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Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25

they may be kept away on account of the quarantine.
 What a joke-the comparison of WeybOsset or some other busy thor with a street like Main street in Nor wich? Comedy for the gods! Nor Wich has a lot of comedians, and per hapS a complete and full discussion of this subject will bring many of them to the front.
 One letter writer, MT. LandOn. seems to be especially interested in VOlun- town. Perhaps he is in hopes that some day Norwich may be as busy as VOluntown.
 It would look good to most of us to see a line of automobiles along the thoroughfares instead of a lot of blank empty space which Norwich seems to have had so much of for so long a period of years. Would that there was string of automobiles from one end of Main street to the other! Then we would really think we were a, city of some account.
 Instead of wasting time on traffic rules, why not get busy and fix up the streets we have? North Main street for instance. It seems like a hurdle race to ride over it today. Where is the money that we aDprO- pIiated in city meeting to fix up that street? What is being done about it? Must the public suffer forever?
 We have business organizations dO- ing everything they can to try to in duce business to come to Norwich, but here is an act which has done more to drive business away from Norwich than any measure which has been passed in the last 20 years. There are enough real things to do without inn posing incOnvenienCes, and costly ones at that, upon the citizens of this com munity. It makes one feel like ex- claiming: "QuOusque Tandem abutere Catalina patientia nostra?' When we gaze upon the white wings upon the streets, it makes us feel like singing the old song, "White wings, they never grow weary" We wonder what the next move is to be. Why not silk hat or two to add a little dignity to the brigade?
 We might as well have good time about it as we are paying the bill any way, and we will have to pay it until the "boys" come to the age of ma turity.
 One Who Likes to See a Crowd.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25
THE WIRELESS.

It is not so many years ago that the first Marconigram was received with Q smile and not regarded as at all serious as a competitive menace to the cable companies of the world.
 Today the wireless telegraph com pany includes four great organiza- tions covering most of the civilized world The war has broken up it's Belgian system, but has increased the receipts from all the entente countries. The Russian company de- clared a dividend of IS per cent.
 The general reserve fund reached $4,SS7, $50 last year, an increase of half a million; and the net profit was S1,- 8S90S5, an increase over the profits of 1915 of $725,0oO.
 Its use has resulted in the saving of thousands of lives, and property to the value of millions.
 The secretary of the English com pany says in his annual report just issued:
 There is considerable work in cer- tain parts of the world which we should have been doing, but which it has been impossible to. do in conse- quence of the war; on the other hand, we have had some compensation by having many additional orders at home and from allied countries. In particular, we have done considerable business with the admiralty, and noth- ing could have been more agreeable than the relations between the com pany and that department"
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25
BACK TO HE LAND.

England is considering the question of re9eeming her waste lands and in- creasing her agriculture by sending thousands of her returning soldiers to the country to live and to work.
 MT. Leslie Scott. a member of par lament in an interview for the Lon don Observer, says concerning this great industrial scheme:
 Immediate legislation is needed. It is idle to think our soldiers will look at wages on anything like the old scale of some of our counties. And within year of the war ending the government must find the money to build. say, 100000 rural cottages. To make village life a live thing I think it should be made a statutory duty of every parish council to build a village hall, in which entertainments, serious and frivolous alike, could be given. The cinema is as important as the lecture. And arrangements should be made-and landowners and farmers. I am sure, would be willing to assist Co provide football and cricket fields.
 Into the means of providing em- ployment for the men it is impossible Co enter in detail Shortly, it Is: Breaking up the poorer grass land. of which there are millions of acres; retaining waste land; and afforesta- ton of the rough, semi-waste land, of which there is so large an amount in the United Kingdom. In these works, in one way or the other, the state must help. State help is also wanted for starting agricultural industries like the making of beet sugar, and starch Hnd alcohol from potatoes. If these things were done employment could easily be found for another 3OO,OOO or 100000 in agriculture"
 This is a big problem, and if car ried through it will mean an improve ment in the health and spirit of the working classes of Great Britain.
 This back to the land scheme means a better and more dependable citi- zenship.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25
KNOCKING OUT THE PEARL BUT
 TON INDUSTRY.

