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Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23

pressive but nowhere are there more attractive Oriental bazaars Brass smiths vie with goldsmiths to add the glint of glowing metal to the half nght of the covered soulls and there the makers of peculiar Bokhara caps dis play their brightly colored wares, the edges. glistening with soft furs from Siberia.
 Tn spite of the branch railway which runs from Old Bokhara with it's mud walls to Kagan, or New Bclzhara, on the Central Asian line, much of the traffic in the dusty city of the Usbegs still is borne on the back of lazy footed philosophic camels, calmly chewing away in spite of the political changes. which mean little in their nomad lives.
 "Bokhara has given it's name to one of the loveliest of rugs, but these ere ations of the Turkoman looms are really produced farther west and their main market is Merv, whenSs another railway crawls south to Kdshka be- yond the northern frontier of Afghan istan. During the months to come the Bokhara TerneZ and Merv- -Kushka railways are likely to, attract more attention than the lazy life of the Noslem city of Bolzhara. where fat mullahs drone out ceremonial prayers in the registan, or public square. Bokhara is second only to Balru,
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Look Id the Earns and Retter Roads.

Look to the Farms and Better Roads.
 MT. Editor: I'm not crazy to rush into print, but being aware of the dis tress, which is following in the wake of the H. c. L. I'll have to join the army of advisers CD that those sad conditions have produced.
 It will be necessary to look to the farms to relieve the unhappy condi- tion which now exists. Politicians as Q rule do not help to feed, the nation, unless they are acquainted with rural conditions and through wise 1egisla- tion make the farm life of those who do feed the nation more bearabIe. The thing to do now and right away soon is to build roads. The federal govern ment must do it.
 Then after every road has a good deep rock bed (not only a road here and there, but every cross road) open up more roads. Every farm in Con necticut must have an occupant and people with families encouraged to own their little home with it's acre or more in the country.
 It's the only solution.
 Then if the farmer lolls about in su- perfiuoUs wealth, just buy a poor old rundown farm and do the same thing yourself.
 Sincerely, -
 JENNIE Nj SAUNDERS.
 Scotland, Conn, Jan. 21. 1920.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23
PROTECT OUR OWN.

Regardless of what has been done to protect the dye making industry in this country the hearing befoye the senane fiuan se sub committee is re- vealing the necessity of throwing about it every possible safeguard if it is going to be preserved and encour- aged to develop
 No better restriction on the German product could be asked for than was afforded by the war While that was In progress no German dyes were to be obtained and the competition from inc cheap tabor and the well estab- lisIied industry of that country was eliminated It was the chance for the American industry to develop and it responded. Domestic demands could have been met in no other way and the result is that the industry is now not only able to supply the needs of the country but is able to take care cf 9 certain amount Of expert busi- ness. But regardless of the strides it has made and the excellent showing made it $ not in Q position to buck the German made goods at the pres ent time.
 When 1t is set forth by one of the witnesses appearing before the com uaIttee that Germans do not need to resort to unfair competition in order to undersen American dyestuffs it readily shows the disadvantage under which these new industries are oper- atins. The German Gycnlal1ers can underseu the American and can put them out of business by ordinary commercial competition. Permitting such would simply mean that we are wiling to go hack to dependency on German goods instcad of insisting up- on OUT independence of foreign rro- ductjon by giving the needed protec- ton to our new industries.
 The appeal for the continuance of our dye making factories by the set ting up of barriers that will protect them is entirely justified. We needed The new line of industry icng before t was established and having obtain sd it we should do what is necessary 10 retain it.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23
CITY IMPROVEMENTS

It is not just the season of the year to be putting the city beautiful ideas nto operation but the time is coming and it is not surprising that many communities are already giving thought to what can be undertaken when spring opens. The wisdom of such action Is being more and more recognized. The idea will not down. The importance of an attractive city Is not to be lightly passed over. There's an advertising value therein that insures handsome returns, a higher civic pride and more united and enthusiastic community.
 Just at the present time New Or leans is formulating plan for the de- Velopment of the city in which beauti- Eicatior ideas are playing a prominent part A landscape architect has been secured to show the people of that rity how it can be made much more attractive, how streets and avenues should be laid out to show off its parks, backgrounds, cemeteries, settle ment work centers and public and semi-pubiic institutions. Tn addition after some plan is settled upon it is planned to have . city planning com mission as a department of the city government. with the idea apparently
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23
ADVOCATING M. HOOVER.

