Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 12, 1921, Page 4

125 YEARS OLD Subsertption price 12 & week; o a month: $4.99 » rear, Entere¢ at the Postoffics 4t Norw(-n, Cemn., ss second-class matter. Telenisons Calla, Bullctn Dusasss Offles. 430 Bulletn Edliorial Rooms, $5-3. Hulletin Job OTiee, BS-3 23 Church St Telephons 105 Willimantte Office, y, Aug. 12, 1921. Norwich, d MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The Asocatd Prem fn exclosively eoutled to the use for republieation of all news credited to I or mot otherwise scedited te fhia Vaper and also the local rems publisbed nerein. AU fghs of republication of eeclal du patehes imrein are also reserved. ~ CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING AUGUST 6, 1921 after an by~ cen- its trou- ng of of General nd om 1 The £ typhus-ridden . s from Rus Polish fron- to eustain same fate a fugees are coming nd and The 1 at the these are no , is call- spreading Atlantic. claborate san- s from Po- east, and o take cholera and is semsing a angerous 1 the to the young to another nning to Russia. e is DEFYING THE L on of | ard on; ke election defiance of the| at both ends of how the hnar. ks stherhood of Employes and resident ad- hing trip” In terrupted un trans- no legal power a. ons are given in a T Continued defiance, by e r le or the other, which the authority of the the next step with con- 11d have the prestige of m behind it in bringing the me. 5 comnlication wag re- his weelc’s order of the la- lls for a secret bal- members of the n reverses the revious ru point. The should 1 by req; requirement that ba used was a desire to prevent ire an emvloye to d have created a e objections of the but to THE VETERANS- BUREAU. of the government's treat- o disabled r has been aftermaths of the war. Dil- cs, round-about methods and of red-tane that had ev- nes of heartlessness have the broadside of charges made mised that the bility, of divided government's dealings dual in the authorit with former gervice men is over. This is to coms about by the creation of The Veterans' Bureau will consoli- date i risks burean, education as fare The the ann R. F ce and vocational related to soldier wel- ring of b ess sincerity is in uncement made by Col. Charles s of ‘Seattle, whom President Harding has brought to Washington to be director of the new bureau. His policy will be to seck out the disabled ex-service man and try to find out what has gone wr with him and the war k service instead of waiting for a tale of discouragement to come even- tua mphng into the bureau “I in- 1end,” says Director Forbes, “that the Veterans' Bureau shall live up to its vpportunity in earrying out the wide gnd farsighted provisions of the Bweet Vil for the complete rehabilitation in and | a particularly trou- | every phase of the disabled former ser- vice man. I intend to have a hospital- ization programm, put into effect that will provide a place in a- perfectly equipped institution for every temporsr- ily war-disabled man or woman desir- ing treatment and I intend te have his surroundings such that he will be happy while there. And I intend to insure to those who come back with little more than actual life remaining such care that they may live that life ‘more abundantly.’ But I intend that those that are physically able shall be helped by practical advice and contin- ued counsel to re-establish themselves in clvilian life either in the ety or country and increase the productivity of the nation. And above all I intend that the men who fought shall be made to feel in their dealings with this bureau that this federal ald is extended by a brotherly, sympathetia hand and noet be- grudingly given, Amd I shall think ¥|gee have fafled as director if such serviee is not hereafter givem promptly.” It is easily understood that Director Forbes has an immense task ahead of him, but he has begun by launching & “clean-up” campalen to cover the entirs country in which he has enlisted the help of the American Legion and the American Red Cross In every state. Tts purpose, according to the announcement by Director Forbes, is to assist disabled ex-aervice Tersons in securing compen- sation, medical treatment, and hospital care; to inform and assist all clam- ants regarding the procedure necessary In filing ciaim for compensation and in- surance; to assist those whose olaims ars pending in securing final laction whera additional evidence is necessary ta zomnect their disability with service. a7 other data required by the bureau of war risk insurance, and to provide for immediate physical examination where ccessary and promptly furnish hospi- | tatization for urgent cases. Under one directing head, clothed with’ | ample authority, we shall look for the _|elimination ef conditions that have given | so frequent ground for criticism. MAKING THE POST OFFICE PAY. Foreseelng a deficit of abomt $84,000.