Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 11, 1920, Page 4

Entaisd #t the Postofies st Nerwich, fma, @ mmm‘ 1 Bullettn 458 Office 35-2. limanfle OMee 3 Charen St Teleobone 105 CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING FEB. 7th, 1920 - 10,508 PRESIDENT LOSING CONTROL? Have the democratic members of the lower house of congress decided that they will no longer respond-to the snap of the party whip in the hands of thg president? Such would seem to be the meaning of the action taken regarding the bill dealing with military eraining. resideat ‘Wilson plainly - and pointedly asked the democrats in caucus to leave the matter alone, The caucus as the resyit of its action plainly tells the president that it b a mind of its own, thai it {eves it should be made a party this time an liowing its ing by doing it asked not to. cel- ent ¥ an i . but eed thereto. to W go di- ile the it be un- a y issue of itary training now, vote of six to one asidered it politicaily re apparently . in plan to remove feature from the army bill, for which some are urging action e grounds of economy and oth- befere we deci on the future, and be necessary to raining atever t this delay elarification will have no detrimental effey may in view of the training that ions of young men already have. With the hot demo. =zoing eontrary to the wish of pres.dent in this respect does it mean that the leader has lost his grip and doesg it mean that the senators, instead of obeying instructions, will follow their ,»wn judgment when it comes to uet- Ing upon the treaty with reserva- tions? e L i KENTUCKY’S GOVERNOR. The people of Kentucky have rea- Bon to be preud of the action of their governor in connection with the ef- forts that have been made to ly a Negra, charged with murder, which erime he even confessed. Through- out the entire case there has heen no Qisposition to stand in the way of the administering of justice. It was plainly a case that called for capital punisnment and there was nothing to Indicate that such a penalty would not be promptly exacted, but a mos: unfortunats part of the whole Was the mob spirit by certain leaders, which did nothing to end the life of the Negro but did cavse the death of four members of the mob and the wounding of a wcore of others. That casualty list tan be attributed to none but them. kelves and those who urged them on. They paid the terrible pri for their act even as the Negro must, hut the useclessness of the sacrifice that they made eannot fail to appall any community. hout the entire affair there out neveriheless the sound sible course pursued by the or in behalf of law and order. the first in%ling he get that h law was being talked he took $teps to thwart it by personally tak- Ing possession of the jai v ad- irg the people and declaring law must be permitted to course and that in *order to pedi the a ion of court wou that t was aroused the spec d be immediately call- ed. In spite of that, the knowledge that aceused had confes and that without doubt he would be le- gally put to death certain hotheads were determined to show their de- fiance of the laws of the state and their idea of hew such matters should be handled. They have caused the @eath of four of their friend- ana the shooting of others. The zro has been convicted and semtenceq to die in legal mamner. 'He must pay the penaliy such as cculd be expected in any - civilized community, That Kentucky has a governor with the courage to prevent a lynch- Ing is bound to redound to the credit of both. It was a courageous act in the face of a wild mob but an exam- ple which a number of other chief executives as well ag states would do well to study and follow. BETTER HEALTH CONDITIONS. From the eareful study that has seen made and the statistics that bave been gathered it is clearly thown that it is not the locality but !he care that is given that is respon- tible for the high er low infant mor- ality. Because of the attention that das been given to thig subject mark- }d improvements have been made. Tt w¥as only a generation ago that the leath rate among children not a year Wid was 280 in every thousand. Today 1s the result of the measures that lave been employed, the devotion of nereased attention to the matter tnd the confidence that -has existed hat conditiens could be changed the tverage infant mortality has been Jecreased to about 100 in a thousand. this is a deeided improvement and a t credit to the health authorities} hose efforts have brought it about. fow different the situation is today s plainly indicated by the fact that rhere the infant mortality’ is above 25 a thousand any experienced Y < 1y - Sateurigtion pries (20 8 woeki S6s & meaD: SO * goar. o t training made it/ on which the dpmncmts] t we should wait until the in-! ternational situation clears more than t aftair| juman life is consid: i:t:“thm‘:h attention cannot be given e ef- forts that are being made net only have been the means of lowering the death rate of children under five and of reducing the adult death rate, it being polnteq out that in the state of New York a health campaign was responsible for the decreasing of the adult death rate from 19.5 to 12.4 a thousand in a period of 20 years dur- ing which time" the population was uearly doubled. 