Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 1, 1919, Page 4

!uu il’l! 1019 Jorwich Bulletin and Qoufied " 123 YEARS OLD “Submeeiption price 128 & week; 5o » year. ¥nfesd at the Pestoftice at Nerwich, Comn., a5 weoud-elim matter. Telephoao Calls. Bulletin Business Office 480. Bullen Niditorial Rooms Bulletin Job Offies 35-2. Whimantle Office, 25 Spring S, Telephone 384-2 353, Norwich, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 1919, e————eeeee e MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The Asseclated Press is exclusively entitied 15 the use for republication of il news desatch- eredited to It or Dot olherwise credited in paver and alwo the local news published niatis of repitication of special despateh- s ‘Derein 'Afe 4leo reserved. CIRCULATION Dec. 28, 1918, 10,216 AN ABNORMAL YEAR. Wz litio revailed in Connecticut durir the Fver communit every justr individual who had | tr in his makeu nded in a ¢ ter ally loyval an energet " period during wh alized the necessity of the uired to win the war and } vors whether » front in 1t home, efore thing hav others h t all | while 1 b 8 bivi k plan have been establisk Gitions made, day and night b maintained and hizh wages om period and as - emergen- 1 has ended. Th ormal conditions just as rapidly ; o el osdl e that t p the advan- t dust output. Tt | ) r m lerable g ee that full m in this new NEW ENGLAND WATER POWER. million | which | A commis- | in coope: consumed there nsed with work jon | i s geological th ort has been pre- oming sion of the large proposition olve much time can be com- if recommen- conservation reservo mprovermn and devel- re followed the question of er need e conditio ut arried for but dations power pos not bother any what ew Hampshire is con- cerned abor only what each and everyone of New Enzland statts should A interested in. There are possibilities in the undeveloped water privilezes which fafl to get ade- attention, but if all New. Eng- land should tackle this problem won- derful results_could be ected. HITCHCOCK ON BURLESON, ‘There is no wonder that Senator Hitchcock took occasion to eriticise in the senate the action of Postmaster Cieneral Burleson in taking over the control of the cables when the latter set forth the claim that the action taken had been passed upon by the attorney general and been declared by him to be legal. When Senator Hitchcock declared that the postmaster general has al- most broken faith with congress, he must have realized that there was a difference between such action and the actual breaking faith, but it is ope of those cases, he apparently be- lieves, where he has manazed to keep within bounds but where he must have been aware of the fact that he was traveling in shoal water. This seems {0 be indicated by the fact that he considered it necessary to get the opinion of the attorney general as to the legality of his action before he took it, The polnt whick Senator Hitchcock makes is that regardless of the legal aspect it must be apparent that the postmaster general took every advan- tage of the authority which céngress had given In regard to the taking of the wire lines withoyt showing any willingness to be restrioted by what ke must have known was the attitude of congress in granting the authority. It was an emergency measure made necessary by the war but to wait un- til the war was over before taking ad- vantage of it indicates that there was more back of the seizure than the pro- tection of the nation’s interests dur- ing the war. This is emrphasized by the fact that Mr, Burleson is enthu- siastically advocating the government ownership of the lines and is arrang- ing for post-war conditions rather than confining hims21f to those things congress intend that he should. That is where he almost broke faith with congress even if his act is entirely le- gal. ENEMY ALIENS. Not a little criticism has been heard since the opening of the war because steps were not immediately taken hy this government to sce that tie enemy aliens in this country, those who were given to boasting about such relations, those who were working 'in behalf of the enemy and those who were gquiet- v rying on anti-American propa- ganda, were returned to the land for which they manifested such unaltera- ble love and raspect. Although it considered wiser to intern such individuals in this coun- try where they could 6o no harm dur- ing the period of the war, th> demand for their expulsiva from the country with the denial cf a right to ever re- turn has found expression in a bill which has been presented in the lower house of congress for their deporta- fion, And right on top of it comes the announcement that the department of justice will shortly recommend to congress the deportation of the cnemy aliens who are now interned hers, the number of whom is estimated at etween 3000 and 4000, These re people who have been found dangerous to the interests of