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Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16

vorce more difficult. Instead of lend ing encouragement to such action there is serious need of calling halt.
 For that reason much attention is directed to the recommendations which have been made by commits sion consisting of bishops, clergymen and laymen of the Episcopal church, which are to be presented to the gen. eral Episcopal convention at St. Louis next month for its approval The Episcopal church has opposed di- vorces but the commission believes that there is need for greater dis courag cement. It has not approved the remarr1age of 8 divorced person by an Episcopal clergyman except in the case of the innocent party where 8 divorce was granted because of adultery, and then only after a year had elapsed and the record of the case submitted.
 It Is now proposed that the church law be so changed that no divorced person can be remarried by an Epis- copal minister, except in cases of an nulment of marriage ties for reasons which arose before marriage. This of course would not throw an insur- mountable obstacle in the way of the remarriage of divorced people but it is intended to throw the influence of the church in that direction even more strongly than 1t has been in the past, and that will be the result if the recommendation is accepted.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16
POLITICAL
Where Wilson Has Failed.

Whether one feels any great en- thusiasm for MT. Hughes now comes to be a matter of no moment what ever, in view of the outburst of pub lie indignation against the abject pusillanimity of his opponent, the president of the United States. Mir. Hughes may be an icicle, but no one ever accused him of being a coward. He has had his full share of hitting to do, in positions of great responsibility which he has occupied, and he was never accused of hitting soft" IS MT. Roosevelt aptly though ungrammati- cally puts it. No one ever accused him of not knowing his own mind. He went after the insurance grafters- and he got them. He went after the racetrack gamblers-and he got them He went after the corruptionists in New York politics-adn he got them He never grovelled before anybody as Woodrow Wilson has grovelled before these railroad bosses.-Lowell Courier Citizen.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16
THE ILLS OF NEW ENGLAND.

What is the remedy for the ills of New England? That is not a new question. It may not havebeen discuss ed in just that form but the general subject of improving New England from all standpoints has gotten fre- quent consideration but it is a topic which needs to be dwelt upon fre- quently if the desired results are go- ing to be obtained, and for that rea- son it is to be hoped that the confer ence which is in session at Spring field for the purpose of finding the right answer will accomplish all that is expected of it.
 This gathering of the farmers and business men of New England for the purpose of working out together the problems of the several states is most commendable, for their interests are so interlocked that what is of inn portance to one is bound to have q bearing upon the other and whatever is undertaken for the purpose Of bringing about unity of action is enti- tied to encouragement. All the states have many things in common. their problems are to a marked degree sim liar, and if the farmers or business men of Massachusetts can give some points to those in Connecticut, or vice versa, it is time to get busy and take advantage of them. For that reason the outcome of the ideas which arc advanced at Springfield in an en- deavor to decide on the remedy which is required to meet the diagnosis of it's troubles will be awaited with deep interest. It can hardly be looked up- on as a desperate case but ii is an instance where many minds ought to result in the setting forth of ideas which will help all concerned.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16
Southern Policies Only.

They don't raise sheep in the South, but in the North, so wool is on the free list. But peanuts are raised in the South, and there is a democratic tariff on peanuts. Same thing in re- lation to potatoes, they are largely a product of the North and especially such states as Maine, Michigan and New York, so potatoes are on the free list, while rice, which is grown in the South. has tariff. But whenever we tell Northern democrat that his party is a Southern party with Southern policies only, when they are in power waving the bloody shirt."-Portland Express.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16
FIGHTING DIVORCE.

Interest cannot fail to be directed To the efforts which are being made 10 stop the fast increasing number of aiyorces, throughout the country. with the large number which are se- sured every year. and the disregard which is manifested for the marriage VOWS, there has long been need for uniformity in the legislation of the rarious states which would make di-
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
A Question.

