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Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Should Make Firm Stand Against E.
 travagant Demands of Teachers.

travagant Demands of Teachers.
 MT Editor: Will you please tell me if a woman must be a registered voter in order to vote on school matters?
 I know many women taxpayers who have no male voters in their family and who are opposed to extra taxes to ben eft the teachers I understand each of the seventy-five teachers in the league are asking ten voters (not taxpayers) to
 go down Tuesday evening and help them put this burden over on the people. If all these men, many of whom are boys of twenty-one and up, (whose idea of life is plenty of easy money, good clothes and good time) pack the town meeting at the request of the stylish
 school teachers what chance have the women taxpayers for a voice in the mat ter?
 It has been interesting to read the let ters on this matter but no one seems to lay much stress on the main point. Can we afford this increase?
 When they received the raise two l years ago a prominent lawyer in town | said we could not afford it as the town was on the road to bankruptcy. If that statement was true then how l much more so now with the great Mar ! lin plant closed and conditions growing worse every day! Report also says that when the increase was given the teach
 CTS remarked it was only a beginning
 and they intended to try for more in an- | other year or two.
 i The truth of that report is evident by the rapidity with which the teachers
 asked for another two hundred in addi 1 tion to the two granted by the board. Figures don't lie" but someone mus 1 have figured curiously when the league | submitted their payroll to "truthfullI l inform the public"
 | Does it matter what our neighbor pay!
 for things if we cannot afford the samt price?
 Why compare other towns and citie
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19

Blooming with industry and lower taxes in proportion to what we pay) With ours?
 New Haven for instance, whose ave- rage salary was s782 against our $e39, and three times the business in New Ha- ven.
 Many people are awake to these dis .crepancies even though they are not high school graduates. We help foot the bills. Supt Graham was willing to save fifteen hundred by closing Long Society
 school but was anxious to place his pet
 scheme of a junior high on the taxpay- CTS shoulders to the tune of two hun dred and fifty thousand. Consolidation in our town is a sample of what the ad- vocates of the Smith -Towner bill in con-
 gress are trying to put over on people in the United States.
 What does Supt. Graham know or care about the needs of district when his visits to the schools are few and far be- tween? It would be easier for him if all the districts were condensed into small I CT space. We cannot afford higher taxes | but we can afford a shakeup in the | school system from the superintendent down through the city government. l Would the teachers have the nerve to I tell 8 woman taxpayer on . committee | that they cannot live on their present I salaries as they Haunt their thirty dollar. l bags, sixteen-fifty waists and hot olive oil shampoos? I ask the chamber of commerce how birds" arc going to build homes in the town with the ever mount 1 ing taxes? We were anxious to join the l building association, but my husband I tried to keep four people, including a I baby on less than twenty dollars a week. I One week it was only eight dollars. It couldn't be done and he has been forced to leave town to get enough to live de- gently and pay our bills. This is the plight of a great many families in town. We city people especially should turn out in force, rent payers and taxpayers
 and make a firm stand against this eX- | travagance. Let the teachers resign if they want to and let us get along as | best we can until times are normal The | children won't be out very much if some l never went back. The league may find l itself in the same boat with the trolley
 strikers With three big suits against the city and other expenses due to wea-
 ther conditions. we doubly taxed small l taxpayers will be going to the poorhouse l while the teachers and the politicians gc joy riding with the profteers.
 If we had a few more men like ex-
 Mayor Allyn Brown, who were not
 afraid to preach and practice economy
 with public money there would be more bigger and better Norwich.
 ONE WHO FEELS THE PINCH. Norwich, April IT, 1920
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MT. Editor: Is our school system a failure? It looks so. Has the principal no control over these belligerent teach CTS? If not, then the board should get one who has. No one knows who is
 running the school system. Not so in the days of district management We need district management We need district management with general super
 vision. Our present system is extrava-
 gant, wasteful and incompetent. Our school taxes have gone from mills to 10 and probably F mills. These agi- tating teachers who seem to be among the more incompetent of the teachers have taken matters into their own
 hands. Why talk about Russia? We have got Russia at home. These fur coated automobile owning individuals are never satisfied. The poor rent pay CT has to pay for these luxuries We have had one raise in rent; now if this 1 favored class has their way We will get another raise in rent They have lot | of worry but the town can't get school l teachers. Too bad! They don't need to 1 worry about the town. Why don't those i who are not satisfied resign all togeth- | CT? The citizens will take care of the i rest. They are getting more money now 1 than teachers in adjoining towns where 1 living expenses are much higher When | will this panhandling agitation ceasel
 What is the meaning of this town meeting? It means that some teachers 1 have panhandled some citizens into at
 tending the meeting tc pass a resolution | favorable to raising their pay. It has
 no binding effect whatever If the
 board paid any attention to the action
 of this meeting in raising their pay restraining injunction can be placed up-
 on them. Taxpayers and rent payers see | what is in store for you if this per 1 formance continues. School taxes up to l 15 mills before we get through and rents | raised and everyone knows they are bad
 enough now. These agitating teachers l with their discontent and unrest are not 1 the proper kind to teach and educate l young people. They are not in the pro- l per frame of mind to instill the right
 ideas into their pupils. We are trying
 to overcome the spirit of unrest and dis
 content while the ones we are paying
 to help overcome this spirit are the worst examples of it. Why don't the l board or the principal discharge this element?
 l RENT PAYER. 1 Norwich, April IT 1920.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19
RECIPES.
Crab Meat saIsd-Crab

