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Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-13

the great question and it will take
 some millions of dollars in the an-
 swering.
 The period of rehabilitation in ev-
 cry war of the past has been long. It
 required seventeen months after the American Civil war before the last regiment was mustered out. Follow
 ing the Franco -Prussian war it was
 two years before the troops were all
 demobilized Eighteen months elapsed
 between the last battle of the Tureo-
 Russian war and the end Of demobili-
 Zation. Thirteen months were re-
 quired after the Russo Japanese struggle. There would seem to be but little doubt that our men now on the other side would in large part be there through the coming winter. ! What a long winter it will be, with the let-down that has followed the great tension under which they have lived! They will yearn for diversion for things which to occupy their time; :; and this is precisely what the league ! of these seven organizations are ask ling money for. If ever a. large sum of money was needed in the most nec- essary sort of 8 cause, it is right now in this cause the seven agencies are espousing.
 Plans are all laid and much prelini-
 nary expense has been incurred to provide, not only entertainment and recreation for our men now in Europe, but to carry On an elaborate educa- 1 tional programme by which the men in their leisure hours in the coming months can study and prepare their
 minds for such branches of industrial work as they have in mind to take up on returning home.
 Remember we have four millions of
 men today in arms. If we expended twenty-five cents a day per man on 1 this great army. 1t would take C mIl- 1 lion dollars day, or at the rate oi three hundred sixty-five million dol | lars year.
 These men if, the past months have the civilization of the world, and this country in particular.
 l Can we do less than to give, give
 give, this week-not simply out of ouI income, but out of our principal as
 they have given out of theirs JOHN F. MOTT, Director General 1 Before the meeting closed, Mir. Case
 called upon T, H. Beckley and Edwir Hill for remarks in which both re- aponded briefly and expressed the ut.
 nest confidence that Norwich woult realize it's quota.
 1 Mir Case announced that there would be meetings for reports every nigh at 7.Se at the headquarters as leng a! the campaign lasted and promised
 something of special interest to tn, team workers at the meeting Wed iresday night, urging every one to D. present.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-13
NORWICH TOWN

Home Chapter of the Kings Daugh ters omitted their November meeting Monday.
 The Red Cross meeting was can celled Monday evening on account of the celebration. Work will be resumed next Monday.
 Owing to the celebration, the No vember meeting of the Mems League was postponed to next Monday even ing.
 Norwich Town enthusiasts com pleted the days programme with d large bonfire on the Green Monday evening.
 Miss Hazel Miller of Rockville spent the week end with her brother, Fred Miller, at his home on West Town street.
 Private George Tague of Camp Dev- ems, spent a twenty four hour fur tough the latter part Of the week at the home of his parents. Mr and Mrs Williom Tague on Mcclellan avenue. Miss Mary Blacker and her brother John BlacEer. have returned after q week spent in New Haven, Hartford
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-13
FIRST DAY BRINGS IN S54,O12.29

Mondays all day and all night vic tory celebration took away all possi l hility of realizing the Norwich slogan of Over the Top in One Day" it was disclosed at the Tuesday night meet ing in the headquarters in the Thayer | building, but the workers are holding fast now to the second part of the slogan I've Can Do It If We Will and are going after the s100. .000 in the quickest time possible.
 As it was impossible to meet on Monday night, Tuesday was the first real day for reports and when they had all been tabulated up to o'clock, the total for the first day was $51, ,494.- 19 with over half a dozen of the out side distdicts from which no report had been received. This fine result was further. increased when Hanover sent down a report by Chairman Will liam c. Park that they had oVersuD- scribed their quota by 100 per cent. as l they had raised s2.517.5e on their 1uo- ta, of S1.25o.
 Baltic was the first town over the top when Chairman Louis J. Fontainc reported on Tuesday afternoon that 1 they had oversubscribed their euota of S2,500 by s51. They are going after more during the rest of the week.
 Fitchville and Bozrah has $s52 to- l wards their quota or s1.00o, Chairman w. Allen Bidwell reported, and there is no doubt that this town will be over tie top today on the next report. | Charles A. Saxtons report for Nor Tich Town was an encouraging fea- ture of the meeting on Tuesday night and brought out rousing cheers when lie said they were 8 8 per can't. over their quota of 1,500. Ar. Saxton said that he felt confident of the results in 1 his district from the start for he knew :le had a good team of workers. They found that solicitors from the city 1 had been around in their district and 1 they figured these had taken out about | $G50 for which Norwich Town would 1 get no credit, but nevertheless they buckled to their work and he was l gled to say they had raised $2,e51.44 1 A. Strom reported for the Jewish teams that they had secured $2,000 and had a great deal more to come yet.
 Campaign Director James L. Case called on J. Oliver Armstrong to re- port on pledges from the Marlin Rockwell Co. workers Twenty two hundred cards had been distributed there. MT. Armstrong said, and the re- turns had only just begun to come in
 but so far they amounted to $1,00o There were cheers for these two re-
 ports nnd Campaign Director Caea lsaid those words of Mr. Strom = great deal more" were what he liked to hear.
 It was also reported that the pledges
 soa far received through the Victory
 Girls and Boys were 3S5 in number
 which at 5 each amounted to s1,925. l Campaign Director Case read tn, i tabni1fed rhnOrf after Col ff IVY G91P
 the general chairman. had made fev
 brief remarks in openinr the meeting
 shortly after 7.30 o'clock.
 The following were the team report
 that had been tabulated up 10 I ociocl on Tuesday night:
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-13
TWO TELEPHONE OPERATORS
 HELPED SPREAD THE NEWS