3 Those at least who have been de- | prived of it for any reason cam tes- tify to the importance of measures that mean better health in a com- wmunity. PALNER TO PROVIDENCE. For several years now nothing has been done toWard the completion of the railroad line between Palmer and Providence where part of the grad- ing had been dome by the Grand Trunk railroad under the. name of the Southern New England. The ex- i penditures have thus far been a com- plete waste provided nothing else is| done, and since work was stopped there has been slight prospect that anything would be attempted be- cause of the difficulty of financing it. The board of trade of Webster, however, has been trying to find out| | what the future holds in store for this new line and has received from |the Canadian commissioner .of rail- |roads and canals the information that the Grand Trunk line has" been put first on the programme, df new construction and that it will be start-! ed at an early date. In view of the | interest of Webster and the fact that |its inquiry concerned this new Iine | the reply is given the interpretation | that the connection between Palmer) |and Providence will - be finished is; | made. Recause the Grand Trunk could not {make the agreements with the New | Haven roag regarding trafic that it {cesired this mew line was projected.| The Grand Trunk is now in the hands! {of the Canadian government and the inew owner cannot fail. ‘to ~ under- and that this line running down, i through Néfv Encland already has anj { outlet for “ocean and Sound steam- i ship lines at New London _many ies nearer New York and with ter- minal and harbor es, and that | conditions which made it impossible| { to secure trafic ' agreements years| |ago are decidedly changed today. The | Canadian government may the! dvisability of spending = the | that will be required to complete that ; connection but good wdgment would i scem to direct the betterment of what |is already possessed rather than lay }uu[ a lJarge sum_for what is not an| economic nece: | | | | RAILROAD LOOTING. Phere are those Who never neglect what they consider a good opportu- ity for them to steal. Railroads are always large lgsers of goods in tran- | sit, but it cannot faii to be noted | that during the past year under gov- | ernment “operation” the railroads of the country have lost goods to the amount of §45,000,000 or aboyt twice as much as the looting amounted to under private operation of the roads. It has always been a big problem | for the railroads to protect the goods Eb? g transported and to run down those who were involved in breaking |into the cars and freighthouses. De- | tective forces have been maintained {at largo expense in order to discour- age such looting, to recover stolen ds and to aid in bringing the That the govern- | thieves to justice. | ment operation of the roads has con- :‘rinued such activit [but either it has failed to accemplish as good results for some reason or | €lse more -attention has ‘bheen con- centrated by the looters upon the railroads. Certainly the fact that they were under the direction of thel government has not frightened off those who are willing to get their stealing the property of is to be expected, | not to be Inferred that the | 2utherities have not been giving at- | tention to railroad thieves, or that arrests and prosecutions have mnot followed in large numbers but in spite of all the efforts that have been made and the lessony taught thege- by the lure of the loot has apparent- | iy eclipsed the Wwarnings that have] been furnished. Fow large a vart the increased value of the goods under present day ons plaved in doubling the over those under private man- agement is not known but the high- er values mav have been one reason! for takinz the chances. | | | i | EDITORIAL NOTES. Many a sidewallk has been a pond by day and » skating rink by night. These who go around looking for trouble never have to employ a tele- | scope. Important as it is the treaty ecan- {not be allowed to stand in the way { of action on the railroaq bill, 3 It is a mistake for anyone to be worried into them by the fact that! the price of caskets has gone up. | The man on the corner says: There | are times when the little “if” is as| }hard to move