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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-10

PREPAREDNESS
A Tale of the Ticker
A fort is taken, the papers Say,
Five thousand dead in the murder
Gus deal
A victory? No, just another grim day.
But-up to five hundred goes Beth
lehem Steel.
A whisper, a rumor, one knows not
where
A sigh, a prayer from torn heart
A murmur of peace on the death
laden air
But-Bethlehem Steel drops thirty
per cent.
Wen fight to the DEATH" the diplo-
mats cry. =
"WeHfght to the DEATH" sigh the
weary men
AS the battle roars to the shuddering
sky
And-Bethlehem Steel has rise of
ten.
What matter the loss of a million
men?
What matters the waste of bios
soming lands?
The children's cry or the women's
pain?
If Bethlehem Steel at six hundred
stands?
And so we must join in the slaughter
mill,
We must arm ourselves for a sense
less hate,
We must waste our youths in the
murder drill
That Bethlehem Steel may hold it's
state.
BOLERO JACKETS IN
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-10
BoLERo JACKETS IN

The very full skirt is all to full for
the conventional jacket, but rather
than leave us coatless the modistes
have introduced the bolero jacket
and many of the gowns of Eastertide
will be picturesquely Spanish in de-
sign.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-10

heart. He likes to develop stars. He
likes to say when a stars name is
spoken: 81 taught her all she knows
about the picture game"
Trust him and obey him in every
command during working hours. He
is the artist staging the picture, and
you are merely one of the characters.
ITO Be Continued)
Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-04
CONGRESS SHOULD GET DOWN
 TO BUSINESS.

Congress has given evidence of a desire to complete it's business before the hot weather strikes on. Such, of course, is a worthy ambition and entirely possible, If there is a close application to business and matters which demand immediate att tention are attended to- Procrasti- nation will not accomplish it and the interests of the nation will not be served if some of the important mat ters which are before the law makers are pigeonholed, tied up in committees or delayed to the point where they cannot get intelligent consideration.
 There has been shown to be a. diff ference of opinion between the two houses on some of the important bills, and there are those who are strongly urging the policy of delay, but there is serious need of buckling down to bus mess and getting together on a sensi- ble treatment of matters which are of vital concern to the country's future
 There are of course the army and navy bills which come to mind first, owing to the foreign situations and the condition of ouf defenses, and there will be the appropriation meas ures, which can be depended upon to bring forth much debate, but such general welfare bills as the federal child labor proposition and the per- manent tariff commission ought not to be neglected. The wisdom of placing such laws on the statute books is too pronounced to permit of unjustif1ed haggling over them. and they should not be permitted to drag along to clog the wheels of progress at time when other matters must be acted upon. It is time to prepare now for the early ending of the ses- sion of congress instead of waiting until the last two weeks and endeavor to crowd through lot of half baked legislation, or delay until action is prevented through lack of time
Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-04
NORWICH FAIRGROUNDS.

Gratifying, to the association which has organized and kept alive the movement for supervised playgrounds in this city, must be the response which is being made by the people of Norwich in the present campaign for funds to continue the excellent work this year, but even more so should it be to those who are given the oppor- tunity to participate in this good work for the benefit of the coming genera tions.
 . Nothing emphasizes the desirability of playgrounds more than the man. ner in which the movement has spread throughout the country in the last decade. It was recognized from the start as benefit to every community and today over 490 cities have neigh borhood playgrounds and play leaders, and the number is constantly grow ing. Not only is the list of cities which have adopted the idea steadily increasing, but those where the work is already being carried on are yearly adding to the number of such recrea : ton centers, of which there are at present somewhere in the neighbor- hood of $500 throughout the country.
 The playground affords the children
  With supervisors the children are un- der restraint and get the benefit of good advice and guidance in their play.
 The playground provides place for the children to go when otherwise they would be inclined to utilize the streets with their attendant dangers. It like wise keeps them out of mischief and away from places of bad influence.
 The playground movement takes in- to consideration the fact that the children are entitled to such provis- ions in their behalf, and that the peo- pie of every community are responsi- ble for guiding them in the right di- rection. Play is necessary to every child and the opportunity to indulge in wholesome recreation should be en- couraged rather than denied.
 The Norwich Playground association has done most commendable work in this direction and it deserves a gem erous response upon the part of the people of Norwich that it may not only be continued, but still further de- veloped, which is the aim of the pres- ent campaign. The children, the city and the future citizens are going to reap the benefits
Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-04
MOTHERS YOUR CHILDRENS HAIR
 NEEDS CARE
seeds of BaIdness Often Como From
 Neglect In Youth.

