Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 22, 1918, Page 4

and Goufied 122 YEARS OLD B e v B iy Aot s SRR E Subseription —n. 12¢ & week; 50e o wonth: $6.00 a year, Entared at the Postoffice at Norwich 0., &s second-class matter. Telephone Callst Bulletin Business Office 480, Bulletin Editorial Rooms 35-3. Bulletin Job Office 35-2. Ma'n Street. Willimantic Office, 625 Telephone 210-2. ‘Norwich, w.dmd-y, May 22, 1918, CIRCULATION 1901, everage ........evap.... 4412 D 1905, average May 18, 1918.......... MEMBER OF THFE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Assoclated Press is exclusive- iv entitled to the use for republica- tion of all news despatches credit- ed to it or not otherwise credit- ed in this paper and also the local 1ews published herein. Al rights of republication of al desvatthss heyein are also “Right is More Precious than Peace” — THE'RA!LROAD NEEDS. Not many days ago the director gen- eral of the railroads let contracts for locomotives and freight cars running up into iarg® figures. The cost of such new equipment amounted to a large . sum for,a single outlay, but when consideration is given to the fact that thesp additions are being secured for all the contracts which formerly were ¢ let by the different systems separately, it is recognized that they were less extensive than mizht otherwise be thouzht. Such equipment _is greatly needed. The need has been appar- ent for a long time but the contracts will amount to less in actual rolling ctock when filled than would have been secured by the roads under their! former method of doing business. Now a billion dollar budget for the roads is proposed which means the distribution among the various tams of that amount that they m be permitted to carry on the neces- sary improvements which are needed to keep them in proper repair and to extend their business. A billlon dol- iar railroad appropriation is of course a new thing because the government has not been engaged in this busi- ness heretofore, but there can be no question but what outiay is re- ouired. And in this roads to do such wor! wera the on the fomer basis the sum would e much larger, thouzh n terent times and under different con- i How far this biliion will 7o mains to_be seen, but there can be no question but what the up- keep of the railroads must be care- fully looked after if the transporta- tion needs are going to he met. It requires money whoever is in con- trol. AN AIR WIZARD. America hasn’t been in the war as long as the other nations, and it hasn't gained the position of others in regard to airplare operations, but in consideration of ali things there can he no question but what it has devel- oped a splendid body of avfators who have given an excellent account of themselves whenever opportunity has permitted. And this applies to the period in which many of them en- tered the servicé before the United States joined in the war, as well as since. This has been especially marked of late in the sector where *he Americans are located in north- «astern France. In this connection it cannot help be- inz recognized that the airplane ser- vice has lost a most valuable man in the death of Major Lufbery, in whose accomplishments Connecticut has rea- fon to feel justly. proud, for he has Leen doing in the afr what other Nut- meg state men have been so valiantly floing on land and sea. Lufbers was one of the leaders among the American aviators. Not only was he a most valuable tnstruc- tor but a daring operator and fighter. Had his encounter with his adversary been ‘on equal terms there can be lit- tle question but what he would have been the victor. He had attempted what is now regarded as a mnext to impossible task with his equipment— the bringing down of a flying tank— but he had the courage to try to place the chance shot that would have meant success for him. He neverthe- less fought a great fight and will be , rated among the great aviators of the war. He was unquestionably a wiz- ard of the afr, UNSINKABLE SHIPS, Now that the announcemerit has been made to the effect that the day of the unsinkable ships has not been reached, it does not necessarily mean that the trick will not some day be Sccomplished. Not .a_little reliance Zvas placed in the claim that by the “placing of a sufficient number of “buoyancy boxes in a I it would be able to keep afloat even if it hap- Spened to be torpedoed twice. It was dn line with the bulkhead idea but Jmuch more extensive It was con- idered worthy a test and the - test aving been le it is declared inad~{ isable to spend any