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Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29
SENSIBLE INFRINGEMENT DESIRED

 It is over two weeks since the work of taking the absurdities out of the civil service law was commenced at Hartford. The improvement of the law was not accomplished with the speed that some urged and it is well that it wasn't. As much as there is an opportunity for improvement and an apparent. need of it in a number of instances where the law has proved impractical and a handicap, the changes deserve some consideration. It is too Important a matter to be rail- roaded through the general assembly and have the reformed measure worse than tho original
 There is good reason for believing that $ Ssnator Isbeil IS sincere when he declares that the proposed sweeping G.men5nent to tlae law was submitted for the purpose of bringing out the discussion. It was a blanket amend menr. which it was realized from the start was susceptible to notifications, and che intip1ation that such will take place either in the form of a substi- tute measure or as the result of the consideration Of the facts by the judi ciary committee can be expected to result in the needed relief This only SubstantiateS the belief that there is  not a demand for the destruction of the civil service law, and that there has not been one. There is, however, desire that there should be some changes and even though such may go further than President Farnarn OF the Connecticut Civil Service Reform as- sociation would, when he admits that the present law may be advantage OusIy amended in some of it's details, particularly in the provision regard ing removals there are reasons to believe that a sensible adjustment ot it for it's better operation in the man. agement of institutions and in the assuming of responsibility by certain state officers will be effected. It is the business of the legislature to see that it is accomplished without tles- l troying the law. It is sensible amend ment that is desired.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29
FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT BUREAU

The announcement by the depart mcnt of labor that a. federal employ ment bureau is to be established indi- cates that there is 8 realization of the large number who are out of work and of the need of doing what is pos sible to relieve the situation Just how satisfactorily the government will be able to handle the problem remains to be seen.
 The idea is to bring the '.jobless man and the uanless job" together. This is to be encouraged through the pub icity and help that can be e-iveI7 to it by the agricultural and post office departments Ii is to be conducted on the principal that if the unemployed were properly distributed there is work enough for them instead of be- Heving that jobs must be created in order to take care of the great mum Der of idle hands. The distribution of help where any great distance is con cerned, such as may come later in en- deavoring to get the unemployed mill worker of the east to the wheat fields of the middle west, or even onto the farms Of their own section offers many difficulties. Such 8 shifting is expen- s1ve and offers little satisfaction either to the employer or the employed. ex- cept that it might be carried on with in a reasonable radius.
 The administration by this move is not planning to follow the suggestion that work which is going to be done should be started now. It is working under the impression that 1t is not a lack of work but a temporary con- dition where men and jobs are out of touch. Much better results would fol- low however if it was working for the booming Of industrial activity.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29
CIRCULATION
HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER.

Iu his inaugural message Governor Ffoscomb made 1t evident that he ap proved many of the recommendations that had been made by his predecessor even to the extent of repeating them and urging their adoption by the pres ent general assembly. He also gave notice to the effect that jn dealing with matters concerning the welfare of the state he should be guided by tue facts. Thus when he sends to the senate the nomination Of Charles J. Bennett to succeed himself as high way commissioner of Connecticut he not only maintains the policy which he 1aid down at the opening of his term as governor, but there are req sons for believing that he renominated MT. Bennett because of the record he has established since assuming the office
 Tt displays on the part of the gov elrbr a recognition of the require ments for tho office and a. recognition of the service rendered under the pre- va.ling condition of state finances. For the interests of the state road builder is demanded in the office Mir Bennett has demo1e etrated that he is suGh, and while there is difficulty in seeing the wisdom of the change which two years ago removed from office that leader among road builders, James T.s- Macdonald, it is impossible to overlook the fact that a man of quail 1ications now occupies the position and failure to retain him would simply mean another bad move in an en- eeaTor to correct a previous one.
 Selected upon merit there should be in tioA of the nomination that Comnlis- sioner Bennett may continue his good work in the interest of the state of Connecticut The governor is not the only one who has confidence in him.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29

During Commencement week this year Yale's great Civil war memorial
 which has been in process of being set up for the past few months, will be un- yelled with the proper ceremonies in Memorial hall. The Civil war memo rial consists of two large marble tab- lets on either side of the paSsageway, upon which, between the heroic figures representing the virtues of Courage, Patriotism. Memory and Devotion will be found the chiseled names of the 175 Yale men who gave their lives on either side of the Civil war. It is sin gularly appropriate that the uuveiling of this national memorial at the uni versity Will be coincident with the 5Oth anniversary of the close of the great struggle. The design for this memorial is one of the most beautiful in the country and was the work of Henry Bacon, the architect of the new Lin
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29
Considerable interest

Considerable interest has been aroused throughout the university by the fact that the submarine warfare, which the Germans are now using so effectively. was first discovered by Gavid Bushnell, Yale graduate of ITS, according to Burton J. Hendricl1
 35, in the February number of Nc Cures. Bushnell discovered the prin- ciple, it is claimed, while a freshman at Yale, and his plans have been pro- nOunced unusually perfect by naval authorities by whom they have been examined. This statement is confirm ed by learned treatises of German writers. which recognize Bushnell and Yankee ingenuity as the first inventor of a boat that could sail under water. 1t is also claimed that Bu.hnell in vented the submarine mine. His eN- periments, it transpires, were conduct ed while he was a student at New Haven from 1771 to 1775
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29
Experience of a Nurse.

