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Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-07
s.orie. That Recall Other.
All Look Alike.


 The family had recently bought new auto all green and shiny. The daugh- ter of the household had noticed almost everything about it except the license plate While down town and ready to 20 hom4 she noticed the car and decided she would give the family treat by riding home in it. So she proceeded to make herself comfortable until the ar rival of the family.
 After a time the owner came but 1t was up to the little miss to make her apologies and hunt an electric car home She realizes now that there are many machines that look alike except for the license plates.
 Transporting White Mule.
 Say sheriff," said a voice over the telephone to a deputy a few days ago this is So and So. We'll a neighbor oi mine that 1 have been watching is or his way along the river road with load of white mule That isn't right you know and he ought not to be allowed te get away with it. He's got the mule all covered up with canvas so it canno 1 be seen"
 Getting assistance the deputy hasten ed in search by automobile and can' l upon the canvas covered farm wagon Cutting in ahead of the team he asker the driver if he had a load of whit mule"
 q sure have. I got to admit it. re piled the farmer who by this time ha up a joke on the deputy Took for yef self, sheriff. under the cover there" The sheriff raised the canvas an gazed upon the form of a real whit mule, victim of the collie and on tf way to a reduction plant.
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GouGINa THE PnRLIc.

This is the time of year when most people are beginning to get interested in coal if they haven't been fortunate enough to have their bins filled. They are interested in it because of the in- creased difficulty there promises to be in getting it because of the vacations" which are being taken by the anthracite miners and because of the price that is being charged for such fuel.
 Coal production wasn't what it should be before the coal miners refused to work because they failed to get as much as they asked for in the way of wage in- crease but the decrease in output prom ses to have it's effect upon those who are obliged to buy where they can to keep warm during the coming winter. But in addition to this possible reason for an increase an expert representing the miners maintains that the consumer is even now, and has for some time, been paying more for his coal than he should This it is charged is due to the ! fact that the operators in anticipation of the fact that there would be an in- crease ill the miners wages raised coal dollar . ton the first of April. Now with the advance granted the men it is maintained that the extra burden placed ! upon the operators will. amount to nc ! more than 50 cents ton so that a hali dollar in excess of the increased cost oi mining coal has been exaeted from the \ coal buyers.
 Coal, it is realized, has been taking several jumps. Increased wages for thu miners and increased freight rates have | been offered as the reasons, while it i; appreciated that specuIators have like wise been doing their best to make tn, boost noticeable. but it is an old stor, that the consumer is charged with 1s1ucl more than the increased wages grantee to the men.
 It makes little difference who is gous
 ing the public if it can be determinec
 that unjust prices are being charge, there ought to be means of protectin, the public against such practices an,
 seeing that those who engage in 1t ar
 penalized.
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'In all its turbulent, romantic history, since the halcyoR days when Sir Fran cis Drake dropped his pirate anchor In Magdalena Bay. no wheeled vehicle has traversed its rough and tortuous length
 Rich as are it's mines and fat are Its herds of cattle. it's chief source Of wealth lies in the cotton-growing re- gions around Mexicali.
 At the colorado delta, at the head Of the Gulf of California. which separates the Lower California peninsula from So- nora, more than at any other point on the whole border. the interests of the United States and of Mexico are closely joined. This is due to the singular to- pography of that region (part of it is below sea-leve) and to the diversion of i water from the Colorado Aiver. In the opinion Of many irrigation engineers and political students. this perculiarly deli cate problem of irrigation water rights as between planters on the American and Mexican sides of the line. respectively can be solved satisfactorily only by som,
 joint treaty between the two republics 1 involving either the fixing Of a neutra
 zone or the sale of small strip of ter | rttory."
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NEW POLICY INDICATED.

