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Norwich, Friday, Sept. 28, 1917. CIRCULATION 1901, average 4,412 1905, average September 22, 1917 9,471 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all mews credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper. and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved.
THE REPUBLICAN TICKET 5e-ectmen" CASPER K. BAILEY CHARLES P. BUSHXELLr Board of Assessors' JOSEPH C. MARSAN Board of Relief FRED G. PROTHERO JAMES C.
FITZPATRICK Town Clerk and "Treasurer CHARLES TIOLBROOK Tax Collector THOMAS A. ROBIXSOX Registrar of Voters TYLER Auditor DANIEL F. McXEIL Agents Town Deposit Fund WILLIAM H. ALLEN CHARLES W. GALE FRANK L.
WOODARD Town School Board ROBERT W. McNEELY HERBERT M. LEROU Constables JOHN H. REEVES GEORGE W. ROUSE Gf STAVE LAMBERT FREDERICK DURR REELECT FAITHFUL SERVANTS.
In consideration of their duty at the town election next Monday, the voters should bear in mind that a good sound businesslike conduct of the town affairs ought to carry much greater weight than any prospects which others who are not familiar with the work can hold forth. It Is Veil to remember that a bird in "the fcand Is worth two in the bush. Under the present board of. selectmen, the interests of the tnxndvera have been well looked after. The requirements of all the departments have been carefully and efficiently Whatever surplus has resulted from an increase in the grand list has been wisely conserved and as the result there is now' in the treasury ready to be applied to the ensuing year's business over end when It is considered that there is a county tax to be Viet this year this is an item which is of much importarce.
Selectmen Bailey and Bushnell have given us an administration which ought to be continued, and it will be continued on the same basis of efficiency if they are reelected. There is also good reason for believing that the others on the republican ticket will be equally faithful in the handling of their duties. For the most part they are familiar with work, and experience, especially when it is of the successful kind, should not be overlooked. The republican ticket from top to bottom deservos to be elected. THE QUESTION OF EJELGM.
There of course cannot help being a certain amount of attention given to the report which comes by way of Berne to the effect that the kaiser would be willing to evacuate Belgium as a stepping stone in-view of the fact that there have-been previous feelers put forth, and it is believed that there is a growing sentiment both in Germany and Austria for the early ending of the war. But In connection with the willingness to give up Belgium, it is to be noticed that the kaiser would be willing to pay for only part of the damage that he has done there, and in addition for the great sacrifice which he would be making Germany would Insist upon the right to deve'on its economic enterprises freely in that country and especially in Antwerp, while the separation of the Flanders and Walloon districts wouffl have to be respected. Also Germany would insist upon- guarantees of Belgian neutrality. In view the fact that the present plight of Belgium is due to the -In-justified manner in which Germany has swept over it. causing desolation and misery from one end to Vthe other, It might as well be understood that Germany will be given no opportunity to exert anyvontrol over that country.
The offer, if it is ever made, will not be accepted. Belgium, must not only be evacuated by Germany but It must be, restored by that na-I uon ana as rar as tne guarantee; or neutrality Is concerned Germany is the one which must give pledges in that respect. COASTWISE With the shortage that prevails to day in. available merchant ships, and the utilisation of many yesseis which have been built for coastwise trade in the transatlantic it is time that attention was directed to bring ing about some relief for The com merce between American ports. This matter has had the attention of the congressional committee on merchant shipping which has deemed it advis able to recommend that the shipping laws of this country-be suspended during the period of war so-that other than vessels flying the American flag can engage in this coastwise trade.
It is, a recommendation which has been incorporated into the committee report and it has been necessitated by the existing state of affairs for if there were sufficient American vessels to take care of the business nothing of the kind would be thought of. But the situation is such that there are many foreign vessels calling at sev eral American ports which have the capacity to carry a certain amount of freight from one of these ports to others if permitted to. It would mean a saving of cargo space and a speed ing up of transportation. Again there are neutral Vessels which the owners will not send into the submarine zones but would, it they could, -ba glad to utilize in relieving the congestion on this side of the inasmuch as the time during which this service could continue would be limited, and the country wculd benefit therefrom whereas it cannot secure the service otherwise, it would appear to be a recommendation worthy of ROLLING BACK THE ENEMY. Every thrust which been made by the allied troops on 'the western front in' the past Jew months has invariably, resulted successfully.
