Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 31, 1919, Page 4

NORWICH BULLETIN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1919 Slerwich Balletin and Qoufied roads is that they will be blamed for imposing them. The false impresgion will exist that if the government can| operate the roads under existing rates the railroads can or should be made to. That would be well enough if the government was making ends meet under its administration. The rail- 123 YEARS OLD roads will not have the United States treasury to dip into for any deficit caused by operating under existing Savucrigtion pries 125 & week: 350 & meath; §8.0 yrar. Enteied at the Postoffics wcund-clas matier. Teteppzas Cafle. Sulletin Business Office 438, Bulletin Ldliortal flooms &t Nerwieh, Cwan., tie Oftlcs 3.3, Bulletta Job Offire 33-2. 23 Chawen St Teleobone 105. rates and hag the administration put the rates where they should be to square accounts there would not be the occasion for the talk about the probability for higher rates. LOWERING LIVING COSTS. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The w0 the use for republication of all news Cespatch- w credited 1o (i or pot stherwise credlied la s paper and alw the local cews publisted Sereln. A All rights of repubileation of etlal despated. w bereln are also reserved. " Norwich, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 1919 CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING DEC. 27th, 1919 THE CONFERENCE REPCRT. rom the faet t it has already|never been expecteq to and if the ad pr report, though it|company continues to do business 1 « work, it is evi-|that way it is going to be a fine thing some ed by the of the o first, t ken up the questio the outgrow ed on withou » pub-|ican Woolen company is going ahead 1§ the first it is appar-|With his proposition to provide his proceeding according to pro-|employes with goods at cost. This and has reached the stage the same situation as at where anxious to know what the tead and in each instance the} ment is re = its work as far|move is made after w: A ording to the| n o the dealer: ment which has made and| Apparently these in forth it is the|®ho are taking the & 1 be an industrial]are attributing the t prices to| districts partitioned ac-|the retailer, even v t considering erve banking|the fact that the in a there would|great many cases are ting upon ~ » 1 of inquiry and adjustment|!uxuries and the highest priced goods 1 1 much, the same as|When they canno afford them. The chdi g named the by ent of the board to|ean be had. That is unquestionably % 1o inves e the|the experience of every retail dealer. he national tribu- IR made up of nine members, th: uld be in the nature ntatively decided . 10ut the —COUN(IY|hors to join the American Lesion. Tt dgzer matlers| cannot bhe believed that there will be Tha idea or troubl AIDING THE FOREIGNERS. Drawinz the line at being associated W reasons are cc tly crop-| With those who fought their fight is on hing possible| N0t BOINg to stand to the credit of . upon con-|can be relied upon to stand for the ushout the country. The|malntenance of law and order even as 1 criticised for not|they fought for the rights of their tion i large extent it beginning to be r itude toward t here to mal ¥ have heen allow th the result th o settiemen ed from 1 oms and in-|of dangerous elements and American-| > ¥ \l there- | ization but it had nothing to do with| 1a casy for those|ths action of these individual mem-| N eir sage to in-|bers, who may or may not have m for bad as easily as for|Ziven emphasis to the fact that they o result of such conditio possit for W. 1 of Fo ay foreigners have | en the hackbone the steel strike|ship in the organization to which they his only exg of i is that|belong is not likely to get much pub- sh new: pa to hold such v 3 influ over them, and S i 1 an outstanding feature of EDITORIAL NOTES. etrikes fo ome time that the for- Ciemenceau seems likely to be the vign element was respon ¢ for them|next president of France. It is an " and kept them g to be thought that Ame possible to make ap-|the many disturbing conditions that t of reason|have characteria the closing one. wihici he un-Ameri- —_— subjected to da ause of their la and the need of|Which tiere is the least bit suspic- wmorance is so plain- | 190 erves the most e R R T T must be done| . Lhink of coal miners in Indiana re- 5 inactivity of past |TUSINE to £o to work because the train ¥ % PAlihat was to take them was ten min- e - utes late! RAILRCAD RATES. The wonder is that Carranza hasn’t eports to (ho effect that increase|before this charged Consular Agent! Iroad rates can be expec Jenkins with trying to become presi- o surprise but it s safe to|dcnt of Alexico. rned back to »d upon the railroa rai oad administration ke