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Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-05
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Thames Street Improvement.

MT. Editor: I read with a great deal of pleasure the doings at the business
 mems banquet last week, and the re-
 marks made al that time in regard to what ought to be done to beautify the city in regard to street improve
 ments, and especially MT, Tibbitts' statement, that the knockers were growing less
 would like to know just what con stitutes a knocker? Would it be the one that opposes the placing of cleo tric light poles in front of his build ings. and Is perfectly willing to have it placed in front of his neighbours? Is he the man that insists in building his building to the last inch. at a sac rifice to the City Beautiful? Is he the man who demands the privilege of running the business of the railroads Is he the man who insists upon the policy of the newspaper in regards to public affairs? Is he the man who says says what he has got to sell is worth 100 cents on the dollar. and what he wants to buy of the other fellow is only worth 50 cents on the dollar, and no good at that? Is he the man who wants the street in front of his premises in first class shape. and op- poses the improvement Of the other fellows street Is he the man who wants to make the price on the coal dealers commodity but is not willing to let the coal dealers put a price on his merchandise? Is he the man that will spend a whole lot of his time to compel his neishbors across the street to put in a sidewalk but tell everybody he meets that there is no need of walk on his side, as one will do?
 I would like to know if the above are knockers or only progTessives? would call them knockers. and not withstanding MT. Tibbitts' statement, they are not growing any less.
 Now in my opinion the people who have their money invested in public utilities are entitled to a fair profit on their investment. as the business man is entitled to his, and up to the present time have failed to find where the public utilities have tried to run the business mems business.
 There was published in your paper some time ago a Petition remonstrat- ing against the building of FairView reservoir, because the signers. had lie improvement of the city of Nor wich has met with the same procedure down to the present time, court house, Stony Brook. post office. trolley roads and last. tuberculosis hospital, were all up against the same conditions. The only live wire that has ever gone through is the bottle factory and the one at the banquet.
 Let us hope that the switch will re- main in from now on. and the electric spark continue to flow, and all get to- getfer on the Thames street improve ment, for we need it. but what is the use?
 What would you call the people that advocate the building of tin foundries in direct violation, os the city ordin- ances Are they prcgressives. CT just knocking the city ordinances?
 All hail. Alderman Beckley. and if we had more like him. we might have a city beautiful instead of a lot of tin buildings for the stranger to look at and wonder,
 INQUIRER LOOKING FOR INFOR= NATION.
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Uncle Sam's Big Farm.

MT. Editor: I will write you a para
 ble of a wealthy man whose name we
 will call Samuel who owned vast
 domain that he could not successfully
 work himself and consequently let 1t
 cut to desirable tenants. After mis-
 management of many years, wherein
 huge debts had accumulated and de struction generally stared our poor olu
 Uncle Samuel in the face, he chance1 in 1860 to get a tenant who was both apt and trustworthy, and in spite of strife and trouble among the work men on his great farm the new tenant strengthened out matters so that busi ness once more became prosperous or Samuers domain and the help employ ed were better paid, better fed and iii every respect happy and successful This continued for more than 25 years in spite of the fact that another man, envious of the great progress being made by Samuel's tenant, tried his best every four years to secure a. lease OF the property and have the successful manager removed.
 All kinds of arguments were brought to bear on Samuel. who finally in 1892 succumbed to the constant demand of the strange farmer and changed his tenants. Columbia, the shrewd wife of Samuel warned her husband tim and again that he would make a great mistake, and the lease was so made tha+ while the leaser had four years to work the property at the end of two tb noLlce cOuId De gwen Dy feInoNlnS under workers, and so in the early spring of '93 the new manager with full force of under q workers took charge The thousands upon thousands Of tillers of the soil and other work men immediately saw the effects the change. Wages were reduced prices shrunk, business was at a standstill and poor old Samuel was to see his great farm th1t had become so prosperous under skill ful management become a dese15 waste. He went to his wife, Colum- bia. whose only reply was: Samuel I warned you that the change woul-l be disastrous, and the only sarety I see is in taking advantage of the two years clause and removing the new under workers, putting the old ones il their places" Samuel took her advice and did so in 1894 so tying the hands more destruction of property was pos- sible Tn 1896. after an urgent re- quest of both Samuel and his wife. the tenant who had been so prosperous and progresSive was returned and bu sinesS on the old farm once more spread and multiplied it had never done before.
 This aroused the envy of more than one who desired the handling of Sam uers vast domain, and year. after year farm better was told. Many of the Ia borers on the farm were young men who failed to remember the disaster that followed the change of manage nent in 1892 and they were easily fooled by stories that razorback hogs on the farm would make pork cheaper than the great Cheshires and Berk- shire breeds now raised
 The Texas broadhorn steer would
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HELPS THE CAUSE.

