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Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-06
RUSHING THE SEASON

which really wfiI help fathe11y con- siderably, cOn1e to think of It
 I've grown resigned to dfscardfng warm headeear in January and pur- hat with daisies on It. If I appeared in the midst of January blizzard in velvet chapeau all the women know would shake their heads and was doing so poorly in stocks this year, and how brave of me to smile and carry it off so we'll
 And when try to purchase blous- me their very newest winter ship mentr The blouses, apparently are made of rnoonshine suitable for a temperature of 100 in the shade and either buy those or I buy nothing, because there isn't anything else to buy! If you wish waist of heavy silk trimmed in velvet you get 1t during the last sultry days of June.
 Also, would whisper word in the ear of the serious persons who get out the fashion journals. They go to the other extreme, or apparent iy have never walked up to the rush of seasons After I have purchased my summer organdfes and lawns and silks in January and the crepe de chine for hot weather lingerie I turn to the February fashion books for in- spiration. Therein find beautiful and. entrancir1g pictures of stunning
 
 course, that's exactly what we should be wearing at that season, but the swinter suits and ball gowns all were made during the previous November.
 'Tn March get hold of dress maker and she brings sheaves of fashion books. She apoaegizes and says that there are really very few sketches for summer styles-but do look at this velvet frock with Russian embroidery! 1t is an exceedingly pretty dress but not at all suitable for pink organ6fe.
 Along in June when all my sum- mer things must be ready and pack ed up to go away for three months. there begins to be a sprinkling oe summer frocks in the fashions and in August, when I am couf eng pennies to buy my winter furs, the fashion books gre running over with the most delightful summer clothes that mo- body has any use for that seasoni And then they wonder why women get gray hairs so early in lifei"
 'I am deeply moved by your sor- rows" agreed the patient listener "Its nice, snowy day-come on downtown and let's look for para sols!"--Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-06
INDUSTRIAL PREPAREDNESS.

How well Great Britain has paid at- tention to the demand for industrial preparedness and made plans to meet the requirements is indicated by the notice which has been given by the British government to the holders of contracts for the manufacture of shrapnel and all other shells in this country to the effect that all con- tracts must be completed by the end of this month and that thereafter that country will be able to take care of its requirements in that line at home.
 Millions of shells have been made in this country for Great Britain. Great factories have been kept busy and some of them are still at work on orders but a number have already completed their efforts in this line with the result that large numbers of employees have been discharged in such munition making centers.
 Great Britain is acting in accord ance with intimations which were given some months ago to the effect that by spring it would be able to take care of all its requirements in the way of steel. That such may not be fully realized is shown by the fact that there is still a great demand for ship plates for exportation. but this has been increased materially by the sit uation that has been created by tho submarine warfare of Germany All these plates are not however sought for England, since Japan is seeking to have large orders filled. while there is also a brisk demand for wire from all the beliigerents srd many of the neutra1s. This matteg Of prcoaring to handle it's own orders far shells, which has been carried out oS tsreat Britain Is a lesson which na7not ke overlook cd by this government vshen it comes tosindustrial preparedness
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-06


 sary to make the proposition a purely '0ls All 'is the msIl6of fighting age are at the front with their regiments. One of the villagers while in the trenches ter giving details of the plan of re- construction. He immediately re- piled: Don't waste ink on telling me fairy tales. You are ready to swaI- low any yarn told you. Just make up your mind as I have done that we have lost everything and don't dream that good fairies are going to restore all to us."
 In order to convince this man and many of his village neighbors serving ;f1 the same corps that somebody was really taking interest in them and that they would not merely have to De nifty of sixty per cent of their losses. Miss Daisy Polk, also a Californian and now administrator of the plan. gave printed plans and details of the were forwarded at once to the men at the front, who could be assured only by documentary evidence of this kind of the good fortune to be confer red on them and their dependents.
 Miss Polk, who since the beginning of the war has been occupied in re- lief work of varfus kinds. was chosen by Mrs. Croeker to administer her benevolent scheme. She decided at once to live among the people so as to become better acquainted with them and to learn their needs. Every house, without exception, has been either shelled or burnt. She, however, was able to find a one-rooH1ed cot tage which could be repaired and here from her single room Miss Polk di- rects all the work. She interviews there the architect, the builders, the department officials and government
  ceived Ambassador William G. Sharp, who had come to lay the corner stone of the first new house.
 Of the seventy houses composing the village thirty -four were shelled and the remaining thiry-six burned. The government itself decided to re- pair the bonbarded houses. which were not so badly damaged as those struction of these latter was under taken by Mrs. Crocker.
 No attempt was made by the au- thors of the scheme to force Ameri- can ideas down the throats of the con servatiVe Lorrainers. Very little change had taken place in the village since the fifteen century and the style of architecture was very uniform. Es- ua1ly taking the shape of one of two story cottages with grange-door en- frances and attached at the back the granaries and cattlesheds. The only changes insisted on by the promoters or the ScHeme as well as Dy the French government were the intro duction of sanitary arrangements which hitherto had been non-existent, the provision of the cattlesheds and the human habitations.
 It was with difficulty that the peas ants could be induced to accept some of these changes. but at length req son prevailed and tine plans were fn- ally drawn up.
 The new village Is to have wider streets and the main road through it Is to be planted with trees. while the town hall and school are now to oc- cupy prominent and spacious positions in the center of the village instead of being hidden as before the war in mar row lanes without any air space.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-06
cowARpLY ACTION.

