Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 8, 1919, Page 4

e Glorwich uiluye and Qoufied 123 YEARS OLD -_—— Subserigtion prise 136 & week; 306 4 menth; 35.00 year. Zateied st the Postoffice at Norwich, Coma.. a» @end-class mater. Teleshons Calls. @ulletia Business Office 480. Bulletia 3.3, %In Office 35.2. Wilimantic Offics 23 Churen St Teiephene 103. 8, 1919 ~ CIRCULATION 10,100 TAKE THE BULLETIN ALONG Subscribers and readers of The Bulletin leaving the city for the seaton, or a vacation, can have The Bulletin sent to their address by mail for any specified period at the regular rate by notifying the business depariment, telephone 480 P o S —_— PACKING PROFITS. Out of the pages of the Congres- sional Record of no very distant date come an array of figures that cannot fail to interest the puzzied citizen who strives desperately, though un- satisfactorily, to reconcile the sky- high prices he is called upon to pay for meat with the claifis of the five big packers that their business is not all 2 bed of roses and they must not be blamed for high price of meat pro- ducts. Representative Ricketts of Ohio was the man delving away at some expla- nation for the high cost of living, who in the course of his remarks succeed- ed in intreducing and having printed) in the Record a statement made by a packing company about the profits made by the big five. This is what was printed in the Recerd ©One thousand dollars invested in Armour & Ce. five years ago is now worth $32,000. One thousand dellars invested in Swift & Co. six years ago is now werth $20,000. One theusand dellars invested in Meorris & Co. three vears ago is now weorth $23,000. One thousand dollars invested in Cudaky & Co. six years ago is now worth 326,000 One thousand dollars invested in Wilson & Co. two vears ago is now worth $7.000. Along with these figures, Congreseé- man Ricketts referred to some other fizures taken from the federal trade rommissions report on the big pack- ers as follows: The big five packe: jointly or ately, wield controlling interest 4 companies ,minority interest in and undetermined interect a total of 762 companies, and produce or deal in some 775 com- wmoedities, larzeiv fcod rrocucts. Speaking of earnings, the congress- n declared: The earnings of these big concerns in 1505 were $17,000, mn €00. The earnings in 1917 were $80, €90.000. The earnings in 1818 were! mething like '$100,000000, and 1 Goubt not that the earnings in 1919 will be in the meighborhood of $150,- €00,000. Ey earnirgs, I mean not the gross earnings, but the net earnings. Probably the packers will say that there is something wrong about these figures presented by Congressman Ricketts. But the man in the street is bound to feel that he has plausible mround f believing that there is some connection between the T7ie st he and hundreds cf thousands of others are paying for and the gol- ¢en stream that runs into the coffers cf the gackers SEVEN FATEFUL DAYS. Five vears ago this week the world stood upon the brink of the fawning chasm of war. In his fugitive refuge in Holland today, William Hohenzol- leen may recall his boastful threats to teach the world what it meant to offend Germany. While throwing ev- ery obstacle in the way to prevent any failure in the plan of the German war lords, the kaiser and his arch conspirators were using every effort to put the onus of beginning the con- fliet upon those who would be the ene- mies of Germany. After Belgrade, the Serbian capi- tal, had been bombarded and occupied on July 23 by the Austrians, the plot thickened fast and the stage of Bu- rope was soon filled with the tread of mustering armies. Germany knew the match that would fire the powder magazine and she promptly applied it. This was the rumor of the mobilization of her own armies which traveled on the wings of the wind to St. Peters- burg. Russia answered the threat with instant orders for mobilization and the German war lords sat back and smiled that “Der Tag” for which they had been preparing for forty years had arrived. The last despairing efforts of Eng- land and France to preserve world peace had been for nought and Bel- gium likewise declared for mobiliza- tion on the same day as Russia. With more heroics from the Ger- man leaders as to what the good Ger- man sword was to accomplish in the demonstration that might weuld con- quer over right, Germany declared war on Russia on the first of August, calling upon Italy to support the eovenant of the Triple Alliance, but that nation answered that she would remain neutral. France alse issued meobilization orders on the first of the month, and Germany followed