Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 26, 1918, Page 4

Jlorwich Gulletin and Qoufied 122 YEARS OLD Subieription prics 126 a week; 59¢ a mon & yar. i $6.00 Eotered at tho Postofflee st Norwich, Conm, as wecond-clams matier Tolephone Cotte. Billstin Busineis Offiee 48t. Bulleln Kaltortal Rooms 35.8. Bulletin Job Office 35-2. Willimantie Office, 25 Spring St, Telephone 384-2 said “The Aliies are in Russia to fulfil an obligation of homor to suve the Russians from the bolsheviki” and for that reason the help must eortinue to be given. Bolshevism is raising ali kinds of havoe with certain sections of that blg country and as long as it is allowed to continue it is bound to be a menate to world peace and stand as an invi- tation to grasping neishbors to profic at Russia’s expense. Just what their plans are has not been revealéd but there is no evidence that the allied na- tions do not intend to meet their re- sponsibilities there. The world can- not be considered safe for democracy as long as present conditions are al- lowed to continue. Norwich, Thursday, Dec. 26, 1918, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The Assoclated Press 1s exclusively entitled 1o the use for republication of &Ml news despatch- s eredited (o It or not otherwie crediied in his paper and also the locai mews published Bereln, AL rasta of rpublication of meclal aqespatcn: e heietn are alsd reserved. CRCULATION Dec. 21, 1918, 10,233 THE A. P. DECISION. In keeping with the finding of a lower court, the United States supreme court has decided that the Interna- tional News service must cease ifs practice of pilfering the news which has been gathered and put out by The Associated Press. This ends a mat- ter which has been under fire for a long time and means that the Inter- national must henceforth depend up- on its own newssathering forces for such news service as it furnishes to fts patrons. ‘Heretofore it has beei the practice to grab the early editions of papers carrying Associated Press news, to get the information from bulletin boards or to bribe some employe of an As- rociated Press office or paper to hand over the big news stories that what had been secured at much exnense by the Associated? Press might be put forth by the international as its own | product, when as a matter’ of fact it was not. It was fraud of the most aggravating typne because whilé the International was persistently claim- fnz to be the duickest and best ser- vice it was all the time putting its chief dependence upon The Associated Press and by underhanded work mak- ing use of the pronerty of another. The charges made against the In- ternation3l were not defiied. The evi- dence was such that they could not be successfully refused, but it was insist- PREFERENCE TO OLD TIMERS. A situation which is receiving much attention at the present time is the tdischarging of thousands of workers in the arms and ammunition facto- ries. With the stooping of the fight-~ ing and the knowledze that it will not be resumed this is only what is to be expected although it Wwould be| preferable that such curtailment | should come about gradually rather than so suddenly that it 1z impossible fo take care of the labor situation. The business interests of the coun- try can, however, be relied upon to| tring about a readjustment and get back to pre-war t‘me production gust as rapidly as possitle. Plans to that end are well underway according to the statements which are given out ¢nd it is evident therefrom that it is the intention of the manufacturers to ke care of their employes who were with them before the war open- ed. This Is Indicated by the notice which has been given to the help ask- ing that such workmen hand their names and addresses to the company that they may be recalled just as soon o8 work on regular orders can be started. Such action is only what must be regarded' as an act of justice. It weuld be wrong to think of discharging the oid time employes and calling in new when the time comes without any con- sideration for those who have their homes and families in such p s of the emploves on the rolls have flocked to*such in- stries from other cities and other | jobs to get the big war pay. They were needed and their effo have ac- ed that it had the right to utilize news which the Associated Press pa- pers had put out in early editions. There is no question but what the In- ternational has a right to go out and get any mews which the Associated Press does provided it wants to go to that expense but the supreme court holds that there is a commercial value and a propérty rizht in The Associated Press news which should recéive pro- tection against the subtie schemes of | a rival FLYING TO THE POLE. We have seen great develonments in many directions in the last few vears, and there are doubtless some about which we have not heen told as yet. We have seen long strides made in d veloping the submarine, motor vehi- cies and airnlanes. It has been a veritable fulfiiment of Jules Verne's stories. What he dealt .with