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Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-06
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Baltimore continues to be city oi many large and costly fires.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-06

Rapid Transit to Paris Beefsteak.
 Within ten days cattle grazing in Iowa fields were beefstesk in Paris And the price mounted with equal record.-Pitts- burgh Gazette-Times.
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Today's Anniversaries

l747-John Paul Jones, the most famous American naval officer in the Rev olution, born fin Scotland. Died in Paris, July IS, 1792. l7S5-Congress established the standard of the American dollar. 1S31-Sylvester PennoyeF, who served two terms as governor of Oregon. born at Groton, N Y Died at Portland. Ore, May 30, 1902. 1SS5-John Marshall, for 2S years chief justice of the United States, died in Philadelphia. Born at German town Va. Sept. 24, 1755. 1854-The republican rarty in Michi- gan was organized at Jackson. 1S9S-Marrfage of Prince George of
 Wales (King George V.) and Princess Victoria Mary of Teck lS94-Much railroad property burned by
 nlobs of strikers and their syn1pa-
 thizers in Chicago.
 191S-Moharnmed VT was proclatme5
 Sultan of Turkey.
 Rush For Something Free. The average man spends most of hi. money in trying to get something fo1 nothing.-Doorway to Light.
 If life hands you a lemon, be glad i wasn't hard boiled egg without salt.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-06
About Husbands and Wives.

Some husbands and wives get along better together when separated.-Door- way to Light.
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Rush For Something Free.

If life hands you a lemon, be glad it wasn't hard boiled egg without salt
The New York herald., 1922-03-12

already said, he was sent to the peniten-
tiary for six months.
There was no law against the shipping
Of firearms, except where a special en-
barge existed There was none against the
shipment of weapons to either Santo
Domingo or Haiti at the time But the
law was explicit in forbidding the ship
ment of explosives unless 1t was clearly
labeled explosives. Technically, as have
indicated, Giordani was immune from ar
rest for the attempted shipping OF the
dynamite and INT. but the manufac-
turers marked tie munitions barrels
Cement and we caused their arrest
They paid fine of $4,000.
1t seems that Giordani or some one as
vitally interested in getting the shipment
to Santo Domingo had cabled the insur-
rectos that the Greacia and her important
cargo would arrive at Gonaives, Haiti, on
a certain date. They received no subse-
quent cablegram informing them that the
Greacia would arrive but without the arms
and ammunition.
Therefore confident that they were about
to receive sufficient war materials to fin
ish whatever they might start, the rebels
fell to the business Of turning over the
Government with tremendous will. The
Greacia arrived without the rifles and
explosive.
And another revolution vanished into
nothingness.
The New York herald., 1922-03-12
Carpenter Bee
Skillful at Task

A n interesting creature is the carpen-
~ ter bee, whose scientific name is
Xylocopa. This little animal pos.
sesses the ferocious look Of the bumblebee,
but, it seems, does not sting, as does that
b6tc noir Of the small boy in the country.
The carpenter bee bears a patch on its
forehead, whereby it may be distinguished
from the bumblebee. This creature has a
liking for paling fences and porches. Asa
general thing, IL begins its carpenterinc
work on the underside of bit of timber,
so that the rain cannot enter its house
when completed.
This industrious insect does not follow
the line Of least resistance which might
lead it to soft or decayed timbers. II in.
variably selects firm ioist and begins on
this to bore hole. The implements ara
of course, the capable Jaws of the bee. and
the job is a hard and tedious one. Most
of the work is done by the female bee ba.
cause the house Is built so that she NAV
have place to lay her eggs and hatch her
young.
When the hole has been dug 20 the prone,
depth and an egg is laid, she covers il with
wall OF mud or clay. Then she laws
another egg and partitions this or In
good time her labors are finished. Then
the heat Of summer matches out the little
bees and they dig their way to the outside.
The carpenter bee is said to be one or the
most remarkable examples of patience and
industry in the insect world. The only
fault is that she does not store honey.
The New York herald., 1922-03-12
Had New Currency Printed
To Finance New Government

