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Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31
wIscorsIN's EXPERIMENT..

The state of Wisconsin has advanced many ideas concerning municipal gov ernment and it has put into operation many state laws and regulations which are being watched throughout the country for the efficiency of their oper- ation. Efficiency is one of the inn portant objects sought and that state is thus becoming one of the prominent testing grounds of the nation.
 The latest experiment is in behalf of state life ins urance the law provid ing for which was enacted two years ago. but only recently has a policy been issued Particular attention has been given to keeping down the cost of operation State officials do the work, clerks in cities, towns or countries. to- gether with treasurers of the same, bank officials where state deposits are made and factory inspectors receive the applications. There are seven diff ferent kinds of policies issued. the limit automatically changing as the number of policy holders increase, but it $cannot exceed s3.900 under the ex- isting law.
 The aim of the state to provide cheap and safe life insurance is apparently encouraged by the experience it has had in providing it's own fire insur- ance, which while discouraging' at first has regained its lost ground. Wis consEn is undertaking something which calls for the best kind of management. and whatever the result there is bound to be some valuable lessons for every state in the union. Wisconsin is set ting a fast pace when it comes to the introduction of new ideas, and there are not a few states which are willing to let it be the dog.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31
STAND FOR PEACE.

There is always a wide interest in the trials of the new warships, repre- senting as they do the latest in naval architecture and for that reason the records and compIishments of the Texas now undergoing it's tests pre- liminary to acce eptance are closely fol- lowed Each new vessel represents an advanced step in the strife to obtain the best It embodies the latest equip mAnE and presents a marked contrast to the warshlpS of a half century ago. The change which such construction has undergone is wonderful and is best understood perhaps by a com parison of the Monitor or Merrimac, and the Texas. They are about as un- like as two things of the same name can be- but chiefly because of the steady march of progress which has been made in shipbuilding. The Texas, today represents the greatest effort in naval construction and power but there are others on the ways, to be produced in due time which will all show improvements
 This growth and attention navy building is due to the rivalry which exists between nations and one of the noticeable features connected there with is the enormous outlay of the national funds Twenty years ago i've millions was the top notch in war ship cost but today it reaches to twelve and fifteen The expense has kept pace with the progress in con- struct1on. It is this which has urged the naval holiday proposal, but even though such expenditures are large he protection which they afford and the peace which they influence are sheaply obtained. They stand for peace through preparation
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31
singuIarities.

Sir George Biddell Airy, British as- trenomer royal told the pioneers of the first Atlantic cable that it was a.
 mathematical impossibility to sub merge the cable to the necessary. depth and if 1t were possible no signals could travel through so great a dis tance. Sir George was also asked about the possibility of making Big Ben the great clock in the tower above the houses of parliament, so trustworthy that ii would not lose five seconds day on the average. He re- piled that no clock exposed to the weather could run with so small an error. The late Lord Grirnthorpe however, said he would guarantee that degree of exactness, and by designing timepiece that is never five seconds out with the observatory at Greenwich to which it signals its time each day. and on most days is dead true.
 Occasionally somebody makes a will bequeathing money to help pay off a national debt. In 1733 Colonel Thomas Norton of SauthNick Eng land, bequeathed s150,006 for this pa triotic purpose, Probate was opposed and the judge who tried the case de- cided that the colonel was insane such a legacy being only as drop of wa ter poured into the sea" The legacy was therefore divided. among the members of the Norton family
 Employment of oil as fuel fer the navy would have met with the whole hearted sdisaPPFoyai of an American who figures in Sir John Rohinsen's s "reminiscences, This farseeing person petltlened congress that "a stop mlght
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31
EVERY DAY REFLECTIONS
Old and Young.

Sensible people when they grow old find a great many compensations. Crossing the line of 50, one moves up a little closer to the heart of the world.
 Youth has no sense of proportion. He must hasten. Reforms cry out. Up and at them! He tears his shirt. Then when he gets old he begins to say with Emerson: Why so hot little man?'' He sees that the only dependable improvement in society is that which grows. not that which is forced. The youths optimism is a kind of enlarged egotisrn; the optim- ism of old age is an appreciation of the friendliness of nature.
 Young men are dazZled by insti- tutions, imposed upon by organiza tions overawed by the presumtuous authority of the past. Old men come to value personality more than these things. There is nothing worth while but to express one's self; 1t takes years of experience to realize that,
 The old man quietly adjusts him. self to the stubborn inevitable. Young people waste infinite effort in fumjng and useless strenuousness. To youth success seems matter of laboring hard at the oar; to the wise old man it is a matter of setting ones sails. The winds of heaven, if we get at the proper angle to them. will do more than all our muscle.
 The conscience of youth is usually morbid. Many of his reddest sins and most shining virtues tone down with years. He learns tolerance. He be- lieves less and less in prohibitions and punishrnents and more and more in the creative virtues such as love, courage and lending a hand.
 Young men are eager for knowl- edge greedy for the equipment of facts, of skill and of efficiency. Old men have seen the weakness of these; they prefer wisdom and philosophy; they prefer the expert soul to the expert hand and mind.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31
WATCH YOUR STEP
Beino The Goat.
BY THE CONDUCToR


