Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 26, 1922, Page 4

PG SNk e Mot i v oo Brivted eww dag In O Jesr gt Swnier, :’!—”mmtmnawsn . » Teimhone ol -1 CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING DEC, Zrd, 1922 . 11,950 Ee—— SEFTLING EUROPE'S JLLS. Not ezagtly what misht be called a warm reception has beem ziven to the propesition advamced by Senator Barah in which he would have President Hard- ing call an acoromic: and disaremament conference at Washington for tho pur- pose of adjusting the troubles in Eu- rope, N It is another ome of those instances where it becomes ovident that Semator Borsh hadn’t even ‘gutten the approval of those who might be expected to stand with him. This is revealed by the omposition by Senator Johmson whose views usually jibe with thosa of the Idaho senstor like two peas in a pod. o Senator Johnson hits the idea a solar plexus when he declares “au economic pariey of necessity must conmsider not only present econditions in Hurope but the debts.due ys and, of course, the ren- arations die from Germany” and “If we bring the nations of the earth here to ‘Washington for such™ a conference w® will dump into America’s lap the econ- emie ills of Burope and the reparations muddle,” * ; Poasbly we might te willing to set such & discussion going but there are conpequences that should de realimed. The seénator from California peints to them when he says we cannet enteér in- to agreements for the selution of thase ecenomic ills without beceming invelved pelitically and being obliged to apsist in oarrying out the terms, and thus a¥andon the traditional policy of Amer- fea, 4 The dbjection by Senator Johnsen is in keeping with other sane objections. The idea advanced by Semator Berah of heiping Europe solve its ills “and then wot out” iy easily sald but would not be 80 ‘eanily accomplished. Having alded in the agreements that would prepeds sny splution we would“he expected to %id in enforeing them. FHow eould we -refuse under the ucircumstances? We have kept out of European tangles to our great satisfaction in the past and we will do well to adhero to that policy In the futyre, —— COURYS, AIDING SAFRTY, In these days when many arrests are being made for violation of trafMo regu- lations and wany eocidents are hap- nening® becauge of a disregard for the laws, more or less attention is de- voted by states to the good results that are’ being ebtained in ether common- wealths: from the laws .that have bécn enacted and the methods by which they are enforced. , Likewise thers is more or less atten- tion deing given to the manner in which certain judges are dealing with the violators brought before them, Hav- Ihg found that leniency is only inter- preted as encouragement to disregard the law unless a mpoliceman happens to be in sight, many judges have besn brought' to the realization, through the many chses brought before them, that the bench must play its part if thera is to be dbtained that respect for tha cotablished regulations that s expested And needed. They recognize that it time to let it be understood, as far. ne they can, that the law ‘means some- thing, . That is the view a Detroit fudge takes and he doesnt allow . any ioopRales, - When speeders are brought before him tnd convictéd he promptly turns them over for a sanity test. Invarjably they wre found to be sane. - That being the 250 ha prooeeds to impose the limiit cf tho sentence; but in case they are found to be mentally defective they are tommitted to the proper institution for iregtment, There are not: a few’ instances, how- ver, where it {p disclosed that. 'drivers 2 cars are lmited in thetr abllity -to resd, and therefore find it diffloult to lo be ahle e signs,” 3 when th i §EE ‘befare 'this time. Cobl for the morth- west and grain from the merthwest are h;l:dled in great quantities by lake vcs- sels. Just what the open season has meant to sush trausportation is' indieated by the fast that nine great grain freight-|ETeat ers-haye just made their way thromgh the lakes to Buffalo and the ‘wWatkats, braving the ice and storms,.weeks after. the pavigation season ordimarily closes and making available to the trade and eonverting into cash grain to the value of $28,000,000, ‘Whatever the risks wepe. thoss:.on- gaged in the trensportation busimess were wilting to take them, but regerd- less of the lack of rall transpertatiea, the eagerness of the farmers to got »id of their grain or the cemsmmers to get