This may be due to the fact that they have held strictly to the plan of doing what was contemplated and then 'stopping instead of pushing forth helter skelter without any definite plan except to piisi back the enemy advance has now been made in the Ypres region. The-Brit-ish are boring their "way solid "resistanice'-but "they -are going, ahead on" each attempt a'rrd at' 'the present time. In spite. counter 'attacks of the enemy, they are within-a" short distance of the railwav line: leading to I Ostend and the caast defenses lot the1 German army which not only- putsl them in possession of valuable territory but which if continued meanfi the rolling up-'of the right German "flank. This in keeping with" the "need which has long been recognized of lording rthe troops- of the kaiser- back away from." the 'Belgian coast, -that point which has been bf so much assistance in giving them easy access through airplanes, to the English coast and which has furnished them a handy base for the submarine operations.
The steady eating away it the German defenses is a slow process but there is the gratifying fact in connection therewitFT that it is succeeding. STEEL PRICES. Some slashing has been done in the fixing of the prices of steel plates, steel shapes and bars. The drop has been a big one but increase in the, strength of steel stocks makes it evident that with the- business on hand and the prices which are to be Ob tained that there will Ha rr Irmh about the profits. Because the large concerns, those which are operating on the most efficient basis, are well provided for in the way of securing their raw material at bottom prices, they are going to secure better results than the small ones, but that was always the case.
It simply demon strates the benefit that goes with ef ficiency. The drop in the price, however, is only what was needed. There was no justification for the exces sive prices that were being -ob- tained. It is not to be sUDDOsed that the big plants which are able to take advantage of 'their thoroughly systematized business should be allowed to rake in their enormous prof its just because smaller ones were calling for the high rates in order to overcome their Inefficient methods and their lack of a finely organized sys- em. The very fact that the new prices have been arrived at bv agree ment makes it certain that all the steel plants are going to do business and are going to make money.
The small ones may make less the large ones but there is no need to worry, they will all make enough even under the new schedule, while the re duction results to the benefit of the whole country. EDITORIAL NOTES. The man on the corner says: War preparations are in full swing in the where the Jelly doesn't jell- The action of the Universallst del egates at Montreal show that are made up of patriots and not pacifists. In spite of the assurance of its minister at Berlin, Argentina doesn't believe that implicit faith can be placed in German promises. I Von Tirpitz says Belgium now has its just deserts.
Pretty soon some one in Germany will be claiming that Belgium started the war. Street cleaning machines are being urged to save labor, but what appears to be needed Just now are machines that will mine coal. The secret service of this country has been making some hard drives at the kaiser's representatives and has lost no ground through, counter attacks. Theefull details of Germany's perfidy will shock the world, it is but if only a quarter has been told enough is known to carry conviction. From the slow, progress that" is being made with business before them, it is not surprising Jthat both of congress find trouble keeping a quorum.
Those who have not got Used to the fact that Wednesday and Thursday are the "wheatlesa" days remember that any other days will do just as well. When the government denies the report that five convoyed steamers have been sunkthere is no reason to suppose that is- any more truth tp the "other rumor that there were eight, HOME-READING COURSE FOR CITIZEN SOLDIERS (issued by theWar Department and all right te reprint reserved) -LESSON NO. S3 THE SPIRIT OF THE SERVICE (Preceding Lessons: 1. Your Post of Honor Z. Making uooa as a cornier a.
Nine Soldierly Qualities 4. Getting Ready for Camp 5. First. Days in Camo 8. Cleanliness in Camp 7, Your Health 8.
Marching and Care of Feet 9. Your 'Equipment and Arms 10. Recreation in Camp the Game 12. Teamwork in the Army 13. Grouping Men Into Teams 14.