With the arrival of the head of the national organization of street railway employees in New York there promises to be a more determined effort made to bring about an ending of the strike in Brooklyn where for over a week the public has been forced to get such con veyances as 1t could, where a ln9rnber of deaths have occurred and many have been injured sS the result of the strike.
 II is significant that President Mahen should declare on his arrival that the strike was unauthorized, that he indi- cated a desire to bring about an early reconciliation and that he should s-a4e that he fully appreciated the position taken by Judge Mayer of the federal court and that those who have been criticizing the court have rot been speaking for him or the Analgamated
 Brooklyn is now experiencing a much improved service from elevated subway and surface cars. Even the company officials do not claim that 1t is back te normal but each day shows progress ir that direction. It promises to be bai a short time even under the present sit. ustion before the service will be able tS meet requirements.
 The arrival of the head of the fa ttsaal organization, however, and the at tft8ae which he has manifested indicatet theh q much different policy Is going ts he uM9ertalzen in behalf of the raifwa, msa. With his recognition of the oreacl of contract on the part of the men ant the entrance upon an outlaw strik; there appears to be determination ol his part to call the members of his or ganization to a proper respect for thei agreement and the rules of the organi ration. Whether he will approve of th offer that has been made to the men or whether he will advocate arbitratio subect to the review of Judge Nave may depend upon the result of the con ferences he has with those directly 0 indirectly interested It is time, how ever. that some consideration should h given to the relieving of the ineonver fence that the public is being caused an the snding of the danger to which it being subjected.
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rRoLLEYLEss CITIES.

There are many cities which have tried out the idea of dispensing with the street cars and relying upon motor driven vehicles. Some of them did it because they were forced to while oth- CTS did it intentionally under the belief that they would then get 100 per cent. service which they felt they were enti- tied to and had not gotten previously
 Invariably where such tests have been made the result has been the same. It required but short time to convince the respective communities that they had made mistake, and in some instances it caused them to realize that they hsd not been sufficiently arpfeeiative of what they had been getting in the way of service.
 Bridgeport has had it's experience with nothing but motor driven vehicles and several Massachusetts cities delih- erateiy invited in the jitneys to the ex- elusion of the troiieys only to quickly rescind their decision after short trial | Similarly in Brooklyn for the past ten days buses and autos of all descriptions have been pressed into service to trans port the people and the constantly in. ereasing service by the railways ha. been source of great relief so nnuci 80 that it Is claimed that one week ei such conditions has been not only stuff cient but too much.
 Not only has such dependence both cred the public but 1t has greatly in creased the street dangers fer where troi1eys must be given due respect ii the highway they are in fixed plac which is by no means So with the naote ears. The result is increased danger t all vehicles, to people crossing th' streets and to the occupants of such ve hicles.
 If any community is considering tn } replacing of it's transportation system with motor vehicles 1t will do we'll t consider the experiences which other have had in this particular line of ef } fort,
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IN THE DAYS NEWS
Lower CaIifornia.

Lower California, reported to be in revolt against the present Mexican gov ernment, is described in a communl- cation to the National Geographic so- ciety by Frederick Simpich as follows:
 The long. boot-shaped peninsula that swings down off the ieft-hand corner of the United States belongs to Mexico and is known on Mexican maps as 'Baja or Lower California. Early Spanish maps of America showed California as an island, due no doubt. to limited ex- plorations of this peninsula.
 "Scantily known as 1t is to the av- craze American, this s6o-miie-lorh tAI of rocks, peaks. brush-grown nesas. and rare, fertile little valleys is a favorits haunt for many Yankee naturalfsts | fishermen, and, big-game hunters; anc here and there, in the more favored, veil watered, grassy spots of the htEte ranges, hardy American cattlemen hay, ] built their adobe homes, where they en I joy the limitless freedom of vast unfenc ed areas. The Circle Bar company O 1 Ojos Negros Ranch runs cattle over leased territory of two and half mil 1 lion acres, and a British corporation holds title to something like fifteen mil lion acres
 Away down at peaceful, picturesqu La Pax. where Cortez repaired hi schooners and where centuries latei | Walker, the Yankee filibuster. raised hi flag. another Yankee today runs a bus little tannery, turning out 500 sides c good leather avery day for an Anger can shoe facortary. Here and ther, in hill and valley, Americans are del,
 ing for metals or growing the stapl frijole.
 But the country as a whole, owing { its many desert, waterless areas, is bt
 sparsely settled, and, as one writer say
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CIRCULATION
 -ra
 WEEK ENDING SEPT. 4 1920 . 1O,939
.covERNoR Cox,s METHODS.

