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New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

George D. Wright, having completed
assembling for the Educational Films
Corporation his "Mexican Topicals."
will return to Mexico next month to
put before the administration the draft
of law for the proper protection of
American film products in the country
south of the Rio Grande
The Importance of this step may be
gauged from the fact that hitherto
Mexico has been the customer of Euro
pean film houses almost exclusively, or
else of duping thieves who stole the
American product outright. Mr. Wright
says:
"The only American stars who are at
all well known in Mexico are Charlie
Chaplin and Pearl White, the former as
a film comedian of worldwide vogue
and the latter because the French
Pathe, Of which the American Pathe is
a branch, distributes her releases On
the other hand, the names and histories
of leading French and Italian stars are
known to all Mexican fans The repu-
tation of the American films in Mexico
has been ruined by the practice of dup
ing"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

Keep the Home Fires Burning" is
the title of a new picture which has
just been completed by the American
Defence Society and the Universal
Film Company. The film shows, in
effect. how the nation accomplished
the military and industrial salvation
of humanity in the struggle against
Hundom, and how it is equipped now
to achieve infinite good for the world
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

Francis x. Bushman and Beverly
Bayne have started work on Vita
graph super-feature under the per-
sonal supervision of Albert E. Smith,
president of the Vitagraph Company.
Henry Hourly, French playwright,
actor and director, has in hand the
actual direction.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

Select Pictures Corporation announces
the acquisition of Mitchell Lewis as
series star. Mr.. Lewis has already
begun upon the production of series
of pictures for Select, the first Of
which, Code of the Yukon" has been
filmed and is in process of preparation
for distribution.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

Herbert Standing, who plays the part
of Major William Thaw- in "A Ro-
nance of the Air" by Franklin B.
Coates, was selected by Lieutenant
Bert Hall for this part because of his
strong resemblance to the American
ace in face, figure and, curiously
enough, even in mannerisms. Major
Thaw is the only other living member
of the original Lafayette Escadrille
besides Bert Hall, and the two aviators
were bosom friends in France.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-04
4 USELESS PLEA.

What a gross misunderstanding must exist in the mind of the sultan of Turkey if he thinks that Germany will make peace for him under exist ing conditions! Yet he appears to har- bor such an idea and it is even claim ed that he has made such an appeal. This shows what must be the attitude in that country toward the continua- ton of the war and how the advance of the two British forces in Asia Mi aor must be regarded. .t
 Germany managed by early ffnan- cial assistance to get the help of Fur key. It has made the most of it's army and navy and got no small bene- fits therefrorh. but it is folly to siip- pose that the kaiser will be willing for Turkey to drop out of the fighting at this time. Germany is not inclined that way. It is holding onto every thing that it has and reaching out for more, and Turkey must expect, re- pardless of the suffering which it is undergoing and the conditions which exist within it's borders, to remain in the game until the end if it anticipates that Germany is going to lift it's bur dens now that they have become oner- GUS. Turkey must give all that it has and all that remains for the carrying out of the kaiser's plans even if that means the wipifig out of Turkey and the absolute control of that nation even as Austria Hungary has been taken over. If the sultan wants peace he must look for it in another direc- tion than Potsdam.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-04

of it coming on us and the Germans following it up. Many of our second line went down under it. The Ger mans made a pretty bad mess of us altogether Our batteries kept at it while we retreated behind them. went down under it, but some of the arbulance men got me and pulled me out of it
 There were no gas masks at that tinne.i We were totally unprepared for manoeuvers of that sort. All of the Highland Divisions were in that attack, about twenty thousand men. It was pretty serious then, but many times [ have laughed at our at tack, my first The attack came from the other side. t
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-04
WAR GARDEN PRIMER
"LEGGY" TOMATO PLANTS MADE
 STRONG.

