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Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02
LowgRlNe LIE PIECES.

Nithou. question tHerr ...I boz good
sulta obtained from ON. reduction u
eel prices which t.t. ..rn agreed
BON at H meeting .. ta, government
b stool industry r.1-aesntst.vrs. The
|ep has been tah,r under the belief
D. t wl -umus.. more oriers
|hich viii servo fo make un I'm vol
|nc 30 business vhI- was previously
|cured through higher prices.
|rhat this should have th- effect Of
muiatng building activity there can
uo doubt ID is Just what IS needed
order to start D. booming through
b The country There is the money
p The disros TO make up Tor
|lat ra- boon allowed fn lag mriu.
= war Au that O.. ueaI- is tha en-
|uragcmer. through lowered prizes.
Hinius Invites staEnat0n and a dis
|sition Co get along with existing ia
|ities iiEc rmcrr rrr- prices.
kut De- can b.. -.l1ii. appreciated
at The droD in the price of Steel pro-
cts Is not roirr ta solve the whole
|oblem. b. win help and help might
put tlrr. ar. other materials
nich are required end rhirn are
lewis. high ,r price. Le- .lerc boz a
ncrai Hiu".ou along the whole iu1
l. O., wi. Pool found ,17- there Will be
general Response. Tho question Of
ui-ht ruf boz entirely solved
rclt hr. BE- would certainty start th-
rollins anal 5o great deal to-
d
Iymcnl situation.
Busiurss houses. factories and
mcs are au planned AL that is
ded to go. OH. word t0 go ahead is
assur-r.. r0at DO. COS. Will De
Din tle bounds or req son ard such
cs ir1ert "H H. .rCrEeI Ana
hin9 wo-,I E1r in fastening such
hcllsIors It. 3d. reduction i'm ain
ding materials s.milr 90 what has
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Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02

It is announced that the British
Board of Trade has offered 6 1000
reward for information regarding the
explosion on the Australian liner
Cumberland, which was seriously
damaged on July by two internal
explosions, and had to be beached on
Gabo Island. The total reward now
offered is $4,000
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02

port, prepared by Joseph A. Cushman
and issued as Survey Bulletin 676,, con-
tains descriptions Of some species of
Foraminifera from the Miocene and
Pliocene formations o. the Coasta:
Plain of the United States and is
abunGantly illustrated with figures,
many times magnified, Of these minute
organisms,
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02

Some people spend so much time
handing out advice that they have no
time to accomplish anything.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02

Adults-Take one or two
"Bayer Tablets of Aspirin"
with water. If necessary, re-
peat dose three times a day,
after meals.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-13
Rehabilitation Making Progress.

Relatives and friends of soldiers still over
seas or on duty in the home camps are i'm
patient for the release of the boys from service
with the colors, and do not realize what already
has been done in the way of rehabilitation.
General March makes report up to and incud-
ing April 8, which ends five-month period
since the armstice ended fighting In that time
discharge orders have been issued for 1,o25,000
men, or just short of 100000 month, and
1,70l 400 officers and men actually have been re-
turned to civilian life. This is says General
March. 80 per cent of the officers and DC per
cent of the men who were in the army when
the armistice was signed" Since November H.
686ll4 men have sailed for home an average
of $4,000 month While this rate of dis
charge does not keep pace with the desire, it
seems that reasonable haste is being made in
dismantling the hastily assembled military ma
chine. Some problems relating to the future
army are adjourned until congress can deal with
them, while the European settlement is also to
be determined. 1t would then appear that the
work of rehabilitation had gone ahead as
speedily as prudence might dictate. While
no one is being held in the service un-
necessarily, it may be we'll to have some sort
of an army in sight until peace is formally an
nounced and duly accepted.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-13
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

