Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 16, 1918, Page 4

lorwich Bulletin and Q”Giei __122 YEARS OLD Subseription price 12¢ a week; 50c a raonth: $4.00 a year. Entered aj the Postoffice at Norwich, Conn., &5 setond-class matter. lephone Callay Bulletin Business Cflice 480, Bulletin Editorial Rooms 35-3. Bulletin Job Office 35-2 Willimantic Office, 625 Ma'n Street. Telephone 210-2. —_ Norwich, Thursday, May 16, 1918. — e GIRCULATION 1901, sverage .....coceeeeeee. 4412 1905, average ...ooveeeiess 9,928 May 11, 1918......... 9869 — MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusive- Iy entitled to the use for republica- tion of all news despatches credit- ed to it or not otherwise credit- ed in paper and also the local news published herein. rights of republication of special despatches herein are also reserved. “Right AN END TO LOAFING. New York has now put a ban on the loafers the same the states of and Maryland. The legis- ed by the legislature of the e, state has been signed by the and if indications amount to it is going to be rigidly en- nd in that of course will lie e of the new piece of legisla- rovernor nythin ¢ this law it is provided that all -bodied males between the ages of 18 and 50 must hereafter be habitual- iy and regularly engaged in some law- tul, useful and recognized Dbusiness, profession, trade or employment, until the termination of the war. It makes no exception of those who possess enough of the world's goods so that they are not obliged to work, it doesn't excuse the lazy and it doesn’t over- leok those who are getting their liv through evil pursui violation of the law Is a fine of $109 and three months' imprisonment. That the authoriti recognize the sistance which this law is going to in cleanink up the e conditions the metropolis is i dica!ed by the pr‘r"r'x{mns which they have made to tematic enforcement of sure. A new way is provided hing those who have managed dze raids and arrests in the past. Henceforth anyone who cannot prove the sat ction of the court that engaged in actual and legiti- werk regularly must pay the t And it is certainly time that a move should be made when the demand for labor is so great and the eradication of evil conditions is so mpo: Three states have done others could imitate with he lot o geood resu AIRPLANE MAIL SERVICE. 10 on recognition of time has there been a the possibilities of util- 1zing the airplane for the carrying of ma The reliance which is placed 1pon it to get information regarding the enem o headquarters on the bat- tlefield simply shows that it can be put to similar use under where war is not involved with equal- cd uits, The test which is to be made by the opening of the aerial mail service be- tween Washij on and New York this we is therefore bound to be follow- ed h the deepest interest. It is re- alized of course that there are now cuick methods of communicating be- tween these cities via the telezraph, the telephone. the wireless, and even the fast trains, but the air service i auicker than the trains and there is! the use of a secrecy to be se the air service w! ed from 1t S the airplanes are able to cover such a distance, to do it with remarkable speed and to carry the load which be represented by Whether enough cured by hicly cannot be gain- the communications by wire, attract advant business through seen. manifested for it is realized that a service needed. may prove to A PROPER DECISION. In one particular the striking muni- tion workers in Bridgeport must be rommended for their good judgment, The penalty for conditions been fully demonstrated that the mail it will be possible to the ges offered and at the expense which will be required remains to be These are things which can best be told after the test is made and it is in that that the deepest interest is if this endeavor works out as expected that there are other routes where such be more lowed to obstruct work which is so vital in connection with the conduct of the war. No higher patriotism m be shown un- der such circumstances than to submit a_ dispute over labor conditions.to ar- bitration ‘or to a board of mediation. Justice can be secured in such a man- ner, but it makes little difference what the conditions are there can be but very little sympathy secured from the public when strikers quit their jobs over night without warning, as was done recently in the case of the team- sters in Chicago. Strikes are serious at any time, but they are particularly so when a nation is involved