Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 26, 1921, Page 3

’ NORWICH BULLETIN, mounmr DECEMBER 26, ez, Pacifi ¢ League Ready To. Fight Draft| Now that the American Association} has followed, in its annual meeting, the Jead of the New International League in declaring the draft a closed issue|exercising the ! so far as it is concermed for six years{to the AA clul imore, a majority of the Class AA 1 leagues is lined up m{ not to say defiance, of the expressed | (1) One player of each AA or A club shall be eligible to selection or draft 1after ithe close of its season each year, the selecting club to pay in cash, upon ht, the m of $5,000 r $4,000 the A club. (2) In the event any selected player tier opposition.!js released by a major league club | within a vear of his selection, the clubs wishes of Commissioner Landis and of AA and A‘leagues shall first have of the better judgment of most obser-|the right to secure his services upon ' vers who have at heart the interests of : paying to the releasing club one half the ball player, as well as the mation- al pastime itself. There remains to bej 1 the draft price paid by that club. Manager McGraw trains managers as heard from formally on this maiter, of | well as piayers. The latest of over one the leagues rating just below the ma- jors, oniy the Pacific Coast League. This Far Western body is not only as bitterly hostile to the reccomenda- tions issuing from the Advisory Coun-" cil as its two fellows, but is prepared to go a long stride further than they in the fight. This is shown by the fact that Dr. Charles Strub, President of the San Francisco Clib, and considered a mouthpiece for his co-magnates, af- ter returning to the Coast from this city, declared that if the two big lea- gues insisted upon their right to draft from the Class AA organizations she would intrduce at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast League next month, a resolution declaring that that body “consider itself a major léague in the general acceptance of the term.” Dr. Strub is adverse to having the movement mentioned construed as an outlawed one. He wants the league, under the conditions suggested, to ap- ply 6 the Advisory §ouncil for a rat- ing and privileges equal to those of the National and American Leagues. Tn case of adverse ruling by Judge Landis and his conferees, the intimation is that the Pacific Coast magnates would sever their relations with organized baseball. Thus a heavy, thrge-cornered cloud hovers above the prospects of success in the solution of the question, as de- sired by Commissioner 'Landis, and rich he has declared to be not only just but esgential to the health and growth of baseball. It is not known absolutely what will be the attitude of the two other non-draft leagues, the Western and Three I leagues. but in any event the acceptance of the draft must be unanimous on the part of the minors in order to be effective. The proposition which Judge Landis was authorized by the Advisory Coun- cil to present to the recalcitrant’ quin- tet of leagues as a fair basis for the settlement of the difficulties standing in ‘the way of the resumption of the ersal drafi agreement was as fol- uni lows i | great possi hundred gradunates of the local Nation- al League club to take the reins over a minor league team is Billy Gilbert, ‘who will direct the destines of the Wa- terbury Club of the Bastern League Gilbert played second base on the champion Giants of 1805 and 1906. He will take with him as assistant, it is understood, Lou Wendell, formerly on the Giants’ catching staff. 'HARTFORD BOY SIGNED BY TIGERS FOR 1922 Hartford, Dec. 25—Andrew Sturm, of this city, a freshman in Springfield College, has been signed by the De- troit Americans, it was announced to- night. He will report next June. Sturm is_only 18 years old and was a star all-around athlete at Loomis Institute ‘Windsor, Conn,, playing baseball foot= ball, basketball and being a member of the swimming team. He played foot- ball on the Springfield freshman elev- en last fall. In baseball he is a pitch- er and infielder. FE T H e A D.&‘El‘.‘\l SOLD OUTRIGHT . TO NEW YORK CLUB According to an announcement in ‘An Albany paver Saturday, Mickey Damm, backstop of the Senators for two years, has been sold by Clarkin, Hartford mag nate, to the New York club of the Eastern league. The article states that Mickey was sold outright to the Albany outfif. No verification of the sale could be se- Cured from Clarkin, but it is thought likely that Mickey has been soid. Ciainin intimated shortly after his return from Buffalo that Mickey was slated to go to Albany next year. Paddy O'Connor, who will again be manager of the Lawmakers, was proba- bly responsible ‘for the deal. while watching Mickey behind the bat last season, declared that there were it’es in Damm. The sale of Damim makes the third member of last year's team who is book- ed to wear