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Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-05
Reeorer.ns rron Alder potsoninE

Mrs. Albert A. Guile of Kinney ave nue, was reported Tuesday to be as comfortable as could be expected, fol- lowing more than two weeks serious ill., hess which kept her confined to her bed, as the result of a bad case of external poisnaing rom alder. wfic she received while in Preston few eks ago.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-05
MISCELLANEOUS SHOWER GIVEN
 FOR MISS HAZEL FI4ETCHER

pretty miscellaneous shower was given for Miss Hazel Fletcher Wednes- day evening at Camp Waneta. the sum mer cottage of Capt. and Mrs. W R. Denison at Gardner Lake. About twen- ty-fve young people made the trip to the lake by auto bus and delightful evening was enjoyed.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-05

Mrs. R. T. Berens, who has passed her keventy-eighth birthday has recent ly won the archery ehampionship of
 England Her mark of sS bullseyes Gut
 Of a possible 100 has never been equaled
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-05
penle. nrotIon to E1pupr..

AppeIlees' motion to expunge has been denied by Judge Newell Jennings of the superior court in the case of .Leonie Balfe Cottrell ct al. vs. Charles P. Cottrell. ex- ecutor of the will of her husband, Edgar H. Cottrell.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-05
INCIDENTS IN SOCIETY

Mrs. James NJ Hess of AIadura. India, will be entertained while in Norwich by Mrs. W. Tyler olcott. Mrs. Hess is to address an open meeting of the missions department of Park church Friday after noon.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-05
Asks Teachers to Talk Tire Prevention

Asks Teachers to Talk Tire Prevention.
 A letter has been sent out by Super, intendent of Schools E. J. Graham to each of the principals and to all teach CTS of schools in the city, asking that they give talks to their pupils during the week on Fire Prevention. Compositions are to be written on the subject by pu- pills of the higher grades.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-05

Neither the Hon nor the tiger is equal in muscular power to the bear tribe, oi which the polar and the grizzly are the strongest
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-05
Fire Apparatus Steering Knuckle Broke.

Fire Apparatus Steering Knuckle Broke.
 The Pope Hartford chemical at the Main street station was laid up for a time Wednesday afternoon when the steering knuckle on the right front wheel broke The break occurred while the machine was out on a run and aid was secured to bring 1t back to the station house where repairs were made.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-05

Some real estate dealers waste a lot Of time in trying to make mountains out of molehills.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-05
DR. SWEET

will be in his office every Sat- uFday in the Central Building from 1 to 5 P. M. :
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-05

The stipulation referred to by Judge Jennings was made December 21, 1921, and provided that the father should have possession of the child from that date until March Is. 1922. except for the day after Christmas, 1921. From March 1s 1929 to June Is. 1922, 1t was to be with the mother and from the last date to the beginning of the school year. about Sep
 tember l, 1922, with the father, at which
 time new arrangements were to be agreed u2on.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
Suffering in the Coal Fields.

Elsewhere and conspicuously on
this page THE New YORK HERALD
prints today two kilograms, one
from an official OF the United Mine
Workers of America, the other from
a Pennsylvania mine operator, con-
cerning the causes Of the distress
which now exists among coal miners
OF central Pennsylvania.
This correspondence completely illu-
inmates the situation and 30 clearly
reveals the attitude OF union politi-
clan and operator that It requires
no exposition here.
The situation in the coal industry
Is exactly the same as the situation
in every industry in which labor
union politicians have attempted TO
force from employers extortionate
wages in a time Of diminishing de-
mand for their products.
The lamentable suffering in the
coal region is the consequence of
blind folly which tried with trade
union dictation to control business
readjustment.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
A Service Man Protests.
Trick Employed by Detected Grim
inals to Obtain Sympathy.

