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Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-31
CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING DEC. 27th, 1919
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THE CONFERENCE REPORT.

From the fact that it has already made a preliminary report, though it has not completed it's work. it is evil dent that the second industrial con- ference has avoided some of the ob- sLacles encountered by the first, the method of selecting it and the manner .u which it has taken up the questions before it having been the outgrowth o- the other.
 Though carried on without the pub iciiv attending the first it is appar- ent'v proceeding according to pro- gramme and has reached the stage where it is anxious to know what the continent is regarding it's work as far as it has gone. According to the statement which has been made and The tentative plan put forth it is the .dea that there should be an industrial tribunal with districts partitioned ac- Cording to the federal reserve banking system. In each district there would he a board of inquiry and adjustment selected from lists much, the same as jury is chosen, the chairman of the regional boards being named by the president 10 represent the public while from the other iists named by tue rcC~etary of commerce and score 'arv of labor, each party to the dis prfe would select representa- tive md decisions would have to be unani- nous. Where one party refused to namo a representative it would be the duty Of the president of the board tc organize @ board 10 investigate the facts in the case. The national tribu- nal made up of nine members, the public. labor and capital being equally represented would be in the nature 0. board of appeal
 Tho plan tentatively decided upor Is for dealing with the general indust- rial problam throughout the country without regard to the bigger matters involving public utility. The idea i! much the same as that of industria courts for dealing with labor trouble; and intended to avoid industrial trou nies by dealing with them according To the facts.
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MAKING IT CLEAR

"One of the incest things about us, the pretty young married woman be- gan as she served the dessert, Ifs that we always agree about things
 'Huh?" stuttered her husband, blinking.
 "Why, we have the same tastes about every rything," she explained. Tt would be perfectly awful if it weren't that way. l thought about it all the way home after seeing Vera Armstiff today. She was nearly distracted be- cause she has made up her m1nd to @, Chinese blue rug in the dining room and Arthur has set his foot down for a bright red domestic weave. And he won't get season seats for the opera, as Vera wants. and says he'd rather go once a week to vaudeville Wouldn't it be dreadful if we were al cross purposes like that?"
 T know better" said her husband You've got me cowed. I know my role and bark at the proper moment T
 ''Why, you are just trying to tor ment me" cried his pretty wife. 'Tt isn't that way at all. Whenever I want a certain thing you always want it too. And when &ou set your heart on anything, why. I always agree. Her ert: you know iti"
 
 istry that has been uttered since since the days of Soph or whoever in- vented it." said her husband firmly How do you get that way, angel?" Have a good time" said his wife T was just thinking how horrible ii would have been if We hadn't agreed about the living room windows Wha- | if you had insisted on long white lace , curtains such as have been used 1oi the last thousand years and are now l dead and gone. Why. most men arr absolutely welded to lace curtains Al 1 their lives they have been accustomed to hearing women Groan over putting up the things and taking them dowf and starching them end stretchin. 1 them and the world would not be tho same in their eyes with that horro1 omitted"
 T always thought lace curtains wer, pretty" said her husband innocentlv i Mother used to say we had forty. | eight windows in our house and sht l had lace curtains ali over. Somehov ! they look So sort of fresh" l Herbert" cried his amazed wife ] ''Why, when I said I wanted to put UT l lace roller shades and have silk owe i hangir" curtains at the side you sal, ] it would he perfectl" beautiful. An,
 when I said I liked the brown stripe, 1 silk better than the green you said vol
 did, too. And what did you mean i
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-31
STORIES OF THE WAR
Few Bodies Will Lie Unidentified.

American army officers believe very few unidentified bodies will lie among Americas soldier dead in France when the army graves registration service completes a thorough rechecking of records now in progress. Every grave record is being checked against the army's casualty list. Each little white eross-or six pointed star over the Jews-is having an embossed alum mum strip placed on the back, dupli- eating the name, rank and organiZa- tion already painted on the marker, This is being done as a preeaution against the possibility of winter weather wearing away the stencilled information.
 Nearly 10000 American boys are buried in. the eleven districts of France, the Belgian battlefields and the Duchy of Luxemburg. There are 3S cemeteries of 900 or more graves cared for by discharged soldiers. The largest of these is Romagne, north of Verdun where lie 23,000 of our men The next in size is that at Thiau- court with 4,500 graves. Many of
 those who fell in battle are sleep ing in British and French military ol the French communal cemeteries. A
 few were left where they were first put in the ground, as in the vosges mountains.
 All graves are under the care o1 the commanding graves officer in the eleven districts and a caretaker watch
 es over them. Officers make periodi- cal inspection. Where practical, gras. l has been sown on the battle buryine grounds and in the spring this work
 previously hampered by the task O grouping the bodies. will be carried on When the graves service admins
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LOWERING LIVING COSTS.

