Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 30, 1918, Page 4

. Jiorwich Bulletin and Goufied 122 YEARS OLD » Subseription prics [2e & week; 50c a month: $6.00 » year. Entered at the Pestoffice at Norwich, Conn., a3 vecond-class matter. Telephone Cails. Bulletin Business Office 480. Bulletin Editortal Rooms 38-3. Bulletin Job Office 35-2. Willimantie Office, 25 Spring St, Telephone 384-2 A HELP TO THE REPUBLICANS. The idea that every vote cast in the coming elections should be demo- cratic has been advanced by many leaders in the past féew weeks. The plan has been, of course to make the voters think that thev would be doing an unpatriotic thing by supporting a republican who in every way is fitted for office whether it is congressional, state county or town. This plea to support only demo- crats ‘has been made for some time in New York state. It has been set forth as a war need but it is a well recognized fact that this 1s not a democratic war and not a repubHcan war, but a war in which the Ameri- can people regardless of politics are involved and giving their support. Thus the Brooklyn Eagle properly takes Chairman Elkus of the Citi- The Associsted Press is exclusively edtitied to the use for republication of all news depatch- e credited o #t or mot otherwise In il prper and also (he locai news published n All rights of republication of special despatch- es herein are also reserved. CIRCULATION October 26, 1918, 10,401 REPUBLICAN TICKET. 45 For Governor, MARCUS H. HOLCOMB of Southington. For Lieutenant Governor, CLIFFORD B. WILSON of Bridgeport. _ For Seeretary, FREDERICK L. PERRY of New Haven. 4 For Treasurer. HAROLD GILPATRIC of Putnam For Comptroller WEESTER of Harwinton. For Atterney Gemeral, E. HEALY of Windsor Locks, For Representative in Congress, RICHARD P. FRIEEMAN of New Lon- 1on G MORRIS C. © FRANK Y For sherift, SIDNEY A. BROWN of New London. For State Semators. Dist. on ALBERT J BAILEY of Norwich ELISHA WATERMAN of Lebanon, ARCHIBALD MACDONALD of Put- nam 29—SESSIONS L. ADAMS of Plainfield 3 WILLIAM H. HEALD of Stafford Springs. For Renresentatives from Norwich, GEORGE E. FELLOWS, CHARLES W. BURTON For Judge of Probate, Norwich District NELSON J. AYLING of Norwich —— . QUICK RESULTS BY SURRENDER- 3 ING, » Austria has made another bid for an armistice and peace. On the pre- vious oceasion it indicated its willing- mess to accept the principles set forth by President Wilson but because of the changed conditions it became nec- essary to inform it that the Czecho- Slavs and the Jugo-Slavs must be wrecognized in their rights. According to the latest note Austria is ready to do that, and having accepted all con- ditions for the entry into negotiations for an armistice and peace, it declares that no obstacle exists and urges that the president hegin overtures for ,peacn negotiations between Austria- ~Mungary and all of its opponents and »for an immediate armistice on all its ~fronts. This indicates that Austria is ery- “Ing “enough,” that it realizes that conditions are such in the dua! mon- .archy that it cannot go through an- ‘other winter of war and that the pressure Is being increased from the south and west to such an extent that it eannot hope to overcome it. It is therefore anxious to keep the enemy ‘off of its territory, but throughout its whole appeal there is a request for a negotiated peace and armistice. There is no reason why Austria should be let off any easier than Bul- garia. With that country it was un- conditional surrender. Whether Aus- tria, thinks it will suffer less by ap- ilying to President Wilson than by applying to the commander of the military forces as did Bulgara, it would appear to be time to inform that eountry that even though It is willing to nezotiate a separate peace quicker results could be gained by throwing down its arms and throw- ing up its hands. 7ens’ committee in New York state to task by declaring that he was right when he said that the “democrats make no claim to a monopoly of pa- triotism, and wrong when he alleged it to be a patriotic duty to support Mr. Smith (for governor). The impli | tion is that the republicans who vote republican this year will not be standing by the flag, which is more than far fetched—it is an insult. Mr. ‘Elkus should be silenced. Neither the president nor the cause is on trial in this state.” And what is true of New York is likewise true of other states and there can be no question but what such tactics are going ‘to arouse a greater interest in the coming election and bring out the republican vote as noth- inz else could have done. Such a move in nation or state is bound to serve as a boomerang and any move that is made now to call it to a halt will be too late. The republicans have gained by the methods used against