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Connecticut western news., 1920-08-05
Ellis, State Leader

Benjamin W. Ellis, Assistant State Leader of County Agents since January 1, 1920, has been promoted to State Leader to succeed Richard E. Dodge. With his practical know ledge of farming, his success as County Agent in Windham County for more than three years, his ex- perience as Assistant County Agent Leader for a year in Massachusetts, and his six months apprenticeship as Assistant State Leader under MT. Dodge, MT. Ellis is highly qualified to take up the duties of Statewide supervision of County Agent work. To Eradicate Objectionable Roosts
 At certain seasons of the year grackles (blackbirds), starlings, cowbirds, English sparrows, purple martins, robins, and others establish nightly roosts at which thousands of the birds often gather. Frequently these roosts are located in the resi- dential sections of cities, where their noise and fifth become a decided nuisance. To remove such roosts the following methods are recom- mended by the Bureau of Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture:
 When the roost is populated with birds not protected by Federal or State laws (usually the case with
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-22

fish football, of a rough and ready sort. was well known in 1l75, So rough was the old game that three English monarchs enacted laws against the "devilish pastime" Not until the n1ids dle of last century did English players begin to reduce it to order, and safe guard it with rules.
 Venizeios: How has he achieved re- suits thaH which no Philip of MacedoH could have achieved more? We think it is especially by that rare eonbina- ton of qualities which has enabled him at one and the same time to ap- preciate fully the temperament of his i own and the other Balkan peoples, and also-what is very rare in a Balkan politiciap-to understand the Western 1 and particularly British, standpoint l He has seldom failed to hold the en- thgsiasm of tAe popular parties in Hellas;, but also from his earliest youth be has studied British asd l Western history, the British eonstl- i tGilonal models; and from first to lasi
 has known how to act to win the con fidence of the great powers, and to en-
 list them on the side of Greece.
 The Book Lovers City: No worthiel
 place than Norwich could have beer
 chosen by the Library Association fe, l their gathering. Its golden book O antieuaries, artists, authors and re formers is as rich as any in the king dom. In bookishness it stands su
 preme. It was in the ancient hal
 where the librarians are meeting tha
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-22
rACxLrNG THE OPERATORS.

Although charges were made as long ago as last May that coal producing companies fn West Virginia were profit eering. it is only in the last days of Sep temher that the department of justice has called a federal grand jury together in special session for the purpose of prosecuting the alleged offenders. Dur ing the spring and summer these com panies have apparently been doing bus. mess in the manner complained of last May, the consumers have been obliged to meet the demands and in many in stances to get along with curtailed sup plies because of the prices demanded The announced determination to pres ecute 250 coal operators comes after i has been shown that the shipping boart was even being forced to pay what th' chairman called outrageous prices ant after government reports have show that the cost of coal production was 5, low as to make the prices exacted en tirely unjustsfied.
 The indictments asked against the coa operators should result in the bringini out of facts which have been obtained by the departments investigators anl those which are possessed by tho opera tors. It should also determine whethe the proiteering can be charged direetl to the operators CT whether it is due t those who have handled the coal after has left their hands, With the cost 0 production held to he not over four dol ! lars a ton and in many instances not a
 much as that by third, it can be read | fly appreciated that the high prices dc
 manded have left 1t possible for bi lprofits to be made somewhere It ha
 been hoped that this would be found oy
 long before this but from the action ths
 is now being taken the department woul seem to be in a way to determine wher
 the gouginE has been and who has bee doing it. It is time for revealing thos
 things which the operators didn't wal
 b disclose during the consideration {
 the recent wage award by the cal con
 mission. The move of ;hs gove-nmen
 however, hasn't thus far brought an
 slump in the market or served to il crease the amount available.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-22
FEERGE EUroRcEMENr.

