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Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-04
STORIES OF THE WAR
How the Austrian Government Tor
 lures the Czeehs.

How the Austrian Government Tor lures the czeehs.
 Recent eablegrams reported the
 strength of the revolutionary move
 ment in Austria and especially of the
 Czech opposition to the Austrian gov
 ernnent. But the details of the va rious speeches delivered during The recent session of the Austrian parlia- ment, particularly by the Czech depu-
 ties, are beginning to triekle through
 various sources only now. The chars- es made against the Austrian govern ment are indeed sensational snd show how far the decomposition of this sm- pire has progressed. Tt seems 10 be held together by chains only. From a. speech delivered by the national Czech Socialist Deputy George Stribrny in the Austrian parliament, on June 18th. 1t appears that 5000 Czeehs who were political suspects were interned iH Tal- erhof, in Etyria. l.200 of the interned died of epidemic alone Tn the Tal- erhef ceretery there are now 2000 new graves. old men, women and girls were sent to this place. Frequent ly bound together in groups, fn filthy cattle wagons. In many cases the interned, when they arrived at Taier- hof were beaten till the blood flowed transport of 43 interned was mas sacred or the way to Talerhof by companies of Magyar Honveds (who correspond to the Austrian LaHbshrD
 Stormy scenes occurred during the speech of Deputy Stribrny, The Czech, Polish. Jugoslav and Ruthenian depu-a ties vigorously assailed fhe govern ment. A pan German, MT. Hsine. re- piled that too few of those opposing Germany and Austria were hanged.
 The Austrian terror in Bohemt goes even to the extent of shooting down women Thus the Vienna Zelt of June Fist refers to an interpella- tion in the Austrian lower house con- cerning events at PPostejov on April Eth. The original cable reports had lt that riots did occur in Prostetov, but nothing definite was said %s 10 casual ties. If now appears, according to the ton made by the Czeh So- cialist Deputy Bechyne. that a detach- ment of infantry regiment 12 fired on people demonstrating in Prpstetov and killtd and wounded many men and women and children. IL also appears that this occurred during a def1onstra.- ton mainly by women, who were aroused by reports that no more bread, flour, coal or fat would be availa ble.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-04
WISE PROTECTION

It was mo1ths ago that Great Rri- tain called attention to the fact that many of the neutral countries were permitting a large amount of the goods which they were getting from other countries to pass into the han6s Of the enemy. It was hoped at thae time that the United States wo11ld take steps to put a stop thereto, but at that time the United States was among the neutra1s and it insisted that it in common with other neutral nations had 9 right to trade with Germany except so far as Great Bri- tain and the other allies could by the lawful means which # was able to take by the establishment of a block ade to prevent Germany from get ting these goods.
 At that time it was insisted by some. if not all of these European neutrals that they were buying no more extensively abroad than they had been accustomed to do previously. but that the increased imports from Great Britain or other countries were simply the result of the readjrstnent which it was necessary to make be- cause of the regular channels being shut off by the war. Figures are now presented from Norway which go to show that in 1915 that country i'm ported over two and a half times as many goods from this country as ir the previous year and nearly twice as much from Great Britain. It re- ceived slightly more than usual from Germany but in turn it exported to Germany nearly twice as much as it formerly did, which goes to show that
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-04
, NO JUSTIFICATION WHATEVER.

It doesn't make any difference whether the object of the lynching party's vengeance is q white or a colored man, there can be no justifi- cation for it in 9. civilized country. Therefore there is strong ground for protest against the action taken by the masked residents of Butte, Montana. in taking out and lynchins Frank Little, a member of the execu- tive board of the I. w w. who had been making himself decidedly un- popular in that locality because of his unpatriotic and disrespectful utter ances, as there is against the actions of a mob, possessing similar views tc those of the western city vigilantes, who strung up to tree colored resident in Louisiana because he had assaulted a white man.
 If the I. w W leader by his activ- ities had transgressed the law, and there are reasons to believe from the reports which have been received concerning his operations that he had. the authorities of that city or state should have been appealed to, not only to suppress but to punish him in accordance with the law. So far as known this does not appear to have been done. but those who believed that he was a menace to the com munIty and the country decided to take meas sures into their own hands. the same as did the southern mob and cndeavor to suppress law!essness by lawIessness, instead of resorting to the laws Of the commonwealth, or in the case of Little to those of the na- tion.
 Tn neither case had the victim com
 aitted an offense which was. punish able by death. The race question en- tered into the matter in one instance while in the other there was manifest ed 8 thorough disapproyal of the aims and methods of the organization which Little represented. But resort to lynch law places a blot upon both communities, when it would have been possible to have stood for law and order and undoubtedly conviction could have been secured upon the evidence at hand without turning to the methods which might be expected in such a country as Turkey.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-04
Where He Made a Mistsks,

