Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 11, 1919, Page 4

123 YEARS OLD. Sebetotion Srive iZs & wock: 00 & mesth: BES « e of the union heads that they have op- nosed the ‘wvalkouts. cancelled union charters and given aid to ‘where uj ed strikes took place. Such labor troubles are reverthe- les: cavming mo end of trouble. Pro- it is a case where the safe and sane laber element must stand its ground for it can never afford to give way te WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 4th 10,293 THE TOWN MEETING. The opportunity for the people of the town to say what shall be done during the coming year is provided by the town meeting, the adjourned session of which is to be held Monday night. Meetings which have to do with either Tty or town thése days should not fail to reccive proper at- tention from each and every taxpayer and voter who is abie to get there 4nd this Is particula true of Mon- day night's meeting, for it rests with the townspeople to say then what the expenditures are going to be and by their action to indicate what the tax rate is going to be. There are reasons to expect that the recommended expenditures. for the various branches of town work will be approved. The same is true of the Otis library and Free Academy ap- propriations, both of which are in the interests of the public, but there afe a ‘number of other propositions to come before the meeting. tne merits of which the townspeople ought to thor- oughiy understand The ome hig proposition before the meetinzg will be the matter of mak- ihg an appropriation for a junior high sehool. This will involve the bonding € town for a long period of years. if city methods are followed the of the bonds for an indefi- and it is for the townspeo- decide whether they consider the time to approve such an when building costs are where e when in all bability a vinz can unquestionably be r Waiting for a few years. But that the townspeople should t established in their whether they believe our edu- ionsl faciilties are such that we need such an institution, or whether it Wants to erect su memorial to the sbldfers and as proposed in econ ion therewith the other hand it rests with the advocates of the idea to show that th own needs this scheol, needs it now und cannot wait for cosditions to zet back to normal. The decision re: with the town meeting as to what is to be done and should have the larze representa- on of townspeople that it deserves. THE CROSS COUNTRY FLIGHT. Anot nteresting move in avia- on tests country flizht now derway 1 some of the best < that we have are participat- ing. This differs irom other crossings that have been madé in that it is a cempetition, a to see who can make the dists the quickest and there added feature of contest- ants starting from hoth ends and cer- tain provisions that require stops and pro night fiving. In spite of all the progress that has béen made even thé most skilled avi- ators have not gotten the point where they ean prevent aceidents, and machines have not been developed to the point where they will not stop, catch afite or otherwise go wrong as ros: nee to was shown by ghe number of ma- chines ddowned the day of the starf and the number of deaths. It was not long ago that they were seridusly talking about crossing the Atlantie in air. At the time it was thought foolhardy and it was freely zgested that inasmuck as there was an opportunity for trying any machine intended for such a trip by flying over land for as great if not greater distance when it would he possible t6 make landings as de- sired ought 1o be made before sver the ocean was attempi- ed & a matter of fact the orean has sed in two different ways ng ali the attompts there were less accidents than in this pres- cnt race across the continent, which had been looked upon as much the sufer ccurse for flving machines other than the hydroplane type. There will be no litile spofting in- terest in the race but it is not for that that it was undertaken for it is bound to provide the information that is de- sired regarding merits of the machines and conditions encountered under such a flight much the same as was done in crossifig the Atlantic and in the New York to Torento flight of THE DANGEROUS ELEMENT. Ons of the distressinz teatures of many of the strikes that are being called thes: days iz that where the men listening to some false leaders throw down their tools and leave their jobs and make various kinds of de- mands when they are already work- ‘ng under a contract and when their action has failed to receive the ap- proval of their nationai bodies. This las been characteristic of many strikes this year and a number of those already on, which are tying up busimess in Cifferent lines in New York city, are being conducted under those very conditions. It is plainly the work of the radical element in the laber unions today. ‘They are determined to have their own way and are lLeing inspired by the wild and unjustified clzims in other lnes. They are setting out. in the face of the commcn sense of their offi- cizls, to disregard their rights and