another uniferm next year. Scheer apd Sloan have been landed by FINANCIAL AN COMMERCIAL SATURDAY'S MARKET. York, Dec. 24—The short sed stock exchange today was » week end and im: Y& comblning to reduce ender preyartions. the list siowed any defi- o mainly were lar rails were en-| snecializing controlled its low Chicago & Haven reneated at exchanzes was nominal, but the w distinctly was higher b: 1 auotations ros h also b mittances London nt " The by Norwegian and “pan- bond st retal its recent characterisfy Liberty is A} Aomes whole Total L] a ng (par ivisoa al- at mixed value) ag- sales v clearing house considering the of funds in connection Actual loans £14.255,000 vhout $8.656,000 the previous leaving bxceéss reserves at decreaged loss of anges was lIit- but the princinal netively firm. The rémit London was higher by one per cent and allled auwotations rose 5 to 20. polnts, strength also be! wn by Dutch, swieg, Norwegian and Spanish bills. - The bond list retained its .recent un- ! certain charaetiristise erty fssues | and the domestic divisious almost as ! le cloging at mixed . Total | sales (par walue) $575,- o0 Changes in the weekly clearing house statement . were =light, considering the heavy transfer of funds in connection | with new naderwritings. Actual loans end-discounts decreased $14,255,000 and the cagh loss of about $£8,656,000 was barely one-third of the previous week's gain, leaving excesg reserves at approx- | imately $28,400,00 STOCKS The following s a summary of the trangactiong on the New Yerk Stock Ex- change to 3 P. M.: High. -J.ow. Close, Allied Chemical .. 57% 57% 57% Allisd Chem pr ....101% 1013 101% Allis " Chalmers 38 37% 373, ! Am Ag Chem . 29% 29% 29% ! Am Bosch Mag ... 33% 33% 335 f Am Can . 33y 33 331 Am Car & P 1421 1423 Am Cotton Ofl ... 21% 21% Am Tel & Tel ....113% 113% Am Tobacco 131% 131% Am - Woolen 8% 783 Anaconda Cop 9% 48Y% Atch T & SF ... 9% 92 Atch T & S F pr .. 86 851 Butte Cop & Z Butte & Super Canadian Pac Miami Copper Missouri K & T . MoK &T wi Mo. K & T w Missouri Pac Missouri Pac pr Nat Eham & St N Y Central NYNH&H North Pacific North Am or SRR Plercz Ofl = .. Pierce Ol pr Ray Con Reading | Reading 1 pr .. Ren T & Steel South Pact uth Railway pr Tenn Copner { Tehacer Prod TUnion Pacific Tnion_Pac pr U S Rubber T § Rubbx S Steel Un *pr . st Tel st Bl & Mg Liberty Bonds. Hig Tow Closs U S Lib3s... 04 9410 9490 TT 8 Tih 1st 4=, 96.; 96.20 96 U S Lih 2n 4%s 98 72 95.99 TSI 34-41s 97.40 97.29 97.40 TS Lib 4th 4% 9640 9624 9628 Victory 43 .100.04 - 100,00 10044 Victory 3%s ...100.04 100.00 100.04 ~ Quoted in dollars a cents per $100 bond. Foreign Exenrnge. Sterling— Saturday Demand ‘. $4.19% Cables 4.1915 Francs < 8.00 i Guilders Pesetas . Belgian francs . Sweden Dermark Norwsay Argentina LIVESTOCK MARKET. Chicago, Dec. 23.—Hogs—Reéceipts 000 head; market fairl steady to 10c up. Bul $7.65; heavyw welght, §7.10@7.30 $7.25@7.65 heavy packing sows, smooth, $5.90@6.00 ; pigs $7.25@1.65. Cattle—Receipts, 2,000 head; market, beef Steers slow, fat sheep stock weak. Beef steers: Choice and prime, $8.25@ 10.00; medium and good, good and - choice, $7.75 and medium, $5.00@8.00. tle: Heifers, $3.50@8.00; 6.00; bulls, $3.25@5.75 cutters: Cows and heifers, canner steers, $2.75@3.75. Veal calves (light and handywright), $6.75@8.60; féeder steers, $5.00@€.60; stocker steers $4.25@6.50; stocker cows and helfers, $2.75@4.75. Sheep and Lambs—Recelpts, 8,000 head; market, fat lambs, 25 to 40c up, sheep steady. - Lambs (84 pounds down) common Buteher cat- cows, $3.2, Canners $2.00@ Cent Leather Cent Leath pr Chandlef Motor 4T% Cett Leather ... 301 Cent Leather pr Chandler Motor CHi Gt West“pr . Chi Mil & St P . Ch M & St P pr Chi & N'west Ch & N'west p ACM.R T & Pac .. ” A'I‘/. 1635 18% 31% 63 99 32 e ARSI SRR T LT T A Chile Copper Chino_Copper Cosden .. Crucible Steel De! & Hudson Dome Mines Btle ... Frie 1 pr 15% Erie 2 pr . 10% Gén Electric . iv139% 1301 139% Gen Motor .. 107% 1015 10% Gen M Deb 7p q .. 8% 82% 82%, St Northern pr 4% TA% 4% { Gt North Ore’..... 32 32 1 Vupp Motor Car ... 11% 11% ¢ Inspiration Cop ... 40 \ 40 { ItiAz Com ... 7% 1% Y [nt Mer Marine 14 “ It Mer Mar pr . 63 It M Truck . 2% In Paper 52% 52% e .- %, 26% 26 < Valley .. "U87T% 57% 57% well Mot B ... 14% . 144 4% Jiexican Petrel ...114% 112% $10.25@11.4 yearling wethers, $7.50@ 10.00; ewesy $3,00@5.50; ewes Wculls and common), $1.50@2.75; feeder lambs $9.00@10.25. Buffalo, Dec. 2 —Calt]e—RPcelan 808 head ; market slow. Shippinz steers, $7.25 @8.50; butcher grades. $7T@8; heifers. $4@7; cows, $2.25@5.75; hulls, $3.25@ 5.25 ;—feeders, $5@6; milk cows and springers, $30@130. Calves—Rece'pts, 1.000' head; market active. Cull to choice, $5@13. jand Lambs—Reoceipts, 8,200 | head; market active. Choice lambs, $1150@12: cull to fair. ST@11.25; year- lines, $7@9.25; sheep, $2@8. Hugs—neoelptu, 6,400 head; active. Yorfcer, $7.50@8; pigs, $3@ 8.25; mixed, $7.50@3.75; heavy, $7@ 122 roughs. $5.25@5.507 stags, $3.50@ market Grain Market. . Low.. Close. 