Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 8, 1919, Page 8

WHO ARE THE (Written Specially for The Bulletin) The very remarkable gentlemen at ‘Washingto, D. C.. who are supposed to navigate the ship of state are now in another funk. The president, after spending six months or more out of the country trying to manage the af- fairs of other nations, has returned, at 1ast, to find that the country he is paid bis ‘salary-to watch over is headed straight for the dogs—has, in fact, got amongst them already. - “The congress which he refused to call into session last spring and which, when the belated call finally came, set itself to jawing and jangling over the same foreign muddlé. instead of promptly taking up the threatening domestic situation—the congress .is now appealed to by the president to forego its hot-weather vacation and stay In sweltering Washington to see if it can't devise some sort of sheiter against the coming' thunder storm. That storm is now zenith high and about the blackest looking portent which has darkened our sky for a gen- eration. Thousands of us common people saw it-when it began rising on the horizon. Thousands.of us then recogrized its ominous appearance. Choesen,. picked, delegated ‘statesmen” with no better .eyes and no _wiser brains than tHe rest of us might have seen it at the same time and, if they were really statesmen, might have at léast begun consideration of measures: looking to natfonal protection against! its: threat. But, no; the president was in Eu- rope, too ~busy with _safeguarding Poland °~ fand Czecho-Slovakia, and ! nursing his infant leazue of nations, to | ses_or hear anything of his own country’s needs; and congress. when SR XY LEMON JUICE ! FOR FRECKLES i | erls' Make beauty lotion for 1 a few cents—Try It! AR | Squeeze the juice of two lemons into 2 Dottle containing three ounces of ofchard white, shake well, and you | have a quafter pint of the best freckle 31d tan lotion. and complexion beauti- Hes, at very, very small cost. Tour grocer has the lemons and any ariig store or toilet counter will supply | three ounces of orchard white for a few cents. Massage this sweetly fragrant Iotion into the face, neck, arms and hands each day and see how freckles and biemishes disappear and how clear, soft and rosy-white the skin becomes. Yes! It is harmless and never irri- tutes. 3 PROFITEERS? it met, was too engrossed with em:.r praise or criticism of that brat to give 2 moment's thought to its own proper duties. Now the presidént has suddenly dis- covere that therc's Hades to pay and no_pitch hot, And congress is bailing with rage because he Grgently. demand ittostand by and save the country with the same sort of-belated August um- brella_which should have been raised last winter, certainly last March. It's enough to make common hay- seeds like us wonder if our supposed servants in the government at Wash- ington are worth the rather high wages we pay them. Of course, it's “profiteering” and the old “high cost of living” which arevat last seen to be riding the whirlwind and directing the storm. The eleventh |’ hour has struck. and even the execu- tive and legislative Solomons -and Solons have finally ~discovered that something has got to be done. What will that something be? Tt is evident that the president doesn’t know, for he appeals to con- gress to ‘“take steps.” It is quite as evident that congress doesn't know any better than any other sewinz- society. I'm _humbly read; don't know. And I’ against a f'zathered egs” don’t know, either. We farmers, when we're haying and see a black thunderhead looming over the horizon, don’t wait till it has cov- ered the sun and begun to spatter bif drops before we rake up our hay. We get on a hustle the minute we see the cloud bulging up. Our very existence depends upon our ability to see the self-evident and foresee something of the_probable. and upon our capacity to “take steps” while the going is yet zood. Somebody once said that stitch intime ®aves' nine.”* Whoever he was, he never could have been elected president or . congressman. Some One else once intimated that, when the blind were accepted as lea ers. their followers were apt to find! themselves in the ditch. But it fis doubtful if He could have been elect- ed town constable in Hardscrabble! In a recent statement President Lee of the Brotherhood of Railway Train- men said: ~ “I will admit to vou gentlemen that e are moing the wrong way. I admit to you that it is time to call a hal and 1 admit to you that until we get together, until we commence together| to stop this, there will be hell in this country—and it is nearer today than I ever knew it in my yvears of experi- ence. - Just let somebody drop a match in this country of ours and it will be a sorry day for all of us. “Urless my vision is most terribly obscured, then, there is something comins to us pretty soon in this coun- try that we Had better take notice of. We had something of peace in this country prior to the war conditions. We were zetting along fairly well un- to admit that T bet a good cookle that you T 25 Will Make That JUST THE BEST Smith’s Ph anklm Square, H | - 3 Big Cans Talcum Powder . 