Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 22, 1919, Page 4

g ,.&nwu'ix Bulletin and Goudied - “—WiNmsntie Office 23 Chuver bt Telephene 105. ————— e = Norwich, Tuesday, July 22 1919 CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING JULY 19TH AKE THE BULLETIN ALONG Subscribers and readers of The Bulletin leaving the city for the season, or a vacation, can have The Bulletin sent to their address y mail for any specified period at the regular rate by notifying the business department, telephone 480 s SPECIAL CITY MEETING. <23 Tomorrow night a special city Jaecting has been called for the pur- e of permitting the people of Nor- seawich to give expression to. their de- sires in regard to the matter of per- slitting the motion picture houses of the city to do business Sunday eve- nings the same as on other nights of the week. The last general assembly left it for the different communities of the state to determine for themselves whether titere should be such a commercializa- otlpn of Sunday, it being impossible to look upon it as anything else since the theaters are doing business every afternoon and evening in the week th a sufficient number of shows so ——that the desire for such entertainment cannot_fail to be met without the one """8E two shows that it is desired to give Stnday evening. .. Inasmuch as the legislature has + granted the right to hold such shows “ymovided it meets with the approval *~‘of the city or town authorities, or in “Efse of protest the people of th> com- “Hunity, it is evident that it res's Jith the citizens to say Wednesday pight whether they favor the mainte. inance of the Sunday observance tha: “#as prevailed In the past or whether “atthey are desirous of opening the mo- igdon picture houses for the sam= sort "I entertainment as is furnishel weck ays. 3 2Tt is mot a matter that should be adlecided by a few. It calls for an ex- - spression by a large representation of xhe people, with a full understand- “ffiz of what is to resuit and a thor- “*Bugh presentation of what is consid- ered to be the need. It is therefore a meeting that should be largely at- ..tended and where the subject should “& fully discussed. By the petition >“¥or and the calling of this special city freeting the matter has been placed ..directly before the citizens and it . .xests with them to decide. The re- gponsibility should not be shirked. ANTI TUBERCULOSIS WORK. Not for two years has there been a campaign in behalf of the Red Cross fund for tuberculosis work through ~=the sale of seals at Christmas time. -<Recognizing that during+ the war ‘l‘hfirfi was great need for funds in Bther directions, even though that did “="ot relieve the necessity of doing ev- ervthing possible for the prevention _I%3Bd treatment of the white plague, ~the state tuberculosis commission in Jkeeping with the national organiza- z=tion deemed it wise to abandon the campaigns until peaceful conditions ere restored. The solicitation was missed and not a few regretted the €k of an opportunity to contribute to this good cause though such a method -®ut there will be zeneral interest in =-the announcement that has been made «b¥ the state commission that with the —Szst of December another campaign “will be inaugurated. It was a fine endorsement of the work that was given by the people of Conneeticut in 1917 when they raised over $47,000 by the purchase of the poe that being the largest amount rgplfbed in any of the New England tes. Tt exceeded the combined sales Massachusetts and Vermont, and e than the total returns from New Bmpshire, Maine and Rhode Island. That shows what Connecticut thinks of the work that is being done to check tuberculosis and it is a pretty £00d reason for believing that in view thereof and the fact that there has been no call in the past two vears that the people will enter enthusias- tically into the effort this year to raise $100,000 which means only about eight cents per capita. The cause cannot fail to make its appeal and there has always been an eagerness to contribute such help to suffering humanity whenever and wherever needed. FWsSISTING ON BUDGET SYSTEM. Though many in congress have doubtless wisined that the move for a budget system was shelved, such ap- pears to be far from the case. It was eliminated from the sundry civil bill qnly to call forth a protest and a re- minder that it was one of the leading features of the programme set for this present session, and it is apparently ing realized that it cannot be sllle-' cked so carelessly. Tactics similar o, what have been employed on pre- us occasions seem to have been at- pted, but they will not be accept- It is time for giving this mat- r the attention that it deserves and roviding a system of looking after e nation’s business that will display ciency and economy instead of ildly groping about trying to make ds meet