Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 8, 1920, Page 4

"YEARS OLD 8 ewk; B meen; 00 -&l‘---‘ i t 8 Twbces St bt 4 XN Bullstia s34 Offies 352 WiBeante Ofles 10 Chah S Teleshene 105 —_— Nerwich, Saturday, May 8, 1920, ‘u-‘l,l THE ASSOCIATED PRESR Prase s enclusivety entitiec 3 o i wewr camuich - W et siberwise crodlied la e Dewr aad alm e local Cems published AD maMa o republication o @ectal despatch Nervin wre alse wserved. CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING MAY 1st, 1920 10,619 FIGHT THE PESTS. Announcement to the effect that re- #triction wpon the movement of all fo st products by a federal quarantine to fnclude Norwich, Preston and Bozrah creates more than the usual amount of fnterest and concern hereabouts for it in- @icates that the gypsy and brownts are present in such numbers towns as to make it unwise to s eertain products to other towns and goakes it evident that greater efforts than ever to subdue these pests must be undertaken for self protection The territory where these moths have got a foothold has increased each despite the efforts to check them. it ar It Mot to be inferred that the work of fight- ing their progress has been valueless but that in spite of all that has been done they have multiplied greatly number &ind extended over a much g a, though towns in ap- * pear to have than in Connectic: That the department of cul ¥ prepared to act in accord with t ports that have been made to it ing cond and the need of tines to check further trouble By the notification. Action can pected to follow the hearing g ferday and the interruption of busine I8 products where the pests would be likely to be concealed in o other will call for the devc inereased attention to the blott the pests that the restrictions c quickly lfted. Pests of one kind fone extensive damage wd of trouble. There where only slight attention has been given to their eradication and the result Is that such breeding places and distrib Bting points have increased the hard #bips of others. Combined and persistent sfforts on the part of those affected .or those Who can lend a helping hand’ will %o much to remove the keep the effects at the minimum. The probable quarantine calls for immediate action rather than further negligence in ater ar tates to the n been infested much worse ior indica be a ex- such be or another have a focali and c pest or at least TRANSPORTATION TIEUPS. When New England isn't being both- sred In gettmg its coal supply for on feason something else hobs up causes quite as much of an embarrs ment. We had not gotten ighte put from the effects of the coal wh strike before the outlaw strike of railroad men of interrupted the movement trains and when freights are surtafled the effect is bound to be seri- pus. The situation is steadily improving But not as fast as might be desired, ¥ith each day showing the impr: ¥ more cars the outlook Is for the pestoration of service if we can be Yent long enough. New England ought not, however, %o dependent upon the railroads for its wal. There is much that mu fled In that way but the oppo; getting coal by water cannot rded. This is the method m relied upon in the past Intire coast line and would be R yossible, transportation by water s uncertain as transportation by rail In efforts td have New England's needs faken care of appeals have been made to the Pennaylvania railroad by Connecti- eut manufacturers to have coal move- ments expedited with the result that it Warned that this road is now a pos Lion to place large quantities of coal at freight but vement pa t be han ity o b that has along its now were disre- Bouth Amboy, N. J, for Connecticut ports if those desiring it will furnish Barges and tugs. Tugboat crews Bow are at a premium but this is of ©ourse the time when Long Island sound should be alive with fleets of barges des- tined to New England points with coal, and yet in spite of this means of reliev- ¥ag the railroads and getting coal in the @ustomary way by water it is months #ince dealers have received a pound of goal that way. . What this is going to mean some Wonths hence can be readily understood for this is the time of year when coal #hould oe moving in order to permit of & steady distribution and prevent con- gested conditions later on. New England #8 looking for rellef by improved rail foad conditions but it also should get & by means of water transportation. is SUCCESS IN UKBAINIA. From all indications the Polish forces #Soperating with the Ukraine troops who Fperesent that state are in control of the important city of Kiev of very close to it. fhe operations are directed against the Bolsheviki for the restoration of the Uk- faine to the Ukrainians and there is of Jmurse reason for elation on the part of the Poles as well as the Ukrainians at the success that is attending their ef- i _That there will continue