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Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

Those who have returned from their vacations confess Norwich is not the hottest place on the map.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

A southern political delight: To see a $75,000 post office built in a village of 1,200 inhabitants: pork -barrell ex- traVange.
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Not Health Bread.

MT. Editor:-A Hebrew baker brings bread from Norwich and the board of health told him the bread must be wrapped in separate paper. He brings them two, four. three Ioaves in a news paper, and goodness knows who has handled the old newspapers! His wagon is none too clean. Yours for good health.
 A READER. FifchviIIa Aur fl 1918
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

Did you ever witness a farce that did not have a fat man in it? Bill Shakespeare put the fat man to the front
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On a Friday the Italian forces wrested from the Austrians their greatest victory. Lucky day for them
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The Hon. MT. RedfeId seems to rec ognize that a lie well stuck to is bet ter than the truth wavering.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12
There have been recorded school meetings under the old district svstsro-

There have been recorded school meetings under the old district system, when opposing parties would get "aIi het up" in the crowded gatherings; when rather questionable political methods would be employed, caucusses packed and the like, in order to de- feat an opponent, or from some selfish motive, because perhaps, the teacher boarded with the committeeman, or the latter reveled in his chance to swing the balance of power.
 But that day has gone by, happily, and under consolidation with the managing of the schools in the hands of small committee of intelligent and puhiicspirited men working for the highest interests of the town, without fear or favor there is peace ful harmony in the conduct of the schools, while the efforts of board of education, superintendent and prin- cipal are furthered and put to practi- cal account by the fidelity, co-opera- uon and intelligent interest of a splendid body of trained teachers.
 THE DICTAGRAPH
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If it takes six swats to kill a fly, it takes energy enough to kill a mil lion to win a baseball pennantI
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

The backbone of summer is suffer ing little chill, but it is an agree able change from being blistered.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

It was dedicated Sept. 3, 1855, cost $40,o00. J. W. Allen, a graduate of Wesleyan University, was its first principal.
 So important an event was consid- cred the erection and opening of Broadway School that, in 1856, the fol- lowing reference to it appeared in the Report of the Superintendent of Pub lie Schools of Connecticut:
 "The erection of this beautiful pub lie building CNorwich Central School hoUse), marks the successful termina- ton of one of the most protracted and severe educational struggles ever witnessed in our state"
 Referring to the districts in the re- mainder of the town, Miss Caulkins writes:
 f'The other school houses are also on liberal scale. That of the Falls District, on Sachem Street, was com pleted in 1856, at 8 cost of $10,0O0. The older structures of other districts have all been enlarged or refttcd to render them convenient and appropri- ate to the graded system"
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12
A PAcIE-SETTER.

to every truth, to be fit for redemp- tion,
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love to watch the robins in the garden looking for worms and teaching their newly pledged young to provide for themselves. The cat is so well fed she does not harrass them. For awhile there was a female accompanied by two males. The males used to engag one another occasionally in what, at first, I thought was jealous combat, but afterwards I concluded they were friendly wrestling matches-they did not injure one another and seemed to be prompted by a spirit of play rather than wrath. I concluded this must be Q father robin with a bachelor son. There are bachelor birds whenever the males exceed the females, and Shackle- ton tells us that the bachelor penquins camp by themselves adjacent to the mated colony. We turn the soil in the garden up once or twice a week, and the keen eye and keen scent of the robins informs them when the sun is working upon fresh earth. They follow close to the cultivator and are not afraid. They do not become as tame as the chick-a-dee, but they follow close, like doves or chickens.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12
Sunday Morning Talk
TAKE TIME TO LIVE.

Most people expect to begin to live sometime. They will live after they have made their pile" or the chill dren are educated, or after the house is paid for. At present. the workaday world make too heavy demands on them. Now, all they can do is hustle; i; they will live by and by.
 The mistake of thousands of us at this point is perfectly natural, but full of pathos, nevertheless. It is so easy to confuse the making Of living with the making of a life. It is so easy to imagine that in grubbing and saving and in ringing up a few additional dollars on the cash register, one is full filling human destiny.
 One is a fool to depreciate thrift, but thrift, like any other good thing, may be carried to excess. When it makes us sordid and selfish and earth ly, with no appreciation of the finer values of life, it is a foremost enemy of we'll being. When Ut teaches that mans life consists, af:er all, in the abundance of the things he can get his hands on, it is as false a phiIos- ophy as could well be preached.
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Alabama, Colorado, Illinois. Indiana cotting.
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TaftviIIe, Aug. 10, 1916.

