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Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09
PROTECTING THE scHooLs.

Much has been disclosed regarding textbook in schools of different states which have been made to include ma teriai for the teaching of disloyalty to American ideals. There are states which have communities or school districts where the children are taught in German and where teachers have taken a prominent part in spreading German propaganda, and ia view of these conditions and the steps taken to suppress them much interest is at tached to the investigation which has been started in Rhode Island by the governor of that state for the purpose of determining whether the textbooks are proper, whether they contribute to the spreading German propaganda, whether there are any instances of the teaching of disloyalty or anything which would tend to encourage bad citizenship.
 It is apparent that Rhode Island does not intend to wait until the con- ditions get to be so bad that every one knows about them before doing tomething. Like the taking of cen Hls of the man power in Connecticut ky Governor Holcomb before this tbuntry got ready to increase its &my. this move in Rhode Island is q aep in behalf of preparedness, baci H which there is a determination t Nring about an immediate correction undesirable conditions are disclosed Dc governor Of Rhode Island intendl N lock the stable door before tht Eprse is stolen instead of waiting un ni the deed has been committed evel 4ough plans may be underway. I q an instance where the safety frs Dea is being put into action.
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 be applied for that purpose whether the treasurer was thereby incidentally relieved of paying his clerk an equiv aient amount out of his salary or not.
 Any statement that the treasurers salary was increased by such action Is both misleading and untrue. The fact that the treasurer is actually benefited by reason of the city having assumed an additional portion of his Lelerk's wages is apparent But that is not the point over which the discus sion arose in spite of Mir. Dolbeare's earnest efforts to make it appear so in order to screen the attempt of his colleagues to tllwart the object for that very reason. ie.sf ,'5 -'E H. <, Is it not more to. be regretted that the republican members of the courl- loil disregarded the peoples wishes than that the democratic members should have found it necessary to take advantage of the absence of two or bike council in order to accomplish a purpose to which the body as a: whole ] was morally obligated
 LONE PRESENT AT THE CITY MEETING.
 ! Norwich. Conn. March 8, 1918.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The City Treasursr,s Salary.

Mr. Editor: As a result of the press reports of the council meeting last Monday there seems to be general misunderstanding as to the action taken by the democrats in relation to the wages applied to the clerk in the city treasurer's office. Doubtless most of the confusion is caused by the ] "camoufiaged" statements of Alder man Dolbeare in his effort to make | it appear as purely q political coup 1 to increase the treasurer's salary. To correct this erroneous impress sion that the democratic members Of 1 the council put something over" on 1 tie republicans and raised tile treas- jurer's salary it is only necessary to lreview the history of the proceeding. 1 It will. be remembered that the for
 n1er council. at the instigations of Mayor Brown, voted to reduce the ! city treasurer's salary to $500 a year land the city meeting held last June voted practically unanimously that i the sense of the meeting disapproved Eof such action. the result of which If carried out would make the city off, Icial the understudy of his clerk. and Ithen voted to appropriate 3, total of is750 to pay the clerk employed in the lcffice of the treasurer.
 | After this clear expression or pup lie feeling the present council re- scinded the vote to reduce the treas urer's salary but at the same time 3 I motion to have the $750 appropriated
 tbv the city meetin@ applied to pay
 the clerk was taEsed.
 Ry the action Monday night the II democrats took this question from the
 teble and voted it through so that the
 intention of the people that the cieri
 lin the treasurer's office should receive
 the money appropriated for her wages
 was effected.
 | It is to be assumed that the cit1 meeting last June intended that tn. sum appropriated by it and estimated ! expressly to raise the proportion pail by the city to the treasurer's clerk b. 1 s450 (the city having paid the cleri , s20o for a number of years) was t
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09

 "LIBERTY THEATREss Have Been Built in All National Guard and National Army Camps
 in America 'Snaileage 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 salela at the following places: The Psrteous 6 Mitchell co. The Reid 6 Hughes Co. Boston Ra thbone's Drug Store. Ricker's Drug Store. The Lee & Osgood Co. The Wzuregan Hotel Office. Mara & Eggleton George Maiden Cigar Store.. Engler's Pharmacy. K. of c. Rooms. Ring & Sisk. Druggists The Y. M. c. A. 0f6ce.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09
OTHER VIEW POINTS

According to the conference held by party Headers of the general assembly with Governor Holcomb it is arranged that only the urgent legislation which brings the general assembly together in special session will be allowed to come up for consideration at the special session to open Tuesday. March 1s. This is as it should be. There is no call for any other action, least of all upon any radical matter which was not before the people when the gen. eral assembly was chosen in 1916.- Bridgeport Telegram.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09
MANNlMe rnE sHIPs.

