Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 14, 1919, Page 4

5 the Postoffice ai Norwlch. -Comn., so Teleszae Gatle. Office &30, Vdltorial Rooms $5.3. Bulletin Jon Offtes 35-2. Wllmantte Offies 13 Churen Teieohene 103 Norwich, Friday, Nev. 14, 1919 Butieun CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING NOV. 8th, 1919, + THE MURDERED VETERANS, Just what sort of a dangerous ele Ment we have been permitting te in grease in this country is fully ilus- frated by the cold bi: oded murder of terans of the lat. e I W W, in Centralla, Wash those wi lets of o k been facing the bul- ne enemy of humanity fo their protection as well ag others, bu it simply therance of their me: Because these vete: had been endeavoring country the same I tection since they ing psilcles. s of the wai to degree of pro for death. Tn some instances the bul Iets of the radicals found their mark. unfortunate that such a acrifice has to be made by those kill- Tt is most ed ang injured, but it is evident tha it s moing to be the means of awaken- in which it stands and the realization of ing the country te the position the necessity of taking proper and im. mediate steps for dealing with it, As Senator Poindexter says we have tolerated the radicals and anarchists We have given encourage- ment to their activities instead of giv- ine them to understand that there is in this country. The the hand of this too long. no place for them northwest lement has feit before. It has gone to state and spread throughou from t Centralia are massacred in Armistice parade cou: ry to ite mistakes, Jéale, under whatever name they ma = do the dirty work, - to be done by TODAY'S CONFERENCE, ch inte M t naturally centers in ators afd renresentatives of the coal niners which has heen called by It 1= to be hoped will result in an under. being de unon whereby the cts in the case on both sides can be 5 nitted for nee therewith, had troll and. jitneys and Lawrence, Off the strike, or even before they re-|like any other, ought.to be able to frained from ealling it. Tt permits of | determine without much trouble which the situation being handled without a|it prefers, which it can depend upon piked » being held over the heads|and from which it can really get ser- of the onerators in an endeavor to|vice, and it cannet fail to be realized foree them to give in, and at the same| that the situation in Lawrence is not time over the heads of the public te operators to subinit which would, if all granted. mean the to It will take a knockout blow to ountry’s coal bill by a billion dol-|bring down the high cest of living and lars. keep it down. 1t is understood that the miners’ representatives will present the same nds at this meeting with the op- 1e frators that they have previously done, including the 60‘wer cent. in- ckease in pay. the six hour day from the time they enter the mine until they leave and a five up the T in in existence which does not pire until next soring. It is certainly expected that atorial previous conferences in today's gathering, injustices being done they ended but be adjusted f: . will in accordance with THE LOUISIANA SUGAR. In view of the shortage of sugar, the action taken to keep down the price and the fight against the profiteers i a puzzling situation that selling of Loulslana sugar at a maxi- mum of 17 cents to the refiners and 18 1-2 cents to the consumer is made public. These prices will affect about 100,000 tons of cane sugar and were agreed upon by the refiners and the Uniteq Stateg district attorney at New Orleans. “This means of course that while fhere are restrictions on certain other $ugar and while the beet sugar men Have been “asked” and as a result Bave promised to restrict the selling price of their goods to practically the sme price as that disposed of by the gar board the Louisiana crop goes to the market at more than a 50 per nt, increase. It is ¢f course one thing to fix these ices and another to see that they are eyed and it is hard for the con- fbmer to understand how he is going {5 tel! whether he is getting Cuban or Phuisiana sugar or how he is going to 8 assured of getting the cheaper su- #ir even thoygh tho amount is re- stricted. It can be appreciated that a eity could be fllled up with Qe high #iiced sugar and the people told to var by members Tt is difficult to understana|business. and it is perfectly evident any body of civilized men could emgaze in a plot to take the lives of shows the lengths to which re prepared to go for the fur- give the returned as they did while