as the ice in the gut- ters, Those who have to pay an income tax would kick all the harder if they didn’t have the necessary taiable in-j come. Now that the first robin and hlue- bird have been seen why not feed them as well as the other birds.that winter with us! Think what justice means to a southern’ mob_ that holds a jurors head in the mud until he premises to convict a Negro prisoner! Can it be that the president is go- ing to insist. upen military training expenditures on the old familiar slo- gan”“He kept us out of war?" Mr. Hoover might overcome some of the opposition on the part ef the farmers if he would enly take a de- cided stand against daylight saving. German officials wanted by the al- lies are fleeing to Switzerland. Can it bé that they think Holland will have to give up the former kaiser, or do they expect to hide ia the meun~ tains? the| very exclusive, and a copy of her fayorite fashion maga- dne.py“Yon'v_c come for 2 shampoo? T didn’t know you ever came to ex this. No.l::lin j\llé f bair cur] an ? this g are could expect them to ‘ask everybody. “It certainly does take such a fear- ful lot of time to keep oneself welll groomed, deesm’t it? Fve simply got to spend the entire morning here. I; need a facial'and manicure, in addition to having my hair done. “Have you ever tried their faeials: You should, 'm sure they'd make you less sallow and help to take away the crow’s-feet around your eyes. One's age always shows there first, doesn’'t it? When I am as old as you I'm sim- ply going to haunt this place; they give wonderful reducing treatments, too. You really ought to try them. Why, I had a friend who took three in one day last year and lost seven pounds. ~ It was just what she need- ed to give her the right figure, but, poor thing, she died shortly afterward. “I was just noticing your hair, Mrs. Green. Have you ever tried touching it up with henna? Henna does won- | ders ior drab, lifeless hair like yours * * * Artificial? Oh, of course; but that doesn’t matter nowadays. Every one th any style at all is a little artificial. And they have a new kind of rouge for sale here that's sim- ply wonderful. It's only $5 a box. You really ought to get some, it would make you look years younger. * * * What? That cherity organization? Oh, no; T really haven’t time to do any work for them this year. Of course Vd like to, but I really can’t afford to subscribe anything, sither; price§ are 60 high, you know, just for the otdin- ary things one has to have, to 'say! nothing of a bit of extra adornment once in a while. /“T was just thinking. Mrs. Green, the more I look at you the more I think LETTERS TO THE EDITOR| Developments in Jewett City. Mr. Editor: The story in The Bulle- tin’s Jewett City news a few days ago describing the events of 27 years ago regarding the preliminary eteps taken by the borough to induce the Aspinook ! company to develop its big industrial plant on the Quinebaug river at the site of Brown's ' Falls, so-called, should be, in my opinion, a great in-| centive for favorable action with re-i gard to the pronosed Ashland Cotton company’s plan of development. Well do 1 remember the events of | the early beginning of the Aspinook, company’s biz works, first that of} clearing up the timber land, the site;© of the buildings, the big gang of men choppers, the mafy teams of horsesi hauling away the timber, the engineers: at work surveving river for the| big dam. and the life and “aetivity| added to the borough almost from the firet day the work was started. It was 27 vears ago this month that what promised fo be a catastrophe to the entire engineers at work on the| dam nearly happened. Mr. Chandler, the Norwich engineer, had ch#rge of this work and even| though the Quinebaug was running| high and great masses of ice were| passirg down, this work had to be | performed, so accordingly a big raft| was built on top of two big boats and | from a rope cable stretched aeross the | river this raft was navigated up and | down and across the river as wanted; in soundi: of the river bed. Brown's Falls in those days had a “drop” of about 10 feet and when the engineer’s float got to a point near at hand it was discovered to the hormrl of hnndreds standing along the river! that the cable controlling the raft, would not h against the great force of water and before any of us realized what was to happen the big flont with | seven then on board broke away and, the meon were- thrown into the wate-#f the river. Thé first two men to crash into the! . water, as I remember, Ross, a civil enginee lev, Mass.,, and Ch manufacturers’ engineer, living at Waterbury; then followed Arthur; er, an engineer later killed at PBridgeport, two Frenchmen whose duty it was to “man” ‘the float, and were George, now of Welles- : ee~ Preston, aj two colored men to handle the pumps.