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Putnam patriot., 1920-01-16
FABYAN

Mary Coppler. aged [, is confined to her home on account of scarlet fever
 Miss Vera Arnold spent the week end with MT, and Mrs. George Fair field of Quinebaug.
 The Library Social held at the home of Mir. and Mrs Fred Myers last Sat urday evening was we'll attended. there being eight tables of whist. The first prizes were won by Miss Wood berry and Mir. Wheelock. while the consolation prizes were taken by Mrs. Ira D. Bates and Mir Jennings. Re- treatments consistde of cake and cof- fee. At the annual business meeting, Mrs. Meyers was reelected vice-pri ident, Mir Wheeloek. president, and Gladys May, librarian. Miss May was also taken in as a member of the New Boston Library Association.
Putnam patriot., 1920-01-16

J Walsh Four years later le openei an office for himself
 His first year in Greenwich he ~as appointed deputy registrar ef voters Later he became clerk of the borough court and was appointed jadge of the court in 1897 He WAS a one time u member of the Greenwich High school committee and represented Green wieh twice in the General Assembly. In 1907 he WAS chairman of the rail roads committee and of the judiciary committee in 1909. which gave him the leadership of the House.
 Judge Burnes was member of the Congregational church
Putnam patriot., 1920-01-16
JUDGE D. BURNES
 PUT ON PR0BATlO.N
Secretary of State In l9l5-l9i7 Pleads Guilty to Forging
 Checks In Springfield
ps>s Been Employed As Esp<st Ae.
 eountAnt.-Says He will Re. form

aIa.ies D. Burnes. who was secrc. ts state of Connecticut from isls p 1917. pleaded guilty in Sprins el last Saturday to larceny by folYi K checks. The checks amounted to 5000 The court put him on probation for two years Judge Burnes has been employed in Springfield as an expert accountant He said Saturday that he intended to get assistance from a Yale elassmate md start life ovev aeain in some oth- CT place.
 Judge Burnes WAS born in Berlin August |. ls7l He was at Wesley an University two years and was graduated from the Yale LAW School in 1893 He began to practice law M South Norwalk the same year. In tae4 he moved to Greenwich and was associated in the law practice with r
Putnam patriot., 1920-01-16
RURAL CARRIER EXAMINATIONS

The United States Civil Sers ice Commission has announced an exam ination for the county of Windham These examinations will be held in Putnam, Danielson. and Willimantic on February l4th for the purpose of filling positions of rural carriers at Canterbury and other vacancies that may occur from other post offices in the county.
 The examinations are ope t citi. zens actually domleiled in the e3ua- ty Forms and application blanks may be obtained at the post office.
 The womens page Is attractive
Putnam patriot., 1920-01-16
EASI ]. U IMAM

Ant ur Cutie anu family spent a day last week at w. A. Hawkins
 Plans are being made for supper and entertainment in the near flu ture
 Harry and Robert Torrey called on E. r.. Torrey and family Tuesday eve ming.
 A Baptist minister from New Haven
Putnam patriot., 1920-01-16

,cunied the pulpit Sunday, speaking aR the Anti-Salono League. nrs. Alice Law and daughter, Mrs Roy Smith and children of Pascoag, were guests of Mrs. Frank Smith one day last week.
Putnam patriot., 1920-01-16
Suooesteo Chancr.

Jules. the head waiter. desires ,u submit an amendment or Q reservation or something To change the old motto to "Eat. Drink. but Be Wary"
New-York tribune., 1920-07-04
A Library of Tributes to War Heroes

temporary separation he would say
before he sailed, "Don't withdraw
into yourself, dear wife. Try to be
happy-hearted, for if you should
not be my whole life would have
been in vain. You will need to
break down, and when you have to,
just cry like the mischief, but then
get up again and face the world.
Remember that you have rounded
out and completed my life and full
filled it's every dream, and that only
the shell of me will be in France.
To leave you unprotected for a
time seems more than | can stand,
but we will bear it better than
people who do not love each other
quite SO much. Make your criter-
ion for every decision what you
most want in your heart to do, for
it will surely be the right thing, and
when once decision is made, never
regret it-stick to it like a soldier"
That time In the navy while at
sea was sometimes devoted to verse
writing has been proved many times
during the war, and in the volume
dedicated to the memory of Lieu
tenant Lewis Gouverneur Smith,
who died on board the U. S. S.
Yarnall in passage from Lisbon,
Portugal, to Ponta Delgada, Azores,
there are many verses Of merit and
poems written while at college and
after entering the service. The fol-
lowing stanza from a poem entitled
Autumn" bore a message after
his death to his family:
"Out By the aooods, just you and I,
IN the land of q hearts desire,
With q life before and God on hiqh,
And the colors of autumn 1vurn. like
fire;
With blue for vou and a blue for
me,
Touched avith red for tragedy;
And q golden comforting light of
hope
From the g7oaoiug aVest Of ete,mity-
That is the tima my soul goes free,
Ont by the 1coods, Just you and T."
In the volums "Richard Ashley
Blodgett; An Appreciation" COM
piled by the mother Of the young
lieutenant, Mrs. E. E. Blodgett has
given refreshing account Of her
sons war service and has quoted
New-York tribune., 1920-07-04