Whatever was the motive or the ob- ject of the attempt to break up the suffrage parade in Washington it is bound to reflect to the advantage of the cause to which the insults and jeers were aimed. It was q deplcra ble affair which had no good reason for being conceived or carried out. What ever may be the opposition te the cause for which the parade was ar an overstepping of the bounds of jus tce and an attempt made to give the demonstration the appearance of pop ular disapproval. Whatever the puf- pose of a parade, as long as it is not detrimental to the interests of the community, or country, or against the laws it deserves proper respect and the privilege of expression.
 There was no cause for insults or fridicule. The parade was the culmine = ton of extensive plans and efforts and was a spectacle which should have been enjoyed not only by those to whose sympathy the underlying cause appealed, but to everyone who was for tunate enough to witness it. The ac- ton of the crowd Will meet widespread condemnation throughout the country. The parade stands undefeated, how ever, in it's purpose though hampered and marred, but it's influence is given a larger field of operation through the SympathizerS it has created.
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I Will Stake This Medicine
 Against Your ! iir11e
A Few Days Will Be Sufficient to Prove
 That You Are Durable

A few minutes of your time for a few days and I will demonstrats t0 you, without expense to yourself, that 1 have a medicine that drives
 Uric Acid poison from the system and by so doing cures kidney trou- b1e. bladder trouble and rheumatism. 1 don't ask you to take my word for 1t, but simply want you to let me send you some of this medicine so that you can use 1t personally.
 am trying to convince sufferers thing far better than the usual run of remedies. treatments and such things, compounding the medicine and sending to do. for any sufferer who will take the time to write me Understand. l proof m @ or test test treatment" nor wifi 1 send you a package of medicine and say that you can use some of it and pay for the rest, but I will send you be asked to pay for this gift nor will you be under any obligations.
 All want to know is that you have a disease for which my medicine is in tended, as it is not a "eure--alI," and I Symptoms of kidney, bladder and rheu- matic troubles If you notice one .,,9T or some of it. if you viii write me the numbers of the symptoms you have, dress My address is Dr.- T. Frank Ly- mott, M4s Deagan Building, Chicago, III. You promise me nothing; you pay me nothing for 1t. All ask, so there shall be no mistake, is that you send me the numbers of your symptoms or de- scription in your own words. and that you take the medicine according to the directions I send you. It is my way of getting publicity for my medicine so that it will become widely known.
 You will agree when you have used it that it dissolves and drives out uric acid poison. It tones the kidneys so that they work in harmony. with the bladder. It strengthens the bladder 80 that frequent desire to urinate and other urinary disorders are banished It stops rheumatic aches and pains inn mediately.. It dissolves uric acid crys- tals so that back and muscles no longer ache and crooked joints quickly blood and nerves that you soon feel healthier and more vigorous, sleep bet ter and eat better and have energy the day. It does all this. and yet contains nothing injurious and Is absolutely vouched for according to law.
 Sufferers from these dreadful and dangerous diseases can surely anord to spend few minutes each day Tor
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The Good Old Times.

Mir Editor: As citizen could not help being greatly interested in a column article in your paper yester- day, headed Important Changes in Norwich Business Life
 About this time a whole lot is being hinted and said, at public banquettings in particular, about the very superior opportunities and facilities for business in Norwich at the present day, but that article of yours contained d not able example of a Norwich business man who in eight short years-be- tween 1S4S and 1S56-cleared over S130.0o0 in a coal and lumber bus mess which required only four teams to manage. Much is also promised us of prosperity that must come from an increase of popuation-yet iouDt- less at the time of that merchants acc1lm ula lon, this ctty's population was about half what 1t Is now and likely coal was less in price per ton. Now it seems that the coal business pays only poor dividends. The writer Is an Irisnfnan himself and in ls4s had brother and half dozen cousins in Norwich living a The landing who were donbtless among the crowd who went to GreeaeVillc to see that other dibernfan, It WAS common to hear the fien Gaelic tongue spoken in our streets then, especially among the coal drivers, lrishmen are so scarce now tIlJt one addressing arpt her in his native tongue would re es great a cu-
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PRESIDENT WILSON.