tc | i tries. SAVING DAYLIGHT. A determined effort is being made in New York to bring about the enac- tion of a daylight saving ordinance for that city, it being felt that if New York will take the-lead in the matter there are enough communities favor- ably inclined in that direétion within varying distances of the city that will also adopt the idea and as a conse- quenee it will be necessary for others to do likewise. And the same excel- lent arguments that have always been presented in behAlf of the idea have been presented to the aldermen of that cit; As might be expected there are some Who are opposed and it is quite inter- esting to note that in ome or two in- stances assurance has heen given the aldermanic board that the passage of such an ordinance would be “fiving in the face of Providence. That certainly is a new idea. It was generally supposed that davlight was en us to use and not to waste and et we proceed to disregard several hours of it every day in the summer it the daylight saving idea is not fol- lowed 2nd even then we do not get]| the entire benéfit of the longer days. We think nothing of the fact that we get up fairly close to sunrise in the winter time, but unless we change the clocks we sleep away four hours of sunshine in the summer. There is where the waste comies and there is where the ordinance is expected to bring about the relief and effect the appreciable saving. The idea that there was any divine law relative to the clock or the hour for arising is something new, but it secems perfeou_y plain that if thefe is any flight in the face of Providence it comes through the wasting of rather than the saving of the hoirs of summer sunshine that are given us. NORWAY AGAINST SPIRITS. The information this week that Nor- way had voted for prohibition gave the impression that it has been in- spired by the action of this country nd hastened by a plebiscife to’ follow in iis footsteps, but Norway is not to be bome dry. In voting on prohi- tion in that country wine and beer were eiiminated, the prohibition cover- ing whiskey, brandy. gin, rum and the stronger drinks. The vote of the countty was decisive with over 428000 favoring prohibition to 284,000 against, |in spite of the fact that Christiania {voted no by a tremendous majority. | Norway therefore goes for prohibition | but permits the sale of licht Wines and beer such as was advocated quite strenuously in this country. It indi- cates where it believes the line should be drawn when it comes fo seliing beverages. with the sentiment in the capital varving deci@edly from = that expressed by the smaller places and the rural districts That Norway has voted as it has causes no surprise to the téemperance advocates, for it nas been claimed for number of yeir: that both Iiorway Sweden woers tending to national ard prohibition. Neéut tc Finland Norway 1% said to ba tha one in rope wher. the least amoun- of ing ing 1i gquor was used and the question of prohibition has béen acute ever since the war opened. As far back as 1854 Norway adopted local option and sincé that time somé experiments have been madé With public ownership of liquor stores’ with varving results. In view of the stand that Norway has previousiy taken upon this matter it is questioned whether its present action will have as great an effect as it otherwise might have upon the prohibition movement in other Huro- pean countries but there can be no doubt that it will be used for what it is worth. SRS —" EDITORIAL NOTES. Cabinet making that lasts is just as hard a job as ever in Buropean coun- October has thut early demonstrated its ability as an acrobat. But how it does keep the people guessmg! The man on the cotner says: Money may talk but when it is bet on the right ball team it vociferates. It would be ome of the hardest jobs even today to cenvince Chicago fans that there is a team superior to theirs. It seems to be a case of agitate and the gang is with vou, stand for law and order and it is best to get behind a tree. One more war, the war on eats. can be ended if seripus effort is made to supply th: needs of Belgium in this direction. Of course all these on a strike are probably rejoicing in the fact that they may thus be able to avdid the income tax. Somehow it seems rather appropri- ate that the aviation race across the continent sheuld havé a minister as the leading sky pilot. » Indian stummer i délightful only we den’t like to have it presented to us unexpectedly. Time enough for prop- er welcome ougnt to b allowed. S e S v R, Cincinnat! ‘won the ‘ worl®’s cham- pionship not only under the old test of four ont of seven but five out of eight, znd they certainly are entitled to it. S R B From the way in which the out- hreaks of radicals occur it might be possible that the lcaders have bheen taking a course of lessons in or from Russia. = No -one can feel proud over patron- izing a profiteer, but that is what it might amount to if sugar restrictions were removed and any old charge could be made. get what they want, as they want it and by most any means trat they can employ, whether the claims or means are justifed or not. Strange as it may seem all of the the|central powers bave quickly discov- This .. W.