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Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-07
OTHER VIEW POINTS

It was announced today that the first person has been arrested in Bridgeport for splitting on the side walk And it is about time!
 The person who spits on the sidss walk is nine times out of' ten, an ignorant, vulgar wretch for whom jail is too good a punishment If we can't get at him in any other way if the police authorities are to. con- tinue indifferent and the courts ara to impose ridiculous fines of one dollar, or hefeabouts--then let pri- vate citizens to take the law into their own hands and every time 6 man spits on the sidewalk. take that mans person and mop up the walk with him. Bridgeport Standard -Aneri- can.
 What is wanted is to create a Farm Workin Reserve to supply the labor which the farmers are in such dire ed the employers themselves might also be willing to take-a hand and wield a hoe.
 l The liability of the termination oi 1 the war, which is more or less felt b5 us all would have no bearing on the i subject whatsoever for the reason that there are millions of hungry mouth.
 here as well as in Europe whicf
 have had a spare living for some timt 1 with a consequent number of i'll nuurished bodies. Statisticians ~sal 1 that the world will never again have
 an over -producton of food-Hartfort ] Post
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-07

to s2e2. 900. oo0, which was an increase of nearly $26.Ooo.ooo over the figures fer that month last year. although it failed to reach the high total of Au- gust by about ten million For the nine months period ending with Sep tember the imports show an increase Of over s4o.0Oo,000 over a like period for last year,
 There are some variations relative to the exports but it represents a large volume of business when 1t Is shown that the goods sent out of the country in September were valued at s550,00o, 600, or S10n, 100000 over Sep tember 1917 and s20,0Do,g6O more than in August of this year. Comparing nine months of this year with the same period of 1917 there is a slight decrease but for the corresponding period of 1e16 there is au increase of s6t0,o00000, This business is stifnu- lated in certain lines by the war but there Is need of seeing that it Is not only maintained. but increased there after.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-07

rain was falling and the night of inky darkness 50 that when we stopped work and filed out along an obscure path iii some woods each man had to grab the belt of the man in front and shufi1e along. I was leading and of course when came to a shell hole full of water l was the man to go down in it, while the men behind profited by the losing Of their gallant leader and went cautiously around the hole. A fine gang of burglars we would make when we get home, for we can proWl around in the dark like cats. And when I get home you can expect anything shocking in the way of table manners and social errors It will be because of the life to which l have been So lcng accustomed here
 "In our last drive l lost the best friend I had in the regiment. young lieutenant in our company, and a fine lad, who got his while leading his platoon. We put a cross over his grave near where he fell few days later. Later in the day l was not more than fifteen yards from one oi our officers when bullet sent him west instantly.
 The enemy we met on this drive were mostly Austrfans and they were only too glad to give themselves up.
 Brother BiH'
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-07
NEW REspoNsislLIrlEs.

It is not to be supposed that the dropping out of the war of Bulgaria, Turkey and Austria Hungary is going eo mean that the allied nations are to have no further concern relative to the people in those coun - tries. And our interests and re- sponsibilities there are not going to pe confined to military or political channels.
 The people of those countries have felt the effect of the war in many di- rections. They have suffered great lossos from the punishment Inflicted upon their armed forces, the dlsrup- ton of business in general and the great drain which has been made up- on their resources. Just what the ex- tent of these troubles are has not been indicated except through the manner in which they have been eager to avoid another winter of the war and by the statement from the supreme war council of the allies which has been in session at Versailles to the effect that it is its desire to cooperate with these countries in making avail- able as far'as possible food and other supplies necessary for the life of the civil population.
 It Is known that crops have been none too good and that i'll spite of the determined efforts to draw upon the vast regions of Russia it has been impossible to secure the foodstuffs which are required. It is not thus surprising that reference is made tc the starving people of those war i'm, poverished central powers. Being GU, of the war it is evident that they must be given help and it is evident that the needs will not be smail. They are due to feel the effects of the wal in many directions for iong time tt come. but 1t is the duty or the worlt 10 see that humanity is not made tc suffer needlessly. A distinction has te ba made between the people and the tyrannical governments over which they had no control.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-07
STORIES OF THE WAR
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 A JoviaI Soldier Boy's Ride.