We rather suspected that Giordani would
take the one way out, and he did. He de-
cided to have new currency for Santo
Domingo made He managed to convince
a well known bank note company that the
revolution would be success He salts
fed this corporation that the new Gov
ernment was due almost any minute and
the power Of his tongue is demonstrated
in the fact that this company turned out
for him no less than 81 100000 in magnifi-
cent bank notes.-the new currency of
Santo Domingo. Half of this sum was
sent to Santo Domingo to pay the rebel
troops, thus saving the day, because the
lads behind Jiminez and Morales we're get
ting bit disgusted, and, worse, hungry.
One day after the warriors were paid off
the revolution collapsed--that is this par
ticular phase OF the revolution. Another
sprang up at once, but this number on the
long program came to an end and the
beautiful bank notes that our friend Gior-
dani negotiated were used to kindle a fire
that razed a whole town.
The rest OF the bank notes we're stored
by Giordani in a warehouse over near the
North River. Giordani. being left fiat with
$3.50. 900 worth OF utterly useless and non
negotiable bank notes, took job Of some
sort with an exporting and importing con.
Germ, and I believe. made himself valu-
able man. 1t is not unlikely that he would
have made much money in perfectly
legitimate way He was, as | have indi-
Gated intelligent and well educated. His
experience was broad.
4 But his was an adventurous spirit.
Money, IL made in humdrum manner.
meant nothing to Giordani. He loved ex-
citement more. | think he would rather
have taken chance OF getting dollar
than have had the dollar thrust into his
hand without effort on his part. His kind
are like that. The breed seems to have
vanished.
The New York herald., 1922-03-12
Regular Consul General Here
Kept Right on Doing Busines,

Wos Gil's own Consul-General in New
York, Manuel de j. Calvin, was occupying
the Office and naturally enough he wasn't
resignng until he had to. Particularly
was he insistent upon remaining so long
as his chief clung to Office. But the per-
sonal differences of Giordani and Calvin
were least in Importance in the ensuing
tangle.
Here were two Consuls-General for
Santo Domingo. Each claimed official
sanction. Calvin had something the bet
ter of Il, inasmuch as he possessed the
official stamps and seals, and was already
known to exporters as the Consul-General.
Nevertheless, exporters. forced by circum-
stances to be students OF Central and South
American politics, were quite willing to
abandon Calvin for Giordani provided they
were more assured that Wos y Gil had
been unhorsed by the firm OF Jiminez &
Morales. News dispatches were vague.
The few newspaper correspondents in
Santo Domingo at the time had TO write
guardedly. They had no appetite for mill
tary prisons and worse
For while Il looked as though the ac-
tual fighting of this particular revolution
might just as well be staged here In New
York. There was Giordani with his friends
and his coterie of exporters and shippers.
Opposed was Calvin with an equal follow
The New York herald., 1922-03-12
Didn't Know Politics of 1t.
But Knew 1t Was a Fight

Within month after the collapse of the
revolution | mention above another upris-
ing came to pass. | do not. know who
touched this one off nor why. IL starved
to death like its immediate predecessor.
but not before Giordani embraced its cause
and almost shipped the revolutionists 1000
rifles and 100000 rounds of ammunition.
1t seems to me that Giordani must have
been wholly ignorant concerning the in.
side politics Of this particular revolt. but
The New York herald., 1922-03-12

ing. Presently committees OF business
men went to Washington and besought the
President to take a hand in the matter.
The President turned it over to the State
Department and the result was that Calvin
was recognized as the rightful representa-
tive of the only known Government in
Santo Domingo.
Giordani left skulking in his tent, had
to do business unoficially. Santo' Domingo
was all but bankrupt. The existing Gov
ernment was fundless, and, inasmuch as
the revolutionists had not had their oppor-
tunity at the public treasury, they lacked
money. few hardy spectators took
chances on the loyal forces and gave credit.
But no one was quite reckless enough to
sell anything 90 Jiminez and Morales on
such terms.
The New York herald., 1922-03-12
Jose ST. Pierre GiordaDi, Man
Who Really Loved an Intrigue

