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Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-14

''Well, welll" said the woman who had been married quite number of years, as she was ushered in by the bride. Don't you think it looks like rain?"
 "Oh, I know my eyes are all red" the bride told her defiant1y. And I'm perfectly furious because cried! Here I went and spent solid hour straight ening up Toms desk for hin-and 1t looked perfectly lovely, and when he saw it you'd have thought I had been filling it with bombs and he had dis covered my perfidy just in time! I'll never touch it again, no matter how dusty and awful it looks!"
 "How fast you learn!" commented the long married lady. 'HDo exactly that and you will live in peace all your life and your husband will boast to his friends what a good housekeeper you are. Why he will say triun1phafitly T always know right where to lay my hand on anything want! She always keeps things in their right places!'
 ''What the dear boy means is that you allow him to be as dusty and dis orderly as he likes! One of the hardest while theoretically a man demands 2
 
 for order and cleanliness does not ex- tend to his own<belongings. He wants everything he owns out in plain sigh every minute so that he can grab i instantly, no matter whether it is { dress shirt, his fishing tackle, his boz of receipts or his last new r1ecktie He bitterly resents having any of hi! treasures hidden, too.
 "The first year I was married wa one long nightmare of putting ava. Johns belongings. He loved to hav1 his pipe and tin box of tobacco on tn | white enameled n1antel between tn | cloisonne vase and the little bronze
 There was no argument I could us | that suficed to convince him of tn
 atrocity of the arrangement.
 "I tried sarcasm, suggesting that h | add box of cigars and drug stor 1 lighter and i believe that he seriousf considered it. He acted very grateft 1 for the suggestion, anyhow, and off
 distracted his mind by venting to kno1 why he kept his woo1Iy bathrobe hang 1 ing over the best mahogany chair i
 the bedroom and his slippers in tn
 middle of the floor.
 1 ''No matter how many times I pu them away they bobbed right bac
 again. John explained that he had
 horror of a fire at night and of bein
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-14
u.soAT slNk,Nes.

It was to be expected of course that Germany would come forward with ssll kinds of claims regarding the fail ure of the production of ships and the methods employed to offset the sub marine warfare on the part of the enemy. That has been one of the ways employed to encourage the people of that country in the be- lief that the U-boats are going to win the war as was so enthusiastically set forth at the start and has been so consistently maintained ever since.
 Vice Admiral von Capelle can con- tinue to maintain that the allies are not able to provide new ships in keeping with those which are tor pedoed, that the shipbuilding pro zramrnes in this country and Great Britain are failures, that the destruc- tion of the underwater boats by all the methods used by the allies is not SC great but what they are able to construct them faster than they are lost an1 that their naval offensive is stronger today than at the beginning Of the unrestricted warfare. but there are two sides to such a situation and he fails to refer to but one in the cor rect light.
 He doesn't tell the reichstag that l the losses in tonnage during the ncrth hf A~'-'' ':-~ s---~-~0d practical " 50 per cent. that this country 1 putt;r~ out a ifsTrer tonnage every week and that the activities against the submarines are reaching such a point that their effectiveness is being
 greatly decreased. Although the sub
 marine menace has not been over come, the new vessels being built an! the submarines destroyed are steadily
 working to the advantage of the al lies, and the decline in the effective
 ness of the underwater boats can b. expected to be continued
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-14
MEN WHO CAME BACK
GOING OVER THE TOP
By Seygt. w. H. Burch

