Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 23, 1919, Page 4

‘been informed e x ‘and =y | opini¢ ‘WEEK ENDING AUGUST 16th 10,249 TAKE THE BULLETIN ALONG Subscribers and readers of The Builetin leaving the city for the season, or a vacation, can have The Bulletin sent to their address by mail for any specified peried at the regular ratas by notifying the business depariment, telephone 480 — e — . BIGNS OF LOWERED LIVING : cosTs. Today the country is concerned with the high cost of living, the running down of the profiteers and the strikes that are based upon advanced living eosts. Naturally the country wonders when all this will stop, how it will be overcome and where the end will be, in answer to one of the questions asked ‘of him by Senator Fall, Presi- dent Wilson declares it to be his] “cenfident opinion that the immediate adoption of the treaty along with the articles of the covenant of the league as written would certainly within the near future reduce the cost of living this country as elsewhere by ‘re- believe that this country is going to place any faith in what has been a do- nothing policy on his part for a long time past. Border outlawry has got to be stopped even if it has to be checked by American troops at Mexi- co’s expense and the jbest thing that could happen to Mexico would be to let it know that the United States is determined upon - this point.. There are reasons to believe that this will be set forth in the reply which, shouid also- refuse to recall the expedition until the object for which it was sent is accomplished. Mexico is not being harmed but helped by the elimination of such outlaws and Carranza can with profit give heed to the demands that are being raised in his own country that he arrange a better understanding with the United States. - TWO FIGHTERS. Tt is certainly a most interesting re- port that has been made to the presi- dent by the secretary of war to the effect that two of the young men who ‘were courtmartialed and sentenced to death for sleeping on their post dur- ing the war, only to be pardoned by presidential order, have proved them- selves to be heroes. As was empha- sized at the time, when the act of oring production and commerce to|the president wi approved these their normal strength and freedom.” | young men had not been brought up President Wilson well understands{as soldiers, and though the punish- what gort of an impression he intends{ment ordered was the prescribed pen this to create and is laying thelalty for their act in order to give pro- foundation for the claim later on of [ per protection to .the lives of the “I told vou so.” forces they guarded, the pardon was But it can hardly be maintained | fully justified. that the reduction in the cost of liv-| The effect of thehr experience only ing depends upon this treaty or the|served to make them better soldiers. ue contaimed (herein. On the|They were fighters and thoroughly ther hand there are already evidences thiet the end had been about reached. to incremsed costs in foodstufls. We know full well what effect the great amount of exports has had upon the prices at home and it is to be noted that exportations are falling off. We had the smallest amount of exports In July, even though the amount was not small, that we have had in five months and the reduction in this business means an increased supply for domestic consumption and big supplies are invariably followed by decreased costs. Exportations are dropping for differ- ent reasons. Toreign exchange is at a very low rate with the pound sterl- patriotic, and certainly no greater sacrifice for country could have been made than was made by the one who gave @ his life when he went into batile and the other who will bear two wound marks for the rést of his life. Their acts subsequent to sleep- ing on post must have had a much better effect upon their comrades than could have the carrying out of the sentences thai were overruled. DEALING WITH THE BANDITS. Some question has arisen as to what will be done with the Mexican bandits that are captured by the punitive ex- pedition. It is regjized of.course that these particular outlaws committed ing down to around $4.16 and even correspondingly lower in the case of|tHelr offensea against the sublects o other countries. This means that] ‘i . differs somewhat from the acts of others who have crossed the border even though all are Mexican subjects. Carly reports were to the effeet that one or more of the bandits involved in the taking of Lieutenants Peter- son and Davis had been captured but subsequent reports declare that four have been killed. B Apparently it depends much upon the outlaws themselves as to what foreign buyers must make up that difference when they buy our goods s0 it becomes evident that the de- mands on the country are being limit- ed to vital needs. They are buying only what they actually require to keep down the expense. On the other hand it is to be noted that Louis Vannorman who has been making a study of commercial af- fairs in southeastern Europe reports that in Rumania, which is normally| Wil be done Swith teem. Whencrer an exporter of foodstufis, things are| SC¥. IO TER, Ao e wil ' be tapidly returning to normal “thislny, fote of the four. shows that and vear’s cereal crop being almost suffi- T T P e imo! SuMl.