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El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-10-15
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El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-10-15
CINE NORMA
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El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-10-15
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El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-10-15
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El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-10-15
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Dos Tandas
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El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-10-15
Homemade a un Maestro

Juncos, de octubre de 1910.
"Carta Alberta"
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-10-15
Dos Tandas

CINE PUERTO RICO
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-10-15
EstaII6 "LA BOMBA"

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Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-13
OTHER VIEW POINTS

Just how dependent we are on the railroads is demonstrated every time there is threatened trouble. as at present Despite the growth of motor truck traffic. we still must look to the railroads for the great bulk of our transportation and in tie-ups we learn our leslon-indeed. we get it rubbed into us. The railroad unions realize their power in this respect, and they use it with an iron hand. There is not, on their part. very much willing TESS to arbitrate their demands. Back Of every demand is the threat of inn mediate strike and back of the threat of immediate strike is the threat of starvation or disorganization for the territory affected. The public is get ting heartily sick or having this pis- effective system of arbitration. that will guarantee the nations security is needed Bridgeport Post.
 Bridgeports big shipyard--the Hou- SatOnic-haS stopped producing mer- chant vessels but the understanding is that it will be turned over to the production of Simon Lakes new kind of undersea salvage ship In the meantime. because Bridgeport's. ship yard has stopped. one needn't suppose shipbuilder has gone out of business. Not a all! Two of the American ships now projected are to be 1000 feet each in Iength-the largest ships ever built. Ana they Will De owned by Uncle Sam. The Emergency Fleet Corpora ton is turning out ships in fine style. Up to the middle of July it had delivered 1o96 vessels totalling 6.06s,739 deadweight tons. It had launched al the same time 1924 yes sels with a deadweight tonnage of B. 030. .2Ss and had laid the keels of 2os1 vessels with a deidweight tonnage of 11421,111. The deliveries for the first six and a half months almost equal the total for 191s.-Bridgeport Stand ard Telegram.
 Smoke up, men. If you don't there may come a day when the law won't let you that is. if certain zealots and fana tics of both sexes have their way about it. Now that John Barleycorn has been laid away for the long sleep, the anti-tobacco mob is coming out into the open and saying in no uncer- tain terms that the weed which Sir Waiter Raleigh was base enough to discover must die the death.-Meriden Journal.
 The suggestion of the railroad men that the government take over the railroads, pay for them in government bonds, and leave the operation to mixed board that shall fix rates and do all the rest except that present wages shall not be lowered, is inter esting. It has some points of attrac- tiveness Those who believe in CO., operation may see in this chance to work out that attractive notion. The sticking point is right here:-H ev- erything else is to be subject to va riation, why should wages be begged
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-13
VAIN HOPES

dodderinE old lady expect maybe to have saved up enough to buy q tablecloth and dozen napkins
 ice nT don't do know know what m R the & Germans did to the ice, but anyhow it was a. plenty. Every time hear a hum dred pounds going into that refrigera- tor get chills and fever just as though somebody was holding gun pointed at me and requesting me to up with my hands.
 What is most glorious. shall not have to purchase milk, cream or but ton they say that hordes and hordes of men are going to demand milk to drink and there won't be any to make butter from and cream will be vague dream unless somebody leaves you a fortune and you get reckless and blow it in all at once. We can't have any preserves anyhow, so you wouldn't en- poy your toast any more Why, l can recall grocerymen beseeching me to buy whole crate or luscious straw berries for ne-seventy- five and now when there are berries in a store they put them in the window and mob gathers to gaze respectfully. The big canners go out and buy them up in the field, and there are none left, for the presuming populace.
 And if there is no food of the old sort there will be no dinner parties, and that means no dinner clothes y clothes are these days. Yes says the languid gownmaker. I have vurry nice little thing here, -easy to slip into when one is in hurry. and it is only $250. Of course, if madam de- sires something really good But will go no further. I do not want you to suffer what I have endured.
 NYes, if we don't need to buy any clothes or table linen or dishes or food or pay cook. all for finding a box of those food tables. I must say I shall consider a days shopping in the heat well spent, Joseph-dont you?"
 Her husband grinned. Say" he burst out, what are we really going to have for dinner tonight. Susie?'
 "Oh!" sighed the pretty lady hope lessly. Steak and strawberries and asparagus and pie-but. believe me, don't I wish those food tables were on the market? What I'm going down town for is to stalk that beefsteak if can find one that isn't gold plated" Exchange.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-13
IfIuminate,