withdut being fully 1n uch with the situation. The opposition that has arisen gainst the move made to prevent ac- ion on a budget plan at this session )y taking it out of the sundry civil has resulted in an agreement by e senate to appoint a committee of ten to be made up of six majerity and four minority members which is to devise a plan for a budget system and report not later than the first of December. It is expected that sim{ flar action will be taken in the house which will mean that each house of will .have commitiees at work upon this matter. It cannot be regarded with as much favor as if it was a joint committee, for each will be working separately and covering the same ground, and it is eatircly probable that the reports will differ Widely, but there is a probability that from the two reports a plan of -action can be devised that will provide a system that will meet the country’s requirements. MEXICAN TROUBLES. As time goes on evidence is pre- sented which creates -the impression that the Mexican situation is not go- ing to adjust itself. With one thing developing after another the problem is steadily becoming ' more complex and raturally it can not fail to give this government a due amount of concern. It is not solely Mexico's inability to deal with the rebel factions that is creating the anxiety, but the at- |lltude it is showing regarding its leg- islation and respect for rights, lives and property of subjects of other countries that gives the impression that the Carranza government is seeking to cause rather than prevent trouble. Mexico has beer endeavoring to in- stitute what is regarded there as re- forms with thg result that millions of dollars worth of property that has been legally acquired by the present owners is in danger of confiscation by the Mexican government. Mexico is not satisfied with the taxation that it exacts but it even demands the whole| property. under its natienalization schemes and includes therein the elaborate developments which have been made by the actual owners. In addition thereto there are those who are eagaged in Mexico in plunder and murder, hundreds of Americans hav- ing been killed in the past decade. Now to cap the climax we are in- formed that a boatload of men from a United States warship returning af- ter obtaining supplies was held up and robbed in spite of the fact that the American flag was flying. This seems to show much the ‘same dis- regard for our flag and men as was digplayed in the Tampico incident and it is quite evident ‘that the in- cident is one which cannot be disre- garded. What the plans of the gov- ernment are after getting a detailed account of the affairs remains to. be seen. TIMELY WARNING. Thoroughly timely is the warning that is being given to the housewives of the country through a bulletin is- sued by the department of agriculture against the use of certain canning preparations to be used in connection with canning operations at home. This bulletin shows that these compounds are sold under various trade names and are usually in powdered form. the danger in connection therewith being that they contain salicylic and boric acid for the preservation of the arti- cles being canned. There was a time when canning es- tablishments resorted to the us> of similar if not the same pressrvatives. An exhaustive investigation was made with the result that ihey were declared injurious to the health and federal and state laws hava since been passed against the use of such preservatives by canners. This of course referred to thoses commercially engaged in canning and not to thoce who do their own pre- serving at home. There is nothing to prevent the use of such compounds in the canning of fruits and vegeta- bles for home consumption, but when it is realized that it has been consid- ered wise to prevent the big canners from using similar material in order to properly protect the health of con- sumers it can be appreciated that it is for the weifare of the home ca: ners to follow the advice of the de- partment of agriculture when it waras against the employment of such pre- servatives. It must or should be fully under- stood that canning can be successful- 1y done without resort to such prepar- ations and in the interests of safety that which is considered dangerous for general consumption should not be used in connection with the family canning. EDITORIAL NOTES. The man on the corner says: Noth- ing adds te life’s variety like a ehange of vehicles. Early or late there can be no ques- tion but what the deg days have started with full measure. There is no indication that Mexico intends to lessen the anxiety that its course is causing in this country. ‘With coal from this country selling for $30 a ton in Europe, it may explain to some'extent why it is declared a shortage is threatened here. Everything seems to point to the fact that the