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them to find a remedy. That is a more difficult task. If remedy is not found, the diagnosis will accomplish nothing to- ward curing the disease.
 So vital to the administration is the re- suscitation of Alaskan prosperity that President Harding has taken the question into his own hands. Many remedies have been discussed, and the committee on territories of the house of representa- tives has held elaborate hearings on the subject Until Secretary of the Interior Fall, or his representative, can return from Alaska with a comprehensive legis- lative program it is doubtful whether anything will be done.
 If ever proud territory was in a hos pital it is Alaska. The doctors who con- suit learnedly about the bedside offer a variety of remedies-with large promises but little definite hope. TO make mat ters more difficult for the poor patient the doctors can't agree-and until they do it is doubtful whether anything worth while will be done.
 And if the patient dies? We'll, then we will have another demonstration of the effectiveness of government solution oi economic problems. For above everything else this problem of Alaskan development is economic. Politics will play a large
 
 hindering an effective remedy rather than accelerating it.
 But Alaska is not going to die A country so vast and resourceful as Alas ka, so illimitable in its potential wealth cannot be destroyed. Left to the mercy of unprincipled exploiters, it may bt | robbed of great values. Paralyzed b, hyper it may lie stagnant locked to all attempts to develop it. So far our develcpmsnt ofsAlaska hal Been the same kind of development tha is applied to a lemon in making demon ade.
 Just now Alaska has passed from al era of ruthless exploitation to an era o | conservation that seems to have stoppe, development At the worst, this onl, means that Alaska must lie fallow unti future generations reveal in 1t the empir | that lies concealed there--Oswald F | Schuette in Leslie's.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04
JOYS AND SORROWS OF JAIL

T say p cried the man who had just dropped the newspaper. That must have been toushi Thryve just released a man who has been in jail year for murder he didn't commit"
 ''WeIl, what would you do if you were arrested for murdering somebody you hadn't naurdered?" demanded the man who collected beetles and kept statistics about anything that came handy. That's q new field of investigationi'
 My wffe's mother would never in the world speak to me again if I were in that stu ation," confided the man who was always having trouble with his rel atfyes. Throughout the period of my incarceration shsewould have a fine time telling everybody that she knew 1t all the while and that anybody could have told I was that kind of a man by the expression of my left ear. Then my election from Jail would utterly ruin the situation for her and she would never forgive mel Better for me to stay in jail"
 .s1t must have been perfectly terrible and my heart just aches for the poor mani" broke in the young woman who was not so young but had her eye on one or two bachelors
 Maybe he got into the pickle on pur. pose" suggested the man who always wnated to be contrary. Probably he never spent more contented, quiet year in his life and no doubt he has emerged with the complete manuscript of some great work he never before had time tc write. And anyhow, he got free board during these remarkably high prices !' 'Yes," agreed the man with the news paper ''but consider his state of mind Why, in that situation one easily coult lose his sanity refecting about what people were thinking of hinl : should"
 "No, you shouldn't,' confidently ar gued the man who kept statistics. 'rwh! bother about what people think? Mos of them don't, anyway. If you reall. stirred up their brains you would be benefactor to humanity, but you can convince me that the populace gives cahoot about what the rest of us are do | ingi Just as Smith notes the headline which say that his old friend John lone has just been dragged to prison for rob ping widows and orphans somebod tells him the laundry pipe has burst an
 flooded his wine cellar or else the stea for dinner is overdone. His persona grievance completely abolishes Johi
 Jones and his troubles. And by tn
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time he picks up newspaper again John Jones is as dead as doprnail, be- cause every one is all het up oyer Wil- liam Thompson, who has assassinated his whole family. In this rapid age you get only one shot at publicity and if you hang on in the limelight day ex- tra you are wonder! No, you don't need to bother at all about the social impression you are making when you get caught"
 This relief is truly wonderful agreed the man who was always having troubles with his relatives. You make it so clear and comforting. Anyhow, if . they tried to cast me into a dungeon i for removing somebody I hadn't re- moved should simply remain calm and l explain that I had not done it at all. Still, there was old Billinger back home, ] who had an awful temper and always fighting with people, and when the sher- l if took him into custody for nnurdering a grocer with whom he had a difference aver the price of a bushel of potatoes, he protested violently, calmly, furiously, heseechingly that they were mistaken and he hadn't done it and he never left off insisting upon 1t until the trap fell
 T think that was perfectly dreadful, '' cried the young lady with her eye on a bachelor or so. Why did they dare hang him when he said he didn't dc it 2
 ''Oh, there were three witnesses who were present when he shot the grocer, explained the man with the troublous relatives, geniaIy. ''So you see my plan wouldn't be much good after allp
 'eWell, but" insisted the pest who kept statistics, suppose you really were ar. rested for the crime of murder and you were innocent,o although every single bii of evidence showed that you were guilty ! and there was absolutely no way oi clearing yourself-just what would you ] do, I'd like to know?''
 Nothing like that ever could happer to me- insisted the man who liked being contrary. My noble bearing and clear boyish eye would convince the most ac tive policeman that I was innocent p
 We'll said the man with the trou
 blous relatives, q expect if I were fl such a situation I'd fold my hands ant
 go to jail as this chap did. Sometime
 I'd just love the peace and seclusion 0 q jail, anyhowi"
 T think you men are just awfulf !, said the interested young lady. Any 1 how, if you ever have to go to prisol
 like that I'll bring you jelly and book , and thingsl''-Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04
ODD INCIDENTS IN AMERICAN
 HISTORY