- 000 in his department in the current fis- car, when the deficit last year was $17,000,000, Postmaster General Hays is planning savings that will ag- gregate about $15,000,000 and at the same time believes there are he ;ivrnnchcs of the service that should be | made more mearly seif advanced rates. Business depression, he savs, natur- ally affected postal receipts, which was one factor in the deficit. Increased pay for-the employes, which was ordered by congress, was another, and the inter- state commerce commission ordered m- creased for carrying the mails. He recognizes that the parcel-post system is now a prolific breeder of de- ficits. They grow larger and larger from thig source becguse merchants are mak- increasing” use of it. The depart- is worse off the more pareel-post business it does. Postmaster General H: has accountants at work to find out just what it cosis and hew it can be made to pay for itself without over- charge to its patrons. The postoffice, he supporting by ment | recognizes, must be operated for service, |not for profit, and in some directions | losses are justified by the educational alue of the functions performed. But on the whole the postoffice should be self-supporting, and the public should pay for the degree of efficiency It justly demands of the service. Under exist- |ing conditions it ought to be, and doubtless is, willing to pay 3 cents post- instead of 2 on ordinary first-class ers. ze SUICIPE AND HARD TIMES, The most tragic evidence of: hard times is the of cuicides this vear over last, as shown by figures given increase {out by the Save a Life League. It re- ports 6,509 suicides in the first six ¢ | months of year, against 771 in the period last year. The proof that in finding work was the main this increase is to be seen in that 4,527 of these suicides 4t is easier the fact were men and 1,982 women. for women to find work under economic depression than for men, because fewer women have families dependent on them nd they can work for 3 smaller wage; indeed the replacing of men by women is a feature of most business readjust- ments to meet the decline of trade. A phase of the report With which economic conditions had little or noth- ing to do is the suicides of children. Of these there were 507 this year, against in the same months last year. Of 507, 293 were girls and 214 boys. For lack of definite knowledge of the reasons why so many children of fifteen and sixteen took their own lives, the league blames school conditions. Suicides from overstudy or from fear of failure in cxaminations are reported every little while in the papers, but school condi- tions have been little, it any, different this year than last, so that it is unfalr to throw the increase upon the schools. However, tha figures plead earnestly for more attention to the health of the open air, longer hours of cheerful home conditions, calculated to dispel the blue-days and worries of adolescence. A crild of fifteen should be happy and cheerful, looking forward eagerly to life, instead of seeking to leave it. Inheritance may aceount for ard, but far more are caused by fallure to observe childish worries aud to as- certain and remove their causes, EDITORIAL NOTES. In urging the dismantling of the de- fenses of the DPacific Islands Japan would make them pacific in more than name, Now that Japan is coming into confercnce the jingoes will Be rubbed of thelr chance to invoke the Yellow peril at every convenieni oppertunity. the President Harding issued a timely word of warning when he said that we must combat the menace in the growing belief that the state must support the pesple. It cost a court fine of $65 to smoks 2 pipe in Zion City. If the victim had been caught chewing tobaece ha would probably have had to spend the rest of his life in jail M. Venizelos sets a good example to the ruling family in Athens. He is to marry a rich widow, but at the eame time Wwill be free from alien influsnce as she is a born Greek. The man on the corner says: We seem to be making some progress. Wasking- ton statisticlans now estimate that 84 centy of every dollar of national rev- enue goes to pay for wars, past, pres- ent or future. This is 8 cents less than their previous estimate. probably | “As I thought it would be dreadfully lonesome for Ijuth Fitzpatrick while Fita wag away on a business trip, I proposed myseélf as a companion to her and baby Fless during his absence. At first she protested that she couldn't think of having 'me leave home to stay with her, but at last I convinced her that it would be a real pleasure for me to pass a few days in the sunny little apartment. “You know, I have no maid, Lacile,” she said. “That s one reason why I don't think you should stay in your apartment alone With Floss while Fitz is away,” I an- ! swered, thinking gratefully as I speke of how glad I would be not to bs at compensation to the raflroads/| growing children, for more play in the! sleep and | home in our old-fashioned house while Tilly took a vacation. “Po let's go shopping,” I said to Ruth the morning after my arrival “You 8aid vou needed an afternoon froek. I there's a Teally startling sale on at Blhk’ “@h, Lugile,” she said, “I scarcely ever ghop, now that I have Floss' baby. Sister Cordelia does all my errands for me.” “But, Buth, I should think you'd be glad to relieve Cordelia of the task of selecting"a frock. I can taka care of the baby whil, you are looking. The little outing will do you good.’ “But I dom't believe it will do Floss good. T've never taken her into one of the big shops.” “But, the first thing you know, dear,” I told her, “yow'll be, making this darl- ing child into a litt'a snob.” “Nomsense, Lusile,” laughed Ruth, but when we got downtown she amnounced that she would not take Floss back home in a street car. “Snob, or no snob, Floss iem’t going to ride in the crowd- ed cars again. She is going home in 2 cab.” “Perhaps that would be wise,” I as- sented, for the baby had been very fret- ful all the way down, Ruth did not find anything she liked in the sale. She looked at dozens of tgowns, I saw onb immediately that I simply could not resist, although I had not been at all sure that I would buy one when I noticed the advertisemen “May I have it charged to Fitz?” I asked Ruth. “Dad has no account here, and as I have to have it sent to your house, I don't wish it sent collget.” “Why, yes, I guess that will be all FROM LUCILLE'S DIARY right,” she replied. 1 was much relieved to have the baby sleep all the way home in the cab. “You have the keys, Lueile,” said Ruth as we érew mear her place, and 1 loek- ed in my bag and my pockets. “I must have given them back to you,” I replied. “No, 1 haven't had -them since you asked for them to amuse Floss.” b “Dear me, then I fear that Fless dropped them on the floor down at Blinks.' " Ruth gave me an indescribable look. and hugged her sleeping imfant tighter. “Pleage teli the driver to take us baek,™ she said coldly. She scarcely spoke all the way, except to say “No,” definitey, not have let us into the apartment. “We have a special lock that Fitz had put on,” ghe explained. sn stayed in the cab with Floss, who had by this time wakened with a seem- ing grievance against the world, while I ran inte the store. I went up to the dresg department, and with the help of several clerks, who groveled with me on the fleor, discovered the keys. Ruth did not even thank me when I gave them to her. The only remark that she made worth recording was when, af- ter she paid the-cab driver, she said that $8 was a big price for such a joy ride, “Where have you beéen?” asked math- er, who phoned me the moment we came into the house. “T've'been trying to get you for more than two-hours. A Maj. Hopbury was here. He was just siop- ping betweem trains and he came ont in a taxi to ses you. He would have gone on to Ruth’s if you had been there.”" “Oh, dear,” I groaned to Ruth, after mother had assured me that there was no use in my trying to find Maj. Hop- bury, as she had never thonght to ia- quire about his train or hotel, “I've missed one of the most charm!ng friends I made in the A. B, P “Really?”’ she sald so nhnntly ag she fed Floss ‘her bread and milk, that 1 could not help feeling that it was Lardly worth while trying to be a companion to such an uncompaRionable person. 1 must confess that it was with no regret that I left Ruth's the next morning when she received a dispatckh from Fitz saying that he was coming home three days sooner tham he had expected — Exchar.ge. ODD iINCIPENTS HISTORY IN AMERICAN T AT When the East Became Gold Mad One of the most exciting periods in the United States of a commercial char- acter, was the great rush of people rrom the eastern part of the country to Cali- ofrnia, in 1848 and 1849, following the announcement of the extensive discov- ery of gold. It looked as if the faces of all eastern people were turned west through the exaggerated stories that were published of the vast quantities of the yellow metal that was everywhere in evidence. The height of the excitement wa§ reached when on December 5, 1848, Pres- ident Taylor announced the discovery in his message. The abundance of gold was such, he said, as could hardly be be- lieved ' were it not for the reports of officers on the public service whe had seen the mines. e first question that entered the mind of the eastern prospector was how to reach the diggings. Till spring came the overland route was cloged. But the way by 2¢a was open and to dwellers on the seaboard was far the better. Then began a series of most unusual advertisements in the newspapers. Man- ufacturers of rubbers goods advertised tents, beds, gold bags and camp outfits. One publisher got out a book contained fifty-four engravings of implements used in washing gold from sand and gravel and (e had no trouble in disposing of large editions. A manufacturer adyised all going to the gold country to take along one of his gold washing machines. A daguerrotyper urged no one to start to California without leéaving his dear onmes tis picture. Such advertisements as “An oyster house will be sold low, proprietor is geing to California” and “For sale; for a hundred dollars, half a light, easy business that §ays a hand- some profit principally in the evening, as the advertiser is going to California,” became common. Every ship, brig, schooner, sloop, that was half fit to go to sea was scraped. painted, fitted with bunks or cabins and