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Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06
CHILD ABANDONMENT.

s Sentenced to prison for two and a aalf to five and half years for the assertion of their children the Eaeff- aers of New York have been given plenty of time to think over the evil IT their actions, and the judge who imposed the sentence has taken q sEaiseworthy stand for the discour- lgenent of such crime.
 It is bad enough when parents neg ect children and permit them to drift
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06


 Babson's statistical organization,
 Wellesley Hills. Mass. Board, 142
 pages. Price $1.
 Since the issue of the present World conflict is essentially commercial. it is most important to give the economic causes of the war the foremost con sideration. Perhaps no American is better qualified to deal with this mat ter than Roger W Babson. '<EIis re- markable experience in the practical study of the Worlds industrial and economic problems says Edwin D. Mead, Director in Chief of the World Peace Foundation, and his powerful penetration behind secondary ques- tions to the actual gist of things give to his presentation of the case most imperative reality and pith" One of the most striking features of the book Is series of twelve charts which show graphically the justification for Ger rnaay's demands, and England's de- sires to continue her control of the seas. This book is most timely in that 1t offers a practical solution fer perm anet peace and shows what part of the United States may play In bring ilE if abort
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

Let us reflect now that the horizon IS fact in nature IS matched by spiritual horizon that is d fact in our lives. Here, too, au opaque curtain cannot peer beyond it. Only trouble results from our eager attempts to do so. We try to live the days before they come; we cross bridges before they are even in sight. We add to the worries of the present all the possible worries of the days ahead We shoulder three kinds of trouble at once; that which has come to lis, that which is present experience, and that which we anticipate for the future. All this useless anxiety results from attempting 10 pry up d horizon the God has mercifully set before our hu- man vision. It is an old truth, ap- piled, however, by about one in ten of us mortals, that We live but one moment at a time. Life is dealt out to us in very small sect: -Ss. Each one of us Is shut up to a narrow re sponsibility in that he has only to do the work, seize the happiness and bear the pain of the present moment The moments yet to come one has no business with.
 The battle line of life is never widely extended. One is called rather to a Ions series of single engagements We meet the enemy not ma ssed, but
  keep continually bringing up our forces to beat him on whatever quar- ter of the field he appears, ultimate victory is bound to perch on our ban ners The life campaign is immensely simplfed when we view 1t in this light
 Masters in the art of living have learned to take short horizons. It IS only the next thing to be done that they try to do. Marcus Aurelius was 9 YsiSp old TO717at9 when 17n not disturb myself by thinking of the whole of thy life; but on every occa- sion ask myself, what is there in this that IS intolerable or past bearing? For thou wilt be ashamed to confess Remember that neither the past nor the future pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to very little if only thou circumscribest it, and chidest thy mind if it is unable to hold out against even this" Try 1t, my anxious brother, and sec if that hard situation cannot be borne, pro vtded no pain be imported into it from events past or events to come. The strongest back would break if we had to live a. month or a year at d time. But most of us, if we keep sweet and steady, can negotiate a minute at a. time, which is all we are required to do. It is the gospel of the short horizon.
 God broke our years to hours and
 days that
 Hour by hour
 And day by day
 Just going on a little way
 We might be able all along
 To keep quite strong.
 Should all the weight of life Be laid across our shoulders, and the
 future, rife
 With woe and struggle, meet us face
 to face
 At just one place.
 We could not go;
 Our feet would stop, and so
 God lays a little on us every day,
 And never, I believe, on all the
 way
 Will burdens bear so deep
 Or pathways lie so steep
 But we can go. if, by Gods power We only bear the burden of the hour.
 THE P4RsON.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

It would seem as though the only way to direct attention to this glar- ing inability to spell and to- bring about a reform, would be to arouse public sentiment to the indictment of a healthy sense of shame at poor spelling In other words, to seek to bring about a New Era, in which mis- spelling of common words will be ac- counted as much a. breach of propriety yes, of decency-as eating with ones knife, or wearing a soiled col lar
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

school and out People who hire stem ographers will groan at the incorrect ness of theor orthography. The schools will be accused of faulty teaching, lax methods, etc.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06
Sunday Morning Talk
"SHoRT HORIZONS"

The horizon is that line where the earth and the sky seem to meet. As one gazes off at tho ocean or at a landscape the horizon seems to mark the very edge of the world. We know that all kinds of human activity are going on beyond where the arch of heaven is let down to meet this earthly scene, but we know, too, how useless it is for Us to strain our eyes to behold it. We must be content with the scenes immediately before uS
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06
EDITORIAL NOTES

If it wasn't for the censor, facts might be stranger than fiction even in the war news
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

Toledo is changing the color of it's fire department apparatus from white to red. Who ever heard of an efficient fire department where the color wasn't red?
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

