Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 2, 1918, Page 4

& orwich &ulletin angd Honfied __ 122 YEARSOLD .;;." :q s w«fio B80c o l'el.l— e-hn Bu Business Cffice 480. etin Editorial Rooms 35-3. Bulletin Job Office 35-2. Wil (mnnuo Ol!h-, $25 Ma's Street ~ CIRCULATIQN 1901, aVerage ....,esvepensss 442 1905, average .. .5,925 JUNE 29, 1918,..... 10,094 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Pregs |5 exclusives titled to the use for republica- tion of ali ngws despatches cre - ed to it or not otherwise cr ed i§ this paper and also the lncfl.l news published herein. All rights of republication of spe:l;l despatches berein are alsQ regprved Right Is Morn l'rpcmu' thn Pgace i AMERICANS IN ITALY. The janding of American soldiers on Italign soil makes it evident that this ==couniry is zoing to give the help to Italy which it has heen asking, and it indicgtes to this country that the gov- sefrnment is putting its soldiers where .ythey will do the mos: good with the “"same firm determinatien to win the war and to do so at the earliest pos- **&ible moment. The presence of the American sol- diers on Italian soil is a new experi- ence. Those which are there may not atbe combatants but they have heen sent to get things in readiness for the fighting forces which gwe~to be sent service beside the French, Brit- and Ttalians whe are now facing %the Auystrians, Germans apd Bulgar- *!4ans. The arrival of American troops is bound to have a salutary effect upon +taly, the civilian population as well as the army, and is bound to offset the propaganda of the enemy which ~-has been spread broadeast in that try that America is fighting for what it can It propaganc this character paved v for the Isonzo but Ttaly was aquickly re- ted following the conduct of the enemy after its advance into the coun- try and it will still more impress- ed with the nec of doing its ut- most by the as: ance which is be- ing sent to it by the nations which are fighting with it as allies in the r. With the arrival of the Ameri- cans the army combatting the central powers in Italy today becomes a greater allied force than ever. RED EROS8 WORKERS. The call that is being made for Rel those who contribute s o few howrs a.day for vs a weel:, is one that justified and one which s gencrous response from he entire commun Tt can be fully appreciated w wincreased number of -#ent abread and the lapger number who are being sent to the front jrenches where they are participating @ the active fighting, and doing so H reat credit to themselves, that Sthera is bound tr bz a greater call for supplies. The hospital and other needs which are supplied by the Red Cross must be kept going, otherwise 1 not be available when they d, which means a handicap zain out of the war. a of veseraesaness in every w deserves a P EePETRITIIRIES ITS CRORRL NS h the being [fered his men to General umvmumul!hsm;lm in with the member of his eabinet. In explaining his veto he declares that the tubes are being used legs and less but it can be fully m‘u ted that with such antagonism 3s the postmas- ter general has shown to the system of despatching meil nothiag else could be expected. With this deerease in the use of the tubes there is no evi- dence of any improvement in the mail service. The business men of the cities where the tubes have been yged not only wapted them retained hut extended. Such a plea has however been disregarded and ten million dol- lars worth of postal facilities have been discarded when the country is in need of all the transpertation as- sistance that it ean get. BEAT THEM AT THEIR OWN GAME. It is of course to the credit of the French that they are manifesting a dispesition npt to engage in the prae- tice of taking vengeance upon the non-comhatant peopie of Germany Just | OF because the imperial German govern- ment has seen fit to disregard the rules of war and to initiate the prae- tice of copdycting air raids over un- ftortified cities, killing innocent wo- men and children and making unjusti- fled attacks upon clearly designated hospitals and hospital ships. Germany hag been given a taste of the very same kind of treatmenmt which it has been according to the people of other countries and as might be expected the German people do not like it. They do not support the po- sition' which has been taken by their war lords and they want such prac- tices eliminated. It is mot too much to believe however that such will have little effect ypon those who were rofipfln hle for the deparmre from seribed rules. They are deter- o tn have their pwn way, to take evv advantage which they can get *? ta win regardless of the cost to epemy or themselves. The allies have not sueceeded as <t in teaching a lesson to the Ger- man war directors, however much the pepple