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Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-20
THE IMMIGRANT QUESTION.

The effect which the movement to place check upon undesirable imni- grants, now underway in congress will have remains to develop. The senate has passed the Dillingham; bill and the house has passed the Burnett bill concerning the literacy test. This house measure restricts all those over sixteen years of age who cannot read and is aimed at getting better grade of people from foreign lands to come and make their homes here. In the house measure there is the loophole provided for those over sixteen and unable to read whereby they can come into this country if it is to escape religious persecution at home, but they must prove it.
 The measure is far from eomple- tion and many changes are likely to be made. What is aimed at is to eliminate the crooks and the scum of Europe from coming to this coun- try and creating endless trouble, but how successful the literacy test will serve this purpose is rather difficult to foretell. It is doubtful if it will serve to check the anarchists or the disturbing element for they are not to be placed among the illiterate. There is need for getting the best possible as immigrants but it is also important that they be given some attention af- ter they reach these shores. The dis turbances such as that at Lawrence has demonstrated the fact that it is best that the immigrants should be led by good influences rather than by the bad, and that unquestionably strengthened the feeling of congress in behalf of improving the immigra- ton law.
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CANADIAN RAILROADS AND THE
 CANAL.

From the fact that this country has decided that railroad owned ships can not operate through the canal, Can ada felt that it had been deprived of an important aid to the commerce of that country. but from the statement by Vice President Bosworth of the Canadian Pacific they do not intend to carry on their traffic through the canal. Their steamers are operated in connection with their transcontinental railroad for the increasing of it's bus mess and if the routes of the ships were changed so as to go through the canal it would have serious effect upon the railroad in the amount of freight hauled. It is the interchange of bus mess, one line through the other which makes business. for the railroad or the steamers.
 It is quite evident that there is no need for such a large road to oper- ate other than over it's own lines and it will simply be a stimulant to com petition when the canal is operated. The decision of the road is to the ef- feet that Canada does not propose to lose any business even should it be possible to use the canal, in which case the exclusion of the railroad owned vessels works no hardships upon the northern neighbor. Prep arations to meet the competition by canal are of course underway and as will be the case in this country on the big carrying lines which cross from ocean to ocean a readjustment of rates to meet the situation can be antici- pated.
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PROFITABLE TO WALK,

Whatever is the outcome of the suf- fragettes' walk to Albany they have nevertheless revived interest in the best of all exercise, walking. It has many devotees but the inclination, wherever it is possible to indulge it is to give way to the trolleys or auto. The walking of ten miles day is not an effort which is unreasonable. That such an idea has arisen that walking ten miles a day is a feat even for a woman causes the New York World to be astonished. It says:
 "There miles an hour is a moderate pace. An eight hour day is not con- sidered too long at toll much more severe than walking. Any normal in- dividual of either sex between 10 and Co years of age should be able to walk the larger part of "A miles day without training and without dis comfort.
 The woman who gets breakfast and clears 1t away, goes shopping all day. stands up in a crowded car and upon her return home gets dinner for the eamily has done more than the eauiv- alent of a fair days walk yet she would not commonly think it possible to walk even 10 miles. A man will walk around billiard table two hours who would refuse to try seven miles straightaway in the same time.
 The automobile for the rich, the Trolley car for the poor, have done walking an i'll turn. Any desk worker who lives within three miles of his office can snap fingers at the trolley trust. Most women would find 1t profitable to take long walk every day"
 Walking has everything to commend 1t. It is invigorating, favored with the fresh afr and necessary require ment to a healthful condition. How that part of the campaign will appeal to Governor Sulzer remains to be seen put were they going before Governor Baldwin it would be weighty consid- eration, a direct appeal to the genti- nents of Connectieut's chief execu- : five.
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Sounds of Winter Morning.

The suggestive power of sounds has never been f1tly studied. We are sur rounded by a series of noises which we do not notice because they have be- come familiar; let one of them cease, as for instance let the clock stop tick ing, and We are disturbed.
 What overtones of feeling lie in the common noises of the household! Go back into your childhood and see how rich and peculiar they are.
 1 remember so many of the sounds; I have just been recalling them; each one has it's own splash of color and heart-interest.
 The crunching of snow under foot on the wooden walk, and tho -ecu- liarly velvet rreak of wagon wheels on snow in the road when it Is very cold; the noise of the pump, of the hired man letting his armful of wood fall into the box, the thud of his heavy boots upon the floor (the foot step of each member of the family is as well known as his face), the rat ting of the kitchen stove as he makes the fire, the slam of the outside door the frying of meat, the of the tea kettle, the clank of knives and forks and the double thump of plates as the servant girl sets the table; all these I heard when I, little boy lay abed in the morning awake and wait ing my fathers call to get up.
 It is years since I knew these little sound people of the winter morning but they still remain in the back of my brain, and always will.
 No other noises will ever be SC real.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-20
COMPULSORY VOTING.

