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Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-14
OTHER VIEW POINTS

The state has at last got widows pension plan, bad as it is. It may be that we shall be able to keep the fact away from the attention of other states for the next two years when
 it is hope dthat those who believe
 the provisions should be for the wi
 dows and not for the politicians, may
 be able to get improvements made. Waterbury Republican.
 There is no doubt that in many small ways the legislature acted with commendable zeal. It is when it struck the high spots that it revealed senate and not the house of repre- sentatives which grasped the great significance of the proposed amend ] ment to the federal constitution pro- viding for country wide prohibition as it related to the most precious of Connecticut rights. The house only saw the provincial end of it. Neither ] the house nof the senate came any i where near grasping the problem of 1 the trolley as it concerned community ! interests. All they could see was 1 that the trolleys had been at one i time terribly reprehensible forces ir the political and legislative life of the state and that they deserved all that was coming to them. A deaf ear was turned to the counsel of req son and the warning of enlightened seIfishness. The hasty consideration of the propoed harbor Improvements of New Haven from a little town point of view overlooked an enter prise which promised 8 larger com mercial prosperity for the state al large. Boasting of it's ability te
 keep appropriations within the esti-
 mated revenue of the state, and pre- dieting that the people would sooner
 or later fall on their knees and bles:
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Cleaned from Foreign Ex-
 changes

With the primary object of remov ing the criticism of delay, the Minister of Pensions propose to deccntraliSe their work and to open up regional centres throughout England, Scot land, Ireland and Wales.
 The Scottish area will probably be worked from Edinburgh. Ireland is to have two centres-Dublin and Belfast and Wales will have it's headquart- CTS at Cardiff.
 It is proposed to set up in each of the districts-13 in ala self-con- tained administrative unit with de- legative powers.
 While the Ministry will retain di- rection of policy and the supreme control of the centre, a large part of the administrative work will be done in other parts of the country by re- gional offices.
 It is announced in wireless mes sage from the Hungarian Photographic Correspondence Bureau. reports from Sopron that thes Inventory Commis- sion has found, after zealous searches, treasures of art of >an enormous value sealed in the walls of Prince Nicolas Esterhazy's Castle at Perch tenstein. It was ascertained that the hiding of these treasures took place at least two weeks ago.
 There were found money, silver | dishes and goblets, including a silver goblet of mans night adorned with precious stones dating from the 1 time of Matthias Corvinus. An em- 1 bargo has ben laid upon these treas urs.
 Matthias Corvinus was elected King of Hungary in 145S. The Marquis of BreadaIbane whose serious illness will he widely re- gretted sends to King George every spring the first Fay salmon of the | season.
 l He once received from his own re-
 served waters a fine salmon whicl
 that famous fisherman, the lat Mr
 Francis Francis had caught wher
 everybody elso had failed. Father ' Healy, the Irish wit, who was q fel- l low guest, promptly composed the following ode to celebrate the happ, | event.
 God bless old Scotland, whic I'm tolt | The region of romance is.
 And bless the Thare of Bfeada lbane
 And God bless Francis Francis.
 Oh, bless his rod. his reel. his line. His fly, or worm or spinner.
 And bless this fish who left his ''Tay To come up to our dinner. Apparently the new ndependenc,
 Of our young women extends to thei mutual transactions. We watched 'pa.ty of five having lunch together a
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ADDRESSING LETTERS.

