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Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11
uNJusTiFIED ATTACK UPON MIR.
 ROOT,

One of the surprising things in con- nection with tho commission which this country is about to send to Rus sia for the purpose of aiding that country in the solution of some of its problems and there Is no denying the fact that the new government is con- fronted- with many, is the opposition
 which is being shown to the selection
 of Elihu Root as chairman of that commission Mir. Root is one of the big men of this country and it is inn possible to look upon this outcry against him in any other light than that t is political or that it is put for
 ward in the interest of the enemy.
 Mir. Root, and those who will go
 with him, will go to Russia with no
 other object in view than to put forth
 their best efforts in behalf of the
 nation which has just gone through
 one of the greatest revolutions that
 has ever taken place in any country.
 They will be prepared to place them
 selves at the service of the Russian
 government in an advisory capacity. They will not go with the idea of
 telling Russia that it must do this and that it must not do that, but they will do their best to help those peo- pie to get on firm foundation and to let them know that America Is friend of Russia and is prepared to lend it's assistance in every way pcs sib1e. Politics has no place in their mission and it will have none except ir the minds of those who cannot see beyond that point.
 It can be appreciated, however, that whatever is dcne to be1ittle Mir Root will have to be looked upon as thor oughIy pro-German. If those who are hollering against him can create a suspicion in the minds of certain of the Russian people that he does not stand for the highest ideals, even though such would be grossly incor- rect and unfair, they will succeed in damaging the work of this country and the cause of the new Russian gov ernment. It is no time to give aid or comfort to the German cause and par ticularly so by an underhanded and unjust method. President Wilson has made an admirable selection and the country will have a praiseworthy rep resentative in Mir Root
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11
WHEN HENRY HELPED

My husband is the greatest help
 around the house!" declared the bride proudly and a bit lofti1y. "Just think The other day when the table bell was out of order he fixed it himself and we didn't have to call in an electrician and pay him hundred dollars an hour!"
 "You poor chiid!' cried the matron who had been married for some time. What a horrible life stretches out be- fore you! And you are so young, too!' Well, declare!" sfiffed the bride. .tYes and you'n do worse than that!" placidly pronounced the lady who had
 been married long. You will be hurl- manding to be told why such a fate has been wished upon you However. it's a failing not uHeonm0n to bride grooms, this desire to be helpful about the home, and perhaps hell eutgrow it. It may be your blessed good fortune to have him develop into one Of these
 men who wouldn't drive a tack to save the house from instant collapse, the wa5hboiler on top of the piano and served dinners on oilclothi'
 1T think you are crazy!" said the bride.
 ..That's the fate of all truth tellers" commented the other. Why, don't you know that you actually lose money by having a man useful about the house ? I suppose that when your Arthur fixed that table bell you are chortling about he spent two hours and a half on the job and you had to roll up the dining roa.n rug, move all the furniture, in- cidc1taily smashing the rock crystal bowl on the Sideboard which jiggled off and you had to walk four miles and a quarter bringing him the hammer, the sewing machine screwdriver some nails, file. the picture wire and a coal shovel"
 No indeed Arthur didn't ask for a coal shovel at aiii' interrupted the bride with verk cheeks. T don't see how you knew he wanted the other things, thought"
 They always want all those things said the long married lady "It does not in the least matter whether f1us- band is repairing little Jollnnie's toy engine, putting a new roller on the fcebox or fixing a door lock-he al ways has to have those things and the stepladder besides. He never by any chance uses the stepladder, but he likes to have it handy to look at It seems to lend him moral support too When he gets to the point in his re- pair work where he has got to vent his helpless rage at if1ani1nate things either by swearing or by making peo- pie step around lively, he always yells for somebody to bring him tse step- ladder!
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11
THE WAR TAXATION.

