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Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

work. and not play for which it is assembled. It must be impressed with the need Of wise and eonsiderate ac ton and it must be kept in motion. For such and the multitudinous other things devolving upon the speaker MT Healy has shown that he is the man for the job.
 That he received the entire vote of both parties from his own town in election to the house, and the vote of all the republicans for the speakership shows the reliance placed in him and there is every reason to believe that his conduct of the position will justify his selection.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09
OTHER VIEW POINTS

A New York manufacturing firm has paid the city s750 by way of compensation for the extinction of a fire for which the company was held responsible Because of neglect to obey a fire department order. If this method was applied generally, after a while there would either be mighty few fires, or the fire depart ments would be self-sustaining. The idea is recommended to all other cities. Waterbury Democrat.
 With such a small Standing army as
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09
Sunday Morning Talk
THE FRIENDLY ATTITUDE.

The world gives back to us just about the treatment we accord it So- ciety is a sort of mirror refecting our own faces. It laughs or it scowls when we do. The attitude of people toward us is ours toward them. It was interesting to note how in the crowded shopping season just past tired clerks would respond to courtesy and consideration and how, on the other hand, there generally was a pep per pot behind the counter if one stood before 1t.
 It is true the world over that they receive the most consideration who are the most ready to extend it. If jeal- ousy, suspicion moroseness, are very likely to be repaid in kind. So are generosity, kindness and cordiality. It depends on ourselves what sort of treatment is meted out.
 A friendly attitude toward all sorts and conditions of men is one great secret of happiness. It yields a. sort of pleasure that grouchy spirits never know. It is amazing and encouraging to discover streaks of gold in char acterS who never before displayed such treasure. The magnet that brings the precious metal to the surface Is named kindliness.
 Wise Shakespeare advises The friends thou hast, and their adop-
 ton tried
 Grapple them to thy soul with hoops
 of steel
 But do not dull thy palm with enter
 tainment
 Of each new-hatch'd, unhedg'd com-
 rade.
 ,l. That is good advice as far as it goes but following it too faithfully might leave us in a very restricted circle. There are potential friends all about if one will approach them in the right spirit. And of friends no man ever yet had too many.
 A rich man or one Of high station may die and leave behind the merest handful of those who really care. Not half dozen people may attend the funeral for other than the convention al reasons of family connection or bus mess association. On the other hand we know people neither rich nor fa- nous, whose lives are of solicitous in- terest to n1ultitudes simply because
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

The fact that congress has power to pass the hteracy test whether the pres ident vetoes it or not should make no difference with Mfr. Wilson. If he is opposed to it. as claimed he should veto it..
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

The great surprise in connection with the close of Governor Blease's term in South Carolina is not so much that he pardened another crowd, but that he left the penitentiaries standing, to be filed again.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

We know that the people of early Norwich worked for and accumulated comfortable fortunes. They built res idences, many of them much finer than people of this fat-loving, ease seeking generation are erecting. Is it due to their thrift and hoarding propensitieS that we of the latter day have automo- piles and trolleys?
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

the United States possesses there. is
 no danger of militarism becoming
 rampant That lack of preparedness
 $ no more safeguard against war
 than preparedness has been amply
 demonstrated in Europe. Military
 .rairing in high schools and colleges would tend more toward general ef- fIciency than militarism. for all the
 notifications for producing the latter
 would be wanting.-MeTiden Record.
 The billboard Is losing it's hold be-
 cause several classes of advertisers are
 finding out that billboard advertising
 is not for them, business advertising.
 This is not saying that no billboard advertising nays. It is recording the
 who have pinned their faith to bill-
 board advertising alone that 1t Is the
 least profitable way in which to spend
 money, and should be used if at all
 only as a supplement to newspaper
 advertising.-New Haven Register
 Negligence on the part of the au- thorities In rigidly enforcing (side- walk) ordinances means that a certain number of citizens will meet with ae- cidentS which result in broken bones and other painful injuries. Why have these every year with heavy resultant cost to the city, when a reasonable ac- tivity on the part of officials and the police authorities will greatly lessen tho number of injuries and reduce the cost of these liabilities of the city? The ounce of prevention in such cases is worth many pounds of cure.-Ansonia Sentinel.
 The governors views on home rule will meet with favor here. Legisla- tive interference with our city charter has been almost biennial occur renee Economy in state expen enditureS, and care in making appropriations if adhered to by the legislature, will bring economy. We venture the opfn- ion here, however, that the governors words in this direction will be about as fruitful as Governor Baldwin's ad- vices on this subject two years ago, and it may be necessary to exercise the veto power in order to keep ex- uenditures down.-Brideepor Tele- gram
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

