Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 24, 1920, Page 4

- Serwich Bulletin J and Goufied 124 YEARS OLD 128 & week; 506 & meath; $5.00 Entered ai the Postoffice at Norwich Cvam., ) & 5 3 1 P Sudnerigtion priee © yoar. 5.3 Bullstin o» Offire 33:2. ®Tlmantie Office 23 Chureh 5L Teleohans 185 T Amocated Prew is- exclusieery ealiint % the use for republication of all news Camatch- s credited 1o 11 or rat e crediied 1a this paper and also i local ews ereln. A nghts of repmMieation of aecial desateh- beretn 27 also veserved. Norwich, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 1920. CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING FEB. 21, 1920 i THE MICHIGAN CASE, t how much the open revolt in i to the enforcement of the amount to is un- but only one solution can be ipated. It must be expecteq to he law in_that state as weli as it may until the timel! comes when modifications are deem- ¢d adyisable, # There are communities of course here the law is being violated and ere are others where the people are ill as strongly opposed to prohi as they ever were but prohibi- been put into operation and mains for those charged With the farrving out of the provisions of en- $orcement to live up to their respon- sibilities. That is apparently .what they were doing in the northern part Michigan, and the real surprising act in . connection with the reported $ouble is that those who were up- ¥olding the federal law were inter- Fupted the representatives of the §w in the state of Michigan. and in this connection it is soteworthy that state authorit: were alert to reement of the law regard- was in the custody officer who was prote of a g the but they had rnot stirred themselves to locate the illegally fhade beverage and arrest the guilty % Whether it proves to be a case where there is friction between the different authorities, as has so often @evelopea between state and local police, will show in time, but if it is show o be a deliberate attempt to the enforcement of the pro- law se Michigan officials stand in a much worse light than fhose who had broken the law for they e obstructed the govern- 1 the enforcement of a federal law. However much they may consider the law unjust, they Ygake a serious mistake in fighting it in any such way, and if they are not prepared to uphold the law they ghould get out, P “WORTHLESS” VESSELS. After many thousands of dollars have been spent salvaming vessels| that have rested in the sands for wears, which was only the heginning! of expense in order to make them fitl for carriers and thus aelp suppiy the d d for ships, thcre can be no se over the fact that nearly million dollars were bid for = in the hands of the goverf- ich had been inventoried The real surprise in as such | 4 case, and especially so since the .added claim is made that they g ten million, is that there| such v ion placed | for even though they hless for use as ships in amount of junk; ue which g not to these days and times, be disregarded. } The reason for putting the ships| ifito the inventory as worthless was| that five per cent. of their value had b tten off each vear for depre- clation and that such had been done for a period of 20 years so that de-| preciation had wiped out the value of That may have been one| eeping method of looking at the but it was evident from the ived that there were others re anxious to get hold of just worthless” buttons, and in con- to the amount for which they re carried were ready to pay well for them. There may he instances when depreciation can be allowed in that way and certain machinery he cast aside after the 20 year period, but it is not a method that is folfow- | ed regarding manufacturing estab- 1i8liments or even steamships during thess days. Depreciation of course the part replacements and maintenance cannot be entirely disregarded. government inventory on those Is wag too much like the atti- tude taken in making some war con- tracts. cannot be disregarded but tHat ] —_— © JUMPING AT CONCLUSIONS. It is an interesting bit of gossip that is traveling about as the real, underground reason for the dismis- sal of Secretary Lansing. It is to the effect that it was a rebuke to the letter of Viscount Grey in which it was declared that Burope would not oopose the reservations proposed by the United States to the treaty, simpce an attache of the British le- gation under the predecessor of Vis- count Grev had displeased thp presi- dént greatly by the statements he had indulged in at Washington ban- quets. This attache had gone back i9+ England with Lord Reading but he returned with Viscount Grey, who, the report has it, took his name from the list of legation oZficials although ne corfinued to reside there. His re- turn to England liad been cailled for but was not insisted upon inasmuch as he was going t) return with the viscount anyway. That is the reason advanced .for the failure of President