this country Some have lived here for years and profited from the favor- able conditions which they found. Cthers have come here for the special purpose of working in behalf of ene- my nations and they have shown - willingness to take life and iimb to contribute to the advan- tage of another country and the detri- ent of this. ‘ould they have had their way the would have had u§ different outcome. Thep ve thus shown that they are decidedly unde- sirable and dangerous and it is time that they were sent back to the coun- try for which they were willing to ake such sacrifices. We want none of them and it in that they will be welcomed where they came PRCFER TREATMENT. There cannot fail to much inter- been t of ‘m who 3y used about everys except that h was nec- in order to make his tahlets! claimed them to be. and neral val of the mrosed a fine of $500 ninate son term of : roflueed son the manu- ng which it| rer sibe for the indi to dis- h from ti exc ot then it rintely faile a |fl t which he had xpect that he would dangerous state of it makes it even more to the at the out 1 practice s al- kind of im- 1t likewiso of doctors' advice is one which is fre- 1¢ is therefore of importance that every should be made to pun- and while it may seem | o imposed Is r which calls It is important| 1d be taught for y of this particular for any others who be inclined in the same direc- n the 1 lie effect icine tent such fraud situation EDITORIAL NOTES. A happy New Year. How good the resolutions are will depend altogether upon how they are Lept Less attention i8 paid to the cost of Christmas than to the first of the year bills Perhaps it is not strange but no one in Germany seems to want to shoulder the responsibility for the war. Burleson wire service at increased rates ¥ no means a welcome New Year dout to the country, It is very important these days that the peonle who skate should be eare- ful to avoid the ice that is too thin for safety When Snain asks for Gibraltar it iooks as if it wanted to Le paid for not actually espousing the cause of the central powers. Will there be a special insignia for those who served overseas, but were sent to Siberia and Russia instead of to France, England or Italy? The man on the corner says: Re- gardless of the weather not a few will find it advantageous to attach non- skid chains to their new resolutions. There is probakly no conneetion be- tween that $15,000,000 gold dinner ser- vice used in entertaining the presi- dent and the scarcity of gold coins. There can be little doubt but what Poland needs foodstuffs, but it is hard to see where it is going to help itself ¢ by threatening to adopt bolsheve|™ m. The object of Paderewski’s visit to I'oland is said to be for the purpose of yniting the Polish people. He cer- ta ){ y ought to be able to teach har- It is now claimed that 200,000 tons of sauerkraut (Liberty cabbage) have been released for civilian consumption in Germany. That removes the danger of starvation there, What can be the real attitude of Ttaly when it is declared that Bissolati who has just resigned from the cabi- net was too moderate and the state- ment at the same time gives the in- formation that he always held the same jdeas as President Wilson? | seas. army, and how Germany, having used six months or a year hefod: all of | up in offense what she was expedttd| {he hoys return to reserve for a last defense, was cOM-1 1t coems to me thot that some pelled to accept the crushing terms of | Satnrday afternoon summer, | {the armistice, involvihe the loss of} might be decided upon for such an be- | army, navy and national honor. Thub! ongion. 5 LAt Z the prophets of 1918 were right a8 t8| T however. merely suzmest such afpper faad RHG e outcome, and nobody will blame | tuihg, and if the publie favor it, no|p S eataed gae e m that tsws did not asslen to that | doubt a competent comuittce could i DB Al 1 the events that happened|ys gecured tn carry out : Many a esntury has sfiooed | iy repard to time, he | for the — NORWIOH BULLEYIN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1819 O e T pon v, 2T e YA STIYIT B TR oA P L 5 FACTS AND COMMENT HAPPY NEW Y'EAR Lioyd George's coalition government s e nin:,d an overwhelming vi“ in the| Tt was the last day of the year. After; jamas only, and ¢ “Happy New parliams uuu.u a léng and irkseme day, Mr. Bo-den|Year, pap” jumped into thew fathers out the U Des. 1. hnuly thered together a pile of pa-|lap. “Happy New Year, papa! Harpy electing 471 out ot 707 members in the | pers and thrust them in the draw-r of | New Year! Happy New Year!” house of comfnons. The Sinn Feiners|his desk, dropping the top with a noise{ Mr. Borden kissed them both, urged swept Ireland, electing 72 that indicated the sentiment of the|them to hurry off to bed, and r These seats; of, will owner. He lightéd a huge black cigar, | impatientiy from his chai 7 remain vacant out of proteist, trus { put on his large fur coat and hat and |nervously about the room N to their name, “For Oursafves Alone,” | opened the office door, through whicu | cating at the window through which the newly elected Irish members will|at once entered a blast of winhd which | he gazed out at the stormy night He refuse to sit at W ot use | made the occupants of the room shive..