Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 29, 1921, Page 4

Glorw.c: Gl and @Qoufief 125 YEARS OLD Sulseripilen Seice 138 & week: 3e o monih: $8.00 o wesr, Eastersd st e Postofics ot Norwich, Comn, = scond-clam matter. Tolegisns Calls, Bulctts Business Ofcs, 8. Rulletia Editorial Rooms, 35-8. < Bulltis Job OTce, 35-3. Wilimaatic Offics, 23 Church St Telspbons 105 Norwich, Friday, July 29, 1921, R . S WEMBSER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The Asocistd Pres o exclusively entitied the se for republiestion of all news damatch- otherwise credited CIRCULAHON WEEK ENDING JULY 23rd, 1921 11,276 OUE CONSULAR AGENTS, Is of the greatest importance that onsular as well as our diplomatic should be made up of men who 1 equipped to handle the duties se upon whom full reliance can be plact the state department. It was proper therefore when Secretary Hnghes took occasion to address the party of 19 young men Who were leaving | for foreign fields and give them some good advice, to impress them with the fact that the government in its foreign relations was not proceeding according to some artificial formula and to inspire them with the actual policy and desire * and th of the administration, so far as it could be set forth, It s s realized of course that oonsular are lable to be faced at any time sorts of situations. They are ed in foreign countries for the pur- of looking after the interests of American eubjects and to keep the posted a8 to conditions which il in their locality, and to those £ for thelr posts Secretary Hughes took oceasion took uccasion to impress upon them the high value that was at- tached to common sense and accurate statement. When the secretary de- clared “I have set greater store by the discovery that I could absolutely de- pend upon what a man said than T have| ever by anything that hiz friends may say who are not in ciose contact with him and in a position to observe daily work™ it must have made a strong imoression upon those address- Certainly it was intended to em- courage dependability and accuracy, and hen he indicated the requirements that wers expected consular representa- in foreign lands are there for a They are not named, or should y for patronage reasons. rvice to be performed and plainly indieated t the conditions of the respective cases should be met as they arise. Com- petent, conrageous and self controlled consular agemts are of great value to his tives ose. the country. THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNORSHIP. ‘Whether or not there is any basis for the report to the effect that General Wood has recalled his declination of the appointment as governor gemeral of the Philippines and is ready to accept it will be disclosed in all probability before Jong. It is of course understood that the position to which he has been elected at the University of Pennsyiva- nia has not been declined by the gen- eral who is at the present time with for- mer Governor General Forbes complet- ing the investigation of the islandy for the administration with a view to deter- mining what policy chall be followed concerning independence. General Wood an? fcrmer Governor Forbes have been recciviig enthusiastic receptions wherever they have been in the islands. They have been impressed by the changes that have taken place since both left the islands and their rec- ommendations are bound to carry much weight. Because of the service of General Wood in the islands and the importance 6f the vositlon, he had been sought by President Harding to fill the highest ap- pointive office of the kind In the gift of the president. Disappointnient prevail- ¢d when he declared that he was una- bie” to accept wherewpon he was urged to look over the ground. If after the survey that Is nearing completion he has found reason ‘or chinging his mind It will be a decision that will be. learn- #d with general satisfaction since the sountry has great confidence in the gen- eral for that post. Certainly no other has been selected for the place thus far MODERN EXPLORATIONS. How different the conditions are un- der which exvlorations are attemped these days than they were some years ago is indicated by the additions to the equipment which are invariably made by present day expeditions, and explor- ers are alert to provide themselves with all the Jatest inventions that will give them assistance and at the same time keep them in touch with the rest of the world. It was not so long ago that those who went imto the polar regions lost all} means of ecommunicating with eiviliza- tion, except by means of messengers, af- ter their left certain points. It was im- possible thereafter to give the world any Inkfing as to where they were or what they were doing except over long per- bés. Tolay it is @fferent and as MacMil- lan and hig party go north they are pro- vided with radlo equipment whereby it will be possible to communicate with those left behind about as frequently as they desire. They will not be so much be able to give an acoount of their Just how much value the airplane can a tour of exploration ought clearly demonstrated. Seem- if landing places are obtainable it sught to be of invaluable service in wuickly covering distances and in pie- turing the regions about which little is now kmown. And along with the air- plane through the uses to which gaso- Ume is put in- providing transportation great advanteges are afforded for the wplorer of teday that did not eéxist in tages exist but in sefting out_on his adventure he has wisely equipped him- self with the latest and best aids that zcience has furnished. k3 c ROADSIDE MARKETS. 