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Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-30
Norwich.
HsIen's Birthday.

Dear Uncle Jed: am going to tell you about my birthday. It was We'd nesday, March 20th, 1918. I invited my friend Marion to spend the night with me. We had a long ride in the school team. When we got into the house my brother came home from work. He said to me:
 If you want birthday present you will have to go down and let Mrs. Jarvis grease your nose"
 Then he put his hand in his pocket and drew out little box. In it was a pretty chain and pendant. It had a blue stone in it.
 Then my friend and I went down and thanked her. When we came back mamma gave us little treat which consisted of peanuts, oranges and cookies. My aunt also sent me a comb, bar . rette and a pink hair ribbon. HELEN CONGDON, Age Il. Moosup.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-30
STORIES BY WiDE-AWAKEs.
The Robins.

Early one morning I heard the sweet song of a bird. I looked. out the window and there I saw two big robins. The biggest one had a piece Of horse hair in his bill and the other was standing on branch I think they were happy because they flew through the air to a place and then they would come back with some thins in their bill. l watched them a long time.
 In the evening Hooked at their nest and it was finished. It was made of horse hair and grass. Inside it was lined with strings and other soft things. Afterwards the bird sat on the nest and laid four eggs. Then she sat On them and in a little while there were four little birds. Their wealth CTS grew. then they flew away and 1 didn't see them any more.
 EVELYN E. DAVIS, Age Il. Plainfield
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-30
Work for Good old Uncle Sam.

Dear Uncle Jed: Let's all help to win this terrible war. We do not need to be told this twice, for every true American would gladly give his life to free these unfortunate Europeans.
 Just imagine the children starving by the roadside, also those that are roaming about the woods all alone. Those who have lost every one of their relatives and are now without anyone to guard them, Perhaps many of them have seen their parents killed by cannon or a bomb this very day.
 Oh, my dear little friends, none of US can imagine the cruel deeds. We who are safe and sound have very slight idea of this.
 But while we are here without harm and with field safe from cannon and bomb lets take up our hoes as all of our brothers, fathers, uncles and cousins did their guns, and fight our enemy the weed.
 Buy thrift stamps. Give our boys the spirit to go over the top and as many as possible march back to his | dear old home
 am sure that every one of us will | do his part for every one of us loves our dear old Uncle Samuel. He will truly win this war, as he always does, so let's hope it happens. 1 CATHERINE BARROW, Age 15. | Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-30
WIDE-AWAKE POEMS

Will show the Hun with sword and
 gun
 That he is quite handy. Over there. away over there in sunny
 France, Soon OUT Yankee boys will make the
 Germans dance. For when the fights begun The boche, he will run From the Yankee boy behind a Yan-
 kee gun As for that arch f1end, the Kaiser, He sure will be some wiser When our boys have got him nicely
 canned and sealedi He will often see the day That he started this great fray And had to meet the Yankee in the field. And when the war is over, and vic tory surely won. With Old Glory floating proudly heath the sun l Our voices we will raise, in hymns
 of lofty praise, For the Yankee boy behind a Yankee
 E. D. BLAKAAI. Hanover.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-30
Voluntown.
Let Us Help,

Far hack in the wind blown hills of old
 New England, there lived a young
 man of very different type from tine
 piougi-boy sort usually found there.
 He WIS a clean cut, energetic young fellow, intensely interested in the moi ern. mechanical world. His father was a hard working farm CT, who gave his son. a good educa- ton that he might practice his talent. When Tom Richards left school his father tried to persuade him to get l position in garage in town, but he refused to do so and stayed on the farm to help his father. While at school he got acquainted with a girl from lii: own town and as they lived close to gether. they grew very intimate. In l the course of time their friends e.1 grew to something stronger and t was well known that there was ar understanding between them. At the end of two years Tom left the farm to make his way in the world Just at that time Uncle Sam declare war.
 At the beginning of the first Liberty l loan drive Tom came home, gave his | father one hundred dollars and told l him to buy a bond, kissed his mother and sweetheart goodbye, and joinec l the eolers.
 Tom was among the first to be kill ed in France. If he should give up h:s | happy future and his home for hberty
 why shouldn't we lend a few dortri for the same cause.
 BERTRAND BENWAY, Age Is. Sterling.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-30
LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Florida Reil, of Voluntown: I re- ceiYed the Thrift Stamp you sent me. 1 thank you very much for it.
 Gabrielle Ruiak, of Mansfield Cen. ter: Thank you ever 50 much for the two prize books, Andys Ward and Boy Scout Afoot in France. Fin late with my thanks. but just as sincere.
 Marguerite Miller, of Poquetanuck: i: You were very kind to give me a Thrift Stamp. It was, my first letter to you and l did not expect one l thank you very much.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-30
War Saving and Thrift Stamps


