Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 18, 1920, Page 4

showed a friendly and liberal attitude to those who were clagsed as ‘conscien- l""’,—. . 1920 afii&s i tious objectors” even to the extent of Slorwich Bulletin [0 b ' ol w0 . to keep them in a detention camp @ur- and Coufied - |ing the period of the war. New AT+~ |draft law are assured a similar leniepcy 124 YEARS OLD unless the American Leglon is able to — extend the statute of limitation. Nafus 5rice 13 & weeki 0 & mouth: #.08 | rally they feel that they have been diseriminated againet in being tvm into service while others dodged it Telephone Calls, Bulletn Rustaess Ofice. 80, Balietin Edliorial Rooms, 358, Hulietin Job Office, 35-2 Willtmantie Offee. 23 Church St. Telephoue 105. meun the e et thy SEE N Sap prosecution is concerned. The matter®is not a'political but a patriotio effort, HELF THE, nvm;;‘xq. . Saturday, Dee. 18, 195 MEMZER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRE: the plea for means of earsyl relief ck of food in other ecountries should t with such a response as right w. Not only 15 it winter, when every- one to whom the appeal is made knows what it would be to be witheut shelter, to say nothing of being Without food m CIRCULATION | K ENDING DEC. 11th, 1920 10,975 during the Christmag tl en_ev- ryone is, or should be, of ng with v those In’ distress. or city, but in a great country likeé thi found on all sides, it is only ng laws ath from staryation er god. Commis- e ef- presents) dinners and festivities in such distress. le? | Ana then there 18 the oy of giving |fering in other lands? trat ke no d FER - who walk reck- vident that b nece it w can | tors to keep such a poicy In v ake ofa the[to come. b what | ciency A could effe upon gislation that |2 adapted | over today. remendous debt because We had to. garded as a strong peace man. He his fajlure to act those who evaded the|the wind.” Are there not meny, far from|orop s the largest on record. the of -senile décreptitude, who hug. ' i t & honws | concessions + 1) & little t00 Closely the coal stove, or the | o) Soore” sommnmitios il aars e escaped punishment. If It supeeeds|house breeds a sort of insanity always, others will have the task of pushing the | Every hojise is, in this sense, a sort of prosecutions, and if they fail i will|hospital” There is no question bit what Therd is no season of the year when|in, leave the wards of your hospital and o those who are starving to th for n;yna. ahut—if possible. and no prospect of getiing any, but it riad of divine leisure, in which your own wesire to make others BapRY, 9| too hurriedly to get the most out of life. gifts here and there and to re-|Our ideals are patterned too much after Ordinarily at this time the meed gen-|richness and beauty it deserves. We live tre about looking a{ter. those Bearsr|too fast to get the lingering sweetness SAFEGUANDING THE HIGHWAYS. |home, those about us, those in our gtate|that mormal existence has a right to ex- the true ; i when there 18 no ANEEF of MMATVALON, |y we i e F ¢ ouF food. In this when ylenty and exm'w'#a 18 to b |sible of fulfillment, and if they do not tting that | crush us completely they iavite nu sorts more than passing attentlon sheuld helof nervous disorders and fill iusane re- given fo the call thet comes in behalf | treats. Why not g little more aiv®e o|of the millions in other countries who | 'elsure this winter? are not going to have any Christmas| A eertsin writer has recently said: oblems |cheer and who at this season of thel"We have preached the doctrine of the | racn el most LarHely veta: o8| bRl e oY), 1ha Jormrlud of bp t o v that b s not belieeed (et BiD BRI REL R 4 e Saiteriniy cve e country are going to sit by thelr | i s y over s, and arrange far thetr Christ-{890¢ Buf In the old days when mill out giving a little bit of thought.