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Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-01

Just minute" begged the dapper old beau as the heroine of the occa- sion fitted by him. T wanted to ask you something, Pauline-now that you are a debutante-exactly this minute, with a band and bushels. of bouquets and a silver cloth dress, just how do you feel? Do your emotions come up to expectations? And what are you going to do about it?'
 My goodness!" gasped the pretty young thing, coming to fun stop and actually sitting down. How have got time to decide how feel? And what difference would it make how I felt because whatever it was I'd have to endure it now that I've got started. You can't have a debut and then change your mind and go back to being a sub."
 No, you don't even have as much chance as you do in matrimony," he sympathized. I've attended the de- buts of hundreds of girls, and don't remember that any one of them kick, ed and screamed and sobbed wildly in protest. Yes, 1 began going to com ing out parties way back when your mother and her crowd had theirs.
 "Goodness!" cried the pretty young thing. before she thought. Then she added, brightly. Mother is so very young, isn't she? She seem. actually to be enjoying my party more than I do!''
 .she would" the dapper old beau | told her. its like being grand | mother-one has all the fun of the chilren with none of the responsible les. You are weighted down with l the awful fear that you may not be a success, though I think your terrors are groundless. It's something every deb has to go through and I suppose 1 it is good for her soul, otherwise she I would get too chesty what with all i, the kind words and orchids and invi- 1 begin to taper off is the time that tells tions showered on her. When these either she turns peevish and injured | and her kind parents have to take her | on trip to Europe or California, or
 she stops curling her hair and marries
 a man with a mission in the world i who is red rag at dinner parties 1 only they don't get invited and say 1 they don't go in for such frivolities 1 I do hope you'n pick out the right l kind of a man when you decide to be
 married, Pauline"
 q thought suggested the pretty
 young thing a bit shy1y, that the men did the selecting. What if nobody l liked chose me ?"
 I 'Tut!" he said. serhe men have
 posively nothing to say about it
 Why if the yhad, do you suppose Tt l be a miserabl old bachelor today
 There never was a prettier, more
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-01
STILL FIGHTING PROHIBITION.

Various efforts to prevent the put ting into force of prohibition have been attempted without success. An other step in the fight has been taken by the arguments before the supreme court as to the validity of the consti- tutional amendment and the enforce nient act, and when the court hands down it's decision on these matters it seems probable that the situation will be cleared.
 Because of the decided change that it causes and the necessity. for as early decision as possible the court has permitted early arguments and it is not improbable, as in other cases regarding the same matter, that there will be a reasonably early decision.
 Heretofore the decisions of the court have been in support of the law. Whether it will agree with the claim That the matVr of amending the con- stitution has not been properly sub- mitted and that the ratification is in- complete is something that many people are eager to find out. There are of course a great many people throughout the country who maintain that such a matter, involving the personal rigths of individuals as this does, ought to be submitted to the people instead of the legislatures, but there remains nevertheless the fact that such is not the way in which the constitution provides for amend Eiaents. And 1t remains to be seen
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-01
POLAND AND BoLsHEvIKi

Apparently it is fighting of a seri- ous character that is taking place between the Poles and the Russian bolsheviki and in spite of the size of the respective countries the Poles are for the time being holding their own How long this can be maintained is problem for Poland is in no position to wage a successful war against the government that has gradually put out of business the several anti bol- shevik armies in Siberia, southern Russia and northwestern Russia.
 If peace can be arranged on the terms as set forth by the Poles and as the result of the strength which they have thus far displayed it will be decidedly to their advantage, but Poland is asking what country whose army had been victorious in a much more protracted contest would be expected to do. It may be no more than Poland is entitled to but it is a question whether it has been able to demonstrate that if it does not ob- tain what it calls for it will get it by force.
 In connection with the clash of arms, however, 1t is being realized by the countries of Europe that Poland cannot be permitted to lose. Poland stands as a protection against bol- shevism flooding the rest of Europe and yet it seems to be a late hour to awaken to the necessity of fighting bolshevism from such a point. A mucp more advantageou opportunity for fighting the bolshevikf would have been when the anti bolshevik forces were in action displaying Strength and making progress. Then the bol- sheviki were involved on many fronts Today they are able to concentrate upon the one front from which the opposition that amounts to anything comes.
 There can be no question as to the fighting ability of the Polish army. I
 is only handicapped by its size ant
 the means of sustaining it. But fol
 the allies to awaken now to the nee essity of defeating the bolshevik seems to be delay that only make, a hard task much the harder.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-01
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The School Teacher Autocrats