may complain. They have accomplished much by the bombard- ments from the air upon the positions of the enemy hack of the front lines and at other points by blowing up railroad stations, trains, attacking camps and factories where munitions are under production but it is a seri- ous question whether the refraining from attacks which they prefer not to! make hasn’t reached the point whera} it ceages to be 3 virtue. When fight- ing savages it is necessary to give as good as they send and beat tl'em! at their own game. THE AMERICAN ARMY. | That the American armv is to fizht as such in the war in Europe has been made clear within the past few days, and by no less an authority than Llovd George who in emphasizing the need of increasing the British forces declared such to be a fact, That is what was expected when the American forces were sent abroad. ! Tt was intended that they sheuld oper- ate together hut it was also apparent at the tinle of the German pffe that they represented an a able; ? force, which though not larze enough to stand as ap army by themselves was capable of rendering much as- sistance without waiting for others t be hrought across the Atlantic. The result was that they were brigaded h the British and French for the time being and by so daing it dem- onstrated that the United States was in the war to win and not for the purpose of attaining any selfish oh- ject. It showed that General Persh- ing meant what he said when he of- Foch~ for he might assign them. And they have shown that they were ot only ready to do ail that was within their power but that they are capahle of putting up a hard and suc- cesstnl fight whether it is' a case of| defending their lines or taking the| offensive. But the Americans are net to their identity. They are zoing to havej their own divisions and to fighti shoulder to shoulder for the object: s\ of this country in the war, such or-; ganizations to be perfected when suf- ficient men have heen transported, and from present indications that time does not lie in the very distant fu- ture. | whatever duty lose EDITORIAL NOTES. These are the days when it is ap- parent that the ex-czar lacks a relia- ble press agent. It looks very much now as if the Tourth of July was certainly going to be an international helida The man on the corner g2ys: Hu- man nature arouses all sorts of criti- cisms but there is no consistent de- mand to have it changed. 'WASHINGTON AFFAIRS Billions of Dpllars Fop the Conduct of the War—New PFensicn Bill Will Affect 268,000—Busy Days For Can- ator Brandegee — A Fire:Eating Congressman From Keptucky — More Pistols For the Army, (Special to The Bulletin.) ‘Washington, D. C,, July 1.—]t’s been a record breaking week in consress. Biliions of dollars have been voted tor the conduct of the war, for forti- flcations, and other war-time nee and every third word heard in debate was of soldiers or sallors. The great fortification bill carrying more than five billion dollars was passed by the house after five hours debate and without a roll call. There was up- roarious applause when ths gpeaker rapped his desx and announced ‘and !hp bm is pagsed.” Congressman Foss Ohio shouted “We have passed ap- propriations for making war on Ger- many at the rate of a billion and a quarter of dollarg ap hour. This (s something Germany should know.” Then Speaker Clark shouted back, T’y somelhmg this country should know” and ag; the house echeered wildly J Congress acted pn bills apgregating more tham twenty-two billion dollars in one day in order to prevent the lapse of appropriation necessary fo the fiscal year beginning July 1st an to clear the way for the recess. That same day the pregident vetoed the postoffice hill, sustaining Pestmaster General Burleson on the question of pneumatic tyhes. In less than an hoyr the bill had been shorn of the tube clause by the house apd again rut belore it in otherwise the same form. gassed in the twinkling of an eve a'n without a roll call. But the days of the past week have heen full of exciting incidents. Suffrage, prohibition, pneumatic tubes apd war measures have shared the honors of stirring up hot debate anad in ame in- stance a hand to hand fizht hetween two hot bleoded southerners whq charged each other with a breach of rood faith in rezard to a pair pn the lianor vote, The volume of business transacted has heen immense. The eight millinm Jollar bond bill. the vortification bill, rivers and harhors and the ereat mili- tary and naval bills swept throush conere: ‘whirl 5 & was the watchword of the week and the het and tired members worked 11l 12 hours a dav and often far intg the night, cleaning up the slate. Here are some of the measures which went rhmnub the senate in one d Con ferring the rank of lieutenant general on Provost ) shal General Crowder for the neriod of the war: an amend- {ment which would bar forever from 7. 