seeds of saIdness Often Como From
 Neglect Tn Youth.
 The hair of some children is natur- ally backward in healthy growth. The rapid mental and body development of these boys and girls makes tremeud- ous demands upon their vital forces. And usually when there is not enough of that vital force to supply all needs, 1t is the hair which suffers. Dry, dull, scanty, brittle, hfeless-lookfng hair and dandruh is the result, and Mother is sure to be distressed because of its lack of abundance and beauty.
 Partisan Sage is the ideal hair and scalp treatment for growing children as many mothers can testify. This delicate and wholesome scalp y1talizer is entirely harmless and its nourishing Ingredients supply just the elements of nutrition that properly invigorate the hair ana scalp. dissolve dandrnff and promote healthy, normal hair growth.
 Many mothers are personal users of Parisian Sage because of the good it has done their children. Certainly a preparation that is tender and whole some enough to invigorate baby's scalp is a preparation well suited for mother. Pariaian Sage is sold by Lee & Osgood and good druggists every where. The cost is trifiing and per- feet satisfaction guaranteed or pur- chase price refunded.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-04
THE GASOLINE SITUATION.

It makes little difference what the commodity is, when the price com- mences to go slxyward there is always aJarge number concerned therein. Prices have advanced in all lines, but in none has there been much greater increase for the amount used and the apparent amount available than in the trade in gasoline. This has much more than doubled and at present there Is no telling where it is going to stop.
 Efforts have been made to get the benefit of a cheaper method of obtain ing the product from the crude oil but 1t has had no effect upon the retail cost, however much may be expected of it in the future. but when the claim is made, and 1t has the appearance of being backed Hp by the facts, that there are millions of gallons of gaso- line being stored up, while the price is steadily mounting it is difficult to understand why such a heavy drain should be placed upon the consumer. If this was the only way in which the business could be conducted and se- cure a fair profit there could be no complaint, but such does not appear to be the case. The oil companies de- rived large profits under the old price. They paid big dividends and cut large melons out of the business which they did. and without any increase in the cost of manufacture or the expense of handling the higher cost to the user is bound to result in so much greater dividend rates. There is a difference between a reasonable profit and the gouging of the consumer because there happens to be a monopoly in Inis par ticular line. Price may also be gov erned by the supply and the demand but with millions of gallons being stored up the supply appears to be above the requirements regardless of the fact that those who use the com modity are being forced to pay a handsome price for it. This leads to the conclusion that the monopoly is doing it's best to drain the pocket books of the consumer because it hap. pens to be in a position to do so.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-04
HER DARK SECRET

