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Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-22

A meeting of the Eastern Connecti-
cut Mt. Holyoke Alumnae association
Is to be held at the Phoebe Griffin
Noyes library, in Lyme. this Thurs
day. afternoon.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-22

There are 1910 patients now at the
Norwich State Hospital At the State
Farm for 1nebriates there are from So
to IS patients, the number varying
from day to day.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-22

The marriage Of Miss Ida Louise
Church. daughter OF Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Church OF Chaplin. and John
N. Copley of Rutland, VT, win take
place Saturday at the Congregational
church In Chaplin MISS Church has
been a teacher in Manchester. M.
Copley was formerly milk inspector
In Hartford.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-22

Druggists from Eastern Connected
are attending the 40th annual meetin
OF the State Retail Druggists asso
citation, at the Hotel Shoreham, &
New Haven.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-11
America Over All.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: 40 one has the right 20 hnd fault
with Mr.. Thomas Young, whose letter you
published this morning, for being opposed to
Nr. Roosevelt, if Mr. Young feels that way;
though cannot see how he or any one else
could have expected Mr. Roosevelt to have
supported Mr.. Taft, Barnes and the Repub-
lican machine" in 1912. I'm order to be
true TO himself. TO his adherents who had
placed their trust in him. Mr.. Roosevelt was
compelled TO be false" Though there was
no falsity about IT'D to Mr.. Barnes and, in
cidentally. to Mr. Taft.
However. now and at the next Presidential
election. it is and will be not matter of
preference for or opposition to any particu-
lar individual. but the selection and election
of a strong and efficient and experienced
leader for our beloved country at time
more critical and fateful than any period
i'm its history. What we most urgently need
now and what We shall need next November
will be, not Republicans, nor Progresslves'
nor Democrats, but just plain and straight
out American patriots, who have but one
thought in mind. one interest at heart-the
safety. honor and welfare Of their country.
America, the land we love-"
4 FORMER DEMOCRAT.
Haedon, y. j., April 3, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-11
At Wittenberg.