|It came g5 near to real hardship as any- deration and help to thoso Whq arel thing in this country ever did. ~But jn There isn't dnything quite as tquch-|abont the hardship of work is an ah- the cry of suffering humanity. | 5urdity today. Nothing in itself has fur- it. to know that it is being|Dished to humanity more happiness than | made and to make no respons: doeswt| FOrk. Without it life would be clearly e | 0 fit in with the right Christmas What o wonderful opportunity tting into practice the Golden|the op¢ hand makes jt virtual slavery; What greater satisfaction can there be[lty. Solin the making of gifts at this seasqn | (eF In these days? [than to know that yrur contribution| Seme time age the common topic in our | has gone to help check starvation and |newspapers and magazines was the high el | fiecase among the children who are suf-| cost of living, and those words were Congressman Mondell brings a matter , favors meking|0f much importance directly to the 8f-|one result of the high cost of tention of congress whemn he declares | During the era of ccst inflation there was, that there must be a eyt in the depart-|to meet it, the era of wage inflation, mental appropriations of between a bil- :‘l:‘;ht:;!a\;i:rzeg‘:lay r'bi oiii kR Dice lion and a quarter and a billion and a | 857 10 hete o Wage bie eouch 1o buy It dollars. He made the plea both | e SOmmOdties of i 2t o on the grounds of extravagance and the S & FOUCtion 1 the hours ity of keeping down taxation, and I be well for the pational legisia- w in the|an article on “Economics” a writer says men- | moking of appropriations for some time fthe H. C. L. may be represepted by 5 per Years ago congress was told that the | \¥AEes and 70 ver cent. decreased jroduc Wete eopn |& \rrnmal\% h:-a fnr: introduction of efi-|tio% and incomnetency. He says 4 the eliminaion of waste a saving of about a million dollars a day. Whatever the need was hey please, |then for the pmn?: of e‘;momy angd ‘uf"'a *:“;V::ly E{:trltq 'fl‘m.oluy has jost rights [the getting of the governmept down to ¢ B active volume setting usiness basis it exists many times We lave plunged into 2 ,Jf. D. Thoreau in that ¢ i a ‘W\z-\l:r," erw;-‘-':l n!z Ei:;v‘s. «3‘: = . it Naturs every i R 3 &mfi y. I am . that I am Im- L 1iay ob- bibing heaith when I open my mouth fo |5 aio, [OF the approaching holitay pteam radiator, in these early winter days, when it is not cold, but only raw, outside? Thoreau, whose love of the open brings him to borders of fanaticism, goes so far as to say that “staying in the foul air chilly damp or overheated is a Mils ground for colds. ~Sawing wool outdoors i§ a better producer of warmth than a steam heater. In lumber camps Sickness is very rare. If you have no zfi to saw, nor fumber camp to work every day wil your Plate says somewhers In his “Repub- lie” that the motto of life should be “not 1o live but to live well.” And in order to live well we must have leigure tg live rightly. What are four score vears, hur- riedly and coarsely lived, to 2 short pe- life is an organic part of the universe? Coarseness and haste are the assassins of right living teday. We do everything the mess of pattage to give our living the ct, just the same as we eat too fast to way we impose on ourselves tasks impos- it eurflu', and yet toil gives to life all there is to life worth while.” Doubt- hands worked sixteen and sometimes more hours & day, tofl was a grinding reality. the reaction from the old regime, to talk ypnbearable. Put in order to experiepce this happiness the two extremes must be aveided: First, the grinding toil that, on #nd, on the other, the farce that makes ere play in both quantity and qual ty. s there not same danger of the speiled with eapital letters But the main subject of interest has shifted from the high cost of Jiving to the causes of busi- ness depression. As a cold matter of fact, is not the present business slump living? t. It was neces- abor wi esulted, of course, in less- cned production. In this way the amount of moey in circulation was restricted In cent. profiteering, 5 per cent. increased o hopest apd efficient day's work, without any increase i nours. would cure 70 per ©oeRt. of our troubles.” |parts of the state foreste= of A Christmas-trea crop of more than(cut for Christmas purpgses n wa a million and a half evergreen trees—|d make 100, | spruce, fir and hemlock—has beer cufi mfl JeRst, 8VeRY |in the forests and pastures of New En- servances east o and more communities will nav emblem of the Christmas £3. ever before. mas trees is under way, and figares on been taken; in Vermont it s cstimated : about 300,000 were felled and th of New England cuts mucn 12 erop from the Berkshires in setts being probably abou: ) andw: about 25,000, sold By the farmer or woodiani oW for a few cents each, large lo's sell at $25 to $30 a thousand.’ in some instances. Price: er haye been generally hiZuer this year part of the cost to the Chr.stmas con- sumer, however, who will pay betwren | $1 and $2 each for the averago tree. A statement on the Christmas tree indu: try prepared by the New Hampshire for- estry department for The Associated Press asserts that “it is mot fair to the farmer to give him only a few cents for' trees which may bring seve When :g0ld at retail in the ¢ | The department regards the Christ-| mas tree industry as legilimate and says it is ot objectionable, if the land owner receives a fair value for his trees and the cutting is scattered and con- fined to the right size of “trees. The custom of setting up evergreens at Yule tide is gaining rather - than losing strength, if the reportssof the number of trees cut are a criterion, and the “at no distant date the growing of trees! Dbecome the practice.” is a long haul to some of the mar-| kets for trees cut in the forests of thi north country. Trees are en route a fortnight or more and in a time of car | ltrom the demands of coal and pulpwood | traffic hundreds of cars to meet the de- | mands of Christmas a million and half of trees goes to Chicago, St. Louls, | Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, New York, Cleveland and other points as far west as the Mississippi. There has been a picturesque proces- | sion of evergreens for several days| from northern forests ‘or hill-town farms snow to the rail sidings. This ment employs many of the formed the gangs that went into the feep ‘forests to the best trees. The cutters hiva aad to o farther into the woo western Maine is Tep |n i move- who ed o he ons in that o the eastern shington. The ODD INCIDENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY EARLY METHODS OF TRANSPORT- ATION. Prior to the Revolution transporta- {tion throughout the country was ex- | but as the 1 3 Hfied for the us slow-mov. forth the social and educational side of their vast enferprise. One chapler is de- voted to the psyeholopy of ~accideniy - | which brings out ihe following very in- But those conditions arg over and ih ic | teresting facts: A workmaa is most care- | T " to be hoped that there will be an end to| ful When he s 37 years old, this having o unjustified who par- | f years 1 time for retrenchment is at hand. wou ) had | e ced to ry. at the ou as actuate those in the halls of congress. EDITORIAL NOTES. vor. Tie man on the cormer say: - com-|are the days when it is necessary te put en|a muffier on the stills. G r legislation by con- | 1 LIt s {Tint to the weatherman. v he part of t s in dea mobs wre pun.|Mecting of the assembly. ‘lvie of the country wanted a change. present state of industrial conditions. come chrontc er remedial One of the most satisfactory things ' ' because of | last one. ' pay their taxes. {to be 2 hoss truckman. He is next few months. onel With bullding material, foodstuffs, on was win. | (he dollar is steagily going up. 64 ‘and * these men| jupan has claimed repgatedly Mre known partment has not|was anxious to @ e "ah proceedcd them. They 2 muoh for There seems to be a good chanes kave o help prevent starvation there. ey have been erent basis ¢ through failure of | From the way Ihe governmen e they bid fa ent ©0 cscipe any pun-|tations for the raw product, the price of the refined ouht fo drop steadily for The secretary of war has been re- some time te come. sho hat we must mest our debt and pay | IO most-aceidents swere between 22 needed expenses is fully recognized, e t thee doesn't mean the plunging into | hour showing most aceidents was from 3 | 1o, io, and ¥ of money on a Jimitless|to 10 a. m. Would it ot be well to spend | nen ac-| We need to eliminate the waste motion Putting the knife into estimates and nying appropriations which can wait|ence shows that radical changes will have | derness. Trav ed to take|may not be the gasiest way for the leg: ead of |Isiators, but it isn't the easiest way|lbc signatories. It is now admitted on s course, [bul the duty to the nation Which should |3l sideg that Article X will have to be Constantine is returping to Greecs | pow stands. That is only one of the nu- | tully