It is not necessary for the home
 gardener to discard the apparently
 weak or spindiy and 'leggy" tomato
 plants, for they can be made as stocky
 as any others, says today's bulletin
 from the National War Garden Com
 mission. The way to do this is to set
 them in the ground "on the bias" Make the hole deep enough to bury the root well, with the stem part of the plant inclined so the superfluous stock will be under soil. Roots will spring forth all along this buried stem, and in a short time it will be vigorous, more so often than those planted upright.
 No vegetable that grows in the gar- den will yield bigger crop, in propor- ton to the amount of space planted than the tomato. Furthermore, it is a food which can be enjoyed in one | form or another nearly every day all summer long.
 If the little plants started in seed boxes are about two inches high and I are crowded, either prepare another seedbox in which to transplant them I two inches apart each way or trans plant to cold frame, or into flower pots, strawberry. boxes, or tin cans. l The object is to get them where; they
 have room to grow and spread. Tomato plants should be set in the 1 open as soon as danger from frost is past. Set them 1s inches apart, in rows three feet apart if they are to be 1 staked and pruned to one or two 1 stems. Set them three feet apart in
 rows four feet apart if they are not to be pruned or staked. For the
 early crop nrnna and stake the nlants.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-04

light work. At first they will pick berries, then help harvest the crops of beans, corn and tomatoes They are known here as the woman's land army. Each girl carried a pack containing overalls, old shoes and big straw hat for field work. The girls recruited at the U. s. employment office here an' the captain of the first detachment. is Miss Brooks, granddaughter of Gen. J. M Wilson, U. s. A. And Miss Brooks took along with her a mascot her pet dog. Moreover, the girls went properly chaperoned, but they will work like farmers. all the same, and as soon as the Washington publ
 larger delegation of farming vacation ists will enlist in the work and help harvest the crops of nearby farmers, whose labor shortage on account of the draft is very serious.
 This week the first good word
 spoken for poisonous gas bombs was
 heard. It kills the huge trench rats and the insects which make life mis-
 erable for the men in the trenches.
 The men are protected by gas masks, and even the dogs used in rescue work
 and carrier pigeons wear miniature Indsh5 WLeil need pes Dut IL gets III US deadly work on rats, lice and other trench pests that infest the trenches The TiIson bill for the standardiza- ton of screw threads and the creation
 of a commission to frame such action
 passed the senate and will now become a law. The bill provides that the com mission be composed of nine members of which the director of the bureau o1 standards is one, The other members will be two each commissioned officers of army and navy and two each who are members of the American Society | of Mechanical Engineers and the So- ciety of Automotive Engineers. BH such standardization it is expected
 that intuition work and other meta
 work for the government will be great | ly facilitated.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-04
Views of the Vigilantes
THE DAY

By Juliet Wilbor Tompkins of the
 Vigilantes
 It will come some day-do you real ize it? On some one glorious day the enemy will cry "Kamarad!" in good earnest, and there will be Peace.
 Picture that day. The crowds in the streets are going about their business, the Red Cross rooms are humming with work, the thousand war activities are grinding at full speed, every moth CT and father is facing the morning with a heart braced for loss, every loyal citizen is st his post of service; and suddenly-the newsi
 The crowded avenues turn white; all up and down their length they have blossomed white with the open news papers that have magically sprung into everyones eutstretched hands Everybody in the long, stopped stream of humanity holds a newspaper or reads his neighbor's; everybody knows everybody, shares with everybody; strange hands clasp, strange eyes, meeting, overflow; and there is just one first thought, not triumph, nor democracy, but-"Those boys-those good boys-they can come home" " And the second thought will be We've done iti We've put it through" !"
 And then, standing there, they be- gin to sing, the men with barred heads; they send up such a song as the skies have never heard since time was Glory, glory, hallelujah!" - Praise God, from whom all blessings fowl" The melting pot is a slow process that song will melt all into blood brothers at the first chord. Oh, how they will sing, those standing men and wonaen And then with one i'm pulse they will surge into the church es, into the cathedrals-for when man has been granted the supreme boon, he must fall on his knees, whether he knows God or not And no one who rises up from that silence will ever lost it's mighty vibration.
 That day is not a vision; it is com ing as surely as tomorrow. Then will you have it tomorrow? Or will you put it off for four more bleeding years It is in your hands. Every effort every dollar, you give to service, short ems the waiting. If all gave all they | could, the day could not hold back another hour. When you buy tht l thing you most want you are not con
 scious of sacrifice in paying the sun ] demanded. Fix your eveys on the day the day when the avenues will sud denly blossom white withe the new: ] of peace-and you will want trat witl so burning an urgency that you vii
 come running with it's price.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-04

