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Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02

sH-M-M-MI" said the father of the pretty girl. scowling little. ''Was that another letter, to you from that feilow-you know. one in the envelope that I saw on the hall table as came through to dinner?
 Why, fatheri" cried the pretty girl. 'eWhy do you accent another in that way? You'd think got fifteen letters a day from AIberti"
 "H'm!" said her father. You prob- ably would if there were fifteen mail trains running here from Denver! I tell you I'm tired of always having that special brand of handwriting spread out for my inspection ever day when I return, weary with toll ing to make enough money to buy your postage stamps and note paper! Why don't you have somebody else write to you besides Albert And he writes such hick>letters that he's cer- tainiy told you everything he knew months ago! Whats he doing-copy- ing the dictionary or the Bible and sending it on?'
 T think you're hoTrid!" said his daughter Anyhow. expect you were just trying to read what he said through the envelope! Albert uses such thin paper! Why, I expect the poor boy is lonesome out there and writes just to kill tinle!"
 "Hal" said her father. Any lone some fellow in a live town like Den yer, who has to shut himself up ir
 his hall room and waste ink just tt | fill the doleful minutes, is slow! Pvt been to Denver and I tell you it's ii friendly It stretches out an eager hand to a good looking, interesting
 ahen! Anyhow, people were very nict to me when I was there. It's probabl! Albert's fault. He's too tall and thiI l to suit me.
 T tell you, you're leading him on 1 letting him write to you like this, ant 1 if you aren't going to marry him vol gotta stop it! And if you are goint 1 to marry him, heaven help you, ans get it over with quickly, so that can pass on to more interesting sub l jects, Why if girl had let me writ
 her every single day without wirint the police to restrain me I shoult have concluded that she had her trous
 seau all prepared and was ready t junp!"
 "He doesn't write me every day, defended the pretty girl loftily. "Tha is, sometimes it isn't every day, whel the trains are late. And there is noth ling serious at all between usl We ar tjust ordinary good friends"
 Hal" parked her father agair
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02
MEN WHO CAME BACK
oNA ToRPEDoED HOSPITAL SHIP
By Sergt. H. J. Mansfield
27th Battalion c. E. F.


 "got mine" doing a little work on the side which hadn't been booked for. had been ordered out for some instructional duty when I came acress a friend on his way into Kennel His invitation travel with me" promptly accepted, brought me into the town which was about half a mile from our front line. That noon the Germans started to shell the place. Some one told us there were 8 lot of old women there and I said to my pal, Wed better get the old ladies out"
 We worked fast for about an hour and half and got sixteen or seven teen women and children out. Then we heard there were still some old ladies upstairs in the Ypres hotel l We went up to look for them In a couple of minutes we heard a sing song through the air. I began to feel pretty yellow-just scared. The place l disappeared. My, chum departed, with the help of gravitation only, to the bottom. l was left hanging by one arm to the top of a wall for what seemed like an hour. Time was not measured in minutes then, but ir suffering. Along came another shell; the wall caved in and landed some where else. where I was buried fol nine hours. My friend was lucky, be- ing one of the first to be released. Il seemed a long time before I, in pretty bad shape, was dug out.
 The sequel to this story is interest ling. I was badly mussed up and the doctors said nX arm would have tC Scome off. When I was able to bt Eshipped, they sent me back to England I was anxious to / spend Christina: with my mother who had come ovel from Canada. So on the 7th, or 9th q forgot which, of December. I wal put aboard the hospital ship, Angle Iterre." We were crossing the chan mel. about twenty five miles out iron Cologne. It was about eleven o'clocl in the morning. All of sudden th' quiet was broken by a terrible crash I thought one of the boilers had ex ploded. The boat was broken in two I saw geysers of water flying up b, the side of the funnel.
 We had been torpedoed. Hit In tn
 center. Whistles footed and sucl crashing and tearing! I knew it wa l serious. I waited about fifteen min
 utes, then decided there was no chanc
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02
AN EXCELLENT DECISION.

