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Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22

over unimportant things, because you are ,wrinkling your face. Why, it's really joke, woman! Ha! Ha!
 Mary drew herself up stiffiy and said she was pained to find me so hard and unsympathetic and she thought the greatest charm woman had was the ability to feel for her friends, good day. And her house parties are so ducky!
 Mrs. Towner stopped me at the next corner She had on her hands family with ten. children and the fath- ers had run away and wouldn't con tribute s5 or s10? He! Hal smiled T. Tell them to be cheerful in the midst of their difficulties and the clouds will roll away. I've paid out so much of my allowance this month on relief work that I'm wearing gloves with holes in 'em. I can give you just 50 cents, but I'm sure it isn't so bad as it seems, They probably are dole ful about it, instead of laughing off their troubles. If people only would laugh
 "EWell,' said Mrs. Towner tartly, ] taking the 50 cents. as though she wished she had a pair of tongs. I've my opinion of any one recommending grinning when there's nothing In the house to eat or wear. Huh! Somewhat subdued, walked on wondering why the recipe didn't seem I to fit Bob Davis met me looking sc dismal, I almost forgot to be cheerful | He said that Isabel had finally turned him down and his life was ruined. burst into ripping laughter. l tole him how foolish he wes-that the
 world was full of girls and that 1sabe would have made him miserable, any how. Smile about it. I recommended doing so myself. Bob regarded me ant l saw suspicion dawn in his eyes 'Horrors!' recorded his brain. Is thi'
 girl trying to grab me off on the re-
 bound? I believe she's in love witt me-help. help!' Looking very wilt
 and scared. Bob dropped me ana
 escaped.
 T spare you the street car conduc tor, who objected to my s10 bill ant took my cheer as an added insult. Ant when I came home and found mothe
 in tears because the cook had left an' I recommended smiling as a remedy well, I nearly lost my childhood
 home. tell you, it doesn't work il
 real life"
 "Pooh!" said the patient listener
 "Try snapping at them instead. gives them new trouble to think ab
 out and takes their minds off the origi II nal one.-Exchange. .
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22
AN AIR WIZARD.

America hasn't been in the war as long as the other nations, and it hasn't gained the position of others in regard to airplane operations, but in consideration of ali things there can be no question but what it has devel- oped a splendid body of aviators who have given an excellent account of themselves whenever opportunity has permitted. And this applies to the period in which many of them en- tered the service before the United States joined in the war, as well as since. This has been especially marked of late in the sector where he Americans are located in north eastern France.
 In this connection it cannot help be- :ng recognized that the airplane ser vice has lost most valuable man in the death of Major Lufbery. in whose accomplishments Connecticut has req son to feel justly proud, for he has r.been doing in the air what other Nut meg state men have been so valiantly doing on land and sea.
 Lufbery vas one of the leaders among the American aviators. Not only was he a most valuable instruc. tor but daring operator and fighter Had his encounter with his adversary been on equal terms there can be lit. tie question but what he would have been the victor. He had attempted what is now regarded as a next tc impossible task with his equipment the bringing down of a flying tank but he had the courage to try to plac, the chance shot that would have meant success for him. He neverthe less fought great fight and will b. rated among the great aviators of tho war. He was unquestionably a wiz ard of the air.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22
THE WAR PRIMER 5y National Geographic Society.