in imaz- ination we have seen brought to the point of realization. It is not surprising therefore that rlans are alteady underway for the visiting of the polar regions by the use of flying machines, even though all has not been attained that is deeifed in the way of nerfecting such carriers, Tixtended tests have been made to overcome the handicap of o6perating airplanes in the cold for sych had to te reckoned with in reaching high al- titudes, and it is to be remembered that Amundsen on his last trip north took an aefoplane with him for an ex- | periment possibly, but ynquestionably | in the hopes that he could thereby fhe more quickly reach di accomplish his task Tods nt points and less time. the airplanes are capable of complished much but it s only right| 2CcOmDlishing greater things than that they should be the ones to go| ™hen he set forth and it seems only back to their formor swork or seey|Teasonable to suppose that- by means other than that those of long standing | ©f the machines the full valye of the should be forced to get out and locate mild s n in the nolar region can elsewhere, or that those returninz| e taken advantoge of as in no other from the government servico snould|¥2¥: It is going to require the hest be denied their old jobs. machines, the best engines and the e R best aviators, but it seems not im- LEGISLATIVE MEASURES, Out in Nebraska an effort is being with the idea in view of get- ting better work from the legislature, legislators refrain from irying to introduce a record breaking h S0 often results and a large num- s which are either cov- made to have the number of bills, wh tlogged which mittee and although of attention and woerk. got are of such small importanca that they never get beyond the com- ant attention there, requiring a certain amount What is de- | probable that the hopes of the backers and the participants in the expedition which has been decided upon will be realized. We are still at .the peint where it is impossible to say that this thing or that cannot be done. Accom- plishments teach otherw: EDITORIAL NOTES. The work of trimming the Christ- mas free was a long job eompared to the unloading of it. This is the season of the year when cvery little unusual favor has had a meaning all its own. Another chance at turkey is what a great many have been eagerly waiting for for the past month. It is to be hoped that Santa Claus b R g bR i sired s that the legislators should he given the time, which has to be de- voted to this task of disposing of the worthless, to devote to matters which are of real mportance and which too frequently have to be hurriedly dealt with in the final rush of closing the session. g There is no doubt but what the sit- uatlon fn Nebraska is much the same in other states. The effort scems to be to see how much confusion can be caused rather than to endeavor to meet the real needs of the state, and it cannot fall to be looked upon as a sound and sensible suggestion that all possible attention should be given to what is actually needed. The appeal being made in Nebraska is for _the purpose of helping the legisiators and permitting them to do what ought to be done in a reasonable period of time. Such appeals have been heard before and the unfortunate part is that they Invariably fail to get proper attention. } IN RUSSIA. - In spite of the fact that fighting has @eased in other portions ef Europe it 8 quite evident that it is not over in Russia and the allied nations are still interested in the straightening out of the tanzled situation which prevails there. .« Russia is not under attack from the Bentral powers but from that clement within its own boundaries which given a foothold and an existence the tesult of German activities. ussia’s troubles are all intérnal cnes t the present time but they are of “ a nature that danger exists for Europe as long as they are per- Thitted to continue. For a long time #he necessity hos been realized of re- ‘sponsibilities which rest upon the shoulders of the entente nations to re- #tore order and a sound government in the land of their ally. 1t can be readily understood what HAnger threatens that country from bolshevism, and the peace of Europe ¢pn never be maintained as iong as that menace is allowed to exist. It is because of this that Viscount Milner, the British secratary of war. mesawsly | idla meme—es sitsis aid not operate according to the skip- stop schedule this year, Ths man on the corner says: Noone has had any reason as yet to complain about 1918 quitting cold. Those who find that the day after is worse than it really ought to be usual- ly have no one to blame but them- selves. Christmas day was not so fully oc- cupied here at home but what there was many a thought of those “over there.” If it wasn’t for the mechanical toys there are many clders who would lose a large part of their Christmas day entertainment, The one great trouble with some people is that they expect the other fellow to do all the work in spreading Chiristmas cheer. If Germany acted upon