The Team Leaders 15. Fighting Arms of. the Service 16. Staff Branches of the 17. Branches of the Service, II 18.
Army Insignia 19. The Army System of Training 20. Close Order Drill 21. Extended Order Drill 22. Guard Duty 28.
Getting Ahead in the Army 24. Army Courtesy 25. DIs cipline and Respect for the Colors 26. Some National Traditions.) The spirit that dominated the Amer ican Armies at Bunker Hill. New Orleans, Bmena Vista, Gettysburg, and Santiago, will just as surely dominate the National Army on the battle fields of Europe.
This sprit is a compound, it is made up in part of democratic feeling, inj part of respect and love ror tne rsation, and in part of Americanism. The UniteO States Army nas always been and will always remain a demo cratic army. Every man in the army is made to feel that his brains and his individuality count for something. It is not merely a big soulless machine that moves with mechanical precisian. It is a "team." Each man in the team is presumed to be intelligent and Bel-reliant.
Democracy In the Army. Of course there can be no teamwork without regularity and strict discipline. This is equally true of a football or baseball team. There must also be various ranks and degrees of authority. And sometimes this necessary organization and close regulation creates an impression that theT Army is not demo cratic.
But the fact of the case is that able discipline of the Army readily be-American soldiers accept the reason- cause they have the good sense to realize that these things are necessary. They accept them -wKiiout losing in the least their real independence as free" citizens. Furthermore. American armies are democratic because tne patn or promo tion is wide open. Any man who has a reasonable amount of ability can prac tice can study, can cultivate, the qual ities of a soldier and a leader, and can work his way up.
And this is the real test of a democratic army. In -a specitl sense the National Army is democratic. A great democracy must always carry on its affairs through chosen representatives. You are doubtless familiar with this prin ciple as it is applied in time of. peace.
Now it is applied in time of Through a process of fair selection the National Army has been picked to represent, all parts- of the country and all groups of the people. Never has American sent forth an army so" truly representative of the Nation. There are always pessimists in every generation who insist that pa- triotism "is dead Or at least decaying. They have not been lacking in recent years. Then comes a crisis such as now confronts us.
And always the question of patriotism is "answered by a free outpouring of effort, money and blood on the part of citizens, of all types in every section of the country. This is exactly what is nowgolng on and what will continue to go on with LETTER THE EDITOR Books for the Soldiers. Mr. "A million dollars for a million books for a million soldiers." Camp Library week Sept: 24-30. Leave your money at' the public library, or at 'any bank.
The above printed on a sheet of white paper 14 by. 21 inches, printed in red and and bordered with white, red blue, lies before me as write; and on my table lies a letter, and much printed matter call-ingfo'r money to carry out the 'Notwithstanding its attractive and general make-up, it makes, a very -unpleasant impression on my mind. It suggests greed and graft rather than genuine patriotism. "A million books for a million Who originated that scheme? Was it some patriot whose heart was Or was it some enterprizlng book' publisher, or. jobber who has a large stock of unsaleable books which he would be delighted to exchange for cash, a million dollars in cash just now.
The literature accompanying the "poster" abounds in great and small names, m7e and female; all of whom seem to be really insane in their intense desire for patriotic notriety. In view of what personally saw. of soldiers in the making, and later during the Civil war, he does not hesitate to say that soldiers as a clas3 are not "book readers." During their leisure hours they prefer conversation, story-telling, emoking, and "games" of different kinds. In fact he never saw a soldier reading a book, either in camp, when well, or in a hospital when convalescing. If our soldiers in the making, at the several national encampments, are given the- daily drill which they are entitled to.
they will not be in a good mood for reading books when they are tnrougn arm work. I have no doubt as to their apnre ciation of an' opportunity to glance over a good daily paper, if they can find one printed in the language spoken by their mothers. For be It remembered that very many of the men at our national training camps cannot read our English books, and papers. Hence all reading matter furnished for our soldiers at our training stations must be polyglot, to pe read, and useful. iwen it mere is a real need or a book library for each of our national training camps, there is no need of wasting a million dollars the heavily burdened people's money toM provide tnem.
