Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-12

The Rotary clubs weekly luncheon. and meeting was held Wednesday at the Norwich Golf club instead of at the wauregan house, having a good attend ance, although the- weather was un- promising for the golf matches that were scheduled for the afternoon. None of these could be played.
 President William c. Park presided at the business part of the meeting and Jc- seph C. Worth was song leader during the luncheon. Several members who have just returned from the Rangeley' Lakes provided a feature in their song Way Down in Maine.
 Rev. Howard Hyde Russell. D. D.. of Ohio, founder of the Anti-Saloon league and now general secretary of the Amer ican Bond, was introduced by Arthur M. | Brown, who was in charge of the latter part of the meeting.
 | Speaks American Bond.
 | Dr. Russell addressed the Rotarians | In the interest of the American Bond. the purpose of which he described and asked the men behind him to give their support to it's programme in stimulating and encouraging respect for law and or ! der in America. He spoke as follows: good natured old lady used to say she always noticed If she didn't die Tn the cold rigors of February. she always lived right straight along all the rest nf the year. By heredity a New England. CT, fn nearly half century of public life 1 have always noticed f a truth can live and win its way among cool-headed New England business men, 1t Is like ly to live on and grow and spread among all the rest of the people all the rest of the year. So I am delighted in this historic city, the first city to be visited by the first group of secretaries of the American Bond to submit its plans to men who stand for "Service"- to this splendid group of loyal Rotar- ian hearts and level Rotarian heads.
 The American Bond Is a patriotic en- lstment of loyal Americans to build thc necessary public sentiment to promot. and compel everywhere a true Ameri canism and loyalty to every law. Is this q needed movement?
 Etched in stone upon the courthouse at Worcester, Mass, you may read
 Obedience to Law Is Liberty" If thi.
 is true, our United States is now il civic slavery. It has been matter O
 common observance that our country for many years, has grawn more an, more lawless. Recent facts? The mas
 sacre by strikers at Herrin of tW,
 scores, of working men who were law
 fully at work, and no punishment thu far. The officers of the law themselVe unlawfully turned over the city of Bos
 ton to thugs and thieves. A depart ) ment of our national government itself for over two years, has broken tn Eighteenth Amendment and Volstea law and Uncle Sam has been properl, ' challenged by former brewer as "th
 worst of the bootleggers." It is good t
 be able to add that the general polic
 of the administration is sincerely to en
 force this law.
 Common observance of lawless con ditions has just now been officially con l hrmed. The American Bar Associatio 6 in 1921, did at least two good thing! l. The Judicial section passed and publish ,. ed its warning to the violators of tn f eighteenth amendment, especially per
 sons of influence in their eonmunitie
 that by that violation whatever tf
 pretext they are sowing dragons teetH l. and they need not be surprised whe 't they find that no Jurisdiction police al .@ thority can save our country ca. human s. ty from reaping the harvest" Also, u association appointed a committee of fl, of leading jurists ard lawyers to invest
 gate the national conditions of erin
 and law enforcement. This committ " reported at the annual convention f
 1922 in August. Their findings are
 shameful indictment of us all as citizel ', of this democracy. They say: 'Tl U. criminal situation in the United State S' z so far as crimes of violence are co ~, cerned. is worse than in any other ci 70 ilized country. Here there is less T