In some parts of England, and in
France and Italy also, it is believed
that a girl who buries a drop Of her
blood under rose bush will have
rosy cheeks.
A unique structure in the Norweg-
ian city of Bergen is a large church
built entirely of paper, which has
been rendered waterproof by a solu-
ton of quicklime, curdled milk, and
the white of eggs.
One of the most wonderful plants
is THE Leaf of Life" found in ia
pan. You simply cannot kill this
plant. If a leaf is cut in half, it
will still thrive without light or
moisture. Pressed between a book,
1t has been known to throw out new
roots and leaves through the cover
Soldiers are required to salute Of
ficers on virtually all occasions, but
there is one time when a British
privateAis forbidden to salute even
the c0mmander-in- of the
army. This is when he is guarding
any Of the kings residences, and the
only man he may then salute is the
king himself.
One of the mysteries that has
puzzled bell makers for years was
how the great bell in the bell tower
at Pekin was ever hung. 1t was cast
in 1415 and weighs 531a tons. 1t
measures Is feet in height, is nine
inches thick, and has a circumfer-
ence of "a feet at the rim. To hang it
nowadays would require the most
up-to-date mechanical apparatus,
and how it was hung hundreds of
years ago is mystery which has
never been solved.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-13
RIGHT TO THE POINT.

Philadelphia Ledger: Some peo-
pie won't even pour oil on troubled
waters for fear of enriching a cor.
| poration.
Minneapolis Tribune: Cheer up.
When the siy-hour day comes ii
won't be of any use to turn the
clocks ahead.
st. Louis Globe Democrat: The
Rockefeller Foundation came in very
handy, with its S17,O42,14O for war
relief in 1917 and 1918.
Washington Post: If the boches
must be fed, we insist upon slipping
them a few samples Of what the
American people had to eat during
the scrimmage.
Baltimore American: 1t is not
sleeping sickness" but 'lethargic
enchephalitis." This is important,
as its proper name may tend to dis
courage its spread in any average
community with the American in
stinct of not wasting time.
Brooklyn Eagle: The man who
killed Socialist Leader Jean L.
Jaures in Paris, July 81. 1914, is lust
now being put on trial. When it
comes to laws delays, France can
match Anglo -Saxondom easily. They
are in a sense the common parasites
of civilization.
Kansas City Star: Important
news comes out of every trade con-
vention these days If it's a shoe
convention. the news is. Don't look
for lower shoe prices" If it's a
cotton goods convention, the news
will be. mo prospect of lower cotton
prices" Fortunately, however, events
are not always run by the convention
system.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-13
Good Citizenship Personal Matter.

One OF the speakers at Boston meeting re-
Gently summed up the whole question of Amer
canization in two pithy sentences. The dis
cussion was on making good citizens of the for
eigners who come within our gates He said:
Speeches and printed articles on good citizen
ship, while important, are not of first i'm
portance. The best way for Ame-ica cans to teach
the foreigners good citizenship is to think and
talk and act like good citizens themselves"
There is the case plainly stated. 1t has per-
sonal application which no American can avoid
Only the hypocrite will try to deceive himself
with the idea that his citizenship is perfect
that his public or private demanor toward the
country and its institutions is always what it
should be. Those who come from abroad are al
ways bewldered by the attitude OF the American
toward his government, and in their eagerness to
acquire our ways they exaggerate our faults, and
soon find themselves listed as unfit citizens
merely because they have gone little too far
in their imitation. The best way to teach
Americanism is by example
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-13
Saqnposts of Progress

The loss to the nation on the telc-
graph service since the British gov.
eminent took Ii over in 1870
amounts to $200,000,000.
To make chickens take exercise
necessary for growth an inventor has
patented feed box, in front OF
which In a revolving platform over
which they must scramble to get
anything to eat.
A report issued by the Bureau OF
Public Roads shows that up to De-
cember IS, 1913, but IL projects en-
bracing a mileage of 81 miles had
been reported completed under the
federal aid act. The act was made
effective in 1915.
A $25,000.000 canal is being duA
by Canada beween Niagara Falls
aud Ontario. a distance of eight and
one-half miles. The purpose OF the
project is to furnish power for
Canadian industry. Five years will
be required to complete the work
even at high speed.
Wages in all lines OF industry il.
Portugal have reached figures un-
heard Of In that country. where
abor always has been poorly paid.
1t was necessary for all classes OF
employers to increase the pay sched-
ules, either voluntarily or as the re-
suit Of demands, to enable employees
to meet their extremely high cosi
Of living.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-13
HERE AND THERE.

