Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 12, 1922, Page 4

VORWICH BULLETIN and Courier ) ticn price 13c & weski S0e & meath; §8.09 . e Conn, ® R B, T ot ek Toleptone Catla Bulin Busines Omcn e, Bt S Becm. 153, Churgh St Teiephone Milimeate Offics. 3 o —————————————rr Norwich, Saturday, Aug. 12, 1922 s © WEmBER OF THE ASEICIATER PRE. CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING AUG. 5th, 1922 [ 11,723 BEPUBLICAN AOCOMPLISHMENTS, A review of some of the outstanding achievements of the republican adminis- tration in the first sixteen months since it has had charge of the government brings to light noteworthy accomplish- ments in which there is satisfaction for those whose votes put the republican party Into power, while the benefits that will accrue to the nation at large will be felt by those who endeavored to keep the democrats In office. Since 1913 when the democratic administration had been in charge of the government there had been an increase in the national debt of 2,300 per cent, sending it to $23,000,000,000 with a billion in annual Interest charges. Under the republican wdministration the public debt has been Becreased by $700,000,000 and a large saving In interest has ‘been effected by refunding methods. Foreign loans whounting to $11,000,000,000, which were I a habpy state as to how and when they were to be paid, are to be placed apon a safe and certain basis by a re- tunding commission which will arrange t method whereby the principal is to be taken care of and the interest paid. Under the republican> administration the government expenses have been put apon a budget system which has accom- plished immense savings. The previous republican congress had tried to insti- ute the budget system, but the budget law which it passed was vetoed by President Wilson. How the budget sys- lem has operated, when rigidly applied by the executive officers of the republi- tan administration is shown in the re- duction of about $1,600,000,000 for the current year to June 30th in the routine expenditures of the government. The sost of running the government in the ast year of the Wilson administration was $5,538,040,689. In the first year » the Harding administration the cost will not exceed $3,922,372,030. Bringing direct relief to the people from the burden of taxes has been the *nactment of a revenue law which de- treases taxes by $818.000,000 this year and provides for a reduction equally as great in the calendar year of 1923. At the same time the holdings of govern- ment securities in the hands of the peo- ple have been increased in vaiue $3.- 000,000,000 since Liberty bonds have been brought to par or better where they were gelling at 85 when the demo- sratic administration passed out. The revival of agriculture has been brought about by extending the powers of the war finance corporation to give wgriculture a billion dollar fund upon which to draw for credits. The revival of all industry depended first upon the revival of agriculture which represents 40 per cent of the buying power of the country. Today that industry has been put back upon its feet and after the harvesting and sale of this year's crops It will again resume its proper place in America’s commercial and industrial {fe. Where there were 5,000,000 wage tarners in idleness when the republican wdministration came into power, the pol- ‘cles of the administration which have resulted in a revival of business and commerce, have caused unemployment to cease to be a factor outside of the industries In which there are strikes, Keeping aloof from the war-breed- ing jealousies and politics of Europe, the administration has at the same time shown its earnest desire to promote the tause of peace by calling the Washing- ton econference, which resulted in the agreement to limit naval armaments and to substitute international arbitra- tion for war. This relieves the people from the burden of taxes for naval arm- ament and guarantees to business and commerce the prospect of long years for peaceful expansion and prosperity. HIDES ON FREE LIST. New England may be grateful to Sen- ator Lodge that he led the opposition to & duty on hides. If he had been equally mindful of his constituents in the mat- ter of wool they would have double cause for gratitude. By tradition and by practice In American tariff making hides have been on the free list for years. There has been no change in conditions which would justify any change in that practice. This country loes not now and never has produced dides enough for the shoe manufactur- trs and the other industries that use leather, so that large imports of hides wre always Indispensable. In working for a duty on hides, the “farm bloc” séems to have pursued a very short- sighted policy. Where the farmer might receive a dime more for hides he would pay dollars more for shoes. The ave- rage farmer does not sell a hide a year except on the hoof, but he and all his tamily but many pairs of shoes. To levy a high protective tariff for the benefit of cattlemen and beef packers who never can produce hides enough to