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Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-24
EFFECT ON RAILROAD RATES.

There appears to be no limit to the demands of the railroad employees Not only have they received reduced hours and several increases in pay during the past few years but they are now having. a hearing on demands which if granted would mean a fur ther increase of over a billion dol lars. Naturally. the rest of the coun- try. for everyone is bound to be in- volved in the payment of that bil- lion, is bound to be interested in the outcome.
 Whatever the result of the confer ence between the railroad employees, the railroad managers and the direc- tor general; if there is an increase in pay granted it must of necessity mean that such an increase must come out of the public thorugh higher rates which the transportation lines will have to charge.
 Under the prevailing rates, those which prevailed during. the govern ment control, +ro. amount received was not srf7 oient to keep the govern ment from dipping into the national treasury In other words the rates were not high enough. The director general didn't attempt to put. the rates up where they would produce enough to make ends meet but with the return of the roads! to the owners it was the natural course.
 i The roads have asked rates which will permit them to get the benefit and --~-4 ''-o srrovisions of the trans portation act. An increase is needed before there is any effort made to get increased wages. To grant a wage | increase now would simply increase the reasons for putting up the rates and call for an additional raising |
 would be an injustice to the roads tc allow the increase sought and the1
 take it away from them for higher
 wages. If rate increase is due tho
 roads to permit them to, do business
 at fair profit. another increas'
 should be. granted to them. if wage
 are going to be boosted. Whatever i
 is however, the public must stand fo it and as is too often the case it hai
 no representation in the conferenc now being held.
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worship by fallen church along with Lent, Good Friday, Easter, colored eggs and other pagan relics. Back in the days of Jeremiah, the prophet of the Lord, who wrote in the year 500 B.. C., some of Gods people went into idolatry and so offended God by their iniquitous practice of offering these boun or cakes to Astarte, the queen of heaven, that the Lord said to Jeremiah: Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up, cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me, for I will not hear thee. "Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? Jef. 7:16 to IS.
 Can any person think for moment that the heather custom of eating hot cross buns on Good Friday is pleasing to God today. when it was decided ly displeasing to Him in the days of Jeremiah? From first to last the whole of Lent. Good Friday, and Eas- ter with its eggs and hot cross buns, is survival of organism and should be rejected by those who love the Lord. God is calling upon us to get ready for the soon appearing of Christ, and in view of that fact he says through the prophet:
 @Thus saith the Lord, stand ye ir the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, ana walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls" ter. 6:16.
 Perhaps the reader has often won, dered why all this is celebrated. Fly. ginus, the Egyptian, the scholarl. keeper of the Palatine at Rome, 1T the days of Augustus a man skilled in all the wisdom and learning O his country, tells the following: Al egg of wondrous size is said to hav fallen from heaven into the river Flu | pirates. The fisher rolled it to tn
 bank where the doves having settle, | upon it and matched it, out came We
 nus. who afterwards was called tn | Syrian goddess. ."-Hyginus Fabula
 pp14S.149.
 If the above celebrations are true
 which I think it is, and is not foun,
 in the Bible, why do we celebrate it | FRANK J. WENISCH. | Willimantic, March 21.
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house of burgesses. He saw Washing ton In his seat and he saw his own friend, Patrick Henry. a fiddling Vir- ginlan like himself. holding the floor amid cries of treason as he invited the king to profit by the example of Caesar, who had his Brutus, and Charles l. who had his Cromwell.
 The sword, the tongue and the pen of American freedom were well met that memorable day. After the per had waited F years for its turn to speak, Jefferson sat in the congress ai Philadelphia. The squire of Monticello was a silent member, as silent as the squire of Nit. Vernon. Opportunity and duty went straight to those tive speechelss congressman as the needle leaps to loadstone
 Although the great Franklin, the able, ambitious John Adams also were on the committee to draw up the Dec laration of Independence, they left the task wholly to their youngest col league, the 33 year old, bookish, phfIo- sophie Virginian. When congress was editing the manuscript, Franklin lean ed over Jefferson to comfort him with little story of signboard which was
 to read: John Thompson, the hat | ter, makes and sells hats fer ready cash but which friendly neighbors, to shave the cost of painting, cut down
 simply to the name Thompson and the | picture of hat.
 By miraculous escape, while a par
 a graph, denouncing slavery was | stricken out of Jefferson's draft of the Declaration, the assertion that -an
 men are created equal" was spared That glittering generality surely would have been discarded if conserv.
 ative members had foreseen what g
 blazing torch it was to become, light
 ing Civil war that freed the slave.
 and ever leading men on along ths
 endless road to justice and liberty.
 Tomorrow: The First Progressive.
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HANDLING TURKEY.

