Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 18, 1922, Page 4

NORWICH BULLETIN and Coarier —mmason ¢ cxoemt Susdes, Priated wery day fn the yeu Subscription priee 120 & week: §0¢ & momth; §8.09 Eatersd 54 fhe Poglofics ¢t Neewich, Cons, w» weamd-claes Watter. GEMAER OF INE AMSCIATER PRES, Asmclated Prem B tor vewablication of s paper 4nd Ao the local news published AL rige of republiestien Suiches herein are sl reserved. CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING JULY 15th, 1922 EESPONDING TO DUTr AND DODG. Marked s the contrast batween the manner in which the gov.rnor of' Kan- ®as is responding to the need of maine tatning law and order wu'n vinichee IS . *hat of the g.v Texas, and this is illustrated by the ex- periencs of one rallroad which passes When it became evident that the op- eration of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rallroad was to be interrupted by action of the strikers, the governor of Kansas recognized the necessity of giv- ing protectfon to the publie and prevents interruption of transportation. It was through his prompt action was & move that was for the good of sll. What that action has prevented no ome can tell, but it is well enough that served as a notice that disorders ‘ z - E | in Texas the situation is decld- ‘With the railroad shops threatened by the strikers, thereln, but they from thelr pests and urder has been com- 1] :Esg it E f'} I : it 3 14 e il 1! ! ! i be reled ypon and as it s definitely determined that hopeless the government should 81 Ii CROSSTNGS STILL DANGEROUS. summer week-ends are passing, but the last one collected a big toll at reckless driving. Six lives were sruffed out in Maine at faflure to observe the warning, “Stop, Tt was apparently one more of those cases where the thought was upon reaching a destination or hav- ing a fine time after getting there, ra- ther than on the danger invelved In get. ling over a railroad track. That it was a blind croseing furnished ®ll the more reason for the exercise of care. The degree of care ought not te vary much at any crossing for it is a place where the greatest effort is none too much in view of the price that is too often exacted for failure to give proper protection to self and others. That there should be an eagerness to work in cooperation with the warnings placed at crossings or with the tenders must be apparent to most users of the highways, tut that Saturday night affair where four escaped with their lives only to have thelr machine wrecked at Windsor Locks crossing indicates that a driver cannot be too careful. stance the driver was allowed to go by one gate only to find his exit blocked by the other and the train coming. Such & situation seems difficult to explain from the standpdint of the gate tender whoss act would seem to have entrapped the auto party. ‘When there is any chance of encoun- tering 2 train it is preferable to lose the minute or two that has to be sacrificed to watch the locomotive and ecars pass han to take chances, Every crossing accldent thould serve as a warning to all others. Phere is no telling when like cireum- rances may be encountered as long as Bengerous crossings exist. rext thing to elimination, and it ts with that highway users learn that thy pubYe utilities commission is plan- ning the eJdmination of three of those econsiders the worst. WHERE UNIFORMITY 18 NEEDED, For the purpose of overcoming incon- sistencies and ending hzve been repeatedly made to obtain a greater degree of unfiformity relative :o laws among states of New Engand. The need of a move of this character is frequently disclosed but unfortunately matters of that character are apt move alowiy because of the unwilling- ness of siates to abandon practices to accustomed but which simp!ify matters for greater number if thers were a uniform- ity of laws by the several states con- cerning simfilar questions. Highway regulations have been found o be one thing in Connecticut, thing else In Rhode Island and vary in visited, making 1t next to impossible for the travelers to know when they are respecting or vio- lating the laws even though it is thelr desire to obey them. An unpleasant mixup In this respect developed between irritations efforts which they are sbout every state ‘s that which has Massachusetts and Maine, ler state it is provided that all moter pay a license fée, This is| crumpled remains of one or more sutos to mean that all are inainded smd that . cross the line into Maine witheut a Ii- | cense. Efforts to have it understood | that Massaghusetts Mcenses would be re- spected in Maine if Maine licenses were recognized in Massachusetts failed. Maine ingisted it could do nething but abide by the law and the result is that Massachusetts ¢s not allowing Maine cars in that state unless they have a Massachusetts license. and the hardship is piled up for the Maine truck ewners desirous of going inte Massachusetts for it is not pessible to geét a Massachu- setts license without paying for the en- tire year and all drivers must pass an examination. It is retallation that brings the boom- erang home to Maine and it doesn't serve to create the right feeling between states. It ds most unfortunste that such a situation should develop hut it can be easily understood how easfly it could have been