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Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06
READ YOUR CHARACTER By Digby Phillips, Copyrighted 1921
 SiIken Presses.

Fine hair, of the silky kind that has little curl or wave, is an indication of extreme sensitiveness in the person pos sessing it.
 Such persons. you will find. are quite keen in their perceptions. They may not be keen intellectually, or they may, but invariably they are keenly responsive to their surroundings and through all the senses. They are adversely affected by anything harsh or discordant to a greater degree than the average.
 In your mind go over the list of your friends and ac1uaintances in whom you have observed this type of fine, silky hair. Aren't all of them ready to take a hint without it's being bluntly administered ? It's because they are keenly sensitive to little changes in your manner, your tone, your choice of words. Instinctively they notice these things when many others are oblivious to them.
 They're not rugged people, these fine haired ones. You may find muscular ones among the men. but muscularity is a different thing from the ability to stand continued strain and take hard knocks. It's also different from the courage and sense of duty which often impel people to subject themselves to these things. But you can bet that the silken-haired man doesn't like the hard knocks and that the silken-haired girl will be easily offended by the roughly spoken word or the crude jest On the other hand if you take the trouble to find out. you'll learn that they are both of them responsive and appre- ciative of little courtesies and considera- tions that might be utterly wasted on others.
 (Monday: Coarse Skin.)
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06
PATROLaIAN REscUEs CHILD
 FROM WATERY GRAVE

4 heroic rescue by Patrolman Frank Linehan saved little Amello De Stef- fano. 8, of Mitchell court. New Lon don. from certain death Wednesday evening, when diving into 12 feet of wa- ter the officer brought the child up from the bottom after the boy had sunk for the third time. Mary Follow 6. of 5 Mitchell court, was also rescued. after a plunge in he cellar full of water gather ed in the open foundation on the Burr nue and Bank street. New London. This is reported to be the sixth near-drown- ing In this cellar within the past year.
 The two little children were playing about the vacant propery and sailing boats on the water. which. following the | recent rain. had gathered in the open cellar. While romp7hg about a certain portion of the cellar sunk about IF | feet below the rest, their attention wal attraced by number of green apples | floating on the surface of the water
 The apples had fallen from a tree higf above in an adjacent yard. The twc | children lay on th1ir stomaclIs and
 reached out over the edge of the foun- dalton Suddenly one of the children
 stretching to grab floating apple. lost i balance and fell in. In falling over thi
 and in both went.
 ! A scream went m from their play mates So piercing was the cry that
 It attracted the attention of Officer Line i han. who was on the other side of BanI street The officer was off duty and
 on his way down town for the evening
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RUM RUNNING AZ SEA.

Solid shot from the navigation law, VoIstead law, and conspiracy law, with a sprinkltng of shrapnel from several old piracy laws is said to be all ready to be turned upon the rum-running schooner Henry T. Marshall which United States authorities seized off At lantic City, where the boat was con verting the three-ini1e limit into an fn- viting brass rail for the thirsty.
 Novel questions of International laE promise to be raised by the seizure of the Marshall. Confessedly the schooner was overhauled outside the three-mile limit after some Of it's cargo had been thrown overheard and its captain and mate had escaped in swift motor boat. It is no crime to sell liquor op the high seas and no congress can ever make it so The position of the prosecuting officers is that they will prove con spiracy in this case to violate the GUS toms laws and that such conspiracy justifies them in making seizures outside the three-mile limit. Further, they claim that proof that Americans high seas goods which are contraband III lhIS country WNu1u tSNdpllSl lilS ASSt of conspiracy.
 Those are novel points of law which must be threshed out in the courts, pos sibly of international law which must be settled through diplomacy, as the Marshall, though originally a Gloucester fishing toat, now bears a British regis ] try. Even if the prosecutors are sus- tained in their contention they are not likely to put an end to rum running by 1 ship. The high seas are broad the source of supply in the West Indies is
 near and the profits. under the prices 1 to be obtained here for sound liquors i are large enough to afford constant temptation. A slowly drying seaboard
 and an interior that is beginning te 1 parch offer a ready market.
 While the Canadian and the Mexi- 1 can borders must be watched, the long 1 Atlantic coast line offers intending op- ! portunities for the smagglers and in- i creases by just so much the difficulties of the prohibition enforcement officers Imagine how many men and boats wifi | be needed to meet the tactics of the
 rum-runners who approach our coasts 1 by the high seas.
 ] Phantom fleets and mystery ships
 along the almost intending coast lines
 of America vii. give congress. the en-
 forcement officials and the public some.
 thing to ponder over.
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HIRING AND F1R1Nn