meet the nation's requirement would be a flagrant abuse of the theory of pro- tection. Only a few of us own packing plants and slaughter houses, but we all wear shoes. Placing hides on the free list where they have always belonged may hurt the packers and slaughter house owners and a few farmers, but it will save millions on the American shee bilL ————— THE RAID IN SUGAR. When the senate laid a duty of $2.30 per hundred pounds on world sugar and $1.84 on Cuban sugar ,it imposed the heaviest duty there has been on this sta- sle commodity since the days of Grant. Che Payne-Aldrich tarif imposed a Wity of § per hundred on world | sugars and $1.35 on the Cuban product. The Underwood tariff rate was $1.25 against the world and $1 against Cuba. Under the Fordney emergency law of 1921 the full duty was set at $2 and the Cuban rate lifted to $1.60. The Ford- ney schedules were incorporated in the McCumber-Fordney bill and sent to the senate floor by the senate finance com- mittee. As they stood they made the rate about 60 per cent higher than the Underwood tariff and some 20 per cent higher than the frankly and drastically protective rates of Payne. Even this was not enough for the sugar senators. They tacked thirty cents more per 100 pounds on the world rate and twenty- four cents more on Cuban sugar. America, with all Its continental pos- sessions, does not raise half the sugar which it uses. Cuba has sent us an- nually 2 half million more tons than all we grow. On the major part of the su- gar used here we must now pay these drastically increased duties. The steady tendency of the domestic supply will be to rise to the price of imported sugar. That s ome of the effects of tariffs. That will mean millions of dollars from the pockets of American consumers for the benefit of the sugar planters of Loui- siana and the sugar-beet growers of the west and north. The effect of the Mc- Cumber tariff with its Smoot amend- ment will be to lift the price. By the time this $2.30 reaches the consumer it may be pyramided to as much as $5 per 100 pounds. It, will hit the confection- ery and other industries, but its heav- fest blow will fall upon the tables of America. Senator Reed Smoot may have done a fine thing for the sugar-beet men and the sugar-cane planters and for the Utah-Idaho syndicate, but he has har- pooned the American pocketbook, laid an indefensible tax on the American ta- ble. ASSISTING EMIGRATION. Although the British government has been urged for some years to reduce ex- penditures in ewery direction. and to abandon all schemes which, however de- sirable in themselves or from the im- perial point of view, place new burdens upon the taxpaver, the colonial office re- cently negotiated a remarkable agree- ment with the Australian government. In the words of the British lord chan- cellor, it “may one day be accounted his- torical.” The agreement provides for assisted emigration on a large scale and under efficient dual control. Canada and oth- er British colonies are to be accorded the same benefits that Australia and New 2Zealand will receive under the plan in question. Great Britain under- takes to pay about $15,000,000 annually, for a period of fifteen years, into a fund that fs to be devoted to the en- couragement of emigration from the overpopulated mother country to the overseas dominions that are crying for the right kind of settlers. There is no thought of shipping people carelessly or promiscuously to the colo- nies. Applicants will be examined by officlals of the particular colony to which they may wish to go. and only those who are fit to live and work in “pioneer style”” to take up land and build homes and communities for them- selves, will be given pecuniary aid. The only exception to this rule, it seems, will be made in favor of wage-workers or servants who are able to furnish defi- nite promises or contracts of employ- ment, A notable feature of the plan is its partially contributory character. Any intending setler whose application has been duly approved will receive two- thirds of the cost of emigration and ac- quisition of a farm, but only one-half of this amount will be treated as a gift. The other half is to be deemed a loan made by the empire. < The prospect is that under this plan not less than $450,000,000 will be ex- pended in the next fifteen years on what has been called in London “the great trek” from the tight little island to the vast overseas dominions of the British empire, —_— EDITORIAL NOTES. Experience brings hard knocks often- times but they are all valuable, The man on the corner says: Screen favorites seem to make poor matrimon- ial partners. Oklahcmans put their stazap of aj val on Alice Roberstson as a congress- woman by renominating her. Somebody has said that what we need is not more interest for qur money but more interest in our dally work. Postal statistics show that of all peo- ple in the world the Americans are most disposed to say it with letters, Astronomers announce that the Big| Dipper is going to pieces. Even the! Milky Way is not free from its trou- bles. It Grover