[The Editor eliminates two pages Of paragraphs like the above from Ir. Woods letter because it had no room for them. MT. Wood has a perfect right to criticise the press or anyone else; but if he is not better informed about other matters than he is as to the methods of American newspapers, we advise him to cease writing.-The IditOr.1
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life because they have been soldiers, but if they look like pick-axe and shovel men instead of acceptable gen. eral service men, they are likely to find their place. Men who are de- ficient in knowledge and proficient in no craftsman's occupation have no reason to complain if their work is dirty, Iaborious and poorly paid. This young chap was doubtless a poor locker while on parade, and a worse one in private life.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

Bear in mind that it is always better to grin than to groan, but you cannot always keep the grin first. This symbol of good nature is a dependable assett anywhere on earth. The people do not like sounds that get on their nerves and that is something a grin can never do, for it is a surface symbol which be- gets mirth. The grin that doesn't come off makes the gorgon, hence it is mot in good form to grin all of the time. A grin is a smile intensifed-a wrinkle more than a smile and less than laugh. "Laugh and the world laughs with you-Weep, and you weep alone" sang Ella Wheeler Wilcox. We take to the la! ha! but we have no tears to shed with others. since we need them all ourselves. There is no GiscOunting the worth of glee-"joy are our wings, and sorrow our spurs" they say. And it is harder to hide our joy than our grief. All creatures above and below man are said to be seriOUs--they do not smile It was a printers error that turned "a hoarse- laugh" into a "horse-laugh." The horse is not guilty. But it is better to grin than to groani
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about, and which are none of their business.
 There are articles galore on where tue Kaiser will eat his next Christmas dinner, but followers of the war news would be astonished to see anything like the following paragraphs among the editorials of the Bulletin or any other American newspaper.
 Will England inmortalize the 100, ,0O0 who died on Gallipoli as she has the Light Brigade. who died at Balaklava simply because one of her brilliant (7) military officers blundered?
 Careful observers notice that Eng land didn't specify the exact time when she was going into HeIogoland to drive the German navy out like rats out Of a trap.
 Isn't it about time that the spring arr.ved whcn the Allies were going to launch their great offensive?
 It seems as if England's troops are kept in the Balkans merely for orna- mental purposes.
 England is generous-she lends her allies all the money they need and lets them have ali the fighting they want.
 England lays it to her humanity be- cause she is not clever enough to du- plicate the German air raids on the British Isles.
 When English troops were defending Antwerp they liked to tell about how the first German shell killed a fourteen year old boy and the second decapi- tated a harmless street sweeper. Prob ably only non- -combatants were killed during the bombardment, for the troops beat a "stragetic retreat" after the shells got coming so fast they could not count them.
 England has always sent out false news concerning her troops. She painted the battle of Magersfontein in the Boer war as an important Eng fish victory while in reality it was a bloody English massacre.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

The Broadway School still retains it's stately dignity and imposing char acter, as referred to by Miss Caull1ins- and during the years since her time there has never been trace of that "prOtracted and severe educational st1uggle" which preceded its erection
 Local history records the names of the worthy and faithful successors of John W. Allen, it's first principal; among principals and superintendents such names as Phelps, the two White mores, Davis, Hine, Tilson, the devoted Bishop, whose best years were spent in the service of the schools; and, under consolidation, Superintendent E. J. Graham and Principal F. w. New ton, men who have given or are giv- ing of their minds and hearts and wisdom, to upIift educational work in Norwich and to keep the schools of the town in the forefront, in the state and the nation.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

iig TUT AlSAaftSSS 1 were dShGu lO name a conSpicuously successful life, l should not name that of the late Mrs Hetty Green, although she died the richest woman on the planet. To a normal mind it would appear that she got amazingly little out of her earthly she gave back q disgTaCeful pittance to the society that had made her wealth possible. It is not success to spend the whole span of ones human years in clutChing after dollar bills. Perhaps, however, the lady intended some day to make dole to charity after she had gotten rich enough.
 We can trust the case of selfish mil liCnaires to 8 higher court. You and have a sufficient contract to live less fOOlishly than they.
 If the physical strain and nervous fret of making living are leaving us no time or strength for affairs out side the office or shop, if we have no leisure for helpful cOmpanionship with friends, for books, for gardens, for the play of children or the songs of birds, we are making a capital mis- take. We are putting the first things second. We are becoming machines rather than men. The human lamp is consuming wick rather than oil and it threatens, ere long, to smoke unpIeasantly.
 The British business man, before the terrible days of war, at least, had a hint along this line for his Ameri- can cousin. He had an appreciation of the value and the possibility of leisure. His whole day was not sur surrendered to the stock ticker. A generous part of summer afternoons was given to his family, to reading, to tea in the garden. An English professional man whose labor gained him a competency was offered a post yielding a larger salary and demand ing closer confinement. He declined the offer, giving as his reason, T should then have no time to live" Let hustling Clarence Percy think it all over before he sneers at that old y3y0y-I5 o+
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Uha lever fhe cause of 1i1 conpiaint oislir1 was recently amused by the complaint of an American who had served four years in the regular army that The could not as a civilian get work ex-
 cept with pick and axe with a lot of aliens" He did not like it because he was asked why he did not re-enlist? :? Four years of training should have given him a pose and an air of civility and promptness which of itself should have been commendatory This young man apparently had not made the most of the discipline in the army, and because of this had failed to make the most of himself. Men are not
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