There is a much easier, quicker, and better way to mee the demand. Let our and well sustained Y. M. C. loan, for a season, as many of their books a 3 may be needed.
They can all afford to lend their books for. as long as thev are likely to be needed, and at very low expense relatively. Any association that would refuse to do so gladly would not be likely to need anything on earth a great while. If this plan were adopted, very little money would be needed: th-? books loaned woild be returned promptly to the rightful owners when no longer needed. On the plan advocated in the circular, before me, the "million books, at dollar "each," would most 'likely, find their way to the "junk no longer needed.
The writer lives among hard-working, and by no means prosperous farmers. Like other farmers, they have lost heavily by the early frost of late. It is downright cruelty- to ask them to contribute at all for" the contemplated "million dollar library" called for by the circular before me. Westminster, Sept. 26, 191 r.
increasing force until the war is brought to a victorious end. Everybody Must Help. Every citizen ef the United States now or win save certain duties to perform, certain sacrifices to make. The burden does not rest wholly upon 'you -and other men who take up arms. It rests in part also upon the men ul women who stay behind.
For modern war on a Mc scale demands that the whole Nation, in a sense, should go to war. The tasks, required of some nay be harder thanthe tasks required of others all (of them are necessary In-order to makle sure of the result. Many manufacturers and workers often women as well as men must give up their own work and plans tn order to produce war supplies. Those who remain where they now are because they are engaged In some occupation just as necessary in war as in peace. Bach as farming, mining, running- railroads, and the like must jro at their work with redoubled energy and without expecting profits for them selves; it would oe a great mistaste if nryona were taken away from those necessary lines of effort in order to join the colors as a soldier.
All must carry a heavy burden of taxation. Certain men among whom you are one nave been or will be chosen as representatives tof the Nation to' defend our rights and Baftey on the battle field. You and your fellow soldiers are selected from the young men ef the country who are best fitted for military service. This process of organizing the whole Nation for war can not. of course, be complete in a day.
But it is steadily going on. It will necessarily go on until the end of the war. You will have back of you and supporting you the whole country all Its people and its wealth. Congress spoke the will of the Nation in the declaration of war: "To -bring the conflict to a suc cessful termination all the the re sources of the country, are hereby pledged. The Post of Highest Honor.
The patriotic spirit which, moves the whole country will find its highest ex pression in its soldiers the men who are assigned to the post of danger and of honor. They will go all the more willingly since they know that behind them the whole Nation is orgnaising for the national service. Their spirit will be one of patriotic devotion fully as intense as that of American monies 111 ftC(lVUO I The spirit of democracy and of patriotism is to be found also in the armfes of other nations fighting against German aggression. In addition the National Army will have its own spirit of Americanism. It will -have American enthusiasm, good humors fairness even to enemy, and self-confidence.
It will go at its work not half-hearedly but with a vim. If there are temporary setbacks it will accept them and keep on "plugging." These are some of the American traditions that will enter into the spirit pf the Na tional Fighting in that Spirit and with the full strength of the country to back it up. the United States Army ''can not fail to achieve its objects. "Once more we shall make good with our lives and fortunes the great faith to which we were born, and a new gloxy shall shine in the face of our people." CANNING Peaches, Apples, Pears and Quinces. For some weeks now there ought to be a liberal supply of peaches in the market, says today's bulletin of the National Emergency Food 'Garden Commission, co-operating witht this paper to conserve the nation's" food supply.
Ttie thrifty housewife should not long delay the canning of a generous supply of peaches for future use. There is nothing put in cans which comes so near being the aristocrat of canned gocds as peaches, and they make splendid fillers for "rush orders." Peaches should not be blanched or cold dipped. Pare and seed them and pack them immediately in containers. Then fill with boiling thin syrup, and screw vcovera on. lightly.