An announcement which cannot fail to attract attention is that which is made to the effect that the postmaster of New York city is to act as teacher in one of the public evening schools of that city for the purpose of giving in- structions in addressing envelopes and making out money orders. There seems 10 be no special reason why the postmaster should he the one to give the directions except that it is outside the general line of instructions and added interest might be aroused therein from his participation. but there can be no question but what there is need of impressing upon a large proportion of the letter writers the necessity of writing addresses on envelopes not only uniformly, bat plainly and correctly.
 Careiessly addressed mail has al- ways been responsible for large amount of the postal matter than never reaches its destination. It not only causes an Tntold amount of work
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the watch dogs of the treasury, the session ended with reckles misuse of the funds.
 As result of these and many other indications of legislative inca pacity there has passed into history an assembly of very commonplace character. an assembly whose own lack of iniative, small as it was, was injured rather than aided by the impudent iniative of the republican machine. It is probably true that the people got just what they wanted. If that is sos they did not want the right thing.-New Haven Journal Courier.
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on the part of the postoffice em- ployes and letter carriers but it makes necessary the maintenance of d large force of employees in the dead letter office and this does not concert unimportant mail but even that of the greatest importance. that containing money, checks and valuables.
 Somehow or other the impression prevails among many that most any sort of an address is sufficient. that any kind of writing will do, that post office employees are mind readers and all that it is necessary to do is to make it fairly Iegible and come somewhere near the right address and the people who handle the mail will do the rest. It is too often the fact that such is the case but there is no question but what a great deal of trouble could be over come by exercising due care and the New York postmaster may be able to improve the situation.
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a big store yesterday. There were some trifling differences in thir me- nus and instad of having a common bill for subsequent settlement each insisted on having their account made out separately and paying it herself.
 Later on we happened to see them emerge and pack themslvs into luxurious private car. We were glad settlement business might have tested even the proverbial politeness of the London taxi-man.
 Bankers and the public are in terested in the question whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer means to retain the two-penny stamp on cheques.
 ! Hundreds of thousands of cheque- ! books have been prepared with the i new blue stamps, but a change would not be very difficult matter allowing
 It has involved a G-~at amount of bother for a comparatively small ad- 1 vantage to the revenue. Will MT.
 Austen Chamberlain surrender the idea?
 1 Probably the greatest increase in
 price which the war has brought be- longs to one of the rare drugs. But among the commoner articles of com u;erce the distinction is held by seeds In a recent Parliamentary paper comparison is made between the prices of 1914 and 1918. Quite 6 number of varieties show an increase
 of more than 300 per cent. White turnip'' has gone up by 404 per cent. but ''parsnip'' for some unexplained reason kicks the beam with an ad- vance of 1461 per cent
 4 The idea of M. Lucien kIetz ane
 other Parisians to hold exhibitions O
 costumes and millinery is good on. we doubt whether it would have an. effect in making a nation a better dressed one.
 A good many of us men as well a
 women, would like to be better dressed than we are, but the remed, does not always lie with us. As ia as men go the choice is very limited 2 We could never procure the sort O clothes we wanted because they ar .. not stocked. We have to make th : l best of what the manufac turer , send our tailOrs, whatever our taste But if the exhibition is primarily ill
 tended to educate dur manufactur , CTS in grace and elegance it migh have excellent results.
 The worst of white marble fo
 open-air monuments in cities i
 that it seems to be a magnet for a
 the soot in the neighborhood. 1o
 cannot always be washing and scrub
 ping it. especially when there ar
 such heaps of 1t as compose the Vic
 tCria Memorial.
 : Chance and the atmosphere pla. [ fantastic tricks with those heroi ? ! figures. Just now Truth has a gi ] gantic smudge on her nose and tn infant support of motherhood suffer
 from a pronounced black eye. The rumour that Edward Bern } stein may come to London as Am | bassador for Germany will reviv . memories of the Communist Gu that had it's quarters in a one-tinl
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THE LOST KEYS

there pulling the gear shift lever from first to second to third to reverse, like one entranced, till mother remind ed me to phone the dealer for the other key.
 Again I risl1ed my life on the slip pery steps and ,phoned. but the dealer had closed for the night. So mother and I snuggler close in the back seat and wondered what to do.
 'We watched frostings from on shop windows, street lamps glimmer through fresh frozen crusts. people bent to the cold wind hurry across the avenue, comfortable folks dash by in warm limousines. Finally, to loosen my
 numb muscles, I paced that block be- side the parked cars, hoping for help.
 1.-Two nice looking men stopped re- viving a dead engine to offer advice. You don't need q key they declared; i; 1 we'll start your car for you But 1 they couldn't, poor things, though they monkeyed with the timing system and i cut wires and used the hand crank and everything.
 1 "A new policeman came to ask why l our lights were out and stayed to sym
 pathize. He halted every car of our i make that passed to try their keys, but none WoET fit. About 9:30 when we t~ ! service truck to tow us home. and then 1 told us as gently as possible that the i towing would cost anywhere from SIC 1 to S15.
 l 'We weren't allowed to tow along the 1 boulevards, you know" continued the ] girl in nutria, ''so we bumped and skid 1 ded over the toughest streets while 1 steered whichever way the truck pulled
 and iammed into the rear of it only 1 three times.
 1 ''The keys to our garage had been i lost with the others, so I instructed the 1 driver to pull us into a public garage
 "Once I lost the keys to my car, i commented her friend. Maybe I car i find your if you'll take me to this gar i age"
 /; What do you mean?" asked the be- i Wildered one in nutria.
 But she knew what was meant wher 1 they arrived at this garage and the gir in squirrel lifted the cushion of the i front seat to find in the left hand cor
 ner, underneath it. the missing keqs i huddled in a quiet little heap, exactly where they had slipped from the .hant of the girl in nutria as she had jumped out of her car the afternoon before.- .' Chicago News.
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REGARDING EluME.

