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Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17
LESSON NO. 5.
First Days in Camp.
(Issued by the War Dc

| (Preceding Lessons: 1, Your Post of | Honor; 2, Making Good in the Army; 1 3, Nine Soldierly Qualities; 4, Getting | Ready for Camp.)
 | When the time comes for you to | enter the army, you will be instructed
 to report at some convenient place in your own neighborhood. The exact in | structions will be given later. As quickly thereafter as proper arrange ments can be made, you and the other same officer will be transported to the | training camp Cor cantonnnent, aspit is | sometimes called).
 There will be nearly forty thousand
 men in each cantonment. The task ! of preparing for your arrival is enor- nous. Each cantonment will require | 25,O0O, ,00O feet of lumber, 7,5O0 doors, 37,000 window sashes, 4,66t casks of Portland cement and 5000 yards of broken stone. The water supply of a cantonment will be 2,500,0G0 gallons
 day. It will have its own sewerage system, fire department, bakeries, ice plants, and hospitals. It will even require 8 gigantic steam heating plant.
 Sixteen cities. each with population
 of 10000, well cared for-that is the task.
 In spite of the best efforts, it is pos sible that some of the details may re-
 main unfinished at the beginning of your camp life. There will be cer- tain amount of hustle and apparent confusion on the surface. Bear in mind
 that underneath it all lies a we'll thou ght-out plan. In working out this plan everything possible has been done for the comfort and convenience of individual soldiers. Don't grumble if you run into some temporary delays or !nconveniences at the beginning. One of the tests of good soldier is his cheerful willingness to take things as they are and make the best of them.
 You are naturally interested in forming some idea of the camp life of soldier. The description which fol- iows will help you in forming this idea However, there will be many changes as you go along in your training.
 As the men in the national army must get ready in record breaking uous than that of soldiers in peace You will find there is plenty of hard work ahead Of you. The average en- ergetic young American will be glad of it.
 The soldier arises for the day usual lY at bout o'clock. a little earlier in the summer and a little later in the winter. The buglers sound the call known as reveille. The men dress and fall in.
 Your first experiences of military drili will probably consist of setting up exercises" which ordinarily occu- py the first few minutes of the day. They consist of certain movements of the head. arms, trunk and legs which are carefully designed not merely to develop your muscles but also to in crease vour skill, grace, self-contro1 and self-relfanCe. At the same time they will also put you into the right frame of mind for vigorous days work.
 Tn the mornings when the bugle rings out the reveille. and you crawl out of your bunk reluctantly. possibly tired and sore from the previous days work. you will find yourself wonder fully freshened and cheered up by a few minutes vigorous setting-up exercises.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17
THE FLYING sQUADRON's PRES
 ENT AND FUTURE

Of the proposed 25,000 airmen to be trained for army work in America, 16,000 will be drawn from New Eng land, and 175 is the quota of Connec- ticut
 The aviation section of the Signal Corps undoubtedly offers the best positions Of the service. All avfa- tors and balloon pilots when they graduate following a training of six months, are commissioned as first Heutenants in the reserve corps of the army, at a base salary of S2oo0 annually when in duty, with addf- donal compensation when in active service at home or abroad: and dur ing tuition. they receive soldiers pay. rations, and lodging. also expenses to the schools and training camps.
 An appeal to 25,000 graduates of New England institutions of learn ing from the years 1909 to 1917, in- elusive, will be started early in Sep- tember, and 1t is expected that there will be response in excess of the actual requirements
 After the war, probably 20,oo aero planes and many dirigioIe airships will be available for the mammoth commercial air1eet of the United America The young men, now learning, will be the operators of this fleet Of airships. The future em- plOyment of all entering the air ser vice is almost certain.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
wh., ;s fNot, the Irish Quest