conscious of the landslide in his fa- | merous questions that are coming up for re| Austria has the laugh on Germany by| It may not be generally known but g pants are |EC(INE into the league at the first]liftle financial magazine is, or was, pub- J : burning que of hour. The fol- n Harding getting a plurality of |} & T ey B lowing quotation is taken from a short With corporations passing dividends| reached you yet. But don’t thin more than the employes are feeling the | il be able to escape. The orgar me tmo agojcomnected with the report of Postmas-|bg a “m"fi" Jpires hes dovpien- foderal office- |ter General Purleson is that it is his Tiere are some of the big federal tax|and vicinity $50,000,000 for British sea- ayers who are realizing that they|mWen Wno ad vexn disaoled m tie 1 -jcannot spend all their income and still| A certain de: «| The governor of New York is gomg|{ing” It is perfectly safe to 4 ’mz veople sometimes give without any i ready for the democratio movings in the | SPicuous show of Joy, that Jaw |CIOthing, textiles and other = things| Boetiie e LY to make princely | cieved that n | SOWINE downward moves, the yalge of [were known many a big s t it a. | I for it|from kiowing the object thoroughly and | lavish expenditures which went with | been deterimined, it is safest for him to always remain at that age. The ages and 26, and over b0, therefore it is best to lop off both youth and old age. The cale just because reepmmendations| that hour in recreation (not football), so | ve Deen made as to how it could be{as to lessen the liability? ed and wasted, or beoause such a|Of the accidents ooccur to the new em- been gequired within the past | PIOYES, OF those Who have been less than Fifty per cent. §ix months in onme position. Why not wait 1jll six months have nassed before joining the works? Forcizn born em- womgn. Alas, how many of us will have to put up with the humiliation of being tions is functioning at the Geneva confer- sreatly modified before it can become & working hypothesis in any nation. Our near neighbor, Canada, has put wp strenuous opposition tb the article as it adjustment. Another s the insistence of Norway and Sweden for the immediate mmxvn of Germany into the league. effect of this move on France, which ployes are quick in acguiring the safety | seven year: in zovernment business and to shut off | habit, if tgught, and most of us are for- | 1+ avenues through which needless ex-| eign born of of foreign born parents. | ures are inclined to go. We must | More aceidents occur on Monday than any | days and alize that debt and necessary expenses | Other day, which. is not attributed to the © going to call for a gufficiently large c’l“"‘“' Ing habit. Doing the same kind | of {ax without giving way to the tendency |’ WOFK, three men are imjured to one | tion had improved but little. The some previ-| to push it up any higher or make it ex- slouy of the{tend over any longer peviod thas Is nec: | men! The wanner in which the league of na- | Armies of Draddo t0-be made before it will meet the aime of | ¥25 slow and irregular. Between Ne four-Horse wain that took the place of | the pack-hor: n or At- |lantic coast s of the countr: pathways wi cd through the woodlands o ches cut in led. In the newly | the near west ther beaten pathway, | to ford all the streams. About 1716 a trade route was op ed between the MiamPand the Wab: ginia -opened a_way - Glue Ridg granted a {A year late ! seven-year privil ! portation between Hartford a ew | Haven. Four y ater the | the record of an “express” from Bos jton to Newport, and the follow. | year recorded the first trip pf a team from Connecticut to Providenc before the olution a wagon expre rom New York to Phiiadelphia was known as a “Flyin Machine.” bad roads and difficuit rivers, connect- ing the same small towns, stretched info the same fore: as when th x ced the w along the seaboard York and Albany there wa lar packet-boat, but between New York and Boston there was a tolerable road along which thrice a week light stage coaches passed. The average speed of the sta coach was four miles an hour, and n most sections the mails were carr on horseback. The stage coach t ran between Charleston and S appears to have been the only pu conveyance in the three south suffered 5o terribly, can be easlly imag- | States. ingd. Then, agaip, the dramatic with- {ven| One mill has shut fown because o] Sra¥al of Arcupting from fufther partici. | Weshinglon,” wrote Jefforson from tion in the rocecdi the aititude (POOF underwear buying. Rather a broad| e contusion. Burers 1o lemiye 1305 | bridges nor boats” From Baltimo eling over a rough road. hished in New York entitled Now. 1t con- tained bright, gna 'aphs on the on “Drives”: *Have you been founded up in any ‘drive’ this morning? If not, it is because the canvassers 1aveirt . tion gommittee has your name and ‘number. 