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Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-24
HALL CANNES INQUIRY.

This is what Hall Caine. the fla nous English novelist. would like to knew
 From what has happened, Is 1t an unreasonable conclusion that when the time comes for the next great war machinery of warfare will have be- come so appalling in the sweep of its desolating forces that one year, one month. nay. one week. will be suffi- cient to wipe out half the world"
 When the times comes for the next great wari" And here we are hop ing that the dawn of permanent peace will begin at the very point Of time this great war ends. Hali Caine doesn't entertain the hope. for if he really did he would not be expecting the time to come" when as H. G. Wells says: The wild asses of hell" will be jet loose again.
 If man is not capable of establish ing on earth permanent peace when the Divine prsceDts for evolving the millennium have been revealed to him. what matter is it if half the world is wiped out in a week" and the other half die because Of the pes tilence and famine which are sure to follow?
 The old vaIhaila Of the Norsemen still seems to be more inviting than the Heaven Of the Israelites
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SHORTAGE OF TIN PLATE.

Under present world conditions it is not surprising that the producers of tin plate cannot keep up with the demand
 The output of tin plate in this coun- try has increased from million and three quarters tons a month in 1914 to two millions and thirds tons a month in 1917; and we are notified that the tinplate already contracted for equals the total capacity of all our tinplate mills until March 1st, 191S
 Paper and fiber receptacles for li- quids have been in use for some time :: and there is a prospect that fibre cans may be substituted to a considerable extent for tin.
 This may be one of the best things which could happen, as 1t may de- crease the danger of ptomaine poison ing, and improve not inture the gen eral health of the users of canned goods.
 Such change cannot be said to be regrettabe.
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THE LATEST CHARGE AGAINST
 GERMANY.

Germany has reached a stage in warfare where she is charged with being engaged in blowing her future 10 atoms. and 50 far as this goes the whole world outside the Central Elm pire of Europe hope she may make success of ir.
 The readers or the papers remem- Der how Germany pleaded for milk to save her babies in the second year Of the war; but now she has been driven to such straits for oil tEat she 1s using butter fat to produce nitro glTcerire. and in doing this she is charged with having reached "the na- dir of degradation and despair"
 Turning milk to mechanical use instead of using it to nourish her in fanrs, and thereby iessening their chance Of life and the future man power of the German states, has caused her enemies 10 charge her with pawning her future merely to postpone her ruin"
 What power for good or evil exists Tn cows milk The future of the ace is bound Up in f. and we think it isn't worth 12 cents a quart!
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-24
THREE YEARS OF AIR WARFARE.

There is always something the mat ter with military mathematics; and although mathematics is an accurate science they are always charging one another with getting inaccurate re- suits.
 of air warfare the Berliner Tageblatt says:
 The total aircraft shot down from August 1. 1914. to August 1. 1917, about 2.29S enemy and 6s2 German aeroplanes. 1s6 enemy captive balloons and three airships."
 The Matin. a German journal equal ly as good an authority as The Ser liner Tageblatt stated on January L 1917. that the French brought down 45O German machines in 1916 and the British 250. This figure of TOO com pa-es with the German admission of 221. There is confirmation of this unofficial estimate in the table com piled from the statements in the off cial communiques of British and French headquarters which appeared in The Times of December 5, 1916, and which showed that. for the six months June to November in that year 656 German machines were brought, shot or driven down by the allies
 
 calculated by the agebIatt-August l. 1916. to July 31. 1917-the official British and French figures show that 2,O76 German machines were sent down-1,325 by the British, 751 by the French It is not pretended that all these were destroyed. but if we take merely for May, June, and July, those which were officially stated to have crashed, to have been destroyed, brought down in flames, shot down by gunf1re, or captured. we get, instead of the Tageblatt's figure of S70 for the whole year, 523 for three months"
 The question is which figures to ac- cept IS being true. If the news from Berlin ever agreed with the reports of the entente we might be inclined to believe the German report
 The entente make the German knockouts in the sky over three and one-half times greater than Berlin appears to be willing to admit
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SAVING MONEY