MT. Editor: It appears that our friend with the barb pointed pen has gone over to help a Waterbury paper with bis views in regard to the liquor traf- fic and capital
 We give MT. Williams credit for the fact that he is not afraid 10 have the public read his views expressed over his avn signature. which anyone should do if they wish the public 10 give their letters any consideration at all, or even read them
 Even though MT. Williams may have the courage of his convictions ! think he would have shown good judgment on his part if he had expressed his ideas in more calm frame of mind
 THOMAS W ALLYN. Norwich, July 31, 1917.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-04

When the mayor of Chicago de- clares that his "enennies try to put him in bad' there are strong reasons for believing that he is his own worst enemy in matters pertaining to pa triotisrn.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-04

With rumors of another split in the cabinet of President Wilson, isn't it about time that the members realized that it is team work and not indi- vidua1 grandstand play that is de- manded of them?
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-04
Sunday Morning Talk
THE MARKET FOR BREAD

Men buy bread because they are hungry. If they were never con- scious of appetite they would save their money. A vendor with some very nire looking sandwiches walked through a long tourist train the other day. call find a customer ins those crowded coaches. Apparently, TO one was hun gry, there was no market for bread.
 It is generally far harder to create a want than to supply one already eX- isting. If the public begins to demand any particular commodity. a score of agencies will spring up over night, to supply the need. But how many indi- viduals, firms and institutions are yearly ruined by trying to provide something for which nobody really careSt
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-04

An Ohio young man has been tenn porarily rejected because the exam ming doctor cannot locate his heart
 and yet no one would think of plac- ing him in the class with the Huns.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-04

Anyone who is financing a vacation can extend full sympathy to those who were in charge of the task of securing the war loan
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-04

The man on the corner says: Those who insist upon wearing furs during record breaking August weather need sympathy.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-04

In view of the large number who have been killed by it and the much greater number who have been pros trated, it cannot help being realized that heat is an element which causes fear and demands respect.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-04
A Fake Story.

Obviously a fake is that story of the Yankees who failed to shoot the kaiser Had they been Yankees they would either not have attempted it or they'd have done it.-Roston Advertiser.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-04

It will be interesting to learn whether those who were responsible for the I. w. w threat will assume any blame for the unjustffed man. ner in which Leader Little's life was taken.s
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ings of the German submarines. VI surely would bless them both.
 UNCLE BILLIE. Eaglevilie, Aug. 2, 1917.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-04
EDITORIAL NOTES,

Sweltering humanity gives thanks for every bit of relief, even though ii may be short.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-04
TAKE THE BULLETIN ALONG

Readers of The Bulletin leaving the city for vacation trips can have it follow them daily and thus keep in touch with home affairs.
 Order through The Bulletin busi-, ness office.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-04

Here is an evidence of the advance of knowledge. An age or two ago some one wrote: T do not like old Doctor Fell, the reason why I cannot tell but this I know and Know full well, do not like old Doctor Fell" But today the power of expression is greater and language tha4 fits more abundant. A man of today says: There's a man who lives tive doors above me I have no use for. I would give a nickel a bunch for men of his pattern. They say he is Q good, hon est, hard working fellow. He never wronged me in any way. yet he gives me a pain in my siats. ! do not like the hang of his jaw or the way his nose is put on his face, or the cut of his hair OF the shape Of his jaw or the form of his whiskers or the color of his necktie. I do not know what ails him, but he is half seidlitz powder to me and if we should mix there would be a foaming time I do not enjoy a fizz." Dr. Fell got off easy. The world was younger then.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-04

Perhaps you do not realize we have to learn to see as well as learn to live. The way to discover the value of truth is to live it. Truth requires something more than your endorse
 nent. for it must enter into you and become a part of you. Truth cannot make you free until you have made it yours. When it has been made yours you get Divine light. Putting evil out of the heart invites purity: and the overcoming of evil clears the under standing and opens and strengthens spiritual sight. The presence of evil thought in the mind is the cause Of our blindness to truth Truth illum- mates whatever t is related to: and each kind and degree of light enables us to see those things which are of the same nature with itself. Learning to see helps us in learning to live and directs us in the path of purity at the end of which we are assured we shall see God.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-04
A young Norwich boy was caught

A young Norwich boy was caught the other day damning the luck. He said his family forbade profanity, and wicked words. but damned if he could keep still. These damned conditions. What conditions? asked a bystander, who thought the youth might be in sane Why. said he my brother who is 22 doesn't want to go to war, and he is home in bed sick now because he has been drafted: and I want to go to war-would give a leg to go to F'rance--but I can't go. Someone must Ny brother has got to go when he doesn't want to- and I can't go when I'm just dying for a chance. I may be to blame for damning a condition like this. but I can't help it. My brother is no coward--hc doesn't like to scrap: I'm no hero. perhaps but I was cut out for scrap IS years of age, and willing to go.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-04