in war and munition factories are involved. It shows the wrong sort of a disposi- tion. COAL PRICES. It is not surprising that the mayor of New Haven has interested himself in trying to find out ‘the reason why communities which appear to be about the same distance from the coal fields are required to pay such varying prices for fuel. The price for house- hold sizes of coal in New Haven has been fixed at $12.50 a ton. In Albany the same grade of coal is sold for $8.90 a ton with 25 cents off for cash. What e wants to know 1s why this differ- ence should exist and why New Haven should not get as low a quotation at least as Albany. The explanation would be welcomed Ly a gregt many other communities which consider that they are as ad- vantageously located for receiving coal 2 the lowest figure as New Ha- ven or other cities on tide water. There are those which are dependent upon rail service which are manifest- | ing the same inquisitiveness. The fact that the prices have been fixed and! will in all probability have to be met} does not satisfy them. Very fre- quently is it the case, or at least it has been so in the past, that where the coal has to be hauled the Jongest dis- tance it is sold much cheaper than in cities which are much nearer the mines or distributing points. The prices fixed in the different eit- tes have undoubtedly Leen settled up- on withcut regard to those in other communities. This may or may not be just. If it is, it can be explained nd, as Mayor Fitzgerald of New Ha- ven unquestionably feels, it ought to be. His search for information upon t! matter will therefore be foliowed with interest and in the meantime other mayors might pry into the same subject. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. A figure long and prominently iden- tified with newspaper activity on both vides of the Atlantic has passed away in the death of James Gordon Benreh With the responsibility of carrying on | cne of the big metropolitan journals, the New York Hera!d thrust upon him at an early age, he being only a little! over 30 when his father, who had Dbuilt up the paper from small begin- nings through persistent effort and the catering te the demands of thej public, died and the task of carrying on the enterprise was thrown upon his shoulders. He didn’t wince but showed tha( he possessed much the same qualities as his father and for nearly a half cen- tury has been one of the leading and most actjve directors of such a busi- ne: His resourcefuiness was dem- cnstrated in many ways, among which the sending of Stanley to Africa, the fitting out of an expedition to di cover the north pole and his partici pation in the laying of the Atlantic cable stand out most prominently. They represented a departure in jour- nalism which was epoch making. Mr. Bennett had ideas regarding the con- duct of a newspaper which were unique. He was persistent in his be- lief and his methods and for the last quarter century in spite of the diffi- culties of long distance editing direct- ed the affairs of his New York prop- erty from Paris or wherever he might be in the world. Little of his time in that period was spent in New York. From his action he was seemingly a man of moods and there was little telling what his next move would be, hut despite advice to the contrary he ciung to his methods to the end. He achieved success and in a way which few would dare to imitate. EDITORIAL NOTES. The man on the corner says: The thing to do is to get a war chest big enough and see that it ept full We haven't noticed very many fol- lowing the lead of the president and turning the front ranch. lawn into a sheep The American army will not be kept out of the fight nor out of sight. Our troops are being sent to Europe for business. It makes little difference to the al- lies whether the enemy offensive is di- rected by Hindenburg or Mackensen, except possibly as to i0oks. The story to the effect that the American army was to be held back was a mistake. It is of course im- possible to hold back the Americans. The way in which Germany is in- sisting that the nations it befriends shall help bear its war burdens ought to be interesting to Ireland just now. “It ‘was at ome of those auctions where hundreds of unclaimed and lost trunks and traveling bags are disposed of by railroads tor storage charges that I picked it up,” remarked the tall drummer, addressing the girl at the candy counter., “It was out of mere curiously that I entered the place at-all. There was nothing 1 wanted—or