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= 1798 1929 member - the contributors -and their > through a number of weeks, it they received their publicity just be- fore election day, Senator Harding will certainly_not object to it and the law gives, rnof Cox that option. The law governing election expenses was made by congress and mot by the dem- ocratic nominee for president se that .t is the law, as it is written, to which = Senator Harding needs to give his at IS e, (2 & e e tention and not the amendment pro- Foiered at the Postofiice st Norwich, cvaa.. as | posed by Governor Cox. eesvd-ciass mater. Telephzas Camta. FREE RADIUM FOR CANCER Culletln Business Oflos 480 Buietn = A considerable step forward in the o i 133 “5ee 15.1 | treatment of cancer is made with the ®ilifmante Mo 23 Chaea Nt Tel-phens 03 | announcemenit that the $259,600 worth of radium reeently by the State of Neéw Yerk will be available for the frae treatment of cameer at the State’s nsgftution for the Study of Malignant Disedses at Buffalo. Be- ginning October 15 this institution will receive for tréstment all safferers from cancer net officially d as be- yond cure. Residenits of New York will dierwitis Huieiin and Goudied i24 YEARS OLD ont; 38.00 Norwich, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 1920, HEMUER OF THE ASSUCIATED PRES: The Aswclates Press 1a eiclucivery entiiler & the use for republication of all pews Cempeten. e credited te It e 3t eredited 1n thie paper ad also (¢ locai Cews ublished aerein. Al mights of reputilication of epectal desputen- w0 Bercin are als reserved . CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING JULY 31st, 1520 flest amount of radium which a private) physician ean. précure costs Until this time, aceording to Dr. Gay-| Jord, directer of the Buffalo institution, we have had me therapeutic agents so costly that they could not be afforded by VICE DUE HSOEE EFFICIENT GE the ordinary practitioner. FROM THE RAILROADS Cancer remains, after all the advances Having had the wagee question set-|in its treatment, the puzzle and the ter- tled ihrough the Esch-Cummings award|ror of medicine. Some 90,00 deaths and the question of where the funds are to co: from through the decision of the terstate commerce commission, is it too from it eccur in this country yearly, in New York some $,000 and it is in- creasing at the rate of 25 per cent. every much to expect that the railroads should|ten years. The Society for the Contrel now seftle down to a’ determination tojof Caneer, representing somé 906 phy- give the best public service? Thi ap-’siciam, is behind this experimept at plies alike to railroad workers, engin-|DBuffalo and thopes to reduce the fatal conducters, freight hand-|results of the disease through treat- others concerned with the phys-|{ment throwgh scientific research which operation of the roads and to the!the possession of the radium will make in whose hands lie|&vailable. B their lines to meet WHAT PALMER PROMISES the Tée mueh will not be expected of At- spirit of unrest removed the settlement of their wage| torney-General Palmer's newly announc- the workers should be ablejed “drive” to bring down coal prices. their undivided attemtion and|The disparity between the attorney-gen- tasks while the|cral's promises amd the actual results proeeed with cer-|of his campaigms, both against the Reds e development plans, now and the cost of living, does mot tend to their source of increased inspire confidence in the effectiveness of his crusades. The new aetivity in relation to coal has taken the form of the appointment of a eobmmiltee, by the attornev-general, that will be empowered to determine Wwhat find commeree commish the railroads au- their revéntie by ap- billion and a half dol- an advance in freight|constitutes a fair margin of profit on one-third, passénger | bitéminous coal. When that margin is and Pullman charges|exceeded the attorney-general will pros- increases are designed|ecute under the Lever law. the $600,000,000 wage ad-| Some coal operators are on the com- awarded by the railroad labor|mjtee which will establish a “fair” nd to provide the 6 per cent. net|coal price. The public is represented n the aggregate value of thejby one member. Such a committee is properties as permitted under|not likely to go too far in shaving