A high degree of satisfaction can- not help being felt not only by the people of this city but by those along the whole east bank of the Thames river at the decision reached by State Highway Commissioner Bennett to construct a state road from Norwich to the submarine base. It is an ex- cellent decision in keeping with ex- isting needs.
 For long time an effort has been made to bring about this much needed improvement. This highway, which goes through some of the most attrac- tive country in this section and serves not only populeus terminals but inn portant settlements in the towns through which it passes, has been in deplorable condition and because ei that large amount of travel which would have utilized such road has been turned in other directions, while developments along the east bank oi the river have been seriously handi, capped for the same reason.
 That the improvement is going tc be secured now is due to the de- iaofioS Oi eAo odDihelt4no pdSo anu tkts need of giving that important station the facilities which it needs for get ting it supplies cannot be questioned But it cannot be overlooked that { large measure of additional benefit ii going to be obtained thereby. l means that attention is going to b, given to stretch of road which ha. been a decided discredit not only tt the towns through which it passes bu to the state and in the. taking up o this matter and the presentation o the needs too much credit cannot b. given to the organizations and in dividuals taking a leading part there in.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02
THE WISCONSIN ELECTION

Interest cannot help centering in the special election which takes place to- day in Wisconsin for the purpose of selecting a successor in the United States senate to the late Paul O. Husting.
 There bitter contest was waged in the primary over the choice of can- didates to make the run on election day. Being a republican state it was only natural that the hardest fight should have been over the choice o1 the republican nominee and right there was the struggle centered or tne question of loyalty and dis1oya1ty Congressman Lenroot secured the coveted honor by a narrow margin against the candidacy of La Fo1lette's man. How this would affect the at. s1---a-.. >-S the republicans who had
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02
Views of the Vigilantes
POWDER AND GUNS
By Lawrence F. Abbott of The Vigilantes.

The Managing Editor of The Vigi- lantes asks me to say in not more than five hundred words what I believe is the 'sbig idea" that Americans should concentrate upon at this time in order to win the war. 1 can answer the question in two words-powder and guns.
 The American people know why they entered this war; President Wilson has stated the reasons in clear and con- vincing language.
 They know the objects they desire to achieve; in one of the finest State pa pers of modern times President Wilson has stated those objects. There are fourteen of them,-Specific, definite and vital.
 In the most remarkable manifesto tion of determined patriotism that the people of the United States have ever shown they have dedicated themselves to this war by giving million and a half of their husbands and sons, theil fathers and brothers, with scarcely . ] whisper of reluctance or complaint, tC the fighting ranks. But they are now | beginning to wonder whether the Wal Department is dedieating itself witt equol fervor to the providing O powder and guns.
 In 1877. when a period of grea tension between Russia and Englant threatened war, there was sung in on of the London music halls by vaude vile artist named MacDermott a som with this refrain:
 We don't want to fight,
 But by jingo if We do,
 We've got the ships, we've got the mer
 We've got the money too.
 This music hall song went all owe England in an incredibly short tim and had something to do with affect ing the policy of the Governmen From it was derived the term fling, o meaning an extremely pugnacious an Escrappy person.
 Now "jingo" is a very unpIeasar and offensive person in time of peac, but in time of war we ought all to b jingoes,-that is pugnacious, unafrai and determined to fight against an odds and to the last gasp. We shoul
 be even willing to fight s1oth, slacknes and self satisfaction in a War De partment.
 To this end I suggest the followin
 adaptation of MacDermott's famou refrain:
 We DO want to fight But, by lingo! if the Huns Refuse to fight with brooms ticks You have got to give Us guns!
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02
AGREEMENT AGAINST STRIKES