to be com- Bind efforts until the bolsheviki are driven out of the Ukraine entirely and *® substantial Ukrainian government es- 1t is possible, of course, and there may will advecate it, to send this successful army into boishevik ter- ritory &t Poland and Dkrainia but it is ques- topped or | full | back up their demands in vonnection with the peace terms. They stand now as victots Whereas conditions might change under other operations particularly when they ot beyond their own territory. They have made a successful fight against bolshevism and 1t now remains for them to secure the full fruifs of their victory without inviting a’dangerous af- termath. To Burope the sucoess cannot fail to be viewéd with as much satistac- tion as Tn Poland for it insures the much desired barrier against the spread of bol- shevism and bids fair to bring about a much moré peaceful meighborhood in that part of the world. FOR THOSE IN FRANCE. Memorial day is almost upon us, be- ing a matter of three weeks away. Prep- arations for the proper obervance of the day in this country are of course underway with the veterans of ‘the Civil war getting the assistance of the veter- ans of other wars in making the ar- rangements. But Memorial day henceforth is going to include a great deal more than it ever has before and a great many more are necessarily brought closer in touch with it because of the great war through which we have just passed. Thus while we are decorating the graves and keep- ing green the memories of those Who fell on American soil years ago we must remember to do the same for those Who Jie in the cemeteries in France. It is therefore a pertinent move that has been made by the American Legion, and undertaken not a bit tpo soon, in urging upon the 9000 posts’ thronghout the country the raising of funds for the carrying out of memorial services, in Eu- rope on May 30 even as they are held in this country. There can be no question but what the people of France, as well as the Atneri- cans over there, will do all in their power to give Memorial day the same signifi- cance over there that it gets here, but we cannot leave it all to France. We cannot overlook our duties to those who gave up thelr lives fighting for their cotintry and ue just because they happen to lie in another country. That the American Legion should un- dertake the direction of the work of properly observing Memorfal day in France is quite proper. They will un- | questionably enter into the rafsing of the needed funds with a will and they can of course count upon the generous assistance of those outside the ranks. There will be a desire on the part of all to see that the needed means are pro- vided for the holding of exercises in each of the cemeteries and the decoration of the individual grave: | FIGHTING DRUG EVIL. Disturbing are the reports which are made from time to time to the effeet that the existing laws against the sale Vot n in this country are proving reotic 1 | incflcetive, that enforcement seems im- jpossible and that an extensive illegal | trafiic is being carried on. This is most unfortu ate because of the evident fail- ng about the restriction in the of drugs for the good of the country ahd the protection of future generations. hat.much of this illegal %raffic is at- utable o those who are willing to en- courage this demoralizing habit because of large. financial returns they can get out of it is unquestioned. Those who smuggle it into the country, those who peddie it, those who make illegal sales those who are responsible for the spread of the dope habit are prompted ¥ the chance that is offered to get big profi How careful must be the search of the custom officlals against the smuggling in of habit forming drugs on large steam- | ships even is indicated by the locating | of 65 pounds of cocaine which a member of the crew of a vessel from Italy had wed away back of a partition in his bunk. It is not known that there was any special reason for suspecting this particular ship of carrying any such zo0ds or this particular man of being a smuggler but there is no telling when | violations are going to be disclosed. This | member of the crew in trying to get in dope valued at $150,000 was not only in- tent upon getting rich but he was will- ing to do so at the expense of many | whose existence would have been made ore miserable by his act. | This indicates the determined methods {1 at are used to defeat the laws of the country and the lculties which are en- countered in trying to enforce them. Per- | t and thorough combing of vessels f‘:m well as the careful guarding of the | orders is the duty of the custom offi- |cials and yet despite their efforts the { country finds itself flooded with one of | its worst dangers. | to b us tr and EDITORIAL NOTES. Managers of political eampaigns still find that the voters do not always