 T get tired readin' in the papers bout somebody bein' tn goat all tn time.
 They ought to be no goats If ev- erybody is cheatin', lyin' an stealth, then nobody ought to go to tn pen for it. If everybody does it then it's right. If it ain't right then soak everybody.
 gettin' caught. That don't keep lem from bein' bad. It just makes them figure not to get ketched. All them nuts in jail cuSs 'emselves for bein' too slow. They don't cuss 'emseIves for goin' wrong. Every mothers son of 'em promise 'emselves they'll do it next time an not get caught.
 Jack Johnson went to Europe, Harry Thaw went to Coaticook, Beck CT went to Sing Sing, am dead ones in politics went up Salt river, jus cause they was tn goats. Tn rest of us is pIayin' crazy, an murderin' an graftin', so busy we ain't got time to stop. We know what's right an we know if us nuts got what's comin' to us it's bean stew in tn rockhouse.
 When some bum artist gets pinch ed jus cause his work is coarse you courtroom hollerin' Give it to him, jedge. He ain't got no friends an tn jedge is so crazy to get home an love his family he breaks up tn other fellows family for life.
 ''Th' guy in jail ain't so bad. Jus put yourself in his place. S'pose you woke up tomorrow an had to eat stale bread an bum coffee through tn bars. Tn reason they got you is cause your foot slipped. Everbody else has rozzin on their shoes. If they hadn't they'd be in tn next cell. Soon's you get out you ain't gonna have your feet chopped off You're gonna slap rozzin on your shoes
 Tt atn't just criminals that goes to tn pen. It's tn goats.
 Get inside tn car, please.
 No use abusin' me, mister Then's my orders.
 Look where you step, please, Look where you step.''
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31

ways we have fixed the time and there Is reason to believe that 1t will be firm but conservative and insistent policy to which they can add their endorsement and through such sane ten their cooperation.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31

be put to the irreverent and irreligious proceedings of various citizens in drawing petroleum from the earth thus checking the designs of the AL mighty, who stored it there for the future, destruction of the world
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31

If Celanei Roosevelt could have known in advance just how much fun he is missing in old New York town. he would have been justified in can ceiling the engagements in South America,
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31

i, Ne longer win the charm of a new president of the New Haven system have its advantage over the Central Vermont It takes, something harder than that te stump our cross
 country line.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31

With Ambassador Gerard forced te gay 15,GA6 a year fer residence in Berlin there is pretty good grounds fer the eeAtention of William Me CeRahs that he cannot afford to take tAe 1ast at P&~
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31

According to the reports con- corning the insane asylum at Worces- ter there must be considerable diff eulty distinguishing between some of the attendants and the inmates.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31

Octave Thaner declares women as a whole do not know enough to have the vote" Then why should they be expected to know they ought not to want ft2
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31

It probably has occurred to the lawyers that it is not the poor men who will be seeking the interpretation of the construction of the income tax reg1IIatiOns
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31

It is lucky thing Mrs Pankhurst has few friends in this country or the hunger strike might be forced upon her. Necessity is the mother of i'm
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31

Cuba would be pleased if it could be relieved of it's political storm with the same despatch as marked the passing of it's atmospheric disturbance.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31

With the government putting in to effect the 73 cent stamp books the mystical money getting figures s9 are apparently ignored.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31

The loan business which has netted $24s000 in four years on a $1,o00 cap ital seems to be exceeding the hopes of the Storey cotton promoters.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31

Bunau Varilla can talk as much as he pIeases in belittleing Panama Canal but we have a right to our opinion just the same.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31

The amount of fear or faith placed in the merits of an electric spanking machine is indicated by the flood of inquiries concerning it.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31

Isn't it about time that Norwich held a city meeting and voted to use what it has already paid for-the voting machines?
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31
EDITORIAL NOTES.