this two days later by declaring war upon France and making, the astounding proposal to Belgium that German troops should be allowed to pass through King Albert’s territory to at- tack the French. Belgium's noble re- fusal to accede to this violation of her meutrality, guaranteed by the Hague eonvention, led to the occupation of Luxemburg by 100,000 German troops. England promptly declared war up- on Germany in supporting its pledge to guarantee the neutrality of imvaded Belgium, and the meeting of armed enemy forces began on Aug. 5th when the Franco-Belgian troops under King Albert checked the Germans at Liege.) President Wilson offered his X offices to the warring European pow ers and the momentous week ci with the declaration of war upon Russia by Austria. MADE IN AMERICA. Due to the war, when foreign eom- petition was shut out. American toy manufacturers were able to turn out an annual wholesale output that reached approximately $35,000,000, and they are now striving to have that industry protected against a resump- tion of the competition of low-labor products from across the sea. Industrial penetration, stimulated from Berlin, had made the slogan, ade in Germany” entirely too well knewn before the war. American toy manufacturers propose now to re- place that former well known stamp. and are embarked upon the endeavor to provide American toys for the American home, with a “Made in America” stamp on them. There should be no reason why the boys and girls of this country should be forced to play with foreign-made toys whoee foreign origin and stamp conveys the subtle suggestion that here is one field where America must bow to the foreigm manufacturer. American children should be taught to believe in the supremacy of Amer- ica in every field. American trade interests can go hand in hand with American patriotism, for not alone toys but all other goods should be stamped in future with the words “Made ‘in America.” X AUTOS AND FREIGHT RATES. Part of the. woes of - the trolley roads it is gemerally conceded, has beery brought about by automobiles. Privately owned cars furnish trans- portation to families who formerly used the trolleys. and lure away still more nickels from the trolley register through complimentary rides to fam- ily friends. Further and serious in- roads into the trolley road receipts are made by the active and proposed op- position of the public jitney and aute ‘bus service. The trolley operators tell us that there is a point beyond which fares cannot be advanced without defeat-. ing the purpose for which the ad- vance is made—an increase in reve- nue. May hot the same apply te the freight rates on the railroads which when boosted too high would drive thousands of manufacturers into shifting a big part of their short-haul treight handling to auto trucks Under the Plumb plan now urgently advocated by the railway employes, with its wage rate raise and its in- evitable result of a freight and pas- senger rate advance, how long will it be before the burden of freight charges upon hundreds of big manufacturers may not drive them to aute trucks? Thus again may the self-propelled vehicle, traveling the highways, as- sist in bringing the railroads to the same pass in which the trolley com- panies now find themselves. War-time necessity gave an im- pressive demonstration of the possi- bilities of auto truck freight in the long lines of laden trucks that swept to the Atlantic seaboard with every conceivable sort of material for the armies abroad. The lesson will not have been lost upon the American manufacturer if freight rates are pushed to an unhearable charge. EDITORIAL NOTES. auto left alone at the curb gets at last. one-time serviceable nickel now one or two copper crutches to on. The stolen The needs et by In a tidal wave of robber price in- vestigation, innocence will be a good life preserver. The end of a perfect day—50,000 people marooned at Coney Island by the trolley strike. enough, but bad is “telephone out of order” leads to the heights of exasperation. “Line busy o With Honduras cloced as a refuge for criminals, business in Bulgaria cught to pick up a little. Prince Aage of Denmark scores a ten-strike when he declares the United States is God's own country. Refinery output of 41,000,000 pounds of sugar per day is yet not enough to satisfy che American sweet tooth. The secret is out. They say Barle- con sent his Chinese cook to the ‘Washington .post office to help sort the mail. It looks like fifty-fifty, congressmen to give up their summer vacations, the president to give up that speech- making excursion. Abstracted Bostonians are so much given to “jay walking” that safety lanes are now provided for them to| cross the streets. The man ‘on the corner says: The railway men gave it the right name when they called it the Plumb bill; looks like a lemon to us. While we fume at dog days, it may help to know that- in the process of time they will some day synchronize with Christmas and New Year's. While the country should get all the benefit possible from the restriction of drink that is dangerous, it is yet to be demonstrated that Lady Nicetine is in the same class. 