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Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

man-and she is only enc among many tells how she was made to fell trees in the forest of Saint -Gebain, which was under constant gunfire, while in the same vicinity all the sup ply columns for the troops in the most dangerous parts of the line were forTn+ ed of French civilians, #
 In the neighborhoed of CaTabrai all agricultural work is carried out by the peasants under the surveillance of German soldiers and when the produce is ripe it is all requisitiened by the military authorities. The factories in the city itself have been robbed of their machinery With the result that
 large numbers of workers have been reduced to. semi and con- sequent sickness. At the end of 1917
 there were still 1000 inhabitants ia the city, all of whom were compelled
 to take refuge in the cellars.
 In most parts of the country the Spanish Dutch relief. which has taken the place of the American Relief Com
 mission. goes on normally. but it is asserted that the German authorities manage to obtain possession of a DOT 1 ton of the provisions, in Lille, the
 prices of food are extremely high, and 1 the poPulation, already impoverished. has great trouble to obtain food. Eggs cost them S6 cents apiece, meat is from $2.e0 to s4 a pound when it is l available. shoes are s25 pair, cloth
 cest s16 a yard, and thsre is no beer,
 milk or soap to he had, while coal
 is distributed at the rate of l6 pounds per head of the population per month at the price of 56 cents pound or sf2l per ton of 2,e0e pounds.
 In CharleVille matters are ever worse. The people have not had any | fresh meat for two and a half years i and fer ether provisions they have
 te rely on the relief committee, whicf makes a distribution twice g week Each person is given in the course O
 every fortnight the following articles
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

were valued at ssk2, ,e0o, ,9oe. This rep resents 2 gain of ss4.aee, 600 over the preceding month. while the imports for the nine months period ending with March totalled. s2,0S4O06, 900 which was a substantial gain over the sl.s1s;oo8,0oe for the nine months pe- riod ending with March 1s17
 Foreigp trade has of course been greatly stimulated because of the war. It would unauestionably have gone far beyond these figures had this country not been engaged in the war and had it not been forced to use all possible ships for meeting war requirements. <rhe acquisition of many new ships besides those being turned. out daily should have an important effect upon this foreign business in the future.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

e4IHERFE FHRAFREsu Have Been Built in All National Guard
 and National Army Camps
 in America "Smilease Books" issued by Federal Military Entertainment Council. pro vide free adnisSleA to these theatres, Send one to YOUR soldier CT to
 ANY soldier.
 Price q. Fer sale at the following places: Yhe PoFteops & Mitchell. ca.. The Reid S Hughes Co, tBestoh Storel., RnIkbene's Drug Store. Rieker.s HTug store. Phe Lee Ss Osgood Co, 'o The Wauregan Hotel OfEee. Mara & Eggietpn. Geerge Madden fCigar sterel. Bngler's Pharmacy. K. of c. Rooms. Ring & Sisk, Druggists. The r. N. c. 4. 0fflcs. H. If. Isereu, !. 0. Macpherson.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27
THE NEW AIRCRAFT HEAD,

Following closely upon the appoint ment. of Mir. Schwab as the head of the emergency feet corporation, John D. Ryan has been named as the single civilian head of the department charged with the production of air craft in this country. This with the other reorganization which has taken place in connection with such opera tions gives the best assurance that has been received in long time that the administration is getting down to sound business relative to this impor- tant matter.
 MT. Ryan has been at the head of important Industrial activities. He is numbered among the nations captains of industry as the organizer, and head of a large copper concern, as rail- road man, who has done big things and done them successfully and as d financier. Not small part of the trouble which has been experienced in carrying out the airplane programme has been due to ths form of organis zation which was placed in charge of it, There has been a serious handi- cap because there, was no head to the business. Conflict in authority has caused confusion and serious de- lays, but with this overcome and the naming of man of MT. Ryan's cap abilities for the directing head of this department results such as are de- sired should be immediately forth coming
 It is too late of course to make UT for the large losses which have beer sustained because this step was no taken before They cannot be re- trieved but there is certainly a mos promising outlook for the future. Ex. perience is a hard road but it should land us on the right track in time
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

Few words of modern times have at tracted more attention or discussion than camouffage, which in most of the French dictionaries appears as cam buffet, defines as smoke or mist (that which hides objects or creatures from view.l Scholars in discussngtt khe word have found it's origins in the habits of minicry of birds ami mals and insects; and now it is dis closed that "the permissible lies come within it's zone of meaning. You may not think there is such a thing as a permissible lie," but Canon of the English Church at Westminster re- gently said in defence of camoufiage, If my servant tells visitor I am not at home the visitor IS not particu- lary annoyed if he catches a glimpse of me. He knows that for some reason or other I do not want to sec visitors, but if he were told that I was at home, but did not wish to see him, he would be offended. By conveying the literal truth, I should be conveying a wrong impression and should deceive, while
 the telling of an apparent lie would convey the true facts of the case" This being so, we may as nationally claim that the voice heard from the burning bush in pre- Christian times cannot be left out of the scope of this
 wonderful French word.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27
Sunday Morning Talk
NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE
  FAILURE.