Perhaps the presentation of no name in connection with the coming party conventions where selection will be made of the presidential can tlidates, has aroused more interesting comments than the advocacy of Her bert Hoover. Mir. Hoover's name has been heard before but he has appar- ently not been working openly at least for the nomination by either party. While he has been urged as the dem- ocratic nominee it has also been pointed out that he is not democrat but a progressive republican. At the same time it does not appear that he has taken any active interest in poll itics and that his name is presented because of the work he did as food administrator during the war.
 The New York World has urged him as candidate for the next president and promised that it will support him regardless of the party that neni- mates him. From the politics of the World it might be expected that this was advice intended for the demo- erats, but at the same time MT. Hoo- ver> is being held forth in New Eng and by former Food Director Sco- vile of Connecticut as the republi- can candidate.
 Tie presentation of his name has started certain ones to locating his weak points and among them are enumerated the opposition that can he 1 expected from thu farmers of the country because Of the way in which the price of wheat was fixed and the fact that -f1e- has spent many of his years in England.
 Apparently the position of the World is to freeze out the other dem ocratic possibilities but democratic senators don't seem to be warming up to the idea. That MT. Heover has done good work in handling the big task he did is not to be denied but whether that is suf1cient-t to permit the coun- ! try to want him for president re- mains to be seen. Apparently he is 1 less ambitious in that direction than many others and that it is a case of being in the hands of friends.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23
CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING JANUARY 1T, 1920
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EXPERIENCE ENOUGH.

Those who are still insisting upon the actual purchasing of the railroads by the government evidently consider that the operation of the roads would be carried cn in some unexplained manner much more successfully un- der government ownership than they have been under government control Otherwise it would be extremely diff ficult to show why such an experiment should be made.
 According to figures that have re- gently been made public it is shown that the money paid to the owners of the roads by the government dur ing the past two years as rentals was not earned by about s700, 100000. This means that the payments to the roads could not have been made if there had been nothing but the earnings under government opefation from which to take them.
 But that is not all of the story for t is to be remembered that the roads have been operated on a much differ ent basis by the government than un- der private control. Changes that di- rect1y affected tho receipts were made just as soon as the government took hold of them. Although the roads were denied them it was rec ognized by the federal administration that higher rates were necessary. The rates were raised for freight and pas senger service on more than one oe- casion and the result has been that during the two years of government operation transportation by rail has cost the people of this country well over a billion dollars In addition to this there is the deficit of STo0, ,o0o,- coo which the people likewise must pay one way or another, and it is not improbable that it will mean burden of two billion dollars before the gov ernment is through with the roads.
 That may be a good argument for government ownership but when we realize the condition in which the roads are today in addition to the ex- pense which government operation has entailed the people of this coun- try will be entirely justified in feeling that they have had all the experience they want with government owner ship.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23
IN THE DAYS NEWS
Bokhara.

"Once more the red of revolution is to take a place among the rainbow hues of the mud flower pot of Central Asia, if recent London despatches telling that the Russian reds have taken the capital of the khanate of Bokhara is true according to a bulle- tin from the National Geographic SO ciety.
 "Bokhara. dusty and tawny in tone, is nevertheless a colorful city because of the striking costumes Of the male inhabitants The women, clad in somber tones and hiding their faces behind horsehair veils which resemble window screening; avail themselves or a protective coloration which enables them to move like shadows about the ancient oity. But the Bol5hara male, be he Usbeg. Sart, Persian or Tajik utilizfs all the colors and tints of the solar spectrum in his costume.
 "Bokhara is an important religious center. It, has 364 mosques. With a practically unknown railway running south to the Afghan frontier. it's To- cation in the midst of Central Asia gives it a strategic importance that is .ittla &Ipr ecnated.
 "The khanate of Bokhara has an area about equal to that of Utah. but with four times the population. Since  have varied. Part of the time it has been an independent khanate, show ing it's DreTogative by taking up the rails of the Trans Caspian railway which passed through it's territory. Several times it has been under the control of the bolshevik forces. The amir had a picturesque army of about Il 900 soldiers, many of whom care lessly lounged along the stone pas sageway which leads up to the ark, or castle.
 "On this incline, in front of the royal residence, formerly there was enacted every Friday morning a ceremony inn preSsiye in it's dignity and dazzling in | it's eeior effects. Hundreds of solemn mullahs, clad in bright silk robes of stick-candy stripes or gorgeous golden suns on purple fields, belted with sil- yer and with buckles as large as salad plates, gathered here in impressive
 rows. each with a priceless prayer rug beneath his feet.
 These were not the dashing types which once made Mohammedanis1n a | power from Mecca to Gibraltar but | the ceremonialists whose religion is thing of dignity and prosperity l founded on trade rather fhan life ir 1 the saddle In unison they bow low so that only broad backs can be seen i but a moment later all are erect witf 1 their spotless white turbans the most prominent feature in a scene so color l ful that only an Oriental sun could
 harmonize it.
 .Bokhara is architecturaIly unim-
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OTHER VIEW POINTS