ct. | profits. More service might be done dvance award was t was plain enough that it would the consumer by a real investigation of coal profits. Inquities of the sort have © be ofllowed by an increase in|not been of great value, chiefly because rates only question was how|they were not thorough enough or be- fhuch would have to be. This re-|cause mothing was ever done about solved itself into a problem in mathe-) them. matics for which the interstate com-| Rightly or wrongly, A the impgession meree commission attempts to give the!nrevails ‘with a great part of thé public that extortionate prefits are being taken in the coal trade. An investigation properly conducted snould determine whether or not this i the fact. None lfl'muld welcome such an inquiry more Ho apon to As man much the public will be called ‘pay the freight” is a question. far as passenger rates and Pull- rates are concerned, it is evident the advances will come directly of the traveling public's pocket, but is 2 more complicated matter to say ust how far freight rate advaficés can pushed along to the ultimate con- amer. Practically every commodity with which the public has to deal has, somewhere along the line, something added to it cost through charges for railroad freightage. If manufacturer, wholesaler, and retailer each eize upon the excuse of increased freight rates to add even a cent or two to prices, it is piain that the public’'s bill will be a ery large one. Members of the than the operators and dealers who are not making exorbitant profits. EDITORIAL NOTES H Let the Canadians come on with their boat. Beating Sir Thomas has become rather monotonous. Chicago robbers are nothing if not original. Their latest is sto steal an air- piane from its hangar. Just six years ago these August days the first moves of the German army were precipitating the World War. Interstate commerce commission are quoted as saying that| I1f the allies do not hurry to carry any appreciable adyamce n prices | Out their promise to protect Poland, unwarranted on account of |there may soon be mo Poland to protect. increased freight = rates, railroad| qye polgheviks should exmorisnce a ';“ utives concur in this opinion, whilel o) iinanta) interest in regain‘ng Brest Mr Lauck, the labor's men's statistician|yioovil Tats where they gat fheir Wwho was interested in securing wage|cory v: es hastens to assure the public ere should be no material advanc®| mTnat baby which was baptized on n prices, except possibly on coal|ihe girder of a fourteen story building where from 75 cents to $1.35 Per tOM|in New Orleans is bewinning high life| ay be exnected. Dealers in food on 1 carly. other hand, are said to predict a 7 to 8 per cent. on account of increased freight tariff. Willard of the Baltimore & rilroad, chairman of the execu- committee of the association of ceutives, is one of these Who| tic of better conditions because new rates. He says. “If the will bring renewed activi- opment of the railroads, will, then the advances, While there was talk of flying (he Va- cificc the Japs had an uniergrovid system that was working per it seems. ihe President Oh Ponzi's bland smile continues as he pays out sums that would give many another financier nothing but sleepless nights. Custard Charlie Chaplin must have ending to increass the cost of|saved all his fun and love making for e the opposite eficct./|the screen. His ‘wite says he's a fail- be renewed energy on the|ure as a husband. officers and employes Wwhich will reflected in the additional movement arge volume of business. This up in efficiency the increage No tainted money will be accepted for the democratic eampaign fund, but Mr. White fails to intimate =just what he would, call polluted pelf. We should get, as President Willard * The young man stood by the library absentmindedly fingering some old and faded photographs. The young wom- an leaned toward the Queen Anne mirror on the wall near by and patted her coif- fure. Suddenly she turned back. “You wouldn’t think they were my pic- tures, would you?” she asked. “I don’t care anything about the way you looked twenty years ago—or twenty months ago,” he answered, dejectedly. “It's now with me! Why do you string me along like this, Cornelia? Sometimes I wish I hadn’t let you know how I stand. Then I could keep you guessing and you'd