113 1125 Lo 116% 1173 T 104% 1053 49% 49% 5% 55 July . 563% 567 Oats— Deec. . 34 34y May . 385 393 8% 3% Paddy, | A the majors, Heinie going to the Athletics by a straight sale and Sloan being draft- ed by the Red Sox. It is expected that more departures from Hartford ranks will be announced during the meeting of the Eastern league moguls Wednesday in Pittsfield. ARMY-NAVY TEAM CLASHES o . WITH ASHLAND TODAY The basketball classic in this section of the state this (Monday) afternoon will be the clash between the fast Army-Navy am of Taftville and the Ashland {eam Jewett City at Parish hall, Taftville. The Army-Navy team is a fast aggrega- tion, having led the Taftville league with- out losing a game, and now are playing games outside the league. In the Army-Navy lineup is J. Murphy £, Mills f, Coleman brothers guards, Bor- den center, and Mueller and Gladue sub- stitutes. The Ashland lineup is Benjamin and LeClajre forwards, Jeffers center, Liberty and Derdo guards, with Stafford as sub- stitute. PENN STATE NOT TO PLAY "~ HARVARD NEXT SEASON State College, Pa., Dec. 25.—Pennsyl- vania State’s football schedule for 1922, announced today, includes the following games: Oct. 21, Middlebury at'State College; 28, Syracuse, Polo Grounds, New York Nov. 4, Navy at Annapolis; 18, Univer- sity of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; 30, ‘Thanksgiving, Univ erslty of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh. Athletic author:ues regret that owing tocomplications cominz out of previous arrangements with Polo Grounds man- agement and Syracuse they were unabla to accept Harvard’s invitation for Oect 28. SMITH WANTS TO GO BACK TO THE RED SOX Elmer Smith, whom Lee Fohl develcped into a star out in the old Reidville pas- ture back in 1914, is going to fight Cleveland, club’s decision to send him io the Boston Red Sox. The home run hero of the 1920 world's series doesn’t like the idea of leaving a second place club for & second division team that he claims is disrupted and unpopwdar with the fans. Stuffy MelInnis, who gbes to the Indians in exchange for Smith, likewise says he will refuse to report. And last, but not least, Roger Peckinpaugh, Yankce cap- tain last’season, balks at going to Boston. Altogether the balk rule\is being violated left and Tight. i | i ORDER OF “MOOSE. Seniors. % {Carpenia ..... ... 88 87 81— 25€ Wunderlick .. ... 84 69 80— 233 Gross veee T8 85 97— 260 Bowne A1 97 83— 304 Andrews ... 84 96 83— 783 448 43¢ 434 1318 Juniors. Neison .. i | B; 3jowin 71 Mitchell . 26 Lamphere 88 Wiedwald SPORTING NO1ES. e Moy, lightweight, of Allentown, n in action in Mark hes quig the ring and has gone into Mo has fought about everyone n the lightweight division, with the excent:on of Lew Tendler. ! George Chaney, Baltimore slugger, amd < Jacks weet in a return go today ladeiphia. Chaney recently fouled a asked for another chance to onstrate that he is the Englishman's master. Jack Sharkey, the \‘\\' York West Side bantamweight, manager. _Joe Wagner, have pa pany. No reason been given by Wagner for Sharkey’s to break awa; Mickey Walker of Newark, who is step- ping to the frout among the iwelter- will collide with Nate Siegel nisht at the Mechanics building, The Commercial A. C. is pro- ug the tilt Lis bout with Paul Doyle, received-a fracture of | Eddie hand s for at least three or four weeks. Billy Flemming says Aubrey- Rodney’'s $2.060 Bingen Silk looks like a ‘“‘sensible. Robson, the middleweight, of Mass., who recently gave Mike such a stiff 10-round go at Bos- S'gned up for another bat- se on Frank Carbone, the Itzlian fighter, in = 12-round bout at a show to be brought off at Portland, Me., | on Tuesday evening, Dec. 27 Karified Air Dirigible Will Supplant Gas Ship I i S0 T KEVETONE VIEW_E0. et YORK l M. Enea Bossi, of New York, who has just arrived from Italy with the plans and model of a new type of dirigible that will use rarifled air instead of dangerous - explosive gases. The airship was devised by a Frengh engineer named Vanjean, 2nd an Itallan constructor named. | Gnardiulo, who have been collab- \ orating on the idea for the past ten years. Basketball ToDAY PARISH HALL, TAFTVILLE. TAFTVILLE V8. ASHLAND. GAME CALLED AT 2.50 B, M. ¥ |For centuries past each toymaker born jAnd a baby's dearest treasures pte THE WIDE_AWAKE ClRCl E want to do that. So she ran till she|more numerous than before. She walke - :‘:fit’:n;uh w%;“::‘;h: ed still further on untll she came wpom le Ba - Boys’ and Girls’. Départment e doilis DAL et e, askad b maine: | e oo o 7 ch= whaJ* M % he told him her father was dead snd | gne knocked it the door, but mo ome that her name was Alice Brown. n g H .Jjcame to the door. She opened the doer. , Rules For Young Writers. Boy Scouts Under' the Red, Cross. 