To THE New YORK HERALD Please
accept the thanks of one Of a body of
real Americans for your editorial article
entitled "a Dead Robbers Record"
The records show that the suspended
sentences are reaching an alarming
number. A man Is arrested for hold
UP, is let out on $500 bail and does
the Same trick again while he is watt
ing TO be tried. II IS very nearly time
that no bail should be allowed any
holdup man.
There is another matter I would Ike
to call to your attention. Any man who
gets in trouble these days cries Ser
vice man" II the police, the people
and the reporters would investigate they
would find in many cases that the ac-
cused was never in the army or the
navy. The mere fact that man wears
q bronze or silver service button does
not mean anything, as anybody can buy
all he wants for % cents each. Before
chasing these criminals as service men
why not make them show an honorable
discharge? This would help the man
who was really in the service.
A FORMER TANKER.
NEW YoRK, December 81.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

The visit OF ToscANINI with the So
called La Scala Orchestra and the
arrival of MENGELBERG to conduct
the National Symphony Orchestra,
now absorbed by the Philharmonic,
win without doubt be remembered
and discussed by thousands Of music
lovers who cannot recall a single
new composition in any of their pro-
grams. SO too in their recollections
OF opera these music lovers will talk
not of KoRNGoLD or even VERDI but
of JERTTZA and CHALIAPIN.
The only new things of the past
year which really aroused comment
were the forthgivings of the young
Italian school. and already the COM
positions of these brilliant impress
sionists are paling. What seemed ar
first to be substance has been recog-
nized as manner and In many in
stances mere mannerism. In the
final analysis, therefore, the salient
feature of 1921, so far as that year
concerns Americans, was the autumn
return Of the Germans and their art.
RICHARD STRAUSS easily proved him.
self to be still the foremost composer
in the world, while BACHAUs, ELY
NEY and others showed that German
efficiency was still a potent factor in
the domain of instrumental musical
performance.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
Music in 1921.

Without doubt the most important
incident in the history of the Metro
politan Opera House, and conse-
quently the most important incident
in the history OF music I'm 1921 in the
opinion of those who regard opera
as the supreme elevation of musical
art, was the death Of ENRICo CARUso.
1t disarranged the whole plan on
which the activities Of the house had
been carried forward for several
seasons.
AS regards new productions. the
fecord Of the year in music is singu.
larry barren. It's incidents when i'm
mediately present assumed a facti-
tious importance which in the per-
spective Of calm review fades into
insignifcance. No single great com
position stands forth as the new &C.
quaintance of the year. II brought
forth opera singers but not operas.
"Don Carlos" had been revived at
the Metropolitan just before the end
of 1920. Louise" and "Ernani"
found their way to its stage in 1921.
The distinguished novelties were
''The Polish Jew and "Ernani."
"Die w lkHre" was revived lately.
In Chicago opera pursued its un-
certain way, struggling with the
usual financial difficulties, and in its
search after artistic salvation throw.
ing the burden OF it's problems on the
beautiful shoulders Of Miss MARY
GARDEN. But OF far more influence
on the art Of music was the wide.
spread orchestral activity OF las,
year.
All orchestras visit New York from
time 20 time and in this city the
rumber OF orchestral concerts given
in the year 1921 was considerably
greater than ever before. Herd
aeain q was the person rather than
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
A Pinafore Revolutionist.

The English periodical Looking
Fortcdrd invites us to look upon
GILBERT, the jingling topsyturvydom
satirist, as the promoter OF a post
Victorian social revolution. 1t is
rather large demand and the publi-
cation tacitly admits II. Few have
thought" IL remarks, that the gray
gentleman with side whiskers and "a
little place at Harrow the barrister
J. p. and property owner, was any
thing but a supporter of things as
they are"
Few indeed, and we're the Bah
Baliadist alive il is very certain that
he would not be among the few. To
this also Looking Fortoard assents,
saying that to GILBERT himself. as
well as to others, his life appeared TO
be the embodiment OF comfortable
conservatism. None the less the as
sertion is made that GILBERT. con-
sciously or unconsciously, was revo-
utionist and that che did more to cut
away the props of the old world, to
prepare the unthinking masses for
the change, than any who deliber-
ately preached against established
order"
In support of this thesis the mag
azine cites chapter and verse from
many Of the Gilbert and Sullivan IL
brettos. In "Iolanthe' he bitingly rid
icules the solemn ponderosities, and
worse. of the legal profession. Then
came the turn OF political offlce ap-
uointees with Sir Joseph Porter, X.
q r., beginning his qualifications for
rulership Of the navy by polishing
up the handle OF the big front door"
In Patience" the military are hit
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
Distress in the Coal Fields
Illuminating Correspondence Between Miners Union
Official and an Operator

