Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 20, 1921, Page 2

NORWICH BULLETIN, THURSDA JANUARY 20, 1921 THE WI.Z AWAKE CIRCLE 1—Write psainly on paper n:x)y, and number the pages. 3~Use pen and ink, not pencil 3—Short and pointed articles +—Original stories of used. be 5—Write your name, plainly at the bottom of the story. —_— WIDE-AWAKE POETEY. The Fairy Tallor Sitting on the flower-bed beneath the|have to iie on ¥, *"olly-hocks “omps But 1 apied the tiny tailor who makes the|ihink. Well falries’ frocks; Thero he sat a-stitching all the afternoon . Agd sang 2 litde ditty te & quaint Wee tane: “Grey for the goblins, blue for the Ives, Brown for the lltfl): guomes that live by themselves, White for the pixies that dance ul the green, But :;;lre shall 1 find me a Tobe for the Queen?” All about the garden his little men he t, the night before. Mamma sald we were one side of the|awake early Christmas morning and:l guess we were. I do like Christmas. a few days lenger, Lewis says i he has tie “lymps” he will the couch. He calls them they gre some lumps 1 1 guess this will do. I wish you ul.lmiiyww Year. HELEN TURN GREENE, Age 3. " Plainfield. My Pet Chicken, Dear Uncle Jed: I thought that the Wide-Awakes would like to kmow about Lird. We call her that because she is slways singing. She is a little banty chicken. One day we thought she was going to die. So my mother brought her in the house and gave her some lard and put her in 2 box in the house. T! sent ‘ Up and down znd in and out UNCEASINEZ-|next day after my mother gave her the ly they went; Flere they stole a blossom, there they pulled a leaf, lard she acted better. When she got bet- ter we put her outdoors. And when it is about four o'clock in the afternoon Ana bound them up with gossamer into |she.will come to the door and sing for us a glowing sheaf. Petals of the pansy for little vel- shoon, vet Silk of the poppy for a dance be- neath the moon, lawn of the jessamine, damask of the rose, To make their pretty kirtles and airy furbelows. Never roving pirates back from southern | write, seas Drought a store of treasures home beau- | tiful as these; They heaped them all about him in a sweet gay pile, LENA GLEA! . \VE, Age 11 My Trip to Camada. Uncle Jed: I thought I would and as I have never written before I will try to do my best, I will tell you about my trip to Can- ada and I had a lovely time on my way up. I spent a year there and weat to the convent school in. Mont St. Helaire. Dear Bwt still he kept a-stitching and a-sing- | T like it there very muech. I like winter ing all the while: up in Canada better than here f “Grey for the goblins, blue for the | necticut. 0o elves, by themselves, the green, Uut who shall make a royal govm to deck the Fairy Queen?* R. F, in Punch. \Y!()LE JED'S TALKE TO WIDE- AWAKES. “Take care of the pennies and the dol- lars will take care of themselves” is an old saying with which the most of the Wide-Awakes are probably familiar. Those of you who have a bank or a bank account know the meaning of it. By steadily and regularly adding your pen- nles to those already saved the larger eum is gradually ang certalnly raised. But it calls for persistent effort. It isn't pessible to empty the bank every time the storelceper gets in a new supply of maple sugar. marbles, jumping ropes and juclstones and still keep the dollars pil- ing up. The dollars do not accumulate until care is taken of the pennies, - During this week much has been said to you about thrift, the consistent saving and spending of money. It is a subject abiout which too much cannot be said, and to which careful attention should be given. It is advice that is offered for the purpese of encouraging the young as well as the old to shape their course and guide their future conduct. As most of us know it is easier to spend money than it is to get it or to save it. Yet we need to lay some aside to for the pixies that dance om | taken my girl friend with' me. for the rainy day, the day of sickness, the day when we want to indulge in some trip or vacation or purchase something on which we have set our minds. It can- not be done without money. Tf we are thrifty, if we save regularly and systematically today, tomorrow and %0 on through life, if we purchase pru- dently and thereby save on expenses, if we overcome waste and put our time to the best use we are bound to have what would not be possihle under the policy of spending all as fast as it is earned. Br being thrifty, and thrifty doesn't mean uncharitable or stingy, we will not be denying ourselves but we will over- cemo the worries, hurdens ‘and troubles that go with being o spendthrift. ‘Take care of your pennies. Be thrifty, but don't be stingy or a spendthrift. WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1—Bessie Gitlla, of New, London— Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Cam- vus, 2—Rote Egan, of Willimantic — The Auto Boys' Quest. ! S—Frederick H. Wheeler, of Norwich— Thoe Boy Scouts in Italy. 4—Ida Winaker, of Colchester—The Campfire Girls on the Farm. 5-—Arcelin Doyon, of Glasgo—Facing thé Cerman Foe. 6—Isabel McShefirey, of Taftville—The Campfire Girls in the Mountains, T—Wilbur E. Vars of Plainfield—The Boy Scouts’ Challenge. 