Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 12, 1920, Page 4

ors by the cans are not king of for Ameri- of the man who' made the Panama canal possible. Serwich Bulletia and Goufief i2¢ YEARS OLD o npigtien srim (30 8 swti S 3 wons 0 Esieied ai e Postoffics «t Norwich, fvaa, e | Quickly forgetful of the service of their public men, course, and this may be largely: true of @ovod<ctim mattar. Telwbzas Catie. Salletin Bustaes Offies &8, Bullctia Kditowta it 1ot Smee 12 Witimast® Onie © Chureh St Tolhene 105 Norwich, Saturday, Jume 12, 1920. — CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING JUNE 5th, 1920 10,629 MASSACHUSETTS LEARNS. Massachusetts cities have led the New England sthtes in turning over their electric lightisg plants to municipal en- terprises, some thirty or more having adopted this plan and being required to make annual reports of the details of their business experience. The figures! themselves are illuminaging, as published in this issue of the Bulletin, but far! more instructive are the conclusions of & Harvard instructor in economics who! has studied the results of municipal elec- tric fghting in the Bay State In the light of experience and under the effect lation In Massachusetts of the electric light And power business sees reason to advocate further municipalization of the industry in that siate. Particularly does Professor Lin- coin find that the possibility of loss is great thro: a city investment in an electric ng plant, and while pub- e ow of a distributing plant might able it would only be jus- tified when private business could not be induced to enter the fleld except at pro- hibitive rates As long as purchasers are found for the current, the question of the load fac-| . which, by way, Professor Lincoln says, is never computed, rarely worries those in charge of mupicipal plants. If, real efficiency muniéipal plants is to be shown, they should be conducted ex- sctly as if they were private commercial snterprises. In no other way can the public b to see what they are enining s by municipal owner- t lighting at a fair the rate, tals it they occupy| and estimating plant the service of 1 their true value s ordinary business ods to be anplied to mun plants without which no Whether they are rendering really effec-| using the tax payers well reasing ention | plank | part: would the promised and whom ween was inelud and the inter- nd re ty of nations those n dealing with the treat o »e considered republi- gans and free agents, just as in the past or should the convention draw a line of stincilon between the differgnt groups - These were the questions hat 1 resolutions committee in trawing platform plani The plank adopted gives dignified con- sideration to both groups of senator: declaring tha prmed their duty falthfu! nd fidelity wor- by of oval ling mention of e ot the nk d stands v ns to preserve the for. he world affirms that the a ates can be a party to such an v without compromising na- nce, which was impo 2 under covenant signed by Presi- lent Wilson at Pai It declares the f the United ates to be mong (hose nations which shall exercise @ power for peace whenever war shall be threatened by political ac- There is nothing in t k to make ation of the league, with reserva- jons. a possibility, or to keep the United jtates aloof from membership in a eague of nations, though it is certain it will not ng ke lines which Presi. lent Wilson submitted to the senate, ac- ompanying the demands of a letator in a matier Where the constitu- fonal authority was theirs and not his. ED DIPLOMATS, that ng to note Hugh rtment of state, who to Washington in getting some efficient organization in a lepartment more or less “shot to pieces” pakes a plea for a trained diplomatic wrvice as one of the country's best as- especiall this eritical juncture s world. It is a good thing to have wn like Mr. Gibson epeak out frankly fnee after a while the country will real- e just what it has lost through a badly rganized department of state, plus in- ompetence abroad. As far back as January Secretary iansing made a report to the semate in hich he pointed out that our whole tate department needed reorganization n order that it might meet the needs of he day, sines, as he put it, “in the in- eraational realm commerce gnd politics ¥ now so inextricably interrelated bat it is imfossible to tell where one " | th res| Gorgas received his honors General while & patient at the Milbank hospital which King George was visiting and there bestowed upon the distinguished American the insignia of knight