.4‘rhes six so: some 110an avenue 53181111111- .- ES'l‘MléSl-IEP .31: 1145113444444 1110111811 E1 L. silo “A. 1.. gdoibEn, PROPREITORS. SAWRISAY, AlJG. 21, 1915 MINIATURE "ALMANAC FOR TOMORROW. Hightide9:o7a.m~.; 9:26p to. 51111 rises 5 :09; sets 6 .44 14-1,.41 ., ' '51 EVENING summer. TELE- PHONE CALLS. Editorial Rooms—4:1. , Business Office—93. Norwalk Branch Office—1388. Editors Residenco—rzzs-3. City Editor‘s Residence—152-4. Business Manager's Residence— 1113-12. Publisher's Residence—890. eraser-swseemo 'AND PREACH- ' ‘ me. ’New York City experts have decid- ed that $840 a year is the lowest in come on which a workman' s family of decent .4..,..a .. _ .m. . -.. Ive people can maintain 11 3111111111111 of 111mg. The figures are based on a study of the city's street sweepers. Nouns street sweeping skilled nor an arduous occupation In anost cities the street-cleaning jobs‘ given to men considered unable of is neither are to make a 111 mg in other lines workwlt‘s intexesting to learn, there- Sore, that a street s11 eeper in the me- tropolts desen es a couple of hundred dollars a you more than the average earnings of American workmen it’llroughout the country. it seems to, lollow that most American workmen are paid less than they need for "a. decent living." 4Aud not only the workmen. The av- 111-11511 pay of high school teachers in Grail, cities in the United States is giv on by the Educational Bulletin as $745 I. year—less than the present :11 stage at New Yorlc.street..,swe;pers. Rural school teachers in New York state get about $100 11 year. endless than that in many states; New York state allergymen in 1910 averaged $663 a. year. Pennsylvania coal miners are said to average less than 8450 a year. Of course, wages and salaries are higher in this country than anywhere Mac; but after all,4tltey' re nothing to N813 0!. ._...__._——.————-- 00151:. W FRANCE. 1. k I 1. .i’ 51 ' 11101111111111 come reports of a new and insidious danger. The banishment bf absinthe has been followed by a sudden growth of drug habits. The poisonous wormvtood infusion is re placed by the more deadly opium, morphine, heroine and cocaine. It is precisely the experience of the illnlted States. investigations of the “fdope” traffic have shown that the most fertile soil for the spread of drug habits is a prohibition soil. 0th- 4er things being equal, there is far more "‘dope' consumed in ‘dry" com- , annuities than in “111st" ones. V Every state and every country 11b- olishillg strong alcoholic beverages in 3 recent yea1s since the general spread of. the knowledgeo of drugs, has suf- 4.1141211 the Same effect. The craving for ”alcohol. demanding satisfaction, and ' 1111111111; temporary rolls! in drugs, leads to a erming that is infinitely 7 averse. ' That fact, of course, is not a legi- tiniato argument against 4 prohibition. is ,merely‘ an argument for carrying prohibition'to its logical "conclusion. 4.4111111 putting h'abt-tormng drug's under forming liquors. The tenant law reg 411111401134 the treble :ln narcotics is a 0&1! start in that direction. Several states have enacted laws 11111an log it by regulating. and restricting Jho 1111b:- 11111.1 1114131 tnlllc, and the not would do well to follow their ox- "'wns‘rln , with the idea of auneistion," an even more drastic than than habit- ' socialists. The most remnrlrahle dem- eat Germans, including Dr. Bernhard Wary ,‘opposlng the annexation at ind W territory inhabited Why other races. “Germany did not enter the ,, war says the statement, "but in order to pro, serve its existence, threatened by an enemy coalition against its national unity and its progressing develop- ment. In concluding pence Germany not secure these objects. "We must acknowledge the princi- ple that the ineorpontioro'r annota- tion or politically independent muons accustomed to governing themselves is a vicious thing." The signers must admit that in sur- rendering such a conquered country 1111 Belgium they must make sure that it does not fall into tire hands of their enemies; but they insist that under no circumstances must Germany pre- sume to absorb populations which would mar its own racial unity. They ask for no higher prise of victor) than “the proudly earned certainty that Germany needs not to fear a world of enemies, and the unexampled demonstration of strength which our nation has furnished other nations or the earth and coming generations." ‘Ill. other words, they will be con- ,tent with glory instead of territory. Their "place in the sun" is to be purely psychological. it is vastly dib quest heard not many months ago. ..