needed—in the line of somebody else’s trunk or valise. The articles displayed looked anything but inviting. “An old trunk, tied with clothesline and battered dlmost beyond its original semblance, would go for 50 cents. The one who bought it would perhaps find that it belonged to some immigrant and the pitiful scraps of wardrobe it contained would bring about 10 cents from a reckless rag dealer. “The auctioneer had sold scores of trunks and bags before he held up a brown leather suitcase that attracted my attention for some occult reason. I became possessed with the desire to own it. It was knocked down to me for $1 and I hurried with it to my room at the hotel. “I hoped the thing had been the property at one time of some other drummer in my line and that it would contain a list of new and sure fire pro- spects for me to follow up. If it con- tained a few new silk shirts my size, or some jewelry that would becoms me, I'd be highly pleased. I opened it. “Before me spread a maze of fluffy, lacey things dainty in the extreme. Tenderly 1 lifted them out piece by piece. A little wedding gown, new, and with the tags still attached. A veil of nebulous material, a wreath of orange blossoms, a pair of tiny slip- pers. There was no clew as to the owner, “It was a year later on a westbound train 1 met a young woman whom I had known casually. 1 asked her whether she had married the young man to whom she was engaged when we last met. “‘No, she said, tearfully, ‘our en- gagement was broken in an unheard of way.’ She then related how she had lost her trousseau on the day she was to be married and how she had looked for it so long and earnestly that the time for the cereiwony passed and the voung man, thinking that he was jilted [and taking the thing much to heart, left for some uncharted wilderness.” “Two perfectty good lives ruined, eh?” sighed the candy stand girl. who was giving ear to the drummer’s story. “Only one,” corrected the drummer. “The youth. “I'll bet it was her trousseau you picked up at that auction” ventured the candy stand girl. “Why didn't you find out and return it to her?” “I told vou that the young woman had no further use for a trousseau,” returned the drummer, “but I have an idea that there may be some other Iit- tle girl who has.” “Maybe you could find one,” said the candy girl, without interest. “They say that wonderful results are ~ot‘ through advertising.”—Chicago News. oung woman married another STORIES OF THE WAR \ A Thrilling Experience. Carried down with hi ship after being torpedoed by a German subma- rine, escaping death by diving through | the hole in the shio’s side made by the torpedo and, after being picked up by one of his boats, rejected as a prisoner of war by the submarine commander on account of his wounds, is the ex- perience of Captain Walter fK. Miller | of Brooklyn, commander of the Ameri- | can steamer Atlantic Sun, sunk March i 7 off the Irish coast. As a substitute for Captain Miller, the Germans took as prisoner his first mate. Captain Miller’s story as he told i( to’ The Associated Press follows: “I had just left the bridge and ms\ eating my-dinner when the alarm was given” Captain Miller said. “I start- ed up the short flight of stairs andj had made about half the distance when the torpedo hit us. “There was a terrific roar and a shock which seemed to shake the ship to pieces. I was stunned and the {next thing I knew I was floundermg‘ under the water, ) surrounded by wreckage. It instantly dawned upon me that I had been blown forward over the bridge and down into thej hold throush the deck ripped open by the explosion, ang that I was being carried down with my ship. “I opened my eyes, however, and looked around and to my right I saw; a small patch of green water, not much | bigger than a window toward which I swam and I stcceeded in wriggling my way through the jagged hole made by the torpedo in the ship’s side. Clear of the ship my real fight com- menced— that of overcoming the suction and getting to the surface where I found and grabbed hold of a floating barrel to which I clung while getting my breath. “The barrel, however, was being| drawn into the vortex and I let loose swimming away toward a capsized boat which held me safe until the danger of being drawn down was over. Shortly after T was discovered and picked up by the men who in one of the boats which had been launched. “The submarine which sunk us was but a short distance away and we were ordered by a German officer to come alongside and surrender one of the ship’s officers. “My men tried to shield me by re- moving my coat, but somehow T must have been recognized and I was told to get into the U-boat. I was weak from my struggle and covered with! blood from severai bad wounds on my shoulders and arms—and the German officer refused to take me saying: “‘We have no use for a dead man— or one who is going to die—I have to take back with me an, officer who will | be alive when I reach our base. If T do we get a bonus.’ 