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Arizona republican., 1921-03-04
What Is Efficiency?

Efficiency is doing things not wishing you could do them. dreaming about them, or wondering if you can do them
 It is knowing how to apply theory to practice, turning defeat into experience using it to achieve success.
 It is the ability to ones personality at any time place and the elimination of weakness regret worry and fear.
 It Is self-reliance clothed with modesty persist enee plus poiiteness and the hand steel in the velvet glove.
 Efficiency is alertness. presence of mind. read- ness to adjust ones self to the unexpected impignng the ego against the combination of events-lucl fate custom and prejudice-until they give way
 It is purpose. practice, patience the measure of man. the real size of his soul the ability to ones passions, likes, dislikes habits experience education. mind body and heart and not to be used by these things
 It is self mastery, concentration vision and com mon sense and the total all that is in man.
Arizona republican., 1921-03-04
Good morning. President Harding.

pastor in Portland, Maine, introduced Whlstng to take the place of singing his evening services. Now if he will substitute comic monolog for the sermon he will doubtless have just the success he wants
Arizona republican., 1921-03-04
SEEKING INFORMATION

How do you like your new teacher, Bobbie?" Shes all right, mother" Has she asked you any question --atf you couldn't answer?" Yes, ma'am. She asked me how ofd you werer--Yonkers Statesman
Arizona republican., 1921-03-04

An Indianapolis grocer chased a would-be bur glar with empty milk bottles Massachusetts woman put another to flight with hot dish water Why go armed?
Arizona republican., 1921-03-04

And now Germany has Ku Klux Klan, copied after the famous American organization. We have institutions in this country which would be much helpful to initiate
Arizona republican., 1921-03-04

The Fifth legislature will not have been held in vain unless neglects the biennial legislation of the last thirty years against foul brood in beese
Arizona republican., 1921-03-04

Our idea of an uphill task is to try to put an anti-tobaceo bill through legislative chamber dense with cigar smoke.
Arizona republican., 1921-03-04

The selling price of land has increased 65 per the last five years.
Arizona republican., 1921-03-04

Handicaps are true revealers of character There s no surer way to judge than by the way he tccents a handcaD
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23
CORONER TO INVESTIGATE
 DEATH OF WOMAN

While stepping onto 8 truck owned by Salvatore Savalia on Town Hill, at New London, Wednesday evening, Mrs. Albina Donatello of Station S, Water ford, was knocked from the running board of the truck, and suffered a, de- compression of the skull, from which she died at the Lawrence Memorial hos pital at 1920. The truck auto which the woman was mounting was struck by trolley car operated by Dennis Doyle, and the impact of the two heavy vehi- cles caused the woman to lose her
 footing and hold and topple off the running board of the truck, striking the back of her head on the pavement
 The woman was taken to the hospi-
 tal, where she was admitted at [ D. m,
 and an operation was undertaken, but
 she died three hours later Medical Ex- aminer H. H. Heyer was notified and communicated with Coroner J. ]. Des-
 mond of Norwich, who ordered aa in- vestigation at once.
 According to information gatheret from a person living in the vicinity ot the accident, the truck was turned com pletely around when struck by the troi l ley car It was learned that Mrs. Don atello was headed down town to do som, shopping and had been offered a ridt by the owner of the truck. The truck
 man had just delivered 8 piano in thi 1 neighborhood and was known to Mrs
 Donatello as he had previously delfv cred a piano at the home of Mrs. Dona tello's mother. The truck was headet toward the city and the trolley car ap preached from tte rear. MT. salEala 1 is reported to have been engaged Il 1 erankfng the truck when the trolley ca. i hit the machine.
 1 Mrs Donatello leaves a husband, John who is employed at Booth Brothers i quarry at Great Neck, and three ehil dren.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23
MONUMENT ERECTED TO THE BOIL WEEVIL

Enterprise, Ala. Dec. 22.-The first monument 10 the boil weevfl---the great .-r enemy of cotton - has just been erect. | here.
 Coffee county planters expressing profound appreciation" for the ravag as or The cotton enemy. have erected 3 beautiful bronze foun -<ln in the heart . Inc business district here. It is a r.rrmeu- to the foe that conquered the e.1r'r. l is explained. and then point
 a way towards prosperity and new hopes
 Growers of cotton who fathefed the erection of the monument to the weevil aa-'a-ed that the cotton enemy had been h.e sing in disguise in that 1t had Drought about diversifcation of crops -rf thereby established new era in the s0u,G.
 The Inscription on the fountain reads
 Tn Profound Appreciation of the Boil VeeTiI and What IL Has Done as the Herald Of Prosperity This Monument i' E-sci hy the Citizens of sHterpz-se Coffee County, Alabama"
 The ouo-cTop south has heeeme as $
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23
PARCEL POST TAX
 GOES OFF JANUARY 1sr