it, speh water tranmportation weuld net have been mbh but for the faect that we have e¥periencing mild wea- ther, The weatherman has thus been dealing kindly with us, and the lake transportation lines have showm no dis- position to disvegard it. | ———— LIFTING BAN ON ARBRUCKLE, " In the omse of Arbuckle there is and it is supposed has bean semelung mers than the reform of Arbuckly. Following the disgracefal discloures that resuNted from the trial in California it was evi- cledning uwp of the movies. may have been only ope but it was an important faetor bringing those n the motion picture business to a reali- zation of the fact thay something mwst be done, that & gtop must be put to the harm that was Deing raflected upon the industry and that thefe was safficient reason for a hGusecleaning thet would restore confidence. In view of such facts it is the most natural thing in the world that there should be resentment displayed tnrougi- out the country over the decision that permits Arbuckle to return te the pic- ture business, and the endorvemont wiven to those produeers who are wilt- ing te put forth his Bietures, There can be no disposition to say that Arbuckle. cannot work, or that lie ought to be prevented from working since cveryone is suppesed te have a|&Pecch chance to earn his living, but it isn'y & question ¢f Amduckle's werking but of maintaining the housecleaming effort that was so well performed It isn't going to he posafble to en- dorse the return of Arbuckle to the pic- tures, as has been dofie by WiN Hays, as high eensor of the movies in the em- ploy of the motion picture induatry, without that seme resentment being dis- played by the public that weuld have WASHINGTON AFFAIRS (Speeial to The Bulletin.) ‘Washington, Dec. 25.—Whether or net congress shall be called in extra ses- sion in the spring may net,seem’ of importance to the folks at home, but to those behind the scenes it is one of the questions of the day which point to comservative or radical control of that body in the next two years. The in- coming of the 63th congress will mark an influx of radieal representation of a number of statés; if pending legisla- tion can be deferped till after the 4th of Mareh, when the 67th congress aute- matigally ends, new bills must be in- troduced to cover the pending measures, less previously passed or finally rejected, béfore the stroke, of 12 noon on March 4th of every second year. And the radi- cal element of both senate and house are determined to defsat pending legislation and put before the next congress bills that are framed according to their own views. Its a tug of war between the two of political affilig- for glthough the demoerats are less outspoken, when .viewing the sity- ation from am experienced and mere con- servative standpoint, there are many of them who are in close sympathy with the leaders of the party in power. ‘Whether or not they will cast their votes tewards bringing about a quick settle- ment of the existing controversy, is quite anpther question, Only the roll calls will tell, The shipping hill and the farm bloe measures are the main stum- bling blocks, byt there are numerouns “long-winded" gentiemen on both sides of the main aisle who can turn on the taps that lets loose a foed of filibus- ter, at a moment's netice and on any tepie. = The radieals in the semate rather ever- reached last week, when they pregged the Nerris resolution to the breaking point. They took such long strides that their democratic friends dropped by the way-side and st this moment it looks as though they had lost the support they had so confidently expeeted, Five or six democrats refused to swallow the state eocialism- embodied in the Nor- ris agrieultural bill and seemed to pre- fer the shipping bill, which they do not endorge, to the bill sybmitted in its latest form, by Senator Norris and his adherents as the ground on which they should conduot a fillibuater. It was the ies made on the bill, rather than the bill itself that thrned its demoeratie supporters against The pill too bitter for them to swallow. This was owing to the maiden speech of hart of Jowa, whose talk ghout “the yel- lew flag flying over Wall street above the stars and stripes was not to the taste of many of the semators, who up to that moment had been inclined to let the Norris bill fight its own battles or per- haps support it. The Brookhhart gpesch vored of the old days when Sack- ess Jerry Simpson sounded.the notes of popularis; been