__..___.._.._..._....._ The Treasury Department has ordv cred a further withdrawal ovaovern- maul. funds from the national "hauls depositarfb’s, and by the end. of this month more than eight millions will tune been thus transferred from the local banks to the regional ”reserve banks. The Government. will lose the two per cent. interest which it now receives on these deposits. but it is» believed that" the matter will have the effect of forclpg the national banks to rediscount their commercial paper with theregicnalreserve books. This" would enable the reserve bank system to pay expenses, which it has never yet been shit to do. But it can hardly be argued that a banking sys- tem which requires artificial torsion of this kind to make.“ profitable is altogether ah unmixed success. _.___’____.__ New sulfrsglsts gave Dr. Anna Howard Shaw a yellow suffrage au- tomobile, and in Pennsylvania it was sold 1111‘ 11111111111111 gave the New Jersey women a suffrage torch to can ry as -a flaming brand of progress, and some unregenerate Jerseyite stole the torch. But it any old fogy or male- !actor thinks that's going to deter the women, he doesn’t know women.‘ “4......— Up to March 31 Germany had dis- tributed 338,261 iron crosses of the second class and 6,488 of the first class. The total number is now said to be about halts million, costing $1, - 000,000 and weighing perhaps thirty tons. If the distribution continues at this rate for a. year or two longer, the German whose bosom is ‘unadorn- ed with an iron cross will be unpleas- antiy conspicuous. —---——-9 .The New York4Sun suggests that, since the law doesn’t seem to be good enough for Georgia, as shown by the lynching of Leo Frank, "Let Georgia repeal its laws, dismiss its judges, empty its jails. and give mob rule a thorough, honest trial, for. say, one week." After that the people of Geor- gia might have a strange, new reVer- once for law. 4 __.____‘._._._..—‘_ George Sylvester'Vlereck, editor or "Fatherland" and protagonist of the German cause, is said to be in the habit dt' shuttling visitors to his 11m: meats, as one of his greatest om urea, 11 framed mm iron the: me 11101111111 wade. .1111 "UN“- on top or his other star, was an Mailman! W At the close 40! business; Saturday, August 7. the net balance in the gen oral fund at the WM smo- ’1':an- fummvmumm duh two instratloootmperhanisln that _fflbli¢n|itementnlgnsdhy3promin— cannot pursue anything which does ‘ V Private Markuch of the Russian army, who declares that his tongue was split when he was ; captured by the Huus in the Aus- trian army.” Heeaid they insist- ed on his giving up infornihtiou about the. .Russiau movements and locatioiuibut that he’refused. (From Our Regular Correspondent.) “ACTION” IN MEXICO. maturation ‘ of 11883. Americans in Vera Cruz. has this Administration’s it to Mexico. diers. "N0 7’ and that. he will permit- no interfer- “fruits of his victory. " which does not malls him President. He demonstrated beyond all possible doubt when the Niagara Mediation Conference was held, more than a year ago, that he was actuated solely by personal ambition and was wholly deaf to all patriotic suggestion as Well as entirely unwilling to trust to his own election by lvote of the people. It is of interest that the President has so far approached an appreciation of the grave 4011mm boasts of having pacified as to send the battleships "New Hampshire" and 11.111111111111111 to Vera 01112. M 4 ms Vitus uuaoans. deter. this conference 114111 General Scott.