more time or mey in such efforts at this time. ' 5 There is some satisfaetion’ to be ned from the time and money t in trying out the idea, and that in the determimation of the real |it has been detérmined that whatever is dome in the’ way of safeguarding ships- throug‘h efforts. of that * kind must be confined to the bulkheading of the vessels and the building into the vessels of the airtight tompart- ments which however are likely to be greater in number than heretofore. The failure of the buoyancy boxes will not mean that inventors will not continue to work on the idea of se- curing an unsinkable ship. Failures simply call for greater effort but dur- ing the period of the war at least it is probable that the best results will | come. from seeing that ships are safe- suarded in other ways. As yet the unsinKable ship is something to be produced. OQUTRAGING NEUTRAL NORWAY. The ‘neutrai nations from the very heginning of the war have been the object of attack by Germany.- No re- spect -whateve; has been manifested for their rights and the longer the war continues the more evident it becomes that none can be expected. Germany drove the United States into the war by its tactics, it has caused many other nttions to sever diplomatic re- lations and it has aroused the enmity of many more, although they are not all taking an active part in the fight~ ing. One. of the "le’l'e=t «sufierers from the ruthlessnes¢ of the German war- fare on the high seas has been Nor- way. Not only has it lost hundreds of hives and about 1,000 ships. but its fishing hoats are now the object cf attacic the German underwater Its purpose is apparently to way suffer for the agree- h it has entered into with ed States regarding trade be- iween the two countries, and. for the persistence which it has shown in its trade with Great Brit- ite of its losses, and this not- i the fact *that it was s from that ma- tion itsel nd for a period was getting Dhoss on of goods which were sent from this cou . Norwa; s indeed ‘-namfe‘ted grea: patience over the treatment which it has beern amnr{i It has Dbeen suf- if it was actual- Iy one of the belligerents and as the toll which Germany continues to ex- act from that nation is piled up the wonder grows as to how much' more of a burden it is going to be forced to bear without in its desperation, ‘aking sides in the war, v malke # GEORGIA GETTING WORSE. More surprise would have been cre- ated by the lynchings of four Negroes in the south had it taken place in any cther state than Georgia, but that practice seems to be so firmly estab- lished in that commonwealth that the efforts tc bring about a reform have made no headway. There appears to have been a plot rranged those who have been disposed of by the mob and nme of those whose lives were taken vere found to have upon their persons some of the loot which was obtained, Lut in none of the cases of the four who were strung up to a tree does -it appear that anyone of the four fired the shot which took the life of, the white man. murder was committed, but so far the fellow who took life has escaped. The ofhers may have been interested in the affair in one way or another but they were entitled to a fair trial with the bringing out of the facts in the case, even as the real murderer is when caught. Indignation undoubtedly ran high z the shooting; it always does no mattdr what part of t takes place in, but that rrant the abandonment of Jitions. Without giving the Jaws of the state a chance they cannot be de- clared valueless, and if the laws are going to amount to anything, whether murder or anvthing else is involved, they should be respected. Otherwise lawlessness and disorder are bound -to spread and that is the state of affairs which appears te be existing in the state of Georgia today. EDITORIAL NOTES. Korniloff is again reported dead but there are some Russians who still show that they know how to fight. The people of Prague cannot ap- plaud the allied governments enough. They’ll be leaving the dual monarchy in a body next. Von Hertling says that all Ger- many wants is a place in the sun. Jt may consider itself lucky if it's able to get a moonbath. Inasmuch as Norwich. didn't come quite up to its quota for the first Red Cross fund the opportunity of making up for it is now at hand, Even the end of Sir Roger Case- ment does not'appear to have taught some peopie in Ireland anything. Lesson is added to lesson that it is impossible to exert too much care when' working in a factory where hign explosives are manufactured. The man on the corner says: The weatherman