Every little rise in the price of granulated sugar demonstrates the great benefit the. consumer IS receiv- ing from the lowering of the duty on that commodity.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

The temperance of the Russell case in sachusetts makes it a. perennial as unwelcomed as the Thaw ease In New York.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

Those on the firing line of the snow ball brigade seldom realize in advance the damaging effects of return fire.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

President Wilson is beginning to re- alize what the public Has long felt the difficulty in getting the truth about Mexico.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

The hills of a city are today it's public playgrounds, and coasting pro- vides an eNhiIarating sport
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

The price Of four goes up without assistance, but it costs just as much to raise the dough.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

The man on the corner says: No man believes all he hears. but there is many a hard wrestling match trying to separate the truth from the fiction
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

If February has simply insisted upon our taking it's worst at the start it will be easier to become reconciIed to the situation.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

Not only public sentiment, and the schools could help in this regard; but the Grange and literary clubs might
 take up the matter of spelling bees, and exact some penalty from mem bers who would write the following words, which so many people un- blushingly mis-spell, using this form: neice, deiinate,
 Wendesday, Village, 5udiance, seperate, Philippines recommend. lead (for led) Judgement, guage, beautiful, boquet, 'buisnesS, pneumonia, diptheria, 1 and many more; but let these be cor reCted as beginning,
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

There are always a few who admit
 loanine money without taking mort gages but the great majority are very quiet on that point and as a result the
 assessors are kept in the dark and are denied even a chance to look the mat ter up. It is an interesting situation and may perhaps be considered of suf- dcient importance sometime for those who desire to reform our taxation
 laws to provide some means by which this question can be cleared up.-NeW Britain Herald.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

That the wouId-be snasller of the Nanceboro bridge didn't accomplish his self-imposed task wasn't the fault of his good intentions.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

The work of the fire department Tuesday night indicates that the pre- cautions taken against a repetition of the trouble experienced during the snow storms last winter have been ef- fectiEe. The chains worked sufficient
 ly well to encourage the public in the belief that unless abnormal conditions should rise against which no one could prepare, Meriden is as safe as any city having motorized fire depart
 ment Up to date the apparatus has justified all the claims made for it and that there have been no accidents worth mentioning shows that the driV
 CTS believe that oYerspeeding may not always be the surest way of reach ing fire-Meriden Record.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

The Hartford judge who picks a police court clerk because of other qualifications than political work, sets an example of considerable merit
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

The greatest annoyance to the pro- German Americans is the fact that this country persists in maintaining it's neutrality.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

It beats all how industrious some people can be who make a practice of giving advice. The raw material does not cost anything, so lazy people are often discovered working overtime at this occupation. It is strange, but those who most need an advisor them selves feel competent to advise those who need advice less. Advice is some thing a little of which goes d great ways: and something no one yeaTns for. He is q mighty good teacher who can live up to the precepts he teach es. No teacher finds it easy-feW lind 1t possible We all have habit of passing out advice in pound packages and of taking it in with a srimace al though the potion we take in is tiny. Sometimes the advisor ventures to direct those who need directing less than he does. Shakespeare says: Give every man thine ear; but few thy voice; take each mans censure, but reserve thy judgment"
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

throws them down. Most of the men who can take a drink or let it alone become besotted and die victims
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06
OTHER VIEW POINTS

Eastern cities are looking forward to the day, when the invasion of the jitney bus with it's five cent fare will become an accomplished fact. Street car nagnates may not greet 1t with loud cheers but to the army of strap flowers of spriuz.-Ansonia Sentinel
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

It is pity that so many per4ons
 still consider the use of a dictionary
 an indication of ignorance: Something
 to be done in secret and apologeticaI- ly. How hopeful would be the out
 look for errorless spelling, if some of those wise souls who haunt the libra ries, complaining that they cant find
 anything good to read", were to sus- pend reading novels for a month and memorize the correct spelling of six common words daily, meantime deVot- ing some time ot a study of the die tionary!
 Others are too slothful to consult that useful volume, when in doubt about a words correct form. School children grow tired as they look t the dictionary and consider its sizei if the Gideons, who are placing Bibles in every netel room in the land along another line, placing a pocket dictionary in the desk of every school pupil above the fourth grade, we will say, what a benefaction it would prOVet
 One weak speller reminds himself 1 of the correct way to spell piece, so as not to transpose i and c, by thinking, Die. pie; p-i-e-c-e piece of pie" If only a hundred thousand offenders more or less. would copy this trick ! nice; n-i-e-c-e. nice niece,' it might 1 help some to fix the correct form of this common but fearfully Inis-speiled word.
 When . fashionable young lady Haunting the newest Pillhox hat, the most sWa gger gown, highheeled boots, and the smartest Of fur sets, is not ashamed while away visiting, to write home, We arc having lovely staying here, ;, or when a lady Of Culture notice, please, that we write it with Q capital c-Wil see no impropriety in writing that the bride carried d shower 'boquet' of lilies and orchids, 1 it is really time that something was | done about this appalling massacre of orthography.
 No matter what taxes a person may pay, no matter what cylinder his car l is, or how fat his bank account, or his l rating as a member of the r. Els or in Bradstreet's, by his spelling ye shall know him.
 Though he be q social and financial and fraternal Goliath, he is boWled | over by such d puny David as writ | ing theirs, or 'aCknCWledgemen 1 or ''Cemetary'; and the man without a copper iu his ragged pocket has the | laugh on him, That is, of course, if the latter knows just why he laughs ! It is encouraging to notice that this very week the city of Boston and liar ward University professors have taken uD this matter of poor spelling, out l of patience with people who uis-speIl such common words IS necessity, ac- conImodation, which, their and there,
 miscellaneous and the like.
 THE DICTAGRAPH.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06
THE MAN WHO TALKS

