Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 23, 1920, Page 4

Norwich, Friday, Jan. 23, 1920 CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING JANUARY 17, 1920 10,459 EXPERIENCE ENOUGH. Those who are still Insisting upon s actual purchasing of the railroads the government evidently consider that the operation of the roads would be carried cn in some unexplained manner much more suctessfully un- der government ownership than they have been under. government‘control. Otherwise it would be extremely dif- ficult to show why such an experiment should be made. ording to fizures that have re- ¢ been made public it is shown the money paid to the owners of the roads by the government dur- he past two years as rentals was med by about $700,000.000. This; ns that the payments to the roads| not have been made if there had | nothing but the earnings under|y vernment opetation from which to em that is not all of the story for is to be remembered that the roads e becn operafed on a much differ- the government than un- control. Changes that di- Yected tho receipts were |; st as soon as the government | d of them. Although the! ed by the federal administration | higher rates were necessary. The| were raised for freight and pas- r service on more than one oc- on and the result has been that nz the two vears of government operation transportaticn by rail has e people of this country well n dollars. In addition to is the deficit of $700,000,- unuh the peonle itkewise must/| > way or another, and it is not{ that it will mean a burden t doilars before the gov- ernment is through with the roads. may be a good argument for zovernment ownerskip Lut when we realize the condition in which the roads are today in addition to the ex- pe which government operation has entailed the people of this coun- irely justified in fedling they have had all the experience v want with government owner- 900 PROTECT OUR OWN. Regardless of what has been don : to protect the dye making industry nl t country the hearing befoye the! nare finanse sub cemmittee is re- | ing the neressity of - throwing about it every possible safeguard if it! ig going to he preserved and encour-' A to develop. No better restriction on the German product could be asked for than was! forded by the war. While that was| prosress no German dyes were to - obtained and the competition from | he cheap inbor and the well estab-! ed industry of that country was. climinated. Tt was the chance for the American industy to develop and it responded. Domestic Gemands could have been met in no other way and the result is that the industry is now only able to supply the needs of the country but is able to take care| 2 certaln amcunt of expert busi-| of the strides it and the excellent showing ‘s pot in a position to buck; ‘German made zoods at the brés-| time. it 15 set forth by ene of the| appearirg before the com- | rat Germars do not need to resort to unfair competition in order el American dyestuffs it r y shows the disadvantage under whick these new industries are oper- The Garman cGyemakers can undersell the Amecricar and can putj them out of business by ordinary| rommercial competition. Pormitting | such would simply mean that we are iling to go hack to dependency on German goods instrad of insisting up- on ovr indeperidence of foreign rro- duction by giving the needeq protec- tion to our new industries. Thke apneal for the continuance of our dve making factorfes by the set- ting up of barriers that will protec" them is entirely justified. We needed the new line of industry icnz before it was established and having obtain- *d it we should do what is necessary to retain it. ating. CITY IMPROVEMENTS,. It is not just the season of the year to be putting the city beautiful ideas mtd operation but the time is coming and it is not surprising that many rommunities are already giving| thought to what can be undertaken when spring opens. The wisdom of such action is being more and more recognized. The idea will not down. The imporjance of an attractive city ts not to be lightly passed over. There's an advertising vaide therein that insures handsome returns, a higher civic pride and a more united wnd enthusiastic community. Just at the present time New Or- leang is formulating 2 plén for the de- velopment of the city in which beauti- fication ideas are playing a prominent part. A landscape architect has beéen sacured to show the people of that city how it can be made much more nttractive, how streets and avenues should be laid out to show off its parks, playgrounds, cemetéries, settle- ment work centers and public and semi-public institutions. In addition |iétter of the law but interpretations i tha ’nm in afgror 't sure then. Alice, Shedm love lum—-duwn to thh: the' girl w'lth Lhe blue hat answered. 