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Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-06
EDITORIAL NOTES

The man on the corner says: Habit has a way of leading people around by the nose
 Peru seems to be keeping it's head although it is quite evident that 1t doesn't like Chile sauce From all indications it looks as if there would be quite a little time yet for tourists to complete seeing Ameri- | ca.
 Perhaps it is chiIe's idea to go to war while it is possible to try out the latest fighting devices while they are new.
 When the former kaiser declared 'our future lies in the sea" he, made a very bad guess about those under water boats.
 The children are not doing any per ceptible worrying over the fact that | the German toys have been given 8 cold reception
 "l loved my men and they loved me" says the crown prince. What a blow it must have been to the German army when he fled to Hollandl
 The Germans are being made fully aware Of the fact that the Rhine isn't the only thing that the allies are go- ing to watch in Germany.
 It is certainly going to be strange for the housewife not to be forced to put the grocer through daily ques- tionnaire in search for sugar.
 We have not had a real good snow storm, but there is no question but what it is time to pack away the lawn mower and oil up the snow shovel.
 One can hardly blame the silk work CTS of China for thinking their de- mands are reasonable when they ask for an increase from eleven to twelve cents day.
 After understanding the disputes that go with the game, there is nc wonder that ex- President Taft has nc desire to be the head of the baseball league to preserve peace.
 The order to the poIicewoman O. Newark to see that rouged and DOW dered girls be made to wash theil faces is probably based upon the law about going around masked.
 The distilleries have been out O business for some time. or are engaged in other operations, and now the brew cries are still, but no complaint aheu any shortage of drinkables has beer heard.
 The price of blue white diamond is said to have greatly increased be cause the mining of them has bee: , interrupted. A great many people ar' likewise able to furnish evidence t the effect that black diamonds hav' alsn hacome vastly mare costly
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the anchorage proof against all foes; and the steamboat from shore goes seaward to pick up travellers and bring them safely through the invisible bar
 rier. They come creeping in presently,
 as though weary and glad to drop all-
 chor and enjoy a night of repose il.
 these peaceful waters, The red rner-
 chant flag of England predominates;
 but the allied flags and those of occa-
 sionai neutrals can be distinguished.
 All, to the smallest cargo boat,
 mount gun lifted over the stern, and
 nearly all, save the least. are camou-
 fiaged in wonderful aN bewilderins
 patterns. Some exhibit a stiff zebra design of perpendicular black and white bars. while others are painted horizontally with long flowing lines like the run of waves-black and white, green and blue. These appear to be best disguised. viewed from this stand point three miles off but others are al
 most equally difficult to distinguish without slass-craft painted eubist fashion in squares and blocks and sharp angles of black and white, rus set and gray, jagged upon each other Even to their tunnels and bridges 1 the steamers are thus decorated, unti they present no more amorphous Humps ana 1alnL pfoDS OI ClSconnecleO color lying upon the sea. Their lines entirely disappear, and what is visi- | ble almost ceases to suggest shiI even seen at anchor from this vantage ground POO feet above them but theil concealment in running sea mus surely be complete. and from a peri l scope, or even the deck of suhma l rine, these disguised craft would have been hard enough to find even on rar' occasions Of perfect visibility.-Th' I Iondon Chronicle
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CLEANED FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES

Swords may be beaten into plough shares, Supposing we wanted plough shares: but what many people are ask ing, is to be done with the vast ac- cumulations of war material which will be left whenever the war comes to an end? Particularly if as we hope may be the case, peace gives a pros- pect of at least the partial disarma- ment of the nations?
 We know. because we have been told, the uses to which some of the equipment will be put. The tens of thousands of motor trol1ies are design cd to play their part in road transport and cooperative food production and distribution. Railway lines and cars and locomotives will be brought home to replace worn-out permanent way and rolling stock. Hospital trains can be converted to ordinary uses. These are the more obvious transformations. What of the intrinsic war material and the factories which produce it As far as the latter are concerned there is little difficulty. Most of the machin- cry of a intuition factory can be adapted to the arts of peace with very. little trouble. It has been said that
 Woolwich Arsenal itself, should the millennium burst upon us, might De turning out agricultural and textile machinery in a week or two. It was announced the other day that acid- producing plants for high explosives will, almost automatically, furnish ar | tlficial fertilizers. Aircraft factories are an even easier proposition, for ev- cry part of an aeroplane or airship might very well be something else. A strange new word has sounded in
 our ears. Owing to the scarcity of skilled labor some of our trade unions have been giving permission to their
 members to work for more than one
 employer. Thus it may happen that
 q man, after finishing his regular job
 at, say, I D. m., will work in another firm until the small hours. This pa5 triotic effort to carry on till the youngl
 CT boys come back is described in a trade union circular as shouting, '' and in another as "smooting" But
 what is the derivation of the term?
 Before the war, swhen it was taboo for a trade unionist already in a full time job to do similar work elsewhere the practice was often denounced as
 "twicing."
 Bakers ought not to grumbIe at the 'l crder which came into force this week
 making the use of potatoes in bread
 compulsory. They are to get their po-
 tatoes at s los. ton (nearly three . times as cheap as the greengrocers
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From the Consular Reports.

The scarcity of leather and it's al- most prohibitive price have brought wooden soled shoes into quite general use in Switzerland. Wooden soles arc put on various forms of footgear, from sandals for children to heavy work shoes for men.
 Owing to the difficulty of getting sufficient milk at reasonable prices the city of Wellington, New Zealand, has taken over its distribution.
 To forestall fraudulent competition Swiss exporters have adopted na- tional trademark-"S P. F. s." the initial letters of "Syndicat pour EEK portation Suisse" In Spain are 1,6oo,00e beehives, from which the annual production of honey IS around 2S.oo0,000 pounds, valued a. about S5,000,0o0. Natural gas has been discovered at Velsen, province of Overijsel. Neither lands It is being sold at 4 cents a cubic meter.
 Planters in Guadaloupe are unani nous in reporting that the coming cof fee crop will be large, 1 The installation of new system makes it possible now to communicat' | by telephone between the capital O | Haiti and that of the Dominican Re public.
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retail pfice), and the treasury will make up he difference to the grower by subsidy. It is estimated that by uslng, zO0. .00O tons of potatoes at least lcO,O90 tons of four will be saved. and the bread subsidy reduced by a 75G. 900.
 The control price of flour to the bak- CTS is E2 As. 3d. sack, which is at the rate of e17 14s. a ton The differ ence between the cost of 100000 tons ef four and 100000 tons of potatoes is G1,O70,000, by which amount it would appear the bakers of the country will benefit. So perhaps there will be no l more trouble over the "cheapness" of the ninepenny loaf.
 Beneath the limestone cliffs there glides the camoufiaged fishing fleet homiug to harbor, with a hundred hulls and five hundred tan and russet sails flashing brave color in the even ing glow. The irregular procession of
 the trawlers stretches from the head to the harbor; and astern of each boat wheel and turn little clouds of white
 and gray gulls, touched to rose color
 by the warm radiance from the west
 The catch is being cleaned for market
 and the birds do well.
 Soon the fleet is round the break
 water and making for moorings. Ther
 boats put of, and the fish are rowe6 ashore, where auctioneers and sales
 men wait for them.
 | Before dusk couple of gray scouts 1 flying the white ensign, speed into tht bay, cut silver line through the rec light that now rests upon the waters and are soon away again. then sets ou a little steamer. to guide ships tt their nightly berths. for the bay is stil guarded from submarine attack ant
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assured her. You just sit tight and do what I told you to, We'll stand over in the corner and watch the fun, And he stroIled away.
 After that I deliberately listened
 and I gathered that 1t was all a put up job and that, as the girl expressed 1, it, the boy was the goat. Soon she giggled excitedly. There he is, girls look at the big boob looked, too. and I never felt so sorry for a liu- man being in all my life.
 "'He was a great. huIking. red headed, freckIe faced. overgrown boy -aII legs and arms anu embarrass- menti Who called Michael Foran ? ehanted the iacky at the desk. No one, seemingly. Michael twisted and turn ed--prick red as to eountcnance. The 1 girls giggled and their jacky friend sauntered toward them. I couldn't stand to sec that boy made sport of l that way-I jumped to my feet and l hurried to him. pulled hlm hack with me to my old seat and sa: him down 1 with his back to the astonished group. They gave tls just one look and hastened away
 t'Then''-Cornelia's eyes grew misty I-.I found, out about Michael. It's l the old story of an ugly, quiet boy, a motherless childhood aul a worthless 1 father; a combination that kills youth
 and hope in q youngsters soul. During all the months he'd been n training
 he'd never had a visitor nor letter; his good times have been mighty few, because he can't mix with the boys, l and Bob says that's most essential in
 9 training camp. The poor fellow is i only marking time-his one hope seems to be that he'll he killed in the very first battle. He's not tragic-just sreconciled. He feels his whole life is a mistake and when he said, "There air't nothin' fer a guy llka me to live fer felt like weeping. I told Charities | Frost the whole story anl he's bring ing him in next Sunday ard -
 T have vision Mrs Connery gently interrupted. "of our table in our
 dining room next Sunday-and there'T
 be a heaping platter Of fried chicken and mashed potatoes and everything that boy loves to eat-and Cornelia's Michael and Charlie Frost will be among those present, anl we'll invite
 two sweet and pretty girls 10 mee ] them. And Bedelia shall rrake a freez.
 CT of ice cream and bake a cake
 and"
 I Thank yon dear." laughi,,d Cornelif
 uncertainty. T did SO wasnt you to dt , it. Won't Michael have one wonder , full Sunday ?'- Exchange.
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OTHER VIEW POINTS