Cleveland Bergdoll has be- come a citizen of Switzerland he has found a country that will suit him. The Swiss never declare war. M. Tardieu makes a shrewd guess when he says he does not expect a com- plete settlement of European problems by the London conference. The tariff bill, if we can believe Sen- ator Lodge, is the senate’s best work. When the senate does its best the peo- ple can prepare for the worst. When a man spends a good part of| Sunday patching tubes and fixing tire trouble he feels as if he deserved the| ride he is able to take by evening. The formation of a five-day lunch club in New York proves that the ave- rage New Yorker can’t stand the city for more than five days at a stretch. Pittshurgh doctors have condemned handshaking as less sanitary than kiss- ing or “nose rubbing.” What millions of people have toyed with danger with- out knowing it. After remaining stationary at a value of 4,000,000 to the dollar, the Russian ruble has become worth so much more that a dollar is now the equivalent of about 3,999,000, It is apparently the vacation season for criminals as well as for other peo- ple. Commitments to Sing Sing prison numbered 70 during July as compared with 175 during June. An automobile manufacturer says that 85 per cent of the American people can drive a car. Maybe so. but not every one who can sit at a steering wheel can be credited with ability to drive. The most interesting feature of that phantom booze pirate that is infesting the Atlantic outside the twelve-mile limit is her “noiseless gasoline motors.” If some automobile manufacturer wouid adopt that kind he would make a great hit with the lovers of peace and quiet. THE MAN WHO TALKS The problems of the age are calling loudly for competent léadership, and where shall we look for this if not to our colleges? Certainly not' to the farm of the workshop that do not speciall: in conomics. We cannot expect to find the required leadership in the business office for the same reason. Those who are en- gaged in producing tangible commodities cannot expect to be leaders of thought. We cannot look to the ministry for pre- cisely the same reason; the mini spe- cializes in moral leadership, ‘can hardly be expected to furnish leadership in questions of sociology and economics. But the colleges have teachers who are supposed to be fully acquainted with all the burning questions of the day; men who have studied deeply into these questions which they have made their life work. There is too strong a ten- dency to heed the ravings of the soapbox agitator rather than the man of learning whose mind is not poisoned against so- ciety. And yet these men have their followers which imperils society. Is the presence of Japamese on our Pacific coast a soclal and economic menace to that region and to the coun- try at large? Doubtless the attitude of California, to say the least, is not feiendly to their presence in any oconsid- erable numbers. But history shows that it is difficult to standardize our opinions in relation to the effect of any foreigners among us. Years ago California was up in arms against the presence of the Chij- nese. Very harsh things were said about them, and still harsher things were done against them. But this has long since blown over, and they are no longer considered as constituting “the yellow peril.” But the more intellectual Jap- anese are now regarded as a real menace. Probably no one would advecate unre- stricted immigration of any Oriental labor to California, but men of ability and character ought not to be denied admission because their skin chances to be yellow rather than white. The ques- tion ought to be decided by what lies under the skin. One can hardly help smiling at the strange arguments that are sometimes used in support of preconcejved opinions. If we earnestly desire a thing to be true, we will move heaven and earth for ar® guments in its favor. That is. certain types of temperament regard their ideas as identica] with absolute truth. If a man rides a hobby he is sure to make himself ridiculous by the arguments he uses in defense. A gdod deacon once strenuously objected to ministers taking a vacation on the ground that “the devil never does.” This deacon was perfectly consistent in that he never took a vaca- tion himself, but when he attempted to apply it to his pastor the consistency shifted base considerably, for the pastor replied that “he didn’t take his cue from the devil in anything; that he was taught to shun the devil in everything.” It is quite easy to show the absurdity of the deacon’s argument; if the devil never goes on a vacation, then he must always stay at home, and if that is so, he cer- tainly cannot be the old orthodox chap that “goes about seeking whom he may devour.” The devil, however, is too fruitful a subject to receive full justice in a single paragraph like the above. Human con- ceptions of his satanic majesty are col- ored by the prevailing ideas of the differ- ent ages. In the heroic ages of the past it was perfectly natural to picture the devil as all powerful; a being that was strong and