Taxation is a matter in which every one is interested because it is some thing which affects everyone and for that reason there is bound to be deep concern in the revenue producing bill which has been presented to congress for the purpose of raising at lea st part of the funds which are needed for the prosecution of the war Ac- cording to it's present form 1t is fig ured that it will mean an average ta x of $33 for every individual in the country. That is perhaps one of the greatest reasons why everyone is bound to take an unusual amount of interest therein.
 By the manner in which the ways and means committee has planned to impose this war taxation, it is evil dent that everyone is going to be reached. Some will be harder hit than others, but this is because they are in a better position to meet it and it must be realized that taxation which allows everyone to do his part, whether it be large or small, is the proper thing. It seems as if there are few things which have been over looked. but it is a large sum which the country requires and it is irnpor- tant that there should be a proper dis tribution with the heaviest tax laid upon the luKur1es. It is case, how ever. where there may and the chances are that there will be some changes made in the schedule, but everyone will nevertheless have a chance to pay.
 All the funds that are required for running the war could be raised by loans but it is no more than proper that the people of this generation should pay at least some of the ex- pense and not throw it all, together with the interest, upon the generations to come. That is the reason for the war taxation which is planned. It waS done to a less extent during the Spanish American war and it must be done now The people today will be anxious to do their part. There is no doubt but what they will readily respond to whatever demand is made upon them and do it willingly so long as the demand is legitimate and fa!i.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11
Norwich, May 10. 1917.
Claims Statements Are Misleading.

Mir Editor: Tn this mornings paper "BilP' has given the public a few more misleading statements in regard to the milk situation in Norwich. The II members of the Norwich Milk Pro- ducers Association represent over four fffths Of all the milk retailed in the city.
 Bill" tells us that nine miles from Norwich milk is sold for 1-2 cents Has he ever heard that IS miles from Norwich milk is 2 1-2 cents, and that if he goes forty miles from Norwich milk is entirely free? This sounds very reasonable, doesn't it? Please put it into your pipe, Bill" and smoke it.
 I will make "BilT' one offer. If he will go to our farm I will turn the cows. oxen. sheep colts and hogs into Q lot together, and if he can tell me which ono is a cow from the whole herd I will give him the best animal I own.
 If you write again "Bilr' don't be ashamed to sign your name.
 o. $. PECK. Norwich May g. 1917
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11
HOME GARDENS
Fertilizer.

The question of fertilizer offers the amateur backyard gardener his great est problem. says today's bulletin from the National Emergency Food Garden Commission, which is cooperating with this paper to urge food garden plant ing in Norwich and vicinity. Stable manure is available iii every city and town, and the gardener by practic- ing intensive methods in the use of manure can make a little of 1t do his garden much good.
 Street sweepings, as free as possi- ble from trash and absolutely free from oil driped by automobiles, are valu- able as garden fertilizer. Every com munity which has street cleaning system should see to it that these sweepings without taint of oil are turned over to the home gardeners. Oil in these sweepings is injurious to gardens.
 The intensive method using ma nure or street sweepings is not to spade it into the ground but to use it as si@- uid manure Any gardener can make
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11
FIGHT THE swInpLERs.

Safeguarding the interests of the people that they may be protected against the schemes of constituencies rnfdd1crnen who seek 70 get their profit regardless of the character of the goods which they deal in, :s duty both Of state and federal governments. There are too many who are willing to sell anything, whether it be good or had. so long as they get q handsome ra--eof They care not what the ef- feet may be upon the consumer and tacr are too willing to play into the hands Of others who by the purehaz5 Of old and rotten goods are planning Co work them off onto sn unsuspsctlng public as wholesome and proper food either by factoring it e. in some manner disguising the real condition.
 Fer that reason there will be wit!e spread interest in the fact that the bureau of chemistry of the depart ment os agriculture has ordered a number of egg shippers in Kansas. Nebraska. Oklahoma and the panhan- GIe section Of Texas to appear before it to show cause why they are not guilty of viola ting the food and drug act by shipping in interstate com merce cases of egrs which contained large numbers of rots and spots.
 According to the interpretation Of the food and drug act bad eggs are held to be aduiterated food, ard as such their shipment in interstate com 1lsrcs is prohibited. It is obligatory upon thc part os the shippers to see that such eggs are removed by candl- ing all eggs before shipping them
 Purchasers are not likely to eat bad esss when they have chance 10 learn their real condition, but af- ter t1ey have been used by Hnscrupu- aous bakers iu qMolzin- their detection fs nos 50 easy Sis against such prac- lice thae the government Is fighting
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11