Efforts to lower the cost of living are still being made and there appear to be instances where the work of certain ones is far more effective than government influence and productive of greater results than the individual consumer is willing to accomplish for himself. How long 1t will last re- mains to be seen but to a certain de- gree there is reason why it should be continued indefinitely if the help that is now being or will be given to the consumer is to be maintained.
 At Homestead, Pa., the Carnegie Steel company feeling that the people were being overcharged by the re- tailers has gone into the business of supplying them with foodstuffs and other things at cost. This throws the retailer, whether he was profiteering or not flat on his back. He cannot afford to sell goods at cost and has never been expected to and if the company continues to do business that way it is going to be a fine thing for the consumer but it means that the retailer must go out of busi- ness.
 At Lawrence, Mas, in spite of the investigation by the business men which showed that the dealers weN not proffteering the head of the Amer.
 lean Woolen company is going ahead with his proposition to provide his | employees with goods at cost. This
 means the same situation as at Homestead and in each instance the move is made after warning has been given 10 the dealers to be reasonable. Apparently these industrial heads
 who are taking the bull by the horns are attributing the unjust prices to | the retailer, even without considering the fact that the consumers in a great many cases are insisting upon | iuxuries and the highest priced goods | when they cannot afford them. The industries are not selling at fair | prices because they are not anxious tC enter that business but when they sci
 at cost it is useless to expect that
 there can be any competition for very hong and it is not so certain that the
 retailers are the prohteers. Mir. Wood has said that tho reason for high ] priced clothes is that men demand the best when other durable clothes
 can be had. That is unquestionabI5 the experience of every retail dealer.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-31

morning callers on John Quincy Adams had to cool their heels until that president finished three chapters in the Bible and walked down back of the White House for a swim in the Potomac To drop in at the White House evenings, quite the sociable thing to do. during Jackson's terms, meant finding the chief executive be- fore an open fire in an old loose coat doing duty as a smoking jacket. puff fins at a long pipe with a bowl of red clay.
 livery room of the White House abounds in history. The oak -pane1ed state dining room knows dinners of the homely sort that Jefferson gave when the Washington village butcher brought along his son because he heard there was to be an extra place at the table; of the picturesque kind like one given more than a century ago to the Tunisian ambassador who was aggrieved because everyone would rfot withdraw while he. smoked his pipe, though his secretary showed his good will by tremendously kiss ing the ladies present. of the bizarre kind given by Theodore Roosevelt to COW puncherS, ex-priZe fighters and distinguished men of letters, not to mention the famous one with Booker T. Washington as q guest, and many memorable banquets like those to Marshall Joffre and Sir Arthur James pieces, and the famous cut glass, ev- cry piece of which is engraved with 1 the arms of the United States, were used.
 NO room is better known to the ! nnbIic than the East room, of late ] years scene of brilliant receptions and 1 White House weddings. It, too, has i memories of a cruder democracy | when all Washington fiocked there to 1 follow about the servants who car ! ried refreshments. seizing upon what ! ever they could get and upon one oc- | rasion two ladies perched upon the | chimney piece to get 8 better view of 1 the celorful scene.
 Recent discussion of gifts received | by the president and Mrs. Wilson
 while abroad, lends interest to speci- mems of those, made to other presi-
 dents and first ladies' which re1nair lin the White House. The Blue Room i contains the most famous of these the gold mantle clock presented tt Washington by Lafayette, who re ceived it from Napoleon. In tht l J
 made by a process which now is {
 lost art. and framed in gold, whicl
 the emperor of Austria gave Mrs
 Grant Nearby is a lacquer cabinet
 gift of Japan upon the occasion of tn
 first visit to it's ports by American ships. And there are many more.
 Strange were the gifts of earlie
 years. Strangest of all, perhaps, wa the cheese sent to Thomas Jefferson with the admiring inscription 'th
 greatest cheese in America for tn
 greatest man in America It was con
 veyed to Jefferson by a six-hors B team He insisted upon paying for i and it lasted for more than a year
 being the piece de1resistance of man , a state dinner in the meantime. l 'every quaint all this seems nov / but cheeses seem to have been a ia
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-31
IN THE DAYS NEWS

Making History at the White House.
 When President Wilson, because of his illness, received the king of the Belgians while propped up in bed, with a torn sweater about his shouI- ders, and told the Prince of Wales that the bed in which he lay had been occupied by Baron Renfrew, later King Edward VII, and Abraham Lin coin, he added traditions to the host that already cling about the White House.
 With this introduction the National Geographic Society has issued q bull letin on the home of the presidents which, it says, 'has more tender hu- man memories than any other public building in America"
 From cellar, where colored nam mics have cooked for presidents, pies like mother used to make, to attic, where the Roosevelt children played and romped, there are associations which range from the quaint to the sublime.
 President Wilson's enforced dis habile recalls the premeditated neg i Hge-worn slippers. yarn stockings l and old suit-by which Jefferson sought to impress the British ambas- sador with American democracy wher l that official arrived in full officia
 dress to preent his credentials. Early
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-31
RAILROAD RATES.