Directly to the point is the decision which has been reached by the com mittee named by capital and labor for the purpose of clearing up the labor situation in the country for the period of the war. That the committee has worked with a definite purpose and with apparent harmony is indicated by the fact that it has come to an agreement after sessions which have occupied but little more than months time.
 The purpose back of this conference was to prevent strikes during the period of the war and it is expected that the government will give it's ap- pFoval to the agreement which has been reached. By this organized la bor pledges that war industries will be kept free from such trouble as long as the war lasts in order that the wal | efforts of the country may not suffer l The employers recognize the right oi 1 their employees to organize and to bar. gain through representatives, ths whole idea being to resort to a sen. sible adjustment of difficulties. It i. a getting together of capital and la I bof under an understanding whicl ought to have a salutary effect upol their relations for a much longer per iod than the war.
 While the period is of course limitet under the agreement there seems t be no good reason why, if full respec is paid to it. that it will not resul in its being carried out to an in
 creased degree in the future. Not little progress has been made in tha
 direction in the past and there is cer
 tainly every reason why it should b
 continued. whether the country is in
 volyed in war or is enjoying peace
 Only justice can. be asked for and tha
 is certainly the sensible way to SC
 cure it,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02

of my being rescued. Laboriously I got on a life belt. resting the wounded arm on it, Then l jumped. I never expected to come out of that. The next thing l knew I was drawn over the side of an English submarine, given hot coffee, undressed and rub bed down, wounds were dressed, and was landed safely in a Dover hos pitaL From there I was sent to my mother who was waiting for me in
 Ramsgata It was she who fought the doctors ana saved my arm.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02
REASON FOR THE HOWL.

There can be no surprise that there is a big howl being made over the fact that there has been only one American airplane sent to France and that but 25 will be there by the first of July instead of the 12,000 that were promised. No doubt exists as to the need of this highly important war equipment. Because the American troops on certain parts of the line have failed to get the benefit of the services of the flying corps their lines ana guns have been easily spied out by the eyes of the enemy which nat uraily places them at disadvantage.
 Not a little has been said about the necessity of utilizing the ships for the movement of troops while supplies in general have been going forward in large quantities. Great quantities of such supplies have been piled up on the piers and placed in storage in Alt lantic ports either because of the in- ability to send them forward as rapid ly as they were received or because of the lack of transportation facilities occasioned by other demands. In this SOtl1Sb&oh lhotC NAdtC DSCu bikOSS WuA have urged that railroad congestion could be somewhat relieved if such goods were not forwarded to ports un- til those which are there have beer reduced in quantity.
 But it is a well known fact that il has never been necessary to advise any such thing in regard to the air plane equipment. That which is SC greatly needed the producers hay, failed to produce. Therefore there i, l every, reason why greater attention
 should be given to this matter. ",
 cannot depend upon the French fol
 everything. It is high time that W. got dowa to serious business at home
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02
BEING A COMFORT TO ALBERT

"Where have heard that siren strain beforeI? Every girl learns it while she is teething! Dear mel she says in sweet, girlish surprise when the haggard lover threatens to go blow his poor brains out you amaze me! I thought we were just ordinary good friends! had no idea, Percy, you were serious! Of course, you have spent all you made on theaters and candy and flowers or me, but I sup posed you were just amusing your self and didn't know what else to. do with your money! Of course, you have told me you were madly in love with me in forty eleven different ways, but IT just took it as merry persiflagei How foolish you are to fancy l cared for you!' That's just what you are doing with Albert and I tell you it's my duty to save him! You write him every day. too?"
 "Oh, my not" declared the pretty girl T seem to be too busy! Some times it's nearly two weeks before | find time to answer him!"
 'sWhat!" tsn,loded her father. 'Dc you mean to say that you are so sell fish and thoughtless and inconsiderate when a man is wasting ali that time on you, as not to take a little pains to please his? I never heard of sucf
 ingratitude in my life!
 "If that isn't the modem female for you!" he thundered along. 'Why
 when was young, if young mar showed any attention to youne
 woman she was grateful and apprecia
 tive and sat up nights knitting hin silk ties and enbroidering sunflower
 and hollyhocks on sofa cushions fo his rom! And she showed her goot breeding by replying to his letters, n, matter how much it inconvenience liner or what she had to put aside t do iti I should think that when yol lconsidered Albert's faithfulness il writing you every day you woul, hang your head in shame! There h is away off in a strange city, longinl for home letters to cheer him up well, my goodness!r crieet tn pretty girl indignantly. Didn't yo start out by saying I ought to dis lcourage him? And now you are hop j ping mad when I do it! And anyhow lit doesn't discourage him in the least And I can't just figure out whethe you are taking my side or his! Ar you in favor of my marrying him 0 aren't you, and if so. why not?"
 'fGr-r-rrrrrf!" said her fathel
 snatching up the evening paper
 really don't see why I should vast time trying to point out facts to yo,
 when you persist in being so illogics and frivolous! Leave me be!-Ex change.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02