| éred harsh provisions in the treaties W. or boishevik spirit that has crept|that have beem presented to them, into the rank of organized labor is | Bulgaria being the last. They didn’t causing‘many of its:officers.and mem- | know there was such a fhing possible bers an endless amoemt. of -worry. for ] during the war. ‘| are just as foolish. In a sense, |the center of the sleepless Nours for the im soul who believed in him. aré some usgalofs we -ups been indellibly impr with which it comes to our fears, few of ever set bevond being childrén. Buf e one of the funniest bugaboos was. dre- ated by a gardéner who wds. afinoyed by the children’s desire to take d‘ from his garden, and he Warn m if they went in there “the Hydpas would get after them That to be so much worse than the dog | it had an instantaneous éffect. . - We shall have to gét over our dfives and talking of billio: The.way is. un-American and the taik is t6o A three billion deficit doés not séem to jar the nation, although four years ago it would have been deemed a fiua national dedt, while now it must added to a national debt of which. it will be but one-eighth. The streds of war has made us extravagant of wéalth and power. We must determiné at distant day whether man"is thé crea- ture of the state, or the state the creature of man. The war is leaving us in a predicament where we fhust find oursetves; and we cannot find ourselves too quickly! The prettiest bird | have seen this vear is a September fledged goidfinch. A bird of eight weeks seems to De as efficient as a youth of 18. He haa been to school and graduated and shows by his conduct he has learned his les- sons well. He is alert and capable And goes ih pursuit of food alone. His plu- mage is new and the colors bright. for the wind and the rains have not ruf- fled his feathers or the sun faded them: He comes daily to the sunflowers like an adepl, and his cleanness and bril- liancy and industry make him a délight in the cyes of the observer. He has the racial pride and declines to feed at the shelf—prefers being a worker to being a hobo. He is pretty in looks and fn actions. 2 Man has to have his experienseés, or he would not be developed as he should be. There is an experiencé in every issue from the cradle to the grave— 10 lose as well as win is a part of the game of life: and the good loser doesn’t make a bad mess of his affairs. Thers is always a way out, if you havé to back out: and it is better to back out than it is to jump out of a window. One of the best mottoes ever devised is: “Don’t be a fool!” There s merit in failure, if you fail right. Look sharp and the elements of progress are fre- quently to be found in defeat. It 1s never creditable to make the same mis- take twice, for once is enouszh! A man or woman may be no older than they feel; but, if after they have passed twenty-five thousand sunrises, they were as old as they feel some morning when they risé ther would have no trouble in realizing how Me- thuselah felt about the time he bade farewell to this vale of teaw Our feelings never respond to any false pretences, but bring us now and then face to face with the truth. Coleridge had the courage to say that all women belonged to one tof three classes—-“a dear old soud. that old woman: that old witch.” Men after 70 are usually engaged in respecting their own gray heads. Since there are so few othérs to rspect them. Fortunate arese those near the sunset who hold finely a vi- sion of the new grade. One of the old Norwich mansions which has a pair of lions in fromt of the door which for half a century have been of extraordinary interesting to visiting children. Life the iron coach- dos seen upon olden time lawns they presented a forbidding trespass. Many years ago there used to be a little fel- low less than five who came from a Rhode Island country town, and he had undoubtedly hgard of Daniel in the lion's den, for he always stopped and glared at these libns, thén, the iron fence, and when his spirit of de- fiance reached the point of de: ration, he thumbed his nose at them and fled at top sped up the hill.. He may have heard how the bears chased the had hoys who insulted the bold headed man and he did this to test the lions, Among small birds the English sparrow and the house wren are noted for their scolding abllity, and the English sparrows in the Sheidon pear tree seem to curse in thelr language whenever I go heneath it; and they have kept it up many vears. But not long ago a ruby-throated humming- bird scolded me early of a Sunday morning because 1 was too near his source of nectar. His imprecations \ere readily interpretable, although gentler than those of the sparrow or the wren. His protesting voice was Actualiy a surprise to me, for in an acquaintance of a quarter of a cen- fury T had never discovered that he had a heart to chide a human Tt takes a lon gtime to learn the habits of little creatures. The first bluefinch was at the feed- ing shelf on October 