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Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-17
BIG SHORTAGE TO MAKE UP.

One thousand representative Massa-
 ehHsetts farms show a decrease of 20 per cent. in. the number of laborers on them, with 12 per cent. less the. .coun- try over, compared with one year ago. Where this labor has gone may be- sur missed from theJ1fact that laborers in the same period have increased from 10 to 93 per cent. in textile industries, 55 per cent in clothing occupations, and S7 per cent. in automobile factories
 All drawn from, the farms by high wages, short hours and the pleasures of town life" is one of the explanations that is offered. But movements of this kind have been going on for years. and the present shortage of labor, not only on the farm, but elsewhere, has another and patent cause e-'' from the mere shifting and changing of emp1oyments. Our peesent labor shortage. now put at
 100000 workmen, is almost wholly the | result of the cessation of immigration
 and the return of much of our alien la | hor tV Europe. We have for many | years developed industrially on a large
 annual immigration. That immigration stopped six years ago, and we are now l feeling in every industry, and in that ot i the farm particularly the loss of it.
 i We may charge much of it up to the
 war. The labor needed in useful employ.
 ment has been busy making things tc
 kill men with, and in the killing of men
 Now the world must pay for all ~tht | waste of muscle and life. "'2
Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-17
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Our Local Band.

Mir Editor: Few people realize the time and expense, besides the patience required and exercised both by leaders and players in brass bands for their re- hearsals. The personal enthusiasm of the members of the local band must be the binder that has held it together for so many years, surely it is not the rev. enue derived
 few of the men get quite an income from music, but to those players that perform on instruments that are seldom if ever used in orchestra work, such as altos hasses haritones, etc, special praise should be given for, their loyalty to the organization.
 It is very evident, judging from the general appearance of the band, that fact was very noticeable c@ recent oc- casien, when the hand was eseorting a well uniformed local society Apparent lY no two of the musicians were clothed alike, which is one thing a leader should | lay special stress upon. namely, to have all his men we'll uniformed
 It is very true that the late Charles | Tubhs labored hard and long for thu band that bears his name and due eredi | is given him for the same, but does i not seem that 1t could be called by somt ] more modernly appropriate name, sucl as the Norwich Philharmonic Band ol Society, and then perhaps their appea would receive more attention by the nu sic loving residents of our city.
 ,-,, v SYMPATHIQuE.
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PoIsONED LIQUOR

From the way in which people in va rious parts of the country have been killed by the drinking of wood alcohol used in the making of whiskey it might be expected that extra precautions would be taken by those who think they must have drink to learn whether they are getting the real stuif or whether they are getting something that had been made by the use of a deadly poison But the country cannot fail to note the criti- ral condition of the mayor of an eastern city and the death of man and his wife following the drinking of a concoctior supposed to be whiskey but which from the effects unquestionably contained rood alcohol.
 It isn't going too far to claim thai n spite of all that has been said about 1t. and all tho lives that have been los rom wood alcohol that there are thos. who are still willing to take chance lust like those kindling fire with gas slene. racing for crossing with a To- cemotive or selecting medicine in the lark when bottles containing both pois orpus and safe liquids are located sid, oy. side.
 For those who must drink there i. rood reason why they should be sure ot
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HnLnING DIR rRAnE.