8 Shellshock appears as a new enemy to Cupid. A New York man declares that shellfire in France blasted out all the love he had for the “girl he left Dbehind him” in Manhattan. Althoush the League of Natlens is to reduce wars to the vanishing point the two new liners to be built by the shipping board will be constructed so that they can be readily converted in- to commerce destroyers. Samuel Turner, a PBritish manufac- turer, on return to England from a stay in America said he was “stag- zered” by the result of his visit. ‘T found that in hardly any industry are we able to compete with the United States,” he said. ‘“There is only one hope for us and that is to bend our backs to the task of raising our pro- duction per man to the level of the United States.” me—T. i's mv. mether and ase. You know how perfectly our house is full of the most mid-Victorian junk in the have black walnut furni- enough to haunt one at cushions paint- dressy little bronze men sitting on them. There isn’t a room in the house that doesn't sport its little bouquet of dried flowers or wax flowers or a hair wreath. “You see, the trouble is that moth- er is that way, too. I might say that she had a black walnut mind, mas- sive and unaltérable. She likes those things. She wouldn't part with any of them or change them for anything on earth. Some of the things were ‘wedding presents from people she didn’t care anything about and. some are just the natural background she| uses for camouflage, so she treasur- ers '’em. I've tried all kinds of per- suasions on her. Once I.went so far as to say that I thought her wedding presents must have made her feel aw- Tully depressed, but she, only looked at me coldly and said that they were considered very handsome indeed. “T've taken magazines of household decorations and sprinkled them around the house in the hope that she would absorb =a little taste for co- lonial and modern things, but she's Gleaned irom ?oreig-n Ex. changes It is rather curious that while it has always been possible to admit distin- guished wQreigners to the Order of Merit, Marshal Joffre is only the sec- ond Frenchman to receive this high British honor. Until the king gave the O. M. to Foch last year, Japan was the .only foreign country which pos- sessed members of the Order, Prince Yamagata, Count Togo, and the late Prince Oyama having been appointed some years ago. All the foreign O. M.'s have thus bheen “Military” mem- bers. Of the score or so of British O. M.'s 1 th\> are but three survivors of the dozen :telected by King Edward to be original members when he founded the Order to mark his.Coronation in 1902. They are Lord Morley, Lord Rayleigh, and Sir E. H. Seymour. Nowhere 'will aerial communication be of more value than at the far-flung outposts of the empire. For instance, the many islands of the three groups which form the Gil- bert and Ellice Islands Colony in the Southern Pacific lie on an average 50 miles apart. There is a break of 190 miles betwcen the Gilbert and Ellice and Uniee. »ups. Communication is now slow .l uneertain, but a few seaplanes wanid work ‘a revolution, and the majority of the islands pos- sess lagoons where landing could safely be effected even jin rough wea- ther. 9 The old thirteen-at-a-table, super- stitition has just completed a ro- mance in real life. On armistice night a merry party were sitting down to an impromptu dinner in a West-end res- taurant when z lady discovered that they numbered 13, and threatened to withdraw. Somebody suggested that one of the men should go into the street and bring in the first wounded or lonely officer he saw. He returned with a representative from overseas. A jolly dinner followed, friendships ’were formed, and.at their vietory dinner on Saturday he announced his betrothal. Since there is no difficulty in obtain- ing justices of the peace it would sure- iy be no bad thing if the minimum age { of 30 suggested by the lords for wo- men justices were made applicable to men also. There was a_recent case when a young peer, of much tenderer age, was appointed to the bench., and the justice of the