8—Miriam Shapire, of Norwich—The Uagepfire Girls in the. Woods. Prize winners living in the city can ob- taln thelr books by calling at The Bulle- tin business office after 10 o'clock Thurs- day merning. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENY. Evs B, ¥ries of Amston—I received my prize book and was very much pleased. 1 thank you. I am very fond of books. | Helen Minsky of Jewett City—I thark you for the book you sent me entitled Fighting in the Alps. I have read it and T think it very interesting. Laura Odgers of Norwich—I received the niee book which you sent. I know it will be interesting. I thank you very much. Willis Swanson of Eagleville—I thank you for the book you sent me. I have read it and liked it very much. Beatrice Fuller of Westerly—I thank you very much for the lovely book which ‘you sent me. I have read it and found it very interesting. LETTERS ~ WRITTEN BY wmx? AWAKES. Christmas and the Mumps. Dear Uncle Jod: It has been a long time since I wrote to you, but I will now ‘tell you the reasons. In the first place it. ‘wag Christmas and I will tell you Santa Claus did come just as my grandmna he would, and we had a Christnias § for my papa had two of his ribs broken, two weeks before Christmas but he got 50 he was able to get us one, But said he would have got one if 1d ‘We had great fun trim- had lovely presents from Wwas more fun unieading trimming. We had lots Uncle and Aunt Cutler came i 3 g i B £ o1 H ifi. i E !Iii;if: 1 thought we could not have a tree | tho broow for a pléce of meat I went through Montreal and it was a own for the little gnomes that | beautiful place. If I had known it was &oing to be such a trip, I -would have MARIAN LAMASSE, 11 Jewett City. s Good Training. Dear Uncle Jed: The punctual girl is always a thoughtful girl. She is the girl Who does not delay in “doing an errand, Who never keeps the breakfast waiting, While she rqyairs some forgotten damage to her clothes. No one is ever kept wait- ing while she sews a rip in her dress or @ break in her gloves. These things are all dore in season. She never puls off doing 2 thing at the right ‘time, because elie has learned that when a thing has been attended to, and put away, there is no need to worry about-that particular thing. She is the girl who is at her desk gn time, if she is one of tho great army of working girls. Her employer and friends know that she will be ready for business and pleasure at the appointed time. This girl's nerves are in good order because she never has to hurry or Worry about some work that has been neglected at the nroper time, and her life runs on smoothly and happily because no undone task or weglected appointment is worry- lngm:;er or making her restless. aracter is net formed in a minute, This girl has been training herself for years to be punctual. She is ever ready for emergencies, for this habit of punctu- nll!}' now touches her life and all its re- lations, and she is making her infiyence felt in her own farhily, at least, for they must see the wonderful advantage of be- ing always ready, always on time. The punetual girl, while ea t and woman- ly, has not lost any of her girlish charma. Her outlook is encouraging, new chanees are 'co:namly opening to her advance- ment, because it is xnown tha bo relied upon. Jetineioi ISABEL M'SHEFFR § e - EY, Age 14. A New Year's Party. Uncle Jed: Sinee I have not. written to you before, I will try my best now. I will tell you about my New Year’s. All of my relatives were present. We had a lovely chicken dinner at 1 o'clock. Then supper at 6. There ‘were 50 people in all. They played piano and violin ‘ducts, sang and recited poems. They all had a delightful time. Rut after they all left we were all lonesome, IRENE MORANCEY, Age 11, Jewett, City. Aol Dear i The Snowman. Dear Unelo Jed: One day the show was falling fast. Two little children were playing. Then the little girl said: “Brother, let us make a snowman.” Sg the little brother said he would o one. First the twn little children made a biz ball. Then they made a head, a hat, and two eyes. Then the children ran to their mother. Their mother came ont and sald the image was pretty. HELEN MINSKY, n Jewett City. 7 b The Thrifty Sisters. Dear Uncle Jed: Thrift week was drawing near and the two Wilcox sisters were busy trying to be thrifty by gath- cring old rags. It wsas a pléeasant sum- mer's day and they longed to be out of doors playlnig, but they wantéd to be thrifty sisters. It was especially hot up in the ittic where they were gathering their rags. : _ They got all the rage together and then went down stairs. They walted patiently-a half hour for the rag man to come along, and at last he came, They cold them and received §2.50, They ran in and told their mother. They went right out again and their mother thought of course that they were going down to buv some candy and some other goodies; but to her surprise they came home with five 25-cent stamps each. They turned out to De two thrifty sis- ters, after all, and made their mother pleased to think that they had become thrifty. That night when the two sisters went to bed they dreamed that there wero two girls who wanted- to Deeome thrifty and. that they gathered 2 ‘lot of old rags and sold them and got $2.50 for them and that they bought thrift stamps. Than