In view of the manner in which the Canadians are fighting in France it is a sorry spectacle which the rioters ot Quebec are making. Even the kaiser could not have expected that he would get such help.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02
Norwich, March s1. 1918.

It is stated by the Echo de Paris that the French government does not intend to avail itself of the safe con- duct passes provided for General Bertheiot and the Rufnanian mission, and that it is probable that the mis- sion will retire towards Russia, where it would be possible for it to carry out & new mission.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02

Those neutral newspaper men, in. vited by the kaiser to witness the German offensive, have been having 8 hot and unforgetab1e time if they have endeavored to keep in touch witt the fron. line.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02

March was so much better than the reputation which it has borne in the past that it is to be hoped that what April has in store will not be disap- pointing.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02
OTHER VIEW POINTS

Under the prodding of Senator Lodge, the shipping board is at last telling the facts. It has put. 1SS ships into the water, but all but three of these were requisitioned It has ac- tuaIly built in year of work, three ships. Senator Lodge said that there were only two. He was two-thirds right. Of 100 ether completed ships. not one was built under the. Ship- ping Boards contract Waterbury American.
 It is no tax on the memory to recall the days when the railroad got just about the same amount of .consideraL- uon as the traditional yellow dog Batting the railroads got to be a very popular sport with those in high places. That all this has changed at least temporarily and probably for good is evidenced by the agreement of Director General MeAdoo to loan the New Haven road the $43, ,964, 900 required to meet notes for that amount maturing on April B. It is significant that the first dip into the half billion so- called revolving fund for the rail roads should be for the benefit of the road which was the most persecuted through the dark days of railroading There is a certain poetic justice here
 In return for such fair play we took
 to see the New Haven serve it's com
 munity more efficiently than before anf to the general benefit of all concerned
 We're improving all the time.-Nev Haven Journal-CouFier
 The investment of the Bridgepor Gaslight company was looked over il
 1913. Its property was valued, it lcharges scrutinized, and it's deprecia
 tion fixed.
 In this process the company neces tsarily had the advantage of it's ac umulation from earnings, though
 was deprived of the opportunity t ever again make similar accumulaeions while paying ordinary dividends.
 The value of the property used fo the public was fixed, and the commis sion decided that a return of about | 1per cent. would be fair.
 The actual yield in 1913 was some , thing over 6 per cent but not enougl to warrant a decrease. The commis sion said that a decrease would 500 be possible.
 A little the company decreased it rates that have been increased. 7 Whether the increase is farrante depends. upon the conditions which ca be ascertained only by scrutinizin q capital charges, costs and profits. ,i What has the company added b , way of capital, since 1918? What
 the increase in it's receipts, and wha iprof1ts is it taking?
 r There have been large increases
 the cost of coal and oil which are tn $ raw materials if water gas production What do these increases amount to?
 With the figures and facts of the de
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02

cision of 1913 in being, supplemented with yearly reports to the utilities commission, it ought to be compart- lively easy to ascertain whether the present rate increase is warranted or not-Bridgeport Times.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02

The man on the corner says: Even the little experience which has been had with early rising gives one greater respect for the service of the milk man.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02

Any doubt that Colonel Roosevelt would not regain his equilibrium must have been completely dissipated after his recent speech in Maine.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02

From the way in which coal orders
 have to be made out it looks as if
 any lost diamonds would be worth ad- vertising for.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02

