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Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-20
THE PRESIDENTS TOUR.

President Wilson is expected to reach this country early in July. There will unquestionably be plenty of work ahead of him at Washington, but it is announced that he is to set out soon on d speaking tour of the country. He is deeply concerned with the peace treaty and the league of nations and 1t is in behalf of the lat ter that he intends to make a further appeal to the country, with the proba
 bility that he will precede it by mak- ing a statement to congress.
 While on his return to this country when he. brought the copy of the league as drafted in Paris he failed to take the matter up with congress but circledy the country for the purpose of getting an expression from the people as to the sentiment that prevailed re- garding it. In view of the statement that he made on the eve of his depaf- ture for Europe. the second time, to the effect that an overwhelming ma jority of the American people was in favor of the league, he has apparently received such information, since then as to convince him that such is not the case. Either he feels that senti- ment has changed or else he was in correct in interpreting it as he did following his previous tour. At any rate he considers it necessary at this time to devote additional time to this matter and 1t is possible that he will enter into a more thorough explana- ton of it's application and go into de- tails more minutely than he did be- fore. But while this effort is to be made, and the people will no doubt be glad to hear him wherever he speaks, 1t is to be hoped that the many prob lems which this country faces right here at home will not suffer from lack of attention. U.
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DETECTING THE VIoLAToRs.

-sj That laws demanding pure food and drugs do not accomplish all that is desired or expected, any more than other legislative measures command the respect and attention that are in- tended. has frequently been demon- strated. That they improve the situa- ton from what it might otherwise be cannot be questioned but it is evident according to the latest report of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station that there is still room for improvement This is made plain when Ii is shown that during the past year there were 3,l26 samples of foods and drugs examined at the station at New Haven and out of the number sir or considerable more than third were found to be adulterated, below vtandard or otherwise illegal.
 Of the number examined there were s0s0 samples of foods and AS of drugs and the greatest number of violations
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Should Await the Report

MT. Editor: was surprised to learn that Joseph L. Schwartz had criticized you for publishing a letter on June 18th signed by Polish Falcons of Nor Wlch. As a reader of it, I think that The Bulletin is not published for a certain class of people but for all the people. Therefore. everyone. should have the privilege of expressing his views on the international questions.
 MT. Schwartz accuses the Polish Falcons of an anonymous attack. Why? If it is because the letter was signed by Polish Falcons. it is poor argument. If an organization is pub fishing an article it is not obliged to use individual names, the organization name is sufficient
 Furthermore, the history of the United States teaches us the assassin of President William MeKinlev was the son of an immigrant from central Europe (pase 391, by D. H. Montgom- ery). But this does not mean that he was Pole. He was a Slav. not Pole.
 Jews. not Poles. are trying to stir up race prejudice. They have raised rents to Polish tenants. and they are thrown out of their employment. If MT. Schwartz does not believe this, he can ask Mir Czajczenski, who can tell all about it.
 In the 18th century when all Euro pean countries were killing Jews and telling them to get out, Poland was the only country that accepted Jews with open arms and gave them shelter and bread. But now they are repaying Poland the debt for the bread they re- ceived by throwing stones a Poland
 They are trying to make the Ameri- cans believe that the Poles are a blood thirsty nation But with that kind of propaganda they will not get l far; the end will come sooner than i they are expecting
 1 I believe that the American people have read Polish history and know what Poles are. The thing that should 1 be asked from the Americans is tc swithhold their judgment about "po- ' groms' in Poland until the investigat- ing commission submits it's report tc the state department.
 1 I am positively sure that attack upor Poles by Jews will not succeed among intelligent Americans.
 JOSEPH ROMANOWSK1. - | Norwich, June 18th, 1919.
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honour simply of the feat if it is achieved satisfactorily.
 Another reason why the flight started yesterday is quoted by Reu- ter's correspondent, who cabled yes terday that Commander Towers an nounced that the NC1 and NC3 might make q start for the Azores before nightfall, adding that the transAtlan-
 tic voyage "could not be delayed
 much longer because, the American destroyer patrol was eXhausting it's fuel.''
 :, Between Newfoundland and the Azores 54 destroyers are on patrol. and if the Azores are safely reached British destroyers are to patrol the final stages from the Azores to Portugal, and thence to England M. Pichon, Minister Of Foreign Ar fairs, today made statement be- fore the Budget Committee in which he set forth the political reasons which had influenced the government l in asking authority to make an ad- vance of 15,O00OoO dollars (G3,Ooo- i 000l to Austria to enable her to pro cure supplies.
 1 The main idea by which the Gov ernment had been guided he said,
 was to hold New Austria in such a | Way lIldl Sne WOulu nUl DS COHlp6lIeN l to bind herself to Germany. i M Pichons explanations, which were supplemented from the eeono- |, mic standpoint by NJ ClefnehteJ, Minister of Commerce, appeared to 1 impress the Committee which. with out coming to any decision recog- nized the advantage of the proposed
 operation.
 Canada has named one of her 1 mountains the Edith Caveu Noun
 tain in enduring remembrance of the l brave nurse.
 The mountain is a curious natu- 1 ral formation which looks at dis
 tance like the figure of a nurse
 holding a torch aloft, and is next tc one bearing the name, fitly enough ! of Mount Sorrow.
 l There are some interesting odd: iand ends in the report of the Com missioners of Customs and Excise
 for the year ending March 1918. The total amount of spirits re leased for home consumption wa:
 146S1 900 proof gallons.
 The amount of spirits used il
 manufacture mostly munitions, wa
 26,953,313 proof gallons. | Though the quantity of home mad
 spirits distilled during the year wa only 37 millions of proof gallon
 there remained in bond 121,147,54 I gallons
 . Illicit stills to the number of fl | were detected. Except two in Scot land, all were in Ireand. Out of 130, 90,O0G b. of tobacco en tered for home consumption 39.669, ,31
 Tbs. were delivered free of duty fo } shipment as stores for the navy o merchant vessels, and for export | 7, the forces.
 Scotland has apparently given II
 card playing. or perhaps uses onl old cards She paid 2 duty durin the year compared with e47,S65 } England.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-20
STORIES OF TIE. WAR
Travel Through Rumania.