Sterilize 16 minutes in jiot water ram uuini, tighten covers, invert containers to cool and test for leakage, wrap in paper- and store. Hard fruits, such as apples. pears. quinces, should be blanched for ane and one-half minutes. Plunge them quickly into cold water, core, pit or remove skins as necessary, and put them up whole, quartered or sliced.
Fill the containers with boiling medium thin syrup. PuE cn sterilize 20 minutes in hot-water bath outfit, remove. tighten covers, invert to. cool and test, wrap in paper and store. Readers of THE BULLETIN By sending this coupon to the National Emergency Food Garden Commission, 210.
Maryland Bldg, Washington, b.c. with a two cent stamp to pay postage a canning aVid drying manual free of charge. All you have to do is fill out the space and enclose the two cejit stamp for postage. These are twelve page manuals, fully illustrated and are sent out in cooperation with this paper as a pari of the personal service we at alt time aim to give our readers. Name Street City i.sv State STORIES OF THE WAR Brought Nations Close Together.
(Correspondence of the Associated Press.) That three years of war have completely revolutionized the Frenchman's idea of the English character, and haee knit the two nations in a friendship which will last forever, was the opinion expressed by a great French war "correspondent in a letter written just before he died On the field of bat tie in France a' few weeks ago. The letter, written to a British officer whom the French correspondent bad known in peace times." has been giv en to The Associated Press for. pub lication, it says in Part: "Before the war. I tried to under stand the English so far as a man could, who does not care much for travel and Is content to study a people by its works. I had read those books which In France we believed to repre- sent tne best ofwhat modern England was writing.
Modern England to me was a very combre country. I saw it always In my mind with those gray, wet skies that we nsed to think (and la tha no doubt we we're wrong, too), as the habitual sky or England: For such akie Brockton Sample Shoe Store Just received 90 Cases of Men's, Women, and Children's Fall Shoes. Thebest makes and styles at reasonable prices. We have good Men's Dressy and Working Shoes. Come in and see us, you can save from $1.00 to $2.00 on a pair.
We Guarantpo Our Shoos 138 MAIN STREET GLEANED FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italy's poet-patriot, who has just rejoined the colours on recovering fropi wounds sue-tained in an aerial trip over Fola, is a man for whom death has no terrors. Years ago he prepared for it by build ing himself a tomb in the Apennines by the springs of the Pescara. The poet has twice been wounded in his country's service, but perhaps bs greatest work was done -When his fiery eloquence stirred his countrymen to the freeing of the Trentino. Austria recognized his part in bringing Italy into the war by offering 800 pounds for his capture. The number of prisoners, captured by the Italians in their' present fight ing passed the 30,000 a day or two ago, and every day records substan tial additions Tuesday's communique, ,000 yesterday's, 700.
While every body appreciates the extreme gallan try which they have displayed, we are not sure th'at everybody realizes tjiat their victory is the largest in scale wnicn any aniea army nas won during the present vear. The length of front along which they have been engaged exceeds that of any of our own battles, and aloes tha area of ground gained and the number cf pris oners. There is in London today a man. one of whose, ancestors was ostracised by early English setlers for marrying an' Indian s-irl. But in A Gravesend church lie the bones ot tne first Indian girl married to an Englishman.
She was honored greatly here and re ceived at court after she had crossed the ocean, for she was the lovely and heroic Princess Pocahontas. From her issue several notable Virginian fami lies have sprung. Their princess should be Mrs. Wilson, for. the wife of the American president is one of the descendants of the American 'royalty who sleeP3 in a Kentish chancel.
For a thrilling second or two, so runs the account of an eye-witness an English and' a German aeroplane "were silhouetted across the face of the moon." This observer is clearly able to make accurate estimates of time in moments c-f excitement, a rare accomplishment, as the records of sworn testimony prove. At a distance of 12,000 feet, an 80 foot-long Gotha seen broadside on, would just fair short of the apparent diameter of the lunar disc, and traveling at 7-0 miles an hour it would traverse the face of the moon In one second, Assum ing the British airman was- in close suited, the England that I knew. There were heavy storm clouds always low over the England where Mr. Hardy's tragic figure stepped, bravely enough to their doom; and an unbroken gray sky over that troubled, unhappy, mis manage England or Mr. wells.