them MUST FIGHT OR SURRENDER. Every lull which has woccurred on the western front since the opening of the allies’ offensive has been quick- Iy followed by more intense actlvity and that is now being experienced, although it is rather difficuit to point out any létun in the many drives of ! the allied forces. | bothering The armies in Belgium and France are plunging into the enemy Iines with the determination which spells success. They are foreing the evac- n of Ghent and pusting ahead ua toward Maubeuge with the siznificant menace whieh that holds out for Valenciennes and Tournai, while to the west of Verdun they are not only pressing the ememy for importan: cains but they are shelling the back areas for the purpose of breaking up its railroad communications and thus the Germans not only in the matter of getting supplies but in carryige out the retreat. Anc all this is beifg done with a knowledge of the faet that it is thoroughly under stood by the German forces who fully appreciate what is meant by the pleas which are being made for an arm tice and peace, for while the Teutons are being steadily forced tc give up ground they are at the same time suffering large losses in men and ma- terial. Added to this are the encouraging zain: which are being made in Italy, he Falkan fronts afd in Tur- All the ed a es are now working in perfect harmony and rain- ng blows upon the enemy with such telling effect that it is evident that the central powers cannot continug (o stand up under them for any great period. And in this connection it is serfectly apparent that there is no GRINDING TURKEY UNDERFOOT. General Allenby has secured new laurels by his capture of the Turkish | base at Aleppo, an important junetion point on the railroad to Bagdad, 70 miles northeast of Beirut and 185 miles north of Damascus. Things have moved surprisingly well for the British commander since the smash-| mg of the Turkish army directed by ; the German general von Sanders to i the north of Jerusalem, and if it hal ! 6t already been so cripnled by the | previous losses and the surrender of . Buigaria, which shut it off from the nations allled with it, this latest vic- tory would be of much greater im- portance than it is. But it is not to be thought that there is' mow no special importance attached to this new advance, for aside from the military advantage | gained through the placinz of the Turkish forces in a much more pre- | carious position, it means the deliv- |émance not only of Palestine, but \@yria from the hands of the Turks, {anmd insures the early joining of these {xm with those of General Marshall i Mesopotamia for the freelng of | that part of Asia Minor as well as | Armenia of the murderous Turks. { “Though the British are still 600 | miles from Constantinople their op- ‘aqumu are daily bringing the broken !Tarks to the realization of the fact thit peace on whatever terms. the al- lies . will exact cannot long be pre- ivented. The operations now are !simply putting on the finishing !touches of war activities which have {been underway for some time. And it'is being dome in spite of Germany’s best efforts. thought on the part of the military directors of permitting any let wup. ilaving a vital advantage they intend ‘o push it to the signal victory that is not only portended but needed. To halt now would be to give the enemy 1 chance to recuperate which cannot be thought of. He must fight or sur- render. ¥ EDITORIAL NOTES. The longer it leoks at it the more Austria admires the dove of peace. Football is certainly a tame game in these days of strenuous war activ- ity. If Germany is determined to fight to the last ditch it might just as weil get right back to the Rhine. The man on the corner says: Noth- ing is handled much more carefully these days than a dozen of eggs. Making things safe for the demo- ecratic party apparently calls for the strategic retreat of “politics is ad- journed.” Turkey is getting so faggzed out In its endeavor to stick to the end that it is easier to run than it is to stand and fight. Capturing 9,000 prisoners in one day on the Italian front is good work. o wonder the dual monarchy wants ‘mmediate peace. Emperor Wilhelm says that he will never desert his sorely tried people, but that will not cause much cheer to Maximilian Harden. Hindenburg tells th= Cermans to hold fast, but with the loss of 20,000 in two days it looks as if that was easier said than done, With Ludendorff gone and Hinden- burg talking peace, the German peace makers are apparentlv getting ready for a letter of introducticn to General Foch, When it comes to sound, economical and efficient government, the people of Connecticut know that they have the right man at the helm in Governor 1Tolcomb. When the fuel administrator de- clares that there