overcome had there been uni- formity in regard to the legislatfon up- on this point, e s PUBLIC MUST BE SERVED. The situation in regard to the prepe- sition that has been put forth by Pres- tdent Harding for the arbitration of the coal strike s that it has been accepted by the anthracite operators and most jof the bituminous operators, but has tien declined by the miners. means that the effort has falled to bring abcut the results that have been de- sired. It means that the miners are un- wiling to submit the questions in dis- pulr to the decislon of a commiwien namd to hear and decide wupon the facts. It means that they give no com- sideration to public welfare and that the only thing that will got their en- dorsement is the yielding to thelr de- mands. This clearly placed the burden of responsibility upon the miners a fact which the president declared, when they declined to agree to arbitration, he hoped they fully realized. Coal production is neeessary, and In view of the fact that the miiners have declined to arbitrate there remains noth- ing else to do but to endeavor to get it, That this is to be done s indicated by the invitation extended by the pres- ident to the coal miners to reopen the mines that have been closed since the first of April, and the reply of the head of the operators to the effect that this would be done in the way that seemed best. Under the circumstances it is to be expected that any trouble that results from the effort to resume production that a coal shortage may be avoided will get whatever protection is needed from the government, Naturally it would be expected that the respective states would stand in the way of diser- ders but it is not 3lways possible to obtain the response that the situation calls for and whenever that situation develops there is the plain duty of the federal governmert to let it be knmown that it means business. ‘Whatever action the president may be required to take will be, as he has indi. cated, for public welfare and national security, and under the circumstances there would be nothing but public sup- port back of such action as the situa- tion calls for. Public service cannot be blocked. The holdup has continued long emough. 3 A TARIFF COMMISSION. The idea of a revised tariff commis- sion that would be non partisan and that would fixe rates on a sclentific basis is nothing new. It has been urged for years. A -tariff commission has in fact been established that jt might work up- on such problems without pelitical bias and give the benefit of their study to congress when the time came for the making of tariff changes. Such a commission is in a position to ascertafin the facts and act upom them in their recommendations without beinz swayed by what might happen to them as candldates at a coming election. But it has not been the experience of the country with a tariff commission that it has been able to function and have fts conclusions accepted. Even though the findings of the commission were avall- able for the use of congress, it has been the experience that they got lttle or no attention unless they happened to ac- cord with the views of whichever party happened to be in power. In urging the reorganization of tha tariff commission Senator [Frelinghuysen isn't standing alone. There are other senators who take much the same view that he does and belleves that a great waste of time and far more satisfac- tory results could be obtafined by actual- ly getting away from unsatisfactory methods and resorting to means that will stand whatever tests are applied to them and make it evident that some- thing more than political claims are be- hind the rates that are being sought, and that something more than partfsan- ship must be displayed in such attacks as are made against them. Whether a tariff commission can be obtained that will be any more effective than what we have had remains to be seen. EDITORIAL NOTES. The man on the corner says: A grieva ance s something that nevor Improves with age. ‘Three-quarters of a million in tax ar- rears from the Connecticut company [ in handy fo rthe siate treasury. Having spofled the cherrles, July should be kind enough to see that the rain isn’t permitted to do the same for the huckleberry crop. It it ever does come to carrying the mails by motor truck it will mark the beginning of the end of employment for a great many railroad men. Coal is being imported from England but what is needed is the resumption of production in our own mines and the ar- bitration of the strike differences. 