in the /morning thelr daddy gave them each $2. and this happened to them. FLORENCE CLARK, Age 13. New London. - Qur Doy Jomte Dear Uncle Jed: I want to tell said | about our puppy dog. Her name is Jessie. She in one year old. brown and white. FHer. eyes are browm. She & cunning, and when by her Amston, Dear Tnels Jed Ctrole: I wish to_writ although sad to see a soldier or sallor x‘;luard walking back and forth under the ag. 5 A great big American flag was dis- played over the casket. ; ‘There were eight with rifies guarding the body on tha way into church nad then Lo his last resting place. There was a firing squad consisting of four sailors and four soldiers which at the orders of the hedd one fired three volloys over the grave. After the firing squad, taps was sounded. Taps is a bugle call. Jt drew many tears, as everyone was touched by the sound of the bugle. The big flag which draped the casket was given to the young wife of the de- ccased soldier. Now, dear Wide-Awakes, let me tell you that all these soldiers were members }f e Orville Lafiamme post, No. 15, of ett City, and they did much credit to themselves, for everybody highly praised ‘This ceremony will linger in our mem- ory for years to come. May Gbd bless this dear uncle hero who gave his life for all of us children. May he rest in peace. ARCELIA DOYON, Age 1L Glasgo. Christmss Eve. Dear Uncle Jed: On Christmas eve I went to bed, thinking when I got up in When morning catne I jumped out of bed to sce if I had a doll, but could not find any. I hadin my stocking one orange, ‘bree bananas, some ruts. grapes, and candy, but I went around the house mad the whole day long. But when I went to church I got my big doll. Then I was glad the rest of the day. ENMMA HAUBT, Age 12. Norwich. Start the New Year Right. Dear Uncle Jed: This being the begin- ning of the year of 1921 we must strive 12 correct our bad habits which we form- ed in the year 1920 and years before. Why not begin now? \We should follow the rule “Work while you work and play while you play.” For instance, if we are sent to the store and our mother is waiting for us to come; back quickly we should not stop and have a game of peggy or any other pgame. We should go directly to the store and back home. We have plenty of time to play at other times. 1§ we do any injurious thing we should tell that we did it, not let all the blame g0 on the other fellow. That is if we aceidently threw a stone and broke a window we should tell that we did it. We should mnot tell lies. ‘We should not throw scraps of paper on the street as it makes our city a very untidy one. ‘We shonld be thoughtful. ‘We should help the weak, needy and poor. I wish you and the Wide-Awakes a tho moriing J would have a big doll | happy new year. ROSE EAGAN, Age 13. ‘Willimantic. Being Thrifty. Thrift is one of our finest words in the dictionary when it is used in the right way. In the next paragraph I will try to explain the right way to be thrifty. Some pcople have not been thrifty and after a while are reduced to poverty. Thrifty people have never come to such a state. Thrifty people are people who aro economical in the right way. If peo- rle are thrifty they save all the money they can 'without neglecting real neces- sities of life. for a rainy day. They take their pay and divide it for things needed in tho home, clothes, education, and en- joyment. The rest they prudently put in the bank. When they say they are thrif- ty, don't they say the truth? I think eo. Another class of people are people Who call themselves thrifty when they are| not at all. You ask, “Why are they not thrifty. Don't they save money?” Oh, yes! They save money but a little too much and neglect the necessities of life. They get little clothing, one = suit of clothes probably to last for years, have very little food, just enough to eave them starving, no education,” and put the rest in the bank. The rest is indeed a great deal. Then people care little for enjoy- ment. They will not give a cent of their money to some necedy charity. One day a man went to the house of one of these people and asked him if he wauld con- tribute something fer the benefit of an orphanage. The answer was, “What do you think T am going to waste my mon-j ' ey on charitles?” and closed th& door. | Have fthey the risht to say they are thrifty? No indeed! : To be thrifty fs to he economieal in the right way, to be prudent, and to save. But don't leave out the nescossities of life because you want to be thrifiy for that is not thrifty at all. Be thrifty in the right way. BESSIE GITLIN, Age 12. New London. 