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Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-04
PROTECT OUR INVENTIONS.

There are those foreign producers who have for many years prior to the war carried on the practice of initiating American goods. . It was possible to find in foreign markets goods that exactly du- plicated American products in appear ance but of cheaper construction and with little or no regard for the patents that existed upon the article. Care of course was taken to see that the name of the merean producer wss not copied.
 During the war conditions were such that there was no recording of patents in foreign countries and so far as this country is concerned the inventions which have bten brought out and patented are not protected against reproduction in other countries. For the purpose of rem edying this situation there was a con- ference at Berne, Switzerland, last sum- mer at which it was agreed that there would he protection given to existing | patents and that pateglts during the war period would be validated provided they were filed by September of last year which date was subsequently, changed to March 31, 1921. The convention agreed | that the benefits of this arrangement would be extended to all countries adopt ing reciprocal legislation by that date. Thus in view of the fact that the United States was not member of that conven- | ton it is a matter of much concern to holders of patents in this country that the legislative bill which has been pre- sented to cover the stua ton should be adopted at this session of congress.
 Inasmuch as there appears to be nc objection to the legislation, and therefore regarded as a matter that ought to bc passed. tho need of giving it the attention 1t desesves and seeing that it Is made | q law rather than allow it to get caught
 In the jam and become blocked at the last minute.
 InasnHuh as 1t has been the practice 1T the past to grab American invention: when patents have been registered the
 importance of giving them all the pro
 tertion that can he secured through pat
 ent registry is such as to call for thu
 elimination of negligence.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-04
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
A Better Suggestion

Mir. Editor: MT. Leggin appreciates the pungent rebuke of An American" but thinks it would be better if he took his advice to himself and put up his pen. It has been said, He is a wise man who knows his father"-but this man seems to know his grandfather.
 If he could trace his lineage forther back, he might find where it landed him. He may get dyed-in-the-wool Ameri- can but he should remember that there are others and his communication shows that anybody" cannot write an intelli- gent letter for the press without an opinion. His confession that he knows very little of the trouble abroad is shown in his note and he gets no in- formation from our letters. Well, An- other native American of good reputa- tion has given public discussion of the Irish question in his pulpit. We won der if this Amercan was present there to hear the truth, and to be informed which side he should stand for. The stranger who before a sympathetic au- dienee made statements that are since proved false both historically and sta tistically, needs not further to be dealt with-and those who are not convinced by the proof. are not open to conviction
 as is shown in the case of this American A LEGGIN | Norwich, February 3rd, 1921.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-04

The Falmouth record, which happened at Pendennis Point, was for d brief gust, which is caused by mechanical interfer- ence with the steady movement of an air current. The honour of recording the highest actual hourly velocity of wind anywhere in England belongs to Fleetwood, where in 1894 a steady speed of IS miles per hour was regis tered on the anemometer. So far as accurate records are available no Eng fish wind has ever beat that hustle.
 Reduction of Wages-We certainly do not desire any reduction of wages for it's own sake; nor do we want to see any at all where 1t is possible-or where by increasing their output the workers make it possible-to keep an industry alive on it's present wage basis with out subsidising 1t in one way or an- other from the earnings of ether indus tries. But though subsidies can be jus tified in few special cases, it is cleaI that the great majority of our indus. tries must be self-supporting; other wise the country which they compose and which depends vitally, be 1t remem. bered, on it's export trade cannot be a self-supporting country..-London Chron. 1 icle.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-04