Poland, N Y.-F'In my experience as 8 lurse I certainly think Lydia E. Pink lam's Vegetable Compound is a great ledicine. wish all women with fe- lale troubles would take it. I took it 7hen passing through the Change of fife with great results and always re- ommend the Compound to all my pa- tents if l know of their condition ill ime. vii, gladly do all I can to help thers to know of this great medicine. g Mrs. HORACE NEWMAN, Poland, Her. timer Co.,, N. Y.
 If you are i'll do not drag along until m operation is necessary, but at once ake Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
 If you want special advice write Lydia F. PinIEhaIn Medicine Co.,. c0ntidentiaD Lynn, Mass.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
What Norwior Town Has

What Norwior Town Has. Mir. Editor: Isn't it great to live in Norwich Town? Here we have the sealer of weights and measures, a. representative in the legislature, three selectmen, the city street commission CT, and soon the city postmaster. Why should we consolidate?
 WE SHOULD WORRY. Norwich Town, Jan. 28. 1915.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29

aIlQ& weakness all
 caused by fem ale trouble, and 1 took Lydia E. Pinkham's s V e g ta ble Com pound with such ex- cellent results that 1 am now feeling fine. 1 recommend tn e Compoundand praise it to all. l shall be glad to have you publish my letter.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29

IL was some accomplishment to get Boston to talk with San Francisco but it will be a greater one when Berlin and Paris condescend to converse again
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29

Horses stabbed next to a garage ought to be properly seasoned to meet the requirements for artillery service abroad.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29

The greatest disappointment on the part of Germany seems to be that the British ships did not follow their vessels into the mine field and com init naval suicide.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29

Germany's decision to seize all the grain came just in time to knock in the head the test that is being made by the cargo aboard the Wilhelmina.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29

The man on the corner says: Some people make g. garret of their heads in which to store a lot of rubbish, use less to themselves and bothersome to other people.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29

When fifty Fiji islanders travel 12.- 900 miles to enter the war it shows what they think of Q chance to fight.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29

All Germany was interested in a big demonstration over the kaiser's birth day, but a plunge in behalf of peace would have won greater attention.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29

It doesn't take the temporary pres- idel1ts of Mexico long to become coz vinced of the wisdom of being their own life savers.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29

Strange how the dictates of fashion are faithfully obeyed while city or dinances have to be enforced.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29

While working on his hobby he be- came impressed with the idea that the .,ressure of water could be used to eX- plode gunpowder'S and that sufficient intensity could be produced near vessel to explode it. He actually pro- duced au explosion in New Haven harbor. Eushnell's boat, which was an accessory to his mine, was a failure and the idea, an object of ridicule, eventually disappeared from public view and was left until comparatively recent years to be perfected by modern inventors. Bushnell himself vanished in his disappointment. Even his fam fly had for years lost track of him when, many years after the Revolu- tionaTy war, he died in Georgia. Ed ward F. Curtis of the history faculty comments: Until the present war the name of David Bushnell, 1775, has probably been as little known to Yale men as to the general public. The great struggle which is now taking place, however. is bound to give it deserved prominence" Ii is also sig nificant to note that according to Sec retary Stokes in his Memoirs of Enf- pent Yale Men, David Bushnell was born at Saybrook. Conn. Here he spent the gBeat part of his boyhood days, and it was here that he first conceived and experinented with the ideas which he later developed at Yale.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29

Dissatisfaction is expressed that the Mexican lighthouses are dark because of lack of fuel, but they are not the only places where Mexico needs light
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29