Norway has nearly 100000 per-
sons engaged in agriculture.
The tall silk hat first came into
common use in Paris in 1897.
During the war the British life
boat service saved more than 5000
lives.
Many of the walters employed in
New York hotels earn as high as
$3.50 month.
Every day $50 persons arrive in
New York to make the city their
permanent homie.
Turquoises are thus called because
the first specimens came to Europe
by way Of Turkey.
More than $4,000 persons are en-
ployed in the salmon canning indus
try in the state Of Washington.
One of the greatest dykes in Hol-
land is 40 miles in length and has
been holding back the water for
seven centuries.
One of the most wonderful records
in the annals of pugilism was that
Of Jem Mace, who lost only two
contests out of 500.
In the alluVldl uepOSltS OIL Mdud-
gascar there have been found the re-
mains of ostriches which were - or
IA feet in height.
Heavy December shipments
brought the total exports for 1918 to
$6,150, 100000. a decrease of only
$S3,000,000 from the 1917 total.
Reviving a custom dead for half
century, Governor Smith used the
governors suite at the New York
city hall for the transaction of off,
cial business, giving audience to
more than ESQ men and women.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-13
IAn~ Ras.M
Drive On King Nicotine

With "the fight against alcohol won," the
Anti Cigarette league and the w. {. /. U are
marshallng their forces to war against the to.
bacco habit Funds are being collected, field
secretaries sent to organize the campaign, med
ical statistics tabulated and soon the great
moral spring drive will be started.
1t was bound to come; the only occasion for
astonishment is the delay in following the rout
of rum with the Knockout of its fellow agency
of immortality, nicotine. Why were not the
twin evils polished off with one blow? There is
the possibility, of course, that the reports of
brave American youth craving the solace of a
cigarette as they give an arm, an eye or life it
self for their country, had restraining inhu-
ence even on the hand appraised to crush the
corrupting habit
But the war is won and the time for such
squeamish scruples is over. The campaign to
protect the youth of the land from the insdious
narcotic may now proceed unhampered. 1t is
great opportunity, and the spectacle will be
an inspiring one of the embattled moral re-
formers OF America moving against the hosts
of darkness From freeing the slaves OF the
cotton fields to freeing the slaves OF tobacco
may seem, indeed, decline in moral purpose.
Grant with cigar i'll his mouth, might con-
template it with certain degree of curiosity.
But are not the zeal and fervor OF the crusaders
as great and shall any detractors seek to belitle
their glory? Whether they succeed or whether
they fail they are certain to add glowing page
to the history of reform movements in America.
New York World.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-13
"Own Your OWn Home"

The redundancy OF the "Own Your Own
Home" slogan will be forgotten in the wisdom
OF the advice. Every component part of the
conception is good. 1t presupposes home, a
word around which clusters so many fond rec
objections. Mr.. Payne, who was wanderer on
the face of the earth most of his life, will live
forever solely because of his tender tribute to
home The tenderness of the term comes from
the fact that it symbolzes and embraces so
many other sentiments and relations which are
the foundation OF both individual apd social life
Al home may be established in somebody else's
house, in an apartment or in fiat. 1t is con-
ceivable that home might be maintained even
in hotel or a boarding house, although Mark
Twain. or one of his early contemporaries,
scoffed the idea OF man taking up gun to
defend his boarding house, But men have done
even that. and our selective draft drew rather
heavily on the boarding house contingent But
wife and children, charmed circle, the primary
group OF society, the developing place OF char
acter, the nest OF patriotism and righteousness.
lis place Of security and serenity, from
which the law will expel intruders It's sacred
precincts are open only to those who belong
there by lawful right or by courtesy. One can
not always choose his associates in the hurly-
burly of modern business life, but his home is
his own. In his quaint style. Sir Edward Coke
described the legal status "The house of every
one is to him as his castle and fortress as we'll
for his defense. against injury and violence. as
for his repose."
When one owns his home. he has reached
the happiest state. No power on earth can take
il from him. 1t is his ito have and to hold" If
he builds it, it is planned in accordance with the
family's desires and peculiar needs. In its ex-
terior and its interior it reflects the familys in
dividuality. Their dreams are worked into its
plans and into its furnishings. The joy of such
possession surpasses that of ownership of
stocks and bonds. and stately edihces of COM
inerce. He who has never owned home has
missed one of the sweetest and most durable
human joys.-St. Louis Globe Democrat
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-13
People and Events