com- mander of the order of St Michael and 8t. George, an honor conferred in rec- ognition of the general's serviges to the British empire and to the world. It is said of republics that they are taking it as a matter of the United States. In fact, they are less able to bestow theso marks of approba- tion, since they lack the particular types of distinetion which monarchial govern- ments are fitted to give. General Gor- gas will wear worthily the honors to Which he s so well entitled. JOIN THE THRIFTY MINORITY. Industry, attention to business or the job, mixed with thrift, never counted for more than they have in reeent years and do now. Many a fine start has been made toward permanent suceess and comfert, and may yet be made. While the thoughtless, pleasing seeking crowd enjoys itself throwing to the birds easy money, the thrifty minority are enjoying themselves more in the satisfactory and strengthening business of saying every dollar not needed for necessities. Saving puts anxiety to flight, gives confidence in the future, and builds char- acter. It is a form of self-denial. He who can and does resist desires better left unsatisfied inevitably grows strong. He acquires a dignity, seif-eontrol and forward looking babit that lifts him above the weak and foolish spenders who regard money as something to byrn. There is a double incentive to save in these days of the 50-cent dollar. Two fiollars may be earsied and saved now as easily as one was six years ago; and if spent, buy only half what they would in 1914. But in another four years if saved, their purchasing power will be oubled. Thus the young man of 1920 may get interest on his savings, while they are doubling in value. It is a won- derful opportunity to make life doubly worth living, and will yield a dividend of contentment also. AMERICA’S SUPER-G But for the end of the war, says Washington dispateh, a German ciiy would have been bombarded by an Amer- ican gun 100 miles away. Gunnery T ex- non, althouh most of the world gun” from a distance of 75 miles. have produced of something more than 110 miles. remember when Children's Day came in-| incident is of little moment, excent as|to zeneral use. It might be a shock to it shows that the annlication of science] Puritan severity to see how far the ohild and skill o overcoming problems iu-|has advanced in-the life of the church. volved in warfare is not peculiar to any|The sreat spirits of the past, austere one mation. Americans had devoted|3S their beliefs were, had—mapy ef themselves to the olution of difficulties| (Nem—Varm - Joving hearts, and It re- o > # €51 quires no. wrench of the imagination -to encountered in peaee timef, but Without| gea Coiton Mather and. Jonathan . Fd- ntirely neglecting the theory of war-{ wards holding little babies in their arms fare. When the necessity spurred them|and saying With great depth of feeling: on. the trained warriors of this country,|*for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” With ecientists enlisted in_the servics, | There Is no_service to which the clmrcl: 1 produos’ s th d gives its authority more appealing and & i child as a part of the divine fns feutton ot war coutinced; - 3Vith the dead was not used, and the st m (hat is only fired in an experi 21 way, the Yankees were r = a bit of interest to procee Rhine. LDITORIAL NOTES. f you dom't wat :h out bu Root is credited with whittiing treaty plank that made the platform i the love for voetry in those days that — — Plutarch tells us that after the disast- According 1o @l reports. the weather| ouS"G (" 0r e "Kmentans betore Sy- man helped to make it a ot tim: ““r.;uls? the Sicilians spared those who Chicago couid reneat.any of -the poetry of Ew L e pide Think of the bolsheviki sparing | The suepicion grows that the San{those who could repeat Shakespeare or Francisco gathering will not be a boss-| Milton! For a prisoner to repeat some 55 convention, of onr modern noetry. would be fo sign ey 2o * | his death warrant. | In the event that Debs were elected| In this human make-up of ours, 2c- |bresident would the inauguration be|cording to the psychologists, sensation | shifted to AUanta? cuts a broad swath. It includes. of course, pain‘as Sell-ge pleasure i Sorrow Nothing would have made Hearst|as weil as joy. Sensatlon admits almost chuckle quite so much as a bolt in the|Oof infinite classification: there is the per- W Sty Babiyettion manent and the seasonal _sensation. e % ! Something of this sort came to the writ- v bond holders will experience| ¢¥, (e ther. day which was mast de- the ards of