5 : Flat Reck Dear Uncle Jed: I wonder how many of the boys eever saw Flat Rock. Tt is in the town of Plainfield, It is a large ledze o flat that In places autos and teams are driven over it daily. If vou take a ride to Ekenk you first see large strips of rock in the rcad, next a large poulder solit in half, then up a small hill are less roeks in the road and on the left a large dit of the rock. At the top of this hili you drive on the bare rock for about a mile. About half way acrosa this rock a small round rock abont four feet high looks as if one-could push | it over. In fact it has been tried. Tf they had succeéded, it wovld have gone down gsome stairs in the ledge into the iwoods below. o Going on we eome to the rlace eaDed the devil's den. Just how larme thix den is no one seem to know, Some say there are two rooms in it, others deny it. By ! the waw, you drive right over this den. Tt is about the last seen of the large rock on you drive to Ekonk. ¢ Your nephew. FREDERICK H. WHEELER Oiristmas Eve Derr Uncle Jed: Christmas Bve 1 ‘went down to see Santa Clams, but jnst as T got thert he started to go home to get the playthines to carry that nisht to different children. ‘When I g6t home I hung my stocking up' by the fireplace and went to beq so I could get up early Christmas morning. Next miorning when Tzot up I faund many things on our tree and my stocking wag filled with nuts anq candy. Christmas' day my sisters and my brotheers had a very nice time with all our new toys. v -Hope Sants Clzus had 2s good a time epd that, he will come agaln next year. A BALLOU, Age 8 Norwich, Conn. . Talking In the Sights -Dear Uncle Jed: While on my vistt to. New York I visited many beaufiful iplaces, One of these was Bronx park where I saw many_animals, - Thers wers Hons, tigers, leopards, hyenas and many other strange animals. I elso saw the Botanical garden. It i a largs buliding ballt of glass with differ-nt kinds of flowera add treea sclected from all over the ‘World, I enjoyed it very much and think the Wideawakes would ke to see it also, > TSy EDITH BECKER, Age 11 Norwich, * ¥ ¥appy Jack's Thrift Cluh ‘Dear Uhcls Jed; TS begin with Happy Jack. B¢ after he had'getien homs he his brothers, sisters, cousins and parents 1 8 vast fovest, Ong day a grest ides struek Hapny fo after he had gettesn Rome he o Bediiads i g 0 Jack mounted the speaking stand and sald: > “Friends of the forest, winter is drawing near, let's all of us join ‘vogether, and form a cl All who wish to join this club will have to work Jard every day to store up provisions for winfer, ail that don’t wint to join may go home.” All stayed except Peter Rabbit the lazy fel- After all the members 'names were taken down which consisted of 50, they ‘went home, Every day the members of Happy Jack’s Thrift club for that was its name, could see squirrels running hither and thither, with thelr cheeks bulging out with food, to their homes. Peter Rabbit as I said before was'a lazy fellow, he never worked in the fall but used to play. But he aldn't have anybody to play with because they be- longeq to Happy Jack's Tarift club. At last he sat down to work and fin- ally was allowed to enter the club. Alfred Johnson a boy of about twelve whose home was ngar this forest onme day cntered the forest thoughtfully talk- inz aloud. “Why don’t Uncle Sam let boys go to the freat and help fight? But we are too small he says” Just then he happened to se» a squirrel burying a chestnut in the ground. “T've got an idea,’ he suddenly s1i} coestout into the \ years & wj! grow into a big tree and bear many more nuts, T will eave my pennies, buy thrift stamps and join the club, In a few years T will get more money than I paid for the stamps, 50 in thet way I can help Uncle Sam. BENNIE STEINMAR, Age. 12 Yantic. Thrife Dear Uncle’ Jed: Benjamin Franklin was born on the saventeenth day of Jan- uary. Many years ago he was called the podfather of the thrift movement. He never at a hearty dinner like we do, he always stoyed in his shop, and ate only a handfu! of raisins or a potato. He bad rather save his money and buy good hooks to read. There are many ways in which we can be like Benjamin Franklin. In school we can be thrifty by not destroyinz the town’s proverty, as writing on desks, to be carcful not to soil or tear our free text hools, for someone clse will have to use them after us. The paper costs the town money, yct many children waste the paper. We hould be more careful. ‘We should be thrifty at home also. I we take care of our old toys, they will look like new. In this way you are sav- ing ¥our money. We can be thrifty by not buying too much candy and not going to the moving pictures t0o often. Then thero is still another way In which can be thrifty. Wo can buy wer savings stamps, for which Uncle Sam will pay us back with interest in five years. We can also put our money in a bank. In this way we can become like Denjamin Franklin, PAULINE EISENSTEIN, Age 12. Colchester. A Joyful Christmas. Dear Uncle Jed: T am going to tell you about my Christmas. It was just won- derful. I don’t know just how to ex- press it to you but I have done my best. got ever so many presents and 1 would have been ‘'satisfied if some poor little girl had reccived half. I would have thanked Santa Claus just as much. Several peonle were there to hear us say poems 2nd sing songs and they ask- ed us if we wouldn't play a game or two for them and we gave them a quick and polite answer “Yes.” AMELTIA MORANCEY, Age 13. Jewett City. My @hristmas and New Year’s Vaeation. Dear Uncle Jed; I am going to tell you what a happy time I had Christmas and New Year's. We got out of school on Friday and Saturday was Christmas, and we had all the next week to play. Friday my father, sister and I went and got our Christmas trea. We. put it in the parlor and at night we made three Santa Clauses and other things to put on the tree. My shopping was done so we hung them on the tree, too. Then all g were put on the tree. On Saturday afternoon my ‘grand- mother, grand{ather, aunt and cousins came down to I had quite a lot of presents. new plaid dress, a pink satin hair rib- \, two Dooks, three handkerchiefs and othier things. When the mother gaid We were going to go to Jew- I had a next Friday came my City over New Years. 