has done much to rees- tablish himself in the good graces of the war gardeners and the dust suf- ferers. From the way in which George Creel makes it necessary to apologize to comgress it is'quite evident that he holds a position which requires more foresight. ‘While it is announced that the in- crease of American troops in Europe is causing. uneasiness in Derlin, the reports from the front indicate that that is mot’ the only place. The president says “I am here to stand by Russia as well as by France,' and that is certainly a com- mendable stand. Prussianism needs to be crushed wherever it appears. Uniforms accomplish- great things. Before yeowomen became such they would have beén insuited had they been spoken to without an introduc- tion, but since donning the blue they ln-m upon being saluted. 7 The state motor vehicle department is now to conduct A campaign for the enforoézaemt of the law regarding lights, which simply emphasizes-the fact that auto drivers have got to be constantly watched if the purposes of the automobfle laws are to be met. There was a quarrel andl the prescribed course under such con-! Incessant trench raiding, here and there a minor attack in greater or of less force, steady bombardment ammunition dumps and transportation lines in the back areas, and persist- ent aerial observation tell the story of the past few weeks on the western front. American troops are now be- hid the British lines in the north a of the great battlefield ‘as well as manfully doing their part in their own sector southeast of Amiens. The Americans with British ‘army are doubtless the first of thost¢ rushed across the ocean when the great Ger- man drive assumed such threatening proportions. ¥From the nature of things these troops can not be as seasoned as: Pershing’s ‘veterans. Furthermore the’ situation in Flanders is so eriti- cal that such inexperienced would not be given a sector to defend unassisted. Some will perhaps used to fill the gaps in British units, while all will be gaining knowledge and experience these: are most qmckly to be acquired. Ligyd Gnorge ntnemenl before the commons that only white troaps was operating in Meso- potamia shows what a reliable force and what splendid fighters Britain en- Jjoys in her Bast Indian forces. From the taking of Bagdad in March of last year the advance up the Tigris and Euphrates has been steady. Six weeks after the capture of Bagdad, Gen. Maude -had occubied Samara, the Turkish _base seventy miles up the river. Then ensued the hot season during which n'o military operations are possible in this region, but Sep- tember was not over .when Ramadie on the Buphrates was taken by a bril- liant cavalry operation. Here the en- tire Turkish army was captured to- gether with the commanding general and his &ntire staff. The occupation ‘of Tekrit. the Turkish military base 100 miles up the Tigris from Bagdad, was ‘the next step, and the British cavalry were still pressing on toward the north when without warning came the announcement of Gen. Maude's brief illness and death.” There have been hints that he was poisoned, but the truth will not be known till after the war. Gen. ‘Marshall, one of Maude’s able lieutenants, succeeded to the command of the expedition, and by an opera- tion similar to that at Ramadie he captured or destroyed the entire Turk- ish force centering at Hit on the Eu- phrates 100 miles west of Bagdad. In April the British expedition was half way to Mosul and an advance of 60 miles in two weeks shows the utter demoralization of the Turkish forces. ’ Mosul of Aral east of Aleppo. It lies on the Tigris near the point where the river leaves the Armenian mountains. One hundred and ten milés to the west lies Misi- bin, the présent terminus- of the Bag- dad railway, farther west is Aleppo. is one division of German {roops and here they must apparently remain, as Aleppo must be held at all costs un- less the Germans give up all hope of succoring the Turkish troops and re- gaining any part of Mesopotamia or South from Aelppo runs the railway through Damascus and the Palestine. Holy Land and thence down into “The special brows projected a| “Eighty-one miles nrorth of Paris Arabia. General Allenby with his s good deal further than the derrick,|by rail and 77 miles southeast of the Palestine force has already cut this One Point of View. so the landing-parties were able to get imrflortin; Channel seaport of Bou- road near the Dead Sea. With the 3 5 > 2 out all right. But the anchor hung|logne, Amiens was 2 thriving city with British fleet at@his left and Bzy Mr. Editor: John Tqdd, one of the |yt “chort” Some men on the Mole|many important industries before the his back, his presence in Palesti founders of Mount Holyoke seminary,|irjeq to draw it in, but. when we|war. In addition to its manufacturing a direct menace to Aelppo. and once | las said that “Woman is the highest,| owereq away the anchor proved too|interests, which included woolens, lin- this place is taken and the Bagded |foliest, most precions glft to, mam|neavy for them, and there it hung|ens. vevelts, silks-snd dishes. jt_ en- line cut, the Turkish army at Mosul a3 it ‘anything s withheld that wo iq|alongside the Male instead of on it.