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for weeks and is always a welcome sd
dition to any meal.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-03-25

Then Throw Away Your Sprays
and Other Makeshift Treat
ment.
Why? Simply because you have
overlooked the cause Of catauh,
and all Of your treatment has been
Tnisdirected. Remove the cause Of
the elogged-up Accommodations that
choke mp your air passages, and
they viii naturally disappear for
good. But no matter how many
local applications you use to TEN
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-or q Consideration

OVstSSsHEt sAsVII
Epratt (glOOmily)-'I don't believe I
have friend IN the world" SpOnger
you can make one; need So
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Applause has made fools OF more
men than criticism.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-03-25
RazI Sinna

Real Signs.
rs that baby squall which is COM
ing up?' 81 guess so from the way the
boat is rocking"
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Georaette and Triootine.

Georoette and Tricotine-
MY, but you've dyed your hair a
fashionable red" commented Georg-
cite
Like it?' smirked Tricotine.
iii say 1 do. Is it expens1ve?"
''Well, yes. I used six bottles OF
tomato ketchup on the little job
Don't have too many opinions
They are a frequent source OF OPP
preston Of others.
The mirror., 1920-12-16

Moravia, with more than 100000 in
habitants and 2,222,O0O hectares, had only
275,OOO persons owning arabic land. Sim
liar figures apply to Slovakia, to Silesia,
and to neighboring areas.
Thus the land hunger throughout the
peoples subject to the old central empires,
and more particularly to the varied races
under the Hapsburgs, was completely
stihed.
How did this come about? History
tells the story: the dominant position of
the chiefs, the influence of despotic rulers
and of the church. AS early as the twelfth
century vast Czech areas had been con-
centrated in large estates, and these estates
themselves were consolidated again into
still larger possessions by families among
the mobiles who intermarried. The Haps-
burg rulers placed their favorites on the
land, and from them came many of the
estates whose names indicate very clearly
their origin: such as Liechtenstein, Wald-
stein, Marradas, and others.
In fact after the Hapsburgs had fin
ished, scarcely quarter of the land re-
NAMED in the hands of the original
owners.
The fact of the matter is-and it ex-
plains the success of the new land Office
of Czecho-Sl -Slovakia-th land reform is
so self-evidently and universally the pro-
gram of the whole people, that there is no
party to protest against it. The land Of
flee has started its work, and thousands of
the most needy persons are becoming
owners of land the work is proceeding
quietly and in good order, as does every
thing else in this sane little state. The
idea is supported by the opinion of the
whole people, and this insures its success.
1t is certainly no utopia; it is the oldest
and deepest of all mans material desires.
The Dearborn INDEPENDENT
The mirror., 1920-12-16
HOW MUCH CASH DO YOU CARRY? ?

How much cash is there in your pocket?
1t may be more than $2S or it may be
less but inquiries have shown that most
persons in the business world and wage
earners carry sums which will average
about $2S.
That means a lot of money that isn't
working
Assuming that $2S is the average
amount lugged about each employee of
the United States Steel Corporation, the
total amount would be approximately
$S,000,000. On the same basis, the Amer
ican Telephone Co@pany's employees
would every day be carrying around about
$5,sOQOoO.
If half the people in America lived up
to the $2S average, the total would reach
the staggering figure of $1,sO0,OO0,000,
this vast amount being a dead lost in bus
mess channels.
Perhaps you begin to see that the fear
of being held up is not the only good rea
son for not having an unnecessary amount
of money.
The fact is, carrying this money around
amounts to an economic crime. 1t tends
to increase the cost of living, it checks the
development of the nations resources, it
retards enterprise. 1t reduces the banks
ability to furnish credit to the industrial
and business world. 1t forces interest
rates up. 1t hurts the workmen by re-
The mirror., 1920-12-16
YOU CAN'T OVERWORK YOUR
BRAIN

Don't be afraid of thinking too much.
You can't. "The more the mind does"
said William James, the more it can do"
A great doctor-Dr. Boris Sidis-recent-
ly said: "In all my practice as physi-
clan dealing with nervous and mental
diseases, l can say without hesitation that
l have not met single case of nervous
or mental trouble caused by too much
thinking or overstudy. What produces
mental trouble is worry-emotional ex-
citement-lack of interest in ones work."
So don't be afraid. Think. Study.
Plan. Train your mental powers. You
cannot overwork the brain as long as you
allow it time to recuperate.
1t is worry that destroys the brain
worry and fear and bad feelings and
mental idleness.-Marketing.
The mirror., 1920-12-16
WHY WHITING HAS DECLINED

