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Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16
JUST WHYLUCY WAS LATE

'T'm sorry I'm late" Lucy greeted the girl in blue who was waiting for her at a table by the window. T snp- pose you're half starved. but I had to be late-positively had to. And did it on purpose"
 "On purpose!' the other echoed in dignantly. "How? Why?"
 T did" persisted Lucy. "And chose you to, begin on. I knew you wouldn't mind after I'd explained. You see, I'm trying to form whole new set of habits about things. want to get over being prompt and neat and I've just come from spending month with my Cousin Julia"
 T haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about,~ murmured the blue girl, but you might stop and crder your luncheon"
 "All right, Helen, I can do that Lucy conceded, studying the menu T want something indigestible- Welsh rarebit, I think, and two pots of eoffee."
 "1f you aren't losing your mind, Helen remarked as the waitress de parted, "you might tell me what hal happened to you"
 l NS JOoI lOtQ JOu, huSy 1CpOdtCO ] 'r'--n iir-+ enent 2 month with Cousil Julia. Cousin Julia is S5, but sh .uCAs apo4t 50. She has hair S smooth it looks uncanny, and every thing about her is washed, brushe and sterilized twice a day. She use up every scrap of her energy in bein systematic.
 l T hadn't seen Cousin Julia for te lyears or so, and I remembered her a a pretty girl, who was very gay an full of fun. But she didn't seem s
 very festive when, she met me at tn
 station in Wayneville. She was yer tall and thin, and wore a stiff whit
 gown that made her look like a train
 ed nurse. She always wears whit
 because it's more sanitary. We walk
 ed all the way to her house becaus
 driving stirs up too much dust, an
 when we got there we entered throug
 the back door in order to avoid track ing up the house. Dinner was a we balanced meal of things with pate1 names, and Cousin Julia fietcherize
 every bite.
 After dinner I went to my roor which was about as cozy as a hospit ward. Cousin Julia doesn't believe rugs that are not washable. and u floors and walls are the kind that ca be wiped off with damp cloths twi' a day.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

their service impaired by taking step backward. They realize that not only the postal service but the street traffic would suffer materially by the plan of Secretary Burleson should it be put in effect, and while 1t is only in the large centers that the abolish ment of the tubes would have any ef- feet, it is right there that the condi- tions which the change would cause should be avoided. But nothing stands out more strongly for the tubes than the call for the extension of that ser- vice and the ending of the poor ser vice which is now being secured by the very means of transportation which the secretary wants to- establish in place of the tubes.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

relieve the pressure where shortage
 may do considerable harm. It is pro-
 posed here to open the saloons three
 hours later in the morning and to
 close them an hour and a half earlier
 at night, 1t is urged also that drug
 stores, hotels, clubs. dance halls and
 other places take similar steps to cut
 down. the amount of fuel needed for
 heating and to conserve on light and
 power. If this is done, it will mean
 quite a saving and Meriden people
 will be doing their part. Meriden has always been ready to do its share and the indications are that there will be no question of a prompt re- sponse by all concerned. even though it means quite a money loss for some of our citizens who are already find | ing it difficult to make a living. - Meriden Journal.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16
TUBES WOULD BETTER SERVICE

Tn New York the demand is being made fer the extension of the mail tubes instead of their abandonment as called for by the postmaster gen. eral Perhaps there Is no better op- portunity to study the benefits of the tribe system of delivering mail than that which has been offered by the re- cent stprm which seriously hampered surface transportation. Under favor able conditions traffic congestion is sufficient 70 delay the delivery of mails in spite of the fact that the mai trucks are supposed to have the right of way. but in time of storm the diff ficulties are increased and f is by nc means surprising that certain sections shcu1d put forth the claim that they would get prompt and efficient servist if taey could get the benefit of tube service instead of being forced to reh upon the distribution which Is nov provided by motor trucks.
 Those who are being served by tht mail tubes are calling for their con. tinuance. They do not want to SC,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

Cousin Julia was very pleasant during my visit, but it wasn't very exciting. There were so many things the poor girl couldn't do, because they seemed disorderly or insanitary. She wouldn't knit for the soldiers because wool has a way of collecting quantl- ties of dust and she didn't think 1t
 would be healthy for the poor men to wear garments that anybody had worked over for so long a time. She wouldn't take books from the libra
 ries for fear they'd be full of germs. When poor Cousin Julia wasn' | washing or cleaning something she was keeping her accounts in two huge double entry ledgers or writing in her diary a report on the days adventures with a dust cloth. Cousin Julia had a schedule for every day in the week
 fastened to the wall above her desk l If she spent five minutes too long polishing the doorknebs it upset the schedule terribly.
 T think my being there worried hel a good deal. You see, she was afraid that my clothes might be full of city lgerms, and theneI was two minutes late at breakfast on several morn ings. Also I once brought in a buncf lof flowers and they scattered pooleI on the mahogany table. even lef the piano open one awful day and i , looked untidy in her eyes when ; } caller came. And, worst and most un forgivable of all, sat on the ehint, covered chairs when I wore a darl } serge dress. Altogether, I'm afrait my visit nearly drove poor Cousil
 Julia crazy"
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

