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Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
The Lion and the Bear.

A lion and a bear chanced to fall upon fawn at the same time and they began to fight for 1t. They fought so hercely that at last they fell down en- tirely worn out and almost dead
 A fox passing that way saw them stretched out and the fawn dead be- tween them. He stole in slyIy, seized the fawn and ran away with it for his own dinner.
 when they saw this they could not stir, but they cried out: What wretches we are to take all this trou- ble for the foxi"
 This fable teaches us that when two persons fall to fighting for something a third person is apt to get it.
 LAWRENCE GAUTHIER, Age F.
 Brooklyn.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
Leokina for a Magic Spring.


 Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell you about Ponce De Leon's quest for a fountain.
 When Ponce De Leon was at the age of fifty years he saw that his hair was growing gray and the wrinkles were growing deeper.
 Just then he heard of strange story Somewhere to the northward was an island on which was magic fountain Whoever drank from it would become young again.
 Tn 15l3 Ponce De Leon started on his voyage in search for this fountain
 Day after day they sailed from isl and to island At each island they drank from the springs and bathed in the streams, but no one became any younger.
 One day as they came near shore they saw q land bright with flowers So they named 1t Florida. He went to Cuba to tell about the land. He died soon after.
 The magic fountain was never dis covered.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
Lost in the Mazda.

One day some children were playing in the woods. They were going to have a picnic, so they all had their lunch baskets.
 As they were walking they were looking at the beautiful birds, trees and flowers. Some of the children picked some flowers to make wreaths.
 Soon it was dinner time, 50 they all sat down on the grass and ate their lunch. After they had eaten their lunch they began walking through the woods, talking and playing
 Then one of the girls said: HI think we had better go home, because it will soon be time for supper
 So they all started for home. They walked and walked, but still they did not get out of the woods. Then they got frightened because they couldn't
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
A Visit to a Mu.eun,.

When I was in the fourth grade in a New York school my teacher took us to a museum. We had to ride a long distance on the car.
 We arrived at the museum at 8 o'clock. In the doorway there was a man who acted as a guide and ex- plained different things to us.
 In one room there were large statues of Grant, Lincoln and other famous men.
 In another room there was an Indian tent in which sat an Indian family. Tn the different cases around the room were Indian clothes and moccasins.
 Later we went upstairs, where we found old books, pamphlets, manu- scripts and skeletons of animals.
 We started home late, but we were very much pleased with the things we saw.
 ESTHER BRESS, Age is.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
The Four Oxen.
EonafeIlowSs House.

One of the most interesting sights of Cambridge is the home of the poet Longfellow. It is a spacious old fash toned Colonial mansion. painted in yellow and white, and situated on a graaGy terrace. On the right and left of the pathway leading to 1t are lilac bush es which na the summer air with perfume. while graceful elm casts on the lawn beneath a. tremuious mosaic of light and shade.
 The room in the right hand lower
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
A Fortunate Incident.

The bleak December days had ar rived in New York city. Tommy Burns in his ragged clothes and worn out shoes was slowly returning to the tenement where he and his mother lived His mother was ill Tommy had spent the waning hours of day light in vain endeavor to procure enough money to buy, for her, some much needed medicine and food His papers were slow in selling and he returned to the tenement with but a few pennies in his pocket.
 The doctor who had kindly offered his services had told Tommy that two hundred dollars would save his moth CTS life.
 Tommy affectionately tended to his mothers wants and once more started into the night He had fifteen cents left. He went down to a cheap res taurant and ordered a small lunch.
 There were two other occupants of the restaurant They were slipping their whiskey. The drink had ev;- dently loosened their tongues. They were conversing lowly and did not know Tom had entered.
 The one addressed asi Manner said with coarse laugh. Just think five hundreS~ dollars for me. Reward for mile tween Chicago n me" Uncon- sciousIy he had lifted his voice.
 Tommy heard and understood what he meant. Tom had read in the pa
 
 a prominent Chicagoan. A reward of $500 had been offered for information leading to the arrest of the assassin.
 Marner. the murderer, evidently thought that by losing himself in the city he would not be discovered.
 Tommy slipped out quietly and told the nearest policeman and Marner was immediately arrested.
 The murdered mans brother, the man who had offered the reward, was notified. He paid Tom the reward and questioned him as to what use he would make of it. Tommy told of his mothers illness.
 When he returned to the tenement that night he was in Mir. Johnston's s big touring caf. MT. Johnston's had Tommy<s mother taken to a hospital. The operation was successful. The operation was successful. Tommy is at present employed in a lawyers of flee and has gained his employers recommendation.
 Prospects look brighter for Tommy and his mother, than they have for sCUne time.
 JOHN CUSHAlAN, Age A.
 StOningtOn.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
Little by Little.