It Is an interesting proposition which Ormsby McHarg presents for the stopping of the expenditure of large sums of money at election, when he urges compulsory voting. It is well known that at every election the ex- penses run up into large figures and there is even then a too large per centage of voters who remain away from the polls. This is a plan which has been tried in Belgium where it has met with much opposition and al- ready two plans are being considered for its adoption in France. One would fine the voter who stayed away from the polls and the other would deprive the voter of his right of suffrage if he remained away from the polls on election day. It is very evident that the endeavor to adopt any such plan in this country would meet with in stant opposition. It is unAmerican in the first place and would deprive the voter of his liberty. While at first thought it might seem to be a means of reducing some of the expense en- tailed in getting voters to the polls, 1t can hardly be imagined that any plan of compulsion would be workable in this country.
 Such a scheme would provide for the arrest and punishment of hundreds of voters at every election. It might cut down some of the legitimately used money, but it would not have any ten dency to reduce corrupt practices or money used therein. On the other hand it would increase the field for operation of money, with the larger number of actual voting voters to work upon. As has always been the case, 1t is believed America will rely upon education of the voters to bring them out and keep down the evil in- huence at the polls.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-20
Intimacy.

Intimacy is a fiction.
 Speak up honestly, and say if there be any one with whom you can be un- reservedly frank.
 Isn't it rather true that there are layers or strata of intimacy; that is to say, you can be open with a person upon certain subjects, but not upon others?
 In fact, the more perfectly you be- come acquainted with man the more you discover subjects upon which it is of no use to talk to him; there are reserves of sentiment in him that are sensitive and you dare not touch
 There are many things about which a wife will not talk with her husband after living with him for twenty years yet she will meet a comparative stranger, let us say some sympathetic woman, and unburden her heart.
 The engaged couple have C. very de- bauch of mutual confession; it is be- cause they do not know each other very we'll
 There are some friends with whom you dare not mention religion, with others politics IS taboo, there are others to whom you cannot joke, and so on.
 Where is the wide-minded friend with whom you dare to be as bad as you are and as good as you are?
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New Haven. Dec. 19.-All depart menfs of Yale university were closed today for the Christmas vacation, re- opening again at o'clock on Friday morning, January 3. Since Monday, however, the college has been practical ly deserted, with the exception of a small group of biologists and the mem bers of the Dramatic association and the musical clubs, who were holding their final rehearsals before their de- parture on the two long Christmas tainments in many of the big Yale cen- ters of the country the Yale under graduates will receive a reward for months of hard work, and at the same time bring the sections of the country which they visit into renewed or closer touch with the life of the university.
 The GIee, Banjo and Mandolin clubs were the first to start away, leaving New Haven on Wednesday afternoon, with Cleveland, Ohio, the place of their first appearance tonight. Friday night they will sing and play in the city of St. Louis and Saturday in Kansas City. The next Monday will bring the mu- sical clubs the farthest they have eve1 been from Yale, to Denver, Col, where the concert will be followed by smok- CT and alumni gathering at the Uni- versity club, under the auspices of the Colorado Yale association. On Wed nesday night a concert Is to be given in St. Joseph, Mo, the day after Christmas in St. Paul, Minn., Friday in Chicago, Saturday night in Detroit. Monday in Buffalo, Tuesday in Syra- cuse and on January 1 the clubs will be back in. New York.
 It is perhaps one of the most exten- sive vacation trips that the Yale musical clubs have ever taken, and one of the members of the Banjo and Man dolin clubs is Philip A. Johnson of the class of 1914, of Norwich, while A. H. Chappell, Jr, 1916, of New London, is on the Glee.
 The Trip of the Dramatic association is somewhat different this year, owing to the arrangements made for a break in the middle of the tour to enable the members to spend Christmas at their homes, if possible. The college actors left New Haven this morning in the special car Forrest, which goes through the whole trip as in former years, and on which meals are served and all oth- CT accommodations provided. The ini- tial performance of this seasons ve- hicle, Count Leo Tolstofs The Fruits of Culture" will be presented at the Court Square theater in Springfield to- night Friday the association plays Providence, and for Saturday night slzips to Albany. Sunday morning the troupe returns to New York, to con- tinue again from that city on Christ mas night for Pittsburg. Washington, D. C.. and Baltimore, Md, complete the week. The party will be at Scranton
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ical. Of the two billion people on the globe possibly ten thousand are in- terested in the kind of things he is busted with. perhaps five hundred read what he writes; yet he is rossessed of the smuggest confidence that he is steering the world"
 The woman in high society in Lon don or Vienna supposes her circle to include all that Is worth while of the human race. To drop out of her small clique would seem to her like disap- bearing from the solar system into the void.
 This narrowness is not confined to yokels and small villages; you find the most amazing provincialism in New York. There are New Workers who
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Pa., Monday, at Plainf1eld, N. J., on Tuesday, and in Brooklyn on January 1.
 The resignation of James o. Rod gers, '9s, as head coach of the univer- sity crew does not mean that he has withdrawn from crew work, for while he is to be succeeded in the spring by w. A. Hartman, 1913, Mir. Rodgers, who started the Yale boats last year on the new stroke and coaching sys- tenn, will continue to give as much time as he can spare to Yale rowing. Captain c. N. Snowdon, 1913 S., said this week that the policy in connection with the development of the English stroke will be carried out during the coming season with MT. Rodgers act i've cooperation.
 It is expected that Coach Hartman will make another trip to England be- fore the outdoor work begins at Yale, to study the system of the Oxford and Cambridge crews. Last year Hartman was in charge of the freshman coach ing under Rodgers and last spring he made similar visit of a month to the English universities.
 In closing the faII rowing season at New Haven. a series of experiments were made with English apparatus bought by Payne Whitney of the Yale rowing committee on recent trip to England, and it may depend on liar riman's Investigations whether Yale will have American or English equip ment for the coming spring. The boat selected by Payne Whitney is of the model used in the Henley by the win ming Leander crews, and the main diff ference is not in lines, though the Eng fish boat has a slight bulge, but in rigging, English thole-pins replacing American ouItrigging.
 Captain Henry H. ketoham of the 1913 university football team has ap- pointed Walter Camp as his represent ative in the Athletic association, and has called a meeting of former cap tains and head coaches to be held dur ing or soon after the vacation to se- cure their views as to questions of poll icy for next season. No action has been taken regarding the coaching sys- tenn, and whether the present coaching system gets a thorough overhauling, of which many are in favor, will de- pend on the conference.
 The University of Pennsylvania, it is reported by some writers, is keenly de- sirous of again meeting Yale, Harvard and Princeton in football. The with drawal of Yale from games with them, | followed by similar action on the part of the other two universities was due | to the fact that in New Haven only
 undergraduates are eligible to play football in any of the major or minor
 sports, while Penn. draws as well from her graduate departments.
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cannot conceive how anyone could want to live in Omaha.
 So also nothing is more absurdly small than the horizon of the typical Londoner or Parisian.
 A peculiar literary obsession seems to be that only those with an income sufficient to allow them to play golf comprise 'the world" The ridiculous idea is still rife in Europe that no one except the endowed count really; while as matter of fact all but very few of the denizens of earth have to work for a living.
 AS for me, have a homesickness for humanity. I long to feel a kin ship to, a sense of belonging to, every class of human beings.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-20
IDEAS OF A PLAIN MAN
Provincial Worlds.