3% picked her up in It's arms and aid: |1t was dark within. Dolly trembled, but 1—Write piainly on one side of the| 8—Cyril Liberty of Lisbon—The BOY | wite and ohild !” He m{: h::n- .i"; took courage and walked in. She found paper_only, and n';unher '.ho‘ Dll:;-‘. Scouts Under Fire in France. and a @oll. ' He also brought home 2 m.‘h;t:{ and milk of which she ;’:g;:n":‘..;‘!,.,,,‘.‘lfd n;u:l:. will be| -Winners of prize books living in Nor.| turkey. They spent a merry Christmas. | “gy. fel] asleep on a small sofa. When given preference. Do mot use over 250 Wich, can obtain them by calling at The| The man was Mr. Brown, who had |, awoke she was in her own home, Saaaads Bulletin business office after 10 o'clock | been thought dead. He had veen cap-|..r. ang sound. ? 5—Write your name, ago and address | Tuesday morning, tured by the enemies but had escaped. | ALICE ANDEERSON, Age 14. plainly at the bottom of the story. BLANCHE JODOIN. Norwl e LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. | Flainfield. : - WIDE-AWAKE POETRY. \ Gussie Rosenzweig, of North Frank- [ Likes the City. What the Toymaker Thinks. lin—Please accept my '.hanTks ;or nxhet Lflc: ‘:’;‘ :”l:'" 1-*'~h the |, Dear Uncle Jed: I am a ifttle gt T = i book you sent me entitled The Trail of Dear Uncle : you ever hear the | came from New Hamnshire. I Mke the I wonder just what the toymaker thinks, L 3 - = n D s hio e had nods and Dlinks | the Semeca.” I have read it and found it story of the gulls of Salt Lake? This is|citywvery much. Where T lived there very Inlerestmg. Vernon Warhurst of Plalnfleld—Mlny thanks for your prize book. Mary Guonack of South Windham—I thank you very much for the book you sent me. I have started to read it and like it very much.| the way my teacher told it to me: are three feet of snow. T used to haye Long ago, nearly all the white people "y fun sliding. T wen seash, who lived in the United States lived b"i"“’“'“" :;.d had fm‘: ;fh!m 1 m.‘: tween the Atlantic coast and the Missis- | the big steamboat and saw the sall boats, sippi river. Beyond were plains where too. 1 saw the hiz waves and went Indians and wild beasts roamed. bathing and piayved in them. When,1 One year a brave little company cross- | got home it was almost winter and we ed the Rockies and came down into a At the close of day, when his toll is done > Ang he dreams and rests till another sun. 1 wonder if he, as he sits and rocks, Gives ever a thought to Jack-in-the-box; To drums or horns, or the smiplest toy That gave him a thrill when he “was a got our sleds out and went sNais boy. D e e o valley. Here they settled. The next|again. e, T y N~ IDE- | year they planted their gardens. When MAGDALEN L LYNCH, Age 9. All day, in his shop, he has rushed about AWAKES, the corn, grain and vegetables weré near- Norwich. To get his orders from Santa Claus out. \ A Dogls Brave Act. ly grown, some crickets came and ate And how well he knew he must get them | s - 7 them. The people beat the ground and built fires, but the arickets went to other places. "At last all fell 6n their knees and prayed for heln. Then some gulls came and ate the crickets. done Or there would be tears sHould be fun. Dear Uncle Jed: This is the first time I have written tojthe Wide-Awake Cir- cle, so ¥ am going to tell you about my little cousin in New York. I will cl.fl\lt A Dog's Brave Act. A Good Tithe. Dear TUncle Jed: I thought T mld write to von for T have not written for a lonz time, where there So I always wonder just whatp he thinks Even today the children of Salt Lake | S0 P0aY: the 1ith. we Yhaa_company. As he sits by his fire and nods and| One day, my little cousin wWas out! City are tausht to love the gulls. For | "¢ [Ti-ns from the city came to vis- Dlinks. doors playing by herself. She got tired| their first lesson they learn to draw the |t US. There was a little girl that ] Does ever the wish find way to his heart | Of Dlaying so she wandered off by her-| picture of a guil and a cricket. "‘“,‘:;‘_ Wity 3 That children would tire of his magic|Self. As she was walking along she saw TEANNETTE HECKLER, Age 9. ey gave us/rome Christmas pres- art? an ice cart standing in the road, so she Rockville. ents, hvn‘ they sald we must not open crawled under the cart to get & piece of them until Chistmas. I would Wke to Just think what a gloomy ‘twould be If Santa’s toymakers should ever agree To leave off their work and scurry away, Or go on a strike for an ‘eight-hour day! ice that she saw_beneath it. She did not think anytbing 6¢ it for she was only three years old. She didn't see her dog watching her. As the ice- man came alonz to start up, the dog growled and barked at him and would not ‘let him get on until the little girl came from under the cart and was once old world sea what in them. But my mother would not let me. They went home about half past four. I went to bed tired, but hanpy. MARY L. )(AY\ARD Age 10. Norwich Town. Our Picnic, Dear Uncle Jed: You should have been with us on our school picnic held on a beautiful beach. We started at 11 o'ciock and arrived there at 12. Then we pre- pared our lunch, unpacked the cake and |- all the good things. We all sat in a ! N It just couldn’t happen! It never has 3y Bevapces nantions et, more safe on the sidewalk, Dom't you|Sirele to gat 0‘2'“1:;6“- ;I'here, were de-| Dear Uncle Jed: One day when T was v faithful . 