Whiting, once great pastime in this
country, has declined to, the point of in
difference. Why? Because white pine,
which was what we whitfield, is no longer
the wood of common usage.
There are, to be sure, other woods we
can whittle, and we are the same philoso-
phical and leisurely people we always
were; but we have nothing that whittles
as white pine whitfield. There is no other
wood giving off the delicate and plume
like shavings which Uttered our loafng
places when we whitfield white pine.
Whiting is of doubtful service to the hu-
man race. Yet, it is questionable whether
we shall ever again be quite as happy as
we were when we were doing>a lot of
whiting, and it is easily debatable
whether our contributions to human
progress are as great
Probably every one of the men who con-
The mirror., 1920-12-16

tributed to the theory of liberal govern
ment which we are at this time giving to
the rest of the world was an artist with
jack-knife and white stick. The last of
the great whittlers was Lincoln. There
are people still living in Illinois who saw
him whittle. He could whittle. One
sometimes wishes that our present-day lea
ders could do it. They need it. We need
it. Whiting was a state of mind. 1t
induced thought. 1t gave us that whimsi
cal turn of mind which has left us to this
day tolerant to others and the opinion of
others. Probably the great philosophers
have always been whittlers. We are not
told that Socrates whitfield, but it is likely
he did. That Diogenes whitfield and had
no need to go out for shavings with which
he cooked frugal meals, goes without say
ing Mark Twain said you could tell
what kind of man any man was by the
way he whitfield. Alas, we have become
whittleless people. We used up the white
pine forests, and have not that on which
to whet either our knives or our wits.-
The Grasshotper.
The mirror., 1920-12-16
WHY BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS?

"Seal your letters with the Stamp of
Health" urges the 1920 Christmas Seal
Sale appeal to citizens of Minnesota. The
suggestion to thus STAMP out tuberculosis"
is excellent. That the funds raised
through the sale of the famous penny
Christmas Seals in previous years have
been spent to the advantage of the public
is evidenced by official reports of the
State Board of Health. Deaths from the
"Great White Plague" decreased to 2,244
last year. The death rate from tubercu-
losis was "a per 100000 of population last
year. Since it was 116 in 1911, and 1OS
in 1918, it is apparent that the battle
against this deadly disease is the "Win-
ming Fight" of the Christmas Seal.
Inmates are privileged to buy Christ
mas Seals and attach them to the back of
all holiday letters. Notify your officer of
the number you wish to procure.
The mirror., 1920-12-16

ducing the amount of business that could
and would be done were money and credit
plentiful in banking channels.
If every one in America were to carry
around $2S it would represent sum
greater than all the gold in the land.
A fat wallet does not do you or any
one else any good but if you put your
money into workable savings, such for in
stance as Thrift Stamps, War Savings
Stamps or Treasury Savings Certificates,
you would be improving your own finan-
cial condition as well as that of the
government and you would incidentally
promote general prosperity.-F. Il. Wilson,
Director of Publicity, War Loan Organi-
Sation.
The mirror., 1920-12-16
NOTICE TO INMATES

Each inmate is accorded the privilege Of
sending one paper home, or to friends free of
charge. To do this you should write your
own name and register number and the name
and address of the person you wish to send
the paper to, and hand same to your officer.
If you desire to send more than one paper,
each additional copy will be charged for at
the rate of so cents a year.
The paper delivered to your cell each week
must be kept clean, and should be folded in
the same manner as you receive it, placing. it
at the foot of your bed on the morning fol-
lowing the day on which it is delivered to
your cell.
The mirror., 1920-12-16

Observation-Disclosures submitted to THE
MIRROR for publication must be absolutely
original; if not original, proper credit must
be given, if known; if writer's name is not
known, it should be SO specified by said con.
tributor. Should contributor fail to comply
with this request he will henceforth be dropped
from THE MIRRORS contributing staff
Approved by WARDEN. Editor
The mirror., 1920-12-16
THE GREAT LAND HUNGER