, He feels buster and more effective too, if he can spill a pint of taclSs and a pound of nails all over the floor and a box of these horrible two prenged brads makes him t1e1irious with de- light. 1 remember that I used to ex- tract brads from Jimmie in hts creep ing days for weeks and weeks after his father had been a help around the house and repaired anything. Jimmy got so he thought that they grew on , him naturally and he objected in sur prise to their removal.
 Besides, when man repairs any thing it upsets the household machin- cry for so long and makes things so inconvenient. I remember just as well the time we found the drain from the laundry tubs frozen and the washer woman due the next day. I was going down stairs to fix it when Henry leap ed to his feet and toldsr1fe to be seated. He said that he'd have that pipe tl1aw- ed out in Jiffy by using his gasoline blow torch he loves to play with.
 'The cook and 1 found the blow torch hidden beneath all the porch furniture in the storeroonn and then there was no gasoline, so Jimmy had When Henry filled the blow torch some fluid must have run or leaked out, because, when he brought the match near the thing burst into a Vesuvius of flame and seorched of all his eyebrows and the cooks back hair and I ruined a blanket extin- guiShing them.
 Henry emerged from the conf1a- grafton and he said he was going to make that blamed torch work or die, so he took it out on the back steps and caught a cold that lasted six weeks. lie finally made the i1stru- ment behave and then he began thaw- ing the pipe. When the time arrived that called him to his office he had set fire to the wood casing twice and melted one pipe completely sLad I be- lieve the pltifn bef's bill was SIS and we lost our laundress in the bargain, because she disliked having her days work if1terfered with in the least. The laundry was a chaos of plumbers tools and pipes and vgires and things for a week and completely uaavafl- able.
 The next time in my career when the laundry tubs ffoze 1 knew better than to wall in Henry's direction poured some hot water and salt down the pipes and adjusted the difficulty.
 T could tell you many more affect ing tales, but this ought to be enough If you have grain of human intelii- gence in your makeup"
 My goodness!" gasped the bride Tt isl Oh, do you suppose I still have chance to encoura ge my hus- band to be helpless about home ?"- Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11
LETTERS TO THE EBITO1
Momentous City Economies?

MT Editor: There seems to be a great deal of street comment at the present time as to the whereabouts Of the report which we were to receive concerning the condition of the gas and electrical department. The citi- zens voted S1, ,00O to get such q report and it seems to be the street com raent that that report has been in for several days. If we understand the situation properly, that report was made to the mayor. Now if he has that in his possession, why should there be any effort on his part not to let the public have the benefit of it. The citizens are paying the bill and they are entitled to know the con- tents of that report. Is it possible that the report is not to his liking?
 The citizens are more interested in that report than they are in an effort to detract their attention by such a suggestion as cutting the city treas urer's salary. The city treasurer puts all his time in in his office and part of his salary goes to pay 9 clerk which leaves him very little over a thousand dollars when he gets through. The mayor receives $1,000 and can give any old time he feels like to the of fee. It might be more consistent for him to have suggested cutting down the salary of the mayor by about half and it would meet with a much more popular approval When the city of Norwich cannot pay the treasurer as much as an ordinary day laborer can earn. it is an unfortunate condition for the city of Norwich penny wise and pound foolish! That is about in the line of cutting 50 cents off the salary of a special constable during the infantile paralysis epidemic which everybody in town seems to know about. Public interests should never suffer for personal feelings or ami mosities. Great economies! MT. Mayor, watch your step.
 OLD GUARD.
 Norwich May 10 1917
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11
Unpatriotie Not to Pay Cost of Pro
 ducing and Deiiverina.