coin memorial in Washington. The very fine bas-relieGs at either end of the two tablets were executed by the sculptor Henry Herring, a pupil of St Gaudens. The unique feature of the Yale Civil war memorial lies in the fact that it is in honor of both south 3rn and northern army Yale men, and 70 that end memorializes only those
 graduates who lost their lives in the
 ontlict: The memorial. therefore. is
 eally to bravery in S3ying ones life
 Jr what the individual believes to be
 ne right side of struggle.
 In addition to the dissatisfaction among the freshmen caused by the proposed change in rooming accommo- dationS to take place in 1916, consider able discontent was experienced this week when the faculty placed three new restrictions upon the freshman classes of both the college and the Sheffield Scientific school This year the freshmen are to receive no recess at midyear As usual after the ex- aminations, which will come the first of February, the upper classes will have five days vacation. during which time the annual junior prone-s made will take place, Feb. and g. However, the freshman examinations will not end until Feb. 10, which date marks the opening of the second semester. In past years it has been tue CuSlOtu that no IreShman should sit in the orchestra of the Hyperion theatre unless accompanied by an up- per classman. Since it's opening the student patronage has centered at the new Shubert theatre, so that the fresh man theatre restriction will apply to the Shubert hereafter. The student council of the Sheffield Scientific school and the senior council of the college have decided, with the ap- proval of the faculty and the hotel management. that freshmen of both departments be excluded from the Hotel Garde, unless accompanied by upper classmen or visiting non-student guests. This action has not been taken hastily, but after consideration of the Conditions at the hotel during the first part of the college year and after con- sultation with the management.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29

Though it was his 56th birthday the chances are that Kaiser William felt older by over year than he did a year ago.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29
EDITORIAL NOTES

Perhaps the fitterest disappointment to the kaiser was that he couldn't eat his birthday dinner i'll Paris.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29

Ex-Provisiona1 President Garza. of Mexico has a chance to fall back on tho claim that wiSe men change their
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29

J. T. Adamson of Nickervilie, Mo. has a pencil, now two inches long, which he bought for a penny S2 years ago and has used ever since.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29

here is scarcely neighbor around me
 ho does not use your medicine. Mrs. 1. F. JOHNSON, R. No. 1, Box 30, Prince on, Illinois.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29
IN ALL OUR
 NEIGHBORHOOD
There Is Hardly A Woman Who Does Not Rely Upon Lydi4- E. Pinkham's Veg
 etable Compound.

Princeton, H. 1 had inflammation, hard headaches in the back of my neck
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29

The new bulletin of the Art school records several important changes in the work Of the school, in the require ments for the schools certificate and the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts One of the most important innovations is an arrangement made with the Shef- field Scientific school whereby instrI1c- ton is given in the courses of archi- lecture. Beginning with this year, for the first time, students in the art school have attended lectures and recitations in Shelf as a part of their work in tn art school. It is the pur- pose of the art department to make the technical instruction broad and thorough and to mainatin 8. high stan dard for achievement. The greatest change in the course of study is in the course in architecture Under the di- rectorShip of Professor Kendall this course, which used to be a one year preparatory course, has been develop ed to a three year course with an op- tional fourth year. The entrance re- quirements for those taking the course in architecture are now the same as those for the Sheffield Scientific school Previously there were no entrance re- QuirementS for this course
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29

China last year imported 5000 sew ing machines
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29
The Circulation of The Bulletin

The Bulletin has the largest circulation of any paper in East ern Connecticut and from three to four times larger than that of any in Norwich. IL is delivered 10 over 5000 of the 4,o53 houses in Norwich, and read by ninety three per cent. Of tine people. Ia Windham it is delivered to over goo houses, in Putnam and Danielson to over t,i0o and in all Of these places it Is eonsid- cred the local daily.
 Eastern Connecticut has forty nine towns, one hundred and sixty five postoffice districts, and sixty rural free delivery routes.
 The Bulletin is sold in every town and on all of the R. F. D. routes in Eastern Connecticut.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-29

Norwich. Friday, Jan. 29, 1915.
The sun., 1915-10-10

In the old days before the BATH"
cruiser II commander 80 situated
would have conveyed his transport
with armored cruisers Against the
battle cruiser, however, tn" uimorod
cruiser is practically helpless; 1t Is
outranpod and outnrmOred and ont
weighed in hitting bower, The truth
of this was demonstrated in the two
engagements between German and
British sQuadrOnS in South Ameri-
can waters last winter.
At the ouCHct or thc war Germany
had numncr OF light cruisers free
on the high seas. These included
the Dresden, Emden, karlsruhe, Nuru'
berg, Leipzig, Sc. Tnoy were able t.
maintain themselves for a consdcrab'"
period by preying on enemy commerce,
but were of "A class certain to he fairly
easy prey for light fighting vesso,s
Later "A number Of these light crli-
sers were joined by the Gnciscnau AMI
SCharr horst, aromorcd cruisers. and
gathering these forces together In tho
South Pacific, Admiral Won Spec de-
liVrrcd a crushing blow tn the British
squadron, consisting wholly Of ligAt
cruisers commanded by Admiral Grad
dock. II was the Two armored cruisers
that won the battle ofi the Chilean
The sun., 1915-10-10