In the report he prepared last year on
the management of prisoners camps in
Germany, our ambassador was obliged to
admit that at Wittenberg the conditions
were even more deplorabe than he had
been led to expect. 1t is unlikely that he
saw it at its worst. An account of his visit
was given lately by private in the course
of vivid series of letters in "The Morn,
ing Post of London. Soup was served
while Mr.. Gerard was making his rounds,
and he remarked that it did not look bad
"Oh, sir" said one of the men, you want
to come round tomorrow. That's bit of
special sent up because you are here, sir.
You should come on the hop, sir.
If you had.a smell at the tub then, sir,
you'd not want much TO eat all day"
The elaborate report given out by the
British Foreign Office, full Of horror as it
is, only confirms what we have heard from
time TO time from various prisoners Of that
hideous place Of torture. The three officers
Of the Royal Army Medical Corps. Major
Priestly, Captain Vidal and Captain
Lauder, saw it at its worst, for as soon as
typhus broke out the Germans, including
the medical staff, fed for their lives and
left the wretched, stricken prisoners to die
like rats in hole. Fortunately. among
them there were some physicians, and
after few weeks half "a dozen British
medical officers were graciously permitted
to join them. Three Of the six died in their
efforts TO relieve the distress, four having
contracted typhus.
During the first month the daily ration
was half roll Of bread and half cup
Of milk, but shortage Of food was not the
only hardship. The men were in rags.
many had neither shoes nor stockings. and
the filth was understandable Even the pitt
iul hole that served as a hospital was
swarming with lice. Washing was for a
long time impossible, for the patients were
obliged 10 do without soap until supply
mad been securcd-from England. The
death rate was. Of course. enormous. and
| the Germans outside would Jeer and boot
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-11
General Woods Service.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: ! wish TO call your attention TO an
editorial in "The Evening Post" of this
date, in which the editor says, Secretary
Baker may find Mr.. Chamberlain's remarks
sufficient reason for acting, precisely As
he may find time before long to check the
propaganda activities of officers like Cen
oral Wood. who seem TO be deyo.ing rather
more time TO miscellaneous speaking than
to their own military duties" etc.
As The New York Tribune Is the only
paper tina, seems TO have the courage 70
speak the pure unauthorized truth. surely
the above is worthy of comment in your
columns To muzzle men like General
Wood. Of whom. there are. alas. only too
few. would surely be great crime as 20
muzzle the press. What little truth we have
had Of the deplorable conditions of the
military machinery OF our country what
little guidance the man in the street" gets
as 10 the means TO improve our frghtful
state of unpreparedness. comes from men
like General Wood. | hate TO think what
might happen if he and his kind" were
muzzled.
And il is even with a complete reaiza-
tion Of just how "unmlitary" General Woods
conduct is that write and ask you if this
article OF The Evening Posts is not worth
disputation? JOHN CROMWELL.
New York. April 3, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-11
EVIDENCE IN THE SUSSEX CASE
Ii Does Not Lend Support to the
Probable Verdict.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: We shall soon have a decision in
the Sussex matter, and from past experience
can fairly forecast what it will be; with 1t
will probably come the announcement that
another crisis is ayerted." We shall have to
take what comes 20 US. We made our bed four
wears ago: in il we must lie with what pa
.i,nce we can muster. May We not hope, how
ever. that the decision be announced in sim
ple language-like Sieyes's vote at the trial OF
Louis XVI. LA mort; sans phrase! May we
not be spared dissertation of great literary
merit. written or inspired by gentle
man with no experience as trial lawyer, on
he "Inconclusiveness of Circumstantal Evil
dence"?
There is evidence here 70 be weighed. II
IS needless 20 enumerate the sworn testimony
on the one side. coming from eyewitnesses,
from the man who saw the wake OF the tor
pedo and tried to avoid it, from others who
also saw it. from the men who picked up the
J fragments of bronze, from the experts who
examined them, from the man who saw an at
tack on a vessel rescung survivors. Rather
,et ~ look at the testimony from the other
side merely the written statement of the
German Chancellor or Foreign Secretary. who
in the nature of things can know nothing per
sonaly about the transaction, being at the
time hundreds of miles away from the scene
And let US not forget that these statements
are made by high officers Of the same foreign
government whose ambassador asserted that
The Lusitania carried four guns mounted on
deck, and to support that statement presented
an affidavit sworn 10 by a man who suose-
quently confessed that the statements 1t con
tanned were false and that he was paid $50
for the perjury he committed in making them
all which is matter of court record
+. HENRY LACOMBE.
New York, April 10, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-11
Another Rumor Exploded.

Il is now explained in a dispatch from
Copenhagen that the heavy firing heard
lately off Langeland was merely target
practice, in which it appears large num-
bers of vessels have lately been engaged at
night in Kiel Bay. There was really never
any reason to believe the rumors of a great
naval engagement. Similar stories are cur
rent whenever there is the slightest sign of
activity on the part of the German fleet.
When a British outpost vessel-the ar
mored cruiser" of the German dispatches
was sunk two months ago the event was
celebrated as a battle, or something of the
sort, and it was intimated that the High
Sea Fleet was out. Destroyers have oCca-
sionally made their way little further
than usual, and again we hear that thC
Germans are about 10 challenge the enc
my's command Of the German Ocean. At
fairs of this kind attracted but little attcn-
ton in the early days of the war, but at
present any sign that the German fleet is
not actually rotting is accepted as proof
of impending hostiites.
4 great deal of the activity we have
heard Of lately may be attributed to the
changes that have been made in the Ger
man naval commands. The successor OF
the late Admiral Won Pohl might be ex-
pected to give new life to the fleet, AMI in
Germany the people have certainly been
led to look for exceptional doings. But
there is no particular reason to suppose
that any radical change has taken place
or is Immediately impending. Something
may happen at any time, but the recent
signs, of which so much is made in rumors
from various quarters, are in reality insig-
nificant.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-11
Belfasts German Mayor.
litor Of The Tribune.

To me Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In reply TO Mr.. Yests's letter in to-
days issue, ! re .terate that there was no
German Lord Mayor of Belfast during the
time specified namely. ten years ago-and
call on Mr.. Yeats 20 prove his assertion. or
TO apologize. if he cannot. In his second let.
ter be extends the time to ten or twelve
years. but he is unable to name the Mayor
or iiN the date. He makes his slanderous as.
sertion on the lying statement of his so.
called German friend. have placed the mat.
ter in the hards Of the Belfast Corporation
who are likely 10 ASK Mr.. Yeats for an ex-
PLANTATION. ". G.. KELLY.
lioboken. y. j.. April {. 1916
The Belfast Corporation will doubtless i'm
form Mr. Kelly he is mistaken in his positive
assertion that for over thirty years" Bel
last has not had Lord Mayor with drop
Of German blood IN him otto Jaire was
twice Lord Mayor Of Belfast. His second
term was la0A-l9O5. the period referred to in
Ar. leats's letter.-Ed,I
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-11
The Greatest City in the World?