felt a fow months age, It is' going| Pop to revive the whole story Wwhich onght to be forgettem ang with whieh the mo- tion picture bukiness ought not to eom- ll:er that it could afford te pe eommect- ed, It is impossible to loock wupon the Hays decision as anything else than a mistake, gnd from the wWanner in which it is deing regcevad througheut the coun- try the impression is gained that thai is the way public opinion looks upen :t. It is a move that will net imeresse the rvonfidenca in the pian of clegning up ‘the movies. ' B — WEAK CONGEBSSIONAY TIMBES. ‘Whateyer the efferta may be in be- half of these pecple who seek fto enter this country agaimst the prevalling im- migration laws, there can be no wym- pathy for thejh when they yndertaks to have these laws wiiked at waea the ad- mission of o persens s sopgat. It is oo well known what this ceuntry has Deen ohlized to suffer threugh the failure to give proper atiemtien to such matters in the past, And this applies to poth mental and physical eeses, A newly elected comgressman In" the eass of a 20-year-old girl. A mother, with her children, of ‘whom the girl {a one, haa eame teo this country to join sher husband, who isn't the father of the childrew. The case was taken Dp with the immigretion aid scclety representing the pesple from thi country. whenee they came and it was decided to admit all ekeept fhe 30-year- old girl. 'That alie would have been wi- mitted but for the fact that she was suffering f1oM & loathsoms, comfagious dlnease of yes, stems probable, dut under the efreumstances 1t was agreed by the aid sotiety and the immigration authorities that she should de retsfned to the country she came frem:. ¢ It was a pretective meve n the in- terést of the public heslth of this ecoun- try and there is nothing but commen- datién to offér under the eltewmatanees it is an instance whete the aathoFifies 6id just wi lndv et for' the purpese of a appearing as a chemplon of the imm!- grants: and attempting to bolster him | self ‘up politically “the, newty elected congresmman proclaimed that he would start & fight on the megretary of the de- partment of laboer as seon as he todk bis seat In cungreas, Possibly such a display of bravedo will appes] to some s is just such that is demanded by hin mu:nu. u:“ any sdch attitude is o e thinking eitlons deplove the fact thet he has been chosen for such & repponstble position, And vet the day after isw't anythi like what it used te be, ing A few days more and it will de essary to De guided by tho hew ealems holls are over but before you are ready for them-'thereN come , the Christmas bills, "Apparently the matter of opposing the seating of Senator Ledge in the §ith has gone over to the next ses- iready and the new protest if one is made, will | pleasure of giving and with no theught hat word given out by the constitution apd know procedure. L The little tin seldier bas seen his best days, if various pesce secieties have their way. “Give your little boys fairy tales to read, not stories of war herods. books that tell of the intoxicatien of vigtopy”’ is th sot forth in a ish minds to admire, “Little Boy Blue” must be banished from shelyes, “Though flxell_kue tey loli‘ier 18 red with dust - from | And the musket moulds in his hands.” Those .marvelous child = poems of ‘Buguene Field must hereafter be forbid- den froit for he tells how & “With big tin trumpet and little red drum Marching ‘ like soldiers the children come.” . Disaem the nursery is the frst step| ™" urged by these ladies, and In this move Mre. Huck, the weman member of con- gress from Illinois is said to be a prime T, movet. 2 Do away with toys decorated in the bright colors of a milltary uniform; or which show glittering arms. Refuse to let your children play witi® toy weapons, let - pretty peaceful plctures take their place when 'you-make gifts to your lit- tle boy. ‘““Phe last straw is added’ to- wards making life drag for those sturdy ‘when the statement ssys, “Do t' let ypur little boys wear clothes t in any way suggest a military uni- That means no more little sail- they were put there for, | THE DOCTOR SLEPT “Hang it all!” growled the young doc- tor whose apartment was on thé second floor over the corner drug store. It was nd the hours of slumber were ve to get up and fix the Outside the win- dows the looge piece of metal left by the werkmen repairing the - building danced and rattled and tapped. There had been times when it stopped long enough- for one to sink three-quarters deep into slumber, enly to be drasged up into wakefulness agal by its perni- cious metivity.