One of the most provincial ideas men have Is their idea of the world" What one means when he uses this term is usually his own little world.
 The tendency of humanity is to CO., agulate. Each little clot imagines It. self to be the universe.
 I know a weazened, near-sighted man who writes for literary period
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-20

T. New York an effort is being aade to establish an American style
 .sdluteiy independent of anything 'aris may devise, We are getting old -aot only te knew what we want, but to design it, and the drop ping of the cdirect from Paris ought to cut the price in tive,
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-20

Probably without any authority the name of George ". Perkins has been mentioned in connection with the pres- ideney of the New Haven road. He is a past master at mergers and by this time would have had the Grand Trunk deal all tied up as he did the Har- Vester fFlIgt
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MT. Wilson is bothered more by those who might precipitate a panic than by those who have threatened his life. The whole country Is unan- imous that neither catastrophe should take place
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-20

The report of Engineer Elwell foi- lowing ar inspection of the New Ha- ven's roadbed and the finding of 1t in excellent shape Is the kind the pu1- lie likes to hear, in fact. 1t is the least which could be properly expected.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-20

The appointment of William J. Flynn as chief of the United States secret service system places the title on worthy shoulders. As has been his record in the past he can be relied upon to fill the bill
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-20

With the majority of those sufrra- gettes who started for Albany with drawing before the second day they fail to display the stamina required for the necessary running around to conduct a successful campaign.
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OTHER VIEW POINTS

Governor Baldwin explains that he did not approve of what Governor Blease said, but thought a governor ought to have the right to say any thing he pleased in a convention of governors. So he voted against the resolution to rebuke him. Perhaps if the governors had let Blease alone South Carolina would have taken him across her knee. As 1t is, she receives
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The course pursued and the de- rnapds made by Servla have appealed 10 good reason and 1t is in accord nee with tho same good judgment Fat she is now willing to leave the 'a-ter of her desire for 6 port on the
 driatie with the powers. Her entire .iitu6e has won worldwide admira- tlr
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-20