will be no coal fam- ife thig winter, it must be a Dbig re- lief to the fellow who has no coal in his cellar. And while Germany is getting ready to’ learn what the armistice require- ments will be, the allied forces are plunging ahead for large gains cn cvery front. It beging to look as if we were ap- proaching those “last fifteen minutes™ in which Premier Clemsnceau some time ago said the end of the war would come, If Austria wants to stop fighting at once and get down to peace, some- one ought to call its attention to the method which Bulgaria adopted for quick resuits. While oversubscriptions v/ill not be resented, the duty of 2ach community in the coming war work campalgn is to meet its quota. If that s done the NORWICH BULLETIN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1918 / FACTS AND COMMENT The present exchanges between the Washington and Berlin governments heat the record for rapid fire interna- tional correspondence. Seven notes have gone to and fro within three weeks. This haste to reply has been in sharp contrast to Germany's de- lay in the Lusitania and Sussex cor- respondence and shows, perhaps bet- ter than any other factor saving only General Foch, how_ desperately Ger- many is in need of immediate ces- sution of hostilities. To the German statement of Oct. 21 that the new government had been formed in ac- cordance with the wishes of the peo- plé and that the war-making power was being taken from the kaiser, the president replied that there were no guarantees that these changes were t> be permanent, that the military was still superior to the civil, that the power of the king of Prussia was unimpaired and that the nations. of the world did not and could “not trust the word of those who had hitherto dire¢ted Germany. This being so, an armistice must put the allies In po- sition to enforce any terms and to make impossible a renewal of hostili- ties by Germany. These are strange words to find place in diplomatic correspondence, which has always been characterized by extreme politeness and the deter- mination not to give offence, to such a degree that the very word “dipls- matic” has become synonymous with “tactful” and much of the vigor of international correspondence has been lost under its camouflage of suave manner and gracious words. The no- torious Austrian ultimatum to Serbia in July, 1914, was scarcely more harsh in tone than this latest reply of democracy’s president to erstwhile imperious and, it is to be suspected. still Imperial Germany. KEagerly and curoiusly America waited the reply, the tone of whicth quite as much as the tenor might tell whether Ger- already knew that she was Four days only were re- qnired and then came the briefest re- piv of all this series, containing not a trace of resentment, not a word of self-justification, merely the humble statements that the president was aware that a people’s government was in power and that this government awaited the =allies’ proposals for an armistice. After the episode of the “scrap of raper,” to mention only the first of the instances of Teuton faith, it would be a sad mistake to trust the word of any German government. and for- tunately there seems to be no indic: n that anybody in the worid aoes. Nevertheless the most notorious of liars sometimes tells the truth and it is perfectly conceivable that on this occasion Germany is doifig so. Since, however, her unsupported word is not to be taken, greater attention is be- ing paid to happenings in Germany that have a bearing thereon. Among inese is the resignation of Ludendorf. Though Hindenburg has nominally been at the head on the Germcn staff, Gen. Ludendorff from his position as Guartermaster-general of the army is generally recognized as the brains of the military establishment and the guiding force of all Germany. His were the nlans for deporting the French and Belgian populations to in the mines and factories of his tie corruption of the army resulting in the defeat at Caporetto, his the ruin of Russia and the treaty of Brest-Litovsk. He it was who promised the fali of Paris and the capitulation of France, to be followed by the separate subjugation of the other allies. Though his fail ure would naturally ‘have hbrought about his ruin, the fall of so grea: a military ficure cannot but have an effect on the status of the entire mili- tary establishment. Another fact that may indicate a real change of purpose on the part of the German government is the out- spoken and unrebuked demand for the resignation of the kaiser. Now it is the mild exhortation that he sacrifice himself for the good of the Father- land, now the angry cry for the elim- ination of the whole royal family and the foundation of an out-and-out public. Conservative papers rel tantly admit that they must