Knickerbocker did not belong to ex-
actly the same era that the Manhat-
tan and the Holland House did. It
was little later and catered to a
gayer, not so domestic, class of pa
irons.
Each of these hotels has it's list of
celebrities, who made the hotel their
home when in New York. The
Knickerbocker claims persons con-
nected with drama, music and theat-
rical productions. Enrico Caruso for
years occupied an ornate suite in the
hotel at Broadway and Forty-second
Street. He took his brida there to
live and his daughter, Gloria Ca
ruso, was born there. Antonio Scott.
Geraldine Farrar and D. W. Grif-
fiths were among the other celebri-
ties who lived at the Knickerbocker.
Transient visitors of note whose
names appeared on the Knicker-
New-York tribune., 1920-07-04

the Manhattan. These have moved
to the Biltmore now.
The Holland House claimed Mar
shall Field as one of its regular pa
irons. Ambassador Jusserand was
among the European notables who
had preference for this hotel.
Probably because of it's name, visit
ing Dutchmen to this country patron
lzed the Holland House more than
any other hotel.
In the days before motor cars the
Holland House was the starting
point for four-ho~se coaching par
ties, which swung up the avenue in
grand style on spring days. Many
social functions were held at this
hotel in those days. Later it drew
more Of the commercial visitors. but
always retained its precedence with
certain group, and it's last days
brought forth much of sentimental
rer1iniscence.
The Manhattan did not give a
farewell dinner. Wednesday lunch
was the last meal served in the hotel
The guests themselves gathered in
groups to talk it over and spend their
last evening in their hotel home.
Many Of them wonder to what ex-
tent they will be able to kill their
home sentiment when business sup
plants the home they once had.
One man has solved his problem
Of not giving up his home. He has
rented Office space in the new Office
building into which the Manhattan
will be converted. Ee has no busi-
ness, but he will have a place in his
old home.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-04
Tie Third Hotel

II N A corner Of the Army and
Navy Club Library at 18 Gram
ercy Park is a case of books
constantly increasing in number,
contributed by men and women who
are not "trying to forget the war"
because they cannot. Such titles
as "ln White Armor," "Greater
Love Hath No Man." "In Memo
riam, lieutenant James PEBBLES
Over," and "The Life and Letters
of Richard Ashley Blodgett, First
Lieutenant United States Air Serv-
ice' suggest the stories told. These
volumes are the beginning of col
lection now being made by the Army
and Navy Club of America by means
OF correspondence with next Of kin
and other relatives and friends of
officers who died in the war. Letters.
photographs, war souvenirs and other
personal data relating to these
NAAAN>Ao a. " e%ioO OCl1l5 CUIlccIcQ OX
the club as part of its plan to
memorialize in a $4,000, ,00C club
house in this city all the officers who
made the supreme sacrifice.
The extent to which friends and
relatives of officers have already
sought to perpetuate their memories
in special volumes was not realized
until responses began to arrive to
an inquiry requesting information
on the lives Of $500 officers. Over
1900 replies were received within
two weeks. The work Of collatinp
this material and securing new ma
terial is still under way at the club
headquarters.
Some = the memorial volumes
are handsomely bound, while others
are more simply printed. All tell
beautiful story of love and pride
for the sublime part played by
these dear ones.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-04

