Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 13, 1920, Page 4

disrwicr Buileti n dnd @oudied 124 YEARS OLD Bebearigtion priee 120 8 week 530 & meslh; .00 o - Suimed st e Postafies «i Nerwich, fema. s - matier. Telepbzas Calts. £irus Busines OTies @B Balleus ®iBmastle OMe o3 ChureA SL Telohene 1S Nerwich, Friday, Aug. 13, 1920. st ot roubtigarien of el desmatene Aeein 4 sl el CIRCULATION WEED ENDING AUG. 7th, 1920 WHY EXCESS PEOFITS TAX STAYED| s tax is the chief as the re- one demo- “why the vear or more made “If the egeess 7 re- done how- In the aw for vote in either e effetcive. 1918, had ans that the repub- LIGHTENING FRENCH MARRIAGE Laws received being LUXUEY TIDE EBBING Statements t! s doubt Lave less hav prove to be only J wail too soon to say t reached crest he wave had and broken. But at iast. many are timidly beginning to ac. sept it as a fact that the period of de- in, Sation has really set and we are iold by one weekly business review that * centinuous yielding is to be seen in monthly comparisons of wholesale quota- tions and that the statistics of failures revealing 3 sharply increased commercial mortality, is an accurate the transition rogTess As evidence to support ;this conviction it is worth while to note that govern- that s taken to indicate tide of extravagance has . p: the stampede has stopped of stores s Jo two lines classed as It wonds and candy, there are signifi ‘mlications from the decrease in dia mportations of more than peroen nd the cumplaint from candy mann Btcuters all over the United States-of dropping off of business. The weigh: opinion is that the peak has been and that the return to condjtions Dearly approximating normal has Hs3 1919 itje the opinion that a further lowering of prices in many productive industries is inevitable. \ SAVING WESTMINSTER ABBEY Westminster Abbey is a common in- heritance of Anglo-Saxon people. Be- fore our political separation from the mother country it was a common shrine. Though now no longer ours in the terms of property it remains ours in the com- mon traditions ef its foundation. West- winster abbey is not English or Ameri- can or Canadian; it is Anglo-Saxon. Decay s eating into the ancient stones The sulphurous chemieals of Londen smoke are steadily gmawing away the - |strength of the frail Dbuttresses. The cloisters show evidence of slow deeay. The clerestory is reported in danger of falling. Londen Times the conditions demanding |an effort to save the bullding are sum- | marized. For the purpose the gum of $1250,000 has been asked. Westminster abbey is a group of an- | cient vestiges, old remains of life, slow- ly incorporated into one edifice. The tomb of King Sebert, who died A. D. |616, s there. 014 cloisters of a Norman church are there with fragmentary re- mains of Roman days, the tomb of Chau- cer, a memorial to Longfellow. It is histery in stome. Genius and Anglo- Saxon power are represented. It is a gdley of traditions mortised into & This _architectural substance of a race should be saved. HIGH SPEED IN THE AIR Utilization of air currents miles above the earth that will mean travel at a| speed that staggers the imagination is e prophecy that is made for the next fitty years In acroplane navigation. eakfast in San Francisco dinner in w York. and New York to Londen in |a single daytime flight are predicted to |b& quite within the possibilities. | 1t is"a discovery that has recently made by Capt. Rudolph W. Schroed- of the army air service that is the sround for this prediction. He broke e world's altitude record and encount- ed at one time far above the earth d blowing at the rate of 220 miles ur. Although his plane was mak- ing 100 miles per hour he was actually |blown backward at thé rate ef 120 miles an hour. Capt. Schroeder's ascent o five or six miles above the earth prov- d for the first time what scientists have suspected, the existence of these c winds caused by the rotation of earth. The army captain reached a | strata where n sreat west to east wind | was bl ing constantly and it is by the of this current that a trade route speed possibilities for airplanes: - established. Above this zome, -ved, there is a belt of compara- , to be succeeded higher up by r air current blowing the opposite It would thus be a question of on that the pilot would use to de- e his direction, and once in the strata he would travel east or. st at a speed of 300 miles an hour, 1aing velocity of the wind to the |speed of his plane. ! Problems of oxygen and heat for pas- s are involved in beld predictions flying experts, but these are in pro- cess of solution, and it is said with as- |surance that the aerial clipper zhips of future will travel these air routes as potent an effect upon man's | movements and communications as the| clipper shipe of fifty vears ago utilized the surface of the earth reaches the At least it will be Some years yet before travel six or seven miles above the surface of the erth reaches the con- congested stats. ong err EDITORIAL NOTES s Ponzi is not the only man who would = to have his past forgotten. McGraw seems to have been‘ some- \ng of a goat among the Lambs. full dlnner pail may vet have to way to the full coal hod as the |cmblem of presperity. Maybe there is honor among thieves the way the whiskey runners cheat r is shocking. The man en the eormer says; suffra- see the rainbow of hope growing er in the Tennessee sky. Diplomatic promises were always sb- ct 1o suspicion but the bolshevists make no bones of it that theirs cammet pe rc ed on. cago