In it's new orders prohibiting ab- 1 sfnthe and restricting sales of liquor,
 France appreciates the benefits attain 1 ed by, Russia.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

The governor of New York has de- clared for equal suffrage, and it wasn't necessary for the girls to hike up the Hudson or adopt militant methods either
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

It didn't take Germany long to de- clare that it was a submarine that sank the Formidable, but it has not made any such claim regarding the Audacious
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

The gentleman who called my at tention to this matter was one of those who, when in the Legislature, worked to put through the franchise of the Montville Trolley line. one of the best paying routes in the country. He ad- mits that he was fearful it might not pay until he was inspired by that hustling and optimistic promoter, E. P. Shaw. the lines first manager, and the late Solomon Lucas, who also worked for it's success.
 Now watch any car on that linei Even running half-hourly, as it's most ardent wellwiSher never believed il would prove canabIe of doing, the cars are always filled.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

But our people are hoarding, too! Go into the savings banks at the first of any quarter and see the long lines of people of all classes, each with sums of comfortable proportion to be deposited. The increase in postal saw ings deposits, too. has surprised
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

Is the sending Of babies by parcel post going to call for travelling nurses and nurseries at the expense of the railroads?
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

The weather man couldn't have con- ferred with the health department be- fore sending this touch of spring in the middle of winter.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

The man who has to buy ton of coal these days gets a reminder of the higher cost of living.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

In Poland the Germans are unable to move their big guns because Of the mud. It is for Russia's interest to keep up this warm reception.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

appears to have removed all the ter TOT from the Turks.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

Every city without subway is con- graduating itself that it hasn't such troubles to worry about.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

The man on the corner says: It is always possible to congratulate the average girl on not looking as ridicu-
 1ous as the pictures in the fashion
 journals
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

Huertay may claim that he has hard Iy enough money to maintain himself, but he cannot forget the fun he had while the cash was available
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09
EDITORIAL NOTES.

New years may come and the old may go. but the war goes on un- abated.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

Few of us realize just how we are contributing toward that $5,ooo which each trolley car must earn to prove suppose I make but one round trip weekly, costing a dime. That means $5.20 for just myself annually-and if each nerson of the nearly 30,000 mak- ing up the population of this town of Norwich take but one ride a week, it will be seen that at the end of the year it means @ nretty round sum! And
 few limit their riding to once . week
 or even once day.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

I Germany in the last fiscal wear bought i4So autos from the United States and paid $1.05e, ,24e for them.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

Furthermore, the gentleman pointed out, we have a Wide-spreading trolley service, with cars on every line liber- ally patronized. Now each trolleZ car, to be rated as profitable. mus have an annual earning capacity $5,000.
 The number of cars starting from, Franklin Souare on regular trips each day is about twenty. Leaving out the extra, or special cars run as occasion demands, these cars then. to be profit able, as we know they are, from the company annual reports must mean S10o,000 at a low estimate, to keeI them running.
 Now the problem which the gentle man propounds is this: Before there were 400 motor cars and before there were twenty trolley cars where was this big sum of over $500, 900? Who had it? Was it being stored for use il this generation?
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09
THE MAN WHO TALKS
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We are apt to think the best polft- icaI conditions require that the office should seek the man, but one cannot help noticing the office that seeks the man nowadays has nothing in 1t for him or anyone else. The office that pays is in such demand that there Is great competition for 1t, and the poli- tician is often embarrassed because in it's bestowal he can please but one par ty while he may enrage and make ene- mics of the nineteen other men who wanted it. There are now and then men who are so surprised that any office came their way after they and all their friends had pulled every wire to obtain 1t that men of experience smile to think their political vision is so obscure. When the office seeks the man 1t is usually a man who will fit it; but when the man seeks the office there is great danger that a misfit will be the result. The inefficiency which worries the government and an- noys the public is due to the number holding offices instead of ably filling them.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09
THE WEALTH WE HAVE