sé¢ how it feels.” “Speaking of the way I looked twenty years ago,” replied the young woman, picking up a yellowish satin finished pho-{ tograph depicting her infant self in a square wicker baby carriage with a queer fringed canopied top, “look at this one. ‘That’s my uncle’s arm supporting me.” “I don't care who was supporting you, 1 then—it's who's going to do_that little sustaining job for the rest of time that interests me, Cornelia, Youre so foolish to act this-way! All you have to do is admit t#at you think as much of me as I do of you, and then—" “Now ,this picture with my doll was taken when I was 4,” continued the yourg woman. “I remember it as well as any- thing. That's a little pink cashmere dress I have on. The doll's wrapped in a fasci- $12,000. ( nator—the same one I used to wrap my head in t# go to kindergarten.” “I suppose you wraped the doll in it hecause you considered yourself fascinat- ing enough,” commented the Young man. “Now this was taken when I was 9, proceeded the young woman. “I went alone, because I wanted it for mother's and dad’s Christmas present. See how my hair is stringy and pushed back be- hind my right ear. No ome was there to primp me. But I've got on both my bracelets and my organdie dress with the lace ruffles, even if I did forget and wear ‘everyday black shoes.” The young man was flipping the lcaves of a magazine. “This one,” went on the young woman, “was taken a week later. T couldn't keep the Christmas present a seqret from-.dad. When I showed him the proofs he said ~ PHOTOGRAPHS OF HER Shall strike his father's crown into the name fifty periyns in the orderof their greatness, and this is the reported re- aset a S ., m—— e Aristotie, Lincoln, Cas- we'd slip down and pose together, so that peare otie, incoln, mothermwmud . have a double surprise.| “Mam rs of the accessories of |sar, Washington, Plato, Napoleon, Lu- | Doesn't daddy look hapy and fat? He |the‘game became so flourishing an in-|ther, Socrates, Newton, Columbus, Ldi- had a lot of hair then, didn’t he? 1]dustry in Bngland in the sixteentn cen-|son, Alekander, Emerson, Michelangelo, didn’t realize how thin and bald and gray |tury that appeal was made for a pro-|Homer, Mohammed, Milton, Voltaire, he has grown.” tective tariff against imported bals. Darwin, Franklin, Dante, Goethe, Cornelid,” said the young man “that some day you and T are going To be thin and gray? Is anybody going to love us then except the folks that began loving us when we were young and got the habit? We've got to get old. There's no escaping it.- But while we're young—we've got a long time —but if we—" “You didn’t see this one with the far- away gaze and the cheek resting on the hand. It was when I was 12. I had been memorizing ‘Romeo and Juliet' where he says he would that he were a glove upon that hand that he might touch that cheek. The cheek and the hand are there resting on the red velvet drapery. The hair bow at the back is a bit limp and skimp.” The young man had his hands in his pockets, his head thrown slightly upward, his mouth pursed as for whistling. “You didn’t see this one,” the young woman insisted. “Yowd think it was taken out in the country, with that rivet and those trees in the background. It was done in a tent at a circus. I'll never forget! My cousins were visiting me and we all went. The boys teased me that day about the green silk yoke to my dress, because it suggested St. Patrick's day.” “Boys! Boys!” exploded the young man. “You always did like to string /them along!. That's why you've got so many fellows coming here. Why, last Sunday afternoon it looked like a reception in this house. “You ought not to care, Benjamin admonished the young woman. “You came first and you stayed last. You:were the only one I asked to remain for tea.” “Was that your way of telling me, Cornelia? Is that what you mean? Is a girl too timid to come right out and say s0?” The young mam was mot apathetic now. > “You didn’t see thiS picture taken for my high school annual” suggested the young woman, as an excuse for keeping her eyes lowered.