24. ’ffie sunflow- ers were so thoroughly gieaned by mid-September that the goldfinches searched for a supply elsewhere, leav- ing the sparrows to enjoy the handout of seeds and crumbs. There is no lack of sparrows to partake of the provender put out for their refresh- ment. One of the prettiest sights of the past month was a pair of English, sparrows with four vouig birds fully fledged, but keeping up the famiiy re- lation. ' We recoznized the youngsters because of the freshness of their plumage and the fact that they had not taken on the adult form. The En- glish sparrow has initiative, and can accommodate himself to the coldest winter weather. In Canada he finds big haystacl comfortable ahbiding place. e et Those who are appealing to the striking workmen implore them to show common sense, disregarding the fact there can be no common sénse where common honesty iz lacking. The conditions which are making the workmen wild are not of their own creation. The workmen and the capi- talist must find between them a just relation, or there can be no presper ity. Every movement just at pres- ent is decreasing the buying power of the doliar, which in the purchase of shoes as compared with three vears ago is worth 35 cents. So long as three dollars do not go much farther than one did in 1913 we should sxpeet ifcrease in crime and an increase in iabor agitations. Those who keep birds under obser- vation discover that they are endow- ed with distinct dispositions as well as other creatures, and even the fixed laws of birddom are irksome to some of them. It is the birds who do not obey the law which become vietims. The rule of caution cannot be neg- lected by the birds; and they are often trapped because curiosity gets the best of them. What birds cannot under- stand some of them are sure to in- vestigate, however slow they may ap- pear to be in finding with what it is that excites them. They are quick to hear and see. They listen and look several times a minute. In fact watch- fulness is something all wild creatures can give men lessons in. At the feed- ing bench some birds are calm and de- liberate, others fussy and fidgety, and ‘a few tricky and mean. = kd Tas The National Industrial Cosporation of Africa. Ltd., has been iné6rporated on the initiative of the National Bank ! i shevist “kingdom K. b oo e B ‘a8 n which was: formed after Denikine , .proved its stréngth. and ‘hess by repulsing three separate' of* fve operations by the bolsheviki— %Mll. -two weeks after the .fall- of Kiev, was finished the first lap on the Em 0 mile march towards Moscow:- -Oriol-Tula-Moscow. . Trotzky’s boast. that “Denikine will be destroyed- this vear’ proved to be a siliy. bluff and. furthermore, we may say with cénfidence that Dentkine is proceeding unswervingly along the course marked out by him in his Jlaconic . order: “Neith to the right. nor the left, but Mtraight ahead on Moscow!” Indeed. our southérn front. presents at present a rare and rerarkable pie- ture. .On oneé side there is8 the bol- Shevist line stretching from Tchernigov on the Dniepér across to Kamysin on ‘the Volga. Behind this line we observe not an orderly rear, but a.chaotic sit- uation created by General Mamontov’s Cossacks. In that rear.the railways are disrupted and partly destroyed, military depots are ruined and detach- ments of newly mobilized soldiers are broken up and 1 o, thelr homes. Mamontov 1§ raiding with tm- -munity in the very thick of the bol- 175 miles from to me | eheviki is Breakirg still mors rapidly after every blowstruck &t it by the volunteers of Denikine. After the, “worid- revolution,”. Lenines first ing - stick, the second rallying stick of sheviki, the red army, is ra) ing down. The destructi “gtick” will doubtless mean the orush- e e e military power but the thorough liquidation of belshevism, for this is the only “stick” they have left to lean upon.: Xt Under - such * conditions, the melan- choly admission in a recent bolshevist radio ‘that -“we have not patd timely and proper attention to the southern tront” is of- tremendous significance, ‘That admission, when put in other words, means—"we have not deploved our forees rly at the beginning of the campaign.” “Errors in the strate- gic deploying of forces in the begin- ning,of a wat have a deciding infinence and eannot be rectified until the war 18 over,”™ th ssian general Btaf, their erstwhile friend, severely admonishes the bolsheviki (in_the History of the ‘Franco-Prussian War). . Ariother-well known military “writer puts it in atill more definite and clear- o e ;The cesult of improper stratexic deploying of forces is invari- ably such that the army finds itself always in a place where it is not sup- posed 'to be.” - -~ We presume that even-the bolshevikl will not demy that their troops have proven to be “not where . they were supposed to be.” They are at Tobolsk fanxious to know W e Gleaned from’'Foreign changes What is the thing, among 1 i~ vialities of life, that you nAgmMmt:'at SCussing the matter at vy, Tt an by someone wonder -which 6f the Moedy o 'y m it Lore isher wnm:{o?"". e e . suggested