Copy OF telegram from John Brophy. prest-
dent District No. ., United Mine WORKERS.
of America, to Il. Fl. Watkins, president
Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Corporation,
Cresso., Pa, dated CEearfield, Pa, Decen-
Der II, 1921.
In spite of the fact that your company
are signatories to q contract which has
until March 81, 1922. to run. for the last
several months you have been making
veiled and open attempts to bring about
the breaking OF the contract Your
agents are now openly working to induce
miners to sign papers requesting a re-
turn to the 1917 rates, a clear evidence
Of bad faith and an unwillingness to
carry out your contractual obligations.
You must know that reducing wages
is not the solution for the present stag
nation of business. Slack work is not
local condition. 1t is nationwide, and
union and non-union fields alike are af-
fected A lower wage in union fields IL
not going to create a demand for coal !;
it will only force still further reduc-
tion in the non-union fields and wages
and living conditions to still lower
level.
Your bad faith Is further evidenced
by the action of your company and
others in arranging to shut down certain
mines at the holiday season in an effort
to break the spirit of the miners and
induce them to accept work at lower
rates and on a non-union basis. And
now at Amsbry, Pa, you have served Ave
days ev.ot1on notices on five families
whose only orrense Is that the bread
winners are local officers In the miners
union and resist your efforts to force
them to accept lower wages.
With winter upon us, with no other
on available, during the Christmas
v2- N d five days eviction notice Is
nothing short of inhuman. The United
Mine Wor.ers insist on your complying
with the provisions of the joint agree
ment and upon fair treatment of em-
ployees. II argument will not prevail.
we shall use every means in our power
to compel your observance OF your obli-
cations under the contract. We await
your answer. JOHN BRoPHY.
Copy Of reply to the ooove telegram sent
TO President Brophy bv It. II. Wdt'eins,
dated December 10. 1921.
tive to our policies would not warrant
reply If it was not so evidently an
other attempt on your part to fasten
your unions absurd and pauperizing
wage policy on the workers of this dis
trict.
You are now seeking an opportunity
to appeal through prejudice and fear
since you have no longer an appeal to
reason. The responsibility for the ter
rible situation into which District No. 2
has been drawn is being placed by all
thinking men where 1t belongs, and that
is on the ignorant and stubborn policies
of the district and the national offlcis Is
of the United Mine Workers OF America.
You had notice nine months ago from
me and my associates of the depths OF
misery into which you could drag CEN
tral Pennsylvania unless you met us and
made n reasonable modification of our
present wage scale. Instead OF meeting
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
SUNDAY. JANUARY /, 1922.
New Years Day.