We all remember the pearl button Industry which was tablished in 1890 under President Mckinley. Under B. republican protective tariff the bus mess was established in 12 states of which one was Connecticut.
 The democratic press ridiculed it, but it grew 10 a respectable and prof itable industry employing 44GOO per sons, using 5O,O0O tons of fresh-water shell, and aggregated a capital of $50, ,- 1000.
 In 1919 our button factories were protected and imported pearl buttons paid revenue of S70,454 In 1915 under democratic free trade the i'm ported buttons amounted in value to S212,3G9 with duties amounting to S91.- S14-import increase 133 per cent; revenue increase but 30 per cent.
 Wages paid in America are three times as large as wages paid in Eng land. Bohemia. CT Austria and five times the prices paid in Japan.
 There are over 100 pearl button fac tories in Japan and they will soon have most of the pearl button trade
 Tho democratic tariff for revenue only is slowly and surely wiping, out the pearl button industry establish ed by republican protection of Ameri- can labor under Mckinley.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25
The Pot Calls The Kettle Black

The Pot Calls The Kettle Black.
 MT. Editor: The New York Sun day Sun and the New York Medical Journal seem to be in danger of get ting at Ioggerheads over the epidemic of infantile paralysis now raging in that city.
 The Sun of last Sunday in a leading editorial has this to say:
 Our respectable and informed friend the New York Medical Journal in it's latest edition says:
 We intimated in our issues of July 8 that the present epidemic of infan- tile paralysis was by no means so ter rible as the first newspaper reports made out.
 "The first newspaper reports re- corded accurately the official out givings of the Department of Health They dealt with a subject no serious journal could ignore. They were communicated to the press by the highest authority, and presented by it to the public not as the fruit of original research, but m the form of and beliefs of those to whom the guardianship of the community's health is entrusted. Had the news papers failed to print these announce ments they would have been accused of expressing news of vital import ance, of withholding their assistance from city officers struggling to pro tect the population, and of concealing a menace to every individual residing in or visiting the city.
 The grossly exaggerated notion that prevails here and throughout the country concerning the prevalence of infantiIe paralysis in New York, the hardships that have been inflicted on the population, the turmoil that has been caused all over rGe country, re- suit from the acts and words, not of the newspapers, but of public officers who lost their heads, or else had no heads to lose.
 Regarding the merits of this con- troversy we are not particularly con- cerned; but our hearts certainly go out to the children of the great city and the towns surrounding, who, fed on denatured milk with microbes to the right of them, serums to the left of them. into the very jaws of death have ridden by the hundred. Theirs not to reason why, -therrs but to do and die. It is painfully evident that some one has bfundeTed.
 When we reflect that the sufferers from the present epidemic have been fed upon Pasteurized ATilk at the in- stance and almost insistance of the health officers of both New York state and city, it does not seem that the reason for, or cause of. the plague is far to seek.
 The president of the New York An ti-Vivisection society says: For a long time I have pointed out in the columns of the Open Door Magazine and in other ways, the 4detr1ment, not to say danger. which attaches to con- tfnual use of Pasteurfzed milk, and al- i'Shough this danger has latterly be- Icome antacknowledged medicalfactIs the health board still i. ignore it and still
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25

have been eliminated or4 sU s9GEEsa as to be almost tnoffenstve+is Ony s5 it's bare skeleton does it reseIrole original measure of which Secrss McAdoo was the proud fathera gress will probably pass the AoIlI because the country needs itsz bun cause of the prolonged .oppositiur
 has held it up. The president
 probably sign 1t because it ts6 name, the same thing he 6nce3 cha ptoned. The plain people wiilSpgHT it's needless appropriations beCaSse they must. And after 0 very qqoTst trial it will be consigned to ths limbo of forgotten things, labelled as Eha worst mistake of the administrations Ansonia Sentinel 5,ss
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25
THE MrLIrIAMEN AT MORALES.