the sugges- tion of the United States in recalling von Eckbardt from Mexico ft certainly must be given credit for taking good advice. Russia’s casualty lists runs up te about 9,000,000 and the strange part of it is that there are still elements there who are not yet ready to stop fighting. It is now claimed that it will re- quire two billion dellara to restore the damage done in Poland by the Huns. They worked diligently wherever a chance was found. ¥ There isn't much of anything which cannot ‘be incorporated into a set of 200d resolutier's at this season of the year. The date when all entries cease is rapidly approaching. Inasmuch as President Wilson is said to both favor and cppose the sinking of the German naval vessels, ‘t would seem to be quite proper thas he should clear up the mystery.. If it is so, as reported, that the chaplaing have been {nstructed to open a'campaign against the use of profane end obscenc language, and agninst gambling by the men of the navy, the chaplains are net going to have many e “1 ran over to see it you'd go down« town shopping with me” the red- headed bride explained, as she rushed into the dining room where Mrs. Con- nery sat busily knitting. ‘“I've got to buy a Christmas present for Charles and I do hate to shop alone.” “Of course, I'll go, dear,” M Connery repiied, “but I thought you'd bought a presentifor Charles.’ “So did I!” tho bride giggled. “I'll tell you all about it, if youwll promise to kéep mum; it's the best ever.” She curled up on the window seat. “You know.” she began, “I've Hooverized my table, I've Sammiezed my Chirist- mas list, so I can do- heaps for the soldiers, and altogether I'm a most economical young person. I'm send- ing Christmas cards , 6 where I've al- Ways befcre sent presents and they'll think I'm either extremely patriotic or just plain stingy. However, 1 did feel that I couldn’t economize on Charles and I wondered and wondered what I'd ive him.- E one. hight Charles was dithhe smoking. He looked up at the man- tel—it does look fearfully empty—and he said, ‘SBweetheart, what we need is a clock. A place isn’t home. without a really handsome clock. I didn’t say a word, but right then and there I made up my mind that my husband shoyld have his clock. I shopped for day$, but couldn't find a single thing pay. Well, I was getting utterly dis- couraged when T chanced to see this advertisement—T'll never forget it.” She chanted slowly— “ ‘Direct from factory to housewife. Beat the high cost of living—Cathedral chime clock, made of Italian marble, gorgeously decorated with a lifelike image ofpFather Time. bearing the scales justice, in burnished brass, Only $#2.75. Makes an elegant Christ- mas gift. Your own terms. Send us §1 to cover expressage and we will forward clock to your approval’” The bride paused for breath. “Neva Haydn,” said Mrs. Connery. “you're the limit. Tell me the rest of it “Well ‘continued voung Mrs. Haydn, “I sent my dollar, and I got hack a contract, or something of the sort, in which they asked me all kinds STORIES OF THE WAR What the Decoy Ships Did. (Correspondence of The Associated . Press:) the miost exciting chapters against German U-boats is a series of accounts of notable engage- ments between British decoy ships and the submarines, made public by the British admiralty. While the whole story of the part played by these decoy vessels, “mystery ships” or “Q" craft has not been revealed, it is evident that several of them were used to lure the Hun undersea craft o their destructi ‘Some dneidents in this campaign al- ready have been made known, dealing chiefly with a tew of the exploits of Commander Gordon Campiiell as mas- ter of the decoy vessels; but others § which he and other captains partici- pated now' are available. That at least a small fleet was nsed m this work is evident from the fact that Campbell at different times appears as the master of the Farnhorough, the Targust, the Dunraven and the Q5. The Prize, another decoy ship, was commanded by Lieutenant William K. Sanders and the Stock Force by Lieutenant Harold Auten. Stories of the encounters between ithese ships and the U-boats are filled with deeds of heroism and instances in which the discipline of the British Lavy was displaved under the trving circumstances. }or many months the decoy ships heavily armed but with their guns hidden behind false bul- warks, steamed zig-2ag paths in the seas which were the hunting grounds of the submarine. In their character of lazy colliers or slow cargo craft they presented to the submarine commander an in- viting object of attack hut once he was well within range of the British guns; the fuige superstructure hiding the .zuns fell away and the helpless collier became suddenly transformed into a fighting eraft, bent on destruc- tion. It was dangerous work requir- ing the high crder of courage for the submarine must be lured near before the guns could safely begin their work. Meantime the Hun frequently hLad sent his torpedo home and the decoy ship was disabled, sometimes on fire