3 s, Dpies, ice cream, |going to the store a man m 8o wiiy nieed we worry aud fear and g::l( that was a brave and faithful | o Ctl CENeS, OTAnEes. pies, ie Sream ef me and acked me if T wanted to work for him. So I went home and asked my father, and he said I could. So the next day T went to work and liked it very much I worked for him ti'l September. Bu¢ when T had to g0 to school T had thirty dollars and my father put it in a savings nk for me. WILLIAM GUONACK, Age 12. mon and egg sandwiches, cookies, lemon- ade and peanuts. After we had our iunch the smaller children told stories and played games, while the upper§ grades explored the place. Then we packed up the dishes and put thom into a little wagon and staried CHARLES J. “’ILLIAMS, Age 8. Has had a glad part in some Christmas| Baltie. Morn. A Jealous Wife. Dear Untle Jed: I am going to write to you about how a jealous woman was cured. In a’little village lived a farmer and I've even been told they take a great pride In helping old Santa get réldy to ride. And what T like best—they tell me they homeward. On our way home we sto ¢ \ hear - |his wite. The farmer was very unhappy. | a short time mear the pond. We ras| SCUR Wingham. The children are all zrowlna “gooder” | for his wife was very iealous of him. If|some fish, frozs and snakes. Then we A Tieh Sber: each year! he went out to milk and was gone rather | started homeward once more, jaughing 1 —Wm. Herschell in Indianapolis News.| long, she would go ard sce if he was in | and taiking over the good timé we had. | D°27, Unele Jed: One afternoon my The Baby's Christmas. the barn. If he was out of sight for an PRRDA ¥ KOLEAK Age 11 |2 5ter MY, har friead’Veronics tamtt We hung up the baby's stocking hour or so, when he returned he had to Wi%mantic. went fishing. We bought some line anéd At the end of ‘the little row; Dimpled and soft, like baby’s foot, And red, like the firelight's glow. We knew that Santa would find it— Such a wise and kindly elf— For he looks first for the smallest That hangs by the mantel shelf. And when in the ‘early morning The children eame in to see, They found that the baby’s stocking Was full as it well could be, Then a package just above f{t “For baby” was marked with care, give an account of himseif; and then she would investigater—~ If her lady friends came over, Mr. Farmer had to go to bed until they left. This made the farmer very unhappy. So he lay awake thinking of a way to cure his wifé, At last he thought of a plan. Next day he went to his neigh- bor’s on the sly and borrowed an old hat | and dress. Then went to his cornfield and made a scarecrow, dressed it up in the big hat and dress. Then as he looked around to see if anyone was looking he saw his wife coming fyom the house: He threw his arms around the scarecrow and was making believe ing her. His ‘wife scized the axe and hurried to the cornfield, hurried up to the lady, and gave her one hit with the axe. which threw 71 hooks. duz some worms and then started We fished along a river, but without sue- cess. After a great deal of walking we reached a place callad the swimming pool. We stopped there. Suddenly 1 heard a scream of delight Mary had pulled in a big sucker, her first fish, afler which we went home. We took the fish un to a farm to eell it to some men working on. the road. Mary received 15 cents for it. She gave me five and Veronica five and kept five for herself. We bought some candy and had a deNghtful time. JOHN CARTER, Age 8. A Birthday Party. Dear Uncle Jed: I thought I would write and tell you and the Wide-Awakes what a lovely time my friends and I had at a birthday party, Thursday. Nov. 4, Thanksgiving day, when my friend, Alice, was thirteen. Her parents made a party for her, and invited manv of rrtflne and Alice’s friends and myself to it We played many games outside, as it was a snowy day, you can imagine all the fun we had. It was quite slip. Pery, too, so we had to laugh at many a tumble that we had. After being outstle for awhfle, we went inside, and warfied ourselves up. and ‘Were heaped together there. Toys, blocks. with a doll to cuddle, A softly bounding ball; ~~=1 {o play with tha kitten. 