patriotism as they their coupons next week. Talk of a third party faded with th expeditious adoption of the republica: platform Thursday night. If it is any catisfaetion Prasident W1l Much like the erowd at a Lullfight the way Blasco Ibanez, the Spanish no elist, records his observation of a polif cal convention in the United States. agents “Dry" in Detroit confiscate delegation, leaving only nants of the New England conscience. The man on the corner says: 1f every { American boy is told he has a chance to be president, at least every Mexican boy can see he has a ehanee to die president. “Old stuff,” probably sniffed the White House as the first sentences of Senator Lodge's speech began to come over the wire. It had a familiar sound there. “Running faster than a scared rab- bit” no longer indicates speed in these days of autos that can turn up 100 miles an hour as many a poor bunny has found to his cost. Taking it from the ‘movies” one would conclude that the Inevitable pre-| lude to a live-happy-ever-after married nds and the other begins.” The diplo- sat of today, he held must be the ad- anee agent of trade and commerce and. nance. FONORING GORGAS. Americans will receive with approba- bn and satisfaction the news that Gen- ral William C. Gorgas of the Americaa life 1s a more or less shady ‘“affair’ somewhere along the line. Governor Holcomb's stand against calling a special seesion of the legisla- ture at the hehest of the suffragists gets some credit at Chicago. The desire not to affront Conneeticut’s governor for res fuslng to do what he considered illegal rts of the United States were not long in solving the secret of long range can- was skeptical when it was reported that Paris was being shelied by the German “terror The weapon that the gunnery experts is said to have a range The A perfect day in June. Iy infer that the more advanced a peo- ple were in the arts and sciences the first national comver.on withsut| stronger would be their relish for. ideal- the brass rail. ism sueh as poetry expresses, but it is e quite the reverse. Advanced civilization McAuliffe and his deputies will catch{ aboun the exat seiences and spec- e elephant and £ er dreamed of, bul poe- i, sl Wi th g wan: one of the finest of the arts, has al- i 1\« avs been cult ted by nations in their F i <= gpe g infaney. Ths Iliad, perhavs the great- What to d ex presidential ! - ?v‘ oy 1'?‘,""" e saatmnnicen “1!< t of all poams, was vroducad when Candidates “will be tha wext gueption. | Gioecs was youns. Niell, the cut the private stock of the Massachusetts scattered rem- If there is any different between In- stinct and Intelligence—what s it? There are some who claim thet Instinct is only a low degree of Intelligence; if o then it is a guestion of degree ard not of kind. If there is any real differ- ence the line of demarcation between them is So fine as not to be observable. Perhaps it is only the agent that creates the supposed difference. The following well-authenticated story is in evidence In one of our rural districts a mother entrusted her little girl to the compan- ionship and protection of a powerful St. Bernard dog Which was much attached to the child. ' Shortly she was ‘alarmed by loud screams, and rashing to the door she saw the dog some distance away, dragging the ehild on the ground. Think-, ing_that the animal. had suddenly gone mad, she seized a shotzun and ran to’ the rescue. She didn’t shoot the dog, however, for about ten feet away was an enormous rattlesnake all coiled up, ready to spring. The dog had saved the child. It man had done this ii would have been called intelligence. Why call the same act only_instinet in a dog? How sto; momentum also gives them absurdity. Now and then one comes to our motice that is really amusing: During a eyclone in a western city a doctor left his Hud- son touring car in front of his office. When the storm had passed he couldn't find his car. At length he saw it with top gone, standing at the door of a church one block away. The fary of the storm had sent it along the street to the church, and then its freakish jmpact had forced it up. the stone stepS to Where he found it. . Somewhat later a papér published in Salt Lake City fell iato his hands containing this amazing state- ment: that in the midst of a tornado. his “Ford had climbed the steps of a church, entered the building, tipped over the first nineteen pews, then throwing itself into reverse, had backed out againl”. Per- haps the doctor regarded this incident as a loud call to attend church. Rightly or wrongly, there is