News that Turkey has broken it's armistice with the bolsheviki and has landed troops at Trebizond besides sinking a Russian transport must inn press the Russians with thecharacter of those with whom they are trying to arrange peace.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

How about yourself?' the girl in blue asked sympatheticaliy. T don't see how you ever endured it a month" "
 "I couldn't have stood it." nodded Lucy, except for the fact that I was getting pointers on what not to do, on how not to spend the rest of my life. I made up my mind to be as different from my poor Cousin Julia as possi- bly, could. sol staid there to take notes. Altogether, it was most pro fitable visit.
 "Yes, I know that button is off my l waist, but I cut it off on purpose. I'm not going to have my life bounded by buttons when I'm 35! Don't you think I'm doing right?'
 Well" the other young woman said slowly "in different circum. stances I really believe you are. Jua the same, I don't think you were evel neat enough to be in very much dan ger."-Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

When flock of s2 sheep in East Haddam is destroyed by dogs there can be little question as to what ought to be done to keep such destructive animals where they belong.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16
OTHER VIEW POINTS

Suffragists who have found thea- work so spectacular, so dramatic, or have made it so, will be tempted to plunge along the glitterins paths of politics rather than to give them selves to the dull, plodding job of teaching their reluctant sisters what franchise demands of them. It is for these women who have thrust suffrage upon their fellow women to remember that it is, now their duty to take up this task whether or not it has the alluring appeal that the fight to secure suffrage has had for them.-Waterbury Republican.
 We might as we'll adjust ourselves to coal conditions and plan ou1 homes, our offices and our factories so that we will use just as little od it as possible. Coal is coming into Meriden, but it is coming in small l quantities, and there is slight chance that the situation will be so relieved
 that we will have plenty of it for s | long tints. It is the business, there. | fore of every man and woman to ust just as little coal as he can and thu.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

If the different provinces of Russia succeed in maintaining their independ- ence as sought, it will be more difi- cult in the future to locate that coun- try on the map.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

From the confusing reports which come from Russia it is apparently going to be some tiIne before the real conditions there are known.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

Theatre owners in the big cities are worrying over the orders to close early, but possibly they are thinking more of themselves than they are of saving | fuel. -
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

If Trotzlsy yields to the Germans on other points as he has on the meet ing place for the peace talk, Germany ought to get about what it wants from Russia.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

Whether or not Trotzy succeeds in coming to an agreement with the Ger mans, it is a great question whether he will be able to speak for all Rus sia. The Bolsheviki rule in Petrograd and Moscow, but all over the great land new local governments are springing up. Will the outcome be 1 of Russia? The old empire stretched | five thousand miles from west to east and nearly half as far from north to south. It was made up of all peoples, | nations and languages. The one bond | Of union was the Romanoff ruler, the Little Father of his people, the head | of the orthodox church, the czar of all l the Russias. How far it was senti- ment, how far it was the secret police and the army, how far it was merely inertness that kept this great hetero- geneous mass together matters not now. The one bond is gone and each section in it's own ways is groping to-
 ward lf-expression and self govern ment. Siberia has divided itself into
 several separate states; Orenburg, north of the Caspian sea, is still loyal to the Kerensky government; the Cos sacks, north of Caucasia, have de- clared their independence and, splen-
 did fighters that they are, are likely
 to make it good; Cau; casia has par
 liament of it's own and Transcaucasia
 is likewise autonomous. The Ukraine
 north of the Black sea. including the
 great city of Odessa, will have no part
 nor parcel with the Bolsheviki in
 their dealings with Germany; Bessara-
 bia next to the west has declared its
 autonomy; White Russia east of War
 saw has set up a republic with capital
 at Minsk, and Finland is already a , republic, under it's own flag. Some
 where among all these governmental
 experiments Washington will be found to lead his people to victory and
 a Jefferson to write for them an &C., ceptable constitution.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

When Germany Is caught red hand ed in it's unlawful submarine activities it is always ready to put the blame onto mine.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