The United States sugar equaIixa- ton board authorizes a price of. 20 cents a pound for a cargo of sugar amounting to 8.OOO,OO0 pounds. but gives warning that by next seasons canning consumers can count on a price between. Is and IS cents. A board with so formidable 9 name ought to do better by us than that, we should think.-Waterbury American.
 How much power the Connecticut fair price commission has in conuoll- ing the price of things does hot fully appear from the conference, or what ever one pleases to call it, which Mir. Scoville has had with the bakers over the price of bread. The public is told that they appeared before MT. Sco- vile at his invitation. It also is told that they informed him as to just what the price of bread is to be, and that the new rates are to take effect immediately. The public may draw it's own nferences.-Hartford Times.
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Stories That Recall Others.
Oh, Man!

Ony Mdns
 On one of the recent cold mornings a man on Main street hustled down cellar early in the morning, pajama clad, to change the drafts on the fur mace. He decided to put the thermo meter outside to see how cold it was. The wind blew the door shut. He stood out in the cold with only his night apparel on for F minutes be- fore he could awaken any member of the family
 The Stage All Set.
 Sisters young gentleman was wait ing patiently in the drawing room when her little brother Tommy open cd tp with: Are you going to pro- pose to ray sister tonight:
 'FWhy, I-er-er- -er-what do you mean?"
 "oh, nothing! Only if you are you ain't going to surprise her. At dinner just now she bribed me an my little brother to go to bed at half past sev- en. She's hung four cupid pictures on the parlor wall, moved the sofa over in the darkest corner, got ma and pa to go callin' next door, shut the dog in the cellar. ans been prac- ticing Because I Love You" on the pianner all the afternoon"
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23

tDo you remember, said the girl with the blue hat to her hostess, ask ing me if thought Martha Gaylove really loved her husband. We'll I wasn't sure then. Alice, but am now. She does love hirl-down to the ground"
 How did you find out?" exclaimed the other girl. Martha tell you 2
 .sNo; Martha's far too shy to admit loving any one, even her husband, :" the girl with the blue hat answered. But I know it better than if she had told me. You remember what a silly little mouse Martha always was in the matter of dress don't you; how she always insisted upon wearing gray and brown and dark and blue and all the other quiet, inconspicuous colors? I'd as soon have expected Martha to dance 8 jig on the street as to wear pink ribbon.
 Well, Martha has been married nearly four months now, you know, and she's just buying her real trous- seau. Being a postwar bride, married as soon as her fiiance was unexpect- edly discharged from the service. she got nothing new. at the time, but the gown she was married in. And she conf1ded to me. nearly six weeks ago, that she was having difficulty in per suading her dear John not to buy for her things far too gorgeous and splen- did for her to be happy in. She said he couldn't seem to realize what a mild and indefinite sort of person she really was.
 What would you. do if he insisted upon giving you red velvet frock ?'' | I asked her, catching sight of mag nificent red velvet creation in a shop window and remembering the vocif- 1 erous opera cloak my brother Dick had bought for Justitia when she was a thin, shy little bride. Martha looked so scared was sorry I'd spoken. i Oh, I hope he'll never think of such a thing!' she cried, weakly. I'd hate to hurt his dear feeling, Jamie 1 but simply couldn't face the world in a red velvet gown
 "He did think of it,' broke in the ] girl with the errnine neckpiece, '.for he. asked me, one day about two or three weeks ago-John and l played together, as babies and he always treats me like a sister-if I didn't l think a red velvet gown would be 1 just the thing for Martha He said l he thought she dressed far too quietly and it helped to keep her thinking 1 poorly of herself. 1 did what I could
 for Martha. I told John that fear
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MATTHIAS COMING OUT