or course Nature herself would
never have consented to having a new
year begin in the heart OF winter.
1t is inconsistent with all her meth
DDS. The new year in the natural
world starts in spring with the an
nual recrudescence of the things that
grow: and some of the ancient Chris
tians took Easter Sunday as the be-
ginning OF the year.
For all that this is the best season
for New Years Day, and we can be
thankful to JULIUS CESAR for put
ting it where it is. The mind of a
man is not a plant that should lie
dormant all winter; and in this time
OF cold. of short days, of general
wishing for the return of spring,
something is needed to keep the
modern human from letting himself
slump back to the hibernating habits
OF the cave man.
to the first of May it would be cele-
brated in a religious way, but there
would be no other stimulus. The
physical world would be on the move
and no man would say that he was
about to do better, for he would al
ready be doing what he considered
his best. But now, when all mate
rial things in this part Of the earth
are in the grip of winter, man finds
IL q pleasure to show himself that
he can produce springtime in his
brain by the mere exercise of senti-
ment and will.
And so we have the making Of
good resolutions and the casting up
of accounts. We put the disagree
1 able part of the past into the dustbin
and vow that it never shall happen
again. We select the best of the past
and say that this year it will be i'm
proved. The cynics sneer at good
resolutions and say they are never
kept, but the world knows better.
Every voluntary good act is the re-
suit of a good resolution made an in
stant, day, month or years before
its performance.
Good resolutions are the very vital
force that in the last few weeks in
Washington has compelled the light
ening Of largo part of the burden
OF war. Good resolutions are the
keystones of peace and prosperity
and happiness. And when we sit
down on New Years Day and make
new good resolutions It is not be-
cause we are devoid Of the old ones
but because the progress OF the race
demands, more and more each year,
higher power in the moral engine.
Happy New Year-and speed up!
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
Warning to the Charitable.
Demand Credentials From Solicitors
for Russian Relief.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Will yoa
kindly give this letter publicity through
your columns. as 1t concerns your read
ers very much and may prevent the mis-
appropriation of much material and
money that should go to the relief OF
the starving Russians?
Readers are urged to give no money
or material to unauthorized representa-
tives or to persons who cannot give
legitimate receipt. Any activities that
are being run under the name OF the
Friends of Soviet Russia must be ap-
proved in writing by the local secretary.
An enormous number OF clothing
pledges have been received By this or
ganization. Contributors are asked to
hold bundles for the next week or two
They will be collected as fast as the
trucks can be sent out.
BERT MILLER,
Local Secretary Friends Of Soviet Russia.
New York, December 81.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

military ignoramuses to high com
mands, practice which in the Boer
war and even in the world war Eng.
land had cause to regret. The Gilber-
tian Major-G General sings:
when I know what progress has
been made in modern gunnery.
When I know more OF tactics than
novice in a nunnery.
In short, when I've a smattering Of
elemental strategy,
You'll say better Major-Gen-
eralH--&c.
In "The Sorcerer," in "The Mikado"
and in "The Gondoliers" GILBERT
SHES stone at those favorite tar
gets for his ridicule, pride Of birth,
dukes and the wholesale distribution
of titular honors. Here we have
Aline SGngasure in the 7,037th di.
rect descent from HELEN Of Troy, and
Pooh Bah tracing his ancestry back
to "a primordial atomic globule." j"
And hitting at promiscuoIs distribu-
tion of honors, there is the picture of
an ideal state in which:
Lord Chancellors were cheap as
sprats.
And Bishops in their shovel hats
Were plentiful as tabby cats,
In point OF fact, too many;
Ambassadors cropped UP like hay,
Prime Ministers and such as they
Grew like asparagus IN May,
And Dukes were three a penny"
1t is wholly conceivable that the
stinging Gilbertian satire, carried on
the wings of SUILIvAN's fascinating
music, may have done something to-
ward impregnating the British at
mosphere with what Sir Leicester
Dedlock would have regarded as dis
tinctly Wat Tyler opening Of the
fioodgates of social dissolution. But,
granting that the Gilbertian ridicule
did help in topping over that SNUG
Victorian priggery which DICKENS
had undermined, the gap between
that feat and working social revo-
luton is wide one. II, indeed,
there has been such revolution in
England. surely it is the great war,
far more than all of ,GILBERT's shafts,
barbed with keen wit as they were,
that has wrought it.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
Again the Three HIS.
Mr.. Hoover Repeating at Washing.
ton His College Experience.