Pitt, but it was too small to cope with the insurgents. A pitched battle took place between the revolters and the inspectors posse, which lasted for about an hour, the assaifants having set fire to the neighboring buildings, eight in number, and the upholders of the law were compelled to capitulate.
 The insurgents, after this first sue cess, planned greater things, and got together all the discontents of the neighborhood, who pledged themselves to follow wherever David Bradford, the leader, would designate.
 Washington now took matters in hand, called his ca binet together and called into council Governor Mifflin of Pennsylvania. A proclamation fol- lowed ordering all the insurgents to disperse on or before the first day of September. Prepa rations were mace to get together force of from twelve to fifteen thousand militia from the various states. This request was re- sponded to in overwhelming numbers under the patriotic leadership of Gov ernor Mifflin.
 On every side the signs of war were displayed The troops began assem- bling at various places specified, but the rebellious-hordes fled before such a demonstration, the clemency of the government was /icited and submis- sion to every l-w freely promised. Some of the more evil disposed were arrested and tried, but pardon was ul | timately extended to all. And thus
 in the words of Washington, was de- l cided "the contest, whether a small 1 portion of the United States shall dic- i tate to the whole Union"
 1 (Tomorrow-The Bravery of Sergeant l JaSDer,)
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-04
FIGHTING DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Strong efforts are being made in diff ferent states for the repeal of daylight saving l-s-s This movement is backed by the agricultural interests and given an impetus by those others who do not care one way CT the other. But while there are those who are seeking to end such a law others are strenuously stand ing by it for the benefit there is in it. ii-e good 1t has done and the help that it win continue to give.
 Just at the present time there is a fight on in New York state where & re. peal measure is before the. legislature. It is a contest between the city interests and those of the smaller and outlying districts. IL is the repetition of a con- test that took place last year when the repeal was voted by the legislature only Co be vetoed by tho governor after learn- Ing Of tho large amount of sentiment for such a law. It is invariably the case that while there is a willingness to have the season during which daylight savins would prevail reduced, the cities and in- eustrial centers favor such law and ihe health eonuissioner of New York city maintains that it is of no slight con. scuucnce as a health measure
 When it comes to the question of, serv. ing the largest number there is no doubt but what a big majority want the day. iight saving law and that but for the farmers there would be little or no oppe. siiion Co it. That there is much oueo. sition to the confusion which is caused hy the existence of such q law in ent state and not In another. or in one tour and rot in the next one is undeniable.
 What Is needed regarding daylight saw inv Is uniformity. It is a means b, which an added hour Of daylight is SC cured during certain months, which thl bulk of Che people vc-,ld never obtain in any other way. If all states shouls 1dort similar laws the hothersome con fusion would he elipinated hut that i what is intended through the bill on con rress seeking such law for the easter7 part of the country. Through the lacj Of such legislation. however, state effort are bound to be continued
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-04
CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING JAN. 2sth, 1921
 10,966
ooMsIENpABLE ACTION.

That the authorities of Los Angeles have recognized the necessity of prompt action in bringing to trial the two cous- ins of Mrs. Gladys Witherell who kidnap- ped her and held her for ransom is in- dicatei by the prompt manner in which they were brought into court and their eases disposed of.
 That feeling should run high in that city and vicinity because of such actions would not be surprising and the best way io satisfy an indignant public is to see that prompt justice is carried out The accused in being given sentences of ten years to life in the penitentiary have received the maximum penalty and con- sidering the character of the crime, the threats made to the woman kidnapped, the treatment accorded her and the an- Siety caused the family it will be re- garded that the court recognized and did Us duty.
 It Is through delays, which could in- fariably be avoided. that mob rule and .iolcnce invariably gets it's start, and where with the people chafing under the feeling that nothing is being done that sentiment gets to the point that control 4a 4AAA4NAAA
 n this instance, as if there was a rec oCnition of the importance of speedily dispoFiny of the matter, there can be nc complaint over delay on the part of the prosecution. Caught at their game and left without any plausible defense a high service has been rendered to that city and state by the putting of the Carr brothers where they will not be able t1 eug7se in similar activities for a Iona lime if ever again.
 Stch quick justice and the imposition of the maximum penalty cannot fail tc have a wholesome effect It gives as. surance that the law is not powerIess or without teeth. and it cannot fail to i'm. Tress any others who may be harborins any idea of resortfnE to such crime that They can expect no leniency at the hand. of the law enforcing machinery of tha locality. Like action is commended t, other sections of the country where crIml is not so speedily dealt with.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-04
GERMANY's EXPORT TAX.