advertised as an A-1 fair sailing, copper- nailed vessel, bound for Sam Franecisco direct or via Chagres. Before the mid- dle of December four ships loaded with adventurers left New York and six. others were to safl in a few days. A New York paper found fifteen ves_ sels loaded for California and reported many more ready to o to that country from Boston, Salem, Philadelphia, Bal- timore and New Orleans. Many went out as individuals, while thousands poined companies or assceia- tions which chartered or bought ships. Many asociations chartered ships and and sent tiem around the Horn, while they journeyed averland. Many of these associations had odd titles, as for in- stance, The New York Yellow Fever Company. v the end of January 1849 eighty els had set sail fer San Francisco Cape Horn, fourteen far Chagres, two for Vera Cruz, carrying all told, over five thousand, seven hundred passengers. The newspapers spread broadcast all sorts of exciting rumors and with the arrival of cach batch of letters the gold fever raged more fiereely than ever. A letter from a gentlaman in Califorma stated that lumps of gold a -pound in weight had frequently beer found and that good-sized pieces could be dug from the crevices in the rotks. A young man who had gene out in the New ¥ork volumteers it is said had written that he would return in a few months with half a million in gold dust. These stories caused the yellew fever to rage more fiercely than ever. Every ship that sailed was so crowded that temporary houses were built on its deck and by the middle of March more than seventeen thousand gold hunters had left for California. Much trouble followed those who passed througin Mexico on gecount of the bitter feeling that had been engendered by the recent war with that country, and all along the route through Mexico were said to be strewnthe bomes of those who fad been murdered. Early in March the great emigration overland began and scores of companmies and thousands of men attached to no company set off for the gold fields. I less than three weeks it is said twenty- eight hundred and fifty wagons crossal the Mississippi at St. Joseph and fifteen hundred at Savannah Landing and Coun- cil Bluffs. The country, it was said, for miles and miles represented a great tented field. Towards autumn the first of the overland emigrants eame streaming across the mountains. n less than two vears after the discavery of gold, clage to one hundred thousand emigrants found their way to California in search of the yellow metal. (Tomorrow—Our First Naval Vessel.) via READ YOUR CHARACTER By Digby Phillips, Copyrighted 1821 Slanting Forehead Plus Prominent Chin In a previeus article it has been shown that in 3 cembination of slamting fare- Made by G. H. at Kies’. HE GEORGE T 2 RANGELEY MOCCASINS For Comfort Maine. These famous Moccasins can be found for the entire family SOLE AGENT and Service Bass at Wilton, W. KIES when I asked whether the janitor ceuld |, MISCELLANEOUS Army Web Belts ..... 35¢ Money Belts . . BOc Reg. 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For the rest the combination of the recading Sbrehead amd the praminent chin indicates quickness of mental pro- cess coupled witix deliberation of aetion. eople with these charaeteristics habit_ ually and naturally think before they act. The combination is a stromg one In the battle of life, and other tiings being equal, those passessing it are like- ly to win in that battle. It is interesting to mete that it is a combination rather usual ameng Jews, whose success, often in the midst of ad- verse conditions, Tomorrow—Elastie ¥lesh Stories That Recall Others I Benefit Ferformanos For some time the benign old gemy, tleman sat watching the novice in his vain attempts to land a fish. Finally the angler was reduced to his last worm and still mo catch, “Cheer up, son," said the oid gentle: man. “They'ra biting well for you, at any rate.” No, they ain't,” retort>d aggrievedly. “They're bitin’ ewn perspnal benefit, that's are.” the for what ather, their they Somewhat Mixed. 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The names of the witnesses ware recorded alsgy and the eylinder sealed in @ box and filed. ‘NOTICE The people of Norwich and vicinity are cordially invited to attend the open- ing ‘of the New England Restaurant at 22 Bath Street, Saturday merning, August 13, 1821, Quick service ®nc the best of food served. Shea’s News Burean MAGAZINE SPECIALIST UNION SQUARE Fabrics 6000 Miles NORTH MAIN STREET REGULAR PRICE TIRE SALE CONTINUED : —AT— IRVING E. BOGUE CO. WE ARE CONTINUING OUR SPECIAL SALE OF STERLING TIRES We want everyene to know that we have sold the new Sterling Tire for over eight meonths—that we have sold more than 250 tires and have had but one adjustment to make in that time—that they are goed tires or we would not sell them. Every tire is of new type construction with locked-in bead and reinforced sidewall. Prices are the lowest ever printed in Norwich on first quality, fully guaranteed tires. STERLING TIRES CASINGS FULL FACTORY GUARANTEE . 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