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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-26
MUST NOT WEAR
 FLAGS ON COLLARS
 IS LATEST ORDER
Neither Must Stockings of Women Carry Emblem-U. S. Marshals
 Are Notified of Ruling

Huntsville, May 25.-(Special. )-Girls who wear miniature flags on their stockings and young men who have flags pasted on their collars or em- broidered on their neckties are guilty of desecrating the flag. according to the ruling of the Attorney General of the United States as expressed in a letter to the United States marshal of the Northern district of Alabama Dep uty marshals are directed to notify all who are openly violating this decree to desist or be subject to arrest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-26
GUARDSMEN TOBE
 WITHDRAWN FROM
 POLICE DUTY SOON
Protection of Bridges Will Be Left to Civilian Of ficers-TroOp to
 Go in Camp

Montgomery, May 25.-(Special )-Ala- bama national guardmen now protecting railroad property throughout the state will be ordered into federal training camp at once and the work of guarding bridges will be placed on deputies or civilian guards. Although officials at military headquarters denied any knowl- . edge of the movement, it became known .. today that the railroads have been ad- vsed to make immediate arrangements for the guarding of their property by other persons as the soldiers would be moved
 ORDERS EXPECTED
 sy Officials of the military department ad- mitted that important orders were ex- pected any moment. It is probable that the guardsmen will be sent to the con centpation camp at Atlanta for three months of intensive training preparatory to becoming a portion of the American expeditionary force in France Deputy sheriffs are expected to take the places of the guardsmen as the railroads desire guards who have behind them govern mental authority so the railroads may Joe protected in the event it is necessary Ito take human life
 @ WANT ACTIVE SERVICE
 Expectation of active service at once sswill cause renewed interest in the recruit #lng campaign as many persons have de- ,1clined to enter the National Guard be- Icause they fecred this organization would ssbe kept on guard auty in America. Of ~flcers are besieged by enlisted men each yday who desire to know how soon they twill be sent to the firing line. They are ssanXious to go. Military headquarters sNvere notified by the war department to- 8day that reservists of all unrrs need not sregister June ,, indicating that the re- sseves will not be calledsupon for active Mservlce soon. Previous orders had been for all reservists to register with all per- Sons within the ages of conscription. s ASSESSMENTS TO REMAIN F Little encouragement is being given pub lie utilities which are seeking to have the Alabama board of equalization re- Educe their assessments on which taxes were collected last year. Hugh Morrow of Birmingham appeared before the board today in behalf of the Birmingham Rail- way, Light and Power company, Tidewa- Ster line. Bessemer Gas company, and Bir- &mfngham and Edgewood company, and T. K Jackson of Mobile, in behalf of the Mobile Electric company, but the board Set the assessment at practically the same Figures as last year. Representatives of ethe companies insisted that the assess ements were too heavy and should be re- duced The board is hearing protests from all corporations which are not satis- lied with the assessments proposed for the next year.
 Members of the United Commercial Travellers gathered in Montgomery to- night for the first session of the twelfth annual convention. Mobile had been se- lected as the meeting place, but at the last moment Montgomery was substituted. The first session was devoted to ad- dresses of welcome and the mapping out ofebusiness for succeeding sessions Satur- day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-26
Soldier Killed by Guard

w. Bardon. recruit in Troop M, Four teenth cavalry, from Rochester, N. Y., died at the post hospital here today from a gunshot wound inflicted by the guard Wednesday night when he re- sisted arrest. He had been in the serv- ice only a few weeks. The body will be shipped to Rochester tomorrow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-26
Ore Thieves Indicted

Cheyenne, Wyo,. May 26.-Thirty- five indictments in the so-caIled "high grad ing conspiracy cases were returned by the federal grand jury here today The men involved, the government alleges, made a fortune by selling stolen ore to United States hints throughout the coun- try. The amount involved is said to have exceeded million dollars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-26
BESSEMER MAN HEADS HARDWARE DEALERS
State Association Selects Birmingham as Next Meeting Place-Conven-
 tiOn Comes to Close

Montgomery, May 25.-(Specia1.) )-Bir- mingham was awarded the twelfth annual meeting of the Alabama Retail Hard ware Dealers association next year, and
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24
FIRE LOSSES.