It doesn't seem as though angel cake ought to become bar to peace in the family, but it is possible If a man marries a young woman who nourishes a cOnceit that she can make Angel cake better than any other live woman on earth. When she is making a di- gestion destroying loaf a liver clogging lump, and likes to talk about angel cake every day, and serve it at every meal, the husband is up against some thing serious. He doesn't like to be told that he doesn't know enough to appreciate the best cake ever made on earth, and witness tears caused by his lack of taste and sense. He doesn't wish to swallow a brick for the sake of being agreeable when it will surely make life disagreeaible to him. There snothing like a good pastry cook in the family if everyone else hankers for her pastry and praises it, but when a
 cook praises her own product, one should be on guard. A story is told of a divorced man who had no objec- tion to returning to his wife and fam ily but when visions of the angel cake came to him the tremens of despair possessed his soul and he revoited, Shouting: Angel cake! Never!''
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

Summer days are good ones in which to begin a reasoned practise of rest and recreation that should find place in the symphony of every life. See to it that TO day in the year is all grind, even if the grind may mean a larger cash balance at nightfau. What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?''
 There should be time each day for the things that refresh and nourish the spirit. Have an eye for the wonders of sunrise and sunset. Read the evangel of the flowers and understand the language of the birds. Dip into a few good books. Cultivate human and divine friendships. Refuse to be utterly brow-beaten by the material necessities. It is better for a man, after all, to lay up treasures in heaven than to labor all his life to crowd more funds than he needs into the third national bank.
 THE PARSON,
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

Finally, the weakness of the school system and the urgent need of speedy reform had an effect upon even the most obstinate of the opposition. All parties united in favor of reform and progress and complete change in system was effected
 Adjoining districts were consoli- dated, a system of graded schools in augurated, and upwards of $50,0O0 ex- pended in buildings for their accom- mOdation.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

It is said when man gets the right kind of religion his enemies and even his horse can find it out without be- ing told. True religion is something which shows itself as plainly as a band of crape on the arm of light colored coat. The meeting-house gets some men who think they have religion, but the radiant gospel doesn't shine forth from their cOuntenances or manifest itself in their speech or actions. Re ligion cannot be anything less than Whole-heartedness but lots of haJf- hearted folks march m the ranks. SAe religion that doesn't show itself at the counter, but is only manifest in the conference meeting. never will be rec ognized at the golden gate of the new Jerusalem. Recollection has been de- nominated the life of reIigion-for- getfulness wrecks it. The man who makes religion his business never has a doubt God has made it his blessed ness. Too many get their thoughts on the wrong side of the fence-they pos Sess religion instead of letting religion possess them. Religion measures right seven days in the week-Sunday meas ure and conference meeting devotion represent short measure
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

Had the gifted historian of Norwich lived in this generation, it must have astonished and delighted her could she have Seen the handsome, modern school building on Broad Street, and that on Laurel Hill, among the best types of latter-day school houses.
 While the other and older buildings are not SD attractive or so vel equipped as are the two cited, the work which their faithful teachers accom- plish is of the first order of merit Irrespective of surroundings or the appearance of the buildings.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12
THE MAN WHO TALKS