 1 think all the people who have as- sembled here tonight know all about the war. E We hear that the Germans are gain ing and then the English; but none of us know foresure. @ |. If we were in France or Belgium we would be more apt to lend our mon ey. But you can lend your money to Uncle Sam now.
 What can you do to help win, the war? Why, you can buy Liberty bonds, War Saving and Thrift Stamps You can buy Thrift Stamp most any time, if not you can buy one each week, The Thrift Stamps are only green bits of paper. but are worth 25 cents, while a War Savings Stamp is worth $500 in 1923.
 If everyone in the United States bought one Thrift Stamp at 25 cents it would amount to over twenty-five million dollars. Think what that would mean! Many people could buy more than one stamp, and. would never miss their quarters Have you ever thought of all those suffering children over in France and Belgium? Of course you have so do something for them.
 You can get the stamps at any bank postofice or from any of the Andover sehoolboys and girls. Have you all Thrift cards? If you haven't it's about time to begin. Hus- tie up and buy, buy!
 If you had. some property and you should die before the war ended and you had to be discussed in court, and you didn't have any money invested in the United, States savings. people would say. Why he was pro-Ger- man." Don't be a stacker. Buy Thrift Stamps. War Savings Stamps and Liberty Bonds.
 Start a Thrift book tomorrow. Den't be a stacker! Don't. say you haven't any money just at present. Just scrape up 3 25-cent piece and get : stamp Get one! Then two! Gel the habit!
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-30
Has Named Twenty Flowers,

Dear Uncle Jed: have one thrift
 stamp and am hoping to get more. I
 go to the Attawaugan school in the third room in the fourth grade The supervisor brought a little paper and
 gave it to Us to give to our mothers to eat potatoes instead and save wheat. like my teacher very much. I am
 getting along pretty well in my les sons My teacher is making flower cal endar for the pupils that get the most | flowers.
 I have twenty names for flowers. ETHEL F. WARREN, Age 13. .AttaWaugan. Give woman a chance to show of and she will make good.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-30
She Has a Liberty Bond.

There is something for each one of us to do to help win, the war. Sone of us car buy Liberty bonds. Those who can not buy Liberty bonds csn at least buy Thrift Stamps. am going to have a garden back of my house.
 My sister has a first Liberty bond and I have a third Liberty bond. We are all anxious to win the war.
 BLANCE BENOIT, Age 10. ,, "Ballouyille
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-30
Sterling.
Birds.

Birds are covered with feathers. Their pltfnles are like ostrich feathers. There is a long quill through the oen- ter with little fibers on the edges. Moulting is when they shed their feathers in the late summers
 A bird hops on it's toes. It builds it's nest for a home. It uses it's wings tip and down to fly with. He has a leng beak so that he can get angle
 worms and insects. Birds eat angle
 worms and cherries and other fruits.
 The birds swallow their food right down.
 The birds'eggs are speekled some of them are blue, white and, yellow, and they are pointed at one end. The birds sleep. under the bushes, between the leaves of the bushes. They make their nests of grass, sticks and mud. Some of them are made on the limbs of trees and bushes. They lay from three to five eggs Birds cannot live where there are no trees l We don't see the birds here in the winter because it is so cold. They can-
 not get anything to eat, and they would starve to death. The sfeWbirds and bluejays stay Will you not place crumbs on a board l for them to eat. SO they won't starve ! from hunger. 1 also give them warm l water
 WILFRED ANDERSON, Age g. | Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-30
Norwich.
why We Should euy Thrift atamps.

Why We Should Buy Thrift Stamps.
 We should buy thrift stamps tto help our country. They draw interes [ call it Uncle Sams Savings Bank. Uncle Sam's hank is a. good one.
 This month it costs .s4.f5 for a War Savings Certificate. Every month it costs 5ne cent more. We have ui- til December 31, to fill our books.
 Congress has issued Thrift Stamps in the United States. Uncle Sam wants us to buy millions of dollars worth. There are more than twelve mil : lion children in America under the age Of 16 years to help America. We children must do our bit and otherr will do their bit.
 If the children of America say that they will help; and there will bu tliogsands of chiidren's homes filled with the spirit of TIC.
 Little boys used to fight the battles with their fathers, and little girls and boys used to load the musllots for their fathers to fight the painted .Indi- ans at their very doors. They used
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-30
The Birds.