No hunger in all experience equals the
human hunger for bit of ground and a
home on it. Nationalism has been much
discussed recently; to some bogie, to
others promise.
Czecho-Slovakia is the first country to
attempt, in a practicable way, to solve
that great land hunger with nationalism.
The experiment is worth noting. In the
first place, Czecho-Slovakia is easily the
foremost of all the new states arising
from the war. 1t has moved steadily
along its appointed track, re-creating in
dustries, instituting educational programs,
saying little and saving wood until today
it is solvent entity, and presents model
of working democracy.
Neither the Czechs (or Bohemians),
nor the Slovaks nor the Moravians-the
three races making up the state of Czecho-
Slovakia-age Bolshevik; if you were to
call them Socialists they would be aston
ished. They are Democrats, pure and
simple; yet they have adopted nationalism
in the great matter of land and, so far as
can be judged, it works.
The law was passed April'16, 1919; it
was passed unanimously by the National
Assembly, representing all Czech political
parties. By its provisions the state sezies
land belonging to those who possess $50
hectares of arabic land or ESQ hectares of
any kind of land including woods. This
law invests the state with sort of trustee
ship over the seized land; in time it all
will be given over to private persons, and
on lease to public and private corpora
tions.
A hectare is slightly less than two and
one-half acres. A cadastral acre, how
ever, is an acre reckoned for taxation pur-
poses and is little more than half
hectare, being of less territory than an
ordinary acre. In this article the hectare
may be reckoned roughly at two and one
half acres.
Now Bohemia, Slovakia and Moravia
in 1914 were typical lands of the Old
World. The peasants had nothing; a
few landowners everything; these land
owners were mobiles, but not Bohemian
mobiles. They were the descendants of
Magyars and others on whom the Austro-
Hungarian crown had bestowed the
estates.
Bohemia measures 5,195,O0O hectares
and at the last census had 6,769, ,s4S in
habitants. There were then S6S,402
separate landed possessions, and of these
Estates only 3O6,003 persons owned arabic
land. But 43 per cent of the Bohemian
owners held an acre or less total of
s73,273, ownerships being squeezed into
5O,439 hectares. That is to say As per
cent of the landowners held only one per
cent of the land. At the extreme other
end of the list 24s owners, holding more
than 1000 hectares each, held together
1,147,419 hectares Nor 1873 per cent of the
available area.
A study of the several divisions of pas
turage, orchards meadows, gardens,
woods, lakes and moors would show the
same disproportionate ownership which, of
course, was common to all other aristo-
cratically settled countries.
The mirror., 1920-12-16
QUERIES
NOTICE TO INMATES


For the benefit of any inmates who appre-
ciate and see the opportunity that their spare
hours give toward means OF self education
through correspondent school courses, study of
good literature, acquiring an education in our
Night Schools, or, who need helpful informa.
tion in connection with their work in our var.
ious departments will herewith BE be privileged
come to send in any queries of serious interest
to yourself, THE MIRROR with the kind col
laboration OF Miss Miriam E: Carey, Super
visor of Institutional Libraries, will gladly
endeavor to supply the requested information.
NOTICE-In order to regulate the conduct
of this column inmates must sign their name.
submitted for publication. Inmates names, of
course, will not be published, only the initials
of each querist being used.-Editor.
Q:-When and by whom was the Nam
moth cave discovered Pr. H.
Alt is not known with certainty who
was the first white man to see the Nam
moth cave, nor at what date. 1t is gen.
orally supposed, however, that the cave
was discovered in 1909, and the credit for
the discovery is given to hunter by the
name of Hutchins.
Q:-What is the idea of breaking bot
TIC VI CHdluPdSuC VII snip tIdt is DclNS
launched for the first time? Where did
the custom originate ?-W. r.
A:-Christening new ships is relic of
an ancient rite, when wine was offered to
Neptune as propitiatory sacrifice to in
sure his favor. The rite has been con-
tinued up to the present day. Champagne
was generally used because it was the
most costly wine.
OWL you advise me the correct way
to spell the plural of the word money!"
H. B.
A:-Moneys, not monies, although of
ten so Improperly spelled. The rule is
clear. Wor'ls ending ir y necessarily
have as their penultimate letter either a
vowel or a consonant If vowel the
plural is formed by adding S; if con-
sonant, by changing the into les. Thus,
boy, boys; baby, babies.
NOTICE-Al inmates using the Query Col.
umn and desiring more detailed information to
their queries invited to use the splendid
reference books in our library to be had on
request The International Text Books are
especially complete in their information
techinal subjects Consult the Reference, USE
full Arts, Literature, Chemistry, Biography and
Science divisions of our library catalogue for
The mirror., 1920-12-16

CHURCH NOTICE
Services in the Prison Chapel at nine o'clock
every Sunday morning. Protestant and Catho-
lie service every alternate Sunday. Rev. G. E.
Benson and Rev. FIR. Corcoran Chaplains.
The mirror., 1920-12-16

"They say women and music should
never be dated"
The mirror., 1920-12-16

He who has health has hope; and he
who has hope has everything.-Arabian
Pr0veyb.
The mirror., 1920-12-16