Amiens, which is still inside the lines of the Allies but which is within
 range of the German big guns and is, therefore, being battered to pieces with 1 the accustomed Teutonic ruthless ness, is the subject of the following
 war geography bulletin issued today | by the National Geographic Society: ''Eighty-one miles north of Paris l by rail and Y miles southeast of the 1 important Channel seaport of Bou- l logne Amiens was a thriving city with
 many important industries before the | war In addition to it's manufacturing l interests, which included woolens, lin- i ems, Vevelts, silks and dishes, it en- :! joyed considerable prosperity, owing to it's advantageous situation on the
 River Somme near the point where
 this important waterway is joined by it's afT1uents the ArVe and the Celle. ''The business section of the town
 was rather unattractive in appear
 ance. being threaded by 2 numerous
 canals, but wiGA yell-paTed streets
 were to be found throughout the res- 1 idential section, and the older section l of the town was surrounded by l picturesque boulevards which occu- | pied the site of ancient Notifications 1 In the western end of the city there
 was a famous pleasure park known | as the Promenade de Ia. Hotoie, where festivals and concerts were frequently given in the long past days of peace.
 "Amiens, which in 1914 was about the size of Springfield. Mass, was in iancient times know as Samarobriva and was the capital of the Gallie tribe known in Julius Caesars time as the Ambiani Cdwellers on the waterO. 1 It became Roman stronghold and re- ceived special consideration at the
 hands of Marcus Aurelius. The
 Franks captured in in the 5th cen
 tury In the 18th century it became
 an important commercial center and four hundred years later was one of
 the chief cities of the great textile
 industry of France. Up to 1790 it was
 the capital of Picardy, and is now the
 capital of the Department of the
 Somme.
 | The devastation wrought by the } Huns today does not mark the first
 experience Aniens has had with the
 Prussians. After the so-calledt Battle of Amiens, which consisted of numer- ous dwetaehed engagements in the vii !, cinity of Villers- -Bretonneux and
 Drury, it was captured by the same , enemy in November. 1870.
 Among thea native sons of Amiens
 who have written their names in- delllply on the pages or world history are Peter the Hermit, the legendary
 author and originator of the First l Crusade; Blssset, the sculptor; Voi- ture and Gresset, the poets. and Du- cange, the noted linguist.
 r Tn the famous Treaty of Amiens signed in 1902 by Great Britain France, Holland and Spain, the British ? recognized the changes in the map oi Europe which had been effected by ? the armies of Napoleon. This treaty | also restored to France almost the whole of her colonial empire which s had been taken from her some years before
 "of course, the chief glory oi } Amiens, before it suffered the same l fate as Rheiems, was her cathedral f which will be described in a subse- Y quent war geography bulletin
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STORIES OF THE WAR
vINpIcTNE's GUNNER's BATTLE
 STORY.

Special Anchor That Did Not Work.
 The crew of the howitzer which was mounted forward Gin the VindictiveJ had all been killed; second crew was destroyed likewise; and even then a third crew was taking over the gun.-Official- narrative.
 Yesterday (writes a Daily Chroni- cle" representative) I traced to his home in Chatham Leading Seaman Dowell-a bluejacket who acted as No in that third crew and mar velously survives with scarcely a scratch.
 Before we went into the affair." ' he remarked, 'I thought to myself, If I start thinking I'll be sure to get killed or wounded-well, most likely it'll come true So went in with a good heart, and here I am, none the worse"
 Then he passed from philosophy to facts.
 T was No 2" he explained. fin the
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22
Views of the Vigilantes
OUR ALIEN PRESS
By Hamlin Garland of The Vigilantes

There are in the United States hun dreds of weekly and daily papers whose language is alien to us and in many cases hostile to our government Some are covertly disloyal, others are mere ly antagonistic to the genius of Amer ica. In all cases they are an oh- structfon if not a menace.
 The existence and prosperity of such papers necessarily means the per sistence of something foreign. They portend immigrants unassimilated They keep alive a spirit and tradi- tion which is opposed to the perfect union of the immigrant with his en- vironment. To prove this you have man papers of Wisconsin on the loy- alty of the German Wisconsin" pop ulation. The recent election showed that even at this date there are one hundred thousand voters who are es- sentially disloyal, voters who are ! readers of the German American press.
 Germany has taught up the power | of a united people. Would she permit within her boundaries a group of pa l pers which are not merely alien 1T I thought and feeling but opposed tc l the form of government under which l they receive protection? Would hel postal authorities carry to all parts o. the nation the kind of corrosive crit icism which we benignly distribute We have a right at this time to for bid all agencies which do not make for united America. Would no | Wisconsin be a better state today i the publication of her German paper. | had been forbidden twenty years ago l | a nf frna
 within asonable lfmiss-bIN ! dt not believe in fostering agencies whici in their very nature are obstructive O progress along lines laid down b! the makers of the Constitution. I d. not consider it the duty of the Uosta department to distribute a literatur' which is not only alien but alnos openly reasonable.
 Perhaps we have made a fetish O
 Free Speech "This is free country ain't it?" shouts every man who ii
 claiming a license to be somethin: more than free-spoken in a languag, | which only a'few can understand.
 believe in free speech-for myself
 l am a bit suspicious of it when it i claimed by a man who puts his pro paganda into German, or Turkish 0 some other tongue which can be mad the>s vehicle of utterances treasonabl
 and destructive.
 l The people who come here to sta
 should put aside their old world al
 legiances. They should not only mal1
 plain profession of their aims. The
 should acquire the language of thei
 neighbors They should read Engls
 papers and English books and mal
 their criticisms whatever they art
 in the language of their Governmer Good-natured old Uncle Sam is be ginning to Nraighten up and loo
 about him. He may in time leave O
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22
oUrRAelNe NEUTRAL NORWAY.