Tho hiring and firing privilege in American industry is considerable of 8 luxury. Hiring a worker means a cost even if it is conducted so simply as picking man out of a crowd at a fac tory gate Then he has to be conduct ed to his work. turned over to a fore man, allowed a certain amount of time Jo famiiiarize himself with his labor. Firing him means slowing up work by so much as his work is a part of the whole. It means. in many cases, dis couragement among those who haven't been fired sullenness. depression-for as men think of the hour when they, too may be fired. they take their minds from their tasks The committee for the elimination of wiste in industry com. putes tfle cost of unnecessary labor turn over in the metal trades at s10o 000, o0d annually. What it must be in all indus tries together would, in few short years. pay the national debt
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06
CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING JULY aoth, 1921
 11,230
GovEBEMHNT PRINTING.

While the country is talking about economy in government and Budget Di- rector Dawes Is casting about to lo7 of every unnecessary expendi- ture the government printing is a department that can hardly escape. his notice. Those who have been in q position to know have ma-yeled at the enorncos food of matter bearing the imprint of the Government Prin+ing Of fee. Washington, D. C. This rose to ti- dal wave proportions during the gar when mails were fairly clogged and the country almost blanketed by a mass ot circulars, reprints. books journa ls and bulletins. Probably by far the larger part pursued one uninterrupted course from the government presses tc the waste baskets
 Leave to print" spells much white paper. for congressional talk costs an. nually $500 900 as reproducod in the Congressional Record It makes some, thing to send to the constituents at honnt although the speech may never have heen delivered. But this IS not the end Every department at Washington piunEss into print with annual reports bulletins and circulars.
 Before the war the government's printing bill was about s7oO0, 900. ! now lacks but a few dollars of betrg double the old pre-war figures.
 The government mailing lists need s drastic revision in every department and bureau. DupEcations and redupli cations are taking tons of paper. Stand a-dizstion of forms. accounting, al the shortcuts and efficiency devices tha have shown their value ought to be in stalled There are any number of gov ernment publications that might ht wi9ed out of existence
 President Harding is a printer ant knows something about the "bacz shop, the wastes of printing and the costs 0 good white paper. Aided and abetted b, Director Dawes. who can smell waste, dollar all the way across the capital, tn p-esident-printer is about to clean ou and reorEanize the shop
 While s1S,ooo GOO may not seem Ii,k "innortant money" in a national budge Of about five billions. every little help: Most important of all however. thes drastic economies may cut down tn enormous amount of printed dullnes that now pours out of Washington through the mails.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06
SAYS FOREIGN CARGOES WILL BRING
 SUCCESS TO OUR MERCHANT MARINE