|from all indications the bandits do Segeh s 3 tend to give up without a strug- while it was reported only the other| 1ot ™} L2 R Tug gle. That will of course simplify the course that our forces will pursue when those they seek:are eneountered. What should be done no one questions and just as long as they risk their hides before American rifes ‘there can be no doubt as to what the result will be. @ay that Belgium in this respect was showing marked improvement. These are countries to which a certain amount of our foodstuffs have been going. France it is said is over- stocked and not buying at present. In line with these indications comes the report that the “high cost of food is;due for a drop within a few days, Chicago exporters of foodstuffs de- clare, as the result of the 30 per cent decline in foodstuff exports during ‘the past ten days.” EDITORIAL NOTES. Food hoarding and profiteering is giving John Barleycorn a rest for the time being. ‘Thus it becomes evident. after a| 1t js most unjust even these days iong pull, that better conditions are|io consider every ownmer of an auto- looming up on the horizon. The world | mobile as a profiteer. ts recovering from the effects of the war and this country like others is going to experience relief from it. We heye reached the turning point and less we are greatly mistaken it is not going to be the treaty or the league of nations that will be responsibie for the drop in the cost of living, for as it_is with food so must it be with other things. It will make no difference what the total of Andrew Chrnegie's estate amounts to, everybody expected it. The man on the corner says: Either one is bad enough but dog days and hay fever make a frightful combina- tion. Carranza formally ordering the American ' punitive expedition out of Mexico presents a weak and sorry spectacle. It makes a difference whether Am- ericans or Mexicans pursue the ban- dits as to how quick desirable results are obtained. DR. MUCK. i Dr. Karl Muck, the former head of e Boston Symphony orchestra, who uring the war was placed under restraint because of the open mani- festation of his sympathies with rmany has been escorted out of the ntry by a federal agent. It is dtating it mildly when it is declared that he has been allowed to-sail for Europe for as a matter of fact there ‘§as nothing else for him to do. He as placed aboard ship by a federal thority and told to go. Ordinarily if is regarded as deportation. :Dr. Muck declares that he is not a| n, that he doesn't know what §wm do when he reaches Denmark, The Austrian envoys don’t want to sign the treaty terms now, they want to take them home and let Vienna dream over them. ‘There is something about the name of that island of Yap that deesn't im- press, whether the property of this country or another. The putting on sale of the govern- ment surplus food supply is said to be bringing down store prices, thus causing a double relfef. ‘With 90 per cent of those who came from the farms to enter the army going back, there’s something that keeps them “down on the l’rm.“ From the demands that are being made by the coal’ miners, it is not so much a question of next winter's coal as it is, that of the winter be- yond. . x 't he has always considered him- f an American but now finds him- 8)f without a flag or a country. 2Well that is the penalty, and none severe, for his conduct and it may possible that Dr. Muck during his ments of reflection will come to the ization of the fact that he has one to blame but himself regard- of the fact that he may have on y occasions felt otherwise. His uct was not that of an American,, directly contrary thereto and if| Qoesn’t have any regrets. in leaving t§® country, it is certain that the TR Ll Y E does not, but if it is outside| The actors ought to realize that the of ny that he takes up his|theatres are one th; that can be gotten along without during the hot weather. And after that the movies are more or less pepular. dence he may have different ideas therewith J (antly there was no peace! the people of the world were for peace ten thousand years eremiah’s time. ‘The conce ion. the world's ablest minds has been that we shall at last find peace In heaven. This seems to be a ne conclusion, since peace %y agree of more. Permanent peace dream, and will be until man himself becomes peaceful. It is because man has made the blessings of peace curse that war has and will persist- recur. A league of pations may preserve order for awhile, but compelled quietude is not peace. There is no good reason why there should be eternal war betweeh cap- ital and labor. Their interests are mutual, and discord and strife is not profitable to either side. Both may seem to achieve an advantage at times: but if it ereates distrust and prejudice it makes the future uncer- . Laying up wrath against the day of wrath is not profitable for either side. Through great travail and sacrifice this slave world wrested from tyrants and made free and it is to keep «ree that labor fights -and it would have no cause to fight if its just deserts were respected. Bol- shevism is not a thing to be mocked at, but to forestall by just dealing. Carlyle called attention to the fact that “labor, wide as earth has its sum- mit in heaven. Man cannot