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Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30
GREAT LOSSES oE LEE

The people Of the country are hor- rihed at the number of lives that are lost and the many who are maimed at time of war because of the way in which it is done and the many af- fectsd in a brief time It is enough to appaH anyone and to arouse the strongest sentiment against war.
 But strange as it may seem the great loss of life from equally need less reasons does not seem to have the same effect. They are accepted in a matter of fact sort of a way and apparently far less efforts are made to reduce the number than ought to be expected.
 This situation is emphasized by the statistics compiled by the National Safety council by which it is shown that during the past year there were S0.e00 killed and 250 600 injured in aridents in this country, and those figures are very close to the casual ties in our army during the two years tt was engaged in the world war. In ollter words people were killed off in peace time pursuits twice as fast as were those involved in war although the percentage of losses among those involved in the fighting was of course much larger.
 The large number of accidental deaths and the many instances where injuries take place are due to the lack of care. Too little attention is paid to the important question of szfe<y. Some Of it is gross careless ness while much is due to thought leSsness and a failure to profit from the experiences of others. Widespread are the desires for the ending of wal but equally so should be the efforts towards the reduction Of deaths and injuries occurring in peace time There may be many factors that en- ter into such safety endeavors but il is evident that there are big opportu- mites open for the saving of life if the proper attention is only given to st
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no LOAN OR NOT TO LOAN.

Many are the occasions when this country hsa given prompt response to the appeals that have come from abroad for relief necessary to prevent starvation and to permit sufferers to regain health and reestablish them selves. We have regarded such help as duty to humanity and been anx- ious to participate in the good work. Few are the appeals made to the United States that do not get some response and invariably they are for outright gifts.
 It is some time since an appeal was made to this government to make loan Co Poland, Armenia and Austria for the purpose of relieving the con- ditions that prevail in those coun tries. The needs have been set forth and are in fact presented from differ ent sources. That there is need for assistance is not dispUted. We have been advised to make whatever loans we authorize in the form of foodstuffs rather than money. but that is just what will be highly acceptable where starvation conditions prevail. How soon we could expect that the loan would be returned there is no cer- tainty, but it is nevertheless evident that where conditions are bad they are going to become worse unless help is obtained somewhere.
 There may be ground for the de- mand that something more should be known about the attitude of Poland and the policy of the allies regarding war on the Polish front with the bol- sheviki, but it would appear that no better encouragement to follow the advice to go to work could be given than by showing that there is will lingness on the part of a nation that has plenty to loan some of it's food stuffs to those without If as repre- sented starvation is actually taking the lives of children and adults IT those countries we cannot sit by and do nothing. If such facts are mis- represented we should know it It is time the matter was decided one way or the other.
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earnings reported under the zone system constitute the best j1Gtifica- ton of the new system, and are the sole means by which the company can pay the state the nearly $1,OO0,- 900 it owes Yn back taxes, the obliga- tions it must pay the cities and towns that have bills against it, car ry out the paving programs the cities insist on, and buy new cars so that 1t may keep up with the growth of the communities it has helped to build up and which it does its best to serve, in the circumstances.-Hartford Times.
 Whether or not the fact that he can't get liquor is going to create a thirst in the average man we don't pretend to know, but we do know that the continual harping upon the luck o1 man with wet cellar is calculated to make the man with dry cellar envious.-Waterbury Republican.
 The United States Grain Corpora tion calls attention to the fact that its standard pure wheat flour is selling in carload lots at S10.S0 per 24 1-2 pound bags, as compared with we'll known brands of privately manufac- tured family flour which range from s14.75 to s16.00 in 24 1-2 pound paper sacks
 Tn other words, private -four makers are cI4sll sdne ,aeDOue od per cent. high CT prices than Uncle Sam.-BTidge- port Telegram.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30
CIRCULATION j WEEKENDlNe JANUARY 17, 1920
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HETcHERs RETIREMENT.