Wilson to re- ceive Viscount Grey, and Lansing is rade to figure in the case by such impresisons as he may have given the British ambassador during his stay ine the country. The inference to be gained is that he misrepresented the president and indireetly was respon- sible for the favorable statement abroad concerning reservations. Such of course makes a fascinating | even though such FThere is a chance that President story. There is nothing to substan- tiate the claims for the fact that Lansing is through, for entirely di ferent reasons as the president’s let- ter clearly shews, doesn’t support it and the fact that Viscount Grey was not received by the president fur- nishes no-real basis for the first or second part of the tale, It is true that Viscount Grey was not received by the president when he had received the king and gueen of Belgium and the prince of Wales, but it is a conspicuous fact never- theless that while he did net permit even the briefest call on the part of the representative of the itish na- tion he tooK the same attitude to ther ambassadors whe were waiting to present their credentials. Had he intended a slight to Grey he would have treated the others differently. DETERMINING INCAPACITY. Since the illness of President Wil- son added attention has been given to the situation surrounding a chief executive who is incapacitated. It is noi the first tinfe that the question of determining when a president is unable to administér his duties has arisen, but never before has the pe- riod been so leng. The one ppon whom the decision rests at thé present time is apparent- ly the vice president for undér the lawv no cne can assume to establish the fact of disabr'ity except the offi- cer of the administration next in suc- cession. It is apparently a case where he is re‘ obligated to aect, a situation where he can act it he so desires and cond.tions warrant. It is a matter in which a vice president might ‘raturaily be expected to hesi- tate lest he be considered as trying to zain increased honors for himself. Yet it is perfectly evident that it is a situation which ought to be prop- erly saféguardeq for with an inca- pacitated president, a vice president who doesn’t Wwafit .to appear pre- sumptuous and a cabinet leader forced to resigned because he sought to proteét the national welfare by what is considered harmless and jus- tified action the method of procedure under such circumstances should be definitely set forth. Even as it was diseussed following the shooting of Garfield, it is timely that a resolution should be présented in congress with the view to the re- placing of uncertainty with certainty. It is Congressman Fess' idea that there be a constitutienal amendment providing that the su- preme court should decide whether a president is incapacitated, after the question has been submitted to'it by a concurrent vote of both houses of congress. The situation that has arisen has héen unusual ,but inas- much as it has happened, inasmuch as the vice president has not acted, a move seems to have been fully justified, the time is ripe to guard against such a contin- gency in the future. HINDERING, NOT HELPING. There are thosé who have professed to see the error that iy invelved in the vicieus spiral—the fight for in- creased wages only to find that such increases smply add to the costs of living. Tt is a case of one following the other and the higher the demands are placed the higher it can be ex- pected that the expenses Wwill be boosted. It is a case where income ig increased only to increase the outgo anq therefore no advantage gzained. But while some have recognized that the following of é6ne demand for increased wages by another within a short period doesn’t mean the solu- tion of the present day problem, there are others who do not. This is man- ifested by the notifications which are being made to employers throughout the country that after certain dates the rate of wages will have to be ad- vanced to one dollar an hour, or thosé who are getting a dollar an hour will have to be paid $1.25. ‘When the country is already ecur- tailing in expenditures for the sake of getting by with as small living costs as possible, when business is feeling this uncertainty and building activities are being retarded because of the outlays that are required un- der present: conditions, it is hard to understand how it can be expected by those who are demanding or about to demand . higher wages that they :re going to be provided with sufficient work in view of the mounting costs. Conditions have been bad enough | in the past without making them werse. That living costs have not suffered any great cut is perfectly evident, but it is equally evident that they have not undergone a 25 per cent. increase since those who are demanding that raise were previously advanced and just such demands if granted are simply going to cause greater unrest and kéep