Crab Meat SaIsd.-Crab meat salad is delightful when offered in boats fashioned from cucumbers, peeled, hol-
 lowed out and chilled; particularly when the mayonnaise, with which it is served, has been tinted pale green with vegetable coloring. This should be decorated with hard boiled eggs and capers. For lunch this salad is especially suitable.
 Stuffed Prune SaIad.-Cook prunes until soft and remove stones without spelling the shape Of the fruit. Stuff the prunes with a filling made of
 cream cheese and chopped walnuts. Add cream to make cheese the right l consistency. Serve with cream dress ing on lettuce.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19
CONCERNING WOMEN.

At the end of 1917 Germany had more than S3,O00 women metal work CTS.
 In Mongolia the purchase price of wife varies from 5 to 30 camels. In Japan practically no women ex- cept a few uniformed girl students wear shoes.
 France now has 13 regularly li censed women air pilots.
 Every family in France that main tains servant is taxed 40 francs foI each one. Women in the same social circles ir Mexico call one another by thei1 l Christian names. Women are playing an important part in enforcing the -profiteering 1 act in England.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19
Norwich, April IT 1920.
Why State Grant Was Omitted.

MT. Editor: In the statement issued by the school board it is stated that the state grant for 1e20-1921 "is lost unless some provision is made to continue it"
 It was on account of said uncertainty as we'll as for respect of the state law concerning the grant (that it is not to be considered part of a teachers salary) that the Teachers League omitted it in their statement.
 Incidentally let it be remarked that the state grant despite the express wishes of the state. has been considered by the local board as being a part of the teachers salaries and has, during the current year been made subject to deduction in cases of absence due to ill., ness and other causes.
 Unfortunately, teachers salaries are determined to a great extent by the size and tiae wealth of a community de- spite the fact that other forms of bus mess activities and professional callings receive a certain fixed rate regardless of population. The price of meat, clothing and other essentials as we'll as the wages of mill operatives, mechanics, doctors. lawyers, etc, would be in a sorry state of fuctuation if subject to the ruling that obtains in relation to teachers sal aries
 But since teachers salaries are a mat ter of the community served. it ought to be of interest to the people of Nor wich to know that within the past few days two communities, smaller than and adjacent to Norwich, have given their teachers a maximum salary to be received next September, not in Septem- Der 1923 as planned by the local board.
 These two cities, New London and Willimantic have fixed the new maxi nuns t>$14oO and $500 respectively as compared to s1350. $140O and S145O which the Norwich teachers will not re- ceive until the year 1923-24
 PUBLICITY COMMITTEE OF TEACH FRS LEAGUE
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Stories That Recall Others
How Could she?