abroad they were singled out but when the voung men | the ets of that town while engaged in| the spring been touched that will arouse the It is time to the country clean of those rad- and to include in the number those id and abet as well as those who | trustees that the unrestricted compe- There is Loth state and he conference that is to be held today | Washington between the coal oper- Sec- retary of Labor Wilson in an effort to i ut an adinstment of the dif- that the ched, or of a meth- a reasonable decisfon in! situation. now with the strike ded is the -same as it would been in the last week of October the mine workers' officials called g all possible influence upon %the something the demands were increasing of the day week. There will likewise without doubt be brought act that there is an agreement the deflant dnd! attitude that characterized be missing It there are any should be the entire matter should the is pre- sgnted by the announcement from the department of justice in which the ap- proval of the attorney general to the take it or leave ii: That is about the price that we were told some time ago i it would be necessary to pay for su- { gar if the sugar board control was|- H 5 4 h 2 ended but that it would be possible to L glerwiw 0198 | set b, that wap wanted at that figure. H . ? It will be interesting to Jearn how ' and Qnuiui N the goveenment 5 'going to prevent an ; even greater amount of profiteering : from ‘done under such a situa- H 123 YEARS OLD tien than’ been carried on up to Ssberistion arim 150 & woeks W & mesths | NOW: 'and how it is going to protect|3Rd o . the consumer against the unscrupu- laus dealer. — FIGHTING VOLSTEAD ACT. As determined as the efforts have been to bring about prohibition have been those on the other side to pre- vent it. The constitutionality of the laws enacted and those of the pro- visions that have been suggested for enforcing the law has been constantly kept at the front. Just at the present time it is the Velstead act, the one that provides for the enforcement of war-time as well as constitutional prohibition, that is under fire and Judge Brown of the Uniteq States district court at Provi- dence has granted a temporary in- | junction to the brewers of Rhede TIsl- and restraining the federal authorities from interfering with them through the enforcement of the new law and ho does s0 “In view of the probability that the act in question. will ulti- mately be held unconstitutional and of the irreparable damage that would result from its immediate enforcement, angd #h e ¢ * its immediate en- . | forcement i{s not imperative.” Judge Brown considers that the war- time prohibition act interferes with the year of grace permitted the brew- ers and Mquor dealers to.get out of 4 that the war-time act became effective long after the war was over and the enforcement law in &ffect practically a year from the time the armistice was declared. Yet technically the war is not ever and wiil not be until certain things are done and as this emergency law is on the same. basis as another war- time law the use of which has but re- cently been invoked, it would be a strange situation if oneacould be ap- plied and the other could not. Judge Bfown thinks there is a probability that the law will 'be declared uncon- titutional in which case it would be unjust to the liquor dealers to stop their business but where will the re- sponsibility rest if the sale of liquor is resumed and the law is found to be congtitutional? r t P t 3 TROLLEYS OR JITNEYS, For a long time therg has been a confiict between the electric railways and the jigneye. Eiforts have been made to secure legislation dealing with the situation and in some instances troliey roads have cndeavored to go into the jitney business also. That the jitneys are having their effect up- on the electric railways is thoroughly understood in all-parts of the country. It is thus an interesting development that has taken place in° Lawrence, Ma: where the public trustees of the company has given notice to the effect that the trolley service will | be discontinued there next Wednesday unless there is a restriction of the jit- ney competition. It s set forth by the tition of the jitneys has resulted in the receipts of the road falling below the operating cxpenses for the past two months. It is thus a case where the {eity must give the relief that it is be- |lieved the trolley road should receive n! jor the company must cease to carry on the transportation business that it has. Under existing conditions it will