A part of a letter to his sister from Lieutenant William c. Harbour, of the 101st Infantry tone of the three sons of MT. J. L. Harbour of the Youths Companion, in the service); i4vAs dated subsequently to the St. Mihiel drive:
 T am sending you this reminder that I am not yet a casualty and am therefore still open to receive mail from young ladies, my sister in cluded. 1 am stuck off here ir the woods and letters from home con- stitute about my only reading matter. Have not seen paper for ten days. Of course we always carry a volume of that most interesting and close substitute for reading matter, our shirts, and almost any fine day I am to be found in some shell proof spot in the sunlight boring over the seams of my shirt. In this last drive O. ours I spent my first night m capt ured soil sleeping in Boche dugout. Here I acquired Roche brand of cooties that invaded my clothes only to be met and fiercely attacked by
 own Yankee-reared brand, and a scrap to the finish began. Each night as 1 turn in to sleep the battle begins afresh and wages fiercely until wonder why with so many real pat
 battlefields at hand they should choose me for the scene of their combat. I feel sure, however, that the Yankees hold the offensive and ak driving the Boches hard
 Now for something more agree able. I have at last received a promo tion and am a first instead of a sec- ond lieutenant. This entities me tc wear silver bars instead of gold. and also entities me to draw more silver francs from the disbursing quarter. l master Now all that l desire is a trip to Paris, where l can be seen o1 men-and girls-on the bouvelards with my two gold service stripes, my
 new silver bars and the old Samue | Browne belt all slicked up. Or, bet. ter still, would prefer to promenade up old Fremont street. This would
 be preferable to even. the Champs l Elysees.
 You know from previous letters l the latest drives. Each time oul battalion was first over the top, st
 we have seen quite bit of actioI
 and experienced the real thrills o I fighting, but it is pretty grim ant sordid work. Upon our last drivV
 over we met up with bunch O f Austrians who had no desire to fgh and really welcomed a chance to qui 1 the war. One of them called an off Ger of our company his liberator. anC also called the Kaiser whole lot O
 names, not at all fiattering and tha would not look well in print
 1 Last night had q detail of mel cut setting up harbed wire, A heay,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-07
INTERESTED NsuTRALs,

It is only proper that the nations
 which have stood neutral during the
 war should be manifestlhg increase7
 interest relative to their own position
 in the peace arrangements. for though
 Germany has not as yet agreed to the terms of the armistice which have heen presented to it, or asked General Ioch for the granting of it as 1t has been told that it must. it is perfectly evident that it is only a question oi time before this is done and steps can be taken relative to the establish. nent of peace. The neutrais have been large suf. ferers. Those who are neighbors ot the Teutons have been forced to un- delRo greater losses and injustices than, some of the nations which havr actually declared q state Of war tt exist with Germany. 1tHeir rights have been disregarded, their shipping has been destroyed and the lives oi l their subjects have been ruthlessly taken. In not few instances Ger 1 many has promised restitution as the the result of protests which have been made.
 Norway has for instance lost nearly ] q thousand ships and hundreds oi lives to say nothing of the serious in- 1 terruption in its business with other | countries. Holland has been forced tc | cleave very closely to the line in or 1 der not to seriously violate it's heu- l trality in meeting German demands
 while the losses to Denmark, Swedel ! and Spain are by no means small
 despite neutrality which was in clined in some instances tc lean {. | Germany Denmark also is interested
 in the return of Schleswig which mat ter Germany half century ago prom.
 ised would be settlep by plebiscite
 It is but natural therefore that tht
 neutrals should be showing an inter. i est in their own claims with peace
 looming so conspicuously on the hori | nOn
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-07
Americans in Eranee.
Correspondence of The Associated
 PresS)