L.
 c Comfany s3rd Battalion, c. E. F.
 The C:'as trne you go lover the top" there are some moments tension ard f'-----ct go r7ach fear that yo4 vliI 5s hi.lad as fear that you may rrove a coward. You do not know yourself and you are not sure how you will act And above all things you want to do your duty. It was so with me and I believe this is the case with most of the men.
 But after you have been fifteen Or twenty minutes in the thick of it, and even a comparatively mild beginning .ooks bad if it is the first, you find yourself" so to speak, and then you are no longer afraid. Your only de- sire then is to kill-not that you hate 7rySody, but it is simply your job, md if you don't do it you know the enemy will kill you. You are keyed up to the highest pitch. and the only thought is to reach your objective, re- gardless of all else.
 Before this first experience just as you do not know yourself, so you miss 1 your guess on your comrades some times. There was one fellow, pal of mine named Bill Marshall He was | fine fellow, first class Irishman but he didn't look to me as if he would make any kind of a soldier He didn't seem to have any "get" in him. The 1 third Battle of Ypres was his first ex- | perience and the Germans were bom- i barding us. All of sudden he shout i ed, I'm hit. I'm hit!" He was stand ing about five feet from me.
 Where are you hit, Bill?"
 l Get a stretcher bearer right away I tell you I'm hit!"
 1 There was no evidence of his being l hit and I asked him where.
 Don't talk to me man, but get g i stretcher," was all I could get out oi him. I turned back to another friend of mine, Sergt Major Laird. "Bil Marshall says he's wounded" I toli 1 him, with some misgivings. Lairt came back with me and we tried tt convince Marshall that he was no
 wounded. We proceeded to take hi
 equipment off and told him his tunif
 was not even cut or torn in the bacl where he declared he was hit. He in
 sisted on going through all the sign
 of suffering and we looked at his back Sure enough, he had had an awfu
 smash. There was big mark iron
 something fiat which had not broker
 the outer skin but had brought tn
 blood to the surface and left badl
 bruised place When we told Bill wha
 we saw he stopped grooming and seem
 ed absolutely mad for revenge. W
 were under heavy hombardment a
 the time The Fritzies were comin over on us and we opened rapid fire You should have seen Bill Marshal He didn't stop at the firing. step. H jumped to the parapet and stood ther .. yelling to us, Come on men. They'r cotningi They're coming!" Neve again could anyone have any doubt
 about Bill. That first blow woke hir : up. Then, and not till then, did h know and the rest of us know wher he stood.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-14
THE CAPACITY OF SHIPS

Because standards are different in different countries not a little con fusion has been caused when it comes to . comparison of the accomplish ments. This is particularly true in relation to the ship production in Great Britain and the United States at the present time. Because ono basis of arriving at the capacity of vessels in Great Britain is used and another has been adopted in this country an entirely different situa- lion Is set forth when figures are given of the accomplishments in the two countries.
 For instance when reference is made 10 gross tonnage of ships launched bv the British it of course must be rec ognized that it means less here where figures given relative to the vessels completed refer to the deadweight ca- p2cify.
 There is of course gross tonnage, c displacement tonnage. a. net ton
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-14
HYpRo.ELEcTRIc PLANTS.

Gradually is the importance of the hydro-eiectric plant in New England being realized. For centuries have the streams in this part Of the country been offering the opportunities for harnessing them to the limit. Some attention has been given to this tuethod of securing electric energy. but the coal shortage and the price of the commodity today have caused more thought to he given to this matter than ever before.
 While a great volume of power is already being obtained from New England rivers it is still evident that vastly greater amount can be had with the proper development of the privileges. One large manufacturing concern, with mills in the Blackstone valley in Rhode Island which have been operated by steam and water mostly steam, are to be run by cleo trtcity as soon as the necessary eouip- ment can be installed The electric energy is not to be generated at the mills. presumably because of a lack et water power, but will be brought over transmission lines from Vermont This company is doing what others have done and what more are .nkel, 10 do. It indicates an awakening ot Industry to the facilities which have long existed but which have continued to go to waste through neglect.
 And what is true of this part of tn, country is likewise true Of many cthe sections. It is in fact time that ther, was a determined effort to utilize tn, water which is daily going to vast, for industrial purposes to the fulles extent. To do otherwise shows a lacl of appreciation of the natural TO sources.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-14

mage and a deadweight capacity for every vessel. Gross tonnage and Geadweigat capacity do not submit to comparison any more readily than do gross and net tonnage. To refer to them together is unjust. there should be a common basis when the figures are put forth for the enlightenment of the people.
 The gross tonnage refers to the full tonnage of the vessel, the net tonnage to that which has the machinery space eliminated, displacement tonnage re- fers to the actual weight of the water displaced, while the deadweight ca pacity means the deadweight which can be carried in the hold at load draught with coal and stores aboard. Tn view of these technica1itfes the need of denoting the capacity of ves- sels under the same classification is perfectly apparent.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-14
STORIES OF THE WAR
Motor Boating on The Piave.


