Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 11, 1918, Page 4

gam?ith Bulletin nnd Eonfisd 122 YEARS QLD .u-on-p;.almm 0 . s #flnlfi?flfiuuflqfl:&m-“ relis matter. Press Is eatitled o 16¢ Tmunq urm demutch- ¢ and o e he,l et 'mhnnw of republication of speclal despatcd- sleo reserved. % éll_l(u OF THE ASSOCIATER PRESS, "CRCULATION Dec. 7, 1015, 10,407 LEGALIZE THE CONTRACTS. Inasmuch as cortain of the war eon- traéts which have been given by tele- .phone or telegraph are not in auch form that they can be accepted as ggal, and therefore it is impossible for the government to reach a set- tlement with the concerns holding ‘them, the right course is ihat which «iy belng adopted in asking for the accessary legisjation which will make fhem Jegal. There does not appear to be any in- stgnces where It is held that those whd have suech illegal coptracts are trying to defraud ‘the gzovernment, It ‘%’ gitnply 4 case where, in the haste g get the war material, the necessary i hds not been gone tirough and | ap approved contract has not peen ed The wmanufacturers have, However, proceeded, upon the strepsth «of the erders giyen by government au- 4horities, to arrange for the making the goods, incurced the expepse of ptcupmz the raw material, machinery and tools and in some cases possibly Begun the manufacture just as if a pertectly jegal contract existed. They acted for the good of the country and 1 mot hesitate to go-ahead because they belleved that the Fovernment would stand back of them. hey ®ere ypguestionably justificd in their attion and therefore shauld be pro- lgeted. " Thig- is recognized by Major Gen- eral Goethals of fhe general staff who apclured that the legalizing act cajled r {s neceseary in order to keep many dustries frem bankrupt nd by | s3istant Secretary of War Crowel] 0 pointed out that unless it was sged the goverpment would be con- nted with litization ‘amounting to indeeds of millions of qollars. There | riainly canp be no toleraticn of frag d @ the crention of loophotes where gheb can be practiced, Lut it is oply| frobor that there shouid be fair treat- mt of thoze who have heen doing xir utmost to carry out the govern- nt's wighes. THE SITUATION IN GERMANY. e of the big questions at the epenl timo ' concerns the future o gfl'flfln" 1t is a matter in which e than Germany is concerned for must be realized that it makes a difference as to how it emerges from e war as to whether it fajls into the Bbnds of the bolsheviki or seitles pwn to an ord democratic goy- ment which will be for the ben of pot only Germany but the wgrid. It is nat o be suppoged that the al- Ues will attemnt to tell Germany what ¥ind arggme rignt it m: haye, but i} s apnarently the feeling throughant Qe country that it is anxious to be ved from those influences whi Jvo rgised such havge with Rus: ¥t i5 to be noticed that the entry OF the allied armies intp German ter- Mary is being accompanies by an un- flisguised welc It i5 not to be imagined that means (hat the people #r¢ giad that Germany has lost for they are not; but they appreciate the 8id which is to be received in main- taigine order and preserving them from the ravages of a lot pf wild ang iyresponsible elements. Not only American but PBrijish gen- erals have been asked to hasten thejr becupatien of certain points that therg might not be too much time pe- tween the Jeaving of ihe German forces and the coming of the allies, This request has been complied with with good results for all cancerned, and there is no telling how numerays will be such calls, Germany from all intleations is afpaid of itself. It fears what may happen if the belsheviki get the up- pr hand and it is anxious to prevent K‘E and in that the allies have reason gooperate for the guicker Germany g,n be ’%othn on an orderly footipz government estahlished ht '\lu‘-'kar t will be possible to ge: § detatly straightened out and abgut their gnforcement. A re- WNG government in Germany is nreferable to such a one as existg to- a7 in Russia, and .whatever can be dpse to" sasure it js desirahle. BRIED