be impossible- to attempt to compete. This of course brings the people of that city face to face with the ques- tion as to whether they are willing to grant this reilef that is somght and continue trolley service, or whether they are satisfied to see the trolley go and depend upon such service as they can get from and such prices us they will have to pay to the jitneys, to say nothing of the matter of safety and convenience. There are but few cities. but what have had their experiences with both so different from that in -many other cities. EDITORIAL NOTES. Now of course it will be in order to start 4 popular subscription in be- hal® of the radical reds, The man on the corner says: These 1|are the days when a “wet” cellar is more welcome than it used to be. i From Mr. Gompers' Washington speech the reds ought to derive no isma‘-l amount of comfort and cheer. Wiid life in Canada doesn't begin to hold a candle to that being experi- enced out in the state of Washingten. Even if the mine workers' union! hag been taught a lessomn it is quite important that others should profit thereby. Grade crossing or street crossing dangers will never be eliminated as long as there are the get-out-of-the- way auto drivers, t Missionary barrels and rummage sales would fare better if people didn’t find it necessary to make last year's jcredited to the Pope, drove direct from clothes do another year. R EET AR R There are those who are calling for a geven cent piece, and when you stop to think of it there ism’t much you can buy teday for a nickel. That was a big head that selected the name. of the Well Fed Husbands club for every wife will cértainly in- sist upon her husband being a mem- ber. It is 1y no means a credit to the pecple of this country that the Croes roll call has to be exterded be- catss results thug far have been dis- appointing. Haven't the I. W. Wi out in Wash- irigton made it evident that they are lusty upholders of law and order and that they fearlessly stand for free- Red dom and democracy? The anarchists cry down our liws and government, but let ome of them fiet caught in the meshes of the law and ro cone is quicker to use every technicauty-in it to benafit himself. b “1 haven't a single thing. it to wear!” eclared the girl with the thousand or organdy skirt. "lt mere. ruffies ‘on her ," sald her cruel mother anything is Jlll:‘ l'!\‘I‘l!" 2 “You've never had to wear Where 1 made my first and fatal mis- take was in baving twenty dresses in Mr lu-m I should Lve had twa - on:’ h::t woryaotnigl;’t. Woul e sort abe :‘d g’:fll ideas if 1 had done so.” "1.':: hu:r'“ _sympathize with me,” daughter. don't care at all whether somebody else has prettier clothes than I have. Just as I think I have something hrand new and original that Esther Fisher or Margaret Dobbs burst out with some- thing a fot better laoking. 1 just hate this skirt—Esther's has rutfles not half as wide and they go'round it clear to the top.” “Is that so?” commented her un- feeling parent. “Well, I know I ran several hundred miles on the sewing machine under the dressmaker's orders doing the ruffles you've got, and if you ever take a nation to have any more on a skirt, young lady, yourself. The idea! You can’t have a new organdy skirt unless you pluck one off the Norway popla: in the back yard"” I've worn this . skirt two weeks!” insisted the daughter, indig- nantly. “It isn't just this skirt, either. I just knew when I got that rose coler georgette dress I'd be sorry.” “Why, you insisted on that color.” “I'm sure I didn’'t” said the pretty girl. “You must have hurried me or something. Rose color is so common. ‘What 1 wanted was one of those nale orchid shades, Margaret Dobbs wore & dress to that luncheon today -that was abselutely perfect—the palest or- chid lavender, and it made her com- plexion look wonderful. She hasa't a bit betier complexion than I have, ond yet anybody comparing us would have sworn so. It was the color did it. And the way that georgette was draped! Couldn’t I have one if I went without a new serge this’fall?” “You don’t nced another georgette said her parent. “I am surprised at you. I had to give up a dozen new towels and a tablecloth when I bought “Wh: you'll sew 'em her. {glad you think so. > the rose cdlor one.” i Towels!” Cried the pretty girl bit- | teriy. “Who cares for towels? Youl just 'ike to have a big pile to count over. I can't wear towels to a party. I shouls think you would want me to look nice.” * “But not too mice,” placidly insisted tIe cruei parent. “There is a limit. I Just