Reports to tho effect that increase iu railroad rates can be expected causes no surprise but it is safe to say that such will not take place un- Nl the roads are turned back to the owners so that the responsibility for it can be placed upon the railroads rather than upon the government where it belongs
 The roads have failed to produce enough under the increased rates lev led by the railroad administration to make ends meet. The government will not be able to keep it's obligations 70 the roads within a half billion dol lars without dipping into other funds This means of course that while the patrons of the railroads have been paying increased rates for passenger service and travel they will also have 10 stand for the making up of the de- ficit so that the cost of running the roads will come out of them indirect ly if not directly.
 The fact that the government has just as good reason for increasing the rates. and has had for many months as the roads will have if or when they ask for increases. They will simply he seeking to not only prevent the deficit by rates that are necessary tC accomplish 1t but by the more eff cient operation of the lines under pri- Nate control.
 The unfortunate part of such de- hands for higher rates by the rail
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-31
OTHER VIEW POINTS

The only way to safeguard the pub lie is to pass law making the manu- lecturers of wood alcohol put some thing in the liquid. like tartar emetic, that will create nausea whenever any one drinks the. stuff. This must be done. for as long as there are Ignorant and thirsty persons to purchase there will always be evil persons who will sell When ethyl alcohol becomes scarcer there is going 10 be wider use of the other spirit and~the foolish folks of the world must be protected Meriden Journal.
 The sport writers sure got Ya1e's goat this year over football. When before has a displaced player GLa Roche) written letter of justification of himself to a New York paper or the captain, head coach and quarter back %iven interviews and the full- back threatened to give inside facts? Or when have the Yale papers unbur- dened their feelings so? Well. pub licity is good for the soul. The old days when nobody said word. what ever happened, but concentrated on next years revenge" are gone and life is much more interesting, even though victory is rarer.-Waterbury American.
 Yale educational authorities could be of very great value to the school authorities by aiding them in an at- tempt, which should be made, to inn prove the public schools and make them more successfully concentrate upon the mission which brings them into existence. Circumstances of one kind and another have acted to ob- 1 scure this mission of the public school l and is not doing what il should do in 1 c consequence. to fit it's pupils efficient 1 ly in the ways more needed now thar ever. Great advantages will follow ii | the public school is made to do what | is rightly expected of it. which today 1 is not the case.-NeW Haven Journal 1 Courier.
 The meat industry is vital to the 1 country. If a great trust has beer
 organized th2t controls this industry 1 it is pzababiy an indication of the
 natural order of things. The packing industry is one which should be con trolled, to assure the maximum ef- ficiency and the minimum waste. Tt break it up i5 a crime against th' people.
 Control it, by all means. If tndivid ual packers have been profiteers, sent the into jail. Regulate businss-owl IL, Il IltCCSoelLSs
 Our attorney general has statred ou on a career of making little ones ou
 of big ones," good policy for tn
 rock pile, but an unsound policy fo
 the economic world. When shall W finish with this senseless rage agains
 efficient systems, because such system have been allowed to run wild, an
 have been subject to abuse2 Tn very word trust" makes us bristle
 Yet a trust is an efficient organiza ton; it should be taken over, an turned to the use of the people, c
 put under proper regulation. And ou
 experience since the breaking up o l the Standard Oil company, shows tha t we fared better under that great ere
 aation than we have fared since unde
 the little organizations into which tr . big one was broken by order of II f government So it will probably prov
 with the packing houses.-Bridgepo
 Telegram.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-31
1 you didn't like curtains like that?' l ..I--n heoan he1. hrsha nd