According to report which has been made for the month of October the fire loss in the country reached the large sum of 26,o00. poe. What this means is perhaps best indicated by comparing it with the losses for the same month in previous years and it is found that it was nine million dol- lars larger than that of last October and twelve million dollars greater than in. October 1915.- 4
 With the industrial activity of the country-keyed up to it's present pitch and with factories running OF -24 hour schedules it can be appreciated that the danger of fire has been consider ably increased but large contributions were also made to the loss this year by tfe application of the torch in the hands of the enemy's agents
 This means of course tllat the or dinary methods of fire prevention have not only got to be used but. that they have got to be increased. Vigilance which was considered sufficient a year two years ago is inadequate now. Just as much as the industrial activ- ity has increased, and business devel- oped in all lines. just as great an increase in guarding against the &C., cidental cause of fires as well as acts of incendiarisTn must be displayed We are doing our utmost to obtain ade- quate supplies of food and war ma terials and we have got to see that once they are obtained that they are not more quickly destroyed through cafelessness and the operations of those who are working in our midst in behalf of the enemy.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24

Insignificant, but because it seems small in comparison with others it ought not to be neglected under the belief that it can be safely left tc others to provide. Because of the op- portunity which is afforded to con- tribute all the way from a penny to as large an amount as can be spared it gives each and every individual a chance to participate. No one can say that it is beyond his means to help for if every fndividual: bought three, stamps the desired sum would be handsomely exceeded and such contribution will cause ne one. to face Bankruptcy. The cause is. certainly most conamendable and should hot be overlooked -:.-eE
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24
DESTROYING BELGIAN RELIEF.

Germany makes futile effort when + attempts to justify the sinking of the Belgian relief ships by its sub marines It was to be supposed that it would put the responsibility for it upon the British but that does not furnish any legitimate excuse for de- iiberately sending to the bottom yes sels of a neutral nation which are en- gagged in carrying the necessities of life to a suffering people.
 E Germany may claim ti,a- these ves- Sefs, by the loss of which there were destroyed many" thousands of tons of focdstufrs intended, for the Belgian relief york; and work which has been made necessary by the cruel and barbarous acts of the German army under directions of the imperial German government were sunk. because they disregarded, rules which Gerniany established fer their safety, |, but zslsch can V'sleref' be ac- cepted by the rest or the world in siew of the methods which were used. Had these ships attempted uu crcss mine fieIds and been sunk by mines there would have. been some justifi- cation for their claim but when they were deliberately sent to the bottom by the premeditated act Of the sub marine commanders wlio- fully under stood their mission of mercy there is no chance for excuses to be accepted.
 There might be scne reason fer Germany to claim that inasTnueh as the British insist upon inspecting ves- sells that Germany is justified in doing likewise. but when it deliberately de- stroysi relief ships in the cold blooded manner in which it does it cannot es- cape responsibility for it's acts and the record is bound to stand against it. -' --s@a e
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24
PREVENTING TUBERCULOSIS.

The annual. campaign in beholf of the Red Cross Christmas seals has been opened. The funds which are raised by such method through na- tional. state and local campaigns are for the study and prevention of tu- berculosis and an untold amount of good has been accomplished in this direction already. The work is so important that there should be no let Up therein There are many demands at the present time upon the people of the country for the support of one fund or another and the magnificent manper in which they respond shows conclusively that they are in full ac- cord with the objects and the manner in which the money is being used
 In view of the large funds which have been raised for other purposes the s3.00o.0o0 sought this year. by, the national association charged with this work of checking tuberculosis seems
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24