MT. Editor: May I say that certain recent letters to The Bulletin regard ing the price of milk in Norwich have succeeded in showing but two thines, an absolute ignorance of the milk sit aatiOn, the cost of prOdu ction it's prob lems and difficulties, and an absolute indifference to our coIntry's need and the appeal of our president for food to carry the present war to q victory This appeal is just as strong to the consumer to pay for the food he buys as it is to the farmer to produce It.. If the farmer does not receive a suffi- cient recompense for the product of his dairy, which constitutes 75 per cent. of the income of New London and Windham county farms, he cer- 'ainly has no money to invest in the production of other food crops, to an increased extent, on account of the uncertainty of weather, labor and the market prices.
 The price of milk in Norwich in no way affects me. but I do believe that with the prospect of a food shortage ahead. 1t is certainly unpatriotic to be unwilling to pay the cost of produc- ing and delivering the quality of food which one wishes to consume.
 I have been in close touch with the marketing Of New London and Wind ham county milk during the past 10 present value of milk in the whole sale market ef any farmer is sell- ing milk in the markets of Boston. Providence. or New Haven. or other wholesale markets. for 1-2 cents per 1uart will the person who signs him. self "Bill' send me their names and addresses?
 If the writers of the letters referred to are sincere in their sta tements and wish to refute anything in this arti- cle will they do so over their true name: or. by silence or assumed name admit their position indesensfble.
 HENRY DORRANCE
 Plainffeld, May g, 1917.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11

Mir. Editor: The statement Of Pro Ciucer" doesn't lease me. ] thought the milkman who told me what he sold his milk for knew. If Producer knows better than he we will let that pass.
 He says, however, farmers produc- ing milk for profit are getting 1-2 C.. g cents a. gallon. Norwich milk men were receiving from 32 to 70 cents a gallon before they made the 40 per cent. increase in May. Now they demand 4S cents a gallon. If the mill. producers can with cows costing s100 and grain at $70 ton make 1-2 cents a quart satisfactory why should Norwich nilkmen receive 12 cents a quart? There is the freight the upkeep of delivery wagons, the wages of drivers to be taken from Providence market price before the profit is realized nt 12 cents a quart.
 MILL.
 Norwich May 10 1917
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11
Sequel to the Food Problem.

Mir. Editor: For fifty years the al- lurennents of commercial, industrial drawing their strongest forces from farm and rural communities until up- wards of ninety per cent. of that class of human product have been remoided into urbanic citizenship. But the sup ply is at the limit of exhaustion, and nothing short of a liberal loan of young humanity to the sorely depleted ranks of food producers can solve the
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11

On parts Of the Angeles National Forest in California the pdckrata are so abundant that many of the E1Ju1 pines planted by the Forest Service have been killed or injured br fhe rodents. The damage seems to f1Fa place chiefly in the late summer aaG fall and is more extensive in dry fh7n in wet seasons. IL is thought that fre rats tear off the tender bark 0f fho trees to obtain moisture at fmea when water Is scarce.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11
l,e devics for trodueiha nauia man

the deyfes for producing liquid man ; ure. This IS the method
 Procure a watertiEht barrel with a spigot at the bottom of it. Ffx a fatficewefk of slats inside tie barrel just aSoee the spigot. Put two bush els of street sweerin8s Of sta5le man 2 ufe in the barrel on the lattice and fill the barrel to the top with water. When there is q thorough solution of the manure draw the water off in a sprinkling can and apply to the rows of plants. Any oil accidentiy ineluds ed in the sweenings will float and can be skinned off.
 Two bushels of nn4ntire used ifi this way is sufficient to make several Bar rels of Haufd manure. The barrel can be refiiled with Water again and again until the solution becomes weab. Then a fresh charge of fsSo bnshels of man ure is needed.
 Instead of using a spigot the liquid manure may be siplioried out Of the barrel with a short piece of gar6en hose. Keep the barrel filled with water all the time.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11

Mir Editor: A letter signed "Bill," in your letters to the editor; in which ne states that 1-2 cents is the high est price for wholesale milk in any state, is false. As milk all over New door wholesale, and the first of July the price is to be 1-2 cents 8 quart wholesale: so "Bill' and some other would be killjoys who have been writ ing about 12-cent milk and what the
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and 1t Is a fight which should be car ried on to the bitter end. The public is taken advantage of and swtndled enough in other respects but there is the health as well as the pocketbook which has to be taken into considera- ton in this instance.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11