The age of proverb. or the ire quency of its use is no guarantee that it is sound at the core. Some axioms that have had currency for centuries are buAA half true. at best The power of a half true proverb to work mischief is very great.
 Nothing succeeds like success" Is an adage we have fired at generations of young people. It is by no means unqualifiedly true. A life with that as it's motto is in danger of being se- riously misled. As a matter of fact, the successes that are made on first endeavor are few and trivial com pared to those that are the results of much experimenting and many dis coura gements. There are countless occasions when nothing is so helpful and so prophetic of ultimate victory as failure
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

Germany says that vessels properly marked and carrying grain for Switzerland, will have free passage. But here again there is immediately encountered the unreliable German promises.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

and skill are a guard of it in the fiercest moment of combat.
 The inquiry is new being made what real use there is in a gun that will throw a 3S0-pound shell twenty miles high to hit an object 75 miles dis tant? This sort Of artillery is really absolete already, for the reason that the bombing airplanes in use today have outranked it in long distance power and destructiveness. What is a 75-miles range compared with 300 miles which the airplanes have made, and the dropping of a 3S0-pound bomi1 where the airpiane is capable of dropping a half-dozen bombs of greater destructiveness. It is simply as an expert manifestation of power and as an experiment that this world -surpris- ing long distance gun will go into his tory. It is evident enough that it is not really needed since more depend able and destructive engines Of wal have already been invented.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

These, are unauestienabiy trying days for Holland. but the Dutch know that if they knuckle to Germany in this instance 1t simply means the first step toward making a German prov ince of itself
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

That New Jersey man who tried to avoid the draft under the claim that he was not human being should have been told that he was therefore all the better fitted to fight the Hun.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

It seems law of life that most en- terprises must fail for a while, before they begin to succeed. Somewhere, in every big manufacturing plant, lies the "cemetery,'' where are thrown all the waste products of the concern the devices that would not work. the inventions that proved impracticable. It is hardly correct to call these things failures, in view of what they have mplished-namely, showing how some particular thing could not be done. The efficiency of the whole establishment has been built upon all this miserable mass of discarded material
 When the Iroauois theater burned down, some years ago, and scores of people lost their lives, it meant as- bestos curtains on every stage in America more fire escapes and better spelled safety in every public building in the United States for years to come. When passengers were left on the sinking Titanic. after the last life boat had pulled away from the ships side, the whole world realized the tragic failure of the steamship com pany as regards the safeguarding of it's patrons. That failure meant that every passenger vessel that crosses ocean today must carry lifeboats suf ficient for the entire ships company, | both passengers and crew. Because 1 these hundreds went to their death, thousands will cross the great deep safely through all the years
 l It is one of the most profound of 1 the laws of life that out of sacrifice come the loftiest inspirations of our experience. If Stephen had not laid
 down his life as a martyr, we should not have had the mighty lahors ot
 the Apostle Paul So at least. Au- gustine believed and declared If Ar l thur Hallam had not died untimeiy 1T his youth, we should not have had ent
 of the nohlest poems in the Englisf language-"In memerian7." The Per sian Omar surely had a gleam of in, sight when he wrote:
 sometimes think that never glows SC red
 The rose as where some buried l Caesar bIed.
 The richer the sacrifice, the mort
 beautiful the bloom that springs uI over it.
 How often we see the weak thing pI lHS WOTlu QSSu LO C0n1OuIlu tfll
 things that are mighty! '1n tn, streets, the markets, and the palacel of Reme,' we are told. there was ;
 gay eroWd-philosoph nobles, ant
 people-confdent in their strength
 proud of themselves as rulers of tn world. In the catacombs beneatl
 there were gathered few penitents-
 men and women conscious of sin, cry
 ing out their weakness. and clainninl
 to be nothing. Out of the catacembs
 and not from the philosophies or pow
 CT of Rome, has come the force o
 modern progress" The blood of tn
 martyrs has become the seed of tn church.
 Here is truth that is best teste, l, in ones own experience. Many man, as he looks back in life, can SC that some things he grieved over a ) misfortunes have proved his best for , tunes. He has been helped by bein !; hindered. Failure has been the prel ! ude to bigger success than he eve ! dreamed of. ) hold it true with him who sings } To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping stone T Of their dead selves to higher thins' st THE PARS0N.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

Get into your war garden all the seed it will take, and into the third Liberty bonds all the dollars you can spare.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

It is playing the same old game when Germany makes demands of Holland and threatens to force it in. to war unless they are granted.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