Nogales, Arizona, ought to be neu- traI territory but it isn't. The bound ary line of Mexico runs it's course along a street in the middle of the place, and the story has been told that squads of Connecticut national guards men have accidentally invaded Mexico several times since they have been in camp there.
 Mexico has more dust than is needed and as much heat as can be borne; a poorer currency than the world has any use for, and a constituency as un- certain as a lot of Turks. It is not inviting to man or beast; and as for the dustless duster it stands no show there for everything is covered with new layer of dust every day: a vacuum sweeper cannot keep the dust down; and an American woman would dic of dirt and nervous prOstration there in a week.
 The national guardsmen are aware Of what they are up against, and they gre not to blame for yearning for fight, for if they lay waiting and watching they may be buried alive in a sand storm.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25

annual proclamation setting two days when all the. farmers in the state shall respond and work the roads.
 We have flag days and mother days and labor days and old home week days, alIy very pleasurable and enjoy able, but; why should we not get into line for two good road days a year in every town in NewSEng gland These; would be serviceable days, and add to ourz good repmte with all strangers who travel this way.
 Gumption can accomplish some good things when the money for-them is not forthcoming.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25
THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Society

Syria.-That Syria has been unable to feed its own Christian population and at The same time satisfy the mil itary authorities extraordinary de- mands for supplies is not surprising to those familiar with the primitive agricultural methods of the Holy Land. Concerning the manner in which crops are raised in this section of the Near East, where 50,000 people are report ed to have perished already and where the entire Christian population seems doomed unless Americas representa- tions to the Turkish government are needed, John D. Whiting presents 8 graphic picture in a communication to the National Geographic society. MT. Whiting says:
 'Tn the mountain districts the farm land is usually owned by peasant pro- prietors, each mans property being composed of various small pieces scat tered about near the village in which he lives. The raising of olives, grapes and many other fruits is the leading occupation, but almost every farmer grows some grain.
 Down on the plains larger fields eX- ist and cereals are largely planted. The land of a given village Is ire quently owned in common by the ,vil- lagers and a division of it takes place every alternate year, and is so ar ranged That every man gets portions of the good as well as of the less de- sirable land.
 Fences, in the western sense of the word, are unknown. In the mountain ous country lands are inclosed by loose stone walls, still called by the ancient Hebrew name 'jedar', and on the plains by thron hedges. When the open fields are owned by individuals, the boundary lines are indicated by ,1oI, 7tEaN<y 01s stones are laid as Iandmarks'. It is, therefore, readily seen how easily these boundaries could be changed by an avaricious neiShbor. undeterred by
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25
Stories of the War

Nine Frenchmen Capture 113 Germans.
 One of the most striking episodes of the great Sonic offensive was the taking of the field fort at Biaches and the garrison of 113 men by nine French soldiers. The fort had resisted throughout the artillery bombardnenL and the infantry attacks had been checked by murder0us machine gun fire.
 By a lucky chance @ French officer discovered the precious secret that the terrible bOmbardment had made the fort vulnerable at one point Selecting a second lieutenant, two ser5eantS, a corporal and four men, he led them on hands and knees through the long grass to a spot where he knew there was breach in the defenCes. They reached their objective point without the Germans learning of their ap- prOach.
 Abruptly three of the French officers Ieaped into the work, shouting in sten- tOrian tones, Forward with the bay onet!" and throwing bombs, which exploded in the dugOut. The other six daring Frenchmen remained behind, ready to retreat if the attempt failed
 But the Germans, taken unawares, had no time to get their weapons and surrendered almost without a show of fight. When one of their number fell shot by Q revolver fired point blank by the French commanding officer, the Germans, 11S in all, came out of their shelters and threw up their hands, the French assert.
 The three French captors now began to feel nervous, as they saw no reason why the Germans should not fall upon and exterminate them. But at this mo- ment the other six hurried in. Their rcsOlute energy imposed upon the Ger mans, who believed that the new ar rivals were followed by many others, The German officers in the fort fbn7T threw down their arms and the entire garrison was marched to the French rear, escorted by the nine captors, who had not lost a man.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25
GOOD ROAD DAYS BY PRocEEMA.
 TOM