someone £ 1 o mention my chief ‘won- der.” I'said, “I wopder haw many in- quiries, with sthmped and addreased Lord Fisher has already But. ‘my ‘wonder can never be settled that way,” said another of our. party. “T have always wondered what “If T might loscow, and it is four weeks already that the boisheviki cannot stop this flying detachment of cavalry. in spite of the fact that they are always-in- formed of his whereabouts, as he has while they should be at Kursk. And that is all there is to it: for once thelr armies are “not where they should be,” it is.clear that the situation will event- ually end in a direct and éverwhelming became,of Ann, the poor littie girt of Oxtord street; 'in The Opium Eater. De Quincey himself ‘couid not tell us, even if he were still within reach of & stamped and addressed envelope, so I about 15,000 men with him. including 2 number of ex-‘reds” who have joined his ranks. : Can you imagine a condition of af- fairs under which it would have been possible for a detachment of German cavalry to opeératée with immunity be- Wind the allied line: or Bordeuax, for almost 4 month? Tt is only too probable that within a [ couple of days such brave raiders would have found lodgings in a con- ceéntration camp Of war prisoners. Such wonders are, nevertheless, pos- sible behind the bolshevikt lines, and such exploits, new 'in the history of wars, only tend to confirm the opinion that the red army is far from being such a marvel as the bolsheviki would have us believe it is. - The history of military orzanization has taught us the unreliabflity of ar- mies formed only by the sheer appli- eation of the principle of force. Of source, no army, no matter how demo- cratic. ca ngeét alone without severe discipline in times of war. but we know equally well that there are other con- siderations. aside from discipline, that make armies fight. Repressive meas- ures. as the only means of keeping an army in obedience. have alwavs proved to be inferior and unreliable methods of command and would temnt only short-sighted military “Whoever it taught to fear his own commanders is taught to fear the ene- my. too,” General Dragomirov used to say, “for while one’s own commander exacts obedience by threat of punish- ment. the enamv exacts the same through threat of death.” That is why we observe tadav that the usefulre: of the red armv Is of doubtful value even though its out- ward form may be glitterlnz: that I whv we see such chaos hehind its lines and it explains also whv from the mobilized one and one-half million men the bolsheviki dare not rigk. on all thelr fronts. the use of more than 450 to 300 thousad me. “To depend on “neh troops is like leaning on a_hroken remarked General Washinaton atiek,” once abont the undiscinlinad mobs af militia. The “broken sti~k™ of the bol- say around Niee, | orzanizers. | catastrophe for them. The general re- sults of this irremedial error, the im- propér movement of their forces during May last, aré shown clearer than any- where else on the Denikine front. If anywhere, on that front the red troops were -certainly not where they were supposed to be. They appear at Vol- chansk when they should be at Tearit- sin. -And no are they trans- ported several hundred versts eastward towards Tsaaritsin, which it is all over, as Tzaritsin has in the meanwhile fallen, and it appears that they should have been now at Kiev instead of hav- ing undértaken that belated march towards Tearitsin. Again, they are transported - with great diMiculties westward to Kiev. only to find that Kiev has been captured. and that thelr real place now should have been near Kursk. Such are the immediate results of the ‘“erroneous deploving of forces™ i. e. of the senseless campaign in the wastes of Siberia. on the one hand, and the mew. brilliant strategic situa- tion ‘of Denikine after the capture of { Kiev, on the o‘hér hand. Denikine's fanks which were exposed before are now well coversd: his right flank Is | leaning upon the lower, wide strétches | of the Volga, and his left joins ‘up at | Kiev with the allied forees. In vain are the bolsheviki lonking for weak spots on the Denikine flanks hv either attaeking near Tzaritein, on his right. or near Kiev on his left wing. ~The line is solidlv hald avery. Tn vain are the bolsheviki tre. in~ to break throush his cente~ by at- i~cking Volcharsk towards Kharkov. There thev are oppasad he a solid wall of front hehind whish there are tenm railway limee and the entire south nf a with its inexhanetible rrenureas of 40 milion wanulation. with e hreadstnfis eattla. eoal. ore and the i norts of the Plack sea T'ader sveh eonditions, Prltava, Rharkare havgon. OAages and attar Fhatartnactay, Kiev ant Rieek hasa e nnder the naceasfar hawa Af Tntear nemr wa eanmad Aanht the fall af Maacow w1 fllow in- bhly and. automatically. “he ~vita LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | Where Are The Democrats? Mr. Editor: We had a town election the other day. The democrats got a proper heating and they deserved it from the way they have been carry- ing on in the cily