Dear Uncle Jed: Now is the time birds come to build nests and hatch their young. We should be careful not to disturb them ot let them get hurt by boys or cats.
 Different kinds of birds have already begun to appear. Robins, bluebirds, sparrows, phoebes and cllickadees are now quite common. They have not begun to build nests yet, for it is too cold for the little birds. One can tell the kinds of birds quite easily by their call. The robin has a quick little cry when disturbed. The phoebe's call sounds exactly like their name. "phee-be." The clickadees also cry like their name. From their | calls many have been named Every one should keep birds from harm as they do more help than any
 one in protecting our crops from in sects.
 INEZ ORNE. -.-N-
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-30
CHORUS
Yankee doodle, he will do
 Deeds of w.lor grandly,

I saw one day. He was a very big bird, and seemed to believe that some enemy was around, for while vigorous ly at work pulling out worm he looked around at every sound of a trees.
 After working for quite while (for robin has good deal of patience) he finally got his victim out of the soil and flew away to his nest and baby birds.
 |, NORMAN McFALL, Age Ii.
 Wn1nrafnuur1
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-30

Summer Time. Now the winters over, And summers nearly here Birds of all kinds twitter, And sing a summer cheer. Now, we think of playing All the games we know And we, also, love the flowers. For we know God made then
 grow. We love to pick the berries, And eat them by the quart We like apples, sweet and sour, And some of every sort. How we love the summer hours What a message they do bring; We love to pick the flowers, And hear the birdies sing.
 RUTH MGOyERN, Age g. Glasgo,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-30

the bravest are the gentlest.
 We have been tenderly touched our selves. many d time, in observing the devotion of our soldier boys to their petss Almost every company has it's mascot, and the boys seem to think everything of him, whether he is q dog, goat, bearcub or cat.
 The last time went to Fort Wright to see my cousin, the soldiers were around the little pet goat like a swarm of bees. To tell the truth, I was delighted.
 In the loneliness of the camp and in the tedium of the marches the boys find diversion in the eompanionship of their dumb friends. These will do much for their masters. and the sol diers themselves will often go to any length to protect their pet from dan ger
 FLORIDA REEL, Age F. Val1Jntown
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-30
Doing Our Bit.

We are. doing our bit to win the war if we are buying War Savings Stamps, knitting for soldiers, buying Liberty bonds, eating less sugar, less bread, or eating more potatoes. We are anxious to win the war, and we, should be willing to help by denr our bit. I am going to have a lIttia garden and I am going to plant some beans and do all I can to help win the war,
 CELIA FoNTAINE, Age 8. l. . RalIo1Iyil1e
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-30
The chantioleer's Song.
LeElie c1ahe Manellester.

 The cock that crows in the. morning When the whisp'ring pines are still, l hear him call through the shadows There under the slope of the hill The oaks are swaying and swinging With mosses gray and long: And Inc lake is waking with ripples And the air with the chantieleer's
 songs
 ri the horn hear in the distance When the night is calm and deep; And a star O'er the pine is peeping Ind the gay poinsettias sleep. 'Iis a rcndiY note and welcome, sie enc from the farm yard caves; Apd [ lovc its honey cadence
 As l love the wind-swept leaves! The world seems better and sweeter With the ring of this clarion sound; it -irts the palms of Dixie
 With the hills where snow is found! lt links the stars and the shadows And the bloom Of the life-warm sod; It binds all living creatures
 In fellowship with Godi Then call. O Bird: in the morning: lr the gray of the slumbrous night! Jh. trump to the moon in heaven -ARd the low suns rosy light! Wake, wake the hills and the waters And send the echoes far. Until they blend with the music Where all sweet measures are!
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-30
MARY BoRovIcKI. Age IA.
The Soldiers. Love For Pet Animals.

Soldiers are said to be strong and brave and so they are. Some peo- pie believe as they have to shoot their enemies in time of battle they must necessarily be hard hearted; but this lis far from true It often happens that
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-30

The Yankee Over There. When our boys get over there, over
 there, Where the shells are flying thiekly in the air They will show the brutal Hun What mischief can be done By a Yankee boy behind a Yankee
 gun!
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-30
The Robin.

