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Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-08

MiddletOwn.-Edward ". Johnson Ss the firm of Caulkins & Post rezuEned tht other day from a business trip 10 Grand Rapids, Mich. where he. .Yeht .ju the .in- terests of his firm as buyer of 'fufni- ture. MT. Johnson vas tAN arst New England buyer to arrive. I6n the gregud. Mfr. Johnson says thatz4reporta coming into Grand Rapids frorn sait. sections. .soi thecountry through furnl5uye buyers in- dicate that business conditions are rapid, ly approaching normaicy. ---- -
Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-08

BridgepOrt-Max Henkels of the In- ternationa. Textile. Inc, of Bridgeport, won a decree Tuesday in the United States district court restoring to him stock valued at about sS75, 900, which had been seized in the war by the alien property custodian on the ground that it was enemy property.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-08
ROAD SOCIETY

Mrs. ugene Palmer has returned from a visit with her sister in New York
 Miss Priscilla Billings, who has been home on a vacation from a hospital in Providence. has returned to her duties
Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-08

Earl of Norwich, were with relatives here Tuesday
 MT. and Mrs. Brightman of Taunton. Mass. called on friends here Tuesday,
Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-08

Doep BiseF.-Mrs. Hans Nielson. while hanging out clothes on a line at the rear of her home. fell from a versnds and dis located bone in her ankle.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
What Matters

These quotations, compiled by
"The Duluth Herald" furnish ap-
pwpriate reading as the Washing
ton conferences marches toward
completing it's work amid shower
of monkey-wrench projectiles:
Something should be done as soon
as possible to check the growth Of
ornaments. especially naval arma-
ments. Theodore Roosevelt
"There is no more inconceivablc
folly than this continued riot of ex-
penditure on battleships at time
when great masses of humanity are
dying of starvation" Herbert Hoover.
II went into the British army be-
lieving that if you want peace you
must prepare for war. believe now
that ii you prepare for war you will
get r."-General F. B. Maurice
"The lessons of the last six months
should be enough TO convince every
body of the danger of nations striding
up ana QONn Che eartn armed TO the
teeth. Unless some such move
is made (reduction of armaments) we
may we'll ask ourselves
whether we are doomed to go head
long down through destructive war and
darkness into barbarism.' General
John J. Pershing.
"If we do not destroy war, war will
destroy us."-Lord Bryce.
"The piling up of armaments is
causing general bankruptcy, anarchy
and perpetual and univer al war. If
governments do not agree simulta-
neously to limit armaments, they
commit suicide baron d'Estour-
nelles de Constant.
The public is little interested in
little points of international differ
ence. 1t looks to the big things and
to those alone. i
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
For Prisoners Children
the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Many of your readers who
have known of my work will realize
how deeply my heart goes out in SYM
pathy at Christmas time to those who
are suffering privation in prison
shadowed homes.
I, who am constantly in prison work
ing for the men there, have been
gladdened to see how the touch of
human interest has reached within the
shadows. They are not forgotten at
Christmas time. Many people, how
ever, have never realized that the
darkest shadow falls upon the home
that they left behind them. Little
children will suffer cold and hunger,
will be poorly fed, and in many in
stances have no Christmas joys or
toys because the father is in prison.
For years-I have tried to help them,
for through their fathers in prison |
have come into touch with thousands
of these families throughout the coun-
try. In the name of the Christ Child
ask help for them. Will you help
me get shoes for the little cold feet
warm clothing that they may go to
school protected from the inclement
weather? And will you help me get
dolls and toys for these little ones
who should have the right to happiness
at the glad season?
Any contribution of money, clothing
or toys will be most welcome. Please
address the same to Mrs. Ballington
Booth, the Volunteers of America, 81
West Twenty eighth Street, New York
MAUD B. BOOTH.
New York, Dec, s, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11

lent estate he brought to the nation.
In past years widespread spoliation
Of the national domain and profligate
waste Of its resources have been per-
naitted--especially in forest products.
Stewards successors of to-day should
exhibit vision comparable to his by
intelligent control and management
of it. The coal mines and oil wells
must, of course, in time be exhaust
ed. But the 81 100000 acres of forest
ought to be-~as they can be---so
cultivated as to go far toward sup
plying the nations demands Tor
timber, and yet be SO preserved
that when another half century of
our ownership shall have passed
there will still be 2l,0O0,0HO acres Of
forest land.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
Inside Stuff