No great amount of surprise is oc- caSoned by the announcement to the effect that Ambassador Fletcher has resigned his post at Mexico City and Ein retire from diplomatic service. That he is to give up such work is barring the political features ef it, more unexpected than that he should desire to be relieved Of the undesirs- bic task he has been endeavoring to perform far the past several years.
 Ambassador Fletcher was selected to go to Mexico City because of the experience he had had in Chile and consequently his understanding of the South American attitude toward the Mexican situation. He found, how ever, that there was no such thing as establishing relations with Carranza that would result in the protection of American rights and interests. Be- cause of the feeling that had been created in the Mexican capital it was impossible even to get proper respect. And it was not because Fletcher was the ambassador for it would have been the same whoever had held the post The result has been that for the past year the ambassador has carried on his efforts from within this country with a subordinate in charge at Mexico City. Conditions, however. are showing no improve ment and from the action of the ann bsssador they are probably not likely to as long as CarranZa remains at the head of that government
 Whether this move on the part of the ambassador is made that efforts may be attempted through another to better the situation is not indicated. Inasmuch as the fault does not ap- pear to be that of our ambassador it may be that no successor will be named There are those in fact who have not been backward in maintain ing that we should sever our relations with Mexico entirely and there is a mass Of evidence that would support just such action. NIf the resignation is in protest against the failure to get endorsement of steps recommended concerning Mexico it is timely.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30
CONCERNING COFFEE

.'Coffee!n echoed the girl who had dropped in for a call. Don't tell me it's coffee you're offering me. If you only knew how I love it and the awful time I've been ghavingA-''
 Doctor forbidden itg. asked the hostess as she dropped two Jumps of sugar into the cup.
 ''Oh, nc, but I've been visiting the Morgan. Know the Morgans? Well, they're perfectly lovely people, but they don't drink coffee. If you can think of anything worse for a true cof- fee lover than being immured in a household where it's very name is ta- boo, I wish you'd tell me what it is.
 You see, went intending to stay g month, and expected to have per fectly glorious time: They do all the things like best, golf and motoring and playing bridge. But I received my first shock on the very first morning I'm always cross in the morning unti I've had my coffee, and on this day woke with.a headache and came down stairs simply longing for a good blacf cup to banish it. What was my uttel horror to have Mabel Morgan smile al me sweetly and ask whether I prefer red cocoa or a new kind of coffee preparation made from baled hay! .s--s Well. took the new stuff. and 0, all the ffightful corrections whicE ever defamed the name of coffee tha was the worst My headache go worse instead of better, and Mabel innocent prattle about how much bet ter they all had felt since they gav' up coffee drinking didn't improve i any, either. resolved to escape i'm mediately after breakfast and rul down to the little tearoom in the flex block for draft of the cup that cheer me. But escaping wasn't so easy The minute I suggested taking littl stroll Mabel said she knew wouldn' mind letting little Dorothy walk witt 1 me, the dear child needed the air. So 1 of course, I took little Dorothy and 1 didn't want her to go home and repor any induigences on my part so I wen i without my coffee. As soon as l go back to the house Mabel proposed
 game of golf. so I had no more oppcr 1 tunity.
 T tried to induce Mabel to stay a
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the golf club for luncheon in the hope that might get coffee there, but there
 was no such luck. Mable wanted to get home to the children so back we
 went and drank a nice stimulating
 glass of milk for my lunch. I should
 have died before night if I had not
 gone to dinner and been treated to a
 demitasse, and as it was lay awake
 wondering how on earth I could live through the next day.
 'tWell, I decided to wander off i'm mediately after breakfast in apparent ly aimless fashion and as soon as had cleared the hedge simply beat it for the restaurant, but that darling little Dorothy stuck to me like a burr. It was hopeless. went back to the sun parlor and tried to read, but wild
 thoughts of bribing the cook, of send 1 ing home for an alcohol lamp and a l pound of coffee. or of open rebellion
 made reading impossible.
 What. Ask Mable to let me. have
 coffee2 Oh you simply don't know i how Mable is. I couldn't ask her for i coffee. Some people are like that. you until you can't stand it. Mabel had
 gone in. for coffee temperance unti she was rabid on the subject. 
 s.Well,.I got to the point where l bought coffee favored. chocolate \ creams and would have taken furni- | ture polish if had thought it con. l tained coffee. I know exactly how some men feel since the country ha! I gone dry, felt desperate. After liv- I ing on milk and cocoa for a week ' bribed my sister-in-law to write m, l saying that I was needed at home a once, and home came. Was I glat Il to get back? Mercy I should say so 1 And before I go visiting again IT I make sure that my hostess doesn' Il to reform all the enjoyment out O Il breakfast.
 ] "Yes. thank you, will have anothe Il cup. Oh, no if I thought really de .I pended on coffee I'd give it up; o I course, I wouldn't be a slave to any , thing of the sort, for worlds. It \ simply that enjoy it, you know, ar, I it doesn't hurt me bit. If you hav a little more I shouldn't mind."- q Exchange.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30
sAuERkRAur.