Credit should be given where credit is due, and it is Certainly due the two night operators at the local telephone Ffieda Bllndernan, who helped Sd materially early. Monday morning in spreading the good news of the sign ing of the armistiee. The Bulletin told the operators about the news and they in turn notified many of the factories which blew their whistles From the first blow of the whistles and the first ring Of the bells, the operators were busy answering calls from people whe called the neighbors to spread the good tidings. It was busy day at the To- cal exchange and the public should appreciate the prompt and courteous attention of the overworked exchange on that day.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-13
Ulte B,lligtirr,
Norwich. Wednesday, Nov. 1s, 1918.
THE WEATHER.

tuG WEA n En-
 The weather m the last A hours has been dominated largely by high barometric pressure. As q result there las been virtually no rainfall ir any lart of the country, except along the Washington coast. Cool weather continues in eastern districts.
 Fair weather will continue during the next 4S hours east of the Missis- sippi, with slightly higher tempera- ture in northeast districts
 The winds along the north Atlantic ard middle Atlantic will he moderate southeast to south and fair weather.
 Forecast.
 southern New England: Fair We'd nesday and Thursday: slightly warm CT.
 Observations in Norwich.
 The following records, reported from The Bulletins observations show the changes in temperature and the baro- metric changes Tuesday: Ther. Bar. a. m. .-.,'..,.......... 3o 5u.Ju 11 m. ....s.............I 02 3U.3D 6 ?. m. ............"..... AS 30.30 Highest 52 lowest 2S, Comparisons. Predictions for Tuesday: Fair. Tuesdays weather: Fair, continued cool, southeast wind
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-13
UNION

Nelson Horton visited his uncle and aunt, Mr and Mrs. William H. Horton at Monson, the first Of the week.
 Mrs. James Bassett with her son from Sturbridge, called on her mother Mrs. H. Horton last week.
 Mrs, Lucy Aldrich of Uxbridge is spending a few days with der father T. NJ Horton
 Mrs. Mary Dodge will go to Oak, land, R. L. this weak to care for hel sen, Fred Dodge. wao is ill
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-13
FULL OF COLD, HAD THE GRIP.

This has been such trying year for sickness that many will be pleased to read how Lewis Newman, 506 North rand St.. Charleston, W. Va. was re- stored to health He writes q was down sick and nothing would do mo grip until I got two soc bottles oj Foley's Honey and Tar It is the best remedy for grip and colds ever used. Good for grip, coughs. colds whoopina cough and common colds. The Lee < Osg6od Go.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-13

with two sessions, one at 10.30 and one at 1.S0. Dinner will be served at 12.S0. Mrs. c. ". Gale of Norwich, the honorary president, will speak. as will also Miss Nellie c. Prescott the national secretary. In the afternoon a returned missionary from Japan, Mrs. I. c. Briggs, will address the gather ing and there will be musical seIec- tions interspersed. Mrs. Kent will also have a message to the conference.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-13
MARRIED

WARREN-BURNHAM-In New Lon don, Nov. 6. 1918. by Rev. Joseph A. Elder. Miss Dorothy May Burnham and Claude B. Warren of Westerly, R. 1.
 BUR T--GILDERSLEEVE = At Did Saybrook, Nov. g, 1918, by Will liam B. Burke, J. P. Henry Burk- hardt of Fishers Island and Miss Margaret M. Gildersleeve of Fen wick Light
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-13
CARD OF THANKS.