Somewhat Of a compromise between the
two fascinating types / have Just described
was Jose st. Pierre Giordani. gentleman
of charming manner and commanding ap-
pearance, who used to take keen interest
in the internal dissensions OF Haiti and
Santo Domingo. In fact, / am forced to
The New York herald., 1922-03-12
Romance of Arms Smuggling by
Means Dead, as the Case
st. Pierre GiOrdani and His Ac
In Haiti and Santo Domingo
Plainly Proved Broad Scope
of Lam That Finally
Thwarted His Vaccinations


active in fomenting political strife on that
temperamental island simply because he
loved the ensuing intrigue.
l should not classify Giordani as a
criminal by any means. We did have to
send him to Jail for six months, but that
was for causing money to be made for the
revolutionists in Santo Domingo and
had the revolution been successful the
money he had manufactured would have
been The official legal tender of his Gov
ernment
1t. so happens that the United States
Secret Service had reason to send couple
of us to Haiti and Santo Domingo year
or so before came across Giordani With
OUT taking chances with the tricks memory
might play by trying to review the brawl
that was on when I arrived in Santo
Domingo for the first time, confine my.
self to the statement that it was a part OF
the internecine strife incident to the
Jiminez- Morales revolt against Wos Gil,
then President of the little republic.
Although I did not meet him, l heard
often the name of Jose st. Pierre Giordani
and came to understand that he stood
behind the forces of Jiminez and Morales,
somewhere like nervous producer at the
opening night of an expensive musical
comedy
Giordani might have been regarded as
P1, xlok
as producer He was tremendously busy
finding the necessary ammunition and
arms to keep his side going, and even
buster raising the money with which to
purchase said munitions. In brief, he had
the meanest job on the Jiminez-Morales
side; the hardest working patriot ever
knew of.
He was a Corsican by birth and ap-
parently an adventurer by avocation. His
hero was of course his famous fellow
cotntryman who all but established him
self dictator of all Europe. Due in no
small measure to the tremendous energy
of Giordani, Jiminez and Morales almost
routed Wos Gill; They won a succession
of important victories. and such was the
situation that it was a good bit of ques-
Wos y Gil managed to maintain finger
touch with the existing governmental ma
chinery, but his two enemies appeared to
have the upper hand. They had yet to
take over the actual Government houses,
but so certain were they of accomplishing
this minor detail that they sent my friend
Giordani to New York with neatly signed
documents announcing him as their busi-
ness agent and the new Consul-General for
Santo Domingo.
Giordani arrived in New York and COM
plications greeted him. He discovered
that his enthusiasm had victimized him.
He was bit precipitate. so to speak. He
neglected to give proper thought to the
fact that Wos Gil had not yet been pried
loose from his Presidential chair. and OF
course it was not within his power to fore
see that Wos Gil wasn't going to be at
that time.
The New York herald., 1922-03-12
CASE VIII.
BY WILLIAM J. FLYNN,
Former Chief of United States Secret
Service.

VERY so often we are told by some
r. one more or less an authority on
such abstract wisdom that the
world is growing better or that the world
is growing worse. 1t is general state
ment always. not specifying in what de-
partment we are better or worse, and
usually it opens up fruitless discussion
while the world rolls on in obedience to
the rules of evolution.
Those who tell US we are decaying are
dismayed when obstinate humanity takes
an immediate turn for the better and
eschews wars and lesser evils for most
encouraging period. And the aggressive
optimist is dumfounded an hour later by
observing the rise of class riots san
culinary rebellions and revolutions, and
large red crime waves.
The sum total of our learning, therefore.
from such discussions is that we would
save much valuable time if we devoted
our own energies to doing the best we can
at whatever we may have to do and permit
the world to proceed in its charted course
without any attempt at direction or cor
rection from our individual selves.
Despite all this, I'd like to contribute to
the aforesaid fruitless discussion. my own
viewpoint. Whether we are morally
sounder than we were fifty years ago de-
pends upon your definition of morals. Ger
tainly we are less spectacular than we
WERE We seem to have calmed down in
favor of efficiency. Standardization has
enveloped us. There may be just as much
crime to-day as there ever was-maybe
more-but 1t is of less fanciful, less
romantic. nature.
The New York herald., 1922-03-12