The claim Is now made that there are 200.00 who are ready to go with Roosevelt to France. and inasmuch as France wants such aid from this country and the United States will probably send an expedition why not :et this force, or at least part of it go?
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11

It is useless to waste a lot of time affirming or denying the report that a device has been perfected for suc- eessfully combating the submarines. If there is such a thing why not put it into operation and let Germany do tfe worryinge
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11

Germany is beginning to realize that there are but few nations now which have not severed diplomatic relations with it. It has meaning which can not be entirely disregarded even though Germany is not ready to give up the submarines
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11

A Norwegian nickel plant whose en- tire output was being taken by Ger many has been destroyed. It looks as If someone wes evening up for the Tcany Norwegian vessels which have been sunk by submarines.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11

The man with :he hoe is familiar sight throughout the country. The weather1nan, however, Is doing his ut most to see that there is no necessity for the rndn Ni.i1 the hose
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11

The anthracite coal miners are get. ting ready foY @ strike. Possibly they think :1e Eover3men. will come to their assistance the same as it did ths railroad brothsrhoeds
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The mA1. On the corner says: IT you are equal to it. making a pleasure of necessity Is a sure means uf attaining happiness.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11

The refchstag thinks 1t ia time to curb the powers of the kaiser. but what has happened to the idea that he has 8 divine right to rule?
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11

Germany has agreed to return to their homes many tieported Belgians, but that will probably mean that otll- CTS will Ee taken to fill their places,
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11

The largest number or sheep grazel on any single National Forest is 1l5.- T40. finding pIsturage on the Mum bo1dt in Nevada. while fGe l-Ee-r number of cattle 15.Sfs. is found ou the Tonto in Arizona. The value nf the average annual meat product os these two National forests is eaii- mated a 5000. .OOO.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11

State forests with a total af over G.600, coo acres have been eHta blianasI in thirteen states. pf these New York has the largest forests. whici eoin- prise 1.S26.o00 acres. Pc1u@yI~aH. .a ir second with 1,O1S C0p heres. and #4-- eonsIn third with 49O.900 acre-.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11
OTHER VIEW POINTS

1 There was time when they could 1 get men to go into the fields and work l a long day with them but that day has passed. No man wants to Wo5l 1 in the fields long hours when he can secure eight and ten hour days in the factories in the cities. The govern inent has declared that eight hours shall constitute a days work. If the farmers who are trying to raise food to feed us went by that decIara ton we would find the high cost of living ridieuiously low to what it would be should they refuse to work long hours. Potatoes at SIS would be thing of the past and milk at IS cents per quart would be an impossibiIity. In stead of advising the farmers to raise ing on the farmers If it supplied them with some of the old fashioned farm hands who were not afraid to work a long day.-Rockville Journal
 When that outrage or the people of
 Connecticut known as the Taylor
 Legislative Souvenir is published
 copy of it should be filed in every a fitting companion volume to the of
 fcial rogues' gallery collection. This
 legislature, having now placed on
 record it's self measurement which
 reveals 1t as a Tom Thumb assembly,
 it can best serve Connecticut by ad-
 journihg at once. It has torpedoed
 whatever confidence people had in it.
 Ii is so small and unintelligent that
 it Is a pittfuf body. It is not co1fi-
 petent to handle the finances Of the
 state. The wonder. under the cir-
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11
FoREsT NOTES.

A wood specimen found in glacial drift ard estimated by tHe Wisepuslr State geologisc tO be apur0yima e .l half q million years old has been ider- tified by the Forest Products Irb0ra- tory of the Forest Service as spruce.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11

curnstahces is that the debt has not doubled Possibly it will before the little fellows who are fooling with the money of other people quit. And Is this what Connecticut gets from Healy and Peas1y and K1ett leader ship ?-Bristol Press.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-11
Kim Georee,s Rewaro

Tn the esteem of his public I<ino George is reaping the benefit of q tactful and unobtrusive career. - Washington Star