Correspondence Of The Associated
 Press.)
 On the rugged Breton coast there is an American naval estat lishment which is q soft Of composite Of the b1sy activity of the navy department at Washington and of one of the big navy yards on the American seaboarl
 Vice Admiral Wilson, commanding the American naval forces in French waters, has his headquarters here, with an executive staff IaRrtefeUl in one of the largest buildings O. the city, fronting the Place President Wilson. American hluejackets are on guard at all the entrances. and stea dy files Of American naval officers and sailors crowd the corridors on their various duties.
 The streets are filled with American sailors on '1iberty parties" often 5,GG0 and G.e00 in a single party And OF the water front there is the hustle and activity of a huge navy yatd. with scores of American naval craft and transports lying in the harbor, and the shore alive with a vast naval installa- ticn
 Besides the rush of the port itself, this is the naval administration center for 300 miles of the French coast, di- vided into three districts. with a num- Der of, the chief ports into which the masses of American men and material are pouring.
 Aside from the American transport fleet which comes and goes, th ire Is standing personnel of officers and men in these districts. with some so ships -destroyers, repair ships, converted yachts, mine sWeepers and naval tugs. The shore establishment is on the same extensive scale with aeroIromes for balloons and airplahes. great stacks of coal and mammoth tanks for fuel oil.
 Naval headquarters is in constant wireless touch with the whole range of this naval activity. along 300 miles 1 of front and far out to sea where the conveys are steadily moving in and cut All the orders are issued here I for this intricate movement the meet 1 ings at sea at appointed places-and ,he ziy-zas routes which will cheat the hostile craft lying off the coast. From outside headquarters one sees l the wireless antennae stretching of to a nearby church steeple, thus giving great sweep of wire for gathering 1 the sound waves. There is also direct l telegraph and telephone, so that if need be conversations may go on be- i tween the naval chiefs and Anerican II officers at Paris or London It is a huge work this big estab- l lishment is carrying on. On the strict
 ly naval side are the defensive and offensive operations-defense of Amer ican and other allied shipping in the
 vast movement of men and material across the Atlantic, and offensive in the war of extermination being made against enemy submarines
 Outside of the naval operations there is the steady march of & vast naval construction at all she ports
 along this 300 miles or sea sront. re- l rair plants, fuel stations, on tanks water works. and all the re4ti lrenents of a great naval establishment which is constantly expanding.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-07
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The state never did a better thing than when it decided to retain its war governor.
 The reconVening of politics didn't result in such one sided contest as it was expected to.
 It can. never be expected that politi. cal campaign orators will ever get the title of four-mihute men.
 Strange as it may seem there is un- usual silence oh the part of Lenine and Trotzky at the present time.
 The man on tine corner says: Much of the virtue of any liniment comes from the helping hand that ruhs it in.
 The recognition of the Polish army indicates that Poland is going to get proper consideration at the peace ta- ble.
 From the way in which the allies continue to drive into the enemy lines they give no idea of offering any rest to the Huns
 speIacY can now add another in stance where he has "stuck to his post" But in this case 1t War not q matter or cnolCe,
 All of sudden Germany is dis playing an unusual kindness toward the Czechs but they must nave cut their wisdom teeth before this.
 Turkey has probably bad an oppor. tunity to consider by this time that il no longer will have the chance tt massacre the Armenians at will
 If by any chance you have beer overlooked in the gathering of fund, for the united war work campaign don't hesitate to make your contri. button.
 Sufficiently supplied as they have claimed to be, no country is more in terested in the question of food toda, than those making up the once unite central powers. From the success which the womei are making of the job of filling th places of the striking New York wait CTS, the men might as well understan: l that they have got to go to work Germany must take the militar, course and ask General Foch Tor al armistice, the terms of wkich hav been submitted to it. It cannot b 1 allowed to escape admitting that has been beaten.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-07