It was a dark and gloomy day in February. The sky was gray and cloudy.
 "I think it is going to snow" said MT. Smith, T must hurry or I will get caught in the storm"
 Not long afterward it began to snow. First small flakes fell, then larger and larger ones. until it was snow ing dreadfuliy. It showed all day and all night. The trees. bushes, and stone walls were all covered with snow.
 When MT. Smith came home he was covered with snow. "Oh it is a terri ble day; the snow is so deep. don't believe I can work tomorrow. but any way, I'll try"
 MT Shslfh had a boy about ten years old. Johnnie" said MT. Smith. T want you to make a path to the barn, to the mailbox and to the other build ings.
 Oh. pa. can't do it and won't'
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
Mrs. Hardy's Eczema a Mass of Little Hchhg BIisters. In One Month Healed By CutiCura

''My right ankle and up as far as my knee was a mass of little bliSterg thal would open when scratched them !
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
NeIIie,s Regret.

"Oh, deari how sorry I am that I ever said unkind words to Bertha, mammal" Nellie Smith exclaimed one day with tears in her eyes.
 "If only I had not said them, I should not need to feel so wretched now that Bertha is lying on a sick bed. If she should get better. how sorry I shall be all my life long. that I ever was unlkind to her"
 You must hope for the best. dear, and try to feel comforted," replied Mrs. Smith, soothingly. "Only remember, after this, that the one way to avoid having unpleasant words recalled, is to refrain from speaking them" Run and play with Oracle nowt There she comes for you; and remember to do your thinking before you act, anoth- CT time"
 And this is advice to all who lead it would do well to follow.
 JOSEPH DUGAS. Age g.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
A ThouuhtIeaa Boy.

Dear Uncle Jed: One day while q was at the seashore found my cousin Walter and his friend Dave playing on the beach. With them was Trixey, Walters dog, who seemed quite tired out as he had keen swimming in the surf, and going after sticks that Dave threw Into the water.
 Walter was afraid to let him go again, but Dave kept him going until the poor creature was fairly trembling with cold and fatigue. As he came dragging his stick up the sand and laid it at Walters feet the little mae ter hugged him aiId said: There. now, that's enough. You shan't so any. mores
 '.on, bother. what a silly boy you
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
A Disastrous Result of coastins.

One afternoon last winter some boys invited me to go coasting.
 The hill was icy and as 1t is on state road many teams go by there. The tirst slide we took was all right, the double runner creaking under our weight as we took the bumper when we crossed the car track.
 After a while a team was going down the hill when we started. We did not see the team until it was too late We could not turn out anyway as 1t was so icy that we would always slew
 We bumped the buggy as it was in the middle of the hill right on the back wheel. It lifted the buggy about two feet high while the boy who was steering was knocked senseless. 1t was the end of our coasting for a while.
 ROLAND MAURICE. Age 1c. Baltic.
 The Four Oxen.
 Four oxen fed together in a large day he would try to catch the oxen. When the oxen saw him coming they stood together and showed their horns.
 One sad day the oxen had a quar- rel and fed apart in the field.
 The lion said. Now is the time for me to catch them"
 One day he kept going nearer and nearer until he had caught them and dragged them off to his den. one by one, and then he ate them.
 RUTH PRAY, Age 10. Bailouville
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
Wauregan.
My sehooI.