0. e started Friday morning at 9 o'clock, 1 went to see my grandmother and grandfather. 1 will have to say goodbye, hoping the other Wide-Awalkes had a good time over their Christmas and New Year's vaca- tion. 1 was very DORIS M. BLIVEN, Age 11. Voluntown. Dalevilles W1, Uncle Jed: The little town of Daleville, M: etts, boasted of but one hill. This hill was neither long nor steep, but, oh! vhat fun the children had on it when the ground was covered with snow and ice! Ore afternoon as a group of school children were ing down the hill and ovable time, they saw Dea: mobile just ahout to er the Bl Little Clyde Smith, nearly at the bottom of the iey when the auto w coming, was at d over by the azement, but joy of "e children, it started backward down » hill as the auto could go no further on_account of the ley road. When Clyde related his thrill venture to his mother that evening, * avided, as she stooped down to kiss him, “Mothar, although I ays did want father to have an automobile and also d Daleville a little more hilly, now 1 am quite satisfied the way thines are. MIRIAM SHAPIRO. Norwich. auto when to the Fred’s First Skating Leeson. Dear Uncle Jed: Fred was a little hoy shout. eieht vears of age. FHis father bousht him a pair_of skates for a Christmas present. How pleased he was to have a palr of skates. He was very anxious to learn how to xkate. Every night he watched for his father and after supper he would take h's skates and go with his father te the ice. It took him a long time before he could =tend upon his skates. But soon he zot so he could. Every Saturday he would go Wwith his school mates, They would play tag and all sorts of games on_the ice. . Every little boy that would come ana want to learn how to skate Little Fred wns the first one that was willing to tsach them, for he knew how anxions he was to have hls father show him, Dear Uncle Jed. ps th!s is the gacond sfory I have written I hope all the Wide-Awakes will be interested in read- ng 1t WILBUR E. VARS, Age 12, Plainfleld. Had a Merry Christmas, Dear Uncle Jed and Wide-Awakes; 1 had & merry Christmas and hope an the Wide-Awakes had the same. I got 23 presents, My slsters got about as many. We had two Christmas trees, one for the family and ene for the dolls. T eut my dolls' Christrans tres and when it was trimmed it looked very prétty, We had a chureh tree and entertainment, “Down the Chimney With Baata Olaus” There were six fairies of which T was ene, And four girls representing Christmas bles- gomu, 2 sand man, A dream maR and SHORT SESSION OF -GENERAL ASSEMBLY (By. A Staff Correspondent.) Hartford, Jan. 10.—More as a form- ality thansnecessity, the democratic doz- en of the house of representatives, have. by common consent, selected Represen tative Thomas F. Mallow, of Derby, as the minority leader. It is the first time within the memory of the oldest legisiator with a cane, that either the majority o7 minority house leadership was filled by any member who was not of the legui profession. The present {8 the third successive term of Mr. Malloy in house, and he was selocted minority leader by reason of his seniority in the democratic delegation, Mr. Malloy Is an able debater and has taken active part in the business of the 1917 anu 1919 sessions. His originality is mere or less entertaining, but he makes no attempt at rhetoric. Mp. Malloy d¢ ¢s that he will make no attempt to delay business by butting In merely to declare himself as the minority leader. If the majorily wants a speedy wsession he will not be an obstacle, and if the record of May 8, 1919, is not clipped Molloy says it will be through no fault of the gentleman from Derby. Mr. Mollow is 64, full of aetivity and very much interested in legisiative pro- ceedings. He has retired from business and is now in a position to devote all his time to the leadership of his pazty in the house of representatives. He always been o strict total abstainer, and for many years was an active worker in the work of the Catholle Total Abstin- ence Union of Connecticut’ He haa never tasted of intoxicating liquors, wines or beors, as they Were once term- | ed, and has always been known in his home town as a strict and consclentious total abstainer, Some thirty years ago, Minority Lead- ed Molloy made application for member- ship in a fraternal organization. He went up for medical examination and was rejected. The examining physician said to Mr. Molloy :“Young man; you have been drinking pretty hard, you had better slow down and then cut it out; you are now bordering on the de- lerioum tremens, and I must reject you."” Representative Molloy subsequently join- ed the organization and another medica: examiner was selected. Cold weather kept many members from the general assembly today and as the number of bills put in was small, both branches after, a late opening had an early closing. The main interest was In the bills providing for further