Foreign embassies in Washington,
40 IN number, are already tagged as
real GASES in bone dry desert,
There are others, too numerous to
count,
A bill to stop hunting and fishing
on Sundays in New Hampshire by
making the day a closed season has
been unanimously killed by COM
mittee OF the legislature. oh, we'll.
the Pilgrim Fathers are long time
dead.
Families and heirs Of American
victims of the Lusitania crime, rich
and poor, will share alike In the
liquidated claims which the State
department will put in the allied bill
or indemnities. The exact amount
OF the claim for each victim is not
disclosed, but IS known to be more
than $4,000 in each case.
Having nothing else to keep them
in the spotlight group of REFORM
ers in Washington insist on regulat-
ing the conduct of women workers
in their rooms in government dormi-
tories. The head janitor shooed the
busybodes away from the premises,
remarking, The government dormi-
tories are not reform schools"
Tears of regret moistened the d.
vorce petition of Chicago woman.
Hubby is pictured as "a most hand
some man Of wonderful personal
ity,' but fell down in providing the
necessares Of life. Good looks fail
ed to impress the grocer, the butcher
and the dressmaker. These fellows
wanted real money. And hubby
wouldn't dig up. The mean thing!
Strange things are happening now
adays in sections of the wet belt
nearing the drouth. The Kings
County (Brooklvn) Pharmaceutical
society went on record as opposed to
making drug ctores dispensers Of
booze on doctors prescriptions
Similar protest was lodged by Man
haitian druggists, and the state as
ISOLATION is expected to register
kick at Albany. If the. drug
stores will not serve suffering hui
manity" on a Latinized booze order
some sympathetic doctors may be
induced to compound their own pre-
scriptions and afford instant relief
to the afflicted.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-13
Burles0n's Wire Control

Postmaster General Burleson's order remov-
ing President Clarence H.. Mackay and two
other officers of the company from the operation
of the Postal Telegraph is in keeping with his
past methods. Toward the Mackay lines from
the start he has appeared to be inspired with a
purpose at once hostile and discriminating.
IT Mr.. Burleson as postmaster general had
revealed any marked capacity for business he
might hope to escape certain amount of crit
icisn. But he has held office for six years and
the public has had full opportunity to take his
measure. He has an extraordinary talent for
getting into rows, and being by nature tact
into trouble as he goes.
The Postal affair has now become personal
question Since as the responsible official he
cannot get along without scandal, it is more
than ever urgent that the wire systems be re-
turned as soon as possible to the owners.-New
York World
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-13
THE WORLD AT WORK.

Forty-nine declarations of war
were made between 1914 and 1918.
Great Britain produces a fourth of
all the coal used in all the world.
Nearly 100000 acres in Can
ada are devoted to wheat growing
Greater New York's daily con-
sumption of water amounts to nearly
600,000.000 gallons.
The number of automobiles in the
United States is expected to reach
the 100000 mark this year.
Michael Angelo, who died through
an accident at SO, declared that eat
ing grapes and drinking wine was
the secret OF his unimpaired vitality.
On English locomotives the num-
Der and position of the headlight
denote whether the train is a pas
senger or freight, an express or
local, and so on.
Sixty per cent of the work on
ship is constructing the hull and the
remaining 40 per cent is in installing
mechanical parts, deck furnishings
and other equipment that goes to
make the finished vessel
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-13
AMERICAN IDEALS AND BoLsHEv1sM