defy balances, since this is the way to an- archy and revolution. Some of the folks wake up once 'n a while to speak of duty, just as if duty were an occasional thing, when every day is full of duties. Cicero de- clared: “There is not one moment without some duty.” And Faber as- sures us: “Everv hour comes with some little fagot of God's will fasten- ed upon_its back.” Our duty requires us constantly to- do the truth we known: and seme one has pointed out that this is a sure way “of learning the truth we need to know.” Duty is closer related to our own well-being than to the other fellow's! Some peo- ple only feel they are doing their duty when they are flogging an erring child. or reproving a sinner. when, perhaps had they done their duty they would have had to have done neither. We have at last learned that ger- aniums, the popular window garden plants, ‘are real tea-drinkers, and en joy their tea, just as much as the la- dies; and the -beautiful red glow of the excessive tea-drinker's nose is found to be a real improvemeft to the geranum's flowers. It is by this in- crease of brilliancy and the toning of the colors that we know the plant is actually improved by tea properl® given. This really is not a new dis- covery, since flower growers have for a quarter of a century added tea- grounds to pots in the window as a mulch, and the water dribbling through has been found to be a suffi- cient stimulant’ to bring about in the flower a most pleasing improvement. Do you know some people hang up their veligion with their go-to-meet- ing clothes—put it on and take it off once or twice a week. They seem to regard it as an earthly garment in stead of a spiritual garment and ani dornment instead of a moral code for every day usec. There is nothing easy about a Christlike life. There is nothing that will create move violent oppositign or more ardent admiration. Christianity is a force. and those who have a religion which does not lend decency and energy to their daily ac- tion haven't the real thing: but have been taken in with a counterfeit. Back of true religion lies the power of God. Many lovers of flowers cannot get along without a bed of seedling flowers to plav with; and some live farmers find pleasure and recreation in grow- ing seedlings just for the little sur- prises nature holds for them. The majority of seeds produce commou place results. It is only now and then that something new, or better or won- derful. is produced. The great grow- ers of flowers are satisfied to produce one xood commercial - bloom to the hundred. for most seedlings are like something which has grown thou sands of times before. The finest nrosses made in flowers have been produced by the insects from whom man learned the art of polinization, and at which he is not likely to be come a wizard. Few flowers care- Jessly grown seldom reproduce their kind. And 2 single seed pod will pro- duce many odd forms and colors. We whe recard nature as being slow do not realize that the earth is relling around upen its axis over 16 miles a minute: that on its solar ci cle it is oing at the rate of miles a second. specdv enough cross this continent in three minute: and that the whole stellar system moving ten times as fast as we are! The whirls of life are something man makes _little note of, for they are be- yond his comprehension. You and I are held upon the earth by an at- mospheric pressure of 20 tons. We are made up of ten million nerves, six hundred thousand cells and 40 miles of perspiration tubes. Our hearts beat 4,200 times an hour, and all the blood of the body passes through it -every three minutes. Life is not only aetion, but a high rate of speed. We cannot always tell what under- lles appearances. I once knew a young man who appeared to be a gentleman of leisure. He was a poor man’s son with a high ideal, and he used to rise early and do a dav's work before 9 a. m. then as Beau Brummel, he would be found in the eight to CIN P GREASED LIGHTNING FIVE PART COMEDY DRAMA the stricken trees thaf - raised their withered-branches from its sides. “It is more silent than the desert. I never saw it like this before.” Silence, indeed, holds court in tHis desolated countryside. Even the towns are quiet. Never in all their checkered history have the cathedrals of Rheims, Soissons and Noyon been so still as they are in these days. off from its faithful; a French seniry bars entry to its desecrated courts. At Soissons ‘you can peer through the cracks in the door and see an official of the Beaux Arts at work or a couple of German prisonérs removing rubbish. At Noyon services are being held in the Salle Capitulaire, but the cathedral itself is too much a( the mercy of the wind and the rain to permit the at-} tendance of worshippers. And in_ the streets and broken houses of these towns only the Frenchman—provincial. industrious, tenacious, grim, confident and passionately fond of his home— could carry on such .a fight. The Reimois, particularly, are aimost cheerful. “Are any of the other towns Iike ours?” asked an old woman umphantly, as she sold us gingerbread at a price that showed that the allies have the privilege of contributing to the work of restoration’and the return of trade. “Have you seen our town hall and our theatre?” We had seen the town hall