couldn't stand it to have parades | of people and bands and things hang- ing wround the front gate waiting and watching for you to come out. I've! l‘;?:" te temper your natural glory a ‘Oh, don't start being funny,” wailed her child. “Truly, I'm serious. I haven't a single thing fit to wear .to affair next week at the country uu T loathe that rose georgette and I'e worn the white organdy out there efor, and the lace is torn on the yellow dress and I wouldn't be seen in this 1ufflied thing after Esther’s ruffled one. 1. made this look just awful! I'll slay home first if I can’t be properly | dressed!” “I agree with you.” her mother told | “But that isn’'t the situation at| all; you have plenty of clothes and | pretty omes. What's stirred you all up.” “I'm not stirred up.” | girl indignantly. “Pm just relating | plain facts. TN bet when I get mar- | ried I'll have the sort of clothes I want.” “Ho, ho!” chertled her mother. said the pretty | “rm | There’ll be towels | then!” 7 | “I'm geing to use paper ones,” de- | ciared her daughter: “Please can't 1 nave a lavender georget§e? It's to be gorgeous party .ang lots of men )'usti back from Franeces The Smith boys and Ted Leemings—" “I begin to see a light,” said her| parent. “You wear that rose georgeite and Ted Leemings will never know | another girl is present. [l tell you a secret—men love all shades of red and pink, but they hate lavenders. That's really what broke up the Garden of de “Oh, slush!” sighed the pretty crossly. “I suprese I'll have to. then. Znyhow, it'll be new to Ted. And he! always liked me in pink.”—Chicago News. irl Gleaned irorh Foreign Ex. changes The sale of Bear Wood, so long the seat of the Walter family, recalls that strong, silent man, the late John Wal- ter. Towards the end of his life, dur- ing which he had almost everyone worth knowing, Mr. Walter said wist- fully, “I should have liked just one hour’'s private conversation with Queen Victoria.” He had declined honors, but her Majesty would certainly have grati- fied this desire if she ever heard of it. It is said that Bear Wood is to be used as an orphanage. If so, it will have charming surroundings. The new titles chosen by the en- nobled war leaders indicates the in- creasing tendency among public men; who are rewarded with peerage to adopt a style symilar to that borne while they were eariing the honors, instead of hiding their identities be- hind some fancy territorial names. All the commanders have adopted this plan, it will be noted, none of the fam- ily names being in use ag titles, an obstacle which often presents itself. Even Sir Edward Russell has got over the diffictlty by assuming the barony of Russell of Liverpool. There have been some cases in the past few years of newly created peers who haye not followed this course re- quiring a parenthetical description. Mr. Fisher, for instance, is still only half known as Lord Downham, while few recognize Mr. George Faber in Lord Wittenham, and outside Ulster Lord Armaghdale fails to recall Sir John Lonsdale. Sir James Woodhouse is still better known than Lord Ter- rington, and only an active career has made Sir Charles Bathurst fam- miliar as Lord Bledisloe. An audience such as that given by the Pope to Mr. Philip Gibbs is of rare occurrence, owing to the difficulties of the Papal position in, Rome, and it was necessary some jears ago to evolve u curious and complicated sys- tem for sovereigns who, visiting Rome as guests of the King of Ttaly, deslred to call on the Pope also. The system was that-the dmmgmsh- ed visitor should drive from the Quir- inal to the embassy of his country ac- credited to the king of Ttaly. Thence he proceeded to the legatiom, if his country had one, accredited to the Vat- ican, and thence again, $h a different carriage to the Vatican. King Edward was the first sovereign | who, having no representative ac- | | the embassy to the Vatican. Dickens wouldn't do it. He was as| prone to drop into blank verse as Si- las Wegg into rhyme, and the iambic beat of his pross is at times almost incessant. So that medical humor- ist, Dr. Laurence, who heads his re- port to his inappreclative employers, the Edmonton District Council, with quotation from the great novelist, might have set out the greates part of it in verse lenths thus: “There is, perhaps, no profession, However useful, no pursuit, However meritorious, which can ape the cheap attacks of vulgar mind.” Lines which scan as perfeeily as these are as frequent with Dickens, as “and which” with Thackery or a split infinitive