| d 1 5 ttees could seize his | Mr. Ross Swam ashore in fine shape, | ¢ SRl = none” the worse, but: Presion, o tall | DrIvate ¥mOCianq search them for , barely escaped with his; oo e e Though a_strong e senators would be clamoring was handicapped with boots (not designed and many heavy tools in his clothing. ? Frank La Point waded out to his neck to assist the midwinter swim- mers. One of the bystanders asked the col- ored man what he did when the struck the water and he remarked that he “just shut his eyes and snorted like a race horse.” { alwavs think of this acecident in connection with the early days of Jewett City. But to zet back to the point of this letter.. Let the borough assist in every manner possible the Ashland company with its big problem and. aseist the h of Jewett City to be the g town it should be, with its reets, od sewer system, fine &chools, .industries and water supply. ‘With apologies for such a long let- ter, hip Yours trulv, GWORGE RENTLEY. New London, Feb. 8, 1920. Public Opinion. H Mr. Editor In answer o the letter) i of Eugene Bertram Willard, the com- | mittee of forty-eight hits the root| cause of dissatisfaction and unrest by | declaring for “public ownership of | transportation, including stock yards, large abattoirs, grain elevators, ter- minal warehouses, Dpipe lines and tanks. Public ownership "of other public utilities and of the m—incipali natural resources, such as coal, nil,‘ natural gas, mineral deposits, large water powers and large commerciai timber tracts. No land and no patents to be held out of use for speculation or to aid monopoly. - We favor taxes to force idie land into use.” His dis-! like of this platform, and other things in his letter, makes me think he must be one of the few who hold special privileges which are @ menace to the many. I will not presume to take the space to eorrect all his misrepresentations and false contentions, but will confine myself to his statement that “no nor- mal mind conceives that the right (freedom of speech) has been taken away.” . I will answef him by queting parts of e speech made by Frank 1. Cobb, editor of the New York World, deliv- erad Wefore the Women's City club of New York, on The Press and Public Opinion. 1 presume he is 2 normal man, for he disclaims being a‘radical. He begins by saying “For five there has been no free opinion in the world. by the hm“ le necessities ‘:ef w’ ) E0V- ernments conscripted public opinion as L et e ] conserip ey Mumn.:fuymmm Taw reeruits. They mobilized it. They put in charge of arill sergeants. Wno:tmwmn.“?q?upt_x: attention sahute. Government the truth; | glad I met you and had this nice little icy, | ber | L for swimming) i’ with a tou might not e be almost pl ? | coming to You hfiw&n’(mo bother with such things?. Well, of course, it does take time, but I ‘don’t think there’s any- thing much more im; than ing well groomed, you? 3 what I tell my husband when when he complains about his dinmers. I ean't be downtown all day having my looks cared for and see after his meals at the same time, and I'm sure he doesn’t want me to let myself go. Ne ome can afford to do that these days when Jooks count for sc much. - > “Have you ever had electric needle treatments, Mrs. Green? You ought to have them for the hair on the back of your neck. Oh, yes, of course, it's painful and expensive, but it pays in the end. Dear me, I've waited long past the time for my appointment; I wonder what the trouble is. G “Have you seen this last number of the magazine, Mrs. Green? You don’t read it? Oh really, you should; the fashion hints are very valuable, especially to people like you who have not mueh idea of style themselves. You could improve your clothes a lat by studying ‘the fashion articles. What? You are not interested? O, come now, that's what women say when they think they're hopelessly plain and have given up caring. You mustn’t let yourself feel that way. As I was just telling you, I think you have possibilities—— “Youre ready for me now, madam? Very well. Goodby, Mrs. Green, S0 at. And I de hope you'll take my advice about the henna; you've no idea how it would increase your at- tractiveness. Next time I meet you I, shall expect to see a real transforma- I tion! Well, goodby, Mrs. Green, good- by!”"