Contrary to reports which have reached this country from the other Side Of the Atlantic an agreement has not been reached between Italy and tho allies relative to the disposition of Plume. As the situation now stands it is even insisted that while the all lies were prepared to ask the Italian delegates 10 return to Paris such was rot done and Orlando and his fellow delegates returned of their own ac- cord. apparently realizing the serious position in which they would be placed by not being in attendance at the signing Of the treaty
 There arc plenty of rumors as to what may or may not he done. It is claimed that the allies are holding to their position and report has it that Italy is both firm and wavering, but there appears 10 be an agreement re- earding the statement to the effect that the plan O: giving Plume to Italy after a period of four years and con structing a new port for the Jugoslavs Is not so.
 It IS to be realized that the situa- ton in that part of Europe is such that whatever is done the action should be such that it will be perma- nent by creating conditions which will make it apparent as time goes on that the one sound and sensible course has been pursued. It is interesting to note one report in this connection which is to the effect that though it has been claimed that Plume as 2 city desires through the expression of a majority of it's people to be annexed 10 Italy such would not be the result if the question should be submitted tc a honest plebiscite. Plume as an in- terna ational port would overcome the ill feeling which would be likely to be created in case it was given outright either to Italy or the Jugoslays.
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During my sejurn in this vale of tears I've wished for nearly every thing" admitted the girl in the nutria coat, but not till yesterday did I wish for an automobile thief
 "A thief? Want your car stolen?" demanded the one in the squirrel coatee.
 T wished some nice clever lock pick CT would come along and lend me his jimmy or whatever he uses to unlock motor cars. I had lost the keys to my machine"
 Where did you lose them?"
 ''In front of the Art institute" ex- plained the one in nutria. T remember locking both the transmission and igni- tien just before mother and I got out and went in to lecture, but cant re- member what did with the keys. They weren't in my purse or pocket when we came out and started to unlock the car
 ''We searched up and down the pave ment thoroughly. With stick I poked into the mud along the curbing. Mother squatted down. and got her skirts mud dy looking underneath the car. It had begun to rain. It was getting dark too, but our lights were locked off"
 Whatever did you do?" Flushed frantically between swift cars to the traffic policeman in the center of Michigan avenue and tolG him. He said to find the number be- side the key hole and phone our auto- mobile dealer to send down duplicate key.
 ''Then this kind policeman left his post to escort me back and light 2 match at the keyhole.
 Then mother sat in the car shiver. ing-it was turning frightfully cold while I went into the institute ant phoned. The dealer had ignition key number T. but none to the transmission and said there was no use sending jus the one. T didn't know the rain hat turned to sleet till I slid half wa! down those stone steps on my way back to mother. She said I must phont the family of our delay, so straight III those icy steps I crawled. While I hat the receiver to my ear and sister oi the wire, mother appeared suddenl. outside the telephone booth waving key, and 1 hung up.
 Tt was a stray orphan key from tn bottom of her bag, but with that and | hairpin We managed to unlock tn | transmission. In sheer rapture, be cause it would work once more, I Sd
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TWO MORE CAMPAIGNS.

Campaigns are getting to be part of the every day life. There was a time when they were rarity but the situation has been reversed and it seems as if something was lacking when one or more of them. in behalf of funds or memberships, is not un- derway. And the fact that the war is over as far as the lighting is con- cerned makes no difference.
 The ending of the Liberty loan cam paign shows two others looming up in the near future. and as might be eX- pected they are matters in which there is widespread interest. The first to come will be that of the Salvation Army seeking from the country fund of s1S,000.000 which is to be used to meet the expenses of carrying on the work of the organization for the en- suing year. The Salvation Army has done magnificent work throughout the war. Its services are not to be ended with the coming of peace. It was a force for good in the pre-war days and it will continue to be in the days to come, the idea of raising this fund at this time being to overcome the method of seeking aid that has been resortcd to in the past and there is no doubt but what it will succeed. Following that there will come the appeal of the Boy Scouts, not for fi- nancial assistance but for members and the plan for Boy Scout week has
 been given the hearty approval ot
 President Wilson. There are mem- bers now running over a third of a million and it will be the object of this drive to send them up to the million mark, which considering the number of boys in the country who should not only be interested but actively asso- ciated herewith ought not to be 2 difficult job Both deserve an6
 doubtless will get the support they l gnpl
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BETTER ROADS.