—Chicago News. FACTS REGARDING THE CARE OF THE BABY By U. 8. Public Health Serviee. Keeping the Baby Well much_ easier he becomes To keep a baby well is than to cure him When sick. In a room crowded with ple, there always is likely to be some- one who i% suffering from a catching disease, or 10 may have come from a home where such-a disease is pres- ent. For that reason, a little baby should? be kept away from the crowds and from crowded places in order to protect him from exposure to disease. Meost healthy grown persons carry disease germs in their mouths. They do 4n adult no harm. But in Kisslng a baby on the moutlf, these germs may be strange peo- transferred to the baby’'s tender mouth and make him ill or even kill him. Kissing the baby on the mouth, even by his own mother, should not be per- mitted. A little cold in a big person is like- Iy to mean a big cold in a little baby. Any one suffering from a cold or sore throat should remain away from a young child." If the nursing mother catches a cold, she should spray her nose and throat, with an antiseptic so- lution and take every precaution against infecting her little one Whooping cought is another very dan- erou -disease for youns children. Each year ten thousand or more young chil- dren die of this disease, the greater number of, them bcldig babics under three years of age. If the whooping cough does not kill, the long period of coughing, lasting sometimes for months, makes the child so weak and ill that he takes other diseases more rzadily. chances he will die. To keep a baby well give him regular | Tuberculo: 1l chidlren are ex: tremely le to tubercul children three years of age especially fatal. Few infants when suckled by tuberculous Breathing or coughing in th face, kissing the baby and the use of the same eating utemsils are some o the commoner methods of infection. Children born of tuberculous parents should be carefully od against in- | fection, and if po uld be remov- ed from s Other children are scarlet fever. dren suffering from sore 3 ears or other permanent injuries a | always the younger the child the greater systematic care; keep him away from| crowds and away from sick people and every | ible exposure to sickne: of disease. Not Yet “Viewed With Income in excess of expenditure I been shown at the United States trez ury. It will bé some little time, however, before grave apprehens surplus” are likeiy to arise.— Star, W Shortage of Freight Ca; Travelers rail the notion that th being made of freight cars now is to hold down the sidings.—Columbus Dis- patch. Whenever you hear a girl allude to a n idiot she is in love with him n love with some other girl. IN THE DAY’S NEWS | TENNIS IS GAME WITH ROYAL PAST Tennis, which has reached new heights of popularity this summer, hav ing 200000 American . devotees, azcorl ing to a recent estimate, has an in resting history, summaried m i munication to the National G- Society by J. R. Hildebrand, as folle “One must W back to the Gr Romans for the origin of tennis descended to England b; In the twelfth century and plaited gut bat was playel on| hotseback. Then came ‘La boud:, which the horses were abandon: was a ‘royal game,’ at least time that Louis X died aft: playing had induced chills. Chaaesr wrote: ‘But canstow playen racict to and fro; while the church i necessary to prohibit priests on the c tinent from spending™too muca time on it. “Margot was the Molla Bjurst the twelfth century, famed esp2 her back hand stroke. Henr England was a youthful devo Louis XIV's heavy expense accounts show salaries paid to caretakers of hi courts. Complaint was hearl time that there were ‘more tern ers in Paris than drunkards in land’ In Shakespeare's Hen:y these lines: e which y way of ¥rance.} a game with bnll; ‘When we have match'd our rackeis these Dalls _ We will, in rrance, by God's grice play to racket came into general use. probably played on a Windsor Caftls court, Castile 'gave his opponent cause the latter used his hand. { Freezone on an aching c “Until that century the hand contin- ued to be used for batting, but soon the A may 'h,] Roosevelt, Charlemagne, ~Raphael, Jef- ferson, Pasteur, Foch, Bacon, Frederick, ‘Woodrow Wilson, Confucius, Cicero, Lloyd Georga, Leonardo da Vinel, Pitt, Virgil, Burke, Cromwell, Eurlpides, Gali- leo, Solomon, Spencer, James, Florence Nightingale, Dickens, Rockefeller and is recorded in which the King of ‘fifteen' be- which one among them is.the However. all this will not jure - Mr. traction. date much latitude. misquoted.