 Mr. Editor: The school board has after careful thought, decided what the taxpayers can stand by way of salary raise for the teachers. Their decision is fair. The teachers have decided that they are going to tell the board what they shall receive. In other words the board duly elected by the citizens--is going to be run by a few teachers who think they have authority to speak for all the rest.
 The Boston police thought they were going to run the department instead of the peoples representa- tives. Everybody knows what hap pened. A few ringleaders and agi- tators got the whole department in to trouble and out of their jobs. Forty five or fifty thousand dollars at one grab is some money to put your hand into the taxpayers pockets for. Don't forget it! Ringleaders of these movements should be made an ex- ample of for the good of the commun ity.
 From the feeling and remarks of the citizens it looks. as if there might, be some fun for somebody. TAXPAYER Norwich, March S1, 1920.
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would be averted.-A1anchester Her

would be averted.-Manchester Her aid.
 What is a profteer? Many are the answers. and most of them are right --as far as they go. But a profiteer is big subject, of great depth, breadth and height So is that the average persons definition of profit eer falls short. The best ansyer yet given probably is that of a western farm journal editor He says: "A profiteer is a person who seems con- tinually to seek to put the extra straw on the eamels back.-Bridge- port Telegram.
 A suggestive incident Is the sur1- morning of a number of dentists by Connecticut Dental association to ex- plain their alleged offense of adver- Using in the newspaper which is de- nounced as "unethical" From the as- .-c;ation point of view. it may be un- etnic5f whatever that means. but it is good business also.
 l It also strikes us that denouncing advertising as "unethicar' is not at all complimentary to the newspapers. And why 'unethical2" We admit that sometimes an individual registers pain when he pays for an advertise ment that he assumes ought to be a free reader. but on the other hand all people find it painful to have teeth extracted, and they are required to paw for the torture. If 1t is pay ment for services rendered that is ''unethical" the dental profession has some explaining to do.-Bristol Press
 A man throws himself at a woman's i feet and a woman throws herself at a mans head.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-01

London, a Marylander, she and the his departure for Berlin, to which capital he mad been promoted. As the first American minister to knock at the Brandenburg Gate, he was held up until Prussian lieutenant was as- sured by private soldiers that there really was a United States ot Amer ica.
 Among his last acts as president, John Adams removed his son from office to deprive Jefferson of the ma licious satisfaction of dismissing him. When the recalled diplomat was elected to the senate he displayed his family trait of independence by taking sides with his fathers hated rival and supporting the Jefferson administra- tion.
 The infuriated federalists of Mass achusetts sayagelv turned upon him as d traitor to his party and a rem egade from his clas;. They drove him from the senate. and when he came home he found himself in his Boston house which stood where the ! Hotel Touraine now stand a social outcast on lonely island entirely | surrounded by ice. The bitted feud was carried beyond the grave and 1 the old Brahmins of Beacon Hill be- queathed to children and grandchil- f dren an unrelenting hatred of the man who had dared to break caste. l With his name erased forever from l the Boston blue book John Quincy | was no longer a gentleman, and the l Jeffersonians, who were not gentle
 men, but oni democrats, took him ! up. By their favor he become Min- ister to Russia, a negotiator of the | peace of Ghent in 1874. and Minister to England.
 As it had been the unpleasant duty of John Adams to be the First Minister in London after the Revo- lution, and as it was to be the even more unpleasant duty of his grand
 son, Charles Francis Adams, to be
 the Minister in the trying time of
 the Civil War, it fell to his son, John
 Quincy to brave the frowns of the \ Court of St. James when he appeared
 there at the close of the War of 1872
 But no other American was more ready and able to stand up to the
 critics of his country than this plain
 spoken, single-minded, unfiinchine
 champion of America.
 From London, John Quincy was
 called home to 59 secretary of state in the Monroe administration. IT
 that post, he played the leading pari
 in obtaining Florida from Spain ana
 in shaping the Monroe Doctrine.
 In his retirement John Adams hat i watched with fond admiration the irise of John Quincy until he was
 only one rung from the top. Although
 in his crabbednesS, he complained , that my son will never get a chance
 at the presidency until the last Vir
 ginian is in his grave forum,
 agreeably surprise the aged ex-pres ident in Eext the last of his 90 years
 when he saw the scepter of the re
 public pass to a lineal hand. 7 Tomorrow: Our Only Nonpartisal 7 President.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-01
State Highway Critics