The internal revenue stamp tax on parcel post mailed on and after Jan- uary 1 will be abolished. This is in &C., cerdance with the revenue act of 1921, approved Nov. 2S, 1921 repeating such tax.
 Postnasters have also been instructed to withdraw from sale all proprietary stamps at the close of business Decem- Der 31 and retain them until instructions are received to send them to the de- partment for redemption. The taxes on proprietary medicinal and toilet prepar- ations was also repealed in the revenue act of 1921.
 Postmasters are instructed not to re- deem unused proprietary stamps from the public. The heiders Of unused stamps who request redemption will be advised to apply to the commissioner of internal revenue, treasury, department in Washington.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23

dangered near5y property. Tn a shoA
 time there were five streams on the bur8s' ing building. It was bitterly cold. the
 water freezing ss soon as it ran awav
 from the heat of the fire, turning tlas
 street into Ice.
 In order to get at the fire to the besS advautare il was necessary to lay tges lines of hose across the tracks of th : New York, New Haven G Hartford rslLs road company st Elm street md the r.S suit was that east bound e-3r -sses Ms. 174 and 1 were held up, a.so the wzs-
 bound New Bedford freight. Tho troll : cars were also interrupted. paszsnzrr being transferred around the scene Of ta5 l fire.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23
CORONER RELIEVES BOYS
 DEATH WAS ACCIDENTAL

Coroner J. J. Desmond CT Thursday opened a formal hearing on the case of the automobile accident which resulted in the death of Edgar T. Howard. son of Police Sergeant and Mrs. Frank T. Howard. of New London. After inter- viewing 9 number of the boys who were aboard the auto truck the evening o4 iche acident, Coroner Desnl1nd stated that his original opinion that the in- cident was entirely accidental had moi changed aparticIe.
 He stated that he had undertaken the hearing and taken the testimony in the case merely to fulfill the requirement in tsre statute and that everything tend ed to prove that the unfortunate event was entirely accidental. Only one wit ness remains to be called, he stated.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23
FsREsrEN FIGHT BLAZE
IN ZERO TEATHF

IN -A-AO Ah A--A itA t-
 With the mercury only two degrees abave the zero mark, the fremen Of the borough Of Stonington were called cul of their warm beds shortly after o'clock Thursday morning to fight g lively blaze in the buildngg used as the Grot5a & Stonington Trolley Co.5s watt.ng roor on Elm street and it was nearly three hours later that they were able to ta k. up their hose and return 70 quarters. The
 damage resulting from the fire will be about s6,009.
 James II. Ledwdth. gate tender at th,
 Elm street railroad crossing. discovore, 1 the fire. An alarm was sant iu iron
 Box 1S and ths department made a quic!
 response. Blythe time they arrived tn. building was a roaring mass of flame.
 and sparks were flying in way that en-
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23
BURGLAR SCARED WHEN
 SHOT CTN E0E


 Gaining entrance in a mysterious manner into the home of Clarence E. White, 23 Starr street, New London, on Wednesday evening. Sobber started to ransaek bureau drawers in one of the bedrooms. and n so doing accidentally discharged shot gun and then, fright ened. turned and fled The shot from the gun pierced the bureau drawer, rip ped seam in the leg of the bureau and entered the floor. 4 gold watch and 1 s235 in cash in the bureau were left behind by the robber- A few hour: 1 later the robber returned to the house
 but fell over some object in the real entry. When pursued by Sergeant Pat
 rick Murphy and Patroluan John Cav 1 anaagh who were then in the house 1 the robber or robers sealed the bacl fence and disappeared.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23

result of the terrible ravages of the wee
 vii. an agricultural country which in the future will became if-supporting. according to the Coffee county planters, who have adopted the slogan. "A Sow to
 Flow" The disease of cotton that threatened to ruia the south. these faryners declare, haE been effectively checked by the advent of the weevil, and
 new conditions brought about which mean future growth and agricultural prosperity.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23

truck owned by Tony Savalia. which was struck by an East Lyme trolley car near Station 5, Waterford, Wednesday evening. resulting In fatal injuries to Mrs. Albina DonatelIe.
 Since his sudden departure from town with his hrother-in-law, Augustine Di Noto, proprietor of the Highland apart ments, because of fear of injury at the hands of Italian creditors, Duca, through the agency of Rosie Gardania, a it. neyman. has been disposing of his per. sonal belongings.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23
ALLARD LIQUOR CASE
 CONTINUED BY COURT