Many families object to the odor of sauerkraut while it is cooking. al though they enjoy the food when serv- ed. Fortunately we may now buy cooked sauerkraut in cans, which we may heat through in the can, thus avoiding. the undesirable odor. Place the can in hot water to cover, bring 1 it to the boiling point and allow the can of sauerkraut to remain in the hot
 water some twenty minutes.
 The popular sauerkraut and wieners
 may be arranged in layers in baking
 dish covered and baked in the oven- l Pigs feet and sauerkraut, cooked together, make a hearty and satisfy 1 ing dish, especially appropriate to
 serve on a cold day. Many who have made the sauerkraut in a primitive
 way on the farm prefer to eat it un-
 cooked.
 Sauerkraut Is made from combi-
 nation of finely chopped cabbage and salt, allowed to ferment.
 1 The great factories. with their up
 to date machinery. produce this pro-
 duet in sanitary economical man ner. This saves thousands of tons of cabbage which would otherwise be 1 wasted and insures us a constant, even supply of this favorite food. l One-hah of the world woships the other half because 1t has money.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30

to prevent such quarrel resulting from the settlement of the war and because of that it seems not imprcb- able that further efforts will be made to get Jugoslavia to see the wisdom of making a settlement that will avoid trouble which could not help being disastrous to itself.
 Neither of the countries is in po- sition to become involved in war Their efforts are needed in other di- rections for. their own welfare but delays are only aggravating a bad sit- uation.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30

Marconi says he has been getting strange signals. Possibly it Is Hoover getting his wires crossed trying to break into both political parties at the same time.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30

Now that those who belong. to the communist party are subject to de- portation, efforts to escape 1t by forming ear-communist party will probably be made.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30

Someone Is calling attention to the fact that the democrats promised to reduce the cost of living. Wasn't there also something about one term for the president?
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30

Here and there we find a governor who Is willing to make the presiden- tai race if his party wants him. This is the time for all with a similar feeling to stand up.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30

There Is no connection between the large amount of unrest the country has been and is experiencing. and the fact that church members have in- creased nearly three million since 1s1ss
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30

With the paper currency of the world increased 500 per cent. since 1914 it doesn't seem to have been se- riously affected by the paper short age.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30