MEATS, “Wat a little attention is bound to given to the report to the effect emists, after extenpsive experi- *wulfln they feel justify them in making their claims, have heen ahle ".mf*‘ a method of drying meats going to be of great economie Y t¥c The process is not re- Vm t it is pointed out that it is were than g theory for it has been given a trinl in one of the southern :fliw-y traiping camps, and when eat was sgerved to the men B wag from an econof means that eclence storage one betfer, can be ed so that water it can be aj now @ age flnt? “1; go;’u? o and !kfi is true of &c depots meat is ewise transportation, for it 8 much expense is entailed mnlu' retrigerator cars, lieepl iced and flg;:z them the o ‘l' cly they ret;ulre. wh e cars, t m 4 stopage ‘“"m!%',.'f tter, could be |, ge if the fes|, viants do not haye'te be taken iniq comsideration. cept this néw idea 45 & pdsitive suc- cesg, but we are steadily making p;o ress in all directions and it ig not un- reasonable to suppege that it wm prove al D«at is claimed for it. Time and sufficient trials ought o fell the story. GERUIANS BONT LIKE 1T, the allieg in the pgaug;;lfln of the Rhenish provinces will attempt to in- flict upon the German people the hardships whieh those nf Bejgium apd nerthern France were mpde to ex- perience at the hands of {he German rrmy, but it can capge ng surprige if there are evidences of t! felt at the treatment whic receiyed and fhat something more than money is necessary to assuage that feeling, This is perbaps indjcated by the situation which prompted the protest {o the armistice commission oyer the action taken by the allied forces in Aix-la-Chapelle, where regulations were adopted requiring the Germans to step off ‘the sidewalk at the ap- oroach of Belgiap officers, to remove their hats to all officers and to remain at home hétween the hotrs of sevep in the evening and flvg the next morning. These regulations are pot very bur- densome, although they ars of course decidedly humiliating,” and naturally the Germans do not h)\e it. Tt is g5 different from what they zre used to {hat they chafe under the ruies and Immediately seek relief. But that enly provides the oppartunity for making it plain to them that su:h regulations are only a few of- the many which were imposed upen th Belgians without appreaching in se- verily the demiands made by theGer- sans. But it is anparen‘ly a case where the German people thipk thgf it is horrible for them to hé subject- ed to any such freatment, it mak- ing no differerice of course what the conduct of the Ge ng it'is' not to be suphosed that the army pf occupation will proceed to garry out this idea everiwhere or| that'it will impoee as a general thing any more than the maiatenance of order and proper conduer, hut the regulations 'at Aix-Ja-Chapelle may give the subjects of the formfir kaiser a better dea of why Germany has no friends today. AIRPLAN Anneuncement o the oficet that ;“ms ave bem" made by finanefal and connect Lon- by airplane sgryiee, means bring other tant points of the British empire , can o rise. | - e f.lr‘t is rplane has development in ars, especlally as the result~of the ¥ that' it s realized that there are great possibilifips I re it. It has nd it ean & 1. commercial w: It is quite natural t dergo ‘extensiyg develonmer igation of the air is progress- rapidly. Long distances are ba- ing pegotiated with geod resuils, bet- maghines arg brought amt and a gree of safety. s heing own in the hapdling ef the flvig machines. 1t §s not that all COMIPErci: e realized v mediately de- but the time is coming when Ji attract far legs attention es today. 