Travel through Rumania is the su- prerne test of patience and endur- anee. From Belgrade. Serbia to Blu charest the favorite route is via steamboat on the Danube as far as Turnu Severin. Thence train leaves daily for Bucharest covering the 200 miles in about thirty hours.
 The train. coweatchef, car roofs, and running boards are packed with a solid mass Of humanity before the train starts out at Turhu Severin At every station along the route long stops are made while she crowds fight to get aboard the already overloaded train.
 At the junction points of Cracova, Piatra and Pitesci dense masses of humanity fill the railroad yards and sleep out in the open sometimes for days waiting for the train. When the Bucharest-bound train comes in to these stations the mobs rush it with wild howls and those aboard the cars, and escpeially those on the roofs, are compelled to fight for their places. The police and sol diers are frequently forced to make wholesale arrests and to charge the mobs.
 Germany has carried off all of Ru-
  the engines which remain burn a | low grade Ignite. In order to shield | themselves from the live sparks of 1 the locomotive the hundreds of refu- gees sleeping on top of the passeng CT and freight cars comprising the i Bucharest Express" cover them selves with their blankets which i they wet along the route. | Occasionally the train stops dur ing the night to pick up a passeng- I CT who has allen from the rooi
 during his sleep. Fatal acidents arc
 common with hundreds of refugees sleeping on the train roofs Inside
 the coaches the aisles are impass
 able.
 Along the railroad tracks are thu 1 burned skeletons of dozens of train to which the Germans set fire. Onl! | the wheels and steel trucks remain | In all parts of Rumania the bridge are destroyed. No matter where on travels in Rslmania, American Rec Cross fieldWorkers are encountered
 feeding the population.
 What do you mean by modesty anyway? Did you ever hear anybod, Eaccuse Eve of immedesty?
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assembly during it's session this year that the trolley companies be relieved of the cost of repairing and laying street ratements. Without caring te consider the justice of the proposal tie assembly kicked the DC titioner:3 out into the streets. Yet as a, matter Of fact there is no greater justice in compelling ths trolley companies to pay put money for the repair and paying Of street pavenehts than the strangers within the gates of the town. The tax was originally laid to make the horse railroad companies pay in Dart for
 damage they did to the street. The tax is an inheritance from different era controlled by different cohdi tions. It has been many years since the street tfaniways were hauled by horses and a corresponding mum
 ber of years since the trolley ceased to be a source of street decay as compared with other sources.-NeW Haven Journal-Ceurie
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 were found in milk where 692 of the 1479 samples were faulty There were also over a half of the fruit juices and carbonate beverages that were adulterated or illegal. more than a quarter of the olive oil samples tested were not up to requirements and nearly half of the tests oh vine gar showed it below standard. Nine of the 4e drug samples were in violation of the law.
 It is therefore plainly disclosed that the state experiment. station is en- gagged in work that is of the great est importance in securing respect for the pure food and dfng laws It is an institution for the reinforcement of the laws and an aid to the authorities whose value cannot be disregarded.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-20
THE PRACTICAL OCEAN FLYER,

