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Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10
EASTERN coNNEcTIcUT ACTIVE.

As has characterized his position since assuming the presidency of the New Haven system, Howard Elliott, in his address before the banquet of the Eastern Connecticut Development committee thoroughly impressed his hearers with his presentation of the transportation needs of this section of the country as well as the country at large. It came at a time when the road is seeking an important change in its charter. 8 change which takes into consideration the fact that it is a corporation which has grown beyond the confines of one state and that it ought not to be bound by cer- tain restrictions made during it's early existence when it was essentially a Connecticut corporation. It is perfect ly apparent that New England and the New Haven system are so closely bound together that they must be con- sidered together. Each must look to the other for improved conditions and through the harmony of their action are the best results going to be ob- tafned for all,
 President Elliott since his connec- tion with the road has sincerely back ed up his oft-repeated statement that
 
 The past mistakes must be treated as such and it is but just in the endeavor to return it to it's former position that the road should have the cooperative action of all those directly or indirect ly concerned. This can be done by eliminating the past and considering the future on the broad basis of fair play
 There can be no question but what New England needs the road and the road depends upon New England. Each can boost the other and every such enthusiastic together movement as that of Thursday night cannot fail to bring much desired results. Let there be more of them.
 Eastern Connecticut is only small part of New England, but it has shown that it is alive to its interests.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10
MORE CORN.

Ohio doesn't rank as one of the lead ing corn production states and neither is it doing all that it can to obtain the output of which it is capable In that 1t is like a large number of the other states of the union which are neglecting their opportunities in thGs regard, but it Is in 8 fair way tc show steady improvement in that di- rection if the advice which it is re- ceiving is followed . ,f--
 Believing that increased grain pro duction Is capable of becoming fa1 greater asset to the community than any number of new industrial concerns Director Riddle of the Lima Chamber of Commerce is directing his efforts to creating a greater interest in boys corn growing contests and in making a statewide appeal points to the fact that within the past three years the yield of grain within the trading radius of that city has been increased five bushels per acre and that this increase is valued at s2,o00,0oe annually.
 As is frequently pointed out, it is his view that what Lima can do other sections of the state can equal. There can be no question but what there is g. large amount of tillable soil in Ohio from which inadequate returns are be- ing received. Much of the land could be made to produce more under in- tensive farming and with the glowing example furnished by Lima he Is jus tthed in his undertaking to have sim liar methods applied to the entire state.
 Unfortunately there is not a greater interest given to the support of in- creased corn production. not only by the boys. but by every farmer There Is no reason why this section of Con- -necticut should not be producing prac- tically all the corn that it requires, but it isn't and as long as such a situa- tion exists there is an excellent sug- sgestton for eastern Connecticut in this Ohio endeayor
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10
REMOVING THE WEDGE.

With the reported withdrawal of German forces for the reinforcement of the Austrians who are hard press cd by the Russians in the Carpathians, the allies are resuming their activity in the west. They have demonstrated their ability to break through the Ger man defense at Neuve Chapelle, even though that point of vantage was gain ed at a tremendous cost and along the entire line from the coast to the Voeges there is action which indicates the result of the preparations which have been underway during the winter for the waging of stronger offensive in the spring.
 It can hardly be believed that the
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OTHER VIEW POINTS

With eggs at twenty-three cents a dozen and pork products almost down to normal in the good old living days of a quarter of a century back, does not bring startling headlines in the newspapers. It is a rising market by the way, causing publicity, just like Wall street at this time, when prices are going up. There is some thing to write about, as the saying is, when prices boom; but when they go down, the dear public keeps as silent as the proverbial sphinx.-Middletown Press.
 The chief thing that protrudes from the returns in the Hartford election is that not quite half of the voters in the city felt enough interest in the election to go to the polls and register their beliefs regarding the question at is- sue. The next is that for good and sufficient reasons to the rank and file 1t was determined that Hartford is not yet ready for the alderman at large idea. It prefers to have its legislators picked by wards as at present and a two to one vote approximately testi- fled to the repugnance to the at-large sort Of statesmen.-Ansonia Sentinel
 A dress suit becomes some men but 1t does not look well on others. The
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10

Of course there are many country women, just as they are many city, women, who are not up to date in dress, or in housekeeping, or in social pursuits, but 1t is doubtful if farmers wives are really as much in the dark as some recent articles would have one believe. In recent years there has been a marked improvement, due to the slow, but steady turning back to the farm of families that were reared in the city. Social competition Is just as keen in the rural regions as in the congested municipalities and there is no wife more observing of her neighbors ways and methods and possessions than the wife of the Amer ican farmer. They do not deserve to be put in a false light. even through the inadvertence of uplfft workers Waterbury Republican.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10