the Baltic in Hamburg, Bramen, Rot
 terdam and other European ports.
 Europe realizes that we are establishing
 permanent routes in shipping. The for eign tramp is fast being displaced by
 the scheduled American freighter. Many freight lines have been established by merican capital aided by the Shipping Board They run on schedule, are well manned and equipped, their only need Is cargoes.
 The development of our merchant mar | inc is beginning to be feared. Our own criticisms are binding the public as to 1 our achievement. We should rather look to it's needs and correct it's fault. One of the greatest faults is unjustifed crit icism. The wooden fleet, 50 much the object of carping Is not our merchant marine. They have served their purpose. l They were built for the great emergency
 on the theory that if they made one sue cessful trip across, their cost was justi- fled. They were built in answer to the cry of Ships, Ships"
 The cost at the outset may be terrific but to drop out of the race now would be to leave the bounty of shipping to
 others. I found the Shipping Board of fees abroad quite elaborate perhaps but
 efficient. I saw Shipping Board vessels
 enter discharge, load and clear within extraordinarily reasonable time. The of-
 flee staffs of young men ara alert and
 active, full of enthusiasm.
 1 Ourworst competition will be found
 in Germany She has already begun to
 buy foreign markets tonnage at the low
 prices, lower than the cost of producti-n
 A licensed master of ocean going vessels and steamships is paid what we pay our 'stokers. Ship supplies in Germany are , cheaper than elsewhere. But Germany , o4 ;,- d. goes. Time may see her carrying hen own cargoes in her own bottoms As to British shipping, think that w . are her equal. Her operating costs arr } the same as ours especially out of hei ? European ports. However Britain is for T tunate in that she has linked her ship ] ping with foreign business. Her pol = Icy is free trade, the good will in he g foreign markets. South America afford e you an example in this. There you fin, t English business well entrenched. Pref . erence is given to English bottoms. The, = control many cargoes.
 = Norway is struggling to maintain it
 self but unfortunately for her. she con t trols few cargoes. She exports little h her merchant marine is dependent upo Q the trade of others.
 e You will appreciate from what I hav n said that the success of our merchan
 marine depends upon our fereign bus = ness. a free policy in trading with ou e neighburs Our president has expresse = his interest In our merchant marine. i- am out for strong interpretation of tf if Jones Act. I firmly believe in the do( l. Urine of preference to American bottom g and that rebates should be given l. shippers who ship in American bottom
 Panama Canal shoud always remain to
 free to ships of American registry. N z have the necessary legislation, the ship
 the men, the capital we need the foreie
 business, a liberal policy to others.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06
AWAY FROM GENERALIZATION.

That was a worthwhile warning that President Harding voiced in his Ply mouth speech when he said that our task is to guard against the supreme capitalization of power at home and the sNper-state for the world" We Rant no more a centralization of power 2. Washington than we do the super st7te to control the affairs of the world Looking hack at history and around at tho present situation that has been shaped SO much in the past generation President Harding says that I've must combat tho growing assumption that the state must support the people, for just government Is merely the guarantee tc the people of the right and opportunity of the people to support themselves. The one outstanding danger of today is the tendency of the people to turn to Washington for the things which are the tasks and duties of the forty-eight com. nonwealths which constitute the na- tion'
 Federal aid. federal direction, tho leaning on federal help and power have become too much the easy and sniftless fashion. States confronted by difieul. ties turn to Washington, hardly attempt. ing to solve them by themselves. Com ununities look to the state to do fol them what they should be glad to do fol themselves. Shifted responsibilities have taken the place of sturdy independence
 The president is right. There is men ace in the belief that "the state mus support tho people" After all, the statt is a creation of the people: they have blown the breath of life into it. It vii tall without their support and active participation.
 States are built from the people up ward and not from the figureheads anc symbols of state downward The pres idsnt has shown the evil roots of tn tree. But the ax will need to be lait at those roots by many men, in man. places and through many years befor, they can be hacked away.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06
Sunday Morning Talk Continuity of Christian Happiness