The question of ships is one that mas been discussed with more or less frequency by those who have made a study of war conditions. those who understand the handicaps of this country and those who are directly engaged in building a great fleet of vessels for this government. It is 9 subject which needs all the airing that it has been receiving for as Rear Admiral Bowles said in an address to the Merchants and Manufacturers association: 'If we are going to lick the Germans every one must talk ships, ships. ships from now until the end of the war;
 The lack of transport atio9 has pre- vented this country from doing as much as 1t otherwise could have in carrying on it's trade before it entered the war. it. has caused serious embar- rassment in getting aid tc it's allies sinceeit entered the great conflict and it has been the cause of shortag ges in one thing and another at home be- cause the demands could not be met as they were made although had there been the proper facilities. and espec- tally ships, it would have been pos aible to take advantage of the stored up supplies in various sections of the world which cannot be tapped because there are no available ships to carry -nem.
 Thus while. good progress is being made in the construction of vessels, and Admiral Bowles says that the first of the steel vessels order in July will be launched today. the needs of the country are such in this direction that the output should be greatly in creased especially since we have still to overcome the losses which are be- ing caused by the enemy submarines
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24
THE RAILROAD NEWS ATTITUDE

The result of the conference be- tween President Wilson and the rep resentatives Of the four railroad broth erhoods disclosed the all important fact that the railroad men are not placing their own demands above those of the country. This is shown in the statement which is made by the brotherhoods to the effect that they want to cooperate in every way that it is at all possible in the suc- cessful prosecution os the war and they fully realize that the most seri- Ous thing that could occur during the conduct of the war would be any in terruption of railway transportation and they. in common with the great body of the people, are determined to do everything within the bound of reason. to avoid such interruption"
 That being the attitude of the brotherhoods, and that having been shown to be the position of the rail- roads as far as it is within their power to act, there ought to be no great difficulty in getting together re- garding such demands as the men have in mind, but it must be remem- hered that the railroads whose finan- cia1 conditions were bad enough year ago but are worse today are in no po- sition to take on additional expenses estimated to be as high as $1e0, ,000,- 900 yearly unless they are going to he able to meet this outgo by in- creased income. and this is the situa- tion which needs to be seriously con sidered by the government or by the president if both sides in the contro- versy place the matter in his hands . We certainly cannot get along with cut transportation or with less. What we need is more and all those who are involved in getting it deserve fair treatment
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24

could save might save the entente na- tions. There is no doubt this nation s health will be improved and it's re- sources strengthened by wheatless
 meatless, whiskeyless, peerless and to- baccoless days. Too many of us are making killing time on Old Habits broad highways. Safety first requires Us to reserve our man power as well as our financial power. g
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24

How can the kaiser refuse to listen to talk of separate peace with the Bolsheviki after having sent Lenine to Russia to do just what he has accom- pIished?
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24
Wants His Moneys Worth.

President Wilson is opposed to peace until the war has been won. In other words, he is utterly opposed to this country buying $5O,GOO 000 900 worth of nothing.-Houston Post.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24

Possibly the Germans have extended the submarine zone to include the Azores because they are unable to keep up their average in sinkings oth- erwise.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24

a sea turn. The hero of today is for gotten tomorrow. Waves of approval cbb and flow like tides that now leave our boat high the sands and now stranded in the marshes. Full .oI tragedy are some of the swift rcVer- sals of human Judgments. Recall, for example, the pathetic ouLDurSt oL Cardinal WoOlsey. old and infrm, and cast off by the monarch who had ele- vated and used him: Had but served my God as faithfully as 1 have served my king, He would not have forsaken me in my old age!'
 By wise folk popularity will Oe neither deliberately sought nor summed. It will be taken as purely a y-product of the main business of life All one Els q right to ask in this world is dat lie be tolerated. and eiven a chance to do his work. Three quarters of our social grievances and personal humiDatiOns would disap- pear if we cherished only so modest that is, toleration, at least till we lad abundantly proved our right to something more.
 The Son of Mar Himself did
 not believe in universal popularity, Alas for you" He-said, when all men shall speak well of you" There was an intimation that something must be wrong with people. when everybody set to praising them. As for Himself. lie knew both the estate of pubic favor and that of public hatred. lie had His Palm Sunday of praise and His Gethsemanes of criticism and assertion. Through all such expert ences he moved with unconcern, in , tent only on being true to Himself. Who follows in His truth?
 THE PARSON.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24