 One day father was trying hard to ex- plain something 10 his little daughter Dorothy. Sitting there in a sort of stu- DOT, apparently not being able to com rrehend her Pa finally getting all out of patience, said 10 her: Don't you know anything at a,l2'' To which Dorothy promptly replied: How can I know anything f you know it sllg" This an swer came so quick and to the point. that even Pa laughed
 Temporary Case.
 Al the conclusion of an exciting bas- ketball game an enthusiast rushed to the telephone to report the evenings vic- tory.
 Either the excitement of the last game pr the anxiety over the next was too much for inc nerves of a usually calm player. When the operator asked the number. the basket shooter said. "Bas- keibal s9s." The operator let her sense Of humor overcome her business training. The next instant the player heard. not the voice Of the one expected but some one shouting. Insane IIospi. tai"
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19
BOUNCING JAcKETs.

Lounging jackets or tea coats are in high favor from fashion standpont, as well as for the comfort they give. Deshabille is the name that best de- scribes some French creations in these outdoordress novelties that are in shape clothing more than huge squares with round, square or V-shaped open ings in the center, permitting the
 square to be slipped on over the head
 But the charm and beauty of these
 simple sacques lies in the materials used; lace and net, georgette and hand | embroidery or fringe, or both, with girdles of colorful ribbon or of hand made silk flowers
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derstand there is a large waiting list 10 jump into their places if they decide to resign and go into the factories. for long CT hours and much harder work. The committee deserves the support of the ruf lie in this case.
 ANOTHER TAXPAYER Norwich. April IT, 1920.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19
CARE OF JARS.

Fruit jars should be washed immedi- ately they are emptied, dried thorough ly and lid replaced tight. This keeps out all dirt and dust as well as keep ing jars and lids together, and when wanted for canning all that needs washing is the outside of the jar be- fore sterilizing.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19
TO RLAekEN A STOVE.

It is quick, clean and easy to black the store if you mix the store polish with shavings of paraffin instead of water Shave little of each on a cloth or over the stove and with one rubbing the stove is blacked and pol ished Use the same cloth to rub off the stove each day and it will always look as though it had just been black
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19

federal forces in that region and indi- cates what inuence may be had on other states as the result of the success all ready obtained. Evidence is piling up to the effect that Carranza is feeling the effect of the kind of government he has been maintaining even at a time when his regime is about to end normally.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19
TEACHING oRDERLINESs.

Little ones dress and undress them selves with very little assistance and enjoy doing so if they are taught to fold their clothes carefully and put them in the same place every night, so they may find them in the same place in the morning. Then also have small coat hangers for their coats, which they may hang on low hooks in the closet. Their orderliness will become a habit
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19
SAVE PRESSING.

Hang your waists up by the bottom and you won't have to press them every time you wear them. They will wear much longer, because pressing them burns them. Don't fold them up and lay in a drawer because they wrinkle right up again.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19
DICTATES OF FASHION.

Cape back suits are all the rage.
 Colored laces are very fashionable.
 The three piece suit is much worn.
 Silk sweaters are growing in favor
 Tricotines lead for street costumes.
 Side panels are ruff1ed and pleated,
 Short sleeves are the most fashion able.
 Dazzling hues previl in the new lin- ings.
 Tucks are used on taffeta dresses.
 Charming perfume bottles are of wedgwood
 Box jackets are worn with the pleat- ed skirts.
 Organdie neckwear in pastel shades is very smart.
 Navy blue is the most popular color for spring suits.
 Fuller effects are seen in some new afternoon frocks.
 Tiny puffs are as long as sleeves get on evening gowns. Black silk jackets appear with print ed chiffon gowns. Lace overslxirts are used on the taf- feta dancing frockS. Some of the new wraps suggest the old Roman togas.
 Duvetyn handbags are both pretty and fashionable.
 One piece dresses have bouffant hip draperies.
 Novelty weaves in tricolette are very popular.
 Hemlock green is one of the spring shades.
 The newest jackets show bolero and Eton lines. Awning striped silk will be used for sports hats. Long gloves will be worn with short sleeves. l Some of the prettiest spring coating!
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19
CLEAN WHITE SHOES,