 Correspondence of The Associated Press):
 Three Americans have just enjoyed the unusual experience of taking motor boat ride on the Piave River, the dividing line between the Austrian and Italian fronts. They are prob ably the only Americans who have been on boat on the Piave since the fall of Caporetto. They are liar vey Carroll. Jr. the United States Consul in Venice, Major Guy Lowell and Captain William Hereford of the American Red Cross. Major Lowell and Captain Hereford were in Venice to inspect the distribution of gifts of useful articles to soldiers on the ma rine front. The trip on the Piave was arranged by the Italian general com rendfng the headquarters near Venice
 ''The trip was one of extreme tn- trest," said Captain Hereford. Tt was necessary to pass the barriers before getting out into the Piave River. Once there the feeling was of being out in the open between your own men and the enemy. As a matter of fact i the Italian were a few miles further l to the north where they are bravely holding the line against all assaults. 1 Major Lowell indicated on the i riverbank what looked to be brown cactus leaves. It was really cheveaux | de frise with sharp pointed spikes which would make a very painful and difficult object to get over. They were planted on the shores as thickly as | flowers in garden.
 1 '.We climbed an ascent and had a l ,I-S I@Ip v-io Of ie If most interesting battlefelds in his tory. Five miles to the north two lines were fronting each other and con- stantly one heard the boom of guns and could see the clouds of smoke from bursting shells. Villages 1hat had been ruined by bombardment were clearly discernibIe From the Austrian lines the 'sausages,' or
 stationary balloons, were rising for observation. Airplanes were hoverine
 in the air. From behind us the big guns of the Italians were sending lshells into the enemy's territory. 'It is hard to imagine any battle field with mountains and plain 1ai6 out so clearly and distinctly 10 ar
 observer The defenses of the land the n1arshy ground, the lagoons, the
 canals, the plateau and the mountains l-all gave the conviction that the
 Austrians and Germans had come a!
 far as they ever would come.
 More even. than the natural de fences, however, was the morale to b' found among the men. Ability to re
 sist and the spirit to conquer were il , evidence among all of the men we saP on the marine front They were yer!
 calm and very sure and determined
 They know the e'1erav will come n
 further and ask themselves only hoy long it will be hefore the Austrian and Germans will give way and begil the retreat to their old stand behin
 the mountains.
 Everywhere there is the warmes , welcome for Americans and every I where is heard expressed the wish tha ! before long the Americans will com
 as the French and English have done
 to take their stand on the battle lin { of the PiaYe."
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-14
PROTECTING THE BONDS.

Not little attention is being given to the matter of providing a place for the safe keeping of the Liberty bonds as the owners come into possession of them. Tn view of the fact that they are as readily negotiated as paper money, 1t is therefore highly im- portant that they be kept where they will not be lost and where others can- not get hold of them, for the recovery of lost or stolen bonds would likely prove no easy task, especially if they were stolen.
 In recognition of this fact the war loan organization at Washington is said to be busy on a plan which will be submitted to the savings banks of the country whereby they will under take such service for the bondholders. Locally the banks have all agreed to care for such,property and even invited the bondholders to take advantage of such facilities, the bonds being left at the banking houses the same as many people leave their bank books there It is an idea which is being carried out in other cities. including the large ones where this same ser vice has been offered to the people without charge by safe deposit and trust companies in addition to the other banks.
 The matter of protection is some thing about which the bondholders cannot fail to exercise too much care They are the ones who are directly interested and it behooves them tC see that all precautions are taken. | it case where safety first princi pies must be applied and if all the banks of the country can be gotten tC render this service it will be of ever. lasting benefit, and a service for whicl too much praise cannot be given.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-14