“ mt, “m disclosures of Vllh'd of m The widely heralded “action" or the United States in conjunction with the Pan-American Republics looking to 11. peace in Mexico amounted to a mlld~mhnne1~ed sugges- tion to the insurgent chiefs that they get together and beta 11 pence confer- ence, and brought new General Car. rants, even before the note was dis- patched, a not too polite invitation to this country and the other signatures to the note to mind their own busi~ Since the note was dispatched the only repliesreceived have been in the form of raids on American terri- tory, and threats against the lives of So signally Mexican policy failed to command either the gratitude or the respect of the Mexl~ cans that certain followers of Villa and Carranza conceived and actually undertook to carry out 411 scheme to seize a portion of Texas and annex This scheme resulted in the killing of several American col- The Carranza 111111.11 in this city predicts that the only answer .0 the peace note will be an emphatic They say that Carranza feels that he has pacified most of Mexicoinre simply big' disorgamzed mobs ence which would rob him of thsi Of course the truth is that Carranza. will never willingly consent to any arrangement ican people: They have lost all respect for their, -General Villa has added eight more to the long list at murders already. to his discredit. His victims were in each instance men who had been prominent in the 11111111 or Mexico and against some or them Villa had had grudges since the time when his was an outlaw. and the government sstsprlceonbishsadasam'ur- It is signth that those murders, euphontously dumbed o1 "executions.” occurred M 111111 Vile Illl Peso. at 11141111411111 £an th‘o stout- cst rumour of his desire for peace. Private Markuch, Russian Soldier. This photograph, which comes . front Londoii 1111' 0111; to s: ' terent from the talk of world 0011- 1 ' l p hou Then he declared. according to the information from British sources, that he was tortured in glthis way to compel 111111 to talk. He refused. and later he escaped back to the Russian lines. The Russian authorities c11dcnti1' bc- itcvcd his story for he was dec— oratcd With gold, silver, copper and min medals of various orders in reward for his loyalty. ' WASHINGTON LETER bars of Mexicans were starving and the American Red t‘ross was’muklug strenuous alerts to telieve the softer- ing, Villa shipped into this country and soldier his own benefit 1,808 cars of cattle, )6 cars of males“ and Many of these werestolen from Am. 1111 established 11 slaughter-notice of his own. it was conducted under most unsanitary conditions and a report on it, made by a United States Federal inspector, is now on the desk of the Secretary of Agriculture buthss new or been made public “for Cabinet r0111 sons." Efforts were made by the owners of Villa’s plunder to prevent its transportation in bond in the United States. but Secretary McAaoo ruled against them. SOME MEXICAN TRUTH. Reports have been received here from two trustworthy correspondents in Mexico which throw an interesting light on the situation there. One says in part: (the insurgent) armies being cons liberty. posed of the same type of cutthroats that manned the pirate ships. (ravaging the country and lighting oth-. er mobs for the plunder. Former roustahouts here are now and colonels in these ‘armies,’ living on the host in the land tree of charge and resplendent with diamonds and big hatsj’ The other says of the Mex- “Their religion is gone. government and the representatives of our Government. But, it seems to L me, they are deserving of some sym- pathy, for it was our interference, in , their atlairs, refusing recognition or the central authority which hold them ' in control ‘ their 114131111111 low state, morally and . physically" which brought them to COTTON To 35 CONTRABAND. There is every expectation in Wash- ington that the 111111111 nations 0! Eu- rope will soon declare cotton contra- repugnant to the American people, the best authorities on international law are agreed that they have an absolute right to do so. cotton has become an' Indispensable 11111111111 for the manua- facture or high «911111111111. as much so as Ialtpetor, and there is abundant precedent tor declaring mmdor and other iormc- or .mo‘e. 11111 W.‘ Furthermore. our own Govern inept has established 0 mt. as has been pointed out in those letter-1 immediately otter tit"- senor Rebel- llonln mummy-m to horses, and ”with“ sheep and bogs. ' orican ranchmen in Mexico. Later Vii; ‘ “it is all bunk about these _ posed of poor peopleJlghting for their They, one and all.4are com~ “ They J generals _ band and, while this step will be most ‘ their 00mm.