MT Editor: One of your readers for whose information Mir. Cummings as- sumes to write desires to say that ne has read the information @ and noted what Mir. c. says about hiding behind an assumed name.
 rms writer is not so egoustcai as 10 think that the addition of his name would add anything to the strength or his argument, and whatever little ad- vantage Mr Cummings derives from the appending of his name, he is vel come to- We cheerfuIly accept the handicap, and this will not deter us from replying to his letter.
 Nevertheless. if we should unroll the map of Ireland we could point out to MT Cummings a townland and Lis in the county Kilkenny bearing our fam fly name since times more remote than the historic foibles named in his letter.
 MT. Cummings refrains from reply ing to A Democrat for the same reason ne did not reply to Southerner-be- cause he was bahied. He breaks other ground Eecause his composition LOOKS best before it is criticized, but he is no more entitled to speak for Ireland than this writer is.
 Tkere are two disturbing agencies in Ireland-the professional aGitator who may be more or less sincere-usually less-and the dupes who are fooled by the agitators but who are really sim cere The professional by his extra cunning can usually save his neck
 
 It takes a man born in Ireland to distinguish these classes which have tept the country in a ferment for many years, especially in. times of ex- tremity like the present, for the in- .incere Iatriot would deceive even the elect if possible.
 The governmental enigma presented by these soreheads, and the manner of its treatment and attempted solution, aas given coloring to the charges i'm ct times are now stuff which should be for gotten as having no place in the pres snt crisis.
 The Dublin convention represents all Ireland. and not just the Sim Feiners, who by their rebellious and ,riminsd acts might have well beeu excluded, yet who are granted five delegates against five, the same num- ser. of the Ulster unionists.
 The Sim Fein movement is of recent origin and noted for murderous acts, yet is to be represented m the con- vention, while the Orange organiza- ton, an extreme loyal and respectable association. dating back to the time of William Fifth. is not accorded one delegate nor representative. The con vention is made up of 1o1 delegates representing fourteen GD distinct po- itical and religious phases of Iri7la ambitions. and it is presided over by Sir Horace Plunkett, than whom there is, perhaps, no more highly respected nnd unimpea cha ble Irish gentleman on ,he face of the earth.
 The Irish question is therefore not matter to be settled offhand by NIT but is something which demands statesmanship- of the highest order and his stuff about military rule and oppression is all rot. Ireland Is no more under military law than the United States. nor more than 1t needs
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17
THE CAT AND A sTARLING.

A great yellow Bridgeport cat aroused a neighborhood by killing a starling, and The Telegram of that city ventures to assert that the blame is not with the cat but with the own CT, because he never half tanned his pet.
 The paper proceeds to say the de- struction of birds by cats costs the country a billion dollars year, but he seems to be unrnindful of the fact that the rats and mice destroyed by cats saves the farmer two billions a year, hence the cats still pay their keep
 The cat is also spoken of as a germ carrier. but it is questionable still whether any cat carries more germs n her fur than doctors tell us men carry in their whiskers and on filthy paper money in their pockets, or is any more dangerous as a disease car rier.
 Now as to starlings: This imported bird was introduced from England to Brooklyn, N. Y, thirty years ago, and as a nuisance is classed with the En- glish sparrow. They have multiplied so that 10000 could be spared as well as not.
 Under such conditions what is one starIinS- worth?
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17
THE WORLDWIDE DELUsIoN.

A letter from Madame Viebig, one Df the most prominent novelists of Germany the present day, printed h the Cologne Gazette in reply to Hall Gaines address to The Moth srs Of Germany" which appeared in the London Chronicle, says:
 You are stepped in the delusion That 1t was Germany who picked the quarrel in this terrible war. German mothers who, like the women of an eient Sparta. with bright eyes sent their sons to the field, are in your syes really guilty ones. They should have risen in revolt. I am a woman, and you must credit me with the sim pie natural logic of woman. That ogic tells me that the country which Turing forty-four years. alone of all the counties in question, had not Hzwn the sword, the government of which avoided In critical times the Lppeal to the final abitrament in or Ter. to obtain the realization of it's
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17
AMERICA WILL BE THE CHIEF
 ONE

The Hon. T. P O'Connor in a re- cent address to our countryrnan. who he assumes correctly. love liberty and hate oppression and Ioathe cruel Y and massacre, said:
 'I claim 10 know something Of American history and Of American character America, It is true, is pa tient, long suffering, slow to move, a peaceful nation, living and wanting to live in peace with all nations. to the sons and daughters of whom she had opened her hospita bIe shores and given prosperity and freedom. Amer ica was unprepared for war. but never has America undertaken any task which she has not had the te- nacity and courage to carry through She can be ruthless and relentless as well as gentle and patient, and it is my confident prophecy that of all the nations that will hold out to the last hour and to the last man until lib erty and justice, democracy and peace once more are enthroned in mens hearts and the institutions of nations America will be the chief one"
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17
LEMONS BRING OUT THE HIDDEN BEAUTY Make thls lotion for very littfs cost and just see
 for yourself.