The queen of Austria says the safe ty of Venice rests with the Italians which is another way of" saying that Germany controls the conduct of the war. t. ti .e's
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24

When the Cuban sugar raisers ask for a differential rate. they of course are only. asking what the coal mine operators did and what they got
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24

Rumarha has reason to believe that it is going to get just about as much assistance rom. Russia in the future as it has been receiving in the past.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24

No one should take the Liberty loaf which has reference to bread, as any letup in connection with war work.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24

President Johnson of the American league wants baseball players exempt ed from war service so as motto spoil the game: Hasn't he considered the possibility of employing wof1ien?
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24

What the letting up of the Russian operations means, is again indicated by the further withdrawal of German and Austrian divisions from the east ern front.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24

There is still plenty of opportunity for those who have the time to knit sweaters. The demand for them is bound tO increase
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24
MOTHERS, DO TKIS-
When the Children Cough, Rut Musterole on Threats
 and Chests

No telling how soon the symptoms may develop into croup, or worse. And then's when you're glad you have jar of Mus terole at. hand. to give prompt sure re lief It does not blister.
 As first aid and a certain remedy Musterole is excellent. Thousands ot mothers know it. You should keep a jar in the house, ready for instant use.
 It is the remedy for adults, too. Re lieves sore throat; bronchitis, tonsilitis croup, stiff neck, asthma, neuralgia, head ache, congestion, pleurisy, rheumatism, lumbago, pains and aches of back or joints, .spraips, sore muscles, chilblalns frosted feet and colds of the chest (ii often prevents pneumonia.
 soc and COG jars; hospital size $2.50.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24

Russia jumps from one man of the hour to another like a fellow cross ing a stream on broken cakes of ice.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24

It was too much to expect that the submarine toll would be kept down to the T. west point. but the jump from six to r ships sunk doesn't indicate that the menace can be disreG1rded.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24

(Written Specially for The Builetin.)
 k. Continuing what he has discovered
 regarding the quaint silver of Con
 necticut churches, George M. Curtis,
 necticut and Its Makers, refers to the
 collection in the Hartfcrd First Con-
 gfegational church. which included a
 fine old mug made by William Col
 well. of Boston and presented the
 church by Mrs Abigail, widow of
 Rev. Timothy Woodbridge, pastor of
 that church from 1883 to 1T32. On
 the mug is the inscription, ''Ex deno
 A.: w. to the First Church of Christ iu Hartford, 1727'" =. r. H-.s-
 In 1865. William R. Gone. of Hart
 ford. found this mug in the posses
 whose grandfather, Dr. Jeremiah
 Bradford, had bought it of the church in 1903, for SIS. MT. Gene was able to
 buy it for s75, and represented it to
 the church.
 During 1s4o, tke Second Consre5 sationaI church, Hartford, procured a new communion service. made from it's ancient silver, melted down. The old inscriptions were faithfully copied, and tell of the following gifts; a tankard given by John E1llery, in 1746; two cups, engraved The Dying Gift of MT Richard Lord to the Sec- ond Church of Christ in Hartford; "two cups, engraved ''The Gift of J. R. to the South Church in Ifartford' ind two cups engraved "S. e. The
 church now owns only one piece of | ancient silver, beautiful tankard given by William Stanley, in 11S7. Hartford is not the only tcwn which has lost it's ancient church silver, Mir. Curtis observes.
 The Congregational church in Say brook sold it's plate in 1915 tfortunate- | ly it is still in existence. AIr. Curtis adds1, and the Congregational church of WaIlingford renlodeIed it's ancient rlate in 1S49, in style ropular at that period, while the Congregational churches at WethersfieId and Cheshire lost their communion silver by fire a number of years ago. The East HartG ford plate nearly met the. same fate 1 in 1913.
 The Congregational church in South Windsor owns two beautiful beakers
 made. by John Potwine, a silversmil 1 h 1 of that vicinity. and presented by Governor Roger Wolcott, in 1756 | The Congregational church in Fair | field has a beautiful collection of | plate; two handsome tanllartls, dated 1 1753 and 1757; two fine cha1ices pre- scented by Capt. John SiIliman, in 1752 :;
 three -beakers and a cup with "a han dle. Mir. Curtis book shows these | beautiful pieces of old plate, which | have had an interesting history
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24

When Berlin measures up the &C., complishments of the British in the move on Cambrai it looks through the wrong end of the telescope.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24

Those who have been between the devil and the deep sea fully under stand what it meant to the Germans to be between General Byng and flight.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24
Rapid Rise in the World.