THE CONNECTICUT BLUE LAWS. r There has been an unusual amount of controversy regarding the rigid laws of the early Connecticut colony which have come to be known as the "blue laws This colony no doubt had the most rigid ideas as to the government of it's people, and especially as to their manners and morals. To our present thinking, rthe laws that were enacted there were un- usually nonsensical; but investigation has shown that many laws credited to that community were never placed on the statute books, but instead seem to have been conceived by one Rev. Samuel Peters.
 At the meeting of the Connecticut gen eral court in April, 1644, it was ordered that "the judicial laws of God, as they were delivered by Moses" should be con- sidered as binding on all offenders, and should be rule to all the courts of the jurisdiction "till they be branched out into particulars hereafter"
 These are probably the provisions which have done most to develop the cur rent notions of the criminal code of New Haven. The Peters forger;es appeared about the same time and were explained by their author as follows:
 The lawgivers soon discovered that the precepts in the Old and New Testaments were insufficient to support them in theil arbitrary and bloody undertakings. They therefore, 0gave themselves up to theh own inventions in making others, wherein | in some instances they betrayed such ar extreme degree of wanton cruelty and op pression that even the rigid fanatics ot Boston and the mad zealots of Hartford were put to blush. christening them tht I blue laws.
 | Among some of these blue laws, as se down bX Dr. Peters in his history, are tht following:
 | 1. No one shall cross a river but witf an authorized ferryman.
 2. No one shall run on the Sabbatl i day, or walk in the garden or elsewhere except reverently to and from meeting. | 3. No woman shall kiss her child or the Sabbath or fasting day.
 4. Whoever wears clothes trimmed | with gold, silver or bone lace above tw, | shillings by the yard shall be presented before the grand jurors and the selectmel shall tax the offenders.
 5. No one shall read common prayer
 keep Christmas or saints days, mak
 mince pies, dance, play cards or play ol
 any instrument of music, except tn
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drum, trumpet and jewsharp.
 6. Married persons must live together or be imprisoned.
 '. Every male shall have his hair cut round according to cap.
 There were 45 in all of these laws, and Peters says in his history: "of such sort were the laws made by the people of New Haven"
 When Peters history appeared contain ing these blue laws he was asked for his authority, and his reply was: 'The laws made by this independent dominion and dominated blue laws by the neighborins colonies were never suffered to be print ed" There is no evidence obtainable of the printing of any such laws in the colonies records.
 A writer of the history of Connecticut while he admits that the laws of the colony were most stringent, yet says: "A general reference to the Mosaic code oi | New Haven has usually been held sufR- cient rebutter to any attempt to argue against the blue laws myth of Peters Nor is the reason far to seek. It is moi 1 a violent assumption that the phrase, the l judicial laws of God, as they were deliv. | cred by Moses has not. to the average i erader or nearer of the present time, thaf l clear-cuts significance which t had (te those who first used it, or which thu death statutes of m6Sern state have tt 1 the criminal lawyer"
 This same author, however, conceded that the New Haven general statutes made some 15 offenses capital crimes, in cluding Kidnapping. adultery. blasphemy witchcraft, ''presumptuous' SabbatI i breaking, the third conviction for burg lary on the Lords day, and rebellion against parents.
 This was a. formidable catalogue, bu it is hardly fair to credit even the rigi, Connecticut lawmakers with havinJ placed upon their statute books many o | the blue laws" as claimed by Dr. Peters
 (Tomorrow: The Irish-Ameriean Feni ans.)
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04
Tho Flowers Melted.
Alaska,s Arrested .pere1opment.

When a blight saps the life blood of an empire large enough to cover one-ffth of the United States it is up to our states men to go to work. That is why the Harding administration at Washington is trying patiently to find an answer to the vital question: What is he matter with Alaskan
 Executive and congressional inquiries have just about found an answer to this fundamental question. But having learn ed what ails the patient, it is now up to
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04
PUTTING VALUES INTO FARMS.