What girl or woman hasn't heard a. lemon juice Co remove c0mr'r.. ."r Dlemishes 10 bleach the rri. .r. q. bring out the roses. the freshnfaa and the hidden beauty guf frrrr ..H.H alone is acid. therefore irritating. .a4 should be mixed with orchard white this way. Strain through @ nre rle.H the juice of two fresh lemons .rtl a bottle containing about three oa-e.. Of orchard white, then rhaza r-rII and you have a whole quarter pint 0f Hs.4 and complexion lotion at about -fr one usually pays for a small far f ordinary cold cream. Be sure fr s-r n the lemon juice so no pdip Ecr8 lEt. t.# bottle. then this lotion will rfma pure and fresh for months. When s-u. ..l daily 10 the face. neck. arms and H4aia 1t should help 10 bleach clear. fm.ltl- en and beautify the akln
 Any druggist will supply thrcc ounces of orchard white at very little cCat and the grocer has the lemons.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17
REVIVAL OF COIN,

The New Bedford Standard thinks it is evidence of fussiness to agitate for a six cent coin to meet the new trolley car rates, but evidence of good sense to advocate for the resumption of the old half cent for the accom- modation of business.
 The nickel-and one- penny plan is rather awkward. and tis likely to. call for q large addition Of cents to t..e circulation which may really be avoided by the revival of three cent coin larger and better adapted to bus mess than the thin and dimunitive silver coin of years ago.
 Tn the old days when it was fash Ionablc 10 reckon profits in cents and a-half such 9 coin as the half cent was necessary; also, when the 12 1-2 cent silver piece was minted as a convenient trading coin.
 We have grown since those days and do not propose again to do things by halves. Two three cent pieces would make the fare. and avoid the pressure upon the nicl<eis and cents now in circulation
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17
CANNING LESSONS
VEGETABLES CANNED AT HOME.
Can Them Now-The U. s. Depart nnent of Agriculture Advises How tc Do dt

Wash your jars; wash rubbers; test rubbers for quality. Set empty jars and rubbers in pan of water to heat and keep hot Fill washboiler to cover jars two inches with water. Heat water in washboiler. Use only fresh sound vegetables Wash your vegetables
 Place in a colander; blanch by set ting in a vessel of boiling water or steam, covered tight. for some five to ten minutes for beans, one and one half minutes for tomatoes, five min utes for sweet corn and beets. Remove an plunge quickly into cold, clean water momentarily.
 Remove and pack immediately into hot jars.
 Add hot water and seasoning. Place rubbers and tops of jars in po- Sition, not tight.
 Place jars on false bottom of wash boiler.
 Submerge jars two inches
 Put cover on waShboiler and let the water boil hard for 120 minutes for beans, 22 minutes for tomatoes 18O minutes for sweet corn, and 90 minutes for beets.
 Start counting when water begins to boil.
 Remove jars.
 Tighten covers.
 1nvert to cool and examine for leaks
 If leaks are found change rubbers and boil again for ten minutes.
 Wrap jars in paper.
 Store in cool, dry place.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17
Listen to the parable of the sap