—HExchange. One when occasion seemed to reauire; but, after all, governmental propaganda was directed toward war ends, and those ends were the pfotection of the country and its institutions against its armed and embattled enemies. “When we come to the question of private propaganda we are on wholly different ground. Private propaganda is not one of the by-products of war, but it has taken on new phases since the war. Tt established itself long be- fore the war and was a development| of the press agent, who from being merely a theatrical attachment. had exterded himself to Wall street, to big business and to most of the institu- tions which have to deal with public the on. (s Mr. Willard a press agent?) “The great corporation. the banks have them, railroads | have them, all the orzanizations of | busin and of social and ' politlcal activity have them, and thev are the face. blade despite the fact that his deep-fu 1 not the easiest to shave. The only things that Lincoln’s razor really needed to lighten the patient morning task were _The time-tested hef¥, the splendid temper and shape of the razer Lincoln nsed—but it won't cut your strongest, keenest, best-tempered blade on earth, wi HE razor Lincoln used was a wondrously even temper. pittmres Lincola a5 fall of affaction for this oot furrowed face was the safety and convenience of ded, double-edged biade of the hone it—why throw good steel away? Seven m shavers have seen the good semse of adding a% these extra adventages to the Furthermore, it's the longest, with more .shaving media kf.h‘rnu:zh ':,vhlcl:h news comes, mileage than any other razor. And razor. Go to your nearest dealer and iven statesmen have em. % = .. Lpye “T'hese public agents, on: the whole, whmghgmdgedphdghasdulhd, join these seven million practical mes are a very able body of men and in keep it for sharpening in a spare foday. some respect: valuable servics th perform a highly but at the same time they are essentially attorneys for their employers. Their function is net to proclaim the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, but to PRESTON BROS., Frankl PUTNAM sent the particular state of facts that SMITH'S PHARMACY, 205 3 BALLARD & CLARK, Hardware, will be of the greatest benefit to their BATON CHASE CO. | | 129 Maln S0 punns pHARMACY, f,‘;f‘f;"‘" oty -t maniuie.. the UTLEY & JONES, 14 Main St JAMES F. DONOMUE, Resall Stors, wa & 3 M. 20U, 289 Main St. g ‘A great deal of the confusion of & & rRmaT 115 Frapklin St }QH;\D%‘C?E%MJO it i public oninion today 1is the dairect MARA & EGGLETON. , 235 Main §t. F- X W ; Jeweler, product of that system. * *' ¢ WM. D. RICKBR, 216 West Man St. GEORGE E. 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Tt} will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all’ “If the author of the Declaration of Tndependence were to utter such sem- timents today. tgs postoffice depart- ment could exclude him from the grand juries could indict him n and criminal syndicalis: s deportation on the ground that d been tainted with the rihald es of the French revolution and be sent back to live with the rest of the terrorists. “The policy of repression that. hasi been generally adonted by gc@ernors, mayors and pelice officials—in some cases by federal authority—to meet this propaganda of radicalism is fatal. Two thousand years of history prove its folly. Nobody ever succeeded in bettering the weather by putting fhe THE PERTHIAUME PHARMACY, QWHITE CR BURBOUGHS WOODWAR! N. A. JORDAN, Hardware, . H. gfl E. 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If the government is to be manifestgtions. erected into a god, who of us can be “God forbid that our supreme|sure of salvation?” achievement in this warshould Prussianizing of ourselves! “The gravest duty that confronts the American press today is to bring these vast questions that have come oyt of the war into the forum of public diq-i cussion. * * “It 'is_ impossible of fulfiliment, nevertheless, unless the newspapers set theinselves squarely against this rising Prpssianism which is making a fetish oft of government and endow it with the power of damnation over all dissenting pelitical and economic beliefs. If the guarantees of the bin of rights are to be overridden in the name of super-patriotism, the news- papers themselves will be the victims of the new dispensation that is called upen to suppress freedom of speech, and of the press, and we shall have no public opinfon at all except that which be thel Hundreds of newspapers and maga- zines have had their mailing privilege taken away. ALBERT BOARDMAN. Feb. 6, 1926. e Stories That Recall Others. | Impossible Till Cleaned Up. Herman, aged 4, was in the street. A neighbor knew that his mother was expecting guests. “Herman, has your mother come?” shé inquired. “No, not yet,” was the reply. *“Pm still dirty.” Core of the Afterncon. Little Marjorie, whe has not yet ] Industry »s. Speculation Preferred Stocks of sound and cld estab- lished New England industries are backed by tangible values, consistent earnings and legitimate profits. They are free from market manipulations and wide fiuctua. tions in price. 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