even the most hopeful advocate of the system.
 Incidental to the ownership of motor cars, comes all the expense of their up keep. in1kIs Ing I4unlncIS oI Sarag $, repair shops, dealers in oils, gasolines tires and the like. More money re- luired; and where, did this big sum, also, come from?
 So, too, for. trolley fares. When the
 irst line of cars was started, people will tell you that ride was account ed a luxury, if not an extravaganza.
 Now watch the crowds boarding or
 eaving cars! Inquire of any number If passengers their motive of riding .lstead of the old-time method of hik-
 ng in from the suburbs. What varied
 eplies you would get! Well, I ride 9 save shoe Ieatheri" 'fBy riding l m live in the suburbs where rent is heaper, or where I can own little ouse and have my own garden" T am going to town to get something for dinner! There is an advantage in do- ing ones own marketing; a better choice. saving of money, etc., So the replies would run, with a thousand varying motives.
 As a straight line, in mathematics, is the shortest distance between two points. so the trolley line is the quick est connecting agency between where we are and the point to which we wish to go.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.)
 A Norwich gentleman of keen ob- servation and exceptional intelligence directed my attention recently to a problem which, it is safe to say. has not occurred to many of our towns people.
 He reminded me that there are in and about this city at least four hun dred automobiles and that one might safely estimate their average value at $1,000, since of course many of them cost much more. That would mean that local cars aggregated in value over S400,O00
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

Seeking "the shortest distance be- tween two points," people come from miles inland to catch a car. In fact, it would surprise any inquirer to dis cover the home towns and the destina- tions of passengers on almost any trip, although of course during the summer this surprise would be most pro- nounced.
 I recall hearing of some residents of Southampton, on the south shore of
 ong Island. who made an excursion trip across to catch the boat at Sag Harbor taking the sail over to New
 ondon, then boarding MontvilIe Line car for Norwich and from Frank lin Square continuing to Norwich Town, and return! Some trip? We'll It would have been so considered sew eral generations ago; but it proved so easy and so pleasurabIe to those Long Islanders that they vowed they in tended to take it againi
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

Going beyond the source of this un- aoounted-for $5o0,0oo in motor cars and trolley cars from Franklin Square, if we let our minds dwell on what is going on hourly, or even half hourly at a wider radius about Norwich, the wonder grows proportionalIy.
 The Shore Line tramWay system with headquarters in this city, oper- ates total of about seventy-five cars. Considerin~ all the nickeIs and dimes which these earn annually on the divergent lines, we realize more clearly the wealth of this section. Hundreds of thousands of passengers, who earn their car-fares on farms. in stores, in shops and factories, in a dozen different ways, board these cars at Plainfield, at East Lyme, at Thomp- son, at Caybrook. at Central Village. at Yantic, at Connecticut River, at south Coventry or at scores of other points, each producing on demand the required nickei, which, like the tradi- tional nimble sixDence, is the real making of the trolley roads success.
 Now, before the roads were built, where was all this money? Who, to repeat, had it?, who hoarded it? Where does it all come from? It is certainly an interesting financial and social question:
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

There is a saying that heaven hides the book of fate,'' but a great has anything to dc with it. We pro- fess not to believe in fate, although the expression is common: ':he met his fate like a man. Most of us laugh at those who frankly say they believe in fate. but we do not know what to say when, in the midst of Christmas 111erriment in one day four members of a family are suddenly
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