The loss of the British destroye, Racoon shows that the German sub marines are not the only things which are always ready to contribute to Davy Jones' locker.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

The man on the corner says: There are those who have no room for hon. esty until the dishonesty has been driven out of them.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

The effort to make this :'drive your own car year is all well enough if someone will only provide the car.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

It is bit early for the usual clean up week but the police have made d good start in one direction.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

With the coal situation what it is anything in the way of a cold wave
 looms up much worse than it might ordinarily be.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

NO WINTER COATS PACKED AWAY at The Pasnik Co.,, so if you wish Ladies' ot Childs' Coat. the price will never stop you. JanlzSW
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

The passing of every cold snap means another obstacle cleared from the path of spring.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

M. Boudenoot has been appointed president of the army committee of the senate in the place of M. Clemen- ceau.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16
Children Cry
 FOR FLETCHER'S . A S TO RIA

WHEN YOU WANT 70 put your ous- mess before the public, there Is no medium better than through the ad. vertisiHE columns Of The Bulletin.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Don't forget that this is wheatless Wednesday,.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

But the German proposals were ex-
 actly such as were to be expected from
 their authors. While proclaiming
 peace withou tannexations, the kaiser's agents proposed to consider that the l four great occupied provinces,
 Poland, Lithuania, Courland and Esthonia -Livonia, stretching from Ru- mania to the Baltic, were already sep arate from Russia, and demanded that the German armies retain them until such time as their peoples might de- termine their own political future by
 popular vote. The hypocrisy of the | proposal is evident at a glance; the loyal Russian population has either | fled or been exter1ninated and the re- suit of a vote conducted under Ger man military occupation would be a | foregone conclusion Even Trotzky denounced these terms to his govern ment and declared that sooner than
 accept them Russia would renew the
 war. Meanwhile the time of the arm-
 istice having expired, it has been re- I newed for another month.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16
The belated Alpine storms have al

The belated Alpine storms have at last arrived to definitely stop the Austro- German drive into Italy, the fields of France are covered with ice and snow to depth unseen since the first winter of the war, and while Gen. erals January and February are mak- ing active operations impossible on the eastern front, the delegates of the Russian Bolsheviki and Germany are discussing terms of settlement at Brest-Litovsk. So confident was Trotzky of obtaining terms favorable to Russia that he announced his in- tention of demanding that the allies join in the negotiations within ten days. with the threat that if they stood aloof he would make a separate peace.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

The proposed amendment follows the | famous fifteenth amendment in it's wording and reads: 'The right of citi- 1 zens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on ac- count of sex.' The suffrage leaders | made a great gain recently in carrying New York state and it is another dis l tinct triumph to have succeeded in i getting this resolution through the national house. The measure must, however, run the gauntlet in the sen
 ate before it may be submitted to the state legislatures. Twelve states al-
 ready have equal suffrage, while eight
 others have granted partial suffrage | to women, but even conceding thesa twenty as solidly in favor of national suffrage, the votes of sixteen other legislatures are yet to be won before the amendment may be written into 1 the constitution.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

Norwich. "Wednesday, Jan. te, 1918.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16
FACTS AND COMMENT

The United States began the new year with a public debt of over five and half billion dollars. five times as large as it was before the war and considerably greater than the pre-war debt of any nation in the world ex- cept France. But is; contemplating the size of any debt it is proper to con sider the resources lying behind it. The Civil war cost the United States about three and quarter billions and in 1865 men looked at that enorfaous burden and openly declared that it
 could never be paid But the people who set so resolutely to work to pay off the huge obligation numbered less than one-third of the present popula- ton and the average wealth was less than third of what it is now. The country is therefore something like ten times more able to pay now than 1t was then, and the present debt in
 proportion to the resources behind ii is only one-fifth as great as it was in 1885.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

With the best of intentions, Director
 General of Railroads MeAdoo had set
 the week of Jan. IA as freight moving
 week." and had appealed to all officials
 and organizations from governors to trucking companies to make supreme effort to clear up the congestion of cars at all the terminals and start the country once more with clean sheet. Saturday, however, brought the worst blizzard of the winter and with tenn perature of IA below zero absolutely paralyzed all traffic in and out of Chi cago. It will take days even with the l most earnest effort on the part of all l concerned to work out this added diff l ficulty and should the winter keep up 1 it's already established reputation and bring another storm on top of this one the situation will be not far short ot l disastrous.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

The house Of REPRESENTATIVES has passed the Susan B. Anthony resolu- ton to submit the woman suffrage constitutional amendment to the state legislatures. For seventy years suf- frage leaders have kept this resolution before congress, and at last their ef- forts have been rewarded by the ex- act number of votes necessary for passage. At the last moment Presi- dent Wilson changed his attitude to- ward the question and advised his
 party to vote in it's favor. Notwith standing this. however, the democrats gave slight adverse majority against I the proposition, which was carried by | a republican vote of 165 ayes to 3: 1 noes. These added to the evenly di-
 vided democratic vote gave 274 to 136
 the exact two thirds needed to carry
 the measure
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-08-13
TODAY'S ANNIVERSARY.