know who it is and if you think am
 going to have Teco torn limb from
 lirnb just through false pride = my
 goodness, that sounds like his voice!
 And she was off again. 1. was a ter
 rible situation for me. Should l man fully trail on to protect my wife and, when dawn broke, perl1aps find my self for from home in lrliatic asylum attire. rushing along witk fespeeta+ bly clad, sober persons gnins to work LOT should go home and leave fmo- gene 10 her fate2
 "Just as I turned for horne a gleaTn of moonlight lit up tho opposite side of the street farther doWf--and what did I sec but 1mogene aeeoroas1y walking along with an utterly strange manl If you dropped that woman iii the middle of the Sahara, sent her up in balloon or sank l1c- ill the ocean, she would appear in five minutes with some male escort She has that fac ulty. However, I cannot say l liked the idea Of this moonlight stroll; Her hair was down and she wlts sketehily clad. I rushed after them.
 Half way down the block there is a tunnel effect, where a fiat building l is built out over the Jenkins porte l coehere. Down this black tunnel I witnessed my wife and the strange gentleman disappear. Gathering up 1 my trailing robes 1 spri1ted after 1 them. I resolved when once l laid | hands oh my wife, I would point out | her errors i.1 no gentle fnannef. l 1 boited through the tunlitl into the 1 Jenkins back yard just in time to l hear Imogen@ shriek, There lie is! Oh, save him. Stop thefn!' At which the i strange gentleman fell upon two | dtKlfraling rats and presented them, ! one ih each hand to my wife. The 1 Jenkinses we're ali at their back win
 daws by this time. havih% ,risen from bed to witness the murder scene. 1 " For heaveiis salte. I erowled td Imogene, take your blamed cat and l let's get out af this!'
 But waiied Imogere, rejecting 1 the preffered gifts of the strange man me, neither one is my cat Oh, Where l is Teco?'
 '''Take them anyhow Jenkin- yelled from upstairs. They've been lleenins me awake all niehi!
 ''f firmly fed Ttnogene home, incl | iehtally learning that the strange man l was the night watchman md a per feetly proper escort, so I might just as well stop s6oIding, especially as pooI Teco prebabiy was lying si&in in some
 alley Well, we got nome to find Tece negligehtiy waiting for us cn tho front steps-arid 1t was o'clock about. ant I'm always cross when my night:
 rest Is spoiled. I'll bet yoU Imogene wouldn't spend all that lime looking for mel"
 "Why should she?' demanded tht 1 Woodlawn man, coldly She's go some sense. e."-Exchange
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-07
BETWEEN DREAMS

''Woman's tlevotion!" -einarked the man from Hyde Park fervently. 'Is there anything on earth like it?
 Say. what's happened to ycu?" de- nanded his friend from Woodlawn in- dignantly.
 I'm talking about Imogene's devo- ton to Teco her eat" explained the Hyde Park man. ''Teco has long fur. a pampefed soul baby blue eyes and a wild yearn to get out ,1f jail. When he does get out he has all sorts of exciting experiences and rA5irns to his hereft home several kinds of a wreck. I have alwrys thought that Tece did not know tho first principles of alley lighting, and no cat, no matter in what luxury he lives, should neglect that educational branch because he never can tell when he is going to be thrown out upon the cruel world.
 Well, Teeo slid out the other night at II o'clock through brief crack in the door and Isomeue fiatly refused to turn in for the night without locating him. She patrolled the neigi1borhood calling has name and I stayed by our front steps cchoing her cries sotto roce. so 1 could insist when she came
 
 help her. There was no use-the anil nal had mada his getaway and lmo7 gene at last went up stairs. eloquent with woe. At o'clock sine clutch ed my shoulder and awakened me.
 "Listen' she hissed Hear those awful yowls? l know it must be Teco and I'm going to save him! Somebody is killing him.
 Before I could get wide awake In1o- gene had hoped into | kimotlo and slippers and, hair in braid, saiiied out. For all I knew the humane so7 ciety might arrest me if they found her, so I piled out. too. She tore around the bushes in tke Ferguson premises and I expected every instant to hear the bark of q pistol from a window, for Ferguson is quick on tho trigger If I called to her and any ene heard me the whole rnighborhood would have had the stor} he fellow ing day that I had had ,t light with my wife and beaten her lip so that the poor thing fed from the house.
 50 in boiling silence padded along after her. That woman must be the original human snake, the way she twisted in and out betWeeh trees and I>bushes, and they were always such prickly, grahoy bushes toos There eer tainly was an awful car fight going on somewhere, but we could not seem to locate it. I finally Sotnered my wife. 1mogere.' I told her. If there is one thing more ridiculous than an other it is two people racing up and down the avenue at , o'clock in the morning in their nightles searching | for q cat. What would the neighbors think ?'
 "'FoohH she retorted, they wont
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-07
cERMANYs PROTEST.