Japanese were firmer upon Shantung than the United States delegates were on Fiume. It is safe to say that the homes of those agitators who urged men fight- ing the forest fires in Montana to strike for. 14 hours pay for 12 hours ‘work were not in danger. It ought not te require much urg- ing to have municipalities take ad- vantage of the lower price for food- stuffs offered by the war department, but large bodies move slowly, Costa Rica has refused the offer of | Mexico to act as mediator in regard to its border troubles, realizing in all probability that Mexico has plenty to jattend to right at heme in the way of peace making. | No ons hewrs the Jitaey dsivers calling a meeting for the purpese of trying to settle the trolley strike. But there’s no telling how ' soon the transportation business will be i turned over to them. As is too often the case an unde- served abundance of sympathy is in- variably l#vished upon those undesir- ables who are, scheduled for deporta- tion regardless of the menace that they are to the country. It is well enough for Bernstorff to urge the Germans to acquire the good-will of the Americans, but they may as well understand that there is a substantial price attached thereto which they must be prepared to pay. tor address of as “a soap bubb aisle which and democratic Senator Fall of paid tor by ”&"""m""’ "”";.‘.““ paid for by e ce foundation,” and offered to submit to the senate proof that Mr. Hitcheock made that statement. In a minute Mr. Hitchcock was on ki t..c shouting that the foundation ‘* not spent a dollar in moting ‘the league, Then each senafpr “dared” the other to come on and produce his proof, but the vice president called time and another matter took the place of the disrupt- ed question. Over in the house Gal- livan of Boston accysed members who had voted for prohibition as hav- ing previously stocked their cellars with liguor. “Name the men,” came from all corners of the house. but Gal- livan did not name them. The blood of the men was up, however, and it was impossible to enforce order. A near riot looked imminent and a quick adjournment was made to prevent se- rious trouble. In the semate commit- tee on banking and currency. Comp- troller of the Treasury Williams sits day after day and hears himself de- nounced in painfully frank terms as having committed many breaches of trust. He in turn has accused his ac- cusers and the pot is at the boiling point prefty much all the time. Will- iams has shown great excitement un- der the strain and several times has jumped to his feet white with rage and demanded instant retraction of the statements submitted to the com- mittee but the tide turned against him and he was compelled to resume| his seat. Senator McLean of Con- netcicut is chairman of the banking ! and currency and Senator Walsh of Massachusetts is one of its members, as is also Senator Keves of New Hampshire, who is taking a strong hand_in the examination of witness- es. So New England is well repre- sented on the committee. Congressman John Q. Tilson of the third district this week spoke in fa- vor of an enforcement act of the con- stitutional amendment for prohibition but is_strongly opposed to combining it with war tme prohibition as has heen done in the pending bill. Col. Tilson denounced as faratical some of the proposed conditions imposed by the bill and expressed the helief thot it would lead to law breaking rather than enforcement. Said he, “The state of Connecticut in the proper exercise of its rights did not ratify this amend- ment, but now:it has been ratified In the promer and orderly way the peo- ple of Connecticut are ‘just as ready and zealous as the people of other states, for the proper enforcement of its provisions.” Col. Tilson said that “war time prohibition was from the beginning one-third fraud and two- thirds fake,” and that to couple it with the constitutional amendment in the pending bill is a great mistake and one which he believes will hinder the en- forcement of the amendment. “Why attach the so-called war time pro- hibition and the constitutional amend- ment together like the Siamese twins? 1s it not because war time prohibition failed_to stand on its own merits?” Col. Tilson believes the bill will lose much support on account Df ~the doubling up process of “two measures. The committee on post offices in the house has before it a resolution to restore the old R. F. D. routes as they existed before the changes made in 1917. Comnlaints come from all over the country)that the new rout- ing has resulted in public incon- venience and detriment to the service. Senator Moses appeared before the committee urging a _restoration of such routes as were found to be less desirable than the old. and presented a strong statement ‘as to how the new routes had affected New Hampshire in many instances. The committee has been