Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 13, 1920, Page 8

SHOWERS TODAY AXD TOMOEEROW NORWICH, CONN, FRID. AY, AUG. 13, 1920. ~ @he Bulletin . Nerwich, Friday, Aug. 13, 1920. THE WEATHER. ‘Winds OF Atlantic Coast. ~North of Sandy Hook and Sandy Hook ts Hatteras—moderate south winds. cloudy, showery weather. Conditions snd Genersl Forecast. Normal temperatures prevail gener- ally east of the Mississippi river. The outlook is for unsettled showery weather Priday. Forecast. Southern New England: Local showers and thunder storms Friday and probably Saturday somewhat lower temperature. ~ Observations in Norwich. The following records, reported from The Bulletin's observations, show the changes in temperature and the baro- metric readings Thursday: ‘Ther. Bar: T am 88 50.15 - 79 3045 6p m ......... 70 3045 Highest 50, lowest Comparisons. Prediction for Thursday: Cloudy. Thursday’s weather: Fosgy, followed By cleaving. e SUN. MOOX AND TID (New Time) Ii_High [ Moon Il Water. || m |2 m 5 754 .57 10.00 1100 | 1157 1244 141 igh water it is low Sun after Six hours water, which i3 folowed by flood tide. TAFTVIL] Mrs. Thomas Sears has returned to W-tertown, Mass, after spending 2 month here visiting her parents, Mr. and JMrs George G. Grant of Providence Szeet Peter Lafleur is now having his annual vasation Dance tonight, Ashland Casino, Jewett City, Pickett's orchestra—adv. John Sullivan has accepted a position t» New Britain and has left for that Katherine Logan has returned to her Whome in Willimantic after visiting here for a few davs. Bdward Lemienx and Francis Murphy &Pent Thursday at Ocean Beach. Miss D. Beauregard, the local milliner has cone on a visit to Hartford. The Misses Bernadette and Alexina Pugas of South A street have left for 2 wisit with their sister, Mrs Charlle Du- §oette of Webster, Mass. S The cellar that is being dug under- m the bowling alleys is nearly fin- There will be installed a pipeless Beater in the cellar when finished. Mr. and Mrs Thomas Quinn of Lowell, . bave returned home after spend- few days with relatives on Hunter's i EERIOUS LACK OF . HOUSES IN NOEWICH I Worwich is facing 2 serious lack of Pousing facilities and unless the prob- i soon solved it will not be possible Tent 3 temement in the city. “We 4 bundred houses right now.” said t real estate dealer Thursday This dealer sald that app¥ cation after application for tenements 35 being made to him and it is impossi- ble to supply the demand. The lack of houses is bang felt more a8d more by Norwich people. This is em- from the fact that the Nor- wich Building and Loan Assoclation has mmore applications for loans to build on hand than ever before. There is need and room for more houses in this city, and they ought to be buflt immediately, said a local business man Thursday. SAY “DIAMOND DYES Don't streak or ruin your material ina g dpe.Towist on “Dismond Dyee” directions in package. “FREEZONE” Lift Off Comns! - No Pain! Doesn’t hurt a bit! Drop a little *Freezone” on an aching corn, instantly 1Bat corn stops hurting, then shortly you lift it right off with fingers. Truly! Your druggist sélis a tiny bottle of “Freezone' for a few cents, sufficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn betwee: the toes, and the calluses, without sorcness or irritation. COAL John A. Morgan & Son 1 - PLATING Kindred Finishes AT THE (Written Specially for The Bulletin) It's election vear, once more and the would-be candidates are a-candidatin' in customary style and according to the usual formula. : Picking up a western paper the other day, I read in the big headlines over a displayed article that ‘Bjones Declares {for More Government Assistance to Ag- riculture’. Bjones being the city-dwel- ling candidate for congress in that other- wise farming district. You can see at the first glance that Bjones, being a city lawyer with just about as much knowledge of farming conditions as the rural farmer has of Pennsylvania law, thinks the way to de- coy the shy hayseed intto Bjones’ camp lis by telling him what a_sprouting angel |he is and what a grand life his would |be: it the government would only do something big for him. And there's at least one Wworking farmer within a few inches of the end of my nose who is invariably made so mad by this sort of cheap coggery that he wants to go out behind thhe barn, paw up the turf, and just bellow! “More government _attistance,” for- sooth. Why not? Farm work is ad- mittedly hard work, Very well; let congress pass a law that, hereafter farm work shall be easy. What could be more simple? 