MY 0CHOOis
 Dear Uncle Jed: I go to the Cur leyvfIIe school which is just little way from my home. I go home for my dinner.
 The schoolhouse is painted white on the outside. Inside the walls are green five rows of desks. There are thirty three single desks.
 My teacher is Miss Bliss. like her. There are thirty-one scholars. Four- teen of them are girls.
 I am in the seventh grade. There are five other children in the seventh grade besides myself.
 study agriculture, geography arithmetic, language, pnyeiolosy' spelling, reading and history.
 St Valentines day we had valen- tine box at school and I had seven Tn winter when 1t Is good sliding I take my sled to school and slide down the hill which Is in the school I like to go to school very much.
 AIFREDA K. WALKER, Age IF. Mansfield Center.
 EIeanor's Dolls.
 Dear Uncle Jed: Some time ago wrote to the Wide-Awal1es about my trip to Fishers Island. and this time fIp going to wFlte nIs. about ,cb my rseeived nSs as gifts. I love to play with my dolls. But the one I like the best is the one my cousin brought me from Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada.
 My aunt was afraid 1t would be broken: but when she opened her trunk, Dolly was safe and ound, ana looked very pretty. She had a write silk dress on. named her Iris. for her eyes were a pretty shade of blue. I have had her three years and half; and she is just as good as new.
 I love to play with my dolls after school.
 hope that some of the Wide Awakes have just as many dolls as
 ELEANOR HEINRICH. Age 9. Taftyille.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12

The hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance VIII not gain the summit of at last.-DickenG.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-12
CONSCRIPTION LAW
PASSED BY CONGRESS

Washington.--Last Saturday congress
passed the administrations army bill.
An attempt was made to exclude the
conscription feature, but this was de-
feated in the house by vote of 313 to
l00 and in the senate by vote of 60
to IS. The record vote on the bill as
whole was: House, 307 to "a senate
81 to 8. Differences between the two
bills will be adjusted by conferees. The
principal difference is the age limit
The senate provides for calling out of
men between the ages of II and 27, in
elusive, and the house bill drafts men
between the ages of 81 and 40, inclusive
Wages of private soldiers are in
creased in the scnatc's bill from SIS to
$40 q month and in the house bill from
%l5 to 30 a month
These features Of the house bill indi
cate the purpose of the conscription ad
| voCatcs
The regular army will be raised to
its maximum strength of $4,000 men
and the national guard (of the various
states) to its maximum strength of ap-
proXimately 625,0OO men. Enlistments
i'll the regular army and national guard
are to be under existing laws, that is,
voluntary cnlistments.
Authority is given the president to
draft an additional force of 100000 and
later, if he so elects, to order another
draft of 100000 making 100000 men
subject to the draft.
The total armed forces authorized in
the bill aggregate approximately an
army of 100000 men. The several
states and territories shall furnish their
respective proportions, which shall be
based on population. Every male with
in the ages finally agreed upon will be
compelled to register. Names will be
then drawn until the required quota
! for each locality is assured. The men
conScripted will be passed upon by au.
thorites, who will reject those who il
their judgment are necessary for in
dustrial pursuits or who come withir
the exempted class. This process will bt
continued until the quota is filled The
exemptions include skilled workers
and food producers and men with de
pcndcnts to support.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-12
CARPENTERS CONTINUE GAINS.

Indianapolis, lnd.-Gcneral Secretary
Duffy of the brotherhood of Carpen-
tiers reports the following recent success
full trade movements by affiliated locals :
Red Lodge. Mont, wages increased
from 62H to rs cents an hour; Manistee,
Mich, 30 to 40 cents; Danbury, Conn.,,
10 to so cents; Bcllevillc ILL.,, 55 to 60
cents for outside men, minimum of 45
cents and use of union label for inside
men; Oskaloosa, Ia, 80 to 55 cents;
Poplar Bluff, Mo-, 37H to 45 cents; Ft.
Lauderdale, Fla. so to 1914 cents; Sha-
mokin, Pa, 32zs to 40 cents; hours re-
duced from nine to eight; Jamestown,
n. v, 43M to 30 cents; majority OF
contractors signed Charlottesville, Ind,
35 to 43 cents for outside men; "a cents
for milmcn and union shop; Des
Moincs, Ia, 60 to 62H cents until July
/, 1917, 65 cents from that date until
April /, 1919; East St. Louis, ILL.,, 40 to
80 cents for millmen, hours reduced
from to s; Watcrtown, N. Y, 80 to
55 cents; Cleveland 60 to 70 cents; APP
plcton, Wis. 40 to As cents; Lafayette.
Ind, 80 to 60 cents; Philadelphia (docli
builders), 80 cents and and the eight
hour day; Topeka, Kan, As to so cents
niagara rams, ''it', Nv w % 'Ni''o i'N'
yer, 35-ccnt minimum for milmcn
eight and one-half hour day Kingston
Ont 372 to 45 cents; Salem, Ore, from
$50 to $3.50 day; Baker, Ore, "a tc
$4 80; Spokane, $3.50 to So; Oconomo
voc, Wis, $500 to $4.20, hours reduced
from nine to eight; Meriden, Conn.
mill and outside men increased 40 cent
day, making the latter rate $4, mill
mems hours reduced from "a to 80
week: Norfolk. Va, A to so cents TO
outside men, 20 cents day for mill
men. making 1915 for nine hours; Por
Jervs, n. ", So to $500 day, Satur
day half holiday
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-12

