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Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-10
HEADED WRONG WAY.

Mexico is long on promises but short on accomplishments. Even though we have been told that the border situation was to be taken care of so that the rights of Americans would be adequately protected such has not been done. as the recent at tack on Juarez by Villa plainly show ed. And yet Aguilar, the representa- tive of Carranza. declares afresh that 'The Mexican government expects to handle the border ubles to the sat- isfaction of the American people," It would be better for Mexico. and more faith would be placed in such asser- tions, if it did more to show it's good intentions and did less talking. The country is getting to the point where it feels as if it was from Missouri re- garding Mexico.
 AguiRr seems to carry the impress sion that all the trouble is located along the border, but he must be fully aware that such is not the case. The dozen or more Americans who have been killed in Mexico recently have not lost their lives along the border, and the property acquired by Ameri- cans in a legal manner which Mexico is trying to take away from them is not border land.
 The best demonstration that Mexico can give of its desire and purpose to satisfy the American people will be to see that the lives and property of Americans are safeguarded. thar their rights are not ignored and that there is not disposition to make the re- lations of the country unfriendly rath- CT than friendly. Mexico has faced it's problem for long time. It doesn't appear to have made much headway and in fact doesn't seem to show a disposition to do anything but stub bornly stand in it's own light. Ger tainly it is moving in the wrong di- rection to cultivate American appro- val.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
A Need of the State Hospital.


 Mir. Editor: When I went to the Norwich state hospital one day lately to see a patient in whom I am inter- ested I asked to see the library of the institution, and was pleased to note it contained several hundred books, mainly fiction, by standard authors; but I likewise noticed that. many of the books were old and coming to pieces, and Dr. Wilcox remarked that his patients never have quite enough reading matter. books, magazines and papers, to entirely gratify their liking for that sort of thing: He also said to me, as Dr. Pollock said in ; 1912: Scores of them are interested in reading, and the institution is always glad to get. book and magazine do- nations from its. friends" ..--,>ss ,-,
 The people of this part of the. state can, I am persuaded, do much. for the unfortunate men and women there confined. Not all of them are crazy. Frankly, the average uninformed per son would be surprised could he know, as some of us do, the educational equipment and the studious inclina- tions of at least a. fair percentage. of these nervous and mental sufferers. Hundreds of them were readers and students back in the better days; they would read a great deal now. with profit to themselves. if they had more to read. The money drives for vari- ous comnendable objects are. about, county have done noble' in all of them. I want to. urge book and old drive for the state hospital. There should have been one, and more than one, a good while ago.
 DISCHARGED PATIENT
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SELLING SURPLUS SUPPLIES.

The disposition Of the material that was accumulated for war purposes and which remains unused in the hands of the government is by no means a small task It must be done for the best interests of the govern ment and with the idea of securing what it is worth today in the market in order that as large an offset to the war costs can be secured through this source as possible. It is realized of course that high prices were paid for these goods. The prices were ab- normal because they had to be had in a hurry and to get them speedily it was necessary to pay for it, so that it cannot be expected that the gov ernment will obtain the equivalent of what it spent for the same articles IL is fully recognized that it will have to take large losses but that doesn't mean that it should dispose of them ar unreasonable sacrifices or throw them away.
 Such is apparently the policy of the government agency in charge of this work of selling surplus war material if we are to judge by the refusal to sell to France goods valued at a bil- lion and a half for a fifth of that amount. Tools. motor vehicles and other equipment have been amassed in France can today make good use of them in reconstruction work In fact they are needed and if France doesn't care to pay a fair market price for them there are Belgium and other coun- tries that require them. We can make some allowance for not being obliged to bring them home but we could even afford to do that rather than to dis pose of them for little better than junk.
 And what is true of those particular goods will likewise be true of the surplus shipbuilding supplies that are to be sold Just because they are pos sessed in large quantities we are not obliged to dispose of them as if they possessed no value and had got to be worked over to be used.
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THE ADDRESS TO CONGRESS.