As the president has we'll said, 1T his statement to the public as the re- suit of the failure of the senate to act upon the bill authorizing him. to arm The merchant vessels of this country for the protection of their rights on the seas. this inability of the senate fo act has rendered some of the most necessary legislation of the session impossible at a time when the need of it was most pressing and most evi- dent
 It was a colossal mistake on the part Of those few members of the upper house and there can be no question that it was accomplished with a full realization of the consequences that would result.
 While 1t cannot help being exasper- n<ing to an administration, and at the same time to a country which does not approve of such actions. but in- pists that the rights of its people should be upheld on all occasions. the worst effect Is bound to result from the Interpretation that is given to 1t by the foreign nations. It is doubtful h they will understand the exact sit- nation and will appreciate the distinc- tion between the failure to pass the legislation called for by the president and the course pursued by that DOT ton Of the senate which would have been powerless but for the rule that was taken advantage of. They may or may not give weight to the mani festo signed by 75 senators which ex- pressed the real sentiment of that body and which showed that the bill would have been passed had a vote been allowed. Rather are they likely to look only upon what was actually done and that certainly reflects no credit upon the upper house of the national 1awmaking body. It was cowardly action which should never be permitted a chance for repetition.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-06
STORIES OF THE WAR
Reoonstruetins a French Village.

sufferers from the war has been given more concrete expression in the little village of VitriEont, near Luneville. France, than in any other part Of the devasted country immediately behind the French fighting lines.
 When Mrs. William Crocker, of San Francisco. chose Vitrimont in which to carry out her idea of reconstructing with her own means one of the vil- lages destroyed by the German troops in their first rush into France, she met with mitch doubt and suspicion. The people of Lorraine are practical and hard headed and also object to partake of anything given in the form of charity. It was therefore neces-
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-06
CHANGE THE RULE.

Important duties are faced by the United States senate which has been called in special session by President Wilson, and amongst the business that it should act upon there is noth- ing more urgent than the demand that there be a change made in the rules Of that body which now permit one mem Der to hold up the entire business whether 1t happens to be trivial mat ter or one of the greatest importance Buch as the armed neutrality bill which failed to come to a vote and be fa- worably acted upon because what should have been an ineffec- tive minority possessed the power un- der the rules to thwart the will of The senate, of congress and without question the whole nation.
 There are matters which come be- fore the senate that ought to be fully debated. There are instances where many joke bills and measures which have been little understood have been made laws simply because they have been rushed through, but the peril in the idea of unlimited debate and the power Of one member. or a mere handful, to force a discussion simply to kill a measure when a majority are favorable thereto has been pointed ou. beyond question ia the latest applics tion of the rules which Senator Hitch cock calls one of the most reprehen- slbIe hlibasters in the history of civ flized government.
 The harm which can be done by Euch a rule has been demonstrated and the senate ought to require noth- Ing further in the shape Of proof of It's dangers before bringing about the modification of the rule in the manner feuuired.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-06

Royal Dockyard, where 1000 work men are employed even in normal times; Middlesborough, with its great shipbui1ding industry; Manchester with its splendid canal opening up an inland city to world trade; Belfast, with it's famous ship builders; Ports mouth and Plymouth, on the south coast. with their extensive port with the largest fishing fleets in ex- istence: Newiyn and Brixham, homes of the mackerel fisheries. and Mil- ford and Fleetwood. the ports the full of enterprise, which have been even more active since the war began than they ever were before 'sucma- rine peril was dreamed of.
 AS has been said, the British Isles contain no less than 119 ports avail able for commerce, and practically all of them have developed for effective use.
 sEven if the Gef1nans have 800 sub- marines constructed for the purpose total makes an average of only about four submarines available for block ading each port.
 ''submarines, with even the largest radius which any of these boats pos sess, are dependent upon a converl- tent base or upon the service rem dered by mother ship They gen. erally can carry most limited mum per or tOfpeQoeSS Wltn0ut Wnlcn they are ineffective, and in addition they are severely handicapped by tine very nature of their operations.
 British domination of the sea has not come about by chance. England's geographic limitations have com pelfed her to keep the avenues of ocean traffic open through constant readiness to render naval protection to her carrying trade; and it is the result of her insuiar position that her activities have developed on sea and land.
 What Nature has always done for the children Of the wild by rendering them adaptable, through habit and through equipment, to the environ mer1t in which they are placed, the English people have done for them selves. Crfbbed. cabined, and con- fined upon group of islands limit ed in area and capable of inadequate produetiveness, even with the most fri- tensfve Of cultivation, they were forced. first, to command the avenues of supply for themselves and, in or der to meet the increasing expense of such necessity, second, to develop their manufacturing resources to the highest degree.
 ITO this they owe the great number 4 ports which they now possess and which. by their very numbers. render
 however attempted, a hercu1ean task. A clearer example of how nations are limited or advanced by their geographic environment could hardly be found"
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-06
OTHER VIEW FONTS