do just as they want them to. —— A leopard may not be able to change | his spots but in a palitical campaign a { dark horse isn't always able to hold its | color. The senate has approved a Roosevelt- ian two-cent piece. There's been talk enough about it to almost wear it smooth The man on the corner says: These are the days when the man with the lawn mower is in a hot race to keep ahead of the dandelions. e The recent criticlsm by President Wil- son of militaristic France is arousing quite as much of a protest outside of as inside of congress. Gasoline doesn't grow like trees. A threatened shortage means finding more ofl or putting forth harder. Ticks in be- \ half of a substitate. A primary in somo states seems to be for the purpose of giving the democrats a chance to help pick out the republican candidates, or vice versa. If you haven't already done so this is a capital time to help in the beautifica- tion by cleaning up the backyard or oth- er eyesores that need attention. It would have been emough to break Johnson’s heart had he been defeated in California, but Hoover of course isn't 2 candidate in the same sense of! the word. The middle west man who has brought suit for divorce because his wife refuses to mend his old clothes knows full well that such is simply abandonment to the profiteers. It is probably human nature but did you ever notice how people holler for bet- ter walks and just as soon as they are secured proceed to walk on the greens- beyond the recognized boundaries| ward bordering them? Secretary Colby said that the peace m such will be regarded as There is the danger of under- | resolution would be an utterly unheard can Dt 48 & gmmiien where they can ] be | of procedure by the United States, hut the success which seems|that would be worse than the president Indlcated these countries are going|did in establishing the precedent of go- ing to another eountry while in affice. sk The attentioy that is being given to the preservation of trees and forests is both wise and timely. As a nation we have been criminaily wasteful ‘of this im- portant product. It is not a credit to the national government that the department of forestry has béen curtailed and erip- pled by the influence of selfish lumber kings. May we not learn a- needful les- son from ‘denuded China,” whose barren hillsides will never again - be clothed with verdure? In_consequence of Which China has the awful experience of alter- nate floods and droughts. Unless in the future we use a little more .gray mat- ter than we have in the past in dealing with our timber lahds wé shall haye the China condition here full - and strong. The senseles manner in which the Appalachians have been slashed of their products aceounts for _the, ‘Ohio. floods. _Unless better: judgment is ‘used in the White Mountaiis the Conneeticut will not stop at 26 feet above low water mark, the present danger point. Much .appears at the ‘present time in public speech and the public press about democracy. That is exactly as it ought to be. After the - awful éxperiences through which humanity has recently passed, too much cannot be said and done to “make the world safe for de- mocracy.” But is there not a danger here of tabooing_ the idea of aristocracy altogether? One meaning of aristocracy is nobility and some men are born aris- tocrats. As they are then, Nature's no- Dlemen, they belong to the aristocracy in the betfer sense of thé term. Is there not such a thing as the arisfocracy of decency, that 1 to be highly commend- ed? A'young college graduate once set- tled in a country fown Wwhere the gen- eral moral tone was depressing. He re- fused to have anything to do with a low crowd which an easy-going, community allowed to carry on disgracefully. He was sneered at'as “the aristocrat,” “the fop,” “the blue, blood,” cete. But his straightforward -eourse; plus a compell- ing power of personality, gained so many followers that the lew, vicious set found itself very soon completely - ‘ostracised: Such an aristocracy of decency is always in order, 3 One of the ‘hardest things o bear is ingratitude.- That anyone ~whom you have taken.great pains o befriend should make use of this kindness to in- jure you for personal gain is almost in- conceivable. But it ‘is done 5o often as to tempt one to.lose faith in his fellows. We can understand. why ingratitude should be classified ‘as the meanest of the vices. A viper will sting the hand that offers it food.because it knows no bet- ter. It ig overlooked on tie ground that | Nature made it a viper. ‘Perhaps - that instinet explains why most.of .us’ despise the whole snake family. It 13 to be re- gretted that the viperous nature should ever possess the human form. - One of the most revolting storiés that has come out of a particularly revolting' war 'is the following: A native soldier in France, wounded nigh unto