most cer- tainly an. undercurrent of dissatistaction n the American mind with presidential primaries. They seem fo give tlie Wid- est scope to men of wire-pulling ‘ability to draw public attention to themselves, while other men of sterling ability, and the highest administrative capacity are threwn into the shade because ~they haven’t the knack of keeping themselves in the limclight by cheap trickery, and because the refuse to besmear them- with the tactles of the ward polif The primary makes no final de- ; it simply opens the way for men past masters in soliciting votes. nary action’can be talsen that binding on the conveation. Throwing bouquets to favorite sons who live across the continent does not. clear the way for the selection of a presiden-! tial noniinec. The object of the conven- tion is to select the best man and some- times the best man is not the most bril- liant electioneer. New expressions are econstantly com- ing into owr vocabulary—and .some.. of them are here to stay,-by a sort of di- vine right. -Qne need not be very old to It is quite logical that it should be sup- ted by the recoznition of Mother's weelss_earlier, for mothers Iren are still the supreme forces o the wors It seems yery strange to us in -this prosaie age of ours:that the time gver was when poeiry was regarded .as - the supreme possession. We would natural- ilozophy. It and commerce the ancients n also carried that s to a point .} Roman poet, was coniemporary » gustus. Italy was also.young when gave Dante {o the world. So great was w: n cidedly ‘seasonal, ' e sd} under: an! ap- ple tree. that was @ solid mase of frag- rant blogsoms.. It”was not a paiful or sorrowful semsatiop that possesszed: him. e| It reminded of Whittier's poem. “O, n|the charming Wwitchery of smell!” The petals, ~snow _ whife, gently = failing, brought the rich fragrance a little nearer to his delighted; senses. Under such a son ecan thi <t (zoubles his| charm ape can understand -how Tenny- republican ::l:r e ik Combles | o when_he wrote: “The milk-wh hawthorn scents the, évening gale,” The A% abt Ho5 seem 5 3 bees added something.to.this witchery. A ey sesslon in the torrid Coli-|ye was not.a symphopg, but a monbio seum wilted the determination of the! fowever jit was 2 part of the game and .ym,,v.'o sto stay till they reached a|they wee nof troubled by the.eight-hour nomination. ~ law. 8o 2y % Bishop Fohn k ‘Vincent, oe of Amer-! A man who lost his Wallet At Sing|jea’s grand old men, has recently passed Sing had it returned to him Which is|away at the advanced age of eighty- more than might have been his experi-|eight vears. His was the creative mind ence in many another place. that conceived the “Chautaugua. idea” into an abiding American’ institution. If he had never reached the episcopate his fame would have been secure. many years and still Chautauqua Lake is the Mecca for all those who seek a vacation in summer by combining, in- struction and entertainment during the annual period of rest. It was soon Jearned that if thie people were Willing to go to Chautauqua, Chautauqua was willing to go to the people. No one place was biz enough to accommodate all those who wished to avail -them- selves of its privileges. Hence the cir- cuit plan was introduced. - Qur own. city patronized Chautauqua last year, and we rejoice that it will be with us again this year, The great crowds that flock- ed to the tent last Vear are sure to come egain this summer. Commericement Day is ypen us with Its vast world of suggestiveness. It is A companion to the apple tree in full blossom. -The dayis not so remarkable for the ripened.fruit it produces as for the rieh fragrance it exhales. There is an_invigorating tonmic in the -optimism with which the good health and bright hopefulness of - youth view - things in general. To the more experienced -mind all this seems rather crass, but do mot we older ones need the inspiration that eomes from understanding the viewpoint of youth? That many of these rosy sunsets will never materialize in the ac- fual experiences of life is no reflection on the healthy imagination that concerns them. The world would be all the poor- er without the scent of the apple blos- soms. a s gain in circalation! Added}’ and for a quarter century developed it For | 'RUSSIA AT THE TURNING POINT nsh i e Al o predict what Machme Company Two phenomena in' the Russian situ- ation are attracting the world's atten- | tion at present, says A. J. Slack, di- rector of the Russian information bu- reau in the United States. On the one hand, the bolshevist regime