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Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08
DRAFT LAW RECOMMENDATIONS.

Not a little attention is bound to be attracted by the report of General Crowder on the working out of the selective draft, his belief that class one under the new arrangement will provide sufficient from which to main- tain the army of this country and his that congress amend the law as it now stands 50 that it will provide for the registration of men who have become of age since June 5. 1917, as well as those who daily reaching that age. If favorable action upon such an amendment is taken this will mean about 799,ee0 ef- feetives each year who will be liable to military service.
 It is only reasonable Of course that those who reach the age of 21 should come under the provisions of the draft law as well as those who had reached that age when the law was passed. It is only fair to those wine have already been called into the. service Or those who are waiting to be called. but in addition it means that the fighting forces can be made tip of those who have not made themselves invaluable in any lina of industry and who for the most part are net tied down by family responsibilities. If the army is made up of those who are not skill ed in any branch of industrial oS ag- rieultural effort it will have less ef- feet upon the economic conditions oi
 the country, a fact which experience
 shows has got to be taken into con-
 sidsration and congress cannot fai to appreciate the advisability of mak
 ing the change in the draft law a recommended. --.-.,..~
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08
A SECRETARY OF MUNITIONS.

Fully in accord with other changes which have had to be made is the move now underway for the placing of the task of supplying the army in the hands of a secretary of munitions as provided for in a bill which has been introduced into congress. It has been shown where the military opera tiohs have been handicapped by red tape, by anticipated methods and by the inability of the present organiza- ton to carry on the extra amount of work which has been imposed by the war. Such being the case there is nothing to do but to solve this prob fem In the most effective manner and if that means increasing the members of the cabinet for the duration of the war why let US proceed to do it and remove the ifnpedifnents which have already been experienced through the lack of such department or through the 0yertaxins of an existing depart rieht which has been burdened with more work than it ean do and do ef- fciently.
 It Is to be remembered that Great Britain had this very same trouble It was found that it's intuition sup plies were not what they should be , that the cabinet member who was en- i, trusted with this work along with other duties was unable to devote the attention to this important matter that was required and the change thai was put into effect provided the needed remedy. It is a similar ex- pefienee which this country has beet going through The conditions whic, nave characterised the past cannot bt tolerated longer and the sooner aetior is taken to replace them by the SC. curing of an efficient head to handle such matters the better 1t will be fol the army and the country.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08
THE NEW OWNER