Mir. Editor: Have the merchants and storekeepers of the city of Norwich stopped to think Of the beneficial re- suits to be obtained by lighting their store windows nights, say from to 10, or even to 10 in the evening? Did they ever stop to consider that the non- lighting of their store windows perhaps kept people off of the streets of Norwich nights. I have in mind the nights that the stores are not open
 l have noticed the few store win dows lighted, and I have also noticed people standing in front of those stores looking at the wares displayed. and wondered if their looking at those wares did not mean that perhaps the next day sale would be made at that store because the people had become interested in the goods in the window.
 Of course. if one is obliged to go to the store and turn on the lights and then go again and turn them off it means a lot of trouble. but even at that I think it would be good adver- Using, and make the city look wide awake. On the other hand. time clocks for throwing store window lights on and off can be purchased and installed I believe for not over $3o or $a5
 From a point of civic pride it should be- done From a standpoint of profit it should be done I believe if pro-
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-13

story carries us back to the dawn of human history.
 Tn the days of the Nabatheans Petra became the central point to of Arabia, Persia and India came laden with all the precious commodi- ties of the east, and from which these commodities were distributed through Egypt, Palestine. Syria and all the countries bordering on the Mediterra- mean, for even Tyre and Sidon de- rived many of their precious wares and dyes from Petra
 The Rock City was always to these regions and peoples what Rome was to the Romans and Jerusalem to the Jews. Horites. Edomites. Nabatheans and Romans have all rejoiced and unique stronghold and most remark able city of antiquity.
 E "The entrance to the Rock City is the most striking gateway to any city on our planet. It is a narrow rift or deflle, bisecting a mountain of many hued sandstone, winding through the rock as though it was the most plastic of clay. This six or defile is nearly two miles long. Its general contour is a wide semi-circular swing from the short bends. having sharp curves and corners in it's general course.
 "The width of the silk varies from 12 feet at it's narrowest point to 35 or 40 feet at other places. Where the gloomy walls actually overhang the roadway and almost shut out the blue ribbon of sky 1t seems narrower. and perhaps at many points above the stream the walls do come closer than 12 feet, The heights of thS perpendic- ular side cliffs have been estimated at from 200 to 1000 feet. Heights. like distances, in this clear desert air are deceptive, but after many tests and observations we are prepared to say that at places they are almost sheer for 300 to 400 feet.
 Seen at morning. at midday, or at midnight, the six, this matchless en- trance to hidden city is unauestion- ably one of the great glories of an cient Petra. Along its cool, gloomy gorge file the caravans Of antiauity@ from Damascus and the east. from the desert, from Egypt and the heart of Africa. Kings. queens and conquerors have all marveled at it's beauties and its strangeness. Wealth untold went in and out of 1t for centuries. and now
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-13

'Why do you have to go downtown this hot day?" inquired the, man who had just finished his breakfast coffee. .1s it anything important?"
 Huh" said the pretty lady in the smart tailored suit. "The most inn portant ever! I am going downtown for lots of things that we've never had going to search for some tablets I've read about. They are concentrated food and you just swallow one or two and take drink of water and you've
 "So Joseph, don't open your mouth like a fish, because we have indeed come to that. We can't afford to pay any one the salary of a captain of is more. we can't afford to buy the food. Nobody can afford to buy food any more and I for one am going to abandon the custom and be sensible. how. If we don't have any real food we won't need any dishes or glass ware and won't have to mortgage things to buy them.
 That woman who came in to help when I had my club here at luncheon smashed glasses when she washed them with the abandon of a multimil1ionaire. She acted as though there never had been a war. Maybe if I go with out several dresses I can buy enough glasses to serve lemonade on the front porch and conceal our poverty from the neighbors. I tried to match the teacups and the store just smiled sad ly at me Didn't I know they weren't importing those goods now? Besides, the factory that had made that set was blown up three years ago, but here was very nice new set that might suit me at -s6,o10. Maybe I have the figures wrong, but they sounded like that
 And we won't have sto have any linen to set the dishes on. Linen you've heard of it. haven't you? It is cloth people used to have a few years ago. Nowadays they keep it in wall safes and only bring it out when a customer shows his bank book and three guardnties from responsible citizens. When they extract all the cannon balls from the flax fields and sew flax and harvest it and let it lie two years. as they have to, and weave it and ship it and sell it, then wefll have linen again. Oh. yes, when I am
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-13
YELLOW STREAK CITIZENS.