vield, while the liberal press rejolces that their cause is about to he won. The skeptical outer world is inclined to bel:eve that this xgreater license for the press .is part of the imperial gov- c«rnment’s plan to make it appear that it is about to vield. Whether this is true or not, the very appearance of such statements and demands in the public press cannot fail to have its effect on the German people. If the itaperial zovernment is really trying to fool the outer world, they-are ex- perimenting with a very dangerous method. The factor in the whole situation that tends most to make the world belleve that Germany must have peace immediately 2nd at any price is the continued success of General Foch. There may be peace talk in_the r but there is rone in front. Each day sees new Frenzh villages restored to their former inhabitants and new Ger- man prisoners by the thousands with- in the allies’ lines. In the past half year the Germans have lost a haif miiiion men and a fifth of their artil- lery. Chateau Thierry, the farthest point south reached by the Germans in the great June drive, is $5 miles deep in France. Aleady the Boches are fifty miles on their way home. Trom Cantigny, the point of greatest penetration toward the west. the Jines are now drawn more than fifty miles nearer Berlin. The strip of France now held by the enemy is nowhere more than 30 miles wide and at some points it is less than ten, while down towards the Swiss border the Ameri- cans have long held positions well within German Alsace. The going has been harder for the Americans the past week and at piaces the Germans have made un- successful counter-attacks. Tt is cer- tainly a tough proposition that the Americans are up against as they try to push their way northward from the hard-won Argonne forest, vet the prize is worth the struggle. The re- gion is priceless from a military standpoint. Not only are the iron fields of Luxemburg and the Bassin de Briey within a few miles of the fighting zone, but the great rallway lines essential to the maintenance or retreat of the whole southern half of the German armies in France parallel the American front at a distance dan- reroysly small, A fifteen mile ad- vance would carry the Americans across these lines of rail and clear to the southern tip of triangular Bel- gium. The terrain. however, 'is ad- mirably suited to defense, cut up as it is with hills and ravines and dot- ted with frequent patches of wood- land. Taking advantage of this the Germans are resisting with the ut- most desperation and the American advance has been correspondingly slow. In the north, toa, the Germans are holding harder with the idea of get- ting their men and material out of Belgium. A number of villages have requirements will be fuifilied. Germany says it is going to give back to Belgium its art treasures which have been taken away. How about the innocent non-combatants who have been murdered, tortured and starved? Of course the kaiser has not abdi- cated and he has no intention of tak- ing any such rash step. But e German people might ag well urder- stand that their government Is under suspicion as long as he is retained. Feen regained but the great city of Ghent is yet to be won. Valenciennes, the largest industrial center of France now held by the Germans, is sur- rounded on three sides by the British and its evacuation cannot be long de- layed. The greatest advance of the ‘week, however, has been made by the tiree French armdes in ths center of the line betwen the rivers Oise and Serre. All along this forty-mild CORRECTING THE BILL Waving her hand vaguely toward a|the information desk! I've come to get tench near the door of the electric|my bill corrected, please. You see, we lisht company’s office, the woman in|were away three days last month, and blue serge paused to speak to her ra- [of course it is quite logical to think ther harassed looking friend. my bill should be lower than wsual, “Suppose you sit down here, ®ear,|but as an actual fact it's higher, and while I find out,” she said. “But I}1 make it a point not fo ier such don’t know; perhaps you'd better come | things ‘pass unnoticed. I think it's so right along with me. I might forget|lax, don’t you know? : where I left you or you might start| “Yes, it's 50 cents higher tham it after me, and then we'd miss each|ever been before, unless it was the other. = month John's brother from Los An- “Oh, of course, I know vou wouldn't | geles was visiting us, and I dom't it if you said you wouldn5t, but I al- |know.what on earth the mar could ways think of the time I was going|have been doing to usé so much light. to meet Sister Margaret at Blank's | Of course, he was writing a book, but and she sat downstairs in the waiting | why he thought he could write a book room and 1 sat upstairs in the tea-|I don’t see, except that everybody room for three-quarters of an hour.