|joyed considerable prosperity, owing loses touch with Asia Minor and Con- stantinople. Thus what Germans there are in Asia must hold fast to Aleppo, dnd the Fatherland can hard- ly spare more troops at his junction to -aid her hard-pressed ally. Unas- sisted, Turkey can hardly maintain her armies mruch longer. So even while fighting for liberty in France and Flanders, the forces of civiliza- tion are rescuing the Garden of Eden and the Holy Land from Turkish bar- barism and German Kultur. Following the execution of Bolo Pasha, the second treason trial in Frapce has just resulted in the death sentence for M. Duval, the manager of the suppressed newspaper Bonnet Rouge, and prison sentences for six others. In searching for the underly- ing causes for the spirit of “defeatism” that was prevalent in France in 1917, the Army Intelligence Service discov- ered that the Bonnet Rouge was re- ceiving money through . Switzerland from German sources. In fact Duval himself on one occasion was: caught returning with a check for $30,000 but was not at, the time brought to trial by reason of the comnivance of M. troops be in the place where one division of S e n Nights fame is the greatest military base held by Turkey and two hundred miles Here there Fer life,” announced the girl who likes to talk. “I am off the smilers. I have proved conclusively that their theory is all wrong from start to finish and any one who wants an up to date smile, scarcely worn and good style, may have mine. - A smile in the hands of an inexperienced person of good intentions is as dangerous as a gas bomb. “It.is such an enticing proposition they put before you, too! If only you will persist in smiling, nothing will go wrong, everything comes out right, people will love you and leave you their fortunes when they die. If you smile, your bills automatically get paid your garden grows and weeds itself and raises bordeaux mixtures on its own account—agents, peddlers and col- lectors skip your house and the gov- ernment besceches you to take back your income tax, with its apologies. Life becomes one grand hallelujah chorus. “Well, I concluded I'd like to try that sort of an existence, so, reform- ing my character at one fell swoop, I inaugurated a sweet, girlish smile— and heaven help ‘me, I am an out- cast!” “How many reels of this?’ asked the patient listner impatiently. “I'm late now -to my surgical dressings.” “Oh, smile!” ordered the girl- who likes to talk. *“Maybe if you smile the dressings will roll themselves.” “The first person I met that morn- ing” continued the girl who likes to talk, “was Mary $Graham, and she was bursting with bad news. Her $100 dressmaker had sewed three hooks on where there' should have been four, instead of a straight one—something terrible like that. ,And she'd had to send her Boston bull to the hospital and he hated strangers. In my normal unregenerate state, not in the least caring about the bias band and the emotions of the Boston bull, I should have lengthened my face, softened my eyes dewly sympathetic words of condolence. lead- ing Mary to think that my sould was positively harrowed by her.' She would been asked out to Lake Forest every other week-end this summer. “Instad face in smiles. beamed. s0? Sew the missing one on yourself. Ang Fido is really very only he doesn’t know it. ‘Cheer up, Mary! I or had used a bias band on the belt and murmured soothing have been so pleased that I'd have of which I wreathed my ‘What is a simple hook or comfortable, ];)on’l fuss over unimportant things, becausé you are .wrinkling your -face. Why, it's really a joke, woman! Ha! Hal! “Mary "drew herself up stifly and said she was pained to find me 80 hard and unsympathetic and she thought the greatest charm a woman had was | the ability to feel for her —friends,| good=day. And her house parties are so ducky! ““Mrs. Towner stopped me at the] next corner. She had on her hands a family with ten.children and the fath- er, had run away and would 1 tribute $5 or $10? ‘He! Ha!’ smiled I ‘Tell them to be cheerful in the midst "of their difficulties and the clouds will -roll away. I've paid out so much of my allowance this month on relief work that I'm wearing gloves. with holes in 'em. I can give you just 50 cents, but 'm sure it isn't so bad as it seems, They probably are dole- ful about it, instead of laughing off their troubles. "If people only would laugh,’ 3 ““Well said Mrs. Towner tartfy, taking the 50 cents’as though _she wished she had a pair of tongs, ‘I've my opinion of any one recommending grinning when there's nothing in the house to eat or wear. Huh!’ “Somewhat subdued, I walked on, wondering why the recipe didn’t seem to fit. - Bob Davis met me looking so dismal, T almost forgot to be cheerful. He said that Isabel hed finally turned him down and his life was ruined.® I burst into rippling laughter. I told him how foolish he = was—that the world was full of girls and that Isabel would have made him miserable, any- how. ‘Smile about it/ I recommended. doing so myself. Bob regarded me and 1 saw suspicion dawn in his eyes. ‘Horrors?’ recorded his brain. ‘Is this girl trying to grab me off on the re- bound? I believe she’s in love with me—help. help!’ Looking very wild and scared. Bob dropped me and escaped. » “I spare you the street car condue- tor, who objected to my $10 bill and took my cheer as an added insult. An¢ when I came home and found mother in tears because the cook had left and 1 recommended smiling as a remedy— well. I nearly lost my childhood’s !” said the patient listener. “Try snapping at them instead. It gives them a new trouble to think ab- out and takes their minds off the origi- nal one.—Exchange. could have been chosen. His reputa- York, when his his acumen in going for and eliciti facts embarrassed them. Furthermore the fact that Gov. Hughes was the President’s opponent in the last cam- paign and showed himself an unspar- remove any possible idea that an in- vestigation conducted by him prove merely an official coat of whate- wash to cover up incompetency LETTERS TO THE EDITCR i make her mere efficient, useful and has not her rights.” If John Todd could say that woman's mission, family, has been arnd is being partially | transuorled over there, somewhere in France, to fight for Liberty. He could say %o you again that if anvthing is withheld that would make her more | efficient, useful or happy in her desire to administer to her family, the suffer- ing and wounded back of Flanders or Picardy or in Belgium, wherever bat- tles are fought, she is wronged and has not her rights. If we raise billions to send our armies and equipments of war, should we not be expected to raise a su cient amount to send woman wherever woman is needed, to do what no man has ever done, as she has done, or can sweéetheart all in one. woman her right to administer tion as a legal éxaminer was made in the insurance investigation in New knowledge of the whole complicated subject astounded the experts in insurance as much as ing ing critic of the administration. will will or failure on the part of the Government. | or | happy in that sphere, she is wronged were alive today he the crew of eight belonging to the 6-inch gun on the Vindictive’s port side. As we drew up to the Mole we fired three or four rounds, and one of our chaps got wounded in the leg. s scon as the Vindictive got to 'hnr berth our gun was below the lével! of the Mole, so it was no good firing ony more. But there came the signal arranged for, which took us to the job of trying to make fast alongside. A derrick .had been rigged out to let down a ‘specially made anchor by means of a 3% in cable. “The idea was to make the anchor fast against something or other on the Mole. 'But the derrick though it held the anchor some 18 or 20 feet off the ship, didn’t quite go far enough. You see there is a part of the Mole which projects under water, so it was im- possible for the Vindictive to come closer than she did. “Seeing- we couldn’t do anything | more with the anchor, a marine officer fold us to go and man the howitzer on the forecastle, as its crew -had been wiped.out. In all that ‘firing. with dazzling light one minute and dark- I tell you, it doesn't work in (] ness the next, and with the decks cov- ered with dead and wounded, it wasn't easy to get our chaps together. Views of the Vigilantes OUR ALIEN PRESS By Hamlin Garland of The Vigilantes There are in the United States hun- ever do it, or to send in her place the work of woman's