3 With a bell tied on for a call. Norwich. My Watchdog Joe. A Dear Uncle Jed: This is my first at- The coi'dren laughsd out to sse them, her down. Then she kent beating her.!Then we went in tha parlor, where there tempt to write to the Wideawakes. ] Then said, “But of all that goes Suddenly she discovercd that it was only [Was a piano and Victrola. One of the | havea dog named Joe. He is three years In the baby's little stocking, a scarecrow. She looked around and saw | girls played the plano, while the rest of { old. Everv time I try to leave the house The prettiest thing is her toes!" her husband laughing as though his sides |us _kad a jolly time dancing and sing- | he will follow me. FEvery truck that would split. This made her very angry, and ever since she never cared where he went. That time had cured her. ing. Then one of the zirls who had had her chance, at singing and dancing, played the nhno while the other girl had her share of the fun, also. Ninette M. Lowater. comes along he will run after it. Last e night T put my dog Joe in the cellar and UNCLE JED's at about 2 o'clock in the morning we were ~ TALK TO WIDE- SA s E awakaned by loud noises. We went down % AWAKES, ) JULIA MONTY. After awhile we were called in to be | stairs to see what was the matter. There A merry Christmas to all the Wide- Plainfieldy seated and we paTtook of the refresh- | was nothing the matter as we conld see. Awakes! Probably there is no question that bothers the children at this time of year any more than that old-time one, Is there a Santa Claus? You have doubt- less asked or thought it as many others before youshave. Some years ago there ments. ~ After finishing ws sang some songs and then hing Alice a -happy birthday we all departed for home. s T hope that all of the Wide-Awakes | have had ag pleasant a time on Thanks- giving dav as we did. PAULINE EISENSTEIN, Age 13. Colchester. In the-morning when I went to go out 1 saw that our clothesiine had been cut down by thieves who prowl around after dark. " Samuel Adams. Dear Uncle Jed: May I tell the Wide- Awakes about my favorite character. in American history? His name is Samuel Adams. Mr. CYRIL LIBERTY, Age 9. Lisbon. Adams was a very remarkable e e me years ago therelman. He was well educated and a col- oo Wb e Jvas an eight year old girl, Virginia O'-|lege graduate. He was a wise counselor, R Dear Tncle Jod: The Subs N Hanlon by hame, who was much concern-| a shrewd, cven cunning volitician, and a Lost in The Woods. Submarine Base 18 about three and a half miles north of the mouth of the River Thames and of the city of New London and about 10 miles from Norwich. The New York, New Haven and Hartford rafiroad runs through it apd brings coal, iron, oft and other supplies from different places to the base. ed about it. She had been discussing It with friends who said there was no San- ta Claus but she was not convinced and Wrote a letter to the New York Sun and asked to be told the truth. i This'is the answer that the editor gave to that famous question and T am sure greaf statesman, a combination which the British authaorities found it hard to 1 beat. Some people think-that the title “Father of His Country”’ belongs to Samuel Adams even more than to Wash- ington. Mr. Adams had taken a bold stand for inder~ndence before Washing- Dear Uncle Jed: One afterngon Do went out into the woods to pick son pretty flowers for her mother. She began picking along the path, but prettier flowers led her farther away from it. Suddenly she looked up and fmrd herself in a strange wierd place. ton and Franklin dreamed of such a|It was heavily wooded and the wind| The road running through the Sub- you will all ba interested in it: thing. sang a soft, low lullaby through the | marine Bass is called the military high- “Virginia, your little # friends ara| He knew exactly what he wanted and |leaves. The sun flickered noiselessly]way. It conmects the city of Norwich wrongz. They have been affected by the|never lost sizht of his goal. It was his|throush the soft, green canopy%above. |with New London. ' mind that worked oug the plap for the | committees of correspondence and later for the Continental congress at Philadel- phia. Mr: Adams saw from the first, even as Patrick Henry had seen, that the quarrel between the British and Americans must be settled by force of arms. While timld skepticism of a skeptical age. They do Mot believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not com- prehensible by their little minds. Al minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children’s, are liftle. In this great universs of ours man is a mere insect, “I'm all right,” she murmured as she walked on. “T can find the path if I go straigh! Although she walked for a long time she did not find anv path. She only saw trees which seemed to be There are about 20 bufldings. They are the harracks, D. & E., the baseball and football club house, torpedo shed, (Continued on Page Four, Col. Five) sp St : witn | men were asking for peace at any price. | e ne ess 1 D “There are times when powder smells / grasping the whole of truth and flnowl-| go0q. edge. “Yes. Virginia, there 1s a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and gen- erosity and devotion exist