government and if they do not mend their ways they will get another one and a better one a little later. They have been acting like a lot of school children. It seems they ean only go just so long before they make themselves ridiculous. They have had a few small matters up for/ consideration for months and they heve not shown themselves capable of disposing of them. The main silly ahd ludicrous posi- tion whieh they have got themselves inte and made themselves a laughing stock is on the question of appoint- ing a police sergeant. They have had a fman acting in that ecapacity for over a year who has the approval of the democratic town committee and is ac- ceptable to the head of the depart- ment and theré has not been enough of public spirit among the members of the council to have the matter ratified. ‘Who could support or vote for such a body of men? Men who utterly ig- nore the town committee who spent their time bringing men to the poles to élect them, now they are bigger than the town comwmittee who selected and made them. German autocracy has nothing on it at all. It is the most disgraceful situation the democratic party has ever been confronted with and if the democratic members of the council don't know it they better keep their ears open and hear what is go- ing o. WAKE UP. 10, 1919. Norwich, Oet. Community Genter Drive. Mr. Editor: A few weeks ago when it looked as though Norwich would lose its Girls' Community - Center a storm of protest arose and wherever one went one heard expressions of re- gret_and_concern. Now. through the heipfuiness of the National Headquar- tera of the War Camp Community Service, time and assistance have been given to the girls to reorganize on a rmanent basis under - Community ervice (Inc.), with local- manage- ment. - . The campaign .for the necessary funds will begin next Monday, by the girls, under the capable direction of Mrs. Arthur H. Lathrop. - A mass meeting and song rally will be heid i the Town hall Monday evening at 8 o'eluck ai which the mayor, Hon. J. J. Desmond, will speak and Thomas P. Ratcliffe will lead the community singing. It is hoped that evervone at all interested in the gZirls of Norwich and in what thev have aiready done for their own elevation and for the bepefit of the town will come to that méeting. This Mmeeting has_been ar- ranged for the public of Norwich in order that they may have presented to them (he desirability of continuing the Girls’ Center. It is only fair that the public should stand behind this group of girls already numbering over 850, ang composed of Jewish. Protestant and Catholic groups, and many na- tionalities. ‘The girls. under the name of the Service Club. to which any member. is eligible, have already made a partial survey of the institutions of the town, | and garments and gifts- are being made for some of them. In this way the zirls are developing true commu- nity spirit and are not being with-' drawn into & group by themselves. but rather reaching out into every part of the community where they can be of > 1 (hrough May 3 your that m“e girls cotne to ask financial =apport thev may receive it in a generous measure, such as alwavs has been given to the bovs of Norwich in the past. ADA R. CHASE. Sunday Morning Talk God’s Beauty in the Earth. It is not often that we think of the beauty of the Lord whéen we look upon some scene of surpassing beauty in nature. We do not in any way con- nect God with it; as though these varyving forms of glory could take on i their expressive heauty without the jtouch of His finger. Our minds have {®one out in imagination to the beauty in the city of our God. Weary with the march of life and a desite for the | { 1 rest abovs, we have quieted our. selves with the thought of the Holy City with its indescribable glory. 0O, my soul. why art thou cast down? Is the Heaven above thee dark and gloomy? Look up! There is the land which fmagination has often pictured to you. There vou shall be satiefied, the imperfections which have 8o an- noyed you shall not mar the even se- renity o that piace. Our thoughts just ‘now turn to the beauty of the earth.especially at this season of the vear. ‘How lavish God is with His beauty now. . A short time ago it was shining in_the brightness of summer, but now He has put a tinge of sun- set-sadness upom the land and the heart vearns. What many forms of | beauty we see in these autumnal days. We cannot turn our eves but what we | | see grav, green. purple, crimson and gold all ‘blended in the most parfect harmony. This is the beauty of God in the earth. They who have truly seen God in the variegated forests and have been moved. as by the touch of a divine hand, will long for the great- er beauty ‘of the country above. These autumn Woods, these meadows gréen again after their summer mowing, these hillsides all on fire with the burning sumac. these low hung clouds, all declare God to be a Master Artist, every touch of whose brush leaves a mark of beauty. Thit must be a dull soul that can walk amid this glory and not see God in it. The devout mind will rise from the contemplation of these pictures to €. d of Hlim who gave them form. od is love and He is beauty. His beautv is impressed upon everything. It is_impossible for us to look upon such scenes as we have been permitteq to look upon this autumn and not say, The Being that made these must bs a Being of wondrous beauty FHimself. He must be Perfection. 