Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-23

l for something worth fighting for and
 that what she stands for Is in mortal peril
 | Do you indeed value that whicf, has come to us? Are you glad that the | wooded trail has become a broad high manifold devices which would vastly | have terrified the copper -colored en- | gineers of the Mohegans and whose
 drivers would have been promptly | Some of them ought to be haE2ed any
 how. Think of this road of ours. of the l thriving towns along it's path, of the hum of industry, of the farms and or ! chards. of the human happiness en- 1 joyed and the human sorrow endured 1 on either hand: think of the soldiers. | the statesmen, the scholars who have l walked or ridden north and south, of | the humble folk yet proud, of the lit | tie children whose feet have pressed | the way. Is all this not worth pre- | serving? Well: what are you going to 1 do about it? Can we not realize that we are actually involved fin warfare ! with an enemy more powerful than | any hitherto confronted by any na | tion? Are we not ashamed that we | have for three years stunned ourselves
 British navy? Shall we not try to | remove that reproach? I tell you we are at war. war. war It is by no l means certain that these hills will rot presently resound to the roar of hostile l cannon, wonder smiling sea bring us | a swarm of alien and cruel foes, our
 Mohegan trail be cH0dden by a march
 ing enemy.
 l O, wake up: wake up! This ques- 1 ton cannot be lodged by reference to i a committee. You have got to fight. 1 Some of you must die. Though the pen 1 be n1ightier than the sword. it is cer | tain that the typewriter is not mightier l than the submarine.
 1 Where is the blaze of enthusiasm | which swept the country when Lin l coin called: which for years filled and
 kept full the ranks of our patriot | army? Where Is 1t. now, when the rla- | tional guard and the navy are calling 1 aloud for men and cannot get them? | Is Israel Putnam forgotten? English | forgotten, you of French descent? Is | Garibaldi forgotten, my Italian fellow | citizens? Are Baron Steuben, Sigel l Carl Schurz forgotten, O ye who with
 pain must shake off the constructing ] chains of German heredity and save | your earlier fatherland by saving the ! fatherland that now Is yours? Wake 1 up! I say. Meet the mailed fist with l the big stick. l Preserved Through Struggle. l You whose hood Is one with mine: 1 our ancestors together won and sub | l. i Together they struggled for preserva- 1 tion in a wilderness. Together they l starved and froze at Valley Forge for | liberty. Toget5er in '63 they stood on 1 the hillcEest of Gettysburg and antici- 1 pated by half century the war cry of
 the Frenchmen at.Verdun, They shall | not passi"
 Now. once more. a long pull, strong i pull, pull all together.
 1 It is not enough to invest two bill i lions of dollars. at 3 1-2 per cent It l is not enough to give one hundred l million dollars to succor the sick and 1 wounded while Furnishing but few men l willing to risk wounds and sickness 1 Can't you see? Can't You see2 We
 are building and have been building 1 fine roads for those who shall come | heaven to make straight in the desert l 9 highway for our God. And through
 pain and suffering and death shall -ee ! build this road-not for ourselves nor
 sweeter and life nobler for those in i whose service we are not afraid to die
 Dust From the Trail.
 The Webster Boy Scouts. under the 1 command of Scoutmaster George Thompson, erected a tent on the grounds at Mohegan to be used in case of emergency.
 From DanielsOn all along the tra1 ! people were on their front lawns CT porches. waving their best wishes to the passing autos.
 1 Grand Marshal C. W Pearson wa delayed on his trip up to Webster on
 account of blowout. Dust and soma more dust. We brcathed it and ate it.
 Marshal ". Russell Baird of the
 local contingent of machines had ey-
 trything in readiness when the visit ing machines hit Sachem Plain. Committees in Charge.
 The committees in charge of +.e
 Mohegan trail opening on Friday were
 as follows:
 General committee-H- R.. Branche,
 Adams P. Carroll. Henry c. Peck, A. L. Peae
 1 Executive committee-Rev. Joseph 1 H. Selden, Gen. W. A. Aiken, Wallace l $. Allis.
 Finance committee-Wallace S. Allis, James C. Macpherson, Henry G. Peck, Arthur L. Peale. John NJ. Lee Frank J. King W. R. Baird. George W. Carroll.
 Transportation committee - w R. Baird Amos C. Swan, D. T. Shea John Vaughn, C. I. Smith.
 Marshal Norwich section (parade)- w. R. Baird.
 1 Aides-Dr. R. R. Agnew, Lucius Briggs, Eben Learned.
 ] Refreshment committee-H. B. Day. enport. Mrs. Willis Austin, Mrs. Chan 1 ming NJ Huntington, Mrs. W. A. Nor ] ton.
 Music conmittee-Fred W. Lester. | Miss Mary Rogers L. M. Crandall. Decora tions committee-C. A. Spear Boy Scouts will act as aides.
 Grounds committee-Charles A Hae- berg. Arthur Jenkins, W. Pode. w T. | Olcott. c. A. Spear, Louis J. Bruette, George Chesbro, Walter Block, P Am prose Sullivan, Weston Pullen, F. J. l Pagan.
 Publicity eommittee-william c. Gil-
 man, c. H. Ricketts. William H. Oat l Reception committee Mayor and Mrs. Allyn L. Brown, ex-Mayor T. C. 1 Murphy Mrs. Elisha E. Rogers. ex- Congressman and Mrs. F. W. Higgins i Mrs. Will l.. Stearns, G. R. Sanders Mrs. F.. E. Dove. Mir. and Mrs. Robert l w Perkins, MT. and Mrs. L. O. Smith, l Mir and Mrs. George c. Preston John l Porteous and Miss Porteous F. B. l Ricketson. Mir. and Mrs. c. w. Perkins Mir. and Mrs. Charles A. Saxton, Mir
 and Mrs. E. A. Tracy, MT and Mrs. J. J. Boyd Mir. and Mrs. Jacob 'Munz. tMr and Mrs R. A. Smith. Mr af1d