™ It was maddening to nerves already rasped and Jarried. Out inte the wintry coolness the irri- tated sufferer swung his feet, fished for slippers and wooly robe, grabbed~ a flash light,_some wire and scissors and emerged upon the fire escape. Crouehing on the extreme edge and hanging over the iron railing, Fe flashed his light about till he had located the losgened plece of metal attached to a drain pipe. It takes an athlete to hang on by his toes white he works a light with one hand and does mechanical tricks with the ether, but college football is good gymnastic gromdwork. By dint of sup- ple muscles and the addition of several entirely new words to the English vo- e — sociation, born in Milwaukee 53 years ago tod William D. Stephens, the retiring gov- erner of California, born at Eaten, 0., 63 yesra ago teday. Forrest F. Dryden, prominent financjer, bern at Bedford, O, 58 years ago today. Carl E. Mapes, rapresentative in con- gress of the Fifth Michigan district, born in Eaton county. Mich., 48 years ago to- day. CHILD TRAINING B Shall There Ho a Santa Clams? By Bertha Hayward Higgins. “Mother,” spid my ten-year-old boy the other day, “I want to take my King Arthur book te school with me, Is there any way in which I ean erase Santa’s name from the front? You see, some of the boys and girls won't under- stand, they'll think I believe 'n a real man Santa Claus and it's so hard o explain.” It {s true that to most children Sania Claus is a very real tangibw person, and for this reason many mothers be- lieve that even the very little child must be told the truth. 1 have always felt that so much of the joy would be lost from a childhood develd of a Santa Claus that a way should be found whereby the child couid retain his beliéf in Santa Claus while he is at that stage requiring the use of conerete forms, but that he should be skilMully guided te see the symbelisn before he.is rudely disillusioned by his playteliows. . To my little. boy Santa Claus is on2 of the manifestations of Love, the Giver of all good, - He gives to rich and poor, high and low, joyfully, gladly, for the of reward. He gives quietly, modestly, eoming and’ going silently while children sleep. « Christmas is the children's day. The Christmas party is a birth@ay party given in memory of the Christ Child. So, Santa Claus“is the ehildren's saint, the symbol of joyous giving. 1 have used ag the basis of my San- ta Claus story (beth fn .scheol and heme) ' Eugene Field's ‘The Story of Claus,” condensed and simplified. Each year as Harold -has grown and developed I have used less of mythical, more of the symbalical untll he has graduslly come to know {he wider meani of Santa Claus, the spirit o%| giving. He has come to. récognize that ‘4o - give .is more blessed than, to re- osive” -and he himself desires to be o Santa Clays. For the past two years he.’has been allewed to ‘help select and trith the tree, make wreaths for the windows, light the candles, built the fire on the hearth, and finally, dreased as ‘Santa Claus to remove the gifts from the tree and distribute them. This year we plan to g6 oneé step fur- ther and let him do it all, atone, and;| surprise us, Grandms, Daddy and Mo- ther, as we were formerly wont to sur- ige him, I know that my Drothér's children never had go happy a Christmas as the first year they Wwere permitted to do this. Handled in this way children-will never feel that they have been deceived, and, far from shaking their faith in other: things, it helps to make réal other things which are léss easily put. into conirete form. And through it all the child comes to understand and ‘appeeciate the greatest | of all gifts. » . Yet, lot the ‘childrer have their Sa.ntal Claus, but don't lst the Santa Claus myth replace the Chbristmas story, the Stanley Baldwin, who heads the British debt funding mission which starts for the United States today, holds the important post of chancellor.of the exchequer in the present British government. Though ons ST%. | of the younger group of English states- Deaple. - Toexibly it|r | Candidate for Two, fis&iifl men, he has had a femarkably. succeseful cageer since he first bntered -public life scarcely” more than a‘degen years ago. In 3908 he made his.debut in politien as a liament but was defeat- later he was elected for cabulary, the young doctor finally an- chored