ped in coal oil and then put the ham on a chair and. rested his knee CD it to hold it steady and began. saving. l begged him to quit, for he was grow ing more indignant every minute, and when his anger reaches a certain tenn perature he doesn't care a tinkers picayune what he says, or who hears him.
 "The ham slipped from under his knee and he ran the saw against his shin and then he danced around the kitchen on one leg, folding the injured enc to his bosom, and began express ing his sentiments in language child could understand. Just then the two school teachers stepped into the kitch- en to see what the celebration was about Vnd I was so ashamed I wished could sink through the floor and hide in the coal cellar.
 get him cooled down. I must say those schoolrnarn1s were good sports They told MT Curfew they didn't blame hf1n for storming around under such cir cumstances and soothed and cheered him so well that he tackled the ham again, with knife. saw and hatchet- and mana ged to hew off two or three ragged slices. an inch thick In some places and as thin as tissue paper in others.
 q cooked them and we sat down to breakfast and found that the ham tasted of kerosene, as result of cleaning the saw. Tfen the schoOl teachers couldn't hold in any longer and they unleashed some untinely rnerrinent Mir. Curfew got up from the table and took the ham and threw it into the alley where a lot of dogs began uuarreling over it quite scand- 5lously.
 Every economical scheme we try in our house works out this way. and I assure you Mrs. Turpentine. that there are times when I feel discoura sed- -"- Chicago News.
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T have found" remarked Mrs. Fur pentine, that it pays to buy groceries and provisions in bulk. This thing of buying a pound of this and a pound of that is most expensive"
 T suppose you are right observed Mrs. Curfew, but such schemes, all though indorsed by statesmen and prelates and other great thinkers. never seem to work out right in our house.
 The other evening when MT. Cur few came home he brought along a big ham he had purchased at the meat market. He pointed out that he had saved more than a dollar by buying a whole ham at once. Buying a slice al a time as we have been doing, Is wasteful" he said, and waste at this critical time is vicious and criminal.
 T agreed with him, and told hlrn he sh.uld get up early next morn : ing and hew off two or three slices of the ham for two lady friends of mine. highly educated and refined school teachers. were staying over night with us and I wanted to give them a good breakfas st. When I went to the kltch- en in the morning Mir. Curfew was la boring with the ham. He had It on the kitchen table and he was trying to hack through a bone with hatchet
 "He was covered with precipitation and was blowing on his thumb. which he had hit with the hatchet. He said that the butcher who sold him that ham was a pirate and ought to De Tn the penitentiary. T supposed I was buying a ham from a hog he said but this blamed thing is part of rhinocercs. No hog ever had bone SIX inches thick in it's hind leg. The am. nal that furnished this ham must have been brought from Africa by some big game hunter or explorer. Where is our old handsaw?
 ''I told him where it was and he found it. It was all covered with rust and he cleaned it with a rag dip
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see inf1rrn old soldier invalids receiv- ing s6 a month for a pension and sol- diers' robust widows getting SIP. The old pension system was about as lilly adjusted to it's purpose as a law could be; and too many examining boards and secret agents received millions because of it. No old soldier had a chance to graft or cheat to any great extent. The squandered millions went in fees and salaries to others.
 Economy for the government not libera1ity to the country's defenders prompts this new scheme and if this means less money it cannot mean more comfort for them.
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INSURANCE OF
 SOLDIERS.