Unaccounted for as Is the $500, ,ooo to which reference was made at the be- ginning. reflection must convince the most dohbtir~ Thomas that we are all growing richer, without knowing it! We unconsciously claim as our rights daily conveniences which would have been gasped at as 1uxuries but few generations ago. It appears to be a sort of financial "As thy days so shall thy strength bel" We fling around our yearly S500,000 for motor and trolley car expenditure, and although we may owe for the former, the latter means spot caslli
 At any rate when what We have is spent, more comes our way, a good share of it, doubtless. through the very expenditure on both sorts of cars, which transport customers from re- mote points to our doors and our stores, quick to exchange their money for our stocks; keeping 1t in healthy and constant and rapid circulation Which. after all. is what means wealth and prosperity for any and every com munity,
 But the problem remains .un- answered: Where was that tangible s50G,000 and over, before folks began
 THE DTCTAGRAPH.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

It brings u- too, vista of the times we are told about. when travel meant a leisurely sail down the Thames River. first on some sloop or schooner at the caprice of winds and tides: later an excitin~ adventure in the shape of a train-ride, behind some puffy wood-burnir locomotive, to Anyn's Point, there to board one of the nalatial Norwich Line steambos tS to New York. Fares were not so easily gotten in those primitive days. but there were travellers just the same only of course not in the myriad num- bers of the present day.
 Something of this old-time deIibera- ton and atmosphere come back, when we read semi i-Occa sionally of a schooner leaving from a point on the river bank to carry & load of cord wood, ice and vegetables to Block Island. It seems about as far-back a mode of transportation as does the voyage of Columbus
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-09

With such small standing army as
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-18
Bundle Day . For Charity

TRIDAY, February WOmans Charity association will
n day" Arrangements have made collect bundles all
public appealed discarded clothing
bundles Charity clothing clean and seceable will be
well Clothing greatly needed
practically
the first of the year, but the demand keeps up
cities public cooperate
the this necessary of relief
Charity organized
economical sOund established system
practically directly quickly
While primarily children worthy apca-
helped by securing them giving
pnabe clothes successfully Charity
lodging
clothing today them
ready wagons they their rounds.
blow cold, spring coming through the mountain
canyons.
gun beating quicker
killing wounded of all that
antseptc sanitation The
triumphant
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-18

room Emily was uttering protest
Really, mother" she was saying ct
is a shame that you should have had
to cook the breakfast I wish you had
called me to help you. 1t is OUtrag eous
that you should have to do that kind
of thing
The words were accompanied by a
glance at Fanny. and the maid cOlOred
under the Indirect reproof
Don't worry, dear" the mother said
easily Fanny oversight / am sure it
viii not happen again
Il was in the house by half past
eight-and earlier, Miss Emily" she
protested.
The daughter of the house raised her
pretty eyebrows skeptically
IT'S strange you should look so tired
this morning" she observed.
Fanny started to speak, but Mrs Alb
bolt checked her Never mind" she
interpOsed. Il wish no more discussion
of this subject"
Fanny went about her work. her
cheeks burning with Indignation. Why
need she submit to this. kind of thing
She did not pause to consider that she
had been employed in a shop or office
and slept so late that somebody else
she would have been reprimanded.
What ranked most was that her en-
plOyer's daughter had interfered and
had seemed to doubt the truth OF the
maids statements. No. Fanny thought
she would not stand this much longer.
Yet what could she dO2 She might
seek another position and find it no
better than this one. Oh. how she
hated living in service.
Mrs. AbbOtts voice broke i'm upon
her musings. The dumbwaiter bell is
ringing, Fanny" she cried. It think
it is the iceman. Come and take the
ice off the waiter. please"
Fanny Obeyed. Why could not one Of
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-18