25 cents Y VIOLET, CARNATION AND CORYLOPSIS Fill Me Powder Puff 25 cents The only Puff that can be filled with your own special powder; can be washed and refilled. P. S.—COOL THAT SUNBURN WITH Smith’s Witch Hazel Jelly 25 cents 205 MAIN STREET K:"Dll:fl@ll:flg Smith’s Pharmacy, nc. Out With Big Specials For This Week 5 Big Rolls Toilet Paper cents Shave a Delight LOWEST PRICES armacy, lnc. Norwich, Conn. u | | | = i = | | evex:ywue lhxt w cre:sah blu and mbhd.. thout :'l:y qut iy :I;d ::m seemingly with e ap) e m “Wekare “nearer war in’ this’ world today. I threw down' the: mm!et bnr law- i {opinion, ‘people 3 - if they would attempt, to correct m andpsurely ‘there ; in pownz g mnuiifl 1t ‘but. mtel‘d they are playi ics, as some of these labor anvf'ul:: tions are playing’ poli- ties, and it is the same all "down: the ne. Perhaps m’ d nld thnn before. Even if you have, read it again. And then stop reading and. set your think ! machinery at work. Is Mr. Lee right as he’ puts it? “Is he mainly right, with some reserva- tions? Is he right only in spots? Or is he all wrong?" In quoting him I don't want to be understood as indorsing all he says, nor as denying anything ' he says. 1 simply ‘wint to.stir_you, if. possible, into some serious mighty serious Naturally blame on the “profiteers:” Some of the bigger 'newspapers—those which de- light to call themselves “métropolitan —are already countering with asser- tions that it ‘is the farmers, more especijdlly, : who . have . brought on the storm by their greed. Still others intimate that it is the labor-unions, with their endless strikes and demands for more: pa: On a certain Smom occasion, when tiie eating .of a forbidden apple was under investigation, the man blamed it it on the serpent, ahd ' the serpent blanred” it on the Qevil. As the devil yras already upder. sentence,” nothing more 1d" be done_ except 'to lay' on the whele world. to jts last generation the ‘burdens of sweat and travail. It's ‘always the recourse .of guilt to shift its responsibility if it can. No man -¢'er felt the halter draw without blaming either the.han; ior ‘the judge or the jury or the witnesses or the sherift or anybody. but himself. “He made me do it.” whimpers' the schoolboy who sees the switch: brought out. “He tempted me or lisd to me” charges the, man arraigned for. trial. | It's Blways somie outstde “he” that is at fauylt—never “T wanes insufficient to. buy ‘the: supplies he wants blames it on the storekeeper. And the storekeeper blames it on the wholesaler. ‘And the wholesaler blames it on the producer. 'And the producer blames_it on the wage-earner, whose | demands for more pay -compel him to charge higher prices. There you have the vicious circl As each man feels the club fall on hi: shoulders he whacks the next man with bis own shillaleh, il the pound- ing has gone the entire round. Where- upon. some one .in the vircle gets.mad and threatens to draw his snickershee and cut out the livers of the bunch if they’ don’t stop pounding him. | his_own club going according to his own pleasure. | As a farmer myself, I am naturaily | comewhat incensed over the attempt of the fellow farther down the line to pass back -the blame to me. He says fopd is unconscionably high and, since farmers produce the food, it must be they who are responsible. Well. milk is a’ food. The farmer who sends it to New York city gets about six cents a quart for it. the peddler who. totes it 'round the hold ammonia_or warm ealt water; then lppl,—‘ S Thames River Line STEAMER CAPE COD Whitehall - Transportation Co., Inc. Leaves New York, Pier 43, North | River, Mondays, Wedneésdays and Fri- days at 5 p. m:; Norwich Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundavs at 5 p. m.; New Londen 9 p. m. Passenger rates between Norwich and New Yorlk, $2.50. Staterooms, all outside, $1.10, in- cluding war tax. F. B. KNOUSE. Agcnt. WHEN YOU WANT 1o Put Sour pua. iness -bafere the public. thers:is ne medium : better . than * through the ad- vertis:: *el\'lnl li Thl 'M believe, than when the kdsarl thought . upon..a| i i Mr. Lee throws the chief on the woman, and the woman blamed | Thus the wage-earner who finds his| whole | Meanyhile he.is to be allowed to keep | And | ‘| beau. o 3uml.l4 _BOYS’PANTS, a 'BOYS” BLOUSES 3 ~“MORE FOR LESS” ONE LOT MEN’S SUITS' - YOUNG MEN’S SUITS IFROM $15.00 TO $25.00 BEST QUALITY. A VARIETY OF STYLES TO SELECT FROM MEN'S WORKING PANTS .......... MEN'S PANTS (Extra Fine Quality) BOYS’ SUITS, In a variety of styles (Assorted Colors) . BLUE WORKING SHIRTS (Best Qualzty) THESE