Not having taken part in the war against Turkey and not being a mem Der of the league of nations, with the senate of this. country refusing to rat fly the treaty, it is a question just how the allied governments will view the expression forwarded by this gov srnment regarding the policy which it thinks should be followed in Turkey.
 There is one thing about 1t, how ever, and that is that when it ex- presses the belief that the Turk should be driven. out of Europe it takes view that cannot fail to be quite generally approved. for Turkey has done nothing stp warrant being tolerated and done everything that justifes the placing of it where it cannot repeat such things again. Such a recommendation does not place much credence on the much talked of holy war if the Turks are disturbed, and it doesn't consider that the proper result IS going to be gain ed by making more threats to the sul- tan. The holy war has been used to frighten off the employment of cor rectional tactics against the Turks in the past. It was even brought forth during the owrld war but it quickly dwindled.
 As to Armenia there is good and sufficient reason for standing by it. people and seeing that they are giver what belongs to them and provided with an outlet to the sea. It is like wise true that the Dardanelles should be internationalized so that those who want to use it can do so, and tn, provision that Russ a, when it has l; stable government, shall have ; chance to participate in it's control il only proper. No country Is more con cerned in that waterway.
 The position of this governmen has been long time coming. It run counter to plans which have beer partially agreed upon and particular ly so in reference to the driving O the Turks from Europe where the eff fects of a possible holy war do no strike home and it Is therefore pre- pared to give the Turks their jus desserts. But it is saying what Flu rope must do when we want Europ to keep out of affairs over here.
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NAVIGATING THE AIR.

New accomplishments are steadily being added to those of the flying ma chine. It has been pretty well dem onstrated by the flights across the Atlantic and those for long distances in this country and Europe that the airplane was due for even greater development and much wider use than it has gotten in the past. The possibilities have also been displayed by the altitude as well as the cross country flights. It has been but a short time since it was demonstrated than a heavier than air machine could be sustained in flight, and the accom- plishments in that time have been SC great that 1t is difficult to imagine what the result is going to be if as great progress is made in the next quarter of a century.
 There is nothing that now stand. in the way of the flying machine Mountains are easily topped. larg, bodies of water are easily crossed and aviators are going from one ent of a continent to another. As a con. tributioa to the accomplishments O
 the airplane the announcement of tn, completion ~r ''-- Cape to Cairo fl gh
 in Africa adds interest. Naturall, provisions were made to see that tn, aviators were given such proteetio, as was to be afforded, but it was ia, different from that to be expected i, crossing the United States. Yet tber
 were those who were willing to talk
 the chances, those who had conf
 dence in the power of their machine
 and their own ability to .navigat them between stopping places. an,
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NOW FOR PEACE.