How quick Germany is to whine when the tables are turned against it is no better illustrated than by the protest which it is now making against the bombing of it's cities by the allies aircraft. Germany doesn't like it's own treatment when practieed upon itself and no one can blame it, for it has fesorted to every conceivable device for meeting it's desperate needs. It has cast rules of war, restrictions and interna tionRl laws to the winds and descended to the level Of inc outlaw and the pirate who recognizes no i'm itations. But as Is usually the case in such Instances 1t loses no time in pleading for mercy when it is shown by superior force that it cannot carr1 on it's policies indefinitely and when any retaliatory measures are used against it.
 Germany is now passing thfoue h advefsity and it is decidedly anxious that it's people and it's territory should not be subjected to the horrors and fepredations which it has insisted up- on inilieting upon every country that it has invaded. But think Of the ef- frontery in protesting noW against the bombing of German citiesl
 The time has come of course when Germany is Oh the defense. It has so much to attend to that it has had to abandon it's air raids except over the battlefronts and immediate terri tory. The number Of its machines has been greatly reduced and the su premacy of the air is in ether hands It was necessary for the allies to take up German methods in order to teach it a lesson. Naturally the experience doesn't set well but a protest from Germany regarding such matter doesn't help it's case any. German knows what fl can do to end it al and end it quickly.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-07
OUR FOREIGN TRADE.

How the foreign trade of this coun- try as the result of the war activity has developed, and apparently is in- creasing, is shown by the report of he department of foreign and do- nestle commerce for the month of September. We have broken records before and we are still breaking them. How long it will be continued Is problematical but there is slight pros- pect of slump when it is shown that for the sixth time during the present year the value of the imports of mer- thandise for that month has exceeded those for the corresponding month of, any previous year, and for the fourth time this year the value of the exports for that month has exceeded those for the corresponding month of any previous year.
 What is meant by this increase in imports is shown by the fact that the Total value for the month amounted
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-07
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Feedinq the CentraL poWers.

MT. Editor: If while walking along
 a street you came upon q ruffian uh-
 mercifully beating d child, WHO was
 in an almost dying condition. what
 would you do? You would do what
 any man should do: give him the beat
 ing of his life. which would not be
 difficult since the man must be q
 coward as shown by his actions con corning the child.
 Now to get to the point, would you, after having him beaten and clinFin2 at your feet, hold out your hand to him and help him up, give him a quar- ter and say. "Buy n cigar, ole man P Or would you, seeing the child lying bleeding on the ground, notify the po- l lice and commit the brute to further punishment. ] think most of Us would pursue thu latter course.
 Substitute Germany for the ruffian, Belgium Tor the child and inc allies for yourself and we have a real sltua- tion. The allies now. with victory as sured are contemplating supplying the suffering population Of enemy coun- tries with food. clothing and other necessities
 I say, let them suffer as they have made others suffer. and let them work
 out their own salvation. There are enough hungry people to Dc fed ih Belgium. France, Russia, without look irs around for more They can. use al the food they can set and still not have enough. So why feed an enemy, wholly lacking in gratitude? The American people are capable and willing to make great sacrifices
 for a good cause. In order to supply
 our enemies with food. etc. will nee esSitate some sacrifice on our part. The majority of American people will not be willing to make the small est sacrifice to help feed the vdltures that are dyed with the blood Of the flower of American manhood. A READER Norwich. Nov. 6, 1913.