Experience in connection with the flights over the Atlantic was expect ed to give much valuable data for the purpose of guiding any such activities in the future, and in that connection Alcock has to say regarding the type of a machine that should be used in making flights of that character.
 Realizing of course that he had made pronounced success of his non stop flight Captain Alcock neverthe- less saw the shortcomings in his type of machine Fortunately thus far there have been no lives lost but he, as well as others, is fully aware of the fact that had anything forced him to plunge into the ocean, especially while enveloped in fog. there would have been little chance of rescue. As a re- suit of his experience he has declared that while it has been shown that flights can be made in machines of the type he used he is free to say ocean flying should be done. not with airplane or seaplane but with fly ing boats.'
 This is in keeping with the demon stration of the American aviators and the statement of Commander Towers who guided one of the NC machines as far as the Azores. He insisted that while our naval authorities were headed in the right direction the machines should be larger and better able to take care of themselves in case Of being forced to alight Thus while it is not improbable that others will attempt to make the cross ing in airplanes, and will perhaps succeed, it seems likely that greater interest will be taken in developing a craft similar in character to that built for our navy and which made the first crossing.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-20
THE ART CRITIC

' I shall never dare look an oil paint ing in the face again" said the woman who had just come from downtown. "No power in heaven or earth could ever drag me into another art lnuse- urn.''
 And the speaker expressively jabbed a fiatpifl into d perfectly new spot on her lovely new spring hat.
 Why this sudden forsaking of the arts? ?' inquired the mere husbnad .
 -'.1 repeat it. reiterated his wife T was never so hurniiiatedt Anyhow, artists oughtn't to have their pictures hung till they're famous and dead.
 You see, thought I would take Cousin Sue through the art gallery; it's one of the things she should see. So we went today.
 .'1 half expected Cousin Sue to be somewhat bored at a whole afternoon of pictures, but I knew it would be good for her to learn something about art, for they never get any original exhibitions in her home town.
 Was she bored? No, sir! She quite electrified me by her acute interest in every detail of the pictures and the galleries themselves. She even want ed to ask guard how the huge build ing was heated and how did they man age to clean the stained glass skylight Bu I restrained these impulses. Then she began aking me the most unusual questions about the pictures said she wanted to learn about ar, while she had such an opportunity,
 NOW, as you know, I'm no art critic. But I know what I like. saw at once that, I should, have tt play up to- Cousin Sues expectations of me or be covered with disgrace. T cudgleded my brains for a thought; l tried rainly to recollect in: telligent expressions and art terms Then, like a flash of pure. Inspiration l I remembered a lecture on paintings 1 l had heard somewhere -dast year. T began bravely. I waxed bolder. became positively. eloquentt in tht praises and mazes of color values praised technique reeklessly and crit. l icized mercilessly details of cornpo: sitions and perspective. It was sound ing awfully we'll, even to Iny@own' ears
 and Cousin Sue. was visibly impressed
 We stood in front of a big pantins | on the east waiL
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-20