death. was woman in her fine chateau. When fully recovered he deliberately murdered that woman for her jewels. In the annals of infamy is there anything to beat that? There seems ‘to be no’ limit to Amer- iea’s power when she sets out to do a big thing. She is somewhat slow. in eing that big things ought to be done. But when her vision gets ‘clarified when her sense of justice gets sufficiently outraged, then her moral judgment gets to acting on a seale unparallelled all human history. - The quickness 2 000,000 men were equipped, in with which enlisted, trained and’ transported 3,000 miles from their base amazed all Europe and Ger- many most of all. When the first Lib- erty loan ‘was asked for running up into ten figures, many faint hearts cried out, “We can never do it!” But we did and put four more on top of it all running into the billions.. Colossal as those sums were - it sent .nobody to- the poorhouse. When America says a thing ought.to B8O, and we'll make it go .then. it simply goes. Today America is. looking at dis- tressed humanity through the eyes of the interchurch world movement. Great sums are being souz®t and il be found. The people at large rejoice that 30 denominatio; are forgetting their-lit- tle differences and are -working together for the bigger things of the kingdom: Some revolutions are caused by the expansion of great ideas or natar; forces. There was a ‘time when every ],\m"rlcan home was illuminatéd by a tallow dip. But the tallow dip gave way to something better and thus on, one better thing kept coming, until- we have electricity. The advent of crude ‘oil did not destroy the market for tallow any more than gas made kerosene unmarket- able. These are revolutions in the inter- ests of better and more enjoyable liv 2 The question. is. constantly aris ng in thoughtful minds whether, or no the amazing development of all types of mo- tor vehicles will not permanently crowd the railroads to the wall. That motors are doing work that the railroads once did cannot be denied; but in these days the public would suffer more if not for transportation of both freight and pas- sengers by motors. What is giving rail- } roads the black eve is mercenary strikes and incompetent management. i Self preservation is not the sreatest of human attributes, but it does loom up big among brutes. I saw something the other day that %as a religious value —at least it was full of human interest: a little black Kitten was being chased by a great mongrel cur.. At length Kitty got her back up, (literally) turned right about face, raised her little bl and hissed at him. The slobbering cur stopped, backed a few steps. then ran around the little midgef, but, mind you, he didn't fouch her simply because he was all mouth and no nerve. W Now here is the moral: My boy, When you are wor- ried by a big bully, just face him— shake that little black paw of yours in his face, and he will keep his distance as the other ¢ur did. It i§ not strength, but nerve that counts, when dealing with cowards. Did the person ever live who pleased everybody? If 5o, nobody ever knew him chiefly because he _wasn't worth knowing,” Unless 1 am misinformed, Sha.!(espeare stood fairly well as a dra- matist, yet Ben Jonson a contemporary, once said that the best things in Shakes. peare were stolen from him, and that he was, for the most part, (just think off it!) “very provinejal” How the contl- nental congress snarled at the great, calm Washington for His Fabian polioy! How the slavery element abused in both north and south the greet Lincoln! Great spirits aim to do their duty ana not merely to please. My dear brother, are you. trying to please everybody? If go, you had better take a day off before you have to—at Brewster's Neck. Stories That Recall Others - s s Could Work Way Up. “How conditions have changed!” re- marked a man on the,street the other day. - “Why 1 heard the other day, of a har- rassed college professor who in order to make ends meet decided to take up manual laber. . “So he visited a large building opera- tion and said nervously to a red faced man with 4 diamond horseshoe in necktie: his “‘I am-ahem-an ex-college professor | and I would like to Know if you could take me on here as a bricklayer.” “The red faced man gave a derisive snort. “ ‘Bricklayer? I guess mot’ he said, ‘We might start you as an architeet though and let you ‘work your way up, " Rhubarb, The head of “the family was getting rig of some dock weed in the backyard while the eight-year-old son was watch- ing engrossed in thought. - Presently he tenderly nursed back to health by a rich | | | | | i | mixed up Premier Nittl invités the - world to smile, writes A."J. Sack ' in - Bf Rus: In an interesting printed in The New York Times of April 26, 1920, the Italian premiér says: “We of today are becoming brutal and because we have war. too much on No