The desire to get rcpute for
knowledge of what is going on on
the "inside" of any movement or or
ganization is human failing. When
the listener is charming woman,
which. of course, means an appre-
ciative one, the temptation to tell
more than all appears to be irresist-
lble. And when the charming one
in turn tells more than all to another
highly appreciative listener, whose
business it is to tell the world what
he learns, what wonder is it that the
parley discussions are known in for
eign capitals before they take place
in Washington?
AS matter Of fact, Dianas of
the crossways are not the only
sounding boards of choice gossip.
The greatest gossips have been men
witness the professional memoir
lists. But for purposes of intrigue
and romance it is more colorful to
tell to one who may be counted
upon to express soul-satisfying
appreciation Of the teller's extraor-
dinary knowledge. A mere man
friend may listen attentively, in
deed, but with an air of knowing
something just as deep, a sure
method of taking the edge off the
tale.
And besides, without woman what
would become Of the stories and
novels Of politics and diplomacy!
1t is nice to know that, even though
Kingdoms may fall and countesses go
out of style, there are still charming
women fulfilling their historic role of
being good listeners for those who
whisper "inside stuff"
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
An Uncomfortable Soul

The most inspiring thing in the
career Of Sir Arthur Pearson was
not his success as one of the two
great chain publishers Of Great Brit
ain, but the way he took adversity
when it assailed him. At the age of
forty-eight years, when his life was
dynamic and a-tiptoe with stimulat-
ing activities, blindness smote him.
He did not surrender, but rose to
new heights of usefulness. The famil-
lar lines Of Henley apply to him:
"Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
thank whatever gods there be
For my unconquerable SOUL"
The stricken man was matricu-
late in the school Of sympathy. He
learned from his own experience
what it meant to be shut in and he
dedicated his great fortune to bring
ing hope and an ability to do to
others in his plight. His lighthouse
sent out a penetrating ray-one that
guided thousands of sightless mari
ners to port.
His second fame exceeded his first,
and on his visit here ne was able to
tell his American friends that he
was almost glad that fate had sealed
his eyes and thus had driven him to
work really worth while.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
There Is Hope!

Just when we had begun to de-
spair of these states, what with
Santayana bombarding them with
long range adjectives from England
and Mencken dropping explosive
nouns from his Teufelsdr0ckian BIZ
plane, there comes this arresting
news:
"Chicago-No longer is the cheer
full fat woman Of the side show q
curiosity. No longer is the morose
thin man drawing card. In their
places as attractions step the lilli-
putian families and the giant. This
was the view of the Association of
Amusement Parks meeting here to-
day."
Consider the implications. Main
Street and Broadway and, to be
sure, Riverside Drive, have shifted
their interest from latitude to longi-
tude. Instead of reading from right
to left they are looking up and down.
Height, no longer width, holds their
attention.
Curiosity in the fat lady OF the
skeleton is purely digestive i'm
pulse. They are marvels only be-
cause they denote the success or the
failure of food. The wonder they
bring is essentially and solely ma
terial, an emotion that proceeds from
the stomach, from the very pit of
the stomach.
But interest in the giants and the
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11

midgets is an entirely different mat
ter. Here is more lordly curiosity,
a thing, not of the appetite, but Of
the mind. No such prosaic affairs
as calories or vitamines enter into
this wonder.
We marvel at the giant because
he is so much nearer to the skies
than we. We marvel at the midget
because he is compelled to stick so
close to the earth. The one attains
to the reaches Of the free air to
which we all aspire. The other must
snuggle his way past the knees of
Life.
Now, we ask with all solemnity,
does not this shift in our freakish
interests denote that at last America
is turning from the material things,
the pocketbook and the digestion and
all the rest, to the idealistic things,
physical and mental and moral
gianthood.
Is it not harbinger of the day
when the Henry Jameses and the
Santayanas and Era Pounds can
find a full response in Americas
heart and shall no longer be i'm
PEELED to seek solace and refuge in
the Old World?
Over the cobblestones Of Main
Street, Pegasus may soon be gallop-
ing.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
and nitrates, the city waste will soon
be generally utilized.