1 Farmers in New Jersey are extensive raisers of garden truck and they have hit upon the interesting method of not only being producer but being retailer as well without leaving their premises. This ‘comes about through the establish- ment of wayside markets at which are sold all kinds of garden truck, includ- ing peaches, apples and tomatoes as well as flowers. This is\ of course an outgrowth of highway development and the increased travel thereon because of the extensive use of the automobile. -Great numbers pass over these roads going between the large cities and going to and from the many coast resorts. There is an oppor- tunity for the producer- whose property borders the highway, or who in fact is located close enough to make /At advis- able to obtain a stand thereon, to offer to discriminating buyers mot only the cream of the field but goods which can be relled upon to be fresh: No better evidence can be desired as to the character of the appeal that sueh roadside markéts make than the pat- ronage that is received, and yet while New Jersey may be more extensively en- gaged in such activities than some other states it is by no means the only com- monwealth where the ‘farmers are alert to the value of appealing to the trade of the highway users. Many - automobile owners are ‘in the habit of going into the country for cer- tain amounts of vegetables and fruit. They are tempted in some instances to go in and help themselves if there is mo other way to get what they want and the displaying of gzoods for sale caters to the wants of those who are on the lookout for fresh produce as .well as it awakens the interest of others who had given little thought to the matter. From the manner in which the different pro- ducts of the farm are grabbed up n season there is clearly indicated the sem-| timent of the people regarding the idea. It is a plan that should be given mmch more attention on the well traveled highways where traffic is sufficient to warrant it. A PROPER PROTEST. Coal is a subject that interests most people less at this time of the year than it will a few months later. Neverthe- less there are those, including the fuel administrators, where they are still be- ing maintained, Who must keep in touch with the situation and do their best to protect the interests of those for whom they are at work. Thus there cannot fail to be interest in the appeal which has been sent by Administrator Hultman of Massachu- setts to the federal trade commission against the discrimination = which is made by some operators in the gale of its product the protest being based upon the fact that even though a million tons are sold annually in Massachusetts the coal dealers th are charged 15 cents more a ton for it than are those in other states and even Canada is able to get it the lowe | The difference of 15 cents on a =@ | gle ton would amount to very little to the individual consumer but in view of all that is sold in the state by that com- pany complained of it would mean a handsome figure. On the other hand there is no reason why Massachusetts or stateg in this part of the country should be discriminated against. Just what will be accomplished by the appeal rests with the future to disclose. It discloses a situation that at least calls for an ex- planation. Certainly if coal is to be wholesaled there ought to be one price for all when the buying is done simul- taneously. There are reasong for manifesting op- position td this poliey wherever it is found in operation and the matter to which he calls attention ought to get early and careful consideration from the federal body. Fuel Administrator Hult- man shows that he is alert to safeguard the interests of Massachusetts coal buy- ers. The behefit ghould accrue to all coal users and it is to be hoped that it will produce better results than the ef- fort which he put forth last year against the unburnable material that was sold under the nume of coal figt EDYTORIAL NOTES. The man on the corner says: Watch the thermometer and see how much warmer it grows, No complaint is being heard these days about being obliged to put on flan- nels to keep warm. Happy would be a lot of people if they were not reminded of the heat by their many fiiends. It free hifes do mnot send the price of shoes down, they should at least pre- vent it from going up. If General Humidity should go onto the retired list General Complaint would be ready to step in and fill the vacan- oy. Of course when the former kaiser kicked over his taxes he did only-What most everyome at sometime or other does. If three cent postage is again adopt- ed there will be a chance to work off those stamps that were left over from the war period. T R S There doesn't appear to be anything the matter with Kansas when it is esti- mated that it will