} was wondering what “New Yaar” of these 73 vacancies George’s| “By_the way, Mr. Borden, a Happy | meant to all those whom he had L working majority will bé even larger | New Year to you,” piped up the voice|speak of it and most particularly v than appears on the face of the re-|of his secretary. |his children should lie ‘awake eagerly turns. “—— Year!” barked back the man of &W}niitins 11:8 rct_;xrn. Just to wisa him > 3 business as she slammed the door be-|a Happy New Year. Out of 14 womien who ran tor pleces | PEE, o8 BT SATRC] (0 e wight | Then his wife soon_returned from in parliament, but one was elected, |y Goo snowing hard and estremely | upstairs and, placing her hand !ntly and she is a_Sinn Feiner and. there-| ;5054 Mr. Borden, muttering some- | on his shoulder, spoke. “Yes, Jshn a e xr?dmfi?::." o} the 13 upigucress: | thing to himselt about “Such a uight | Happy Diemiiteas) Mo vott ristabe! ” v 1 - | Ha w Year!” of militant fame came. the mearest to |28 this” walked quickly in the dark ppy Ne! n bent forward, hands in his coat| John turned about and answered, boing-electet Porkiats, knd 5% e Apbesrad tiber the | "You, too? You wish me o Happy wew Coalition leaders say that wuu the ltrtét lamps at each cormer, resembled | Year? Are you all crazy? Wha: does votes of thé wonien made their ma- endeavoring to concea! his it mean to me? Nothing!” and. put- person iaenmy for some apparent misdeed. Suddenly, as he was thus absorbed in himseii, a similar figure. appreach- ing him, called out in a horasc gut- tural volue “Happy New' Year, Mr. Borden.” The latter glanced up, recognized a buéiness acquaintance, and almosi un- civilly answered, ‘— Year!” Now, Mr. Borden hated Christmas and New Year, as did his father ocfore him. He had never gotten much pleas- jority certain, the soldier vote that came in later causéd a regular land- slide in favor of the statesman under whom victory had been won. From this pinnacle of #ucoess, with the stamp of unqualified public approval on his work, the great prime minister must at times recall the day 20 years ago when he was forced to flee from the viglence of an enraged audience. At that time as ever he stood up for his convictions and declared that ting his hands in his pockets, walxed away. But Mrs. Borden replied: “Tisten, John, I will teil you what it mea: it means that most peaple do not aiiow their eyeryday troubles and worvies to cause them to forget their duties to their families. ‘It reminds tham ot | their gratitude for their success thus far and to rejojce for it, and o seek a sympathetie response in their home; to appreciate a good wife's love. te England wrong in waging war|ure from life and he lived for money | find happiness in tbe happimess of his against the Boers of South Africa. It|alone: and, as he tramped homewar?,;children, and so, to thank Alm'ghts was the unpopular side in that dayv and only a honest man and a born fighter would have dared to take it This same fearlessness has been char- aeteristic of ‘Lloyd George throughout his entire career. With his help the house of lorde was shorn of its veto power, and under him the great cs- tates of England have been faxed he- vond all precedent. A léadsr who was merely courting popular favor might have been content te attack the upper classes aolne, but Lloyd George en- forced on all Great Britain such a de- gree of prohibition as had never been he was thinking to himself, “Wh ghould one be more cheerful a thankful how than at any other :ime; of the year? On his way homeward severa: oth-| God that you are alive and ible tu appreciate all these. You come home every evening, confime yourself to your own thonghts and ignore my love and my endeaver to make our home a ers had wished him a Happy w | heaven. Yes, I told the children to do Year, to which he had answered in an| What they did, and I repeat it ‘A very almost indistinguishable monosyllable | Habpy New — Year,” and she kissed each time, his patience and hatred of ‘ him, the greetings increasing until by the! time he entered his home, chilled to the bones and covered with snow, he | would ascarcely look at his wife, who | met him in the vestibule. He removed his coat and hat, which John Borden looked at this affection- ate creature before him, her arms bout his neck, and as he saw her were moist, a strange feeling arose within him, and with a voice much A miost | milder than she had heard for many | AUDITORIUM THEAT RE NORWICH, CONN. ALL THIS WEEK—MATINEE DAILY DV GRIFFITHS SUPREME TRIUMPH ™ 'w DW.GRIFFITH A ROMANCE OF THE GREAT WAR