 A certain man in my home town owns a fairly good number of sugar naples. Last spring when the sap began to run he found that he would have to spend about S2 in having his evaporating pan repaired, and would have to pay the wood chopper 25 cents a day more wages to cut wood for it,
 So he refused to tap a single tree. He might easily have made over @ thousand pounds of maple sugar. You can always sell maple sugar; it can also be used-our grandmothers used ft-for good many domestic pur poses. He might have sold five hun dred pounds and kept an equal quan- tity. The money he took in would have more than paid for an equal number of pounds of store" sugar, and the supply he kept would have enabled him to dispense with at least half his normal purchase quantity
 Now store" sugar is high and go- Ing higher. He can afford to buy 1t only in small lots and use it only in driblets. He is not a spendthrift, for
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17

her proper day and it has taken the war to make her dream come true. IT a beH-ringer- For an hour and a half yesterday morning the authori- ties were doing all that human inge- nulty could suggest to keep London CTS within door; while church bells were dangerously bidding all come forth. The warning bombs were such been guns. Sluggards sprang from Early communicants, returning, heard the signals, and together with one consent, raced for home with speed and endurance. But that felon bell which called to the o'clock service an hour before All clear" was sig nailed.
 Powans, now placed on the market from Loeb Lomond. have cousin of greater culinary merit in the vend- ance Of Lochma ben-the ancient home home of the Bruces-said to have sbeen brought from France by Mary Queen of Scots Unluckily for the legend, this delicate salmonoid her ring seems not to be found in France though IL occurs in some English lakes as well as in Sweden and Western Prussia The womec's rights prob lem has long been settled in vendance circles, for the two sexes swim in separate shoals. No good bait is known for vendance-which must be netted.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17

10 be under a state 0f usr and r localities where overt act nIr committed arrfEfE arc rlal-. a.t .-- more in proportion than here
 The military posts in I-riard rrr training camps for rcufeuirEirE fa forces Of noble Grisn rosime1rs at ree front who are being scau1si4zed br -ra Sim Feiners and their svw rarr.EHrr who are giving aid and c1mfo-- q, tll enemy.
 His talk about dcstroylnr r1-t5-r- doesn't the world know frar a largest and most powersU sr.-- ar..t are built and launched from Eek. Lough2
 His fling at Mir T. p. oco-rcr 7rE joy at the triumph of Sim TH election is In poor point T'rt "H Sim Feiners want with 1 member at British parliament when frrr r-.1 for a republic. and even 1errrefr ..r ancient ensign or Gre17ad nrd Hv flag of their own design %rala Tr.rr- men, surely. 10 bear the her1rr lf l traditional and gl0r.ouf part
 More might be sa!d.
 4 DEMOCRAT.
 Norwich. Aug G iu7.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17

Senator Reed cannot help yelpine at Hoover like "a houn' dorg," but Hoover doesn't mind.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17

Japan has two million seasoned troops ready for service; Russia has ten million under arms, and Uncle Sam has ten million to draw from and the entente have twelve million in the field. There is no lack of man power.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17

The I. W. WIS since they have so many dictators, naturally grav!tate toward the kaiser
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17

German militarism has laid itself out, but the allies are going to permit it to do no embalning.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17

Mexico finds the German spies and plOtters dangerous material for any country to tolerate.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17

The political method of raking off the velvet doesn't work on examining board service.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17

The dove of peace appears every now and then. but he doesn't have the olive branch with him.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17

The Man on the Corner says: "A girl ambitious to change her name should first learn to make good bread"
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17

A cook gets s9o a month in the army and Uncle Sam wants 1000 of them. That Is better than being a sharpshooter
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17
Meriden-The Neriden

Meriden-The Meriden ambulance company, formed by the northeastern department of the army and composed Of 100 men here and 50 from New Britain and Middletown has been or dered to a specified camp for training. At the time enlistments were taken the men were told they would see ser vice with one of the new armies.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17

Some people will never be happy again because the Lord doesn't as- sume all responsibility and end the war
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17

The kaiser promised victory in four months at the start: and at the end of 36 months of war he predicts peace m three months more,
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17

One of the wonders of modern times is that so many good people are ready to follow a bad leader.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17

Double ratfons to couples on their honeymoon Is a German way of dis closing their rations are not what they should be.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17

Germany is planning great reforms to be carried into effect after the war Fritzie takes time by the forelock.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17

It takes seventeen languages be- sides gasoline to run the allied flying machinesI
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17
EDITORIAL NOTES.

skillful workman always makes his job look simple to a bystander.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17