with Thomas Hardy. Have you noticed how the high heel has disappeared from the streets of London these days. Not a total dis- appearance, of cdlrse, for if she will not have to walk much, or has a mo- tor-car at her beck and call, the Lady of London sees no reason to change her style. But if she leaves a suburban home ! in the morning without kpowing whether she may not have to walk home at night, she puts on a sen- sible pair of boots or shoes. And, as any soldier could have told her, thin stockings if imitation silk are not for the walker. Tt must be said that during the last few days our girls have reaped the advantage of the new athleticim. A few years ago even the dire necessity of the times would Jhardly have in- duced girls to attempt the ascent of some of the vehicles which offer a lift to them on the road. In Holborn yesterday we saw a whole bevy of girls perfdrming with much laughter gymnastic feats in order ta. climb over the tail board of a particularly inconvenient veldcle whieh offered them succor on the Homeward trek. and if some of them fafled at the first attempt there were no "shirkers. By one means or another ant socampflshed the feat at last. Two lessons of the strike. The two lessons of the strike are these, says Liloyd George, the first is that you can- not hold up the community, and the second is an equally important one. The community must make it clear to all classes for there is a good deal of sus- picion at the bottom of these move= ments, a suspicion which is rooted to an unjustifiiable past—the community must make it clear that it means to deal justly and fairly with the claims of all classes; that a man’s property, whatever form it takes, whether it to hold up the community unjustly in | order to extort an unfair price for whatever commodity the community needs; and the second, that when the community needs any commodity, land or labor, it will pay a fair price—you | must get these two things into the minds of the whole of the people— then from lhat will. spring co-opera- { tion. Although |t is 17 years since a pris- oner managed to escape from Park-| hurst, the record in this respect is! probably held by Dartmoor, the proud boast of the staff being that since it was turned into a penal settlement nm‘ one prisoner has got clear away, though numerous attempts have bc&n made. A good many years ago one convict made his way as far as Kent, but he was captured there, and thus the record remaineq unbroken. The gray stone building at Prince- the edge of the Moor oniginally used as a place of confin ment 1or Frenchmen taken b: { i oi Conan Do; Dest stories of the aashing Brigadier Gerard.—London | Chionicle. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Not God’s Time. Mr. Editor: While George Kahn ofl Franklin made an argument that in my | estimation is unanswerable, the same mistake that many othe: in inferring that we are now back to “God’s time.” If Mr. Kahn was ald enough he will remember that every America was changed from time,” to standard time and clocks! here east of Buffalo were changed ! just 20 minutes. We God's time now than we were a month ago when we were zoing by Wilson's fool time a-la-Lloyd George. God can- not be blamed for incompetent po: are no more on | B oyl L INSompeiony D that several fresh merican Aivisions e Al SgE Beonte. o thu “(u:“"“d moved into the area. he French Nt that e |{awar of fud plsastoll the X dciy have had passed aro vears. I told you so. C. B. M Oneco, No STORIES OF THE WAR Tricks of the Game of War. (By The Associated Press)—Tri of the game of war are coming light from time to time as each telis its story. One the mo successful of them was practiced nd this past four | NTGOMERY. Amerigan forces in the Meuse-Ar- gonne " battle last fall when the la great Allied offensive was at its height from Switzerland to the sea. An imaginary army conceived by a handful of Americans junior officers was “thrown into the field” over night and for days five crack Ger- man divisions just east of Verdun in the Etain reglon were kept on their toes mometarily expecting an attack which never materialized. At a dinner table in a Cobienz ca- fe, overlooking the Rhine, an Ameri- can intelligence officer recently told the story of the creation of the “mythical X army,” as it was called. It ap- pears that thé Ger were expect- ing an attack in the Etain sector at any time ang the American knew it: but at that e of the game the First Uited States army was devot- ing its energies to driving the enemy out of the Argonne forest