well" whispered Marion to me. q
 guess it doesn't make any difference if
 we did have to wear silk, gowns that
 you washed, turned, nlended and made over, Guess what just heard?"
 What did you just hear?" asked. Why" proceeded Marion, delight edly. T was standing over by those ferns 8 minute ago, and just around the corner I heard Mrs. Lewis say to Claudia Brooks I don't see how the Harcodrt girls manage to dress so well! and Ciaudia-spiteful old thing -said: I think they ought to be ashamed; everybody knows they can't afford it. But just then the grand looking MT Maxwell came over to them, and it wasn't two minutes be- fore heard him ask who that strik- ing looking girl with the red rosies in her hair was. That was you. Bar bara. Now, aren't you hattered ?"
 "Dfeadfully" answered. Amy thing fntre?'' -1
 ~'Ees, ifrdeedr whispered marions The best of it all was that he asked right away if you were one of the Har- courts who had owned the old place up l towns, and he asked her--Oh, look. | Marion's volubility was checked at I this point by the appearance Of the al- ready mentioned Mr.. Maxwell with our hostess on his arm. He was a grave 1 handsome man, about 35, I thought, and after Mrs. Lewis had presented him he sat beside me- He had talked about d good many things and had tNs.
 most wearfed of my monosyllabic re-
 plies, I fancy, when he finally brought tub Hsrcourt, and I proceeded to as- t6nish him by forgetting that we were
 strangers and telling him the most
 ridiculous things with charaeteristie
 feeklessness. told Him how often
 we, Marion and I, went round about
 way to avoid passing the dear old
 place, affd how, when there was nc
 way out of it, we went by with oul
 heads turned away, because we lovet
 it so. I told him we had been bofr
 there, and that every big room afit every dinBy panel brought up mem ory that We loved. And it was not tin til Marion came for me to go home i, that realized that he had listened tt
 me silently for about an hotir afft
 that Mrs. Lewis was angry with m . for fnonopolizing the><iion of the eve |. ming I went home terribly ashamed f and convinced that, notwithstan ndif7! , that he looked very sympathetic, h. was probably shocked. , | But some days later, after Mir. Max we'll called with Mrs. Lewis and wa ; | so nice, guess he didn't mind, afte 5 el1. ASd in the weeks following Il
 came Frequently and we met at sev
 eral places. Somehow I told that ma
 everything-I just couldn't help it. H
 always knew just when to smile. an : never said a silly thing to cover u : d deeper feeling in all those week 1 that I did not see sympathy and tin , ] drTSfd q ijdino ii, biS fa6e We11 if xt,u : q pleasant time as remember it, an q I got to thinking a good deal abou < him and to liking him very mucf : There was only one thing to dampe ' our pleasure. One day the news cam s to us that Mir. Griffin, who held . mortgage upon Hafeeurt. had sold = to strangers. and Marion and I toi
 ourselves that from that time ou Q claim upon it would be only that { . any other outsiders, who might loo : at it's dear old walls and pass it b.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08
TEST OF AUTO TRUCKS,

The experiment which was conduct Cd with the motor trucks purchased By the government for use in connec- ton with army operations across the water. ty bringing them overland from the point of manufacture to the point of shipment, has proved a decided suc- cess. All of the cars arrived at their destination with the exception of the one which was struck at a railroad crossing. They had plenty of experi- ehce because of weather conditions and poor roads in Some sections, but they were able to overcome such ob- stacles with little difficulty.
 The result has been that those who held the steering wheels have gained some valuable experience, the endur- aflce of the trucks has undergone q rigid test as to efficiency, the systems of roads have been given a tryedt which should be of no little value while there has also been important
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08
Views of the Vigilantes
BACK DOOR PRoPAGANpA. By Margaret Widdsmer of The Visi
 lantes.

He came to the side door to get the man of the houses clothes for press ing.
 "Ach, it's cold!". he began as he came aifiside to wait for them. "And those poor soldiers, not enough room for them at the fort! They must be cold. 1 am sorry for them"
 Then we asked him what he would charge for pressing a froek, and he told his price. After d spirited de- bate as to it's reasonableness lie went back to the war.
 T see by the papers this morning that they are going to raise the age of drafting up to take men from is not reasonable, no. I am a good American citizen, but see that that is wrong. I would not mind forty five, but it is all wrong to take poor old men of fifty"
 We told him he had seen it all wrong-that the American govern ment hasn't anything like exhausted it's first draft yet, and wouldn't take men of fifty anyway. He was unim- pressible to reason.
 Tt was in the paper" he insisted
 'NThey will take them to fifty. It is wrong of the government" No explanatiohs-fot even severity
 -availed. He went off to drop the
 same interesting item at the next
 house, where the dweI1ers, may have been easier of belief. He had { strong German accent.
 The next visitor happened to b, the meat-si1an--for even in these par. lous days one must have meat once if awhile, and this man was the mos reasonable grocer and butcher il town
 He, too; stopped a moment to ge l warm ana wait for his fnorey. If this war were only over!" ht lamented. "WaF is wrong. havt
 worked ali my life here in America. am good American citizen. hay, built up good business. my wife ant I have worked hard And prices ari so bad@-so bad I scarcely keep mi head above water. The gevernfnen 1 got us into this war;. We ought u make peace. It's a government fo l rfch folks"
 l Here we lost our tefnpefs. The fiiea man Che too had a German accent an 1 was born. he confessed, in Prussia 1 was meek but insistent. The wa i was wrong. The government e6tii
 make peace if it wanted to. And ii went of to say the same next door Thank heaven, the egg man is al
 American. even if he does charg | what he charges. He said nothin,
 sB6ut the war. But do you notice the insidiousnes
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08