the situation unsatisfactery so much longer. EDITORIAL NOTES. "A few weeks more and winter will be beyvond reach, but it will take a long time to forget it. As much as we would like to it is impossitle (o tuck the snew shovel away in s.oiage just yet. The man on the corner says: There never was a time when you could get rid of money quicker than right now. It doesn’t ameunt to much to study th: seed ca‘alngues if the rural car- riers cunnot speed the orders on their way. ‘When Dr. Grayson says that Presi- dent Wilson isn’t using his typewriter vet, but will do so,séon, it is time fer Europe to iake Wirnint. ilson will be charged with prevent- ing Furope from coming to a peace- ful adjustment of certain of its trou- bles. Regard the firing of Seecretary Lansing as one will, he has been be- fore the eyes of the public far more than the president during the past six months. The Mew York man who paid for two barrels of whiskey and got water was luckier than these whose friends and relatives found they had gotten wood alcohol. Those crossing the streets or those using the walks on the narrow streetS are trapped and slushed these days by the tast moving, dirty-water- throwing auios. Mr. McAdoo joins the line of these who say they are not candidatés. He knows letter than te lése any ture chaaces by aceepting a demo- cratic ncmination in an utterly im possille year. ; (Special to The Bulletin) - Washington, D. C., Feb. 23.—In the week just closed two things’ stand out with great promience: The aftermath of the Lansing ificident in(the form of renewed distrust of the president’s ability to act with calm judgment and discretion, and the filing in con- gress of many bills to determine under what circumstances the vice-president should assume presidential duties, ac- cording to the Constitution. The clause s “in case of the removal of the president from office, or his death, resignation or inability to dis- charge the powers and duties of said office, the same Shall devolve on the vice-president”—The question of who shall deternfine’ when such inability exsists has never béeh brought up but under the present ' cifcumstances, | where the president has heen’absent from his executive offive fifteen months, either through absence from the country or illness, the matter of interpretation is of great moment. A number of resolutions are now be- fore congriss. most of them naming the supreme court of the United States to be the determining body, as that is strictly non partisan and the court to which matters of constitutional in- terpretation would naturally be re- ferred. Until the president himself gave evidence that he was personally attending to official business congress refrained from action, but now the matter is likely to be ‘pressed to a finish. The president still remains in strict seculsion, a three minute inter- view with the three labor union men last week, being the only exception made. It is understood ‘that the “in- terview? that consisted of the hand- ing of a paper by the president to the leader of the little delegation and the single remark by the president “I still have some punch left. Dr. Dercum, the aliénists from Philadelphia, who has attended the president since his parlaytic shock last September and Dr. Grayson were at the white house most of that day. Since then no one has gained even a glimpse of the presi- dent. The air is again full of rumors and there is great distrust as to his ability to deal with the diplomatic and domestic matters now agitating the country and the korld. The demo- cratic leaders are much perturbed over the situation. They are without a leader on the eve of sélecting delegates for the national convention, and at the moment when the peace treaty is tumbling down on their hands. The administration spokesman Senator Hitcheock is in an embarrassing posi- tion. He neither can, nor dares at- tempt to, explain what the president will do regarding the treaty, as he can’t obtain it first hand and if given second hand might be later repudiated by the president, as were Mr. Lansing’s acts. Its a bad mixup. The latest peculation regarding the treaty points to the failure to secure the needed 64 votes:to ratify and that the Knox re- solution declaring peace, or one drawn along similar lines, will be adopted by congress within a, few weeks, or pos- sible earlier. Then the treaty and league can be revived or left for the president to withdraw, as the case may e. There is so much pressing nation- business waiting and the sénate is in na mood to waste weeks in useless discussion and a rehash of a situation that has undergone no change. Mr. Hitchcock will permit no alteration in article X, speaking for the ad- ministration last ditchers —and the majority of Senators will-not consent to its adoption as it stands. That would seem to end it for the present. Although over night predicitions are still built on pretty shaky