That the New York Times, which 1 backing Governor Cox, is quite right when-it says that the shindy about cam psign- expenses Is wearying the country thera can be little question, and it is getting weary because of the repeated unfulflled promises that have been made by Candidate Cox in connection herewith. Governor Cox has indulged is tais smoke screen, assuring the coun- try he would prove his stateiaants, but nothing of the kind has been forthcotn. ing and yet it is upon that that he is placing his chief reliance in his sw;rs about the country.
 The Jacksonville, Fla, Tinaes- Union takes the same sort of a view when if says: we regret very much that the presidential campaign has degenerated Into the worst mud-slinging contest or record. No matter who is responsible for it. no one will gain by it and ths people will be enbittsred and disgust ed"
 TSrus MT. Cox must realize that tn. boomerang, which he had good reason to expect has already started. He alone responsible for the record break ing mud singing campaign. It is hi idea and there is no surprise that ther is a strong desire among the democrat 10 have it called off. The New Yorl Times even holds that The whole mat ter strikes most people as insincere."
 Had Governor Cox not only mad charges but taken advantage Of the op portunity to have made them under oat and in doing so submitted proof to sub stant:zte them his position might hay been different. As 1t is there is noth ing but discredited statements, with hi own leaders admitting that the repuol cans are doing no more in the way c raising campaign funds than the den ocrats are while there is the added tes timouy to the effect that the democrat have violated the law in assessing demI cratic officeholders for party support
 Is there any wonder that the dclrr sratic papers should be disgusted an weary at Governc- Coxs efforts? that they should term his efforts as il sincere and the worst mud-slingng ca, on record? But why op him! Now the time to let the country find out wn, kind of a candidate is before them
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Packard. Art had told him to make it pleasant for the girls until his arrival, so Steve did his best. He had accepted the ready explanation of the other twins absence on business, still thinking that Jean was Arts promised bride-to- be- There had been one or two narrow escapes, head-on collisions and so on,
 but Jean had managed to extricate her
 self gracefully each time. It was easy
 enough to persuade Steve of how ire
 quently their identities were mistaken.
 Gradually Jean began to feel just little sorry for the deception, but she did not quite know how to crawl out of the situation while Steve was trying to keep a tight control his heart- strings. He berated himself as an abom- inable cur to be falling in love with his friends sweetheart, but he had to aok- | nowledge to himself that such was the case. But he allowed no hint Of 1t to escape. although it took as much cour- age as he had ever displayed previously to hide his real feelings.
 On the day Charlotte was to return the two were bound for the station to meet her when they encountered Barry. I just returning from business trip. Now Jean might mislead others, but never Barry he knew her too wen!" He was nearly abreast of them when Jean
 deep in thought as to how she was to | should learn of the ruse, was surprised
 by cheery: "Honk-honk! Don't steer right into a fellow, Jean!'
 l Thereupon Jean was so upset tha | she forgot to give Barry a warning sig nal bNa finger hastily pressed on he lips beffAd Steve's back. By the tim she recovered sufficiently to do it and t make the usual introduction Steve ha' caught just an inkling of the real truil A !, nd when the full realization of all
 meant came to him he was so unac
 countably happy he chuckled just a Barry exclaimed: Aha, Jean! Prank
 ing again! Well, let me be the first t
 congratulate you!" and the incorrigibl ex-suitof vanished. Jean blushed a most beautiful crimson while Steve looked at her with an : miration he now felt no need to concea . and then the situation was relieved ,
 the hearty laughter of both.
 By the. time the station was reache . matters had progressed so well th: , Charlotte. (Barry always insisted C | calling her "Charlotte") guessed ho :. things stood. although she never learns : the part she had unwittingiy played. Upon Arthur's coming to claim h T T bride, he found that Steve had not on . faithfully carried out his instructions, b. had gone even further and made all u 1. plans necessary for a double weddin
 Was he surprised? Hardly that-it Vi ' the realization of a pet desire which ] V had never dared voice for fear of balkil r i it from the start. Then, too, he kne a Jeans ability in speeding"
 . Barry alone suspected Jeans escapa V but he, too, was glad among the oth
 guests to extend his hearty good wish' 1t Good luck, twin POS. and bright TO- ;- in the sunlight for those who steer yo ;s way"-Boston Post.
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THE TWIN TwENTIES