'Ihy et “ no “the coming * where selection will be mac presidential ‘can- didates, has apovsed more’ interesting, comments thau the advocacy of Her- bert Hoover. Mr. Hoover’s name has been heard before but he has appar- ently not been working openly at least for the mnomination by either party. ‘While he has been urged as the dem- ocratic. nominee it ‘has -also been pointed out that he is not a democrat but a progressive republican. At the same time it does not appear that he has taken any active interest in pdl- itics and that his mame is presented because of .the work he did as food admimstrator during the war. The New York «World has \H‘ged him as a candidate for the next president and promised that it will suppoert him regardless of the party that nomi- nates him. From the politics of the World it might be expcetéd that this|so Scared I was sorry*I'd spoken. was advice intended for the demo- drats, but at the same time Mr. Hoo- ven ig being held forth in New -Eng- iand by fermer ¥ood Director Sco- ville of Connecticut as the republi- can candidate. Tha preswmtation of his name has! started certain ones to locating his weak peints dnd among them : are enumerated the opposition that can ke expected from th> farmers of the country because of, the way in whichiJust ‘the thing for Martha. S 1 the price of Wheat'was fixed ;and "‘ei.mfl it helped .to keep fact that -he—has—gpent-many-of—his years in England. Aprarently the position of the World is to freeze out the other dem- ocratic possibilities- but democratic senators don’t seem to be warming up to the idea. That Mr. Heover has done good work in handling the big task ne diq is not to be denied but whether: that is sufficient.io permit the.coun- try to want him for a president re- mains to be seen. Apparently he is less ambitious in that direction than many others-ang that it is 'a case of| 2 {weakminded and being in the hands of friends. THE PROHIBITION LAW. That there are'those who are go- ing to stand for and insist upon an over strict enfonma of the prohi- bition law is to be expected, just as{ much as there will be those in consid- jerable number who will look for and | take advantage of any evldence of lax enforcement. Perhaps the best example of the overzealous respectors of not only the of its meaning is furnished by the li- brarians who have been busily en- gaged in removing books from the shelves which contained any reference to liquor and ways of making it and even considering the cutting of certain, portions out .of dictionaries and en- cyclopediag in order to obey the law. Such a move was of course ridicu- lous and it doesn’t seem to have been necessary to have questioned Mr. Vol-| stead regarding the advisability of going to any such. extremes. It is iplainly evident that those who are charged with the enforcement of the law are going to have their hands full h the work -connected ‘with -seeing| that the actual sale of liquor is stop- ped and that moonshining is not en- zaged in throughout the rest of the| country as well as the south. Tt Is however - probable that there will be others who will be wasting! a lot of time in the consideration of| technicalities.- Until it is shown that| through such the real intent of the| law is being circumvented the author- ities will disregard them. It is folly to think that there will be so little for the azents of the government to do| they. will be chasing up the can-| ned! blueberries to discover whether they have worked and developed an alcoholic content, even thougha Mass- | achusetts man was recently arrested| for drunkenness after eating canned berries. i EDITORIAL NOTES. Strange what a 1ot of unconqyerable coldg have developed since prohibition became effective, The man_.on the corner says:, Wrist watches seem to be good for most ev-| erything excefr' keeplng time. From all accounts Holland s more wrought up over the demand for the former kaifer than Wilhelm fs. Cengress has demonstrated very clearly that it krnows how to get into deadlocks but not how to get out. Tho spread of influenza is not re- | gardeq as alarming. The real anxiety'| { comes from the cutting ‘off of the an- tidote. January has been working at a hop, step and jump speed in order to ring in all the changes. There's one week left for the’ thaw. By the arrest of extremists another } with those who do, one is positively { Shakespear's entire #But I know it better than if she had told me, You remember what a si little mouse Martha dlways was i the matter of dress don’t you; how. she always insisted upon wearing gray and brown and dark and blue and all the other quiet, inconspicuous}if s colors? T'd as soon have expected Martha to dance a Jig 0n the street as to wear a pink ribbon. “Well, M: a_has been matried nearly four months , you know, and she’s just buying her real trous- seau. Being a postwar bride, married as soon as her filance was unexpect- edly discharged from the service, she got nothing new, at the time, but the gown she was married in. And she confided to me, nearly six weeks ago, that she was having difficulty in per- suading her dear John -not to buy for her things far too gorgeous and “splen- did for her to be happy in. She said he couldn’t seem to realize what a mild and indefinite sort of person she really was. “ ‘What would you do if he insiste@ upon giving you a red Velvet frock?” 1 asked her, catching sight of a mag- nificent red velvet creation in a shop window and remembering the vocif- erous opera cloak my brother Dick had bought for Justitia when she was a_thin, shy liftle bride. Martha looked “ ‘Oh, I hope he'll never think of such a thing!’ she cried, weakly. Td hate to hurt his dear feeling, Janie, but. I simply couldn’t face the world in a red velvet gown.' “He did think of it,” broke in the girl with the ermine neckpiece, “for he asked me, one day about two or three weeks ago—John and I played together, as babies and he always treats me like a sister—if 1 didn’t think a red wvelvet gown would be He said he thought she dressed far too quietly, her thinking I did what I could I told -John that I fear- poorly of herself. for Martha. Gleaned from Foreign Ex. A woman just returned from India remarked in surprise:— “Wirat heaps of- people believe in ghosts nowadays! When I left home, a few years ago, if one had expressed any faith in the supernatural, one would have been denounced at once as superstitiouus, but now if one shows no sympathy with looked upon old-fashioned and con- ventional.” 3 Society, having accepted spiritua- lism, and yielded to the fascination and delight of hanging itself with in- numerable barbaric charms, has added ghosts to its list of interesting sen- sations. Girls at college, . actresses, brides, wear queer symbolic jewelry, to en- sure them Iuck. No African savages could display more touching confi- dence in his own_pet fétish. Men ac- cept and preserve special mascots. Haunted houses are reviving their old | histories, and fashionable people are debating the potentialities of psychic communion with the beings of anoth- er world. The reduction of the sugar ration is not an arbitrary act due to the failure of the Food Ministry to aca cumulate reserves, or to coerce plant- ers in the British West Indies. Sugar has been comparatively cheap because this country limited its purchases; if it had bought enough to accumulate reserves it would have sent up the: price and defeated -its own object.| The power of the Controller to raise or reduce the ration is an eifectual | weapon which we possess for bringing the ring of Cuban merchants to rea- son. Cuba has just had a good crop | of sugar, and if by seli-denying act| of the ration we prove our power to. limit our consumption the planters| will be obliged to lower their prices. Sugar is very necessar{ thing for the heaith of the count: ut it is worth | while to undergo a ‘short abstinence to secure a greater and cheaper plen- ty in the future. When a woman Proposed—Women who may feel. inclined to put their leap year privilege to the test may furnish themselves with a noble and successful precedent. It was not Leap Year when Queen Victoria offered . her heart and hand | to Prince Albert, whom efiquette pre- | vented from proposing to- the Queen! of Bagland; but Sir Robert Peel de-| clared that his: sovereéign was “as full of love as Juliet,” and the marrtiage, which was solemnized in Leap Year, proved a union of perfect bliss. Sharkespeare’s Garden—In appeal- ing for gifts to re-stock the Shaikes- peare “Great Garden” have done a commendable thing, and the heartiest response ought to. re- sult. It would, of course, be quite im- possible to Tepresent in the garden vegetable king- dom if only on the question of space. 1 A list was prepared, some time ago, of the examples specifically —named in plays and poems, the total amounting to 182; but subsequent additions were made, bringing the number up to nearly 200 speciments, And which we see that figure is much more than double that of the next biggest veg- etable kingdom in English verse, mamely, Wordsworth’s, we realise how great a naturalist Sharkespeare was. h The Longest Will—Who made the longest will on record? A Somerset House official, interviewed with the hope of obtainming an answer to this question, says: “I know of one which bomb plot 18 said to have been upset. But there will be those Who will pro- test against even that. One can measure-his length on the sidewalk ang bound back ito posi- tion much ‘quicker ‘if he has the idea that someotie is looking. Damage suits resulting from defec- streéts -cost Philadelbhia over a half million dollars last. year. The ex- penditure of that sum on the streets would haveé been far preferable, Extravaganee has been reported as filling the garbage cans but down in Baltigore the municipal piggery is kicking because the city isn’t furnish- Ing enough garbage to feed the pigs. No more convineing proof of the confidence that prevails in the future of Norwich can be farpished than through the many transfers of busi- ness property in the past few months. Admiral Mayo savs that,the naval Loard and Secretary. Daniels acted runs to 500 folios, or 45,000 words, but I cannot say exactly where it is.” It would be interesting to laern founder of the famous firm wmch burilt Belgravia, Clapham_Park, and Pimlico, made the longest will ever seen at, Somerset House up to the! time of his death in 1855. Cubitts| will extends to 32,740 +words, and! covers 30 skins of parchment. Twenty-four-hour Days—Should we adopt the 24-hour day, there will still remadin a curigus discrépaacy reen the computations of land, sea, and sky. Astronomers begin the day at noon; so do sailors, but theirs is net the same day, for while the