8. citizenship meutrals who claim mntion from militarv service; the providing of a sneci: ton for men honorahlv rejected: manv measures ihe war and wniforms for officers and other impgrtant war messures in ad- dition to the passare of the armv ap- propriation bil] earprvinz $10,089,000,- 000. Apd that same gev the house did on equal amount of work, And not only the scldier of tocay but the spldiers of the Civil war have | come in for a share of attention and added protection. The Smoot amend- ment to the pension i 7 h has be- mme law gives added pensions to all Civil war veterans whose present pen- sion does net amopunt to $30 a month There was considerable opposition from democrats of southern statgs but the renublicans of the north lea a splendid fight for the old veterans and won out. In urging the passage of his amend- ment Senator Smoot called attention to the increased cost of living and said that the veterans could no longer support themselves and families what the government had allottad them under otker conditions. The cost of maintaining a man in the soldiers’| homes has increased from $249 vear to $400 and the incrcase of maintain- ing a family has increased in the same proportion. Mr. Smoet argned that the pension should ha said just the same to men in homes and also to the fow veterans whose income reach- ed $1,000 4 year. For, sa he, no veteran ought to be compelled to an- nounce himself a pauper in order to 1eceive a pension from the country for . which he risked his life years aco. Mr. Smoot predicted his amendment would greatly reduce the private pension bills, and reduce the number of inmates in scidiers’ homes, as it will make it possible for many of those men to reizin their famili He also called atfention to the great benefits provided for the troops of today which the soldiers of the Civil war lacked. “There was no Red Cross, insurance or qther fi- naneial aid given the men of the Civil war,” said he, and while the United States is now ring its coldiers at the rate of $7. 2 thousarnd dollars no other country is issuing war risk insurance less than $30 a thousgnd.” In connection with the present pay- ments it is interesting to neote that +he first pensions issued by the gov- ernment were for but $4 a month and when later on they were raised to §f it was thought to be a large amount. Now the imum is to be $80. with regarding e 5 numher of | SLAPS FOR “No, I baven't done any kpitting vet, but Tm going to spen. You sce, I've been so dreadfully busy with t] e, e Ll LA I begin With kn tmg socks. I don't see why people Waste so much time on scarfs ‘nd lwemu-l when socks are so much needed. gocks with gay cwi- t colgr ald the auu wnq a_teprib have nur m!dlen bu.nfw men gren’ th ivakw n soeks. H P 3 :‘h at our org?l to :;ln, I'm st he:suu th t‘}ta necessity gg kenitti; I think I'll make a it Sock Supply.’ “Yoy see, thet's one of my ways of helping. I'm a veluntary speaker at the Red Cross auxiliaries. I was talki; to a surgical drgssing group yester) ay nn ‘Folding for France.’ 1 know that I inspired the werkers with new zeal for when I had finished talking one of the women said to me. “Why don’t you stay and hel ygurse!t' You have made us a thel that we peed every worker we get. 1 had to explain that other uties called. ——— No, T haven’t done much in surgical dressings vet. 1 find it makes me nervous. Many people really like to fold gauze. I think they should be unremnting in their work. How terri- ble it would be if any of our brave boys shoul suflpr just because Women at home don't reallze t need for countjess pads, sponges and com- presses. Something should be done to 5 ur them on to greater efferts. ink I shail have to do mere speaking, | adhough just now it will be hard for me to give up ali my time, because I am wkm; gai! lessons. “I don't kpew why vou should look surprised. 1 might say shocked, at the mere mention of ggif. ‘e all know that the health of the nation is a large part of its weajth. I consider it a patriotic Quty to get pleniy of fresh air and exercise. “Gardening?” Well, pf course, one does get fresh. air and exercise spad- ing and hoeing, but I don't think they have the game effect on the physique that outdogr sporty have. Do you? 1 have observed that farmers and mar- ket gardepers don’t have the same bright eomglexions and free carriage that goif and tenpis plavers acqaire. However, I beiisve thoroughly in pa- triotic gardens, and I shali further them tllemh 't do | Just Red Cross guxflia‘ry on 'swelhx;x the{ ye; in their nle thing i the men, women and chiidren of this country did not respond to the call of the government for funds to People should buy to SLACKERS spflkin& 1 tmak 1 eball oy en'tagau sui:ln '\It al[ be l‘f;h)!'