But the eyes Of py soul are clearer
far
Than the eyes of this poor, dumb
body are.
God-giuen, God-driven, he, ny son,
Of the immsortols shining one,
Perhaps ache'a gaze him, my best
to give,
Really l died then, that he nai0ht
liue.
# only n'y loss, then, be but his qoi,,
Half of the bitterness gone from the
pain.
Sheathe not his saUord, Lord, let 1t
not rust,
HIS aoas the burden, yours be the
trust.
Little SON, smile on me. Twice haze
/ given--
Once life on eorth to you, 1.oau life
IN heouen.
Homes you haze saved and hearts
you haze blessed,
Noa0 yon haze gone to your glorious
rest.
Hold up my hands lest they falter
and shirk,
Let me remember, this Uas his aUork.
Humble and patient as zoe mothers
be,
Yet, son, help my vision! Mn God!
let me see.
On file at the Army and Navy Club
are thousands of letters Of tribute
to the officers in all parts of the
country who made the supreme sac
ritice in the war. 1t is an interest,"
ing fact, CLEANED from such CORE
spondence, that the families and
friends Of the deceased officers, as
we'll as those connected with army
and navy officers returning to civil
life or still in service, are among
the first contributors toward the new
Army and Navy Clubhouse and Me-
mortal for Officers. Such an endur-
ing expression Of appreciation to all
officers, both living and dead, to be
erected in New York, to serve as a
clubhouse and memorial, with COM
plete history and records of all Of
ticers, is meeting with enthusiastic
approval, not only in the city and
immediate environs, but throughout
the whole country.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-04

Italy, Dutch supremacy in Belgium.
Now, we in America have not only
followed closely. upon the example Of
Britain, but the arguments heard in
the United States Senate in recent
months are but strange echoes Of
the words Of Canning and Of Castle
reagh. Nor is it less interesting to
note that the British, on their side,
have almost as completely retired
from the European field. We have
more troops to-day on the Rhine
than the British, and our failure to
guarantee France against German
aggression has absolved Britain from
any similar obligation.
Once more British interests have
turned from the Continent to the
East, and have encountered both
Russia and France, one in the lands
which march with India, the other in
Syria and Constantinople. For all
Englishmen the question Of Germany
is settled, their psail is abolished,
and they are turning to the new
problems which from Dublin to
Delhi clamor for solution. More
over, Germany is no longer a rival
but is now a customer, and in the
further crushing Of Germany there
may be the seeds CT new wars which
are not desired by any Englishman
Hence Lloyd George to-day displays
toward fallen Germany much the
same attitude as Castlereagh and
Wellington manifested toward con-
quered France a little more than a
century ago.
Italy, yesterday the ally of
France, has to-day resumed the old
rivalry. French and Italian inter-
ests conflict in the Mediterranean,
French possession in Tunis is an un-
dying source of Italian resentment,
French sympathy and support for
the Greeks and southern Slavs has
produced resentment from the Alps
to Sicily. British support Of the
Greeks has had the same effect,
while President Wilson's champion
ship Of the southern Slavs has filled
Italy with a burning hatred Of
America which manifests itself on
every possible OCCASION. To-day
Italy frankly looks forward to a new
New-York tribune., 1920-07-04
~ the League of Nations Has Failed to Functi(

seen that the collapse Of the League
of Nations, like that Of the Holy
Alliance, results from the same fun
damental fact, namely, that no COM
mon interest or peril binds the ma
lions that conquered in a colossal
war. On the contrary, the very COM
pleteness of the victory dissolved the
alliance which won it inevitably
and almost instantly.
BY the terms of the League of Ma
tions, by the spirit and the terms.
for one must interpret the covenant
not merely by what was written at
Paris, but by what was said---the
United States undertook, in company
with other great powers, to protect,
not alone the frontiers Of France,
but of Poland and Rumania; to main
tain an army in Armenia, as a man.
datary power, to protect the Jews
in Poland and in Rumania. An act
of aggression against one Of our
associates Of the recent war, against
any nation belonging to the League
Of Nations, became in reality an act
of war upon us also.
We were, in fact, bound to defend
the world order created at Paris, as
the British We're bound with the
other conquerors Of Napoleon, had
they adhered to the Holy Alliance,
to defend not alone the frontiers but
the dynasties established at Vienna,
and defend them, not only against
France, but also against enemies
within and without, against a new
French revolution quite as much as
against second Napoleon.
From this task Britain shrank
with little delay. A decade had not
passed after the Congress Of Vienna
before the British had ceased to take
more than nominal part in the
European conclaves. British deser-
ton was not less fragrant, less de-
liberate, than that of the United
States at the present moment. The
reason was manifest. No public
sentiment in Britain would support
any ministry seeking to sacrifice
British lives to maintain Russian
rule in Poland, Austrian tyranny in
New-York tribune., 1920-07-04
Conditions In Europe Merely Repe-
tition Of Those Following the
!. Congress of Vienna