ang the hill country on either side. So the mythical army was created, in pref- 1| erence to a real diversion. requiring many men, to convince the German commander that it would not be wise to weaken the EtZin front to the benefit of the Meuse-Argonne front where a desperate battle pro- ceeding. Five fresh divisions had been placed by the Germans on the Etair line. These constituted their lost and finest reservoir of available divisions. Americans realized that the the Germans decided that this was not a danger point, any or all of the five divisions could be withdrawn, re- placed by exhausted and fragmentary divisions coming from the battle fronts, and that the appearance of the fresh troops in line west of the cuse{ would have a tremendous effect on the American offensive. The “X army” was assigned to a front from Bemsonvaux to Fresnecs. From the morning of October 22 un- til just previous to the.armistice this army_“functioned.” ~Capiain Charles H. Matz of Hubbard Woods, I, was commander-in-chief. Captain Wil- liam H. Dearden of Springfield, Mass., and Washington, D. C., was chief of staff. Lieutenant John H. Graham, of Lexington, Va. was chief of “troop movements;” Captain \O. W. Neidert was in charge of G-1. or administra- tion; and Lieutenant H. T. Griswold of Old Lyme, Conn., was chief of tillery. The staff of the X army w all members of the intelligence s tion of the First army and of cou before beginning opertaions, had cureq ihe consent of their chief, Col. ! Willey Howell. The wireless and the telephone| were freely used to convince the Ger- takes the form of land, or bufldings, or labor, if the community needs it, it must pay 2 proper price for it. (Cheers.) Onee you have got these two prin- ciples, that 2 man is not to be entitled mans that the Americany were pre- paring for an attack in the FEtain sector. To make sure that the Ger- mans would be able to “break into” . {was | mand A BIG V COMEDY ‘Strand Theatre FORMERLY AUDITORIUM ‘Newly Remodeled Strand, Norwich’s Leading Playhouse GRAND OPENING, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15th Four Shows, Matinee 1:30 and 3—Evening 6:30 and 8:30 NAZIMOVA in “THE REG LANTERN” See the Greatest Artist In a Production Without a Paral- Iel In All the Brilliant History of Motion Pictures. Gaumont Weekly—A Reel of Real News Larry Seamon In the Head Waiter STRAND LADIES’ ORCHESTRA CONCERT Bacon Players of New London Crescent Mandolin Club of Norwich Bacon Banjo Quintet SOLOISTS Frederick Bacon, Banjo Albert Berardi, Guitar Frank Bradbury, Mandolin Y. M. C. A. Auditorium TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18th, 1819 Admission 50¢, Plus Tax Tickets on sale at Y. M. C. A. PRIZE WALTZ TONIGHT AT Yantie Fire Engine Halt PRIZE $5.00 In GOLD EVERYBODY WELCOME TR i was established in a clump of woods near Verdun and was christened headquarters of the X army. This! station. functioned until the end of} the game, all “orders” to the army ng out from this place by wire-| Soon_ after the station began; ng the Germdns located its “hutflbuula and frequenily shelled wouds and viéinity, apparently i o » z up the Llns latest ot annoya.ncm Y nad a portable vhich moved about and elf as a different sta- radio of the X army Y at \\urL was directly under com- | oi the Thirty-third French! cerps, ang the roving wircless station | ed considerable excitement the French soldiers as it sernt messages to make thee nemy believe | at times thought the Ameri- ns hadq st all sense of reason and several occasions on reported mel s plants. " The first message from the my | headquarters was a_general despatch | ireless station in the army are (none of which actually existed) | in the new code, of course, directing that none of the stations anawer or make any use of their sending in- ruments, for fear of the enemy lo- ting the mbut to be on the alert at| fixed hours to received messages. The effect was to warn the Germans that a large number of wireless sta- tionse must have been set up and to advise them of the hours when the enemy intercepting stations szould be on the alert for the American mes- sages. This was followed by a series of messages deigned to ‘indicate that the X army was preparing for a full fledged operation. In order to inform | the enemy of the geographical limits! of the sector of the X army, many messages were directed to imaginary officers at existing towns on the Etain front. Meanwhile the roving wireless station wes working overtime day ang. night. It began sending out messages in the Fresnes sector and