poetry is being penned, _no music composed, no great hooks written. To me that is sad. Let us forget about war. and write poetry and sing sweet music. The trouble with the world today is . it} has forgotten how to smile,” Premier Nitti's interview is more than a Iyric expression of noble, aesthetic soul, tired of bloody. struggles and looking: to peace and human happiness. Premier Nitti expresses definite political views;, reflecting undoubtedly the points which he, as the representative of ltaly, insist- ed upon at the recent conference of the supreme council, at San Remo. Premier. Nitti is right when he says, m the above- mentioned_interview, that “the . world needs Russia, especially Europe does" and continues: ‘Frankly, I do not be- lieve tliere issmuch grain or .raw ma- terlals to be had from Russia this year. But because of exchange rates and war reasons, Burope faces five or six bad years. If Russia is hepled to get along again, she can aid it by next year and in succeeding vears. . I believe . we should look ahead somewhat.” This is a wise point of view, but it is difficult to see any logical connection be- tween this thought and another express- ed by Premier Nitti in the same inter- view: “T want to see relations resumed with Russia_at once,” spid the Italian premier. “Diplomatic or commercial he was asked. He waved his hand and replied: “Oh, one leads to the other: So, Premier “Nitti exprésses himself definitely for the recognition of the bol- sheviki. ~ *He understands that the bol- sheviki have brought Russia to ruin, “T want to let everybody go to Russia,” says the premier, “and see what ruin the so- viets have made.” If the bolsheviki have brough Russia to ruin, can Premier Nit- ti explain how the recognition of the bol- shevist rule in Russla would help them to suddenly_become 2 constructive factor? Walter Duranty, in_.a _correspondence printed in The New York Times on April S, 1920, justly sums up the economic conditions in bolshevist' Russia as fol- Tow: “Today in Russia trains have practically ceased to run; industry has ceased to function ; horse ‘transport does not exist hecause horses have been ‘eat- en. In cities and towns, there is no coal and little food. In a country by far the richest in Furope in wood, people are forced to burn their wooden houses for fuel That gives the measure of traffic soviet Russia alike, dre filled, | u fi fall is not distant. primitive as in the days of the Tartars. But pestilence, bred by famine, dirt, dis- organization and ignorance, move moré swiftly than they. Not the cities alone are beifg discimated by typhus, chole- ra and” small pox. bl SOt A viet leaders can no longer hide the fatal’ fact that they have literally -run Rus- sia into the eround. With all its wealth, its wheat, cattle, horses and inexhaust- ible man power, Russia today lies ruined and broken.” So. one fact in the Russian situation is that bolshevist rule has brought Rus- sia to ruin. Whether the world will recognize the bolshevist right to experi- ment upon the living body and soul of Russ or the ‘‘communistic” experi- ments will continue, as before, Without any recognition, Russia’s economic resur- rection is impossible as long as such ex- periments continue. The overthrow of the bolshevist rule. is the condition for such a resurrection. id | tyranny. country to would continue the regime brought and keeps Russia, and with Rus- sia the rest of Europe in ruin, Premier Nitti is right when he says, “The world especially Europe does, and that the “Forces of production must be_released again. bolshevist rule furthermore, it constitutes a menace to holshevist rule cannot release the forces of produc- tion that are Indispensablé or the re-es- tablishment of the economic Europe, Desirable as it is to bring back to Europe and to the world smiles, peace and happiness, lost during the last years, Europe and the world cannot smile while Russia is in tears. main in tears until the murderous rule established over her great people is over- democratic gov- ernment is established, through an all- indispensable | Russian constituent assembly, needs Russia, Europe. thrown, *ho. & con-*ruetive. policy , towards trugsling m-!.‘?.