fierce, that went about “like a lion seeking whom he might devour.” Such an absurdity was once as thorough- ly believed as that the surface of the earth was flat, simply a plane surface. Later that view was modified so far as almost to create a new person out of the original devil. , This newer idea makes him a sly, quiet, ingratiating person who does his deadly work through magnetic attraction; the lion has me:ged into a compound of rattlesnake and fox. He is no longer a beast armed with hoofs and horns, but a person clothed in a dress suit and possessed of elegant manners. As human society became more polished and refined it was found necessary to create a devil that corresponded. What the next move in devil-making will be is a problem at present. There ought to be somewhere on the coast of Connecticut a seaside resort held in perpetuity for excursions, some place where Sunday schools might go adapted for nicnic purposes. such aw ball games, various races, climbakes and fish chowder. There seems to be no longer any such place within the limits of our state. Once there were Mysti¢c Island, Fisher's Island. Watch Hill and other places that welcomed the excursionist. But these are no longer accessible, as private ownership has shut out the pop- ular excursion. The only place within reasonable distance now _ avallable is Ocean Beach, but picnic conditions there have become intolerable. All one can do is to sit in the pavilion and watch the menagerie. If there is anything at Ocean Beach worse than the beach it is the condition of the back yards that surely are inviting the cholera. One is not quite able to figure it out just why we associate “yellow” with sl ness, artfuln meannesz and down trickery, while other colors, such as blue and red, stand for nobler traits. Possibly the solution is to be found in the field of nature. When vegetable growths fail to function properly they first turn vellow. That is the first inti- mation we have that something is wrong. If a grub gets into the squash root the vine and leaves turn vellow. If an in- sect atings your cucumber vines you de- tect it by the yellow appearance. If the nights are too cold carn turze yellow. If the garden as a whole turns yelfow, you know that the whole blooming business is degenerating. When human beings are sick the skin takes én an unnatural yel- lowish tinge. Perhaps Californians would explain thie use of the word yellow from the color of the Japanese whom they do not love overmuch, or from the Chinese whom they have forgotten that they once hated. The real “yellow veril” is in the things for which we make the word stand. Would it be an act of injustice on the part of the United States government if a federal law were passed prohibiting immigration to this country for a period of ten vears? The advisability of such an act is being seriously considered by congress. We are all ready to admit that the state has a right to protect itself. Slavery was abolished because it threat- ened to disrunt the Union. Peohibition was written into the constitution mainly because the liquor traffic had grown to be a menace to public safety. Is there not good reason for believing that jmmi- gration under existing conditions will weaken rather than strengthen our de- mocracy? The war has made havoc all along the line »in Eucropean countries. Doubtless most foreigners feel that they can better their condition In the United States. But if we have reasons for be- lieving that their presence here will in- jure us during this period of social un- rest, have we not the moral right to pro- tect ourselves? Is an individual called upon to crowd his home with strangers if. by so doing, it will make his own family suffer? The time has come when some action must be taken to protect the general public from the effect of strikes. The public must speak in the matter, and in tones so positive that strikers will “sit up and take notice.” If striking, how- ever, is only a personal matter between the employer and themselves, the public has no cause to inerfere. But if a strike cripples the production of a concern that deals in the necessities of life, which will produce suffering if long continued, then s a right to rise up in wrath you shall not make us suffer.” There ought to be a federal law passed declaring all strikes criminal that tend to vroduce suffering among the peo- ple at larze. 