trying to give the impression that it as several stations at widely sep- arated locationw O:ite message in particular was peculiarly designed to 2dd to the enemv's suspicion of the approaching trouble—an imperative qemand ‘or 20v cop.es more additional of the Conflans sheet, "®lan Direc- tuer map.” This could only be in- terpreted by the Germans, the Amer- icans agreed, as Wreparation for a coming drive on the Briey iron cen- ter. In additionl to the wireless the X army also had in operation, on the front between Bensonvaux and Fres- es, a telephone squad—a careless! squad “which set up telephone sta- | FINE FOR RHEUMATISM the code used the Americans furnish- eq them with a satisfactory key One wireless station. of the X army | sages and talked shop and gossipeqg at Today and Saturday THOS. H. INC PRESENTS WM. S. HART In the Six Part Artcraft Feature “WAGON TRACKS” Little he knew where those § tracks would lead! But some one had slain his brother; and grim- ly he followed the trail — to vengeance—ia death—to love. A picture big with the west, strong # with the power of the man’s man §§ who plays it. ETHEL CLAYTON in the 5 Part Romantic Comedy “A Sporting Chance” INTERNATIONAL NEWS MUTT AND JEFF COMEDY tions here and there and sent mes- | night about the arrival of some old‘w[ friend from America with such and such an outfit. no chances that the Germans might not hear the araversations the Amer- | icans desired them to record. ’lh“\ deliberately grounded their wires, so the enemy could “listen in,” and crawled out inta no man’s land in the darkness and hoeked one of the American wires over onto a German | barbed wire in front 'of an abandon- | eq trench system. .In the front lines| of modern warfare the telephone is a most dangerous instrument for both | sides devised apparatus which within certain limits can pick up conversa- tions over enemy line with which it is not even connected. So the Ameri- cans felt certain that all their con- versations were hearq by the Ger- m: Two days after the X army began functioning, the results began to be noticeable, the nervousness on the part ‘of the Germas being exhibited. in many ways, the enemy first sending over a large number of airplanes to make reconnaissances. The Germans also began a series of trench raids, tQ obtain prisoners for. the purpose o identifying units of the forces oppo- site them. German prisoners captured by the French tolq of wild alarms in the night on the part of the German forces, hurried reinforcements which indicated that the enemy was exert- ing extreme watchfulness on account of the activity of the little army be- ing operated by a handful of Ameri- cans. When the armistice became effec- tive, November 11, the lit mythical X army, s ground in the field »~1r Verdun, and opposite five erack (Frman divisions stood thew gumid not even suspecting that they haq been tricked bya hand- ful of ingenious young Yankees who were delgihted at the results obtained by their mischievous schemes which had worked so successfully in decejv- ing the wise old German veteran of a five year war. OTHER VIEW POINTS The “reds” themselves have no com- punctions, scruples or restraints. “Be merciless” is their motto. Such a temper can only be met with force. Temporizing with it is idiotic. And if it so happens that a few in the melee are roughly handled it should warn telephdne squad took | & those who do not wish to be taken for “reds” not to act or associate with them. It is everlastingly true that if one does not desire to be taken for a 3 Pleasure Mabel DIXIE IN THE “JINX” is One of the Liveliest Pi tures That You'll Ever Have the PATHE NEWS Today and Saturday MABEL NORMAND —IN— fIINX" to Ses. It ls the Best Normand Picture Yet — Better Than “Mickey,” “Upstairs,” and That's Going Some. Better Than LEE and ARTHUR BEHRENS MOST UNUSUAL PIC- TURE EVER MADE. “Where Bonds Are Loo YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE CITY UNION MEETING Sunday, 6 p. m, At rinity Methodist Church Keep This Appointment thief he should not act lke one.— Bristo] Press. It would were law t| behind th be reaily plusant it enough and force enough at law' to take all those- hyphenated and otherwise afflicted gentlemen who are so busily attempt- ing to reorganize this nation along their ewn fantastic lines—it would be pleasant to take them all aside some- ‘where 2nd say' “This is like it, get our country. If vou dem't out. And if you don't, we'll put you out.” And then do jt.—Hartford Times. 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