To THE New York HERALD: Twenty
seven and twenty-elght years ago. when
we were students together at Stanford
University. the non-fraternity element
In campus politics was led by the three
Hs--Hinsdaie, Hoover, Hicks. Hins-
dale, now q lawyer at Sacramento, Cal,
was president OF the student body +:
Hoover, now Secretary of Commerce in
Washington, was the student body treas
urer; Hicks, now a lawyer at Rock
field. H., was football manager.
II 10 an interesting literal coincidence
that to-day at Washington three not
inconspicuous Cabinet members are the
three lis again--Hughes, Secretary of
State: Hoover, Secretary OF Commerce (;
Hays, Postmaster-Ge Hoover again
sandwiched between two lawyers
In the old Undergraduate days Hoover
never had much use for the fraternal or
social element. In little more than a
decade after his graduation he gave
$4,000 cash toward founding on the
Stanford campus building TO he used
as common meeting place for un-
classified alumni and undergraduates.
and nine years ago he was elected one
of the fifteen trustees of Stanford and
last year he gave his alma mater a COL
lection OF wartime documents from
many European countries altogether
easily valued at $4,000.
ARCHIE RICE.
Nvv YoRR. December 81.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
A Great Ballad Singer.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Dave
wambold was great as ballad singer.
He did not depend on the usual songs
that are popular for a time only. His
voice was so taking with his audiences
that requests were often made for special
songs. Usually the requests were for
old time sentimental songs. have
heard him sing by request Comm
Through the Rye" Five O'Clock I'm the
Morning and "The Lass That Loved
Sailor"
/ have not heard another singer
liked as we'll as him. once heard
Brignoli with an opera company in To-
ronto. and I also heard Pol Plancon
there. II I had a chance now 70 choose
among the same singers I would choose
Wambold, and would listen to Plancon
before either Edouard dc Reszke tho
Pole or Charles Santiey the English
man, both OF whom have heard, Santley
at Covent Garden. London, and DE
Reszke at tho Metropolitan. New York.
The best female voice 1 ever heard was
that of Etelka Gerster.
saw Lillian Russell when she was
young and at Pastors Broadway house.
] thought her pretty. that's about all.
JOHN DUNBAR.
PERTH AMDoT, ". J., December 81.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
Harbor Ice.

The harbor shores appear as sullen leas
From which the ice fields stretch to
distance gray;
The channels churned by craft from
polar seas,
Who creep. ice covered, through the
lower bay.
Far of faint exhaust marks luclSless
ship.
Held by the fey fctters OF the tide ];
Untiring tugs essay to break the grip.
With straining hawsers over stern and
side.
We hear the lonely calling of the crows,
Der deep midchannel where the foes
drift down;
Then wheels the wintry day 10 Its swift
close.
And dusk starred by the far lights or
the town.
THOMAS J. MURRAY.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
Gravestone Philosophy.
The Boston Epitaph Matched by One
I'm Berks County, Pennsylvania.

To THE New York HERALD: The
goston epltaph described by &c. +. H."
recalls that n similar epitaph or the
date or 1881 is to be found in n private
burial ground in Obey township, Berks
county. nine miles east OF the city OF
Reading, in the country eettled by the
I.,ncolns. who came from New England.
and within one mile Of the birthplace OF
Daniel Boone, the Kentucky pioneer, who
was horn I'm Exeter township, Berks
county. adjoining Obey. October 22,
17a3. This epltaph reads as follows:
s,op. stranger, as you pass by.
AS YOU are now, so once was l.
"A am now, so you must be-
prenare FOR death, and follow me.
IL IN strange that tho same thought
that struck the Harvard student should
have actuated the stroller who came
across the epitaph in this lonely oley
graveyard. for beneath it some years
ago were scrawled the lines:
To follow you I'll not consent;
Until know which way you went.
T, will be observed that the lines
added 20 each epitaph are almost identi-
cal. those OF tnc BDSlon BihNS iNoNi5
To follow you I'm not content
Until I know which way you went
The Boston epitaph is also somewhat
different from that OF the seventy-year-
old couplet on the sandstone marker In
the Obey graveyard, the last two lines
reading, according to your Jersey City
correspondent:
As am now 90 you must be;
So be content and follow me.
The graveyard in Obey township, like
many others not in charge Of regular
caretakers, is in a neglected and dilapi-
dated condition, overrun with weeds,
sumac and poison ivy. The graves are
sunlsen and the markers slanting and
otherwise irregular and some OF them
broken. Years ago on many OF the
farms in eastern Pennsylvania we're to
be found private burial grounds, some
of which were later plowed under after
tho graves had been opened and the re-
mains dIsinterred and transferred e
regularly Kept cemeteries.
CYRUS 7. Fox,
Secretary Of the Historical Society Of
Berks County.
READING, Pa. December 80.