decided that the following conditions
shall apply:
Il. That local unions made I'D OF
working members shall bear the loca
expense of operation sufficient to pro-
tcct themselves and those who become
associated with the army or navy OF
the United States Government, like
wise similar condition shall apply to
the members of our Canadian locals
who have responded and who will re-
spond to the call of their country
"2. The Presidents and Secretaries Of
local unions are required to give notice
to the office of the International Secre-
tary-Treasurer of those members of the
United States and Canada who have re-
sponded to the colors of their country,
and that upon the registration of such
notice, credit will be given said mem
'bers for their international financial OBJ
legations until the return Of the mem
bers to their respective organizations.
-. That to those who respond to the
colors of their country all of the several
benefits provided for under the laws of
the international body shall apply with
regularity and in the same manner as
though the Government of the United
otatcS ana tnc government OF Caflada
were in normal and peaceful state.
"All organizations of the Interna-
tional Union in North and South Amer
lea are called upon to give recognition
to the colors of their countries as a
special order of their regular sessions,
and all organizations are further adj
vised to communicate with their en-
ployers, thus indicating the attitude of
their international Union upon this mo-
mcntous occasion and to urge all en-
ployers to give consideration to the i'm
portancc of joining with our member
ship in meeting this Unprecedented str
alton that involves the free and demo-
cratic institutions of the Government
of the United States and Canada"
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-12
W. u. EICHT-HOUR PLAN
is NOT LEGITIMATE

Chicago.-The eight-hour announce
ment of the Western Union Telegraph
company will increase the burden of
telegraphers says the Commercial Te-
legraphers' Journal, which exposes the
hypocrisy of this antiunion corporation
that is sweating every ounce of energy
from its employees.
While day tricks are reduced from
nine to eight hours night tricks are in
creased from seven and one-half to
eight hours, late night tricks will be
heightened from seven to eight, split
tricks from seven and one-half to eight,
day work will be computed at the rate
of eight hours per day instead of seven,
and overtime will be paid on the eight
hour basis instead of seven, as hereto
fore.
The plan is reactionary, instead of pro-
gressive, and many of the telegraphers
declare that the small wage increases
that accompany the so-caled eight
hour day is intended to silence discon-
tent and that the company will "read-
just" wages when the dissatisfaction
subsidies.
with time and one-half being paid
for overtime in most trades, with dou-
bic time being allowed for Sunday
work." says the editor, ''the lengthening
of the day by the Western Union simply
adds to the many wrongs done the
telegraphcrs by the corporation. They
have murdered the spirit of liberty
amongst their employees and after having
done so they are now carrying out their
plans of exploitation First the speed
ing up system, then the lengthening of
split tricks, now the Encouragement of
hours with new basis for overtime
and Sunday work, and the next step is
well under way
Instead of rejoicing over the estab-
lishment of such an eight-hour day, we
protest. The price that has been eX-
acted by the company is too high, and
it is exacted at time when the workers
might have expected more generous
treatment. With earnings the highest in
the history of the company; with profits
increasing by leaps and bounds with
record-breaking prosperity for the com
panv which President Carlton attributes
solely to the splendid work done by the
employees, lengthening of hours, the re-
duction of overtime pay, and for Sun
day work comes with poor grace in
deed"
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-12
SPOIL MILK TO BEAT STRIKERS

