Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 27, 1920, Page 4

& erwich Bnllefin und Goufief 124 YEARS OLD Subscription price 13- 3 week: Sic & month; $6.90 s yeaz, Entered st sacoc. e Pusoffice 3t Norwich, Comn., 3 cias mater Telophone Calls, Builetin Business Office. 480 Baliedn Bitiorial Reoms, -3 Bulletia Job Oftice, 85-3. SMimantic Office. % Church St Telephone 165 Norwich, Friday, Aug. 27, 1920. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The Amosisied Prem & exciusvely entitied the » news despateh: ed_to published of epecial des: CIRCULATION 10,957 LICENSED BOARDING HOUSES. called hs‘ ard of dren. U: n under 16 | manner. service rendered as well as the serious ftects of labor disputes, and it is an im- portant recommendation when arbitra- tion and binding awards are declared necessary for the prevention of the par- alysis of such transportation systems from strikes and lockouts. There are few sections of the country which are not directly interested in the finding.. With the right spirit displayed upon the part of the companies and the public and a willingness to recognize that service such as is demanded and expected should be paid for many of the obstacles in the Way of the street rail- way business would be overcome, It is to be noted, however, that the commission does not ld_\'\ie public own- ership ot such lines and declares that there is mothing in the country’s exper- fence that will justify the assertion that such ownership will result in better ser- vice. EAGERLY WATCHING. The country has heard with elation the forecasts about the reduction in prices from the department of justice officials so many times when they have fajled to materialize that they are bound to take the predicted treak in the price of coal with a pinch of salt until there is something to justify it. When the statement is made, however, that bituminous coal has dropped from $18 to $3.50 in Baltimore it is plainly indicated that the revelations which have been made and the claims present- ed regarding outrageous prices are hav- ing their effect in the right direction. Likewise it is evident that if such a cut can be made in the price of coal at a time when production cost is just as igh as it has been and freight rates are going up someone has been gouging the vers of soft coal in an unmerciful And the fact that a cut in price been made should not relieve them. If for any reason the department of jus- tice has not had the evidence on which ¥ | sumer. THE STREET RAILWAY REPORT. to proceed against the profiteers the findings of the federal trade commission relative to the cost of production and the rices which have been exacted are suf- t to warrant it in finding out wher difference has gome and to put an end to the practices which have imposed such an injustice upon the country. It does not appear that the depart- ment of justice has been responsible for ¥ great reduction the cost of ing. It does mot appear that its activi- es as directed against the profiteers have brought much relief to the con- Rather does it appear that in spite of what the department has under- taken to do those who have set out to get exorbitant prices have found a way fic an lto do it without any serious molestation. There has been much talk but seemingly little action. For that reason the people are bound to be a bit skeptical regard- ing results in the move to lower coal though there is unquestionably need of it and it is a move that has been long and eagerly awaited. The necessity for “renewed activity” in this direction indicates that previous - efforts failed to reach the profiteers. prices, ENDING THE FIGHT. With the ratification by the necessary 36 states and the issuance of a procla- mation certifying to such ratification by the federal secretary of state everything except such legal steps in opposition as the opponents of suffrage may take seems to have been dome to complete the long fight in behalf of this constitution- al amendment giving the women of the country the ballot. The movement started many vears ago. It is not improbable that the idea was advocated by many before it was given widespread attention and before organized effort was made in its alf. The principle was set forth more than 75 vears ago and soon after rights meetings were held in New York and Massachusetts, Worces- ter having the credit for the first wom- an's rights convention in 1851, And even then it was net until 15 years following| that the first petition for woman suf- frage was presented to congress. It| made little headway, however, until, much more recent years. Just what effect such action as may