in Russia is passing through a grave crisis, due to the fact that the bolshevist experiments have almost entirely destroyed Russia’s| A return to the old order s impossible economic life. On the other hand the red army is making considerable pro- gress in the struggle against the Poles and is also advancing successfully in the' Caucasus and in Persi These two phenoména, although seem- ingly contradictory, point to the fact that while the balshevist regime is on the eve of a break-down, the Russiah peo- ple are alive and, even under the utter disorganization brought about ‘b ythe bolshevist rule, are capable of defend- ing their dignity and their rights. The Russian, people struggle aginst the Pol- ish advance because they understang that this advance is not inspired by any desire on the part of thie Polish people to safeguard themselves against the ‘menace of bolshevism. The Polish de- mand for nine Russian provinces (gu- bernias), in additfon to fthe territary granted them by the peace conference, their demand for a Russian territory equal in size to that of Germany, is an unmasked desire to cut off a slice of the prostrated but still living body of Russia, taking advantage of the tempo- rary difficulties through which the Rus- sian people are passing at present. Russia lies prostrated—otherwise these Prussian-like experiments would not be possible. “But she is still alive, and the successes of the Red army, which is now built on.the principle of universal service and therefore, to.a certain degree, reflects the Russian na- tional spirit, demonstrate this fact to the world. The people of Russia—al- though bled white by the three years-of active participation in the war, which cost Russian 12,000,000 casualties, and exhausted by the additional, two and a half years of revolution and civil strife— are still alive and the Red army, in_its last successful movements, reflects the deep indignation which the. Russian people feel towards everyone, who tries to mutilate the body of Russia. This t is that omen that Russia’s res- urrection is not far distant. Combined with the grave crisis through which bolshevism is now pasing, it will bring about the miracle of Russia's resurrec- tion which, when it comes, will stir the world not less than Russia's tragic collapse. | “Transcaucasia. will happen in Russia immediately after the bolshevist regime is overthrown, there is no doubt but that the uitimate resuit "of the political and social pro- cesses that will begin with the down- fall of bolshevism will be the establish- ment of a demoeratic regime in Russia. The Russian people will mot stand for it, and, on the other hand, the inter- national situation is not such as to en- courage reaction In Russia. Russia will reappesr before the world s a democratic state and, we are sure, as.a united state. At this moment when imperialists and adventurers of every kind are slicing the living body of Russia, we wish to say, sider it out duty to say, ples of Russia to whose themselves” lomg ago, and their de- ous kinds usually appeal, “determined determination the imperialists of vari- termination’ is to Temain with Russia. There were mo separatist movements in in Russia before the March revolution, and even during the first period of the revolution, between March, 1917, and the bolshevist revolt ,in November, 1917. The proclamation of the Transcau- casian independence came as a result of pressure from Turkey ,which acted under the guidance of Germany. After the bolshevist and the German propaganda had destroyed the Russian armies, events on the Caucasian front led to an armis- tice concluded on December 17, 1917. This was followed by negotiations with Turkey and the calling of the Trebi- zond conference which opened on March 12, 1918. The first and fundamental demand Turkey presented at this con- ference was that the conferenge .chould recognize the ‘Brest-Litovsk trenty and declare the . complete 4ndependence of Thus, acting through then Imperial Germany succeeded in estzblishing an independnt Ukraine. This unfortunate policy is nos continued by some of Russia’s former allies. Just as bolshevism, in its spirit and practice; reflects Prussianism at its worst, so the policy of - partitioning Russia, of cutting slices from her ing body, s Prussiian in the essence. Prussianism, nc matter in what form, cannot endure. Bolshevism and artifi- clally inspired. separatism must disap- pear. The latest events in Russia show that the Russian people are awaking d that the time is mot distantswhen Russia will reappear before the world as a strong democratie and united state. 