and nitrates, the city waste will soon
be generally utilized.
Eastern agriculture is destined to
revive, but hardly through migration
from the West; rather, in the &C.
quirement of farms by the peasant.
born of Europe, trained by cen
turics in careful husbandry. These
newcomers, in the East, have con-
gested in the cities, but not altogether
through preference. Proper effort
has never been made to get them
into the rural districts, yet what better
foundation could there be for benevo-
lent riches to establish than one to
assist the Immigrant and furnish
him the aid he needs to fix him in a
farm home? Some day it will be
done, but in the mean time the
obstacles to one who has saved only
enough for passage money, are al
most insuperable.
In imagination one can see the
countryside of New England, of
New York and of New Jersey when
it comes back, and one of the most
beautiful landscapes in the world be-
comes luge garden.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
Poor Germany

The Germans, seeing the ap-
proach of the next reparation pay
ment day, increase their whining and
will comply with difficulty. They
shed tears over their sad fate. Their
misery is vocal, but is it genuine or
malinguered? Let US see!
Is it true that the German dock
yards, which do not know stoppage
of work, have lately launched the
Rheinland, of 5000 tons; the Aus
tria, of 1900 tons; the Gunther
Russ, of 1900 tons; the Bochum, of
10000 tons?
Is it true that the German East
Africa Line has just purchased back
from the English the Mansua, of
5,408 tons; that among other ships
acquired is the Swedish vessel Eros,
Of 2,120 tons; the Bolwerk, of 1,345
tons, and the Bollweiler, of 629 tons;
the Ruggia, $500 tons; the Kaiser,
1900 tons; the Badehia, $3.50 tons;
the Cap-Polomo, a former German
steamer that had cost 9150,OOO?
Poor, poor Germany! Her official
poverty does not mean she lacks
funds to buy ships or her industrial
concerns from paying large divi-
dends. 1t is only when she is asked
to pay for a part of the actual dam
age she did, thus placing the whole
burden on her victims, that her
purse is empty.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
'rmies or fortifications of Europe or
a Virtual Settlement Outlined

The conference has already virtually
settled the limitation Of armament as
it affects Asiatic and world wars. When
it settles the political questions in
the East, Japan will no doubt be glad
to reduce her army and lift further
burden from her people.
Will the conference be "out Of the
trenches by Christmas? Will it con-
tinue to lay cards on the table and
act openly, fairly and generously
Will it decline to NEEDLE with strictly
European and American affairs? If so,
it will promptly and triumphantly
finish its deliberations. Great Britain,
Japan and the United States will drop
their weapons and peacefully go to
work. Other nations will be glad to
follow their example. The World War
will come to an end.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
Not Like the Covenant

Emphasis is laid by some extreme
partisans of the League of Nations
on the similarities between the
League covenant and the four
power Pacific treaty. "The Times"
said yesterday morning that ''the
summary of the contents of the in
strument is comically like Articles
X, XI and XII of the covenant"
The resemblance, such as it is, is
incidental and superficial. What
American opinion objected to in
Article X was that it sought to
commit the United States definitely
to defending the territory of every
other member of the League against
external aggression. And the coun-
Gil of the League of Nations was
sought to be made the judge of our
obligations in all cases in which our
assistance was sought.
Article of the four-power treaty
not another Article X. 1t obli-
gates each nation concerned to re-
spect the rights of the other three
nations ''in relation to their insular
possessions and insular dominions in
the regions of the Pacific Ocean" {"
1t is self-denying ordinance sim
ply. At the peace conference Mr..
Lansing vainly urged President
Wilson to put forward merely a
negative guarantee of this sort, in
stead of supplementing it with pos
tive guarantee to protect all exist
ing League state boundaries Mr..
Lansing argued rightly that the
American people would cheerfully
promise to respect the boundaries of
other states, but that they might
refuse to accept military RESPONSE
bility for maintaining them against
any and every aggressor. But
MIR. Wilson wasn't moved by this
argument.
The new treaty doesn't impose
recklessly extended obligations on
the United States, nor does it trench
on our sovereignty by giving an in
ternational body the right to sum-
mon us to war. We only agree to
submit differences with any of our
associates to gathering of the four
powers. In case of aggressive action
IN the Pacific by an outside power
very remote contingency - we
promise, in Article II, to advise with
1ne other three nations. This article
loliows the lines of the Anglo-Jap-
anese treaty. But it doesn't pledge
unconditional assistance, as the
Angio-Japanese treaty did. Congress
Will have to decide whether military
AID Is to be given or not.
In essentials, therefore, the four
power compact is not at all replica
o1 the covenant. The covenants
wees are eliminated. All we do is to
sa'er' with sovereignty unimpaired,
ineo an arrangement which protects
ouf interests in the Pacific and helps
10 70 avoid dangerous friction with
tue other Pacific powers.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
"Come East, Young Man !"