founda- tions. And all Washington is watch- ing for another move by the president, either in the way of cabinet appoint ments statements or a repudiation of some of the acts of cabinet members during his illness, or the treaty. It is strange that in the mon: than a century that the constitution has been in force this is the firse time that a president has been in a condition to make invocation of the law probable. When Lincoin, Garfield, McKinley and others who died in office were incap- able of performing the duties of the office, the time between their seizure nd Jeath was no short that no need of presidential agtion. Now the coun- try is demanding something be done to clarify the law should another ex- ergency arise, and the matter is to be pressed to a , according te present pians. Many informal ons bave been given regarding the interpretation of the constitution as 1o when and how and on what au- thority the vice-president shall assume the duties of president, but they dif- fer widely. Naturally‘a vice-president would declire to step into the shoes of a president until he knew th fit. Mr. Marshall has gracefull stepped whenever the subject he broached, although he is an ex constitutional lawyer and has probably given the matter more study than has any one else. But all through lnnz,xllness of the President and his absehce from the country, the vice President has conducted himself with great tact and discretion, and it is uniikely he can now be drawn into 4 other phase of his office except that of presiding officer of the senate, unless authorized to do so by some act of congress or the supreme court. Visitors to the capitol, who happan to pass the congressional barber shop on the street floor, at a time of da swhen legislation lags, often hear D: kie hymns and old time plantation melodies sung in a way that makes tbem stop and listen; and if they are guilty of “peeking in” they stop siill lenger. They are apt to see several of the most dignified and infiventiil leacers of congress, inclniing Spaaker Gilieet and floor Jeader Monae.. strefched back in barber chairs, with faces lathered, humming cr =i tly, as the lather and It wih I3 = casir leader el churene: ifted razor and sirup is + one of the .nany cvidr- nere. Morerwer his (oi- creld ts.have the r2al da swing tlieir songs. Tna2y beg. humming softly, but secn Lhe great lé covridor rings with old it's grown to a i for inndeil, Hamilton »f Miemgan, Monshan ¢f Wisconsin, Upshaw of Georgia, and a half dozen or more others, all with good voices of their own, to drop in for a shave about the same time. Upshaw is a Georgia member of congress and a revival of the most stirring type, and it's id to be nip and tuck which is the favor- ite of this congressional gzroup—Old BGlack Joe, or We're Gwinz T" Get to Eeaven Bye and Bye. The glaridg waste and extragavance shown by investigations has made eon- gress determined to return to the befere the war schedule as soon as posgible. The moment peace is de- clared congress will set about straigh- tening out the many complications that follow the new and strange me- thods whereunder the president was given free scope to carry out changes and expenditures never dreamed of in time of peace. “What we need is to run the government alonz the same liné of economy as we would our per- sondl business, had we been involved in undertaking which had drawn us into debt” said one of the appropria- tions committee this week.” We have spent billiens of dollars and now we must econcmize or the country will not right itself and réturn to nermal. ‘We must trim off the corners and save a few thousands and a few miilions the | Tegal | CXPerts “Why hello Martha!” cried the girl With the pretty eyes meeting the girl with the pretty mouth at the faney work counter. “I haven't seen.any- thing of you for a What's up?” “I've been awfully busy,” answered the girl with the pretty mouth, sweep-: ing a eollection: ef embroidery together. “Fm getting ready to take up a new kind of postwar work.” “Well, I declare!’ éxclaimed the girl with the pretty eyes, all interest. “What is it youre planning to 'do, Martha Knitting repair socks, 1 sup- MN said the gifl with the pretty mouth, blushing a little, “I'm not do- ing so much knitting as I expected. In fact, 'm not doing any. 1 did start on.a stump but it was uch a long job that I got .diseourag: ed -and- one-night, when Jim Marvin was calling he said ' it: made -him.feel | blue to see stump socks. knitted.