|thicks he can in these days. Oh, you And then she started up just as I|don’t know, either, whers I ought started down and the elevators passed | go to get my bill adjusted? Well, it' and we didn't meet at all, and she was |certainly queer that they shouldn’t so angry, because we were going to|have anybody around here that knows buy a wedding present for her hus-|anything. You're just relieving? Well, band’s niece—you know she marrfed [I must say it doesn’t seem to me that a widower, and that makes such aw-|you're relieving very much when ful complications, because, no matter | you're just sitting here without know- what you do, his children are going|ing anything at all. Do you think to think you did it for some reason or | that man at the desk over there would other, when, perhaps, you haven't had |be able to tell me? Well, thank you any idea at ail. And when we dldn’t|very much! Il go ask him anyway. meet she was so upset about it that|Yet I don’t know why I xeep thank- she bought a perfectly dreadful silver |ing everybody so elaborately. Nobody basket kind of thing that nobody on!has given me any information so far. earth would want. So I guess youd = hetter come with me.” “Is this where I come to get my bill adjusted? I certainly don’t see v T should go clear back to the end of the line. That woman in the gray suit came in some time after I did.” “How many people are there in front of me, dear? “Eight? Well, I don’t know how I'm going to stand it. I'm regny faint al- ready. All this nervous cxcitement, don’t you know? I should not havs at- tempted it, I'm afraid. “Now there are onl really don’'t think I'd better wait. The clerk is waiting on the people quite fast, thowgh, isn't he? I suppose Tl re serry if I don't wait, and tnen. on the other hand, if 1 should really faint here—he’ll never get througn with tha: woman. I can tell she's the kind that just talks and talks and never gets anywhere, “Let's just run over to Blank’s and have a cup of tea. I know tnat wili Lieve me, and I can cend John over th the bill tomorrow. It won't be bit of trouble for him, now that I can tell him just where to goS—Chicago News. The woman in blue serge accosts a stantial looking man standing near. 11 you piease tell me where to go to get my bill corrected?’ she asks. “You see, T never had a bill larger than $3.50, and they're charging me $4, and we were away three days last month, so I know they've made a mistake. Of course, it ssems a very small amount, but it's the principle of the thing.” “Let me refer you to that usher,” the substantial looking man repifed. “You aren’t an usher? I beg your pardon, but I thought—I hLope yvou'll €xcuse me: you see, I'm a little near sighted and I thought on account of your having on a blue suit and not hzving a hat on—— “Of course, 1 see your hat now, but when I spoke to you I didn-t notice— well, thank you very much. I'm sor- ry I bothered you.” She hurries off with harassed look ing friend in tow. “I'm awfully afrai 1 offended him, but 1 don't see why he should have minded. Oh, here’s seven, but 1 vnemy just that much of his deepest reach into the heart of France. STORIES OF THE WAR “What a German Peace Is Like.” and seemed to de falling through all eternity. My life was saved by my bed shooting across the room. The cupola of the adjoining building fell where my bed stood.’ ';;I‘he adjutant of the unit was b\n‘ieg i under the debris for three hours. (Correspondence of The Associated | M&er the Sebrls for throe bours, b Press): . Ineck. They had to tunnel through the “What a German Peace is Like” Is | dobris to set him out. Ho was con. b the heading on an article written for{ scious part of the time and directed the Weekly Dispatch by Annie PaIT,fihe rescuers in their work. He was who has just arrived in London fram | bruised but not seriously hurt.” Bucharest. i it o “I was in Bucharest, when the Ger- mans entered the Rumanian capital,” she writes. “They had evidently de- cided that it would not be wise to shock the world with another Bel- gium, and they were careful to keep their troops under control, but they were the masters. I remember a male friend of mine who was returning home from dinner in evening clothes being stopped in the streets in the middle of fhe winter and compelled to sweep away the snow for hours inthe bitter cold. “Many a beautiful home was wreck- ed The Germans had no scruples about converting drawing-rooms into stables for their horses, and front gardens into cemeteries for their dead. “Terrible atrocities were committed by the Bulgarians. and the sufferings of the prisoners they took were un- speakable. Of 30,000 Rumanians taken prisoners only 8,000 