In this brief and simple form Mir may very truly be considered the essen tials of every Americah's belief. It em- bodies in a crucial and memorable formula those fundamental principles on which the nation was founded and on which alone 1t can be maintained It's phrases are already famous house. hold words, blended now into q definite creed
 As a national profession of faith, that
 the creed should be made known to every man, woman, and child in the country, and become as familiar as the
 Star Spangled Banner. It should be a common decoration on the wall ot every school and library and home throughout the land.
 No country, particularly no denoc- racy, can grow and develop and reach it's highest perfection, unless its eiti- zens have a clear idea of what It's aims really are. and a deep sentiment for ite welfare and honor A nations aims and ideals are just those aims ant ] ideals which all it's citizens hold bJ
 common consent to be for their owr good And it is only by realizing these fair and just ideals in it's daily I life that nation can help humanity But mere profession of faith alone
 is not enough. A formula of words car
 avail nothing, if it is only repeated
 and got by vote. An open profession of faith is good, but it is only good i | the faith is really behind it. It mus not only contain truths, but it mus be true every time we say it. If i lacks conviction, if it does not express
 our unswerving and deepest feeling, i l is no more than foolish chatter. Thes words which were. in every phrase struck of in the white heat of i'm passioned patriotism must sink int,
 our hearts and minds and instill ther
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-14
THEIR LITTLE WAYS

unable to find garments in which to clothe himself. He drew a piteous picture of himself rambling through snowdrifts barefooted and in his nightie, and got mad when I pointed out that it was July and the ther- nometer 100 in the shade, and the middle of the day at that.
 T said that if his bathrobe and slip pers lying in the center of the room while l was entertaining women at luncheon were of any vast comfort to him six miles away at his office, of course I would cheerfully bear. the burden. His retaliation was that women never did understand things, anyhow
 We've been married twelve years and to this day I hear faint surges of wrath over the strengthening up l gave his fishing tackle that first year. ' "The time l went home for two weeks visit, while John was keeping bachelors hall, was my final eye ! opener. 1 came home unannounced and let myself in. Then, after satis- lying myself by examining carefully ! the pattern of the hall rug that this really was my own domicil, I burst into heartfelt tears and was firmly | convinced that my life was ruined | Every window shade was run up tc l the top. not one lace curtain hung straight, most of them being jammeC back behind pictures or chairs. There were pipes and cigars, tobacco and ast trays on the piano, the tables and tho bookcases. Newspapers carpeted tht floor, neckties and collars hung from
 everything hangable, slippers wer,
 scattered broadcast and not chail
 was-in place.
 Tt looked as thoagl1 a coal beavers convention had met there right after devastating cyclone.
 'John came home in the midst 0
 my lamentations and when tragicail, pointed around and begged him t
 look, that benighted, puzzled maj looked and then asked in honest cur iosity, Well what's the matter wit it?" It was then I subsided with lot means. It was no use. I've given u and since then we've led a happy If
 though dusty, disorderly one"
 Nonsense! sniffed the bride. Your house is always just shiny an 1 clean! Can-can't you possibly trai
 em?"
 If any woman learns how to liv
 to be 91o," admitted the long marie
 lady. "she might begin to make som sion!''-Exchange
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-14
U-Bcat Commander Muddled By
 Liehtship.

Correspondence of The Associated Press):
 One German submarine commander surrendered his vessel to a British destroyer in the Mediterranean merely because he was pursued by a light ship, asserts a British official eye witness writing from Italy.
 '"The U-boat had just torpedoed a merchantmen" he writes. Sight ing a British destroyer coming up at full speed, the German made off as fast as she could below the surface, taking her bearings from a 1ightship
 before submerging. Depth charges dropped by the destroyer exploded in
 unpleasant proximity. but the Germans
 were lucky, and after time they seemed to have reached safety. The captain however, held on submerged on the same course for some time Then he came up again, hoping to find himself without sail in sight
 To his horror, he found the same lightship and the same destroyer as near him as ever Again taking his bearings from the lightship, he sub- merged with all speed and sat out once
 more on the same course. Again the
 destroyer made herself unpleasant and again the U-boat was lucky Once more the German came up tt see where he was, and again he found l the lightship in the self-same position while the same destroyer was after him again. How long this tragi-oom- edy continued history does not relate 1 but when at last, after trying his ut most, the German commander found l that he could not get away from the iiiehtship and had exhausted his ac.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-14
SHEPARD RIVALRY.