and you know Mr. Adams was very crafty and cun- ning in meeting the moves of the sritisa. His was no light task. Indenendenc: he was determined to have. He knew that “Well, hurry and fix your things and then scat to bed.” Esther fixed such a nice looking lunch “Come, hang up your stockins, chil- dren, and go to bed. Don't bother Santa Claus with Z its| much depended on his leadership. He “Peep tyes” I wouldn't be |ingt fath id vi that they abound and give to your life its) ¥ e b D. _ hat father said he wished .e were San- ive 1 low) Kmew, too, perfectly well that he was |Surprised if hegot peeved and went right [ta Claus. Fred put his bastet of ost. highest beauty and . fov. Alas! Tow, Lot BECEER WO U oF the ? dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no ginias. There would be no childlike faith, then, no poet- no -romance to make tolerable this back up that chimmey if he should find anybody awake. You wruldn’t want him to do that, would you?” “I should sav 7 meal in half a dozen differant places be- fore he was satisfied but finally left it on the hearth, being the nearest place he could get to the reindeer upon the roof. Then they went to bed n as not rights that they must not even suspect that they were being led. But Mr. Adams was always “equal to the occasion. No Sam Slick with his stock of wooden nut- megs was ever We are coming v, “slicker” that Sam Ad- |right now, father. to bother Santa Claus. existence. We should have no enjoy- amsAF = £ “Tummin’ !a_sbas we tan,” and little Bright and early C"n’ls(mas ‘morning mient, “excent in_sense ang sight. The “iu.mef:;m]lbs.t'flie king of England |Fred bounced into his father's arms wav- i little Fred climbed over the railing of - % habi; of appointing some e s ok ing a long, black stocking. “Santa Ca is crib and poun 3 eternal light V;;hb “h-CY; C?{“:h:"d fIS| British nobleman to be governor of oach |don't det pecved. He's alwave ;3, Tv| Faver:e wake. :y\.u;]vall:so '.'m.'“'i,éf;"’;u the world }\‘0“ ; e extinguishe = American colony. King George of Eng-|Don’t ¥ou member how the pome says? find Santa Claus” - ot believe in Santa Claus! You land evidgntly saw that if he were to| “Oh, yes, I forgot, he isn't like me. After a rzce to get dressed and many might as well not believe In fairles. You | appoint a native born American with a|Now T would get peeved, wouldn't I, |peeks over the stair railing the proces- might get your papa to hire men ‘o|large following as governor of Massa-|Fred?’ '\ sion was ready to start to find Santa watch in all the chimneys on Christmas | chusetts, it would greatly help ‘the Brit- “Yeth,” answered ifred, as if that|Claus. For it was the custom in this eve to.catch Sarifa_Claus, but even it ;s{l‘:tc%a‘:seo.n So z}"e' afppomted Thomas | were taken for granted. family to follow the yaunzest member they did mot see Santa Claus coming| T CNNSON & native of Hoston. See here, this isn't vour stocking, |and Jet him find where Santa Claus had Gown, what would fhat prove? Nobody | (ave o5, be Sure that Mr. Adams sawjson ; left the Christmas tree ail alight with = e e Is sc ickly. o, mine {in't big nuf. That's muv- |candles and packed about with packages. sees Santa 3 BN | Knew that it would not do to let Gover- |er's. she let me ta%a -4t Esther had led the search for several that there is no Santaf Clabs.. The most | nor Hutchinson hold this following. So| “Oh, I see. Well, come on, we'll hang | vears, but last Christmas and this it real things in the world are those that!he taunted and nagged and goaded the !them. Esther, vou vin ‘he tags on and |was Frecdy's turn. When everybody was nelther children- nor men can see. Did| Eovernor until Mr. Hutchinsoh quite lost | T'll fasten them up ready father said, F % i “Tail on, Fred” m you ever see fairies.dancing on thelawn?| his temper and said “some ind a very rash “They are all tag’ed father, I'll hand {Fred followed closely by Esther went Of ‘course mot, but that's no proof that 3‘;3? f"trr““.‘?hh{““sm‘“sms Dpeople | them to vou.” down the stairs. First he looked in . .. they are not there. Nobody can con-| .| h“a‘:‘ ‘:‘”f;“:d ‘f;:é :lidr-;;df;ns r:us: After a busy few moments ‘of hanging | the librrcy where the row of stockings ceive ‘or imagine all the wonders therel jetting a man have nlenty of ’ropge & {'1“1_‘ up stockings on the string tied about. the | hung above the fireplace, limp last night, shelf _above the fireplace, father caught littleFred un and holding him high in the ai§ gave hir a little roll between his hamds. “Now to bad.i Santa, eh, Fred?’ “No, we isn't. We's doin’ to div Santa Caus a Mewy Chwismas™ “What!" exclaired his father, him down and looking at him. “You tell, Esser.”” For lonz speeches were an effoft for the stumbling little tongue. “Well, you see, father” began (7!1!