Don't be alarmed and imagine that this is tale of high-powered, luxuri- ous automobile Far. from it! Just a story of twe as charming and lovabls girls as you might chance to meet, fun loving, adorable, as full of pranks as our old car is of cranks.
 Barry Seymour had laugningly dub bed them the 'Twin-Sixteens' four years before and the name had chung. He asserted that they were always over speeding, but that he never knew either of them to have any tire trouble"-tney possessed enormous energy, and were al their name was Packard, although Char. lotte was about to change hers to Ford. This had once. again occasiened Barry $ inccrrigible wit.
 ITO think of a Packard becoming a Ford-A FORDi"
 A. Ford, familiarly known as Art, was due to arrive from overseas in a couple of months and the wedding was to take place immediately Knowing that il would be impossible for him to make the plans upon his arrival he had asked Stephen Chandler to anticipate his com ing to Brookhurst, and attend to all nec- essary final arrangements. Steve was to be the best rf1an--Steye, who had 80 va liantly faced death with him in t':s trenches, and who had now returned te Gods own country" Steve knew thu twins only b5 the oft-told tales repeat ed to him on many starlit nights amids 1 the horrors of No Mans Land. Many warning had he received not to fal | in love with Charlotte, but to be as fas cinatlng as he pleased to Virginia. l The twins had always planned don ble wedding, but there was just on' thing missing-the man in Virginia 1 case There had been suitors aplenty but Jean had laughingiy treated then
 one and all alike. Barry had been cil l of the most persistent, but to his un daunted attentions she always replie: | Barry I love you"-at which, Barr would get elated-.1ike brother. 1 Then, rnusingly, "I know you too vel | Barry. dear" Barry's hopes cam 1 crashing down.
 Il On the day of Steve's arrival Chat lotte had been compelled to make a iaS shopping expedition to the city, to
 gone few days, so it was left for V1 ginia to do the honors for the new gues A naughty little impulse leaped int Jeans brain. Why not? Just for sue short time! That would certainly war
 off q possible suitor. He might think conpulsory for him to fall in love ; } first sight with the bridesmaid-suc , things had been known to happen! E; , the br;de-to -be-he certainly would nt let his emotions run riot in that dire ton. So Jean argued she would be Cha ] lotte until her sisters return. The d.
 ception was easy as far as personal al 2 pearances went The twins were vel much alike, and were often mistaken fl , each other. even by very intina 3 friends. Therefore, with an absolu
 stranger. the pose could not possib
 be detected-so she reasoned.
 stephen at the first meeting did n
 wonder that his churn had fallen so de
 perately in love with the charming Mi
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
y.lna of . CoIleee Edaeataon.