packers are preparing estad- ents in Alaska to can whale meat, may be a popular addition to our sea-food menu. Having broken loose from its wild d wooly associates at Chicago, the the liberal party. In the era of high foed price, the no- akfast fad of a few years ago has dvantages in lightening the load 1e family poecket book. The depariment of justice has 151 in its gun for profiteers whom s caused to bite the dust, but the hooting season is goed yet. Candidate Cox promises a real dirt T as secretary of agriculture. He ht follow this up by promising a real bank to shake the plum tree. | Between short skirts, denounced as im- proper, long &l 5, denounced as germ carriers, and moderation seorned as old- , fashioned, what is poor fashion to do? Part of the German navy is to be ex- hibited in this_ceuntry and then sunk s targets for our ships. Thus ends dream of the Kaiser for, the suprem- of the seas. A New York judge failed to see much ;farce in the appeal of a scenario writer he did shoplifting to get “local from her jail experience. She calor” {#ad to pay a fine. Erwin Bergdoll makes a bid for sym- athy when he claims that the reason e was u clacker was beeanse of fear hat he might have te shaot relatives |on the other side. The charge that Russia has a secret reaty with Germany before attacking | | l.{7oland may be true or not, but there nothing in the record of either to ke it imprebable Districted hunters in New York vill find little’ to consele them in know- that building permits filed in July | included only one new. apartment house and one new dwelling. R The Lambs' Club does net seem to have been the peaceful plaee its mame would indicate since the fistic engage- ment between actor Boyd and manager 'wunvy" MoGram brought it inte oub- ize the liberal panie, _number of the |aga gt o 1 “That clock has been the bane of my life, and I should think you would be declared the “Of course the big blue vase was a lovely thing in itself, but it always did clash with everything else, and there were all thoss little pieces of Delft and Copenhagen and two bronze | statues, and the big cut glass vase.” puzzled way. morning? fast as they can! triffe blankly. got kind of used to seeing things around and it leoks funny. Aunt Sophy's cleck with the gilt figures? They were so handy. to rest my pipe grateful thi pretty little wife. husband, anxiously. ly are valuable and—" “You act as though you supposed they his wife remarked guess I have a little They are down in the storeroom up my Nobedy were in the ashcan, in injured tones. sense. of course. mind what to fo with them. will buy them Lecause they are getting rid of -their own things—" exploded the:-man of the wedding I don’t see Cousin Harriett's photo what house. presents candlesticks frames. have you dome with my ash—' “Alonzo,” said the prity little wife “there is no sense in having a | dozen stacked up on that table. taken down the two palrs of heavy por- tieres, too, and all the table covers and the piano scarf. Doesn't it look lovely and restful? firmly, trouble, by mother. ing girls who have taken up r her opinion most of them go among colored men in search of adventu . “Well, well!” sald the man of the house gazing about the living room in & “What's happened, since The place looks so queer i breakfast, “Alonzo,” said:the pretty little wife with the serious expression on her face, ‘you haven't kmown it, but you've been smothered in non-essentials. for nfonths and years and I've .just lately learned how useless they are! aren't stylish who is anybody is getting rid of their bric-a-brac and tidies and things just as One must have space in a room in order to be fashionable!" said the man of the house & But I'd Besides, any more “Qh " “So. that's it! inst. it is gone!" T've got to make “Buy them!" “Why, we can't sell nor any of the And my ash trays—sa: they Everybody Did you throw out Where'd you throw ‘em?” asked her | “Those things real- T've “It reminds me of a hotel lobby,” said the man of the house fretfully, seatiwg himself on a chair suspiciously and re- laxing when he found that the seat had !|been left in place as usual. “I don’t i like it, Miranda! It doesn't seem like home at all!” “Why, my dear, you just oumigt to see Mrs. Hardtack’s splendid living room where our current events class met yes- terday! There were only six articles in &, besides the furniture itself, and count- ing pictures! I didn't quite finish with our pictures today, but there are ten on these walls and I am going to take all of them but the two paintings—" “Great guns!" gasped her husband protestingly. “Why, I like that etching of the old mill and there's all the family photos and that reproduction of a Co- rot—-" ‘They are distracting,” his wife told him still firmly. “One has no peace of mind in a room spotted with so many things. - You might as well make up your mind to te in style, Alonzo!" print whic! ‘physicians “But,” argued her husband, “if every- body is doing this what's to become of all the junk? Anyhow, I like to look around’ and see all my own things and remember who gave 'em to us and all about them! Can't you put back just one or two——"" “It would totally snoll the effect,” protested the pitty J®le woman. “It has to look bare. The Japanese—" “I always did think that one flower in a vase effect was stingy,” grumbled the man of the house. “I suppose that what you mean. 