Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 17, 1920, Page 4

NORWICH BULLETIN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER, 17, 1920 in which the authorities enforce them. Too often is it the case that the failure to see that safety provisions are carried out results in the disclosure of firetraps v here many lives arc lost for one cause or another, and these conditions are per- mitted to endanger human life breaking - the law or regligonce. It is possible that ."a @alflt"té there would have been loss of life in the New York theatre liad there been no trouble with the exits and had every 124 YEARS OLD ¢hild besn accompanied by a guardian, Subscription price 12¢ & week: 50c & month; $8.08 |\t under -hcse conditions it .would not o sear, ibla 5 Eotered st the Postoftice at Norwich, Cosn., ae| F2Ve been possible to point out the lax o & erwich Fulietia weond-clam maller. regara for the laws by theatre\and city Telephone Calls, officials. Dalletin Business Office, 450, i Bulietn Editorial Rooms, 85-3. : MODESTY IN DRESS ¢ otics. 21 chts, I%,00d 83 | Determined steps In the way of dress —_— e |reform have been undertaken by the teachers of the Fort Wayne, Indiana, high school where a movement to get the high school girls to dress more modest- ly has not only resulted in suspensions but the jater acceptance and observance of the rccommendations offered by the Norwich, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 1920, ER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The Associated Press s exclusively entitied to (4, ase for republication of all news despaich- v credlied o 1t or Dot oterWise credited 1o this nmptf and also the local news publighed Ile:\cheru. " - || That the effort has the backing of more suicies berin are s reemed. © ™™ | nan the school authorities is indicated iby the claim that the majority of the mothers and 95 per cent. of the girls are backing the undertaking. The idea aim- ed at is not to enforce a hard and fast rule regarding dress but to demand that sll dress reasonably and modestly as be- comes a girl in her high school year and that there be an end put to the practice of coming to school With their faces ; covered with cosmetics. It is only among a few that the radical ideas prevail but it permitted that is enough to break up the morale of the school. The school authorities appear to be en- ced in a most valuable service, but it! to be.realized that the need for such| reforms rests largely with the parents It ought not#y be necessary for school authorities to be required to give their attention to such matters, but where conditions prevall that they cannot coun- tenance and they hav. the courage to un- dertake to put a stop to them they should get the enthusiastic support of all the parents, those who have neglected their parental duties in this respect as well as those who have not. CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING NOV. 13th, 1920 CONNECTICUT APPLES In our neighboring state on the north people are being urged to ask for Massa-| &2 chusetts apples. It is a capital ideal with a view not only to moving the ap- ple crop but of developing a greater in- terest in production of apples in that ¥ e commonw It is ed with mov ent that should be push- equal vigor right here in Con- 1 no part of the country better apples than| utmeg state and vet| of the fact that there are great| of apples grown each year and t is possible for still greater quanties! It has been well said in connection and still better quality to be produced! With such a situation that the high school those who might give greater attention| 8irl only follows in the footsteps of their to such development either fail to mm-} elders. What they see others do they ulate or to get the needed en-jfeel it necessary for them to copy and ouragement. they get the full force of the bad ex- If there was a greater demand for| ample, when their minds should be turn- Connecticut apples there would be a €d in other directions. Immodest dres: qrea effort made to improve market-| ing and painted faces in the Fort Wayne| ng tione. If those who like ap-jhigh school are apparently getting the| Connecticut fruit those who| Tebuke from the school authorities that| would see they get it and if|Ought to be administered in the home. sn't a sufficient supply to meet | e requirements there Would be steps THE BOLSHEVIKI VICTORY t future production] That General Wrangel's forces have r the demands, A western apples are put esn't mean that they are bet- ere are not better apples or can be grown right here in ut The izhly poliched and ate les which keep well for long pping don't begin to touch the| e Meclntos the Baldwins| ets of this part of the coun-| been completely routed is disclosed by the news from southern Russia. The bolsheviki have not enly forced him back into the Crimea but they have gotten possession. of that including Sebastopol and broken up the anti-bolshevik army. Greater numbers and propaganda spread; through the Crimean peninsula contain- ing false charges regarding Wrangel and| his ambition are given as the reasons for the smash, though the way by which the There may he those whe say that they| soviet forces gained the rear of the| # t the Connecticut apples, but| Wrangel front secems to have been badiy| voint. When it is impos.