Much surprise was expressed not so many months ago when a Dartmogth eoliese student was arrested, charged with kiEling a fellow student as the re- suit of a quarrel over whiskey and the accompanying charge that the slayer had besn ens2gsd in smuggling uhis- key tuio the country in violation of the law. DsEslepEzzats have sinea suppsrt- cd the charges and the college student as the result of a plea of guilty is new scsving a long sentence in prison.
 Hardly has he gotten tnte the insti- tuti0u where he must spend many years before a Canadian official Is quoted as declaring that ene law is being violated evsry day regarding the smuggling of iiqpor an the way frem Maine to Seat fie- Sama of the runners are caught but In his opinion they ars few in com. parison te the number engaged in thu business.
 This Illustrates the difaooifiss that ars being experienced in the enforcement d prohibition or at least the failure |, sn, force the law under tho present nskhsa- of doinE it. Many were the reasvns al vanced before prohibition as te why \ would be impossible to enforce 1t. The Canadian border on the north, and th. Mexican border on the seuth we1s psizt. Cd out as being % leng sna unHFstpetz1 that it Wsnid ba next to insnrzpzsAs- q srvvsnt ,hs errrSrr sf'hUuF-a<<smsea
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-22
FIGHTING THE RAIDERS.

With the idea of helping to give add ed protection to the farmers whose pro- duets are subject to theft by those who drive through the country for such a purpose, and at the same time to dis courage the practice it is an interesting attitude which Is taken by the state registrar of motor vehicles in Massachu- setts who has announced that following the conviction sf such offenders their li- censes will be revoked and they will not be permitted to register again.
 Even before the automobiles became so common there were those who were accustomed to go into the country with their teams for the purpose of raidins the crops of the farmers, such leot being peddied the next day from house ts house for just what it was-fresh vege- tables. With the automobiles it is even easier to engage h such work and it is possible to cover larger territory. Pc tatees are dug. corn is picked other veg, etabies are harvested and apnles and peaches are taken from the trees by ths barrel There are of course these Whe suffer from similar robbers even though teams and autos are not used to carry tne pp9auce away puS tslS fAOSI sSF1VuS of such operations are attributed to those who have the quick and easy means ol transportation and to those who can thus get farther away from their home community.
 It is realized of course that there i: much that goes to waste on the farms but it isn't that class of goods that sucl raiders are looking for Theg go after and get the best because it is just a! easy and the preft is greater. Agains such practice too firm stand canno be taken It deserves not only the pen alty as prescribed under the law by l the stand taken by the Massachusetts, motor vehicle registrar is deserving e comnendatioa. The possibility of havinl | tteir means of getting and transportinl
 their leet as we'll as displaying thei
 wares denied them may bother nor
 than the risk involved in defying tn
 law. It is a move that cannot fail |
 get the hearty approvsl of these wh have been raided
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-22
CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING SEPT. 18th
 10.926
BOMB WARNINGS.

When Collector of Customs Edwards ai New York received warning to the encct that the custom house was ta be blown up he regarded it as a joke. He had no idea who might be trying to get birn nervous but he didn't take it seri- e1siy. Nevertheless he didn't disregard h He considered that inasmuch as he had been warned the safest thing to de wae 10 guard against any such possi- blIlty lest what he considered to Dc ,. jeks proved otherwise.
 Naturally the time to take precau- tiens against operations which are dis closed in advance is before they take Biace. He might have thrown the warn iRg into the wastebasket and the GUS tsns house might rot have been dam aged by so much as a fly speck. But tc do SO was to take a chance when good JBdE1nent directed him to follew the course Of safetS- first.
 Whether he would have taken a sec ond thought about the matter had not the city and country been aroused by the internal machine in Wall street ealy he can say. But as a means of proven ton he placed the warning in the hand, of the authorities and steps to frustratt any plot were taken. The building wal not blown up. but who knows but wha the very precautions that he was instru mertal in having taken did not upset tn. plat.
 Perhaps it Is as easy to believe tha there was no danger as it is that tn. guards placed about the building fur niahed the vital protection. There is lit tle ts judge by except that the building is today intact though vigilance may no relax for some days.
 Had the same course been follower with the warnings given concerning tn Wan street explosion it is entirely possi ble that 1t would have been prevente CT more known about those concerne therefn.~ As it is it has emphasized tn importance of making the most of sS vance information whether it proves be worth anything or not It better b in the hands of the authorities than i ths wzstebasket
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-22