With the treaty peacefully resting in the care of the president attention as might ba expected is being devot- ed to the actual ending of war be- tween this country and Germany. There has long been desire for the establishment, of peace, even if such is only a teehnicaiity. We have suf- fered too much from the prolonged efforts made to ratify the peace trea- ty under conditions that would safe- guard this country. It is time that an end was put to the uncertainty and the country given a chance to move along on a peace time basis.
 Indications at the present time point to-. the belief that this will be accomplished by. means of a resolu- tion passed by both. houses which will follow the course Suggested in the resolution suggested in the reso- ,lution presented by Senator Knox, although >- .t thes proposal@ of en- tering into negotiations for the establishment of a world court to take the place. of the league of nations bids fair to be. dropped. There is a desire to avoid this. international phase ofthe matter and-sto confine present efforts at feast t,sto5the bring ing about of peace and with the reso- lution calling for peace with Ger many sufficient support to pass il over the veto of the, president can be anticipated;
 That the resolution would pass ir each house seems beyond question That would Be subject to the actior of President Wilson, Should he de- cline to sign it there would be re- qufred two- thirds, vote in eacf branch of the legislature and ever that will doubtless be assured befor' the resolution is sent on it's way. i The demand for peace does not pre- vail solely among the .. republicans Democrats are likewise clamoring fo
 it and though there may be some wht
 will r-a' 9~e' the last against an!
 course not authorized by the presi ! dent it is not likely that there would
 be refusal to put an end to war con
 ditions, especially with Germany rec
 ognizing any advantages which .woul
 come to us under the Versailles docu
 ment.
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AGAINST ABANDONMENT.

No one knows what the outcome is going to be of the steps that have been taken 10 endeavor to prevent the abandonment of the Norwich and Westerly trolley road. It is to be hoped that it will result in the reten- ton of the service of this transporta- tion line which is needed by every town where it's rails are located.
 That there is interest in preserving the benefits attached to the cross country line was clearly manifested by the number in attendance. It dem- onstrates that the people represented by those in the gathering are not ready to see the rails torn up, the wires torn down and the junkman al- lowed to- come in and carry off the equipment necessity to provide the means of getting from Norwich to the many points along the line.
 The capable committee selected tC make a thorough investigation of the road. its possibilities and drawbacks and devise a plan for retaining il have no easy task, but it has beer made aware by the public gathering that there is a demand for the pre- vent!on of the abandonment of thu line, if that was not previously rec ognized.
 Just how much ground there is' fol doubting the figures of the presen management will be shown by thu committees report. but it is to be sin .erely hoped that ways and means will be found for keeping the line il operation and preventing a road tha cost so much money and is so wei built and so much needed from beini thrown on the junkpile. The equip ment offered ought to be worth mucl more as 1t stands as trolley roat than as junk.
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come down in the world. Now, you look around and see what you can find me-
 By this time there was a ehamping mob surging around back of her and the head of my aisle was glowering at me like poison. ] brought out all the boxes of day gloves and feverishly began displaying them. She bounced on lemon colorAd pair. oh, Mary. she said to her lowering friend, these are exactly the color l wanted when 1 had that taffeta dress five years ago and couldn't get them. They said they didn't make them that shade and here they are. That's all you can depend on what they tell you in the stores.'
 ~Do you want to try them on?' I asked hopefully. 'No,' she said in a weary, patient tone, why should I get lemon gloves now when the dress has worn out three years back? I want something that will go with my other coat. It Is sort of taupe, but don't know whether I want worn,' l offered. Show me the brown said she.
 "She rubbed the brown gloves hard. She said so often a leather roughed up and she wanted to be sure these didn't. The mob back of her was beginning to growl and old Fletcher in the aisle was almost having apoplexy. On the whole, maybe the gray would be better. She said one shade was far too light and the next I tried was much too dark Then she paused long enough to tell me that her husband was most partic- l ular about what she wore in gloves. When she was a girl she had a very small hand, though I might not think it now, and he had insisted on her buying the best there were
 The aisle was completely blocked by this time and people came rushing ! up as they do when there is a demon- stration of biscuits and maple syrup, you know. Finally she got up, fasten- ed her neck fur and began gathering | up her bag and parcels. You haven't 1 thing I'd wear she said in an in- jured tone. My son brought me a dozen pair of gloves this fall, anyway, when he came back from France; per fectly beautiful gloves of the softest
 leather and in assorted shades. and l shan't need any more for years, but l wanted to see whether the gloves sold
 in this country were as good. and they aren't and you wouldn't believe the price he paid for them if I told you!
 And off she sailed and all the wait ing customers said they didn't have
 time for gloves today-and I came ur here before Fletcher could tell me
 what he thought of me"
 Hereafter said the fascinated
 hosiery clerk, "all orange hats are tho
 signal for me to faint away and pu
 the counter out of commission. My Goodness! s!"-Chicago News.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Hot Cross Buns.