If the greatest good of the greatest number is to be considered. it is ques- tionabIe whether Secretary McAdoo's new method of caring for invalid sol diers and sailors. war widows and or phans Is or is not more dependable than the old pension system.
 Tn cornmendation of his insurance aaw Secretary McAdoO says: The measure gives cOmp pensatiOn, not pensions; 1t fixes amounts definitely in advance instead of holding out the nere chance of gratuity after conclu- sion Of peace. It saves the depend ents from want and gives them the Iecessaries of life while their men Ire at the front. It deals with it's heroes literally for the sufferings that result from their disablement on the field of battle And if they die. it makes just provision for the loved Dnes who survive them"
 There is no doubt that a better sys- em is needed than the old pension aw provided, one more just to all Fho have claims. It was strange to
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CT is thus demonstrated to be equal to that of the Hun-and a deputy attor- ney general has stated that the in- formaion reached him from source beyond uuestion-what then?
 We are waging war for democracy. Is it to be a democracy inefficient-a democracy helpless against disloyaity at home?
 millions of Americans will make sacri- fees at home and abroad-that brave soldiers will suffer wounds and death, that fathers and mothers will give up their sons, and wives their husbands and young girls their swethearts on the altar of patriotism.
 No. a thousand times no The loyal ones of this land have the right-and are in duty bound-to demand or those they have placed in authority that they shall proceed with stern justice gainst the towards and the slackers and the traitors of every description If there be such dastarfs as these re- ports suggest. let there be no delay in dealing with them. Such doctors and dentists must no longer sully their professions. Their power of injury to the country must be removed
 Nor is this all. Together with their accomp1ices let them be shipped to the front at once. Not to fght-sucn era vens are not fit to hold the honorable weapons of warfare-but there are nenial and disagreeble tasks to be performed under the roar of the guns, and to these they should be put. with proper safeguards to see that they do not shirk.
 Ours is large country and can offer shelter to many millions more than now occupy it's reaches; but it has not a fraction of an inch for anyone unfit to bear the proud title of American citizen. The sooner such are discov- cred and removed from our shores the better.
 Let them be utilized for the needs of the hour-democracy must be efficient. But there won't be any mourning if they should never return.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-24
LITTLE WAR STORIES
Boy Takes Eighteen Prisoners.

There was a young Irish private at the battle of Flanders who did won derful work a runner with mes sageS. He volunteered whenever there was a dangerous bit of work to do. eX- posing himself over and over again, and gathering up stragglers to fill up gaps in the line of defense. A sergeant acted runner when two of his own had been killed, and got through under intense fire.
 And one of these runners had great adventure all to himself on his journey under fire. This young private was going up with a message when he saw something move outside a dug out. He went forward cautiously, and saw a German soldier disappear into the dark entry. The lad was all alone but he followed the German into the hole, down a flight of mud stairs and
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been audible. On this point, whether the wind carries the sound or no, there was an interesting note in recent number of the "COmptes Rendus, in which Nj. Perot, of Meudon' mentioned that at a distance of 120 kilometres from the firing line the sound was clearly heard with a southwest or con trary wind but that it was not heard when the wind was favourable-i.e., from the north or east.
 His expIa nation was that the sound waves enter region of the upper at mosphere where there is no wind when, because of a favourable wind. they move quicker than the normal 330 metres a second. but when their normal speed is retarded by a head wind they are reflected back to the earth and become audible.
 -Piq- squeak" is not a new war wounded soldier. There it dates from the early days of the war, being one of the onomatopoetic phrases invent ed by Tommy to distinguish the diff ferent sorts of Hun projectiles. The true pip squeak is quite a small af- fair-the pip" represents the sharp report of it's discharge and the squeak it's explosion on arrival. In the same way "whizz- bang" vividly describes a shell from 5.9. There is no warning drone of it's coming
  stantly followed by the bang of its percussion.
 When you make a speech in public steer clear of the interrogatory meth od The other day a civic dignitary presided at the local school prize-gi , ing and took the opportunity Of preaching a sort of Samuel Smiles sermon to the scholars, with his wor- shipful self as text. Many years T La nf yourselves-a poor. ignorant little boy. Now by hard work and perseverance what have I become?" Like Mark Anthony he paused for a reply. And from the body of the hall: "A swank- pot"
 The university today of the birth of John Eliot, the Indian Apostle" is plea asa ntly recalled in a week that hts seen a series of his Tracts bring re- markable prices at the sale of Bishop White Kennetts collection. Fifteen no less than 9600. Eliot's life work lay among the Massachusetts Indians whose tongue be first learned, and his imperishable monument is his trans lation of the Bible, in 1863, into the vanished Natick language.
 Madam Clare Viebig's rejoinder to MT Hall Gaines appeal to German mothers almost disarn1s criticism by is overOfwing ignorance. Take her description of Karlsruhe as a town of no military importance. This most innocent and harmless of all towns" a correspondent who has lived there for many years remarks, is a very i'm portant railway junction, constantly used for the transfer of troops, con- tains extensive modern barra clSs. an immense parade ground. an army sup ply depot, and is the headquarters of the 14th Army Corps. Moreover, the Deutsche Munitions Fabrik has one of it's chief branches in the Garten Strass, and the place swarrns with intuition workers.-London Chronicle.
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Great Rritair,s neol of r-..----