ends meet. The government not be able to keep its obligations 1o the roads within a half billion dol- his meang of course that while t patrons of the railroads have be: paving increased service and travel nd for the making up of the d <0 that the cost of running t roads will come out of them indirect- 1y if not directly. The fact that the government h Just for increases. be seeking to defieit by rates that are necessary eccomplish vate contrel, The unfortunate part of such d mands for higher rates by Amociated Fress 1y exclusivety eatillmt industrial eon- 1d the manner man of the public nd capital being equal upon general indust- of industrial void industrial trou- ng with them according Americanization y be to such a mat- > have been getting | the stecl | lot pent up| show® how he | ntented for they 1 not take place un- 11 t the responsibility for pon the government | Keeping their ears warm, t delon e oads have failed to produce I_'I:!m}mn::‘u.d;r of the formcr kaiser under the increased rates lev-| > t© P& scaght as soon as the peace without dipping into other fund as good reason for increasing the and has had for many months, the roads will have if or when they They will simply not only prevent the it but by the more effi- cient operation .of the lines under pri- the rail- Efforts to lower the cost of living are still being made and there appear to be instances where the work of certain ones is far more effective than government infiuence and productive of greater results than the individual consumer is willing to accemplish for himself. How long it will last re- mains to be seen but to a certain de- gree there is reason why it should be continued indefinitely if the help that is now being or will be given to the| consumer is to De maintained. At Homestead, Pa., the Carnegie Steel company feeling that the people were being overcharged by the re- tailers has gone into the business of supplying them with foodstuffs and other things at cost. This throws the retailer, whether he was profiteering or not flat on his back. He cannot afford to sell goods at cost and has for the consumer but the ness. At Lawrence, Mas,, in spite of the investigation by the business men which showed that the dealers wery not profiteering the head of the Amer. it means that b- retafler must go out of busi- he ns th industries aré not elling at fair prices because they are not anxious to enter tha ess but when they sell at cost it is useless to expect that| there can be any competition for very tong and it is not so certain that the| retailers are the profiteers. Mr. Wood has said that tho reason for high priced clothes iz that men demand| the best when ather durable clothes he UNJUST AND UNWISE. What must be regarded as ill con- sidered and unwise action is that which has been taken by the organi- atlon of automobile workers in Des troit in forbidding any of its mem- of}| any other organizations in the coun- try, except that they be numbered among the radicals, that will draw the line at any of their members belong- ing to the Legion, to which eoniy those who have been in the service of their country in the recent war can belong. o3 any body of men. In most instances the American Legioners are those who country, and strange as it may seem is|this is one of the reasons why the e- | Detroit organization excludes them. Because members of the Legion he| Were involved in the strike of the ke| Boston policemen and because others ed| participated in the coal strike in Kan- mw;” . the Detrpit autoworkers are sore of |at the American Legion. This organ- n-| lzation stands for justice, the uphold- Ing of law anq order, the suppression | n-| were Legioners. Whatever they even as individuals was for the good of the country and against unjust| conditions. Any organization which | ittempts to spurn them or member- | ns 5- lic sympathy. It is more than the Legion. kind erang. W hurting itself | Action of that is bound to prove as a boom- a honor which he certainly deserves. r- May the new year be ag free from No cne is anxious these days to be- come a sampler of the drinks about | n- ck The man or the gorner says: Prob- ably you nhave noficed taat tne girls don’t have to worry any mdre about| he ds to| lreaty becomes effective. How he will hate to leave the wopdpile! ‘Whether it is in getting control, making money or making gifts John D. Rockefeller has made it clear that he does things on a large scale. That old fashioned fellow who used to get out his sleigh at the first snow- fall now sits at the window and waickhes the buzz wagons flit past. he en he 1t may be as a New Jersey supreme court judge says that pedestrians have rights on the highway which motorists are bound to respect but ex- perience shows that many of them are determined not to. as to| With many