tower to tower further suggested the skyscraper likeness. On these pre- cursors of the modern fire escape many community battle has ragged. To quote one vivid description: Gan gonels or catapuits, huge engines sta tioned on the roofs of the towers. sent masses of stone hurtling through the air. whistling arbelast bolts and cloth yard shafts flew in thick showers, boiling oil or lead rained down on the heads of those who ventured down to attack the doors, and arrows, with Greek fire attached, were shot with nice aim into the wooden balconies and bridges. The shouts and shrieks Eof the eombatants were mingled with he crash of falling tower or with | the missing of fire-aFroY Where i thick cloud of smoke enveloped the 1 defenders
 "All of which goes to prove that 1 i?isa's interest lies far deeper than thi architectural curiosity that has naGt 1t famous. Even the tower served ha- 'nanity well, aside from becoming the most effective bit of city advertising l yet devised, for it permitted Calico | a native of Pisa to carry on his eX- periments with the laws governing tht pendulum.
 Moreover the tower is but one par If what has been called the most ia. nous group of architecture in tn, world, after that of St. Marks Placl l in Venice The other parts are thu 1 Duomo, or cathedral, and the Baptis tery. The chandelier still hangs il the former which. by its swaying, i said to have set Calico to investigat ing the pendulum.
 Both these noble piles contain rel fes that recall events of Pisa's- com posite history One are piece, tn
 Santa Maria ,Sotto gli Organ est Mar
 Under the Organ) so called from it
 position, is known to have been i
 Pisa since the thirteenth century. Tn picture has been conspicuous in ser
 vices and in proeessions, yet it is be
 livede that no eye saw it from tha
 time until December 13, 17S9. Ther
 Is a tradition, recalling the experienc
 of those who profaned the Biblical arl
 that all who tried to lift it's veils wer
 Gtricken.
 When a severe earthquake shoo Pisa in ls46. this Madonna was sol
 emnly crowned in thanksgiving fc
 the city's escape. Even now the pic | ture is unveiled only in times of grea distress"
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-22

pick quarrel that had long been sim mering. o sort of medieval Boston Tea Party was staged by the Pisans, who seized all the enemy merchandise within their reach, and thus precipi- l-tated the first of a series of wars with Florence which eliminated in the sub lection of Pisa by her long time rival The lapdog story seems trivial, yet characteristic of certain childish quality noticeable among the juvenile | civic nationahties that preceded na- l tional Italy. As further proof one I InIghta recall the occasion when the victorious army of Lucca hung upon | a Pisan tower a mirror with the in l seFlption Oh women of Pisa, use these l to look at yourselves No other chal-
 lenge was needed for the Pisans to
 march to the gate of Lucca, and there to plant poles. topped with mirrors,
 bearing retaliatory comment
 l During one of the wars between ] Florence and Pisa - William Dean Howells counted seven but admits he may have missed few the Floren- tines had chased the Pisans back to
 ther own city. An eagle, revered by
 the Plsans as were wolves in Rome
 and lions in Florence, escaped to the
 enemy camp. The bird was killed
 dragged back to Florence, and there l SI eat was the TeJolCInS over the omen
 Of Pisa's capture.
 Were super Rip Van Wrinkle ot
 medieval Pisa to come with his latter
 day compatriots to Ellis Island in 1920
 not only the national bird of his
 adopted land. but the skyscraper hne
 of New York might make him feel al home
 Towers they were called, these Pisa skyscrapers, huddled together for al , the world like groups of tall apart. ment houses. Two reasons are as. signed for this method of building } common to Italian towns of tht , twelfth century. One was that tht walls permitted only vertical expan sion when population pressure in creased. Another, believable in view | of the constant factional fights ans family feuds,- attributed them to tn, $ necessity for protection
 } Bridges that could be thrown iron
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-22
FRANCES PRESIDENT.