MT. Editor: It is apparent enough, if Mir. Ed T. Curtin believes in pIac- ing Irish before American because he is proud of his origin that he may be an Irishman who would put the green flag first if the Stars and Stripes were to find its place in an Irish com munity.
 If it is necessary to be Irish Amer jeans and German Americans and Po- ish- Americans here. why is 1t not im- portant that they should be Ameri- can-1rishmen. American Germans or American Poles when they visit the fatherland Being first an Irishman and then an American looks like get ting the cart before the horses.
 American stands first with every true citizen, whatever his country or his birthplace. Men on the Mexican border are not there because of the hyphen, but because they are Ameri- cans.
 H. I. ROLLER. Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16
Sunday Morning Talk
A BIT OF GOOD READING.

The movies have influenced public taste in several directions, but at no point, perhaps, more than in the taste for reading. Audiences sated with thrills and Iurid situations at the cine ma Shows carry their demand for ex- citement over into the field of litera- ture. AS a young friend of mine, ad- dicted to attendance on photoplays, said the other day: "They make everything else seem tame" You have here one reason for the tons of spicy and high-colored magazines that fill the neWsstands
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16

We do not know why John Rode meyer has left the editorship of the Connecticut Western News, but we do know that it will be many a long day before his like is found in that posi- tion The News has not only lost something distinctly definite but the town of Canaan has lost the most powerful influence for good it pos sessed. Someone has blundered-New Haven Journal Courier.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16
Norwich, Sept. Is, 1916.
Herhert E. Kinney.

Mir. Editor: In the sketches which
 were printed at the time of the re-
 cent death of Herbert B. Kinney, who lived in the town of Griswold, no mention was made of his interest in and work for the causes of social ism and equal suffrage. He worked for both causes necessarily by the uso of his ready pen contributing weekly to the columns of the New York Call and especially to the wo- mans section of the magazine supple ment of the Sunday edition. The ed- itor of the Woman's Sphere said last Sunday, We knew MT. Kinney only through the always informing and inspiring articles he sent so frequent ly to the Womans Sphere and we were greatly surprised to learn that he was seventy years of age. The virile, youthful note in his writing, his unf1agged hope and enthusiasm, his boundless faith in the forward
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Is that why he sends his men over the border so frequently to kill and rob He seems to think he is going to find Carranza in Texas, and our generals along the border ought to explain to him that CarranZa is not in our pos session.-Hartford Courant.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16

It is entirely possible that the Gulf Stream is hdgging the coast more closely in order to gather little of the extra heat which can be expected to be thrown off by the political cam paign.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16

It isn't so much what is agreed to by the joint commission at Groton, as it is the assurance the Mexican dele
 gates can give that the promises will
 be kept once the dispute is settled on paper.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16

When the king of Bavaria says that there will be no peace which does not benefit Germany, he serves mo- tice on the allies that Germany has not reached the starvation stage.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16

If the defeat that the democrats re- ceived in Maine on Monday was not as bad as they expected, that party $ conditions haven't been painted any too serious by the republicans.
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General Funston reports that Villa has been located. but inasmuch as he was above ground there are reasons to believe that it was impossible to put a hand on him.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16

It is an interesting situation when the much talked of man for the dem ocratic nomination for governor, Col. N. G. Osborn, comes out as a support CT of Governor Holconb.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16

There are germs upon postage stamps. dollar bills and whiskers. Mankind not only has twenty-siX par asites which infest his body, but twenty-siX millions invisible pests which not only flourish upon the fruit he eats, but that are furnished him upon the feet of f1eas and flies, and that dance in the very air he breathes and become esconeed in his mouth and lungs. Man Is so buggy, accord ing to the ultra scientific medicos, that he may become a menace while in health to his more susceptible brethen. It is agreeable to learn that only 2 of the 48 germs found upon postage stamps are really menacing to health. They are good to keep and good to eat; and this arouses a we'll grounded suspicion that bacteria on dollar bills and in the whiskers of a man are of the same gentle and do- mestic character. If these germs, which are as old, probably, as Adam, had been as vIrulent as the agita- tors in the interests of health would have us believe, Methuselah could not have fingered so many years upon earth; and even the saints of the past might therefrom have been led to doubt the goodness of God.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16
OTHER VIEW POINTS