If the buckslin uppers of your shoes are sofled you can clean them neatly and cheaply with sandpaper. Buy a sheet of the finest grade, costing a few cents, and cut off a little strip. With this rub the leather gently until all dirt disappears. One sheet of paper will last for number of cleanings.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19
TWINE HOLDER.

Instead of putting the ball of string or twine in the kitchen drawer, where it becomes all tangled up with knives and forks, try putting it ill a kitchen funnel and hang in some convenient place. The string may always be drawn out unsnarled as needed.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19

It's little bit early but there are those of course who can pick the pennant winners from the way in which the baseball teams showed Up at the train- ing camps.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19
WOMAN IN LIFE AID IN THE KITCHEN

are two toned. The bodices of evening gowns are straight girdles. Odd blouses are worn with skirts of
 l lightweight twills.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19
PARTY DRESSES.

For party children's wear, georgette and net dresses are sharing honors with those made of fine cotton voile or of organdy in white or pastel shades. Self-fabric in contrasting ! colors, used as piping, is much used
 as a trimming for the organdy frock.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19

Whatever the department of justice may do regarding Martens who repre- sents Soviet Russia Assistant Secretary Post of the department of labor can be expected to upset it.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19

Inasmuch as it has been agreed that their pay will be retroactive it doesn't become any of the hard-coal miners to threaten to strike because greater speed toward wage adjustment isn't being made.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19

What bothers the thin man these days is to find out that his small sized collars cost just as much as the fellows with a big neck.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19
SERVING JELLY.

Just before taking jelly the glass dip the latter for an instant into hot water, then invert over the plate on which it is to be served.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19

The nearest to being definite about the summer residence of the president is that it promises to be in New England.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19

Some figure the cost of enforcing pro- hlbition at five million year and others at fifty. No one knows what it will cost but most everyone knows that it isn't being enforced
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19

If you are not planning to occupy your mansion for the next several months it might get consideration as the summer White house.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19

For the past several years baseball has had to struggle against war. This wear 1t will be in competition with the politi- cal campaign.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19

Word now comes that Foster is writ ing book. This at a time when there is good use for all paper than can be ob- tained
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19
EDITORIAL NOTES,

Everything now points to the fact that the overalls club is going to be popular Fduring the coming summer.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19

How funny the diary of the old fash toned workingman who used to work would read in these days of big wages and short hours.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19

With '''o "H-rnan troops retiring from the Ruhr district there is good reason why France should feel satisfied.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19

The man on the corner says: One who IS seldom at work on time never misses getting home to supper right on time.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19

Even those in the coal business must have difficulty explaining all the non un- derstandable situations that exist.
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Norwich, April IS, 1920.
Committee Deserves Public Support.


 Mir. Editor: It seems that the people are now thoroughly enlightened on the school matters since the committee made their statement, and it only remains for the taxpayers, and all the voters inter- ested to attend the town meeting Tues day night. and demand a vote by ballot each voter to get a Yes and No ticket So as not to be embarrassed by spotters and I am sure the voters will stand back of the committee.
 The teachers will then be paid about sl.i0 an hour and that is better than most expert mechanics are making. Just compare their pay to that of letter car riers and then compare the work and hours per year, and you will see that they pit the mail men in the shade Also the teachers putting up the fight are not all normal school graduates. and have ! only been teaching few years. I un
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19
The Enocomx Test

Mir. McAdoo proposes a tax cut of $1,00O 100000. He's a candidate, all EiRAt--Mjlwankee Journal,
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19
THE BABY.