 It is proposed that legislatures of "cross of service to the farmers who get the largest yield of food crops from their land-
 it's an excellent suggestion No production should be overlooked. This would be an easy way to vitalize com petition. And such a medal would do far more honorable to the recipient the other side of the water as re- wards for slaughter and devastatfon.- Waterbury Republican
 Inuufry as to why the Times does rot refuse liquor advertisements is as impertinent AS would be, for in- stance, inquiry why Mir. Wilder fs not a Confucian or why he does not em-
 virtues Of ostsopathy or vote the Socialist ticket or part his hair in
 the middle or do other things in a different manner tban that which he fled right to follow, because for sooth, something else thinks he should follow some other course. Still we are willing to answer: We do not re- not share MT. wilder's opinion that it ought to be excluded. = Hartford Times.
 The 1eS1SlaIufe InarSQay ptayeQ several mare innings in the !grea's game of politics. The score at pres ent stands fifty fifty and as the days pass the action warns up. During a momentary intermission or truce or a spell to catch breadth, whatever it is caIed, some real business was transacted and number of foolish bills, including one calling for dis tirctive uniforms for state policemen,
 were killed. If every member will hnf |. uyr appears lot of execution can be done in spite of the excitement and distractions of the game.-Bristol Press.
 There are no indications that the universal military training bill will be acted upon by the present congress. The army war college prepared the the president or the secretary of the army expressed himself as whole heartedly endorsing it.
 Here is a great country on the verge of war; country whose patriotic cit- izens are straining every nerve to serve, which is being handicapped be- cause authorities whose business it is to safeguard the peoples interests, are evsding the issue.
 Experience has shown that universal military service is the thing which will save the country in the event that military strength is needed. It is democratic because it includes every body, high and low, rich and poor. No lines are drawn. hence there can be no place for the old hue and cry about the poor man and the working man having to bear the brunt of military training.
 We have not been disposed to criti- else the president ftr his waiting pol icy, since the severing of diplomatic relations. There was much to do and much depended on being able to mark time sufficiently long to enable cer- tain things of much importance be- ing accomplished. It was not fair to nag the president when matters of such import were hanging fire.
 But the universal military service bill might have been rushed through for consideration by the present con gress. To leave 1t is an admission of the ha1f-hearted way in which the president and the secretary of war re- gard it. Even with the shadow of war upon us. there are those who re- fuse to read the writing on the wall -Meriden Record.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-06
Courage of His Convictions.

Mir. Editor: Certain persons who seek to blackguard me do so because l have the courage of my convictions Allow me to say. I stand back of ev- erything I have ever written and in the future, as in the past, I intend to voice my opinion whenever take the notion. There are some who make an excursion, now and then, Unto req son and philosophy and what a cur iosity shop of literature. Small caIi- bre minds are disturbed from time to time and their conscience bricks them when the truth is barred. It has be- ate all who refused to recognize the United States as a vassal of England Suffice to say I care nothing and l think less of the attacks upon me by the dregs of Americanism.
 have no desire to dwell on past history, but I will say this, my fore fathers gave their all and life itself that America might be free from the machfnations of her enemies. My whole life is an open book. I have no skeletons in my closet and I deny anyone the right to question my pa trtotis1n. feel above a personal dis cussion with parties whose narrow mind and racial bitterness is revealed by their type of language. Here is some more truth for them to digest. An American citizen has been denied the right to trade with neutral nations except as England permits. An Amer
 