Dear Uncle Jed am going to tell the ide-Awakes a story of a robin
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-30
To Our Soldier Dead.

 Sleep softly on, beneath the blue of
 Heaven, O, million soldier bravesi Blossoms and tears for you today are
 given Who lie in lowly graves; For us, you took the messengers of
 pain Into your noble breasts! For us. you sank upon the battle plain To lie in dreamless rest.
 MARIE ANGIE ROY. Age 13 Taftville.
 Heeverizins. HooverizinS! Hooverizing! is all one
 can hear! It's the talk of the nation, far and
 near! Mother says she's tired of hearing the
 word Father says he is being fed like a jailbird. Hooverizine! Hooverizing! Cries si@
 ter Jane! I think it's a downright shame. And it makes me angry to see I can have no sugar in my tea. i Brother Joe says he does not care 1 If Hooverizing is on the bill of fare; i He says he can get along with less 1 stuff He is satisfied with corngems and l mush! 1 So let us not be greedy l We can go without you see Some good things that our soldiers
 need Our soldier boys across the sea! Ohi You ought to see my Pa 1 When he gets his pay! But when Ma shows the store bill It takes his breath away; But the family are all happy, And what more should we care for For we have all grown fat and wise Since MT. Hoover taught Us to econ
 on1ize.
 L. L.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-30

| Dear Uncle Jed: As everything is | war now. I will tell you how our
 school has helped and is helping to
The Washington herald., 1918-12-06
COMMUNITY CENTER NOTES.

The opening of the Western High
School as a community center will
be celebrated this evening by n
dance. DR.. Newon. the principal of
the school and the acting commun-
ity secretary. invites all the war
workers in Georgetown and the
soldiers from the nearby camps to
help make the opening a great sue
cess.
= instruction in modern dancing is
to be found at the Wilson Normal
Community Center tonight at 1880.
The Friday Evening Social Club
of the Park View Community Cen
ter invites all the strangers in the
community and the men in uniform
to be present at their dance tonight
A dance for the young people and
the soldiers is to be held at the Dun
bar Community Center at s o'clock.
Motion pictures and a lass in mod
ern dancing are the special attrac-
tions for the Miner Normal commun-
ity tonight.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-06
.LOVETT QUITS
RAILROAD JOB
Will Return to Chairman
ship of Union Pacific
Directors. s..

Judge Robert S. Lovett has re-
signed as director Of the division Of
capital expenditures of the Railroad
Administration. Director GENERAL Nc
Adoo has accepted Judge Lovett's
plea for release, effective January J.
Judge Lovett will return to the
chairmanship OF the board of direc-
tors of the Union Pacific. which posi-
ton he relinquished to come 10 Wash
ington last March. His acceptance of
the Railroad Administra tion Job was
for the period of the war only, Nc
Adoo said. Lovett, in a statement.
called attention to the understanding
he had had with the Director Cen
eral and asked that he be permitted
to resume his former position with
the Union Pacific at once.
Il should like to say" said Lovett
In his statement, "eveE at the risk
of appearing fulsome, that In my
judgment no business agency-public
or private-has been more free from
political influences and consideration
or more completely dominated solely
by what was conceived to be right
and in the public good than the Rail-
road Administration. This. i believe.
was due to the inspiring example and
superb firInness and character OF the
Directo~ General himself"
In McAdoo's letter accepting
I>ovetts resignation. he said that he
parted counsel with Lovett with great
reluctance. McAdoo added that
Lovett's work was 'of signal devo-
tion to the interests of the country
during the trying period of the past
year.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-06
NJ ADOO TALKS
WITH WIREMEN
Operators Object to Way
Recent Wage Increase
Is Working Out. T.