To be satisfied with life we must be pretty well satisfied with our lot in life It is generally conceded that good health, sufficient money to meet the necessities, and an ample supply of true friends are the things which make life worth living, yet, many have lived without the first, with a meagre supply of the second, and a Friend, and found life more satisfying to the soul What is life? There is a thousand answers to that question, and perhaps not one better than that of Horace Bushnell who said: Every mans life is q plan of God and if man does not keep God in it. he must be dependent upon health and mon ey and company to give it some thing satisfying. Too many of us fail to make the divine plan complete, and at it's close we are ready to say with Stevenson: T have trod the upward and the downward slope; I have endured and done in days be- fore: ! have longed for all, and bid farewell to hope; I have lived and loved, and closed the door,
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

A law which brings the Chief Jus tice of the Supreme Court before the commission to protest against a pro posed extension of the authority of the commission is mighty conclusive evidence that the law is bad and that ed. As it exists today the Civil Service law is a menace to the best interests of the State-it is unbuSinesslike in it's provisions and efficient conduct of impossible. Regardless Of politics OF politicians, regardless of the outs who want to get in and the ins who want to stay this General Assembly should Service law. It is not safe and it is not sane to elect a. good man to an important office and then tie him hand and foot so that he can exer- else no discretion and authority in re- spect to the work the people pay for and have 8. right to expect will be well done.-New Haven Times-Leader..
 Progress toward consolidating the various business, industrial and civic organizations Of the city into a Cham Der of Commerce CT an enlarged Board of Trsd de is being made as rapidly as the circumstances of the case permit The great difficulty that must be over come in working out the details of such a consolidation, of course comes from the practical necessity of re- taining for many purposes, the indi- viduality of the constituent bodies while joining all for more effective ac- ton in all matters affecting the wei fare of the city as a whole. The Man ufacturers Association, the Business Mems Association and the Board of Trade, in so far as their activities are directed toward objects that primarily concern their own members, cannot be expected to delegate their functions to others. and it is not for the best interests of the city that they should. It will, however, be greatly to the ad- vantage of Bridgeport. in it's future growth and development, to have a single representative body competent to voice with authority the public sen timent of the city and devoted to promoting its welfare.-Bridgep Standard.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06
NEW BOOKS

The Future of World Peace. By Roger W. Babson. Published by Babson's statistical organization, Wellesley Hills. Mass. Board, 142 pages. Price S1.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

What a waste Of energy it is to say disagreeable things. Perhaps you have never thought that there is energy for a dozen explosions of laughter in a single outOurst of profanity, or that cutting remarks require more nerve than dozen pleasant greetings. There are only 26 letters and half as many punctuation npints in the biggest die tlonaIy, but when a master of lan- guage shoots you full of sharp words you feel as if you had been shot full of something worse than bullets, and they are much more distressing since the smart may never cease. The tongue that can shoot words at the rate of 150 a minute is as wonderful as the automatic machine that Seeds on brass wire and sDits out 500 tacks a minute If the flow of words $ pleasing and practical what a blessing they be, but if they are as pointed as Jacks is it any wonder they make wounds not readily healed?
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

Pride occupies very much more space in life than most folks think
 Many good men are proud of things other good men would be ashamed of Some men are proud of their ancestors and some are proud of their wifeis- re- lations. Some people are just as proud of what they lack as others are of what they have acquired. Pride leaves footprints if you do not think so. Great pride leaves the imprint of gross ig- r7orauce. Little brides cannot hide the little vanities that mark their trail. Pride is the cracker of craniuns and the filler of asylurus in this world. and Defoe discovered that Pride in the next world is the president of hell; hence, you see, he is Satan's first lieutenant
 And we are told none have more pride than those who think they have none. We are all in it. When Diogenes walk inS on the tidy bed Of Plato said: q tramPle on the pride of Platoi" But with greater pride" calmly observed Plato. ''Fhe proud have no friends in prosperity for they know no enc" said Sydney Smith. and none in adVersity for then nobody knows them"
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