2. A co-operative court of inquiry should be established in each state composed of the governors and the 9 i with | V' the W§At is the significance of ment Ia China w,hlz':x news dispatches have for some months been indicating as, or confusing with, a movement, directed against Christianity and against Western ideals and influ- ences ? The recent return from the Fa East of Dr. John R. Mott, Gen Secretary of the International Com- mittee, YMCA, has given opportunity for enlightenment onthis subject from one whose experiences and relation- ships in the Orient give unusual val- ue to his observations. It was Dr. Mott’s fifth journey in the Far East, not counting the one which took him as member of the Root Commission twice across Siberia. He regards this last as the most timely and in pos- sibilities the most fruitful, basing his feell in part on the opportunity opene: up by the present ‘new though” movement in China, the term used not as applied in America to a cult but as indicating an intellectual manifestation. The spirit of new thought, Dr. Mott points out, is surging in .the brains of professors and students in China. There is a welter of conflicting ideas and ideals occupying them, a spirit inquiry, a desire to revalue everything There is no tradition or social sanc- tion or practice, past or present, which is too sacred or binding for them to question or discard if they cannot prove its personal and social effi- ciency. In intensity and possibilities there has been nothing comparable to this movement, in Dr. Mott's opinion, since the Renaissance in Europe, which is transcended by the other in the number of people involved and in the variety of interests touched and ex- hibited. In the way of mental awaken- ing, hunger, courage and serious pur- pose it is, he says, the most interest- ing and quickening development he has ever observed. Dr. Mott on his visit to China in 1896, found the so-called scholars im- pervious and unwilling to hear or di cuss. Now there is not only an active spirit of inquiry but a determination to use any methods to get at truth. There is a social passion as well as an intellectual hunger in this awak- ening. It-makes possible almost any- thing from the point of view of a cause which knows its purpose and goal and is sure of its message. The situation presents a colossal problem to Chris- tian missionaries and to the Chinese Church, but also presents the great- est’ opportunity these are likely to have in our day. On his recent visit Dr. Mott found avenues being readily opened up for Christian representatives to meet the people collectively and individually. The government provided great halls for the conferences; in some cases special pavilions were erected. The President of China sent for Dr. Mott who states that Within a few minutes they were in close discussion over the very heart of the Christian Gos- pel. The ex-President was equally re- sponsive. Opportunities for meeting mayors of the seviql citles. of which the governor shall be the presiding officer. Their duties shall be to decide the merits of every strike within their jurisdiction. In this way the public would e pro- tected. SUNDAY MORNING TALK Worldliness In the Church. Worldliness in the church, or the church in the world. These two ideas are confused in many minds, resulting in two mistaken forms of religlous life. On the one side are those who imagine that to be in the world, even though working for Christ and avoiding contamination from the sins of the world, is to be world- ly, and hence we have ascentrics, her- mits and monkish recluses, who with- draw as much as possible from all con- tact with men, trying to devote them- selves to personal purity, and living lives of religious selfishness, and for the mosc part uselessness to the world. The opposite class are possessed by the thought that to win the world we must join with it in all its pleasures and frivolities. So far from making a divid-- ing line between themselves and the world, they seem to think that the secret of success is to wipe out so much as pos- sible any mark of distinction between them. The church is not to win the world by a heroic call to duty and self- sacrifice but it is to coax amd wheedle it by various attractions. It is to be- come a rival of the world on the en- tertainment line, and success by hols ing out better inducements to the pleas- ure seeking soul. We all know the re- sults of such a policy. Instead of the Christian winning the world. the world has seduced the Christian. He has fear- ed to frighten the soul which he sought to win by the seeming vigor and auster- ity of the Christian life, he has sought to show that there is really just as much gaiety in the one life as in the other, and the end has been that going into the world he has become of it, and the life which he is presenting is not Christianity but wortdliness. Christ avoided both of these mistakes. He did not shun the world, but mingled freely its life. He was accused by the ascetics of his day of being a glutten, and a drunkard, because he did not practice their fasts and penances and set at table with the hated tax gatherérs and with sinners. He'was much among the “lower classes.” He came in con- tact with social outcasts. Yet never by word or act did he ever candone or excuse much less adopt any of their questionable customs. His life among them was one of stainless purity. Tt was impossible for the aue-stricken mul- titude not to see that while going free- ly among them, he was yet separated from them by the immeasurable distance which divides the evil from the divinely pure and good. He did not seek to win them by setting them a low and easy standard of living, but by setting so high and Aifficult a mark of duty that men should strive after it for centuries