and part of her crew wounded. In that condition the battle was fought and often the submarine destroyed. “Panic parties” was one of the ruses practiced by tha decoy ship's com- mander to coax thé sybmarine along- side. When the mystery ship was tor- pedoed these panic parties took to the beats, apparent abandoning their vessel but always leaving on board nother créw to man the and finish the submarine 1f it ca near <nough. The first encounter ' mentioned by the admirality toek place in Ma 1816, when the Garnborough, disgu as a collier w attacked by a sub- marine. The “panic pariy” teok to the boats and when the = submarine closed in to about 800 yards the Earn- borough opened fire on her. The U- boat submierged and the Farnborough passed over her dropping depth- Lombs. The submarine reappeared standing almost on end. ve Tounds were fired into her at ‘nearly point blank range and she went-to the bot- tom of the sea. Prior 6 that action the Farnborough NORWICH BULLETIN, THURSDAY, DECEME I'd have at the price 1 could afford to | ER of questions—whether my husband, it I had one, was employed and where, what I whetlier I was black or white and about a million other things. I was a little bit squeam- ish about the whole thing after read- ing that Mst of questions, but they had my dollar, and I wanted to See v, | the clock. The picture of it was beautifal. In due time it came and I wish yon could have seen itt 1 1 wanted to show it to you, but 1 was ashamed of being taken in so beau- tifully, My K marble was some gort of a substance, painted white; the chimes were like a tin pan and Father Time was & travesty. 1 hid it in the pantry and wrote them a letter asking them to take it away at once. “That night,” the bride continued gleefully, “Charlés and I.went to the theater. 'We ‘had just got home, and f had set some lunch on the table when all of a suddeén that pesky clock began to strike. I was eating a sand- wich and I almost choked, because I knew what it was. Charles looked around inquiringly, took another bite, and then said, “Sweetheart that's in our apartment.! He wanted té investi- gate, but I made him take another sandwich, assured him that it waen't and, as the pantry door was shut, I got away with it. It chimed twelve times, and, a$ the last echo died away, Charles said to me in a perfectly dis- gusted tone, ‘Great guns, I'd rather be without a clock forever than have a i thing around that sounds like that! “Gracious, but it was funny,” con- tinued the bride, “but I had to enjoy the joke all by my lonesome. The firm wrote me a saucy letter, but you know my brother is a carporation lawyer, land I wrote them that I had put it tin the hands of my attorney and gave John's name, so they told me to re- turn the clock. I would never have heard the last-of it if they’d written my brother; he'd have told the whele : family.” & “Don’t you care, dear, Mrs. Conner: experiences. But tell me, you going to buy Charles?” The bride’'s eye danced. _ “f think I'll buy him a big tin alarm !clock. He wants a clock badly, and {I'm .off Italian marble for life."—Chi- ‘cago News.® comforted what are e e had cruised throuzhout the entire winter without being attacked. ‘Within a_month the Farnborough coaxed another submarine near enough to sink her by gunfire, Commander Campbell Tater was transferred to tke command of the Q-5 and in the fol- lewing February, 1916, his vessel was torpedoed by a submarine which even- tually approached so neur that a shet from the Farnborovgh beheaded the U-boat captain as he climbed out of the tower, the submarine was sunk with her conning tower open and her crew pouring out. Destroyers towed the Q-5 in and beached her, . For this exploit the Victoria Cross was award- ed to Campbell. The decoy ship Pargust with Camp- béll in command was terpedoed on June 7, 1917 verilv disvuised - as a British merchant vessel. The subma- rine came -within fifty yards of the Pargust which then opéned fire on her with all gunx. The submarine crew poured out of the conning fower and held up their hands in token of surrender, but the U-boat steamed away trying to escape in the mist, The Pargust again opened fire on her and sunk her with one man clinging to her how as she went down. The decoy vessel was towed back to nort by American destrovers. Two Vie- toria Crosses were awarded for this successful action. Surrender of the Submarines. (Correspondence of The Associated Press). The business of actually accepting the German submarines in surrender was performed by officers and men of the British submarine force who for more than four years had maintain- ed a tedious hut relentless v of wa- ters of the British Isles. An admiral in a light cruiser commanded the fleet to ich the U-boacs surrendered but it s a submarine officer who first stepped aboard each submarine, curtly went through with the brief formali- ties and it was a crew of men who | bad fought the U-hoats by under-wa- ter methods that manned it and took it to port. These men had uncomplainingly stugk to a iob that