4 “He then asked for one of the mates and was told they had all gone down. The German commander. however, would not take our word for it and searched the hoats until in some man- ner he recognized the first officer and he took him prisoner.” Some hours after the torpedoing Captain Miller and his men were picked up by trawlers and landeqd at a British port where they received medi- ical attention. Captain Miller recently came home and has already made ap- plication for another command which he will assume just as seon as his wounds heal sufficiently for him to go to sea. MEN WHO CAME BACK BOMBED BY ZEPPELINS. By Sergt. Bryant Ambrose Andrews| Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders | (Princess Louise’s Own) ~ Clearly defined in the sky over our | heads was a squadron of Zeppelins on their way to London. We were in tents, about fifteen or sixteen thousand It seems that the Ottawa etory abeut American troops was based on records of a year ago. Someone must have mixed up the dead with the live copy. The German soldiers are told so much that isn't so by .their officers that confirmation will be required be- fore the claim that IHindenburg is dead will be accepted. Everyone is going to welcome the opportunity to participate in the sub- seriptions for another $100,000.000 for the Red Cross, because everyone knows it is for a most worthy causs. From the way in which the Ger- and that s for their decision to re- turn to their benches while the repre- sentatives of the government get busy to bring about a settlement of the dispute. The real unfortunate thing about the whole trouble is that the men ever quit their jobs and thereby handicap- ned production on work which is be- ing done for the successful carrying on of the war. Just such action as they have taken now ought to have been resorted to in the first place. If they were dissatisfied with their large pay and believed that there oughy, to be further adjustments, there ought to have been no stone left unturned to bring about a just settlement, whieh would have obviated the shutting off of the production. It doesn’t ehow the proper spirit under prevailing condi- _tions when selfish purposes are al- mans continue to belittle the attack on Ostend it looks very much as if they were anxious for another block- ading visit, and it's not certain but what they will get it. It is gratifying to learn about strik- ers going back to their work, but it would be more pleasing if they would agree to adjust their differences in a ‘businesslike mgnner without laying down .their tools and stopping pro- duction. e e It will be valuable help which the 6§00 technology students in Boston will render by working in shipyards during their vacation. Whether it is in shipyards, in industries or on the farm the students have a great of their chance to make the most time this summer. men, and totally unprotected in those| {days. We had no such things as anti- taircraft. They spotted our tents and dropped their bombs on us. Thirteen |of our men were killed and about i twenty-five wounded. Thirty of our | horses were killed and the rest stam- | |peded. A bomb hit the back of the jtent T had just left, finished my pals and lifted me off the ground. I knew nothing more for a few days when I woke up again in a hospital just a! month after leaving it the first time. | A few months later T was able to| join my unit fn the Somme. I was not in any too good shape and was detailed for special duty at Delville Wood. There at the collect- ing station for the killed my job was to collect the pieces. Many times we would not identify the men: I about all in myself and did not think much about the peculiarity of my!