9 . A Woman’s Right is to ‘The SpmTa ..G. THOMPSON, F.-S. Chiropodist, Foot Specialist (PROTECT YOUR FEET) Suite 7-8 Alice Building, 371 Main St Norwich, Cenn. Phone -1368-4 shall 20 on wondering. A What is your chief ‘“wonder?" _ TOPIC FOR EVENING SERMON: . Barred from the Garden of Life Mr. James Coats, who has just died, Was a man;of considerable ~ beénévo- lence, and hymor. Before the days of the old age pensions he arranged to give various elderly inhabitants of his native town. Paisley, ten shillings a week each., One (. .an officious. busybody re- ported to Mr. Coate that he had séen one of his pensions having a drop of the “auld kirk.” as they whimsically call it in Scotland, in a public house. “What!” salg the redoubtable James, “on tén shillings a week? It can't be done, John,” hé said to his_almoner. “See that the auld man has fifteen in tuture.” “Never explain.” said a great man, recently. Gegtrude Athenton. the American novclist, does not agree: and has just issded a statement in re- ply to those who say that her last novel s not up tc the standard. The reason, in a word, is that war relief and provazanda work claimed her bect attention during the “writing of the story for her own personal re- laxation. But she ,will make amends. “T must go_off alone somewhere for the best part of a.gvear .. . to get a real novel done. .-In Beptember I take to the woods. The Indians have ‘gone from Hamp- ton court, and with them goes a zood deal of the picturesqueness of L.ondon shopping, for thcy 'were great pat- rons of (ke shops afd very good cus- tomers. since wnat was bought by one was generally bought Ly others. Among the little fancies of the war- riors was one for spectacles in gold rims. and one stalwart soldier was a Zoud dezl nut out when he was told that his evesight was still #o. perfect that ‘he had no possible use for #pec- taclcs. Fowever, he .was not to he beaten, and went off happy with a pair —with plain glass for, the lenses. If you have watched’the thistledown fiyinz on 2 windy day—thousands up- on thousands of little glittering siiken parachutes soaring into tlie bine hoa- vens and spreading over the landscape far as evd ean reach—you may well wonder how it 15 that the whote coun- try is not choked with thistles after such a plentiful seed-harvest as the present aufumn js giving. But the truth is, _as you can test for vourself br catching and examin- ing the thistle-down as it passes on the breeze, that scarce ome in a hun- red of the little shining _gossamer airshins éarries sny cargo. In all lke- lihood. the seed Has dropned off at the lightest touch. of “the first grass-tip it encountered on ils release from the motherplani. Thiz curiously frail attachment of the seeds of thisties’ to their verticiis is nature's main method of preventing any undue propagation of the species. If. however, one of-the ripe seed- heads of the nlant be pulled to piecés it will be found also that only about half of the verticlls haye any seed at all. And yet they fly with the .rest. Those empty vesselt can alwavs be recognized Dy. the fact that they turh over and over as they go. -while the laden ones pursue. a steéady, .even course. 8 The text of the Engiish premier’s message was as follows: Millions of gailant voung fought for the New Warld. Hundreds of thousands.died to, es men have tablish it. If we fafl te honor the prorise given to them we dishonor ourselves. What doés a new world fnean? What was the old world like? . .., It was a world where toil for myri- ads of honest workers, men and wo- mern, purchased nothing better than squalor, penury, anxiety, and wretch- edness. i ’ A world scarrea by slums ahd dis- graced oy sweating, where unemploy- ment through the vicissitudes of in- dustry brought despair to multditudes of humble homesa. {5 A world where side by side with want there was waste of the imex- haustible riches of tire ‘earth—fartly through ignorancte and want .of fore- thought, partly through entrenched selfishness. w ¥ If we renew the lease of that werld we shall betray -the heroic deada.: We shall be guilty of the basest $er- fidy that ever blackened a peopie’s fame. 8 % Nay, we shall stere up. retribution for ourseives and for our children. The old world must and will. ¢ome to an end. - 5 No effort can store it up much lang- or. If tnere be any who feel inclined to maintain it, let them ‘beware lest it fall upon {hem and overwhelm them and their households in ruin, Tt should be. the sublime duty .of, &l without thought Of partisanghip, to | T 7:30 hel; Bulldi the new weeld 'h:nf"l&b'o“t’ppfil "gve its juet reward &nd irtdolence aloné shall suffer want. «—Lonf@on : Chronicle. - - v a1 ——— IN THE DAY’S NEW. SanE Trau, ‘”l'r;?