There is much food for thought in the report of the department of commerce Co the effect that our exports for the period of ten months ending with April amounted to almost six and three-quar ters billions, or a gain of we'll over a million dollars in comparison with 8 like period in the previous year. This shows that We are still being looked to to fuF- nish a large part of the supplies for other nations and that we are doing it. t shows also that we have the goods with which to fill the orders that are coming from ab-~o| All of this is to ,ur benefit, but 1t is quite proper that Ee should take the time to determine whether we are making the right prep arations for holding a reasonable pro- portion of this business in the days that Ire to come.
 The fact cannot be lodged of course that We are getting this business as the direct result of the war. That great struggle forced European countries to turn their activities in other directions han were followed during peace time. They were concerned with the produc- ton of war material rather than the ASA~A SNtPNN hiC Itoull hdS ludL uS- peldence had to be placed upon others for those things which they needed but which they did not have the time to raise or manufacture. At the same time countries which formerly depended up- on these European countries for supplies were forced to look to other markets
 In both instances 1t was 10 the United States that they looked to to meet the situation and this additional demand has served to boost our exports both in amount as we'll as in value And though the war Is over and has been for many months conditions are not such that these foreign countries are able to take care of their own needs or to SUD- ply those formerly dependent upon them
 We are thus still feeling the effects of the war through this foreign demand But the time is coming when these coun- tries are going to get back to normal conditions. Less and less will they de- pend on the resources of this country unless there is good and sufficient req. son for 1t and it therefore rests with this country to say whether 1t wants this large export business bad enough to hus tie for it in addition to looking after oul own growing demands. It is one thing 10 have it but another thing to hold it.
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NO DEMAND FOR IT.

There may be those who figure that third ticket put into the field by the committee of 4s, because of the result of the republican convention, will make such an appeal toNthe country that it will land its candidates in, the white house, but the number taking such a view must be decidedly small The country has experienced the disastrous effects of g similar action on the part of a real national leader and certainly there is none in this committee who can hope to approach any such results as obtained eight years ago., That resulted in split ting the republican party, but the bull nlaesers did not win It was the means of putting the Wilson administration in to power and fastening upon. the coun- try the government it has, received for the last eight years. Without hoping to accomplish as much as that the neces- sity of avoiding any such possibility can- not fail to appeal to an intelligent body of voters who will do their utmost tc steer clear of any such. consequence.
 Much is being made of the fact thai the Wisconsin delegates in the repuhh can convention stood almost selidly iron
 
 that they refused to join in the motior that the nomination of Harding be made unanimous Because of that the beliet prevails that he would not. decline z third party nomination should it come to him but the attitude and views of La Toilette are too we'll known to let th' 1 impression get abroad that there would be any considerable portion. of the cleo torate who would rally to the support o such leader, particularly at this time. As 3 matter of fac: this third part. has gotten abort as far as it will get It is likely to hlew un,in talk for thos to whom such an appeal is being mad cannot fail to find upon thorough in vestigation that the safest and best can didate has been chosen in Warren G Harding and thi.t he has been given running mate. of. high qualifications il Calvin Coolidge. They are men upo whom the country can unite in the, con | fident belief that they will insure to, tn country the safe sane and orderly gov ernment that is needed and demanded.
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CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING JUNE 18th, 1920
 10,644
WILL STAND THE TEST,

Perhaps one of the most interesting things that has developed as the result of the Chicago convention is the way iR which the demecratic leaders and press are deploring the action that was taken. The republicans are being told that they have made a tremendous mis- take, that they have played right into the hands of the opposition and that they shouldn't have done what. they did.
 This presents a most interesting sit nation. If the republicans have done so much to aid the democrats why should the latter feel so sorry for the repub- licans? It is time for them to congrat- ulate the republicans on the selections made and the action taken and to go ahead and make the most of them. The fact is that the republicans, if they have done what the democrats claim, have simply played in,o their hands,
 But right down deep in their hearts the democrats know better They real ize that the republicans have selected candidates who are bound to appeal te the country, men who are sound and strong. men who are without a blem Ish. men whose campaigns are not go ing to be open to attack from now unti election day whether justified or not and men who by their records have shewr that they possess the qualification, thu courage. the firm convictions and san' leadership that the best interests of thu country demand.
 The fact is that the democrats art disappointed only because the men se lycted are mot open to such attacks al tHey honed to be able to launch agains them They are disposed to direct th opinions of the republicans regardless Q their own ideas, the demands of the pee ne and the needs Of the country. The. see by the nominations made that thet own campaign is made the harder re gardless of the candidates named. Tn tact is that they are not going to un deFmihe the clean and creditable record N the candidates however much the might like to. Those who read are boun 70 consider the merits of Harding an Coolidge who will not fail when the aci tests are applied
Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-17
SNAP SHOTS OF
 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTIONS Copyrighted by G. M Adams Service
The Convention of 1888.