Heat not furnace for your foe. so hot
that it do SINCE yourself.-Shakesteare.
The mirror., 1920-12-16

NOTICE-In order to regulate the conduct
of this column inmates must sign their name.
register number and lock number to- all queries
submitted for publication. Inmates names, of
course, will not be published, only the initials
of each querist being used.-Editor.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05

with a chemical tank should appropri- ations for one be askel of the voters. was considered. This adds about. siOoo to the expense Fire Chief Cortland Arnold was present at the council meet ing and Mayor Marcy asked him for his opinion. He told the council thar he thought it would be advisable to eauip the truck with the chemical tank for if this were done, the hook and ladder
 truck would be able to respond to chm
 ney fires and it would not be necessary to take out hose cart at th, same time He admitted, however that t would be necessary to know the exact
 nature of a still alarm before it would be safe to send out the hook and ladder alone.
 All members of the council were ] agreed that the present situaticn in Putnam IS serious one, and that the
 need of new piece of apparatus is i'm minent. In order that the matter may be put before the voters in the most forceful manner possible the council ad- jodrned for one week. and in the mean time the fire committee will draft a re- port that will outline the need of inc new truck, and will also put it's recom- mendations in written form so that the voters may be given all the facts. Af- ter the report has been approved by the council. q special city meeting Will in
 all probability be called
 Mayor Allie W. Marcy and members of ! the common council have voted to ac- cept the invitation to attend the, exer-
 cises to be held at the wolf den in Pom
 Afret, August II Tho invitHtion was ex- tended by Elizabeth Porter Putnam chapter ot the k. At this time a
 bronze tablet will be unveiled.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05
After you eat-always use PATONlC
R FoR YOUR SToA4Ach.s SAkE

-one or two tablets-eat like candy. InstantlyreEevesH Heartburn, Bloated Classy Feeling. Stops indigestion, food souring, repeating, headacheand the many miseries caused by
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05
DANCING WILDWOOD PARK lexander's s Lake
 TONIGHT

the companies engaged solely in the manufacture of such apparatus. The cost of such q truck would, according to Alr. Byrne, be in the neishborhood of SS 000 For another S1,009 cnemi1a', tank could be attached. The other plan would he to buy q standard truck chas- sis manufactured by any reputable au- lomobi.e concern, and then equip i,. The cost in this case. would be C-neWhat less, the committee estimates and would be about $500 for the truck. with an additional thousand for the hook and ladder fittings.
 After ne ...-d finished his report, MT. 3yrne, addressing Mayor Allie W. Mar Icy and the melrtatrs O. tine coan5ii, s-tid that he recommended the purchase of d good fire truck He did not think that .n the long run the converted conner cial chassis would give the satisfactory service 1.4at might D,- obtained from q
 regulation hook "'i'he com
 Gee. chassis is built for commercial
 purposes, and to ~- -o,.us at
 moderate rate of speed" said the a.der-
 man. "They are not built to stand the
 peculiar strains that q piece of fire ap- paratus is put to. The strains are en-
 IT~7 different" MT. Byrne pointed out
 that the standard commercial trucks are shaft-driven, and in case Of breakdown
 require longer time for repairs. For example, he said "supposing the truck
 has to be driven into some back yard,
 or into some difficult place, and the shaft snaps Then you are without a truck until mechanics can replace the shaft and your machine is useless in | inc meantime. On the other hand. fire trucks .-1711-+t. for this service only, are
 driven by chain, and in case the chain
 snaps it is only a matter of inserting
 new link I advise buying fire truck equipped and designed for fire
 purposes"
 Mayor Marcy declared he believed
 there is crying need for a
 hook and ladder truck in Putnam.
 and felt that a thousand or two dollars ought not to stand in the way of getting the very best that there is ta be had. According to the mayor the que-t m of | purchasing the truck resolves itseil not | into whether the city can afford to bay | it. but whether the city could afford not | to buy it. The mayor pointed out that | at the present time the city is paying in l salaries to members of the hook and ladder company about $500 year in re- l turn for which no service is being re- ceived This. is not the fault of the company" added the mayar. flor they are willing to respond, but there is nothing to respond with. I believe that | the seriousness of the situation war rants taking action, and taking it early. If the citizens are given the opportunity | to express their opinion on this matter and then see fit 10 turn it down, the responsibility will no longer rest with the council At the present time there are no horses available to draw the hook and ladder apparatus. As Alderman Byrne pointed out. in case of fire in | the center of the business section ladders can be taken from the present truck and carried by hand. or the truck pulled hy hand for short distance. But for fires further away this is out of the ques- tion.
 The question of equippins the truck
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05
Mrs. F'r- q Armstrong.