- ful if wa don’t have because people “No, I don't ?'i'. stand the heat of a but last year I had my maid ning. things she | 18 nqz clever at foii great deal of‘ Dened, mest of the lbtnl.lgd. 1904 for our allies are asl eep. Then there's the preserving of 'veg- etables and frul myself, for I can't stove in suj T, a As it hap- ut up wing written direetions, and I was not able to be in the However, 1 feel that and this season ghe 's experience, suppose you're ings stamps? 1’?\ W push the war. the limit. limit myself yet, work. One going about speaki quires correct eloth wa,ather my taxi far: ap item. I do wish you wouw come to hear § me speak on ‘Stamping Out Sedition’ i ‘Bonds Are Bombs.' sure that if you cenld hear speech weou wouyld feel that youy must and lend every doilar spare tg Uncle Say {to me the other day that after hear- ing 319 urge economy she quite under- tho why so very few pople were buying spring suits this seascn. She logked right at my new breadcloth. which is plain but think she realized that I had been pa- triotic in my eelect it is true economy terial. “Sometimes I am perfectly at the numbers of who do nothing t o I should think ashameg not to do tremendous struggle. so much exercises of nonworkers 1 kn knit, sew conserve the natien, that I'm speech called Chicago News. “No, I hayen’t bought to the $1,000 as 1 have a great mapy expenses connpected with my war is asked many directions, and t] peopie ‘Slaps for do hope you will come te hear it."— itchen much myseif. ‘we made our start will profit by last buying war say- intensely interested ouid be a fearfnl to give in 80 'n, of eourse, ing as I do re- es, and in bad g§ are really quite I'm quite| either you cam pessibly A woman said very handsome. 1 ion of a spit, for to buy good ma- aghast slagkers there are help win the war. would be their part in this Indeed, I om about the apathy ow, who neither food nor save for getting up a little lackers.! 1 |other hand the anti's couldn’t muster but one vote to the good without the James palr, And although they may seem a sa‘e propesition, the leaders dd not dare put the question to a st, believing tie tacit defeat was better than run the risk of even on: absentee at ithe momert the vote should be taken. So both sides grasn- led at the James pair mix-yp even rhough they fiung verbal threats jacross the senate chamber as to fu- ture action. 1 Chairman Ben Johnscn, who has held up the so-called anti-profiteering \bill by making himself as onjection- able to the senate conferees that they have becen unanimously exriised freom further conference until % therwise |ordered” said he didn’t care a hoot about the senate or its dignity and i dared them to *come on.” Johnson is a fire-eater of the old [d&hmlmd Ken- type of which one reads in us tales of the hills, He prides on it and never loses an ap- | portunity to make it evident in words, {if not in deeds. He is fall and pawer- ful. but his voice is high pilched with a tendency to squeak under intemse emotion. OId timers in congress are quite accustomed to see the excitable Kentuckian rush down the alsle with {long arms waving as he shouts de- |runcxalmn at. those opposed to him. {Perhaps the most notable incident within the past half dozen vears was just before Uncle Joe Cannon was succeeded as speaker by Champ €lark. | Speaker Cannon made 2 ruling not to the t; of Mr. Johnson. Rising from his seat far back in the great jchamber Johnson strode down the Making straight for the though within full range of the Ken- tuckian’s lonz arms Uncle Joe stood his ground and called the bluff. Lean- ing politely forward over the speaker’s desk he said calmly “I hope the gen- tieman from Kentucky will let nei- ther my age nor my_gray hairs stand in his way!” Apd Uncle Joe, nearing his 80th birthday, had the satisfac- tion of seeing the Kentuckian back up hill and take his seat. And how the house did cheer Uncle Joe! To meet the changed condition of European warfare and the growing needs of the great army, the war de- partment has revised its requirements as to the use of pistols and will here- after expects to equip 86 per cent. of the troops with such small arms in- stead of onlv 20 ner cent. as was the former custom. This will be done as soon as the pistols can be praduced. The change is brought about by the change in methods whereby men who 0o over the top must do much hand fo hand fighting, in which the auto- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Gas Attacks * Mr. Editor: ihe lower Shetucke maj way has waves of poisqnous at our municipal gas plant. all right trenches, with masks and ha to fight but when you are earning yeur da bread, and perhaps the Shetucket, a man has a fine cha to help the