Medical students .1 fl. I-r States are not exempt from tl yet because they w- n.t aE ur - Great Britain the supply was SO far eXhauEtrI Hr quiremeuts that q sh0rta9e nov .rf--r in civil life and Amerl~al Ha--H being invited 70 -g t- i pract.ce.-The Springfield Rep tHcan.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-24
Views of the Vigilantc5

What is the meaning of these re- ports of dentists pulling teeth and of doctors accelerating heart beats for the purpose of helping slackers and towards to evade the draft law? It is to be hoped that these are canards- the offspring of hysteria not unusual in communities composed of such heterogeneous clements a s is that of New York. But if not if they are re- ally true. If the cunning of the sla ok
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-24

Jeremiah was one of the very great est of the prophets of ancient Israel, and he might well have been writing for the people of the United States in this eyar 1917. He tells the whole truth for us when he says: For they have healed the heart of the daughter of my people slightly, saying peace, peace: when there is no peace.'- Litchfieid Enquirer.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-24

Dog day atmosphere ts no. conducive either to mental or p.yysical activity. IL is clog on action but for all that the country IS doing considera ble work of the right sort without undue excite nent and with much efficiency. Per haps the knowledge that the United States IS in dead earnest in it's en- trance into the war may have had some bearing on the Teutonic feelers for peace that have been put out late ly.-Ansonia Sentinel
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-24

shouted 1t them: Now. then, come out and look sharp abaout it" and made sign to the door. They put their hands up and said: "Kamerad." Well. then. get out" said the boy.
 They filed out past him, and he wait
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-24

It's belated but arrives. Those re- sponsible for killing the peach crop IE the early spring fell asleep at the post and have even permitted rosy ac- counts to go abroad as late af last week telling about the immense peach crop in New England. Today we are in receipt of an official bulletin which declares the yield has been very much over estimated and that in reality there may not be enough of the fruit to go around. Thus are prices main tained.-Bristol Press.
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into an underground cave

into an underground cave.
 He stood face to face with IS men one Of them was a non e commissioned officer. They stared back at him with breeding eyes, a5 though wondering whether they should kill him. He
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-24

The United States will certainly be well in front of all the other bellig- erents so far as war expenditure is concerned, if as estimated by the chairman of the Finance Committee of the Seate, the first years appropri- ations will aggregate 17000 900 900 dol lars In English currency this repre- sents z SASS. 900 900. or approximately two-thirds of the total sum we have spent since August, 1914 including last weeks Vote of Credit of e650,- 900 900 to carry us on to November 30. Looked at in another way. it means some z 35 per head per annum for every man. woman, and child in the United States compared with our own total expenditure to date of rather more than e100 per head of the pop ulation.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-24

Mischa Appelbaum asks the Post to aid in the organization Of d, Humani- tarian cult in Hartford. He says: Our object is to make people think" The celebrated Horace Greeley once listened to a similar plea to contribute to an organization to redeem lost men whose purpose, as stated crudely by the solicitor, was ito keep men from goirg to hell" There aren't half enough of them going there now. won't give you a d-n cent" was Greeley'S forcefully if equally crude reply.-Hartford Post.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-24