Mrs. Fr- q Armstrong.
 Mrs George Kahn entertained Sunday Mir. and Mrs. A. C. Crooker and son AL len, Miss Barbara Crooker and Stanley Hcwland. all of Providence.
 Mrs. Thomas Buchanan and sons Ar thur and William. of Staten Island are visiting Mrs. Buchanan's uncle. William Weaver.
 Misses Helen. Gertrude and Dorothy Duerr and Masters Herbert and Freddie Duerr of New York are spending some time with their aunt. Mrs. Fred Duerr
 Frank Marshall of Seymour spent the week end with Louie Duerr
 Mrs William Woodward entertained al tea Thursday Deacon William Smith and Mrs Smith. Miss Kate Whitford Miss Lydia Johnson and Mrs. Jennie Simpson.
 Miss Mildred Manning of Watertown is visiting her cousin, Mildred Manning.
 Mrs. Earl Rogers and daughter Bar bara and Mrs Foster were Norwich vis- itors Friday.
 Andrew Gerrenscn of Higganum spent the week end with Rev. William Tate and Mrs. Tate.
 MT. and Mrs. Fred Beebe and daughter Carolyn, Mrs. Charles Ellis and Miss Ruth Ellis. all of LeffingweIl were call CTS on Mrs. Grace K. Peckham Thursday evening.
 Miss Rebecca Mahoney and Master Harold Mahoney have returned home af-
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05
DANIELso. CASINO.

DANIELso1 CASINO.
 STAR FATHER BLDG 0OWLINt: and PoCk EF BILLIARDS AisLEfS ] TABLES WEDNESDAYS; LADIES' DAY Bowling ;..l sport for all Prize gtTen away every Saturday.
 YOU ARE INVITED
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05
DIED

MINER-In Stonington (Anguilla), Aug. ?. 1920, Herman E. Miner, aged 66 years
 BREWSTER-In Hartford. Aug. ,. 1920. James Henry Brewster, native of Coventry, aged 74 years. NORToN-In Greenwich Aug. 1, 1920, Frank P. Norton. CHAMBERLAIN-In West Woodstock. Aug. ,, 1920, Sarah T.. wife of the late Henry E. Chamberlain, aged S2 years. MOxLEY-ln Hartford. Aug. 3. 1920, Solan A. Moxley, aged so years, for merly of this city. Funeral services at the Bushnell chapel, this city. Thursday afternoon Aug. 5, at o'clock. Burial in the family lot in Oak street cemetery.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05

ter week spent with their aunt Mrs. A. E. Cruthers. of Norwich.
 Mrs. Robert Arno and son Robbie of Stamford are visiting Mrs Fred Duerr
 MT. and Mrs. Henry Bacon and Her. mon Bacon of Willimantic were callers on Eugene Clarke Saturday.
 MT. and Mrs Elmer Bowen of Ramp- ton. Mass. Mir and Mrs. Charles Parker and family of Brooklyn spent Sunday with Mrs. L. A. White
 Mrs. Carrie Spidell of New Rochelle is spending some weeks with Mrs L. A White.
 Mrs. Etta Watson has returned to her home in Greeneville after three weeks visit with her daughter, Mrs A. E. Race
 Mrs. Willard Gardiner of East Green wich. R. l., is visiting her cousin, Mrs Eugene Clarke.
 Mrs Elizabeth stamm of Norwich Town was the guest for a week of Miss Mabel Tracy
 Mrs William Clark of South Coventry was the guest of Mrs. William Weaver Wednesday.
 Paul Brooker has returned to his home in Providence after spending a month at Spring Valley farm.
 George Hollister Mrs Clara Roberts ana daughter Dorothy of Hartford spent a day last week with Miss Mabel Tracy.
 MT and Mrs. Reuben Manning and their guests, MT and Mrs Ernest Man ming, of Waterford, called on Mrs. James A. Randall of Goshen Sunday.
 Milton Beckwith and Misses Anita. Catherine and Winifred Holton spent a day recently with friends in Worcester.
 Rev. William Crawford and the Misses Crawford were guests of Miss Mabel Tracy Wednesday.
 Mrs. Charles Perkins and daughter Fannie. Mrs. Jeanette Hoffman and daughter Ella. Mrs. Hermon Gager. Mrs. William Weaver. Mrs Frank Redwood attended the Social Corner picnic at the home of Mrs. Mary Bishop at Bishop,s Crossing, Jewett City.