Apparently the question of who is Ko- inf ts be the next president of France, the successor to Dsschanel has been determined by the expression of willing ness on the part of Premier Millerand to accrpt the office. Previously he had de- ciared that he did not want 1t and would not take it The office of president is faf less desirable for man of action than that of premier. Pressure was however, brought to bear upon Millerand and while he insisted that another should be put in the presidency insstence that he bs the man prevailed.
 That he will be more than a figure. head in the office is to be expected. A. premier he has taken a stand in behalf Of France and French interests which cannot fail to be recognized and it 1, unsusstionably that which has brough about such an insistent demand that h, bs made president Though his indicated willingness to give up one office for tn, other does not necessarily mean his cleo ton t will unquestioRahly result. N, other candidate for the office is thus fal announced.
 Just what will be the outcome of tn, advocacy by Millerand of giving nor autharity to the president of France vii be- awaited with increased interest nov thai he seems likely to be the mex French president The fact that he vii be urging it for himself is offset b- the fact that he urged it for another a time when there was no prospect tha he would ever fill tiie position and afts which nc has repeatedly declined to be cone a candidate. He would have al exeellent opportunity nevertheless to nc only emphasize just what added author ity should be given the president but | would have the chance to demonstrat how it ought to be used.
 Aside from The action of the nationa assembly upon the choice of a presiden much interest will center in the selee ton of premier as a successor to Nil lerand- In view of the manner in whic he has been supported in the adninistrs ton of the post it is not unreasonabl Co suppose that the next premier vi be man of much the same makeup a himself
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-22

" You don't love me any more" de-, clared the pretty young wife with the melting black eyes, registering pain and indignation. Not scrap!"
 You surprise mel" said her hus- band. What makes you think l don't love you, and when did I do it
 "Ail the time!" his pretty wife in- formed him distinctly. You may net realize it, George, but you do! I mean you don'ti Last night I asked you how my hair looked and you said, Fine and never giaeed up from your newspaper. For all you knew I might have been wearing it slicked back and
 built up into an African saVage's tow CT stuck full of bones and things! l
 asked you how you liked my new hat and you said it was fine and you al- ways were fond of roses-when they
 haven't been putting roses on hats
 since Washington crossed the Dela- l ware! You hadn't even seen my hat it might have been bushel basket CT wire toaster! You just don't take
 any interest in me or look at me or 1 anything!"
 T don't have to look at you" her husband told her. T have perfect picture of you in mind, constantly with
 me, and suppose I get mixed up and | don't know whether it is really you
 am seeing or my vision of you! see you all the time."
 T don't want you to see me all the time,' protested his pretty wife, flatly You can't tend to business if you do and If you realized what butter and 1 things cost you'd know how impertan, 1 it was for you to devote at least eight hours to visions of money. 1 just wani you to look at me when you ought te be looking at me"
 | Well my goodness, Roberta cried 1 her good looking husband, "how 1T
 thunder am I to know just what hours you consider the psychological mo
 1nent for regarding you with my sou I in my eyes? If you said 8 to 10 that's i when I'm busy with the mornings ! mail, and if you chose to 6, I'm usu- ally at the club talking to some man and it would be hard to make him un- derstand. While if broke up a bridge l table in the evening by jumping to my i feet and exclaiming that from g to Il
 had an engagement to look at m! wife and really see her, I certainl! should lose in popularity. People art l so intolerant of sentiment when spells a no trump handi"
 'It just shows" said his pretty wifi,
 coldly, "how little this means to vol
 when you can act as though it were Ijoke!"
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-22
THESE THINGS DO HAPPEN