League Of Nations decisions in
Armenia or Volhynia. Step by step,
British withdrawal from Europe a
century ago foreshadcwed Ameri-
can policy today.
A hundred years ago British
statesmen found their fellow coun-
trymen quite unwilling to furnish
troops to suppress rebellion in Spain,
to maintain Dutch rule in Belgium,
to suppress republicanism or nation
alism, either in France or in Italy.
On the contrary, Britain turned her
attention to her vast colonial empire
and on the road to the East encoun-
tered Russian opposition. The quar-
rels between France and Britain
over Constantinople and Syria to-
day have their exact counterpart in
the Anglo Russian rivalries which
led to the Crimean War, and after
the lapse Of only a generation
brought France, the recent foe, into
alliance with her British conaueror
against Russia.
Napoleon was conquered by Rus
sia, Austria, Prussia and Great Brit
ain, but in barely half a century
Britain had fought Russia, Prussia
and Austria had fought two wars,
one as allies and a second as enc
mics; France and Britain had de-
feated Russia; France and Prussia
in turn had defeated Austria. Thanks
to French aid, Italy had been lib
Grated, but French misfortune had
in 1870 enlisted no italian aid.
Strangest, perhaps, of all, new
Napoleon, nephew of the great ene-
my whom Britain had fought for so
many years, had not only returned to
the French throne, but had been re-
ceived as an ally in London.
No Common Interest
Now, if one analyses the past and
the present circumstances it will be
New-York tribune., 1920-07-04

booker register were President Will
son, when he was Governor of New
Jersey, and Admiral Togo.
The Manhattan also claims Presi-
dent Wilson, but in his college presi-
dental days. In fact, the Manhat-
tan was known throughout Eastern
colleges as the college professors
hotel. Pedants from New England
always stayed at this hotel when
business or research called them to
New York.
So high was the reputation of the
Manhattan for respectability that it
was the one place where boarding
school chaperons permitted their
charges to "tea" without the august
presence Of a teacher. Business men
and politicians sent their wives and
daughters to the Manhattan when
they Travelled to the great city alone.
The Manhattan maintained this stat
New-York tribune., 1920-07-04
German alliance directed against at
least one Of her recent allies.
A Normal Occurrence

What has actually happened in
Europe before our eyes and in recent
months is not, then, as ihexplicable
as seems on the surface, nor is it in
the least departure from historical
precedent. Rather is it the norman
and inevitable occurrence. Again
and again in European history ma
tions have allied with each other
against one immediate and ALIEN
bracing peril, against Spain, against
the France of Louis XIV and Of
Napoleon, but, the peril exercised,
they have emerged from their brief
partnership and sought their sepa-
rate ends, usually in bitter rivalry
with their recent friends and not in
frequently in alliance with recent
foe.
The chaos of the moment lies in
the fact that the old partnerships
are dissolved and the new have not
yet taken shape. Russia and Ger
many remain problems which as yet
find no answer. They may be allies
whose later policy will threaten the
conquerors Of Germany and revive
the shaken alliance; they may be
enemies, and in that case we shall
see France and Italy embarking on
opposite courses. The new states of
Europe remain insoluble riddles;
they are hostile to one another; they
resent Allied interference they de-
cline to be bound by the decisions Of
Paris.
In word, the European situa-
ton, which in the quarter of cen
tury just preceding the World War
reached a state Of equilibrium
through two rival systems of alli-
ance, the Triple Alliance and the
Triple Entente, has become sort
Of free-for-all. Nominally France,
Italy and Great Britain remain in
alliance, with Belgium, Greece and
Poland, as we'll as other smaller
states, also nominally included. But
actually Britain and France find
themselves opposed in every discus
sion. The Italians support the Brit
ish against the French, but find
New-York tribune., 1920-07-04
The Bagpipe

WV 7 AS the bagpipe English?
WV "Neverw says the gen.
tleman Of Scotch de-
scent, whose one vice is
his love for the so-called music of
that queer instrument.
From the Miscellany" Of "The
Manchester Guardian" however. he
will learn:
The Scots may have acquired their
love of bagpipes from England, not
from Ireland, as suggested by Com
mander Kenworthy in the House of
Commons. In 1865 Mr.. James Mon
creiff, then Lord Advocate, told an
Edinburgh meeting that the bag
pipe was an essentially English in
stitution.
THE English" said he, "were the
original bagpipers. Shakespeare.
who was an authority on music,
often refers to the bagpipes, but he
does not introduce them into Mac
BETH The armies in Macbeth do
not march on Dunsinane to the sound
OF bagpipe; but he speaks of the
drone of the Lincolnshire and the
Yorkshire bagpipe, and of person
laughing like parrot at a bag
piper'--all without the slightest CAL
edonian reference. And when we
look at the works in the Register
House, which show how our former
monarchs spent their income. we
find their expenditure for music put
down in such entries as TO the Eng
lish piper, So Cd The Scots were
not pipers; they were harpers."
New-York tribune., 1920-07-04