the shimmying metal. “There!” he snorted triymphantiy— and dropped the scissors. They clinked and rang as they fell. With & shrug he peercd after them and them clambered back into his warm Bbed and thankfyl slumber. ¢ It wab just 2 a. m. when little Mrs, Driller, the wife of the dentist*on the third floor around the gormer, shook her husband awake. rtemus!” she gasped. “Get u went into the bathroom to get the bal drink- L § a nd saw it just as plain as day! I'm telling you! A burglar! He had a flashlight and everything and that fire escape leads up this way- Into the fray sprang Dr. Driller. There were all those expensive teols of his trade which he had just finishéd paying for and considerable treasure in gold, to say nothing of electric apparatus. He hung out of the open window into the gray - darkness of the faintly-lighted street. . Mrs. Driller told him I saw him as plain as day and he was perfectly e-normous:” Being a man of decision, Dr. Driller swooped down upon the phone and stir- red up the police station. “If you hurry,' he promised the yawning sergeant, “you can catch him!” . In the darkness Dr. Driller and his wife sat-shivering and waiting exeitedly. “Anyhow, I've got two hatpins here!” ex- claimed Mrs. Driller heroically. The clang and metalic tinkle of the scissors as they fell from the fingers of the young doctor had 'startied Miss Little, the maiden lady who did home millinery work and suffered from wake- fulness. She -had been reading an ex- citing detective story in bed and the noise fell upon keenly alert ears. Breathing hard, she padded to her win- dow jwst in time to see the bulky shape upon the fire escape turn on the flash fownward and then disappear mysteri- ously in the darkness before her eves grew accustomed to the change of light. With a stified shriek, Migs Little lunged out into the hall and rang vig: orously the bell leading to the distant apartment of Oscar, the janftor. She rang until fear that the burglar by now would appear in that very hall drove her back into her own flat, where she locked the Goors and dragged furniture in fremt of them. Then she, too, called up the police station. “I'm sure it's a band!” ‘she quavered. “I gaw several—I am sure‘of it! Hurry " “Gosh !"” gasped the sergeant, thorough- ly awake by this time. ) Several late passers-by paused when the patrol wagon silently drew up and a number of ‘bluecoats ag silently emerged, guns in hand. “They must be breaking into the fur store!” said one man importantly. “Ev- ery fur store is being entered these days —I shall telephone Korinsky to come right over—he's a nice little man, and it's a shame!” X Oscar, stumbling out gleepily into the main hall, blinked stupidly when’ six po- licemen, grabbing him, demanded the whereabouts of the burglar. “Burglar!” asked Oscar placidly: “What's the trouble?” asked the pho- tographer, opening his door just then In- quiringly, Dgors began opening in all directions and .peeple apgeared in hasty apparel. BeRind her barricade Miss Lit- tle shivered and upstairs the Dcillers sat waiting with the two hatpins. Korinsky arrived at double-guick down below. Voiees ecalled. answered, lights were flashed in all directious. After an hour of excitement, during whieh forty-four persons _had theic night practically ruined, the patrol drove off growling. Just one individual in the ‘building slept on sweetly, relaxed in happy slum- bers, the reflex of knowing he had done a good job. It was the young docter.— Exchange. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Disapproves Arbuckle Decision. Mr. Editor: It was with sore regret to read of “Fatty” Arbuckle's return to-the moving pictures. To my way of thinking his probation should néver have ended. It is lueky fer him that he is not im prison—where he should be. Why is it that he has not been fined or punished in any way for having whiskey apd other intoxicantg conveyed to the ho ‘where the party was held, where the drinks were served that ecaused much of the trouble that otherwise might never. have occarred? Fatty Arbuckle seems to de a priv- ileged vharacter, in the strongest sense of the word. He veceived favors during his trial by women who showid have scorned him; his wife returned to him to stand by his side to cheer him iz his sorrow and affliction after he naa ge- serted her for the companionship of others who better suited his fancy, - Why has he escaped the_ punishment that should be given him fof buying rum? ‘Why has his probation ended so soon? Last, but not least, why has he been brought ‘bpck to the moving pictures again? MRS. F. J. W, Norwich, Dee. gl,\lsil. - Refutes Charges Of British . Journalist 2 the Bewdley dlvision of Worcestershire | and has held ,the soat ever since, From 1917 ‘to 1921 he served as financial sec- of the treasuey, Ha then became president of the Board of Trade, and joined the inner circle of the cabinet. With the recent chango of government he | was seleeted to sticceéd Sir Robert Horne exchequer. Mr, Bald- that he can handle men with a tact hap- pily blended of shrewd humter and sound common sense. 