you didn't like curtains like that?"
 T." began her husband
 T simply cannot understand" pro- ceeded his wife, how anyone with the slightest artistic taste can be other wise than just crazy over the lace roller shades and overcurtains. Why. lace curtains are as ugly in a room as a. derby hat is on man. Just ruinous! I should not have been any more surprised if you had said you preferred red checked tablecloths."
 Not red" murmured Herbert reni- niscently. "Blue. I never ate such trout in my life as they used to serve on that blue checked tablecloth up at Harvey's camp
 That's right" said the pretty young married woman indignantly, sitting
 back in her chair. Feed a man and he doesn't care if he eats off stone-
 ware cracked and clipped at that. I thought you were different, but I'm
 finding out. Why did you always say
 you liked what l liked when you didn't?'
 f'Wen,e the young married man made haste to reply, T expect because l was selfish. You see, if two people with opposite opinions both decide to give in at the same moment they gre
 no better off than when theJ 5tarted and they are apt to get into an awful quarrel trying to settle which one is to get the chance to give in. So, tc avoid anything like that, 1 so4 cf hustled to get ahead of you-r1ot thaj 1 it mattered a whoop whether the cur tains were pink pollta-dotted or ot l cheesecloth. Anything that suits you I suits me, Doris"
 T shall never be h-h-happy again sniffed his wife disconsolateiy. "IT i never be sure whether you really ] agree with me or want to get rid o1 1 the subject. I don't think it is any I way to act at all, Herbert and you ought to realize I'd far rather you'6 1 be honest and have your own opinions l and stick up for them" l Great hornspoonsl" shouted hel 1 husband. Isn't that just what VOL were hopping on Arthur Armstiff for 1 for not agreeing with everything Vers | said and wanted? The way q woman | can set out from certain point, make
 complete circle and come right hacl where she started gets me. You don mean to say you want me always t( 1 disagree with you?''
 Well" said the pretty young mar 1 ried woman finally. Tt would seen
 more sort of natural. Only I'd like tt ] he agreed with at the end. You sim | ply don't understand at au."-Chicag 2, News.
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roads is that they will be blamed for imposing them. The false impression will exist that if the government can operate the roads under existing rates the railroads can or should be made to. That would be well enough if the government was making ends meet under it's administration. The rail- roads will not have the United States treasury to dip into for any deficit caused by operating under existing rates and had the administration put the rates where they should be to square accounts there would not be the occasion for the talk about the probability for higher rates.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-31

vorite personal gift in those days. as
 Thanksgiving turkeys have been in
 more recent years. Andrew Jackson
 was the recipient of such gifts as a
 whole hog from Kentucky, whiskey
 from Pennsylvania, beef from New
 York and, from New England, a cheese which weighed half a ton or
 more. Jackson had no cOmpunctions
 about receiving the present, but ap-
 parently he opposed boarding of food. Either that or. since his second term
 was nearing its close, he feared a
 mammoth cheese might be a white el- ephant. Anyway he served it at his last public reception. A nose wit ness relates, the whole atmosphere of every room, and throughout the city was filled with the odor We have met it at every turn-the halls of the capitol have been perfumed with it from the members who partook of ii having carried away great masses in their coat pockets"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-31

South Manchester-The marriage of Miss Elsie Cheney and Lieut. H. P. Bisher took place Monday afternoon. After the ceremony they started for the Philippines, where the bridegroom is stationed.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-31

With many democratic senators de- termine1 to ratify the treaty on the best terms cntainable it ought not to be long before the president has 8 chance to pceFet the doe"meut if he is still SD inclined.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-31

Whether it is in getting control, making money or making gifts John D. Rockefeller has made it clear that he does things on a large scale.
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It may be as New Jersey supreme court judge says that pedestrians have rights on the highway which motorists are bound to respect but ex- perience shows that many of them are determined not to.
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Tho man or the eorner says: Prob ably you ,laVe noticed that the girls don't have to worry any more about keeping their ears warm.
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The surrender Of the former kaiser Is to he sought as soon as the peace treaty becomes effective. How he will hate to leave the woodpile!
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That old fashioned fellow who used 10 get out his sleigh at the first snow fall now sits at the window and watches the buzz wagons fit past.
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The wonder is that Carranza hasn't before this charged Consular Agent Jenkins with trying to become presi dent of Mexico.
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EDITORIAL NOTES

Ciemenceau seems likely to be the next president of France. It is an honor which he certainly deserves.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-31

No enc is anxious these days to be- come Q sampler of the drinks about which there is the least bit suspic- ion.
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Think of coal miners in Indiana re- fusing to go to work because the trair that was to take them was ten min utes late!
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May the new year be as free from the many disturbing conditions that have characteriz the closing one.
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Speech of Freedom.

It seems that many fail to realize that freedom of speech is for those who know the speech of freedom Norfolk Virginian Pilot.
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Trouble never tries to dodge peo- pie who are looking for it.
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The Thames National Bank

Norwich. Conn.,, Dec. 20, 191a.
 The annual meeting of the stock holders of this Bank. fer the election of Directors and the transaction of such other business as may legally come before them. is hereby called to be held at their Banking House on Tuesday. Jan. t3. 1920. at II o'clock a. m
 NATHAN 4. GIBBS. Cashier. {
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Norwich, Wednesday, Dec. s1. 1919
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-08-28

ments in society to realization of
their mutual dependence on the
Lord, and for deeping of the spirit
ual life of the church. The Methodist
were successful in their efforts to
raise funds for the advancement of
the Kingdom
They raised funds fer the million
dollars, but they realise that money
without spiritual power will not save
men, and they have called the church
to fast and pray for a special mani
festation of God in His saving power
A special prayer service is to be
held at $50 Friday evening. All the
members and friends OF the church
are urged to attend the service, and
observe the day as day Of self
denial and prayer.