hands, guided by love of a woman's heart. John Todd could tell us that we might do all this by giving all we can to the Red Cross—mother, wife and It is her right. No true American ever withheld fr?fim effi- dreds of weekly and daily papers whose language is alien to us and in many cases hostile to our government. Some are covertly disloyal, others are mere- ly aniagonistic to the genius of Amer- ica. In all cases they are an . ob- struction if not a menace. The existence and prosperity of such Leymarie, irector of the secret pol- ol papers necessarily means the per- ice. This Leymarie was one of the | Cienty to her family—her family over | gistence of something foreign. They Qefendants in_ the treason trial, and A D ¢, |Portend . immigrants unassimilated though escaping the fate of Duval he has been punished with fine and imprisonment.” But the real signific- ance of the Bonnet Rouge case is the light it may shed on the machinationg of Joseph Caillaux, a former premier of France, now under indictment for treascnable intercourse with his coun- try’s, foes ‘and soon himself to face a court-martial. For the Bonnet Rouge was employed by Caillaux dur- ing his political career as his semi- official organ; Leymarie’s chief in the Cabinet was Malvy, Minister of the Interior, to which post he had been nominated by Caillaux himself; and Malvy’s chief was Premier Ribot, also a nominee of Caillaux. Thus the pow- erful ex-premier, though himself forc- ed “to resign, had been able to keep his hand on the government and nominate more than one of the Cab- inet. When the Bonnet Rouge evid- ence came out, not only did Leymarie permit Duval to go free, but Malvy tried to sidetrack the entire case against the Bonnet Rouge staff. Pub- lic indignation howevér had been aroused” by the sudden death in pri- son of the editor-in-chief of the sus- pected paper, just as he had hinted of possible interesting disclosures, and the Ribot ministry was forced from office on this very issue. tv taking measures against the creat- ures of the powerful Caillaux and it too had to resign, giving place to the present government of Clemenceau, the “Tiger,” who came into office with the avowed purpose to “get” Caillaux. The Bolo and Duval tridls are appar- ently but curtain-raisers for the great act! No act of President Wi of fighting planes in France. by this situation, notice. S himself financiaily intereste unprejudi present at the truth of the mat- To The next ministry showed itself quite as averse on has been better received than his appointment of ex-Gov. Chas. H. Hughes to assist the attorney general in investigating ‘the aircraft scanddl. The facts before the pubhc are that a billion has been spent and as yet we have no supply Aroused President Wilson gome months ago asked Gutzon Borg- lum, the well-known sculptor and a personal friend of his, to look into the matter and make him a repert. There is some doubt as to whefher Borglum was an official or an unofficial investi- gator, but there is no dqubt but that his report of inefficiency and graft was enough to make people sit up and take were immediately forthcoming that thé invest n;:rr wlu n air- craft manufacture and therefore not in his strictures on the of government con- a1, 1918, Norwich, May Commends the Senators. fsenators from Connecticut woman can do more ballot booth than she possibly in it, can do vastly feel particularly and peculiarly fitted for, then it is not ‘only eperfectly proper but eminently right and praiseworthy for them to say so, and there is no question but what there are thousands of good people in this commonwealth who will commend them- for standing back of their convictions. At any rate, don't bother them and their as- sociates with the consideration of such | matters now. There is a war going on, in which we all are or should be interested, and nothing should inter- fere with a proper display of patrmt- ism, with doing all that we can to help win the vietory in this great strugsie for the rights of all peoples in all lands. Those who take pride in their womanhood are doing good work, very much good work, and the votes for women agitators could be doing as well if they would get back to places. practical ecenomy instead of pol that will help amazingly. Do your bit. UNCLE BILLIE. Fagleville, May 20, 1918. . STORIES OF THE WAR || Vlrich'l'lVE'S GUNNER’S BATTLE STORY. Special Anchor That Did Not Work. The crew of the howitzer which was mounted forward (in the \"h’\dn’:tlve)‘| had all béen killed; a second crew was destroyed likewise; and even then a third crew was taking over the gun.