4 About every so often a burning i drought comes on and destroys the big- gest half of a farmer's crops. Very well again; let congress pass a law pro-! hibiting droughts. (Perhaps it would work in practice about as well as the law prohibiting internal moistening!) Then- there are the potato bugs, and the cucumber bettles, and the cutworms, and the cinch bugs, and the seventeen other kinds of bugs and slugs and worms which annually descend on the farmers’ crops. Let congress abolish them by law. There's no doubt this would be a tremendous_assistance to the farmer,— it the abolition works. And, not to prolong the list unduly, there are the grofters who want jobs and offices and titles, (and fat salaries), and who think they can be elected to ‘em by soft-soaping hayseeds. Let con-| gress enact a lew denaturing them and elevating them to the class of more or less useful goats. Why, there are just lots and lots of things which are bothering the farm- ers and which congress might legislate against. “Who will enforce the legisla- tion?” That question is of the sort which 2 peppery old college professor used to call “captious” Whenever a stud- ent launched one at him Which he couldn't answer, oft hand. It's the function of the executive to enforce the laws which the legislature passes. First Yo umust elect a law-making body to enact the desired legislation; then you must elect an executive capable of en- forcing it, and then you must wait a few years, or centuries or millenniums, till the varions investizating committees and executive commissioners have looked the matter over (and under and rounda- about) and developed a practical com- promise which shall please all parties concerned, including the farmers and the bugs and the worms and the Weath- er-gods. Oh, fudge and fiddlesticks! There are two classes of farmers. Ome is represented by John Do-His-Work. One by Peter Tumbledown. I make smalldoubt that the class represented by that last loafer would like all the “government assistance” which the Bjones gang of tricksters could Invent and shovel out. They would like to have the government, or the town, or their neighbors, or almost anybody else shingle their barns and milk their cows and cook their cabbages and do every- thing else for them except eat and sleep and swap fish stories. But these critters do not represent farmers, as a whole. They are merely| the warts and wens and bunions on an| otherwise fairly healthy body. Exeres- cences which the bedy would be better oft without. I have yet to meet a real honest-to- goodness farmer who wants ‘“govern- ment assistance” in his farming. I have met not a few who resent and sneer at the so-calleg assistance already being offered. I have met more who regard it with cobined amusement and amaze- ment. 1 have met others who take it in much the spirit they might show to- wards taking in a foundling left squal- ling ou their door-step, “Durn the brat! Who wants it? But I s'pose we can't let it starve’ But, as I said, I've never yet met one active, industrious, fore-looking and fore-handed farmer a true son of the soil, who really wanted government assistance — or _out-door poor relief | from the town either. Such a man usu-| ally brackets in same these two things together class. I have met scores and scores of farm- ers who want government protection— |Which iz an entirely different thing. { Assistance is help given as a sort of {charity: protection is the safeguarding {of rights and essential interests. The real farmer wants protection for is rights and assurance of a square deal and fair play in the big game of production and distribution. But he's inot n beggar snivelling for alms, either on the Capitol porch or at a neighbor's back door. o The old Swedish statesman said to his son, when that overmodest young man demurred a* the elder’s plan to get him a place In government, alleging his own Hack of ability, “Ah, son, you don’t ap- preciate with how little ~Wwisdom the jworld is governed The world’s treatment of the farming problem is glaringly conspicuous to the truth of the old cynic's aphorism. For fifty yeass or more this country protected in manufactugers against the competition of foreign rivals. It pro- tected them till the ‘infant manufactur- ers’ of half a century ago grew into giants—with the appetites of giants. Now, for a decade or more, the same government has been coddling and cos- |seting the trade unions, which are form- €d for the purpose of protecting the in- terests of employed workmen. In all that time not one single credit- able attempt, even, has been made at protecting the farms and the farmers of the country. The manufacturers have| from the beginning been organized and single-minded in their pressure on con- gress and legislaturés;fthe labor unions | are similarly organized and work unit- edly for their ends. But the farmers of ‘the country, who outnumber _both manufacturers and_employes, . combined, and whose prosperity is the corner-stone on which the welfare of all others must be founded, are not organized. By rea- WANT FAIR DEAL NOT GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE union and put their. concrete demands into the hands of one lobby. For this very reason, the government, which is the one supreme and ruling organization, in common with those of the whole people, should have shown, from the start, the keenest interest and the deepest concern and the wisest con- structive statesmanship in dealing With the continent-wide questions’ and issues which vitally affect them. Eut the time-servers and , trimmers and opportunists whom our party bosses direct us to elect to. office are not, never have been and never will be qualified to grapple with or ever to understand such problems. Their motto is that “the longest way round is the easiest way