If Huerta decides to retire he ought not to be assigned to the same warship with Felix Diaz.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31

It is probable that Champ Clark is just a 1it1e bit envious of John Lind over the prolonged vacation he is taking.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31

The nan on the corner says: It is impossible to find too many flaws in the rails to discourage the junkmen.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31

No evidence has as yet been sub mitted that oyster week put the trust into the hands of the receiver.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31

It profiteth man little to be the "spender of a million a year" at the expense of his health and life.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31

In the Forestry school the average cost per student is $787, in the Di~ vinitY school s52132 in the Art school $431.93. 4 law student costs $351.38, and pays $33.4S in return
 The Sheeffeld student costs an av- craze of S340.3 .39 and pays $167.42. In the Academic department the cost per year is $321.92 and the receipts are s154.S5. The average cost in 1912-1913 for the 3.359 students in all depart ments of Yale university was $36030 and the receipts $134.37.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31
BULLETINS SPECIAL YALE LETTER
Demand Is Made For Professional Rowing Coach-Ihe Freshnans Experience-Medical School In Need of $6OO,00O-New Rulings Made By The Faculty

Rock anywhere out of the clutches of merciless upperclassmen.
 But over in Shelf the Freshman has been, and still is, sprinkled over wide area in isolated 'rooming houses. The statistics this fall bear witness of class of over 350, the largest number of men rooming in a single building is 20. The next largest group, in a second privately owned dormitory is 18 The rest are scattered in various other halls. Of live at hone,-66 of the class are New Haven boys who do tfis-or in houses outside of the Shelf district. There is not much chance to get together except in class eS and that sort of meeting isn't eal- culated to generate intimate friend ships-though it sometime does.
 In 1904, Frederick w. Vanderbilt, '76S gave a dorrnitory for Scientific School students and another in 1906. But since that time there has been no process toward completing a possible quadrangle on the Shelf campus. Un- til such provision is made it does not seem possible that there can be that pleasant side of college life for the Shelf freshmen that means so much to their academic brethren.
 The raising of a fund of $6o0,ooo be- fore July 1. 1914, will enable Yale Med
  Haven hospital Thereby the school 100 years old next June would be placed on q sound financial basis, it would be given a clinical and patho- logical laboratory, which it sadly needs, provide it with the advantage of large hospital and keep it from con- tinuing a charge and burden to the University treasury. The Yale Medi- cal school has been weathering adVer sity for years but it must have help to maintain it's reputation. The cost of a medical student to Yale university is greatly in excess of that for edu eating a student in any other de- partment. Treasurer Days report for the past year shows The cost of in strBction of the medical student is $1 .350.3S, but the average receipts from each man, s105,81. make the annual cost 122357 No doubt this is due to the small number of men in the Med ical school, there are only 49 there now where several times that number could be taught without much addi tiOnaI course.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31

The Faculty of Yale college has just passed new rulings which in an important way affect the scholarship requirement. for the Bachelor of Arts degree. Hitherto, 60 hours of work have been required, whether the work was of any grade above the passing mark 200 on a scale of 400 The new rules demanded a certain quality of work in addition to the stipulated quantity and follow a system of scholarship points of which must be obtained before the degree will be granted. 60 points will be granted for 15 hours work of the highest grade A. for 20 hours of B grade work, for 30 hours of. c grade, or for SO hours of D grade scholarship. It will dis courage mediocrity in intellectual work, Dean Jones thinks
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-07-24
END OF MULHALL
LETTERS TO BE
RECORDED TODAY
Lobbyist Stopped BY Senator
When He Grows GarrulOus
In Explanations
MANUFACTURERS NOT
SURE OF NEXT MOVE
Hearing Is Moved From Office
Building Closer to Senate
Chamber

WASHINGTON. July Dodg-
ing some letters and skipping por-
tions of others, the senate lobby in
yestigation committee today began
what members hoped was the last
session of reading of the Mulhall ex-
hibtts, Colonel NJ NJ Mulhall,
plainly relieved at the approaching
end of his long grind on the witness
stand, several times today grew gar
rulous in explanation of some Of the
letters and had to be stopped by
Senator Reed.
National Association of Manufac-
turers' counsel declared that they had
not yet determined whether they
would fight the committees ruling
that any cross-examination of the
witness must be conducted by writ
ten questions submitted to the com
mittee
The hearing today was moved from
the room in the senate Office building
where il began. to the judiciary room
In the capitol. This was done so
that the Democratic members OF the
committee would be nearer the SEN
ate chamber I'm case they were need
ed on roll calls on the tariff bill.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-07-24
u. S. TO ACT AS MEDIATOR
IN MEXICAN FRACAS IF
WILSON'S PLAN SUCCEEDS.
ONLY TWO B. OF c.
MEN CONTRIBUTED
Gave Cash To Prosecute Alder
men. But 1t Wasn't Used,
Says Shepherd