The neutral nations from the very beginning of the war have been the object of attack by Germany. No re- spect whatever has been manifested for their rights and the longer the war that none can be expected. Germany drove the United States into the war by it's tactics, it has caused many ether nations to sever diplomatic re- lations and it has aroused the enmity of many more. although they are not all taking an active part in the fight ing.
 One. of the greatest sufferers from the ruthlessness of the German war fare on the high seas has been Nor way. Not only has it lost hundreds of lives and about 1000 ships, but its fishing boats are now the object Of attack by the German underwater boats. Its purpose is apparently to make Norway suffer for the agree rnent, which it has entered into with the Tinted States regarding trade be- tween tfe two countries. and for the persistence which it has shown in keeping up it's trade with Great Brit ain in spite of it's losses. and this not withstanding the fact that it was drawing large supplies from that na- tion itself and for a period was getting possession of goods which were sent from this country.
 Norway has indeed manifested grea; patience over the treatment which it has beer accorded. l. has been suf- fering as severely as if it was actual ly one of the belligerents and as the toll which Germany continues to ex- act from that nation is piled up the wonder grows as to how much more of a burden it is going to be forced to bear without. in it's desperation taking sides in the war.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22
THE'RAILRoAD NEEDS.

Not many days ago the director gen. eral of the railroads let contracts for locomotives and freight cars running up into large figures. The cost of such new equipment amounted to a large sum for ga single outlay, but when consideration is given to the fact that these additions are being secured for all the contracts which formerly were let by the different systems separately, it is recognized that they were less extensive than might otherwise be thought. Such equipment is greatly needed. The need has been appar- ent for a long time but the contract will amount to less in actual rolling stock when filled than would haze been secured by the roads under their former method of doing business.
 Now billion dollar budget for the roads is proposed which means the distribution among the various sya- tems of that amount that they may be permitted to carry on the neces sary improvements which are needed to keep them in proper repair and to extend their business. A billion dol lar railroad appropriation is of course a new thing because the government has not been engaged in this busi- ness heretofore. but there can be no question but what the outlay is re- quired And in this case were the roads to do such wor,- on the former basis the sum would unquestionably ne much larger, though made at diff ferent times and under different con- ditions. How far this billion will co in meeting the object for which it is asked remains to be seen. but there can be no question but what the up- keep of the railroads must be care fully looked after if the transporta- ton needs are going to be met. II requires money whoever is in con . troI
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22
: FAREWELL DANCE : DANZ JAZZ BAND T. Thursday, May 23rd
 Pulaski Hall