that made no difference to Giordani. 1t
was a revolt and that was enough One
took ones revolts where one found them.
1t was no time to pick and choose. Here
was an opportunity to get involved in
nice public fight.
1t did not require great deal OF wait
ing to discover that Giordani had fallen
for the lure of another revolution. We
discovered that firm called Merriam
Co. had entered into negotiations with the
Hamburg-American Line, with the object
of shipping sixteen cases or structural iron
to Haiti. That intelligence seemed to fit
in with another bit of information to the
effect that Giordani had been correspond
Domingo frontier in Haiti.
1t was Giordani's desire that these parcels
of structural iron should leave New York
on the steamship Greacia within week
after we had learned Of his latest effort to
engage in the Antilles trade.
Quite naturally we looked up Merriam
Co. There was no such concern in New
York, and, so far as we were able to learn,
there was no such concern anywhere 1t
required nothing remotely akin to genius
to conclude that Merriam G Co. was Jose
st. Pierre Giordani. We looked up Gior-
dani.
He was magnificent Were we not some
what presumptuous? Did we not do him
a great injustice? Were we ready to pro-
duce evidence to support our pfesuhp-
tions?
We were not.
: We were bowed out OF the Giordani
offices thoroughly defeated and the gentle
man had the grace to inform us that he
would be very, very glad to be Of any as
sistance to us inasmuch as it was so OBJ
vious that we required much assistance.
Found Barrels and Cases on Pier,
But Giordani Was on Guard
Nevertheless we stuck to our theory and
learned that the structural iron was to be
delivered to the Atlas Line piers, on the
North River front, along with thirty-one
barrels OF cement. Several OF US, armed
with hammers and augers, met the boxes
and barrels at the pier the afternoon they
OF sight for while and were rewarded by
beholding Giordani arrive and take per-
sonal charge Of the guarding OF the boxes
and barrels.
There we waited watching the boxes
and barrels from behind other boxes and
barrels, while Giordani. seated upon the
stun, smoked cigarettes and read a news
paper. 1t was rather ridiculous, to be sure,
but il seemed the only thing to do. AS far
as we knew, those boxes and barrels did
contain cement and iron. IL was clearly
up to us 10 have facts. But there sat Gior-
dani until o'clock at night. | wondered
whether he knew we we're watching. IL
he did he must have enjoyed It,
Presently two heavyweight Latins, who
looked like willing and vigorous wrestlers,
appeared. and Giordani, after instructing
them at length, left them to maintain
guard We we're up againstsa mean propo-
sition. We would make fools of ourselves,
besides incurring damage suits, IL we were
to try to inspect those boxes and barrels
by force. Besides those two bruisers
looked like capable rough'and-tumble ar.
The New York herald., 1922-03-12
Where's the Bold Smuggler
And FooIhardy Filibuster

For instance, what has become of the
old fashioned smuggler? Was he not pos
sessed Of greater appeal to the imagina-
tion than the. customs dodger of to-day?
And the booze smuggler is a roughneck
rowdy generally-nothing more He's not
a smuggler at heart; he doesn't love his
art. All he's looking for is quick financial
returns when he will resume his wonted
air of respectability.
And what has become of the profess
sional revolutionist and his cousin, the
filibuster?
Shades of Dynamite Johnny O'Brien!
There my dear readers, was man for
you. Lawbreakers they were, to be sure,
but almost forgivable ones. They loaded
their secret craft with dynamite and gun
cotton, pistols and cannon, and, taking
their lives between thumb and forefnger
set forth to dodge warships and armed
patrols and place within the hands OF
whispering revolutionists the power to
blast unwanted presidents and kings from
their palaces.
Your average Central and South Ameri-
can revolutionist was one Of two things:
either he was a mad Chauvinist, boiling
over with patriotic fervor and ready to
face the firing squad (Which they so often
had to do) with smile, or he was just an
ambitious politician who nurtursd desire
to be boss. He was courageous resource
ful. tricky and wholly unscrupulous.
His cousin. the ilibuster, however, was
% per cent. adventurer and ! per cent.
business man. | have known him to un-
dertake job of running blockades with
contraband in a ship ready to founder:
when the chances were a thousand to one
against his coming out alive and when he
knew that the revolutionists to whom he
was to deliver the war material would
have no compunctions whatever in cutting
his throat in order to avoid footing the bill.
More often than not he received no
money in advance. He was for the most
part a daring soldier of fortune, who was
about the only real 'citizen OF the world
have ever met
The New York herald., 1922-03-12
Giordani Escapes One Net
But Shipment Was Held Up