local doctors to buy flivers and other necessities of life. o RO_new que we stand for it?” kealth ofiicer and a sanitary “Tie them on the bank I say: Shetucket and let hreaths tor a while, i if they then they will mever and isance, salaries this know It's all right to have the sub base on but let” base from the Shetucket. the Thames Yours truly, Norwich, July 1, Votes for Editer: The: es, tions as well as ind vigions of a genui government of the p for the peaple, in recognized as “people.” The patriotic spirit of women during the war has_unquestionably to a head the sentiment in faver of votes for women, steadily growing during the years past. The old arguments against been banished where they belong, the rubbish heap. Woman suffrage has hecome a prime issue—a world-wide as has been proven by political the allies have all of have taken acti Premier Orlando recently said: time is ripe to ex women. I hope the may grant it.” it. Englapg as a enfrapchised six m franchiSed all of her women, and Can- elbow neighbor, United States an esample that must ada, our fill every true lover shame. Every vote For the last twe or three! Aavs the neighberhood through which is “Hew mu epach making days! France has promised Canadian woman can in the future—they across the line and pity us, because the “Over Here,” t river trends its been subjected o gases, originating this the | in where everyone is equipped gas s an even chance, eating it, close hy e condition and the longer musi Why have we a them draw their iead of their n't know of s remove the gas A SUFFERER. 1918, Women. e are mar\elom Na- viduals are led by ne demoecracy. A eople hy the people which women are brought which has been it have to issue— | the fact that either granted it en in faver of it. “The tend suffrage to present iegislature war measure has illion. Russia en- has set the of democracy with can look 'BEN LORING AND COMPANY. A MEDLEY OF WIT, BEAUTY, SONGS, E The Clagsiest Little Show That Has Ever. Played Bl TNMON.-TUES. WILLIAM FOX PRESENTS THE SUPER-FEATURE AMERICAN BUDS DANB_ES’ AND SUPRISES Norwich, A SPARKLING, ROMANTIC DRAMA BLOOMING WITH - LAUGH. CONCERT ORCHESTRA || SEE VENGEANCE AND THE WOMAN T e e ey Auditorium Theatre Read a Paper That Says Something THE PASSING SHOW Direct from the National Capital Every Wesk Edited by TOM DAWLEY The Veteran Journalist, Author and War Correspondent Subscription $2.00 per Year Address THE PASSING SHOW, Washingten, D. C. TODAY ANB TOMORROW DOROTHY DALTON 1n Her Latest Six-Part Production “THE MATING of MARCELLA” A Drama telling the story of a girl who tried to do right and al- though named as correspondent in a divorce case wae_guiltiess. THE COMEDY OF THE YEAR TAYLOR HOLMES N “Ruggles of Red Gap” Adapted from the famous Satur- day Evening Post Story by Henry Leon Wilson. An amusing picture telling the ludicrous adventures of an Englishman kidnapped to the Jand of Cowboys and Sagsbrush. 7 REELS OF LAUGHS BY REQUEST DANCE Danz Jazz Band PULASKI HALL Wednesday Night, July 3rd i | Admission—Gent's 55¢ ! Ladies’ 35¢ | { our land, The decision of the supreme court of the uneanstitutionality of the fed- eral child lgbor law has added a fresh stimuluys to oyr fight, for it shows us| the futility of our work for reforms as! the power of the long as we have not hallot behind us. Now in Cennectieut children may be weorked under ti law ten hours a day. under the feder: eight in any manufacturing eor me- chanical establishment. Women must help to build a democracy in which ~ Today and Toniéht CONSTANCE TALMADGE In a Picturization of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Famous Novel of Internatienal The Shutile " 14TH CHAPTER OF THE EAGLE'S EYE Hearst-Pathe News W— Contintous Performance JULY 4th 10.30 A. M. to 10 P. M. MAJESTIC Roof Garden DANCING Every Evening at 8:30 Jazz Band Orchestra the children of the nation will have a fair chance to grow saneiy. MARINDA €. BUTLER ROBINSON. Danielson, June 28th, 19i8. Excursion to Newport THURSDAY, JULY 4 The Cnly Excursion to Newport This Year Steamer City of Lowell Lv. New London Line Wharf, New London 9.45 A. M, Return due New London A delightful Heliday Outing. - 545 P. M Two hours in Newport—visit the Old Stone Mill, the Cliff Walk, and other attractive places Music and Dancing on the Main DReck Tickets, including War Tax, $1.35, €hiidren 70 Cents % Tickets, limited, are now on sals at the office of the Company on the wharf THE NEW ENCLAND STEAMSHIP COMPANY majority of our senate are so lacking in justice and chivalry as to refuse to pass the Susan B. Anthony amend- a rising scale based on age and ser- vice up to $42 a month. The commissioner of pensions states the work of administering to the eeds of the sick and wounded. matic pistol is found invaluabie. Heretofore