“ 'Wfll, contra-- W’stu. scam. Further evidence that the President purposes to make soother desperate edort to jam 3 Shipping Bill through Congress is afforded by his order to the interstate Commerce Cunmlssion to make a thorough investigation of all ocean tun-mama facilities. Just , . why this throwawa- was not made. before the tome and determined ef- lorts or like Wastin- to pass the Shipping ‘lllll at the last session, instondofaiurisnotexphlnod. But :inviewoftho 111111 scum the marine: eon-nice . t’s‘ We on Commission will not bi in no doubt regarding the chsmctel- or the report ' 111-11111 the Administration 11m. 11 is barely possible that 141 Shipping Bill on be forced through under the lash and spuroftheWhltéHouce, ’butit is not likely, and the chief reason it is unlikely h because so many Demo crate in Congress distrust Secretary IleAdoo. 111111 All 111111 111111111111 10111 BERNIE, Switzerland, Aug. 20.— Through the mediation of the Swiss government, Germany and France move agreed to allow the exhumation of bodies of French and German sold- iers who died in concentration camps. The coffins are to be conveyed through Switz‘érland. —3LUGG|8H LIVER V CAUSES TROUBLE. The discomfort and dangers of hot weather are doubled if the liver is sluggish and the bowels inactive. Fe ley Cathanic Tablets are prompt, wholesome, effective in action with- out grlplng or pain. it you feel levy and languid, bloated or menu“. a Foley Cathartlc Tablet will help you. scout persons welcome the light and free feeling they bring. Sold everywhere. hose or the 111111111 Foreign omoe. W. 0‘0 111 rue SATURDAY. AUG. 2! O-NIGHT From 7 until 10 o'clock Wonderful * Bargains if? Boston Store Ii: 1915 4 , .- ‘ l . . I 2‘ ‘ . fl seesaw?- o ”o”. O O 12‘4c:Wash Goods. 291. Wash Goods. erw 0 0 FOR INSTANCE 11.50, Sterling Trimmed Umbrellas for Men and Women Naptha Washing Powder, 5c package, 3 packages for 75c Monument Turkish Towels AND A HUNDRED 011111113 89c 4 19c 29c «:oof ' . :«sznzn. 3.. 3 r’yards for 2 yards for 6 90999099 0”. o o o o o o”o’h. 9c 49c 9 O COME WITH THE. crowns O 60 O O Q .00... O «wow» 9 :44” O ST "carom ORE: ‘2 :~:003°°:"3 '0‘ I! c” l‘dexuco’g’wzn°«’n’u’u’d«w«zoq m ‘R 7c are taking, one, last shot at the prices . ‘and the result is a half price sale which means that a good lot of the men’s clothing and furnishings and hats left from our RED TAG SALE willbe cleared out at One half the regular price. You do not get the oppor- tunity often to buy high’ class goods at half price-mow is yOur chance ' 50 Men's Suits Broken Line at 50 Children’s Wash Suits Broken Lines Men's 52. 00 and $3. 00 Straw lists and boys HALF PRICE 1111111 PRICE 100 Men’s $1 00 1111003150 Soft Shirts NORWALK. 4, 1117“?“7‘711151101115‘5190313 - " WITHOUT WARNING WASHINGTON, -.Aug 21.— Official dispatches to the State Department have confirmed early press reports announcing that the British liner Arabic Was torpe- deed without warning and that at igst some American passen- gers lost their lives when the vessel went down. Whether the attack ugon the Arabic was an act "deli rately unfriendly” to the 13111111111 States against which Presldént Wilson e warning in hisfllast‘d note outdo ' up anon dep s ptli Gino " subs e' $1.00 5% Rogers CS, Stevens SOUTH N ORWALK ish steamer Dunslcy, which had been torpedocd nearby " This poinhvperhaps, cannot be cleared up until Ambassador Gerard at Berlin has ascertained what re- port the German government re- mander. ' 44, In the meantime President Wilson and Secretary Lansing are conferring over dispatches already received from A‘mbassa— dor Pa at lJondon, and are ‘snxiousy awaiting further re- ports from Amhrican consuls. While waiting the report of the submarine commander at Berlin, officials here are “'greatiy interested in "what Ambassador cakes from the submarine CQM‘. combat he, G“. . Officials here made no attempt to minimize the situation. Ev- erywhere the possibility of a sev- erance of diplomatic relations be— tween the United States and Ger- many will be discussed as likely if it develops that the Arabic was deliberately torpedoed without regard to the question as to whether she made an hostile ap- proach upon the submarine. _ A cHANcs’vsr. , Tom-11 it true that you proposal to Alice and were rejects” . loch-Not exactly hologram—nag said when she felt ill!) “I I4 loot oi. herself she'd lot 111% 11111111.; , .4 mammal: don.
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