coast for the Germans, they uutrdngcd
the light british vessels, and had such
h!gn speed that they were able to
close in and pound them Ia dcstru"-
ton. II was the armored cruiser
against the Hight cruiser, and the T."
suit was Just wha Naval experts
would have predicted. In nighttime
power the old armOrcd cruiser Is 10
the light cruiser as the modern hattl"
cruiser Is tn the armored cruiser, ava
It was the battle cruiser that avenged
Admiral craddoCk
The japanese quickly recognized
the neocssi les of the situation ami
sent one or two battle cruisers int
the Pacific 10 search for the Germ N
squadron, It Is believed also tina,
tn" Australia joined in the search,
Admiral Won Spec therefore rounded
the cape and passed into the Atlantic
ocean, not knowing that the lnvln-
cibe and InneN!he, battle cruisers.
had been detached from the Nortn
sea fleet ana sent tn destroy him
wherever he could he found
Finally located by the British. Ad-
miral Non Specs end was even moro
certain than that of Admiral Grad
cock when re encountered the Ger
The sun., 1915-10-10
Experience of Sea Fight
ers of Europe Shows
Value of Fast, Heavily
Armed Ships

fleet.
Admiral Mayo commanding tho en-
einy fleet. will first try to get inforinh-
ton as to tho whereabouts OF the
American fleet. For this purpos" II
Is calculated. he viii use his battle
cruisers, for whereas destroyers sent
out as scouts ar" likely t. be swept
aside by the defending ucstroycrs. bat
tie cruisers are 80 powerful that they
cun penetrate any screen interpoScd
by the enemy To hide his movements
and can come at the battle fleet with
certainty. They can also u" relied
upon to get away with such inforna-
ton as they sect'r. as tho enemy pat
tleships cannot force - fight on them
because of the battle cruisers higher
speed.
Thus Admiral Fletcher may find his
whereabouts suddenly exposed to Nd
miral Mayo through the latter's use of
the battle cruiser in what Is believed
20 be one OF the most important func-
tions which that type of vessel may
perform. II Is also believed that thc
battle cruiser may he used in the midst
Of general engagement To- rush In on
the enemy at close range ana torpedo
him A destroyer attempting this sam"
feat would certainly be blown To bits
bv the heavy fire of the battleships.
while the battle cruiser. with some
armor and high speed. would have II
fair chance to get in close and deliver
.ts blow. officers of the Navy Depart
ment are awaiting with interest III"
report ~ the war anne to learn what
effect the enemy's attic cruisers had
on the outcome.
The view OF the American naval
officers is that the battle cruiser is a
highly useful auxiliary arm of fight
ing fleet and should b. included IN
any We'll proportioned navy. But they
are not willing to accept battle cruis-
ers as u substitute for hattleships. and
rather than reduce ny n single vcss"
it's recommendations for battlcships
the General Board Of IN" Navy has re-
trained from asking Tor battle cruisers.
with one exception. once, ii few years
ago, II did recommend battle cruiscre.
but the recommendation wa not "a
dorsed Icy the secretary of the Navy
OF Congress.
Now. ii Is believed. II" conditions
are favorable for adding the ha'ti"
cruiser to the American navy. II Is
considered that largely as tn" result
OF the events of the last H;car tn" pub
lie is awakened To- the necessity of
preparedness for war and that the OPP
portunity is here for convincing tho
American people and Congress "f the
Importance of providing FOR battle
cruiser construction a. well a. for
/, battleships.
The sun., 1915-10-10
RELICS OF UNKNOWN RACE
FOUND IN NEW JERSEY

character came t. light. unlike any
others dug up In the East. The ban
/ ner stones aroused the greatest curl
oSity and discussion. They are the
! only implements f the American
stone Age that have been found with
a boring through them IiatChctS AVID
| similar pieces found have simply been
groovtd.
II * pointed cut that men who
CIuld pierce a stone shaft with a per-
feet. round hole. employing uu other
means than u reed and sumo sand.
were men Of no little ingenuity. The
/ process must have been arluuus
painstakinG; contemplation f It
raises the prehistoric Indian IN the
cstimati of scientists
' In the Moorcs;owu excavations a
larg, fireplace was uncovered AMI
near it banner stones, arruwhcad> dud
various stone ,bjects not like others
previously found The supp sltiun =
that the mound may have been a Ccrc-
monial meeting ground. whether Il
was built UP by several generations
4 or by several ages ~ an artificial
structure or was natural hillncK
that the Indians adapted - their pu.-
poses. eeOlogistS at the university mu-
scum must determine. II - held t.
he lndisputablc that many centuries
have gone To the making of It. All
important finds IN 1t We're dug NJ
below the red Jersey sand. in and on
the origlna, glacial strata.
II this is really the discovery r m
ancient and superior q. i,,zatlon in
tie East. II is not unexpected, for tho
reason that Ike discoveries have been