When the democratic national conven- ton of 1888 assembled in St Louis on June 5, it's function-so far as the pres idential nomination was concerne1--was purely that of providing formal ~ati- ticat!on of the indisputable opinion of the country. President Grover ,leveland was re-nominated unanimously, without evena formal vote being taken. He was the first candidate since Van Buren, in 1 1S40. to be thus honored
 The death of Vice President Hendricks ] in the first year of his term, however, left the second place on the tickec o;4an to contest, and from this contest the con- test, and from this contest the conven- ton gleaned it's only real color and ex- i citenent It proved to be contest be- l tween A. c. Thurman of Ohio and Gov i ernor Isaac P. Gray of Indiana. It al- . so provcd-in it's spectacular and demon- stgative phases-to be a contest between i high white hats" (which were worn by i Grey's friends) and red handkerchiefs'' i (which were fiourished by the friends of Thurman, who always used a bandanna 1 himself). The ''bandannas" won. On the
 first ballot Thurman boiled 69O, Gray 1o5 ! and ' lin C. Black of Illinois 25.
 s. M White of California was tenn l porarY chairman of the convention, and Patrick A. Collins of Massachusetts was i permanent chairnf,n. The resolutions were, without new unusual feature ! One plank endorsed the ioend'ug M Ills bill" for a reduction in the tariff; an- otEer complained be cause the ,epfhtca IS
 had refused sta .ehood' to Washington
 Dakota, Montana anG New MeXico ard
 a third expressed sympathy with ''tie l eff',Tts of those Rob.s patriots who, ed 1 by Gladstone and Parnell have conduct
 ed their grand and peaceful contest for I home rule in Ireland"
 In the outcome of this campaign Ben
 iamip Harrison was elected president
 Gro be continued tomorrow with the
 story of the convention of 1S92.)
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fighting? Or should we join forces with them unresery ed.y, contrary to the his toric policy. of America to go it alone.
 Those alternatives were in every mind in that bewildering period, and the pres ident had to choose between them in framing the policy to be submitted to con gress. He made the bolder choice of going into full partnership with the Entente Allies pooling with them all our resources, our man power, our money power and our producing power, and ra- sorting for the first time in our history to compulsory military service.
 The broad plan which he unfolded and which congress quickly approved as- sured in advance the success of the great, unparalleled undertaki and he pushed it through to victory with grim unrelenting persistence. Americans gen. erally assumed at the start, and the British government agreed with-~then that we should not have to send a great army to Europe if indeed any at all But when it became an imperative. ne eessity to go at double quick to the re lief of broken line in France, the foun dation was so well laid that we rose tt the unforeseen emergency, building LII in year and half an army of 1000, VI" shiAu ACiiSili6 AJVVV,OuU across the Atlantic.
 The brains of the country, all the tai ents were mobilized for the war mer chants and scientists, bankers and rail roadmen, labor leaders and clergymer each being charged with the task fo which his training fitted him. The chron ic weakness of our war-making-favo 1 itism-rarely was permitted to show it meeting some of the new problem o head. Mistakes apleutY were made i warfare. But at least we did not repea the mistakes of our past wars. For ono l our soldiers were not sent to the iron under political generals and colonels an fleft dependent upon the supplies of polit 1 ioal contractors. For the first time i |, our military history politics was shu out of the army.
 Tt is, a race between Wilson and Hir denburg," said Lloyd George, when tn big German drive surprised the entent and smashed through it's front in th Spring of 1918. Well. whoever won tl war, Hindenburg lost that race We SUI prised ourselves and dumbfounded tt German. General Staff by the spee1 an efficiency with which this .unmilitarist
 nation put an immense army into field 5000 miles away
 Tomerrow-TNe Presidency at the Sun
 init of Its Influence.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-17
BY THE AID OF A HAIRPN