Somehow the impression has been gain cd by some that the imposition of the export tax on Germany as planned by the allies will serve to increase the price of German goods to such an extent that it will not require tariff legislation in this country to protect the industries and their employees. Such, however, is far from the fact The export tax would serve to increase the price of the goods, because Germany would of course in- clude that in the selling price, but un- der present conditions it would not serve as a tariff wall because it would make the American market only 8 trifie less attractive upder the existing rate of ex- change
 Germany can produce goods oheaply. It was always able to compete success fully with American production and for that reason prevented the manufacturers of chemicals in this country on an ex- tensive scale. Its cost of production to- day may be somewhat larger than it was but add the export tax thereto and let German goods come into this country unrestricted and Germany will not only reap enormous profits but it will make it impossible for American industries to keep going except that tkey get down to the working conditions which prevail in Germany
 Because of the high value of the Amer ican dollar it Is the American market which Germany would like to gobble The example IS given that while goods which used to be produced for 250 marks ir Germany now cost 1000 marks it can be appreciated that the addition of twelve per cent thereto isn't going to stagge1 the American market for the present rate of exchange would return 13.000 marks ! to the German producers if disposed ot at cost. It is obvious therefore that they could put a price on them considerably below cost and yet reap handsome profit over and, above the export tax whether that tax is added to the price el not.
 It is quite evident therefore that tn. export tax isn't going to protect tn, American producers. It wasn't intended for any such purpose and will not serr. it. We must look after ourselves in tha respect.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-04
THE LINpsEY nEc1s1nN

As was the case when the matter came before the lower courts the decision of the United States supreme court to tha eifect that the lower court was right and that Judge Lindsey must pay the pen- alty imposed is bound to cause much ir- terest. inasnuch as it demonstrates that Inc law is for all regardless Of position.
 Judge Lindsey takes the position that hc would not violate the confidence of a twelve year old boy. and offers to 20 to San rather than do so. Ordinarily in matters of slight consequence there might be nothing strange thought of sseh an attitude. but in this case murder wal Involved. the boy had claimed to be re- rponsble after another had been arrest. cd but tho inference is that the boy had conhded to the judge that he was nc, guilty.
 Judge Lindsey maintains that h, would lose the confidence of all othel boys f lre should reveal the statement made by this boy. but he can hardly ex poet Soys or anyone else Co admire any enc. be he judge or laynran- who under takes 10 cover up such serious crime. Ra ther would it appear thsa all that f would ba necessary for boys to do wuIlt he 10 c9nfids their conduct whatever i nrht be to Ju6ge Lindsey ane the. would get his protection against prosecu .lon.
 AS the 9u6gs of a court whether juve Afie or otherwise f cannot be overlook bd ,that ths 1naponSiDEll et l6sanE .4zs
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-04

Now, papa" Bobby began after din- ner, don't you think that people are aw- full queer that don't like anin,als?"
 Tt depends a little bit on the kind of animals" his father answered eau tiously rPersonraly I am not oyerfond of rhinoceros or hippopotamus, and l can scarcely imagine myself betting an armadillo"
 'oh, we'll" Bobby explained, "by anil mals in Chicago feller doesn't mean lot of things from Asia and Africa and things like that mean cats and dogs and horned toads and rabbits Mamie Kelly she doesn't like anything at all but parrot-she's got a parrot and so she doesn't think there's any thing else worth looking at I'll bet If she had horse she'd like that best. be- | cause that's just the way Mamie Kelly always is.
 What she's got's the best there is and there aint anything else in the world. She always did make me tired on account of her always putting in l like that and telling what she thinks i We fellers was all trying to find out was Nelly Foster scared of snakes like Susie Herrick and Mamie Kelly she up and began talking about her parrot. | %Why did you have such curiosity regarding Nelly's liking for snakes: Were you thinking of getting one for l her as a pet?"
 "Aw no' Boboy shifted Tt was like l this Billy had & snake that's been liv- ing in his cellar all winter and one day Susie Herrick saw it and gee, but she threw a fit! Bills mother came out tc see what was the matter and Billy had to say he was sorry. I ain't seen yet why he had to be sorry because thai snakes been there all winter and every. body knew it and it was named Hoover and Susie didn't have any call to gc down there is she didn't like them"
 That sounds reasohsble," agreed his father. But where does Nelly come in?''
 "She came in right in the middle ot it,'' Bobby went on, much encouraged And I was so mad at Susie up anC said L-hst Nelly wasn't afraid of any darned old snake. I knew Billy's moth CT wouldn't leave that snake down thert another day and I thought maybe she't forget about chasing it out if she saw the rest of the girls weren't Scared.
 And was she?"
 q don't know" Bobby answered du biously. She walked right in ant
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-04
Cleaned from Foreign Ex-
 changes.