Alrhouqh you can put thousands of microbes on a pin head, and not one of them would have so much. cause Tor complaint as persons in a home bound railway carriage, the gentle men who were operating certain op- tical instruments at the Physical and Optical Society's exhibition Jan. 8th consider most microbes quite large.
 They showed a Daily Chronicle rep- resentative, who called round. Mir. Malaria Microbe, fat and worm like person of great tenacity: while an other introduction was toN MT Reri Beri, an insidious and persistent ere ature who looked like chopped bits of cotton. VI
 The former gentleman was coiled Hp in a globule with a serene and complacent expression on his counte- ! nance. ony to be observed on the DOS Sessors of corner seats.
 When asked if he would show a hair the optical gentleman seemed aghast ct the tremendous size of the object wanted.
 q will show you a nettle-s sting. {" he said, Tor a poppy's egg. the gizzard of flea, or the scales of a butterfly: but a hair, my dear sir, is large. very innocence.
 tWith the possible exception of the influenza germ, microbes are quite ! easy to measure" he explained.
 "A large thing like a hair one measures with callipers; but the bac. l teria we measure in nicrons. so many of which go to make up a wave | of light, the standard wave being tht Sodium flame, several thousands ot which go to make up a micron." Blowing some of the smoke iron | my pipe down a tube across a small l arc light, was able to see the mil
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30

With a Chicago tailoring establish ment nearly doubling it's profits the past year, it is plain that the cause for higher prices is not all labor costs
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30
Stories That Recall Others.
Nd Cards i'd the House.

The fourth grade teacher had a great deal of trouble with Fred's att tendance. He was absent so often that she grew suspicious and wrote to his 1arents as follows:
 'I am afraid that Fred is playing truant, and I would like your CO., operation in securing better atten- dance record from him."
 Back that afternoon came this an- swer:
 tcuant he didn't Tern it at hoam. We air church people and haint got a card in the house."
 Reasons for Corduroy. x
 Eight year old John had been along with his young aunt to buy a pair of biI,e serge trousers for school. The salesman showed them several differ ent pairs, but none seemed to suit John. Finally while the salesman was hunting for some others, John took occasion to say to his aunt: "Oh, auntie, please ask him to show me some corduroys. The principal at our school has a brand new paddle"
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30
Cleaned from Foreign Ex..
 changes

Losing his sight at the age of 20. 2 Leeds man named Wilkinson, devoted himself 10 the study of natural his- tory, and has become so expert that, according to an account given at the Royal Institution yesterday, heis 1one of the botanists we have got
 ''He can tell every plant you put before him." said the lecturer. "by the feel and the taste; and he has cul- tivated his sense of hearing to such a pitch that the country is an open book to him.
 'He can always tell the sound made by every. different tree at each season of the year.
 Tt is most extraordinary to. sit and listen to him telling of what he can hear He has curious sense, of what is about him."
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30

Just because government owned railroads in Australia lost heavily last year it doesn't make us feel any bet ter about the situation here.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30
Reasons For Corduroy.
Woman's Problem.

The big problem facing the Ameri- can woman today is that of deciding how to report her age to the census umerator-Nashville Tennesseean.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30

For a slapdash finish all that is re- quired is to stand on the curb while an auto is rapidly driven through the sposh.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30
EDITORIAL NOTES.

If you haven't been counted in the census it is time to stand up and make fuss about 1t.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30
"As though men fought on Mother earth
 Or fiends in middle air

Sailors are proverbially supersti- tious, and some of the older ones be- gan to shake their heads and say that the wailings were those of ghosts or evil spirits and foreboded disaster 10 the ship and crew.
 The mystery was solved in day
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30

The man on the corner says: Uni versal observance of the Golden Rule would render all laws useless.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30

Much has been said in favor of sun baths, but for influenza there are those who advocate moonshine.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30
A sianiaeant Fact.

It is sifni1cant that Governor SprlouI dates the beginning of. our difficulties with Mexico as on March 4, 1913.-Chattanooga News.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30

It might interest some of your readers to know that Professor Bragg's bamboo Jazz band is not en- tirely original.
 A good many years ago was ap- prentice on a wind jammer" home ward bound from Burmah. We had been tightening our lower rigging and protecting the ropes with bambeos, of which We had a quantity over from those used for dunnage or pack ing of the cargo. The night after these were fixed a gale arose, and above the noise of the wind we heard a most extraordinary chorus, some times rising to. piercing shrieks and discordant yells,
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30
The name of Count sferza, men