ment of the facts by court having jurisdiction in such a matter. The people where his remarks were made were naturally incensed but instead of exercising the proper self control they refused to allow the law to take it's course and taking him from the jail they proceeded to make him pay at their hands the greatest possible pen atty There was in fact little or no effort on the part of the assem- blaze to put stop to such an ufllaw- ful execution. The crowd lacked balance wheel in it's mad desire for the imposition of punishment for an act of that character at such time.
 The eleven indicted men were most fortunate in thus escaping from the predicament in which they had placed themselves, and it was more than they deserved. They had shown as great disregard for the law of the nation as Prager had apparently shown disloyalty to the country. and such &C., lions should never get approval in a civilized nation.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-04
WHEN THE ICE WENT OUT

p "Yes Ted's been here" said the young woman with the classical face. Why, no; didn't let him come. He just came. He had d few days leave and naturally he wished to be In Chicago; his old home.
 "Yes. he locked very handsome in his uniform, of course. I really think he is better looking than ever. The outdoor life at the southern camp eef- tain1y agrees with him.
 Certainly, it was too bad you didn't see him, but he was extremely busy all the time he was here. He had a lot. or shopping to do for some of his friends at camp, and of course, had many things of his own to attend to before he left.
 'eUh huh. I helped him with the shopping. Men are dense about that sort of thing. I had to remonstrate with him about his extravagance in flowers and candy.
 "Of course, I enjoyed his little visit. You know Ted and I have been friends D long time. There wefe moments, though, while he was here when he made me rather uncomfortable. You see, he seemed so-we1l, so frightfully glad to be here. And-well. you know it isn't my way to be so enthusiastic as some people are. He said one day he believed that I would have been
 just as happy if he hadn't come.
 told him that wasn't so, that I was
 very much pleased, indeed to see him again after the long time he had been
 away. Somehow that appeared to veH
 him. Don't let your pleasure disturb
 your usual calfn,' he said;
 tFYes. we went to the theatre good
 deal. think Ted felt the need of tfai sort of relaxation, but there wasn'
 anything romantic enough playing tt suit hifn. He said he would have hket to see some real old fashioned love stories acted. I said that l really
 cared more for the intellectual drama So I might suppose he remarked al
 most gruffy.
 You know, I really began to thinl that army life was changing Ted's dis position, which used to be very plea sant and even, because while he wa here he was always getting cross sud denly without any apparent reason. l l I hadn't known his leave was so brie I think I should have spoken to hin seriously about his growing temper | Whenever he had one of his inex plicable outbursts I merely ignored i and spoke of something quite foreigi | to the subject that appeared to hay l annoyed him.
 That usually quieted him. The fac l is that frequently he wouldn't say any l thing for a long time, and then whe 1 he did speak he would be as pleasan
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-04
GENERAL WOOD, THE SOLDIER.