ed she would be drowned out by any touch of red velvet. spIendor, and that I didn't think she could possibly be herself in such a gown. But I don't believe he was altogether weaned from the idea"
 ssHe wasn't" said the girl in the blue, continuing her story flor just about a fortnight ago Martina brought up the matter herself one day when we ran into each other downtown and had luncheon together She said my question seemed almost prophetic, since John really had talked red vel vet gown to her. But she said that she'd wriggled out of the subject as often as he proposed it. because she really didn't feel that it was worth while considering. She said that even if she were weak enough to condone Johns weakness for brilliant color this in a tone that indicated she con- sidered it the only weakness in a character otherwise fiawless-it would mt be kind of her. She knew she'd look so horribly insignificant in red velvet that it would almost break
 Johns heart. I told her to remind
 him that dark colors were considered correct nowadays. Then I forget all about the matter yesterday, at the GeSnInS S receptlon, brilliant little figure flashed upon my sight! Tt seemed so strange, yet so some how familiar that figure, that work ed my way toward it. And when. at last, I got within speaking distance what do you think I saw sisters
 Why, Martha Gaylove in resplendent
 red velvet gown.
 "Never!" chorused her listeners, as
 the girl in the blue hat registered
 reminiscent amazement. How did she 1 look?''
 How did she look?" repeated the girl in the blue hat. ''She looked bet ter than I ever saw her look before John had bought the red velvet gown for her, she told me, and Johns taste 1 isn't so bad as we've thought it. The 1 red was lovely and it really seemed 1 to bring out quiet little Martha, to 1 say nothing of looking downright
 stunning among the prevailing black ness and dark blueness. But I could
 n't get over the fact that she'd con
 scented to wear it and even to seen l to like it. Martha must have. suffered i some remarkable change.''
 ] Not remarkable at all, smiled the 1 mother of the hostess, looking up from
 her corner Not remarkable at all but highly natural Martha, who wa. 1 but girl is in love and a woman
 Martha has grown up.'-Exchange
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23

of having this carry on the work and look after future changes.
 In all probability no city, except that it may have been one just start ing, has been able to accomplish all the nice things that have been sug gested to it in the way Of beautifica- tion, street layouts and park systems, but such work has nevertheless been the means of great improvement i'll a large number of cities and it is still gong on. Even though such work carrot all be done at ones 1t is advis- able that it should be uH5ertaken for the bettered appearaiice that will be presented as each years contributions to it are made: Many are the cities tsrat caA Co much in this si;.:assfon hy paying clese attention to- improve 1 streets ard sidewalks
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23

he deputised for his nephew, the King, at military functions. both at home and on the battle fronts, and carried out his duties like man half his age
 The only survivor of the four sons >of Queen Victoria, the Duke has has played prominent part in the Empires life for a third of. a century, and is well known and as highly es- teemed In the Overseas Dominions as in the Mother County. The son born to Lady Patricia just before Christ mas is his seventh, grandchild, five of them being the children of the Crown Princess of Sweden.-London Chronicle.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23

Don't stay stuffed-up! Quit blowing and snuffsng! A dose of Tapes Cold Compound" taken every two hours un- til three doses are taken usually breaks up cold and ends all grippe misery.
 The first dose opens clogged- up nos trils and air passages of head; stops
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23

nose running; relieves headache, dull ness, feverishness, sneezing, soreness, stiffness. s.,
 "Pape's Cold .CompoundTr is the quickest, surest relief known and costs only few cents at drug stores. It acts. without, assistance. Tastes nice Contains no Guinine. Insist on Papesi
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23

across the Caspian, as a Pan-Turanian center, and statesmen around the world are wondering what political plots are being matched beside its stagnant pools and in it's shadowy bazaars."
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23

Extravaganza has been reported as filling the garbage cans but down in Baltimore the municipal piggery is kicking because the city isn't furnish ing enough garbage to feed the pigs.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23
He Must Be tonesoms.

Renewed rurnors that one man who is taking the Poindexter boom seri- ously has been found in the person of Senator Poindexter. = Anaconda Standard.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23

Damage suits resulting from defec- tive streets cost Philadelphia oyer a half million dollars last year. The ex- penditufe of that sum on the streets would have been far preferable.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23

January has been working at hop, step and jump speed in order to ring in all the changes. There's one week left for the thaw.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23

The man on the corner. says, Wrist watches seem to be good for most ev- erytlaing except keeping time.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23

By the arrest of extremists another bomb plot is said to have been upset. But there will be those who will pro- test against even that.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23

The spread of influenza is not re- garded as alarming. The real anxiety comes from the cutting off of the an- tidote.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23

No more convincing proof of the confidence that prevails in the future of Norwich can be furnished than through the many transfers of busi- ness property in the past few months
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23

Congress has demonstrated very clearly that it knows how to get into deadiocks but not how to get out.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23

Admiral Mayo says that the naval board and Secretary Daniels acted within their rights but he doesn't think they acted justly. In that he doesn't differ very much from Ad- miral Sims.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23

From all accounts Holland is more wrought up over the demand for the former kaiser than Wilhelm is.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23

One can measure his length on the sidewalk and bound back into posi- tion much quicker if he has the idea that someone is looking.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23
EDITORIAL NOTES

Strange what 6 lot of unconquerable colds have developed since prohibition became effective. >
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23

The man with horse sense knows when to say nay.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-23

The Kings UncIe-The Duke of Connaught, who left London on Sat- urday for a rather prolongedi stay in the South of of France, will complete his 70th year next spring, but he has successfully hidden his advancing years. Many 2 time during the var