Good roads are something every town should be ambitious to attain, and maintain; but as a rule here in New England towns are not ashamed of the poorest roads.
 The poorest piece of road in three counties is within Norwich city limits in the direction of Preston City,. and the town of Preston has roads from which last years ruts and gJ1lleys have not been removed, when two men and a horse could fix them up in a day
 Old Missouri has to be shown, but in methods of keeping up her roads she is able to show us. Gov. Major of that state is about to-issue his third
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25
The More Traffic the Better.

Mr. Editor:-It seems like @ joke that the city of Norwich has been in existence over 250 years, and within the last two or three weeks we have taken on such @ tremendous growth that we now have to enforce these detestafbIe traffic regulations; notwith-
 standing the. fact that Hopkins and Allen have not turned out a single rifle yet, and the 1O,000gextra citizens who were to- occupy all the new houses built $forFfneir sole benefit and ,wf1ichNhas made a, drug of real estate, have not@yet arrived. Maybe the req son they haven't gotten here is be- causeH of the ; infantile paralYEis and
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25

The railway managers inform=us the American people pay for rail trans portation $3,OOO, ,O0O,OO a. year, and A cents out of every dollar from them goes to the employees. The employees want that made a half dollar.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25

Most anything seems good to an elevator boy who has been going up and down in a cage for a year or two. A front line trench would look attractive to him.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25

allowed to sour. The skin is blown full
 or ar, the opening tied up, and it is hung on 8 tripod of sticks and shaken back and forth by one or two women until the butter is formed"
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25

Germany imported $25, ,oo0, 900 worth of food stuff the year preceding the war. Even Judge Nippert. cannot de- ny it is 3. great trial to Germany to get along without it.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25

The minister who called a man who couldn't remember the Ten, Command ments a poor coot could not have had a better opinion of the man blind to the. contribution box
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25

The way the soldiers from the east are assaulting red-hearted Texas wa termelons on the Mexican border shows they have lost none of their Yalor.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25

The claim that Wilson kept us out Of War will catch peace-at-any- price men. Hasn't he spread abroad the impression that America is an easy prey?
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25

However the great European war may end Austria does not seem to have any future. The kaiser is like ly to take her and the entente allies to break her.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25

Such as it is the administration the house. It is such a bedraggled, mangled and battered article that the man, who accidentally lost it by the wayside, would deserve the thanks of the national electorate. It is neither flesh, fish nor fowl One by one the features that distinguished it and made it obnoxious to sensible people
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25

The man on the corner says: I've have city government now that be- ieves in wholesome traffic regulations and will enforce them.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25

The prisoners are coming in to the Allies in such numbers as to arouse the suspicion they are becoming weary of war and it's uncertainties.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25
Didn,t Know They Were Loaded,

If Wilson is defeated it will be largely because so many of his epi- grams have become boomerangs- New York Sun.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25

It is not probable that the mayor and aldermen of HaverhiIl will have to pay the $500 fine for not enforcing the anti-riot law.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25
The Changing Carranza.

Slippery old Carranza, now that he's terrified, talks like Dr. Jekyll, but he'll act like MT. Hyde.-LouisvilIe Courier Journal.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25
Villas location h Doubt.

Villa may be in Punta Arenas or the place that is paved with good in tentions, for all the public lnows.- Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25

The Deutschland does not appear to be in a great hurry to get away from Chesapeake bay. The game is extra hazardous.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25
EDITORIAL NOTES.