It took a western poet to discover that '+freckles are the daffodils of the complexion;" and what a soothing balm that is to countless thousands who have wished they were blondes; and what knock to the freclkless thous- ands who have thanked God they were not as other were. And this poetic genius finds the darnask cheek is often the flush of fever or the flash of rouge, while the daffodil in form is so per- feet 1t might be added to g. Greek picture without marring it; that freckes are children of the wind and
 symbols of perfect health. Words worth came near discovering this when he wrote: And then my heart with pleasure fills and dances with the daffodfls." A fine coat of summer tan has cost the ladies a pretty penny of late, but the wind will put the daffo-
 dils upon their cheeks for nothing, The freckle which has been counted a blemish since the days of mother Eve, and been butter-nilked and pouiticed from view. is now considered as beau tiful as the stars that shine and twinkle along the Milky way. The girls
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10

ment was not of the kind which is brilliant and rapid. But when at last his promotion, got him among those wiIo were directing large affairs they had no doubt about the man he was.
 It was in the year of the Agadir at- fair, 1911, that Pau was offered the honor of generalissimo. But Pau re- fused it. He declared that the post should be given to one who was young enough to leave his mark on the army. Joffre was appointed.-London News.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10
JoHre,

Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre was born in January, 1852, the son of an artisan. He had talent for mathe- matics, but a native dislike for com position, either in his own language or German. Yet he steadily perfected himself as an engineer soldier, and became something of a pundit in Ger man military literature.
 He was 13 years a captain, an ex-
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10

A curfew Is to be established this week in Philadelphia for, children un- der fifteen years of age. Any such children found in the streets after Il o'clock will be taken into custody and kept at the house of detention over night. Their parents will then be asked to explain why the children were out so late. Many cities have tried curfew laws but they have in varia.bly failed because it was difficult
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10

may never be less.
 Most folks who set out to reform a. boy have compulsory scheme and 1t seldom works. To direct the energies of boy right he must first be made sure Of your honest interest in him; and then you must get into his game not try to induce him to abandon his and play yours. The big brother move ment for wayward little men in city sreets begins with love, proceeds with love and ends In love. And you will find this to be the course of every true reform on earth. The Christ. method was not to compel but to attract. Com polling arouses a repellant spirit. This needs no argument here for those we would compel give notice they prefer to retire. If we nave something of value to share with people, boy or man, they will come. Compulsory reforms, compulsory medication. compulsory sal vation are all a horse of the same color. What man delights in is free dom, and freedom Is what attracts oil ages. We all need be led by kindly light, and this light is free so there is no excuse for not using it.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10
Things to Worry About.

If the chautauqua salute is unhy gienic, as the assistant health officer of the District of Columbia affirms, the next discovery in science will be that a deserving Democrat needs his job.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10
OnIv a Few of Us

Dr. Smaller Mathews says the Japa- nese are pained at She unfriendly at titude of the American nation. Some body should tell them that California. and Hobson aren't the whole show Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
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to fix responsibility. Unless the pres ent scheme proposed for Philadelphia is followed up by a more or less per sonal canvass, it, too, will go-the way of all the others and become a mere flash in the pan for civic righteous neSs.-Meriden Record.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10
LEARNING THE NEW STEPS

the youngsters. All the new dances, provided they are properly taught, have enough pretty steps to delight the hearts of the boys and girls, they are easy enough for even the awkward ones to acquire and they are good, clean exercise for old and young.
 Now that so many of the schools are taking up instruction in dancing, in connection with regular gymnastics there are fewer expressions of horror on the part of those good. but too easily shocked people, who picture all dancers as being of about the same moral degredation as was the daugh- ter of Herodias, whose dance has left 8 bad impression for all time! As class exercise, dancing engenders courtesy, ease of manner, grace of body, and joy of mind. Because a few vulgar persons-of the sort who would make vicious a dance as sim pie and innocent as the old Virginia Reel, or the Lanciers-display their savagery on the floor, as, presumably, they would if they were in a church, dancing, per SC, does not merit the sweeping condemnation of those who often censure what they do not under stand.
 The Dictionary is useful book; but there are plenty of bad words in it. if you are looking for them!
 Of course one of the big secrets of the popularity of the modern dance is such a fact as age. Dancing has been proved not only valuable as pre- server of health, but of youth. In stead of depending on massage and osteopathy, people take their own exercise, find it more agreeable, more economical and more rational.
 Then, too, as one of the leading ex ponents of the dance points out, There was less champagne sold last year than in any one of the ten prev ious years. People who dance, drink less;. and when they drink at all, they exercise, instead of becoming torpid around a card-table." So the world is going to continue counting "1, 2, 8, 4" and doing the Lame Duck and the rest, when such an authority as Dr. Chas. L. Dana, for instance, writes: Dancing, including gymnagtic danc- ing and folk dancing, under proper conditions and limitations, is one of the best exercises for persons of all ages. It is especially adapted to the temperament, physique and dress of women"
 1t may not be known to many critics that even today, in the famous cathedral of Seville, Spain, during Holy Week, there is the Dance of the Seises, performed before the high aI- tar after the manner of the dance of the Isrealites before the Ark of the Covenant. A piece of carpet covers the marble floor, on either side of which stands a row of boys from to 12 years of age. At a signal, the soft music of violins breaks the profound stiffness and the boys proceed to ex- ecute several graceful figures, finally singing, like a choir of angels. Ira dition has no record of the year in which this ancient, time-honored GUS tom originated.
 THE DICTAGRAPH.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10