5 time plaps haye heen sing of the At- and at t‘xe present timg rec- ndations gre heing ' eongidered the establishment of a mai] ser- from coast 1q coast in this copn- try which will materiglly * decrease the time. These aye all thipgs which are due to come in time and there is thus nothing startling in the plan pf the Dritish interest It is not un- likely that hoth continents in this hemisphera will vet he brought near- or toweflm- by the airplane; than it ¢ ERITARIAL NOTES. Berlin is pow exmeriencing to a small degree what it seemed to think was a good thirg for Rus Probably you have noticed that President Wilson and Cojopel Hoyse have not bath been at sea at the same time, The man on the corner says: The removal of the sugar restrietions ocught to da mych for that legn lgok in the candy stores. General Pershing’s report only em- phasizes what is already believed, and that is that Americans in France did their duty and did it well. The talk that is being indulged in skirts about women wearing their lenger refers to the distanee bstween the belt line and the hem rathey thap time. Henceforth ‘it can be expgcted that snowghoveling will come to the front as a musele developer, qr at least it should if we are gaing to have com- fortable and safe walks. A West Var?mu man hag beep egn- victed of theft for the third time and been given a life sentence, the only sentence ander the law. That atate Goesn’t believe in too much lenienpy, Dr. Garfisld as fuel adiintstrator knows that he did not suqceed in “(. isfying everybedy, apd Taeognizes the same time that that ig a t ‘which very few people can_ perfarm. Theugh the ex-crpwn pringe can- siders that the fact that he and his fathe that is punishment enough, that ion ig net lxkq! to be Eumud (?‘gy the ajlied nations, From the way in which reports ape being put out gnly to be denied re- gardipg ‘this country und the Peru unpleasantness it looks as somegne wag tying {e kigk up & big: ser fyss instead of epding it true of 1t is perhaps a bit t9Q early to ae- It is not reasonahle to belleve that are dawn and our, and that Chite- it anl g:l ifi%fl 1 memnx\us. “left on 'his trip yes. 1y, Angel ot~ arou could take i ught I'd stop to ‘see my sis- ter rdmx and 6r Idren, sinee it was the last dav of their ' visit to mother, As I a roached the house I met mother “eom! Qn h’{..“l sat;‘ni in /¢ ‘were on u 2 en singe wi ‘e 0 “3 é thought shie’d betlér' p: fio R e “m er nprcnaum: she Jgoked ‘I’ sugsesied 3 snin thmgzh fi Dl S 1o U\Yimfite her. Sbe said 'q ‘better drive by hame first and e yefltha thln«s with the maid: 8o . we staripd on o crisp morn ing dnr\.!e. %d 1! f1eshing that mother’s cheg! pink, and T (}fifldm} to keep 'l;er out aué long as poss| g5t g,s whau % ulmm sya;efi and didn't ack il noon. ’Pbe sun wa.s getting” w'mpcr uaen, 52 as Jong as I had the car ‘out’I thought I'd drive by the sehcel and gave my little sister Gladys that mid- day wallc home. " “As T drew up, nwn"t e street made her Gladys was coming | out” of the school yard with her teacker. The 1eacher spoke to me cotdially and I was suddanly fll]ed wilh' compassion. “I guess you asked her to hop in and take a ride.” “And she accepted the lnvltauon b& hopping in,” Angeline replied. seemed §0 gmmtul that 1 cquldn’t re— sist’ taking her through the loveliost | 1 you wish to reauae st eat md.v. ice creu:n, etnA. gtt Andrtoflum Th atre " ‘Wg}:’ . THPE?BA‘G FRIDAY, SATURBAY %p d&!l&g % et FS 350\!& f!‘ty 6! es “halg shmay\mus Ahfl ‘“Wfis—gam 't sta; or it cqutfln; E v tb m" mm tounvl curh with thé promin s tem (d héd ‘been’ mlius m ‘communicaie :vllth ug, because he-hadn't been abie 1o ~f:t Evelyn a lower bm-Lh and hat egan crying. And then getiing | he said hn might g¢t an upper for he: ¢ I'd drive hith Gewntown' immed: Q. we remmed vzth the upper | hen' d Evel; nd ‘k‘x“:w \fat imrg then’ rove velyn a er youngstes the rest of our family all {he y 204 the Fest 9 1 wassodes.d"’v gnal got back that the garase seemed a million miles away. crazy old éar and len it all nigh |alm{g the curb, 1 smtched a s to the station. T just lecked the gels’;m(:;mfgd m‘ig found that a simple bath of iodine so- lutlon will heal the Describing the scene with- in a tank which is being hit with machine sun bullets, the officer said: “As the buliets strike s.muztaneoflsly with the sound of im- DANCE Chicago News. WASHINGTON AFFAIRS Special fo The Bylietin) Washipgtop, D. C., De 30. — The question of housing Connecticut war workers was the maip topic of