| defended. & cut fruit, fruit such| but Wrangel in spite of his efforts, hig| is time to make a fuss|ambition and such support as was given| be known that Connecti-| him was fighting against too big odd desired, ask for Connecti are dis failure simply follows in the course in this line and let it belOf others. His end came quick after n‘fi)‘;s:":'r:d‘gfi?hfi ‘v”fh‘:”i}z“rl,;f;‘ns",}eii&: something clse will not do| Was possible for the soviet government o oq to emigrate to the great west. In nd the real gopds will bel concentrate its forces on his front. large caravans they traveled across The Massachusetts idea js. NOW it becomes a question as to what! the plains and in 1847 came to Salt one for Connecticut to! it 80ing to be the next move of the bol-| Lake City where they sett Here sievik government. Wrangel was the| they flourished, increasing their num- A P W 01 big anti-bolshevik enemy since thei DeUS and by 1 Sftgfir"fi‘;}"‘]‘ifl ““‘e‘;’*";‘” BANNLLS SvEAR I naking of peace with Poland and it re-| (2 (' MICRULY BF over 15,090 Alean- iz nains to be seen whether the bolshevikl] untry gone through an ex- in connection with sugar which t care to have repeated. Sugar| i their determination to move westward, will résume activities along the Polish or| other fronts in the spring or whether the times what it formerly sold| predicted decay of that government will| t is today retailing for twice|have progressed to that point by that e-war figures. The drop from 33 time that a new government will be =ontrol of Ru in 1 pound to 12 to 14 cents is| but it is desired and there i ¥ el e g 4 are) For many months the end of the soviet sl Will continue to drop un-| government has been forecasted. Ex-| - oo Tt pt for the Polish success there has| situstion and the large| e taken from sugar it is| that the head of one sugar! association should put| hat the farmers who| ugar beets and the fac-| ground and refined the su-| none of the handsome| came from the high priced and there will be widespread ap- of the declaration of this same of- hat the selling of sugar should be out of the hands of the speculat- n little eyidenee of it in the military| if they are as told in the reports, are vreighed and steadily getting worse. Lenine and Trotzky have disposed of Virangel ven as they did of Denikine! and follo’ it that no little interest is{ | g0ing to be taken in the use that is made] »l the recent understanding raeched with tae Turkish nationalists. EDITORIAL OTES From now on the icemen will com- nence to count the days to an ice crop. country has been held up and it be for the last time. It will be| that the beet sugar men| vrice tiat would permit tie| r from ten to twelve cents a: t the time when it wag permitted ara cane svgar to sell for 18. but it didn't profit the grow- €s when prices later went to 32 and 35 November has started in early and earnestly to show what it can do as an ice maker. Colonel Bryan must realize before this| time that his appeal to the president fell on deaf ears. :" s 4 pound. Tt "ill be agreed that The makers of near beer must ap- o wrlr: ;ruus( ed but it will| preciate that fact that something is being| ave to be admitted that in- #smuch as they were charged those Who rroduced the good did not get a proper £ d for their efforts. In view of the ¥ that rests upon the produc-|again in long skirts. no unjustified clalm that he s r 2 larger part of the profitsy We are getting to the season of the !