‘ the fact that in epite of all interview, | the bolshevist victories, the Russian peo- ple, all Russian factions, liberal and go- cialist, remain oimised fo the bolshevist in Strugsling Russia” of SO 5 TN, WE, pANA & Gbnn. brain. W i i Drotesting against the possible recogn: are becoming crazy and hard. | Brot Ay g leaders of the liberal movement in Rus- Prince G. E. Lvoy, former prime min- ister in_the Russian provisional govern- ment; I I Petrunkevitch, the founder of the constitutional democratic A 1. Konovalov, former ‘vice-prime_min- ister and minister of trade and industry in the Russian provisional government; Prof. Paul N. Miliukov, former minister of foreign aftairs in the provisional gov: ernment ; the central committee of the. constitu- tional-democratic party and others. cording to this declaration, “No number of “diplomatic protocols will ever force the Russian people to give up the strug- gle for the liberation of their mother- |. land, for its bright future and regener- ation on the foundation of justice and the rule of the people. es of the population of soviet and non- like _our- selves with the sentiment of hatred for the bolshevist oligarchy. Deople will never consider the agree- ments between the soviet rule and other | countries as binding upon them.” of the bolehevist rul M. M. Vinaver, chairman In “Struggling Russia” of April 1820, we printed the text of a similar declaration signed by the leaders of the party of socialists-revolutionists da members of the all-Russian constituent assembly. This deciaration, signed Nicholas Avkgentiev, A. Fondaminsky, Alexander Kovarsky, O. Miner, Rudney, “Zenzinov GuKovsky, Kerensky, E. Rogovsky, reads ruin. 1t. trengthening of the bolshevist he rights of the Russian people. ATl the facts in possession of the civ- ilized world establish the fact that the bolshevist rule is criminally inefficient and is opposed by all the ‘orces of the Russian people. disorganization. . From towns and cities | into consideration the years to come. . ... people flee back. to the land to escape |cannot recognize this rule. Such @iSORNBICE L oLl L on starvation. On the land, they can at|recognition would constitute a grave of-| = lo SO W0 Pl S8R O e | least eat and be warm, though life 1s | fense against the Russian people and | P g that But, cannot Russia_un Russia_under the lite And Russia will and a stable, a ‘Mark Vishniak and’ Viadimir “The bolshevist gov- ernment is a government by the dictator- ship of a group, a government which be. trayed Russia into the hands of Imperial Germany and has exterminated right and freedom. It is being maintained by vio- lencé and anarchy and it is leading the Democracy has been fighting this government and the 'des- potism_which it has-introduced and will never become reconciled to The rule through. interfational recognition would be nothing else but an open violation of progressive As_such, it must fail, and the time of its down- A far-sighted poli- oy towards Russia, a policy that takes has help Europe ; gov- The | ernment recognized by all the people of other fact to be recognized by all those !Russia. K KDAEYS " HADE STRONE party ; of Ac- The great mass- The Russian I am warranted in having the strongest faith in ‘Fruit-a-tives’ after receiving Such wonderful benefits from them. Foryears, I was a sufferer with Kidney and Liver Complaints: My back ached; my liver was sluggish ; and my whole system seemed out of order. ‘Fruit-a-tives’ was the only remedy o help me. They strengthened the kidneys, made my bowels move regularly and freed me of all the distress caused from the kidney rouble, constipation and indigestion. A few weeks’' treatment with ‘Fruit-a-tives’ made me feel as if I had a new lease on life, and I am glad fo make known the great value of these Fruit Liver Tablets”. MOSES MURPHY, 50c. & box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 25¢. At dealers or from FRUIT-A-TIVES Limited, OGDENSBURG, N, Y, ——— 17, by 1 I V. them. His ill-born him. “Good morning,” passerby at the White House gate at § oclock. “I am looking for a news-! boy. When you get to the corner I wish ¥ou would send.one up this way.” The hard muscles and steel nerves of the_railsplitter enabled this president to bed® responsibilities, labors and annoy- ances such as would have broken perhaps any other man in the presidential line. He still could grip and ax by the end of the handle and hoid it out even with his_shoulders. His sense- of humor was his safety valve. “If I couldn't tell these stories I| should die,” he explained to a solemn congressman who impatiently protested that he had not come to the White House to hear jokes. The man who kept all great decisions to himseif could not enjoy a little joke alone. Ses him stalking the White House corridor in night shirt and bare legs to read to young Nicolay and Hay, dignity protected | he surprised a | der of Te< weed?" ply he set to..thinking again. minutes he looked up was his eéxplanation hen he was making things and thought this was rhubarb, jth a smile. . Thig Five Minutes a Day With Our Presidents Copyright 1920—By James Morgan h XLVII—THE GREAT FRIEND LINCOLN’S CHILDREN Robert Todd, born August now living in Chicago. Edward Baker, born March 10, 1846, died in infaney ‘William Wallace, bern Dec. 21, 1850, died Feb. 20, 1862. ‘Thomas, bern April 4, 1853, died July 15, 1871 The stone walls of the White House no more shut Lincoln in from his fellows, from their hopes and sorrows and pride, than did the unhewn logs -behind