Kent. Wash.-Striking employees Of
the Carnation Milk Products company
charge that this concern. in order to hold
its milk supply and defeat its workers,
are spelling tons of fresh milk. The
strikers are demanding better conditions
and have organized union. They are
being supported by practically every in
flucncc in this place and the editor of
the Kent Journal, in urging the forma-
ton of a new company, says:
"As member of the advisory board
of the Washington Manufacturers AS
sociation we are able to Judge of the
many difficulties confronting a manu-
facturer but we cannot concede that
the workers here have made unjust de-
mands.
1T now appears to the outsider that,
as words have failed conferences have
failed; delegations have failed to ac-
compleh what we all d"sire-the opera
tion of the factory, so that the company
will profit, the emploves will profit and
the community will profit-there is but
one thing to do, put ourselves in po-
sition whereby we will never again be
subjected to such condition"
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-12
BOILER MAKERS ADVANCE.

Mobile, Ala.-Employer accepted the
$4 rate and the eight-hour day demand
of organized boiler makers, but object
ed to increasing the helpers $1.75 rate.
After two-days strike the employers
concluded that the helpers should re-
ceive more money and that better sys-
TEN should be devised for handling
grievances, which the unonists urged.
The union has almost trebled its men,
bership as result of these gains.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-12
Patriotic Announcement
of Pressmen's Council
Those Who Ans.Uer Countrys Call be Immune From,
Financial Obligations, and to Receive All Benefits.

The Board OF Directors Of the In
sstants' Union of North America has
throughout the United States, to ex-
vices to their country in the present
cations and to make all the various
benefits apply to them as in times OF
peace.
The address is issued from the head
quarters offices, at the Pressmen's Home
at Rogersville, Tennessee, and is signed
by George l.. Berry, president; John
NJ. Brophy, vice-president; William II.
M'Hugh, vice-president; S. B. Marks,
vice president; and Joseph c. Orr, Sec
retary-treasurer
The address, in the main, is as fol-
lows:
'Many great benefits have been es-
tablished by our organization, including
its defensive protection, its old-age pen
sion, its trade home for the tubercular,
the aged and incapacitated, its trade
school and its mortuary benefit, and the
Board Of Directors believes that the
membership responding to the call of
their country should be fully protected
to the end that these benefits will apply
irrespective Of the results of our ma
tonal conflict and for that reason the
Board of Directors calls upon all subor-
dinate unions representing 10000 mem
bers TO grant immunity to those of its
members who may respond to the call
OF the Government, for all financial OBJ
legations of whatsoever kind The local
union through its working members to
bear the cost of the local financial obli-
cations the International Union to bear
the cost of international financial obli-
cations.
"In time OF world conflict our indus
try occupies the position OF miscel-
laneous trade not as essential as others
in the preservation of our national
life; therefore it is reasonable to as
sumo that from our trade and IRON
similar trades the great bulk OF Ameri-
cas- defenders will be drawn and there
fore the necessity for the issuance OF
this very extraordinary communication
to you. The Board of Directors has
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-12
LET CONVICTS FARM.

Topeka, Kan.-Wardcn Codding, of
the state pcnitcntiary, favors a liberal
use of the parole system in these war
times and would release inmates in the
state penitentary for farm purposes.
"ln other times some of our boys have
failed to make good because they
couldn't get steady work when we re-
leased them, but they are needed now,
he says.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-12
WANT TO IMPORT ORIENTALS.

New York.-Taking advantage of the
cry for more labor, the board of trade
and transportation has prepared a bill
which it intends to have introduced in
Congress granting the president power
in times of war to suspend any law ex-
Guiding aliens from the United States.
The bill is for the specific purpose of
bringing in Chinese and Japanese labor.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-12
PAPER MAKERS CONVENE.

Niagara Falls, N. Y.-At the conven-
ton of the International Brotherhood of
Paper Makers, matters of interest to this
industry were considered. In his OPEN
ing address President Carey protested
against state constabulary legislation
passed by the state legislature.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-12
TRACK LABORERs WANT MORE

Little Rock, Ark.-rrack laborers on
the Iron Mountain railroad are striking
to raise wages to S2,25 day, About
400 employees have suspended work.