1 know, and will tell you why” The Just because the coml production rec-| Writer then goes on to make & fair and | Ple of Massachusetts and Connecticut ord has been broken, possibly the coallJyst discrimination between the two kinds men will insist upon raising the price. |2 drives. Many objects are brought to the notice of the'Amierican people that are | vorthy of prnesous giviee Bot (hg 4 > fessional, and this talent employed by unprincipled schemers I8 likely' to fiecce the public, as, for in- stance, the scheme 1o raise in New York war. ageney b aéted wisely in giving wide DublOKy o | Dean Brown's tract on “The Joy of Giy- | out any con- o at is, they are ot eo hilarious over it as fo disturh the neighborhood. Now acdording to Dean | ' Brown the real joy of giving does not | donations merely—for if the real facts| I ym has been | squeezed out of a tightwad without any noticeable tears Joy. for sometimes a you | establ “Of elght rivers hetween here and Monticello, in 1801, “five have neither to Philadelphia, less than one hundred miles, the fare was $6, and the cl at the inns en route were $2.25 a day. | Turnpikes had been built or begun ' in some localities, notably in Pennsy vania, but such innovations prosres: ed slowly. In Rhode Island, for e ample, the legislature refused to ap- propriate .money for the completion of a road, the principal objection of one member being “that turnpikes and the shment of religious worship had their origin in Great Britain, the gov- ~rnment of which was a monarchy and the inhabitants slaves; that the peo- were obliged by law to support min isters and pay the fares of turnpik and were, therefore, slaves also, that if they chose to be slayes they un- doubtedly had a right to their choice, but that free-born Rhode Islanders ought never to submit to be priest-rid- den, nor to pay for the privilege to travel on the highway.” In 1800 there were twenty thousand miles of so-called post wads and nine : hundred postoffices, but it required twenty days to carry a letter from| Maine to Georgia and the gross’re- | ceipts of the postal department for the | first fiscal year of the past century were only three hundred and twenty thousand dollars. The average aduit mailed only about one letter.a year. The first important advancement in | the United States in transportation| was the building of the national pike, or Cumberland road, which ran from Washington, by way of Wheeling, Co- 1 lumbus and Vandalia, to the Mississip- | pi river, which was’ built in sectio big chunk out the purse b lump in the throat. But it qd“:i awmg ty givifig intelligertly bicause gystemat- | icglly. It is not so much stray coppers | — 48 bard, consecrated thought that gives | = . Kives ct within the fixed |here from other conntrle'unndmt‘:: :‘: e el e Ve euy The Lord made woman—but the dress- n%__‘ Ag‘d the may specialist are In- i from 1808 to 1837. tage of such a road and from this on the out in every direction middle of ! ties for “go in this gou cumstances, of the globe (Mondey-—Tirst Crea: Raliglous Revivaly the cy the facili- sood the ¢ country Th ovement to market the Christ- io and 1linois. A The New Hampshire Forestry Denagt-|wood, lumber and other commod the cut are fairly complete. From the ment's statement on the Chris.masstree|from the same locality, and v'ving t forests of Maine 600,000 trs3s huve!industry says: “The cutting of spruces and firs for |the cars are siow to returc w hject of consid-|are needed. it the couniry,| “As a rule the trecs are cut from old Hampshire show a shipment »f ajrrox-:particularly with ‘reference to its cffect |pastures Which are chiefly owned by | imately 500,000. The soutaera - scotion |Upon the forests. Many