Much interest will be aroused today by the address of President Wilson to the joint session of both branches of congress whereby he will present the work of the peace conference in France and set forth the reasons why he believes that the document which he brings from Versailles should be ratified.
 Tn view of all that has been said and done, there are reasons to believe that his attitude is pretty thoroughly understood. That he will urge speedy action in order to make the document effective as soon as possible is likely. That he will seek to have the docu- ment approved as it stands without any reservations or changes is like wise probable. From all indications he considers that the treaty of peace with the league of nations is the best that could possibly be obtained under the circumstances, that it marks a de- cided progress in comparison with other documents of similar character and that the welfare of the world and the peace of the future is bound up therein. Whether he will have any thing to say to congress regarding the peace conference and its doings that is not already known remains to be seen T. has certainly been an unusual gath ering in many ways
 But regardless of the enthusiasm of the president for the ratifca ton of the treaty, there is he fully under stands no slight opposition to a num- Der of features of the league of na- tions. There is demand that Americanisn should come before in ternationaism and upon that particu- lar point the country will look with especial interest to see what President fn # ho alized that the people as well as the senators are deeply concerned over the provisions to which the country will be committed.
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wear the French light blue and the Polish Legion, also wearing light blue and with strange four-cornered peaked caps.
 Even the Cossack troops have had to give up their gaudy colors and flaming striped trousers for the khaki. The Sfavo -Brittanic legion officers wear tl7e British uniforms, ''pips" and all, as grade markings, but the other Russian officers wear the old Rus sian shoulder stripes on British cut coats with the Sam brown belt.
 A startling contrast to the well-un- iformed government troops are the Bolsh eviki prisoners who are brought in from time to time, to Archangel Most of them are without any uniform at all, wearing their peasant clothes, while some have queer mixtures of the dress of half the nations of the world.
 Many former BoIshevik prisoners have changed this garb, and also their politics, for the khaki, and now are fighting against the Bilshevil<i. One entire battalion of former Bol- shevik prisoners, ofiicered by an En- giish colonel. and known as "Dyer's Battalion, has done excellent work. , Hundreds of boys are in khaki in ArehanGel Recently Governor Gen era1 Miller announced that an 'sedu- cational battalion" of boys from the axes of 12 to 1S years, was to be formed to include boys guilty of ac- tions deserving imprisonment. ram blers and houseless boys, and boys whose parents would like to have them brought up in an atmosphere of military discipline.
 In honor of General Edmund Iron side, the British commander in- chief, this battalion will be known as Gen eraI Ironside'S Educationa Battalion for Children and will be dressed and fed at the expense of the British gov ernment
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tinople nor the magnificent noun tains that surround the capitals of Rio Janeiro or Santiago de Chile ,nor such a bay, Or, rather land locked gulf, as that of San Francisco, with it's Splen- did passage out to the ocean,; but those are very rare things, Of which
 there are few in the world. As ca D.
 itals go. few indeed, are so advan-
 ta geousfy situated in respect to nat. uraE charms as is Washington:
 Take Berlin It stands ins a sandy waste, perfectly flat, with here and there snaIApy- pond or lake, ana a sluggish stream meanders through it.. Parts of the environs have, however, been well planted with trees, and this redeerns the city to some extent. It has become, through the efforts of the government and it's own citizens, an imposing city; but the environs can never be beautiful, because Nature has been very ungracious.
 Take Petrograd. % Petrograd has a splendid water front facing it's grand river, the. Neva, with it's vast rush of cold green water, covered with ice in winter and chilling the air and seem
 ing to chill the landscape in summer. That, however, is the only beauty .Petrograd has. The country is flat and in. many places Water-logged, owing to numerous pools and swanps. It has no natural attraction either in its immediate or more distant envi- rons, except the stream of Neya.
 Paris, again has some agreeable landscape. within -i1s, reach, but noth
 ing at all striking, lnothipg nearly. so. fine in the lines of it's scenery as the hills that inclose the valley in which Washington lies, and no such charm of a still wild forest as Washington affords. The Seine, too, is a stream not to be compared to your Potomac.
 --''The same thing may be said of Madrid. It stands on a level and the mountains are too distant to come eff fectfvely into the landscape, and it's only water is a wretched little brook let called the Manzanares. They tell a story there about a remark attrib- uted to Alexandre Dumas when he visited Madrid. He was taken to the lofty bridge which spans the ravine flows. The day was hot and, being thirsty, he asked for glass of. water. They brought him the water, and he was about to drink, when looking down and catching sight of the streamiet he said. No take it away; give it to that poor river; it needs a drink more than I do.''
 Then there is our English London, which stands in a rather tame coun- try. It is true that there are some charming bits of quiet and pretty rural scenery in Surrey and Sussex within distance of from 20 to 30 wood covering the chalky hills of Bucks. Yet Nature has done nothing for London comparable to what she has done for Washington. The Thames, although it fills up pretty well at high tide. is nowise compar- able for volume or beauty of surround ings to your own Potomac
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due to starved nerves. Our bodies need more phosphate than is contained in modern foods. Physicians claim there is nothing that will supply this deficiency so well the organic phos- phate known among druggists as bitro- phosphate, which is inexpensive and is sold by Lee & fOsgood in Norwich and most all druggists under a guarantee of atisfaction or money back. By feeding the nerves directly and by sup plying the body cells with the neces- sary phosphoric food elements bttro- phosphate should produce welcome transforma ton in the appearance; the Increase ina weight frequently being astonishing.
 Increase in weight also carries with it a general improvement in the health. Nervousness, sleeplessness and lack of energy which nearly always accom- pany excessive thinness. should soon disappear, dull eyes ought to brighten, and pale cheeks glow with the bloom of perfect health. Miss Georgia Haail- ton. who was. once thin and fraii.. re- porting her. own experience, writes: ::
 tBitro-Phosphate has brought bout a ma gic transformation with me. I gain ed 15 pounds and never before felt so we'll
 CAUTION: - Although bitro- -phos- -phate is unsurpassed for relieving nervousness. sleepleSsness and general weakness, it should not. owing to it's tendency to increase weight, be used by anyone who does not desire to put on flesh
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DESCRIPTION

about those things. Robert says if Outsiders Knew how much is Shifted onto his shoulders in the bank and left to his judgment they'd be amaz- ed''
 s..What sort of a position in the bank does he"
 sRobert is so absolutely different in business hours and when he is. with me,-' said the pretty girl. You would mt know he was the same man. He looks so stern ana keen. in the bank and scares you to death and, Of course well, he is very different with me. I shouldn't think any one would dare to attempt anything. crooked with Ro- bert around Only the other day the president"
 .oh," said her anxious father Then he isn't the president. Just what"
 "1s his family nice. dear?" begged her anxious mother.
 Their daughter sighed.
 Roberts people are just wonder ent from almost any family I have ever known. You know, some people are that kind. l. wasn't engaged long enough to get very well acquainted-"
 "Is their house" A+ >e-
 3The. funiest thing.'. cried the .pret- ty girl rapturously. Before I knew I was going to be ngaged to Robert or where he lived I went by their house and I liked it right away. I suppose it was premonition or something. If you could see the way Robert has of looking"
 What color :" demanded her sister, "are his eyes?"
 That is what you first notice about him .said the brid-to- be. his eyes sort Of draw you in spite of yourself. It is their expression which is so re- markable-'
 Whats his income?' demanded her
 "Why father." reproached his daughter. Didn't I just tell you all about Roberts business2 When I was going away so soon you don't suppose we talked stupid things like money did you? I'm not worrying. about that. The idea. I should think after I have answered all your ques- tions and explained him so thorough iy you would be perfectly satisfied. I've told you every single thing about him .that anybody could possibly want to know!''-Chicago News.
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HE MEAT SITUATION.

There was a time not so long ago but what most people can remember, that the government urged everyone to engage in the unpopular and intri- cate task of saving. And among the things that they were urged to bring about a reduction of waste in was the use of meat. People were advised that they could get along with less, that they could make what they had go further and that it was necessary to conserve in order to permit the sup ply to take care of the unusual de- mands.
 They responded nobly and the re- suit is that many of them have learn ed a lesson They have found that they can continue saving along this very line for their own good and that they are doing so to a large extent is evidenced by the fact that the depart ment of agriculture is pointing out that the meat supply is very greatly increased but in view of the fact that consumption at home has fallen off, the needs of the army and navy have so greatly decreased and foreign de-
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BRING THE FACTS TO LIGHT.

Among the charges that are being brought and revela tions that are be- ing made in connection with the way the government expended money in connection with the war is the asser- ton that there has been a scandalous conduct of the war picture business that has been carried on for different purposes. The charges are made by a committee of the house which has been looking into these matters and is is held that employees of the gov ernment have profited out of the pie ture business carried on by the gov ernment to the extent of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
 It is very frequently the case where somebody else's money is involved, and this is particularly true in con- nection with municipal state and fed eral affairs, that there are those who are always looking for the chance to secure some personal benefit there from in addition to the salaries which they secure for doing such work. There are those who think that because they handle such work and see a chance to profit from it on the side that they have a right to do so. under the inn pression that there will be no way of detecting them.
 Sooner or later such dealings usual ly come to light, and that appears to be the case in regard to the charges that are made relative to the alleged film graft. Inasmuch as house com mittee has received sufficient facts to warrant the making of the charges that it has, there appearsSto be suffi- cient grounds for probing the matter to the bottom. It certainly should not be allowed to stop where it is If there has been wholesale graft those who are responsible should be sought out and punished. and if there has been nothing of the kind. or the charges complained of can be eX- plained that opportunity should be given. Whatever the outcome the matter should be thoroughly sifted.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-10
HER DETAILED

Y r f 7 I Expect it's a great surpriseE}to you, ? concluded the pretty girl amhe had ree turned from a visit out of town and informed her family that she was en- gagged. But its exactly as big a sur prise to me, so; we're even.' Well, tell us all about hinr'' stut- tered her father. You at least owe us that muchi" ' What does he look like :? asked her sister.
 lis he awful rich ?'' asked her small brother T hope he's the right sort, hoped her mother.
 Robert is perfectly wonderful!,' very pink. T can't imagine how I ever could have spent one instant's thought on any of the men I've known here all my life! He is so far beyond 1 same species at all. Why,s-just to look at him you'd know" Well, what does he look like?" re- peated her sister. The fiancee sighed thoughtfully You'll be just wild over. Robert ,'' she promised her sister. fsNot that he is the type you most admire but then my ideas always were different, you know. I can't stand man who is so But don't for a minute think Robert is homely. Indeed not! He is per- fectly stunning and striking looking "Oh, he's tall, -then?"
 Well, he isn't what you'd call tall but he isn't short-not al all He i'm
 presses you so-- you know, that he
 seems to tower and I really never ask
 ed his height. You just don't think of
 ordinary things like that when you
 are with him. I can't begin. to tell you
 what a sensation he gives you of
 strength and purpose and-and-"
 "I'd like to know his business pros
 pects," interrupted CT father. What
 is he making, has he future and is
 he sensible?''
 Sensible?" echoed the bride-to- be,
 a trifle indignantly Why, Robert
 ly wonderful idea of business. You
 ought to hear him talk and you would
 mt ask such things. Why, he kept a
 whole roonful interested explaining
 the finances of Russia and what they
 ought to do about it over there. He's
 in a bank, you know, so he knows all
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mands are so much smaller that a large surplus is piling up in this country, and it's advice today is not to save but to stop saving meat
 We'll there may be some who will follow this advice just because they are told to. but there are great many others who will stop and give full consideration to the prices that are being demanded in spite of the great amount of meat that is being piled up That is going to be the stumbling block. and even the agri- cultural department recognizes that it will be. when it ,is set forth that retail prices have not dropped in accord with wholesale prices. With meat prices skyhigh and the purchasing g power of the dollar about half of what it was it cannot be expected that the people are going to plunge into meat buying just to pile ap the profits for somebody else.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-10
STORIES OF THE. WAR

(Corres espondence of The Associated Press )-The khaki uniforms of the British type that have been adopted by the North Russian government for it's soldiers have now, with only a very few exceptions, replaced the dozen or more varieties of fancy mil itary dress that were common in the early days of the fighting against the Bolsheviki on this front last Septem- Der.
 This little matter of standardizing the uniforms typifies the efforts that have been made to organize a Russian army in the North Only three units now are out of khaki-the French Foreign Legion, Russians who
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Soviet government will bring

about action.
 We wonder if the parlor Bolshevists find the truth about Russia as allur- ing as they hoped it would be? They cannot but know that it is the truth and no lies which is widening the gulf between this farcial republic" and our commonwealth Bridgeport Standard Telegram.
 Give anything time enough and a solution will be found. The automo- bile law recently amended so that it is not necessary to have lights on autos parked in streets that are as light as day, is an illustration. The intent of the lighting law was good, in that it was enacted to obViate the danger of automobiles standing by the roadside without lights on dark streets or country roads. The utter uselessness of insisting on lights on vehicles parked on thoroughfare like Middletown's Main street, is ap- parent to the most simple minded. Still, the law was there and had to be enforced to the letter, in some in stances at least. The law making machinery is cumbersome, but it generally gets there" in the end.- Middletown Press.
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IN THE DAYS NEWS
w Washington.

What goes on in Washington fur nishes grist for. the nations news papers all the year round, but just now Washington, the city, itself is getting unaccustomed publicity on two accounts" says bulletin from the National Geogra phic Society.
 Senator Sherman, of Illinois. wants to move the capital to some midwest ern city. Citizens of Washington, ap- parently oblivious of any such con suration, are waging a national pub licity campaign for representation congress-"
 Aside from those political issues, the bulletin states, Washington prob ably has never been such a magnet for visitors as now and those who are coming as well as those who have gone will be interested in the follow ing comparison of Washington with other world capitals written by Wis count Bryce, former British ambas- sador to the United States:
 "It is impossible to live in Wash ington and not be struck by some pee ular features and some peculiar beau ties which your city possesses.
 ''No European city has so noble cataract in it's vicinity as the Great Falls of the Potomac-a magnificent piece of scenery which you will, of course, always preserve.
 "Vienna has some picturesque -coun- try, hills and woods. and rocks within a distance of 25 or 30 miles. London also has very pleasing landscape of f- softer type within about that dis tance; but I know of no great city in Europe (excepting. Constantinople) that has quite close, in it's very en- virons, such beautiful scenery as has Washington in Rock Creek park and in many of the woods that stretch along the Potomac on the north and also on the south side, with the broad river in the center and richly wooded slopes descending boldly to it. on each side
 You have not a beautiful arm of the sea at your, doors, as has Constan-
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OTHER VIEW POINTS

The state department has done well in reminding whoever in Russia has leisure enough amidst his stealing to accept such enlightenment, that noth- ing illegal has been done to Martens. and that any retaliat tion on the part of
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An inventor has hinged carpenters square and provided it with a third strip, calibrated in inches and degrees, ito be used in connection with the two arms for many purposes.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-10

No one will believe it but that re- cent tremor al Washington may have been the shock from the news to the effect that the president was coming home