out” They usually are more naxious to insure their own re-election than to con- serve the interests of the constituents. When one does make a bluff at doing the latter thing, he seepns to regard the aforesaid constituents as being repre- sented by the various gangs of loafers and grafters who infest the purlieus of his _district, rather than by the hard- working, little-talking majority who are tending to their jobs and ~ producing things. There are today in this country manu- facturers who are making huge profits, profits almost beyond the dreams of avarice, from the sale of their products at extravagantly inflated prices. There are dealers whom the criminal courts have found to be making over 100 per cent profit on the retail sale of these Already wickedly over-priced goods. There are hundreds of thousands of workmen Who are demanding and ob-| taining excessive wages, because of their inability to pay these beforé mentioned high prices and inordinate profits from reasonable wages. There is no symptom or suggestion of any improvement in this state of things. Instead, bad is march- ing towards worse, daily. But, When it comes to farm and garden produce, the) price tendency is already strongly; marked downwards. The money-soaked ‘manufacturer can afford to pay such high wages as are demanded, because of his excessive pro- fits. This takes any chance of securing adequate help away from the farmer tending to reduce his output and increas® his already hardly tolerable burden of labor, To meet this condition he should be assured prices in some degree com- parable to those in some lliftsoffhoksl goods and demanded by labor. Instead of Which, he finds the cunning- 1y manipulated markets of the cbuntry s0 thimble-rigged that he must take low and lowering prices, or let his already too shortened crops waste, unharvested. So far as I understand his state of mind, he wants protection against this manifest and outrageous unfairness. The government exists in order to give him that protection. It is capable of giv- ing it. But it doesn't give it That is ome thing which farmers are sore about about and which they have the right to be sore about. They do not want government to “assist” them. but they want it to “protect” them in their fair and equal rights. ‘Will the government do it? ,As well ask; Will a Hen Sing Hali Columbia? One of the New Beatitudes read “Blessed are they who expect nothing— for they shall not be disappointed. 1, for one, have about given up hope of seeing sanity and reason rule in any sort of governmental functioning as re- gards agriculture. getting mad and venting my anger on those uniformed and shallow-pated crea- tures who biow around beforc elections, blatantly declaring that farmers want government “assistance.” That's a lie and a peculiarly insulting lie. Farmers do not want “assistance” in any eleemosynary sense. They want a square deal, a fair shcw and protec- tien in. their equal righte. Give them those tlings and they'll take care of themselves and give the country all ihe fooc Ii wants at fair prices—fair 25 compared with others. There’s no danger of farmers “strik- ing” to enforce their demands with a threat of starving’ the country if it won't vield. They're too patriotic and too hu- mans for that. But, if the profiteers and gorgers of the manufacturing and labor wlasses keep on their present course much longer and _goevernment toadies to them much longer, the farm- ers will not be able to raise enough for their own ecessities, to say nothing of supplying others, This country can eal its cake, or it can_save But it can't eat it and save it, i 02, —THE FARMER. RAWING FUND TO PAY FOR REPAIRS TO WHARF The Norwich Chamber of Commerce, through Secretary Louis 8- Crandall, has inaugurated a movemwcnt to raise $753 to be used for the purpose of set- tling for perairs made to Morgan's wharf at the time the wharf was secured for docking privileges by the Thames River Boat Line operating the steamer Cape Cod between this city and New York. This is one-half of.the actual cost of the repairs, payment of the other half to be taken care of by the boat com- pany. A year and a half ago when local merchants and shippers were trying to secure a freight boat to operate between Norwich and New York, it was found necessary to provide: docking facilities for the Cape Cod. The docking faciloties were found in the shape of Morgan's wharf and necessary repairs were done | to put the wharf in condition for the use of the steamer. Some misunderstanding arose as to who should settle for the repairs and af- ter a recent conference between Mana- ger Fuchs of the Thames River Boat line and prominent members of the chamber of commerce, the merchants and manu- facturers of the chamber authorized Sec- retary Crandall to inaugurate the move- ment to raise one-half of the total cost of the repairs, with the understanding that the Thames River Boat Line send a check for the remaining half. The cost of the work done on the wharf was $1506. Following js a partial list of those who have contributed or pledged contri- butions to date: American - Thermos Tottle Co. Martin Co., Joseph C. Worth, Ring's Market, Parker Preston Co.. Eaton