1 Germany s allowed to make a partial payment on the amount due-this menth, but that should not be regarded by 1t as a display of leniency which Invites|Graham), who today enters upon his 75th year, is a noted Montreal newspaper pub- lisher and philanthropist, whose latest ef- fort to aid humanity has taken the form of an effer. of $100,000 for the discovery of a cancer cure. a career that should be an encouragement to young men to persevere under difficul- iles. He carried to Montreal, as a coun- try boy, nothing but a common school ed- ucation and an alert brain. ployment as an office boy With one of the local newspapers, he rose step by step un- endless balking. ‘That Pennsylvania boy who drowned his companion of twelve to get his men- ey was inspired at an early age by that holdup spirit which is spreading about the country. e e——— The Irish frregulars intend that if they cannot have things their way they are going to appal the world by the amount of trouble, wreckage and blood- shed they can cause, —— e It begins to look as if The Hagus conference had reached the point where the soviet Russians had so maneuvered as to defeat their own purposes and make the conference a complete fizzle. ——— In some states skull and criss bones signs are erected at bad rafiroad cross- ings. In some others ths twisted and indicates the danss: at - our Buens, b ‘man's wife, & nything markable as theke girls. And it is to work large havec among the youths of the day who behold these creatures, locking as though they els; perhangers have come, adored Clematis tion.” correspondence as an intere: comment : writes the Bishop of London from Rome to Avignon. where Laura cesided. and from whence, nine years after his first meeting with her, the poet still continued to pour forth his sonnets, “and it is won- derful ffat at so tender an age (his age was 31) you can deceive the world with 8o much art and success. Your Laura is a phantom creature of your imagination for the exercise of your poetry. verse, your love, your sighs, are all a fietion; or, if there is anything real in your passion, it is not for the lady Laura but for the laurel that is the crown of poets.” g the sugar “No human heing, or so, has ever beheld a: Te- s way since the be looked thi; time and let and and with ' strajght, hair, not going to have the required amount of time to devote to upholstering, var shing and tinting themselves. Have |triple st B Hosea. the hours it takes | more powder, rubbed it off and put it on you any idea, the finished product you |again; gt E il ¥ b hs!hsd and darkened and lashes coaxed “Well, but every woman has always |and then their hair accupled thelr um- had to wash her face and comb her |divided time for an hour. 8o admire?” hair.” wife told him kindly. about 3 o'clock yesterday that Abalona |to make it. “rhis Abalona Spotts whe is visiting what salaries their mest/attractive " began the family man, who | beaus drew and just how frequently thlr; : was putting four lumps of sugar in hisfought to count on thester.and, dinner reakfast ocoffee—"isn't she the prettiest | invitations. O OBumae? Tast might a¢ &taner T thought | taoes with coWd eream, m of eourse’ af oug] 3 1 had never seen anything so perfect!|well. It had to stay fifteen Her hair—her lovely complexion—" T N -y 25 an L 4 ‘You never did,” agreed the family 'om”d L e g i det L communion with and sh found a wrinkle, a real wrinkle ¢ her left eve, and =he astringent while they walted doesn't 1t? Well, process now,” his |1t takes a chart, a surveyer's o Einoty b 4 thln‘l‘:t was | mathematiclan's mind and hope and faith 3 E “Meanwhile they were smearing turned on a rec- ehen. they carefully a it . With 2 broken-hearted ek l‘u“:\a announced that she had dashed for am she led. L bocte the ice “Then they beth for chest und abstracting large chunks mas- for ten minutes with ke the Buena remarked that a natural find (&; x&: certainly did look crude these days. “After which they each had a hot bath a red mose and an old wrapper |and a cold shower, a taleum dust and & just slung on anyhow, trying to cook a |sachet sprinkle. Utterly beefsteak, hear Jimmy say his prayers | now they and clear up the paper paste before the | ferring on the baby eats it. You see, when the real |love without meney or business of life begins for them they are | husband who might be fat and short. 3 by lay down s short while, con- relative value of true millions and & — “Then they arose and with the ald of mirrors, applied powder, rouge. and eyebrows were plucked “It looks simple, their hairdress, let me tell you that Tod, a I think they say frantle child yawned, abandoned the |prayers while they divide and twist and :‘:! :::wrdu and sald they might as well | roll and puff and pull in and wave the start dressing for the evenin course of doing half a day's four hours I caught frequent of their arduous efforts. ‘““Phey began mot by letting down their hair, that old-fashioned preliminary to on, but by carefully pinning towels tightly around their mareels. I think Abalona stuck little combs all over her head to shape her permanent wave before she enwreathed herself in the towel. They then sort of shucked their Hmp Mttle one-plece dresses and climbed into kimonas, curled up on the couch and discussed practical things such as In the ‘work In Famous Literary Mysteries ‘Who Was the Laura of Petrarch? Readers generally are familiar with the love posms of Francesco Petrarch, the great Itallan poet, written to Laura. For many years there has been a controversy as to who was Lauva. and whether she actually existed, or whether she was a creation of the poet's imagination Petrarch claimed to have first seen Laura on April 8, 1327, in the Church of 8t Claire at Avignon. ‘Who Laura was remains uncertain still. That she was the daughter of Audibert de Noves, and the wife of Hugh de Sade rests partly on tradition and partly em decuments which the Abbe de Sade pro- fessed to have copled from originals in the 18th century. Nothing is now extant to prove it. If this lady really existed she was