In spite of the offensive and the successes which they claim, German authorities realize that the war prom ises to be long one.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

The need of placing the same re- strictions upon the fePaie alien enc mics as upon the male has been rec ognized none too soon,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

Convert your dollars into Liberty bonds and thus get back of your country and the boys" with all your might
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

Don't wait to be solicited. Step right up and put ia your application for Liberty bonds like the rest of the patriots.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

There will be no obstruction for those who are inclined to exceed the speed limit in the Liberty loan cam Eaign.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

The bottiing up move which the British made against zeebrugge may cause the main German fleet in the Kiel canal bit of anxiety.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

The man on the corner says: The joy of living is never fully experienced until home gardening is undertaken.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

It is reported that the first dis banded RuH1anisn ArrHx Corps has ar
 rived in the occupied territory,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Now that the British navy has got into action again there wiIl be a de- mand for more of the same kind.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27
How Germans Treat The Civilians.

How Germans Treat The Civilians.
 Correspondence of The Associated Press).
 Life among the French civilians be- hind the German lines in the occupied departments of France has become al- most slavery, The oppressed people have to submit to restrictions denriFz ing them of all the usual amenities of human existence. Details of the ter rorizing nreeess intredNced by the Germans, which is daily heepmiAg more severe, have reached the cerrespena- : ent of The Assoeiyted Press from a number of centers where the German army holds possession, .e :. According to some of these com- munieatiens everybedy-that is to say men, women and ehildFen--is forced to work for the German coneuerors, especially in the country districts and towns near the front. One young we-
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

Very few of the readers of this col umn were aware perhaps that Sunday, April Fist. was appointed by the Gov ernor of Massachusetts as Humane Sunday a day when the attention of man should be called to his own savage nature and the claim Gods creatures have upon him for kindly and gentle treatment; and to his own need of the cultivation of habits of justice and mercy. Those who are not mindful of the needs of the dependent and who vent their meanness upon the weak are saYages whatever they may profess to be. The thousands of bands of mercy in this country representing the late George AngelPs labor of love as the Humane Agent of the Old Bay State are a memorial of his worth as they are con- stantly making the foundation of man hood and Eomanhood broader and kindlier and more Christian. There is no danger of mans becoming too gentle or too kind under the best of tutorship. Our systems of selfish en- deavor really prevent our being hu- man to one another.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

A German major in conversation
 with George Bourdon just prior to the present war revealed the soul of Ger many by his candor as few Germans hay ventured to do. He said: There is a very old saying among US that is always applicable to our relations to others: such and such a country may possess an army; but Germany is an army that possesses a country This is the whole story in a nutshell You
 may have noticed the instant Cotrland surrendered to the German forces 1t was announced that Germany would at once send there for permanent abode sixty thousand eolonists (every man German sel9ief) not as mat ter of good fellowship as might appear upon the face of the statement, but as a masteray stroke for holding a country forever loyal to and secure for the Kaiser. Every colenist from Germany is sent out as a soldier to assume citizenship anywhere, but to always be true to Germany and sub ject to Imperial command This is why Germany is menace to the peace and we'll being of the world.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

Have you ever thought 4 standarized religion is as cold and inert as any other sort of a symbol; and that the religion of the heart is not only alive, but has a rebirth every day. It is a human fault to mistake the shadow for the substance in religion as in many other things in this life. It is not probable that St. Peter or any one else will ever ask a decarnated soul what church he belonged to, or how much money he contributed to causes of love or mercy. Merit does not abide in acts but in motives The why is of more importance than the profession or the shekel. We do not hold at it's full value simplicity or realize that of all | the things sought to be counterfeited l in this world it is the most difficult Simplicity has been defined as ma lures first step and the last of Art , We should not rest in the thought we are good. but so conduct ourselves that
 we impress our neishbors we are good for something of value to ourselves and others.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

No man has ever written as complete work upon Angling as did Isaac
 Walton in 1853, and the fact is the author was 50 years old when the book was written and put into it the ex-
 perience and the knowledge of a life time. Three hundred years ago the huntsmen with their hounds and their falcons and their horses, used to laugh at the man who walked and lashed the stream with hook and fly to fill his creel with fish, It was in defence of
 this spring sport that Isaac Walton was inspired to write this great little book which is today classic, for it mirrors
 not only the life and times of the au- thor, but teaches the art of rod and f1y-making and many things about in sects and reptiles necessary to success in angling. When we have read the
 book we know the author was a scholar, true sport, a preacher, a naturalist, q chef, an artist in the con- struction of angling outfits, moralist
 and a philosopher. It is an autobiog- raphy as well as book upon fishing, | a sport he regarded as "being like math-
 ematics, never to be fully learnt"
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