Q Only a few days ago announcement was maue to the effect that a new rec =ord had been established in this coun- try by a shipyard :.re-ing crew. This apparently made an Impression across the water for now we are informed 1hat Q Er-t--l crew sDur1ll cn by the American accomplishment was not tHly able to exceed the record made lere but to far exceed it. Information .s not at hand to iniir-t- whether the work was of the same t.- CT whether cI tight r'vetin~ ~-9s d-ne by the 1'rf-f-- -- ,-ftl the Amcric-a r.vatass q, ar5lcss of that feature ta- tI - ., be good sprung up a r-ra.-! a-.tJng tlc 4ireters on both sicea Of the Atlantic which ought 10 result to the decided better ment 0f thc shipbUi'Tt-- --7r7me.
 With tcsc rir-tc- t- .r rating That it Is possible 70 r1 -. .--~o tran hos been averaged in -. -...- in the way Of getting the steel ships together, there should be an a-r Tor all riveters to increase the activities. The rivalry is likely to e%to1d not only to shipyards of differen. nations but to other shipyards here and in Great Britain, and with the speeding I'D Of the work of the riveters the de- sire of other shiryard workers to es- tablish ner records can be expected to follow. and when the record -estab- Fishing fever becomes contagious more ships are going to be turned out. Thus this matching of skill is highly com mendable and there is certainly every reason why it should be manifested ir that direction as in sports and other wise. Interest can not become toe keen in this direction.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-14
Views of the Vigilanteo
THE AMERICANS CREED.
By Bliss Carman of The Vigilantes

'T believe in the United States of America as a government of the people. by the people. for the people: whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; q democracy in re- public; a sovereign nation of many sovereign states; a perfect Union. one and inseparable: es- tablished upon those principles of freedom, equality. justice and hu- manity for which American pa triots sacrificed their lives fortunes. I therefore believe in is my duty to my country to love it, to support its constitution. to obey it's laws to respect it's flag and to defend it against all ene- to support it's constitution, to og n1ies."
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-14
OTHER VIEW POINTS

There is no special reason why store clerks and sdlesmen and sales
 women shouldn' get Saturday after
 noon off this summer, a9 in other years. Little has been heard as yet of the plan being put into effect again, but there will be plenty of voices in favor of it when the swell
 tering weather of mid -summer comes. Store employees in the larger cities particularly will demand the usual week end recess. They ehouid get it. as many of them as is prac- ticable for them and their employers. Altogether too much has been
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-14
The Debts of The wsrrino Nstion,.

The London Economist for February places the total gross debt of Treat Britain at 5,67S,6oO,OOe pounds (S27,- eSS,000,000).
 The French minister of Finance in presenting the budget for 1918 esti- mated the public debt of France on December 31, 1918. at 1I5,166, ,053 900 francs ($22, 2,227. 900 ,000).
 The public debt of Italy at the end of 1917 is estimated at about S5,o00,- 100 900 lire ts6,676,000, ,OOO).
 The debts of the Central powers are estimated as follows: Germany, s25,- 40S,000,000; Austria, $13E14,000 ,000; and Hungary, $5,7O4, 100000.
 Our own public debt is now around sS, 100000, but more than half of this amount has been loaned to our Allies and will be repaid us. It is es- timated that of the. total net expendi- lures of the United States for the fis- cal year of 1918. exclusive of our ad- vances to our Allies, more than one half will be defrayed by taxation.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-14

The tie-up occasioned by the de- struction by fire of the old railroad station at New Haven is to be regret ted but. the travelling public will not mourn it's destruction. The people are patient in the extreme when it comes to putting up with places like the New Haven station. and other stations of the like, notably Middletown There is no excuse for the condition of many public stations today and it is surprising the soap and water idea is not made part of the efficiency of railroad mana cement more than it is.- Middletown Press.