known, thus even standing between the workingman and his beer, a course that had always been considered synonymous with political death. And nod with the encouragement of a united country he faces the yet greater problems of thé démocratiza- tion of the house of lords, home rule for Ireland and the league of nations with which is bound up that matter so vital to England, the freedom of the he threw on the sofa impatiently nnd stepped to the apen hearth, waere he | rubbed his hands to warm then, mut- tering “Work—Bad nigh His wife drew up his casy chair and togéther they sat watching the cheer- tul flame sparkle and crack among thr pine logs. Gradually the clock on tha mantelplece was approaching the iour The storm was over, and of 12. Mrs. Borden well realized her | What a beautiful day! ‘husband's temperament and in her own | 7‘“‘“' he was bus gentle way she was making him forget | ¢alling his partn his day of worry at the office and hej friends, wae just about to speak when amid| New Year. the whistling of the zale outside, which | And they had frosted up the window pane: into | Post. various picturesque figures, slowiy and | iy STORIES OF THE WAR yea he said: guess you are right, dear. [ now. " T sec.” They retired, but not before pped into the children's room and kissing them, said, “A Happy New | Year. my children!» Next day Mr. Borden arose I see telenhone . secretary, and all wishing them ‘a Happy The sudden and complete collapse of Germany so took the world by sur- prise that there has been little of the mad joy that would sefém appropriate to the winning of so great a victory. Rather do- the allied ' countries feel all Geliberately the clock tolled the mid- | 1] v he | NIght hour. appalied by the magnitide of the! Ko sooner had the laet intonation| How the Decoy Ship Was Lost e oty Tor. the vear 1o13|fesounded in the quietness of the| (Corr ,l)ond!!n(‘e of the Associated 50 than from behind the door burst : 3 ; than it is for the mext twelvemonth.|fo0m sl D00 The loss of the British de- To be sure. the prophets for 1918 were | tWO exultant children, clothed ir ra- p Dunraven in a desperate bat- incorrect in many of the particulars. s 1; a German submarine, the vet they felt pretty confident of the of which has now e1 made | accuracy of their predietions. The! LETTERS TO THE EDITOR<Duh‘]c by the British Admiralty, con- | CGermans, it was generally fely, could stitutes one of the most daring o not possibly launsh another oficneive|8hall We Have a Public Celebration | heroic episodes of 1he :m( ~ubm.|nxr‘1: and America could not possibly tcain| For the Bcys on Their Return? | war. ablaze, and | ard transport an army large epongh r. Editor: In order tn of cordite and shells exploding t drive them from their tremerdously the pub of Norwijch a ry few minutes, the after gun crew strong defensive works; hence the|that must he espesially ir te the. ck to their gun until the magaz troops of Great Britaln, France. and | hearts of who_ have be in_the | exploded and blew them and their Italy must sit tight and hold the iine| service, I o N1 like, rough The‘[nvn the ai Meanwhile the batt until 1819, when the Americans would| Bulletin. to sugdest tha' there be a | with the submarine was fiercely wag- be on hand In overwhelming numbors. ed publi¢ “welcome home” Victory was certain, but it could not Pertiaps it will be no en to them. aer task to action took place in August come until 1919. Al the world knaws | seteet a cuitable day for such a cele. | el e orthe n uew how Germany did gather all hor| bration on =:count of the methiod, or | sl strength and launch not dne but fOur|iack of methud, of their 1 e from e great _drives, and Britain how America did train did_fran¢port this new 1, who ha military dutic joai ‘e :it home now, while it mey without racording as epoch-makMmg events as occurred the single year 1818. Far more uncertaim is the prospect or the coming year, a vear so full of awful and awe-inspiring possibilities that no one can be foumd rath énough to venture an opinion as to what it may cortain. If ever a nition was with its own petard,” that na- tion is Germany, now threatened with Bolsheviem, the teol that she herself forged and sharpened, nay, polsoned, ruin of Ruskia. Back is comes now inte the very heart of her who shioned it, {he poison the more dead- as it eats its way into the war- ruined and poverty-stricken masses of Berlin. There is always discontent among those who have nothing. It is true that some fortunes are tainted, seme are in unworthy hands and some are bein gsquandered, biut the great mass of acquired capital is the direct product of ability and thrift exténding cftentimes through generations, 1t i 1‘ s last fact to which the malcontents close their eyes. “Ife has, I have not, says the Bolshewik, and forthwith he proceeds to geize property wherever he finds ii. Not only crown lands and bank reserves are seived, but