democratic senators de- termined to ratify the treaty on the best terms ebtainable it eught not to be long bLefore the president has a chance to pocket the do~umeni if he fy still so imdined. e- | “One of the nicest things about us,” the pretty young married woman be- gan as she served the dessert, “is that we always agree about things.” “Huh?” stuttered her husband, blinking. “Why, we have the same tastes about everything,” she explained. “it would be perfectly awful if it weren't that way. I thought about it all the way home after seein~- Vera Armstiff today. She was nearly distracted be- cause she has made up her mind to 2 Chinese blue rug in the dining room and Arthur has set his foot down for a bright red domestic weave. And he won’t get season seats for the opera, as Vera wants, and says he'd rather go once a week to a vaudeville. Wouldn't it be dreadful if we were au cross-purposes like that?” “I know better,” said her husband. “You've got me cowed. I know my role and bark at the proper moment.” “Why, you are just trying to t ment me,” cried his pretty wife. *It isn't that way at all. Whenever I want a certain thing you always want it. too. And whengrou set your heart on anything, why, 1 always agree, Her- ert: you know it!” , “That i3 the most remarkable soph- istry that has been uttered since— since the days of Soph or whoever in- vented it,” said her husband firmly. “How do you get that way, angel?” “Have a good time" said his wife. “I was just thinking How horrible it would have been if we hadn't agreed out the living room windows! What vou kad insisted on long white lace curtains such as have been used ior the last theusand vears and are now dead and gone. Why, most men are absolutely wedded to lace curtains. All their lives thev have been accustomed to hearing women sroan over pufting up the things and taking them down and starching them and stretching them and the world wanld not be the same in- their eyes with that horror omitted “I always thought nretty,” s 1ce curtains were 1sband innocentlv say we had in our hou And n S'"inn:i‘ you sald yon t did you mean if N when ik better than th did, too. And whs MAKING IT CLEAR you didn't like curtains like that?” “I—" began her husband. “I simply cannot understand,” pro- ceeded his wife, “how anyone with the slightest artistic taste can be other- wise than just crazy over the lace roller shades and overcurtains. Why, lace curtains are as ugly in a room as a derby hat is on a man. Just ruinous! I should not have been any more surprised if you had said you preferred red checked tablecloths.” “Not red,” murmured Herbert remi- niscently. “Blue. 1 never ate such trout in my life as they used to serve on that blue cheecked tablecloth up at Harvey's camp.” “That's right,” said the pretty young married woman indignantly, sitting back in her chair. “Feed a man and he doesn’t care if he eats off stong- ware cracked and chipped at that. 1| thouzht you were different, but I'm! finding out. Why did vou always say you liked what 1 liked when you didn't?>’ #Well,® the voung married man made haste to reply, “I expect becauss I was selfish. You see, if two people with oppesite opinions both decide to give in at the same moment t no better off than when the; and they are ant to get into an awful quarrel trying to settle which one i to get the chance to givs in. No, avoid anything like that, 1 so.t hustled to get ahead of you—not that it mattered a whoop whether the cur- tains were pink polka-dotted or ' of cheesecloth.” Anything that suits you | suits me, Doris—" ™ “I shall never be h-h-happy again.' sniffed his wife disconsolately. “T'll never be sure whether you really agree with me or want to get rid of the subject. I don’t think it is any way to act at all, Herbert and you ought to realize T'd far rather you'd be honest and have your own opinions and_stick up for them.” - “Great hornspoons!” shomted her husband. “Isn't that just what you were hopping on Arthur Armstiff for— for not agreeinz with everything Vera d and wanted? The way woman : WATCH ANNOUNCEMENT FOR “The Sale of theSeason’’ STORE CLOSED THURSDAY AND FRIDAY TO EXTRA SALESGIRLS WANTED. AT LTHE S L & THE LIVE STORE ARRANGE STOCK : il"“llIl"lll(]'u‘]"" ]"'"“""‘ 1), “hmml“!mfi flgiaiu.mh|1‘.‘.Mu|“‘|l“|l| I Derssasnit N il can set out from a certain point complete circle and come 1 where she started gets me. mean to say you w morning callers on John Quincy | Adams had to cool their heels until | that president finished three chapters in the Bible and walked down back Well.” sa e of the White House for a swim in the ried woman fina Potomae. To ‘drop in’ at the White more sort of nat greed with at the don't understand a ever g9, quite the sociable to do, during Jackson's terms, finding the chief executive be- n open fire, in an oid loose coat OTHER VIEW POINTS The only way to saf r pub- lic is to pas g the manu- hhol some- one hase there ons who will} [ When seil ethyl alcohol becomes | searcer there 12 to be twider use | foolish fol of the other spirit and-t of the worid be Meriden Jou The sport writers sure goat this year over foot s protected.