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Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11
ECONOMY COMMISSION.

Having accomplished the saving of over two million dollars year for the government it is with the same strong purpose in mind which prompted his initial action that President Taft sent his recent message to congress con- corning the retention of the economy and efficiency board. The commission is founded on good sound business policy and it must be apparent to every congressman, regardless of par ty affiliations that no administration can accomplish its best work unless 1t devotes itself to promoting the great est efficiency and cutting out the great wastes with which the national gov ernment is burdened. The recommen- dattons of the commission which have been adopted have fully demonstrated their wisdom. They have made nu- merous other recommendations which should be adopted and there remain many other directions in which their services would prove of inestimable value to the government.
 President Taft points out in thoughtful message the wisdom of re- taining the services of the board by making appropriation of the quarter of 8 million necessary for it's main tenance The president has started a movement which is of great import ance and it will be of even greater value to the coming administration. It is a reform movement well launched and which would be a most creditable thing for the democrats to carry through to completion in the inter l est of the welfare of the country and l In recognition of good business prin- | jrjo
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11
IDEAS OF A PLAIN MAN
THE VALUE OF CUSTOM.

'Montaigne,'' said Pascal, ''is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom and not because it is reasonable or just.''
 I remain unconvinced, and hold with Montaigne. For the value of observ- ing any custom is the same kind of value as that of keeping step in a company of soldiers. It avoids con- fusion. Its chief service is in the mt tuaI agreement to conform in non-es- sentials; for only so can we have time to differ in essentials. I wear the want to discuss hats. Most customs are about things that do not matter, such as styles in hats, for the req son that to assert our individuality in such things would be intolerable both CT. There is no essential morality in conformity.
 The Kaffirs have a custom called "hloripa," which forbids a woman to utter the emphatic syllable of her hus- bands name MT. Dudley Kidd tells of missionary, Mrs. Green, who sean dalized the native women by shame lessly speaking of a green goose berry. The same lady, says the Lon don Chronicle. having taught her con- verts the Lords prayer found that one woman persisted in changing the word come in Thy Kingdom come'' into something that made nonsense It proved that come was the forbidden accepted syllable of her husbands name Gas if. for instance, it had been Cummings"
 Which amounts to about the same as being shut out of good society be- cause one wears no necktie.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11
BOOM TO AcRIcUTuRE

How important a contribution to the progress in agriculture has been made by this country Is indicated by the enormous output of agricultural inple- ments which the factories of this coun-
 try turn out each year. These labor saving devices permit of 8 far greater cultivation of the land with less out lay of energy. operating in the same way in whatever branch of agricul- ture or whatever season they are ap- piled, from the time the ground is broken until the crops are housed. What dependence is placed upon the American manufactures is indicated by the fact that forty million dollars worth of agricultural implements were exported from the United States to foreign countries in the past year. This is a tenfold increase in two de- cades and means a wonderful boom to agriculture.
 All the world apparently buys Amer ican agricultural implements. Mowers and reapers exported last year went to more than 75 countries and col onies while other classes of agricul- tural implements were widely distrib- uted in the years export trade. Europe alone took 21 million dollars worth, South America nine and North Amer ica eight. Russia is the largest single buyer of our manufactures in that class having taken approximately ten million dollars worth, against seven to Argentina and the same amount to Canada. with France and Germany taking about three millions each. Now CTS and reapers lead in the classih- cation of agricultural implements their valuation being about 21 million while blows and cu1tiyators reach about seven million. Russia seeks the most oF "a o11 and Canada are the leaders in the buying of blows and cu1tivators It is the steady improvement and the high degree of perfection which they have attained which gives the Amer fcan product this trade.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11
coNNEcTIcur SCHOOLS.

Connecticut takes pride in it's schools and it has reason to from the results which are obtained and yet there is further justification for it in the com panative study of the public school system in orty-eigIlt states which has just been issued by the division of edu- cation of the Russell Sage Foundation for the purpose of informing each state of the experiences of every other one for their guidance in the matters of educational legislation. It Is there fore important to know that Connecti- cut ranks high ampong the other states of the nation Its rank is:
 Third in per cent. of school popu1a- ton enrolled in public and private schools as against those not in any school.
 from all sources.
 Fourth in value of public school nreuertv per child of school age.
 Tenth in amount of annual expendi- ture for school purposes per child of school age
 Second in average days of school per child of school age
 Fifth in average number of days public schools were kept open and av- craze attendance.
 Twenty third in amount expended TOT SCHOOLS TOT 0dCA $4uV O1 SStihdtSO wealth.
 Twenty-e eighth in cost of one days schooling for one child in public schools.
 Nineteenth in proportion of high school pupils to elementary pupils.
 Twelfth in amount of average sRl- ary of public school teachers.
 Fifth on the rank of states in each of the ten educational features.
 Connectfcut's interest in education has been one of long standing and it Is evident from the significant com parfsons that it is doing magnificent work in that direction: Too much at- tention cannot be given to the schools for the future welfare of the country and whatever can be given through legislation or financial assistance is in the proper direction for maintaining their position.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11
THE EXEMPTION CLAUSE.