Tn connection with the brading of new ships. the aim is not solely to replace those which are sent to the bottom by the activity of the enemy submarines but to do more than that. it is necessary that there be an in- crease in the cargo carriers not only to replace lost ships but to increase the actual tonnage available for Transportation needs. It is therefore a double task which is faced by the shipbufidins board of this and allied countries.
 In this connection. however. is is Impossible to- overlook the need of providing trained oh5eerS and men for he handling Of the new ships as fast hs fthsy can be put in commission, When ship goes down it does not eeas1G<ilF mean that the whole crew S5,s wlfh t. Tn some cases no trace
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09

What is the use of the bolshevik leaders saying that if they had an army they would fight Germany when it was they who knocked out the ef- fectiveness of the army which Russia had and left munitions in large quan- titles for the Germans to use against them and those who have been fight ing for them:
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09

Nothing could be more misleading than the report that the German in- vasion of Russia had been stopped. Berlin doesn't intend to stop until it has to or until 1t has gotten it's fill of Russian territory.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09

Trotzky declares that he would dc it all over again if he had the ehsnce, which is of course simply saying that he has accomplished just what he set cut for.
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 passing judgment upon. American citi-.
 zens because they do not respond as promptly as they think they should. EIt should :: be borne in mind that in several directions more is. being tyexpected of the people than they know how to accomplish;r, and more than seems reasonable; and there is naturally a feeling of Irritation which will not peacefully brook cFitt- cisrn. These people who are telling
 us. there is no shortage of labor when we know there has been a shortage of labor here for 25 years; and who tell the farmers of the country who num- ber over 50,0G0 less than last year, they must produce more when the pro- i'ducers could not harvest or sell what was grown lastsyeaP.si This compelling farmers to comply with. the 50-50 ar arrangement in the purchase of four i.When they have an abundance of corn meal and buckwheat Of their own growing for themselves :. and - theft stock. The. order to louseholders to get in their supply of coal for next sea : sen when small buyers are denied a i h2ishel of coal and compelled to take a ! beg. These seemingly @ inconsistent ] conditions do not putrttle citizen in a !. mood to- be told he is unpatriotic 4or i not showing the right spirit. Every
 one cnder. these conditions appear to De trying to do as well as they canf
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09

From the way in which the people are leaving Petrograd it doesn't looh very much as if the Russians were anticipating the coming of the kai. ser's forces with any great amount o1 pleasure.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09

Reports indicate that sheep raising is on the increase in Massachusetts. Let us hope that 1t is true of other New England statee and that the gain will be a hundred per cent. instead of ten.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09

Those people who pay no attention to the whsatiess and meatless days are those who have the greatest dif-
 hculty in understanding why there should be any shortage of foodstuffs.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09

The South Carolina resident who declares that the reason for the many lynchings is that the law is not en- forced hits the nail on the head.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09

There is no occasion for surprise because over a thousand doctors who have volunteered have been dismissed
 the service-there are likely to be more. Once a mason may be always being mason; but once doctor does not mean always a doctor. We have reached an era now in which the art of preventing disease is taking pre- cedence over the. art of curing mala- dies. There is no class Of professional gentlemen who must be more studious to keep up to date. The doctors of 1918 dare tell us that weak Mngs'' are the invention of a silk hat doctor; that rheumatism is a camoufage word to hide the fact that your doctor doesn't
 know what ails you,' that "one of the
 most reliable disinfectants is soap and
 water" that complaint of the kidneys l is not indicated by backache;'' that disease of the nervous system does not
 mean the patient is a victim of ner-
 vousness;" that a deep cough has
 it's origin in the throat. nose or ear, not | the lungs" that a, pimply face may conceal a good character; and "a beautiful complexion hide q bad oTs;' 1 That when a doctor tells you you have contracted a bad cold, he is just
 waiting to see what is about to de- velop." It takes a live doctor and a wide awake patient, to find medically where We are. att
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09

The man on the corner says: Mo- body will ever arouse the iii will of his neighbor by purchasing war sav- ings stamps.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09

The confidence which the people have in MT. Hoover makes it easier to obey the regulations which he puts forth.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09
EpfroRlAI. NOTES.