-:He said the returned soldiers wanted to forget that there'd been a war or was any reason for stump socks.” Then I su e you'ré making those darling artificial bouquets,” smiled the girl with the pretty eyes enviously. The girl with the pretty mouth blushed deeper. “Ng, 'm not making the aMificial flowers now. [ #lid take several les- sons from Mrs. Kay, and I got so I could make them quite nobly. I was | planning on making lots of bouquets’ for Christmas—you know, they only cost $1 and sell for $3. But Mrs. Kay made me almost sign a contract not to make them for.gifts because the money goes for the convalescent sol- diers so, of course, I was disappointed and then Jim Marvin gave me a naw point of view on the matter. He says it makes him sick to see women do- ing dinky little fancy work for boys who've risked their lives. So I gave that up, too." “Well—what then?” questioned*the girl with the pretty eyes, as the girl with the - pretty mouth hesitated dreamily. “Seems to me that I heard something about your taking up craft training for handicapped ex-soldiers. Is that true?” “It was true, but it isn’t now,” smil- ed the girl with the pretty mouth, her look still dreamy. “T did register for the course; it semed like a real b with a real sure enough sensible out- look. But the course turned out to take too long and when I talked with Jim Marvin—I thought, as a returned soldier, that his advice was worth ask- ing. Jessica—he couldn't be brought to approve of the idea at all. He said, dimpling- and blushing furfously “that n_ who older and—and homelier—could do that work as well as I, especiallly if thy’d had ahy ex- periénce in teaching, and that—well, Jessiea, he said that a ot of the han- dicapped lads probably would fall in love with me and that the experience might not be good for them—to- be crossed in love just when they had so many Other trials to bear, I mean. So when I received word that I must’ be- gin the work at once or give up my place to some one else I didn’t hes- itate. I wrote back that I couldn’t comé™ “Well, what kind of work are you doing quizzed the girl with the pretty eyes, endeavoring to attract the atten- tion of a saleswomian. “T've simply got to run or T'll be late for the club [ Iuncheon and I'm dying to know what's keeping you so busy’ Are you goingl to do hospital entertaining or sewing for soldiers’ widows and orphans. Or are you—" “No, I'm not going to do any of those things,” replied the girl with the pret-/ ty mouth. “I thought of them all, since I really believe that every one of us who didn’t fight should do something for the some fighter or fighters as long as there's anything that needs doing. But I talked with Jim' Marvin about it and he said he though I could do | better anl more lasting work else- Where.” “Jim Marvin seems to have helped you a lot in making your successive decisions,” teased the girl with the pretty eves. ‘“Did he, since you seem to have accepted him as a final aun-; thority, tell you just what Jsind of post war work would be best for you to do?’ “Yes,” admitted the girl with the pretty mouth, her face radiant, “he told me. He toud me, Jessice that in his opinion the best possible kind of post-war work for a girl to do was to marry some decent returned soldier and help him foget that the war ever | happened. And—and he convince me, Jessice! I shall be Mrs. Jim Marvin next month."—Exehange. whenever we can do so without detri- ment to public interest.” And that is the course the republican steering committee is advocating. The demo- crats are not over anxious, howevr to put their shoulder to the wheel and help give the republicans credit for economy which may prove a stepping stone to republican success at tne November election. Already it is evi- dent that the party in.power in con- gress must rely on its own votes to bring such measures into life. It has happened many times that when a bill lopping off a committee or a commis- sion or some secretaries or clerks is before the Ho democratic leaders rise and protest that such ahbangon- ment or reduction could not be made without hampering the administeation etc. They are ready enough to talk economy, but when it comes to the int of giving a helping hand, thus far democratic enthusiasm has been strangely lacking. It's too near elec- tion to take any chances of a republi- can congress being patted on tie kack. Senator Brandegee has been rauch in the foreground the past w in debate in the senate on Lhe s of It was he who demanded a statement frem the president regard- {ing his arrangement—if any — with Great ‘Britain, and he has made ‘many forceful speeches and suggestions as to the best course to be pursued. In the matter of the treaty Mr. Brandegee has also béen a spokésman, in the senate, although he still clings to } determination to leave it for Chair- man Lodge to speak on all «iaiters which invelve the committee ot its members. Congressman TilSon has asked that the lite of the screw thread standardi- zation commission be extenpded two years, in order that they may be or- ganized in case anything occurs in the ng out of the plan they Lave sed, that requires the oversight of The commission serves with- out salary and there is no doubt but what congress will extend the time of office. p Senator Brandegee spoke at some length a few days ago on the unpar- i the antary