develop- ment of the Connecticut Agricuitural Col- lege. These were put in mainly by Mr. Stoddard of Woodbridge. BENATE. Former Senator George W. Klett of New Britain, senate leader last session, was by senate resolution made judge at New Britain, to fill a vacancy created by resignation of Judge Kirkham, who becomes eorporation counsel. Benjamin W. Alling was also confirmed as aseist- ant judge to fill the vacancy which was created - originally whep Judge Kirkham was appointed to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Judge Meskill. Mr. All- ing has been serving as assistant judge by appointment of Governor Holeomb. Resolutions for Judge Klett and Judge Santa Claus, We sang our parts, ‘We had a tree at school and gave pres- ents and_cards, played games and had cakes. Wishing all* the Wide-Awakes ‘and Uncle Jed 2 happy New Year. ARLENE J. FRIDS, Age 11. Amston. e Billy Banny’s Terrible Dream. Dear Uncle Jed: One night Billy Bun- ny had some turnips and chestnuts for his supper. After eating he went to bed. In a very few minutes he was in Dreamland. He was on his way to seek his fortune. He was very tired so he lajd dow. in a wvery nice patch and went ‘tq sleep. He was awakened by some little peaple thumping him, They sald that he must be blind if he could not see” that sizm rizht before him. It sald on it, “Queen's Castle, Keep Out” Do you know what it was? I will tell you. The Ant's Houes. PHYLLIS BALLOU, Age 10. Norwich. — 2 Thrift. Dear Uncle Jed: Benjamin Franklin was born on the seventeenth day of January, many years ago. He was the God-father of the thrift movement. He saved his money. Instead of having a zood dinuer he would eat only a hand- ful of rafsing or a baked potato. "We can be thrifty in school by not destroying the town property and bufld- Ings. The paper we use should be written on both sides before we destroy it. Tn this way we can be thriftv. We should not destroy the books that are ven to us by the town. because others will have.te use them after us. ‘We should use onr old toys and not buy new ones. If we have momey we should not spend too much on candy or by going to the moving picturex too often. All the money we have should be saved. Thrift etamps can be bought with: the money 'that we save up. In five yemrs wo can get hack our meney with in- tercst. We can also put our mwney the savings bank. The bank gives a eer- laln amount of interest everr year. This helps us to start a bank aceount whichk will help us in later vears. IDA WINAHOR, Age 13. Colchester. « Surpri Dear Uncle Jed: There lived in & Ntttey town twvo doys, one by the name of Jack and the other Charles. Thege boys were] twins. and when their hirthday eame they anch were given a. fishing tackle. One day they went to try them. While there, Charles cried. “Took! ¥.am sure T heard something behind thoss bushes™ The two bovs put down their tackie and crept cautionsly toward the spot re the nofse was heard. There was a baby fox playing arofma among the bnshes. Tt was a beautifut vellow In color with a whits tip at the end of the tail. Charles sald, “Let us take it home.” The two hove wers on the'point of tak- ing him when out fumped the mother. Sha grabbed the Jiitle amimal By the neck and ran off. This was all they saw ot the baby fox. FLORBNCE ' ARPIN. - Taftville. Kidnapped fn Ohtuxtows, Dear Tncle Jed:, "Help! Help! I wm bo' kifled!™ T shoutad. Tha sceme, took place on a long, narrow, desolate, atreet In Chinatown. I wes befng cérried awny by three Chiriamen, each having a firm grip on me, T tried to sscaps, but in valn. They turned info a yard at the end of the strest, and ecarried me inte n emall room of a_d'ngy shaelk, They tled my Nands snd feet and put mo In the corner of the roem. . The shack, as T have gald, was very dirty and was sttnated mear a river, TUnderneath the shack cauld be heard the swift gushing of water. The ysllow men talked very fluently in thelr native tongne for about ten minutes. Sugden- 1y one of them placed me on a trap door in the middle of the, rosm, 1 stood trembling with fear, T was tisd un and furthsrmore I ocesuld.met swim,~ One of the men was just gelng to push s brake that would drep me in the wates whew | heard my mother's veles say, up out of bed or yeu will scheel.” T was very atter all and sd Chinatown. I told the dream members of eur family and they very heartily, JOUIR QETRICH, Age 1% Alling for the regular term also went into the house. fered to the law, which would give to a totaily dis- abled employe, weekly u-p-u-l; equal to one-half of his average week ter. . doctor bas carnings at time of iajury snd for each | A Worcasier, Mape. doctor B3 dependent § per cent. of such eamnings. b but the compensation would mot exeeed weeka. changes in compensation, aeccording the nuu;ln of the partial disablement the employe. . Senator Bakewe|l offered an equal rights bil to preveat disevimination against persons by reason of ecolor. A somewhat similar bill was oftered yes- terday by Semater of the Sth. ! A bill would give the comptroller au- thority .to provide accommeodations out- side the capital for any department or officer Whose offices are needed while th @eneral assembly is in session. . The senate confirmed the execul nominations made yesterday of favora- ble