March hasn't done any thing as yet which causes us to lose faith in it's good intentions.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09

It makes little difference where they apply the test. the Germans are fjnd- ing the American soldiers on the job,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09
Different About it

We have about reached the con- clusion that a woman doesn't care a rap whether her hat looks like one or not.-Coiumbus Sun.
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 lt is as much of an accomplishment
 to keep level as it is to be polite. This is true in every phase of life from a Congressman te street scayenger.
 There is always too much energy being wasted in hot air, and too many counter opinions being offered free. Patience upon monument may be a joke. but still it may be a work of art
 Everything belongs to the hustler not to him who only stands and waits Passion is short sighted and perilous Silence is recognized as the eicquence of discretion and as one of the best evidences of power and wisdom. He is
 a long reach ahead who can do things
 better than he can talk; and who car maintain calmness where others yield | to temper and turmoil. Keeping leve is simply keeping the mastery sovel l self and over others. It is the way tt
 look simple but to become. great What life lacks is good order and il
 is the well ordered lives which make
 life seem to be divine s
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09


 Do you know that naest of the so- called necessary evils are unnecessary i;
 most Of the little tolerated vices are leaders to greater and condemned vices; that a man who fergets to say his prayers never forgets what to say when a horse steps on his foot and that no get-rieh quick scheme is really what it looks like? You may, But most people do not, for if they did life would not be exactly what it if today. Man upon the whole is moi
 half what he Is made out to be
 Haven't you ever noticed how much more he can make out of an empty
 worldly honor than he can out, oI a divine precept? If you have you will not feel fiattered when you are
 told by some hatterer thatgman if only little lower than the angels. often think if he had the instinct o1 an ant or a bee and was always able to find his place it would be an i'm. pfovement upon the freedom he ii prone to boast so much about. Oh yes, man is wonderful! Just as won. derfai in his slapses sas in his gains His reGeeming point is that he is ca
 pable of discerning his own faults a.
 well as mentally able to weigh world
 and in imagination to pursue suns charted paths thro' space and t, approach the gates of the new Jerusa:
 lem. Z
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09

It would be better if in these days people ip anthtrity would just give up
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09

A prophet is a persnn who expects the unexpected.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09

It was Benaparte who. quoting the old saying, Boys will be boys,'' re marked that the author might have said, Boys will be men" These are days when boys are proving them selves to not only be men, but the
 backbone of the nation. Many boys
 who have been regarded as ''ne'er-do-
 wells" are standing now where only
 heroes stand. It may be said that in the ne'er- -do-wells of the past we're ciassed Patrick Henry, Gen. Grant and orville Wright, with scores of other
 distinguished men. The world is too often guilty of classifying it's boys while still immature, and regretting it afterwards. It is claimed that in the first seven years of a ehiId's life in
 dellibie impressions may be made, upen 1 it, but the impressions made may not indicate the power or destiny of the
 man. What this life lacks for children is models, and efficient teachers. l What the boy will be is often deter mined by exigencies over which he or l man has no control.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09

The reason qne person tells another he isn't a patriot so frequently. is be- cause in his narrowness of thought he
 doesn't realize there So many things
 patriotic that may be done; and one
 of the most important Of these is thinking right as well as acting right. The people of gastrononic habits show their patriotism by patfonizirig every feed that is advertised to help .seaae special cause, They eat to aid the, Req Cross, and they eat to promote thrift stamp purchases, and they put down their money and eat and eat in support of the country and the flag. And some people do their part by talking and talking until people familiar with their ardor feel like fleeing when they see them coming. And those are patriotic who put up" and those who shut up and all those who respond to food and fuel regulations. The patriot is the
 person trutland firm to the cause what form his suppoiting activity may take
 Do not look in the mirror and think you are exceptional because you are
 periodically it, there are millions oi others.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09

The streets of Norwich were crowded by anxious. citizens awaiting further news, or discussing that already re- cefved while from the adjoining towns and villages-in that era before the telephone-men came riding in to learn the latest tfdings. Little else was known for some time, than that Anderson wasmaking. brave resist ance,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09

Piekins up an old book the ofher day printed over a century ago it was pleasant to read that hard winters oc- cur only from three to i've times a century: that severe wihters number about one -thifd, and the remainder are mild or in other words more than half our New England winters are mild. From the reco1A made during the winter of 1s17-,1s it must have been an extraordinarily hard winter, first be- cause for over sixty-fiv days the temperature was below the freezing point, that it went as low as 34 degrees below zero, and for q period of two weeks did net rise to 20 degrees above, The freat in the earth was over four feet deep. and the ice, on the rivers Was so thick that men and teams
 crossed over salt water where such feat had not been performed before in 65 years. Tn some parts. of New England the sno#drifts were 12 feet high and wild birds were found frozen to death.
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ewritten Specially for The Bulletin.)
 In referring last week to the pa triotic work of a former pastor of the Second Congregational Church Norwich tfie late Rev. Malcolm McG. Dana, who felt moved to record the happenings of Civil War times and achievements of Norwich and her brave sons uring these exciting days, there was space to touch but briefly upon the fact. that those years of the first great knowledge that the land was destined to a struggle. found the town quite as alert and quick to respond as it has proved during the present war. x gr
 z Then as now there had bsen nun : bers of optimists who stubhornly IIpoh rrpphic' news. news of the attatk on Fort Sumter, on the twelfth s-of Apfff,; 1851 eon7inced all that hopIng must give way to doing. .sh
 ] sThe traitors are ''ffirlng .ubon Sum fer read the first dispafch. An Sderson answers gun for gum
 --------- The surprise was intense. MT. Dana tells us. Men stood istnpifed with disrnay; then with addiek response gave voice. to theft indignation and their loyalty The wearying six months of parleying had passed: even the most optimistic knew that this
 meant war. ai 9l
 From the bitterness of humiliation and helpless inactivity, the loyal North i
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great, gave of their strength and their
 substance, with the one object in view.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09