great unpaid would pro- bably be more consistent if a certain maturity were recuired for all of both sexes. A justice of the peace in the early twenties is not likely to know very much about law which may be described as useful if not essential to the office. Among the collection of naval med- als, the property of the Marquis of Milford Haven. “which is to be sold next month, i§ a thin silver plate— the Eastern Hemisphere on one side, the Western on the other—known as “Drake's silver map.” When Drake was on a mission in the Netherlands in 1536, he charged Michael Mercator to draw him a map of the world showing the track of his voyage, to be hung in the Queen's Gal- I and tongs and could have some dlesticks. Do you let me? She would not. “Oh, well, it's her house; she can do as she chooses with it, I suppose. one thing I've When I'm old and my cl and tell me that my things date and that tastes and styles have changed and my colomial furniture is perfectly hideous and I _ ought to change back te black walnut things with marble tops, I'm going te listen to them. I shan’t pretend that my e s o er_si san’t— “Won't you?’ her friend inquired sweetly. “Oh, yes, you will. You'll cherish your sasging old overstuffed chairs and your silly little wvm:%:eak and your colored prints of tt's “Hope' and Whistler's ‘Mother,’ and nothing that your daughters can say will' induee you to part with them. You'll still be pretending that you think it's convenient to use a tea wagon and youll want bright chintz cushions when every ome else is using priotnd vel-et. You will— *“1 will not!™ “iuw thmk you wom't,” went on the friend, who was wise in her gener- ation, “but you will, just the same. There isn’t a thing you can do to keep from getting old, you know, Jane.” 3 “Mercy! I guess that's so.” Jane: “But even when I am old I'm not going to be unreasonable.”—Chica- g0 News. lery. At the same time, it is believed, he ordered the miniature of this map to be engraved on both sides of a silver plate, which is now among the Drake heirlooms at Nutwell Court, the ancient family seat in Devonshire. Ounly four other specimens of this plate Xist—the one in the present collection, two in the British Museum, and one with the descendants of the late John Evans. The specimens are all _identical except for a variation in weight. The treaty of peace has been signed, but legally the war is not yet over. For by the “Termination of the Pres- BIG BANNER SILL OF 1 FEATURE PHOTOPLAYS TODAY AND TOMORROW A Six Reel Pathe Feature ANTONIO MORENO IN THE 12TH EPISODE OF Perils of Thunder Mountain KINOGRAM WEEKLY CONTAINING WORLD'S NEWS A 100 PER CENT. PIOTU/R! WILLIAM DESMOND —IN— A ROLLICKING COMEDY DRAMA WITH A WILD WESTERN BACK- GROUND. PATHE NEWS —_—————— tendered a dinner to General Graves} iyeen the armias of Japan and the and the American staff.( In propesing| United States.” a téast to Genmeral Graves the Japan- ese.general stated that “the harmeny and co-eperation whieh exists between | The Turkish government has con- American and Japanese forces im demned Enver Pasha to death, but the beria is largely due te the wiselnews would be more reassuring if any- manner in which Gemeral Graves has body knew the present whereabouts of guided affairs.” Enver Pasha.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. General Otani said that he had is- sued an erder to the Japanese forees 3 in Siberia informing them to the be- The Real Queation. stowal of the medal and urging them| The New York World tries to an- to redouble their efforts “to promote|swer a long-standing question by say- and to make still stronger the spirit of concert and friendship existing be- GA LA NIGHT T. A.B. HALL SAT. AUG. 9, BIG CONFETTI DANCE in the Two Part Coamedy Scream 'DANCING AT PULASKI HALL “Trying i Saturday Evening, August Sth 8 to 1130 Music by Waldren's Jazz Band Admission 35¢, inoluding War Tax EVERYBODY WELCOME ———— ing a man is drunk when he is so full he iz a nuisance. Bhl:: hov\:ou: ': te know whether a n wi s nusance is so full that he is drunk.~~ Louisville Courier Journal. A Adyertise for Him. Fine Chance. About now would be a fine time for some of those Republican Senators to ask to have a few constituents ap- pointed to postoffices.