 letter anywhere that is not censored and it's contents noted by England. American traders have been forced to sign huniliating declarations. stating with whom they will or will not trade. American merchants have been black listed for standing on-the rights of their American citizenship and got no redress. About the only right an an insurance premium for an English munifion ship and trust thnt on his corpse being presented to the An1eri- can amhassad dor, the policy-a Ger n1an-Ane erican war-win fall due.
 Such sare the rights of citizenship which England has permitted us and crawl and squirn as we have crawled and squirmed. she has never length ened her driving rein by one inch. By all means let us go to war to help our yellow friends, Japan and England. Some day when Japanese army lands on the coast of California we will have that that European league a peace leaEue. bad thing after all. so the intuition maker tells us. By all means let us celebrate the coming Fourth of July with 8 million or more of murdered and mangled men. the flower of our widows and orphans to enable Eng. land to repay Morgan & Co. and help one Lord Northciiffe retain his riches to corrupt the American press.
 The common people pay the toll in blood and sacrifice in all wars. And now the press tells us war is inevita- b1e we must uphold the dignity of our citizenship. Our honor nor our citi- zenship has not yet demanded that we must guarantee the right of an American tourist to ride On ammafi- tion ships and lodging about Europe, weaning their curiosity and seeking adventure.
 In closing I will say this: the day will come when this nation will find it's true patriots, and, they will not be found among those who at this time would have us participate in the quar- rels of greedy European nations.
 JAMES H. CUMMINGS.
 Norwich, March 8. 1917.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-06
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
eot License in short order.

Mir. Editor: Very likely Dr. Shahan can answer what concerns him, but I take the liberty of saying that I, too, called at his office when it was crowded. but got my license in short order just the same, telling me. as he did. that every body's license was always ready, except to write in the date of taking it out. I also remem- ber-last January there was good sized card in the papers by Dr. Sha- han, telling us he would be at his of flee for our convenience from to 10 o'clock in the morning.
 ONE OF THE PULLED IN.
 Franklin, March 5, 1917
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-06
In the Grand Duehy of Luxembers.


 Little news reaches the outside world concerning the state of affairs in the Grand Duchy of Luxennberg, the little state wedged in between Ger many, France and Belgium that was the first country to resound to the tramp of the German legfons on their way to France. Luxemberg Is entire ly isolated by the Germans, and it's inhabitants are. like the Belgians. practical prisoners within their own the economic hardships of the Central Powers
 According to information furnished to the Amsterdam Telegraaf by a in getting through to Holland, there Is practically no unemployment in the Grand Duchy, where numerous iron foundries, steel manufactories and en- German orders. But while this results in high wages, and a lot of money be- ing put into circulation, there is little to be had for money. The food posi- ton in particular is described as seri- ous. The government has tried to get food from Holland and Denmark, but the Germans refuse to let it pass, de- claring that they will not have the competition of Luxembrffy buyers on the markets in those countries. The Luxemburg government bought and paid for 250,000 francs worth of but. ter in Denmark, but it has not reach ed it's destination.
 The country would itself be able to meet it's own prime needs were 1t not for the fact that 1t still has to reg u1arly cede a large part Of it's pro- ducts to Germany. As a result of the complaints of the government, how ever, Germany has restricted it's re- duisitions The Duchy has to feed one German battalion. and on the other hand German soldiers are forbidden to requisition or buy eata;bies there. Notwithstanding the latter regulation, however. troops going to or coming from the front are well provided with
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-06
sIoan'. Linia.ns for Rh.um..l.m.

The torture of rheumatism, the pains and aches that make life unbearable, are relieved by Sloan's Linfment, a clean, clear liquid, that is easy to ap- ply and more effective than nnussy pbasters or ointments becauss 1t pene- trates quickly without rubbing. For the many pains and aches following exposure, strains, spfains and muscle soreness, Sloan's Eminent is promptly effective. Always have e bottle handy for eout, lpn6ago, toofhache, back ache, stiff neck and all external pains. At druggists, 25c.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-06
CHINA AND THE WAR.

Germany has been doing its utmost To avoid the threatened break with China It is even more anxious to prevent a declaration of war by the big eastern country because of the un- restricted submarine warfare which it has put into effect and which 1t has announced that it will not change.
 China has apparently been moved fo a certain extent by the appeal which
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-06
Spring Colds Are Dangerous.

Sudden changes of temperature and underwear bring spring colds, with stuffed up head, sore throat and gen. eral cold symptoms. A dose of Dr. Kings New Discovery ia supe relief, this happy combination of antiseptio balsams clears the head, sooties the have beeh a lingering colo is broken up. Don't stop treatment when relief is first felt, as half cured cold Is dangerous. Take pr. Kings New Dis- covery till your cold is gone
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-06
Claims B Wins.

MT. Editor: In reply to Mir. Sam Dick, should say that B wins the bet. Cummings has often told us about his ancestors fighting in the Revolu- tionary war. Running short of am intuition they were compelled to fight with puffs and imprecations. This in part accounts for the indescribable mushiness and the narrow and vitu- perative distemper of the Cummings specimen who has become notorious. He is like a creeping poison ivy upon the semblance of liberty we at present enjoy.
 Yours for the death of traitors,
 CAPTAIN. Baltic March 8. 1917,
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-06

There were many people in this country who got a jolt. not when the president admitted the authenticity of the Zimniermann note because they were ready to doubt even him, but when it was acknowledged by Ger many.