returned, and they were in an appalling condition. They were skeletons, scarcely able towalk. At the station they seemed too weak to eat or drink. When we offered them food they simply sunk down on to a bench and burst into tears. “It was a most tragic home-coming for the Rumanian soldiers, following upon the crushing peace terms. It has left on my mind an unforzettable im- pression of what a German peace is like. Those soldiers came back in rags and half-starved to homes that had been reduced to poverty They had to witness in silence the insolent bearing of the German soldiery in their streets. The officers were told they would either have to salute the German officers or take off their uni- A Leter From a Doctor. The sort of duty that 5 medical of- ficer may have to perform.in active service is w2il indicated in the fol- lowing letter of Lieutenant Herbert R. Mills, of the Medical Reserve corps, who has now been in.France over a year. It is written to his wife, and is dated after the fighting between the Marne and Vesle: “This was the night that we be- zan to bregk down and bad to fall out aieng the road. When this hap- pened I started to ride to the head of the column to inform the commis- sioned officer of conditions. so that he would waite for us to get straight- ened out (all this was in pitch dark- ness and driving rain), but ‘Vis’' the horse I had been riding up and down the column for three days and nights, couldn’t make it, and literally crnmpled to the ground. Ry the time I located another horse, that of an orderly riding in the rear. it was too late to find the head of the column. I rode forward about two kilometers and came to a fork in the road, and the column was not in hearing dis- tance. With no map an¢ only a list of the towns through which we were to pass, 1 had to bring up the last of the wagons, about twenty in number. ““The next day we were anticipating a bath, a shave and general clean-up, with a rest, when word came for all medical officers to report at once to the dressing stations, whick were al- ready in action. Here is where our work really began. I worked in the operating room the first night and day, giving anti-toxin to the wound- forms. They preferred to take off|ed, and got no sleep until the third their uniforms. night. It was a tough job, and all 1 “There are still plenty of German|can , ‘Nothing is teo good for soldiers there looking fat and well and at no pains to conceal their satisfact- ion at the conclusion of a peace which has put a crushing economic burden on to Rumania and bound the gountry and its trade hand and foot to the Germans. The one hope of the peo- ple is an Allied victory. Wiping Out an Ambulance Unit. The headquarters of the Friends’ ambulance, an organization of 350 workers from all sections of America sent to the western front by the American Society of Friends, has been almost completely wiped out by bombs dropped from German airplanes. Two of the staff were Jilled and four in- jured, The others were safe. The story of the disaster is told in a report of Major John Van Schaick, deputy commissioner in Belgium of the American Red Cross, of which the Friends ’ambulance is a unit, who says: “A worker whom we had placed with the unit was sleeping in the room with one of those who was killed. He was not injured. He described his experi- ence as follows: '+ “‘I was awake when the bomb fell. 1 don’t remember much noise, only the motion. The whole room seemed to lurch back toward where the bomb fell and then went down. We fell fast the American soldiers who are now going back to the states wounded. Most of those' we were treating had heen fighting under the most trying conditions. “A soldier was brought in Xaving a broken leg, which had been bound up P with a bayoret used as a splint, and tied on with wire. He said a German soldier, who was also wounded, found him in a wheat field. The Cerman fix- ed him up and then laid down be- side him to rest, and died in an hour or two. Another boy had 2 well ap- plied dressing on his ley, which he said had been put on by a German Red Cross doctor, who was out in No Man’s Land attending to (iermans and Americans alike. Many wounded Ger- mans came through our station, and we gave them attention as soon as our boys were cared for. I am hoping to go back tomorrow where I can get my bedding roll. You know we are the shock troops of the A. E. F,, and have to keep our equipment down to the point of highest mobility.” OTHER VIEW POINTS The influenza epidemic has made an and both oranges and lemons are in greai demand in the dietary of the thousands of grip patients. food prober finds in New York that Tired, Nervous Women What You Need is Vinol The reason we recommend Vinol so strongly for such conditions is because it is a non-secret remedy which contains Beef and Cod Liver Peptones, Iron and Manganese Peptonates and Glycerophosphates, the very elements needed to build up a run-down system and replace weakness with strength. HERE IS PROOF G.Iugmlv Jet.,, Ky, 5 Milwaukee, Wis. “1 was suffering from a nerveus “1 was weak, nervous, all run breakdown — loss of flesh and poor | down, no appetite and had taken dif- appetite o I could hardly dm around | ferent medicines without benefit. A end do the work for my family. My | friend advised me to try Vinol. It doctor prescribed Vinol. 