0 Turkey, - the NAP SHOTS OF DEMOCRATIC CONV. TIONS Copyrighted by G. M. Adams Service o The Convention of 1872 Democratic National convention which assembled in Baltimore | was_perhaps. the most unique or party Hora of the New York. 'Fri- ted for president gn a| single ballott, in_spite of the. fact”that | for a quarter of a century or more he| had been the party’s most vigorons and persistent critlc and assaiiant. This action resulted from a désire to unite with so-called “liberal republicans” The of 1 on July 9, gathering of its sort in the whole 872, of democratic editor s nomin; journalist anad CI Francis Adams of | Massachusetts (who if -successful, would have been the third, generation of hic family to enter the White Hou Wheh the - -democrals - assembled” n Baltimore, they had- this Cincinnati ac- tion of the “liberal republicans” for & guide post, and they followed it—from first to last—with = fidelity. Thomas Jefferson Randoiph of Virginia w: orary chairman. Senator James R. litthe of Wisconsin was permanent cha man. Greeley was' nominated for presi- dent on a ballot with 686 votes, being Jeremiah 8. Black of Pennsylvania with 21 votes, Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware with 16 is oniy contende | voles, and’ William . Groesbeck of Ohio | Y6313 of his manhood in courts, either as with 2 votes. ’ e OT) B INIRE ) g For vice president, B |Giats P of } train in Ohio on a certain day in the year | L o) 1899, he had no other wish than to spend Missouri (previously nominatec the | > e rem oy o s aiac | his life in the same congenial atmosphere. vated on a single roll call with (helBut on that fateful train he fell in with only_dissension. centering around John | GeneTal Corbin of the army, until then a e ey e | stranger to him, and the gereral returned Rhe orventlon sthn ool i | to Washington with the enthusiastic con- nati platform, including the plank whi straddled the tariff question and refused an endorsement of free trade. Its ac- ceptance was strongly opposed by -Sen- on September 3, 1872 irf th of Charles O'Connor of New York (prev- iously nominated by the “Labor Refor Party”) for president and John Quin % Adams of Massachusetts for vice presi- dent. But this latter ticket was never regis- tered in the electoral college at all. Grant was re-elected. Greeley died a few days after the election and the democratic of the Convention of 1876 { Five Minutes a Day With Our Presidents | Copyright 1920—By James Margan LXXVIII—MORAL: PRESIDENTS ARE BORN NOT MADE. 1857—Sept. 15, Willlam Howard Taft born in Cincinnati. 1878—Graduated at: Yale, 1880—Graduated at Cincinnati Law Sehool. 1881-3—Asst. Prosecating Attorney. 1885-7—Asst.. County Solicitor. 1886—Married Helen Herron, 1887-90—Judge of Superior Court. 1890-9—Solicitor Gerteral of = United States. 1892-1900—United ~ States = Cireult Judge. B 1900-04—Commissioner in and Gove ernor of the Philippines. 1904-8—Secretary of War, 1909—Inaugurated ~ 26th President, aged 51. 1912—Defeated for re-election, with only eight electoral votes. ‘When Roosevelt and Taft rode up Penn- sylvania avenue on March 4, 1909, it was the first time since Jackson and Van Buren had passed that way side by side, more than 70 years before, that a retiring president would not have preferred an- other seatmate and successor than the one whom the fortunes of politics had thrust upon him.. Perhaps already “dear Theodore” and “dear Wil were not wholly pleased with each other. The presidency. is too big a gift for any man to make or for any man to actept. resulted in a modifical®D ef the suf- frage plank adopted. And a self- mnde man sémetinies’ makes a noise like a phenograph. The given humanly cannot help expecting representing parti ctions ~ which | life, and he was without the least desire | were dissatisfied " with President G for the presidency when Roosevelt -mado first term for a varlety of reasoms.