' Infense exeitcnent eo1Einued throughout Saturday, April thirteenth, as successive telegrams reported the Stars and Stripes still waving over the beleaguered fort. The name of the gallant commander was on every lip; the hope expressed by all that the garrison would hold out until rein
 foreeThents. known to be on their way. could reach it.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09
THE MAN WHO TALKS

It was on the morning of the 25th of February that we aNoke late to hear lad gleefuIly shouting Wheel away!" And We knew the backbone of winter was broken. This is just as de : pend4ble a sign as the song of the robin or the biuebird. 4 boy never hazards to play spring games until the sun shines golden and warm the purple haze appeafs on the horizon and the 6arfh gives forth it's mellow and promising oAots, which he is quick to scent and to greet with Wheel away marbles and top spinning in his play It was q lovely sound. and brought to have calm seas and clear sailing but the promise of an early season is here, for the willows are yeiloWing the song sp4frew's song near, and a later and perhaps better sign of spring Is our de Garfield ed Monday"
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awoAe to meet, at every hazard, the issue thus relentlessly forced upon it. {. t prefigured, in lesser degree the state of this now united land when, after patience had been tried to the limit, President Wilson called upon North and South East and West to forget geographical and factiona lines, to be Americans first; the general uprising of patriotism, whick followed the declaration of war agains Germany, April 9th.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09

. It was Monday, April fifteenth, that President LineoIn's proclamation ap- peared, calling for seventy-five thous- and troops to defend the suddenly endangered government.
 Quickly followed the proclamation of Connectieut's War Governor, Will liam A. Buckingham, sof Norwich, urg- ing patriotic citizens throughout the stateto volunteer their services, meet ing the appeal of the National Ex- ecutiVe for troops.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-09
THE INFLUENZA SITUATION
Barton Has Had $50 Cases, State TO-
900 Cases.

Health Officer Prime told a report
er Wednesday morning that he had
reported to the state board of health
45O cases of grip from the town of
Barton and that many new cases
were appearing daily. Several per-
sons continue to be dangerously sick
in Barton and Orleans appears to be
entering upon severe epidemic.
Through the south part of the town
nearly every house has grip patients
Deaths from the disease or it's
complications in this town or the
towns soldier boys, number eight to
date.
While it is thought the situation is
no worse than a week ago there can
be said to be little improvement and
every precaution against it should be
taken.
Conditions throughout the county
are bad, some localities being worse
than others, and in the state Barre
and Montpelier are worst hit In Bar
re II deaths are reported in seven
days and there continues to be many
deaths daily. A special train was
run from Burlington to Waterbury,
Montpelier and Barre Sunday, carry
ing nurses and doctors.
ST. Albans has had many deaths,
six being reported in less than "a
hours. Rutland has $50 cases. There
have been reported about 10000 cases
in Vermont.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-09

Board of Health Makes Sweeping Or
der which Covers Whole State.

The state board of health has is
sued an order closing all schools,
churches, picture houses, places of
public entertainment and all public
assemblages of people throughout the
state until further notice.
This is the most drastic action ever
taken by the health board in it's his
tory. The official notice was tele-
graphed to every health officer in the
PAT towns and cities in the state. In
the Interpretation of the order much
has been left to the local health
boards.
There were reported to the state
board Saturday CAST cases of inf1u-
enza in the state and the officials
have no doubt that the number of new
cases was much nearer 1000.
Very few cases reported are among
elderly people, which leads physi-
clans to believe that a person who
has had trouble once is immune. A
peculiar feature of the epidemic is
that 1T affects the eastern side of the
state much worse than the western
side.
The reports Saturday were divided
by counties as follows:
Addison, 1856; Orange, 283; Orleans,
119; Rutland, 1913; Washington, 3,552;
Windham, so; Windsor, 1874; Ben
nington, 25; Caledonia, 1899; Chit
tenden. 83; Essex, 2; Franklin, 794;
Lamoille 20.