At the session of the criminal court of common pleas in New London We'd aesday, where various liquor cases were before the court on appeals from the Norwich police court, the cease of Hen ry Allard was put over to the April ses- sion of court, the only one of the Nor- wicsl cases so disposed of. Judge John H. Barnes appeared as ottorney for Mir Ailards
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23
VICE PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
 TO GIVE CHRISTMAS DINNER

Washington, Dee. 22.-Vice President Coilidge informed senate pages today he would continue the custom carried out by his predecessor. Thomas R. Marshall Of giving a Christmas dinner for. them The vteA presidents two sons also will attend the &Rner,
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23
'. Bardo. in an address to the Nev

Mir. Bardo, in an address to the New Haven County Enployes' association.
 Investigation shows, according t9 MT. Bardo. that the rate of pay for common labor in outside industry is from 50 to 40 cents an hour. Enployes of the New Haven road have been asked to accept a rate of g cents an hour on the main line and 30 cents on aide lines, while in the mechanical crafts graduated scale with weighted average rate Of SO cents an hour has been requested
 Mr.. Bardo said that a reduction ot about $75o,000 a.,nuaIiy in the roads pay roii had resulted because of Ge- cision of the railroad board in regarj to mechanscal crofts
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23
To Cut Road wages

C. L. Bardo,. general manager of the New Haven read, intends to start negotia- tions at once with the e4npapyes of the road with the end in view Of making reduction in wages to the extent of $T,- 000,e00- Negotiations will be begun us- ing the mechanical crafts as 6 basis, said
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23
DEPUTY SHERIFF TUBES
 LOCATES MISSING PLAN

A piaino belonging to Glosue Ducai of Montauk avenue, New London, for which Deputy Sheriff J. H. Tuhbs has been searching for the past few days fer the purpose of attacliing it, was found Thursday morning on the automobile
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23
NOTICE!

Commencing January l, 1922, to apply bills rendered commencing February 1s2z the price of gas furnished by this Department will be as follows: First 5000 h per month, l3A cts. per 100 ft. Next 10000 h per month, l2 cts. per 100 ft. All 1500O ft per month HE cts. per 100 ft. Consumer charge 90 cts, per month.
 Consumers using in of 900 H per month 7i be billed at 11 cts. per hundred ft for all gas consumed, plus the consumer charge.
 charge of two dollars (200 will be made for the reov- ing and resettng of meters which have been installed for less than one year.
 The above rates effective in accordance with Sec 1887 Of the Revised General Statutes of the State of Connect cut, Revision of 1902.
 CITY OF NORWICH GAS AND ELECTRICAL DEPT.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23

The American Society for the Proven ton Of Cruelty to Animals offers Q nrizG of $500 for a humane trap for fur-5saTN ing animals.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23

Though he feared battle himself Sit ting Bull was a recognized leader on ac- count of his reputation az & medicine man."
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23

Absence from church was 8 punish able offense in the seventeenth centu- ".
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23

Many a home this year will be frightened by the presence of a new Piano.
 A Christmas gift which the whole family will enjoy for years to come, and which the hands of some loved member of the family will wake into melodious song.
 Such sweetness of tone and such beauty of case design as is offered in the Chickering, Haines Bros, Wassermann, Hartman, Behr Bros., HaHet & Davis, Crawford, Auto piano, Mono-Player, Lexing- ton, etc.
 TERMS OF PAYMENT -
 YOUR OWN, WITHIN
 REASON.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-12-23
POSEY FROM THE
BUCKEYE STATE
Sandusky, Ohio, Dec. 16, 1921
Vashon Island News-Record,