tacti under which was brought back into th t was dead” said he S ate— parently’ the only thing Jhat don't sta) dead when it is dead, it the tre it has more lives than a cat. Mr. Brandegee than urg the Senate to come to a vote imme r at leuast permit no further obstruction to the important question waiting Congress, saying it had been proved that the treaty with the Lodge resolutions was the only form in which it couid rass and calling on t democrats to either sustain those resBlutions or stop pro- longing a useless debate. Lodge med. he had brought the treaty under circumstances which war- ranted its consideration and the incid- ent closed. “What is all this talk about com- | promise?” he asked “who afe we com- promising with but ourselves? Is any body talking about the President com- promising. Not on your life! He stands pat. ‘He at least knows his mind. He wrote a letter read at the Jackson day dinner saying he would not accept the reservation. Will the sepate stand by its own actions? A majority of the senate has expressed its will in a constitutional manner, and is now approached by the minority which says ‘here, we've been beaten, now let's compromise and you give us half we want “where does the com- promise come in?’ Mr. Brandegee continued saying that no change would be made that would change arti- cle ten so why proleng the discussion. He advecated that the matter now be put up to the President saying “If the advocates of ratification want to ae- cept the regervations they can do so— if they are afraid of the responsibility of saving .their country they can put it'up to the president—if he wants to, and has the courage to strangle his own child he eéan réfuse to file the in- trument of ratification, and then everybody will know exactly who did it.” Senator Ashurst, demoerat said it was useless to put-up a democratic nominee for the Presidentcy who stood for the treaty without reservation—and the the debate went oén for some hours. — e Stories That Recall Others. In the Library. “Life behind the desk isn't all rub- ber stamping and numbering,” says an attpndant at the library. “There are daju when there's a smile with almost every request for a hook.” “For instince, you are sometimes puzzled, but ysu simply cannot keep back a laugh when a boy comes in and ‘asks for ‘M s Claw’ when he wants ‘er{%ry Daw,’ or when an- other asks for ‘The Priest's Cab,’ when it proved to~ be ‘The Bishop's Car- viage! that was wanted. Even ‘The Jessamy Bride’ gets twisted into ‘Jes- ~|one end of the telephone, if one may sie McBride,’ so you see there bright spots in a librarian’s life.” They Are Still Chums. These two teachers were chums. They are still chums. The first one met the second one and was out of humor over something. “Why, the most terrible thing happened today. A regular pill of a teacher visited me. She didn’t even tell me that she enjoy- ed my work when the visit was over —just put up her head and sailed out of the room.” The second one essaved comfort and invited the first one home with her to supper. “Then we'll go to a show and torget all about the visitor.” she said. The first one aceompanied the friend ome and there in the living room was anothér visitor. The second one greeted the out of town cousin and turned to introdiice her to her friend | when the first teacher began with a sickly smile, “Oh, you visited me this efternoon.” LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Spiritism Declared a Fraud. Mr. Editer: T have carefully gone| over the artcles of D. A. Lyman, Al- bert P. Blinn, and the one signed Rox- anna, in answer to my letter on S; itism, and I am wondering if either of | these writers has said anything tha. he considergs proof of spirit commu- nication. Mr. Blinn calls me a bigot. This is rather to be expected from a are marion, Doyle. Lodge and others with- | jout even the faintest knowledge of the! | works of these men; for they all ad- | mit, every one of them, that the spir- its that purport to communicate with man are deceivers; and that they do impersonate others, and many times! are not even honest, and that they lie like satan himself. . Sir Arthur Conan Doyle makes this | candid admission: “Guessing on the part of the con- trolled there might he—there some- ;i times was — and ocecasionally there were direct impersonations; but that is part of what we might expect—at any rate it is part of what we got” The same_ writer also says in hig hook, “The Vital Message:" “Tt must be admitted, however, that in automatic writing vou are at use such a simile, and you have no as = surance who is at the other end. You {may have widely fafse messages sud- | denly interpelated among truthful ones—messages so detailed in their mendacity that it is impossible to think that they are not deliberately false.” Professor Flammarion, whoyis al- 50 quoted hy your correspondent, says on this point: “Ag to being different from