When Prof. Emory R. Johnson ad-
 dressed the Western Society of Engi- neers he made it plain that his opinion concerning the canal act and the reg ulations which this country should provide concerning the Panama canal had not changed. He has always ad- vocated that all ships passing through the canal should pay their way and that the voting of the additional sub- sidy to American shipping. the first being that no foreign vessel can com pete in coastwise traffic, was not need ed and should not have been voted. He believes now that the best way to ad- just matters is to remove that toll exemption clause from the canal act. If it is eventually to come to that question. it will be unquestionably the best policy to do 1t on our own initia- tive rather than approach 1t after 1t has gone through the process of ar bitration and there been decided that it is the just thing to do.
 Because of the great amount of time and thought through investigation which Prof Johnson has given to the question, The Boston Transcript be- 1ieves that his statements coming from such a thoroughly well-informed source are much more to be trusted for our guidance than any congress siona1 action based upon the flip prem ise: The canal is ours; we built it and we have a right to do what we will with our own,'" and especially so since 1t is at a time when the government is actively employing it's power to regulate trusts and monopolies and punish combinations in restraint of trade, congress has taken action which gives an already profitable monopoly still greater favors.'
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11


 tWritten Specially fer The Bu1letin) ris an III wind that blows no body seod That is an old saying, but h4sss can such wind as visited our es1 Tern coast line a few days ago, do gc&% ta anyone. We heard of wreck s3kud disaster following in it's path I'd all who had friends on the water &sE that time feared for their safetyf Such experiences have given
 use tt many poem and story of thrfllf4 Interest, and whether the
 scene Iee fishing smack or steamer
 Titan the perila of those who go
 down Q the deep in ships strikes
 home &o the hearts of all who give
 the e#5ect any thought.
 Hs5& after all the sea a-faring fola OK
 danx of the stormy wind. and ev-
 cry h#mles on our New England coast
 bears estimony to some tragedy or
 the seS. The little cluster of houses
 fofmi 9s the village of Seabright. on
 the Maine cosst was no exception to
 this rule. There dwelt a community
 of honest, humble and happy fisher
 men ard their families, content to spend their lives where life began, and deeming 1t no hardship to brave
 the storms which sometimes made their vocation perilous.
 Among them dwelt a strange char acteT, Winifred Sayles, Wild Winnie they called her, the only child of an old couple, Well-known in that region
 and Thoroughly respected wherever known. From childhood the wind swegs cliff. at whose foot the village ThitHer she roanned. be the weather fair or fos1l, and the wilder the wind, the more pleasure was there for her. When the byseze swept in strongly from the sea- she greeted it with peals of laughter and when it shriel1ed and moaneds over the coming of the storm, her fmpish screams of delight were heard above the bowling of the gale So she grew up in their midst, a child of nature, useless for all maid enly toll at home. but wise in all things to be learned out-of-doors
 She loved the sea. too, and it's chances for adventure No one was and management of boat. No swim mer could out-do her in speed or en- durance Many a fine string of fish did she furnish for. the table at home, above the village afforded her de- light to be found nowhere else. There her girlish form could be described, sharply outlined against the sky, as she stood facing the stormy heavens, and shading her eyes with her hand as she eargerly scanned the angry wa ters spread out to her view. Was any vessel in danger or in need of help, down she rushed to the village to give and her own strength was freely given in aid of those in need.
 One wild day in November found her at her post of duty on the cliff. The early morning had bid fair for a pleasant day, and many of their men had gone out for a days fishing, but warned by the threatening clouds and rising wind they were to be seen try ing to reach the harbor before the storm broke. As Winnie's sharp eyes swept over the wild waters, she saw many of their craft coming toward shore. Most of them had turned to- wards home in time to elude the tempest, but far out there were still those who had been tempted to de- lay until their incoming was source of danger to them and cause of apx-
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

Any effective warning against sin is not against sin in general but against certain sins in particular. The sin that doth so easily beSet us, Is what the apostle called it. Men may keep almost the whole law but offend con- stant1y and grievously in some single requirement..
 There are honest, industrious and faithful people who seem candidates for sainthood till we are disil1usioned some day to discover that they have frightful and ungoverned tempers. There are good tempered people, even in disposition, who are habitually slip shod and lazy. They never get ruffied but they never make any chips fy.O may be warn-hearted and generous, but addicted to certain coarse vices. One may be above repriach as regards morals but still be 'ictly regular, fauitiIy faultless. splendidly nu1l.''
 It is almost amusing at times to see how people will give themselves airs over freedom from faults to which they have no natural bent. They are multitude who
 Compound for sins they are inclined By damning those they have no mind
 ] to-"
 A man may thank God that he is no spendthrifht like his neighbor, Jones: but 1t is surely small improvement on Jones for his critic to be so tight of purse that lads make him a byword in the street. He who fatters himself that he does not drink liquor may not always fatter himself that he governs his tongue.
 One may congratulate himself that he is no hypocrite, but 1t might be in order to ask him what ideal he ever cherished or what burden he ever Sh6uid0red, It Is perhaps no worse to attempt more 1tety than ono can car
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