We wish to express our sincere and neighbors for their kindness, sym pathy and flowers during cur recen sad. bereavement in the death of ou dear mother. Mrs. Julia A. Stager.
 (Signed)
 MIR. AND MRS. F. H. STAGER. MRS. WALTER H. YOUNG,
 MRS. THEODORE BAGLEY.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-13
APPROVAL TO THREE COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS

Commissioner J. I. Donohue has ap- proved the following workmen's com pensation agreements:
 Shore Line Electric Railway Co Norwich. employer, and Harry A. Rushworth, ehploye. shock and bruises in rear end collision, at rate Of $13e7.
 Atwood Machine Co, stonington employer, and Angelo Rosa. Westerly swelling of feet. at rate of s7.s4.
 American Fridge O., Pittsbtirs. Pa. employer, and J. H. Splann. New Lon don, ernploye, right knee spta.ned, at rate nf S14
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-13
DR. WILCOX TAKING TWO
 PATIENTS TO CALIFORNIA

Dr. Eranolin S. Wilsox, saperinten- dent of the Norwich state hospital, is on his way to California with one patient from that hospital and one from the MiddletoWn asylum who are to be placed in California asylum because they belong to that state and not to Connecticut. He wiH be away about three weeks While he is away Assistant Superintendent Birdsail is in charge here.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-13
THE PORTEOUS & MITCHELL co.
Waterbury any Naugatuck.

After four hours of hard work, | members of Troop No. ,, Boy Scouts cleared the pipes in Lothrop Meadow so that !. can be flooded for skating!
 Mrs Minnie Edmiston of A1cClel. Ian avenue las been passing week in Hartford wEh her daughter, MNE J. Il. Hart.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-13
Submarine Base Chaplain to Speak.

By invitation from Rev. George H Strouse of the First Baptist church Chaplain Alexander of the submarine base is to be the speaker this (Wed- nesday) evening at special services that are being held at the church. A series of special services is being held for the quickening of spiritual inter. est.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-13
namaue Suit Wishdtawn.

The superior court suit of Lillian M. Eaton against the City of New London for sF.050 damages has been withdrawn without casts. She sued Tor damages for injuries sustained to her right hip. ankle and knee when she stepped into ? tole on Easterly nlaon a Ma1 {, fSdA
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-13

NJ Lunakharslly, Russian peoples commissioner. has received an appli- cation from the wife of the Crane Luke Michael for permission to follow the duke into exile
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-13
BAPTlSTS WILL ATTEND
 MISSIONARY CONFERENCE

Delegates from the Baptist churches of the city will be at troton today tWednesdayj to attend the missionary conference of eastern Connecticut in EAA GxateA EeiShts RAEist Ehnfoh
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-13
TsIearan, 'Frern stase Leader.


 He read the following telegram from George c. Hubert, director of the can- paign in Connecticut1
 New Haven. Nov. f2. 1918. James L. Case. United War Work
 Campaign, Norwich, Ct.
 Dr. Mott wires today urging strenu- GUS esorts by all districts for big showing in reports tonight to coun- teract poor results due to peace eele- bration yesterday. Time Is short and every hour must be made to prodnce fullest possible returns. Suggest you call your executive committee for council of war early today before your teams meet. Report every dollar pos sible by seven o'clock this evening.
 GEORGE D. HUBERT,
 Campaign Director. John R. Mott's Letter. MT Case also read the following ap- peal to the American peopia from Johr R. Mott, director general:
 New York, Nov. II, 1918. Today our two millions of nen--tht flower of this land now in Europe have stopped fighting the Germans They have commenced to fight the per. ills that have always surrounded a De. riod of demobilizatiOn. Every follow. CT of sport knows of the temptations the dangers that surround team 0 athletes when the game is over ant they break training.
 Today i'll Europe. as our mon Ia! down their arms. they are q long way l from home They have no tanaiiial faces, no relatives or. friends 10 ioi1 1 in their publication, as our people ar, doing in the streets of the cities 0 America today. Many of the 1'rencl soldiers will get q few days leave they can get home it1 a. few hours The same of the Englishmeh. Cntor tunately this is not the situation re ] garding our men. They cannot ge : home. They have got is stand an, take the disapl3 ;iitnaeNt of being alon i in strange land. while the wori i makes glad.
 ] The great rerreatienal grounds tha these organizations have been pre- pairing in the south of France must b immediately enlarged. and this, tne on large scale. because OUT men ca more easily get leave of aksence Ylo1 that peace has been declared than the could when the fighting was on, Where shall they go? This will b
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-13
Grand total