be taken in Tennessee, and possibly in West Virginia, to test the legality of ratification in these states, may have is uncertain. It seems unlikely if the con- *| stitutional requirements have been com- 4 with that they will amount to any- and while they are taking legal t is not impossible as the result of the certification by Secretary Colby that other states which must call spe sions in order to provide for the vot- ing of women will take action ratifying the amendment s0 that even though the wo southern states should by any ance have their action overturned there will be a sufficient number to | complete ratification without them. That possibility is now or will be soon before some of the states which have not act- |ed on the amendment. EDITORIAL NOTES. weren't many up to but they There ailroad rates jump, on schedule. the drop in the price of soft the wonder is that it was net forced a long time ago. man on the corner says: Vacation gets the right start unless there proper anticipation. see the went up W Down in Tennessee it seems to be a e of seeing which side can work the legal process the quickest. When Ty Cobb comes out for Cox it is what might be expected from one from the solid south. The crown prince of Roumania will have the chance of his life during his here to see a great country. We are moving right along to the sea- son when the county fairs are going to be the'real big feature of outdoor enter- tainment. only coming | | omy and nd there | toward that the a fair return efforts. fon restored toration e intro- tion, im- and ser- sonable return ae of § clently manage: There no disposition to is say that e public thefy*;"or Attorney General Palmer says he is only interested in profiteers, and the country will say that that interest is very small. Even if gasoline continues to remain igh has ular and promises to go higher no ome et been able to bring out a poOp- substitute. Toledo has voted not to buy its street railway system believing apparently that T to Kick to someone else than to serve oneself. 2 The day is a long wary away when some people will have the courage to turn down all the get-rich schemes as they are predented. Governor Cox is doing his eclipse the bothersome best to league of na- = property used | tions issue by inulging in a lot of wild rvice when honestly and effi-|talk about campaign funds, From the way bandits continue to give the Industry as a whole has been man-|up the struggle in Mexico one wonders aged beyond criticism, and attention is|just how mamy thers were who Were not Sirected to fhe greatly imcreased cost of |listed in semm sang in that sssntry. / ¥ The ladies of the Fairville . Sewing Circle hastily prepared a place for “Aunt Myra,” as she was affectionately called by everyone who knew her. willew rocking chair was pulled over to the open window and a large palm leaf fan placed on th table mear by. Aunt Myra fell bak in the chair with a2 vast sigh of relief. “I'm late, awful late, I know,” she panted. “But I put the hull mornin’ in- tc work for the church, so I callate I did my share ‘then. I'm. the one that's always called to cart that old subscrip- tion 'round. They say ‘cause I get the most of o' folks.” “How did you come out, Myra year, but a good many = folks d the Circle's president. “Well, on the whole, bettern last “‘poor mouth’ when they see mie a-comin’. They know what I'm after mostly. Hat- tie Belle Sykes says I'm getting to be a/professional beggar, and when she sees me woddlin' down her hill she's a good mind to pall’ down the shades and lock the door,”™ laughed the old lady. She paused in her vigorous fanning and gazed reflectively at some children passing by on the. street. “There's Alice Horton, f'r Instance. I know she has things kind o' hard, but just see-how she dresses them children.” she continued. ‘Finest goods on the market, and right in style. Way ahead of most children in town. Beiter put less on them an’ give the minister a chapge, I say. No need of such extrav- gance.” A little gray lady across stirred restlessly and then sai ingly: “Appearances are ofen deceitful, Aunt Myra, for I can vouch that good taste and hard work are all she puts into their clothes, and she told the truth when she said she could not give you vey much. But Aunt Myra had been surrounded by a group from another room, who ask- holler the room , hesitat- were havinz an argument over the best way h the new quilt, and poor Mrs nd her delinquencies were quite rrgotten, . After the coffee and cake had been served the litfle gray lady and her friend. one of the fMlculty of a nearby agricultural colleze, who had been the