America entered the great drama with almost a silent part, but it has rapidly been promoted to almost the position of leading man. - Chicago Herald.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24
';;1s. -e' .G...s r@'-- :: Sunday Morning Talk
. T THE ITCH TO BE POPULAR.

Ia '+FFew, we asl, like to be liked." eS- oelainfed flClsarles7 Lamb: It was an slaoAes 2co1sf e sion. and. honest people
 will assent toAit .l Few. of us are so in
 dependent of the good opiniCn of .others as not tof rlye >pfeased at receiv ing comm C ndation. .%Mhen one tie :lares athat" -fII. does not care a snap of his
 finger what his neignbors think Of n fffffh in I've must write Him doWr either as ff 6f "a Ufte normal. 6f as s.fdisguising
 "a sense of personal disappointment. 'He is7 probably secretly Ia grined at
 his own failure to win popularity D es.NE | Ne=-7r
 | aGearted 4hate theo wish to be popul.r is legitimate enough in it's way, i' nstill, zfike. all good things. capable O. abuse. When the Hiking to be liked,
 becomes with any of us contr bling
 motive: the izeG flag of danger is hung out. The careful watching for ap-
 p1ause or 'censure, as though either one were final test of succe .<
 means wrong standard of judgme1l l. The politician anxious only to keei, la. finger on s the public pulse. the twriter. whose, main; effort is to [ tp1ease. the reviewers, all those in any for praise. are predestined to essen tial failure. They are never capable
 of tiEa+7class aehisvement. It cannot be qtfiers than a, chills and fever sort tpf existepee--shis peEpetual hunt for It is probsssbie' that most of us wna thiHk3 oabe44t .popAlaaty at all think labent is tops n;ue4l.7: I've confuse the main .kssue-whiefa is to be true tG certain ideals-with the purely incl l dental feature of public recognition 1 The main thing is to do ones particu- liar -work> with ali. possible zeal and 1 e efficiencS-Nhether to the accompan- innent of bouquets. or: of brickbats be- , ing a minor issue.
 | Nothing is more uncertain than J popularity; any minute it may suffer
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24
The conereg gatjonaI church in South

.. Saturday evening, May 1st,5 .1779,
 rhis silver was in the home Of dea- con. General Sillinian, and for conven- fence it had been placed in corner
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The man on the corner says: No one ever catches the furnace going on a hunger strike.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24

The time is growing shorter when Christians will again be in possession of the Holy City.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24

In the Congreg ationaI church. Co-.
 Funibia.1 is a beaker' presented by
 Capt. Samuel Buckingham in IT 56c,
 of Dartmouth college was conmemo- rated 'ai few years ago, this -beaker was taken tdfHanovers N. H., for the
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24
When Canterbury was !.

When Oaf1t6FE9HFY WaS SettIeCQ ta beat-1 eS5; aa.-aa I1a f1sr-aof the pioneers were from Barnstable. Apparently the interest of the older town did not I-s-anes;F fof in the cchureh- records it is Eaaetea t1a,r the church in. Barnstable presented it's daughter, in 1716, more than two hounds :sterling, which was invested in a silver beaker still in use in the Canterbury church, and in .scrihed, %, 'The,,.sGift of Barnstable Ghurchz 17z6,ss,.s.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-24

anniversary eaIebra4iep, because Of it's
 zciI s Ssfa flses, KssErbys town of
 i9naffbtis If, Whose, home Dartmouth GdIes e. had it's beginnings, when the cHGtsoM ta uSht a class Of boys, includ- 'fffgss samson OccoTn.% the famous In-
 aiap epreaeI1er and teacher.