It gives us joy to read in a news paper dispatch from LEI Paso that Villa bears no animosity towards Americans. He is reported to have said so himself. He says the AE1eri- can soldiers fight harder than the Carranza soldiers, but he bears them no grudge on that account. All he is
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16

It is gratifying to note that work on new sidewalk is started almost every day. At that rate the city will not be long in overcoming one of it's detrimental features.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16

vestigations and as governor of New Yorf. In frankness and civic courage MT. Hughes ranks "one hundred per cent" The change in this respect from Mr. Wilson's to MT. Hughes manner of filling the presidential office seem ingly would be as great as was ever effected by a presidential election in the country's history.-Providence Bulletin,
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16

It may be all right for von Hinden- burg to place the crown princes in charge of the armies, but he knows by this time that if they fail some one else must be found to bear the blame.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16
ABOUT THE HOMESPUN AGE

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.)
 Now that the season of fashion openings is at hand. It is interesting to take a look backward at what eld- er1y people are fond of calling the good old homespun times in this town of Norwich.
 Somehow, the impression has come down to us that the women of earlier genera tions were quite set against anything savoring of frivoHty-that their gowns, like their tastes, were exceedinly plain; that they were al together in that atmosphere of high thinking whicF. eliminated any fea- ture of extravagant living.
 To correct this impression of the women of ancient Norwich, the his toriar has some surprising facts to offer
 Even Miss Caulkins is forced to ad- init that 'the dress of the middle period of the towns history cannot be euiogize6 for it's simplicity or econ omy. The wardrobe of the higher circles was rich and extravagant," she declares, and among the females of all classes there was a passion for gathering and hoarding articles of at tire beyond what was necessary for present use, or even for years ahead. It was an object of ambition to have chest full of linen or a pillow-bier
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16
EDITORIAL NOTES

The only sign of peace now across the water is the preparations in Ger many for a grand defense.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16

Everybody is familiar with what it has cost in lives and money to find out that Villa cannot be caught
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16

Mosquitoes have been known for years to be responsible for malaria, as well as yellow fever, and have been suspected of various other offenses. Even when not carrying disease, they are an intoleraple nuisance, making life miserable for human beings and depreciating the value of real estate. ties endure them through sheer in- ertia. It will be blessing in many ways if the mosquito theory of infan- tile paralysis leads to a general on- slaught on them next year.-Water- bury Republican.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16

The man on the corner says: Some men are good because they want to be, and others believe in safety first
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16

MT. Pinchot is certain that "the safety, honor and welfare of the coun- try will be in immeasurably surer hands, if MT. Hughes is president. And he is justified in his view by the record of MT. Hughes as counsel in New York legislative and Federal in-
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16

Brevity is not only "the soul of witt but the vehicle which has brought down to mankind the most valuable ideas of the great of past ages. The proverbs of all nations bear witness that the race is not always to the long wnded. It is a heather motto which has endured countless ages: Know Thyself.' A hint to man to look with in and correct his own faults instead of looking at his neighbor and advis- ing him to correct his. A Latin pro- verb hoary with age says: There is a great difference between deeds and words" A German proverb, with light complexion and curly hair, says: God made man; and then made woman" /" When he saw Shat he had done he crea ted tobacco as a solace! The writer of complicated sentences and dull but classic essays should bear in mind ideas E- be easily smothered in puffs and Trrbelows. It is the briefly told truth which endures: Be lieve on me and ye shall have eternal life,' will sound down the ages so long as there is living soul on earth to listen.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16