honored guest of the occasion, made their way down the quiet maple-shaded streets. “I could not betray Alice Horten's cherished secrets, for T know she would never forgive me.” the gray lady said. “But, truly, she is a marvel of ingenu- and has an artist's eye for colors and effects. She has distant relatives who send her two or three trunks dur- g the vear filled Tith their cast-off clothes. The children.do not wish it to be known that their clothes are ‘made- THE BURIED TALENT The bigest | it's my duwi overs' so no one ever is told save my- self, and she knows I'm safe. 1 wish you could see some of her ‘works of art’ as she often calls them,” | she continued. ~Her trials are the ‘shoe | bills, eally, as she says that nome of | the old shoes sent will fit them and she {can do nothing in that line.” | “Can Mrs. Horton talk?’ asked her friend. “Now, dont_ look so horrified at |my question. I mean, is she able to talk intelligently about her work? If she is, just take me to see her and her work. I have an idea that may psove a benefit to both of us.” And as they went on she unfolded yher plan to her friend, who was reljght- ed, but doubtful of her success. That evening found them at Mrs. Hor- ton’s home. She had been induced to tell the stranage lady about some of her “masterpjeces,” as she termed them. ‘“That's enough for the present, dear lady. You can talk well when you have someone who can appreciate your work, 1 see.™ The college woman smiled at the mys- tifier Alice, who gazed in wonderment at her caller. “Would you like to earn some mon- ey?” was the next astonishing question. “It will just take®a little nerve and a little preparation, in which#T can help, also some of these wonderful ‘made- overs’ of yours. “What do you mean?” was her puz- zled query. “I am looking for some one who can give a lecture on Acannmv in home dress- ‘aking at various places this season. You. have the uueessary exhidits right here.” white-faced listener, who finally manag- ed to gasp out: “To—to lecture—and show t needs a little courage, that is all. After the first time it will be easy. The money will be a liftle incentive,” and a price was named that staggered Alice Horton’s reluctance. “Tll try,” she said, drawing a long breath, “if you are sure I can do it.” “Just think,” she flashed out with a new triumphant note in her voice: “now I can buy the children's new boots and these? I ca: pay my proper share in the minister's salery and—" She blushed as she met their amused glances. “I must—I will succeed!” and she rose to gether up her scattered treasures. “And to think that the work I have been so ashamed of has been the thing that The speaker smiled down at fe i §000 people who live there are Mexi- cans. “Up the river from Brownsville lies Laredo, most important border in south Texas, even if an old may does not call this vicinity ‘a wilderness filled with wild_ horsés. “Eagle Pass, on up the Rio Grande, was a favorite camping spot for the California gold hunters in ’'43. “As you follow the border west, oaks, pines, and underbrush decrease, aridity increases, and eacti life their thorny heads. Border counties lfke Brewster, Presidio and El Paso are of amasing area—larger than some of our small eastern states. Windmills are very- Where—Dig electric fans to keep the cattle cool,’ a waggish cowboy once ex- plained_to a London tenderfoot. “El Paso is the only large city from ‘San Antone’ to Los Angeles, a ride of , dusty miles. / he largest irrigation reservoir is the great Elephant Butte dam, which stores more water than the world famous As- suan dam on the Nile. This big dam, built in the Rlo- Gande above’ Bi Paso, at a point in New Mexico, holds water enough, we are told, ‘to fill a standpipe 11 feet in diameter reaching from El Paso to the moon, or to cover Massachus setts to a depth of six inche™ “From the point at Monument No. 1 where the boundary line crawls out of the Rio Grande (at the southeast corn- er of New Mexico), It strikes west into a wilderness of sirgularly dry and emp- ty aspect. For 40 miles along this march the traveler must carry his own water. “To the west lie the rough, hostils foothills of the Dog Mountains: \ near here, in the San 'Luis Range, the line reaches a point of 6,600 feet above the sea. marking the continental, divide. “In the San Bernardinb Valley the line strikes the first running water after quittin_ gthe Rio Grande—192 miles to the east. Here rises the famous Yaqui river, that long, crooked stream that meanders through the vast Mexican state of Sonora and through the turbu- lent Yaqui Indian zone, finally emptying into the Guif of California