| work—it was just “carrying on” as; ordered. Notwithstanding all of our unpreparedness in those days when the Germans, well-equipped, were having' things much their own | way, the prisoners we took insisted that they were simply defending their own homes and their lives; that France and Great Britain had aggree- sively combined against them. “Fight- ing to save their country,” they all insisted. But believing pompously in their own superiority these Prussian Guards used to raise black hoards over the side of their trenches with sarcastic jibes: “Come along, you English! You are lazy today,” was typical of their humor. It seemeq as if about all of them spoke Engiish. ‘The prisoners we took in 1816 in Delville Woods were very different. Often they were men forty-five and | “for their country,” {to La Transloy was | malasses in the shade. the evidence ' fifty or boys of sixteen and seventeen. Still they believed they were fighting! but they did not show as much fight neveriheless,, There the information was gleane from the German prisoners whom we took that they had received orders not to capture any more of our men, to kill them. Then our eyes opened to the real situation. From Delville Woods we were sent there to prepare fi the attack at Bapaume, where the 1 was extended and we took it overj from another regiment. At Bapaume | T was hit in the knee and that knock- ed me out, this time for good. years and ninety-one day length of service I have rendered my country. Views of the Vigilantes HOW TO SAVE $1,000,000,000. By Juliet Wilbor Tompkins of The Vigilantes Of course, you bought an extra Lib- erty Bond: that is, one more than you had expected to, or thought that you could afford. You bought it because the need was so rubbed into you that you could not hold back. Now sit down and calculate what it cost to sell you that extra bond. Put down all the items: printing, engraving, advertis- ing, mailing, telephoning. shoe leath- er, man-power and office-room di- verted from their normal carnin!—| the bill is so biz that you are appalled{ at having to pay it. For you do pay it. It has all got to come out of you.| sooner or later, somewhere. There is} no mysterious well-spring of money | to meet such expenditures. The coun- | try pays. Before the next Liberty Loan cam- paign—and there will be a next, and a next, if we don’'t want to be annexed by Germany—suppose we face that| enormous bill, size it up fairly, and de- cide that we can't afford it. Then loti every citizen hecome his own bond- | seller. All he has to do is to shout| at himself what the sellers of bonds | are shouting at him: that it's your | money or your life, these days and that those who, safe at home, give! their money, have the easy end of .nn‘ load, vou have to life vourself by | your own bootstraps. that’s all. Try it. It's an exhilarating exercise, ar far more dignified than being hoist In Englang and France, yvou know they dom't have to get up vaudevi shows to sell their war honds. 1 Huns attend to all that—they give per- formances on the roof. OTHER VIEW POINTS The result of the action of thel R.m\ir\ Drk(lf swdm i i roviding for| 1Ihe Lee & Osgood Co. the appointment of a committee of | Mara & Eggleton. three to see to it that the appeal to, adden (Cigar store). the superior court in the six-cent| Pharmacy. trolley fare case was prosef:uie(l‘[ Rooms. y “with vigor” will be watched with| k, Druggists. some curiosity particularly by the! otfic lawyers to whom orderly procedure| _y‘( ‘Macpherson, is sacred and Shakespeare's objec- | tions to the “law’s delays® incom- | —== prehensible. Imagine three alder- |how. Therefore, it has sone to the men, accustomed to the suspe I ¢ hunting ground reserved for of rules when they are in the w injecting vigor into the rules practice which govern courc pro- ceedings!—Hartford Times. —_— | Maytime is moving time, also lhe‘ time to change from winter to sum- | mer garments and the time to change | the diet. Common sense prescnhes that we| change the weight of our clothing to| meet the changes of climate. Common sense, too, tells us to change our diet Nature suggests this change t by the sudden abundance of v t: and fruits. Almost unconsciously discard the heavy meat and po diet of the winter and take nature's little hint. And there is no better tonic. under | the sun than the tonic of right an proper food. Many people who th they need a spring tonic to start lag- ging spirits into action, simply need a change of food. The liver needs quickening, afte winter's work with heavy foods. ach, watercress, lettuce, <celer; dandelion greens provide the best liver regulator on the . market. inach | alone contains ali the iron and nitre that the blood needs at this time. Get after spinach. Rhubarb is another tonic for the| times, and it is so cheap that it is| within the reach of all. Nothing under | heaven is better for children at this| time of vear. It cleanses and cools| the system of the child, anq puts the old-fashioned doses of sulphur and; Look to the! supply of rhubarb as well.