The fishermen will have to tell some pretty interesting tales if they expect to hold the boards against the war news in Europe.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02

The senate has shown its recogni- tion of the need of getting the draft law straightened out, and the house should follow in it's footsteps.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Did you remember what day it was without being humiliatingly reminded of the fact?
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02

If the Vienna report is true and Odessa has not been reeaptured, it must be admitted that the bolgheviki have great press agents
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02

Dead animals, not edible, other than those stuffed or otherwise preserved, have been added to the list of goods which are now prohibited for export from Sweden.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02

A great many people hear Hoover, but the great trouble is that more do not heed him.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02
THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Society.

Vologda, Russia. The National Geo graphic Society's war geography bull letin. issued today from it's Washington headquarters, gives the following in-
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-02
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Appreciate Spirit But Desire No Such
 Fund.

5APPFeciafe opFFR but DesIFE NO ouch
 Fund.
 MT. Editor: Our attention was called to an article in this mornings S Bulletin, asking that the friends of our son, Walter P. Moran, raise fund that he may enjoy extra comforts while convalescing at the hospital.
 It is our wish that no such fund be raised.
 Why impose on the generous hearts Of so many good friends who have already erected in his honor a monu- ment more precious than what money could buy and composed of. loving words and sympathetic wishes which will live in the memory of himself and lis grateful parents while life lasts | MIR. AND MRS. JOHN A. MORAN. Norwich, April 1, 1918,
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
You PoLes!
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: On May 3 Polish people all over the
world celebrate the anniversary of the
Polish constitution. May 3, 1871, in the
capital of Poland in Warszawa, at the st.
John Cathedral, the constitution was read
and signed by King Stanislaus Augustus
(PoniatowskD and the Polish people re-
ceved it with great happiness.
The constitution contains twelve parts.
Some of them arc:
/. An hereditary monarchy. which hitherto had
been elective
@ Political rights Of the commoners.
.. Full religious liberty.
4. steps toward the liberation OF the serfs.
5. Two legislative champers-the Chamber OF
Deputies and of Senator's.
=. The abolition of liberum veto. as an exag-
gerated method of guaranteeing the rights of the
Individual.
How could a nation with such political
inheritance ever relinquish her sovereignty?
At various times Poland has saved the
liberty of Europe. You Poles In this vital
moment stand united behind the President
Of the United States, gather under the
StarSpangled Banner, the flag of our adop
tlon-tnc flag that represents liberty, SO
dear to our hearts. The Polish flag is red
and white and white eagle; the American
flag is red, white and blue; both are red
with the blood of their valiant defenders on
sublime purity of their mission.
Poles! So you men of Polish blood arm
yourselves for victory in this cause! Re-
member the victory over the Turks in 1888,
by which we raised the siege of Vienna and
saved Christian Europe from Mahomctan
yoke. Remember the great battle Of Grun-
wald, which occurred July 1S, 1410. where
the Tcutonic crusaders were crushed by the
forces of Poland. Remember Sedan, Som
rusierra, Gravelotte. Wrzcsna and Moabit,
and hear at a distance the Sons of 1892
singing the "Marseillaisc." Poland has
moved in her grave. Remember the victory
when Kosciusco and Pulaski fought with
Washington for the liberty of the United
States.
Enlist to-day in the Polish army in
France! This army is composed of men
whose forefathers had inscribed the words
for our liberty and yours on their banners,
and who will gladly follow the American
and Polish flags in tAc sublime contest for
liberty and justice for all nations and dem
ocratic freedom for mankind. To-day
there are $4,000 Polish men in the service
OF the United States army and navy and
$4,000 men in the Polish army on the West
ern 'front.' and there are still more at
Niagara Falls camp and Niagara on-the-
Lake, Ontario, Canada. This army is ready
to give blood and life for liberty and free
and independent Poland Americas cause
is our cause!
B. JOSEPH DUKSZTA.
Plainheld, N. j., April "a, 1918.