I.can't have you feeling like this,D interrupted her good looking husband. "Trot out that hat and let me examine it-and I certainly do like your hair done this new way, now, look at it- again."
 'Oh, my gracious!" moaned his wife. My hair is done the old way tonight, the way I've been doing it for five years! And I shall not show you my hat, George Pengoose, because that isn't the point at ali What good would it do to have you interested in a thing if I practically had to drag you to it at the point of a gun? You've got to be spontaneous about that sort of thing! And I spent fifteen minutes the other evening telling, you how l mother was having her house all done over and that she had new pearl pin and when 1 finished you asked me whether had seen mother lately. You | don't listen to me"
 Now, isn't that queer?" broke ir | her husband. Lem White says his | wife accuses him of the very same thing, not listening to her. And I told him I always listened to my wife and she had no cause to complain. :. NH'm!" sniffed his pretty wife q don't see why a man has to lose al interest in his wife the way every ont 1 of them does! never thought you't l be that way, Georgei When I thinl | how devoted you were the year and { half before we were married!"
 T was afraid I was going to los, you" explained her husband. | And now you're afraid you won't!' snapped the pretty wife. This woult be perfectly funny if it were vaude vile sketch"
 l 'Tll do anything you want me to 1 Roberta" soothed her husband "Yo, can make out a chart if you want to- and anyhow, I'll never do it again | Why, you know I'm crazy about you!
 Are you?" asked his pretty wifi dubiously, "or are you just saying S because you think you have to?" T mean it, of ceurse,n her husbanl assured her. And I'm noticing righ
 now that you have on your new dres
 you've been talking about and I thin ] it's awfully becoming-where you go
 ing?"
 ''No place. said his pretty wife fror
 the doorway tragical1y. "But I've go
 to have action or lose my mindi Fv
 worn this dress around home, Georg Penrose, for a year andsa half"
 "Now, wouldn't that frost you?% sai
 the good looking husband to himseI
 after he had sat in stunned silence fo five minutes all alone I'm certainl an unlucky guy!"-E1change
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-22
IN THE DAYS NEWS
Pisa.

"A city of 10000 skyscrapers before Peter Minuit bought Manhattan Island for the present price of a supper at a Broadway cabaret.
 A city that warred and traded with empires, yet plunged into a disastrous struggle with a rival city over the rights to lapdog,
 "A city which was seized after a Fiorentine Hobson bottled up it's har- hor entrance with sunken boats six centurier before the battle off Sant- ago Bay
 Such, according to bulletin from the Washington, D. C., headquarters of the National Geographic Society is Pisa, whose leaning tower was endan- gered by recent earthquake tremOrs i in Italy.
 "Pisa's record abounds in incidents as freakish as it's famous tower; yet 1 it possesses a history necessarily more ] significant than any British or Ameri-
 town may be rich in municipal annal
 but Pisa attained national status and conquered coveted territory i "A flcurishing town when Rome was
 a very mean city indeed, it was nur- ] tured during the heyday of the Elm 1 pire, and was among the first of the Italian cities to emerge from thai l ehrysalis into a robust independence Indicative of Pisas importance ir
 the thirteenth century was her send. ing an ambassador to Rome Thereby
 hangs the story of the lapdog. Dur
 ing the coronation ceremonies of Fred. eriek II the Florentine emisarry ad-
 mired the lapdog of certain cardinal
 So that dignitary promised to give tn. tiny animal to its admirer. Next da.
 the Pisan ambassador said 8 few kins
 words about the same dog, and thi ' cardinal just as readily promised it tt him. The Florentine sent for his gift
 and got it; the Pisan sent, and receiv ed an apology. Florentines began jok
 ing the Pisans about this incident, ant
 fights ensued on. the Roman streets When the Pisan home folks heard thi it gave them an excellent chance t
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-22

line. In fact k is insisted that it is cas- ser to get into the country without pass Ing inspection before the customs ofii- ctais Or enforcement authorities than it Is to find one for such purposes.
 But if there is such general failure within the cities of the country ts en- force the provisions of the Vcistead act it is perhaps less surprising that there should be such a small number placed alnog the border lines to keep the wet goods out of the country. Prohibition isn't being enforced and there are those whe are raking in bisger profits in the sale of hqnor under prohibition than they ever thought ef when they had a | legal right to sell it.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-22
CLEANED FROM FOREIGN
 EXCHANGES.

Golf and cricket having been intro duced as rivals in antiquity, a foot balier puts in a claim for his pastime, which takes it back to ancient Greece and Rome. This Greek game seems to have had points resembling our rugby while the Roman form had a soccer" trend. In both games the number of players was very large. Ireland claims a two thousand years acquaintance with the game, and Eng