If the Prinz Eftel's commander sim ply wanted to keep the allies vessels guessing he succeeded admirably, but it is quite evident that there was full recognition of the impossibility of getting away.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10
Ready for War.

Italy is already for the war unless sine discovers a bolt that needs tight ening before the signal is given Rochester Herald.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10

It is evident from certain legisla- tive reports that the war news isn't the only thing that is purposely and biasedly censored.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10

A Pennsylvania man, kept awake by cats, kicked one off his back porch, slipped and broke his back. The moral is to put cotton in your ears.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10

That failure of expected relief to arrive" appears to be another part of the Eitel commanders well sustained bluff.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10

F The man on the corner says: Just because truth isn't a bomb some peo- pie insist upon handling it careless 1v
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10

With both sides claiming victory in Mexico, it is no different than is be- ing done by the supposedly clever press bureaus of Europe.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10

It is quite evident from the war re- ports that somebody is wrong, but it doesn't appear to make any particu- lar difference to the victorious army,
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10

The porters in the Pullman hear ings have been bearing down on the fact that it is better to give If you expect to get along comfortably,
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10

The woman who killed her brother to save him from drink has the same idea as to the kind of a foe it is as David I1lo$d-George.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10

/, China is Justified in considering whether the time is ever going to ar rive when 1t will not be experiencing someone's heel upon tits neck.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10
EDITORIAL NOTES

It hasn't come yet. but we can ex- pect most any day the jitney in the submarine service.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10

The creation of a new and smaller board of agriculture to take over du- ties now entrusted to the cattle com missioner, the dairy and food com missioner, etc, is unquestionably a wise step. So too the plan to give increased powers and respons1- bilities to the state board of health, by conferring on it the duties now attended to by. such boards of the examiners of barbers and embalmers. The registrars of osteopathists and various other schools of practitioners, etc. All these matters relate to the public health and if we have a state board of health 1t should have au- thority in all these directions.-Hart- ford Post.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10

short man who wears a long tailed coat is apt to cause comment in pub lie and if it is his first appearance in that kind of a rig he is aware of his position himself. He shows 1t by his inability to so adjust himself that he can tell just what to do, especially when he feels the tails striking his legs. He is often tempted to ascertain just what is there and his search is seldom conducted without being ob- served and some inquiries made as to the trouble. Then he will try to pass it off as a joke and grin. The specta- tors usually grin too.-New Britain Herald.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10

The Dictionary is useful book; but there are plenty of bad words in it. if you are looking for them!
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10

may now honestly pray their freclkles may never be less.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10

To them, as We arc reminded, danc-
 ing means q stretching of the mental as we'll as the physical muscles, some thing different from the dull daily round, something for which the desire is almost as natural as the desire for food and sleep. To this end, the the dance promoters are advocating decent social centers. where the fath- CTS and mothers as we'll as the younger children can go, to look on and enjoy the, healthy relaxation of
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10

A dress suit becomes some men but 1t does not look well on others. The
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10

No person can work all the time If workers dance, they fling aside brooding moodiness, forget the sor. did things of life, the sluggish blood pulses through their veins, they sec only the brighter side of existence Advocates of dancing claim that the best course in the interest of morals Is to encourage this pastime, as 6 healthful exercise as well as a ffttine recreation.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-03-29