was recognized by the admiralty as one 0% the most un- attractive in the navy but it was end- ed by partitipation in an event uniaue in naval history and a fitting ending for service perforgied. Although British submarineés always were on the lookout for U-boats the'r success in the war was not measured by the number they destroved. Nev- ertheless it was coincident that 20 U- boats shou]d have been sunk by Brit- ish submersibles during the war and it was the sameé number fi surren- e h submarine crews man fleet was inaugurated port. 9 As far as possible the. admiralty ; distributed the honor of taking over the U-boats among ail the men of the submarine flotilla. Fourteen men were placed en each surrendered boat and as they surréndered in batches of twenty a total of 280 officers and men were allowed to participate each day. Every man looked forward to it eager- Iy, all of them wanted to be selected for the first day ark hut when they boarded the beaten &aft they main- tained excellent discipline afd orders against any demonstration were so carefully obeyed that it was almost an off this BUCK SAWS, . AXES, WEDGES, ETC. 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FOX’S 1919 MILLION DOLLAR EXTRAVAGANZA ALIBABA AND THE Forty Thieves HALE HAMILTON N~ $5,000 AN HOUR THE BIG_AMAZING WALLING- FORD DRAMA BY GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER EE e ko BURTON HOLMES’ ' TRAVEL SERIES SKATING RINK OLYMPIC HALL AFTERNOONS 239 TO 5 EVENINGS 8 TO 10 P. M. air of disinterest that they went ahout their duties, So much had been said of the intri- cacies of the Germah submarine that there wef many misgivings among the Pri officers of their ability to navigate them soon after they had received them. They were soon reas- sured however as nothing so far dif- ferent from other submarines was found. Among the first twenty brought in was the U-135 which is 276 feet long, was completéd three months ago and had never been to sea until she crossed the British channel to be sur- rendered. Her type attracted (om- modore S. S, Hall, 0 has been at the head of the British submarine force since the beginning of hostili- ties. He was taken to the vessel s ter she was placed in her berth in the River Stour and inspeeted her with the young British lieutenant who had taken her over and‘brought her into port Vith the aid of the German engi- neers. Commodore Hall, about to leave, smilingly asked the lieutenant when he would be ready to “shove oft,” RBut the young man took the question seriously and promptly re- plie n af- [ wrm {ela hep ta can in a eounle | of hours. She is frightfnily dirtv but the engines are im good shape and my men can operate them.” the durirg 3,446,083 According to recent estimates, vroduction of sugar in Cuba the 1917-18 campaign was long tons. Frankiin Macnic Company urien 17 Engineers Founders - Machinists Manufacturers of HARRIS-COR- LISS ENGINES. Engine Repairs, Shsafting, Hangers, Pulleys, Bear- ings, Couplings, Clutches, Large stock always on hand. General Mill Repairs. Providence, R. 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BROWN, AUDITORIUM AFTERNOON 215 EVENING—645, 8.30 TOMMY LEVENE & Yaukee Doodle Girls AND DANCING DOLL CHORUS ~* ~ EARLE WILLIAMS in “The Seal of Silence” : A MIGHTY FINE FEATURE LATEST CURRENT EVENTS I BOB LANE CONCERT ORCHESTRA THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY 3—BIG KEITH ACTS—3 FEATURE PICTURES SPECIAL ATTRACTION AND A SURE FIRE WINNER ED. HOWARD & COMPANY IN THE COMEDY DRAMATIC, SKETCH SCENERY AND EFFECTS “A REAL PAL"” SPECIAL JACK DEMPSEY | Mack & Velmar The Bancing Tramp Comedy Duo_in “Marriage a la Carte” First Appearance in Paramount Pictures of the Popular Star BRYANT WASHBURN | the lifting of the mo; IN THE 5-PART ROMANTIC DRAMA “The Gypsy Trail” WHQSE LITTLE WIFE, 2-Reel Sennect Comedy OTHER VIEW POINTS states that one of the adventures to be taken by the General Assembly Some chaps who aré trying to!is to clothe the State Board of prove that they are good Americans|Bducation with a complete new now, certainly made a good thing|suit of autocratic cut and make. It out of Germany for awhile. They |say would be willing to give it all back,|take the management we believe. if they could stift all the!from the districts and clamor.—Meriden Jourrfal. turn it over to the State The movement for “a better New |BEducation. We should say that Haven for the hoys to come home to” |scheme would be about as popular presents great opportunities. A uni-{as the one to sink the German naval fication ¢f the spirftual energy of the | vessels. Our guess is that school city can accomplish this in a short |control will remaidn where it be- time, and, as we understand it, it is|longs—with the vyarfous communi- such a unification that the supporters|ties. State interference has gone of the movement have in mind. Any | quite far enough.—Bristol Press. undertaking which h: 'or its purpose standards of New Haven deserves the heartiest commendation. 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