Speaking to the captains and the team workers of whom there was good number present. Director Case said that conditions had completely changed since Sunday night when the wonderful meeting in the theater had flied everyone with "pep" Plans made had all been shot to pieces ty lroblem that we are facing is just the same and we must work all the more rasolutelY to accnmnlish OH aims.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-13

Predictions for Tuesday: Fair. Tuesdays weather: Fair, continued cool, southeast wind
New-York tribune., 1918-07-29
Whine and Confession

Baron Burian, the Austro- hungarian
Premier, is fond of posing as a states
man with heart. No one can outdo him
in humane sentiments and generous
phrases. That is to be expected. With
such sentiments and phrases Austrian
diplomacy has always cloaked it's policies
Of rapacity and oppression.
This gentleman now has a grievance.
which he has undertaken to convex to the
world by means of a letter to the Pre-
miers of Austria and Hungary. He is
misunderstood, he says; as is also the
benevolent principle of coalition and
determination which YIELDS together the
many and sometimes jarring elements of
the Hapsburg Empire
The Baron is indignant that hostile
critics should misinterpret Austria-H Hun
garys sincere desire for a peace based
on justice, freedom and honor. He is'es
peclaily indignant that the Allied ma
tons should have come to the conclusion
that justice, freedom and future world
tranquility would be promoted by the re-
lease of some of the subject races of the
Dual Monarchy from their longtime
bondage
He speaks more in sorrow, however.
than in anger. He can even admit that
the terms OF peace forced on Russia and
Rumania may have clouded Allied con-
fidence in the desire of Austria Hungary
to conclude general peace on a mag
unanimous and altruistc basis. But that
failure may be explained awav, even
without saying that Germany was the
wicked partner at Brest-Ltovsk.
You see, If the other Allied powers had
not refused to participate in the Brest
l1tovsk conference the proceedings there
could have been brought "to a different
issue" But the other Allies having held
OFT, Austria Hungary felt under no COM
pulslon to be just, generous or high
minded. The plunder was in sight. Why
should she not divide it with GERMANY.
dlsmemberlng Russia just as Prussia.
Austria-Hungary and Russia dsmem
bered Poland?
This squeamishness on the part of
Allied opinion is ineAplcable to the
Baron. The Allies, he says blandly, have
no legal right" to condemn the peace
conditions which were acceptable to
the contracting parties or which could
not be avoided" Moreover, since the
present belligerents have no fear of be-
ing defeated they may take heart. Aus
ria-Hungary and Germany apply Brest-
Litovsk methods only in the case of coun-
tries (which have come into the position
of Russia and Rumana." They become
moral and elf-denying whenever thew
deal with opponents whom they still fear.
But what pains Baron Burian most is
the unkind attempt of Allied leaders to
foment disunity in the Dual Monarchy.
This amazes him. in view of the fact that
the Hapsburg Empire is mo accidental
structure, but a product Of historical and
ethnographical necessity Shame on the
New-York tribune., 1918-07-29
The Military Touch

There is no mistaking the aeroplane
stare. American crowds are famous for
their craning after high spots worth OBJ
ssrving-you can assemble battalion
any day on Broadway by stopping and
staring at the top of the Woolworth
Building. But this is a new kind of up
look. No halfway bend will do the busi-
ness You must plant your feet far
apart and frankly and utterly rub your
nose against the sky.
A comic pose and vulnerable one
But we who see aeroplanes only at in
tervals cannot be expected to yawn un-
der them the way youngsters adjacent
to the flying fields have come to do We
must swallow our pride and hold our
breath and look as much like wooden
dolls with their heads broken backward
as we can.
For those who have not taken up the
war quite SO seriously there is the wrist
watch swing. 1t is more costly than the
aeroplane neck. And you will never be
on time for anything if you trust to the
vagaries of timepiece hitched to the
busiest, jerkiest, most Jared item in
your anatomy. On the other hand, that
little flick of the wrist can be made
graceful and ornamental by careful
study; and there is no lodging the con-
venience of the thing
Aside from the aeroplane neck and the
wrist-watch swing, what inroads has the
Great War made upon our civilian Gus
toms? Precious small and few. The
debutante slouch might be replaced by
an up-and-down profile, but the para
bolic spine still persists. so does fat and
overeating, spite of all Mr.. Hoover can
plead. SO does the illumination Of Broad
way on those nights of the week when
Mr.. Garfield is not at war.
No, we don't as yet see any CRYING
danger of our becoming military-mad
nation.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-29