CELEBRITY THEATRES Have Been Built in All National Guard
 and National Army Camps
 in America "Smileage Books" issued by Federal Military Entertainment Council, pro- vide free admission to these theatres. Send one to YOUR soldier or to
 ANY soldier.
 Price s1. For sale at the following places: The Porteous & Mitchell Go. The Reid & Hughes Co. (Boston Store). RaIhbone's Drug Store. Rieker's Drug StoHe.rg The Lee & Osgood Go. The Wauregdn Hotel Office Mara & Eggleton. George Madden Cigar otoFe). Engler's Pharmacy. K. of c. Rooms. Ring & Sisk. Druggists. The Y. M. c. A. Office H. M. Lerou. J. c. Macpherson.
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could have been chosen. His reputa- tion as a legal examiner was made in the insurance investigation in New York, when his knowledge of the whole complicated subject astounded the experts in insurance as much as his acumen in going for and eliciting facts embarrassed them. Furthermore the fact that Gov. Hughes was the Presidents opponent in the last cam paign and showed himself an unspar- ing critic of the administration, will remove any possible idea that an in vestigation conducted by him will prove merely an official coat of whate- wash to cover up incompeteney or failure on the part of the Government.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22

whiting and gassing around the drugstore stoop and attend to the business of looking after the welfare of his institutions. The pressure of war needs seem about to bring enor- mously valuable and greatly deserved union of the clements which are as yet mixed but not fused in the melting pot of our social order.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22

While. it is announced that the in- crease of American troops in Europe is causing uneasiness in Berlin. the reports from the front indicate that that is not the only place.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22

The president says q am here tc stand by Russia as we'll as by France and that is certainly com mendable stand. Prussianism needs to be crushed wherever it appears.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22

The state motor vehicle department is now to conduct a campaign for the enforeegaent of the law regarding lights, which simply emphasizes the fact that auto drivers have got to be constantly watched if the purposes of the automobile laws are to be met.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22

The man on the corner says: The weathern1an has done much to rees- tablish himself in the good graces of the war gardeners and the dust suf-
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22

Uniforms accomplish great things. Before yeowomen became such they would have been insulted had they been spoken to without an introduc- tion, but since donning the blue they insist upon being saluted.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22

From the way in which George Greet makes it necessary to apologize to congress it is quite evident that he holds position which requires more foresight.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22

Investigations made by the bureau of entomology have proved that in- sects cause the destruction of more timber of size used commercially than do forest fires.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22

Won Hertling says that all Ger many wants is a place in the sun. It may consider itself lucky if it's able to get a moonbath.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22

Even the end of Sir Roger Case ment does not appear to have taught some people in Ireland anything.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22

The people of Prague cannot ap- plaud the allied governments enough They'll be leaving the dual monarchy in body next.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22

Lesson is added to lesson that it is impossible to exert too much care when working in a factory where high explosives are manufactured.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22

Inasmuch as Norwich didn't come quite up to it's quota for the first Red Cross fund the opportunity of making up for it is now at hand.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22
EDITORIAL NOTES

Kornilof is again reported dead but there are some Russians who stil show that they know how to fight.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22

Is it the freedom of the German
 sword that these Irishmen aspire to?
 America came near going through this
 war without getting into il. It would have been to her everlasting disgrace if she had not drawn her sword in defense of all that is best in the world. Americans would have been obliged to hang their heads in shame for all time on meeting men of the nations that have been giving their blood to protect civilization if our
 country had not seen ots duty and done it's part. This is for Irishmen to consider. If they will rot answer the call to fight Germany, the war
 will be won without conscription be-
 ing applied to the Emerald Island
 of which they are so justly proud.
 And if Ireland will not join the forces that are fighting barbarian in this war she will have cause to hang
 her head in shame for all time to ! come.-Waterbury Republican.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22

Forty six thousand demobilized Ru- manian officers and men have returned to Rumania.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22
OTHER VIEW POINTS

You who kick about the amount of wheat bread that you are told you should eat, ought tos4he in Ger many where the bread ration is cut to five and half ounces a day. Meriden Journal.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22

-Connecticut IS determined to keep great New York canal system open ed for business and hundreds of vessels of large carrying. capacity started on their way Not to be out done entirely the two steamers that occasionally ply the river called Connecticut, but which might more appropriately be dubbed the Good rich, were fioated away from their wharves. The Erie is not the only waterway. The Nutmeg State noti- fies all concerned that she, too, has liquid line over which boats can pass when permitted-Bristol Press.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22