, from delightful letters from various
French villages and from the 'front.'
line trenches near the scene of the
young flyers victory in the air over
German plane where he later met
his death in an air battle. Early in
the series Of letters is this youthful
burst Of injury from praise which
the aviator felt he scarcely deserved
as yet:
For Praise Unearned
"1f all the scraps and scrappers
of ye good olde days are written
about for having done as little as
we've done, I'm disappointed in
them. Good night. The magazines
in the States are full of the great
est yarns I ever heard. You might
think we had done something yet,
besides making @ lot Of promises.
They write up reams of stuff just
because few darling sons left
home.
II do get disguised with people
who burst into miles Of tears ovsr
little Willie going to France. If he
didn't go he ought to be kicked; so
why make him tin idol if he does
go?"
After Lieutenant Blodgett's death
memorandum was found with in
structions for the disposal of his ef-
fects. Following requests to send
various things home to his family
in Boston, these paragraphs were
appended:
Fill out the inclosed check for
enough to cover all expenses and set
the gang up to bottle Of champagne
apiece.
Good luck to you all. I'll see YOU
later on. Show them we can fight
like hell-a hard, clean fight. Give
'em hell. So long"
Small wonder that the colonel un-
der whom the aviator served wrote
to the commanding general Of that
section: "There is some pep to
this" And small wonder that the
mother, who had watched his course
80 proudly, wrote after his death
this "Mother's Prayer:
/ stand IN the dust and my eyes are
dim,
With the tears that must fall whe1,
think Of him. A il!
New-York tribune., 1920-07-04
The Old Linc.Up

In Vienna and after it Great Brit
ain sought to defend France against
the extreme measures urged by Prus-
sia, precisely as the British now op-
pose French severity in the matter
Of Germany. Russia supported Brit
ain as Italy now supports Great
Britain. Nor was Great Britain long
in giving clear evidence that she
was as unwilling to act in conform
ity with the terms of the Holy AL
lance as the United States is to-
day determined not to use it's troops,
Its fleets or it's wealth to enforce
New-York tribune., 1920-07-04
Mr.. Wilson'S Mistake

President Wilson assumed that n
the war the nationalistic aspirations
OF the various world powers had been
burned out. He assumed that the
masses Of the various s-ates were
converted to internationalism to
world order in which all private an
bitions would be sacrificed to DE-
sire for world peace. That this was
mistaken conception was manifest
before The Paris Conference hal
moved two steps. All that has hap
pened since merely confirms the first
impressions at Paris. The German
war did not result in the transform
alton of nations or Of men. 1t DID
result in the ropulse Of the German
attack, but the effort 70 stretch the
victory further proved a fat failure.
No system fully developed ana
ready to function can now be eS-
pected as a consequence Of the great
struggle which ended nearly TWO
years ago. Instead, just as the
United States has turned its BACK
upon European affairs and conceh-
trated it's attention upon domestic
questions, each people has put 'ne
recent alliance behind it and re-
sumed its pursuit of its own ions
established goals. As result, We
have the succession Of collisions DE-
tween peoples which are the disIlnc'
tive feature of the present hour. no
nation has accepted the decisions y,
the Paris Conference as final; al
nations are seeking to modify thoS.
decisions in their own interests anu
at the same time to slough off the IT,
straints or responsibilities which LII
pede them.
In sum, if the experiences Of cen.
tury ago are any slight indication =,
what is to come we have passe'
from the period Of the great a"'
ance, the association of many po"
ers to defend themselves against
common danger, into the time WIG,
each nation, seeking its own persona
ends, marches to collisions Win ~
immediate rival, its nearest hc's,
Dor, and these collisions have 1or o"
other powers only an academic -
terest. Unless Germany regaiHs NV
strength and her old asp'fa'''".
promptly, or Russia develops INV
something recalling France ~ -.
tune of the Revolution, the Eoas "
grand alliances is over and the ''"''
of international duels has retufhs"
Copyright. 1890. McCl,.-s NsHs
paper Syndicate