General Wood spoke like the true soldier that he Is when, in his address before the division which he has train ed for service in France, following the review he expressed his sincere re- gret at the order which has detached him from leading them abroad but declared that 1t has been so fixed by superiors and the order must be obeyed.
 Just why the sudden change was made which removed General Wood from this command after he had come cast expecting to go to Europe has never been authoritatively disclosed. There may be reasons why it should not be, but if that is the case it would perhaps be better to say SC than to let the impression grow that lhe administration is keeping him in this country because there is a desire 10 punish him for his activity in be- half of greater preparation during the early days of the war, or that it is be- cause General Pershing does not want him as a division commander in the oattlefields.
 Had General Pershing desired Gen. sral Woods retention here it seems probable that he would have indicated It sufficient time in advance to have permitted the order to have beer given before he and his division lief Kansas, and had General Wood beeI desired for other service of more i'm portance it is difficult to understan, why he was ordered from the activ, work of directing a training camp t, an administrative job as commando of the department of the west at Sal Francisco. As It stands at the pres ent time the entire matter seems t show poor handling with sympath turning to General Wood because 0 his recognized ability as a soldier Time will clear up the matter, but a General Wood said to his men, thi is the time when all must do their ut most for their country.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-04

as if nothing had happened. And really nothing had happened.
 He was just the same about books and music as he was about the theatre. He bought novel to read aloud to me on Sunday afternsen. It was call ed Lovers in Venice I said 1t sound ed extremely sentimental. He suggest ed angrily that I would perhaps pre- fer the Stones of Venice. I admitted that l was a great admirer of Ruskin. This is no time for highbrowing, he
 remarked. I want to get down to
 brass tacks.' I couldn't sec what brass tacks had to do with the Lovers of Venice or Stones of Venice for that matter, but said very gently that if 1 he really wished to read the story ] he had bought I shouldn't mind. He replied that he had lost his appetite
 for it and he actually threw the volume
 into the waste basket. l vas alarmed at this display of temper over nothing at all, and to soothe him I suggested that we have some music. You know,
 Ted has a beautiful voice and l said I would be glad to play for him if he
 would sing.
 "Yes, he sang. He had come pre- pared with few new songs he wished to try, I asked him why he had hap pened to choose such cheap things. lie said he liked the titles. They were .Love's Fond Dream Darlingest Eyes
 of Blue and Little Sweetheart You I suppose you think they're excruciat- ingly funny he said when I laughed. Perhaps you'd rather have me sing
 Chopin's Funeral March or some
 thing
 T told him that should perfer some old ballads to the songs he had brought. He said, Oh, very we'll in a resigned tone, and then chose the l most die away of the early Victorian , love songs in my quaint old book e1 : Tunes for the Heart
 But I had pleasant afternoon after all, for you know he really is 6
 delightful fellow. Indeed, as soon as , he began to sing his serenity was un- ruff1ed until it was time to go a little supper party that his cousin had in } sisted upon giving for him. He sait he would walk down to the corner ant see if the florists shop were open, al f he wished to buy some violets for me l I told him he mustn't buy me any more |. violets yet, because the ones he hat : lgiven me the day before were stil t fresh and lovely.
 Il "T can wear flowers longer than an! 3 person I ever knew boasted. Tn
 not surprised at that' he replied, fo t I've always uderstood that they kep : well on ice.'
 l "Yes, I melted then. Isn't this t perfectly sweet ring g?''-Exchange
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-04
AN UNJUST AcoulrrAl,

Little has been contributed to the suppression of lawlessness by the yer dict of the jury in Illinois which found not guilty the eleven men who were indicted for the murder of Robert P. Prager. Rather has this decision lent encouragement to the practice of iynching and it cannot be regarded otherwise than the approval of simi- lar lawless activities in the southern states.
 In the case of Prager it is to be re- membered that he was an alien and that he had given expression to state ments which were open to the inter pretation of being disloyal. Because of that he was subject to punishment and that would have unquestionably taken place upon the establish-
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-04
THE ELECTION RESULT.