Sandusky, Ohio, Dee. l6, 1921
Vashon Island News-Record,
P. Monroe Smock, Editor;
My dear Sir:
My subscription to your paper
expired, as l remember, Dec. 81,
1920. And, carelcssly, | neglect
ed to renew the same--to my
great loss. But--you kindly con
tinued to send me the sarne for
three or four months at your ex-
pense. want to refund for what
you did for me, and | most gladly
do it. And I send a dollar for
my deficiencies, and also enclose
$500 more for one years subscrip-
ton from and wit hDec. 23rd,
1921. To be sent to my address
below.
enclose P. O. Money Order for
$500 to your order. You are
publishing a great paper for Va
shon island. 1t is so good | must
have it sent here every week. The
general spirit and good sense and
uplift of your editorials; and
that real, human, poetic tempera-
ment that aroused such Il success
full "Bobbie Burns day"-as an
annual event on the island, and
the active interest you have taken
in all good things in the island s
development are interesting to
anyone, far or near
And Vashon island is one of
the prettiest places the sun shines
upon in all its course. If | am
more obligated, let me know.
Yours very truly
c. w. Sadler, Sr
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-12-23
GREAT NOVEL BY
CHURCHILL rs SCREENED
1.-The Inside of the Cup" Which
Created a Storm to be
Shown Here

Every reader of current litera-
ture will recall the sensation cans
ed by the publication several
years ago of Winson Churchill's
powerful novel, "The Inside Of
the Cup The story attacked the
alleged hypocrisy of certain cler-
gymen and men of wealth identi-
fled with churches as vestrymen.
The philosophy Of the book was
criticized by churchmen in this
country and in England as an I'M
warranted attack upon religion
and the cloth.
The picture rights having been
obtained by Cosmopolitan at great
expense, the story was picturizcd
by Albert Capellani, a famous di-
rector and the film version will be
shown at the Island Theatre next
Monday. The essential features
of the story, which is one of great
dramatic force, nave been retain
ed while the anti-hypocrisy phil
osophy of the author necessarily
has been subordinated to the gen
eral theme.
The story deals with the Rector
of a fashionable church who turns
upon his wealthy Pensioners
when he discovers them paradmg
under a mask of hypocrisy and in
vites the common people to attend
his church. EldOn Parr, a vcStry-
man, INSCRIPTIONS and tyramiC-
al, alienates his son and daughter
and is finally killed by a man
whom he has ruined. There is a
pretty love romance between the
Rector and PARIS daughter which
ends happily. The leading roles
are played by William p. Garlic
ton and Edith Hallor.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-12-23
HUGHES SENDS NOTE
TO PREMIER BRAND
Basic Principles Of Limitation
Held Ignored BY French
Proposal.

Washington, d, G. - Secretary
Hughes, as chairman OF the armament
conference, has communicated direct
ly with Premier BRAND OF France re-
garding the situation which has de.
velopcd AZ result OF the stand OF
tho French delegation on naval ratios,
Mr.. Hughes was understood to have
called the attention Of NJ. BRAND to
the unexpected nature OF the French
proposal and to its failure to har.
monte with the basic principles upon
which the limitation Of naval arma.
mGnts plan was drawn.
The French proposal for a capital
ship ratio permitting her to construct
and maintain 100000 tons. which,
when first presented to the arms naval
committee, was understood to be mere.
ly u suggestion, WAS declared to have
the full support OF the French gov
ernmcnt.
The first great stride toward five
power treaty limiting armaments was
taken when the United States, Great
Britain and Japan announced final
agreement on the American 5.5.3 ratio.
The United States and Great Brit
ain conceded to Japan's desire to re-
tain her newest battleship, the Mutsu,
with proportionate changes In the
American and British fleets.
While principles Of the original
American proposal were not impaired
by the triangular agreement, the set.
Element contemplates the following
changes In fleets to be retained:
Great Britain, 20 ships instead of %,
with an aggregate of 5S2,050 tons in
stead Of 604,450.
At the end of the tcn.year building
holiday the fleets will stand under
the revised detailed plan as follows:
Great Britain $4,000 tons, United
States $4,000 tons and Japan $4,000
tons.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-12-23
POLES ARREST
BOMB SUSPECT