the farmer if effitfent enojygh to have raleed food enough 0 éarfy him through the winter le robbed of the fruits of hig tofl that a Leviine army may be maintained and a Petrograd many in priate exercises T am quite sure that t ple of Nomvich need no rem the gr sacrifices - which th have. made for us, and of the i Christmas of 1913 eompard with the four preceding. Tet us for a moment i Germans to have won the clouds and darkness woni round about us, and tions and hopes for a things with regard to gress in the betterment and which had cccupied t¥ minds of ¢ha best mer the world previous to 1 have been lost to the wort ieh purposes of the “beast of had been trivmphant. America entered the s most al period of the the Engilish and TFrench ‘Lr‘ks to the 1 then o { closed but vas parily o dense clouds .o Dunraven's though I and tie into t cted the Zun postiions the nh‘\ un th to hear opened ShiE neen 2 2] 5 a 1blime cour- not to be to a torpedo would Amerfean hovs leid been dning won- # derful work on sea and lznd. Some were prepared for the front, othe built a railroads, warehowkes, roads, bridges. in short evarvthing t was necessary for an offensive cam- pai; When it came to the polnt where Pershing could put theém on the front 1als were sent 1 other Z0n S0 2S 1 ols to keep T t to interrupt the A >t the fight. mob fed in idleness. ¥he low that is|lines, the preponderance of waight i late amoriet o intended to safeguard to esch man the | which they zave. made the Germans pedo struck tie ship abaft the engine fruits of his toll is deliberately tram- | first halt, then walver, then run. Feen. Abditier “URnIS Tty Wab nent pled upon because in the put it has Thn English and Freneh in.flnml of | way in 1!\c boats, leaving the shi hardly run fast emousht tc see n«q“) :ood it fairly applied are deliberately with the British flng fiy and her backs of the (Germans on their way to ro sked, but Camp- slain on the ground that they, too, are | the Rhine, while the cowardly kaiser |EUDS URMAsaec, amn for the old order and thetefors Against| and his desenerate offspring, the ‘bfll{ 2nd & lmlmlfulhr:‘f ffoers nd men | the poor. Lenines and Liebknechts|ocrown prince, skulked’ away to Hol- | [1ad remained on ard ar are always to be found to lead the mad mobs, and the savings and at- tainments of generations disappear amid slaughter and destructien, de for nearly an hour marine commander held off wat the burning ship through his land. Our boys, who had a nohie part in the greatest war of the nges with the hin, pevi- from it, but we might, by n Atting and up{: ropriate ceiebration, thank them licly for the glorious manner in v.hlch they have defended us. JOHN Mc¢WILLIAMS. Norwich, December 31, 1918. few minutes furiously. B d the fire was Dbl ntually the subma boundaries but will appear wherever there 15 widespread discentent and no government resolute enough to put it down. Imperial Germany by order and by force had some sucdess in keeping it beyond her borders: soaial- istic Germany i# not strong enough or resolute enough to hold back the flood. Struggling against the ocosler and wiser heads of the modarate so- cialists i¢ the Bolshevik Spartacus group. Now By underhanded means, now by open violence, they are seeking to discredit every attempt of the gove ernment to maintain law and order. But Germany is not Russia. The peo- ple are used to being directed by au- thorities and, given worh and let alons, they are likely to be docilo enot be the governmment what it m;;‘ Spartacus group, howevet, is up a constarit agitation and is an orderly government Sesnea of vlalom nd murder such as ed the “Red Christmas” of 1918, h cottfined to Berlin serve to dis. cmm the government throughout the whole country, with the result that anarchy has become the r\m in 1any of the larger cities, while those sec- tions that have thus far mainta'ned gotfie gernblance of order are in dally be brought to bear upon her, and shelled the Dunraven for twenty m utes. ¢ ing ing imposaible. WE DO ELECTRIC REPAIRING OF ALL KINDS N among e manaty wine e et || OLD HOUSE WIRED FOR capitalist “the man with a few marks in the savings bank is not sure of keeping his ssvings a single duy, and many & thoughtful citizen in Ger. many is prayifig for the occupation aven of Berlin by Amerjcan forces un- ELECTRIC LIGHTS sands of discontent and anarchy, hut : 42 FRANKLIN STREET ‘—l——n.——————d on the sold foundation of in oty and fair dealing. John | wondered.—Loxton | emerged astern where no guns could | el The U-boat then steamed past| PATTLE SCENES ON THE [?ATT[E FIELDS OF FRANCE (UNDER AUSPICES BRITISH WADR OFFICE) AUGMEMNTED SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CAR LOAD OF EFFECTS MATINEE PRICES—Balcony 25c, Orchestra 50c NIGHT PRICES AND NEW YEAR'S MATINEE—Balcony 25¢c and 50o; Orchestra 50c and 75¢ (Few at $1.00). War Tax in Addition. 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