'Yes know my eyes are red. i" ad- mitted the girl who likes to talk, "but what is worse. my soul is humiliatedl | You can't dose your soul with bOractc acidl thought that I had fine we'll trained mind, above the com mon herd. and find I haven't!
 I've been kind about it, too! When people have asked me what to get to read at the drug store library I've re- hearsed to them the books that the reviews described as thrilling mystery stories, absorbing detective narratives weird tales warranted to make you sit up with bulging eyes and beating heart because that's what they want ed. They said they read for recrea- ton and to get a change of thought recommended some book to me as be- ing perfectly great I always smiled sweetIy and naIrmured no. I had no time to waste on such fiction.
 HOf course. I added, in order to soften the blows that many able writ it was no disgrace to like 1t. but somehow did not care for 1t. preferred explained, a novel of character rather than plot, aud unless a book was truly an event I should not waste time reading 1t. I gave them the impression that 1t was be- yond my comprehension how grown up persons who had learned that life is f1eeting could persist in squander- ing time on thri1lers that made their taste degenerate!
 Though practiced restraint as much as possible, there were times when could not help bursting over, especially when some member of my family grew s1angy with joy over some best seller. The object of my lecture would hardly ever listen to me and if he gave ear at all he greeted -1e4 .~G r4r~s1,- kT, 9---
 My brother was the worst. He told me that I was a petrified high brow. and that he was lots more deep ly concerned about my case than l possibly could be about his. This thought about a college graduates repaying the sacrifice of his doting parents by reading the ''Dead-Ey Dick stuff, that they had to conceal under sofa pillows in humiliation when the minister called.
 When I went to his desk the next day for something I sighed and ob- served that he had another book from the corner library. This fresh, un- su1lied cover showed it to be brand new. I picked it up and read the ti- tie, and then sighed again, for ] remembered a recent review had des- cribed the story as a corker. I es- pecially abominate corkers.
 with Teddy's brilliant mind it did seem a pity-I Tipped the leaves and shifted at the illustrations. They were bana1, hurried. designed to catch the eye, with artistic merit showed in- to the background-what on earth could attract Ted to a book of this sort?
 'T read the first page to justify my scorn, and it was justified, certainly The opening was absolutely ordinary hackneye. I read the second page and felt that could tell the rest of the story just as scientist can describe to it's last eyelash some animal whose left thighbone he has dug out of a rock.
 "It was very, very sad that Teddy by this time had finished the
Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-04
THE CHAS A KUEBLER CO., 39-4l Fs1shEI' sTesET

velopment of character. During this unparalleled and inhuman war women everywhere have crossed the Rubicon never to return. They have eaten of the fruit of the tree of knowledge and experience, which was withheld from them by the customs of ages, and not by the God of their own being, and have proven that the world at large needs them. Whatever may be the outcome of this war of mans making, it has already revolutionized wonan's world and they have met 1t with a practical and courageous spirit that has astonished the world. All classes of women regardless of station or creed have risen to the emergencies of the times; the office, counter, work@i shop and all utiIitarian fields have been filled by them with a remarkable adaptability and intelligence The whole working world of Europe will, stand face to face with a new woman at the close of this war. What is in store for America, we know not; but, we do know that the hour has arrived when all of us should gird ourselves for action and lay aside these vices which are net necessary for pure pleasure and do not make for health and strength. This is the first step toward preparedness in which suffra-. gists and antis may unite. MARINDA c. BUTLER ROBINSON.
 Asheville. N. C., April 21. 1916.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-04
OTHER VIEW POINTS

It would seem as though the state highway department could afford to rest this season. The construction of any new work seems out of all pro- portion especially as ordinary labor is demanding the price of the skilled artisan in most instances. The roads of the present. are sufficient for the time being. It is no time to heap on the state a debt twice as large as necessary. Just take care of what we have until conditions get down to a sensible stage again, then go ahead l-Middletown Press.
 There is a great deal of loose talk about town regarding boosting the city. For example, it is supposed by many that any one who passes an unfavof- . able criticism concerning the fire, po- lice park or street departments of the city is a "knocker,' while any one who lauds the entire work of the admins tra4ion with generous approval of all that it does, per SC, a booster of Bridgeport. The free press of the city, czatt=<,:=sag from time to time acts of the administration, has been quoted by papers in other cities. This has pro- Voked the most bitter resentment on the part of the administration It has been claimed that Bridgeport has been knocked" when it should have been boosted" The physician who is called to the home of the sick and who makes careful diagnosis, finally deciding that the patient is suffering from an attack of pneumonia is not called a ''knocker," because he did not call the disease less serious, or indeed pass 1t over as mo real trouble at all.' This paper claims to be one of the forces that are at work in building up a larg- CT and better Bridgeport, but it claims that it is often doing this work quite as effectively when it points to the failures of those officials who serve their own interests when they should be serving the city as when it is com mending those who do their duty as men should do it.-Bridgeport Tcle- gram.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-04