Capture of Bad Man Claude Taylor exemplifies the police theory that they always come back" The few fugitives who make their getaway good merely are the exceptions which prove the general rule, by their fewness-Hart- ford Post.
 President Wilson's se1f-suff1ciency and his refusal to seek the saGvice of the leading men of his party and the other is compared, by the New Yosk Times, with President Monroes mod est approach to his predecessors, Jeff ferson and Madison, when he wanted their advice. T am sensible" he said, in a letter to Jefferson. ''of the extent and difficulty of the question. and shall be happy to have yours and MT. Madi- sons opinion of it." Out of the de- liberation of these three minds, with the help also of that hard-headed and pugnacious man, who later become president. John Quincy Adams, grew the proclamation of the Monroe Doc |trine.-Waterbury American.
 Tho committee, appointed by his honor the mayor. has already taken up the pleasant task of deciding upon what form New Haven's permanent tribute to her thousands in the service
 shall take One has but to glance over the names on the committee to be certain that the results of their de- I Alterations will be a something that New Haven will be proud of. We merely wish to inject a suggestion for ! Inc consideration of these gentlemen 1 to the effect that we believe that noth-
 ing is too good under the circumstance
 and that the payment should come 1T
 the form of 8 popular subscription
 If every family in the city of New
 Haven were to contribute half dolla1
 -no more or no less-enoush money
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was taken under conditions which were not intended by the act under which the right to take control Of such lines was given. Likewise 1t seems to be sensible attitude which is taken relative to the opposition when 1t is declared that inasrnuch as the lines under private control are handling all possible business. there Is no chance for doing more under sin- gle head. and this is especially true when it is declared that first cons1d- eration has always been given to gov ernment business with press and conn inereial business following in turn. When it comes to the court. however. the whole matter is likely to hinge on the point as to whether the signing of the armistice or the peace treaty ei,ds the emergency.
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A CALL FOR MICHAEL F0RAN