A delegation OF seventeen railroad
from the principal rail-
roads OF the country were given a
hearing before Director General OF
Railroads McAdoo yesterday.
The delegation. representing the Or
der of Railroad Telegraphers, was
headed by C. c. Kelso. of the Frisco
System, chairman. and H. ]. Mohler.
of the Missouri Pacific, secretary.
President Perham, of the order. was
not present, although ]. T. Christian.
of the Pennsylvania lines; G. z. Soy
ster. of the st. Paul, and H. G. Alex
ander. OF the Southern, members Of
the board of directors, were present.
The hearing will be concluded to-
morrow. Serious objection to the way
in which the recent wage increase
order, under which all compensation
was reduced to an hourly basis, Is
working out for the telegraphers as
compared with other railroad en-
ployes. is said to have been made to
Mr.. McAdoo.
While no report OF the hearing was
authorized either by the administra-
ton or the men, 1t is understood that
President Perham's unwillingness to
use strike methods to enforce acqui-
escence in the mems demands brought
about a breach in the organization.
Mr.. McAdoois understood to be con-
hdent that the tangle can be adjusted
without serious difficulty. The can
collation. OF his Chicago trip yester-
day in order to hear the railroad mems
complaint is understood to have been
decided upon. not so much through
the reported threat OF a strike, as to
get a firsthand impression of the
merits Of the complaint.
In his talk to the newspaper corre-
spondents, he expressed himself as
much gratified by the way in which
railroad employees had accepted gov
eminent operation and realized their
changed status of employment.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-06
BEGIN MASTERING OUT
STUDENT ARMY CORPS
George Washington University Unit
Starts Demobilization Work

The mastering out of members of
the George Washington University
unit of the Students Army Training
Corps will begin Monday, according
to announcement By Elmer Louis
Kayser, secretary of the university.
The work OF rehabilitation at the
university is already well under way.
Medical examination of the SIS mem
bers of the unit is being conducted
at the Medical School. 1895 H street
northwest This work probably will
take several weeks. The student SOL
diers probably will be mustered out
in companies. There are three COM
panies at the institution.
Questionnaires distributed recently
among the student soldiers to ascer-
tain what plans for the future they
contemplated are coming in gradu-
ally, university officials announce. 1t
probably will be a week before all of
these questionnaires are returned.
Until all have been handed in. It will
be impossible to state accurately the
extent to which the university will
be affected by rehabilitation. 1t is
believed. however, that less than %
per cent of the student soldiers will
leave the university.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-06
Pleads for Husband
Sentenced by Court

My God. that man ought never to
have been convicted" Mrs. Louis
Berman, weeping Unrestrainedly as
she carried her baby and lead her
small daughter by the hand. cried to
the deputy marshal after her husband,
Louis Berman, was sentenced yester-
day to serve five days for contempt
of court by Chief Justice Mccoy
Berman failed to appear as a wit
ness in a criminal case for which he
had been summoned and is said to
have resisted arrest when called for
at his home. 595 Tenth street south
east, by a deputy marshal and a po-
liCeman.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-06
aEW YORK HOTEL ARRIVALS,

New York, Dec. 5.-The following
Washingtonians are registered at no
tells here:
Aberdeen, P. G. Agnew; Grand, ].
P. Bramhall Mrs. J. S. Herman. r.
NJ. Smith; Breslin, Maj. W. E. Fow-
Ter, A. V. Parsons, S. A. Jillett. jr..
H. McCarter. J. NJ. Wilcox, F. B.
Gump. r. McCIung. ]. H. Nelson;
Park Avenue, w. c. Kloman. H. B.
Harmer, ]. w. Kennedy, B. A.
Parkes. Mrs. H. NJ. Trean. P. c.
Wadsworth; Arlington, DR.. w. o.
Roop:' Broadway Central, c. W.
Davis. D. Friedlander. DR.. L. Cope;
Marlborough, Z. B. Mackay, II. NJ.
Robertson; Herald Square. w. A. An
derson. G. E. Barrett. w. A. Cru
man: Hermitage, J. Decent. ]. ].
Garland. jr., NJ. Fl. Wilkore, r. B.
Miller: Latham, Mrs. J. Middleton.
Mrs. w. w. Smyth; Alcazar. S. l..
Neunham; Normandie, ]. Oliver.
TRADE REPRESENTATIVES.
334 Fourth avenue, G. B. White.
mems and women's shoes CWood-
ward & Lothrop. dry goods; Herald
Square, Miss ]. Nachman, millinery.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-06
PASSENGER SERVICE
TO CHILE RESUMED
Direct Boat Lines Ordered Re-es.
tablished, McAdoo Announces

Direct passenger boat service be-
tween New York and Valparaiso.
Chile. has been ordered resumed by
the United States Shipping Board.
The announcement was made by
Secretary McAdoo for the Interna-
tional High Commission. Direct
freight service soon will be in oper-
alton.
7 The re-establishment of both
freight and passenger service is but
one step toward the realization of
that larger plan for improved ocean
transportation between this country
and Latin America for which the
International High Commission has
worked so long. Mr.. McAdoo said.
He also explained that the COM
mercial needs of those countries
had grown in significance and that
this government was giving them
the deepest consideration.