It is just about 1O4 years ago that
the first locomotive engine was built
by George Stephenson, who died sew
enty years ago today. Stephenson was
a mechanical genius, a child of power
ty who learned to read and write in
night school and who at fourteen was
assistant engineer in coal mine. In
1914 he completed a locomotive en-
CINE which drew eight loaded cars at
a speed of four miles an hour. The
following year he built an improved
engine, and in 1922 began the con-
struction of the Stockton & Darling
ton railway, the first passenger road.
On this line his famous engine, The
Rocket, was given trial in 1880, and
amazed the world by developing a
speed of thirty miles an hour. Steph-
enson lived to see his invention, at
first laughed at, become great and
necessary factor in transportation
Today is also the enghty-eighth an
niversary of the completion of the
first railway in America. This rail-
way connected Albany and Schnecta'
DIV N Y
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-08-13
CONDITIONS IN GERMANY

- FORGE EHRET 49, retired brewer and chronic inva
NJ lid is Of three American citizens believed to be
the last who have out of Germany Ehret
Citizen but the alien property custodian has charge of his
tate, which amounts to forty millions, or less.
generate Conditions there are terrible Socialists
demanding peace. Everybody wants peace"
His testimony is too scany Perhaps he Is too old to think
and speak clearly Of details Perhaps he doesn't want to- His
views would be worth if he had less property the pos
session of this Assuming that he is able
detailed information he should give before any seized
property returned to him. and there should be return
less his Americanism is thoroughly proved.
With the aged brewer was Miss McAvoy Of Hoboken,
who speaks freely, and Of details Dresden is city
pectres The aged know they must die There proper
nourishment for the holowcheeked children The people
not know the part America taking in the The Americans
treated kindly The German officers enthusiastic
ward the and especially the poorer people, who make
munitions They get very high wages The German people
will not revolt They believe Germany assaulted by
who desire her destruction Mourning in universal
Women do most of the work. They attractive uniforms
Clothing made Of paper Casualty lists doctored The
wounded brought into the city at night"
Evidently privaton is localized among those in certain
sections perhaps among those not engaged in munitions
The picture Miss McAvoy paints of the munitions workers. well
paid overdressed and filling places of amusement implies thai
they get enough to eat of some sort
There will remain the pressure of those who not wei
fed latest facts from Germany related Miss McAvoy
indicate that the economic of the country are
gerouy Human material is also diminishing. With
many it is merely question of time.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-08-13
ANNIVERSARY OF GNETST,
INSTRUCTOR OF KAISER

Although Germans are much given
to the observance of anniversaries, 1t
is unlikely that the anniversary of
Rudolph Won Gneist, which falls to-
morrow, will be marked by any cele-
bration. One of the greatest jurists
of the nineteenth century, and during
his life almost universally admired.
his works offend the Teuton sensibili-
ties because OF the fact that he so
frequently held up England as gov
ernmental model for Germans to fol-
low. In his younger days Rudolph
Won Gneist was one of the instructors
of Prince William, now Kaiser Will
helm II. 1t is to be doubted if
Gneist made any profound impression
upon the mind of the present ruler
of the German Empire, for from his
boyhood the Kaiser has been inclined
toward autocracy and militarism.
Gneist was born in Berlin on Aug.
10, 1916, and died in his native city
twenty-five years ago. He studied
jurisprudence in Berlin and held
several minor court positions prior to
1850, when he resigned as assistant
judge of the superior tribunal in order
to devote his entire time to teaching
| law. His fame in this field led the
first Emperor William to appoint him
instructor in law and Jurisprudence to
his grandson. For many years-from
| 1867 to 1884-Gneist was a member
of the Prussian lower house, of the
supreme court of Prussia and mem
Der of the privy council. In the
Prussian chamber he acted with the
National Liberals, and was consis-
tent advocate of a greater amount of
se1f-government for the people.
In his appeals for the adoption of
more liberal measures he often held
up England as an example to be emu
lated. His books deal chiefly with
constitutional law in England and
| Germany. He was ennobled by his
former pupil, William II, soon after
the 1atter's accession to the throne in
| 1888