« s _conspicuous proof that his- tory, fike lightning, may strike where least_expecied,” says a bullstin frem the Washington headguarters of the National Geographic Bosfety. . ““The.span_of Trauw's annals. oxtends to a period before the time of Christ. and -its-past has- heen - evemtful, . but none of these events had any marked bearing on the course of the world's history. The other day a few United States marines were put ashore thers to help preserve order; and this ob- ject leséon of what the League of Na- tione “entails mey make or mar the new world order that the Paris Peace conferees outlined for the Umited States te accept or reject. “The two thousand years or more of Trau's history were hest summed up by Edward A. Freeman when he said; ‘Salona .the parent and Spatato the child are names Which nevir ean become meaningless to any one Wwho Das a decent knowledke of the hiatory of the world. But the name of Trau will probably always be purely mean- ingless! “Alwaye' is 4 1ong time; . aud September 1819 may mark the fore- closure of that propheey. - “One should hasten to centuries Trau meanifigless to lovers of natural ty, of the mellowing influences of time, and of the little frequenteg eddie along the main currents of tourist travel, _Though it might be dimleult for the casual vialtor to find home com - forts for .a night's sojourn there: | connoisseurs have written ratpurously of its ‘bright-golden and rose-red vine- vards' which ‘edge the startling blue of the sea:’ of its cathedral poreh’ & work which, in simplicity of conception. combined with richness of detail and marvelous finish of execution, has nev- er been surpassed in romanesque or Gothic art;” and of its peopls, ‘em- dowed with susceptibility for every virtue, skilful, - industrious, very dil- igent in their own affairs, liperal be- nign, polite and disposed to religion and plety. “The fictions loyally accepted by the residents often aré more fascinating than cold fact. One would prefer to believe that the city received its name from . the Greek word for watermelon, because of the shape of the island on which it nestles, rather than credit its derivation from Traghilon, whence Greek colonists came about 380 B. C. Or that the cypress bush growing be- tween two rocks, whith sheilérs a tue of its patron saint, Giovanni Or- sini. was planted miraculously and is nourished mysteriously by. that saini's spirit, rather than that it was planted there surreptiously by his devotees. Or that the Lion of St. Markk, over its ancient .and beautiful Porta Marina, varies from its statuary typé ia that the book he holds once lay open with the customary ‘Peace to.St. Mark’ in- EcPintion @@A was ShApped shut when Venice relinquished the ecity, rather than that it was placed there as it now stands because Venice was at war in 1454 when the gate was erected. “Trau literally is a little city on a little island. 1t is about sixteen mailes west of Spalato, by the road aeross the connecting bridge. The town aul its commune have less than 30.000 inhab- Jtants. It breathes the air of mediav- eligm; Many of its stfeets are 186 narrow for wheéled tfaffic, and too crooked to make it éasy for a pedestri- an to find his way About. They are vaulted frequently by arches, but there is no sense of squalor, since nearly ev- ‘ery turn” discloses some spécimen of sculpturéd or architécutral beauty. The houses, many of thém built so well 400 ‘vears ago that they bave never béen torn down, were placed with tre- mendous compactness for military reasons, but refieved with il possible heauty, because ‘Traurini. Slavs and Latins aitke -had a lkaen appjreciation | of the aesthetic. A reminder of this | middle age culture is the house where- in-was born the ‘father of Dalmatian history,’ Giovanni Lucio. He was' Italian, the famous western doer of the cathedral sometimes described as | ‘the glory of all Dalmatia,’ was the work of a Croatian. *“Trau has been isojated bdut also compopolitan. Bgmtlnu. Huns, Franks, Genoese and Venetians thought | it ‘worth fighting for and the Sara- cents;jooted it.. Hungary.eaptured it: Napoleon’s army took it In 1206, the | Austrians gained it seven years later, and since then it has been quiescent, until " Aow. “King Bela IV, of Hungary, fed there after the Tartars had. everrun his couptry, and_though the-pursuers, as evi ‘proved, could not take the st entrénched city, he proceeded to the, aljoining -island which still is known’ a8 Kraglievac, or the king’s 2bode, decause of that incident “Before-the -world war Trau had an ineonsiderable, trade in. . fruits . and win OTHER VIEW POINTS Watertown has seen the necessity Qf raising teachers’ salarles and has voted to give the 37 teachers of the ' town a flat raise of $100 apiece. The present country-wide agitation for more pay for teachers and college professors iz being met by such raises ‘as this to meet the high cost of livipg. The fundametal failure of teachers’ salaries to measure up theé‘': quality and value of the ©\-vice they give, .is not being rem- edied, > however® and ‘it should be.— Waterbury Republican. MADAME SCHWARTZ VELVET HATS e i Ty, vl eyl & ’