1 knew that France was often unhappy, and often all astray, and yet I knew, too, that the old unconquerable Gallic was still in her people. But if you knew her only from the works of modern French writers, what would you think? What were you in Eng Mand thinking before the war? I ought to have suspected that not know England. Instead I wondered often where was the soul of the England that had been, that Shakespeare had written about and boasted of. His words of England showed passion al most too great for words. Were there no'V to write of her now, or was she unwortny? There werewiany in ranee thinking the same as I.
We distrusted all politics and Judged no people by what their public men said and did. And so the war came, and we won dered during those five days of sus pense what England would do. How should we know? We did not know her. I had only known her from books, and such knowledge did not seem to. promise much at such a crisis.
"And then your army came to France. I never remember to have met in any or the English boks any soldiers. I saw your armies. How your moaern writers nave misrepresented you! Or was it that you had suddenly changed? Here in the fields and towns of France I found Sot mod ern England as I knew her, but the England ef Elizabeth. "I have seen your army many places now, and it has been like a pageant of English ages and the old English books to me.
I have seen Sam TVeur in khaki and heard him talk, though I understood little of it: and one night in a village estaminet. smokey and ill-lit, where your men sat around with the French muck thick on them. I felt myself on one of Shakespeare's pwn taverns. And I have heard your soldiers' songs. "This it is that has astonished me In your soldiers, not their courtesy, not their kindness, though these have astonished many, but their great gaiety.
So that I hfjve always the curiVis feeling that it is we French, who have suffered much, who are now the staid dull peeple, and you English who have shown us those great Gallls "types that our writers Rostand, Daudet and the rest have loved. "I have seen English soldiers going down the street, waving to the wln 'dows, their green trench helmets, like an old musketeer's, stuck on with a Gascon swagger, great rollicking uncouth, types that would have unchant-d Rabelais. And these are the men: who have come to us from, that land of the gray skiea, that foK-dull, rain-sodden, sombre -respectable land that I though was England. My faith, how. iittte I knew Kerf" pursuit, it would only be a matter of "a thrilling second or two" for the two to pass right across the celestial searchlight, for Gothas waste no time When being hunted, and the nrnhahll- ny is mat Dotn machines were doing nearar 100 miles an hour than 70, which is a quiet arable for up-to-date niers.
ionaon Observer. One day. in the now ruined city of ipres, a British major and a sergeant stumbled upon an old printing press. Before the war called Mm the sergeant had been a printer, and instinct was to get the press to work. That achieved, something must' be printed, and so there was founded a iueer war Journal, the "Wipers Times," of which we are to have a fac-simile reprint in a-book just announced, is- It not, that men who were under- fire nlaht and day should find time- and inclination to produce a paper of high Spirits, for rhe "Wipers Times" was hign-eprVited.
Once a German 5.9 shell found the "printing works," but that only led to the getting of a better "plant." Some day a whole library will be written on the strange "half -devil and half-child" German psychology which begat Armageddon. There will be lights for it in a book bearing the ti tle, "Christine," which the Macmil-Iftns are to publish this week. Christine went to Germany to study music a few months before the war broke out, and the book consists of her let-ters'to her mother. "I am publishing the letters just as they came to me leaving out nothing," says her mother. Alice Cholmondeley," who mav only to her literary mother.
She leaves cut nothing because "we' have been stripped of our secrecies and our private hoards. We live in a greafrela-tlonship." It is an unusual book. London Times. We are nearing the four hundredth anniversary of the Mayflower's great emprise, for it was on Sept. 6th, in 1617.
that she sailed. Her pilgrims numbered five score and one, and 1-3 ago nearly 2,000 of their descendants were carefully traced. The old roll-call included curfous names: Remember Allerton, Wrestling Brewster. Humility Cooptr, Grackstone, Goodman. Desire Minter, Solomon Power, Digory, Priest, George Soul, Resolved White, and, of course.