¢ & more pointed demand when he| Year when people are quite as likely to that the speculators be denied the|slip and slide along with the prices. ing of sugar in view of the experi- country has had. The Speculat- & nothing, not even a sure invest. instances and get tre- i While those who furnish abor those who provide the braina and the means got hardly what could be regarded substantial recompense. Sugar profiteers like all others deserved to be treated without sympathy. done in their behalf. The man on the corner says: are the days when some wish they were ‘These f Snow flakes thus far have been few and far between but it is there is plentiful where they eame front. nrof] If there is anyone who can swing that double job of loking after judicial duties and keeping baseball on the level it is “Judge Landis. Greeks in this country have declared for a democracy in Greece. Greeks at the ballot boxes don’® seem to have been impressed by the appeal. DISREGARD FOR REGGULATIONS There has to be an awakening every now and then in order to get the proper observance of regulations and the intro- duction of the proper measure of safe- ty for the public. Urfortunately such akenings invariably feilow the loss of life oceasioned hy the failure of erforce- The president must do seme hustling if he provides an office for those re- publicans who supported Cox before the expiration of his term. It speaks well for their ability to mud- dle and blunder when it is claimed that 4,000 accountaints are trying to straight- en out the shipping board tangle. The Yale bowl accommodates a big crowd but for the big game there will be fully as many kept away because of its limitations as there are who get in. there aro many reasons which ced for the conditions which osed in that New York children were trampl- ed to death and twice ar many inflired, such as the failure on the part of the parents to keep their children away from such places unless accompanied and the lack of restraint on the part of the person who ttarted the stampedes by the theaire where s Those who figure in auto accidents and have no reeollections 2 : s + of them furnish Ty of “firs” there are indications that) pretty good evidence that they have the proprietors of that moving plcture been getting some of that stuff that house thought more of gathering in the nicksls and dimes from the children than ir living up to the regutationh which re- cuired them to be accon'panied by their elders and Jn seeing that the provisions for the quick exit of crowds under any and all condlitons were observed. Equally lax does it appear that the au. trorities were In their fusneetion of such eonditions. Laws for for the protection blinds. Even those who haven't liked the idea ing whether the boys are going to furnish the usual Thanksgiving night barrel burning. The mayor of New York appears to suspected | of parting with thelr barrels are wonder-| ooerations although conditions in Russia| H have been drawn into the bullding graft operatlons in a way that doesn’t reflect anything to his credit even though he got no part of it af human life do not amount to anything unless they are observed and the observ- ance is invariably baved upon the manner THE TALL AND THE SHORT-MAN “Wasn't that John Fiddlebang on the phone just now?” inquired the up and coming matron sharply of her”lovely daughter. “It seems to me 'you were hardly polite to him, and you'd better realize that men with $15,000 incomes aren't quite as plentiful as the sands of the sea these days! Why—" “He's short,” said the lovely daugh- ter more shortly. “I'd like to know why it is that when a girl is extra tall all the extra short men in the world fall in love with her and make her life miserable! I just won't go to the theatre with him and walk down the aisle towering above him like a— a palm tree or something! Why can’t he pick on some girl his own size and be happy ?" “You ought to wear low . heeled shoes.” reproved the up and coming matron reprovingly. “And it's fash- ionable to droop a bit, too. You could cut down séveral inches that way and I heard he was talking of buying a beautiful place at Lake Geneva—' “I will not have a husband I have to megaphone to from heights above!” insisted .the lovely daughter stubborn- ly. “Napoleon was a short man,” pur- Q:ed her parent tartly. “Yes, and look what “happened to Josephine!” retorted the lovely, daugh- ter. “John Fiddlebang is perfectly all right and I don’t mind sitting next him at a dinner, but he can just go and marry Ethel Plummy or Mildred McWisp for all of me! They can look up at him adoringly and all that— and why he shold want a wife who would spend her life casting down su- perb glances from above geis me!” “It is_the contrariness of man,” ad- mitted her progressive parent. ‘‘Until [ met your father my life was full of troubles. Of course, there were more men in those days and beaux were a drug on the market, but the phalanx of short ones clustering about me com- pletely shut eut any tall ones and I feit just as you do. At dances—" ~ “My heavens!” breathed the lovely daughter reminiscently. “The hair- breadth escapes I have had at dances when I saw John