The man who can take a drink or let it alone seems to be in no haste to prove his words. Such a man thinks he is speaking the truth when he is only giving color to a Authorization. He is like every other man who is cul- tivatfng a habit, not aware what grip the habit has on him. The first i'm pression a habit makes is that it is q plea asure-tl1e last, that it Is the master and you it's slave. There comes 8. day when these fellows who can take a drink or let it alone know they do not tell the truth. John Barleycorn makes them conscious he has gained the up- per hand when he has it, and in their hearts they know he is their master. They keep up the bluff until the enemy
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

and many more; but let these be cor reCted as a beginning!
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

Andrew Carnegie thinks we have reached an age when the heroes are those who save life, not those who de- stroy 1t. Such men have been the real heroes from the dawn of time, but his tory has given and will still give great est credit to the butchers. Tn history how small the men of the Red Cross corps look beside those who raised the lid and then began to rage Villages, make a burying ground of Europe and burdened all the countries with crip- pies, widows and orphans. The high brows in gold braid get credit in his tory, not the men of great souls who spend their lives in saving those who could not save themselves and in heal ing the ulcers which they had nothing to do with creating. The men who are destined to repair the damage that is being done today are greater than those who made their work a neces- sity.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

But with what might be called tho srbitrsriness of so many words in the English language, where analogy can not be depended upon to aid, learning to spell correctly by trick seems the only refuge.
 It may be a trick of contrast: as, for instance
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06
Jonah has to be credited with

Jonah has to be credited with hay ing told the greatest fish story ever told in this world, and strange to say the big fish caught him so he was never able to talk about the big fish that got away Jonah stood so well that he never was classed with Mupch5usen, although the 9,999.9 ,909 other men who have told fish stories in the 2,777 years since Jonah's time have all been considered sons of AnaniaS. Izaak Walton the father of modern anglers could cook fish better than he could talk about them, hence he never acquired any fame as a. teller of fish stories. It seems more than likely that the first man who talked about the big fish that got away lived before Noah's day, for Isaiah in his day gave notice: All they that cast angles in brooks should lament because the waters were dried up. But d big fish may catch the man who would tell about his getting away one of these days,
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

Some one has said: The best way to get out of 8. tight place is to sober up This declaration, which mar rowly interpreted, is considered a rap at the dissolUte is worthy of consid- erable thought. Alcoholic beverages are not the only tntoxicants Good opinions of ourselves and success are intoXicants We are warned to beware of. Our exCesses in speech, in action and in dining get us into tight places, and the lawyers and the doc tors are called to get us out; and they bring Us back to our sober senses for a time, at least Good people have a bad habit of becoming intoxicated with joy, and they not infrequently need assistance to get them out of q tight place. Those who ''go it while they are young,' have to sober up to put on the decerum and dignity necessary to keep out of tight places. Intenperance makes countless millions mourn. Europe is intoxicated with love of power, jealousy and hatred and the rest of the world will be glad when Europe sobers up-She has us all in a tight place,
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06

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 A little reflection will convince one that correct spelling is learned in
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-16

by one gathered into its fold some star
ball players.
Nationals Nay Not Agree.
New York. Dec 15.-National league
magnates attending the annual meeting
Of the elder baseball circuit here. while
refusing TO be quoted officially, made it
plain that they were not Oyerconfi-
dent that the National league would
agree finally to the peace proposals
prOpounded at the recent conference Of
National and Federal league officials.
Feds Look Like VictOrs.
As the story of the tentative agree
ment developed, it appeared that the
Federal representatives had imposed
conditions which the National leaguers,
in the light Of retrospect. did not con-
slider so faVorably as was at first sup
posed The conditions were said TO be
such as Victors are wont to dictate and
this did not appeal keenly 10 the mag
mates of the senior major league
Committees Met Friday.
President August Hermann, Of the
national commission said that repre-
sentatives Of the National. American
and Federal leagues would meet mere
Friday afternoon to discuss peace terms
and the future conduct of major league
baseball
Players Are Problem.
President James A. Gilmore, Of the
Federal league. and Harry f. Sinclair
one of the chief hackers OF the lnde-
pendent organization, reiterated their
previous statements that all Federai
league players must be taken care OF
by organized baseball, before any last
ing peace can be arranged They SAID
Federal league contracts call Tor APP
Droximatelv $3.50. 600 in salaries. That
the National league will balk at adopt
ing such a responsibility at this time
was believed TO be indicated by the at
titude of one club owner who stated
that while he had no objection TO as
suming the contracts of such players as
might come to him in the course OF
general distribution of players, or
through consolidation of CLUBS, ne W.
onnosed TO agreeing to pay salaries OF
a large number of players whom neither
he nor other magnates could use