assured by the post office depart- ment that it will make' immediate in- vestigation with a view of restoring old routes without congresional ac- tion, if on investigation just cause for complaint is found. The commit- tee js not likely to take action pend- ing the investigation made by the de- partment. The foreign relations committee has plunged deep into the work of con- sidering the treaty. Senator Brande- gee said today the work was progress- ing satisfactorily. There is, however, no doubt but what it will occuny many ks. In the meantime the house probably either take a long recess by consent of the senate or a series of three day recesses for ,a month. under a gentleman’s agree- ment that no important legislation be introduced. The senate wants its time to consider the treaty undis- turbed and mnot be interrupted by forced consideration of routine work sent over from the house. Senators Brandegee, Moses, of New Hampshire, together with the chairmanship of Senator Lodge, gives New England an important place in the consideration of the treaty. The very zeneral opinion here is that the treaty cannot be rati- fied in its present form, many demo- crats Joining the republicans in op- posing several sections helieved to in- terfere with the independence and in- terest of the United States. The Irish Catholic clement in the senate unquestionably oppose it, and there is every indication that reservation will | be made in such a way that the ra fication is made dependent on their ac- ceptance by other powers. Otherwise it cannot pass. The dark hued gentiemen from Abys- sinia have been cordially greeted here though some of the.stunts they have performed have set their dipiomatic hosts on tiptoe—for instance when they went to the great zoo the duke of Abyssinia seemed to recognize as a friend the enormous boa constrictor which is the king of snakes in the zoo. The duke insisted that the keeper open the door of the cage, whereupgn he showed to be a snake charmer, for the great reptile permitted him to pat its head and stroke it, while the duke uncoiled as many vards of the squirm- ing monster as he could easily lift. Onlookers say the snake _evinced pleasure by wagging its forked tongue much as a dog wags its tail, while its big scaly head was being stroked by Pediazmatch Nado, who heads the high commission. But the onlookers and keeper were-not happy till the huge reptile was once more behind the bars of his cage. The mission visited the president at the White House, earrying with them splendid gifts of ivory. One. of the members in his visit to Mt. Vernon was especially in- terested in the old spinning wheel of the Washingtons, remarking that the clothes he was then wearing were hand spun. The visitors were taken up in an airplane and are said to show very keen interest in the usual round of sight-seeing. Not long a 29° Senator Dillingham of Vermont said jokingly to one of his old negro employes of the senate: “You know the democrats have gone out of power here and you had better look after your job. There’s been a big change, John, and what are you going to do about it?" asked the sen- ator from Vermont. “I ain’t got to do nothin’. Congress can't change quick. will | Have been surprised, nice enough and pretty enough to be- come engaged any time and always have been. Only I haven’t thought apout anyihing of the sort for ages Well, how does it feel to be at 40 Just as it feels at any other time, I} menf suppose,” smiled the plump and rosy, sister. “At first it seems strange, thm\. suddenly, @ seem nlce all the relatives “What do they do?" “Everything I wished wouldn't!” was the crisp and m rejoinder. “I'm not blaming D ien e Hine Amen ouos Cabscted to fall in love, and even then lovers get lots of teasing. But later—well, my young cousin Percy began it. He's a regular little he gossip. 1 didn't mean to tell any one of my engage- ment, but Percy heard of it, somehow, and he spread the fact to the outer most edges of the family. Then the fun began. “My married sister led them all. She warned me solemnly not to show any affection too plainly. - She said men of Jim’s age couldn’t stand it; love made | |them concettad, snyway. Atnt Alice.{ on the other hand, warned me, just as solemnly, not to stint evidences of my affection. Middle aged men, she de- clared simply starved if they didn't have love. Cousin Grace was terribly worried for fear I wouldn't get enough jof a trousseau. She said I absolutely Imust not start without plenty of clothes or I'd be expected to continue dressing on nothing. Cousin however, was equally worried for fear T'd get to elaborate an outfit. “And poor Jim! How they did worry about him! I think in their secret hearts all the family expected him to break the engagement as soon as he knew me better or else they feared he } i ‘ day of the wed: decu-. uhtil 1 ex; and to lu practically, no wedding; at all. Smeolme(omwm-nr for pretentions announcements to b.l mailed the day of the ceremony, so people would know there was nothing surreptitious about it; some of them | felt that a simple newspaper announce- ment would be quite adequate at my age.’ " “Why didn't you tell your people that you could marage vour own af-| fairs, matrital and otherwise?” nked] the slim, pale woman. “I did’'try to suggest something of | the kind.” was plump and rosy’'s an- | swer. “I even reminded them them | doesn’t want to quarrel with people affairs for some time. But one gently that T had managed my own who ‘really mean to be kindly and, anyway, they didn't listen.” “I know what I'd do,” said the slim, pale woman with a grin and a twinkle. Td go away quietly some morning and be married without telling any- body but the minister and Jim.” “You always did have a lot of good sense. Aggie,” she chuckled happily.| “That's just what I did nearly six weeks ago!” — Exchange. I {inextricable tangles and hours passed .—TOfiAV\——- - Di W. Griffith’s Master Picturs - STAYED AT HOME” IN 7 MASSIVE PARTS It Takes You Through the Trench- es Defended by Women's Souls and Answars the Question of the Mo- ment. What Did She Do ? FROM THE TIBER 'TO THE PIAVE Burton Holmes Travelague FRANKLIN FARNUM In the 5 Part Western Drama “Go Get ’Em Garringer” A Regular Old Fashioned Western Picture Full of Thrills and Comedy NEW SHOW TOMORBOW ——————e——— port American truck drivers. Many ‘were men loaned from the American army, The boys worked under very diffi- cult conditions, far from their base. The road to Uskub runs over the fa- mous Babouna pass, and is tortuous’ {and steel with innumerable hair-pin turns. Along its hundred miles from | Monastir it was crowded with .cam- ions, wagons, oxcarts and refugees. All along the route were cars over- turned and out of commission. Some- imes the traffic became snarled into Olive Thomas THE HARRISON FISHER GIRL IN HER LATEST AND MOST DASHING COMEDY THE FOLLIES GIRL Evelyn Greely PHIL-FOR-SHORT JAMMED WITH LAUGHS, FULL OF FUN AND ENTERTAIN- MENT. THE WHOLE FAMILY WILL ENJOY IT. PATHE NEWS AUDITORIUM TODAY AND TOMORROW REX BEACH'S STORY “The Auction Block” The Life Drama of 1,000,000 Giris in America TOM MIX in NORTH OF 63 before’ things were straightened out. | OTHER VIEW POINTS The old and eternal contest between utility and beauty is involved in Comp- troller Webster's determination to dou- ble the space for use by putting a floor across the middle of the Senate Chamber, reducing its height by a Majestic Roof last heard from John was still holding down his job. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Pensions For Widows. Mr. Editor: Will you kindly allow me space in your valuable paper to say that the impression that a United States pension agent has any- thing to do with the Connecticut pen- sion for widows law s all wrong. 1 have had several communi- cations, and a dozen calls over these matters. The fact is that the select- men of the various towns are not do- ing their duty as the law directs. Eg pecially is this true of so large a town as Plainfield, where there are many who are in need of and entitled to the state pension. Colonel Robert O. Eaton and staff are not to blame, they can draw the $8,000 per year salary granted them just as well if no widow ever gets her claim allowed. One widow in Plainfield that has been to me has three children. I write of this as many have writfen and come to me thinking that the regular pension department has something to do with the matter. Get after your first selectman and if they are alive and have the least idea what vou are talking about they will probably get busy. Those in need that the law was passed to assist, should not be oblig- od to beg for what they are entitled to and no man in Connecticut knows this better than most any old selectman. C. B. MONTGOMERY. / Oneco, July 19, 1919. IN THE DAY’S NEWS St. Helena “St. Helena. the island whose special® ty is the entertainment of deposed monarchs, has good economic reasons for its reported desire to have the kaiser for a prisoner, says a bulletin from the National Geographic Sa- ciety’s Washington headquarters. “Napoleon was its most famous and best paying ‘guest.’ though not the only one. Dinizulu, a Zulu king, was a more recent exile; sent there after he led a rebellion against the British during the Transvaal in 1889. Whiie Napoleon was at St. Helena, profiteer- ing at the expsmse of the Bonaparte household and the numerous members of the garrison sent to guard him, was reduced to a fine art by the island cit- izens. “In fact it was the high cost of St. Helena living which created part of the friction between Napoleon and the | British governor of the island, Sir Hudson Lowe. Instead of living with- in the 8000 pounds sterling allowed for maintenance of Bonaparte and the half hundred members of his entour- age the bills for a year mounted to three times that sum. Upon complaint of the governor, which Napoleon re- sented, the ex-monarch executed a bit of ‘play to the galleries’ by ordering his silver sold and his bed broken up for wood, which, when reported in England. created so mueh, criticism of the governor, already none 00 popu- lar, that further remonstrances were nof_made. Napoleon’s wants were few. His principal luxury was books: his diver- ions chess plaving and digging in his garden. Like the former kaiser, he Spent many hours with the Bible." He professed no piety, however, frankly admitting that he was making a study of certain Old Testament hooks to show that monarchs had divine sanc- tion, and he also spoke of wanting to write a monosraph on “The Cam- | paizns of Mose: “Since St. Helena is some 7,000 miles from the nearest land. Ascension is- land, and 1,200 miles from the nearest African port. the extreme precautions taken by Lowe to prevent the escape of the man who once ruled half of Europe, created considerable amuse- ment. Sir Hudson wis greatly dis- turbed one day to find a newly arrived Corsican priest riding horseback in a coat similar to Napoleon's, believing the compatriot involved in a plot teo deceive the guards. The French com- missioner complained that the sight of a passing dog was enough to induee the governor to plant a new sentinel on the spot: but perhaps the most ex- trems of the many amusing stories of Lowe's solicitude was the occasion of his protest against Napoleon's plant- ing some white and green beans. sens- ing in this combination 'of colors a subtle allusion to the white flag of the Bourbons and the distinctive green un- iform of the general. “Living almost wholly within two rooms and his garden, Napoleon in- sisted on all the pomp and ceremony possible in such eramped quarters. Sinee his companions necessarily were much in his presence his ingistence upon their standing sometimes brought them to the point of fainting. None might speak unless spoken to and aN became extremely bored ‘with mfi life in a shanty involving all the bur- dens, without any of the splendor af a palace.” “At first the exile rode horseback, but soon abandoned that rather than have an English guard along. His se- clusion is best aitested by the fact |island was settled by British, Dutch {caused the American Red Cross to im- did not exchange a word with the gov- ernor; and of the three commission-. ers—Russian, Austrian and French— sojourning there by the provisions of a treaty ‘to assure themselves of his escope once, a second looked into his face for the first time when he was to be bn|fied. and the third saw him not at all. apoleon’s days at St. Helena were not wholly devoted to killing time. He dictated his voluminous memoirs, and military commentaries, while a num- ber of his associates later added to these diaries, conversations and me- moirs of their own, inaccurate or de- liberately misleading in large Now this activity would be propaganda. It was highly effective propaganda, too. Though Napoleon's escape was prevented by vigilanee to an absurd degree, and though the ef- fect of his winning personality was guarded against by forbidding visitors to see him, his writing and those of Montholon and Das Cases resulted in the royalistic ‘flareback’ that put his nephew in the throne of France. It was to Napoleon II, that Queen Vi toria presented ‘Longwood’ where Napoleon lived and died while at St. Helena. “Geographically St. Helena is pe- culiarly fitted for an island prison. Its volcanic formation accounts for a half circle of mountains which permit only one landing place, that at the island’s single port and city, Jamestown. Un- inhabitted when discovered ten years after Columbus sailed for America, the part. called and Portuguese. In the days of sail- ing vessels and before the Suez canal was opened the islanders thrived by providing supplies for passing vessels. with the passing of this market for their meats and vegetables, the is- land's principal industries waned and the inhabitants dwindled until there are now only 3,600 persons, as com- pared with twice that many residents years ago. The island belongs thirty presence’ one saw him through a mt DANCING and FEATURE PICTURES half and thus providing an additional room above. The objection is that the Senate Chamber is artistically beauti- ful now and that this will spoil it, be- sides impairing the architectural out- side. by ocutting necessary additional new windows through the outside hall. Even then the light in both rooms would probably be bad. The Capitol is getting so crowded that it would prob- ably be wise to build an office bufld ing mow and not spoil the fine build- ing any more by trying to accommo- date an expansion which will sooner or later make a new building neces- sary.