-" This I began authofitatvely, was one of the earlier efforts of--er. let me see the signature; oh yes. of FredeTirk Menot, an American artist Who has since studied in Paris and achieved real fame.
 < T further expatiatel myself on the merits of the picttlre itself. ana tnui7d myself praising it i'll glowing terms.
 The man in front of us I little man with Van Dyke beard and dark glass es, turned and stared.
 < The artist Of this picture I con- cluded with flourish, died on the fields of Flanders His naIne aoe; down among the hono-ed dad, but it will live forever iii his arg
 By this time l was peflestiy con- scienceless. l had got started and couldn't back down. I hal to keep go~ ing and was gaining rnoInentun as went -
 '"The little man with the Van l1ykeh beard had removed himself, and was standing q short distance away. He had removed his dark glasses and was frankly staring at me:
 "Consequ quencly, imagine my horror when as few ni;nuteS later. ] saw c visitor in tiie gallery point to tlie lit lle Hall III the BatIG:S pe4nL u seiit little man Of the dark glasses ant heard him say softly to his companion: That's the painter of the bis picture over wonder. a Chicago man. A Soot example of the artists America cal turn out without foreign study. Lived here all his life. Nice modest chap, too they say
 ] T could have sunk through the 1ool in my anguish. Never again do I ex pect to experience such an awful mo ment. My face was flaming, but had to maintain my poise, not only be ffore the eyes of Cousin Sue, but befort | the eyes of that awful little man, wht continued to look my way curiousl. About whom were those men talk ing" Cousin Sue asked me just as VI were about to effect an exit.
 Oh, they were speaking Of tha i tall man over in the corner, I believe
 replied feebly. hoping she had not con
 nected the whole ignominous story T only hope" sighed the imprompt'
 critic remorsefully that Cousin Su i never takes up the study of art scri ously, and especially the life, of tn l painted Menot!"-Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-20
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On the outer. edge of the crowd which awaited the coming of Edith Cavell at Victoria Station stood a tall, elderly lady in deep, T quiet black Aloft in her hand she raised bunch of tall white lilies, holding them as high as an officer salutes with his sword.
 Five, ten. fifteen minutes. through half an hour of waiting the lies were held unfalterirsr aioft in. eXpectan' homage. It was dry at the last me- ment as the cortege came into view that civilians barred their heads and throughout the long, slow Waiting the white lilies were upborne without rest or faltering by that fragile hand
 An interesting literary association has been broken by the death at Chel- tenham, this week. of Mrs. Edith Alice Maitland. As a child she was a great ('Lewis CarfolHD, and, according to herself, the original Alice" of his most famous book.
 The daughter of Canon Litton. of Gloucester she was herself the writer of many books. d capable woman journalist and artist. Her most in- terestihg volume was Chile isl Memor- ies of Lewis Carroll, which is now out of print. but the bulk of which it incorporated in MT. Collingwood's" Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll.
 The little dispute as to what consti- tutes good hymn tune has had al least one useful result. It has showr us how risky it. would be if we decide6 to eliminate from our hymn books al the bad" tunes. to- leave the weed l ing-out entirely. to trained experts whose ideas of a good tune appear tt differ fundamentally from those of thu average worshipper. ..- ..... If there are three hymn tunes tha have helped to draw sinners to re- pentance more than any other the! are Abide With Me. Lead. Kindl! l setting to Pleasant Are Thy Court ] among those specially singled out b, 1 some of our experts as being eithe "tawdry" or textremely poor"
 1 "EnsIand will probably be compelIe, to pay 100, 100000 for foreign gfuit vegetables. and eggs this year" sai,
 Dr. Frederick Keble, the food minis i try's expert, in the course of an in
 terview with a. Daily Chronicle repre- sentative yesterday. ~s ae -.t Tn 1913 we: spent nearly half tha
 sum for 1 1-2 million tons of food, an the same quantity now would cost a
 least double. -.. ] War necessities reduced our fruit growing areas. so that we shall prob ably need more from abroad. But tn
 European supply is uncertain Alst
 the habits of our people have changed increasing the. demand for vegetabl produce.
 "The remedies are: Intensive culti
 vation, reorganized transport, an
 standardiza tion of produce, If tn
 land is placed in expert hands, inten
 sive culture will solve the land prob
 lem.
 The attempt which the American
 are making must not be. confuse
 with that for which a prize of { 10.
 900 is offered. It is carried out .unde
 the instructions and supervision c
 the t. $. Naval authorities-for tn
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-20

The fact that there have been no races on the Thames in the past two years will cause no lack of interest in the contest today, the real enthusi- asm along the sidelines however will be measured by the closeness of the struggles.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-20

A New York landlord is charged by his tenant with raising the rent in or der to make a tour of the European battlefelds But the tenant should realize that he will need all the spare change he can get together.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-20
FRECKLES
Don't Hide Them With Veil, Remove Them With Othine Double
 Strenath

This preparation for the removal of freckles is usually so successful in removing freckles and giving clear beautiful complexion that it is sold under guarantee to refund the money if it fails.
 Don't hide your freckles under a veil; get an ounce of Othine and re- move them. Even the first few appu cations should show a wonderful i'm provement, some of the lighter freck les vanishing entirely
 l Be sure to ask the druggist for the double strength Othine; it is this tha is sold on the money back guarantee.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-20

The efforts that are being made to wipe out the mosquitoes and discour- age their breeding is to be commend . ed. Norwich was never very seriously bothered with the pest, but the fewer the better.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-20

After reading such headlines as Huns evenly spill over signing treaty. Probably won't sign,' More inclined to sign Germans won't sisn,' Allied armies given orders" it's a good deal like picking a winner in a horse race.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-20

None will object to the Mexicans federals and rebels, take hint from the action of Uncle Sam and proceed to adjust their difficulties in an amicable manner, but no one expects it.
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No one is paying very much atten- ton to what the former crown prince or his father are saying these days but the former doesn't give the league of nations much credit when he pre- diets another big war in ten years
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-20

It doesn't make any difference how many of the accidents and deaths re- suit from canoeing today, there are always just as many anxious to take the chance in such cockleshells to- morrow.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-20

Unless they hurry up decision one way or the other the first anniversary of armistice day will roll around be- fore peace is declared
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-20

Inasmuch as the American forces have turned back there is no reason to believe that Villa is making non. stop flight.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

From reports and appearances the cherry crop this year isn't going to be large enough for the birds.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-20

The man on the corner says: It is about time for appeals to be made for the good old days of the war
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Proof of It's Worth.

The way Count Rantzau describes that treaty. it seems to be pretty nearly what most of us wanted-In- dianapolis Star.
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All men are suckers but they won all bite at the same kind of bait