the Laura of the “Conzaniere,” while there are reasons for suspecting that the Abbe was the dupe of some previous im- r. In view of much that has been written on the subject, we may not, however, ac- cept the skeptical hypothesis that Laura was a mere figment of Petrarch’s fancy; and if we accept his personal reality, the poem of her lover demonstrates that she was 3 married woman with whom he en- joyed a respectful and not very intimate friendship. One writer says: “She is continually ! mentioned with such definiteness as to make impossible the suggestion of Boccac- cio that she was a rfere idealized abstrac- In his “Mémoirs of Petrarch” the Abbe de Sade set forth the claim of his ancestor, Laura de Sade, to be identified with the Laura of Petrarch. Like the poet's Laura, she died April 6, 1348 and was, it seems, buried on the same day, because she died of the plague, and in the Franciscan churh. ‘When Petrarch first saw Laura he was 21 years of age, and she not yet 20, al- though already married; and from that minute to her death, upward of 20 years, he bestowed on her a poet's devotion, making her the theme of that wonderful series of sonnets which constitute the bulk of his poetical writings, raving of her beauty, her gentleness, her many ad- mirable qualities, and yet so controlled by her prudence that the history of Laura de Sade is as pure as it is interesting. Petrarch contrived to survive the loss of Laura 26 years; yet his was a strange passion. he feels, or does not feel, in his enamored laments. the habit of his time; and the fact that Petrarch had clothed his sorrows in a fanciful garb of cold conceit does not disapprove the existence of real feeling underlying them. It is hard to decide how much A poet will write according to ‘We may quote a fragment of Petrarch's ing bit of al,” “You are befooi Your To this Petrarch responded: “As to Laurd, would to heaven she were only an imaginative personage, for her only a pastime! madness, which it would be difficult and painful to feign for any length of time, and what an extravagance it would be to affect such a passion. you yourself been witness of my paleness and suffe and my passion Alas! it is a How often have > It is hard to believe but that the poet’s passion wag real, although there are very many literary critics who hold that the Laura of the poet's sonnets was &n imag- inary being. EA IN THE PUBLIC EYE Lord Atholstan (formerly Sir Hugh Lord Atholstan has had Finding em- wave out and climb into a family man. just was matural for 'em to look If that! Say, what a joke on their beaus!" —Exchange. thropic value as a public servant was recognized | 1877—At the request of the governor of frequently held public attention,” the name ‘Conge’ echoing around world. Congo Free State, as the country then was known, and alleged atrocities were deplored in churches and in meetings all over the United States. her Independence Centennial Belgium's young king helped form a society, along with other European governments and geographers, to explore Stanley’s expedition year a committee of this society, continu- ing the work, developed into the Interna- tional Association of the Congo. This body sought to unite various territories in Central Africa into a single state and obtain recognition as a poltical entity. The United States was the first to accord this recognition, whereupon the Congo Free State was born in 1884. largest in Africa except the French Sa- hara, was neither a state nor free. It was an association for which was recognized; and Leopold IT, personally, not in his capacity of King of the Belglans, was its ruler. Leopold be- halrnet. *When they put on their\ silly little glimpses | wisps of dresses the dinner gong struck " and the reason they were late was that they had to do the powder-rouge-powder trick all over again and twist around in front of the long mirror six times apiece to be certain they were all right! Of course they were mal when -they appeared!™ allow dreams I vum!” sald the interested “And T sort of ‘thought it ‘“Well, til he became the proprietor of one of the foremost newspapers in the Brit! and financial enterprises, in 1908 by the gift of a knighthood, and some years later his worth was further honored by his elevation to the peerage. He had the distinction of being the first native Canadian to get a coronet. Today’s Birthdays Lord Atholstan, Montreal publisher and philanthropist, born in County i!\mtlngdon, Quebec, 74 years ago to- ay. Senor Frederick A. Pazet, Peruvian Am- bassador to the United States, born in the Peruvian legation in London, 63 years ago today. Samuel W. Stratton, director of the U. S. Bureau of Standards, born at Litch- fleld, IIl, 61 years ago today. Mrs. Richard Derby, formerly Miss Ethel Roosevelt, born in New York city, 82 years ago today. Rose Pastor Stokes, noted as an ad- vocate of socialism, born in Russia, 43 years ago today. ¥ Today’s Anniversaries 1787—Congress ratified the peace with Morocco. 1853—The Atlantic and St. Lawrence raliroad, from Portland to Mon- treal, was opened to traffic. 185¢—Tom L. Johnsen, congressman, mayor of Cleveland, and noted ad- vocate of the single tax, born at Georgetown, Ky. Died at Cleve-| land, April 10, 1911. i 1872—Attempted assassination of king and queen of Spain, treaty of the West Virginla; President Hayes ordered federal troops to Martins- burg to quell the rallroad strike Tiots. 