As I say, this darkened our lives a
 Istle, :; but there was still Mir: Max
 WefPs visits to lock forward to, 50 it
 was worth while existing. But one
 evening, when he called. he said:
 Miss Barbara, am going away to-
 morrow, and l want you to do some- thing for me. Will you?" 4see
 T don't know" 1 answered in low
 voice. Somehow I couldn't for the life of me manage anything else. But he didn't seem to notice that l said nothing about Tegretting his going away. He simply asked me if would 20 down to Iarcourt with him. was too miserable to resist, so we went. My heart beat heavily as we walked up the dear old oak avenue. and when we had mctfnted the broad steps and opened the door I could not see the familiar dim old hall because my eyes were blinded with tears. ''Oh, weIl,' thought I. as I stealthily dried them away, you're dear old place, but you're nothing to me now and | I've got no right to cry about you" | But later, when we went up to the long hail above and found that some {. itnpuaent person had removed our I few remaining pieces of old ftifnitt.te and had hung new paintings there 6vef crimson l1a1fgings, felt couldn't stand any more. What does this mean ?" l cried.
 s.The purchaser hopes te five here, ? explained MT. Maxwell, ''and lie is get
 ting it ready for oecupahey."
 Here, suppose the poor man was bewildered enough, for had restrain
 ed myself as long as could and
 rushed to the one place where the
 | hateful crimson did not cover the
 l oorn1e >1at5 tAaA ifl1Nii
 friendly support and burst out cry.
 1 ing. ...... ,.S
 T "Oh, why did you bring me here
 1T said q can't. stand everything.
 would rather have this old place burn
 to the ground with only it's poor, olt
 chimney left to show where it stood than to see it fitted with the mos l beautiful things in the world b.
 strangers. Everything I cafe abou
 turns out wrong concluded with sob. "T am losing my home and nov , you" -.-.- -..
 stopped. frozen with horror. W1a had I said? But Norman Maxwel : suddenly put me into the window sef , and sat down beside me. "BarbaIs : look at me- he said. But I abso1utel } couldn't lift my head, so he put hi
 hand under my reluctant chin an : turned my face toward him. :FBar s Bara," don't you know I've loved ye r a1rNthe time and that I was goin } away with the heaftaehe, confider that you did not care for me? Don i you care for me just a little moi 6 than for an ordinary friend?''
 l "Oh!" exclaimed, very much afrai } that my stupidity had forced him int $ 1t. T shouldn't have said-I didn mean to-" But he put his arm $ about me-. and then I knew it w.en because of what I had said
 t We'll. was so happy that I erie l. and laughted in my own ridiculot ii fashion, and when we went hon C Marion says it was difficult to te a which beamed brightest. my eyes { t my nose. But think I have wept tt q last sorry tears I shall ever shed, f. f the best man in the world has bougl f Harcouft for me, and it is to be o, k home when we are narried.-Boste 7. Post
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08
HIS HEART BADLY AFFECTED
"Frult-a-tIyes" Soon Relieved
 This Dangerous Condition