the members of the family pert5rm
this little service for herr Mrs
Abbotts voice close to her made her
aFaany she reproged u noticed
when I WIS getting the butter from
the icebOx this morning that there is
a peculiar, close OdOr about the box
itself Did you sCald 1t out yesterday
mo, ma'am." Fanny acknowledged
Il did it day before yesterday. I think
three times week is often enough
Indeed it is not Mrs. Abbott de-
cIared Don't neglect it again. I also
noticed that there were cake crumbs
about the pantry this morning. They
will attract reaches You must be more
careful about such things"
The crumbs were not there when
went out yesterday afternoon" Fanny
defended herself She felt her temper
rising. IF there were crumbs there
this morning 1t was none Of my doing
She Is ReprOved.
Fanny Mrs Abbott exclaimed
THAT tone is something new for you
You are usually polite. say the
crumbs We're there. We were all out
last night How could they have come
thereg' I viii excuse you this time- as
I viii your negligence in certain mat
ters, but want 10 warn you that you
must be more careful in the future
Now so and eat your breakfast, then
get to your work"
faDnys breakfast was cold but she
was too depressed to trouble to heat
it. Her thoughts were so gloomy that
they deprived her of appetite. Her
interview with Crandan had set the
whole world wrong. The recollection
OF Joe Browns championship brought
her no comfort He was the incest
man she knew. she told herself vet
what construction might he not have
put upon her scene with CrandalT
And, even if this had not been Wit
messed nv him surely he would not care
to associate with a girl who was living
in domestic servicel
ITO be Continued-)
Copyright 1915, Star Company
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-18
From rne herald rnl. pnte 1901.

nounced that flags are to be over all
Of the public school buildings.
Miss Eta Jones who has been Wis
iting Mrs. A. P. Coles, returned this
morning to Montgomery, Ala.
A. P. Coles sold the Wason stables
and realty yesterday to DR.. A L.
Brown, Rev. II. NJ. Whaling and Fred
Wright for a total consideration of
S11,O6O
Uncle John Julian presided at the
meeting of the fire directors last night.
Thomas Falkner and +. T. Long were
appointed to the regular force The
directors recommended the purchase of
another engine
Yesterday Mrs. NJ o. Wright enter
tanned at her home. Among those
present were: Mesdames Hunter, HiX-
son, Feldman, Hartman, Wilcox, Buck
Ter, Coles, Noake, Knox. Durrell, Knee
zell, William Burgess, Chilberg. Rich
ard Burgess, Kaplan, A. Solomon.
BlancO, Rhodes, Hadley, Jameson. Ste
yensOn, Comfort, Carpenter and Lack
Land; Misses Pollard, Jones, Ainsa,
Sheisen, Trumbull Brady and Farr.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-18
Self-Assurance
BY GEORGE FITCH.
Author Of eat Good Old Sfwaah.'

LF-ASSURANCE is that partly
~ divine quality in man which en-
- ables him to hire out as an expert
and then look up the meaning Of his
job in the dictionary.
Some people prefer to call self as
surance nerve" gall, crust ''rind, ="
cheek" brass" front meek" and
other descriptive names not intended
as compliments. But all OF these pet
names together could not discourage a
man who puts his trust in himself. He
goes happily on through life, waving
mountains out of his way, asking
monarchs to turn their troubles over
to him and picking up live wires with
great zest.
When man has plenty of self as
surance he does not need ability or any
thing else. At least he does not realize
the need. He will take q job as an
engineer if all he knew about engines
was to say whoa" on down grade,
and he will organize an international
corporation for the control OF climate
on the strength of second hand oftce
desk, a thermometer and plenty OF
stock subscription blanks. Railroad
systems have been built by men who
have had to stand off the conductor
for street car fare, and huge fortunes
have been accumulated by enterprls1ng
citizens who have borrowed money to
make a $500 payment on a 100000
business. They have figured that the
Lord might provide the rest and that
if he didn't they could act as a very
fair substitute.
However, the most touching examples
of self assurance are found in public
life where men run for positions of
great trust and honor and inquire the
duties of said positions AFTER their cleo
tiOn. Many of us have too little self
assurance to take any risks in our own
h7refrnca hrrf NJ L rE-OTrT6 no
modest to run for governor OF great
state if we thought we could get the