This world is 8 very contracted stage for so capacious a being as an imurc rtal soul. True it is a world where pleasures may be sought and found but those pleasures have never yet measured up to the infinite of the souls inherent long
 ngs. Study the history of men who have lived in the past and tasted thousands of sweets between cradle and the coffin. and we find that they have all found the world unable to fill all the orders the soul puts in for happiness The soul is too big the world is too small How could the soul be continually fiat and fourishing" and how could it display all of it's operations when it is so much larger than the world in which it moves. Even here ''the bed is shorter than man can stretca himself on it" as one has said
 There is no proportion between such a scanty space and such large capabilities such trivial pleasures and such boundless desire. such fleeting duration and a spir-
 it formed for immortality"
 Now. then. who enjoys a continuity of happiness? Not the natural man. for he seeks it among the mutable things that ever bear the index of death. The wave comes to him but to recedc again, and there is a last wave some time The Christian alone knows the joys that are eternal He derives happiness from the boundless, immcasurable God "All my springs are in Thee In surveying this world he gets more happiness out of the material than even the natural man. be- cause God blesses him in it's religious use and he has a spiritual instinct that 1 extracts sweetness out of the bitter ex- i periences that mortal flesh is heir to Then. as he looks forward his thoughts pierce the bright ream of endless prog
 ress and Anticipates no dying day. Sor- row may come, but it makes no paren- ! thesis in the center current of joy which flows onward and upword; and though
 death may come, the soul leaps from it.
 outgrown shell to expand in it's own sweet
 and beautiful eternity.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06

Upon return rum 8 trip to Europe where he has been for three months rep
 resenting the interests of one of his clients in shipping matters, Raymond D.
 Steffensan 9 former Norwich young man,
 writes the Bulletin some of his observa- tions upon shipping and trade as affect ing the American merchant marine. He writes as follows
 Being interested in ships and cargoes I was, while abroad, accordingly inter ested in any matter affecting them. Ship ping and foreign business are intimately related for to speak of one is to suggest the other. And so the hope of enlarging our foreign trade involves the hope for great American merchant marine. But shipping lives upon trade and possessing | trade aids in possessing a merchant mar line The strength and earning power l of any merchant marine is not to be found so much in the swift greyhound of the Atlantic, but rather in the cargo carrier of lesser tonnage If America will develop her foreign trade. a mer- chant marine ought naturally to follow l However at present shipping every ] where is waiting for the resumption o
 trade. Two thirds of the Norwegian fieef l the pride of Norway, lies idle and rust ing in the fjords The lharbers of Cepen hagen is forest of Iaid-np ships ant it IS even difficult to md in the rlVel 1 Tyne an anchorage for an idle vessel There is little demand for tonnage. Tht Icry is no longer for ships but for car lgoes and those who control the cargoe may control the ships
 To aid foreign business is to aid ou merchant marine. We read much now
 a-days about financing foreign bushes and one would assume that we wer
 willing and ready to do so through tn numerous banking branches abroad. Ye
 found through personal solicitation no
 one banking representative abroad wh would consider financing a foreign owne
 l business no matter how promising tn investment or well secured. Excaang
 fluctuations and cheap gold affords a sur and certain profit with the rising dolla
 and with our foreign banking so hmite , there is little benefit to be derived e2 cept to the selfish few interested in th 1 institution. With a high exchange rat
 and an unwillingness to extend cred taere can be little hope for the expa1 sion of our foreign business. This net
 essarily affects the growths of our me [ chant marine.
 z 1 We hear at home much criticism abol . the Shipping Board and it's deficit. MuC : criticism is heard abroad but over thei : it is for a different reason. I found tl , American flag quite conspicuous upc
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06

the producers and exhibitors whether the pictures they have. seen are fiji to be exhibited in the state. Several other states have boards of censorship, but the New York board is by far the most important in that it's rulings affect about 10 per cent. of the people of the coun- try. If New York can prove that movie censorship is worth while, the effect will bA to stimulate interest in censorship in every state.
 Had the motion picture producers been able to curb the folly of few of their number who made themselves of- fensive to the public, there would have been no reason for censorship, but the
 institution is here, with all its dangers
 and 1t deserves fair trial. One of the
 principal dangers is that the censors will
 take themselves too seriously. In a way they are set up as guardians of the morals of the people
 New York will make good battle ground, and after it's commission has had a chance to show what it can do | perhaps the producers will run a few
 of their number out of business and take up the fight with clean hands.
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ssorie. That Recall oth.ra
Not an obstructionist.