navigator begins Janua ber 31 the 1 at noon on Deeem- “The King’s UncleThe Duke of Connaught, who left London on Sat- | | the authorities| qd she would be vdrned “out: by touch of red vel qfledflor. and that I didn't think .she could possibly be herself in such a gown. But I Mt believe he was ultusether ‘weaned gnd the m in’ the A -ctb;y “for_just brought _when quesflon ueeméi al.lnost, prophetic, 81n¢e John, really had talked red vel- gown to her. But she said that gg ed out of the subject as as he proposed it, because she y didn’t feel that § was worth ng. She said that even ‘Wweak enough to. condone Jo‘hn'u ‘weakness for brilliant color— in a character otherwise flawless—it would- nt Ye kind of her. She knew she'd look so horribly insignificant in red velvet that it would almost break John's heart. I told her to remind him that dark colors were considered correct nowadays. Then I forget all about the matter yesterday, at the Geshlin's reception, a brilliant little figure flashed upon my sighty “It seemed so strange, yet so some- how familiar, that figure, that I work- ed my way toward it. last, I got within speaking distance what do you think I saw sisters? ‘Why, Martha Gaylove in a resplendent red velvet gown.” “Never!” <horused her listeners, as the girl in the blue hat registered look ?” “How did she 10ok?” repeated the girl in the blue hat. “She looked be I ter than I ever saw her look before. John had bought.the red veivet gown for her, she told me, and John's taste red was lovely and it really seemed to bring out quiet little Martha, to say nothing of looking stunning among the prevailing black- ness angd dark blueness. But I could- n't get over the fact thaf she’d con- sented to wear it and even to seem to like it. Martha must have suffered some remarkable change.” | mother of the hostess, looking up from her cormer. ‘“Not remarkable at all, but highly natural. artha has grown up.”—Exchange. ‘this in a tone that indicated she con- i -| sidered #it the only weakness And when, at|¥ | reminiscent amazement. “How did she |8 {isn’t s0 bad as we've thought it. The| downright | “Not remarkable at all” smiled the |} 1 Martha, who was | but a girl {s in love and a woman.| | 1 and on the battle-fronts, and carried out his duties Ifke a man half his age. The only survivor of the four sons 6f Queen’ Victoria, the Duke Empire’s life for a third of a century, {and is well known and highly es-| teemed in the Overseas minions as ; in the Mother County. to Lady Patricia just before Christ- mas is his. seventh. grandchild, five' of them being the children ,of the Crown Princess , of Sweden—-umdonw Chronicle. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Look to the Farms and Better Roads. Mr. Editor: I'm not crazy to rush into print, but being aware of the dis- tress, which is following in the wake of the H. C. L. T'll have to 'jein the army of advisers (?) that those sad conditions have produced. It will be necessary to look to the farms to relieve the unhoppy condi- tion which® now exists, Politicians as 2 rule do not help to feed the nation, unless they are acquainted with rural conditions and through Wwise legisla- tion make the farm life of those who do feed the nation more bearable. The thing to do now and right away soon is to build roads. The federal govern- ment must do it, Then after every road has ‘a good deep rock bed (not only a road ' here and there, but every cross road) open up more roads. Every farm in Con- necticut must haye an occépant and people with families encouraged to lown their little home with its acre or wore in the country. It’s the only solution, Then if the farmer Jolls about in su- perfluous wealth, just buy a poor old| rundown farm and do the same fhing yourself. B Sincerely, JENNIE M SAL\DERS Scotland, Conn., Jan, Stories That Recall Others. Oh, Man! On one of the recent col@ mornings a man on Main street hustled down} cellar early in the morning, pajama clad, to change the drafts on the fur- stood out in the cold with only his Inight apparel on for 15 minutes be- fore he could awaken any member. of the family . The Stage All Set, Sister’'s yoang gentleman was wait- ing patiently in the drawing room when her little brother Tommy open-i ed up with: “Are vou zoing to pro- pose to my sister tonight: Rin't going to surprise her. At dinner just now she bribed nie an’ my little brother to go to bed at half past sev- en. She’s hung four cupid pictures on the parlor wall, moved the - sofa over in the darkest cornmer, got ma |and pa to go callin’ next door, shut the dog in the cellar, an’s been prac- ticing “Because I Love You” on the pianner all the afterncon.” :He Must Be Lonesome. Renewed rumors that one man who is taking the Poindexter boom. seri- ously has been found in the person of Senator Poindexter. Anaconda Standard. The man with horse sense knows when to say nay. i he deputised for his nephew, the King, | at military functions, both at home’ The son bDl‘n\ i 3 y wii e ark, or The wing blew the door shut. He| Sigeway which leads up to the &5 “Why, I-er-er-er—what do you mean?” “Oh, nothing! Only if you are you| has ; has played a_ prominent part in the! | 206 MAIN