The skin of a baby is, or should be, of beautiful deEcacy and fineness - she is a lucky girl baby if this be not destroyed by careless treatment while she is yet too young to benefit from the charm of a good complexion In color, after the first few days, a baby should be a delicate pink all over, rath- CT than with the color concentrated in the cheeks in the manner which is the ideal of the uninstructed. For rosy cheeks may mean merely that the reg ulation of the flow of the blood by the nerve centers is defective; the baby is unable to cope with some of the heat in it's body, and therefore is working off, as it were. by forcing the blood to the uncovered parts of the body, in position where it can be cooled by the outer air. To be in the condition of inability to regulate the heat Of the body is a bad one, and therefore consideration should be given to the question of over clothing and ver-feeding-one, if not both, of which is probably doing the mischief.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19
ARTISTIC TOUCHES.

Bedspreads of one color and holsters
 of another are seen on beds. Some
 times the spread is lowered while the bolster is plain and sometimes two tones of the same color are used to dress them
 An extension tablecloth" for the dining table when extended is merely one of the elaborate lace and linen
 affairs Of filet or Roman cut work or
 Italian embroidery with ends joined on very decoratively with lace inser- tion. Of course, it is oblong in shape. Pretty pattern tableclotbs of linen for the round table have a fruit bas-
 get design upon them.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19
soriet School srstem.

To vote on school matters, women, the same as men, must be legal voters.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19
The Rnn. Evil

The difficulty is that whatever han pens in Germany the place continues to be Germanic.-indianapoiis News.
 Many an author burns the mid light oil in a fruitlcss attempt 10 anligh1en the world.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-04-04
ORGANIZING PARTY
TO BRING BUCKS HOME

Mr. F. A. Trask. srs manager Of
che Lowndes Motor Car Company is
organizing a party to go to Flint,
Mich, and bring back a feet Of
Bucks. Persons who want to get
their Buick early should see Mr..
Trask and make arrangements to take
this trip to the factory and join in
the novelty Of the trip home with
other Buick owners
The price Of the Buick Six at the
factory IS $1,000 which is a material
saving with the added pleasure Of a
delightful trip home this spring.
Mechanics will accompany the party
and no difficulty viii be experienced
in any way in making the trip.
1t is expected that quite a number
Of persons win make the trip. Those
desiring to become a member of the
party should get in touch with Mr..
Trask Immediately.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-04-04

We wish to call the attention Of
our readers to the fact that next Mon
day is the day designated by Sheriff
c. w. West for thee sale of land and
town lots delinquent for taxes. The
list of property to be sold has been
appearing in this paper for the past
several weeks.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-04-04

During the past two or three weeks
q number Of "grazers" have been I'M
loaded at the stock pens Of the NJ. &
o. r. r. Some Of them come from
South Mississippi, some from Ten
nessee and st. Louis stock yard. "The
magnificent pasture lands in the
vicinity Of Columbus and spring
grass" said the shippers, as the I'M
loaded three cars. will put hundreds
Of pounds Of flesh on the beeves be-
fore they are loaded back to the
market for beef cattle The NJ. & o is
giving special attention to the move
ment of cattle for Southern grazing.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-04-04
FAsTFRN STAR.

There win be a regular meeting of
Columbus Chapter No. sc, Order Of
the Eastern Star at the Masonic Tenn
pie on Main street Tuesday night
Business Of Importance win be trans
acted and an members are urged to
be present.
MRS. DEE HALBERT. W. NJ.
MRS. EULA CARSON, Sec'y.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-04-04

Office car "No. 2" went over the
joint transfer during the week thence
down the rails of the S. L. NJ. R. R.
The car was occupied by the Vice
President Mr.. f. E. Morris, and the
party was augments in Columbus by
Supt. Rigsby and Master of trains,
Dulloch. Railroad affairs brought
the vice-president over the rails.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-04-04

Mrs. C. F. McKeogh is back from
short visitbto Mobile, Ala, where
she was called on account Of the sick
ness of her mother.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-04-04

Because of a wash-out on their line
near Greenwood, trains on the Southern
coming out of the Delta were ap-
proximately five hours late on Friday.