and the theatre/and all the shattered debris that once were houses. They aré not pleasant things to see. and the presence of squads of German prisoners in their hideous uni- forms did nothing to relieve the gloom. There is an overwhelming sameness about the streets of a town destroved by the Hun. Sprawling girders, black: ened timbers, crumbling masonry rusty bedsteads and ovens—the are the same at Rheims as at Soissons and Noyon. There is little variety in de- struction. No one cares to stay in Rheims is shut] b i i3 i i i3 i and all the impediments of the battie- fieid. It has captured the village gar- den; it can be found in ruined choirs. It reaches the lonely soldier's grave and thus confirms an ancient supersti- tion. The bright color does not stand the test of distance, and you expect that the next hedge will be its limit; but. ehold, it is there , and so on all the way to Solssons, where the Aisne seems to hoid it and husbandry comes into its own again. All round about ¥ou on this lonely road are the dancing voppies, and above vou is the Chemin des Dames with ite silent and suffering trees. The tiees, indeed. seem to feel the woe of war more than any other | thing in nature. Gas almost seems to] break their hearts, so sad and hmkeni is this appearance. Those pale. whit-| ened birch stumps and the joyous,| careless popies are stranzely contrast- | ed legacies of war. Little wonder that even the French peasant Zroans when he 1ooks at such a scene and wonders where he is going to begin. When we had passed Villers Cotter- ets and {ts famous forest that kept so securely the army of victory and reached the little hllls that look down on the comfertable town of Meauq, my officer friend. rousing- hifnself from a reverie. said: “Well. goodness, we won!” That, indeed was a con- soling thought after all the desolation we had seen, and explains, no doubt. the amarzing courage and cheerfulness of the good folk of northern France. Who among the allies could make such a pilerimage if the Hohenzollern had had his way? Will the Germans ever dare to make it? Tt will be ve teresting to read what Doctor Bae- b tal work will have to sav about Rheims and Noyon and Secissons. His painfully uninspired accurate notes will certainly need re-editing. business nter where gentlemen congregate looking as tidy and fresh as the best of them, and no one mis- trusted that he did this by working when other were asleep, on a shoe- maker's bench. Finally he disap- peared and next turned up as a writer of cards for society people with a place in the lobby of a hotel in.a distant city. Then he married a wealthy woman with a fancy for Italian greyhounds that always fol- lowed them. He afterwards became a pen and ink artist of national re- pute having overcome old obstacles and realized the ideal he cherished in youth. The new feed box for the birds was a new revelation. It was placed twice as high as the first. three times as far from the den window and un- protected. The first morning after t was put up there were five spar- rows standing on its edge; and they have fed at the public crib ever since like a lot of hoboes. A purple finch brought two fledglings and these voung finches find life so pleasant on the feeding box that they fill up and stand around _until their appetite urges them to feed again. The gold finches. those acrobats of hachelor's buttons, the golden glow. th sun- flower and other lithe plants, visit the box, inspect it and then fly to the brown seedheads of the sun flower and assail them with the energy of those who prefer to earn their food instead of having it passed out to them. | came near writing down des- pondency as a bad habit, when it produces the blues and in its effects is more like a disease. It*looks to me as if there may be spiritual diseases as well as physical, which are not half as easily cured. Through misuse the wind seems to 1se its efficiency, a: do the muscles from no use. This stirring up fear with the imagination produces conditions worse than a fever. To lose hope and invite despair. is to invite the clamp of hell! If thought is talking with the soul it is up to us to talk right to it. Crookedness of thought is lunacy seeking expression. Our Dblessings are sufficient to su: tain hope which is the elixir of good cheer. Sunday Morning Talk WHAT WOULD BE THE RESULT? From all lands there is arising a loud cry to God for a time of spiritual reviving such as alone can uplift the depressed state of the living church of Christ, and cause it to go forth in power for the fulfillment of its great commission, and to be the witness of | God to a world still ih darkness. Such prayer is the privilege and the monop- oly of the true Christian people of the land, and to them, of whatever name or body, the appeal is addressed. If the prayer of Abraham could have prevailed to save the godless cities of the plain of Jordan: if the prayer of Samuel could uplift all Israel from the misery of Philistine oppression; if the prayer of Amos could twice avail to exert a falling judgment from the race of Jacob; if Israel's prayer could se- cure the peace of the lands when they were carried captive, what then will be the result when and if the whole living AV ] THEATRE SUNDAY AT 7 AND 8:45 BIG SPECIAL PROGRAMME BABY MARIE OSBORNE IN A Daughter of the West Five Part Western Drama - Post Travel 4 PRICISTI@, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 and $250. War Taxes Extra. Seat Sale Wednesday at 10 a. m. | Mail orders now accepted. church of Christ in any land, and bet- ter still.