While the farmer Is sometimes dis posed to inveigh against the swarms of motor cars that invade the rural dis tricts every pleasant Sunday, and in a lesser degree on weekdays, to disturb the repose and quiet of the country. make the highways unsafe for livestock md fill the air with dust that adds to me housekeeping burdens of the far ner's wife. has he stopped to think of he actual market value put into his iarm by the road improvements made Tor the benefit of these same automobile hsers? One of the big changes that has been made in thousands of farms, in- ereasing their desirability as homes and Investments has been wrought by money taken from taxpayers who are not far ners or farm owners, and spent in road improvement.
 The actual market value built into the tarms of the United States by the i'm. pavement of highways at the cost of Inc national government and the states 10 less than by the localities most bene. ated, can be reckoned in billions of dol. ars. It has added enormously to the price of well located farm property. II las transformed uncounted thousands oi arms which were formally held at fery low figures, into valuable invest nents~ Special taxes on automobiles rave repaid the farmers of America many fold, in the upkeep of the high. rays they use, for all of the losses ant he harm they can charge to city-ownet notor vehicles.
 And millions of faCners have autOmo tles of their own, as they well deserve They profit personally by the enjoyment the roads built, in great part, by thu soney of city taxpayers, while tht ronomic changes wrought by the i'm. rovement of the highways which auto. IDbiles need are adding enormously tc le wealth sf rural Anericp-
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READ YOUR CHARACTER By Digby Phillips,
 Copyrighted 1891
 ROUND FACES

The science of character reading classi- fies faces, viewed from the front into three general divisions. One of these has been described as tbe dome head, ? the head of the thinker. The dome head" the head of the thinker The dome head is broadest above the ears and tapers down to a pointed chin.
 The round face is another type. Its broadest point is at the height of the ears or whereabouts It's the truly oval shaped face.
 Can you think of force without en- ergy, power combined with placidity, keen vitality that makes for constitution al strength without either muscular strength or nervous energy predominant ing?
 If you can, you've grasped the key note of the character both mental and physical, indicated by the found face. It's the face of the person who works for results more than for the sheer joy of working. In other words it denotes prac- ticality in the affairs of life. Round-faced people are bound to be people of good judgment, provided other things are equal In their mental make up.
 Among men if you don't find them 1 heavily represented in the ranks of the pSHhoiS anu the HSTCHdnulSefS 1nell ability to balance values accurately fits | them peculiarly for these walks of life l In the legal profession, for instance you're more likely to find the round face on the bench rather than as a wig
 orous cross-questioner browbeating a wit.
 ness. Positively the inclination is that
 way, though force of circumstances may
 balk it's fulhllment. The round face il
 also the face of the executive. Tomorrow-Round-faced Women
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04
STANDARD Foop PACKAGES.

To obviate in a measure some of the complications in food distribution meth ods because of the variety of packages used for fruits and vegetables, an h. diana legislator has introduced a bill and setting the number of cubic inches each shall contain In a general way it may be said that different sec tions of the country have adopted pack ages of different sizes and forms As these go to the same large market they occasion a confusion ofs prices ana i1- crease the difficulty of handling.
 If such a measure as is proposed in Indiana. which already has committee approval, were adopted, both the mar keting of products and the manufacture of packages should be simpllfed and therefore cheapened. Furthermore, the conaumer would know how much he was getting for his money, whereas now he may get a basket or a box of fruits or vegetables that may contain any amount the packer finds convenient to put in it. The advocate of the new plan also proposes to standardize pack ages for mill products, such as flour meal, etc. The generally accepted flour barrel contains 1s6 pounds, and in some states this is the legal requirement.. But many .millers pack what passes for ar eighth of a barrel of flour in a sacf that holds twenty-four pounds so that | in buying eight of these sacks the con. sumner gets four pounds less than a bar rel-a quantity sufficient to keep a small family in bread for some days All o | these things may seem to be rather small things, but they belong to that in | finite number and variety of small thing. that add to the difficulties of distribu
 tion and efficient marketing, and also t,
 the cost of living to the final buyers.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04

As some experts see it, naval strategy consists in building a 5000 900 bat tie ship that Will render obsolete the $S2 900 battle ship qf rival nation and compel anothel rlgal country to build at once sS4,Ooe.O00 battle ship
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04

A leather firm in New York has been fined $10,000 for not turning over to the government the luxury tax which it col- lected from the people. It is said the government is defrauded of $5000, 900 per month through such methods
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04

Opportunity has arrived at the doors of the Lancaster, N. H., hotels, where the rate went up from s25O to s6 day as soon as it was known that President Harding was to visit Secretary Weeks there
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04

Governor Len Small of Illinois con- tinues to act as if he would be looking longi1gly towards either Canada or Mexico the minute his term of office ex- pires.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04

While we are complaining of tax bur- dens, consider the case of Bradford, England, which simply cannot pay the 91 per cent. tax on realty holdings de- manded by the government
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04