perso; . tho spoken against the sachu- | this purpose and in Vermont there has been Rhode Island and Connectiut combined Prevent it. ~1Investigations by the fojes-|trecs delivered to the railroad. In eith- ot {try department Lave been made from|er case the farmers do mot get what On the stump these ‘trees have been | time to time to determine the extent of |little the of Christmas ve- i Christmas trees vw | erable comment | shipments ¢ ! made from the state, to the grow- during the war the number New Hampshire forester predicts thati} near large centres of consumption will | [FES scarcity the railroads have to divert | B8 through the wood roads covered witl | each year and| fact that comparatively few Lrees wers Up to 1800 methods of communica- ! [ shire, chiefly from Coos spd CraZion coun‘jes. The tow.g of Nowth $traifyri, r-time Colebropk, West $tawartstows, Sk, elaved Somewhiat ibg thinging out hatlyineon and Sugar Hul is well advanced in many places. High- er prices for trees on the stump In the A | Bask Vs o ., gaused fartacrs |as far as Pittsburgn and i VTt dea | At O o O | Bince. s carloag rimtains than DbeZsra. |trees, ‘the present output requitcz some this| From the little town of East Fairfleld, 260 cars. .Fhis is one of Lie uost be- than | Vt., alone thirty thousand acres are le-|rious objections to th's trafiz wm Christ- to points in Pennsylyaria, {mas treés, since the cars womll uther- turniss the bulk of the owtput and shipmonu:s Were ¥1a < hont 09 wise be ayailable for transportiug vuip- ies the distance to Which the trees ar are out-|farmers. Jobbers from the elty approach trees fop|the owners and either offer the: iike | small sum for the trees they wish to a very 10|buy standing or offer o purchase th: ees are worth. In some in- being | stances, where the farmers wish tp keep In the fall of 1910{their pastures clear of trees, they are Smalicr | there were 216,000 trees shipped away |willing to get little or nohing for them. numbers, ysually taken from pastures.;and in 1912 the number was 360,000. No|Usually the jobber scatters brush over Where the trees attain a morz shapely :fisures were obtained from 1912 until|the pasture covered with slash and in a | growth, bring as high as fiftv centscach (™~ f=Il of 1919 and it {s probahl: (kat|dangerous and anything but improved | trees | condition. Lumber and paper compan- hipped fell off consicerably. During ihe |ies, owning young spruce and fir, will |His love, to number the hairs of our than iast. ' They represent only a smallPast fall there have heen aproximately|not as a rule permit the gutting of 500,000 trees shippsd from New !lanp- Christmas trees. They made to points outside of Now Engiand |imate and mot objectionavle ]u{ irees and culting nearly every ftree | |only @ few cents for trees which may {bring Sonabar I trees are aliowed 1o g:'. trées are more shapely rad ily purchased by jobbers forest- grown trees. “The Christmas iree indusiry * owner receives a fair value for itu-‘ 20d the cutting s spread ouf form of thinning and confined 1o trees of ihe right size for Christmias trees, when cut near the growsd. s sacond growth forest of pruce e into a slash pile by using oply the tops in sight is not Jegitimate and shomld mot ountenanced by the owners of land. ot fair 1o the farmer to give him e It i eral dollars when sold &t re- afl in ¢ The land owner shouid ireceive a fair value and the cul |should De done with consideration for {what'is left ana what the trees {be worth if left to grow™ Sunday Morning Talk Nothing Trifling. There is nothing trifiing In the king- dom of Heaven; there is nothing trifiing 1 human life, when we really under- stand it. 1f God has thought it worn |His while, in the mysterious exercise of |beads, He has rebuked the frivolity, "TODAY ONLY DNE DAY SALE 143 OVERCOATS 52 ALL TAKEN FROM OUR REGULAR STOCK AND MARKED AT LESS THAN HALF PRICE 24 WERE $45.00 63 WERE $50.00 47 WERE §55.00 9 WERE $60.00 FOR SALURDAY ONLY e O O s © O Finest Fabrics Best Co o O O BIG, SOFT, ROOMY ULSTERS-- - SMART TOWN ULSTERETTES-- AND A FEW CHESTERFIELDS-- : EVERY OVERCOAT SPLENDIDLY TAILORED e ¢ O lors - All Sizes 34 to 46 o & O ¢ O ° SALE---TODAY ONLY POSITIVELY NOT A COAT SOLD AFTER TODAY, AT THIS PRICE. ¢ fllathaWan “THE KUPPENHEIMER STORE” 121125 MAIN STREET