with- out reaching it. Yet should gradually rise toward it and keep their gaze fixed upon that noble goal. Many turned away and walked no more with him when they learned the king of kingdom which he preached; but he did not on that account lower his high ideal. The rich young man turned away sor- rowful, but he did not go after him and try to ease his conscience, as so many with perverted consclence are soother today. Christ's prayer for his disciples we should echo for ourselves. Not that we should be kept apart from the world, but that we should be kept from evil. That the church should be in the world, permeating with the divinely given truths every class and condition of men, too often it falls into the mistake. It with- draws itself from men among whom it ought to be daily walking and talking. It suffers worldly motives to corrupt the pure springs of action. It should ad- vance to take the world for Christ when the hosts of evil are strongest and most active; but it should fight only with its divinely-given weapon and should clothe itself only in the armor of righteous- ness. “Let your lght so shine before men, that they may see vour good works, and glorify your ¥ather which is in heaven, Matt. 5, 15.” pess Sweeten Stomach N, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, iszz 'CHINA AWAKE TO SEARCH OUT TRUTH. _ c&g:utbr. extent and|with military governors and cabinet that present move- members were frequent and at no time was he repulsed when he turned fhe conversation to the Christian religion. Dr. Mott found the same welcome in Japan. both in pubiic and private. He was invited to an audience with the Empress—the first Christian lay- man thus honored—and also had a persqgnal meeting with the Prince Re- gent. He found both interested in dis- cussing Christian principles. As" for the “anti-Christian move- ‘ment,” which Dr. Mott regards as ex- aggerated \in news reports, he believes it accentuated the timeliness of the world unfon of Chuisilan stitlents represented in the conference at Pe- king of the World’s Student Chris- tian Federation; also of the National Christian Conference at Shanghal. Of the student conference Dr. Mott says that in his judgment no gath- ering has done more’ to knit togeth- er the leaders of tomorrow in the East and West. The 550 delegates came from 32 countries, but it was pre-eminent- Iy an Asiatic gathering. ‘The National' Christian Conference had about 1,200 delegates, nearly hal? Chinese. Dr. Mott says that the the impressive thing was the character of the Chinese leadership in the dis- cussions and the conduct of the con- ference. It is considered that the Chi- nese Christian Church is now a re- ality. Famous Literary Mystefies VILLON, THE “GUTTER GENIUS.” Who was Francis Villon? That is the name by which the great French “genius of the gutter” is kmown to literature. Tt is a name he adopted for more reasons than one, and was one he used as a writer. He had many others that he appropriated at various periods of his life, for he was of such a villainous character that he was al- most constantly in trouble, and assumed one name after the other to throw the authorities off the track. The real name of the man who won great fame as a poet in the fifteenth century has never been ascertained. It is said that he assumed the name Francis Villon because his friend and benefactor was named Guillsume 1 e. Villon. It was Guillsume who voox the young renegade into his home and tried to reform him, recognizing his wonderful genius. About all that is known of his early life was that he was born in Paris of poor parents, His boyhood days were spent in the low taverns of the city, among the riff-raff of the under- world. In spite of the marvelous gen- fus that he exhibited in very eariy life he seemed to be most at home among the sordid criminals, where he exhibited as much iniquity as they did. He fought, stole, caroused and killed with ruffians, and he would then turn around and write such wonderfully beautifully and musical poems that even ‘his besotted comrades IMved them. The first murder that was laid at his door was that of a priest, whom he stabbed to death in the streets of Paris while returning from a drunken revel. Through wealthy friends who were admirers of his genius he secured a pardon. Hardly had he emerged from his hiding place when. he became embroiled in a fight in a cheap tavern of Paris, and was so badly used up that he fled from the city out of dis- grace at his appearancs, Then he became a student at the College of Navarre. It is supposed that his obiect was more for the pur- pose of robbery tnan for the ing of further education. Only a time after chis arrival the t chest of the college chapel was broken open. A band of student-thieves were arrested and ome ‘of them gave evi- dence that the ringleader was Villon, and that he was planning further rob- beri Villon was put to trial and then sen- tenced to he hanged. As ha lay in prison waitinz execution he . wrote one of his greatest poems. a £rim. wonder. ful bit of verse entitled Hanged.” Again his friends secured