Chase Co., Ironsides Loard C Schwartzenbach-Huber Co., Store, United Metal Mfg. Co., Woolen Co., Porteous & Mitchell Max Gordon & Son., Connecticut and Engineering Co., Chappell €o., wich Belt Co., Carpenter Mfg. Co., Crowell, Crescant Flearms Co., Sa Woolen Co. hwartz® DBros., Atlantic | Carton Co., Troy Steam Laundry,"W. H. Smith of Willimantic, Norwich Evening Record and Norwich Morning Bulletin. The Morgan wharf was used for a time by the steamer Cape Cod,. but shortly after it was taken over the boat line succeeded in purchasing the old Chelsea dock which has since been used. COLORED RESIDENTS RAISING \ FUND FOR PARSONAGE The members of the -A. M. E. Zion church ‘on McKinley avenue are endea oring to raise a fund of $1,600 for the purpose of making a final payment on the parsonage which they recently pur- chased on Grove street. The colored people are meeting with success in their efforts, as alrcady ap- proximately $500 has been raised and the contributfons are still coming strong. The campaign has the backing of a num- ber of prominent Norwich people and i Charles 1. Smith, secretary of_the Nor- wich Building and Loan Assotiation, 1§ acting as treasurer for the fund. The parsonage was purchased some time ago and there is still about $1600 to be paid on it, including the cost of ne- Are never wholly careles: A reminiscent sweetness A music older than thi ¥ ) Their summers gone, so IN SUMMER 1 think these stars that draw so strangly near, That lean and listen for the turning earth, The murmur of her hushed and quiet mirth— But looking out upon a world in bloom, They half-remember, and they heed and hark; ‘Bird-song and bloom and swallow from the sky, These dead, desireless worlds find here, at last, Something remembered when the earth turns by, Sweet with these blowing odors they had known, This happy music that was once their own. —David Morton in The Nation. FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS DESPATCHES 7 A s when they hear in the gloom. s singing dark. many aeons past, ARE HALED Six more public service drivers will appear before the city court this (Fri- day) morning on charges of violating city ordinances. They were arrested late Thursday afternoon and early Thursday evening, one for parking hi: machine on Ferry street and the other five for solicifing passengers for their cars contrary to the order of the court of common council. The drivers who will appear in court this morning are Louis Platnick, who is charged with parking his car in Ferry street, Benjamin Yoselosky of New Lon- don, George Brown, Boris Andevich, Samuel Onaprik and Nicholas Z. Jones, the latter five having the soncmng{ charge against their names. There is an evident desire on the part of the public service men to defy Mayor | Herbert M. Lerou and the court of com- | mon council in the orders issued abolish- ing Rose Alley as a parking place. The situation took on a new aspect late| Thursday when Louis Platnick parked | his car on Ferry street. The car was no- ticed on Ferry street for a conmsiderable ; period and Platnick finally found himxelf‘ in the meshes of the law, which Mayor | Lerou is determined shall be carried out right to the letter. The court of common council has de- cided that Rose Alley shall be abolished as a parking place, and I intend to see that no machines are allowed to park there and that there shall be no more loitering_there,” sald Mayor Herbert M. Lerou Thursday evening. “Rose Alley must me cleaned up, and It Is going to be cleaned up,” continued the mayor. T‘;‘ mayor called attention to statutes and ordinaces relative to the abatement of nuisances and sald that these stat- utes are going to be Invoked in the abatement of the Rose Alley nuisance. “As long as the jitney men and pub- lic. service men continue to defy the court of common . council in its attempt to clean up Rose Alley and Ferry street they are going to be hauled into court and they are going to be convicted,” said the mayor, “and If they persists in parking their machines in Ferry street or jn loitering in and around Rose Aliey, they will have to take the consequences.’” Following are extracts of the statutes and ordinaces which apply to the local situation and which will be invoked by the Prosecuting Attorney in securing con- | Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S But that doesm't prevent me from cessary repairs. CASTORIA | A Modern Our Grandmothers might have thrown up their hands if such underwear had been suggested to them. They would have been more than surprised at much of the filmy, lacy undergarments of the present day. changed and these clever bits of feminine frippery may be classed as necessities. My Lady has to have them. We show a very ample selection of dainty Knickers or Bloomers, in white or flesh color, made of Seco Silk, Voile, Batiste or Crepe, variously ornamented with embroideries, hemstitched ruffles or pretty laces. son of their conditions of life and work, it is practically impossible for them to -merge their individpal problems into one | DAINTY KNICKERS Necessity To Be Found In Our Muslin Underwear Section. $1.00 — $1.25 $1.75 —$1.98 — But times have —3$1.50 $2.50 — $2.98 SIX MORE