2 t, bora in Pl in New York city Sept, I3, 189 - acknowledged the of ’ 1337—Morgan - G, hmmmor of - Connectict, U, senator, and [ | _ AFTER CHRISTMAS Visitors to the store today . will find many special values throughout the - store. Hoiiday' ‘Goods Strictly Holiday Goods will be marked at ridiculously low prices for quick clearance. Ev special tables and ing on price-ticketed. Jewelry--Books Books for Boys—Books for Girls— Books for Adults—Calendars, etc. —all at special prices. Handkerchiefs Hundreds of Handkerchiefs slight- ly mussed in the holiday rush, are now on sale at special prices. No better time than now to lay in a sup- ply of these useful articles. THE PORTEQUS & MITCHELL CO. A True Ecenomist. He was an ingemious and ingenuous small boy. “Mother,”- he said, on ome occasion, “will you wash my face?” “Why, Hugh, can't you do that?” “Yes, mother, I can, but Il have wet my hands. and they don't need it Accommodating. A trolley car was slowing down so that a much goiled little poodle dog might reach the oppogite side of the gtreet in safety. “Do you stop for a thing Ilke that?” inquired a’ passenger ready to alight at the next stop. ¥ “Oh, yes,” replied the motorman, non- | chalantly, sending a stream of amber out through the open window, “We stop for cats and dogs and birds. We ‘even stop for a_thing like that" he added, nedding his head in the dicection of a_milk wagon crossing the tracks. “We don't take any chanceg on the baby mot getting his ‘breakfast.” ¥ A Ray of Hope. The neighbors were burning soft coal and the smoke settled “heavily about the schoolhouse. ‘The children in one of the rooms had just assembled for the day's work. The teacher saw dimly before her, near the rear of the room, the wave of a hand, “What is it, Tommy?" gaid the teach- er, whose voice managed to penetrate the my flashlight glogs “May I go home and to do my morning work! AN ABANDONED RBAILROAD, HAS BEEN MADE PROFITABLE - e Bangor, Me., Dec. 26.—An -enterpris- ing native of the state of Maine has solved the problem of what to do witn an abandoned railroad. Some months ago the Bangor and Aroostock rhilread diseantinued. gerviee over its twelve- mfle b Zrunning from Browngville to Katah Iron: Works. ~Heary Gte’u saw his oppdrtunity. . He started with a small automabils and an idéd: The idea’was to fit the ‘car with flange wheels and make it ruw| Af on the unused rails. It worked. He rented the whole branch line from th railroad company’ at $100 a menth pad started business, Now traffic is ~ s brisk that he is using a trajler Dehind his car. There is some doubt as to how this one-man reilread will work'in midwin- ter, but the proprietor has sttached some sawed-off brooms to the fromt wheels as a miniature rotary plow. He thinks this,'will take care of spew wp 'to 8 depth of a foot. If it gets deeper the passengers will have belp away -the drifts. Years ago there was 3 bysipess in the mining and o iron at Katahdin Iron Works. When It was find]ly abandoned as the place became & resort. Corporation employes. ' ; nesg have saved 39,000 lives in. 15 yiers, it is estimated. ALHS LFE Y SUFFERED Campaigns of the United States Stesl chreless- :;e:lsineelmnnnhu. Ass t, was subject to di : Headaches and Pain in nylrjt:z' ) ‘I chanced to read about “Frufts- . tives” in one of ourlocal papers aad * began their use about four menthy: - 8g0. Sidee then; I have been free of Headachi s, my Powels have been .ng:l‘-udfmmma?‘mc' Acives” (Fruit Lazo Tablets) I fapl I - bave derived the grestest béneit”, P T lets or : ted, OGDENSBURG N, ¥, | ., 197th DIVIDEND - Norwich, Conn., December 16, 1922;; The Directors of this Society have declared out of the earnings of the current six-months, 2 semi-annual at the rate of Four Per Cent. per eyl o o positors entitled thereto on mdafta‘m l!i. 1923. ~And’also 2 SPECIAL THRIFT ENCOURAGEMENT