It is given out that one of Mir. Hard ing's first acts after his inauguration will be to summon a conference of in- ternational representatives to discuss the limitation of armaments. That prob lem is the most urgent immediately con- fronting the powers but as it cannot easily be solved in isolation from others, we imagine that others will be also on the agenda. To such a conference Great Britain would send her representatives in a spirit of cordial cooperation and good will She is perfectly conscious of the extent to which the success of any worldwide peace machinery depends up- on Anglo-American harmony.
 The Trade Slump-Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the trade slump
 is that it did not come earlier. That we should have been able to reabsorb some millions of our fighting men into civil life before feeling the real pinch of unemployment is against all prece- dent Alter Waterloo the inepftaRfle
 depression in trade came alHAost im- mediately. Foreigners were anxious enough to secure our goods, but for the most part were too poor to buy them on terms remunerative to our manu- lecturers The result was that ship
 loads of British exports dumped into Holland were dCIualFy SOiu eA eJWcT prices than they would have fetched in London. The distress of the next | few years was much greater than any thing we are likely to experience, and helped to make a big hole in the bar riers of protection.
 Restoring the Liner-There must he 1 still many people who, when they cross l the seas. like feel that they are on
 board ship and not merely dwellers in some floating Ritz or Carlton Hotel. 1 To them the Albania, the new Cunarder. | will appeal. Though posseslon every device to make a life on the ocean wave l agreeable the Albania reHews the leis-
 urely tradition of her earlier predeess- sors by sauntering across the A tlantic at | about 12 knots She breaks new ground l Cor water) by carrying only one class ot
 passengers and by devoting the sDac'
 saved from engine power and bunkers ] to cargo.
 The English Wind Record-A con- temporary states, apropos of Tuesdays
 gale that ''the. record velocity is 1o5
 miles an hour. reported near Falmouth in 1905." That would inde(i be some
 wind. But the writer overlooked the difference between a steady, continuous
 wind and a gust lasting few seconds
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-04
Specials In Domestic Department

25O yards of 'lndian Head,' run of the mill, lengths to 8 yards, regular value 45c-Price NOW lSC 36-inch English Nainsook, former value 371zc yard-Priee Now ...................... 19e 3o-inch English Long Cloth, in i2-yafd pieces, former value 59c-Pliee Now ........!..... 2se Si-inch Dwight Anchor Bleached Sheeting, same weight and count as "Pequot," former value Si.10 - Price now w..................... 59c 12 dozen extra large Bleached Turkish Towels, former value 59c-Pnee Now .............. 29e So dozen Novelty Turkish Towels, good assort- ment of coloringS value 5oc to 7oc-Price Now 29c One lot of Plaid Blankets, size 66x8O former value S7.9S-Price Now ................A .A.95 15 pairs of Mixed Wool Blankets, pink and blue
 borders, former value Si2.5O-Price Now. $7.95 5 Satin MarseieS Bed Spreads, full size, former
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-04
After the Fight Started