Fiddlebang headed my way! I have plunged headlong broken up more twosomes by my dash into secluded cormers! When I do have to dance with John the effect is #0 painful that sensitive people turn around and sob into the wall draperies ~—yet he seems to enjoy it!" 3 “He is a man of sterling worth, Insisted her parent, recovering her original line of talk. “And some day he will be president of the company— and there is nothing so cbmforting to the emotions as a permanently large bank account—" 3 “Well, tall men gometimes have in- Porhrhouse E?Re:&r :33:" said her lovely daughter S T E A K Pound 28¢ “1 knew it!" sighed her mother, “It's SEEDLESS THAYER BLDG: that Henry Billows, who has ‘been|§ trailing around after you lately! 1|g would not have you think that I am mercenary, Phileta, but after Henry Billows gets his laundry bill for tire week paid and his shoes shined he's finished financially until the next day! Your clothes—" T've clothes enough years!™ insisted her lovely daughter, ssly. “And I haven’t said a wo! di about wanting to marry Henry Bil- lows! I just love to dance with him, because he is so strong and cdn guide 80 perfectly and his firm likes him aw- fully well, and he is certain of a raise next January.” . HECKER'S BEST BREAD FLOUR 1-8 Sack $1.69 GRANULATED SUcik to -last ten “I hmd a tall cousin who talked that vay,” said her mother, with emphasis. nd after she married him she-took in sewing and washing and things all her life, and the wife of the short man she refused had sealskins and card TN 10+-$1.25 Pound ....... 30c|Pound ..... RAISINS, Pkg. 30c|{Dozen .....,. 19c;2 Pounds..... 39¢ MAINE POTATOES 15 Ib. Peck 45¢ MEATY PRUNES - 10 Pounds 25¢ Bushel $1.00 parties, and came to Chicago twice a year to do all her shopping, even to spools of thread! And it isn't as though John Fiddlebang were homely | or disagreeable or impossible, or something like t! 4 “He is an utterly pice man,” admit- | ted her lovely @aughter mutinously, “but I just won't fall in love with hi so there! And I notice for all vou talk that you picked out a tall one, | when you got married, and I know | father had just a little bit of a salary when you started out—so, why— 1 “Well, I see it’s no use,” sighed the up and coming matron. “Anyhow, 've done my duty, and now that's over distinct dividing line between the Arabic and the Turkish-speaking por- tions of the former Ottoman Empire. This bousdary corresponds with the line ¢ the Bagdad railway from the X terranean to the Persian Guif. It is for the exploitation of this rich land of Mesopotamia that the famous Bag- dad line was built. i “Sy closes the east end of the! Mediterranean and is bounded on the north by the Tuurus mountains. The yrian and Arabian deserts limit fur- ther settiement to the east and south. But in c¢onnection with werld com- merce it hus aiways been closely re- into sun parlors; into trh- o :d cages of irritable parrots and skate ed down unexpected Staia , s e fertile val- with, I confess that Henry Billows has | lated to the fertile to the tishes for quite a spell, and I guess it | (uian rivers, and its commercial Lfe e ouI”-Chicago News: of tomo: annot be divorced from won't hurt you!”—Chicago News. o RN Rk g RLE M aHE RY f T‘E—" Ges oloped there had only the iile val- 1 I [9) Uur .4 ley as-a competitive field. Hut, like By JONATHAN BRACE—Copyrighted 1920 XLIV. UTAH THE first white | excursion _into Utah dates back to 1340 when _a - party of Spaniards sent out b yf Coronado suc- ceeded in pene- trating to the Colorado river, There is no au- thentic record | of further ex- 200 years had | 6 two Franciscan Fri- tempt to find the short- Pacific went from Santa plorations until over elapsed. In ars in their est way to t! Fe to Utah eat Salt Lake, how overed un- til 1 ges, a trap- per, in wand this region came upon this huge, inland, salt sea. But the real history of Utah begins with the rise of Mormon power there. treaty of \peace with Mexico, a huge western tract, of which Utah was a part, was ceded to the United States.| As no definite government was ar- | ranged for, the control df affairs local- “Mesopatamia is as fertile today as when it was the birtaplace of human and when the civiization that many parts of the earth once populous and pow almost deserted, Mesopaianna is' no haliway land. Such regions must either be the uncuitivated rvams: ing places of nomadic tribes or the ly was for a number of you s catirely | goats ‘of settied governiicat unu o in the hands of the officers of the Mor-| centralized siate. The innabitants mon church. They, accordingly, made ) rust either be few enough and mobile up a constitution and organized under the name of the state of Deseret. This is a word taken from the Book of Mor- mon, and signifies “Industyy.’ Appli- cation was made for admission to the Jnion, but this was refused and the 1 government instead o the Territory of Utah in 1850. The first governor was Brigham Young, the successor of Joseph Smith and presi- | an."aavance of the Turk threw Eus until the so-called Mormon war tem- | t::Raliy, and the discovery of Ameriea porarily puf an cnd to his political | \Urned the aitention of its peoples power in 1857 by the occupation of | W4y from the spices and wealtis o Salt Lake City by federal troops. At|S3€ East cuough to seek through migrations the | fr0d upon which their fiocks depend | or stable enough to keep in repair vast irigation sysims Which cause heavy crops to follow one another with as- saring reguiarity “Vurious factors delayed the inevit- sble recpemng of the historic trade raute acruss Syria gnd Mesopotamia. The attempt_to do away with po- lygamy met with little success until 1850 the Mormon ater extent than along in church finally agreed mot to countenance it. Mean- : : '+ Ale ing commer- while, growing antagonism between | 214 Alepbo was a thriving commer- 1 center of German Al the| hotels engineer ed the 1ght. the Mormons a trade. nd non-Mormons verg- ed nearly on civil war. Finally a gen- eral a ty was declared and after many requests Utah was accepted as the 45th state of the Union in 1806— the two important points in her state constitution being the prohibition of polysamy and the enfranchisement of women as voters. The name Utah comes from the I dian word meaning * mountain home Its area is 84,990 square miles and Utah has four pre: future in AMesopotamia. That umiier, war came, and the burning ion of styles was rapidly succeed- ed by one of ivod enough to keep body | VU ynd soul together. ust south of the Hittite ruing y Euphrates lor the and enters Tesopotamii present Stories That Recall Others ‘amily ential electo; lne to Bagdad and the Persian Guif vill monopolize the attention of the ad-builders; but slowly and surely| the iron pathways of commerce wili! ~xtend north to the copper fields of linor and the rich plains where grown, up through IN THE DAY’S NEWS Mesopotamia, behaved in the actions were no- ced by his n old sister in the next row. she walked from ce to i ng and a tered a good him Virginia?"| they were m‘ you sh: asked her the room. “Because if I hadn't shook him his! teacher would,” she retorted. The quesiioning teacher smiled. “But I can't see wWhy if he had to be shaken what difference it made whether you or his teacher did it.” - A Fizzle There is a woman of considerable} means who does much charity worl is very relfgious and a sticker for She had decided to have supper i large number of poor. boys. Wishing to, try to teach thgm good manners as »\ell: as te give them a good supper, every- | thing was done in the best way she| knew how. The supper closed with the serving of apple pie. One of the young- sters looked up and down the table and in a most disgusted manner said: “What! Apple pie an’ no cheesel” She form.” | for a| Fighting Food Spoilage The Califor: helped o vestigate t find m Germ a Olive Association hag se a fund of $100,000 to in- : cause of spoiled foods and to overcome it. The ablest sclentist in the couuntry found that one of the ca®es of food spoilage is a germ known as bacillus bot- linus. This germ can be killed by a tem- perature of 240 degrees maintained for forty minutes and the asseciation has se- cured the eooperation of the California state board of health to have a ruling|- written into the laws of the state: that no olives may be packed for sale in California that- have not been sterilized at a temperature of 240 degrees for for- ty minutes. Nobody Fome. Itallan labor diseovered in a few days that production without sale got them no- ‘where, but the bolshevists try to get along without either.—Chicago News. Some 2,000 tons of New Zealand but- ter is coming to the United States. “Mesopotamia,*Upper and Lower, | vies with kgypt in claming the o of being the home of ancient civiliga- tion,” says a bulletin of the National Geographic Seciety, quo om se eral communications concerning the land of Adam and Eve where the Bri- tish afe rushing more troops because of native uprisings. “Mesopotamia comprises the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Here flourished the Chaldean, Ba- bylonian and Assyrian empir The eity of Bagdad, with all «its glamour of mystery and magic, is in the heart of Mesopotamia. This the richest land in the world, the granary of the ancients; yet, in spite of all that