—Birmingham Age-Herald. Bryan a8 a Chautauqua Watch Your Speech, Boys. freatost— greatly in- at- Some people like to see a man | who has been vigorously licked.—Indian- apolis News. 2 “Canned” speeches don’t give a candi- He can’t say he was Joan of Arc. According to this, the class as a whole paces Shakes Shakespeare at the head of the list, with Aristotle and Lincoln following, It is probable that these young people recorded simply their im- pressions; and that they had no stand- er% glven them by which to form judg- ment. The list is not the result of an- alysis based upon any system of reas- oning. Shakespeare at the top and Dickens almost at the bottom is the evi- dence of this. In conducting an inquiry of this sort, one is to ask what constitutes greatness. He might employ the stan- za from Christopher Smart's ‘David,” reading: “Eyen tennis, like all medieval sport was not free from the taint of gambling and charlatanism. It was eharged tnat ‘certayne craftie persons arranged for crgqk Lombard players to meet Henry VIIIL. The monarch Wwas induced to mgke wagers with these players unt’), losing large sums, he became suspicious and played omly with amateurs. In one famous maich .the Emperor Max- milian was his partner, the two playing against the Prince of Orange and the Marquis of Brandenborow. “Few sports call into play so many muscles or combine mental and muscu- lar activity to such a degree as tennis. Evidence that Romans soon forsook the Greek ideal of a sound mind in a sound body is found in the fact that Horace and Virgil could not join their patron, Maecenas, at tennis because of weak eyes and poor digestions. It wasl Strong, constant ,pleashnt, wise! a truly royal game when Kings of)Bright efluence of exceeding grace; France and England played it; and it]Best man! The swiftness, and are race typlfied the democracy of the New! The peril and the prize— ‘World when ambassadars, generals, Doi- ticians, and cowboys A joined Roose+ Of this prose definition of greatness: velt's famous ‘tennis cabinet’ back of|The possession of a great idea; an idea the White House exccutive offices.” for others' good, and of great general benefit; a practical diea, and a ‘Suceess- ful one. The man of the great idea must be honest, brave, intellizent, accurate, Great valiant, pious, good and elean, Sublime, contemplative, - gerene, Greatest Men. It is observed with some interest that|industrious. patient and persistent. Bloomington, Ind., has a university where the students of a certain history class have recorded their imressions as to men who have made their mark in the world. After completing a course of stndy of the subect, these studenst have voted, saying who in their opinioa is Now if we measure the historical and other figures mentioned in the above list and compar ethem according to this rule, we should have no difficulty in reaching a fairly just decision as to ASK FOR B. & W. IMPERIAL Beverage Manufactured By New York, U. S. A, Sole Distributors AMERICAN CONFECTIONERY CO. 361 Main Street Norwich, Conn. Telephone 585 t6 be regarded as the greatest man in the world. The studemts were asked to RTEOUS & SAY “DIAMOND DYES” : Don't streak or ruin your material in a or dye. Insist on “Diamond Dyes,” asy directions in package. 3 “CORNS” Lift Right Off Without Pain TH=E Doesn’t hurt a bit! . Drop a littl rn, instantl that corn stops hurting then short! vou life it right off with fingers. Truly! Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of Freezone for a few cents, sufiicient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, o1 corn between the toes, and the calluses. with soreness or irritation. ) e v S v kirts, at a very special price. WATCH OUR WINDOWS a ular prices $25.00 and $29.50. R T AR R s < = A | WOMEN’S WHITE necessary alterations. to served—at one price, namely Canadian government lines Wwill meet the United States railroad wage schd- ul which means something more added on to the Canadian taxpayers. such an improved railroads ser- s will be immensely stimulating to ness life of the pation. Pro- should be spceded up and a of prices more than enough to ffset the inerease caused by the higher ight rates should resilt. Both rail- ond employes and railroads have now been taken care of handsomely. The nation has a right to expect a return| Free speech as practiced by the com- of old time railroad efficiency. With