only about 20 per cent. of the troops were armed with pistols, Now it is declared that Von Kuehl- mann is not to go. So the Kkaiser The Red Oross Is carrying on a most commendable work in this di- rection. Tt is work for which the peo- ple of the country have contributed Jarge sums out of which the raw ma- erial is procyred, but there remains %30 be much dpne hefore that raw ma- terial Is made ready for use 2s any- Sne acquainted with the activities of 1*¥he many chapters fully understands. ‘Many hands make light work of such jobs and it is the many rather than the few who sheuld be anxious to participate in rendering the service. Fhey shoyld want to stand back of the boys over there as faithfully as they are fighting for the people back home. Thus when Red Cross workers are needed there should be plenty to heed he appeal. There is no danger that “there will be too many or that tdo mgny supplies will be provided. L3 2 « DISCARDING THE TUBES, is Not a little surprise is occasioned #¥ the action of President Wilson in APplying a veto tg the postoffice ap- Topriation bill because it contained pmvilwn whereby the pnepmatic pastal tube service would be retained until the fourth of mext March and in meantime the interstate com- on should conduet an for the purpose of deter- would be a fa¥ .price for of the property by the eeurse, with the sustaining #f the vete by the house, makes it @vident that Postmaster General Bur- legon is a winner in his fight against 4he tuhes. He has beep determined to get rid of the tubes and hag been 50 persistent In his stand that he has threatened not to apply appropria- uonp made in their hehaif for that He has in other words set guthgrlw up against congress and ough the president do not give u the reason for veto n: thu bill e wasn't as mad over what he had to say as he thought he was. If everyane is going ta keep to his allotment, it logks as if there would have to be some rezulation coacerning the size of the sugar sppen. Realizing the necessity of it the size did not prevent the house from tak- ing quick action on the authorization of an additional bond issue of eight billion. Tt apparently takes more than a world war tp separate Amundsen from his pet hobby. He is at least going where he can have his neutral- ity respected. It can be expected that there will soon be millions of bushels of new wheat to be ground into flour, but it might as well be understood that there will be none to burn The importance of keeping their regisiration cards with them at gll times is being realized by the drafted men .as much as chauffeurs are com- ing to understand the necessity of carrying their licenses. With the candidates for treasurer on the three state tickets picked from this part pf the state it looks as if tastern Connecticut had some speecial advantage over the rest of the com- monwealth in regard to this particular office. The exceptign to the supposedly unbyeakahle rulp has happened; Georgia hag suffered a severe stgrm which has left the peach crop safe. ‘That gertainly is a relief, but thers is still an element of surprise in the announcement for we had been given to understand long age that the hard winter had made a peach crop Impos- sible. D I that 268,000 €ivil war veterans will receive pensions under the act passed this sessiom. Senator Brandeges took a prpmi- nent part in the passage of the great army appropriation bill within the past few days. He advocated making it compuisory that a greater army be raised and not have the matter left to the discretion of the president, as was the case in arming merchant vessels when the German submarine warfare hegl Commenting on the need of a large armv overseas Mr. Brgndegee said in part: “I want an army over there and a large one—big snough ro do its business. I do not believe in autherizinz the president to. do this thi for 1 believe we should direct him to do it. I am in fayor of directing the president to| raise an armv of five million men.” Later in the day Mr. Brandegee sup- norted the bills before the semate -to provide some sort of distinctive hadze or button for such men as had been honorgbly discharged from the mili- tary service and men of draft age who had been rejected on account of phy- rical disability. In fact the past week kas been a busy one for Senator Brandegee. Not only has he been ac- tive i forwardinz the various war measures hefore congress but he made the leading argument against woman suffrage 2s a federal measure. He referred to the suffragettes as “a noisy minority who ahsorhed to themselves ail the virtues of the wamen of the country and gets the ear of congress and the newspapers.” Perhaps the suffragists feel their defeat a little more keenly on account of their recent boasts that they had won_‘“although