— got Yale's ‘When a displaced (La cation to a New York paper, or the captain, head coach and auarter- ac en 1 and the fun- back threatened to give inside facts? papers unbur- °d their feelings so? Well. pub- y is.good for the soul. The old 3 when nobody s: a word, what- ever happened, but concentrated on next yvear's ‘“revenge” are gone and i much more interesting, even though victory is rare Waterbury American. Yale educational authorities counld be of very great value to the school authorities by aiding them in an tempt, which should be made, to i prove the public schools and mal them more successfully concentrate| upon the mission T 2s them | i (o 2y of onel kind and anoth: scure this m and is not dc acted to public sch it should do in upils efficient- | v than ollow if at which todav Haven Jou the public school s rightly e is not the ¢ Courier. The meat indust country It a and the minimt is a crime ¥ indivia- | have been profiteers, send | Control it, by all means. ual packe the mto businss—own | Regulate tred out | d policy for the sound polic When shall we je been ‘e been word allowed subject tion; turned to t put under pr experience sinece the bhrea the Staridard Oil compan we fared better under th aation than we have fared since under of the r regulation. people, And our or the little organizations into w' big one was government. n with the packing hous Telegram. STORIES OF THE WAR Few Bodies Will Lie Unidentified. American army officers believe ver few unidentified bodies will lie among America’s soldier dead in France when the army graves res tion service completes o thorous! hecking of | records now in progr record i T army's ich the of the | prove dgeport 4 ag: Each litt star over Jews—is having an embossed alum- inum strip placed on the back, dupli- cating the name, rank and organiza- tion already painted on the marker. This is heing done against the possibili weather wearing aw: information. Nearly 70,000 American boys buried in. the district: of France, the Bel battiefields and the Duchy of Luxemburg. There are 28 cemeteries of 200 or more graves, cared for by discharged soldiers. The largest of these is Romagne, north of the stencilled are Verdun where lie 23,000 of our men. The next in e is that at Thiau- court with 4,500 graves, Many of those who fell in battle are sleep- ing in Pritish and French military or the ¥French communal cemeteries. A few were left where they were first put in the ground, as in the Vosges mountains. All graves are under the care of the commanding graves officer in the eleven distriets and a caretaker watch- es over them. Officers make periodi- cal inspection. Where practical, grass has been sown on the battle burying grounds and in the spring this work, previously hampered by the task of grouping the bodies, will be carried on, When the graves service adminis- | House. v s out | ¥ s2do; | ths doing duty as a smoking jacket, puf- : {fing at a long pipe with a bowl of red tration took over headquarters in Par- | clay is in August the records wre room of the White House to contain a list of 12,000 H < in history. The oak-paneled men buried but without | ing room knows dinners of exact location of the g 3 the homely sort t Jefferson gave present check includes the compil when the Washington village butcher of a complete directory of every ht along his son because he American grave. In the first 18000 | ard there was to be an extra place but the American officers said pected the work when fir leave few of those ' 3 mounds wherein would lie an American soldier, “name unknown.” Many of these are expecte: wonld fot withdraw while he smoked would | h grav recorded a fe the un-|at the table; of the picturesque kind located ones were found 1 prop: |1 ven more than a ecentury marked, Tnspection of hattlefield | © Tunislan ambassador who burying grounds have heen the s | . becat everyone i i | pipe, though his secretar: good will by the a ¢ showed ceremoniously kiss- ladies present; of the bizarre ven by Theodore Roosevelt to ing 1 ) cow punchers, ex-prize fighters and identified later when the des distinguished men of letters, not to of the body, marks in the el on the famous one with Tooker sometimes a letter ‘Dear Jim,” sent ba partment been grie: from ashington as a guest able banqu iike arshall Joffre and Sir Arthur James Raifoun, when the china sei of 1300 H { pieces, and the famous cut glas None of the hodies may be return- |ery piece of which is engraved ed to the families