MT. Editor: Perhaps some reader of
 this paper wiser than I am, can give
 me more light on the following facts.
 Up to this date no one has been able
 to contradict them. Perhaps I should
 not mention it as it might let the cat
 out of the bag. Well. here it is: The
 famous hot cross buns, which are
 made and eaten on Good Friday, are
 also relics of organism, and can be
 distinctly traced to the banks of the
 Euphrates, and to Greece. At least
 1900 years before Christ 'buns,"
 known by that identical name, were
 offered in the worship of 'the queen
 of heaven" otherwise known as the
 goddess Istar or Easter, as early as
 the days of Cecrops, the founder of
 Athens, that is 15O0 years before the
 birth of Jesus. Bryant, in his Myth
 ology, says: "One species of sacred
 bread which used to be offered to
 the gods was of great antiquity, and
 called boun."-Voi. i, page 37S. Dio-
 genes Laertius mentions the offering
 of 'eboun' Cor 'fbuns'O, being made by Empedoeles, and says: "He of fered one of the sacred cakes called boun, which was made of fine flour and honey."-Laertius p. 227, B These practices also prevailed among the Egyptians in the worship of Isis the mother goddess, or as they called
 her, the mother of the gods" She i was perhaps regarded more highly than any other of the gods of Egypt l The offering of these cakes, or bour | (buns) was common among all the pagan nations of antiquity. and were alwaNs connected with their gods, all of which. in some way, were con nected with the worship of their chic | divinity, the sun. So the offering O i boun or buns is relic of sun-wor- 1 ship, and our modern 'hot cross
 buns are merely so much of sun
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INTERESTED IN CLOVES

T wish people grew feathers on their hands!" said the girl with the saucy nose who had escaped from the glove counter for a breathing spell. ''Or fur. My goodness!"
 q go further" chimed in the girl who was powdering her face and re- pairing general damages in the store restroom. T wish human beings were born wearing complete outfit of garments that would expand as the years were added, and were guaran- teed for a lifetime. Wait till you are selling hosiery and they ask you whether Aunt Lou out in Oklahoma would prefer the brown mixture wool or the lace work silk! And get mad if you can't tell 'em!"
 Well" exploded the girl with the saucy nose, "Pd like to meet the man who invented gloves. He didn't do as much as he thought. He wished an awful lot of trouble on the human race, particularly this year. If you see a woman bearing down on your counter who wears an orange turban over one eye and ruehing of 1850 about her neck, duck underneath and don't come up for air. Gloves said she to me- What kind, madame% asked I. How do I know she asked frostily. till I see them?'
 sBut,' I, went on, do you want shoulder length evening gloves or street gloves?'
 "She sighed and sat down. Tt does seem to me, she said to the person with her, that in this busy season they might get clerks who used their heads and had some intelligence. l want cloves to wear daytimeS of course. I haven't gone out in the ev- ening since before the war and nev- CT expect to again if the world goes on striking and upsetting things. How much are those"
 "'Those gauntlet gloves,' said I in the soothing tone used to break bad news, are six fifty pair Outrage ous!' she squeaked. Just ordinary heavy street gloves! It must be a mistake. Ask the head of the depart ment' I assured her the mark was correct. T never heard anything like it., she said. I've bought gloves all my life, here and out in Iowa. where Rigger's department store carries a good stock, because it is a very dressy town and people like the Hendersons and the Whites always give large | parties every winter, and I want yoJ | to know that there aren't any hand | somer clothes at the opera here thar 1 are worn there. So I guess I know l about clothes. Haven't you anything | cheaper? No, I don't want fabric l glove-I may not look fashionable l but it is poor taste on your part tC ] call attention to it. Why, if any on, | back home met me with cloth glove on they certainly would think I haC
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Was nursed at the breast Of the unexhausted West.