He was a stranger in the town and was obviously looking for an address. But he went about in that half-ashamed way peculiar to shy people as though the mere fact of being a stranger were a crime of the worst description.
 He was getting hopeless about ever reaching his destination, when he es- pied small, ragged boy standing de- jectedly on the curb. To this young ster he made his way and addressed him almost apologeticaly: "I-er-want to go to the electric light station" he said
 The boy eyed him for a moment. "All
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Rushing to

dressed in his best. Rushing to the scene the officer took in the situation at a glance and peeiing of his coat and hat dove head foremost in the vat of water. He went directly to bottom and groping blindly about managed to io- cate the small body and bring it to the surface. The dive was feat of bray- cry as the cellar is known to be full of jagged rocks.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06

Waterbury.-Earle c. Beebe of Water bury has heen appointed assistant scou: executive as the Greater Providence council. Boy Scouts of America Three weeks ago he began duties at Camp Ysmgoog. Rockville. where he will remain for the summer.
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of the founders of Amherst college journalist, /editor. and most of all lexi- cegrapher, he trayersed more fields of literature than any other American writ CT. It was in the work of compiling dictionaries that his name stands su- preme.
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right" he said. "Trot along"
And Father swalIowea It.

They were passing through the village of Adams, Decatur county Sammie had been studying physiology and an- atomy and the name impressed him at once
 Father" he said. "is that where the name Adams apple comes from?'
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cENsoRsHIP oN MOVIES.

The state of New York is now sup piled with a board of movie censors,
 tAres peepls-two men and a woman Nto fs< s7,Eo0 each year will do poth- ing. Sut look at motion pictures and tell
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06

President Harding will be popular in the Rye school district where the open ing of school has been deferred in order that there may be caddies enough when the president and other distinguished personages arrive to play golf.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06

At the hearing of the Johnson bill to prohibit smoking by women in the Dis trict of Columbia, twenty-four women opposed it but only one appeared in it's favor. Mere mans effort apparently was loves labor lost.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06

Although a public schools bulletin de- clares that twe-thirds of the children have physical defects, the remaining one-third are healthy and hearty enough to make any country proud of them.
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statisticians tell us that out of 100 white male aliens so per cent seeks American citizenship. which is not such a bad proportion.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06

When it suits his convenience Len Small will put himself within reach of the sheriff who has a warrant for hina There seem to be some advantages in being the governor of Illinois.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06

Automobiles will have to look to their laurels when Fokkcr nonoplane car ries three passengers from Washington 10 Mineola at a total expenss of $5.Se for gas and oil.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06

Theoretically American airplanes are destroying cities and fleets with precis- ion and regularity. But theory some times is one thing and actual practice another.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06

This is the time when your friends who are on vacation rub it in by sending your picture post cards while you hava to stick at the desk
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06

The Knights of Columbus may well feel comDlimented by the Invitation from the pope to introduce American welfare work in Italy.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06

A kiss bandit" in Geeneville s. C.. who holds up spooning couples with a gun, steals kiss from the girl and collects s5 from the man practices the refinement of cruelty.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06

Weighing all the counter testimony against him, it appears that Senator Franco qualities for the modern inno- cent abroad in his trip to Russia.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06

The man on the corner says: Autos succeed no better than trains in passing on the same track at once.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06

According to jewellers, wrist watches for men are going out of style. Good news for the pickpockets.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06

Predictions of an early fall are under suspicion as propaganda by the coal dealers.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06

Not all can be wrong with the south Georgia reports a normal peach crop.
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EDITORIAL NOTES,

The present sample of August weather meets general approval
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California approves a tariff that pro- tects almonds, but not the almond eyes.
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Funny how the bass nearly all bite on the kind of bait the other fellow is using,
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Normalcy now has 8 companion. Il is cataclysEical, and by the same au- thor