By the breaking of the Enc will a million more drops into Clifford Pin chotts lap.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25

August.
 Mir. EditOT:-It is hard work to be- ieve there are so many people really and truly interested in my weather predictions, but since my predictions in June that July was to be wet, l have received letters from the AIassa- Chusetts line to the Sound, calling me everything from crank to crook; and all because forecast July wea- ther correctly one month ahead of the weather bureau.
 One little lady in Groton wrote: Please, MT Cloud Digger, be good; have a heart; try once more, please Please, don't knock out my summer bOarder business"
 Too bad, little lady, but I must warn, where warnings are due.
 Now, then, August, 1916, will have more rain than any August in 50 years; and that is running some as there have been three wet Augusts in 40 years.
 Electric storms unusually fierce and destructive will be frequent.
 High tides and gales from the 10th to 25th, some exceedingly hot days, followed quickly by cooling storms, and very heavy rain will be the rule. The first week in August should be the hottest of the summer.
 Lightning will do much damage and harvest will be late.
 Don't think summer is ever when August goes. however, for the Cloud Digger is still on his job and will see that you get some good old summer time later on.
 THE CLOUD DIGGER.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25

One cent postage sounds good; but an efficient postal service at any price is what is needed
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25
OTHER VIEW POINTS

There is such a thing as making too much of dog days. And the weather man seems to be in fair way of doing it.-Ansonia Sentinel.
 The conservative citizen who would enjoy a Sunday automobile ride finds period of about three hours begin ming at ? a. nl., when the highways are comparatively free from joy riders Meriden Journal.
 Now that President Wilson has filled the one lone vacancy on the Supreme court by the appointment of Judge Clarke of Ohio, we confidently expect to see the Taft senatorial boom in Connecticut wax and thrive apace.- Hartford Times.
 Having trouble fighting the nettles in your garden? Eat them. The Lon don Chronicle says that nettles are first class rival to spinach. SWitzer- land and other thrifty countries where the high cost of living isn't allowed to get so independent as it does here, have long ago used nettles as food Waterbury Republican.
 The London Spectator finds sfgnif1- canoe in the fact that the battleship Marlborough which the Germans claimed was sunk in the battle of the SN v safely after being tOrpedOed, was one of the ships especially equipped with protection against submarines, which worked to save it.--Waterbury Ameri- can.
 The New Haven public bureau of li- cenSeS reports that where there were last year more than 900 licenses is sued for the public cOnveyances com monly called Jitneys, this year there have so far been issued only 371. The inevitable conclusion is that the jit ney is regulating itself, unless some of the drivers have found way to avoid the formality of taking out a Hcense.-NeW Haven Register.
 There was nothing particularly sig nificant about the fact that Merlden raised $3,OOO to cIinch the bargain which will bring to Meriden a new in dustry. That this amount would be raised was a fOregone conclusion. The important feature of the incident was the fact that the money was raised in a few hours This showed the kind of public spirit, which, as we understand it. the manufa cturer de- sired to have exhibited as proof of the sincerity of the public in their desire to get the new industry. The Chamber of Commerce is to be congratulated for it's work in getting such an enter pIlSG TOT AeT1QGu.- -AIGIIUeI JOuLIldl.
 There is no reason to believe that all the fools of this kind live in De- troit, or in any other city. Drivers who take a chance with whiskey and gasoline transform a thing of pleasure and almost necessity into a fiery juggernaut of death for some body, and menace is instantly ere ated. The agile and the young may possibly get out of the path of these reckless drivers, but the old and the feeble have to take the consequences. Befuddled heads managing steering wheels have never worked properly yet and they probably never will. Those who are blind to the rights of sober pedestrians constitute a public nuisance, and we are thankful that their number is no greater.-Hartford COurant.
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Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25

Canada has enlisted 250,657 men for the war-about one in five of her fighting population.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-25

Jonah was the first submarine sail or; but he had so little to do with running the whale that he made the big fish sick.