report from the committee. These were Philo T. Platt and Willlam Spauld- ing to the board of agriculture; Freder. ick M. Adler and Louis R. Cheney as trustees of the Comnectieut reformatary; and David 8. Day to the boar g of par- dons. No report was made on lhe reap- pointment of Public Utllitles Commis- sioner Alsop. Among judgeship resolutions in the senate were thoms for Frank E. Blake- man, judge. and George Bateman, deputy judge, at Stratford. Through Senator Bakewel] the elvil ser- vice commission submitted a draft of & blll for a new civil service law. Senator Costello put in a number of bills relating to savings banks, among them being the following: To permit sav- ings banks to install safety deposit boxes ; to repeal the law which limits the compensation paid to bank presidents; to repeal the law limiting the amount of deposits accepted by.savings bamks; to permit savings banks to pay fees to their directors or trustees: to require thres per cent. cash reserves in savings banks; to limit the amount of invest- ment by savings banks in equipment ob- lgations. A bill would extend time in which Ner- wich, Colchester and Hartford Street aRilway company may extend its tracks: others would exemnt from taxation of Home Memorial Hospital, Inc, at New London ; would include the highway from New Milford to North Canaan in the trunk line system; would provide a sal- ary of $3.000 for the clerk of the re- corder of declsions of the supreme court: to name the highway from Andover to Franklin the Jonathan Trumbull high- way. HOUSE, Among the bills In the house were these providing for a rigid examination of ap- plicants for motor vehicle licenses: to al- low Norwich to issue $150,000 in bonds for street improvements; providing for a court messenger at New Londen at a =alary of $3,000; to increase by $1,000 the salaries of State’s Attorney Alling and Assistant State's Attorney Plekett at New Haven; and to permit towns to appropriate $10,000 annually for highway work in co-operation with the state high- way department. Among house resolu- tions for judges were those in behalf of George H. Jackson at New Milford: H. A. L. Hall, judge, and Edwin A. Smith, deputy judge, at Orange; Arthur M. Brown, judge, and F. E. Robinson, dep- uty judge, at Griswold. George Roger, of North Canaan, for- merly a bank officer, who was sentenced for an offense against the banking lswa, petitioned for restoration for forfeited e sto e Stoddard bill velating to the ricditnral college would > .Tn $369,145 for general expenses, $50,000 for the sexperiment station, $221 extension division; $6.000 for free sehol. arshins, $594,080 for a new selence hall $98.200 for a coal bunker and trestle; $29,400 for cottages for employes: 3260, 000 for men's dormitories; $62.000 for faculty cottages, and other sums for oth. er purposes. CITIZENS NIEAR EXPLANATION OF LAWS EDUCATORS WANT Between 25 and 30 men and women interested in educational problems gath. ered the mayor's office at the court- house [Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock to discuss with A. B. Mered''h of Hart- ford, commissioner of edcation, the merits of the tentative legislative pre- gram prepared by the state board of ede ucation. Several towns in eastern Com- necticut were represented at the gathem- ing. Henry A. Tirrell, princinal of: the the state board of education, presided at the meeting. Dr. Meredith called attention te the varibus acts which the state beard hes prepared for presentation to the general assembly. He explained zt some how existing lawas are working out aad showed plainly why new Y ber of questions that arose in regard to certaln acts touching on teachers’ sal- arfes, school grants, examining beards, free text books, tenure, erection of sehool bufldings, ete. Among the proposed acts is. ome which would make provision for an average ate tendance grant for school purposes; At present the law provides for a grant of $3 per pupil in average attendance for the year ending July 14. 1818, and avall- adle only for the two years ending June 30, 1921, It ia proposed that the aver- age attgndance grant be continved, but Inereased to $4 dollars. It is also proposed that the payment bo based upon the average attendames of tie” year next preceding that for which the appropriafion is . “The BIN fartlier provides that the aw. erage attendance grant be pald for teach- ers” salariss for the first three yeara I:- tér passage of the act, o running expenses, if the town corfimittee so desires; provided lozal tax for support of schools one year shall not be less tham ratsed in the year previous to that which the grant is paid. The other conditions the same as present law, except that schools and not teachers shall not have been disapproved. Norwich Free Academy and a member of necessary. Dr. Meredith answered 2 mam-— A Home Treatment " for Asthma Makes Brenthiag Basy ve treatment I .).r:ml.:l’.::nun. chronic bronghitis and coughs and colds which threaten 19 affect the lung: At Lee & Osguod C or any relia- ble drugglst's, & boltie of Oxidaze (ossentis] o1y G ety and slowly dic- solve one tabiet in mouth at regyiarin- tervals. Thourh harmiees they are so powerful that aven iy stobborn cases relief often comes In Just & few minutes. Many users who for veurs