Look well to your weak spot. Your battle is to be fought out there. A est link. You are no stronger than your power of resistance to your favor ite sin. Is it temper, avarice, jealousy, laziness, impurity, untruthfulness? No matter what 1t is you are set to mass your forces and win out at that point alone
 It Is a victory worth while when you can repulse a real assault. That day is red-lettered on which you have spanned your fingers at your own par tfcular devil. Men about you are doing 1t every day. They are wringing the necks of genuine temptations. They are holding their weakest moral out posts. They are winning brevets in the battle of life and preparing at the end for honorable discharge.
 THE PARSON.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11
Every Little Olive TabIet Has q Movement
 All It's Own

Your doctor will tell you ninety per cent of all sickness comes from inac- tive bowels and liver. pr. Edwards, a well known physician in Ohio, per fected 3 vegetable compound mixed with olive oil. to act on the liver and for years.
 Olive Tablets, the substitute for ca1o- mel, are gentle in their action. yet that exuberance of spirit, that natural buoyancy which should be enjoyed by everyone, by tonfng up the liver and clearing the system of harmful im- puritteS.
 loo and 25c per box
 The Olive Tablet Co., Columbus, 0.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

Florida is pointing her finger at California and inquiring why her rights to the frosted orange crop should be disregarded.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

The elevator, the poor mans flying machine, far outdistances the death record in aviation. With the thousands in use people fail to realize the 6Sn- ger from them attributable to Ser sonal negligence.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

While we are considering the re- striction of immigrants it is a notice- able fact that with 100000 going from this country to Canada last year the dominion isn't bothering with any It, eracY test.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

The New York musical genius who killed his mother and then committed suicide because his mother refused to give him his mandolin was no prodigy, Ho was d lunatie.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

How desperate the efforts are to dis credit justice in the Becker trial is indicated Icy the fact that efforts are being made in Ireland to prove that Justice Golf is over 70. He is 65, but should he have been a hundred if doesn's indicate that Becker failed to get fair trial.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

The Connecticut progressives are en- rolled as assistants to the democrats a part they effectually played on cleo tion day.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

There IS nothing iH the actions af th6 English suffTa ge5tes which eiaaf= aeteTiEss tfaszsa as geed citizens, Is say nothing ef their failure to aaai- ify as worthy of the ballot
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

opium habit. Perhaps that is why there is such a rush to obey the edict that trousers must give way to skirts.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

The residents of AdrianopIe would be happy to have Turkey cease fits policy of delay, meet the inevitable and allow them to get something to eat
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

The weather man seems to have caught the Spirit of the January clear ance sales and ts getting rid of varied stock.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

The real progressive principles seem to lie in the support of the democrats and yet both old parties are reaction ary.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

William Rockefeller is threatened with strangl1ation if he speaks. but he might sifa1Se his head instead of making the customary response 1T dea't refnanabsr."
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

The St. Louis boy who Is having puppy skin grafted on his burned legs will need no woo1en stockings after a year or two.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

While Mayor Gaynor thinks Waldo nas done splendid work in the New York police department. Father Kniek= erbocker is rightly inclined ta the be- lief that it couldn't have been much worse.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

Arbitration is to be used for the settlement of the demands of the f1re- men upon the railroads for more pay It is sensible decision. far better than striking.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

Bristol has taken warning and in. creased it's reservoir capacity It is the wise city which moves in time
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11
SUNDAY MORNING TALK
THE HEEL OF ARcHlLLEs.

According to the legend Thetis did not do a thorough job when she dipped her son in the magical waters of the River Styx The lad went under en- tireIy except for the heel by which his mother held him. In her excitement Thetis overlooked that. Here alone Achilles was left vulnerable and it was an arrow from the bow of the Trojan Paris that found this single un- protected spot and cost the Greeks their greatest hero.
 Most of us were dipped about as Achilles was. The bath was not a com p1ete one. Through temperament and training we are immune from most of the shots of the enemy, but not from all. Most of the arrows of tempation fall harmless from our triple-plated mail But our armor has certain joints through which shaft will pierce if rightly directed.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

Happy thought for today; 1t viii be possible te determine within the HeKt tive naeaths whether there will ss aHy. NintGH
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11
THE THAMES NATIONAL BANK.