Our next move was to catch Giordani
making a false declaration. 1t was neces-
sary, | might explain, that we discover
him trying to obtain from the customs
officials the necessary shipment papers on
false affidavit. More or less confident of
success, we waited for him to appear at the
Custom House. He was keen. He scented
trouble the moment he observed that he
was being subjected to more than the
perfunctory questioning. And the moment
he became suspicious he shut up.
He disavowed this and circumvented
that He saw traps before they were laid.
In brief, he was cleverer than we and at
once retired to a defensive position, from
which we were wholly unable to dislodge
him. There was nothing for us to do ex.
cept forbid the shipment OF the consign.
ment.
Did that feaze Giordani? Not at all. lie
merely shrugged his shoulders. He was
desolate, to be sure, and further grieved
because the great Government of the
United States should see ft to interpret
his best intentions to be evilly conceived.
He caught a CLEAN OF light. however, in
the fattery we paid him. Here was Jose
st. Pierre Giordani perturbing the mind
of America.
Technically Giordani had violated none
of our laws. There was no basis for war
rant for his arrest There remained but
one thing to do--to watch him and his
possible attempt at making use OF the bank
notes he caused to be engraved for
Jiminez and Morales. These notes had
been stored in West Side warehouse and
we placed a guard over them.
We hadn't long to wait. A few weeks
later Giordani took one OF the boxes con.
tanning the stuff and prepared to ship II to
Santo Domingo. We arrested him. explain.
Ing to him the law that makes II illegal
to counterfeit or otherwise initiate the
currency Of friendly nation. As l have
The New York herald., 1922-03-12

lists and it would be foolish waste OF
energy to engage them for nothing
But one of the Secret Service operatives
became possessed of a idea, more or less
brilliant, but wholly effective. He and an
other man would sneak down to the river
end of the pier and put up fake fight.
And suddenly this fight would be inter
rupted by loud cries for help and shouts of
MAN overheard! Man overboard!"
1t worked nicely. Giordani's big boys.
hearing the disturbance. left their posts.
1t was 10 o'clock at night and they were
rather tired of occupying one spot Here
was chance for bit of excitement. They
arrived at the water end of the pier to be
engaged in beautiful fight that kept them
occupied for more than fifteen minutes.
We had 1t arranged so that there would
be no interference, and we, in turn, had
given the New York police our word that
we would not seriously injure the guards.
We had picked out two tough lads, who
were capable of giving Giordani's boys
nice lively quarter-hour and our men saw
to 1t that we had full twenty minutes to
work in. With our augers we discovered
that the boxes contained the 1000 rifles I
had mentioned. In the barrels marked
cement" we found cartridges and dyna-
mite
The Lamar register., 1922-06-07
Political Sabotage.

The affairs of the oil industry are
again being aired before the public.
AS usual the agitation is of political
character.
A slight increase in the price of gas
oline in some sections of the country
offers an immediate opening for no
toriety seeking politicians to avail
themselves of by demanding investi-
cations.
So-called independent" oil com
panies are criticising and attacking
the administration in its policy of
leasing naval oil reserves in Califor-
mia and Wyoming. The same old
thunder" is being used that crippled
oil development for many years in
western states.
Those attacking our national oil pol
icy would make it appear that increas-
ing oil production is a crime. We had
one gasoline shortage in 1920 as re-
suit of political interference with the
logical development of our oil re-
sources.
The instigators of the present at
tack on western oil development would
have no regret at creating shortage,
if during the interim, they could make
political capital.
Political sabotage against an indus
try should be placed in the same cate
CORY with actual physical sabotage
which entails severe punishment for
the offender.