Attention has been called to the great flight of the milkweed butterfly this year. The monarch butterfly is always more plentiful in September than at any other time of year, and is tos be seen in swarms where milkweed is abundant. It is classed as a migra- tory butterfly and has been seen fly ing in masses resembling clouds across country. It is duller sighted than most other butterflies and is easily taken with the hand on cool September mornings. It is being found in some of the foreign countries, and it seems to be making a trip around the world, as has the Painted Lady butterfly, which is now known as a cosmopoli- tan. Other butterflies and moths are carried a thousand miles from home by the wind; but the Monarch doesn't get Kidnapped by the Zephyrs, but moves in swarms with deliberation and purpose, as the birds do when they fly to milder climes for the win ter. These Monarch butterflies have been carriers of pollen glands for As clepias for ages; and no one can tell how they became so serviceable to the milkweeds.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16

white whale has been seen off the Grand Trunk piers at Portland. But that's nothing. Until the Providence extension is completed and connecting steamships are required two white elephants may be seen tied to the Grand Trunk pier at New London Providence Bulletin.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16

The celebration of Lafayette's birth day in New York city offered a natur- al opportunity for an outpeuring of American good will toward France, and of French good will toward America As Judge Parker remarked at that dinner, America is neutral, but Americans cannot forget the debt they owe to France. Neither can Americans resist the conviction that France has fought the cleanest, brav- est fight of all the belligerents and that to her more than any other na- tion belongs the credit for uphoiding and perpetuating at an immeasurable cost the principles that Americans hold dear. The bond between France and tie United States today is strong CT than ever before, and American ad- mira tion for the French people is boundless-New London Telegraph.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16

The dahIia season is always at is best in late September and al present dahlia fields are all aglow with won derful blooms. The Hilcrest acres of Mrs. Otis P. Chapman at Westerly are right up to date in all the new things, and all dahlia lovers are made welcome. It Is not strange that au- toists drive more than a hundred miles to see the real up-to- date dahlias which are grown to perfec- tion by her and her assistants. There is nothing in this state like them.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16

Billy Sunday converts in Syra cuse N. Y, cost $61,S54.60, or s3.0s each.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16

terranean to Africa tc spend their winters, and some of their leg-tagsed birds have been killed 13,000 miles from home. The flight of the swal- lows is past finding out.
 You would not think from casual observation that true life is in being not seeming. How prevalent the habit of seeming is! Not a few peo- pie worship their own conceit more than they worship God: and they be- come so befogged with vanity they are unconscious of it. When man is weighed in at last what he is will be found to have weight but what he thought he was will be as light as thistle down. We can win a crown with vanity just as easily as we can make a whistle from a pigs tail. remember a devout man who used to say he felt proud to be a Christian; i; and he was unaware that Christianity doesn't recognize pride as a virtue under any circumstances. Pride goeth before a fall'', the proverb says. It is the enemy of achievement. It Is better to find joy ir service than to take pride in it. Being means doing. Seeming is false pretense, or hypocri- sy. Seeming is a fraud-Being is the passport to the more abundant life.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16
| am satisfied it is a. good thin

| am satisfied it is good thing man does not get al! he wants, or half the things he thinks he ought to have. Every day man is showing he does not know what is good for him. If this were not so he would be 1iv- ing for eternity not for today. I have no doubt were a persons pray CTS shown to him in the future he would feel prompted to ask God to forgive him for the foolishness in two thirds of them. I have recently noticed the publication of great pray CTS which might be termed powerful and classic; but not one of them equalled that prayer on Calvary: Father forgive them for they know not what they do." It seems to me this is the greatest prayer ever of- fered; and that it is a good model since it asks forgiveness for others and contains no literary fril1s. Ask ing God for fair weather when in His wisdom foul day is needed, is an- tagonism to the divine will: asking Him for anything from selffishness is in violation of Christian principles Man prays foolishly; but God endows him wisely.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16