—Indianapolis Star, COMING TO NORWJ]CH One Week Commencing Aug. 1lth AT BATTLE GROUNDS World'sbreatestCarnivalShows Benefit Robert Q. Fletcher Post, American Legion ent War (Definition) Act. 1918 the date which is to be declared by his Majesty by Order in Council “shall be as nearly as may be the date of the exchange of ratifications of the Trea- ty_or Treaties of Peace.” These will take time: se probably long after we have participated in the delirious joys of Peace Day there will be still another day on which, if it has any enthusiasm left. London can let itself go in celebration of positive- ly—as we hope—the very last act in the greatest drama the world ,as ever seen. Cases are often related of cats mo- thering chickens, but the following story is perhaps unique. A farmér's wife in €ornwall had a broody hen, but being rather late in the season put no egg- under her. A barn cat had a litter of kittens in the same nest. When the cat left the lit- tle ones for a few minutes the hen was observed gathering them under her wings and bravely endeavoring to stop their crying by “clucking” to them just as if they were her chick- ens. When the cat returned, she, her kittens, and the motherly hen all set- tled down comfortably in the com- munal nest. ‘Such words as ‘Darling,’ ‘Babs, \-etest’ and those pet names tha! figured o frequently in the hand- sealec and carefully written epistle are gone, and in their place we have ‘Old Thing, ‘Pal’ ‘Chummie’ and the vouthfully expressive ‘Cheerio’ in their place.” If anyone should know anything of the love letter it should be the popular criter of sentimental stories, and Mr. Charies Garvice, whose remarkable saies have attracted much attention. gave h ews to a Daily Chronicle representative. Mr. Garvice has just published another book. ecalled The Girl T Love, and its characteristic fea- tures and the popular appeal it has already made challemge the idea that sentiment is no longer wanted.—Lon- don Chronicle. STORIES OF THE WAR D. 8. Medal to J: General. (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) Major General William S. Graves, the American commander in eria, recently presented the Distinguished Service Medal to General K. Otani senior allied commander in Siberia. I{ doing so General Graves said he de- sired to testify to the courteous and careful consideration given by the Japanese commander to all questions placed before him. General Otani expressed his grati- ’ Pile Sufferers! Clever Ohio Chemist Says This Great Prescription Taken Internally Has Never Failed Even chromic cases of 20 to 30 e standing, with profuse bl have been completely eured in from three to ten days. No discovery of recent years in the field of medicine has caused such a stir amongst the medical profession as the recent discovery that piles can be suc- cessfully treated and cured at home ! by a wonderful prescription known to druggists as Miro Pile Remedy. It has been proved that so-cajled ex- ternal remedies applied or insevted into the rectum cannot cure piles and at the best only give temporary relief. This is also true of surgical operations which simply remove them after for- mation, but in ne wise acts on the source of the trouble, This prescription, although taken in- ternally. is not digested in the stom- ach, but is rapidly passed changed to the testines in a short time, reaching the exact place where by its soothing, healing action it first ailays all inflammation and then by direct contact with all ulcers and piles | causes them to heal and disappear tor- ever. on un- positions. EVERY MONDAY IS lesson in stenography. 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If your druggist cannot supply you we wiil gladly send either of the above mail charges paid on receipt of price. Internal Treatment $1.50, war tax 6c: Ointment 50c, war tax 2c extra. Guaranteed Remedies Co., Elyria, Ohio. * ENROLLMENT DAY Norwich, Conn. ROWLAND JAZZ CAND COL. FRANCIS FERARI SHOWS THE OLD RELIABLE FOLLOW THE CROWD l DANCE ASHLAND CASINO —TONIGHT— JEWETT CITY FAMOUS ASHLAND ORCHESTRA Casino Net Open If Stormy. and Trained Wild Animal Arena The Best, Greatest and Cleanest Carnival Shows In the World Capt. Purchase Wrestle With a Man-Eating Tiger Signor Tony and His Group of Leopards The 101 Trained Wild Becots THE TANGO SWINGS * Hl"[ NO IMMORAL SHOWS NO GAMBLING GAMES The Special Show Train of 20 B y About 2 P. M., and They Start to Unload t nee on Princess Alice Dance the Tango With a Lion THE WHIP < THE MERRY-GO-ROUND Ferry Street. Cars Will Arrive Sund. Big Circus Wagons at i PLAYING HOOKY! *—with a dog and a gun and a hunk of Bread. Thereisnota joy on earth to equal it. Boys know how to get hungry, and they know what hits the spot when hunger hits ' them. Bread is real Boy-Food — especially a home made loaf made with plain bread ingredients and raised with plenty of Compressed Yeast. z That’s— Queen Bread Don’t waste time baking at home when you can get a loaf like this. THE LOAF MADE FOR CHILDREN N A. E. ANDREWS Summit Street