The Crown Prince of Germany has done nothing to increase confidence that he is capable Of becoming champion roque player
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-24

Secretary Daniels has been guilty of slipping his trolley so often, he should be tolerant of the slips of the officers of the navy.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-24

The British barmaid is credited with a witty reflection on American unpre- paredness. The Yankee soldier, tasting his glass, asked her if the beer wasn't stale. The English beer seems warKi to an American. She retorted: Why shouldn it be stale? It's been wait ing for you for two earG."-Water- bury American.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-24

The gold in the treasury weighs up to two billions and a third by Uncle Sans scales. We are waiting for our share
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-24

The Man on the Corner says: The American who is waiting for his ship to come in. would not mind if it only proved to be Q submarine chaser,
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-24

The latest discovery is that one of the motormen in the fatal Shore Line crash had tied down his controller handle with tape so that the power would not be shut off and the car stopped if he ceased to rest weight on it. This studied attempt to defeat a safety device made it possible for the motornan to take a nap with his car running 10 or more miles an hour, but it also cost the lives of a score of people. Proof of such criminal dis regard of precautions is all that is needed to create a demand for severe punishment Neither overwcrk nor anything else is a sufficient excuse when such disregard of life exists Hartford Post
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-24

Germany knows she is beaten: but her intellectual training convinces her it would be folly to let her enemies know she knows it.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-24

An English scientist says: People who have a dead normal mind are very dull peoplo!' These are only found in the cemeteries of America
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-24

Men who are meeting Americans at the front express surprise at the ab- sence of what we call the Yankee twang from the speech of the soldiers. Can the difference arise from these Americans being of English and not of Irish descent? There is an extra ordinary resemblance between the speech of the native of County Clare and that of the average middle ass American one meets. An Irish lady who is war-looking in London is all ways mistaken for an American. American English is just West of Ireland English, so I pass with hon our" she boasts.
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Uncle Sam can ask for seventeen billion with confidence, but no poten- tate with or without whiskers can do it.
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Germany thinks Americans are Iouts, not fighters. They had the same opinion of the Canadians awhile ago.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-24

The Kaiser has sent Won Bernstoff as ambassador to the Turks He ought to feel at home among them.
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The Americans in France might sing to cheer the front trench forces: Hold the Fort for I Am Coming"
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Won Hindenburg's line gets new sag in 1t every time the Canadian lumbermen strike it.
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TAKE THE BULLETIN ALONG

Readers of The Bulletin leaving the city for vacation trips can have 1t follow them daily and thus keep fn touch with home affairs.
 Order through The Bulletin busi- ness office.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-24

There seems no limit to the outrages on the Kings English wrought by cin- ena theatre proprietOrs- Featuring was an abomination which moved to revolt all lovers of our language; pic turination" was worse, but there, it was thought, atrocities would stop But no. From the top of a picture palace in South London f1aunts in big letters the announcement that this week is presented the picturisation of Sullivan's celebrated song "The Lost Chord"
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The thunder of the guns in behalf of the right may be noble music, but 1t is hard on the ear drums!
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The spectators say the sweetness has all gone out of sugar
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If it wasn't for the persistence oi the fly he would be quite companion able.
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The l. w W.'s have woTn their bluff out! When brought right down to business they are willing.
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The war camps will be a depend- able service of revenue for the south!
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Austria says: "China's entry into the war is illegal" Austria needs some thing for her nerves
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There Is only one true brand of Americans. They think their coun- try is worth fighting for.
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twice of escape, and thcn lauI hum mekig. So he form and marched them down tH t-.. oners' cage. where he tec. .. for IS prisoners.
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The war is knocking out the geo. graphies every day. and it will take millions to repair them
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

As dove of peace the helmeted German is a failure
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OTHER VIEW POINTS

The wcrm certainly has turned when 3 jitney driver is held up and robbed. New Haven Journal Courier.