have been obliged 1o sit up In bed gasping f breath and unabie to sleep report that they now e an Oxidase let when ing te nd ean then lle down 0 breathe earily and maturally and wet a good night's restful sleep. Lee & Osgood and druggists every- where are selling Oxidaze Lablets on a positive guarantee to refund the full purchase price of the first package I it fails to give prompt relief in any cass of bronchial coughs or asthma. been paid. Examination of Teschers. Another important act proposed is one which would create town boards of ex- aminers. This act proposes, through Tules of the state board of education, to establish » mininum scademic and professional standard for all teachers entering the profession after July 1, 1 It also proposes to establish. where towns desire it, a board of examiners who shall administer the minimum eon- ditions and any additional requirements that the town school committee may wish to include. Certificates awarded through a tewn board of examiners shall be good only in the town where zranted. The act validates ail certificates in foree at thé time the get becomes opera- tive and provides for the renewal of cer- tificates then held upon the same eon- ditions ypon which they were originally granted. Today there is no recognized minimum qualification for entering the profession of teaching in this state The best schools ean be had only with the best trained teachers. FEvery child has a right to have the most efficient teacher possible. Free Text Books. ‘When the discussion reached the act concerning free text books and supplhs it developed that Norwich is one of 1% towns, the only towns in New England, that do not furnish {ree text books to the school children. Tenure of Servies. An act providing for tenure of service of teachers, principais, supervisors and superintendents employed by town school committee, district commitices, boards of education or boards of school visitors proposes to extend to all teackers. prinei- pals, supervisors and superintendents the principle of tenure which has already been accepted In certain towns. The effect of this bill will be to sta- bilize the teaching force of the state and ye tmake possible the discharge of & teacher for incompetency or other just cause. Tho interests of the chiliren and of the public as well as those of the teacher are safeguarded. By becoming effective after 1922 ampie time is given town school committces to make necessary changes in the teaching ”Amfflflb(r effeet of the bill would be to require especial care in the selection of texchers and in the supervision of in- struction. Os Building Schoolhouses. Another act which was quite freely discussed was one concerning the eree- tien of schoolhouses. Dy this act no contract for the erection or remodeling of sny public schoolhouse or any part thereof shall be made until and after plans and apecifications therefor have been submitted to and approved by the state board of education, provided, that such approval shall relate only to mat- ters of lighting, space per pupil, ventila- tiem, heating, safety and sanitation. A copy of the plans and specifications s approved shall be filed forthwith with the state board of education. A eopy of the contracts for the erection of the whole or any part of the school building and fer the furnishing thereof shail be filed with the state board of education within 10 days after the same shall have been signed. 2 ‘The presemnt law concerning the erec- tign of school buildings applies only to sehoolhouses of eight roems or more. The proposed law would apply te all echeol butidings. According to the latest returns, there ave 1,432 public scheels in the state, of ‘which but 358 have elx or more depart- 'ments. The great majority of school bufldings are therefore small buildinzs length | Durlng the year ending June 30, 1918, 17 schoolfiousca were erected. The health and safety of puplis ean best be safeguarded by definite standards with respect to the matters upon which it is proposed to grant spproval Retirement on Peaslon, The ‘egtablishment of & retiring mystem for teachers is the alm ef another pro- posed aet. Thie bill proposes to imerease of mini- mum pengion to 560 fer teachers retired or te be ratired: to increase of maximum Assessmant of teacher to §150 and of the minimum assesament to $40 with corre pponding Imeresse in possible annuity 'The reduction of setvice In Connecticut required to qualify for pensién fo % years; a provision for retiremant because of nhysieal or mental dizabil'ty with pen slon based on completed years of scrviee: & pemalty'for delty n transmission of lo- cal funés by local officials, and a pro-, vislon for detalled repert by retirement bourd. Another proposed act on the list con- cerps- the length of the school year. The present school y~ar is one of 26 ‘weeks. The actual nuuher of days of sehool attendance does - ¢ legally nesd to Te 188 days, although ‘i majority of the towns keep schoals open that number of days. The proposed bill makes the school year one of 28 weeks, which, less the holidays, instatute days, ete, will make . 'n & year mors then 180 days as ‘at present. A study of the towna shows that the average school year has been gradmally e mfii'hel&)ffee of Good Taste” 42 cents a pound