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: New York is the greatest city IN the
world. Who can doubt it? Surely no one
who has walked through Washington Street
from the Whitehall Building to Rector Street.
Here are to be found ideal dwellings for
people who arc not ultra fastidious. Light
Railways, well ventilated rooms, sunshine
and pure air are merely fsds. They are
not necessary to life, for do not people live
in this locality?
Always New York reminds me Of care
less housekeeper, who diligently sweeps the
centre of the room, but pays no attention TO
the dirt which has collected in the far cor
ners. Take the Department OF street Clean
ing's method Of giving in exchange for bag
filled with rubbish one containing fourteen
or fifteen germs Where the dirty. filthy bag
originated is a problem big enough for Con
gress: fut certain IL is that a few at least
must have sprung from dsease-laden homes.
OF course. it is quite possible that the bags
arc thoroughly fumigated before being re-
distributed However, | have as little use
tor fumigated germ as for any other KIND.
II might cost quite a sum really 10 "cleah
up" the city Blu, then if Dad knickerbocker
can't afford it, why not economic just a
tride2 For instance. discontinue the prac-
tee Of buying automobiles for overworked
politicians? If the politicians object, as
continue the politicians FRANK OWEN.
Rrooklyn. April >, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-11
The Draft Horse Talks.

Men and Masters
By the living Gee.
Think OF me.
What have | ever done
But work for you?
And what DO | get
As decent due?
Do you feed me because | am hungry?
Water me for my thirst?
Do you house me because of affection?
Or is it your interest first?
Do you think I'm a creature with feeling
Deserving your sympathy
And thought for my better protection?
Or is it your money in me?
Do you do a damthing for my profit
Unless you believe there will be
A bigger return on my labor
Than you've ever divided with me?
Do ever stop TO consider
What it costs me-the work that do?
Do you ever stop to consider
Me at all, but what cost you?
Say, Men and Masters,
Amt it shame
To play the game
That way?
And, say,
Wouldn't you call it hard enough luck
If you had to drag truck?
w. HAMPTON.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-11
The Conquest of Mexico.

CGirard IN The Philadelphia PabNc Led0cr1
The Commissioner of Pensions informs me
personally that there are still living 563 men
who fought in the old war with Mexico.
1t is seventy years since the war began, and
it will be sixty-eight years on July 1 since il
was officially ended.
There were 10000 United States troops in
that two-year conflict, OF whom $1,000 were
regulars and the others were militia and vol
unteers.
These figures arc an indie; Of the price our
country would pay to-day were it 10 attempt
complete subjugation Of Mexico. That re-
pubics population is now three times as
great as il was seventy years ago. when it re-
CURED 100000 American soldiers two years
to make tie conquest.
Military men of high rank have told me re-
Gently that we would now need an army of
100 600 men. Of whom 100000 would be lost
during the two years it is expected a second
conquest of Mexico would require.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-11
Artistic Temperament.