STREET | You Can Buy Footwear at a Great Saving During This Sale. THE JAMES F. COSGROVE CO. IN THE DAY’S NEWS Bokhara. “Once more the red of revolution is to take 'a place among the rainbow hues of the mud flower pot of Centralj Asia, if recent London ° despatches telling that the Russian reds have| taken the camml of the khanate of) Bokhara is true,” according to a bulle- | tin -from the National (xeog'raphic s50- ciety. ‘éskhara dusty and tawny in tone, |} is nevertheless a colorful city because of the striking costumes of the male inhabitants. The women, clad in| somber ‘tones and hiding their faces behind horsehair veils which resemble | window screening; avail themselves of i a protective coloration which enables them to move like shadows about the ancient city. “But the Bokhara male, be he Usheg, Sart, Persian or Tajik, utilizcs all the colors and tints of the solar spectrum 4in his costume. “Bokhara is an important religious, center. It: has 364 mosques. With a! practically -unknown railway running south. to the Afghan frontier, its lo- cation in the midst of Central Asia gives ‘it a strategic importance that is i apprecnated. he khanate of Bokhara has an area about equal to that of Utah, but with four times the population. Since the outbreak of the war its fortunes have varied. Part of tge time it has been an independent Khanate, show- ing its nrerogative by taking up the rails of the Trans-Caspian railway which passed ' through _its territory. Several times it has béen under the control of the bolshevik feorces. The amir had a picturesjue army of “about 11000 soldiers, many of whom care- e. n this incline, in front of the royal formerly there wag enacted day morning a ceremony im- | ive in its digpity and dazzling in its color effects. Hundreds of sclemn mullahs, clad in bright silk robes of stick-candy stripes or gorgeous golden suns on purple fields, helted with, sil- ver, and with buckles as large as salad plates, gathered here in . impressive rows, each with a priceless prayer beneath his feet. “These ,were not the dashing types which once made Mohammedanism a | power from Mecea to Gibraltar but the ceremonialists whose relizion is a thing of dignity and. prosperity. ! founded on trade rather, fhan a life in| the saddle. In unison they bow low so that only broad backs can be seen, | but a moment later all are erect with | their spotless white turbans the most prominent feature in a scene so color- | ful that only an Oriema! sun could | harmonize it. “Bokhara 1s ‘Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA arch!tect\xra!ly unim- | Break a Dont umy stuffed-up! 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Brass- smiths vie with goldsmithe to add the glint of glowing metal to the half I7ht of the covered souks and there the makers of peculiar Bokhara caps dis- play their brightly colored wares, the edges glistening with soft fars from Siberia. “In spite of the branch railway which runs from Old Bokhara with its mud walls to Kagan, or New Bokhara, on the Central Asian line, much of the traffic in the dusty city of the Usbegs still is borne on the back of lazy- footed. philosophic camels, caimly, chewing away in spite of the. political changes which mean little in their nomad lives. “Bokhara has given its name to one of the loveliest of rugs, but these cre- ations of the Turkoman looms are really produced farther west and {heir main market is Mery, when¥: another railway crawls south to Kishka be- yond the northern frontier of. Afghén- istan. During the months to come the Bokhara-Termez and Merv-Kushka railways are ‘likely to.attract more atterition than the lazy life of the Moslem city of Bokhara, where fit] mullahs drone out ceremonial prayers square. Baku, | in the registam, or Bokhara is second public only to across the Caspian, as a Pan-Turinian Centér, and statesmen around tne world are wondéring what pelitical plots are being hatched beside its stagnafit pools and in its shadowy bazaars.” OTHER VIEW POINTS The United Stites sugar equaliza- tion board authorizes a price of 20 cents a _pound ‘for a cargo -of - sugar amounting to 8,000,000 pounds, but gives warning that by next seasom’s canning consumers can count on a price between 15 and 16 “cents. A board with sSo formidable 2 name ought to'do better by us than that, we should think—Waterbury American. How much power the Connecticut fair price commission has in controll- ing the price of things does ‘hot fully appear from the conference, or what- ever ome pleases to call it, which Mr. Scoville has had with the bakers over the price of bread. The public is told that they appeared before Mr. Sco- ville at his invitation. -It also is teld ]that they informed him as to fust what the price of bread is to be, and that the new Tates are to take effect immediately. The public may draw its own inferences.—Hartford Times, ONT TWO CARS CORN—5,000 THISFEDW!LL ONE CAR PENNANT STOCK FEED—600 BAGS ONE CAR POSTAGE STOCK FEED—600 BAGS ONE CAR HOMINY CHOPS—800 BAGS ONE CAR BEET PULP—600 BAGS TWO CARS BUFFALO GLUTEN—1200 BAGS ONE CAR CHOICE BRAN-—600 BAGS ONE CAR 36% COTTGNSEEb MEAL. 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