"This widow shade wonE work" re- marked the. bride, turning to her friend who had been married seven years. I'm waiting for Peter to come home and re- pair it.''
 Of course it's none of my business" sai dthe friend, sitting down hastily, but you 'are starting something you can't stop, perhaps. It's a risk to let Peter | fix it. Why not menl it yourself? I know! My Gerald is what he calls | handy about the house. and it almost
 drives me mad I wish I had begun my
 career in matrimony by attending to things like this myself It's too late ] for me now"
 | Why, I thiught all men ough to be handy at such things" said the bride,
 pushing back her hair. Whats so aw-
 ful about it2 And besides, I could never
 mend that myself
 "Nonsense!" said her. friend, .It's easy l when you know howl And as for Gerald, !,
 he explained, well, he. is man and 1 a gentleman, and I love him to distrac-
 tion; but he will outer around, doing
 things for the house. And the trouble il
 causes! If he would only confine him self to mending the washer or repairing the chairs it would be all right but, my
 dear, when they can do little they thinl they Ian do it all, and you Simply can ! discourage theml
 Gerald began by fixing up the electr , washer. es he finished the undertakin, successfully. But immediately thereafte
 he had the noble idea that he, could ri it up to operate the ice cream freezer o the sewing machine while it was doin the washing, and argue as I might hi
 scientific frenzy was such that he ftte cranksand whatnets onto it until hard ly dared go near the place And wh } wants to freeze ice cream on washda, anyhow?"
 How delightfully."- absurd P cried tn v bride.
 3 "oh, that was merely one of his littl
 thoughts" said the friend, airily "W | lived in three rooms for while after "
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the nature of the beverage before they
 touch it. It may look like the real thing
 and the taste may be satisfactory but
 there is apt tq be kick that is more
 dangerous than anticipated. 4
 It is certainly a situation where every-
 thing possible should be done for self protection. As much as a drink may be desired it means tremendous sacrifice
 to give up one's life for t and it is known that there gre those who. care
 not what the effect is upon others so long as they set the financial return which they are seeking. The fact cannot
 fail to be noted that prohibition and the enforcement law have resulted in in- creasing not only the cost but the dan ger of drinking and it is perfectly, evi- dent that in tho interest of self preser. vation there must be exercised every pos sible precaution to. avoid the death traps that are set for the unwary.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-17
CONTINUED GROWTH OF
 OUR TRADE WITH THE ORIENT

The share of United States in the rapidly growing trade of the Orient has increased from less than 10 per cent, in the year before the war to over 20 per cent. in 1919. The total trade of the Orient, including in this aggregated, says a statement of The National City Bank of New York, about $5,2O0, 900 in 1913 of which about SAYS 5,000, 900 was with the United States, but in 1919 had advanced to $8,750, 100000 of which s1,SS0,000, 900 was with the United States While the general trade of the Orient nearly doubled during the war period, that with the United States quadrupled pines, which in 1913 amounted to only | $153 100000, were in 1919 775,000, 900, l and in the fiscal year about to end will | exceed $500, ,000,000; our exports from i the section in question, which amount ed to only $500 ,000, 900 in 1913, were S1 100, ,000, 900 in 1919 and will probably aggregate $500, 100000 in the fiscal year ending with next month.
 Manufactures, says the Banks state tment, are the principal articles form ing the imports into the Asiatic eoun- tries and when the European supplies; were cut off by the war, they natural
 