Warsaw.--A man by the name OF
Wolfe Llndenfcld, alias William Linde,
has boon arrested by the Polish police
here aa II suspect In connection with
the Wall street explosion IN Now
York September 10. 1920,
Sylvester CoBgroyc, the American
department Of justice agent, has sent
a cable dispatch to Washington giving
the name OF a blacksmith who Wolfe
Lindcnfed alleges manufactured the
bomb and engineered the details Of
the explosion IN Wall street In 1920.
The address III given as 100 West
Fortieth street, New York city. The
blacksmith is supposed to be In the
United States at present.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-12-23
THE CHRISTMAS TIDE
RISES HIGH ON ISLANDS
The Spirit Of Xmas Seems to Permeate Every
Heart and Home on Vashon.Mauy

This is the closing Of Christmas
week the world over. Nc where
is the spirit Of Christmas more
fully entered into than on the
islands Of Vashon- Maury. No
physical suffering that is known,
health and peace seems to pre-
vail in every home. The mail
has been unusually heavy both
the outgoing, which shows our
people are remembering the folks
back east, and the incoming,
which indicates the folks back
east have not forgotten the dear
one "out on Vashon island"
Nationally and internationally
we doubt if there has ever been a
time since the birth Of Jesus in
Bethlehem Of Judca more than
10 centuries ago when the song
of "peacc on earth" could be
sung with such heart. The U.
S. is legally and literally at peace
with the world. The big confer
ence that is on in Washington
will likely do much toward the
elimination of future war. At
home and abroad we can fully
enter into the spirit Of Dickens in
one Of his Christmas Carols when
he says:
"There are many things from
which | might have derived good,
by which | have not profited, |
dare say" returned the nephew
christmas among the rest. But
| am sure I have always thought
of Christmas time, when it has
come romd--apart from the ven
Grafton due to it's sacred name
and origin, if anything belong
ing to it can be apart from that
as a good time: a kind, for
giving, charitable, pleasant time:
the only time / know Of, in the
long calendar of the year, when
men and women seem by one con-
sent to open their shut-up hearts
freely, and to think of the peo-
pie below them as if they really
were fellow passengers to the
grave, and not another race of
creatures bound on other iourn-
eys. And therefore, uncle, though
it has never put a scrap of gold
or silver in my pocket, I believe
that it has done me good, and
will do me good; and I say, God
bless i'll"
And this is the time for prayer
as well as rejoicing. There ale
many things yet to be accom-
plished in the world and much to
be cast out as Improbable. We
know of no better prayer for this
closing week of 1921 than that
of Tennyson in his "In Memoir
lam" which we reprint as sort of
a model petition for those of our
readers who wish to attune their
hearts to the Infinite:
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-12-23
HENRY WATTERSON DIES
AT 50 YEARS OF AGE

Henry Watterson editor Of Tie
Louisville Courier for many years
and .%,Hrhaps the best known
jour II in America, if not the
wor.& >sied at Jacksonville, Flor
ida yesterday where he had gone
a few weeks ago in search of
health. He has been conspicuous
as a writer and editor for two
score of years, and had earned
the sobriquet of "Marse Henry"
His death will leave a gap not
quickly filled in American letters.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-12-23

Ring out false pride in place and
blood,
The civic SANDER and the spite
Ring in the love of truth and
right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring ont old shapes of foul dis
ease,
Ring out the narrowing lust of
gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of
old,
Ring in the thousand years Of
peace.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-12-23
San Francisco oangsters Get 50 Years

San Quentin, Cal-The state board
Of prison directors decreed that Ed.
mund (Spud) Murphy and Edward
Kruvosliy, pugilists, mmebers Of a
San Francisco gang convicted OF at.
lacking two girls in November, last
year, should serve SO years in prison
here. Murphy and Kruvosky had been
sentenced by Judge Louis Ward to
indeterminate terms OF one to 80
years.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-12-23
RING OUT
WILD BELLS

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild
sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty
light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him
die.
Ring out the old, ring in the
new,
Ring, happy bells, across the
snow;
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the
true.
Ring out the grief that saps
the mind,
For those that here we see no
more;
Ring out the feud of rich and
poor;
Ring in redress to all mankind
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms Of party
strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of
life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-12-23
ISLAND CHAPTER o. E. s.
ELECT OFFICERS FOR YEAR

The Island Chapter O. i. $
have elected officers for tie en-.
suing year as follows:
w. Matron-Mrs. Y. G. Ogilvy
w. Patron-Francis M. Shcr.
man
A. Matron-Mrs.: Hayes
Sccretary-Mrs. Wise
Trcasurcr-Mrs. Hansen
Conductress-Mrs. Wyman
A. C0nductreSs-Mrs. T.. A.
Weiss