PUBLIC SERVICE MEN | | | | | | | | & INTO CITY I'»J[lURTI victions of the public service men and jitney drivers who defy the - common council's_order: Sec. 6339 of the General Statutes, re- vision of 1918 provides; Every sheriff, deputy sheriff constable, policeman, ustice of the peace; grand| uror and selectman, on having knoweldge of any assembly of tnree or more per- sons, loitering or idifig in his uris- diction upo any highway, sidewalk or bridge, or upon any fence or structure adacent thereto, so as to hinder travel, may ‘command them immediately to « perse; and any such person disobeying | such command, or who shall afterwards, within the period of three days, be found loiterig’ or idling upon any highway, sidewalk bridge, fence or structure,in the same town, to the hindernoe of trav- el, or who, while so loltering or idling, shall utter any abusive or indecent lan- guage, shall be fined ot more than seven dollars. Chapter viil of the Revised Orflinances —Sec. 11 gives authority to the street commissioner or any police officer “to keep open and free from obstruction’ by vehicles, crowds, or groups of persons, or otherwise, the streets and public places of sald city, whenever the of ob- struction is done In view of such officer. Sec. 3 of the same chapter makes a nuisance of the second- class: “The car- Tying on of any trade or business upon the sidewalks or streets, ¢r highways of said city without the license of the street commissioner.” Sec. 4 of the same chapter provides among other things that “the permitting by any person of the blocking up or ob- struction of any steet or thoroughfare of sald city by any horse, animal or ve- hicle under his charge or control” shall be a nuisance of the third class, New Britain—There are 15 cases on OLEVSON H | co LT WATCH OUR WINDOWS — P HUMOR OF THE DAY First youth—Were yow finally engaged to Miss de Villers? Second youth—No, the family was against it. * First youth—How about the young lady? Second youth—Well, she's part of the family, you know.—Houston Post. “Well, I've got to go today and face the music.” “Why, are you in trouble?" “No: I conduct a band."—Baltimore American. Nextdore—I don’t see how ¥ou can stand your daughter's continual banging on_the piano. Naybor—It prevents me from hearing a lot of her mother's nagging.—Boston Transeript. . Mrs. Goodsole—We really, should do Something for old Mrs. Everbroke; don't you think so? She's poor as a church mouse. e Mrs. Woodby-Swelle—I am unfamiliar, with the poverty of church mice. The church I attend draws its membership only from the most exclusive find weal- thy = class.—Judge. Mr. Jumper—I intend in the course of my travels abroad to visit the Antipodes. Mrs. Comeup—Dear me; I hope you'll be careful how you go about them. They say they're such a savage tribe.—Balti- more American. Father (sternly)—Robert, come here! Your mother and I agree that you de- serve a sound whipping. Bobby (bitterly)—Oh, yes. That's about the only thing you and mother ever do agree about—Boston Transcript. “Not saving your money? What will you do if hard times should come along? “Well, T can tell myself that T had a short calendar for today’s (Friday's) ses- sion of the city court. good time while the money was coming Detroit Free Press. KALEIDOSCOPE Pelicans usually nest on islands. Alarm bells can now be rung by wire- less at a distance of 100 mi‘es. The topaz_ derives its name from To- pazos, an island in the Red sea. An Argentine pnysician treats whoop- ing cough by injections of an extract brewed from the patient’s sputum. Gighty different workmen have a part in perfecting. the 10,700 pieces in a grand piano before it is put together. In 1790 only 29,000,000 pounds of to- bacco were sold in the United States. Last year the sales reached 914,000,000 pounds. In only a few cities of western Si- beria are there two-story houses. Baths in houses are very rare, public baths being sued. Great Interest in American ready- built houses has been expressed in both France and England, according to John R. Walker, lumber trade commissioner. Hannah Montague, wife of a black- smith, made the first detached linen col- lar for men, in Troy, N. Y., in 1819. Now in’ ome collay factory in that city 200,000 yards of linen is used dally. An English fire department is testing a new fire escape by which persons are lowered in a basket from a tower raised against a building instead of being car- ried down ladders. Fifty thousand Indians fronf all parts of Mexico recently completed their week of homage to their patron saint. the Virgin of Guadalupe, and their pligrim- age to the shrine of the virgin. The Mennonites derlve their name from Menno Simons, formerly a Catho- lic priest. who became a teacher and leader of the Anabaptists about 1537, and published his “True Christian Be- ief” in 1508, Em=n=:m=uc=nc:=:m=:xxfl 36 to 46. TOMORROW wonderful values — Beautiful quality Georgette Waists, trimmed with real filet laces — attractive new models in both long and short sleeves — all sizes from FOR 1 DAY ONLY te flanhs 121-125 MAIN STREET ONE-DAY SALE Tomeorrow Only EORGETTE WAISTS $3.95 The recent drop in the silk market explains these Actual Values to $10.00