1888—Tercentenary of the destruction .of the Spanish Armada celebrat- ed at Plymouth, England, 1909—Mrs. J. Addison Hayes, daughter of Jefferson Davis, died at Colo- rado Springs. 1919—London presented General Persh- ing with a sword and the freedom of the city. IN THE DAY’S NEWS Coungo A country nearly four times the size of | Texas, which was founded by & committea provided pocket money for a king, now is to be mined by a syndicate—such is & Belgian Congo whither a group of New York business men are reperted to have gone in search of a stream where golden pe]bhlez may be scouped up by the hand- ful. Society. The U. S. senate discussed the “In the year America was celebrating Africa. of the After following “Actually the new political diviston, the its governanece Safe 1ilf w INFANTS wa INVALIDS “Malted s ASK FOR Horlick's Nt Cven more to the point- than anythingwe could say, is this expression from Mr .)/ANDERBILT Jr. The New Improved 5 Queathed the territory to his country in|he traverses this forest. ‘You are hem- | conversation when one of them becam: med in by thickets which prevent you | very much annoyed by the persisteni from pentrating the green depths on |attention of a large fly. 4 either side, and, on gazing upwards, the “Sam, whut kin' a fily am dis?™ dense eanopy ef foliage overhead forbids an untrammeled view of the heavens to the eyes so wearied with eternal green.’ “Hemmed in thus animal life is scarce- but monkeys break the silence with their chatter, butterflies of infinite variety and color flutter the occasional open places, and eop- quering hordes of insects hold undis- Here the ants abound ‘Whites ones build curious structures | manager of the Central against the trunks of trees. Others pa- . Power and Light Co. has been granted tiently earry the earth bit by bit, to the treetops to fashion strange house- es that often suggest seme weird ani- mal about to spring upon his prey. “Forming the northwestern boundary of the territory is the great Congo riv- , sometimes spreading out miles wide. Unfortunately for its com- mercial value this river breaks into a series of falls when It pierces through the Crystal Mountains central platesau of Africa to the At- These rapids extend for near- Iy 200 miles from Matadi to Leopeld- To circumvent this barrier a rail- road was constructed from Matadi to Stanley's Pool. “Few more than 5,000 white people live in the Belglan Congo. Estimates of the native population range between ten and twenty miilions. These natives, for the mest part, are either of the Bantu race “Before Leopold’s death the versy over harsh treatment of the na- tives who were pressed into service as rubber gatherers became a top of discus- sion zall over the civilized world. Mission- aries and foreign consuls complained of the outrages. The system by which taxes were payable only in rubber, and practice of holding women as hostages when such payment was not made, was liable to abuse. “One especially severe criticlsm was signed by Consul Casement at Boma— later Sir Roger hanged for conspiring against the British In Ireland. Belgians averred that the agitation about those abuses suspiciously close upen reports of the dis- covery of gold. While Leopold denied the right of foreign powers to interefere in his rule of the Conge he instituted reforms. Continued assertion that measures of re- lief were not applied led to the cession of Congo Free States in 1910. “Belgian Congo is a bowl-like plateay, eriss-crossed by rivers, polka-dotted by marshes, ribbed with rock, and blanketed throughout with the % The veritable jungle of this humid wil- derness surpasses any meaning the tem- “Since Leopold IT turned wistful eyes |Dperate zone dweller attaches to the word toward the ‘black gold,’ or rubber, of the | ‘forest.” Congo country and Henry M. Stanley proved that white men could “Dat am a hoss fiy. a fly what buzzes an' jackasses— ain't makin' out to call me mo - A hoss fiy am ly discernible, No, i ain’t makin' out for to call you jackass, but you cain't fool dem flies.’ puted sway. Glastonbury.—Harold C. Cone, loeal & vacancy on aecount of a Ddreakd 3 Woulds't taste a quality ginger ale? Try Pepperell— "tis greave. “Into these primeval forez's, survive | stone wrote, ‘the sun, there, this land of the rainbow’s end has | cannot penetrate, except by.sending down 52y8 | gt mid-day thin pencils of rays into the a bulletin from the Washington, D. C.,|gloom. The rain water stands for months headquarters of the National Geographic |in stagnant pools made by the feet of el- ephants. The climbing plants, from the “Once before rumers of gold, together |size of a whipcord to that of a man-of- with rumors of cruelty to natives, sent|war's hawser, are so numerous, that the the | ancient path is the only passage. “More recent ted especially upon the dire depres- slon which Dbesets the white man when PIMPLES ON FACE FOR 4 MONTHS Festered and Scaled Over, Itched and Burned, Cuticura Healed. though vertical, Stories That Recall Others Can’t Fool Hoss Fles. Having been to Virginia the follewing story was brought back Two colored epper : )ll]‘_{fl : 697 ¢ ere engaged in ! ’ NEW HAVEN RAILROAD. MEN WANTED 3 : i it t L