The movement to induce migra-
tion of farmers from the West to the
East is beginning to be reflected in
real estate advertisements. Eastern
bargains in usuable acres are offered.
The word is "Come East, young
mani"
Great changes in the agricultural
industry of America are impending.
Most of the new factors are in the
interest Of the region where tillage
has been declining or not keeping
pace with the growth in population.
Most influential is the disap-
pearance of the wide areas where
land was long to be had for the ask
ing. Now, because Of the great
real estate boom which has almost
doubled land prices in five years, the
West tends to tenantry, and the
tenant would own. Almost as i'm
portant is the exhaustion of the
primitive fertility and Western need
to use fertilizers. Next, farming is
destined to be more intensive. Trans
portation is undergoing a double
shift--frst, an increase in long dis
tance rates which protects the near
by producer, and second, the de-
velopment of highways and the
motor trucks, which are most
adapted to the short haul. These
things favor the Coast. Broad,
stoneless and unwooded prairie
fields are more suitable to the labor
saving tractor than little valley and
hillside enclosures, but inventors are
busy and the small mechanical plow
and harrow is winning it's way.
Nearness to ports gives the East an
advantage in the import Of potash
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
Stewards FolIy"

secretary Falls estimate of the
p'ecanlary value of Alaska to the ma
a0'ai ~ government impressively vim
ueases the accuracy of Stewards
,s'oh. There were many reasons,
u =: course, for the purchase of Rus
sisn M America. But Seward firmly
: Ss'leved that the transaction would
- pecunlarily profitable, though a
s.s se part of the country disagreed
" "''h hlm and ridiculed him for
;;ai0wing away 100000 good Amer
a ~ uollars on a mere iceberg.
r Dasfegardlng the hundreds of mil
.1 a0ns already extracted from "sew-
~ lu ) folly," Secretary Fall reckons
es' 49, government royalties alone on
~, a'' at the rate of five cents a ton,
a., ~ feailze a full billion dollars;
saa' a 10 per cent royalty on oil will
nv TWO and half millions, and
saa' royalty of 10 cents a year ON
val 4 horsepower of water power de-
.0pea viii pay a yearly revenue of
~ susr'er OF million dollars for all
a., ~ 70 come. In the face of such
III. sa'es Is that s7,2oO,OO0 begins to
ueS \, mighty small.
hos ae = point of practical interest is
Il g c"o"eVer, SO much the vindication
,bo wards vision as the seizure of
fl,aasp,o spoiauniFy he cpened. This full
an,ss'. nd. IS to come only through the
at administration Of the opu-
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11

I European politics, will be befogged and
hepelessly mudded.
Let us briefly consider this impor-
tant subject. 1t is unfortunate that it
has been so little discussed in the Amer
lean press. Neither the War nor the
Navy Department has authoritatively
or publicly brought it to the notice of
the people. To be sure, they may have
brought it, confidentially, to the atten-
tion of our delegates at the confer
ence. If SO, all we'll and good.
Foreign admirals and students of war
have recently expressed intelligent ap-
probation Of the fact that armies and
battle fleets can operate overseas with
great difficulty, if at all, in future
wars. Submarines, air forces, poison
gas, mines and torpedoes forbid All
these agencies have been tremendously
developed since the armistice. The
Germans did not or could not employ
them as effectively as they will be en-
ployed in the future.
Ouerseas Warfare
! One Of the best qualified authori-
ties in this or any other country ex-
presses the following opinion on this
subject:
''There will never again be in
naval history one of the simon-pure
naval expeditions carried across the
sea to an enemys port, the defeat of
an enemy's fleet, the establishment
of an advance base on his coast and
the pouring in of soldiers and sup
plies. This has been forever rem
dered impossible against any country
that has adequate air and sub
marine forces"
This statement is sound in principle.
1t considers the present and looks to
the future. 1t deals not with the dead
past. 1t realizes the power and po-
tency of modern weapons.
The layman who reflects will COM
prehend.' 1t is question primarily of
communications. They have never be-
fore been so threatened in naval war
fare. Can transports with helpless
armies resist bombing? Foreign ad-
mirals assert that battle fleets cannot
safely leave their bases to attack an
enemy overseas! Navies as we'll as
armies are greatly restricted. The
freedom of the seas is almost reality
as result OF modern conditions and
the perfection of recent weapons.
Naries Alone InvoIred
1t is clear that the armies of France,
Serbia and Greece are not involved in
the Eastern or Asiatic situation. No
more is the army of the United States
or Great Britain or any other Euro
pean or American nation.
The navies of Great Britain, Japan
and the United States are involved
The only army directly involved is that
of Japan. Moreover, Notifications, forts
and coast guns may be ignored. They
are as out of date as the forts OF
Belgium. They defend or threaten
nothing! Modern air forces have
killed them. They do not menace
japan.
u -shus Japan is not endangered by the
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
Armies and the Conference
Land Armament Not Involved in the Eastern QuesonArnes
Restricted to Continental Wars
BY Quarterback

Premier BRAND of France brought
the question Of armies before the con-
ference. He presented it forcefully.
No man was better qualified to do so.
1t was a fitting introduction of the
subject. The whole world listened at
tentively.
But it would seem that this con-
ference, while welcoming a brief and
general presentation of this subject
Of armies, should not attempt to settle
it, but should refer it to some other
association Of nations or to some
future conference of interested powers
which can more appropriately and ef-
fectively solve the problem of land
armaments. 1t is largely European
affair. The Washington conference
should deal primarily with the Eastern
question, and with the armies and
navies involved therein.
Conference Limitation
The wisdom of limiting the confer
ence IS based upon a consideration of
the following points:
Armies are restricted to continents.
They are no longer worldwide agencies
in war. The conditions that permitted
our sending 100000 men to France
will not obtain in the future.
Navies are world wide agencies. They
alone can be used in war overseas.
There is only one big army in Asia
that of Japan. There are no large
armies on the American continent.
With the exception of Japan, large
armies are confined to Europe.
The United States cannot intervene
in strictly European affairs. This is
the sphere of the League of Nations
The United States is not member of
the league. The conference and the
league should not conflict
With the exception of Great Britain,
Japan is the only nation in the world
that has both large army and pow
erful navy In fact, Great Britains
army is small considering her foreign
possessions. 1t is broken up and scat
tered over the world. But Japan's
army is virtually concentrated.
Only few nations are represented
at Washington. Can the conference
assume to settle questions involving
nations that are not present?
Armies Are Continental
The key to an early and successful
decision of the problems before the
conference may be found in a correc
understanding as to what armies ant
navies can do and can not do in war:
between nations separated from each
other by the oceans, as distinguished
from wars that are strictly continental
Not day passes that we do not fin<
columns in the press by statesmen and
writers of ability in which there is M
recognition whatever of the restric
tions placed by modern conditions upol
the operations of armies and navies il
| inter-continental wars. And yet, i
this point is not made clear at the con
ference, the subject of Limitation o
armament" in so far as it affects tn
Eastern question, in so far, in fact, a
1t affects all but European wars an
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
Mutually Puzzled

Europeans used to be frank in admit
ting that they did not understand Amer
lean politics. Many American writers
of highly instructive tendencies are
forced to the conclusion that this coun-
try does not fully comprehend European
politics Washington Star.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
WINTER SUN

Lemon
THERE was bush with scarlet berries.
And there were hemIocks heaped
with snow,
With a sound like surf on long sea-
beaches
They took the wind and let 1t go.
The hills were shining in their samite,
Fold after fold they flowed away;
saying,
"At least we two have had to-day"
SARA TEASDALE.