The fact that President Wilson
came out second best with the senate
N the scrap over appointments has
brought about u decided change in
the method of distributing patronage.
The New York Herald says that ap-
pointments will be made hereafter as
a rule, on recommendation of county
committees. In considering the wishes
Of the county committeeman rather
than those of the state committee
men, the presidents friends believe
they vii! encourage the party work
ers in ther ural districts and thereby
create an enthusiasm that will have
marked effect in elections to be held
in the future. In the past it has been
a source of complaint that the smaller
and less important Democratic leaders
have not been sufficiently consulted
and they have come to feel that they
did not receive the measure of recoy-
milton that was commensurate with
their party service. The real facts
are that the president has encounter
ed swarm of objections throughout
the entire country and is now deter
mined to get near the people. 1t will
be remembered that the only Durango
appointment so far made turned down
all the county committees and all the
leading Deocrats of this southwest
section and the same policy pursued
in other cities and states caused a
fight on the president that was doing
him great harm. By this new policy
the presidents friends feel the ad-
ministration will be able to build up
Democratic organizations in rural dis
tricts. In this recognition, as well as
change of policy, the administration
has ascertained that the program first
inaugurated-that the president was
the whole government, legislative as
well as executive, with the power of
appointment without regard to in
dorsements-will not work in a free
mans country. 1t also indicates that
the president is becoming more polite
as the time approaches for the next
presidential election,
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-03-29

1t is to be hoped that every citi-
zen will ge the clean up fever. Back
yards and alleys should be cleaned
up without delay and the city made
as presentable as possible. Already
the tourist season has set in, many
families en- route to the California
expositions have visited Durango. AS
the season advances we may look for
increasing numbers. A neat and at
tractive city always attracts favor
able consideration. Let Durango put
her best foot forward.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-03-29
THE RULES OF WAR.

There is just one clear conclusion
which may be drawn from the replies
of the European governments to the
United States protest against the
blockade of Germany.
The United States complaint was
that this blockade is a violation of the
rules of international law.
The reply of the foreign powers is
in effect that the change in naval
warfare wrought by the deadly sub
marine justiiies the blockading of
Germany by methods hitherto unrec-
ognized in international law.
1t is difficult to see how the Unit
ed States government is going to get
around this contention.
There have ben few great wars in
which new situations. did not arise
calling either for most elastic inter
probation of existing laws, or else de-
manding the establishing of entirely
new precedents under which to meet
an existing situation.
The pending war is without his
torie parallel in multitude of direc-
tions and it is not matter of sur
prise that the mighty powers involv-
ed should conclude that they are JUS
tilted in adopting any program nee
essary which promises victory-re-
gardless of what the international
oracles of departed day may have
proclaimed.
If the allies conclude that by the
blockade method starvation pro-
gram can force German surrender
then that blockade will be maintain
ed. So far as the rights of the Unit
ed States are concerned the allies will
say-"Those are matters which can
be settled later in court Of arbitra-
ton and award"
To date the American government
has gained absolutely nothing as the
result of its protest. And at this
writing there is no sign of gain in
sight, says the Des Moines Capital.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-03-29
FOREIGN MISSIONS.

"Unless something is done the
world will be horrified-if the world
has not already lost its capacity for
horrors-by the suffering of the
Poles,' says Herbert Corey, the well
known wal correspondent
The United States responded nobly
to the call Of sufferers in Belgium
and other localities laid to waste by
the European war. The work still
goes on. States in every part of the
union gave in money, flour and food
Durango added its share
Indications are that America will
be forced soon to respond to n far
greater appeal for aid. The horrors
of the war have increased ten-fold
since that first cry was sent out that
the Belgians were starving. This time
it is Poland pointing to its women
and children who are without bread.
Mr.. Corey writes that one million
Poles face death by starvation.
A recent bulletin in eastern churches
contained call for money to be used
foreign missions. 1t pointed out that
Protestant church members last year
gave II cents per member for work in
the foreign fields. Contrasted to that
was per capita expenditure OF S12.91
annually for tobacco and $21.50 for
liquor.
What greater missionary work
could there be than to feed the inno-
cent victims of Europe's war? The
women and children are innocent vic
tins by any logic that is fair and
right. Would it not be well for the
people of Colorado to prepare for a
second calf Five per cent Of the
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-03-29

The citizens of Philadelphia evil
IDENTIFY believed that Billy Sundays eff
forts were worth while as they made
him u present of something over fifty
thousand dollars. There are some who
thing that Sunday pockets this mon
ey buc~they are the ones who are
not well informed as every dollar he
receives outside of his living expenses
goes for charitable purposes and the
support of many who are engaged in
spreading the gospel to say nothing of
the assistance rendered in educating
religious workers. Owing to the pub
licity given TO Mr.. Sunday he is in
daily receipt of hundreds of letters
asking money for charity and after
investigation all worthy requests re-
ceive recognition in some manner.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-03-29

The watchful waiting policy of the
administration is going to play havoc
with the binding twine for this years
crop Of wheat and oats in the United
States and Canada, as Yucatan citi-
zens report that Carranza officials
burning large stores of sisal hemp in
the port of Progresso, thereby dis
playing the general cussedness of the
outfit the administration attempted to
assist into office in place of Huerta.
The Carranza- Villa-Zapata gang are
the worst set of cut-throats that ever
infested any nation.