|him his heir. These “liberal republicans” in previous He was abler, more upright, more inda- O by sinncinnall, hominated| pendent than some far more successfal Sireed b Dresidents. But by hent and training he s temp- | the evidence, consult precedents and pre- Doo-| Cinein- i ator Bayard of Delaware, but the vote in | 16y ent for him, that he wished to stay favor of 670 fo 62. on the bench; but he was talked into-go- The result of the convention created | NS Four years afterward Roosevelt of- general lemocratic dissatisfaction, and | fered him a justiceship in the supreme an effort to nominate a “straight demo- [ COUTt of the United States, the highest an effort to nominate a “straight demo- | N070T to Which his heart ever had as- cratic ticket” culminated at Louisville | Pired. But he put aside the temptation nomniation | electors scattered their votes without se-| Roosevelt had the weakness of his rious attempt at_concentration. The |Strength. He thought he was strong leaders werc Thomas A. Hendricks of [ enough to make a president. But real Indiana (48) and B. Grazt Brown _of | bresidents are born, not made Missouri (18)... Three Georgia electors| The moment Roosevelt was gone, the tried still to Vote for Greeley but con-|standpatters, the reactionary forces, gress rejected their ballots emerged . from their 7 1-2 years in the To be continued tomorrow with the story | cessor. He forced his enemies to accept him with the terrifying threat: “If y don't take Taft, you'll have to take me. And he had to set a watch on his own| friends to keep them from stampeding the convention to him. Naturally, everyone assumed that-we were to have a Roosevelt administration by another name, and it was expected in the campaign that the ex-president would not go farther away from - the ~‘White | House than Oyster Bay. Instead he| plunged into the depths of Africa. - He| might as well, when he was @ ranchman, have flung an eastern gueston the- back of 2 bucking broncho and abandoned him | to his own resources. For Taft was an | utter tenderfoot m politics. i The fate of William Howard Taft would have been pathetic if he himself had not met it and borne it with a smile. He did | not invite it, having no taste for political | was a_ju 1 the White Ho: { place for a judge. dent who had men—Andrew ory is ne The only other pre: at on a bench was—of all Jacksop, and “Old" Hick- seems not to have acquired over- much of the judicial temperament. Executive force and judicial mind are the positive and negative poles of the battery. 1If a presiaent stops to weigh pare an opinion, enterprises of g pith and moment are turned awry and loze the name of action. In the crises that make or break his administration and his lead- crship he must decide on his instinets, his intuitions. and find his reasons afterward, Taft passed all but two of the first 20 viction that he had discovered the right | man to give a code of laws to the Philip- pine Islands. Taft earnestly protested, when McKin- from a pure sense of duty grown brother.” As law-giver and governor of Manila, he had won the confidence of his Oriental to his “little [ before his task was finished he sacrificed the dearest ambition of his life. In a year and a half Rooosevelt had him in his cabinet as secretary of war—and soon had him in his eve for the presideney. | cyclone cellar. The moment the political broncho felt the tenderfoot on its back it bucked. and threw Taft from the seat of leadership.# The next thing the rank and file of republicans knew, the party was slipping back into the old rut from which Roosevelt had ferked it when first he laid upon it his masterful hand. But the neople refused Eight montbs after Taft's inauguration the election of 1909 squnded a clear warning of the disaster that overwhelmed the party in the congressional election of to go back. of §25. nM | politician and 2 leader. {face a decided shortage at the time o | somthing. sybjects, and rather than desert his post | Telephone: Providence, R. 1. ‘Union 983 Union 1857 Engingers Founders _Machinists Manufacturers of , HARRIS-COR- LiSS ENGINES, Brown Valve Gear appl to all makes of Cor» liss Engines, Engine airs, Shafting, Hangers, Pulloys ings, Couplings, Clutches. Large stock always on hand, General Mill Repairs. Special machinery of all kinds. Taft, a curious stranger asked a gate- kecper at the Union station in Washing- ton ‘where he would stand the best chance of seeing the president in the few spare hours that he had between trains. “Right Where you are” was the reply. .