chapter and was called to the teIe- phone. rushed back as quickly as I could. A crude plot, blt-hold! Could it be possible that the Hon. Ce- ciI was not what he seemed Maybe he was the one
 read the next two chapters and frowned when my mothers voice reached me. She said that she had called me six times. and when was I going to start downtown on those errands? Somehow Iefelt very grumpy toward my parent for disturbing me. but went. The clerks were stupid and I was delayed and got home only in time to dress for dinner.
 After dinner Ted said he guessed he'd stay home, because he had a good book to read-and presently be- gan yelling for the book. Nobody had seen it, It was very queer, Ted de- c1ared, that a man couldn't lay a thing down in this house without losing it. and confound it all he'd go to the club! I unblushingly told the family that had a headache. and should turn in early. By so doing should be able to read in bed.
 "Oh. yes, I had Ted's book in my room. To such depths had sunk! But. honestly, simply had to find out whether my guess about Cecil was correct! He did the most extraord- , aerop5ane, that was imperviols to wind, guns, lost gasoline and spark plugs! And he was assisted by a young woman, who developed oyer night into lady aerop1anist. able to fox trot 10000 feet high and escape all the guns of Europe. to say nothing of making correct landing after dark in a perfectly strange section of France.
 .AEy common sense told me that there wasn't any such girl, any more than there was any such airship; that any German chancellor like the one in the story would be apt to he boiled in oil: that anybody who climbed inn possible mountain trails as Cecil did would be in a museum or his coffin.
 'FYet I read on. snapped out my light whenever any one went through the hall--and snapped 1t back again when danger was past. I finished that book at 1:30. and became aware that my lips were dry. my hands ice cold. my head humping, with excite ment. " 'Why-that-that's a corker!" said out loud, absent rnindedly. Then I came to and crawled under the blankets to shudder over the collapse orn my mind!
 "It's awful! I've got to lead a dou- ble life among my family from now on, because I've gcE another book al home warranted to Ge just as thrill ing as the first, and expect from now on that I'm a fiction inebriate! If Ted every finds me out I'll diei"- Exchange.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-04
NAMED MERcHANrMEN.

New attention is being directed to the armed merchantmen by the ar rival in Brooklyn of an Italian liner with two guns aboard. This prompt ed the neutrality squad to immediately acquaint Washington with the facts but in view of the stand which has been previously taken by this gov ernment, there is no reason to expect that any new course will be followed in this instance.
 This liner has done no different than others. It is within it's rights accord ing to international law when it places guns aboard for purposes of defense and there are no reasons to believe that any other purpose is intended in this instance.
 Since this country has taken its stand in regard to armed merchant- men, and insisted that vessels of such character which use it's ports must refrain from using their guns for any offensive action, there have been no instances where the government has been forced to deny further entry to such ships or to give additional warn ing 10 them regarding the use of their guns.
 The placing of guns aboard mer- chant ships was forced by the manner in which their rights were violated by certain of the belligerents. Had they not been denied the sfreedom of the seas and ruthless disregard mani- Tested for their rights under the laws of nations shown, there would have been no necessity for placing guns aboard. Such a4step has been taken csislz as a matter of protection and
Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-04