No act of President Wilson has been
 better received than his appointment
 of ex-Gov. Chas. H. Hughes to assist the attorney general in Investigating the aircraft scandal. The facts before
 the public are that a billion has been spent and as yet we have no supply
 of fighting planes in France. Aroused by this situation, President Wilson
 some months ago asked Gutzon Borg lun, the we'll known sculptor and a
 personal friend of his, to look into the
 matter and make him a report. There 1 is some doubt as to whether Borglum
 was an official or an unofficial investi- gator, but there is no doubt but that
 his report of inefficiency and graft was
 enough to make people sit up and take
 notice. Charges were immediately
 forthcoming that the investigator was himself financially interested in air
 craft manufacture and therefore not | unprejudiced in his strictures on the present holders of government con tracts. To get at the truth of the mat ter nobody better than ex-Gov. Hughes
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commends the Senators.

Norwich, May 21, 1918.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22

"Of course, the chief glory of Amiens, before it suffered the same fate as Rheiems, was her cathedral, which will be described in a subse- quent war geography bulletin
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-01-25
AMERICAN FORCES NOW
SIX TIMES AS LARGE AS IN
NISH-AMERICAN WAR

There were 1,42S,650 enlisted men
and 110,S65 officers in the United
States army at the opening of 1918,
more than one and one-half times
as large as any force ever before
modified by this nation, according
to a statement by Secretary of War
Baker.
During the war with Spain the
army of the United States at it's
maximum strength aggregated 272,-
600 men and officers. The army in
the field and in training now is prac-
tically six times as great as the max
imum number under arms in the
Spanish-Am erican war.
About $4,000 officers were COM
missioned from civil life in the two
series of training camps, nearly eight
times as many as the number of Of
ficers in the regular army April l,
1917.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-01-25
PIGS TO ATTEND CONVENTION

A pig club convention and sale for
April or May, at MoXie City, is the
plan of the Yakima County Pig club,
according to Lucien n. Jones, district
leaders of boys and girls club work
extension service, who is attending
the conference of club leaders at the
State College of Washington.
Authorities on swine from the
State College, and stockmen, will be
invited to speak at the convention;
the Moxie City club being host and
furnishing entertainment
The Union stock yards at PascO
are furnishing sows to pig club mem
bers at pork prices throughout the
nearby districts. A fat pig contest
Is soon to be started.
Mr. Jones admits that, as a rule,
pigs with young lady guardians are
cleaner than the less fortunate swine
being raised by boys.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-01-25
OF CORD ON HAT De
NOTES SERVICE OF WEAREE

Just as the sleeve chevrons and
bars, stars, and egales on the should
er proclaim ranking officers, the hat
cord denotes the branch of service
each private has entered.
Light blue signifies infantry; scar
let, artillery; yellow. cavalry; buff,
quartermasters corps: scarlet and
white, engineers corps; orange and
white, signal corps; scarlet and
black, ordnance; black and white,
field clerk; maroon, medical corps !;
black and gold, officers; silver and
black, adjutant generals clerk
green, instructor home guards; green
and white, home guards. These cords
are worn only on service hats.
Cadet aviators wear as hat bands
inch and half white ribbons and on
coat collars insignia representing the
aviation branch of the signal corps,
propeller blades.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-01-25
40, 900 COLORED MEN
CALLED INTO ARMY BY
SELECTIVE DRAFT LAW

Eight per cent of the 1856, sos
men registered under the selectiye
service law are colored OF these
nearly 100000 have been called and
more than $1,000 have been certi-
fled for service.
Out Of every 100 colored men
called, SO were certified for service
and GA were rejected, exempted, or
discharged. while out of every 100
white citizens called, 25 were certi-
fled for service.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-01-25

Arrangements have been made for
some relaxation of the restrictions on
the export of foodstuffs to Cuba,
whose people are greatly dependent
upon the United States for their food
supply. Among the exports which
may be licensed in limited quantities
are condensed milk, butter and
cheese, pork and pork products, beef
and beef products, and dried fruits.