it has been it today lies largely waste, the desert sands haye encroached the fert fields, while the clogged canals have turned other portions into swamps and marshes. “What population there is—not more than one million—is of Arab origin and the Arabic language is spoken throughout. There is, in fact, a very across Per- n, and across Arghan- luchistan to the gates of istan or ‘ndia. “War may not be entirely a thing of the past, but the Syrian and Meso- potamian routes are essential to the commercial ang industrial develop- | ment of Lurope and the eultural de- ment of Asie. Fiity miles west of Bagdad, along Eupt lies the region now amonly regarded as the Garden of ate this Eden and to cres around Dagdad was the stupendous task to which the Turkish government ad- dressed itself. t Mussayeb, on the Buphratek, a pre-war traveller saw 4:000 Arabs dig- wing like moles in the " Babylonian plain, making a new channel-for the river. In the dry bed of this artificial To irrk To Heal A Cough Take Hayes’ - Healing Honey low prices, 38e per Bottle No.3 No 4 was Sea. sistent” party that ; Sl T trecless prairie. Encireing it are beaches sl 2 g : s and rich prizes of the west. The d Thelées 9 ~ i g foutns fean 37000000 and | covers of the sea route around Afri Tl L0 0 ot o By et e S h 38,900,000 and ;e available a saier passige to opu-'jBo¥s who swim in is de a eft 24 widows and 44 childre lon the surface without thotion. Stam: 2 ;1. | ing vprizht without touching th ehettom. d trade follow the rFail- , i 1" dies are out of water. These ! an |who dive bob to the surface like corks. and in the spring \lté Enpossitie” 13" SIBK. Before purchasing the capitalistie quine Bics, o |tet had the water analyzed. and merchants crow 53 to 5 Drperit ult. a salt’ content creater than tiiat of the in Palestine and |Ereater than that of Great Salt Lake in . The Saskatchewan {lieved to be the saltie at.in the world. G e Tuns 'fkan at ance to operate a selar plant an the tazdad railway cross-fi e shores to extract the ssit from the tho | Water. It is almost ng rooms and taiked of a ed from Dead Sea party.—Columbia Record. i / SCHWARTZ BROS., Inc. rise® *mes, =~ thannel an enormous dam was built. “Nebuchadnezzar’s system, which once watered ail Ba- bylonia, can still be easily traced for miles about Bagdad. One giant canal, the Narawan, runs parallel with the Tigris for nearly 300 miles; ieet wide, and all about it the jake- off and laterals may still be identified. Herodotus #aid he found a ‘farest of erdure from end to end' when he Vis- ed Mesopotamia,” Another Salt Lake When five capitalists of Calgary bopght a small lake near Senlac, Sask., recent- 1y, the country people iaughed. The joke hard-headed should be so foolish as to invest real money in 187 acres of water. has been known for years as the Dezd H Though a few miles away rieh ifarm lands stretch on every side, the to the boundiess resources |COURtry immediately about it is desolate, How Bryan Helps., Mr. Bryan gays “silence is not incom- with support of the democratie Silence, in fact, is the most ef- s fective support Mr. Bryan can give the i 1 NORWICH Phone 1250 SOUTH MAIN STREET vast irrigation. Flabe- it is 350 of things, business men The lake It contzin- This is five times lakg is be- bady of water The new proprietors be- MOTOR FREIGHT SERVICE (All ‘acods Coversd by Insuranes Buring Tramsit) DANIELSON—PUTNAM-—NORWICH—PROVIDENCE—FALL RIVER—NEW BEDFORD—BOSTON—LAWRENCE— LOWELL—WORCESTER and Cennecting Points E. P. WINWARD & SON 145 WATER STREET 184 MAIN STREET DANIELSON Phone 403 Gepd-by to Mere Man, Politieal predietion: That within ten years two-thirds af the posteffices will be in the hands of the women.—§i. Leus Demoerat. New Zealand is boping paying quantiti:s. REMEMBER A FULL CHARGED BATTERY WILL NOT FREEZE, DRIVE YOUR CAR AROUND AND WE WILL GIVE YOU A FREE TEST The Norwich Electric Co., ~ 42 Franklin Street This Sale will give everybody ths opportunity to buy Dinner Sets at Come this week—Blame yourself i if you are too late, “The Big Sters With the 14e Bine Sky the Limit. We shudder to think where priees would go if there really was a shortage as the profiteers clalm— Washville Tennessean, to find ofl in Cash Sale On Dinner Sets BIG DINNER SET SALE NOW GOING ON 218 Sets of 100-Piece and 42-Piece Fine Grade Dinner Sets — Beautiful Little Floral 42-Piece Sets, regular price §16.50—On Sale at. ..., .. $9.95 100-Piece Sets, regular price $37.50—On Sale at. ... $23.65 When you come to serve the Turkey this Thanksgiving, will your china be in keeping with the character of the holiday ? Will you be proud ‘. serve your extraordinary | Little Prices”