Prosecutor shepherds activity IN
seeking aid fIom prominent businesst
men for his anti-eraft work was dis
cussed before Judge Phelan, this morn
ing, in the jury investigation, by attor-
neys for Aid Gilman, alleged boodler.
Shepherd was asked by Attorney Nc
Namara If he ever received any help
from Board of Commerce members al
ter a committee consisting OF Charles
b. Warren, Gustavus ID. Page. William
r. Orr. and j. T. Lewis had promised
the help of the organization
Il received but two contributions,
soid Shepherd. "and they are still in
my bank account, untouched"
Shepherd refused 10 divHlge the
names of these two contributors. He
was admonished by the court not 10
refuse fatty 10 answer questions, but
he was not required TO give the names
Mcnamara strenuously insisted that
he had a right 10 know the names OF
these men, because they might be on
the jury, since so many Board OF
Commerce, men were on the list.
You have the right TO object 70
these men II they are drawn said
Judge Phelan. but not 10 throw out
the whole list on that basis. If you
had a barrel of apples and found two
or three of them rotten you would not
throw away the whole barrel"
Five other citizens besides the two
Board of Commerce members contrib
uted TO fund OF $175. said Shepherd,
but none of It has ever been spent
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-07-24

CALUMET. Mich, July 24.-The
Michigan copper mine strike, which
began uesday morning when the min
ing companies anticipated a walk-out
of the men by closing the workings
and informing all non-union workers
that they need not report for duty II
in fear of the strikers, had spread last
night until the last shaft Is now clos
ed he union night crews Of the half
dozen Calumet & eHcla mines that
were In operation yesterday refused
to go to work last night and the man
agement refused to allow other men
TO descend. Nearly $4,000 miners are
now idle.
The Winona. Hancock and Franklin
mines in the southern end of the dis
trict are also closed Several small
riots occurred, in one OF which Mining
Captain Thomas Manning was knock
ed senseless by blow from n rock
tied in handkerchief, and several
others were badly beaten. A mob OF
strikers. attempting to storm one OF
the shaft engine houses. was halted at
the point OF rife by Mining Captain
Benson
These riots are deplored by union
officials. who ascribe them 10 an ire
spot sible and rowdy element. The
majority OF the strikers. they say. are
opposed 20 violent methous.
About one-quarter OF the men en-
ployed in the mines are union, but Il
has been found impossible TO operate
the shafts without them.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-07-24
FINDS YECC AT
WORK; FIRES TWICE
Highland Park Policeman Thinks
He Wounded WOuld-Be Safe
Blower

Patrolman William Hart, of the
Highland Park police force. fired two
shots at a lone yeggman who was try
ing to blow the safe of the Highland
park postoffice, al | o'clock, Thurs
day morning Hart thinks one of his
bullets took effect, as the fleeing safe
blower staggered and pressed one
hand to his shoulder as he ran toward
Detroit
Detroit police were Immediately no.
tifed. and scouts were sent TO watch
all incoming cars. without results. No
tice was also sent TO all hospitals TO
Immediately notify the police If gun
shct victim applied for treatment.
Hart was making his rounds when
he saw the lone yeggman hard at work
or the safe in the postofice The
yegg saw Hart at about the same time
and fed. leaving his burglar tools.
Patrolman Hart gave chase. and as
the yeggman fed through the street
the officer fred twice but failed TO
hat the fugitive. who disappeared In
the darkness, running toward Detroit
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-07-24
FIND AUTO DRIVER
WHO IRAN DOWN BOY
Police Nab Glenn Z. B0wles,
Who Makes Statement and
Goes Free

Detectives Smith and Ellenstein,
ASST igned to investigate the accident
in which little Max Goldberg, was
run down and seriously injured by
an auto, on Montcalm-s near Wood
ward-ave., Tuesday afternoon, learn
ed that the driver of the machine
was Glenn r. BowleS OF No % 3
West Jefferson-ave.. and the officers
took Bowles to the prosecutor Office,
"Wednesday. He made "A statement
in which he declared that the boy
ran in front OF his auto. and was
released The Goldberg lad is still
in serious condition in Grace hos
pital, the front wheels of the auto
having passed over his body and in
dicted internal injuries.
Or. J. B. Wright, of No. , Mont
calm-st east, and G. b. Ballard. of
the accident, and both told the police
that Bowles was driving at only
about five miles an hour when he
struck the lad. but was on the wrong
side OF the street The hoy. they
said. was hitching on a wagon. and
Jumped off directly in front of the
auto. Bowles stopped so quickly that
the boy lay between the front and
rear wheels Of the machine when
assistance reached him Bowles took
him 10 the hospital. but in the eX-
citment. his name and address were
not taken.