Justice and only justice the motto which President Wilson has selected for his administration is another way of repeating his previous declaration that no honest business need fear the change of government which his cleo honest, efficient and economical gov sumed the responsibilities of the great est office within the gift of the na- tion. he will not only have the oppor- tunity for applying the results of his study of national affairs. as made from the standpoint of an observer. but he will experience the difficulties which are easier to point out than they are to overcome.
 Only in general way did the pres 3dent set forth in his brief inaugural speech what he hopes to accomplish during his administration That he sets high ideals before him for the administration is evidenced and his commitment to constructive rather than destructive legislation and the correction of the evils of the present national conditions permits of great possibilities Though he deals with them in a general way it must be that he realizes the need of continuing the honest, emcient and economical zoe ernment of which his predecessor has been such prominent exponent
 MT. Wilson assumes the presidency under most favorable conditions. though he faces the stern reality of solving many vital questions both na- tiona1 and partywise. He follows not faultiess president but one whose mistakes have operated to personal harm rather than to the detriment of the nation. The country is in better condition than ever before and the period Is one of achievement. This continued welfare depends much upon such adjustment as Mir. Wilson in stigates and accompIishes and in such 1 will he find opportunity for the appli- l cation of his motto Whether Mir 1 Wilson's ideas can make the country ] and the government better remains to ] be seen It is to be hoped that it will not be an administration of experi- l mentation. and a breaking down of 1 confidence, for there are imrortant l questions before the new administra- l tion upon which the welfare of the | country depends. The best wishes go | out to Mir. Wilson in his great task
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LACK OF PREPARATION.

When Br- Friedmann came here to
 demonstrate his tuberculosis serum and announced that he would give free treatment to the poor he undoubt- edly created 8 hope in the minds of many thus afflicted that such would be forthcoming at once. The New York Tribune holds that it is cruelty and 'Dr. Friedmann has gone about demonstrating his cure in precisely the way not to do it. Nothing more cruel could Have been devised than the raising of false hopes in the breasts of thousands of sufferers from tuber- culosis and bringing them tottering to his clinics when he did not even have any certainty Of being able to hold the clinics at the advertised places Probably it is unfair to hold him responsible for all the publicity and for all the blunders that have accompanied his coming to this city and offering to treat consumptives But it was his duty both as a scientific man careful of his reputation as servant of humanity 10 avoid any pos sibility of disa appointing the sick and to perfect his arrangements before making promises or allowing them fo be made in his name The long wait of doomed victims of dread disease from before daybresk until late in the morning at the place where the clinic was to he held but was not was one of the saddest of recent in cidents."
 It is to he hoped that pr. Fried mann will be successful in his tests but it seems that he has been pre- mature in his plans and has caused much unnecessary trouble because of lack of proper preparation ard ar engagements.
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LABOR LOST
was all she felt

1 why, Johnnyf" was all she felt
 equal to saying.
 the floor. Well. he said. Towards ] mother she-well-she don't want me l to come over to Towards this after l noon"
 Mrs Bates bristled. Mrs. Benson
 doesn't want you to go over there.
 doesn't she? I never heard of such a 1 thing" And under cover of his moth CTS indignation Johnny departed. Several days after when Johnny re- turned from school he looked flushed and complained of 8 headache. He
 did not make his usual trip to the pantry, neither did he ask if he might go out 10 play. As he sat mopingly about the house, his cheeks growing hotter and hotter and his eyes heav-
 fer Mrs Bates became more and more
 anxious In the morning there was no
 doubt that Johnny was really i'll, so
 the doctor was sent for.
 Measles" he pronounced JOhnnys trouble after an examination.
 "Oh, how do you suppose he caught it?" walled Mrs. Bates. I've been so careful about telling him not to expose himself to it"
 Some of the kids at schools got it." volunteered the invalid, heavily.
 In spite of tho doctors soothing re- marks, Mrs. Bates continued to worry. Late that afternoon, after a rather prolonged conversation over the tel ephone, she entered her sons room.
 Johnny she said. T wonder if you could possibly have taken the measles from Eleanor "
 Johnny lifted a swollen, forlorn face. | Nav he said. T ain't seen Eleanor i Has she got 'em?''
 Yes" said his mother. 'I learn | that she broke out this morning, so | you couldn't have taken the measles | from her. There's one nice thing | about it.' sine resumed cheerfully af- 1 ter moments pause. Eleanor won't | be well until after you are so you l won't miss her party after all. They're 1 going to postpone it until"
 Her philosophical remarks were in- 1 terrupted by dismal howl.
 Am I goin to get well before Flea 1 nor has her old party?" he demanded | Whats the use of having the measles 1 if I have to go anyway" There was a fresh howl. And I gave Harold | ray ball to let me come in when his | mother didn't know, so I could catch 1 the measles off him, and then his 1 mother found it out and wouldn't let | me come again. And then I went and l played with that mean little kid, Hell l en, because she had 'em and I thought | if I didn't catch Harolds I'd catch l Helen's, so I wouldn't have to go to that party. Oh, mother. do I have to go anyway ?"-Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-05
CONSIDERING THE PUBLIC.