1t not only | gave me a wonderful appetite, I sleep made me wal lm’i’ strong but I have | well, have gained in weight and am gained in weight.”’—Mrs. S. M. Gray. | uowstrong and well.”’ —Mrs. E. Strey. stretch thers have been sgubstantial Zains varying from one or two miles to as much as fifteen, This is the For all rus-down, anaemie Teobie ol peopie and delicate chitdren: there is ne romedy ke g 1ROl Creates Strengt Broadway Pharmacy, G. G. Engler, Prop., Norwich. Vinol is sold in Wil- limantic by th¢ Wilson Drug Co.; in Danielson by the 4 W. Williams Pharmacy, and in Putnam by J. F. Donahue and Druggists n unprecedented demand for the eitrus; It the; MAT, 215, EVE, 645 and 845 2 GREAT PICTURES DOUG. FAIRBANKS IN THE 8-PART COMEDY HE COMES UP SMILING A RIOT OF FUN CHARLES RAY IN THE 5-PART DRAMA The Law of the North A Splendid Story of the Northwest U. S. OFFICIAL Allied Nations War Review BURTON HOLMES TRAVEL PICTURES s e i s e VAUDEVILLE TOMORROW undue profits are charged, it is likely that there will be some fines and de- nunciations that will regulate thinge the way the butchers were recently regulated.—Meriden Journal. “I trust that it may never again be said,” remarked a democrat from Tennessee, “that there has been any sectional opposition to a request by the state of Massachusetts.” Thus did the speaker lay unction to his soul for not oppésing the passage of the reso- lution appropriating -a million dollars for fighting the epidemic of Spanish influenza. Because it first made its 2ppearancé in this country in the Bay State, and because representatives and senators {rom Massachusetts were zealous in securing relief, this gentle- man from Tennessee claims special credit for his party for not making ‘sectional opposition” to the grant of federal aid for its suppression. Every- body knows that the plague was brought to the United States in a ship from Spain that happened to dock at Boston. From thére it has spread with alarming rapidity to practicaily all the army camps in the country. If ever there ‘was a danger that became a naticnal menace it is this epidemic, and for the democrats to raise the question of sectionalism is preposter- ous.—Waterbury Republican. Question —.Something to About LADIES FIRST CHESTER CONKLIN and AT OLYMPIC HALL, NOV. 1st, 2nd and 4th, Entertainment Each Evening -at 8 DANCING FREE—8.30 to 11.30 ADMISSION 10 CENTS (INCLUDING WAR TAX) Benefit of Norwich Lodge, No. 950, Loyal Order of Moose Parade from Moose Home Friday at 7.30 P. M. A Play With An tnteresting Think MACK SENNETT, GOMEDY MOOSE HERDING MR. ERNEST GRIGG Y. M. C. A. WORKER IN FRANCE WILL SPEAK AT THE CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH WEDNESDAY EVENING AT 7.45. : 342 WASHINGTON ST. FEW ALL-LINEN GOODS REMAIN i Towels, Napkins and Table Cloths Said to be Practically Unobtainable New York, Aug. 27 (Special)=The linen market {s - extremely quiet. There is no doubt that all-linen goods are fast disappearing in the United States. Linen towels, napkins and table cloths are said to be prac- tically unobtainable. It is believed that retail stores are now disposing of the last lots of this class of mer- chandise and will soon be compelled to confine their linen departments to mercerized and unmercerized. cotton goods. \ In this connection, it is noted that cotton goods have advanced to levels above the former prices of linens. The wholesale price of. cotton -huck;— towels is now $3. The situation in huck towels is intensified by reports that the Government is in the market { for all it can get. L5 #1\3N 3 Advices from Belfast state that the- duplication of the better-known ‘brands and patterns of all-linen goods in cotton for the export trade con- tinues. In view of the situation, moreover, buyers are prompt to take anything they can obtain. A few unions are still available, but the pro- portion is decidedly small and in favor of cottons. From The New York Times Despite the fact that Irish Linens are becoming more scarce daily we direct attention to‘a very good assortment at our Shop and at very modest prices. No store rents permits low prices, and your money back if you want it. W EVERYONE WELCOME Kimball's Testile Shop MARY THURMAN Burton Holmes Travelogue