Mir Editor: We have heard lately what wonders the Irish did in the time of the American Revolution. I have yet to hear of any Irishman who helped start the Revolution, but of course after the fight was started they all went in. What Irishman could ever re- sist joining in any fight? They don't always join the right side, however. There was Thomas Hickey, who no one has yet mentioned. He was an Irish man who had deserted from the Brit ish army a few years before the Revo- lution, and when this broke out enlisted in the American army. In 1796 he was member of the commander-in- chiefs guard-a body of picked men under Capt. Caleb Gibbs, selected as a personal guard for General Washington and his baggage. In New York city where the Tory element was strong Gov. Tryon, from his retreat on a wal vessel in the harbor-carried forward plot with tre aid of David Mathews l the mayor, and Gilbert Forbes, the gunsmith, to purchase arms, enlist men and corrupt the Continental soldiers This plot included the assassination o1 Gen. Washington by members of the guard. Thomas Hickey was to have poisoned him. His attempt to do this | falled because or warning gwen by .
 waiter at tavern where the Torie: met. Hickey was tried by eourtmar | tial convicted and hanged.
 As the Englishmen would not com,
 over here to fight their kindred. Kins
 Genrgys had to dS]cril on Irish ant | German soldiers. He tried to hir,
 s1ne Rutsian soJ. VI too, ibu Ent
 press Catherine wouldn't let him hav' any, She wrote You and I would lool f pretty going over there to fight thos
 Americans" CALEB CHURCH
 Norwich, February 5, 1921.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-04
ODD INCIDENTS IN AMERICAN
 HISTORY
THE wH,skEy RESURRECTION.


 The year 1794 is striking in ,Ameri- can history by reason of the remark able revolt among a portion of the in- habitants of Pennsylvania, which is known as the whiskey insurrection. Three years previous to this outbreak congress passed laws laying excise du- ties upon spirits distilled within the United States. This tax excited gem eral opposition, but nowhere with such f>violence as in Pennsylvania, where the crops of grain were so over abundant that. in the absence of an adequate market for it's sale, an immense quan- l tity of the cereal was distilled into l whiskey.
 | It was insisted upon by the people 1 of western Pennsylvania that an arti- cle produced so exclusively as their 1 the principal rivers of the section 1 ought not to be taxed for the support of the federal government.
 | Public meetings were held in all the | chief towns, at which the action of l congress was loudly denounced as op- pression to be battled against to the 1 very last extremity. The federal gov ernment was scoffed and it's coercive authority disavowed, and with the ] motto, ''Libetry and No Excise" the ! rebellion rolled on.
 I The tax collector was sent to the Pittsburgh district to carry out the | provisions of the law. Aware of his 1 business, party of men, armed and l disguised, waylaid him at a place on ] Pigeon Creek, in Washington county. seized, tarred and feathered him, cut off his hair and deprived him of his
 horse.
 Attempting to serve legal processes upon the perpetrators of this outrage,
 the marshars deputy was also seized
 whipped, tarred and feathered. He
 was finally rescued by his friends i There were many other outra ges.
 Accordingly, Washington issued his
 proclamation 3condemning the laWless
 acts, warned all those who would dis
 obey the laws and declared that they
 would be executed at any hazard. But
 hostility of the lawbreakers seemed to
 become more demonsuative. William
 Richmond, who had given information
 against some of the rioters, had his
 barn burned, and the same thing hap
 pened to Robert Shawan, a distiller ! who had been among the first to com
 ply with the law.
 The law-abiding inhabitants were
 dogged and pursued by disorderly per
 sons, their houses and distilleries broken into, property destroyed, ma
 chinery disabled and lives threatened When an attempt was made to oper
 offices in Westmoreland and Washing i ton, those so engaged were assaulted and finally Gen. John Neville was com , pelled to. make application by letter to the judges, generals of militia ant sheriffs of the counties for protection 1 Their reply was that the combina tior
 Of the people in that section was sC , general that they were powerless. Fi
 nally Neville called to his aid a de. 'tachment from the garrison at For