For the protection of the purchasing public Florida has enacted a law the constitutionality of which has recently been established by the state supreme court. This concerns the raisers of fruit and forbids the shipment of i'm mature and unripe citrus fruits out of the state. This is a recognition of the imposition which is practiced upon the ignorant or unsuspecting public and the extraction of handsome profits from inferior goods. Florida did we'll in the passing of such legislation and this should even appeal to the grow CTS, and in their action lies an oO- ject lesson for other fruit raising states.
 Opposition to the law was against good sound legitimate business and such must have been recognized by tho growers who are engaged in an hon. est enterprise. Growers without con scientioUs scruples who cared neither for their reputation or those of their fellow growers naturally had reason to seek its defeat but for dealers to continue such a practice simply means that the trade must sooner or later understand the true merit of the goods and an irreparable damage will be done to the important industry where the practice of shiDFing immature products is permitted and the business becomes general. Pooling the people can continue for a limited time per haps with profit but it is well that the law should prevent it.
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THE VETO POWER.

Right up to the last minute did President Taft make use of the veto power which is placed in the hands of the chief executive and he made such use of it as was intended by its creators. He has with one eXcep- ton been sustained by congress in such action with the result that much legislation which was being rushed through congress in the shape of rid CTS attached to important bills has been blocked and held up for prop amount of thought and considera- tion. It is this restraining power which operates as a. safety valve for every administration. It requires sound and sober thought and the ex- ercise of good judgment for the proper exercise of the privilege, which in the conduct of the nations affairs is a duty.
 Wherever MT. Taft has disapproved action of congress he has recognized his duty and there have been twenty or more instances where he has failed to believe that congress was acting for the best interests of the country. The democratic tariff bills, the appro- priation bills containing the com merce court, civil service and army reorganization were measures which received his veto because they were against the best interests Of the coun- try, and contained undesirable riders. The immigration bill was defeated be- cause of the literacy test feature and his action on the Webb bill was on the ground of unconstitutionality. All were for justifable reason and in the line of duty
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riosity as it was in earlier days. He was an Irishman who wrote: I'll fares that land to cankering ills
 prey
 Where wealth accumulates and men
 decay
 It will not do to knock Norwich in these days, but it can't be rubbed out that there was once a fair return for business here without the trolley cars and moving pictures or even the tele- phone A man earning s1.50 per day could own his own house in a few years. Now a tradesman is poor on S3 per day of eight hours, and a half holiday Saturday and on the whole owing to the high cost of living and building material, and 1abor-it is cheaper to pay rent than to build a house and stand the taxation for the m nodern improvements. Will some of our boomers tell us why this is thus?
 A BOOMERANG. NnrWich March 8
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removed if found incompetent. Watch carefully their n1anoeuvres and when the millions of workers on Uncle Sam uers great farm are called together in 1914 to pass judgment the under workers ability to handle the farms business as it should be handled you will know how to decide.
 c. B. MONTGOMERY. Packer Conn., March 1, 1913.
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few days to demonstrate to their own satisfaction if they are curable, espe- cially when you consider no expense is involved, and I willingly give you my time and my medicine All any fair minded afflicted person wants to know is if a certain thing will cure HIM or HER, and here is an opportunity, to find out without cost, obligation or import may be the turning point in your life.
 All who are interested enough to write me for the free medicine will also receive a copy of my large illus trated medical book which describes these diseases thoroughly. It Is the largest book of the kind ever written for free distribution. and a new edition is just being printed. I will also write you letter of diagnosis and medical advice that should be of great help to you: but in order to do this I must know that you need my medicine. Write me the numbers of the symptoms that trouble you, and your age, and will promptly carry out my promises Show
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reduce the price of meat. the poorly paid mill workers of Europe would make it possible to procure clothing, than the high priced home workers. So in November, 1912. a change of tenants was once more made. The lease dates from today. to run four years. with the two years warning clause that the under workers will be