dis- cusgion at & he;, ng he senate committee on public buildings yester- day. A delegation from Bridgeport Was prese: “headed hy Lieutenant Governor Wilson. The deiegution was accompanjed ay Copgressman Schuy: ler Merpitt ! ‘l’ hn‘» eeilzl in |ece:p$|ol P ts frov ding Diidgeport as- ;é nuonsraz-‘unfi the ranfilla(ion of | pts in t‘mt] port Cormmp Bridgepart Manufaetyring peiation qnd the Dridgeport Housing eormmit- 0b]«=c|-nn1 to the r-nmnle'i’nn of ! The Bridgeport men a2t the hearing today " "that’ “all unfinfshed contracts ‘be completed “as the eity would-be the éenter of war indusiries for 'some time to come and’ ¢ housthg accominolat n ef the efiy i the period of thfi war, s0 it wag staled. Senator Rged 9f Misseu of the comitioe expre: viey' to the complefio: bujld thar fu; senate i of w Rot oply "“‘1 sifuation, but with othe well, which would inciude 'md oiher Conn ecflcul el gngd that i n o continua it shoyid ho 8- of that loealilv and not be S od Sdate ;.mpmmnnt r Reed g t L t government, ¢ aid in reward to Biidgep: Iy he pegarded as appl: ities s well. An mpcrt;nf he .,anrr ford’ the mil e M ] gy 59.(9- ag tp gther ommittee | mwms “those p.-m.s pontracts 1 the con- ere lackme in ¢ The Pent bill commitiep for cans ré were yresent the treasury and I departm asks congressiopal nayments on canceliad contracts which do not meet full requiremsnts in mat- 1} ter of form and a signing required by law. This bill is intended to cover the contraets which the comptralier of the treasury felt himself upable to henor throtugh technical defec but which the war denuntment feels should be recognized. In most caxas tha con- trocis weore made by telcphone, tele- graph or signed B¢ some other per- Son that the contrastor Limself. This -, if it'may be sp tormed, was the t of urgent haste gn the part of the goverriment, to secure the services of the contractors, in order to meet ©ol. Tilson urged war Gepartment and the treas- ury pay eanitable amounis. Saiq Col- Tilson: “Phe governmer: should do honest busipess man_ would Ttke clreumstances and make a sottlement that will be ic just." Tt is expected that the Dent vill will be pagsed by eongress aad if that is done, many Comnecticut plants will bhe protecind from an atherwise lass n the gancellation of cortructs. There is no parting so bitter as the parting of a quimine capsule just as you are in the act of swallowing it, and the creation of the flake, a is seen, and Wl chlne gun is playing up ang 1 ints in the hope of finding a weak et, the interior looks much Jike 2 monstrmion of cheap fireworks, hile there i no danzer from ma- chme guns to a tank crew, there is anger from armor Tonight at T, A. B, Hall Rowland’s Jazzy Band Don't forget Band starts at! 8.30 SHARP STORIES OF THE WAR Under Fire of Their Own Guns. - ((:pn-espondee_nce of The Assodiated Wounded u.nfl Men prisoners by the for two days Kept inl a side of a hill which was re pltemately by Arnerwans apd then by the enemy, two privates were rescued by r forty-eight hours ng to censorship reg- wauwed soldjers, ible fo give the names ot !Luuq ,PK; réal and pressing -‘ plercing or explos; *Unless it is possible to get within mile of the guns hefere being diseay- ered "one ‘is liable to” ‘come Within ‘a range of shells that will off the face of the earth. A direct hit means that everybody is going to get burt, with' the chances thit eomebody is going to be killed. were ‘always rying to make such a Onge within 2 mile T the tank is comparatively safe, for th zuns canngi be depressed to met n\el Then the oniy thin has to deal wiih is me machine g is dccuratély located The (xe'-lmmlnr; restrictio OTHER VIEW POINTS If Charles Songer o read the annual repprt terstate commerce commissio: be in order for him to. smil His vision was not a volation of the| ten commandment Hnun Journal-Courier. ocd news as to T s on the sale of su~ i1 be followed soon n for insuring an ¢ “of coal in the neag’ Unless we can ligve that assurahce | tiere will be Jots af trouble he cold season is’ever. The Germans ! The privates were captured in the region of Chatel Chghery, alon: 9f the Argonng hatel Chehery v.;ts ‘eap- Lured 'by the " Americaps. th nans were endea what o flo with ‘hp after all—New ' roring Io decide | woupdcd shen, | ¥ iy he would hang ‘peppering the limber- ntil he found it was nu use rst Of‘ a.nd fiéd oF was run over. G tricks we lecarned was the tremendous velue of tanks against|in the management of the ‘oal prob- At first weilem will be watched with particular lnterefit by milions of people—Hart- | | ma ‘A n«;uby Qusout.