An opera house filled with the ambi-
tions, the artistic pretensons, the clashlne
interests of the worlds greatest artists
seems to be a happy family compared with
Ballet Russo. \ Mansfield. a Sarah
Bernhard in her heyday, looks in the
retrospect like a modest, simple SOUL a
shrinking violet. when set against the tenn
peramentfulness of these photographic
artists Rivalres and quarrels have fur
nished food for talk to the Riato and filled
the news columns Of our press since the
appearance Of the first, and the greatest,
Of these dancers i'm the New World.
Artistic temperament has always been
considered matter of mnd-in PILLS
tinic language, Of "swelled head But
it seems now that in reality it is most
fully developed in and by the lower limbs.
There may have been more than appeare6
to the eye at the time in the irreverent
criticism that Henry Irving acted with his
legs.
And the same structure, which noT
proves to be a hidden compliment, was
passed upon John Mccormack in the days.
long ago. when he was still in opera.
Which, by the way. suggests that Oscar
Hammerstein's temperamentfulness may
not be lodged in that famous hat Of his.
after all. or in the energetic head be
low it. \ psychological study Of the
other end of him by Hugo Munsterberg
might prove of real scientific Importance.
TO return to the ballet, however. There
is one point in the difference Of opinion,
to put it mildly, between Nijinsky and NJ.
Diaghieff which interests us particularly,
for it dsproves the theory that Philistin-
ism is always wrong in its artistic Judg-
ments. It will be remembered that THE
Afternoon of Faun" was modified in this
city after its first production at the
demand Of certain society of theatre
goers. Loud was the ridicule of the
aesthetics. New Yorl, had been made ride
ulous in the eyes Of civilization!
But now behold. These dHctGai, these
prudes, are proved TO have been right by
no less an authority than the tempera-
mental Nijinsky himself He, the creator
of the spectacle. agrees with them. II Is
all wrong the way in which it has been
produced here. II is an insult TO his art.
He has forbidden the further misrepre-
sentaton of this child Of lis brain-and
legs. We may yet see his own conception
Of it. To be sure. it is more than prob
able that when we see it the dilen0ntc
censors will be more shocked than ever,
but for one moment the artist seems TO have
confirmed their judgment.
The artistic temperament Is 80 incalcu-
liable in its manifestations that a systematic
study Of it seems to be impossible One
generalization may be made, however, II
is not always compatible with true artistic
dignity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-11
A Bar to Progress.

Senator Brown rather prides himself OF
being conservative. or "old-fashioned," a
he terms it. II was natural, therefore, 1oi
him to introduce a proposed amendment tc
the constitution to make 1t harder even
than it now is to alter that venerable docu-
ment lie would have 1t that no proposed
change submitted TO the voters ana re-
jected may be submitted, I'm terms or SUD-
stance again for five years.
All who are content with things JUS as
they are. and all who 50 dislike any change
that they will avoid the chance o. I'm
provement because it involves change, will
support Senator Browns proposal heartily
Every political stand-patter, every village
square orator who shouts about the WIS
dom Of the fathers" will approve 1t. Other
wise it is likely to be friendless.
The trouble with the constitution now Is
not that it can be changed too easily, a,
Senator Brown seems to think. 1t requires
a period of at least two years time; the
adoption Of a proposed amendment by two
Glfterent legislatures anu q iIaJOi'~S VI
voters at a subsequent general election
These surely are safeguards enougf
against hasty or il-considered or unwise
changes.
What Senator Browns amendment really
seeks to do is to squelch certain movement
with vitality and public support enough tc
come up again Immediately after defeat
as the woman suffrage amendment has
come up this year. Such limitation would
be reactionary in the extreme. There
should be no such bars to progress, or even
to change, if the voters want change, III
this state. Certain other states have sdcA
limitations, and the people there are sick
enough Of them.
Fortunately there is little danger of
the accomplishment Of Senator Brown s
purpose. If he could find two Legislature
unwise enough TO put five-year statute
of-limitations on constitutional changes, lie
would still have TO have the approval o.
the voters for it. And the voters Of New
York State are anxious TO take greater
political powers to themselves, rather than
to give away any which they now nave.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-11

as the collins were carried TO the Gene
terry.
We have heard a great deal about Ger
man efficiency. Nor should Wittenberg be
regarded as an exception. It is only an
other of those incidents spoken Of by q
writer in the "Vorwarts" as monuments
of Germany's barbarous method Of waging
war The medical officer supposed to be
in charge of the camp, DR.. Aschenbach.
visited it once and is said to have been
decorated for his services. Properly so;
for had he not discovered a new and in
qenious way Of Furnishing the English?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-11
Roosevelt, Not Wilson, That's All.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Selfpreservation is the first law OF
nature; you can't protect the home Will,
leaving the country unprotected; that's tn,
reason why patriotic men and women believ,
In preparedness.
All We lack is leadership give US mar
who knows how TO lead without being pushed
We want that fearless American known
throughout the civilized world for his red
blooded Americanism. who boldly practise,
what he preeehes by way of his book: Fear
God and Take Your own Part" Let the cam
paign slogan be Roosevelt. not wilson that,
all {. ". BElSER.
brooklyn. April 1, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-11
Gadski Should Go.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: | quite agree with T.. Z. X. in to-
days issue Of The Tribune when be says
that Nine. Gadski should be deported Her
reported statement that he would like "a
blow up every munition factory in the coun
Try shows lumeniablc lack OF gratitud.
for the thousands Of perfectly good Amer
can dollars she has received for compare.
lively little service rendered.
Americans should remember her reported
statement and give her q cold shoulder tn,
next time she appears on the stage
ANTOlNETTE SMITH
An American GulJ
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-11
THE PLEASURES OF A CANNERY
Overproduction Means Overtime Work
for Women and Children.