When other railroads say it is inn possible to reduce rates Henry Ford simply goes ahead and does it. That man is incorrigibIe.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04

We haven't heard much lately on the progress that 'Big Bill" Haywood is making in his return to this country and his visit to Leavenworth prison.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04

This is about the time that the hay fever victims begin 10 hike towards zone where the rag-weed and the gol- den rod trouble not.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04

The prospect of another famine in China means that those who are anx- ious to serve suffering humanity will not be out of a job.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04

Stunt flying" by army planes over civilian crowds is rightly prohibited by the war department Human life is too precious to run such risks with 1t.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04

Overworked lawn sprinklers should send up prayer of thankfulness to the weatherman for the relief he has given them in the last few days.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04

Goernor' Allen declares the Kansas la bor court is a success but Alex Howatt asks leave to file a dissenting opinion.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04

The man on the corner says: The man who keeps his home garden in shape hasn't time to show symptoms of pel- lagra.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04

In only a few cities of western Siberisi are there two-story houses. Baths in houses are very rare, public baths being used.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04
Stories That Recall Others
Knew Her Mother.

''Is your mamma at homer" asked a caller of little year old Lela.
 No, but she will be home in a min ute" was the reply. er
 "'Cause she said about an hour age che was just going to run over to a neighbor's for a minute" answered Lela
 The Flowers Melted.
 Little Alice was presented with a bou. quet of beautiful flowers. Her mother told her to put them in vase filled with water and they would keep fresh for sev. eral days. few days later Alice ap. ueared with the wilted flowers in hel hand and said: T dess I'll frow 'en away now mamma. cause they is al melted"
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04

Chicago has new claim to dfstine- tion. The census figures show it is the second Polish city in the world, having 1S7.e11 of that nationality.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04
Many children innocently cheated
 out of the very food they need daily

Everyone knows that health the valuable asset of life From birth to maturity the construction period" robust and healthy child will usually develop into vigor But malnuridon win invariably hamper growth and when the child reaches maturity she is anemn, poorly nomisted and liable to disease
 Many children today hmocendy cheated of the very foods they need Some parents either through lack of knowledge caresness provide those foods which strengthen and norih the growing child.
 It the duty of parents think for the child in matters.
 GrapeNuts the weninown food made of whole flour matted barley cream the most nutritious foods in the world It provides the necessary to nutrition and is balanced food
 Quite aside from its superior nutve value its delicious appetite appeal Especially attractive with fresh fruits or preserves
 Grapeuts served and sold everywhere leading hotels and rsarants at lunch counters; every good grocery in every city, village the United States you can't find Grape-Nuts- won't find people.
 Grape Nuts-the Body Builder "Theres Reason
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04

The Debs report will not reach the president until after his vacation. Mean while Debs' vacation will continue.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04

William Hohenzollern has decided to pay his Holland taxes under protest, Bill has some human feelings after all
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Win our domestic bootleggers ask for protective tariff against these foreign rum-runners?
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Many a woman who loos like an an- gel forgets to act like one.
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President Harding is seeking to inoc- ulate the business world with optimism
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If all the people ever get all they want politically what dull days we will faR- on.
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It certainly is some relief not to read every day of new outrages in Ireland.
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EDITORIAL NOTES
 Bank wrecking is not an approved way to get rich quick.
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The whitewash brush has been applied
 | to the black White Sox
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BristoI.-Formal orders have been 10. sued to Bristol police that they will be dismissed from the force if they are no- ticed flirting while in uniform,
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1921-05-19
Marriage Recalled.

The death Of Gov" John Robin
son, the circus king, recalls his mar
riage about forty years ago. He was
in Maysville with his circus and
Miss Smith, daughter Of Col. Armor
Smith, at one time mayor Of Cinein-
natl. came to Maysville by steam
boat, she leaving home and parents
without their consent or knowledge.
She and Mr.. Robinson, who met her
at the boat, Immediately had the
ferryboat take them across the river
to Aberdeen where they wre mar
ried by Squire Massie Beaziey. Up
on their return to this city they were
given a great reception and at the
circus performance that night they
were presented with valuable we'd
ding gifts.-Maysville Bulletin.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1921-05-19

head Of the student body is an ex-
service man and ffty-two Of the
students are Legion members. The
Government recently closed a con-
tract for the education Of 500 more
disabled veterans at "the poor mans
Harvard"
Less than q month il as organized,
the American Legion post Of Big
heart, Okla, began cleaning up the
city. Its first move was to purchase
trash cans which it placed on every
street corner. after which il started
publicity campaign to educate the
citizens TO use the cans instead Of
the street.
Photographs Of the cemeteries in
France where their sons lie buried
will be supplied to gold star parents
Of Lynchburg. Va. by the American
Legion post there in conjunction
the kiwanis Club.