below Guay- mas. “In the whole 700 mile stretch from the Rio Grande to the Pacific, closses this Iine running rainfall elght only and its five the length permanent average is onmly throug} inches. ave the hamlets of Columbus and Fachita, the New Mexican section of out far he can jump, says L”"—Boston Post. “Who'd a thought it.” was Aunt My- a’s comment when she heard the news. “She kept so mum. Well, you can't allus tell by the looks of a toad how fa Le can jump, says L"—Boston Post. LETTERS TC THE EDITOR Irish in the Revolution. Mr. Editor: Replying to J. Eno’s statements in The Bulletin of Aug. 25, in which he challenges anyone to prove that more than 15yper cent. of the sel- diers of the American Revolutionary army were Irish. 1 submit the following extracts from a leetter J. O'Brien to Senator a statement made by the gard to the same matter, being the histographer of the American Irish societies in America, and should know what he is talking about: On the 23d of October, 1778, General Clinton in a letter to Lord Germain in reply to the question ‘Which Europeans £ave Hirn the most frouble replied ‘The emigrants from Ireland are in general to be looked upon 2s our most serious an- tagonists. How do vou account for the great number of Revolutionary soldiers bearing the oldest names known to Irish family nomenclature? Let me illustrate by a few of these names and the -number of Revolutionary soldiers of itten by Michael ns regarding. nator in re- Mr. O'Brien each name whom I have found in the rolis: Kelly 695, Murphy 494, O'Connor 327, McCarthy 331, Ryan 322, Reilly 286, Sullivan 266, itzgerald 184, s were picked from over 100 of Irish origin. Moylan, rald and McHenry were aides of hington and they were bomn in Ire- land 1 would advise J. N. Eno to read “A Hidden Phase in American History” and | get his eyes opened. so blind as those see.” As for Ennis “There are none who do mot wi Killen's statement \:flrvEmz a riot in Cork, I wish to info: { him _that I served over four yedrs | U. S. N. ana over a vear in Euroe and | know more of that incident than he does. I do mot care to Dresent the real cause, aiiors arte rouble. IRISH AMERICAN. Norwich, Aug. 1920, 25, Land in France is divided small parcels, and for this reason is available to the small buyer. In 1913 there were more than 3,000,000 peasants cultivating land which was their own property. in rather Captain Of Rifle Team At Olympic Games To Be Stationed In Ger- many N EOPYRIGHT CLNEDINST, WASHINGTON, Major George C. Shaw, of the in- spectors general's department of U. &. Army, who is captain of the Amer- ican rifie team at the Olympic games at Antwerp. On conclusion of the Hfle teams matches Major Shaw will proceed to Coblenz, Germany, for duty as inspector gemeral of the American forces in Germany. Major Shaw was a member of the Army Infantry teams, 1904-5-6-7-8. Cap= tain, Army infantry teams, 1909-10- 11. Adjutant National matches, 1916, Coach A; E. F. Rifie Team, France, 1919 (winning team), | IN THE DAY’S NEWS The Mexican Border “No region in all North America is more frequently mentioned or more wide- Iy misunderstood, perhaps, than the Mex- ican border,” writes Frederick Simpich, formerly American Consul at Nogales, Mexico, to the National Geographic So- ciety. “From the Gulf of Mexico up to El Paso, along the Texas frontier, the Rio Grande forms the boundary between the United States and Mexico; thence to the Pacific coast the line is marked by stone or iron monuments (save a short break at the Colorada), so set that ome is sup- posed to be visible from another. By is plan a soldier, miner, or cowman and a smuggler, too) can always tell which side of the line he is on; or, it wholly lost and he comes suddenly on a monument, he can soon get orient- ed. ‘Aldventurous, eolorful, and full ~of contrasts as it is, the 1800 mile trip along this crooked, historic line is rough and difficult and has been made by few people. er has caused both Uncle Sam and Mex- ica much work and mental anguish. During bad floods the line as formed by the river squirms around' in so aston- ishing and lively a manner that what is Mexican soil one day may be in Texas the next, or vice versa. “Railroads cut ‘this long border at Brownsville, Laredo, Eagle Pass Bl Paso, Texas; at Douglas. Naco Nogales, in Arizola, and at Calexico Tia Jouana, in California. these railroads, however, fof through traffic treior of Mexico; Bagle Pass, El Paso, and Nogles. “You visualize the bigness of Texas when you look at the length of its side that borders on Mexico. You realize its line and and and Only four of are main lines that penetrate