{(~ ing sister, “we thought it was selfish for us always to ¢ cpect things of Santa Claus and nevar think of him at ail ex- eept what he would bring us. So we thought he 1jould itke it if we remem- bered him. a little, and mavbe hé gets hungry with all his traveling on Christ- mas eve, So we agked mother if wa could fix' a lunch for him and she said we cdbild so I'm going to fix a mice lunch on a little table right iiere by the fire- place and put a card by it saving, “Mer- ry Christmas to Santa Claus” And Freddy thinks we ought to remember the reindeer, t00, becauss Santa Claus could are unseen and unseeable in the world.| Adams not only- supnlied the governor “You may tear apart the baby's rat-; with rope but saw to it that there was a tle and see what makes the nolse 1n-' noose at the end and a convenient limh side, but there is a veil covering the un. neir“::'. At ates gove seen world avhich not the strongest man, | T (A, United States e 2 e;zze':: nor even'the' united strength of all the governor of Ma: S : strongest men that ever lived, could tear! gniteq States sen :swaf_h He died in 1;053“ apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love,i A1l good Americans should be - .grateful romance, -can psh aside that curtain |and respectful to his memory. and view and plctm-e the supernal beau- STELLA BARTIZEK, Age 12. ty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah,| North Franklin. Virginia, in all this world there is noth- ing else real and abiding. “No Santa_Claus! - Thank God! he lives and ‘he lives forever. A thousand years from.now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood:” Probably you all have been .convineced this morning through your own experi- ences, the old as well as the young in the circle, that there is a Santa Claus, ’mwmais OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1—James McGee, of Gales Ferry—!t but bulging and uneven now, and the e table stood near with Santa Claus’ lunch. Only the dishes were there, the lunch was eaten and Fred's bhasket wag gomne. . “Oh, father, see™ cried Esther. for or her Merry Christmas ecard was written in - big n'ain writing. “Thanks to the thought- = ful little girl for the mio> lunch.” “Where my basket of o'wleal?” wafled Fred. “Why, ‘the reindeer couldn’t get it thers, goosie.” said Esther. “Santa must have taken it up to them.” “I go see” and Fred rushed out where he could see the roof. Sure enough, there stood the basket on top of the chimney. “But where did Santa Claus leave the - asked father. wesalmest forcot that™ ‘we were so zlad dear old Santz and the reindeer got their lunches.” So the nrocession formed again ané Frod started on his hunt—to the dining - room, to the parlor—no tree. Fred looked T ™ so disappointed when he stopned in the hall. that mother came to the rescue. “You haven't been in every room yet, Fred.' “Oh, Freddy, We are all ready for setting / Saw a Pheasant. Dear Uncle Jed: Once I went in the woods with my father. I made a little noise and I looked in back and I'saw a nice pheasant. It was all kinds of colors. 1 cannot tell you because I can't re- member~all the colors. I tried to catch it but it flew away. LEO TRAHAN, Age 9. Wauregan. Alice’s Christmas, - . Dear Uncle Jed: It was the night be- fore Christmas. Alice hung her stocking and went to bed. = d we el e look in father's den.” as snowing when she got up |not come without them. and they must | cried Esther. G"z"_"_‘; r:am‘;::f;m of Colchestep. | ChTistmas morning. She ran to her|get ‘hunery, too. We iiave no oats to| And sure enough there they found it al stocking to see what Santa Claus had brought her; but to her surprise it was empty. She ate her breakta&t and went out- doors to watch the children slide. She could not slide, for she h\gnu shed. Her | fingers and feet became cold, so she walked up the street. She had. not gone far whenya man 6-—Jeanette Heckler of Rockville—| passing by dropped his pocketbook. She Lmu Prudy’s Cousin Grace, picked it up. She was gmng to keen it Huhoa.wguu Mmflf be stealing, and d!dlqt glve them, but mothes sald she thought oatmeal would do, so Freddyr has a lit- tle Wasket of oatmeal all fixed and I wrote a label for it Ilfke this. Mefry Christmas to Cunid,and Vixen and Dunder and, Blitzen ard all of Santa Claus’ reindéer, from Freddy. Don't you think that is all right, fathes?" “Indeed it is. I think Sauta Claus will be delighted. If he isn’t he mun be Tabitha’s Vacation. 3—Alice. Anderson Trail of the Seneca. 4—Freda E. Kollar of Willimantic— In the Cu7p ofthe Delawares. 5—John 'Carter of Norwich—The Boy Scouts With the Allies. a-glittor with tinsel, and glass icicles, and gay colored balls, and stziped candy canes, and little bugles, and cotton rab- bits and monkeys, and at the foot of it old Santa himseif, smiling and spreading out his hands over all the packages. “You see, he didn't forget,” said father. “No, and I'm glad we didn't I’m him, aren’t you, Freddy?” said Esth, “Yet, we don’t fordet Santa always jolly," iisped News. of Norwich—The