harvest its fourth largest wheat crop. Strange as it may seem it is being found as hard to get along:without any- thing to eat under bolsheism as under any other kind of a government. In seven months over 250 have been killed and 4111 injured as the result of automobile accidents, and with each week-end the number gets a boost. “First Aviators' Reunion” says a headline, but many of the first avia- tors are where an invitatlon to such a gathering is ot likely to reach them. — The captain of the Jennie T said he got into his trouble because he needed the money offered. He would have been richer by far had hé stuck to lawful means of getting it. With the president coming to Plymouth celebration he may be im- pressed, like other presidents, with the the desirability of that part of the country for a summer capital. Thus far noimmigrants have been ¥ent home because Of ‘the new law. There * ““Ah?’ hazarded Smithers, unfolding “Do you know, dear,” said,” Smithers after dinner, “I think it woula be perfectly lovely to get that car.” said Mrs. Smithers, “would oply -make her thinner. Every bit_of exercise her lose weight in spite'of all of the milk I can coax her te drink.” . ““What she should have,” said Smithers “is ‘a good, thick, juicy beefsteak every day for luncheon; that would soon fatten her up.” “Yes, but it gives her so much Fnergy that she runs it ¢ff before she can get back to school. If we had the car I could dive her back and then meet her right after school and take her out to the park. Then when it's time for you at night I could drive her down to meet you and you could drive back.” “It "wouldn’t be bad, would it said he, pensively. She almost glared at him. “No™ she said, quietly. “It wouldn't.” his evening paper. “I mean the car 've been talking about all winter,” she explained. “Oh,” he commented eloguently. ‘In the first place it would save us such a lof aid Mrs. Smithers. " he returned. “It's much cheaper to take a taxi when a car is needed. You can just call it when you're ready ; you dismiss it at the door and get another when you're ready to start home. You pay for just the ride that you get without any overhead to worry abou “I kmow,” sald she, with a puzzled frown, ‘“but a taxi is mever, sofchow, just the same as your own car. It is so nice to drive up in your own car. In a taxi you feel—oh, I dom't know—" “A taxi is every bit as good,” said he. “It gets you there, doesn't it? _Well, that's the main thing! And then, too, if you run into any one on the way down- town it's up to the taxi company. With traffic as it is now there is great and grave danger of collision. Why, I was reading only yesterday that the insur- ance rates on ‘collision insurance—" “We can easily afford whatever the in- surance is,' I imagine,” said Mrs. Smith- ers, tapping her foot. “But then again,” Smithers went on, “There is danger in driving down for me. You m@lt get into some mess and get all smashed up.” “Mrs. Goodwin is capable of driving a car. . I believe that I can at least do what she does. In fact, I think I am a lot more capable of doing it than she” Smithers sat looking straight ahead of him without saying a word. “Why don't you smoke?’ asked Mrs. Smithers. He opened his coat reflectively and took out his cigar case. A long slip of paper dropped to the floor from the pocket unnoticed by him. “What's that?” asked Mrs. Smithers, waving a graceful hand toward it. Smithers stooped and picked it up with “Oh, that?” he said carelessly. the receipt for the car. I gave Harley a check this morning. The car will be delivered— ou old dear,” Mrs. Smithers cried, “why didn’t you say so at the start? Letting me worry and coax youm like this !"—Exchange. “That isn't the point” said her hus- band. “And then a car would be so good for Polly,” went on Mrs. Smithers. “She is so thin that her eyes fairly resemble saucers in her peaked little face. If we had a car she would absorb lots more fresh air than she possibly can get heve in the apartme “Polly peaked?” said Smithers in some alarm. “Why not have her sleep in the sunroom, with all of the windows thrown open, and take her out every day for Y S s £ ODD INCIDENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY and forty-one millions of miles, so that even had the tail pointed to the earth its extrimity would havegbeen eighteen b millions of miles away from its sur- face, The comet nowhere continued visible many days In succession. Prof. Loom- is states that most complete Se- ries of observations on this comet of THE GREAT COMET OF 1843. There have been many visits of com- ets during the period of American his- the tory, but none excited the attention as| 1843, in_this country, were made by much as did the comet of 1843, not | Messrs. Walker and Kendall, of Phila- only on accout of its great brilliancy, | delphia, Where the comet was followed but for the reason of its many peculiar | for several months. y aspects, and the impressions jt made up-| The velocity with whieh the comet on the superstitous minds of that pe- | Whirled round the sun at the instant riod, who understood less than we do| of perihellon was prodigious. This was such as, it continued, would have carried it round the sun in two hours