-in the whole worid, begins to take up this call to prayer in real ear- nest and to plead until it prevails? OTHER VIEW POINTS Why should the Episcopal church go to the trouble of omitting the word “obey” from the marriage service for the benefit of the bride, or in behalf of the groom to eliminate the words “with all my worldly goods I thee en- dow.” The celebrants have settled these questions a long time ago.—New Haven Journal-Courier, One compensation for the six cent trolley fare is now realized. The trol- ley doesn’t desert the rails and go flit- ting off to anether city on the scent of larger profits, as the jitneys have done. Many people in this city who have patronized the jitneys and sworn at the trolley for its six cent fare are now very giad the trolley is on thé job.— Waterbury Republican. A The action of the Graphophone com- pany in removing its great plants from Bridgeport is the direct resuit of an attempt to make this city a closed shop town. i ! ! | i Whatever benefits have come to la- bor from the union, much that is det- rimental to the best interests of all have come from the attempt to enforce the closed shop rule. The American people know democ- racy when they see it, and democracy in industry surely justifies a man ap- plying for and working at a job re zardless of what a union leader says about it. Other plants will have to follow the Graphophone company away from Bridgeport if the strong unions here LOOK! LOOK! NOVELTY DANCE GIVEN BY THE JOLLY TWO in Pulaski Hall Saturday Evening August 23, 1919 MUSIC BY BENSON'S ORCHESTRA Dancing From 8:30 to 11:30 n, Gentlemen 35¢. Lad Adm 25¢ DANCING AT T. A. B. HALL SATURDAY EVENING ROWLAND’S JAZZ BAND H. IN THE LEADING ROLE Corinne Griffith “A Girl At Bay” An Intense Drama of a Man's Love SIR HENRY IRVING'R GREAT| - 8T AGE CESS - AND Lyons Mail” MATT MOORE WILD GOOSE CHASE Faith and the Weart of & Govd Wo- man Triumph. B. Irving WILLIAM PARSONS —IN— . 'YOU KNOW WHAT 1 MEAN A Good Wholesome Entertainment and a Woman's Risk. PATHE NEWS “PERILS OF THUNDER MOUNTAIN" EPISODE THIRTEEN PATHE NEWS SUNDAY S1G DOUBLE FEATURE BILL —— e 7 i are not willing to become responsible | for_their actions. For when when the whole city is at work on thet asis, the employer might as well give {un and let the unions run or ruin the n- | the job. T Vemocraey in ing try . deker in”the 1920 edition of his immor-| by it N %ot m‘.:,““(;‘e closed BNOD, In fact, as the employers come more and more to meet with and treat with the employe, will disappear. seen day which is worrying 2 leaders who make their living by agi- tating the membership of their unions. —Bridgeport Standard-Telegram. e ey AUDITORIUM CINDERELLA MAN iN 8iX PARTS AND ALL STAR GAST ANTONIO MORENO ATIONAL WEEKLY Latest Nows FOR: i KINOGRAM Labor Day’s Big Attraction Connecticut Fair and Grand Circuit Meeting CHARTER OAK PARK HARTFORD SEPTEMBER 1—5 of Racing, Farm, industrial exhibits. ival and Midway. Free Vaud- eville, Balloon Astensions, Fire- works, Etc. The first and largest agricultur al fair in Connetticut and the 12th annual of the Connectitut Fair As- sociation. Admission: Adulte—Days, 750; g&ningu 50c. Children under 12, N _ Five Home < days and the closed shop comes, ! Gates open 10 a. m. to 10:30 p.m will come, ——————rer— e Daily Thought. Valor consists in the power of =elf. recovery.—Emeérson. the need of the union Maybe it is this dimly the fat A woman never reads the preface until after she hgs read the story Central Baptist Church Union Square EVENING SERVICE AT 7:30 REV. C. L. KENAGY WILL PREACH A éood Place to go Sunday Evenings "YOUNG PEOPLE You Are Urged to Be Present at Your Meeting. IT The reason is simply the ability of those in charge to look a long way ahead in preparing for the Fair; the fact that all the officials are working with but one interest; one aim in their activities—and that is to make the fair the best in New England. People have learned to look forward to the NEW LONDON COUNTY FAIR =s 2 county institu- tion, a county necessity. They like to see the results of) their and others’ labors set side by side and contrasted for the betferment of the crops and stock. They like to meet old friends and compare notes and they like to know that the entertainment for them and their families will be CLEAN and WHOLESOME. They know from past performances that the exhibits of Fruits, Vegetables, Sheep, Swine, Cattle, Poultry and Live Stock of all kinds—the Horse Racing, the Balloon Ascension and the Parachute Jumping, the Automobile Show, the Agricultural Implement Exhibit and the Mighty Midway, together with the big Vaudeville Show given free daily on the open air stage will be the best. classes find the NEW LONDON COUNTY FAIR the source of gratifying and really exceptional amusement and education. DO COUNTY FAln i\u become known, in this County and the whole State of Connecticut, as an extra- ordinarily good Fair, At 6:30 P. M. easy to understand why the NEW LONDON All 'T FORGET THE DATE—SEPT. 1 ,2, 3 THE PLACE—NORWICH, CONN.