The swallows have flown to their rendezvous on Long Island sound where the island beaches are black with them every September, and from which they, disappear in a night en route for the inviting climate of Gen. tral America. The swallows have been growing fewer in numbers ever since Aug. 18th, when I saw them playing beneath a sunset sky of crimson and gold with a cold cobalt blue for a background, forming a pie ture delightful to the eye of an art ist. I do not think have seen a swallow since Aug. 31st. It is not strange their sudden disappearance led the people of the long ago to think they burrowed in the swamps and hfbernated with the frogs and other cold -blooded creatures. Pepy's in his diary makes note of this be- lief in his day; but the English natu- ralist of today know the swallows fly away over Gibralter and the Medt-
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Norwich, Saturday, Sept. 16. 1916.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-16
THE MAN WHO TALKS

The gardens have been hard hit this year by unseemly weather; and when 8 mans garden is hit, it is taken in the same sense as that proverb Of sen sitiveness: ''Kick my dog and you kick mel" What are we going to do Dunbar sang: Sometimes the sun unkindly hot, my garden makes a desert spot. Sometimes a blight upon the tree takes all my fruit away from me; and then with throes of bitter pain rebellous passions rise and swell; but life Is more than fruit or grain, and so I sing, and all is we'll" He recognized the value of a cheerful heart. There is no use of replning and continuing downcast over things which cannot be helped. The Maker of the weather cannot make it fit mans fool ishness-it has to accord with His wisdom. Man doesn't know what the earth needs, but the Oversoul does. Many things have to be done by mor- tai man just as though he were blind, and the wonder is that in the strife he wins so often. A song is a little thing, and yet what joy it is to sing"
 In the past week or ten days there has been a great flight of starlings hereabouts. On the 31st of August l noticed a flock of hundreds-the sky was full of black birds" as the chil-
 
 the same birds, or as many more, were f1ocking together in the same. neigh borhood, and again on September 9th. I had no idea there were so many starlings in Eastern Connecticut as l have seen in one Norwich neighbor hood in the past ten days. While they remain with us the year round it is apparent that they have become so numerous here they must fly to other parts to subsist through the winter. These birds, like the English spar rows, breed fast and are making their way to all parts of the country. The first flock was imported from England to Brooklyn p years ago; and the present year they have been reported from as far north as Montpelier, Vt, and as far south as Maryland and they occur in all the intervening terri tory.
The Brunswick news., 1916-03-17
NEWS UF THE DAY
At STATE CAPITAL
ZIG ShRlNER COMING TO VISIT
ATLANTA IN MAV-oTHER
NEWS ITEMS.

ATLANTA, March lev. Freeland
Kendrick. potentate of Lula Temple,
Philadelphia, and imperial high priest
and prophet In the Imperial Divan, will
he the guest of honor off Yaarab Tenn.
pie. Atlanta, at a ceremonial May 81
which promises to be the biggest even
of its kind ever held in the south.
Twelve or fifteen potentates of sister
temples will be here with a dozen pa.
tro's and bands to augment the splen.
dor.
Potentate Walter Andrews, of Yaa.
rab Temple, expects to make the May
ceremonial a great pageant. There
will be about 200 novices and some
1900 Shriners In attendance. Yaarab
Temple now has 1900 members and
is regarded as one of the most pro.
gressive temples in the United States.
Potentate Kendricck has been at the
head of tho Philadelphia temple for
eleven years and has made it one of
The greatest in the east.
The Brunswick news., 1916-03-17
AN OLD GAG,

ATLANTA, March 16.--A we'll dress
cd negro Of type seldom seen in the
south but well known in the north,
armed with nothing but a glib line OF
conversation, has been successfully
swindling Atlanta housewives who
ought to know better His game has
been to present himself at the. 4loor,
announcing himself as second hand
clothes dealer, and promising to dis
pose Of second hand clothes for a com
mission, He gets the clothes and ney-
or comes back, Finally he swindled so
many that people began to telephone
the police and newspapers about 1t,
and now the public hos been warned,
but the swindler seems to have made
good his escape
The Brunswick news., 1916-03-17

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