If there were no one to offer bribes it is evident there would be no bribes accepted, so that a share of guilt lies on both sides of the transaction. Sen tences of from one to twelve years imprisonment have just been given to four commissioned officers and three petty officers of the navy for provid- ing bomb proof jobs for naval re- servists, who were able to hold out the lure of money and social favors.
 The investigation of this sort of alue-received favoritism throughout the countryewiH be made widespread 1t is stated. But while we are pun ishing the bribed. why ought we let the bribers go unscathed?
 They at least could be put in the pillory of public opinion if their coun- trymen were given their names and these cheap young citizens with their yellow streaks covered tip under off eial favor and gold braid could be kept in their class and out of the so- ctety of real men.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-13
THRIFT TIMELY YET.

Under the stress of bending every energy to the win-the campaign America embarked upon thrift campaign which was in marked con- trast to the easy-c come, easy-go hab- it's of thousands who had never saved q cent before. But the uses of thrift have not entirely passed with the coming of peace: indeed it may be said that thrift in the government and with the individual must be a factor for a long time yet in return Ing to normal conditions
 The continuing sale of thrift and war saving stamps and treasury cer- uhcates is only part of a much broad : CT movement growing out of the con- ditiens which menace the economic future of this country and the vel fare of it's inhabitants. Immediate practical returns to the government are really secondary to the import znce of the need of overcoming the extravaganza of the people and of di- Yerting the waste into capital, though Ut is true that the treasury department depends partly upon the stamps and scertificates for the payment of the in sterest on the huge war debt. This will be a problem for years to come. more independent.
 Frequently, the people who invest in worthless securities are those who have previously stored their capital in po4zetbooks. cupboards. bureau draw sers' and stockings, where it earns no interest and is likely to be stolen IL as the hope of the treasury department to induce such people to take their money out of the bureau drawers and put it into banks. endowment policies. government securities or any other good investment.
 It is no time yet to desert the val uable habit of thrift and no safer place for the savings of the people can be found than to put their money in to the hands of a government which for 133 years. has redeemed everyone of it's securities at par
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-13
THOSE GERMAN PRISONERS.

With the approval of the chief of military information, the war depart ment now explains through the Army and Navy Journal how largely the ar my operations were helped by those two mysterious German prisoners brought to this country on July 2i. The cold military facts have a way not different from other cold facts of dissipating much of the glamor with which these two Germans had been surrounded.
 First reports credited them with giving information that was a turn ing point in General Pershing's whole final campaign But the war depart ment disposes of that belief when it shows their rank prec1uded any such possibility. One was a lance cor poral, captured on Sept. ?. 1918, and the other pilot aviator. However, the information that they did give was of great value.
 What one told was utilized in the St. MihieI drive, for he had such peculiar ability to carry details in his head and sketch them from memory that he enabled the American troops to capture four of the most troublesome batteries in the St. Mihiel offensive. The other gave information of a more general nature.
 Bearing in mind the readiness with which German prisoners were talk ing, especially towards the end of the war when they sensed the col lapse that was to come. these two men were doing nothing unusual, and they alone should be transported back to this country leads to the suspic- ion that we have not heard the full story of their revelations.
 The war department will act as its own censor in deciding just when it will tell the whole story of these two mysterioIIs Germans
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-13
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Human Nature and the Strike.

Mir Editor:-Human nature seems to be the same the world over, doesn't t a complete monopoly of that commod- ity. We are getting a sample of it right here in Norwich.
 The trolleymen seem to be fighting for "a place in the sun" They want to extend their "Kulture" throughout the entire community. Of course we recognize that such a kultured class of persons, who have to go through such an extensive course of study for their high position, cannot be satisfied with thirty thousand dollars a year When one goes through grammar. high school, and college; and then either has to study at theological school in order to learn courtesy to travellers, or a medical school in order to learn to treat those they run over, or a law school so as to be able to settle all disputes with passengers, or a bushes college to learn to add to their individual income. or an engineering school in order to really understand the mechanism of the cars or a teachers college in order to o1 call the stations understandingly; and then on top of all this has to devote days and months to the practical work of learn ing the intricacies of operation of mo- tors and hand registers-one needs millions in payment. (N. B.-They say that many of the Providence trol- leymen can neither read nor write)
 But how to get those millions? Aye there's the rub. Of cource, while MT. Plant lived he supported both them and the travelling public on charity. But MT. Plant is dead and Eastern Connecticut has no other citizen rich enough and foolish enough to support all his fellow citizens in idle luxury. Ask any chauffeur which is easier to drive. a trolley or an automobile. Ask any farmer, who works longer hours. a farmer or trolleyman.
 Rut-the trolleyman has a union: the union has a 1eader-a sort of un- crowned kaiser; and this leader wants the earth. So he sends his willing slaves into the battle and tells them that might makes right" no matter if the stockholders are not getting any money. If Mir. Plant isn't here to give it to them, they are going to get it from anyone they can. And they are going to use all the "frightfuInessv they can. meanwhile, upon the citizens of Norwich, No matter if they wreck the trolley lines in Eastern Connecti- cut and destroy the business in this part of the state. What does the lead CT care? He doesn't live here and his minions blindly do his bidding. Why not tear up the tracks and pull down the factories-as they have done in Russia. They simply carry things to greater extremes there because they are more ignorant. The spirit is the same.
 Can we not see old Benedict Arnold turning over in his grave and smiling and saying to himself. "Ho. for com rades now. My native city will at last send me company"
 CALEB CHURCH.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-13
IN THE DAYS NEWS
HISTORIC SPOTS IN TURKEY