the ten senate votes we have gained have cost us fully §5.000 each” referring to the heavy expensc they had- assumed in lob- bying. The fact is that the amend- ment was lost even without the James pair as an issue. The suffragists lacked one vote. leaving the James rfm;ter entirely out of the question. If they accorded the usual courtesv and Tmitted hS{n to pgiy, they would find themselves two votes short, . On the and thelr use was principally con- fined to officers. cavalry and gunners who did not carry rifles. Now it is the intention of the department to equip all the troops as far as possi- ble. This proposed general equip- ment. will make it necessary to tre- mendously increasg the production of automatie pistols to meet the needs of the million or more men who must Be supplied with as little delay as possible. Before leaving for Copnectient to reside over the state convention, ongressman Tilson, who is recoe- nized as the ordnance expert of the military affairs commitige, was in confergence with the ¢ te( of staff re- zarding the sufficient production of pistols to meet the proposed new reg- |vlations. Yhile in Conagecticut Col. Tilson made an investigation as to the capacity for praducing the necessary number of automatic pistols and learned that the €glt company had very largely increased its camacity and even that was found insufficient and in addition to the work done at the Colt plant the Winchester com- pany is tooling up for the {Amdnrun'x aof the Colt aur.nmaflc pistel. This {s being done by arrangement with the r‘ou company and by early at the Winchester will be turning out the Colt gutomatics. In the meantime the war department Is equipping the troops with not gnly all the Colt pis- tols which can he ohtained, hut i also usinz the two Calt military rewlv;rs, the Smith & Wesson and others whaich sre available. These impertant has the use of them become to gremade throwers the men hapdling machine gung and others who must meet the enemy face to face. Ope Advantage of War. Wedding presents of rice and old shoes may nat he made this June, says Betty Brown. No, it was not Betty, it wag the state fopd administrator. Rice is needed for foad and the old shoes may be sent fo Belgium or France—~Saginaw News. boy's first pair of trougers always flt‘ixt the yockeu are large enouxh. i ment. Why do they balk? the Hawaijan suffr: act Hawaii is given an authority no state in our unign give the vote to its without a referend Brandegee make any objection to women cf Hawaii We have not heard sider the women of his wife and daughters, if he has any? Another senator was reported to have said: “I'm opposed to women; than they do what has a German flavor—as Treitschke “We Germans, who know both wrote: Germany and Franc: the Alsatians better kaiser and the Potsdam gang are as opposed tq woman some of oyr senators. that our Capnecticut men should be obgessed with the same views on the pubject! Wa wou better company. How queer it is t have never before e: cratic platform on s t00, is it not, that just when the dem- ocratig party hag a true democracy tral committee of C dorsed the federal ment, and the Hartford Past 'Suflrage is ‘coming,! The country is ready for it. in faver of the ame: cratic state central step with the part: senator, Brandegee, rights"—the old slo; cratic party! Brandegee must have fallen into a “Rip” sleep. TIf he may realize the trut ster's remark: “In truly republican, principle is everyth! rest assured that the aur!raguns have a vision of a govern in which self-determination, the very foundation stone of democra. granted ta women. cease the flght for they, too, hyve a voice in the Igw- making ang law-enforcing power of ) we men know far better is and the state cen- men They _passed age bill. By this passesses; it can women by statut um. Did Senz having the \uf so. Does he con- Hawail superior to to giving the vote they want.” This e, know what suits than they do.” The suffrage as are What a pity 1d have them in hat these senators ndorsed the demo- tate rights. Queer, real vision of what onnecticut has en- suffrage amend- says: and coming soon. By voting ndment the demo- committge keeps y," the repubhcan advocates ‘'state gan of the demo- ever awakens he h of Daniel Weh- all’ governments are nothing, ing" and he may ment of the people v, will be will never ision until The: this Fourth of July Reductions —ON— MEN’S, WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HiGH GRADE SHOES Now Offered to Have just bought a large Norwich Buyers stock of the Shoes of all of the leading manufacturers and offer them to the public at FOURTH OF JULY REDUCTIONS. Rare bargains can be had now before the advance in the price of shoes, which is daily changing. Brockton Sample Shoe Store 138 MAIN STREET