In spite of the other calls that are being made for money it cannot he said that the importance of construct
 ing good roads is being overlooked. Down in Texas where there has just been big gathering of delegates to a joint convention of two highway as sociations, the announcement is made that from one end of that state to the other there is nothing to be heard but talk of better roads and the informa- ton is given that the state is to vote shortly on q bond issue that will pro vide s75.000,00 for good roads as a result of which s20,0O0.000 additional will be claimed from the government for road building purposes to accom- pany state construction.
 This is certainly an ambitious pro gramme and when completed the Lone Star state will be much prouder of it's highways than it is today, but it is only what is receiving favorable attention throughout the country in the small states as well as the big ones. Con- necticut has at the recent session of | the general assembly made provision | for maintaining the good work that has been carried on for many years l in road building and the state of Pennsylvania has recently voted s30, 100000 for such work during a period Of two years by means of a bond is sue.
 There are but few states that are not alive to the importance of better I ing their roads. Their value has beer too clearly demonstrated to be other wise for state is judged by it's roads the same as a city is by it's streets The good road movement is not new by any means but it is nevertheless gaining strength each year, with con-
 stant betterments being made and z general tendency to the permanen
 highways.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-14

submitted to all manner fo inconven- ience., and the United States treasury
 provided unlimited capital, Yet with all these advantages the director gen.
 eral has nothing but losses to show.
 Government operation has had it's
 chance and is a demonstrated failure.
 Yet after all America is in luck Had
 the experiment been tried in time of
 peace. we might have felt that our e6-
 perience, valuable as it was, had cost
 us dear. As matters actually stand, the unification of she many railroad companies under one control was an essential factor to the winning of the war, the cost is lost sight of amid wars other extraordinary expenses and as a valuable by-product we have the knowledge from actual experience that the country wants nothing more of government operat ton.
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me feel like new woman. I can work from morning until night and it does not bother me, and I wish all girls who suffer as l did would try Lydia E, Pinkham's Vegetable Compound - Mrs. H. DooLET, 1l35 25th Street, Milwaukee, Wis.
 Working girls everywhere should profit bytNrs. Dooieys experience, and instead of dragging along from day to day with life burden, give this famous foot and herb remedy, Lydia |. Pink hams Vegetable Compound a trial. It has overcome just such conditions for thousands of others, and why not for you? For special advice, write Lydia B. Pinkham Medicine Co.,, Lynn, Mass. The result of their 40 years experience { t q VOLT seryica.
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chapel in Grafton street, Totten- ham court road.
 Bernstein was an exile in London, and an active participator in it's management, particularly in the op erations of the political Refugee Fund, which provided for people es caping from tyranny and militarism in Germany and Russia. The end of the club came with the raiding of anarchist headquarters at the Club Antonomie by Scotland Yard men under the late Inspector Melville The ev;cted anarchists overf1owed into the Communist institution, and soon brought dissolution.-London Chronicle,
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UlS OTueT , " Ouiu profit by my advice and take Lydia E. Pi k h a ms Vege- table Compound.
 Before 1 was mar. ried, when 1 came home from work at night, I would be just worn out with pains which dragged me down. l took Lydia E. Pinkham's V e g e t able Com- r,o71,15 an1 if p,oda
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The report that an army is to be sent against Petrograd by the allies is contradictory to all that has been claimed in the past.
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It was thought that the allies were being extra good to the Danes by giv- ing them more than they sought, but now it appears Denmark Is provoked for fear that it will get more of the Gcrpans than it wants.
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That uuartette of anarchists just re- leased from prison who are involved in stirring up trouble on the Fourth of July should be speedily sent to the country whence they came.
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Maximilian Harden declares thai the peace terms are not a bit harder than he expected. He hasn't beer afraid to tell Germany from the start that it was at fault
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If the United States had been seek ing anything at the peace congress for itself, it might not have played such Q leading part therein.
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With demands being made for in creasing the price of hair cuts in New London to 50 cents, it's no wonder the people of that city feel they are being trimmed
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Even if the United States doesn't expect to get anything out of the peace treaty. it is already being hand ed a lot of knocks.
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Boston has invited General Foch to make it a visit but there is nc likelihood of his coming until the peace treaty has been signed and put into operation.
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Try as they will at the crossings no automobile has succeeded thus far this season in pushing locomotive off the tracks.
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No Tims for Display.

By arresting woman for beating her husband in public Kansas has established the rule that husbands should be beaten in the privacy of the home.-Toledo Blade.
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Those who will make up the 66th congress are fully conscious of the business before them and that the hot season is about to break forth.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

The man on tho corner says: Intui- tion is great thing when it turns out all right.
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May is certainly doing everything, even to tho unreasonable as some think, in trying to keep the country wet
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The seasons Dutch bulb crop is re- ported to be g per cent. below 1913 and 50 per cent. below 1914. The quality, however, is considered bet ter than in 1918.
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DANCING
 TONIGHT
 T. A. B. HALL ROWLAND'S JAZZ BAND
A Leng Time.

Japan, it is understood. is to have Shantung for the present, and In due time will return it to China. Of course. But nobobdy expects tc live long enough to see that due time ex- pire-Kansas City Times.
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MRS, D00LEy'S ADVICE: TO
 WORKING GIRLS

Milwaukee, WiS.-"I wish all girls who work and suffer from functional