6S2 GERHARD ST. EAST, ToRoNTo.
 sFor two years, I was 1 victim Of Acute Indigestion and Gas In The Stomach. It afterwards ialta1ksd ny Heart and had pains Hover my body. So that f could hardly move around. I tried all kinds uf Medicine but 1oHs of them did me any good. At last, l decided to try 4Ffuit-a- tives". I bought the first box last June, and now I am we'll, aftsr asiag 5al1 Ayss 6oxes. I recommend "Fruit-a-tives" te anyone suffering from Indigestion".
 FRED J. CAvEEN.
 5oe. q box, 6 for $2.5o, trial size, 25e. At all dealers or sent postpaid by Friits a-tives Limited, ogdensburs, NY.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08
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fought the enemy off. Meanwhile waves of Germans had swept by to the south of the town and were swarnling westward.
 Captain Black came out of his
 headquarters south of Mareoins to f find five Germans already in pos ! session of great dump nearby. So quickly had the enemy advanced that this was the first iftinatien that they were nearby. Black had in his hand a heavy walking stick which was his only weapon. Without mo- ment's hesitation he charged the dump alone and beat about him 50 l fiercely that lie abrained all five op- ponents before they recovered from l the surprise. He had made good his | VOW but his work was not finished. 1 Other Germans appeared west of 1 Les Rues Verts, a southern suburb of i Masrlieres. Black collected all the
 signallers, cooks, ordeflies and other | servants available, and with two conn l panies of regulars delivered an attack | towards Rues Vertes. The Germans | fell back and fiTeee hand-to =hand | fighting followed Black led his little | army from house to house and as often as the Germans made a stand 1 he drove them out, until finally the whole suburb had been cleared with l the exception of one machine gun
 whose crew of eight men kept putnp-
 ing bullets into the British ranks. l Black charged this machine gur
 with one orderly. Four other brave orderlies had been shot down beside him previously and this one also was caught as the machine gun was reached. Black then attacked the
 Germans with a revolver in each hand
 and shot down the last man of eight
 This cleared. Rues Vertes of the eli
 emy and eutposts were established about the place. Black had beer wounded during the fighting, but Ii, held on to his command until relic came next day.
 This story is not the only one t
 be related of that bitter day abou
 Masnieres. A regiment which had tn i stiffest part of the fighting in tli town was made up of troops knowl as die -hards and they fought al day with rifles and bayonets at clos , quarters and never gave a step in tn , face of a great onslaught mad : against them. During the fighting tn < colonel had been wounded in one ey and so serious was his injury that hi
 other eye became useless. His troop ; continued to be so hard pressed tha 1 it seemed probable they would giv < way.
 , The colonel knew they needed a the encoura cement possible to enabl 7 them to bear the awful strain. H ! called for an orderly. and led by hi
 servant he started making a round (
 the front line to speak words of en T, couragement to his troops. For hour this blind man with bandaged eye kept up his tramp among his me with his hand in that of the ofderl who was his only guide. This heroi J example was the final word for tE
 Tonmies. They loved their eoloni
 and they stood and died for him an
 held their line.
 q ,Masnieres produced another thrill
 ing incident next day. The German a renewed their attack and came dow
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08

relief afforded to the transportation lines which would have had to move these trucks under normal conditions What has been known regarding the trucks on short hauis has now been ascertained in regard to long dis tarces.
 It is therefore to be expected that the 30,000 or more trucks which the government has under construction at middle west points will be sent over land to shipment points and this will release thousands of railroad cars for other service at time when every one is needed, for not only will the freight cars which would be required to trans port the trucks be available but there will also be those which would be re- quired to carry the loads which the trucks will carry. It is wise use of this motive power which promises to come into greater use right here at home in relieving railroad congestion.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08

in waves. Their assault at the cross ing at the canal bank was partieu- larly fierce, and the British, after sus- taining the shock for some time, be- gan to waver and the general rushed to the spot. He took stand in the midst of his troops and rallied them about him along the bank. He spoke to them with assurance and pleaded that they be calm. The Germans were sending forward another great wave of infantry.
 It was then that the general un- consciously echoed words of the fa- nous order issued by an American general at the battle of Bunker Hill-s Steady men, steady, do not fire until you see the whites of their eyes" The crossing was held and the Germans driven back.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08