 Of the unexhausted West.
 At the time of his birth beneath one of it's foothills, the Blue Ridge of vir- ginia was the American frontier The farm on which he was born had been cleared in the wild forest by his pio- neer father whe nthe smoke of neigh bor's chimney hardly could be seen from his cabin door.
 Like both of his predecessors and so many of his successors in the presi- dency, Jefferson was a widows son. Losing his father at 14, as the eldest son he inherited the farm mad became the responsible head of the family of eight children.
 It was not large estate, for the Jeffersons, like the Washingtons. be- ionged more to the yeomanry than to the aristoeracy who lorded it over tidewater Virginia. But Thomas Jeff ferson's mother was Randolph and sprung from the class which found in her son the most unrelenting foe to its ancient privileges.
 When he rode east, with his darling fiddle under his arm, to be a student at William and Marys college, the tall, l slender. sandy haired, snub-nosed. 1 freckled- faced r year old boy of the 1 frontiersman never had seen a man. sion, church or a village of 20 1 houses, and he looked with a stran- | gers eyes upon the haronial pride and l display of the old families who form ed the vice regal court at Williams burg. His light heart and his vel lighter feet made him welcome at the balls in the Apollo room of the Raleigh tavern. His already curious mind won for the meer lad the remarkable for @E Na Nwl Il learned and travelled men who regu- larly gathered at the dinner table O, IGovernor Fauquier to discuss the lit. erature and music, the science and thu philosophy of Europe.
 There over the roast and the pines the great world was opened to tht silent, reflective youth. More thar William and Mary's. the table of tha' unsuspecting royal governor was tn, training school of the immortal rebe who indicted a king.
 To support the large family of hi mother on their too small farm, Jeffer son turned to the law In seven year
 at the bar he doubled his estate ant increased his slaves to four hundred , Buying the little mountain at who's feet he was born, he built upon it : summit from plans of his own draw
 ing. Wltn DrlckS or his own making
 and with wood of his own cutting. tn noblest house in all Virginia. Ther . at Monticello he made his home eve y after, and there at last he died i l sight of his birthplace. 5S0 feet below l To this eyrie one wild, stormy win f ter's night he took his bride. the 2 n year old widow of Skelten, wh e brought him 135 slaves and lo.oC acres including the famous Natur. e bridge.
 Jefferson's law practice continue
 rapidly to grow until 1t amounted 1 . S2,50o a year, when he abandoned forever to prosecute George III in tt
 great and general court of mankin, }, He had heard the first call of the Rev d olution while law student in Wi 7? liamsburg. Its clarion had been rins
 ing in his ears ever since he stood, a
 eager leoker-on, in the door of u
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that confidence No- borne out in two cases at least by the covering of the disfanEesof $500 miles in the air,
 At the same time that the sugges- tion is. being advanced that much of Mesopotamia r,'~ft be patrolled by airplane instead of by costly army, it is being shown that the explora- tions of the dark continent can in the future to a large extestA be expected to get much help from these who tackle the job through the air,
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Stories That Recall Others.
Changed His Mind.

He was well up in the sixties ane always got a lot of pleasure out oi walking. He repeatedly said, 'You city people don't get out enough and walk"
 Coming downtown the other day ht stopped in at his son,s store and saie T just walked down from the house That's not so bad for a young fellow like me! And by the way Alice gave me this list and asked me to step in and get the things at this store Where is this placer
 Tt is just around the corner. The store with the large display win dows," he was told.
 Where's the errand boy you have here?" was the prompt inquiry. I'm too tired to walk around there"
 It Was No Place For It.
 It is not often that cases in the higher court room bring forth enough spectators to fill all the benches and make an attendant outside the door necessary. But it did this day. There were no seats to be had when an at- tractive slip of girl approached the door tender. Being told there were nc seats she impulsively exclaimed, "Oh can't you squeeze me in there 2" No, ' remarked the attendant gravely but hardly able to restrain his mirth, moi in there.''
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through enough constructive measures to add the word efficiency to their slo- gan of economy-and moreover they claim they will be able to show the goods"