Mr. Editor: A nonsensical criticism of the state highway department appeared in The Bulletin the other morning. It is in poor form to criti- else a department as efficient as our state highway.
 It is recognized that our highway department is one of the most eff ffcient in existence in the country. We had a wonderful display of northern light the other evening. We. have passed through the severest winter in the memory of any living person. Might as well blame the highway commissioner for the forrf1er as for the latter. When you criticise him for the condition of the roads this spring you must blame him because we had a severe winter. There is not money or men enough in the state Of Con necticut to put the roads into condi tion in a spring like this. By way of advise to the unwise critic I would follow the old minstrel suggestioni Think twice before you speak and . then talk to yourself.
 LUX Norwich, March 31. 1920.
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whether the supreme court will give it's approval to any such contention as that which maintains that consti- tutional amendments can be nullifed, because they may be "a perversion of the whole tone and character of our constitution"
 In all probability much more seri- ous thought will be directed to the claims which are made regarding the referendum requirements on constitu- tional matters in certain states, re- garding the legality of the vote of submission, as well as the broad pow CTS of the enforcement act and that provision for concurrent enforcement The courts action cannot be taken any too early in order to get the country headed right on such mat ters. It is the last ditch fight against prohibition,
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Norwich, March 31, 1920.
pepsndina on Men. Not eod.


 MT. Editor: I read in a Boston paper where clergymen in Vermont were trying to stop the reading in the school Why does any one wish to bar the Bible from the schools and especially the clergy?
 Also in answer to the letter of March 29th, 1 do not see anything strange in the ideas of different peo- pie concerning the church. Doesn't it look as though the nominal churches have been a big failure in some way when we look on the world today and see it very mucf worse instead Of bet ter? Rev. w. T.. Reynolds, as well as all others should begin to realize that it begins. to look as though the God we Gall true Christians) believe in, is sending his wrath upon the people and nations. And that it is able to turn that wrath aside. And even then he will not do it until all turn to Him. And His truth in try ing to bar the truth from His people as above stated. It also seems to me that some are afraid that they will. find out really what the truth is as set forth in the word of God Doesn't the Apostle John 539 tell us to search the Scriptures and to prove all things? !Thess 521. think every one should take notice of what Gods word teaches above any other author ity. There is a good deal to come upon the world yet as we know ant we also know that our death Fathel in heaven has been more than pa. tient. We could not expect Him tC hold back His wrath forever. No on, is to blame but tlSose whom His word tells plainly are to blame. AnC need not say more for those wht seek may find. Too many depend oI men and not God.
 M. B. M. Norwich. March soth. 1920.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-01
Stories That Recall Others.
From Lemon to Squash

Attracted by lemon pie of which he is fond business man ordered one to take home. It was packed be- tween two paper dishes, the upper one inverted and then wrapped in paper. He had placed it on the back seat of his automobile and started for home. Unfortunately he gave friend a heavyweight: lift and he mistook the package for a cushion. When the package was turned over to the lady of the house and was opened by her it consisted of an upper paper dish. a lower pie crust and a lower paper
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-01
OTHER VIEW POINTS

With the increasing number and the constantly growing size of heavy drivers in charge of them
 should be careful to keep on the right side of the road and be on the alert for the fellow behind who has right to his half of the highway. Then if somebody would put on the market an emergency signal which would make noise enough to overcome the rattle and roar of a truck the menace to the safety of the so-called pleasure cars
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-01
Five Minutes a Day
 With Our Presidents
tg2o-By James Morgar
xVl-A DIPLOMAT AT E

xVl-A DIPLOMAT AT A
 1767-July ii, John Quincy
 Adams born in Braintfee,
 but in what is now part
 of Quincy, Mass.
 1751-Secretary of Legation at
 St. Petersburg.
 1737-Graduated at Harvard.
 1790-Admitted to the Bar.
 1794-7-Minister to The Hague.
 179l-M@rried Louise Catherine
 Johnson.
 17997- 1eO1-Minister to Prussia.
 1902-ln Massachusetts Senate.
 1909 8-ln National Senate.
 1899 14-Minister to Russia.
 1814-Peace Commissioner at
 1S151z-Minister to England.
 1917 -25-Secretary of State.
 Among the presidents, John Quincy Adams holds the record of having servant. From boyhood, when he was a secretary of legation at the extra ordinary age of IA until he fell at his post in the halls of Congress in his 81st year. he was in the service of his country 55 of those ST years. F A president and the son of a pres ident, all the other 15 presidents from i Washington to Johnson were his associ- ates. From the day he climbed a height near his Massachusetts birth place to see the battle of Bunker Hill, IS miles away, he was a witness to nearly every great event in the his tory of the nation until the close of i the Mexican war. i When John Quincy stood beside his mother watching the smoke of the { first pitched battle fo' American in dependence, he was not yet &. At l g he heard tbe windows rattle from ! the. storming of Dorchester Heights Soon he stood again on the neighbor. l ing haIl looking of to Boston harbor ] where he beheld the glad sight of tht British ships sailing away from thu rebel town, which had been the frs Ito defy and the first to vanquish thu king. i The boy was aglow with patriotism dn the siege of Boston, musket haS ffbeen placed in his little hands by al officer of a company passing tn Adams home to join Washington army and he went through the man ual of arms. With crued drawings 0 soldiers and frigates, he covered tn pages of his diary, which he begai before he was g and which he kep . untid the end when printed 12 volume were required to hold this most re markable personal document in al America.
 With John Adams in congress tn child had to be the man of the fam lily, and at g he regularly rode hi horse to Boston to fetch the mail. A 10 his father took him with him on hi i mission to France. By 12 he ha cross the Atlantic four times, runnin | the British blockade in leakv tubs an passing through the perils of ship wreck on the Spanish coast. l At IA, an American ministers ar l pointed the mature youngster" hi : secretary of legation. By H., tn r youth had travelled over much, ( ] Europe and he. came home to ente X Harvard. After graduation. he open r ed a law office in Boston, But bus l ness was only beginning when th < young attorney was appointed 6 Washington. Minister at the Hagu 7 where the government he was accre6 r tied fled before the armies of Che tr 3 umphant revolutionists. Meeting tI r daughter of the American consul
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-01
INDIVIDUAL EFFORT NEEDED.