ourselve: —what may their nature be? Of this we cannot have any idea: Souls of the dead? This is far from being demonstrated. The innumerable ob- servations which I have collected dur- ing more than forty years. all prove to me the contrary. No satisfactory identification has been made.” Dr. Hereward Carrington, a spirit- ist, far and away ahead of the ones quoted by your correspondent. and himself a member of the Society for sychical Research, makes this ad- mission. “I gained the distinct impression throughout the sitting that instead of the spirit of the personage who claim- ed to be present, I was dealing with an exceedingly sly, cunning, tricky and deceitful intelligence, which threw out chance remarks, finishing guesses, and shrewd inference, leaving the sitter to pick these up and elaborate them if he would. If anything could make me be- lieve in the doctrine of evil and lying gpirits it woulwd be the sittings with Mrs. Piper. T do not for one moment implicate the nermal Mrs. Piper = in thig criticiam.” When one censiders that the medi- um referred to in the above extract is the very one through whom Sir Oliver Lodze got his first information, as he confesses in his hook, “Raymond.” it must be evident that the testimony of [ 8ir Oliver, is not worth much, and moreover, it is a fact that Sir Oliver - S ° 3 ° pring Novelties : v Beautiful New Weaves In Silks - Like a grateful raih on a sandy desert—like a sunny day in this stason of -now,‘nin and iu—thn_-- striking, spring-like noveities are eagerly welcomed. The colorings are dainty and different. The textures and weaves are not at all like the ones that are seen daily on the streets. They are beautiful. ALL-SILK DUVETYN SUITING It has the weight of a chiffon broadcloth and is as soft and sifley as the finest velvet. 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The Price Is $7.50 a Yard fact that impersonation of the dead by deceiving spirits is a well-known, fre- quent and admitted phenomenon in connection with spirit manifestations There are instances on record in which these cunning and crafty beings this Kast. city or any' other city ism, let us get down to hard roc \ call “Spiritualism,” and T will produce a man who will meet them, either In in the Come now, you wise men of Spirit- T man who quotes such men as Flam- | have maintained the deception for months and even vears; but have finally heen compelled to admit and confess the deception.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in his book, “The New Revelatio admits that he received his first inspiration from Judge Edmonds, who was a leading Spiritist, and traveled from one end of the country to another, to defend Spiritism, and yet that same Judge Edmonds, in his writings on “Spirit- sm,” says of these deceiving de- monds: “One day, while I was at West Rox- bury, there came to me through Laura as the medium, the spirit of one with| whom I.had been well acquainted, but from whom I had been separated snmni fifteen years. * * * I had not iseen him for several vears: he was not at all in my mind at the time, and he was unknown to the medium. Yet he identified himself unmistakeably, not only by his peculiar characteristics, but by referring to matters known only to him and me. ‘I took it ffl‘r' granted he was dead and was surpris- ed to learn afterward that he was not. He is 1 living."—Spiritual Tracts, No. 7, page 9, Now. Mr. Editor, teli your corres- pondents that if these demons can personate living men, that, they can also, by the same rule, personate dead men, and that proves what the Bible vays is true, that: “They are the spirits of devils workinz miracles.” 2 Let the editor of this paper be our judge, when we say that proof talks, and not mere Wssértions. Talk’ is cheap, but, and if thése exponénts want to get down to facts, let them select their man, tls: best they have, Sir Oliver Lodge, or Professor James Hyslop, or any other leading light of their fake religious cult, which they have my man selected and he has con- sented. At least that js a fair pro- 1O n, ahd if the Spiritists have anything worth while, let them show it, or forever hold their peace. Proot talks loutder than all the meré asser- tions, of ‘a few like D. A. Lyman, Roxanna and Mr. Blinn, who appar- entiy are very much in need of real information 6n the cult they profess. I now, and here, giwe my name and address, in full, and shall await with much interest the reply from the champions of Spiritism. I might add that, my man will net debate unless a representative man is securel by the Spiritists tn defend their position. It would hardly be fair to ask him to debate with any but ihe' best. 3 FRANK J. WENISCH. Willimantic, Feb, 20, 1920 i St In Antwerp's recent ivory sale un- precedented and unexpected prieés were realized. The stocks 8f ivoty are small compared with prewar days. 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