yet but mothers|the arms of the United States, were and fathers have heen coming to ! use France to look at the, grave of boy. Welfare organizati ganized services to facilitate visite. and at several of the can cemeteries the Young Men's ( tian Association has provided rooms. and many those to known to the ¢ toom, of late i nt receptions and | White House weddings. It, too, has !memorics of a cruder democracy | when all Washington flocked there to | { room is better > than the E 1 follow about th rvants who car- ——— ried refreshments, seizing upon what- they could get’ and upon one oc- IN THE DAY’S NEWS Mo fnfles’ perched upon (he ey piece to get a better view of Making History at the White House. orful scene. When President Wilson, because of his illness, received the king of Belgians while propped up with a torn sweater about h: | ussion of gifts receiv t and Mrs. Wik < interest to spec : o a is she 1 made to other pres! ders, and told the Prince of Wales|gaonts and * Jadies,’ which remain that the bed in which he lay had been Yhe: White Hoi The Blue Room occupied by’ Baron s thé 3 Renfrew, King Edward VII, and Ab most famous of le clock presented t | coln, he added traditions % S 1'.‘?.|i.,\\,f \’“{'h,," o hat already cling about the White | \iv Napoleon. In the Green Room is the Gobelin tapestry, e g made by a process which now is a e Seeletnd 2ed @ DUl-11o1 are. and framed in gold, which e home of the presidents |\, emperor of Austria gave Mrs. e ey t. Nearby is a lacquer cabinet, any other pul ion of the American upon the oc: building in Americe ports by “P) cellar, where colored From mies’ have cooked, for presidents, p like mother used to make, to attic, | of earlier where the Roosevelt children haps, was and romped, there are s it 1 Jefferson, which range from the q »dmiring inscription, ‘the blime, cheese in America for the resident W le recalls son's Americ: enforced raineitatod mas erson by a six-horse orn slippers tockings|team. He insisted upon paying for it, old suit—hy efferson | and it lasted for more than a year, ht to impr 1 ambas. | being the piece de resistance of many with Amer official ate dinner in the meantime. int all this seems now, seem to have been a fa- A BOX OF CANDY is always acceptable. There isn’t a time of the year but it tastes sweet. If you doubt what we say, buy a box and give it to some one you know. 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Our Nerwich stock consists of Belting, Brooms, Bar- rows, Trucks, Steel, Files, Fire Extinguish- {1 ers, Shovels, Paper and Bags, Rope, Twine, etc., etc.—Do it now—buy ! ~FROM THE— Connecticut Sales & Engineering Co. 93-95 WATER STREET NORWICH, CONN. PHONE 219 vorite personal gift in those days, as Speech of Freedom. It seems that many fail to realize that freedom of speech is for those | who know the speech of freedom.— | Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. Thanksgiving turkeys have been in more recent years. Andrew Jackson was the recipient of such gifts as ‘a whole hog' from Kentucky, whiskey from Pennsylvania, beef from New York and, from New Ingland, a cheese which weighed half a ton or more. Jackson had no compunctions about receiving the present, but ap- parently he opposed hearding of food. & Either that or, since his second term was nearing its mammoth che ephant. Anyway he served it at his last public reception. 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LATHROP & SON 28 SHETUCKET STREET Phone ATTENTION Sidewalks ¢ The ordinances of the City of Nor= wich impose a penaity of $5 upon any owner,, 0CCUPAanl or Derson having the care of any land or building abutting the public highways of the City where there is a sidewalk, either graded or paved, who fails to have removed therefrom all snow, sleet and ice with- in three hours after it shall have been deposited, or within three hours after sunrise when the same has fallen in the mnight season, and also upon any such party who fails to have the snow on such sidewalk removed or properly sanded within two hours of {ts hecom- Special Classes Now Forming Phone 1431 Near Post Office The Thames National Bank ing so deposited during the day time, for each sinccessive period o four Norwich, Conn., Dec. 20, 1918, hours thereafter that it so remains The annual of the Stock-|after proper notlee given. holders of this Bank, for the .:iecuoni his will give notice {o all affectad 3 of Directors and the transaction of by the foregoing Ordinances that the such other business as may legaliy|same will be strictly enforced and any- come betore them, is hereby calied tojone falling to comply therewith proses at thelr Bauking Mouge on|cuted from this time forward. Tuesday, Jan. 13, 1920, at 11 o'clock a. m. JAMES. P. FOX, NATHAN A. GIBBS, Cashier. decl?d Street Commissioner. i