—Bridgeport Telegram. Al l as we have we cannot devise| tioans of foreing fears over / the lo.. of the old railroad station in: this city by fire. Perhaps we ought! to acknowledge a sort of affection| for it as a monument to the archi-! tectural genius of the nineteenth| century. In ite infancy there must| haye been some one to love and| caress it. No matter how babies turn | out in later life, when they have! reached maturity, there have always been those who originally loved them. But it has been so many' vears since we have heard anyone speak kindly of the old structure! that the conclusion has been forced | upon us that not one of its kith and| kin remained to tell of its earlier virtues. This suggests that we could have learned to love it but we didn’t because there was no one to tell us i perfumed. means use Parisian sage. —begi | fication apping at our heart. An- oth iliustration doubtless of the ! r of the war to keep our minds and £ | structed to pray for is BREAD. | BREAD.” DR.A.J.SINAY If you have dandruff you must 'et rid of it quick—it’s positively ¢ ous and will surely ruin you hair- it you don’t. Dandruffy heads mean faded, brm.lu, gray, scraggly hair that finally @ and falls out—new hair will not GPOV —then you are bald and nothing can help you. The only sure way to abolish dan- druff for good is to destroy the germ | that causes it. To do this quickly, surely and safely and at little e: there is nothing so effective as ian sage, which you can get from Lee & Osgood Co. and good druggists everywhere. It is guaranteed to ban- ish dandruff, stop itching scalp and | falling hair, and promote a - new growth, or the cost, small as it is, will be refunded. Parisian sage is a séientific "?:— ration that supplies all halr nee an antiseptic liquid. neithér stieky or greasy, easy to apply, and delicately nse, it If you want beautiful, soft, thick. lustrous hair, and lots-of it, by all . Don’t delay tonight—a little attefition now insures abundant hair for years to BRrReeD THEATRE Today and Tonight MAY ALLISON IN “SOCIAL HYPOCRITES” A FIVE PART METRO FEATURE ADAPTED FROM ALICIA RAM- SEY’S PLAY “BRIDGE.” b S T Al MR FRIENDLY ENEMIES 3). MINUTES OF LAUGHTER P R T UL Burton Holmes Travelogue ndni e s b hasian COMING MON., TUES. and WED, “OVER THERE” GIGANTIC PATRIOTIC PHOTO- DRAMA, WITH AN ALL STAR CAST. AUGMENTED ORCHESTRA A Production That Has Played the Large -Cities at Dollar Prices; Shown Here at the Usual House Admission. DON'T MISS THIS TREAT Auditorium Theatre BIG LAUGHING SHOW TOMMY LEVENE AND HIS MIDNIGHT RAIDERS All Star Cast. COMEDY SONGS DANCES Excellent Programme of Feature Pictures IBERTY THEATRES® Have Been Bt All National Guard a Army Camps meri ued by Federal Couneil, pro- to thesé iheatres R soldier or to ANY soldier. Price $1. For sale at the fcllowing places: The Porteons & Mitchell Co. o fne Reid & Hughes Co. (Boston ). . hbone’s Drug Store. Send one ties of character with- 2 tear falling from either eye znd with a strange feeling of grati- its fixed on one thing.-—New Haven Jour- nal-Courier. American soidiers are reported to havé “whooped” with joy when they saw Am an telephone girls ive in Par 1t has been in ated that the poor telephone ser- experienceq by our boys in rance was for these £ that | was but ‘more v at seeing the Ame rlun were possible to amputate one's ence the surgeons would have to ork overtime. THE PALACE 78 Franklin Street P. SHEA THE GIFT OF HEAVEN The only kind of food you are in-: DAILY | | “Give us this day our Bread is the typical bounty of earth. Man only prepares it. - It really comes from a combination of God's| carth, God's rain and God’s sun. It is truly the gift of heaven. ANDREWS' BAKERY | SUMMIT STREET ‘DENTIST Rooms 18-19 Alice Building, Norwich Phone 1177-3 (Himself) Supported by Lois Meredith and James. Homson VITAGRAPH’S. MARVELOUS - PHOTOPLAY OF EMPEY’S WORLD-FAMOUS_ 5 REELS OF SMILES Be Enough to Start You Laughing. 10-- TRIFPLE SUPER FEATURE BILL. THURS, FRI. AND SAT, DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS IN HI8 LATEST AND GREATEST ARTCRAFT COMEDY DRAMA MR. FIX-1 One Sight of Doug. Doing “Stunts” BENJAMIN CHAPIN In “The Son of Democracy” 3d Chapter “MY FATHER" a Story of Abraham Lingoln's Early Life e L 7 L A . 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