and a half; in fact, it,did go more than half round the sun in this time. Tha head of the comet was exceedingly small in comparison with its tail. The nearest approach was about eighty mil- lions of miles. Other brilljant comets have been from time to timle within a century, mos. striking of which was the splendid com- et of 1861 and the most recent was the Haley comet which was an interesting visitor a little more than five years ago. (Tomorrow — The Traditional Charter Oak.) today about these remarkable visitors. The comet of 1843 is regarded as per- haps the most marvelous of the present age, having been observed in the daytime even before it was visible at night— passing near the sun—exhibiting an en- ormous length of tail, computed to have been about 108,000,000 miles in lensth, and arousing an _Interest in the public mind as universal and deep as it was unprecented. The country was very much startled when the visitor was first observed in the spring of 1843, in the western heav- ens, like a great aurora, streaming from the Tegion of the sun. It was at first taken by multitudes for the zodiacal light, but its -aspects and movements soon proved it to be a comet of the very largest class, There were, to0, some persons who, without regarding it, like many of the then numerous sect called Millerites, as foretokening the speedy de- struction of the worid, still could not gaze at it untroubled by a certain name- less feeling of doubt and fear. From the graphic narrative of a Fu-| repean travelling at that date in thel Wilds of America, it appeared that the| Tndians around him viewed the comet of 1843 as the precursor of pestilence and | READ YOUR CHARACTER By Digby Phillips, Copyrighted 1921 HEAVY EYEBROWS. Hea: of ruggednes: cally. Do you know a man or a woman with sign and physi- ; Y " | unusually heavy ones? Yowll find that ;;’:L"‘e'a v%x:g°&:’£fl::‘;‘_";‘;;‘;(‘j”'f:z‘.r_ he or she is a person inclined to stick Tenee with wnioh The shols sarty” for | ViEOTOUsly to his or her views. Such people don’t surrender their gpinions or| principles easily and they're somewhat | harder than mormal to convince on most any subject. In almost every case yowll find them ordering their lives and their actions de- cisively, often quickly, but rarely upon mere impulse or intuition. * Dow’t look for too much of the moon- light-rose bower type of romance in a girl Who has heavy eyebrows. But you wil, of course, i e has hose narrow, pencil-line brows; look carefully to see if it is nature or art t has given them to hér. Left to themselves. her brows might be heavy. some time stared at the starry train of the tail of fire with exclamation. "This 1s the Spirit of the Stars, the dreadful Cap- ishi—famine and pestilence await us!” The appearance of this strange body as examined at different points, by various scientific observers, has been made a portion of the permanent sci- entific history of our country by Prof. Loomis of Yale college. In his admira- ble paper on this magnificent comet, he states that it was seen in New England as early as .30 in the morming, and continued until 3 in the afternoon, when, the gky became considerably obscured by clouds and haziness. The appearance he states, was that of a luminoys globular body with a short train. The hsad of the comet, as observed by the aked eye, appear- ed circular, its light during -the day appeared equal to that of the moon at midnight in a clear sky. The train of the comet was of a par- allel light. An observer at Woodstock, Vt., viewed the comet through a common three-fold telescope, and found that it presented a distinet and most beautiful appearance, exhibiting a very whye and bright nucleus, and showing a tail which divided near the nucleus into two sep- arate branches. At its approach nearest to comet was yet distant And if the man you're wondering about | has heavy brows, he's likely to propose in some more pr than dropping on his knees an the stars abo romantic | Again, heavy-br inclined to set unu: niceties and refl fond of luxur ease as narrow-browed people. For their ®ign is a sign of vigor and they're more likely to like the great outdoors and the sunshine and the satis- faetion of tangible accomplishment. Tomorrow: Praise-Hungry Mouths. 1l store by extreme nor are they so us the one hundres For Comfort and Service Made by G. H. Bass at Wilton, Maine. These famous Moccasins can be found for the entire family at Kies’ T THE GEORGE W. KIES CO. SOLE AGENT have be¢n some peculiar situations but for the most part common sense has beéer used in most of the complications. hears. association. excursion to Valley Forge, arranged by the American Organ Players' Club, at to close with a banquet on lawn Presser clup, for retired music teachers. As in former years, this has proved so far a most intef:sting meeting. L. Philadelphia, July 27, 1921. One of the member, R. M. Mo- was a demonstration by Wm. E. Has- kell, superintendent of the Estey Organ Company, on “Original Developments in Organ Tone™” bers had the great pleasure of listening to a talk by John Wanamaker and he At this meeting the mem- was voted an honorary of the Tomorrow morning the sessions will be at_the Stanley theatre with recital and