The French peilu seemingly has a fine sense of honor. He does not re- gard a wound which can be attributed to negligence or carelessness on his part as being honorable. An im- portaRt part of his military duty is to keep himself whole and fit as long as possible. One French soldier did not think his wound honorable because he should have seen the shell coming which wounded him, and should have lodged it. It certainly is the duty of a soldier to himself, his family and the state to be observing and discreet as yell as hraya.-te be yigilant as well as daring. Tn other words it does not pay to he duIl-it is extra hazardous for a soldier net to have all his wits active in the face of the enemy. ar when he is ordered lever the tpp.' It may be impossible to be too conscious of self and at the same time face the enemy without a tremor; but fanaticism is 8 waste of life while leve1headedness
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27
Norwich, April 26, 1918.
The article referred to follows:

The article referred to follows:
 The following is an interesting statement of a German American, giv-. ing some excellent reasons why he should be loyal to his adopted country. It is worthy of the careful perusal of all fellow countrymen of the writer who, like him, have become citizens of the United States. The article follows:
 To all people of German blood who live in this state or elsewhere in the United States, whether you are citi- zens or have intended to become such. I have a few words to say about what our duty is in this war. There is much written and said these days about the Germans in America. Some of the things said about us are kind; some of them un- kind Many things are said that are | unkind because we are not under stood and we are not making the ef-
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27
THE MAN WHO TALKS


 We shouldNall bear in mind that the persistent begin their success, where others end in failure. In the face of this great German drive America is saying: The war has just begun It was Wellington at Waterloo who said. Hard pounding. gentlemen, but we will see who can pound the longest" The Huns seem to realize that vic- tory is to be won by the most per- seweriIg The British Tommies re- duced in flesh in German prisons nev CT confess to broken spirit. The weanaed and the neglected and the starved keep up the old cry of British grit in the face of the enemy: Are we down-hearted: NO!i No true American should be- caught murmuFing and giving voice to fear and doubt and spleen.s The defeat of the Huns will be worth all the self sacrifice and cost of showing them their error. and the might of right. Do not forget he who gives a trif1e meanly is meaner than the triAe. The soldiers buy bonds and risk their lives in the trenches for us. Let us do our level best for them and our country.
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and skill are a guard of it in the fiercest moment of combat.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27
Loyal Sentiments of a eerman-Ameri-

Mr. Editor: Loyal German citizens of the United States are entitled to our respect and sympathy at a time like this, when the two countries are at war.
 tween loyal and disloyal citizens com mits a grave error or even worse-a great injustice
 The enclosed article from a German American is so true, and expresses so fairly the loyal sentiments of thou sands of our best German citizens, that hope you. will be willing to print it in The Bulletin-a a paper that merits our highest respect for justice to others.
 L. o. SMITH.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-08-15
BRING PLANTS TO-DAY
FOR ARMY AND NAVY
Citizens Asked to Send Plants to
Make Army and Navy Club
Homelike.

To make the men In Khaki and blue
feel At home when they lounge in the
comfortable chairs at the Army and
Navy club to read or when they play
pool or dance on Saturday evenings.
the woman's house committee of the
war camp community service wants
to put flowers in all of the windows
and brighten things up. Citizens,
who are As anxious ~ the women on
the house committee to make the
men who como over from Camp Lee
and other camps and ships on short
leaves feel at home. are asked to con-
slider this day plant day and to bring
a palm, fern, Eeranium or any pretty
hardy plant to the club rooms at Sew
enth and Franklin streets A com
mittee Of women will be at the club
all day to receive the plants and
flowers.
The committee will attend to the
plants and see that they are kept
green and growing and the men
who come, strangers from all over
the country, to seek a bit OF comfort
in the hospitable club will enjoy this
little touch. Geraniums are especial
ly homelike and a pot of them in each
OF the many windows of the club
rooms win remind hundreds of men
Of the little plant that stands In
mothers wtndow-box back home.
Everybody IL invited to bring some
thing green and growing to the Army
and Navy club today.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-08-15
CLERK MCDOWELL HIS
STRENUOUS LABORS
Largest Batch of Official Papers to
Engross In History of
City Council

Fifteen ordinances and sixty reso-
lutions embrace the batch of papers
to be sent from City Clerk Mcdowell
to Mayor Ainslie this week. This is
one of the heaviest dockets in the
history of city council.
These papers have been adopted by
both branches OF council. and will be-
come laws upon the signature of the
mayor.
Clerk Mcdowell and his staff of as
sistants, consisting of Clerk of Com
mittees Wright and Sergeant-at Arms
Ruskell, have been busy nearly every
minute since the adjournment OF the
board Of aldermen Tuesday night,
working on the documents. and it
was said by Clerk Wright last night
that by almost superhuman efforts
the papers would all be in the hands
of the mayor by this afternoon. Es-
timating that ii will take Mayor AIMS
lie one working day to go over the
papers, they may be ready for the
public by Saturday afternoon at the
latest.