With a few more than half of the Monday resulted in an overwhelming democratic victory. It cannot be re- called when so large a majority as I55 has been secured by any mayor alty candidate Certainly not within the last 20 years has there been such one-sided contest, but it was only what had been anticipated.
 It was in keeping with sentiment which had been freely expressed over dissatisfaction with the past admins tration. which had done many com mendable things but which had more than counterbalaneed them by a series of smaller ones which not only caused much resentment but broke party or ganization. This is no better display cd than by the large numbers who stayed away from the polls and there by contributed to the democratic suc- cess. It was in accord with what is to be expected when party organiza ton is disregarded as it has been and the effects of one man control are ex- perienced. With the democrats united as they were and the republicans suf- fering from Reorganization 1t is nc secret that the election has long since been a foregone conclusion, and the lesson is not likely to be forgotten right away.
 By their clean sweep the entire city government becomes democratic. The responsibility rests in their hands o1 giving the city the best possible gov ernment and 1t is to be sincerely hoped. for the welfare of the com. munity, that the obligation will bt fully discharged. The vote certainly indicates that the people have conf Hence in the officials chosen.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-04

HLIBERTY TIIEATRESs Have Been Built iR All National Guard
 and National Army Camps
 in America "Smileage 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 sale at the following places: The Perteous & Mitchell Go. The Reid & Hughes Co. (Boston Stere). Rathbones Drug Store. R;cker's Drug Store. The Lee & Osgood Co. The Wauregan Hotel Office. 94saass Mara $ msggsn mEgggis10Fn3=.i 0Fn3=.iea- s,o,s, Ehglers Pharmacy, k. of c. Rooms. Ring & Sisk. Druggists. The '. NJ c. 4. Office. H. M. Iserou. [. c. Macpherson. F
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-04
STORIES OF THE WAR
The Military Surgeon.


 Correspondence of The Associated Press):
 One of the unsung heroes of the war is the military surgeon. No man has been harder worked in the tremendous fighting of the past few weeks, and his work has been in most cases far from pleasant.
 There is not the same romantic stimulus for the medical man that there is for the infantry or artillery officer. It is one thing to dash about under fire intent on killing or being killed it is another think to dash about under fire and take the same risks while calmly attending to those with wounds from which all other men as they pass avert their heads. Thank God, I am not doctor said an officer who had been detailed to inspect a number Of inprovised cas- ualty clearing stations along the front during a recent attack."s
 The regimental surgeon in the Brit ish army has in his charge the we'll being of more than a thousand men. When there is no fighting on, he has plenty to do. He has to strike a happy medium in discouraging the faint hearted who come to him as a i means of obtaining fortnfght's rest, and in holding out a helping hand to those who are in real distress. If he i is too lenient. the commanding officer I begins to ask whether he intends to i deplete the whole regiment; if he is | too harsh the junior officers and men 1 lose patience,
 l The doctor is the only officer in the i regiment, however, who is the fortu- 1 nate possessor of a cart, but this leads to numerous complications. There are some thirty odd officers in the regi- ment, and each one of them has some few triaes which must go in that cart If he is weak enough to take them, the car is overloaded and before long I breaks down and precious medica stores have to be abandoned. If he re. fuses to take them. his position in the officers mess becomes wellnigh un- bearable.
 The doctor doesn't ride but foot. siogs" it with his regiment through ths same mud, the same wind and rain and the same perils. His duties art not confined to caring for the i'll and injured. He must supervise the sani tation of camps and billets, ensure ths
 purity of drinking water, keep a look out for outbreaks and epidemies, main
 tain continuous campaign of inocu
 lations and vaccinations, and fill ou a long series of records and arm. forms. He has to do his utmost in thu light of his special knowledge to main tain the health of his unit. and an. remissness on his part may lead to : serious diminution in it's strength. In hiifets he has the added duty o ] playing the role of medical attenaan
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-04

They will produce an earlier crop of more uniform size and shape than if not pruned or staked. Set the stakes while the plants are small, and as the plants grow keep them tied up. New shoots will grow in the axis of the leaves, that is, at the point where. the leaves join the stem. Take out these new shoots every week or ten days, or they will delay the early ripening, which is what is wanted in the early crop. The later crop may be allowed to spread over the ground if this is preferred.
 Tomatoes need rich soil, good culti- vation and plenty of moisture. Moth ing will respond better to a generous supply of manure than will tomatoes.