The editor of the Detroit Free Press says the mention of a balanced ra- tion makes him think of dried ap- ples and popcorn.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17

Good hremen and apparatus cannot save a city that builds 1retraps and ignores the advice of the underwrit- erSi
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17

(Written Specially for The Bulletin)
 That was rather sharp talk of Sec retary Vroornan's the other day when he called the farmers of this country. champion waStrels.'
 A 'wastreT' is something more thar, a mere spendthrift. The latter, as the term is commonly used, means one who throws away in reckless and foolish spending the substance which some better man has saved. But the wastrel not only wastes that which he may have inherited or received, but also fails to save t1at which is constantly coming to his hands. The spendthrift wastes substances: the wastreI wastes not only substance but opportunity.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17

But, admitting and fully needing all the caution which modestv sug- sests to us fallible creatures, the fact remains that we do make mistakes. that we do fall into error; that we do sin by omission as well IS by com mission. We don't like to he told so by others. either to our faces or be- hind our backs But we admit it for ourselves when somebody else doesn't say it.
 Very we'll. then: suppose you and and the rest of us take Secretary Vrooman's sharp criticism as some thing impersonal-not addressed to us but to some other fellows-and, our selves. turn it's edge across our own thumbs to see if it cuts us any.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17

prices for all sorts of food supplies 1t is for our own profit that we put a summary end to them. so far as pos sible.
 Moreover, 1t will be greatly for our own good if we and our wives can be forced into renewal of the old.time spirit of economy and thrift which far too many of us have lost in the course of the last easy going half-cdatury. We have drifted, imperceptibly, into habits of extravaganza, of shiftless- ness, of wastefulness. If the shocks Of war serve to stiffen our backbones a little and harden our relaxed moral sinews, they may yet prove blessing.
 But above and beyond all selfish and ersonal considerations looms impert- lively the stern mandate of patriotic duty.
 For the preservation of the inde- pendence our fathers won on bloddy battle fields and in starvation haunted Valley Forges; for the maintenance of cur liberty; for the transmission of their inheritance of freedom to our children; for all these reasons our duty is as lcear as the sun on cloud less noon.
 We must see that no fault or failure or neglect or waste on ouS part en- dangers in the smallest degree the complete victory upon which all we hold dearest depends.
 "They also serve who only stand and wait"
 We farmers can do more. We can assure victory, by assuring the main tenance of the armies at the front not only our own but those of the Allies who are fighting for us as truly ''7 -O- '''O-' THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17
ARE WE CHAMPION WASTRELS

he has mighty little to spend and no tendency that way.
 But was he or was he not wastrel last Spring?
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17
secretarv vroonan doesn't know it

Secretary Vroorran doesn't know it all: I don't know it all; even you, be- loved reader, don't know it all We are none of us divinely appointed to tell other folks their faults and scold them into reforn1a tion. We are none Of us commissioned to act as author itative mouthpieces for truth. We none of us know for certain, exactly what is the truth. It behooves us all to be extremely careful not to get into the bigot class by assuming that our con ception of truth is the one and only real thing.
 Truth" said the wise Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, truth is invari- able; but the Smith-ate of truth of ten differs from the Brown ate of truth"
 For which deep reason it is not ad- visable for me to lay down the law for you, as if I were an inspired leg islator, nor to assert my individual beliefs as if they were absolute truths. Any more than it would be commend able in you to do similar thing.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17
hintina at Some or..

Hinting at Some One. German noodles are eNceIleut f- rr-.e place. accompanying "a pot r0arf r example but they gre entirely .ree- sirable at the head of a. great rifr- Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17

Throwing stones at other peoples houses is seldom appreciated. More over, so many of us live in SlasS houses ourselves, that the primal law of self protection warns us against endangering our own by inviting T bonn mbardment of them in reprisal. Therefore most Of us try to Keep cur language as moderate as we can. We often shut our lips tight and hold them so, rather than say the hard things about other people which we are inpelled to- With the exception of a few cross grained scoids of both sexes, we'd rather say pleasant than unpleasant things about our neigh bors Certainly we'd rather say pleas ant than unpleasant things to our
 Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitfUl."