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Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27
rHE RocKEEELLER eiEr

No more fitting time could have been taken for the announcement of his gift of $10O.O00,0OO than was se- lected by John D. Rockefeller, and there can be no question but what there is need for the extension of hep in the very directions he has desig- mated.
 When Mir. Rockefeller stipulates that s50,0O0.000 shall be devoted to meeting the problems faced by the colleges of the country in providing adequate salaries for the teachers he even realizes that the income from such is likely to prove inadequate and provides that use can be made of the principal in relieving the condi- tions. With the higher institutions of learning throughout the country mak- ing special efforts to raise special funds that the salaries of the profes- Eors and teachers may at least com pare favorably with those of the ian itors there will be widespread bene- it provided, although it cannot be ex- pected that this will overcome the ne- cessity Of completing the funds that the collee\ have underway. There will in fGct be need for it all and in- asmuch as it is the belief of MT. Rockefeller that those who are help ed should do their best to help them selves the prospects of aid from this new source should simply increase the efforts in the campaigns underway.
 The other half of the gift will re- quire longer time before it's effect may be felt but it reaches eventually much greater number, applying as il does to the whole world in the fighting of disease. Already great benefits have been gained through the medica researches made possible by his gifts It will be but a few years before vel. 'iov fever will be conquered while similar progress has been made 1T battling other foes of health and by hts additional gift further provision is made for the increase of such gooC in behalf of humanity.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27
OTHER VIEW POINTS

Recently hog prices have dropped some s cents pound and corn 75 cents a bushel. When this smashing of wholesale prices began, it was na- turally assumed there would be cor responding reduction in prices to con sumers But Governor McKelvie of Nebraska, writes to Attorney General Palmer: "The decline in the price of hogs and corn has cost Nebraska far mers at least S50,O00,000 and yet no benefit has occurred to consumers"
 The farmer is now getting about 5 cents a pound more for hogs than in 1914. Take mess pork as typical Of hog meat. Has mess, pork risen , cents a pound? Not muchi It has jumped about 31 cents. aeon has jumped 16 cents.
 In 1914 the difference between the wholesale price of mess jork and the price paid to farmers for hogs was about eents The difference now is about 8 cents.
 Who is getting the difference.
 "There will be five Sundays in Feb ruary next year, for the last time un- til 1948,' announces one of the expert calendar sleuths Wait for Februaryi It is a great month and a rare one, and occasionally it puts over sofne- thing quite extraordinary.-Prov Bulletin.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
 The Sanatorium Christmas Fund,

MT. Editor: I was a visitor at the Tuberculosis sanatorium Christmas afternoon and saw the good use that was made of the sanatorium holiday fund that contributed by local peo- pie.
 The wards are decorated with Christmas trees and evergreens and present a very cheerful spectacle. Be ing an ex-patient 1 spoke with many
 many useful gifts received. None Of ing most of them an deach one told me of the days doings with their big Christmas dinner, and showed me the many useful gafts received. None of them would try to speak of their ills, as they seemed forgotten by the cheerful surroundings. Knowing what the disease is and seeing the many happy faces it is plain the money could not be used for any bet ter purpose and I am sure if those that contributed to the fund could
 have been there on Christmas day, they would agree with me. In closing hope that the fund will
 become a permanent thing and never lack contributors. Yours Respectfully, A NORWICH PATIENT
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27
STORIES. OF THE WAR
Mines stiII a ereat panaer.

(By The Associated Press.)-Until the Germans complete the sweeping of mine fields they laid in the North Sea there will be considerable danger to shipping in waters adjacent to the British Isles. say British and American naval authorities. Even after that work has ended, which will not be earlier than next summer. there will be some danger which. they predict, will gradually diminish.
 'The American barrage is swept as completely as is hunanly possible ' Admiral Harry s. Knapp, of the Amer iean navy, said to The Associated Press correspondent. After our. area had been pronounced 100 per cent. clear we re-swept S60 square miles of it (about 15 per cent.) and found only four more mines. These were at a buoyed spot where the sweepers believed they ha6 missed some"
 "The greatest menace now" saii Lieutenant Commander Benson. of the International Mine Destroying Com
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27
REoRcANiziNG THE ARMY,

Whatever the final action is regard ing the reorganization of the army it is quite clearly set forth that the de- mand is not for big army. In spite of the advice of the war department for an army greater than a half mil lion men the suggestions of such men as Generals Pershing and Wood for a much smaller army seems likely to be followed, even though the times are uncertain and it is not the most fla vorable period for judging the future.
 Bills have been before both houses of congress and in each tentative plans have been agreed upon for reor- ganization. The two bills are not in agreement but they differ only slight .ly and it seems not improbable that it will be possible to reconcile the diff ferences. Both call for smaller ar- mics than the war department ex- perts, the house sub b-committee favor ing S1S,000 men and the senate 2S0,Oo0 and with the need of keeping down expenses it would not be surprising to see the senate proposal followed.
 It must be realized in connection with the reorganization that whatever is done at this time in the way of re- organization may be only temponary There must be beginning even if il cannot be told now what the require ments a few years hence are going tc be. Much has been said in behalf O universal military training but th' house committee dodges this matter while the senate is favorable to foul months training. There is differ ent method of dealing with the na. tional guard since the senate would make it part of the citizens arm, while the house would leave it as it is With the tentative reports to worl on it is likely that the question of ar, my changes will receive much atten
 ton just as soon as congress resumes The army will have to be made to a least take care of existing require
 ments and the demands of the futur allowed to have their influence as the, develop. We cannot afford to disre
 gard our safety and yet we must hay due regard for economy.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27
Sunday Morning Talk
A SUBSTITUTE FOR TRoUBLl

The Christmas has of all men, abundant reason for trusting. Surely God is to be trusted. If he had cared nothing about us, he would not have redeemed us at such a cost, if he had been indifferent to our fate, he would not have sent Christ as the pledge of His love. If he had care enough and love enough and power enough to open a way to our salvation, we may certainly trust Him with all we have. And what kind of a trust is it that is
 always doubtful. If we ask him to forgive our sins and blot them out of His book of remembrance, why worry | about it and wonder if He has done | it! If we commit our ways to Him, why disturb ourselves with fear lest He forget His charge? He says to us,
 sufficient unto the day is the evil
 thereof. Why load ourselves down with anxiety about the possible evils of tomorrow? If He has power over the future, and we have not, why
 waste our time, strength and courage
 in fretfuiness?
 Each future scene to thee I leave; l Sufficient unto know
 Thou canst from every evil save, | And every good bestow.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27
GROWING TREES.

As the result of the desire of the people of Massachusetts as expressed through referendum there will come lbefere the session of the legislature of that state. opening next month, the question of providing for extensive re- .forestation in that state. It is a ques- irfnn which has got to come before many states if there is not check put on the great waste in the use of trees and lumber. And there is no way in which a better return can be obtained from much of the virtually unused land than by devotfng it to fne growing of timber.
 We are not of course going to see Ahe bottom drop out, of our lumber suppiy right away. We have great iquantfties yet in sight but the in- cTeased demands and the wastes all n1ske it apparent that unless provis- Ion Is made for the future by some such method as reforestatiofl we are .gctng to be confronted some day witt a different situation, and with the Steady cutting off of our timberlan6 Without planning to devote an equa Iamount of land to the same use we are going to experience a serious eff. feet upon our water supplies.
 Only one of the wastes Is revealed by the situation which developed re, .garding Christmas trees in New Yorl this season. Big profits are antici- pated. Prices were fixed high but ths public didn't buy and the result wal that stacks Of them were not sold ana in some instances placards asked -peo
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27
cARRANzA's ATTITUDE.

Apparently Mexico doesn't intend to close up the Jenkins case. On the other hand it appears to be encour- aged by the existing situation, by the advantage which it seems to hold, and is prepared to bring lot of other charges by which to keep Jenkins in warm water and the relations between the two countries anything but. what they ought to be. But in the mean tune nothing is heard about any very serious action being taken to appre- kend the abductors of. the American consular agent.
 According to the latest report Jen- kins has now been charged with gtv- Ing arms to the bandits by whom he was recently captured, and inasmuct as that is a serious matter it is ap- parently expected to justify the actior of the Mexican government in holding him. The report, however. is Mexican and it is in all probability simply : Mexican scheme. if in fact1the repor3 should. prove to be correct.
 It is to be remembered in connec. tion with other charges that have beer made against Jenkins that witnesses have been forced to give false testi- mony in order to make out any cast against him. and it is not improbable that this latest report is founded or similar evidence. It looks very mucl like an effort to show that Mexico hat some ground for holding Jenkins bu it will receive ID credence here.
 Mexican authorities appear to b. doing about as they please witt American citizens, both as to holdinj them for trial and trumping u charges against them. Jenkins am the sailors held at Mazatlan must be gin to think that the protection af forded by their government is ia from being what is claimed for it. Tn representations that have been mad I to Carranza have amounted to moth ing, and seemingly the longer tn present attitude is maintained tn stronger becomes the determination { the neighhoring republic to disregar it's responsibilities toward the Unite States. Carran2a seems to prefer tn attitude of a trcublemaker.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27
CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING DEC. z7, 1919
 10,566
BRINGING DOWN PRICES.

While the attorney general is telling about what he expects to result from the breaking up of the five big pack CTS in the way of lower prices, and calling attention to the number of prosecutions and seizures that have been made by his department as hay ing an influence upon the retention of prices to as low 8 figure as they are, the country is giving thought to the accomplishments of the people them selves in influencing price reductions by refusing to purchase the high priced articles.
 Time and again has it been point ed out that one great stirtllus to the high prices has been the demand for the best regardless as to the price. Too often has the fear been expressed that sufficiently good material would not be secured unless the highest price was paid. It was quite natural therefore for the interruptions to al- lay the fears by making the prices move the goods whether they were warranted or not,
 In this connection it is to be noted that certain large manufacturers have announced that they will insti- ute big department stores and dis pose of the goods at cost in order to see that their employees are not gouged out of their earnings, while certain organizations have been al work in states in the middle west tc fight the high prices of certain com modities by refusing to buy. The re- suit of this boycott in the state of H. linois was that fresh eggs in Chicago dropped twelve cents to 65 cents z dozen and in Lincoln, Nebraska, iron s5 to 55 cents.
 That the willingness to pay any thing asked has had it's effect il keeping the prices up to certain ex tent is not unreasonable. It has beel a case of easy come, easy go" witt money, but regardless of the effect of direct action in getting lower price it cannot fail to be realized that price in general are not likely to com down until the problem of production is solved.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27

mittee, 'is the unswept German areal Until that field has been cleared there will be a good many drifting mines about. Afterward there will be some danger but it will rapidly diminish as the elements destroy the effectiveness of the mines
 He said the committee accounted for mines as follows: Five per cent. ex- plode when laid, five per cent. are de- feetive. 10 per, cent. soon become use less through leakage and 50 per cent. of the total number laid are destroyed fby the different systems of sweeping 1 employed by the British and Ameri cans.
 | Committee members believe that great many of the other 30 per cent. l will be carried by the natural north ward currents of the North Sea into Artic ice packs and destroyed. others will go ashore on the Norwegian coast, l as have many already, a great many
 will become harmless through long ] presence in the water, and a certain
 number will be destroyed by patrols which the British navy still is main | taining
 Also the British navy has just armed all merchantmen. except those calling at Irish ports. with higfl-velocity rifles that they may destroy any mine sight
 ed. So many ships calling at Irish I ports have been ,raided for arms that
 the admiralty believed it inadvisable to
 add to this danger.
 Two Irish fishing boats off Cork re-
 gently sighted a drifting mine. The
 captains n1istook it for cask of rum or wine and made race for it. The winner was the loser. His boat was sunk
 l The Admiralty has had several re- ) ports of drifting mine about soc miles southeast of New York which officers hope some of the newly armed , merchantmen will destroy if it has moi 2 already been rendered harmless by the T l elements
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27
IN THE DAYS NEWS
FoochoW.

Foochow, scene of recent clash between Chinese and Japanese is termed "an inland Bremen of the Pa- cific. situated on the river Min, the Hudson of south China" in bulle
 tin from the Washington headquarters of the National Geographic Society,"
 'The Catsllills of the Min, which in- clude numerous hills about Foochow, are storied by scores of Washington Irvings and the, legends, centuries old, are completely credited by a people who seem. to the occidental i mind at once the most mater -of-fact and the most imaginative in the world" the bulletin continues
 This busy port whose annual ex- | port of tea alone once reacheds near 1 ly 100,000,000 pounds is B miles from the sea, three. miles from the river | that furnishes it's ocean outlet, and l the river is. not navigable for large ] vessels nearer than ten mics below l the point where suburbs of the wal l led town touch it's lazy course
 Moreover Foochow's commerce thrives without the aid of railroads, 1 or any good highways. To reach it
 the traveller must go by boat, from
 Shanghai or Hongkong. steam up the l Min for 25 miles, to the Pagoda anch- i orage, and then take a steam launch 1 to a Foochow pier. Nowadays motor
 busses compass the remaining dis i tance, from the waterfront to / the
 walled city, but they still are novel, ] ties enough to attract curious crowds 1 of unkempt children, not yet trained l to the soph;stication of the older 1 Chinaman, who is seldom betrayed in 1 to. acknowledging that aeroplanes
 electric lights, and wireless telegraphy ! are not his racial heritages.
 "One shoud not hurry into Foocfov proper, even if one could, for to do SC would be to miss the physical beau
 ties and fabled history that accentuatt
 each step of the Journey from the
 ocean to this vicarious port Along the Min one may see pearl divers Should Q diver be drowned his feh
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27

construction division activities for the
 year ending June 30, 1918. was only 67 cents.
 With populations ranging from
 5,000 to 60,000 people it became neces-
 sary to provide these various projects
 with the most upto date systems for
 the disposal of sewage. It was neces-
 sary to cut down the time of con
 struction to the lowest point and at
 the same time provide disposal plants that could be counted on to. run eff ciently and with a minimum upkeep cost. The plants designed by the con struction division accomplished this. ''In general, the activities of the construction division were confined to this side of the Atlantic, but as a no- table exception it must be stated that 1 to this division was assigned the, duty Of designing, assembling and finally of and operating the huge refrigerating plants built in France for the supply l of the army at the front. During the 1 first IS months of the war the con- l struction division provided a total | storage capacity of approximately 24.- 1 900 tons of beef. In connection with l this oversea storage capacity it was
 necessary to provide for freezing beef ! in this country, and this required the | construction at Chicago of a Sharp i freezer plant having a daily freezing I capacity of 1.4Oo tons and storage 1 capacity of 14000 tons.
 I Greater than any other projects ir importance mad perhaps in magnitude were the authorization depots neces- ! sary to insure the rapid and sysfenat- I ic supply of troops and supplies te l Europe. This work included the con struction not only of tremendous fire T proof warehouses, but also of wharve.
 and docks, some of them of greater ex.
 tent than any heretofore existing il
 this country. and the construction O
 miles of railway track for the han
 ding of cars and freight received iron
 the various interior points and intend
 cd for shipment abroad,
 Tt is. a commentary on the infiuenc, ! of the war upon the economic life o
 i this country that an organization no
 in existence until the middle of May
 1917, and built up in eighteen montlt , into the greatest construction organ : ization of all time, has undertaken an i. carried to completion construction O. , q yaster scale than was ever dreame : of before, anr has, as one element i so doing, provided the country wit what are probably the finest dock an : shipping facilities in the world.
 What the results obtained by thes . facilities will be, taken in connectio z with the merchant marine coming int . being in this country, and the remais Il sance of commercial manufacturin , which must presently assume tremer 7 dous proportions, cannot yet be state ? but their value should be inca1culab . and their importance to the commel Il cial enterprises of America almoi l. beyond computation. That they ha1 . been produced and are ready fC = utilization is the result of the initis 5 tive. the brains and the resourcefu
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27

pie to take them home without paying for them. it being realized that they could be disposed of in no other way. There are those who make living out of growing Christmas trees. but it is a shame to see such cases of absolute waste as the New York incident when the spruce and pine timber supply is rapidly dropping. ,E
 When 1t is realized that we are de- pleting our timber supply twice as fast as it can be produced by natu- ral forest growth it can be appreciat- ed that too serious attention cannot be given to reforestation work.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27
Cured His RUPTURE

was badly ruptured while lifting trunk several years ago. Doctors said Trusses did me no good. Finally I got hold of something that quickly and completely cured me. Years have pass ed and the rupture has never returned although am doing hard work as a carpenter. There was no operation, no lost time. no trouble I have nothing to sell. but will give full information about how you nray find complete cure without operation. If you write to me Eugene M Puilen. Carpenter 415F. Marcelius Avenue, Manasquan, N J. Better cut out this notice and show 1t to any others who are ruptured- you may save a life or at least stop the misery of rupture and the worry and A2REAy aS aA apexatieu
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27

It can be safely said that the New Jersey man who refused an increase in pay because the job was not worth more didn't belong to the railroad brotherhoods, or the mine workers union.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27

If Newark finds a disposition to violate the ordinance forbtddfng air planes going over the city at less than 4Oo0 feet 1t vii. be necessary to keep its police force up in the air most of the t:nA
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27

With over 46oo autos stolen in New York state in six months it is easy to understand the cemands for better methods of landing and punfshtng such thieves.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27

With France anxious for a lot of American tourists the people over there show that they were weH i'm pressed with the crowd but recently returned.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27

When it is declared that a scientific budget system would cut appropria- tions one-third, it would seem that two billion were worth saving.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27

Divorce may not be regarded with favor but no one is putting up much of a howl over the packers cases.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27

This is the season of the year when the plumber and the blacksmith have all they can do to handle the busi- ness.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27

Attorney General Palmer predicts a slump in prices. Predictions have been received for a long time but what the people want is results.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27

A presidential campaign would rever be complete unless Colonel Bryan was in the running.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27

John D. Rockefeller ras from all in- dications reached the conclusion that it is more popular to give than to re- cefve.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Tho man on the corner says: Trade for the next several days will have to give way to the swapfest
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27

Don't submit to the inevitable until you have positive proof thot it is the inevitable.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27
No Union Hours.

Enforced idleness finds the dey1i $ workshop operating at full capacity Ratxait News.