—Waterbury American. In the announcement that Richard C. Deming of New Haven has been ap- pointed to the position of Director of Americanization under the State Board of FEducation. comes the realization that Connecticut, as usual, is on the job in entering upon a duty the eoun- try owes to its new citizens. The auestion of Americanization came forcibly to the fore during the war. We recognized that no proper system had been devised to thorough- 1y look after t raw material—very raw. most of it—coming from the lands in Europe the people of which sat in darkness, under the iron heel of oppression, to say nothing of the blight of bigotry and the millstones of ancient custom. Thanks to the energy of patriotic cit- izens Connecticut took this matter up and through its General Assembly a| start was made in the direction of nractical purpose. The State Board of Education was also revolutionized and revivified. And the selection of Mr. Deming is one of its first acts.— Bridgeport Post There is so~ . ing humorous, al- though the hur > pretty grim, in the calm' way in which the blame for the impending coal shortaze is placed upon the consumer, the man who will summer’s greatly increased demand with no surplus of water stored? The geological survey may be un- able to find evidence of abnormal profits at the mines but it does not seem that it should have much trouble in finding evidence of manipulation to maintain high prices and create higher prices in the future. The arbitrary ac- tion of the government that is called for is action to increase production of coal immediately and keep it up until a surplus sufficient to prevent & shortage next winter is accumulated.— Waterbury Republican, From the point of view of the cen- sumer the ice situation continues to be outrageous.- Ice King Walker keeps on in the even temor of his ways, maintaining that it is nobody’s bus iness how much money he makes and smilingly admitting the success of his policy in charging a1l the market will bear The ice committee's report is now before the legislative solons of the municipality. It proposes certain schemes for future relief. Thes of course, will have to be studied as to their practicability. The electric light man has a scheme for artificial ice at a low price. It promises well It may be worch looking into. Any- y it seems to be laid upon the municipal legislators not to la— the whole matter aside and forget about it But that is kings seem to ‘think will Hartford Times. about what the iee be done.— For testing screw threaded machine parts for extreme accuracy appara- tus has been designed that projects feel the pinch when it comes. C. E.|Magnified pictures of them on & Lesher, a coal expert of the ' United |Screen. States geological survev. told the, House rules committee Thursday that to Great Britain and is administered directly by the Crown.” STORIES OF THE WAR Checking Epidemics. The typhus epidemics at Kavabla. Monastir, Uskub, Leskovatz and some other smaller laces in southern Serbia other smaller places in southern Serbia }-ll?d Cross reports rcceived at Salon- ki P At all these points small typhus hospitais have been set up under the direction of American physicians and nurses. Disinfecting stations have been established and in them thous- ands of refugees and soldiers are cleansed. Serbian officials have thanked the Red Cross for its help in suppressing the epidemics, both of smallpox and typhus. ‘The food =upply of hundreds of thousands of Serbs who have roiurned to their homes in Uskub, Monastir, Pirot and Guevgell i now believed to have passed the “critical stage as the American Food Administration has shipped large quantities of flour to those places and the grain harvests are reported to be fairly good. The Red Cross is taking steps to insure the permanency of its insti- tutions established in Serbia, particu- larly the orphanages. Doughboy Chauffeurs Helped. American doughboy chauffeurs from the wettern front have done their bit to help Serbia. With the same dash and determination they displayed car- rying up ammunition to the 75's in the Argonne, they have pushed their trucks over the so-called “impassa-| ble” roads of Serbia and havej brought thousands of tons of despe; ately needed food, clothing and medi- eines to starving mountain hamlets and remote districts in the interjor of Serbia. ‘The rearcity of Serbian chauffeurs LEMON JUICE FOR FRECKLES Girls! Make beauty lotion for a few cents—Try It! P — a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white, shake well, and you bave a quarter pint of the best freckle a3d tan lotion, and complexion beauti- fie, at very, very small cost. Squeeze the juice of two lemons lnm‘l the mines are running at only two, thirds capacity, all because the con- sumer is failing to buy coal now. 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