feature picture to which tickets are giv- en members. This will be followed by a lupon tendered by Wanamaker, and a recital on thtir organ, the largest in the world. Friday, the last day there is to be an which there at to be an organ tribute the naticn's dead. The events will of the Sincerely Yours, H YERINGTON, IN THE DAY’S NEWS ISmMIiD “The namé of the town of Ismid, where the recent retreat of Greek forces made possible an attack on Constartinople by the Turkish Nation- alists and raised the firSt grave threat of drawing other European headlines if the modern newspaper had exist- ed throughout historic times,” says a bulletin issued by the National Geo- graphic_Society from its Washington, D. C. headquarters. “Ismid's once important harbor is now silted and its population is barely 20,000. But before Constantinople was enlarged by Constantine the Great, Is- mid—then Nicomedia—was for a time the capital of the Roman Empire and the metropolis of the Near East. “Situated at the end of the Gulf of Ismid, which forms the sharp Asiatic end of the Sea of Marmora, and with groun& behind it, the town lay in the route of the natural highway from Sy ria, Persia, Mesopotamia and the en- tire Near East to the Bosphorus and Europe. In the oid days.caravans in- numerable carrying the riches of the East plodded around the end of the gulf, paused to pay commercial tri- bute to the strategically situated city, and continued west along the low coast of the gulf for the 50 miles that separated Ismid from Constantinople. And when the steel highway and iron horse that were to connect Berlin and Bagdad came to replace:the more pic- turesque but less efficient camel and his dusty road, the same natural path was utilized and Ismid became a rail- way station. “Davius and his hosts swarmed through the site of the present Ismid five hundred’ years before Christ, to bridge the Bosphorus and conquer Thrace and Macedonia. Xenophon and his ten thousand Greeks passed through the place in their memorable retreat from Persia to their homes. Near there the defeated Hannibal, a refugee from the Romans, committed suicide, and in a villa close by Constantine the Great 30x3%-inch Co A [ 32x4 34x4% “ mineral elements which are essential in the creation of vital power a¥e par- ticularly calcium, phosphorus and iron. admini patients whose systems do not extract them in sufficient quantity in the natu- ral way from their food. That is why From Nicomedia Diocletian directed his implacable campaign of persecu. tion against the Christians and later the first Christian emperor, Constan- tine, governed from its palaces. Bare- iy twenty miles to the south at Nicea | " the Church council sat which framed the Nicene Creed; and only a short distance to the west on the Ismid peninsular in 451 A. D. was held the ecclesiastical assembly from which the Armenians bolted to form the separate Armenian Church, which ,with the Ro- man_Cathollc, the Greek Catholic and the Protestant churches helps make up the four major divisions of Christian- ity. “History is- closely repeaf itselt at Ismid. Just as the Turkish Nat- the town in recent weeks, so in 781 fonalists drove the modern Greeks from the Moglems, pushing far into the Asiatic territory of the Bysantine Greek, defeated their armies at Nicom- edia_and camped On the east bank of | ¥ the Bosphorus. The Empress Irene ran- somed the city and the other occupi- ed territory. But the Mohammedans slowly encroached, and in 1338 Nicom- edia_fell permanently into the hands of the Turks. It remained a threat to Constantinopie until 1453 when the threat was made good, and Constanti- nopie became Stamboul and the church of Sancta Sophla a Mohammedan mos- que. “The Ismid of today has MNttle to remind the observer of its glorious history. An old Greek acrapolis flank- ed by Roman and Byzantine towens i about the only remaining link with its opulent past, “The iron and wood caravans is of the Bagdad rallway do not need to pause in Ismid as did _the camel trains. and its toll from commerce has dwindled away. To it the world ne longer loocks either for creeds of the treasures of Araby—only for a supply of silk cocoons, tobacco, forest products. | Stories That Recall Others ‘ DRSS e Ought to Luke the Water Charles had been very sick little boy and was beginning to get back to norm- al. Mother still was careful what she gave aim to drink. Hattle, the mald, was as much interested in Charles’ welare, almost, as was Charles’ mother. “Here, Charles, here’s some nice cold water,” mother sal “Oh, I wouldn"t Turks. d. give the boy that ice - [ : - - 3% [ - e In York, U. 8. Agents for died. 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GREENE, 331 Main Street LANOIE TIRE CO., 93 West Main Street WEST TOWN STREET GARAGE LESTER BENDETT" A FTTTT TR By < 54.90 Lomndon, July 23.—The report that the the hostilities between them and Greeks unfounded, according to information received In official circles here. This information substantiates fact that there have been Qreek victor jes in Asia Minor, but it minimizes the moral effect they have had upon the the It is said that the Turkish withérawal ‘was executed skillfully and with bat small losses In men and supplies.