which, he shivered in the cabin home of his| youth. One night he dreamed that he with in a crowd, when some one recog- nized him as the president and exclaim= ed in surprise, “He is a very common looking man.” Yhereupon he answered, “Friend, the Lord prefers common -look- ing people. That is the reason he makes s0_many of them.” Lincoln liked people, and he always kept in touch with the mass. He did not have to take the word of politicians 1, 1843, | sentences in the army. done wrong to allow it. ready too mony wesniso widows; .don't sk me fo adu one 10 U 5 one pardon he wrote, “I think this boy can do us more good above ground than And here Is another charac- “If you have not shot under it. teristic message: Denis McCarthy, don’t.” brave man. coln.” asked: “Papa, why does God make dock- | friend, Tl be his friefd,” he sald as he On Teceiving no satisfactory re- |stopped the shooting of a soldier, under | . In a few [sentence of a courtmartial. , “My poor girl” he said to a woran TIl bet God got |who pleaded for the life ' of her soldier brother, “you have come Here With no governor or senator or member of con- gress to speak in your cause; you seem honest and truthful and you don't wear foops, and Il be whipped if I don't'par- don him, : He hated Friday- he called i t “butcher's day, ime appointed for carrying out “There are ng a boy today. I hope I have Even a coward had a friend cases,” he sleeping sentinel. —because that was the usual death “They are shoot- in this It God Almighty, gives a man a cowardly pair of legs, how can he help their running away with him?” A pigeon-hole in his desk was stuffed with these “leg them. A soldier whom he had spared a dis- honorable death before the firing squad, iwas found dead on a battlefield, and in his pocket was a photograph of his deliv- erer, inscribed “God bless President Lin- Like this is the oft-told story of Lincoln went per- sonally to see and to pardon that Ver- mont boy, Who repaid him |battle by swimming a river under fire sgain and again to carry the wounded to safety unfil he had given his life for -his as he. labeled in his first his secretaries, a punning conceit from Theodore Hook, ‘“unconscious that he . . was infinitely funnler,” said John Hay. Here's another snap shot from Hay. “He read Shakespeare to me, the end of ‘Henry VIII' and the beginning of Richard IL’ till my heavy eyelids caught his considerate notice and he sent me to bed. Lincoln's office was almost his prison cell through four terrible years. The shouts o® his two litle boys at play al- ways were weicome notes of joy to their care-weighted father. He never objected to their noisily bursting in upon him, and often he joined the children in their boisterous games in the -\White House grounds. In the dark days when the nation it- self was at death’s door, one of the boys died. For weeks the grieving father strove in vain to win a spirit a spirit of resignation, dropping his work for a day jat a time and surrendering to his sor- row. Doubtless the fortitude he gained at last in that wrestle with himself be- came part of ‘he heroic faith which lift- ed him above the general despair when the fortunes of the Union sank lowest. After Willie's death, the other boy re- ceived a double share of paternal affec- tion. Tad was in the habit of going to his father in the evening and .making a report of all that had happened since morning, usually falling asleep in the midst of his prattle. Laying the little tellow on the floor by the side of his desk, Lincoln returv:d to his heavy tasks until his own long day was done, when he took his sleeping boy on his shoulder and carried him off to bed. Monday: Lineoln In Victory. al- not on It doesn't take self-conceit long to put bashfulness out of business. or newspapers about what, the country was thinking. He went t5 the source, In truth, he needed only to look within himself and find a mirror of the popular wind. n As he finished his daily wrestle with senators ané the big-wigs, he plunged with zest into what he called his “pub- lic opinion bath:” ~Seated in his chair with one leg tlirown over the arm, he received the motley crowd that poured in through the wide open door of his office. Those who approached him in-awe found themselves- at .ease in the presence of a friend, whose manner safd to every one what he said in a speech to a regiment: T happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. "I am living witness that any one of your childréen may look to tome here as my father's child has” The man fairly —exhaled demderacy, fraternity, equality. Frederick Doug- las said that Lineoln was-the only white man he ever- met who did not show con- sciously or unconsciously that he recog- nized his color. Sympathy flowed in'a constant stream from its fountain in.this great heart. 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