Though Turkey will be dismember- ed and pushed out of Europe, the Ot- ooman empire probably will continue in control of some of the sacred shrines and most precious history spots of Asia" says bulletin from the National Geogra phic society.
 For example. there is the Rock City of Petra, known as the safe deposit of caravans en route with precious wares to Tyre and Sidon-which also contains 'Pharaof's Treasury"
 The bulletin quotes from q conn munication by Franklin F. Hoskins describing Petra as follows:
 The highlands east of the Jordan river are strewn with ruins marking the rise and fall of successive civiliza- tions-Semitic, Greek, Roman. Chris tion, Moha mmedan and Crusader. These ruins have been preserved for the modern explorer by the tides of nomadic life. which have swept up from the Arabian desert; but at the southern end of this no-man's land, deep in the mountains of Edom, lies one of the strangest. most beautiful and most enchanting spots upon this earth-the Rock City of Petra. Its
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-13
BRoTHERHoops BACK UP.

It took no great time for Glenn H. Plumb and the brotherhood officials to hear from the public. They got an instant referendum vote that spoke volumes and sent the brotherhood heads in haste to explaining that it was far from their intention to use force to compel congress and the country to accede to the plan of na- tionalizing the railroads The voice of public opinion and the press quickly told MT. Plumb and the rail- road men where they were going to get off in their clustering proposal to compel legislation for the benefit of a two epr cent. minority in a nation of . hundred million.
 s -r- We want nothing of Russian soviet D practices applied in this country and Mir. Plumb unconsciously revealed that his leanings were all that way, when he fell into a trap prepared for him by the interstate commerce com mittee of the house. When sections out of the constitution of the Russian soviet republic were read to him. without telling him beforehand what they were, he gave ready assent to the doctrines they subscribed to, while his whole testimony served to show how much he was permeated with the doctrines of Karl Marx. If anything more were needed to damn the Plumb plan, it has not yet been suggested for it is well understood that Rus sian socialism is based upon the Marxian theories, which are inimi- cal to everything upon which Ameri- can institutions are founded.
 The public quickly came to the conclusion that the Plumb plan was too visionary for their acceptance and they revolted alike at the man. ner in which it was presented.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-13
uNRULY RUMANIA.

The Rumanians. arising. like the phenix, from the ashes of their na- tional humiliation when the German and Austrian armies swept over their country like a devastating fire, have sent their reorganized army marching into Budapest in defiance of the wish of the supreme. council at Paris. They are not inclined to leave to the council the remaking of that part of southeastern Europe in which they are particularly interested and in which they now find themselves the strongest power.
 In return for what they have done in overthrowing the brief Bolshevik rule of Bella Kun in Hungary. they cannot be all lowed to cash in with free hand in taking what they believe belongs to them and setting at nought the whole effort to remake Europe accord ing to a scientific plan. The pro- cesses of the supreme council at Paris may seem too slow for the Ruman- ians, flushed with the sense of their new born nation and it's strength, but they cannot be allowed to override the orderly arrangements intended to make for the ultimate peace of the ycrld-
 Pennsylvania, the prize for which thay entered the war. now. lies befare
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-13

for over thirteen hundred years 1t has been silent and deserted.
 Carved in the face of the cliff half revealed, half concealed in the growing shadows. is one of the largest. most perfect and most beautiful monuments of antiquity-Pharaoh's Treasury. AL most as perfect as the day 1t came from beneath the sculptor's chisel. fif- teen hundred or two thousand years ago; colored with the natural hues of the brilliant sandstone. which added an indescribable element to the archi- tectural beauty; fianked and sur mounteed. by the cliffs, which had been carved and tinted in turn by the pow CTS of nature; approached by the rnys- terious deficit is almost overpower- ing in it's effect"