Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-12

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 Food ic today an item oN munitions, soldiers must be fed and fed well, powder demands worlSfneE. workmen must have food; without food, of stop.
 Tn preparation for the greater sacrt- flee we will all be called upon to bear a tthe end of another year let us all make a firm resolve to begin tomorrow in the great movement of fod conser- vation our country i, crying from the housetops. Let us all earnestly en- gage in the national necessity to The dLtiful family will cut down it's food bill on all foods except those which are home raised ard of a per- ishable ature
 The answer to orr nations great waste will be found easiest by. close study of the garbage pail. This is not pleasant but it is instructive. You will fin irf this research, most of you, that you are throwing aw.y every day food the waste been eliminated, by 10 per cent Think of it! Think of what 10 per ceni. means when it is spread around to thousands and thousands of families cit means that food for ten million people is thrown away every day. If that is so. the cost of feeding ten million for that day was entirely Waste; it means ten million dollars per day diverted from usefulness and turned to nj ldrance in the national economy. or considerably more than three billion dollars for tie year. If that money could be saved it would be enough 70 maintain millions of men.
 Lighten the Burden.
 So let us at home make our sacri- fees and help in every way to tighten the burden our boys will be called upon to bear. Let us be witn them and for them to the uttermcst. Today those in this country who are not for America are against her. We have no time for fifty fifty Americans. With us now 1t is all American or nothing.
 The call of the hour is sacrifice. Let it begin with that self restraint which makes the lower passions slaves and reason the master; let the soldier be persuaded that virtue is the blood of heroes, sin is the virus of towards; the hour is fraught with grave possi- bilities; the die is cast the fate of the country rests upon tfe loyalty of it's citizens. America calls her loyal sons to service. Tie man of clean mind ani fervcnt sorl will bring hon or to the cause he is sent to defend. In time of>danger there will he no fiinch- ing; not brutal instinct but patriotisn1 nerves his arm; he fears no danger in whom the fear of God is upperniost.
 Our patriot sons are called by ~"O!d Glory sc in days past she will be cheered by the ready and hearty re- sponse O. our bravcst and best. Some of hono', many will return hardened with toil chastened by suffering, per haps with limbs mutilated Tn the cruel strife-but intact, let LIS hope. in those virtues which go to make up virile manhood and an unconquerable Amer ica. -s
 Consolation of Death in War.
 Tn the last month of his life. for he died whie serving his country at the Dardanel'es, Rupert Brooke. one of a sonnet that should have a powerful appea! to Americans in ti.ese days of authorization upon new and untried waters The motif of his beautiful comet was the consolation of death in war.
 From TOW on until the coming of peace there will be 9 constant stream of American manhood from our shores goes on it is inevitable that many of the boys of ours will finS graves n the soil of alien lands;
 In the past we have boasted of our isolation from Europe, but is not the time coming soon when that boast will be dead forever? How can we he iso- lated from country in wElch in the beautiful words of Rupert Brooke, forever America" We cannot be. The day an American army first goes into action on the soil of France will end our isolation.
 Will Welcome Boys Home.
 Norwich and it's environs will send 120 of her sons into the service Of the national army. We are proud of these boys, ,anC will be Erouder stil! when, after the war is ov-i and peace once more settles on this fair land of ours. they will be welcomed hack home, perhaps here in Union square. nobIy wearing he added hotnrs of "Old Glorv's" victory that has never known defeat, and, praise God, never will!
 MT. Hammond was applauded heart l fly from time to time during his speech.
 After the gripping address of MT, Hammond the people sang the Battle | Cry of Freedom and in closing the Star Spang1ed Banner.
 The celebration ended with few se- lections by the sband.