trarily fixing prices and at the other
end different men have been arbitrarily
making the tax schedules. The two
functions have been unrelated. And it
has never even been imagined how a
third function should be co6rdinated with
those two, namely, the function Of SUIT
ing the supply of credit to the volume of
business to be transacted at prices to be
determined by the price fixing power,
less taxes to be determined by the taxing
power. So in one place taxes are fixed,
in another place credit is regulated and
in another place the tax scale is ar
ranged, and in all places continually
there is an outcry against prohteering,
though there are cases on record in
which the profiteers have actually pro-
tested, saying their profits were exces-
sive and they were ashamed to take
them, but that they were helpless in the
matter.
The governments control is absolute.
1t controls the credit. 1t controls prices.
1t exercises an unlimited taxing power.
Therefore it should control excess prof
its, which are the untaxed product of
prices and credit.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-29
Richthofen
By Lieutenant +. j. Sleath, Of the
British Army

NAPTAIN MANFRED Won RICHTH0-
4 FEN did not succeed to the com
mand of Boelckes Jagdstafe, as
has been enormously stated, but soon after
that arman's death he came into public
notice in command of circus" OF
his own. 1t should be noted that the term
"circus" is not of German origin, but a
name invented by the British flying corps
to denote a squadron of fighting scouts
which holds a rowing commission and ap-
pears at any point of the line where the
need is greatest. The gaudily painted ex-
terror of these machines may also have
stimulated the inventive genius of the
name -gver, for certainly with their blue,
yellow and red stripes and parti-colors they
reminded Of all the striking parapher-
MALTA of travelling showman's outfit. The
Germans put several of these squadrons
into commission, but none gained a repu-
tation equal to that commanded by Rich
thofen, its record of successes down to a
recent date amounting to over two hundred
To the great regret Of his British oppo-
nents he went into temporary retirement
toward the end of last year his marriage
lein Won Minkwitz quickly putting an end
to the rumors of his death. 1t was during
this period that his remarkable memoirs
were published. AS a book these memoirs
astonshed the world by their egoism and
bad taste. The book was, of course, part
of the German government propaganda
scheme of making their flying service pop
ular at home and feared abroad by the
glorfying their most famous pilots, and
poor Richthofen only a pawn in the
imperial game. The sporting outlook OF
the average German official can be well
necessarily based on the very vsgucst
conjectures- that Richthofen was not van
quished in fair fight with British aviators,
but killed by stray bullet from the ground.
The facts showed this conjecture to have
been without foundation.
Richthofen's method OF fighting was
moulded upon that of his master Boelcke.
and had all the characteristics of the old
Fokkcr school, which aimed at dealing
knockout blow TO unsuspecting enemy.
These tactics applied particularly to oppo-
nents slightly disabled. Richthofen himself
never hesitated to break off an engagement
soon as the odds seemed against him,
and nearly all his successes were gained
in the presence of his whole squadron. gen
orally with the majority of his comraees
protecting his tail He was at his favorts
game when he met his death.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-29
Yanks'
(From The Kansas CITY STAR

(FrOm The Kansas CttU STAR
Several friends have protested gently but
firmly with this newspaper for using the
word "Yanks" in referring to American
troops in France They feel, quite rightly
that Yankee is term Of limited applica-
ton The New Englander is a Yankee, but
not the New Yorker, or the Missourian or
the man from the Coast. Why apply to
whole army word that belongs to a small
group?
The argument is unanswerable. But lam
guage isn't built in logical way, as idioms
and slang bear witness. Usage is the deter
mining factor. If the public gets to using
an expression, no matter how foolish it may
be, all the kings horses and all the kings
can't stop it. The slang of one gen
Grafton becomes the accepted usage of the
next simply because people make it so.
"The Stars and Stripes" official organ
of the American troops in France, is regu-
larly referring to the soldiers as "Yanks"
The word is so essentially rough that the
men seem to have welcomed it. They de-
tested Sammy which probably was mis-
understanding of the French words, "les
amis t"friends), pronounced "lay zam-
mie," with which the first Americans were
welcomed. Other attempts to provide nick
names have failed. "Yanks" seems some
how to have captured the public fancy If
it has. no argument will avail against it.