—Official. narrative. Yesterday (writes a “Daily Chroni- cle” representative) I traced to his home in Chatham Leading -‘eaman Dowell—a bluejacket who actdd’ as Mr. Editor: If the two United States that good outside the can more to benefit humanity in the various way she is They keep alive a spirit and a tradi- tion which is opposed to the perfect union of the immigrant with his en- vironment. To prove this you have but to consider the effect of the Ger- man papers of Wisconsin on the loy- alty of the “Germah-Wisconsin” pop- ulation. The recent election showed that even at this date there are ome hundred thousand voters who are es- sentially readers press. of the they viithin reasonabl openly treasonabi Free Speeegh. ain’t it?” claiming a believe in free and destructive. legiances. neighbors. They No. 2 in that third crew and mar- velously - survives . with scarcely a scratch. “Before we went into the affair,” he remarked, “I thought to myself, If I start thinkmg I'll be sure to get killed or wounded—well, most likely it'll come true’ o I went in with a good heart, and here I am, none the worse.” h’e.l‘hen he passed from phuosophy to papers and -Eng their criticisms whatever they disloyal, “German-American” e e. Pernaps we have made a fetish “This shouts every man who voters who are Germany has taught up the potver of 2 united people. within her boundaries a group of pa- pers which are not merely alien thought and feeling but opposed to the form of government under which receive protection? postal authorities carry to all parts of the nation the kind of corrosive erit- ticism which we benignly distribute? ‘We have a right at this time to for- bid all agencies which do not make for a united America. ‘Wisconsin be a better state today if the publication of her Gertman papers had been forbidden twenty vears ago? I am an advocate of free speech— Would she permit in . Would Hmits—bw: R do not believe in fostering agencies which in their very nature are obstructive of progress along lines laid down the makers of the Constitution. not consider it the duty of the Uostal Department to distribute a which is not only alien but I do literature almost of is a frege country, is license to be something more than free-spoken in a language | which only arfew can understand. speech—for I am a bit suspicious of it when it i* claimed by a man who puts his pry paganda into German, or Turkish o some other tongue which can be madc the-vehicle of utterances treasonahl myself. ‘The people who come here to sta: should put aside their old world ai They should not only mak:" plain profession of their aims. should acquire the languageé of thei h 5 The: books and mal: arc in the language of their Government Good-natured old Uncle Sam is be- ginning to Rfraighten up .and look about him He may in time leave off | . Children Cry ‘FOR FLETGHER'S "f?‘w-Na.‘!.“umluned. “in the - QABTOR V- Would her not by Her Lmn Six m Artoraft” Pr-duaum. il ROY STEWAR 10 BASS—CLEF BENEFITOF THREE SHOWS DAILY GREATEST AMERICAN PHOTODRAMA OVERTHE TOP ‘Featuring. . ;i SERGT. ARTHUR GUY EMPEY (Himself) Greatest Production in the History of Motion Pictures l whittling and gassing aroypd the drug-store stoop and attend to the business of looking after the welfare of his institutions. The pressure of} war needs seem about to bring ener- mously valuable and greatly deserved union of the elements which are as yet mixed but not fused ih the melting pot of our social order. THE WAR PRIMER ‘a,, National G'_egraphin Society. Amiens, which is etill inside the lines of the Allies but which is within range of the -German big guns and is, therefore, being battered to pieces with the accustomed Teutonic ruthless- ngss, is the subject of the following war geosraphy bulletin issued today he National Geographic Society: IN KEITH OF TH Five Part Triangls Western Drama FUI.L DRESS FIZZLE—Triangle Komedy PI c&ci‘lPfilbuv 10 CONCERT SI.A_TER HALL, FRIDAY, MAY 24th Seloist, EDNA De LIMA, Soprano . TICKETS ON SALE AT CRANSTO N'S TODAY RED CROSS The Stirring Patriotic Drama WITH CHARLES RICHMOND and ANNA Q. NILSSON 8th Chapter of the Eagle's Eye Burton Holmes Travelogue COMING THURS, FRL and SAT. FLORENCE REED The' Most Popular Emotianal Act- ress on the American Stage From the Famous. Staj of the Same Name-in Reed Was the Original Star. TRULY ONE OF THE FINEST OF THE YEAR’S PRODUCTIONS — FAREWELL DANCE — DANZ JAZZ . BAND Thuréday, May 23rd Pulaski Hall - “LIBERTY THEATRES" Have Been Built in All National Guard and National Army Camps in America. “Smileage Books,” issued by Federal Military - Entertainment Council, pro- vide free admission to these iLsatres. Send one to YOUR soldier or to ANY _soldier. ° Prite $1. For sale at the following places: The Porteous & Mitchell Co. re Reid & Hughes Co. Store). Rathbone’s Drug Store. Rieker's-Drug (Boston to its advantageous situation on -the River Somme near the polm where this important waterway is joined by its affluents the Ar¥e and the Celle. “The business section of the town was rather unattractive ance, being threaded by g numerous canals, but widay well- p!