PRICES CANNOT BE BEAT. LOOK OVER THESE PRICES AND- SEE FOR YOURSELF. COME $1.85 ‘and $2.00 § $3.00 and $5:00 . $3.00 to $9.00 ‘ 3 75¢ EARLY AND GET FIRST PICK The Norwich Bargain House ON WASHINGTON SQUARE 3-5-7 WATER STREET city gets eighteen cents for that same quart. Who's the “profiteer?” _ A zood many people eat blueber- Fies—when thg can get 'em. This Happens to Ig blueberry year on the fountains wgch overhang my valley. Never were #:cy so plenty or so fine. The pickers wio gather. them and Send them to tne city get seventeen cents a quart for them. Private let- ters from New York city and Brook- Iyn report that the hucksters are cell- {ing them In those places for forty and fifty cenig a quart. Who's the “pro- Ateer Tiggs are a food. And they're pre- cious costly, too. Poultrymen here are getting sixty cents a _ dozen yhere, four years ago. “Just as good egEs were la drug at twenty-five cents. At the jame time they're paying $450-a hurdred for feed which, four years ago, was plentiful at $1.10. The price lof tnetr product has gone up a little over double. The cost of their sup- plies ‘has gone up over. four times. Who's the “profiteer?” They're offering me $1.50. a hundred {for good, plump fresh roasting ears |of green corn to send to the -city. {That's eisnteen ccnis a dozen. And three days ago I saw in a city not twenty-five miles away smail, shrivel- jed, half-filled, wilted ears offered at | retail for forty-five. cents a dozen. jwms the “profiteer? Mind you, I am not in this citing of }instances trying to make out that all farmers are s s and all others are !<inners. Fat from it. ‘T simply want 1fo voice my opinion that we arem’t the only sinners in thc bunch and shouldn’t be held solely responsible for the world’s woes, as those “metro- politan” newspapers are trying to \raake out. I am perfectly willing to ].dmxt that there are some “profitéer” {£ojmers—just as readily as I am to admit that there are some perfectly ¥ and fair men standing behind rcta counters. Probably there are none of us who are any better than we ought to be— few who are as good as we ht 1 Farmers. peddlers, retail- wholesalers, railroad men, bank- hired men. lawyers, doctors and on. we're all tarred, more or less, with the same stick. 7 TWhén the Pharisee boasted of His personal goodness to the Lord, he didn’t get a pat on the buck. But when the publican prayed, “Lord, be meroi | ful to me, a sinner,” he won at least 2 good word from the hizhest authori- ty_in the universe. Instead of pounding somebody else over the head. there isn't one of us who might not more wisely and more effectively devote himself to a little! private and personal house-cleaning. Mr. Lee may be right in asserting that things are all loaded for a big explosion, if only some one drops the match. My point is tbat there’s mo- body in the country from Quoddy Head to Puget Sound, whether farmer or merchant. whether producer or consumer, whether laborer or employ- er, WHO HAS A RIGHT TO DROP THAT MATCH! THE FARMER. HUMOR OF THE DAY “Has our client a good case?” = “Good for several thousand dollars.” | 1 < Boston Transcript. Flubdub—How are servers on this boat Guzzler—Fine. I've just had thre as good as ever 1 drank—Topek: Journal. “Been out to visit the their summer cottage yet? the life pre- i Browns at there for a “No. They went out . rest and _we decided to let them have it."—Detroit Free Press. the just kissed that tall girl 16 times. “Shows she must love her, eh?” “Shows she must hate her, I think.” Louisville Courier-Journal. Flatbush—The editor of this coun-— try paper says “the sound of the hammer is again heard in the-land.” ‘Bensonhurst—Sounds as if his wife had returned home.—Yonkers Smteg- man. Algy (weakly) —T fear I shall starve to death, old dear! Reggie—Gracious! Stomach trouble? ‘Algy—No; labor!—Buffalo BExpress. “The authorities must have found out by telapathy the opinion of the public- about the government owner- i ship of telephones and telegraphs.” “Yes; Dby return wire.” Minne- apolis Tribune. “What do you consider the difficuit feat in the world®" ““Well, there may be things hardec than proving to your wifé that she is extravagant, but I don’t know what most they are—London Answer: Pretty Girl (to soldler just dis- charged from hospital)—And how did KALEIDOSCOPE All the paraffin _wax for candle making in South Africa has to be im- ported. This amounts annually to 250 tons, valued at $1,500,000. During the war exceptionally high prices for molybdenate, used in the manufacture of high' speed tool ma- chinery, encouraged its production in Ontario. It hs been estimated by an Euro- pean sclentist that the commercla! ghtning lasting one-thousandth of a value of the electricity in a flash of second is 29 cents. Almost all the machines usnally found in a woodwrokinz plant have been mounted on a motor truck by a Missquri