Some people think it is natural to be fat when it is simply an evidence of scluttony or disease to the intelligent. Pious dietists talk of the sin of be- coming fat" and doctors discourse upon the crime of being stout" A norance, se1f-indulgence. the force of example (this where fat is natural to the family), and a weak will power are the curses of everyday obesity" The lady who always -induIges in a wash woman's meal and the boolxkeeper who eats like a stevedore must expect to become stout, just as the person who drinks two quarts of water when he should only drink one becomes portly. indulgence: but they will stuff. Those who abandon the habits of the hog soon become thin
 When if comes to the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth this is what is least wanted. There was never a person sworn in a court to tell the whole truth and nothing nut the truth who did not discover that the freedom of detail is denied to all witnesses. The truth that f1atters we are pleased with but the truth that confuses or convicts Is not popular anywhere. Man is so fnicky in this regard that he demands that the truths of religion shall be fitted to his con- captions instead of his fitting himself to truth. Truth holds a firm hand and permits no indulgenees. and is not in favor with those who enjoy license Many people who try to speak the truth do not hesitate to act lie The ohalkline of truth has never been worn dull by the feet of men. Too many talk straight and walk crooked
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-04

It was Jean Ingelow who declared:
 T have lived to thank God all my prayers have not been answered ' Every person who in accord with their moods pray have reason to thank God he was deaf to their peti- tions. It is a very common to pray like a fool and too many of us are guilty Of seldom praying like a pen itent. The fact is man at prayer has never become an artist. A person must never pray in doubt. for doubt annuls the promise of an answer. We ask God for many things we do not want and for many more we do not need. We often ask Him to do for US that which we should do ourselves. instead of petiticning Him for the strength and wisdom the divine guidance necessary, to direct US in their accom- mplishment.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-04

For nearly forty years the United
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-04
THE MAN WHO TALKS

T am always for the man who wish es to york; said Abraham Lincoln, and he never was false to this senti- ment It was his love for the conn his love of God that made him strong. No men living" said he, "are more worthy to be trusted than those who toii up from poverty-none less inclin- ed to take or touch aught which they have not honestly earned" It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of him self and claims kindred to the great God who made himl" No wonder Lincoln is the most widely quoted man of modern times; or that his visions Of his day fit so well the con- ditions of these days, "The dogmas of the great past are inadequate,' said he, "to the stormy present. The occasion is billed high with difhcul- ty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anewi" May we all have Lincoln's resolution of purpose.
 There is no doubt a feeling of inn portance is worth something; and it is something we all may possess for nothing. Of course, importance of birth is all knocked out by the inn portance of achievement; and the inn pOrtance of occupation. or relation to other importances, afford occasion for reserve and pride. It took a darkey prisoner to tell a prison warden You un's wouldn't have nothing to do if it wasn't for we unsi" We cannot deny the low-class (so-called) is a dependable foundation for the higher class. employed in courts and on po- lice forces Importance is supposed to be ba sed on high self esteef but it doesn't nave to be so very high if you trace this conceit to it's farthest linn it's. Endeavor not only makes us inn portant, for lack of endeavor may. Who shall say he is not important who in any way contributes to the well aheinsr of soma one elSe2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-21
REMEMBER THE POOR
School Children Give Potatoes to the
salvation Army.


Nearly every. small boy in town
came to school this morning with one
of his pockets bullying with big po-
tato to be placed in the Salvation
Army food basket. Superintendent
Wilson said this morning that the
Salvation Army had come to him and
asked permission to place these food
and potato baskets in the halls of the
grade schpols of the city. Students
were notified Thursday that they
would be given this chanca to contrib
ute to the poor of the city whose
Christmas might otherwise be entirely
potatoless.. The potato-basket plan
was used in the schools last year with
marked success. about thirty bushels
of spuds being secured. 1t is expect
ed that the donation this year will ex-
coed last years record
AT the high school the potato ba sket was
abandoned this year for Christmas tree
to provide toys for the children as we'll as
the food This morning the floor around
the big tree in the main hall of the high
school was Uttered with gifts of all de-
scriptious,- doll chairs from the teu-cent
stores, fuzzy little dogs. grinding teddy
bears and dolls of all sizes and nations
For the boys. drums and other racket pro-
ducing instruments predominated, altho
there abundance of the cheaper
mechanical toys in evidence. Taking IL
all in all the boys and girls attending the
public schools In Topeka have more than
done their part in the wsIr-C hristmas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-21
A FLAG IN EVERY HOME.