No one will dispute the fact that great benefits have been obtained from the ass s-stance which has been given by federal and state aid in the fighting of pests which have appeared in different sections of the country and which if given unrestricted sway would be a menace to the entire coun- try. But it is to be realized that sole dependence cannot be placed upon such efforts if the ravages of various kinds of worms, caterpillars and moths are going to be kept to the minimum and within reasonable distance from the point where they made their appearance.
 The habit of looking to state and nation for immediate relief has re- suited in all sorts of calls for aid, as is illustrated by the plea being made in Massachusetts for the reclamation by the state of much unused land by setting out thousands of white pines and thereby in the course of a half century or so be able to cut down the debt of the state by about half what it is now. It is of course a good idea on paper and there is unquestionably
 
 land and the utilization of great acre. ages that are at present bringing nc return, but the idea of leaving sucI things to the commonwealth invari- ably results in piling up the indebt- edness instead of reducing it, fol there are all kinds of large expenses that go with state undertakings ant the return never amounts to what i should.
 It is the same old game of govern 1nent ownership, when it is individua effort that ought to be playing a par in such matters in order to get de sired results. If there was a greate realization on the part of the indi vidual as to what it meant to neglec the fighting of pests and to leave i for someone else to do, especially i individual efforts were carried on il cooperation with federal and state there would be greater activity an much more satisfactory progress made
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-01
HOME WORTHY ! ADVICE

fascinating crowd of girls than your mothers crowd and there were at least six of them with whom I could have been madly in love-only they wouldn't have it. Whats more, they went and married other fellows. right under my nose And had the nerve to ask me to their weddings-and the christening and debuts. hope that you will exercise more discretion. If you can't marry all of. them at least move away, far away, and don't rub it in"
 T think you're just been amusing" the pretty young thing told him darl- fngly. You've never acted in the least like a blighted being and I've always know you. Why they say I've heard people say that you and MT. Bird and MT. Phillips would never stop running if any one tried to mar ry you-that you were confirmed bachelors.''
 That's all they know about it. he replied gloomily. We really are mis- erable beings only we conceal it be- meath q lightsome manner and well tailored clothes. The older I get the more indignant I become at the girls l I knew for not choosing me and I wes real popular, too. That's one 1 thing I wanted to speak to you about -QOu |. pe. lOO pOpuldl. IL tdhCS -up SO much of your time that you haven't a i. chance to fall in love or anything, and 1 I hope you will be married this, your l first season Pauline. I 10. If they l hang on, girls get so fussy and par ticular and that makes them nerv- ous and, usually in desperation they pick out the wrong man and the dick
 ems is to pay.''
 I, 'Is there anyone you would adviser" asked the pretty young thing denure- tly. I should hate to make a mistake. .
 The dapper old bachelor peered out
 among tae moving throng and drew i her forward, 'There!' he suggested. "how would he do? Fine disposition, suitable income, energetic in business, handsome. Though after all, there 1 are. a heap like him. I don't suppose
 it would be any use either-so many
 girls have their eyes on him that he
 won't look at any one of you"
 "Pooh!" said the pretty. young thing pertly. He will too. He's ask
 ed for six of my dances tonight and else comes around
 | glowers like anything when any one
 "Goodlp cried the old bachelor then you run right along and stand
 guard for fear some other girl shang-
 haies him. I like that boy. And
 think you're goi . to be just the kind of debutante 1 like, too. I thinl IPll give dinner dance for you my
 self. just to show your mother wha she missed. ."-Exchange
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Now it is declared that Carpenter hasn't promised his wife to quit the ring. Possibly there has been an agreement reached on the division of the purses.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-01

These are the days when a presi- dential candidate not only has to wrestle with his enemies but those who are managing the campaigns of opponents.