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Every housewife . knows . that half the success of pre- the truth, Miranda—if you were out on a desert island where nobody would ses, wouldn't you like to have all the old things back again?” The pretty little woman looked around cautiously and lowered her voice: “Well Y, she admitted, “I expect we'll get used to it in time, Alonzo. And then— the things are there still, you know, down in the storeroom !” “Well, I hope somebody gets a brain- storm soon.” sighed the man of the house, “and begins putting things back | on the mantel. Gee, but this 18 a restless age " —Chicago News. Stories That Recall Others Hopeless Eequest. Five year old Eric, who is “much in be en very naughty once more, and, after material punishment, had been despatched to bed earlier than usual without the usual at- tentions. ‘With a quivering upper lip, he said his little prayer as usual, win, oft in woe,” had “But it's no use aski You never do.” His Troubles. Johnnie, aged 6, was one of those mis- | chievous little fellows spanked frequently | One day father came home in | time to sce Johnny with red eves and big tears trickling down his cheeks. “Well, gon, what is the trouble?’ asked. “Oh, nothing in particular, pop, only I just had a quarrel with that wife of yours and she spanked me.” Chinatown Mecea Far London Girls. London magistrates are says that in her are exceedingl she said, “do not go ou A woman missionar: with some of young and ence in Limehouse, say Ivory thick melts *‘Safe ing up with “And make Eric a good boy, Amen.” pause, and he gave this addendum of own, as if he meant it: A have no such ideas of“chivalry as the! 4is | Chinamen have.” g You, becauss | Magistr: he perplexed over the problem of young girls infat- uated with the yellow and black me: who have their residence around Lime- house. Miss Lee, a property owner and the |E guide, philosopher and friend of her Chinese tenant perience the Chinamen, while they c tainly do regard the wif are net cruel to her and g of them “The men, of this district to look The women come here. as a chattel, te a number chivalrous. | r the women. after convers- pretty HE secret of making silk hose wear well is to launder them carefully, with pure soap, and as soon as possible after wearing, before the perspiration can act on the silk fibre. because it is genuine Ivory Soap, and because the Flakes make such rich, : This delicate, flaky, pure white soap the instant it touches warm water. silk stockings but" for all other fine things. for washing particular things after reading sensational literature or seeing Chinese films. A few of these girls are of an educated and refined type, and many of them uncommonly pretty. “There are man; Chinatown,” white ehe said. wives in “Heaps more of the Oriental. The Chinese give no trouble, but the black men do, They Recently at the Thames police court, BARGAIN DAY SATURDAY, AUGUST 14th See Window Disp’lay For Prices. Walk and Save Money. SALOMON'’S GENTS’ FURNISHINGS, HATS, SHOES AND A Few Minutes’ Walk From Franklin Square HALF-PINT IDEAL JARS ....... PINY IDEAL JARS .....cva00ss ©OUART IDEAL JARS .......... TWO-QUART IDEAL JARS .... PINT MASON JARS .. QUART MASON JARS ........ IBBAFSIOBS & ot e MASON TOPS . i te (;aims said this extraordin- |ary infatuaton was the greatest prob- | |lem he had to deal with. and two._engineers have been sent to recover what materials they can iden- tify. The Germans carried away $400,000 worth of telephone and telegraph ma- terials from Brussels and $12,000,00¢ from Belgium as a whole. ‘ Less Rice For Japanese. The gravity of the food question in Europe finds its echo in Japan where the problem of how to feed the popula- P | tion, which is increasing annually by What is more remarkable still, pro- | 00,000, is becoming yearly more press- duction for the Mons coal fields, taken | ing. alone, was even greater during May| Japan has ample living space for its than during the same month before the | people, but eannot produce enough food war, the percentage being 104.3. for them, especially rice. Every bit of Further illustrating the wonderfullland is eultivated to the limit of its ss toward reconstruction which | capacity. The land of Formesa, the m has made. Director General {jsland colony is worked to its full ea- of Telegraphs and Telephones Rossen | pacity by the 2,000,000 Chinese farmers points out that 282 central telephone | who cultivate the rice fields with great offices out of 285 have been re-estab- | skill. In Korea, also, the grain harvest Belgian Coal Mines Pradueing. Belgian coal miners have almost reached pre-war production. The out- put of the Belgian mines for the month of May, 1920, reached 90.9 per cent, of | the production for May, 1913, ameunt- |ing to 1,737,080 tons, as compared with 1,910,710 for the same period before the war. pr subscribers have been regained. At Antwerp, Malines and Turnhout phone subscribers are report- | To meet the food menace Japan, by before the war, The scareity |a special arrangement with France, is has'prevented even great- | making heavy rice imports from Indo- lts in reconstruction. Wires | China. This is a costly operation, how- were hard to obtain, the Germans hav- | ever, the Japanese government losing ing carried away most of the hwiring |$20,000,000 last vear in supplying Indo- taroughout Belgium. Installatiens in|China rice to the Japanese people at a Brussels were carried to Berlin, where | moderate price. | they were located by allled officers, A solution to which the government the Koreans to use fertilizer prevents | greater harvests. 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