Of it ali? Every German born citizen, apparently, considers it a sacred duty to do what he can for Gern1any as he goes industriously about his daily tasks. They don't say anything bad enough to report. They simply keep up their constant dropping the ehore man, the shoe maker, the baker and candlestick nlaker-every German of that class, like a trained chorus. And they have more chance to be effectual than their more highly sit uated brothers, simply because they are around all the time. It would be funny if it weren't so real.
 The, back door propaganda is going steadily on, untouched by notice. It isn't funny. It's dangerous
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08

With the aniounce4nent that potash deposits fave been discovered in Nes brasha which with those in California will serve the natioi's needs, it goes to show that we have to be deprived of our outside sources of supply in order to find out what we have right at home.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08
MUSTEROLE--QuCK.
 ;. RELEF ] NO BL|STER
It Soothes and Relieves Like a Mustard Plaster Without
 the Burn or Sting

5 Musferols is . clean, white ointment, made with the oil of mustard. It does ali the work of the old-fashioned mustard piaster--does it better and does not bis. ter. You do not have to bother with ciotk. You simply rub 1t ors--and usually the pain is gone!
 Many doctors and nurses use Muster. ole and recommend it to their patients.
 They will gladly tell you what relief it gives from sore throat, bronchitis, croup, stiff neck, asthma, neuralgia, congestion, pleurisy, rheumatism, lumbago. pains and aches of the back or joints, sprains, sore muscles, bruises, chilblains, frosted feet, colds of the chest it often pre-. vents pneumonia.
 soc and 60c jars hospital sire $2.50
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08

The marked difference in which the people of France and Austria re= sponded to the last waf i5ahs show how the people of the respective na- tions stand and what the conditions of their finances are.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08

thing to do now is to see to it that the remaining bushels are hot allowed to go the way Of the frost- bitten. And this. even if the potatoes in storage have to be given away. There are some. extremely poor families who could niake proper use of such food stuff-New Britain Herald
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After seeing what Germany intends to do about Russian territory 1t holds, 1t must make the BuIgarians mad enough to throw down their arms to read about the German plan of no an- nexations and no iidsfnnities.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08

From the way in which General Al- lenby is pushing ahead in Palestine he apparently doesn't intend that the Turks shall get look at Jerusalem again to say nothing about recapt,ir- inS if
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08

Well. even though we have had d very strenuous week weatherwiss there is some satisfaction that a whole lot of snow shovslifig was not forced upon us at the same time.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08
New Enaland surrenderss

Speaking of tirsnginf ,pefCse to their knees. Mir. Hoover is in fair way to do it with New England if he goes ahead and declares the doughnut a 'nonessential fat waster." Springfield Republican.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08

It is ali right to urge the saving of a shove1fui of coal a day, but when that is about all d householder has in his cellar it is useless to urge such economy.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08

Thes1nan on the corner says: Some people continue to work as if they thought the only sugar obtainable was to be found in chewing gum.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08

It will be a unanimous wish that January does fiot attempt to duplicate the dent which December made in the coal pile.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A certain New Haven lawyer prob- ably understands better now what 1t costs to hope that Germany wins the war.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08

Relief in the sugar situation is re- ported soon, but it<is to be sincereit hoped that it is hot the same "soon' that has been used with such fre- querey regarding coai relief.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08

General Gennadis, exse6n1rnander of the First Greek Army corps, WFio has been examined in eonfiectiori with the disappearance of official. deednents, is under arrest, pending his trial.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08

These are the days when the vege- tarians have reason to display confi- dence in the fact that their number is increasing.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08

Even the 'bolsheviki realize that Stockholm is not as neutral as it might be, but there can be little question but what 1t is more neutral than Brest IAtovsk.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-08
OTHER VIEW POINTS

Where they have agreed to-close at 10 o'clock five nights in the week, to. of their share of duty in the common cause. They have too long been un- syfnpa tfetic. a1rienable only to law and often defiant of that, as veil as Of public welfare. They are largely to blame for the fate which threatens them and an apprehension of which may account for their present i'm proved attftude.-Waterbury Ameri- can.