Are you and Mir. Conaery planning anything special for next Sunday ?" asked Cornella Barclay
 Not anything that couldn't include you, my dear Mrs. Connery replied hospitably. Whats on your nind?y
 T wanted---'' Cornelia hesitated. .T really think I'd better tell my story first ana then you'll-''
 No, Cornelia,' Mrs. Cennery inaer- rupted, If you want more money there's absolutely nothing doing. Your French orphans are wearing my new fall hat; the Belgian babes are talk ing care of all the Do Without club makes me save: the Salvation Army is serving doughnuts with the money I was going to buy my gray kid shoes with. I'd saved those dollars penny by penny because I knew they were an extrsvagance and I did so want them to wear with my gray geergette dress, but guess the boy needed the coffee and doughnuts more than I did the shoes after all"
 Cernelia laughingly interrupted You just. wait until you hear my story" she began at once. "I went to the Great Lakes last Wednesday One of Bob's best friends. Charlie Frost, is in training and I wanted tc look him up. I was late in getting started and concluded I'd better wai' until after the drill was over I shal never forget that sight That surg ing mass of white clad tackles: the inspiring strains of that wonderful band the tramp. tramp. tramp Of tho thousands of eager feet frcTn every corner of our beloved United States the young voices singing galy to K. K-K-Katy. that they'd be waitin', ana what they'd do, by heck:' when they did get over there. As they swung along singing those lifting war song. my heart almost burst with pride. Ant when the marines marched out on tht
 field every one just went wild Witf old glory floating grandlv. my dear, i
 thrilled one through and through.
 "As soon as the review was over
 began hunting Charlie" Corpelia con tinued. T soon found that one had t, go to information and wait ther, while a jacky WIS sent out to find tn person wanted. ' found seat over il the corner nsar a group of girls. The, were the silly, giegly type and at frs [ didn't pay much attention to them | but this remark caught my attention fWouldn't 1t Ee darned shame if tha l kid couldn't find him. l looked LII l quickly and saw I jacly talking to on of the girls. He's heres all right h
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TIE NArloN,s NEED.

The importance' of the right kind of preparedness is set forth by Vice Ad- miral Mayo in a statement which he made in New York this week relative to the war. He makes it plain, as has been so often urged. that 1t is far bet ter 10 insure peace by properly de- veloping the army and navy than 1t is to be forced into a fight through con- tempt for our fighting ability even though victory crowns our efforts.
 Congress in dealing with military and naval matters. should realize" he declared that it is better to spend a few hundred millions for adequate preparation which is protection against war-than to have to spend billions of treasure and thousands of lives in war itself" This he preceded by the opinion that If our navy had been what it is today and if we had had universal training, these last four years would have been years of peace. The conflict just ended would never have been begun by Germany if she had not been eontemptuous of us as a military nation. No other conflict will De begun by dnypOuy II the OnfteU States keeps alive her possibilities on land and sea-"
 Thus does Admiral Mayo not only support the recommendations of Sec retary Daniels and President Wilson for the giving of proper attention to our naval programme, but he puts in a strong plea in behalf of universal nlil- itary training. This has been advo- cated for long time as peace meas ure. It will unquestionably come in for greater attention than ever at this CT subsequent sessions of congress and it cannot fail to be regarded as one of the things of vital concern to the country in the years to come. Ii doesn't mean militarisn. but the end of it.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-06
THE CABLE CONTROL,

In view of the attitude that was manifested at the time the announce ment was made that the cable com panies had been seized by the gov ernment and placed under the control of the postmaster general along with the other wire lines of the country, it Is not surprising that an injunction suit has been brought by the Com mercial Cable company to prevent the postmaster general from carrying out his claim of assuming control of the lines under the ocean.
 Much surprise was occasioned by the action because it was done under the claim that the emergency demand ed it. while it was perfectly evident that the war was over and the emer- gency had ended. If there was any necessity for unifying the cable lines 1t seems as though 1t existed while the war was going on and at the time when the wire lines were taken over but to wait until the war was over and
 hen act left the matter open to oppo- dt1on on the grounds that the steI
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TELEGRAPHIc CONTRACTS.