 was directly accessible across the Pa cific and was, even then, the worlds
 largest producer of manufactures. As
 a consequence the Asiatic countries have not only increased their imports
 from the United States but also 5ss-
 larged the percentage which the Unit
 ed States products form of their in
 ereasing imports. China, for example
 which in 1913 took only S per cent. oi
 her imports from the United States took from us over 10 per cent. of hei
 greatly increased imports in 1918, th'
 latest year for which details of hel
 trade are available; Japan, whici buys not only manufactures but alsC raw cotton from us, took in 1913 16.' : per cent. of her total imports from thu United States and in 1918 SIS pc cent; India, which in 1913 took les than 3 per cent. of it's imports iron United States, took from us in 19i practically 8 per cent. of her total i'm ports; Dutch East Indies, which tool ! prior to the war, less than per cent { | of it's imports from United States shows in the latest year for which fig ures are available 10 per cent. of tn 3 imports drawn from the United States @ the Philippines which have, since an 3 Inexation, taken a large share of thei e imports from the United States, in = creased the share from 31 per cent. i g the fiscal year 1914 to 50 per cent. i I 1919.
 . Or exports to China, as measure 2 by our own official records, advance
 from $21,O00,000 in the fiscal year 191
 to S1o6,0O0,G 900 in the calendar yea l. 1919. To Japan, the exports advance
 from $71 100000 in the fiscal year 191
 to SS66000,000 in the calendar yea A 1919, To India, the total exports i G 1913 were $15,0O0,O0O and in the calen
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were married, you know. and had very little closet room, so I exploited the ward robe trunk. Gerald considered il inn modest and shameless to have the trunk standing wide open to view, so l draped a curtain over it-which proved to be en- tirely adequate.
 "But my improvement wasn't scientific, you see and he worked all one day mak- ing framework of boards to fit over it, on which I was to tack the curtain neat ly. when he had it done 1 will admit his work looked he.;utiful-7only none of the drawers would open, the framework being an inch too narrow I hadn't the heart to laugh !"
 Poor Gerald" sympathized the bride Well, did laugh last Christmas" said the friend. Gerald saw a revolving Christmas tree in shop, and nothing would do but he must make motor ant stand, so that our tree would revolve too. He worked two weeks on it and a | last it was done, just in time 10 get th' l tree decorated for the children We light
 ed the candles, opened the living room
 door and the children came dropping in
 screaming for joy. Then Gerald pulle'
 the lever My dear, that tree starte
 around and around like a mad thing an the candle flames all streamed out foo behind, and set the lace curtains O
 fire. and before we could get it out m living room was a wreck and the chil
 dren were in fits P
 ''Mercy!" cried the bride, gazing 2
 the window shade with apprehension Perhaps I'd betted fix that myself befol
 Peter comesh ome!"
 "oh, it's perfectly easy" said hf | friend, taking out hairpin. Have you l bit of string? never bother Gerald vii . little things like this-there, you set You poke it like that and wind it up ar there you are! What did tell you?"
 "You're wonderful, Gertrude !" Tried u } bride, in awe. '"Show me some more, W
 you? I want to fix the belt on my sewil } machine and really the motor in Il 3 vacuum cleaner needs something 2 other !" = Exchange.
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TORTURED BY
 HER STOMACH After. Ten Years, She Found Relief In "FFult-a-tlveS"

3s07 SAcro AVE, sAoRAMESTo, CAL. s'I had Stomach Trouble for ten years, which became so bad that l got Stomach Cramps two or three times a week.
 After years of terrible torture, I read about Fruit-a-tives' or Fruit Liver Tablets, andsent for g trial box. After taking the trial box, I felt better, SO kept or taking 'Ftuito.tives for nearly q yedr, and am thankful to say 'Fruit-a-tiyes' saved my life".
 MRS. F. s. STOLE. soc. a box, 6 for $2.5e, trial size 25c, Atdealers or from FRUIT-A-TIVES Limited. OGDENSBURG, N. Y.
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The candidate against whom the sup porters of another have the most to say is the one they fear the most. Probably the same holds true relative to tie dem ocratic criticism of the republican plat form
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Stories That Recall Others
Praeticing Economy


 man advertised his car for sale. Early the next morning a Heighbor called and said: Pardon me, but see by to- days paper that you have advertised your car for sale.
 ''Yes,' said the advertiser, but sure ly you are not in the market for it?"
 'No,' was the reply, "but I wish to sell my car and as long as live only across the street I thought there would be no need >of spending my money if you would be willing to send those who come to look at your car across the street to see mine"
 Taking Full Advantage
 concern was giving toy balloons away for advertising purposes. A youngster of four got his balloon but immediately said: Please may I have two bal loons?"
 The man replied: Sorry, my little lad, but only one balloon to a boy. Have
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The man on the corner says: Of course the pan under the refrigerator has to run over a few times before we really
 get adjusted to the additional job that comes with hot weather.
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With the passing out of more college degrees the thermometer is registering more of them also 5'.a