builder, so the the work can be done at the scene of a contract. A .tin pail on the gravel near Cor- nent Traiemer’s house at Palms, Mich.; reflected the sun’s rays against the house. The wood presently bégan to ‘smoke and then there was a blaze. A Boston man has invented a triple propellor for aeroplanes, designed.to prevent accidents in flight, ~ insure greater power from the same amounat of fucl and increase the life of an. en- gine. L To enable blind persons to write letters a French doctor has invented a tablet €0 mounted on a toothed board that it is moved up the width of a line when the line is wrteen and held tn the new position. The consumption of tobacco in Jap- an has been increasing greatly each year. The total value of the product manufactured and disposed of in that country for the fiscal year ending March, 1919, was $65,294,793. ‘Wheén Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Leggett of Palmyra, Kan., celebrated their fifty fifth wedding anniversary recently, all their children, great-grandchildren werc present] In the whole fmily_ there had not been a death in gll.the 55 years. The sole owners of a co-operative dairy in Winland are those who del er milk to it. The foundation and running expenses are shared in pro- grandchildren . and !} i THE HIGHEST IDEAL Suggested by mrlin. the late Sam Walter Foss’ . poem entitled, *“The ‘House by the Side of the Road,” Should’we live, ds you say, by the side of the road, * ‘And_be but.a friend to man, ‘We hardly should follow the worthiest line Or live by the noblest plan, For 'to tread in the paths of the sweetest of lives That ever this old world trod. ‘We rather should choose, than the plaudits of man, To merit the plaudits of God! And to live by the side of the road alone, Angd be but a friend to man, 1s'too dull and §low in this work-aday world ‘To honor the loftiest plan; Fer ofttimes the one who would do the most good And’ bless and brighten the race, R-eexv!;s but.. the hatred and scorn’ of the “world, Not honor or treasure or place! v My friend, the hist'ry and lives of the past, From Jesus to-humble John Brown, 'Will show: when ‘the world takes a higher plan, Some martyr has laid his life down; It has taken the toil the sweat and the blood That the best of our kind may give To lift from the mire this stubborn race, That the”Christ-life within may livel The picture you pain is too easy by far To show forth the noblest in men; "Tis a strugsle and battle and sacrifice, too. Not to “smilé” at the door of your “den;” Truth’s sufiering army of brave piomeers, Have marched down the steps of the past, They 'have conduerer discase and cannmibal lust -Discovered new lands so’vast, But they had more to do in the agés’ swirl Than to live at their ease and plan How the days should go by in “the house by the road,” ‘While being friend to man.” et portion to the amount each member uses the dairy, the profits being di- vided according to the amount con- tributed to the annual output. Every owner of one or more cows may be- come a member. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT CONVENTION OF C. T. A. U. Hartford, Aug. 7.—St. Peter's _ as- sembly hall resounded with applause this afternoon when the Catholic To- tal Abstinence Union of America, In annual convention adopted a resolu- tion to the effect that the United States would stultify itself if 1t adopted a peace to be consummated that “disregarded the rights of the Irish people; the most outraged peo- ple of all the earth.” Another resolu- tion in favor of equal suffrage would zive assurance of continuance of the national prohibition amendment. [ ~—Douglas Dobbing Pa. General secretary, Thomas . Closkey, reported i total of 585 .10 societies with a_membership of ov 34,000 Rev. Maurite, J. , 0’Connor treasurer, gave a finincial report the union since August, 1917. . D balance then was $677.81. Today it wa $1,407.32. pleasure over the anticipated visit to this country of Cardinal Mercler, the spiritual director of the international Catholic anti-alcoholic league, at the time of the International’convention; appreciation of the blessing of the Pope and pleasure at the abolishment of, the saloon. Officers were re-elected as follow:! President, Rev. John G. Beans, S. L., Pittsburgh, Pa.: dent, Rev. Dennis-J. “Moscow, Pa.; second vice president, James E. Doughefty, Haverford, Pa; third vice president, Mrs. Thomas J. Hackett, of XNew York; treasurer, Rev. Maurice J. O'Connor, Boston, Mass.; general sec- Ansonis.—Mr, and Mrg., Alton Farrel of Ansonia are at the Hotel Aspinwall in Lenox, Mass. Horlick’s - the &g;na' Other resolutions adopted reaffirmed the importance of the work and op- portunity of the union and expressed retary, Thomas . McCloskey, Dan- A P sy Conn: president priests’ union,| Malted Milk — Avoid Very Rev. M. A. 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