Sir: Armed with arguments that the soft
Of preserving fruits and vegetables is I,
mild form Of rural recreation and tina, co.,
troll Of the canning industry must be VIII
the Lord who ripens the crops, the carri''
fraternit. Of New York State have beg'
their annual pilgrimage 20 Albany.
Thi. year they are going 20 plead FOR o'
straightforward bill. 81 rolncarnation o. us
notorious Thompson bills defeated BY la''
years Legislature.
As IT is. the Gamers are favored s'..'
other manufacturers by being allowed unds'
certain conditions to employ women sx'y-'i
hours a week and eleven day during ~
rush period. June is TO October 10 ]"
Spring Brennan bill would give the mus
trial Commission power 20 extend even 'h''
hours so that women eighteen years and W
ward NAV be employed for a limited n1r''
of DAYS twelve hours day. y also .An
the closing hour as - p. m. instead q "
p. m. and makes Sunday work possioe l"',
eighteen hours may Boz added % the "sss y
,i,l cannerv workers r. he Industrial p.s''
shall find such employment is required
-. n.ad. % sYcb industry IN emersenc.'a
o .nJ oe be nermitted without serious ii.s7
q" .t Sa" be.ltb Of women 50 employed a..
wages Of one and half times the We,
rate are paid for all overtime IN excess
10 hours a day
Inc wage c'"uS -, laws, vhe..y
"uplifters. Il Is oo-''-''' - :, ,s.i
the Industrial Commiss.on' ' .bs az.I
enforce such provision mas ~. o,,..
power TO fix wages Tor ciiAer o'e''''-
binary time.
ror ,oorlo wbo have never had tie plsa'''
81 sor,i,o, meas and beans. may ! ce'''''
-, f,c.ory as mono,o''''
t.., King. nerye'Tesfy
f.. b.. carried Or al
spur sO'i Tho seats PROVED
terrific noise oil m"0"'' -. bore. VIZ.
for employees are us1alI! "o'-'" .,l;,..i,i
out backs The work demands clo'e 'rf ~,
and speed II is true that jos No.,' -,
FOR two weeks in canner.es lpos'i0s
tho ,ronosed lawl might be followed "
- 80. .,.,r, d., oil bu, studies IN is.''
week OF no "oi" "' '''' ... - overzors .
have proved 'n"' ''' - i5lenes wet
not made up by pe..0a l. y, been rs,es'l
the physiological limits "',. ..S,o,sohssn
Certainly a steady stretch oil ~ y :. -, s,i...
might easily be imagined the limit o. -
o,co for many women, ...,
Tho idiosvncra.ies % the canning iha.'Is (,
which Gamers aver must be pamP''.S-,s
an si.bour week. might be reduced |" =. 80 n.
,orr,al business risA T. employers "o''c 90,
low the advice Of the Ne" io'. or =.
oonp preserip,on ,ba. Gamers adjust ' .
p pT for 70 the capacity Of Their =,
O IN tbe srrire every Gamer contract, ~ b,
number Of acres Of peas, or'"'' w. ;st @.
c r",," an acre Al the ,ame tme he IS =, b.
reckon fairly accurately the SIZE y .r,,.,
pack that may be handled by DIS o., r,s,,er q
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-11

fit the facts and serve the truth. Friction
over the Sussex case IS puerie' "hi'e
reparation for the Lusitana still waits.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-11

You can purchase merchandise advertised
in THE TRIBUNE with absolute safety-ioi
if dissatisfaction results in any case IhE
TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your money PACK
upon request. No red tape, no quibbling We
make good promptly if the advertiser does not.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-11

i.r,creI At the Tosiof,e a. Ncs York a. second "a
Mat Matter
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New York. AVril i. 1915