—ed streets were to be found throughout the res- idential section, and the older section of the town was sunrrounded by picturesque boulevards which occu- pied the site of ancient fortifications. In the western end of the city there was a famous pleasure park known as the Promenade de la Hotoie, where festivals and concerts were frequently given in the long past days of peace. “Amiens, which in 1914 was aboujy the size of Springfield, Mass., was in ancient times know as Samarobriva and was the capital of the Gallic tribe known in Julius Caesar’s time as the Ambiani (‘dwellers on the water’). It became a Reman stronghold and re- ceived special consideration at the hands of Marcus Aurelius. The Franks captured in in the 5th cen- tury. In the 12th century it became important commercia! center and four hundred years later was one of the chief cities of the great textile industry of France.. Up to 1790 it was the capital of Picardy, and is now the capital of the Department of the Somme. “The devastation wrought by the Huns today does not mark the first experience Amiens has had with the Prussians. After the so-called* Battie of Amiens, which consisted of numer- ous dwétached engagements in the vi- cinity of Villers-Bretonneux and Drury, it was captured by the same enemy in November, 1870. “Among the_native sons of Amiens who have written their names in- dellibly on the pages of world history are Peter the Hermit, the legendary author and originator of the First Crusade; Blasset, the scuiptor; Voi- ture and Gresset, the poets, and Du- cange, the noted linguist. “In_the famous Treaty of Amiens, signed in 1802 by Great Britain, France, Holland snd Spain, the British recognized the changes in the map of Burope which had been effected by the armies of Napoleon. This treaty also restored to France almost the whole of her colonial ‘empire which had been taken from her some’ years before. “Of ecourse, the chief glory of Amiens, before it suffered the same in appear- Sto; The® Lee & Osgood Co. - The Wauregan Hotel Office. Mara & Eggleton. George Madden (Cigar Store). Engler's Phatmacy. K, of C. Rooms. Ring & Sisk, Druggists. The Y. M. C. A Office. Lerou. C "Macpherson. "F OTHER VIEW POINTS You who kick about the amount of wheat bread that yow are told yot should eat, ought-te-he in Ger- many where the bread ration is cut to five and a half ouncés a day.— Meriden Journal. . . Connecticut is determined to kéep up her end, On ‘Wednesday the great New York canzl system open- ed for business and hundreds’ of vessels of large carrying capacity started on‘their way. Not to be out- dong entirely the two steamers that occtasionally ply the river called Connecticut, but which misht more appropriately be dubbed the Good- rich, were floated away f{rom their wharves. The Erie is not the only waterway. The Nutmeg State noti- fies all concerned that she, too, has a liquid line ovér which boats ecan pass when permitted.—Bristol Press. Is it the freedom of the German sword that these Irishmen aspire to? America came near going through this war without getting into it. It would have been to her everlasting disgrace if she had not drawn her sword in defense of all that is best in the world. Americans would have been obliged to hang their heads in shame for all time on meeting men of the nations that have been giving their blood to protect civilization if our coumtry had not seen ots duty and done its part. This is for Irishmen to consider. If they will rot answer the call to fight Germany, the war will b8 won without conscription be- ing applied to the Emerald Island of which they are sa j\utly proud. And if Ireland will not join the forces that are fighting barbarism in this war ‘she will have cause to hang heY head in shame for all time to fate as Rheiems, was her cathedral, which will be described in a subse- quent war geography bulletin.” Forty-six thousand demobilized Ru- manian officers and men have returned to Rumania. 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