Miles Standish. Like latter-day England they had a rope and a Billlngton, and their John of that ilk died If only we had retained thf tastes of our great-great-grandfathers, there might be golden opportunities for our wounded soldiers whose productions in needle and thread are being shown at the Economy Exhibition. During the first half of last century Sliss Lin- wood's needlewotk pictures, all of them copies of paintings by great masters, attracted large crowds to the rooms in Leicester-square where they were exhibited. And for one of them, a copy of Dolci's "Salvator Mundi." she refused an offer of 3,000 guineas. Another new war word.
For we presume we must accept the desertion of. the dockets fired to warn London as "pipsqueaks" as one that has come to stay. And it might be usefully employed in describing other experiences; as a superlative of "pip," for example. Many people have the pip," and a little more. By adding the suffix "squeak" many states of mind and temper might be accurately diagnosed.
As Pope says: "The sound is made an echo to the sense." The inquest on an airman who fainted on attaining an altitude of 18,000 feet Is a reminder that avia tors have to get their "air heads," justj as seamen nave to get tneir sea legs." The pressure of the atmosphere decreases in geometrical progression as the height Increases with arithmetical progression, and at the heights aeroplanes now attain, the reduced pressure is very considerable. At Bea level the normal pressure ot th air is about 15 pounds to the eouare inch wtth-the barometer at 30 inches the pressure is 14.76 pounds per square Inch and at- 10.000 feet it is only two- thirds of normal, the barometer then falling to 20.4 inches, compared withl zi.lz inches (a seduction of rather under 2 pounds per square inch), the lowest the barometer has ever stood at on the earth's surface. At 1,000 feet, the height at which the airman concerned lost consciousness, the barometer would have fallen to 16.3 and the pressure per square inch have decreased to onlv 1-fi Bounds. Tha London Chronicle. If tea is really to be scarce in the future, an excellent opportunity pre sents itself of familiarizing this coun try with a substitute which.
unlike most other substitutes, is better than the original. That Is "mate," so largely used in South America. It is said to have all -the virtues and none of the vices of tea. Made from the leaves and green shoots of a species of holly. It is drunk only -with lemon and sugar.
and its use would do much to econom- se our milk, supply. The fresh eron should just be, ready now. Csnnot the Children Oxy FOR LETCHER'S mMih VAUDEVILLE 1 THUR8 FRI SAT. LEIGH DefcACY RICE CO. IN THE PPROARIOUS COMEDY SKETCH ENTITLED "EXCESS BAGGAGE" HANSOM Iw rests ef Msgle Dosslo BarrlBcalo An Idyll ef the Zuyder Zee With A LOVE CASE Komedy II A I TODAY AND MIRIAM COOPER in "WHEN HE CAME BACK MUTUAL WEEKLY II COUNTRY STORE TONIGHT food controller arrange for a bumper supply? The statement that Heny Vlll'Sj astronomical clock at Hampton cburt which Just gone on strike, once gave Londoners their time in not accurate.
But it is true that useful commodity at one time came from the vicinity of Hampton court from the observatory at Kew. It was George III who first gave Londoners something approaching accurate time, by ordering that the time of the Kew meridian should be taken dally to London for the purposes of regulating the clocks'-at 9T. James' palace, gfid the Horse Guards. All that Serbia, all that the Bulgarian nation, the Rumanian nation, the better element In Turkey, all that Bel- glum. Luxemburg, France, and our- selves sought lawfully to.
enjoy Bis- mark claimed for his poor Prussia. Their peaceful aspirations would be achieved, he declared, "if lorelgn powers will avoid everything which can lead the German people to believe that they are the subject of foreign combinations which would legitimately excite their sentiments of dignity and of national Independence." Denmark, enlightened af last, will, iike the rest of read that with fresh interest, in view of tho Killy-Xicky machinations. London Chronicle. The famous astronomical clock at Hampton Court palace, which was made by a German, in 1540, for Henry VIII, has rtopped, and is in the workmen's hands. It is many years since last the clock stopped.