While MT. Wilson has found 1t nec- essary to decline the invitations of the president, 1t will ever he recognized as gracious act on the part of Mir. Taft, Q precedent which ought not to be forgotten by succeeding presidents.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-20

Every rule has it's exceptions. As the result of a railroad wreck two prom inent people are to call in a minister, usually 1t is an undertaken
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-20

Westerly seems to be synonymous with auction when. associated with electric roads. May the future with its several lines be more successful than the past.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-20

The demonstration of the value of the farm work in connection with al- coholic patients has been too often made plain to need argument, and all there is needed is the proper place and the proper management for it. There is no special scientific skill demanded, but plain, practical common sense put into every day application. The farm would be a practical and excellent addition to our other reformatory work. Bridgeport Standard.
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MT. Wilson from his New York speech seems to be getting worried by anticipation and nervous lest theory
 goes wrong.
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There is more than one late shop per- but it still holds good that If you can't shop early. shop as early as you can.
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When reform in New York is cost ing $260 an hour, it shows the effect of procrastination, and even now isn't making any too rapid progress.
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That naval engagement between Turkey and Greece doesn't arouse the interest of an exciting target prac- tice
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The revelations at the money in quiry indicate that J. Pierpont Nor gan is the octopus of the financial situation.
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Politicians are now blamed for the dynamite plots. However it is usually gas which Is associated with political blow ups rather than dynamite.
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The stock exchange performs a use ful service to this extent, that it es- tablishes valuations, The owner of a closely what it is worth. Otherwise
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Thurlow Bergen, Peggy O'Neil and Agnes Findlay have been engaged for the cast of Top O the Morning in Henry W. Savage's Irish-American company.
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While the price of eggs is dropping kerosene is going up. It wouldn't do to have both of these commodities dropped at the same time.
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It would be just as polite of the people not to be !nquisitive about the details of the love affairs of Miss Gould and Mir. Shepard. Miss Gould is one of the wealthiest women in America, to be sure, but she has been a good citizen for all that. She does not de- serve the punishment of publicity in love affairs which is imposed on the ordinary person of wealth.-New Ha- ven Register.
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Gesd Tnatesial Is being sought, Gab= inet makers are working overtime just MAw hath iH this eeuHtry assd JaRan,
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Someone has said that the real fear of the government of Great Britain regarding the Panama canal Is not that there has been in their estimation technical violation of the Hay Paunceforte treaty, but that it does not want favors shown to American ship ping, since such action may increase the carrying trade of the United States, diminishing that of Great Britain. This seems very likely to be the animus of England's objections. Having succeeded in driving Ameri- can shipping from the high seas dur ing the Civil war, England has been very well satisfied ever since to rule the waves '-MiddletoMn Sun
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no Greece mark on the peace parch- ment.
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EDITORIAL NOTES,

Happy thought for today. The box and label sell many Christmas cigars.
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Nothing He Wants Less.

Nothing He Wants Less. Mir. Wilson finds that there is noth- ing his fellow-citizens part with 50 cheerfully as political advice.-Boston Transcript.
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Those who walk and those who drive horses, whether from necessity or bv preference, can shed no tears over the advance in the price of gasoline. Perhaps that will help more than traf fic laws to give them a fair share of room in the streets.-Providenc Tribune.
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Te Shew Missouri.

Eastward the star of woman suffrage stops at the Missouri Chicago Inter- Ocean.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-20

Eleanor Kent has joined the Eddie Foy company in Over the River, In the spring she is to appear in a new opera
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IODA A U DIT O RIU M TODAY Acts-vAUDEvlLIE-3 Acts
 Reels-PlGTURES- Reels

him sympathetically and will probably feel obliged to vindicate him by send ing him to the senate as he demands Waterbury American.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-20

Interstate commerce commission says that trainmen are the cause of many railroad wrecks, due to expect ing them to do the right thing always Few men do the right thing always and railroad men have many more op- portunities than most men to make mistakes. The human element is still a hard thing to figure on.-Bridgeport Telegram.
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Secretary of State Rogers stated at a banquet in New Haven the other evening that the state received $275, 900 from automobile licenses last year. This is pretty large revenue to se- cure from a single class of highway users, and it is not surprising that they are making counter demands rel ative to permanent roads.-Ansonia Sentinel.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-20

The decision at the Chicago progress sive conference to locate the national headquarters of the party" in New York is called a victory for George w. Perkins. but it was, of course, merely the choice of the gentleman without whom there could be no progressive" movement. The real headquarters will be at Oyster Bay, no matter where the nominal location may be.-Hartford Times.