Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-16
Especial to The Bulletin. )

New York, Dec l5.lThe Norwich So- ciety of New York held its annual sfnok- CT at the University club, 54th street anu Fifth avenue. New York, Monday even ing, Dehember 18th. There were forty-f three present The committee who were Edward E. Ely, Arthur P. McWiiliams, Howard c. Russ. Frank L. Potter, Wm. T. McNamara, F. Le Roy Stearns and George H. Hyde, arranged one of the traditional Norwich Saturday night bak- cd bean suppers. This consisted of bak- ! ed beans. both white and kidney, with | plenty of fat salt pork baked with them, also razor back ham, which President i Edward C. Ely had shipped up from Vir- ginia, Drowned bread, regular pumpkin ! pie cheese, ekeg of cider from Bean Hill. |
 The members said the beans made 1 them think of the regular Saturday night l supper at old Norwich and there was plenty of coffee left but none of the S> an Hill cider Judge John H. Barnes came down from Norwich and addressed the society.
 The judge said he came down from the head of sloop navigation on the Thames and that a good many people came up there now a days as they heard that bonded stuff was concealed there There IS quite little agitation Gnow going on in Norwich about cleaning up the illicit sellers and several had recently been raided. Norwich is now real clean city and it is safe at any time of the night to go through Scalping Town, The Kerry or Hard Scrabble
 The judge also gave an interesting i talk on friendship which was listened to with interest by all the members. He l said the bean supper tasted like some 1 he had attended at some of the Norwich 1 church bean suppers which he always 1 enjoyed.
 Francis P. Bent, a former Norwich boy ] also gave talk on New York city af- | fairs. MT. Bent is the director of In i vestigations for the City of New York | This is very responsible position as 1 all city contractss for new buildings or l improvements have to be passed upon l by him. MT. Bent has been also elect 1 ed alderman for several terms. He is 1 personal friend of Mayor Hylan, as the mayor was one of the first acquaintance ] es MT Bent made when he came to New 1 York from Norwich. At that time, the 1 New York mayor was practising law III l New York city. MT. Bent said he i thought Mayor Hylan was doing his
 best to serve the people and was standing out for what he thought was right l Through the courtesy of Dwight S. Perrin, director of the Associated Pro- ducers, Inc, the members then went in | automobiles to this studio at 22O West
 
 private showing of the feature film, The i Last of the Mohegans. This was a very interesting film, showing the Indian life
 with many Indian battles that the early
 settlers. had to contend with. Our old
 Chief Cncas played the principal part and was alv7'--~ ~-Sring himself the true friend of the whites.
 There were narrowing scenes
 and plenty of action throughout the film It was thoroughly enjoyed by the mem.
 bers and they all said the entire even-
 ing was one of the best the Norwich so-
 ciety had given.
 Those present were: Edward c. Ely 5 John H. Barnes, Charles F, Moves Rus } sell Welles, William c. Birge. ". Clarl l Huntington, o. Chester Johnson, Wm. T
 McNamara, Samuel H. Howe, James W 9 Farrell, Hugh F. Mclaughlin, Jeremial
 T. Riordan, E. L. Messenger, Henry W
 Kergwin, Walter L. Post. Louis M 2 ,Alofsin, M. D., Robert L. Johnson, Edw Harland Miller, Louis J. Chamanskey :. Rutger B. Jewett Edw. J. Crawford l Arthur G. Lynch. Arthur w. Coote. Fran Q Nichols, Louis R. Dressler, Elisha I : Mcclure, George H. Hyde, Fred NJ John
 son, Gilbert D. Lamb, Edgar T. Kings f ley, D. A. Mcconnell, Albert S. Bard f Marco s. Parker, Fred B. Lewis, Jame 2 H. Albertson, Reginald Reynolds, Al = thur P. McWilliams, Howard c. Rus
 Charles-A. Beach, Francis P. Bent, Wins
 low T. Williams.
 Judne Barnes Speaks. : In the course of his remarks, Judg c Barnes said that he intended to tai e on the subject of Friendship and | T. spoke in part as follows:
 a Aristotle in his Ethics says that th d bad are friends for the sake of tt
 I,,1a 4I,a 1A
 he says, are friends for the friend ,e sake, and so is evolved the definition
 friendship, that friendship is love wit
 the selfish element eliminated.
 If there is one thing that the Mastt II taught as he went up and dow 'n through Galilee, it was friendship. W u have Old Home Week and when foll 5e come back we show our friendship l IS greeting them and tellihg them ho 9s happy we are to see them again. T, Memorial day services you will he; so beautiful songs sung, kind and affe le tionate words said about the dead, syr a' pathy is expressed for those loved on e- left behind, but did you ever stop IT. think that little help and few Xii IL words to your fellows while they a
 alive and when they are in trouble a z a- of more moment to them than veal D. of costly blooms laid, however tende
 ly, above the dead
 al The secret of success in this life
 to be giving as well as taking.
 honey bee takes nektar from the flow
 but also gives when he assists in fe
 tilization and the flowers live. So .+ our life, when we give as well as ta a we fertilize the body polite and # lives. If We simply take and do r or give the body polite would die % The fact that we should show frien he ship in this life is taught us in histol he in science and in religion.
 IF And science teaches that we shot n show friendship to our fellows wh
 they are alive and not after they a :. dead
 nd There died about three years ago as the city of Paris, the greatest psycl .as logist of his day, Eli Metchnilloff 0 ,er day Eli Metchnikoff took a piece .r glass and placed some drops of blood "a the glass and examined the bio
 the red corpuscles and the larger wh
 corpuscles moving to and fro in {
 blood. Now, dozens of scientists h
 done the same thing before him, ,n- Eli Betchnikoff performed an expe on ment He took some. disease germs a es- bacteria and dropped those dises ea- germs in the drops of blood, a di- through his powerful glass he saw u lu- the very moment those disease ger ere entered the drops of blood the lar the white corpuscles slowly surrounded nd disease germs and dissolved them. 4 The that discovery of Eli Metchnikoff re sic. lutionized the entire system of me