. The pastor will preach a sermon on ‘What is Your Price?” CASTORIA For Infaats and Children InUse For Over 30 Years Alwmhun w‘ BT pro- |