\b%c fgu\ ded fa° be- { m; tq a positia days the artilie the Amen;:xn: and then of \h mal L the hill, 3hd sp inte 1 ng thi; even the Ger~ o’l, g}-e ’*hlrd SKATINB RlHK OLYMPIC HALL AFTERNAQNS 230 T0 § EVENINGS § TO 1030 B. M. The chanije | masses' of enemy troops. vere content to use the ordinary ma- chine gun ip tanks bat in the latter onths we used the & lode gs it left th hy| eores’ of leadeq ps” withoug * artille Solely unable to stand such & day' the Amevican in- | tantry began going forward and when | tyas reached there Amert 2 ell timed to ex-} n, ‘seatiering its thc crest of 1He D was a rush of § ce'where ‘thel en wounded in ‘ap encoymier while making a reconnp arning. M@fl!nw owell Foreman If a man lacks enthu: him twice as long (o aces e in the early (prm Was Capt. t-ne of the Amp;h:aq; heard a «am‘d. from \vn,hm zh¢ dugoni and ope A Great Responsibility. HE responsihility attached to the preparing of a remedy for fnfants gnd childrem is wdoubtedly greater than thaf imposed upon the manufacturer of ramedies for aufl*s whose system is sufiicmmy strong te connteract, for & time at least; any ious drug. It is well to observe that Castoria i3 prepared today, as it has-bees for the past 40 yeass, under the personal supervision of My, Chas. H. Fletcher, . What have makers of imitations and substitutes at stake? V¥hat ave their responsibilities 7 To whom are they answerable ? ‘I‘hey sprmg pis) toda.y, soafter their nefarions wares breadoast, and disappear tomorrow, Clould each mother soe the painstaking care with whichthe presoription fr Fletcher’s Gastoria is prepared ¢ could they read the innumerable testimonials from grateful mothers, they would never listen to the subtle pleadings and false arguments of those who wonld offer an lmltutlf)!l of, or substitute for, the mad and tme Fletchers CLtcna. tl-at came back wes In per- ectly good American--and four b tepped from the cave their hands above theit heads. ment ‘dfterward the swounded Am d come into their own aan n,’ German machine o Of the" forest and fising from the fro; took place on] g Americans were earried | from which they Fighiing ig 3 Tank (Cowrespondence sprayed against of 2 tank produge a quee effeet within it, says one British army | officer who has spent thee months fighting With his tank in bullet, he says, cannat pierce the ar- mor, but it daes knock off on the in- side a thin flake of sgteel that pxmer- izes and flieg in all d‘tertmnz into the faces and hapds of the prew end stings them like a strong wind| The suigeons have on g cold day. Extractsfrom Letters by Parents to Chas. H. Fletchfir lish, of Springfield, Mass,, seys: ““It was yoar Gutapa that &"mw : “You have g | to my babigs L-mnceburz, Ind;, says: "A; nearly'three years, I 2m pl ildren are both weuandh , Lay, he w;s el‘;gm’da.ys old Hg ry MeGinnis, of St. Lonis, Mo., toria ever since she was ‘pmr N. E. Cflmu, of Marion, K; H the world, as I heve given yow, urs. Albert Uxus\y. of d 83 xepmented. § R. P Smktnn, of alaw b uever hflmx Hng&g:‘ph Homg::kle, o! Bolqr 18 now seuen I.lOH nt a heaithy lonhrgg E‘hx. I beg to announce to my friends and the public that | have received my honorable discharge from the service, and have already started refurnishing my former stere. New goods coming in daily, and | am ready to serve you have in the past, I feel proud ta state that five months of steady training with Ungle Sam has given me wonderful experience, which is worth meny times what I hvelamficdinmybupmqn, L LAHN FURNITURE COMPANY 74 Main Strect m"’? }t.n i e vor. ." v ]