NorWich. Conn. Dec. 9, 1912
 The annual meeting. of the Stock holders of this Bank. for the election of Directors and the transaction of such other business as may legally come before them. is hereby called to be held at their Banking House on Tuesday. Jan- If. 1913. at Il o'clock dec2sd CHARLES w. GALE. Cashier.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

There is more or less opposition to the tight skirt but it looks as if fashiohn would be the victor
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

Surgery as a means of reforming criminals nas received a setback. The patient has returned t6 his bad habits tFiai
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

ry than to live as an absolute moral quitter making no pretense at virtue.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Turkey may be holding off for thu last edition of the Atlas makers
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

IR China 3 #eaaaR has been shst fer aisRbeEiHs the eFder te steR the
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11
An Editor Proposes.

NH IoiIOF FropOSSS.
 The Winsted (Ct.) correspondent has reported that a Winsted widow found S90,000 in her late husbands suit case. Oh. winsome Winsted widow, wilt thou? = Louisville Courier Journal
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

nothing unless you are sure you have
 something to say that is agreeable or worth while. Idle jabbering is very likely to be nisinterpreted, and to lead to trouble Those who work their sus- picions into words and give voice to them are in a business which bodes good to no one. The world is very much more interested in what we know than what we think, unless our thoughts are well founded.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

Perhaps that which makes the aver age boy not want to do what his par ents are willing he should, is just what makes the average man decline to do what his family or friends think 1t would be better for him to do. I will do what have a mind to do, still claims priority It doesn't matter if that was what made Cain an outcast, and has made a good part of the peo- pie miserable in every age since The average person does not distinguish between the freedom fraught with peril and the freedom which affords pros perity and delight. The fu1crum of most folks work is their determine ton to have their own way if il leads to the devil. The only joy which can possibly come from ones having his own way is to have It the right way to have it any way Is usually disap- pointing and always painful. The measure of our ignorance-it Is a true measuFe-is the damage we do to our selves through willfulness.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-11

# we ali realized how much we say has to do with how we fare we should be less Ioquacious. It. never pays to talk unless one talks right. It has been said that most of life's friction is due to a well oiled tongue" It is won derful how some people just like to make a noise with their mouth. All such would have been improved by having been trained to use the har- monicum. If they made music 1t would not bring them into such disrepute. Producers of discord should always have a care. It Is a good rule to say
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-08
CONFERENCE OF
FARMERS CLUB
BIG THREE-DAY MEETING WILL
BE HELD AT LANGDoN-AN
ELABORATE PROGRAMME.

Langdon, N. D., March 8.-The
farmers club movement has received
considerable impetus in Cavalier coun
now being made for a big three-day
conference, which will be held here
March 10. IA and is.
To date nineteen of these clubs have
been formed and are actively engag-
ed in furthering the objects for which
they were organized. They are locat-
ed in community centers and are not
only becoming effective Or promoting
the social life of the country side, but
are discussing problems affecting their
conditions. The membership Of these
clubs, ranging from twelve or forty in
number, is represented in each district
of the most progressive farmers in the
neighborhood and If properly directed
will in time prove the means of fur
thering their interests, financially and
otherwise,
A county organization of clubs is
now under way and will be perfected
at a county farmers school to be held
at Langdon March IS, IA and Is. This
organization should unity the work of
the various clubs to such an extent
that they will be in position to take up
problems common to the entire coun-
ty.
The programme for the first annual
conference of the farmers clubs, or
ganized by the Better Farming $50
citation of Cavalier county, which is TO
be held in the courtroom at the court
house in Langdon beginning On Thurs
day afternoon, March 10. and contin-
uing in session until Saturday, March
10, at noon, has been completed, and
is one of the most elaborate of it's kind
At eight different points in the coun-
ty farmers schools have been held by
the field agents of the association CO.
operating with the local farmers clubs,
Discussions have been held concerning
local problems in connection with live
stock, tiHage methods, alfalfa, corn and
other topics. These schools have had
an attendance OF from fifty to zoo
farmers, and have been invaluable in
creating interest in a better system
of farming and a demand for more
livestock on the farm. Several new
features of the work among which may
be mentioned the formation Of a Milton
Boy Farmers club, organized for the
specific purpose of testing seed grains
in that vicinity and the cooperative
! raising of trial fields of Marquis wheat
| by the clubs, are conspicuous this year
Interest has been aroused in severa
districts in different classes of. live
| stock, especially in dairy stock anc
hogs. Several pure bred sires ano
| some breeding stock have been ship
ped in as a result. and a proposition
is now under way. to bring a carload
or more of high grade Holstein heifers
A new sentiment has been aroused BY
the realization of the necessity of rails
ing stock of some kind in connection
with their farm operations, which bids
fair to insure a permanent system II
Cavalier county.