his release. Finally he was caught robbing a church and was imprisoned allade of the of Louis XI. TFree once more, his wild spirit of mdventure seemed to desert him, and he wrote the “Grand Testa- ment.” the work which has immortali- zed him. He was thirty years old at this time. . Here the next mystery of his life begins. What became of him? In the autumn of 1462 he is found, hroken in health and spirits, in the clois- ters of Saint-Senoit. His dissipation it would anpear, had undermined his health. and it Is said that he died there of consumpfion In 1463. Certain historians doubt this fact, and believed that he lived a number of years there- after, but 1f such be the case nnthing definite was heard of him after 1463 The obscurity. unhappiness and the evil repute of Villon's life would nor be in themscives a reason for the minnte investigat to which the events of that lifs have been subject ed. dut his peencal work is of euch extraordinary auality, and marks such an epock In the history of European | literature. “that he has been at all times an interesting figure. Today’s Birthdays Pauline Frederick, and motion picture star, ton. 38 years ago today Benjamin - Tinkham slarshall dent of the (Connecthut Collaz Women, born in Boston, 50 years 1008Y. .. i o Mary Raoberts ehart, distingu author and playwright, born in Pitts- burgh, 46 years ago today. Willlam W. 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Tappan was elected president of the University of Michigan. 1876—Benjamin Disraell, Britieh pre- mier, was created Earl of BeacoOns- field. :391—James Russell Lowell, the fameus poet, died at Cambridge, Mas: Born there, Feb. 22, 1819. 1834—A number of populist leaders were arrested in Indimnapolis for Wold- ing a political meeting on the Sabbath. 1897—A federal injunction was granted in Pittsburgh restraining striking miners from assembling or marching. 1919—The Prin¢e of Wales arrived at St. John's, Newfoundlapd. 1920—Charles Ponzi, the Boston “Snan- cial wizard.” was arrested on charges of larcency and unlawful use of the malls. IN THE PUBLIC EYE Sixty years old today is Julius Ros- enwald, the Chicago merchant and phil- anthropist, whose gifts aré many and are confined to no special race, creed or sec- tion. Mr. Rosénwald ts a native of Springfield, 111, and had a period of bus- iness training in New York city before he settled in Chicago, to become first a maker of clothing, and later the ad- ministrator and one of the main owners of a huge mail order business. In re- cent vears he has been prominent In ad- minjstering local. state and national Jew- ish charities. He has made gifts of near- Iy a million dollars for the uplift of the negro and has served on the board o trustees of Tugkegee Institute. Soclal settlements, civic welfare league, city planning entérprises and many kindred organizations and movements havé also received sympathy and generpus financial ajd from him. During the World war he served on the advisory committee of the Tnited States Counell of National Defense. Stories That Recall Others Freedom. Propaganda is a new word that has lately been mastered by eleven-year-old Mary Ellen Sparks. She manages to use it once or twice every day. Last night after supper Mary Ellen was starting for the picture show when her mother said she must stay at home and wash the dishes. May =aid to herself in a scorn- ful undertone: “All this talk about but propaganda.” Drawing Comelusions. Tn the early sixties, the west immedi- ately on the other gide of the Mississip- America being a free country is nothing pl river was sparsely settled. A traveler in this country met few persons in the course of a day's journey, and so, as a rule welcomed the appearance of a stranger, especiaily if the stranger was a congenial traveling companion. These were times, too, when Mr. Volstead would have been unpopular, when every hardy ploneer kept twists of home-grown long green in his jeans and a flask of unadulterated “red likker” about his per- son. It was in such a day that a ploneer circuit rider was making his way cross country on a mew circuit. Encouraging a pative, traveling in the same direc- tion seemed pleased to welcome a com- panion and at once offered hospitality in the form of 2 flask. On the min ter's refusal to imbibe the spirits, “chaw” tered. This aiso was politely declined, whereat the native turned on him ab- ly and asked an astonishing ques- s from an ample twist was of- Puzzled at this question. the replied that he did not eat hay. “Then ve're not fit companion. for mas nor beast,” the native declared, and parsor Norwalk.—The Commecticut Denatured Products corporation of Norwalk was in- corporated ihis week to deal in “com- modities of every k®d and nature.” The capital sfock is $15,000. The incorpora- tors are Samuel A. Purdy, Joseph G. Hyatt and R. B. Canfleld. COULD HARDLY STAND AT TIMES Hips, Backand would Have That Tired Ache —‘“For sew Are you interested in the Sal- vation Army ? Do you want io help in its task Sincerely, Capt. & Mrs. Chas. 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