Why are American troops sent to Russia
and why are they kept there' This question is
we'll answered by President Wilson in one oil
his addresses since the close of fighting ia
France. These gallant men of our armed
forces have fought for the ideals which they
knew to be the ideals of their country said
the president, speaking of the soldiers who went
to France. These ideals, unfortunately, were
not made overastingly secure by the overthrow
OF the German military despotism.
Nothing can be farther removed from the
ideals of Americans than the aims of bolshevisnl.
All that we hold in esteem as worthy of striv-
ing for is scoffed at and derded by the prophets
OF disorder who parade their lunacy as the phil.
osphy of peace and the gospel of human broth
erhood No approach exists between the two
notions of liberty. They are as widely
separated as the poles. Militarism was a
menace, ever present danger, and its con-
tinual encroachment threatened us more and
more until in self-defense, and for the preserva-
ton of our ideals we had to take up arms and
meet the monster in the field. Force armed in
behalf of tyranny and oppression had to be over
come by force fighting for liberty and justice.
An even more hideous monster now has
arisen to brighten the world. 1t is not so easy
to deal with. for it is directed by unreason. The
murderous burglar is no more of danger to
our domestic tranquility than is the equally
murderous lunatic, and we must restrain the
one just as carfuy as the other that we may
feel safe in our homes
In seeking to confne boleshvism to Russia,
to aid in setting up some form of orderly re-
sponsible government there, we are engaged
in defense of American ideals as righteously
as when we set out to put the everlasting
quetus on Kaiser Wilhelm and his military
machine. That is why our boys are in Russia
and why other soldiers of the Allies will be sent
into central Europe eventually to restore order
Peace can not be set up-while madmen rule
and mobs control among the wreckage of the en-
pires that have been broken to bits by the war
for freedom
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-13
Domestic Servant Problem World Wide.

If the notion prevails that the close of the
war and the return of the soldiers to jobs tenn
porarily taken by women were to bring about
an immediate solution of the domestic servant
problem, that expectation is apparently doomed
to disappointment. The response of women to
the call to Office, factory and other unusual oc-
equations has not, to put it mildly, made them
keen to go back to household work This is
true not only "over here but in European
countries as we'll. Here, for example, is the re-
port from Paris
Servants are rare and difficult to please;
they demand higher wages than ever, and al
though thousands of women are being thrown
out of employment every day they show little
interest in their work and do nothing to make
themselves efficient. Domestic training is not
in the program of reconstruction, and there is
general turning away from domestic service;
the factory. the Office, the shop, offer greater
attractions
In London, government commission has
just made lengthy and discussion-evoking re-
port on the domestic service situation dwelling
upon its acuteness and pointing out the lacking
means of supplying servants trained to eff
cheney. One recommendation is the institution
of servants instruction schools, but how they
plan to get volunteers to receive the instruc-
ton is not satisfactorily disclosed Another
recommendation goes to fixing regular hours
and allotted tasks, as if household work could
be scheduled on factory clock-work basis,
which every experienced housekeper knows is
impossible. Here in America the trend every
where is away from establishments that require
great retinue of servants and toward the
apartment and the hotel as the only promising
escape from servant troubles.
So everywhere the domestic servant problem
seems more hopeless than ever. If anyone has
the right answer now is the time for it to be
forthcoming.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-13
SONG OF THE ToYlWINDMILL

The wind blows wild. the wind blows free
But what is the whirl O. the wind to me?
| move to the breath of butterflies.
To the CLINT Of song In children's eyes.
To the gleam of red in sunset skies
To the kiss of fate. ...
Early and late
To the sigh of the fool, and the laugh
of the WISE
FOR he who made me and shaped my
wings,
And painted my windows green and
white,
Had heard the song that swift she'll
In the iles bleak. black night.
He had lost an eye and leg, but he
The secrets trusted to very few:
And soft in the dusk, as he fashioned
me,
He sang this song. exultantly:
"Let the hurricane pass you by.
The whirlwind's scream and tornado's cry
Move to the touch OF the truer things
The gentle plant that the ring dove sings
To the sun bright edge Of an airplane's
wings. ..."-..e
For 1t matters not though the whole
world die,
II q rainbow span the storm-swept sky!"
So-what is the whirl O. the wind TO me?
/ move TO the dream OF Eternity,
--Theda Kenyon in New York Times.