The Red Cross wants ten million
new members. 1t ought to have them,
and without great effort. The appeal
cannot and must not go UNDECIDED
Once more Kansas has the opportun-
ity to play its part in the fuller mobil-
ization of the American spirit. 1t will
not disregard the call. In every home
on Christmas eve a Red Cross service
flag, bearing a cross for every mem
Der of the family, should proclaim
again to the world that we are in this
war to the last man, the last gun and
the last dollar"
Behind the Red Cross membership
campaign is an impelling force much
greater than the mere necessity of
more funds to carry on vast humani-
tartan work. The Red Cross needs
money. but it needs quite as much that
intimate cooperation which can come
only as a result of having every eli
gible American enrolled in it's list of
members. The people must feel that
the organization is their organization,
and appreciate the fact that whatever
it does for the soldier it does for them.
1iS IS not the uHle 10 pleau tndI
the many and insistent past demands
have sapped our resources. To say
that is to confess failure where other
nations have succeeded. For us the
war has hardly begun. 1t cannot be
continued without the aid which the
Red Cross renders to our forces in
the field and the succor it gives to
sufferers at home.
No one who is at all familiar with.
the history of the last three and half
years needs to have his duty pointed
out to him at this time. a.He will
count it privilege to perform it to
the best of his ability. Willingly and
cheerfuIly he will pay his dollar for a
membership button.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-21

girl could ever take Hester's place.
Unconsciously his hand went into me
wide pocket of the coat. His fingers
touched a stiff piece of paper and ne
brought out an envelope very I'M
concernedly he looked at it. His name
was written on it. He opened it quick
ly for it was Testers writing He
took out the short note and read IL
hurriedly:
Dave Dear-I am sorry. 1t was all
nv fault and ! can't do without YOU.
When 1 said you couldn't come TO the
party I didn't mean it at all, and III
be heart broken if you don't come
with. kisses, Hester
Dave glanced at the date hurriedly.
1t was two days old. She had written
it the day before the party. He hur-
ried to the telephone and was talking
to Hester before he had time to think
twice.
Hester. will you ever forgive me?
l just got your note" he said.
Just got it now, Dave-how can
that be? Why. it was posted two
days ago. I can't forgive you You
de me so miserable that my party
was a failure. The girls all roticed
your absence and whispered about it.
you, Dave?'' There was the same
doubling tone that had been the cause
of most of their quarrels, but Dave
didn't notice it.
I'm coming right up, he said, and
hung up the receiver before she had
an opportunity to refuse him the priv
ilege.
Hester was at the door to meet him.
Il know it all now" were the words
she greeted him with after they got
inside. But how did you get that
letter. Did Walter Mitchell find il and
give it to you2 l gave the note to ia
theirs new secretary to post for me.
He remembered that he left it in the
suit of clothes he was wearing at the
time, and has since returned the suit
to Mitchelrs because it was a poor fit
Walter found it ~
But Walter didn't find it, laughed
Dave. Il found it in the pocket of this
suit-a s16-45 one. How do you like
it?"
ITS the one dads secretary had"
she gasped. What in the world are
you doing in a s16.45 SUITE ~
DO you think look terrible in it %
he asked with a smile.
You look nice in anything" she
smiled back; but l hope they'll take
it back, for you look better in your
other ones"
We'll. before do think had bet
ter empty the pockets. The first thing
I'll take out will be this marriage Ii
cense 1 secured it on the way here.
We had better not wait much longer
Goodness knows what our next quar-
rel will lead to-
She looked over the license, then
looked up with smile and said:
I'm through with quarre1s- -
! copyright. 1917. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-21
TO OPEN UP MINES
Operation Immediately
Usage County District.
Appeal Sent Out for $40 Miners
in the Fields.

Operators and miners in the Usage
county district will begin immediate
operation of all mines in that district,
according to announcement made to
Governor Capper this afternoon by T.
]. O'Neil, fuel administrator for Usage
county. ONeil told the governor that
$40 miners were needed to meet the
labor shortage in the field and insure
capacity operation of all mines.
Conditions in the district, the gov
ernor was advised, are now better than
at any time in the last couple of years
AS soon as the labor situation can be
properly met all mines are to be op-
erSted at capacity. Both the operators
and the miners are satisfied with the
present situation. There is no tend
ency, O'Neil said, to oppose the pres
ent federal regulation as affecting
wages and the price of coal to the
producers.
All of the mines in the Burlingame
Fostoria, Scranton and Usage City dis
trict are to be Immediately opened, the
local administrator declared At pres
ent, 100 additional men are needed in
the Usage City mines and $50 men
are needed in the Scranton BurIing-
anne mines