How many people who think they
 have had "a call'' in life do you think discover lat last that they erred. Some people think they are called to
 preach that have no more idea of the task than a monkey has of cutting a watermelon. We recall the story of a young man who was called to preach
 in vision, for G. P. c. appeared in a scroll which he thought meant: GO Preach Christi" But an old deacon after listening to one of his sermons,
 and to the story of his call, told him
 he had nlisinterpreted the message, for the letters stood for " Go Plant Corn!" A story is told of one of those hardy
 western ponies known as burros who would adopt every new born lamb, goat or sheep on the ranch, drive away the mother, and then kick the stuffing out of anything or anybody who came
 near 1t. He did not know horses, wolves and dogs have to win leader
 ship by fighting for it. The preachers called to places better paid are often suspected of having heard the call of the money instead of the voice of the Lord. We should not take too much stock in still, small voices where we know we possess a, lively imagination. It should be borne in mind many are called but few are chosen. We better figure to be among the chosen.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

Most men do not have to be eau tioned not to work too hard for they think short days and long days pay fit best together. It is a fact that the men who can best afford to make short days, take them long; and those who can least afford short hours insist upon having them. When it comes to selling time labor proposes to keep it scarce and high having taken its cue from commercial practices It is not q sin but it is a setback to enterprise, and the Old-fashioned bank account, The advantages of labor ought to be mutual instead of ex- Cessively cumulative. Last year in one of the largest states in the Union, the strike habit cost both sides enough to maintain without labor 3O,O00 persons for two centuries and a half What a great and unnecessary battle this was; and how it wasted wealth. And doubt less it cost great sacrifices and some lives. To make things cheap it takes long hours and reasonable wages; to make things dear short hours and high wages. Today wages are excessively high, but the five dollar note is only buying 60 per cent. as much as it did two years ago, hence five dollars now are doing what $3 did in 1914
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Many of the citizens took a decided stand in favor of a complete change
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

There is not a doctor on earth who will endorse the sentiment that health is wealth" He cannot see it. He will tell you that health IS to be found on the farm and in most open air occupa- tions, but not wealth. Health is above money, anyhow. It cannot be bought, and it supports a first class stomach which wealth speedily destroys. In the affairs of life health and wealth parade far apart-heaIth in de jeans and wealth in silks and fine linens. Health is wealth." fguratively speaking, but it cannot be figured out by the multi plication table. What the muIti-mil- lionaire yearns for most is a poor mans appetite, not a harp of gold The reason wealth is not health is because it strives for the uncommon- 1t draws to itself the exceptional-it prefers cardomons to onions There is a saying that it is easier to acquire wealth ike knaVe than to spend it like a gentleman; but no such islander can be put upon health. We are told "it is when the rich are sick that they feel the impotence of wealth.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12
WHEN cREENEv1LLE TOOK THE LEAD

in khe organization of the schools. Foremost among those advocating a new and more desirable system stands a name prominent ir every movement for the betterment of Norwich, ancient or modern-that of Gilman. William c. Gilman was an earnest and con stant advocate of a more complete and energetic course of instruction and of needed reforms and improved methods throughout the schools.
 The village of GreeneViIIe took the lead in the march of improvement, when, in 1899, she consolidated her two schools, and established a high school, This was done without opposition and the signal change was made effective largely through the efforts of William H. Colt, of that section of the town.
 Tn the other city districts, the pro- ject met with strenuous opposition. There was conflict of opinions and of plans which was continued or re- newed fer about twelve years.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12
Let's Have DrinkabIe Water,

Windham, Aug. il, 1916.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-11

Widespread Disease Among Dairy
Herds and Gross Irregularities Among
Animal Industry Officials Exposed
Through Public Statement Issued by
New York Milk Committee - Two
Hundred Thousand Spreaders of
tuberculosis Among the Milk-Pro-
ducing Cows of Single State Are the
Chief Contributions Made by the I'm
controlled Evils of the Dairy Farm to
the Pitiable Condition of Thousands
of Children Under Ten Years of Age.
March 25, 1914. the New York Milk
Committee, in an effort to enlighten
the public regarding the menace of
disease producing milk, issued the
following statement:
"Of children suffering from tuber-
culosis (the worst scourge of the
human race) 25 per cent. are affected
by tuberculosis of the bovine type -
that is to say, quarter of these un-
fortunate children have been infected
by the milk or milk products of dis
eased cows.
"Of all the children suffering from
tubercular cervical glands 80 per
cent. are affected by tuberculosis of
the bovine type. This means that
nine out of every ten of such children
would be sound and healthy. as far as
tuberculosis is concerned, If they had
not been fed with the milk of diseased
COWS.
"All but 10 per cent. of the people
in this State living outside New York
City drink raw milk. This means that
the children of 3,913,000 persons (cen-
sus of 1910) are directly exposed to
the most dreaded infection which
curses the human race, one-third of
the cows that supply them with milk
already being within the grip of the