It is rather a curious stand which has been taken by the comptroller of the treasury when he declares that a telegraphic order to a manufacturer giving him contract for a certain amount of goods cannot he respected. It is undoubtedly true that such a contract could not be enforced by law, but there can he little question but what it was made in good faith and with the idea of having the Eanufac- turer take the necessary steps in the way of securing the required mater ial and machinery. if needed. for car rying it out.
 It can be imagined that there would have been something said to the man ufaeturer holding such a telegra phic contract if he had totally ignored it and had failed to do anything that would have held up the necessary pro- l duction under such circumstances. It can be imagined what might have been 1 said about his loyalty and patriotism. The contracts in question were made in good faith. They were authorized | by a. duly accredited government rep l resentative and they were accepted by the concerns which hold them. It was an accepted way of at least carryins out the preliminary work of arranging for supplies and getting the industries at work upon the details of fulfilling | them.
 The stand of the comptroller may serve for a time to hinder the adjust ment following the cancellation but there can be no question but what proper reimbursement must be made It is not to be expected that the man ufacturers are to be paid for wori which has not been done but they must be treated fairly under the cir
 cumstances and there can be no ques
 ton but what that will be done ever
 if it has to be by direction of con
 gress.
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BRITISH TRANSPORTATION AID.

Attention is being directed by let fer writers to the fact that President Wilson in his address handed out no words of praise for the manner in which the British transports aided in getting the large American army. to Europe but did take occasion to men, tion the fact that by far the largest humber of lives lost in getting the two million to Europe were on a British transport.
 It can hardly be believed that, though many others may have noted the point referred to, there was any Intention to ignore the great service which had been rendered by Great Britain, for 1t cannot but be realized that if it had not been possible to get those British ships there would not in all probability have been but about half the number of American troops in Europe that there were at the time the armistice was signed.
 Such is plainly shown by the figures of the transport force of the United States Atlantic fleet. which show that of the 2.079.SS0 American troops sent to Europe up to November II, 4S IA per cent. were carried in British ves- sels. There were 912.OS2 or 43 3-4 per cent. carried in United States trans ports, while the rest went in other vessels of this country and those se- cured from France and Italy for suct eervice.
 Thus it is clear what aid was re- oeived from Great Britain. It was able to meet the situation in the right way at the right time and as conse- quenoe this country was able to dc much more than it otherwise coulf have done. and there is nc reason tC suppose that President Wilson is no+ fully cognlzant of that fact, or tha. ke intentionally withheld credit for thC very important aid. which contributed much to the stopping of tho fighting
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would be raised to erect 9 fitting me- morial. At the same time this memo rial would be the expression of every one in the city. Its payment would have come from the pockets of all without having placed any unjust de- mand upon anyone. These are but suggestions for the consideration of the gentlemen whose obligation it is to see that in some manner suitable honor is done to those who heard the call of Liberty and answered it.-New Haven Union.
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THE REVENUE BILL.

Secretary McAdoo in his annual re- port, in addition to many other things refers to the revenue bill which will provide for the years 1919 and 1920. He considers it is of great importance that early action should be taken thereon and points out the difficulty which will. be experienced by the gov ernment machinery in collecting the taxes. and notes the confusion which is bound to be caused by delay
 He figures that the proposition to raise six billion dollars by taxation in 1919 will be sufficient to meet the needs of the country under the pres- ent. conditions. That means a reduc- tion of two billions from what it was planned to raise if the war had been continued, but in connection herewith he believes that congress should now say how much should be raised in the year 1920. And that is the very point upon which any delay which may oc- cur will hinge.
 There is no reason to believe but what congress is ready to approve the six billion tax. but it is quite evident that it is not of oue mind regarding the four billion in the following year This does not mean that it does iIO consider that very sum may not bC necessary, but that it feels, and it can. not help being felt that it is justified hi it, that such is not the business of this congress but of its successor. The Idea of attempting to legislate for tho next congress is what Is likely tt cause any hitch in the early enact. ment of the revenue bill. Such an at. tempt to oversteD it's bounds is un. called for. Whatever the needs art when the proper time comes fol determining tie 1920 tax the! will get full consideration. If tn, amount needed is four billion at tha time it will doubtless be voted. If it ii less a lesser sum will be voted.