“He's alwayseither taking a train or getting oft Taft was the first president to draw the present salary of $75,000, as Grant had been the fiyst 1o receive $50.000 after the increase he original compensation ngress had also adopted, two years before he came in, the custom of alowing $25.000 yearly for the travel- ing expenses of the president, and he he- came the” great presidential travelpr, malking & record of 150,000 miles in four years as he went about the country ap- pealing for a reversal of the verdict against his administration. In vajn he strove to turn back the tide, which only sported with him. After having elacted him by 1,200,000 plurality, the people parted with Taft more in sorrow than in anger . . . . and most of them still are sorry. They did not question that he was a good presi dent, but that is a secondary consider tion. A president must be first of all a Monday: The Bull Moose, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Need More Products of the Soll Mr. Editor: Having again had my attention called to certain existing con- ditions, I feel impressed with the ne- cessity of making an appeal to your readers, through the columns of your | publication. Bvery citizen should Go his part to overcome these conditions. Not lonz ago, the governor of Mas- sachusetis- strongly urged the people of that state to do their best in the mat- ter of the production of foodstulls, as it wes very apparent that meed for this cffort was very great, and urged the plenting of gardens as universally as pos- ble. We are told on good authofity, that in the state of New York the amourt o. soil being cultivatd is forty per cent. less This year than last. - To an one who has been observant, it is very | parent that in eur-state the ! farms ‘arc not being workedsto anything like their capacity, and small gardens not nearly as numerous as - during the veriod of the war, and unless effori i madé to improve conditiens, we shall harvest. There are several ways in which we can each and everyone help to improve congitions.. Owing to the backwardness of the season, there ¥ still time to plant a- garden if we have mot already denc- so, and influence others to do the same. and dn this way - netomplish | One gre:f reason why our farms are not being worked to capacity is the decided shortage of man power to per- form labor, and here is where it is pos- sible for each of us to do some good. It has come to my knowledge within the st twenty-four hours, that men are being discharged from some of our manufacturing plants, who are unnable to gecure work owing to changed con- ditions in this line of work. Is it not possible for us to encourage these men to work on the farms, rather than spend their time in idleness, even if wages are not as large as they have been receiv- ing, as surely the out-of-doorylife woulds| be beneficial to their health as wall as their cofforts to help in the matter of food production. Another important way in which every one may render valuable assistafiee fs in supporting -an organization, which aids not only the farmers, but any and every individual who wishes expert advice on any of the various problems that enter |into the culture,. care or preservation of things that grow. ! The New London GCounty Improve- |ment League was organized several years ago, and has a very enviable record for valuable services * rendered, and is now in thé midst 'of its busy season and is in need of financial sup- port. The appropriations the fed- eral and state funds are made un- til the sum of one thousand dollars ($1.000) is first raised in the county and it is necessarv that this be ac- complished within a very short time or forfeit government ald, and It is hoped that voluatary contributions will mailed to the treasurer. W. D. Copp, Chelsea Savings Bank, or that you willl respond liberally it called upen by the solieitors. Your for mere food supplies, C. EDWARD SMITH Norwich, June 11, 1920. Sunday Moming Talk THE MOUNT OF PRAYER Qur Heavenly Guide loved to con- verse with the Fatyer on the solitary mountain tops, apart from all the world. ‘There He would pour out the love and longing of His great heart for us. We should therefore, follow the steps ef our Guide, for there is no place to which He leads that w need fear to go into. The world is tireosme and con- fusing. Its clamor pometimes drowns the voice of Himh Who leads us; but of we seek Him in the sllence of prayer, we shall surely find Him, apd feel His tender hand leading us out of the gloom and darkness into sunlight and beauty. Alone with God! How solemn and yet how sweet the thought! Lifted far above the world, we meet Him, not as I 1910 and which all but destroyed it in the presidential election of 1912. According to a story that was told of Moses, in’the midst of the lightning, and lin the blackness of the cloud; not as Elijah n the whirlwind, the storm and be— more gratitude than the recipient hu-. manly czn acknowledge. Roosevelt alone had selected his suc- Folks Who Eat Ordinary Corn Flakes dont know good Corn Flakes ntil they try PoSTTOASTIES It is no wonder we furnish the homes of so many dis- ture of such beautiful designs. 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