it|munists in Chicago has brought them should come an end of industrial stag-|nothing but fres board at the expense nation and an alleviation of the ten-|of the government for a few sion caused by the high cost Of living. gt e RSN ypars on Mr. Lauck, the labor economist, hi‘s us all when he saye that coal is sare to advance in price because of ihe in- creased freight rates grantd e - It Vietor L. Berger is again to be a UNNECESSARILY - ALARMED candidate and should be elected he Governor Cox, it seems, is unneces-|knows what the house . will do {0 him =arily alarmed at the attitude of his re-|when he .presen eredent vublican opponent towards the state and | congressman. - o federal laws concerning® ¥he expendi- ture and publication — i of - campaign| “Come to see me at the White House,” | funds. The governor need have|said Governor Cox tQ a number of his no fear that Senator Harding will not|well-wishers. Is he expecting to he a be just as insistent as he that the|guest of President Harding aftor the republican party shall practice what it|inauguration® preaches in regard to obedience’ to and enforcement of laws as written, includ- ing the election laws. Or is the govern-|ers of skyscrapers that anything above merely simulating alarm for the|ten stories is not comparatively as prof- effect it may have upon that portion of | itable as buildings of less height. Prob- electorate that might be influenced|ably jealous of New York. by political claptrap? — Senator Harding surely will have no With what the future promises for objection to .his opponent filing - every | Turkey, the heir to the throne is not week, instead of just before electjon |Giving up as much as he would have a day, the returns of democratic receipts|few years ago when he renounces his and expenditures. The laws have pro-|rights to Turkish severeignty. vided for a number of years past that there should be a public filing of elec-{: The man on the eeracr says: 'While tion receipts and expenditures and it[some would have it appear that the rest has been the practice to do this just|of the world is trying to breek the bol- (before eleetion day. If Governor Cox|shevist governmen.. den't lose sight of expects to havé more subscriptions to|the fact that the bolshé aArs corumit- file than his opponent, or if he thinks|ted to the aim-of trying to breas uu all “Bmt the veters will be less likely to re-|other governments. . Now. an Omaha man tells the build- or CHOICE CUTS CORNED BEEF Ib.10c Beef Liver, Ib. . 16¢ BEST CHUCK Roast Beef,Ib. . 24c LEAN POT Roast Beef, Ib. . 20c “FRESH HAMBURGER _ Steak, Ib...... 22¢ GEM NUT Margarine, Ib. . 32¢ PEANUT ' Butter,Ib......27c Raspbetry—Strawberry Fresh Fish DIRECT FROM PORTS Fresh Shore Haddock, Ib..... 9¢ [£] Opened, pint. . . . 25 Fresh Cod Cutlets FINE FRESH UNCAS CREAMERY BUTTER,b. .. 60c| MOHICAN SELECTED | EGGS, Dozen..52c§ BEST A NO. 1 POTATOES. . 65¢ FULL 15 LBS. PECK N. B. C. SODA, MILK, * OYSTER Crackers, 2 Ibs. 41c} LARGE SUNKIST } Lemons, dozen 15¢k Lion Brand Condensed Milk, 14-0z. can 25¢ | ~SWIFTS PREMIUN Oleomargarine Pound 38¢c AT MOST EMPHATIC REDUCTIONS 12 AT $4.95 — Skirts that sold at $7.50 AT $6.75 — Skirts that sold at $9.50 AT $8.95—Skirts that sold at $12.50 At these prices a slight charge will be made for any | PHOENIX SILK HOSIERY, $1.35 Just received from the factory, 360 pairs of the well known “Phoenix” Silk Hosiery, at a special price. These are what are termed “irregulars,” but as far as we can see there is very little the matter with them. For all purposes they are just as good as perfect goods. They are in black and white and in 2 full range of sizes. On sale beginning today— AT §135 A PAIR: These are the regular $1.80 grade. PORCH SCREENS AT AN AVERAGE REDUCTION OF 20 PER CENT. Our Spring shipment of Porch Screens, which should have § @been delivered May 1st has just been received. As the § i selling time is brief—and rather than carry them over § 4 until next Season—we are offering the entire shipment at 3 an average reduction of 20 per cent. The assortment in- cludes both Aerolux and Bungalow styles, in a full range & 1 of sizes—Prices $2.39 to $6.95 according to size and style. ITCHELL (. PROVERB—It is cowardly to quit the post assigned us by God before he permits us. 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