It tells the time, the month, the day of the the petition of the sun, the number of days since the beginning of the year tho 'phases and age of the moon tho hour It crosses, the meridian and the time" of high-water at London Bridge. A curious 'legend connected with' it has given It the name of the crock of death." It is stated that when Anna of Denmark, the Queen of James died at Hampton court, the clock, which was striking the hour at the moment, immediately stopped, and it is alleged to have done eo for many years whenever anyone long resident in the palace died within its precints: There are many people who will quote examples of the fulfillment of the superstition in recent times. London OTHER VIEW POINTS If a Connecticut man really -wants an Opportunity to vote in his town on the question of license or no-license. he will do well hereafter-to accompany his petitiop with an affidavit. Then he may get recognition.
Hartford Times. Signs of worry over what the ab sence of the men in camp or at war will do the coming, elections might perhaps toe checked by the reflection that neither the -recruiting officer nor the selective draft oard have been respecters of parties. Hartford Times. It is charged that certain persons engaged in the baking business in Bridgeport had large stocks of flour, that they sold this flour for a large profit above what was paid for that they, purchased1 more flour at a higher price and then raised the price of bread upon the theory of high flour. Such methods abundantly deserve the reprobation of tthe public.
The weight of a loaf of bread should be fixed, the YOUR BUSINESS There is a FEDERAL TRUCK; for every commercial use. 1, Vt, 2, Zy2 and 5 Ton Capacity Also light and heavy duty Tractors. The Imperial Garage, Ants. iVILLOW STREETS 9 -r DOOLY NELSON The 8lx Cylinder Comedians In "Wooden Shoes' 8mile and Surprises In Five Acta CONCERT ORCHESTRA SATURDAY 'The Innocent Sihner" NEVER TOO OLD TO WOO CONCERT ORCHESTRA of Fun fc THEATRE LJaL TODAY AND ATURDAY America's Daintiest Actress ANITASTEWART Clovers Rebellion A DELIGHTFUL STORY By JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD LATEST WAR NEWS IN HEARST-PATHE WEEKLY BIG COMEDY Matinee at 2:30, 10c Evenings st 6:45, 8:30, 15c weight always and the price for the duraion of the war. Bridgeport Farmer.
It would work out much better for the city, for. the contractors and the residents if a plan were adopted In street improvements in another year to complete the work on one street before another one is stained and not have the entire community all torn Up at one time. Just as good, if not better, results would come If Ihis work was. done in a more systematic way. Bristol Press.
It seems certain from a study of trolley connections in the west that more has ben done to bring relief than in this section. Not that the west had it any better thaa the east On the contrary, it was much worse years ago. Corruption of not only officials, but of courts as well, inefficiency in the saddle for years. But the west did have some men big enough and determined enough to lead a fight for better service and to continue that fight until victory was gained, even though it took years. Cleveland, Ohio, had In the late Tom Johnson such a man.
It took nine years to win the trolley fight in that clty. Cincinnati had something of the. same kind for twenty years. Only in 1 April of this year was relief promised. The plan of action Is yet to be completed.
But there is the promise of Improvement at no distant wants some sVch determined leader. And we feel certain that if there was such a leader it would not take twenty years, 'or even ten years, to win something for the city, as things now are. We believe the fight can be won at the next session of the general assembly, if the right weapons aroused. Give us another trolley cpmpany In Bridgeport. Or give, us an elevated railroad, or a subway, or anything, even a big bus line.
Any successful competition would either kill the old concern or force it to meet, the city's needs. Bridgeport Telegram. Get a 25-cent bottle of Danderlne at any drug store, pour a little into your hand and rub well into the scalp with the finger tips. By morning most, if not all. of this awful scurf will have disappeared.
Two or three applications will destroy every bit of dandruff; stop scalp Itching and falling hair;.