the in- these start at Laredo, hushed i = it is lm be hus ted up and. mot «rc;l. st e g M i Any sailor (we object to jackie) who}gome of its border regions, where the served in Queenstown knows that the population is less than two per square mile. No section of the border has seen so much of adventure, tragedy, and turbu- lent activity as Texas. The flags of France, Spain and Mexico have waved over it: for a time it flew its own Lone Star and also the Confederate flag. “In Brownsville you hear more Span- “The Rio Grande part of this hord~] Stories That Recall Others this border is almost uninhabited.” At the Old Price. When Alice was about to start for Sunday school father called. ‘“Here, I want you to buy me a Sunday paper on the way home from Sunday school. Let's | See, it's ten cents now instgad of Seven— isn't it?” “And don't forget to give her a penny for the collection,” mother called from the dining room. Alice took the cent and eyed it solemn- ly. “Isw’t it nice, daddy,” she asked, “that while everything else keeps going up in price, Sunday school stays just the same?’ L) Hitting the Bullseye. After a young woman had returned home from quite a stay at the hospital, one of her admirers met her and began an apologetic conversation. *I wanted to come to See you,” he said, “but they told me at the hospital you couldn't see visitors.” Knowing how stingy the fellow is, the girl decided it the right time to *baw! him out” | “Yes” she admitted, “they wouldn’'t let me have callers, but they didn’t put any ban on flowers.” The young man was stlent GLEANED FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES. It is still evident that France is still extremely reluctant to come to any terms with Soviet Russia, that her in- terests in a Polish peace is hedged about with conditions, and that many doubts and difficulties remain to be resolved before French and British policy are firmly in line. We may perifaps find a clue to some of these divergencies in advices received by France from Warsaw that the Bol- shevist throne is tottering. For our part we view with intense reluctance and misgiving any return to those | false hopes of a crumbling Sovietism ! which have been responsible for so much waste of time, money and life in preventing peace. We would take quite cheerfully the risk of adding strength to the Lenin regime for the sake of getting peace with the de facto government of Russia. 1f, as is always possible, the resumption of normal relations digintegrated Bol- shevism we would be ready for an even more generous agreement with its successor.—London Express. 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But even if the stipulation is retained, British invent- iveness in design will refuse to confess failure, and the glory of ultimate su cess will be all the greater.—London News. The More Than Shilling Loaf:— More than once before in our rough island story has the four-pound loaf been sold at a price above a shilling. The dearest years were those of a cen- tury ago. Between 1800 and 1820 the price of wheat per quarter was often over 100s. In 1812 it reached the cli- max of 126s. Yesterday the wheat which would, if the consumer paid the whole cost, supply bread at 1s. 3d. a quartern, was sold for 93s. a guarter. . olent government from putting in more than 12 hours a day in a factory. Globe Trotting:—Quite a number of notables are going globe trotting when the I Lord Cave is booked ouse rises, for North America. Lord Winterton goes to visit his estate in South Afri- ca. Sir John and Lady Simon are paying a visit to Jamaica. Lord Sin- ha's probable return from India is rather a return home than a journey abroad. Many well known people sai ed on the last boat for Brazjl, and severalof the peers who have married American wives are visiting the States during the recess. Eastwards there will be a steady tide of members of parliament to Central Europe to study conditions on the spot. — London Chronicle. TO TAKE FINGERPRINTS AS MEANS OF IDENTIFICATION Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 26—Finger- prints of every man, womsn and child in the United States will be taken and filed With the government in near future as a permanent means of iden- tification, in the opinion of several fin- ger print experts who attented the con- vention of the Mmternational Assocle- tion for Identification here. the Mogart began composing 2t an earljer age than anybody eise on record. At four he was exhibited as an infant prod- igy. and at five he composed concertos. When he was eleven he wrote an opera Touffe. 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