MT. Editor: During the college com
 nencesaent season scouts" for various large industrial corporations were busy among our colleges, seeking out prom ising young men to enlist for active ser
 vice under their banners-in Itself a
 convincing indication that the college
 education is no longer regarded by the business world as detriment. There
 was when the hRrd-hedded man of large
 business world as a detriment Time
 college trained lad as in some manner Of fashion inferior to the ones who had not taken the trouble to go so far in the realms of study. Today the college
 bred man is in active demand-not the idler, nor the shirker of course, but the man who has shown promise. It is therefore no longer necessary to argue | the point. The case is proved and ad- mitted on the industrial side. College education is nc handicap in business.
 What one would prefer to stress is the less material beneft-the subjective, ra ther than the objective, side of a college l education. One stands rather aghast at 1 the sudden revelation that college men are no longer regarded as hindered by | the fact of education against the gain l ing of livelihood. It is agreeable to l find it so, but it has all come very sud- denly. The point that is the most often l overlooked is the one which concerns 1 not intended solely as the means of ad- vancement to a better salaried job, even l if 1t does have that one effect. It is meant to have a high importance both
 on the political future of the country by 1 increasing the number of well-informed | and high-principled citizens and upon the inward resources of the individual The man who goes through a college
 eourse with genuine credit not only gets himself into a better position to make money, but also into a better po- sition for using the money that he gets. We have got one life to live, be it longer or shorter; and the great thing for everyone is to make the most of it. Colleges try hard to increase the indi- vidual capacity to get the most and the best out of life. They are not mere training schools for the gainfui voca
 tions. They are incidentally places
 where men are introduced to, and made , familiar with, the best that the world 7 has to offer from it's rich stores of hu.
 man experience, knowledge of wilict
 cannot help but make those thus faniI. far with them into better-roundeG 1 characters and more resourcefui ifhab itants of the current world
 ] It Is our caDSid opinion that far toc 1 little is na6s by most colleges of thi. , side Of tba problem. There is always 7 conflict between the theories of educa
 tfon which respectively emphasize 'eiE
 cheney" for practical life and culture ii general. The colleges of the Unitet States are not producing scholars in tn stricter sense, 50 much as naNltituies O
 men who have vague growing ac
 quaintance with scholarship There i probably ample room for both but i, t the tremendous impetus which the "efi
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ciency" side of the question has re- ceiyed, the cultural side has suffered. If one offered advice today it would not be so much to go to college with the idea of becoming an ~s,cient citizen, As with the idea of becoming also a weil-round- ed one-that Is to say, seeking not only an enhanced value to the world of men but also an enhanced intellectual value to oneself.
 EUGENE BERTRAM WILLARD.
 Chelsea, Mass, Sept. 2, 1920.
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hay. been r.eonell.a to resalnins their

have been reeoneiied to regaining their enthnographic frcntiers.
 The fight between the forces of the soviet government and the Poles has moved forward and backward much the same as other tides of battle in which the Russians have been involved. Just at present they apparently consider that they hold an advantageous position and with representatives of the two coun- tries about to renew negotiations look ing to the arrangement of peace terms it can be appreciated that they are not inclined to tie their hands in advance Poland seeks to get the full advantage from such a strengthened position as it's armies have placed it in, and in the meantime 1t believes in 50 using its forces as not to weaken its defense oi jeopardize it's armies.
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whiskey valued at $25o,0os was seiz. ed last week while being transported through New England. That doesn't afford any estimate, however, of the amount ''thrown in'' in the same section during the same time.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-07
Rem.kinr y,v z..Ia,s.

More rapid changes in animal and vegetable life are taking place in New Zealand than almost anywhere else in the world. The native Polynesian race is disappearing before the European the native wild animals amount to little in contest with the imported species
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-07

The government printing office was called upon for 1,see,Oeo speeches by the dneoctats for campaign purposes. And they were mailed free of cost. And yet the country is suffering from a paper shortage and h< <ssaxnrnent expense.
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many of which now run wild: the streams are full ef American and Euro pean trcut. which attain an enorrnsus sire. and even the forests are being rn- placed by the planting of foreign treas as the native ones disappear.
 Eleven million lzrches oaks. sprncss. Douglas frs and eucalyptus have Ai- ready been planted and vast nurneers ot seedlings are coming in all the ttr,e- The reason for replacing the native trees with specSes from the United States. Europe and Australia is that thess o- New Zealand are too siow Of Errv+h Al- timber. The inpizltatioas thrive every though some of them produce exesneni where.
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Governor Cox reminds one of that class of agitators who arouse a com nunity with startling statements and promises and then get away before they can be called to account
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Those anthracite miners who are on a strike vacation are among those who claimed they didn't get enough days employment to meet living expenses,
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Prohibition agents in New York .oc- easionaliy uncover some liquor but it's only a drop in the bucket to what Is be- ing disposed of daily.