The name of Count Sferza, mem toned in Italy as a, possible successor to the embassy in London, recalls at once the famous ducal family of Mi Ian, which has inspired so many his- torians and novelists, besides bringing to mind the curious way in which the father of Franceso Sforza, who found ed the dynasty, decided to seek his fortunes in the wars of the period.
 It was at Cotignola that old Sforza threw his pickaxe into the branchel of an oak, and swore to abide by the result. If the axe fell to the ground he would stay at home; if not he would join a body of adventurers. It remained, and he went forth to found, through his son, a dynasty the glory and the evil of which was to resound through the world.
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lions of little solid particles which float about in every puff of tobacco smoke.-The London Chronicle.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30

Viscountess Astor will go down in history as the first woman to take her seat in the British parliament. A point of interest in her victory is that she is a majority member, with a clear lead over her opponents. In that she differs from several colleagues whom she will meet at Westminster.
 Really the first woman elected, though she is probably not eligible, and, in common with other Sim Fein- CTS, has not attempted to take her seat, is the firebrand known as the Countess Markievicz, who was re- turned by a large majority at the general election, for a division of Dublin.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30

Two little courtesies of M. Poin- cares last visit to Engand are worth recalling. As his carriage passed the Queen Victoria Memorial on the way to Buckingham Palace ,.the president gravely saluted her Majesty's statue an action which was followed by all the French officers in his suite and drew great burst of cheering from the crowd.
 When he went to Windsor he found the compliment returned, for by the kings particular instructions the Waterloo flags and all other histor- ical relies likely to wound French susceptibilities had been removed from view.
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or two as the gale was blowing itself out by a younger and observant mem Der of the crew, who happened to be standing bA the rigging when one of the wild screams began. When the bamboos were removed we had no more weird music.
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UuF poor old earth must prepar9 itself for a series of shocks during the present year, according to an expert correspondent, who warns Us that on February ', 1920, there will be vol cantc eruption in the East India Isl- andS and on the following day there will be an earthquake in Bessarabia, followed 12 days later by another in South Africa.
 Eleven days after, on March ?. there will be still another in Central Eu- rope, in 4S degrees N. latitude, at midnight. as repetition of the earthquake that occurred in Austria on September 2, 1884. at midday when the great tidal bodies were relative ly in similar positions.
 We give these warnings for what they are worth. and not necessarily as an official programme
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One-hah of the world woships the other half because 1t has money.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-01-19

tensely personal, in which life insurance
actually carries the individual who in
vests in it. For instance, life insur-
ance policy carries you to the door of
the bank and gives you welcome with
the President when you ask him for a
business loan, and you would find, if you
could explore the back of his mind, that
that life insurance policy had carried
you very much farther into his good
graces concerning that financial trans
action than you could have imagined.
Again, life insurance carries you into
the position of a sizable estate just as
soon as the first premium is paid. This
is a good big argument in favor of the
man who invests.
Again, in almost every mans lite there
comes time when he actually needs to
be picked up and carried for while.
Something serious has happened, big
doctors bill or an unfortunate business
experience, or something of the sort,
has bowled him over. At that time a
life insurance policy comes along and
actually puts him on his feet and starts
him all over again. This, of course, is
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-01-19

To begin with, there is something that
every decent man feels with regard to
the future of wife and children that is
actually load on his mind and on his
heart,-a load that cripples his eff
cheney in other things; that either
makes him reckless in his expenditures,
because he sees no way of meeting ade-
quately this problem of the future well
fare of his family, or that makes him
miserly and unhappy for the same
reason. This load, life insurance as
sumes and carries in such a way as to
absolutely relieve the man of his bur-
den. 1t starts him out every day care
free in reference to future obligations
in case of his sudden death or serious
illness.
Again, life insurance carries you into a
frst-rate habit which is hard otherwise,
to form, viz, a habit of systematic
saving.
eyes, but" you say, "a man must carry
life insurance before it can carry him."
This might be true if there were not so
many additional things which are in