manded? Is the clean, fine, self con- trol approved and applauded?
 Instead of the old ideal, the social ideal of good sport too often con- fronts her. That she be ready to con- promise almost everything she has been taught to worship. The tyranny of the card table claims precious hours. The women who approve and countenance smoking and punch drinking, the blase, middle aged wom- en of the world, who support their tagging energies with cocktails, seem to. hold an enviab1e place in society. The young girl in society takes her first drink because she thinks it is the social custom, and later she becomes member of the cigarette smoking, cocktail drinking set and begins to lose her health"
 This is a true summing up of the status of society of today. We see it everywhere. Why not look this dark shadow which hangs over the home and threatens to swamp it in the face? Why beat about the bush and lay 1t at the door of the women who are working for the power which lies in the ballot, believing that thereby they may be able to better serve those of their sex who have been thrust un- protected either by environment or law into the fields of daily labor? They are not asking for the ballot for any personal gain. The world has ample witnesses to this fact in the conse- crated lives of such public benefactors as Julia Ward Howe. Clara Barton, Mary tLivermore, Mrs. Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Frances Willard and Helen KelIer-al women of extraordinary in- telligence, linked to self conSecration of all their abilities to the uplifting of humanity, and they like their followers l asked and worked for the ballot for | larger results. They like the earnest l suffrage workers of today had no time | for the fashionable pleasures and vices which are interfering with the highest needs of the home and the highest de-
Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-04
Stories of the War
Prohihition After the War.


 bill has been introduced into the Russian Durna to put into effect the governments promise that the war pro- hibition of alcoholic drinks shall con- tinue in force after the war. The bilI as summarized by the Novoe Vremya, provides:
 Tt is forbidden to produce alcohol for the purpose of manufacture of vodka Equally prohibited is the inn port of alcohol from foreign countries and from the Grand Duchy of Finland. The production of alcohol by private institutions and persons, either for sale or for their own consumption or for household purposes. is also pro- hibited.
 "The production of alcohol for tech- nical or medical purposes Is to be car ried on by the government directly or through contractors. The government has the sole right to sell spirits for these purposes.
 The sale of light wines is only ai- lowed in towns. In provinces and districts which grow grapes the sale of wine-nor on draught-is allowed The limit of alcohol for different kinds of wine Is to be fixed by the govern ment
 "The sale of beer is allowed only in towns. The government is also to fix for beer the limit of alcohol. Town councils have the right to issue regu- lations limiting or prohibiting alto gether the sale of beer and light wines"
 The governments position in the l matter was thus outlined by M Bark Minister of Finance. in his budget | speech: Among the factors which have helped to keep our budget bal. anee 1t is impossible to overestfmate the new factor in the economic life O. our country-the total abstinence iron alcoholic drinks. The success of thhI -SSz1, 4,-T- realized, is such that , am bound tC state most emphaticalIy that the pro. l hibdtfon is not to be abolished aftei the war.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-04

1t is a noteworthy fact in this con~ nection that it has resulted in a de- cided decrease in the number of such vessels attacked The respect which they are entitled to and which they have been. promised, even by those na- tions which have totally ignored neu- tral and non combatant rights. has improved sinca this determination to enforce their rights were manifested, and none has yet done anything which would put them in the class of aux Hilary cruisers.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-04
Children Who Are SickIv

Mothers who value fheir own connfort and the welfare of the cir children should never be without q box of Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, for use throughout the season. They break up colds, relieve feverishness, constipation, teething disorders head ache and stomach troubles. Used by mothers for 28 years. These powders never fail- Sold by all drug. stores. 25c. Don't accept any substitute Sample mailed free. Address Mother Gray Co.,, Le Roy, N. r.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-04

It is now explained that the seven day president of the Irish republic is n poet. The rebellion must therefore have been the working off of an fn- spiration which came with spring, but which lacked safety valve.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-04
Even Weather HeIped.

Western railroads report that the last winter was not a difficult one from an operating point of view, and heavy tonnage could be hauled most of the time Even the weather help ed the general prosperity. = Spring l9leaal l2.apagnllca -----.-,-
Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-04

The fact that baseball team is al the top of the list at this season has little significance. It's a long, long day to the pennant.