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A outed Convocation of little!
' chapter. No. as. A. A. M., will be held
In Masonic Temple, City, Tunday
binning, May 9th, at 8 o'eiwk.
Wont—Mark Master Mason agree.
'..Ali loyal Arch Masons are cordial-
ly llvlted.
Frlternally,
JAMES A. HOLLERIN, H. P.
Attootz—F. e. LYON, Secretary.
Old Well Lndgd, No. 1“. F. find A. I.
Hoots in Masonic Building, South
lain street. lat and 3rd 'l‘neadayof
each month—July and August ex-
“Died—It 8 o'clock. All “aster
lawns cordially invited. Arthur
l. M. w. it, Robert a. Wilcox.
Ian.
Grain anirisa BLOCKADE.
When Germany sales the United
States. as the price of immunity from
having our citizens murdered at sea,
to end the 'Brltisihblockade, she asks
an impossibility.
The same principle that
ated in his note of July ‘21.
1915, concerning the Lusitania case.
still holds: “The government of the
{United States cannot discuss the pol-
“'3' of the government of Great Britain
with regard to neutral trade except
with that government itself, and must
regard the conduct of other belligerent
governments as Irrelevant to any dia-
cusaion with therlmperial German gov-
Ornment of what this government rc-
gards as grave and unjustifiable viola-
tions of the rights- of American citizens
by German naval cOmmanders."
’ We cannot bargain and barter
Germany wants us to, because it
- . beneath our dignity. We cannot do it
because it would be an unheard of dip
lomatlc procedure. We cannot do it
. because the offenses of‘Germany and
, I Great Britain are not comparable. We
1‘ . cannot do it because it would deserv-
‘ ' Odly bring down on us the enmity of
i , Britain, France. and Russia.
' it seems incomprehensible. that Ger-
! . many should regard German and Bri-
tish aggressions as in the same class.
g One is murder and the other is lar'
: ceny. if a citizen were to find one
. neighbor shooting down his wife and
children and another neighbor simul-
,' tannnsly robbing his apple tree which
' " would he attack first and which would
he punish most severely?
_ We should long ago have held Eng-
. 5" land to account more strictly for in-
j, .. Juries to American property if our at-
, tuition and energies had not been
"V .alrawn to the more important purpose
““2.- 0t protecting American life. Now Ger-
many's proposal taints even such ef-
. m as we shall make hereafter. l!
? we accepted it. than in every appeal
“.meat‘lritain to bring her own cine
w within the law we should be re-
‘ ' .u the mouthpiece of Germany
. “.1 tin tree champion of car
right! Id. of international law.
' ’ appal would be resented.
Secretary
lmnain! st
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as
is
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illuminant-hurts»
A fled Bostonian.
But Germany argues that to blockade
a nation is intrinsically unlawful.
The United ”in M as! England
the example by blockading the Confed-
eracy in our civil war. All the world
except Germany and Austria regards
the shutting off of ah enemy‘s imports
as a legitimate war method. And it
higland chooses to adopt such a meth-
od. it in Mae 0! our business: We
shall be sorry for Germany, but we
can do nothing—«any more than we
could have stopped Germany in the
winter of 187071 from starving the
populace of Paris. or stopped Ger-
many's Turkish allies from starving
Townsend's men at Kut-ei-Amara in
l916.
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AMERICAN PRONUNCIATION.
Sir Herbert Beerbolim Tree,
foremost theatrical manager of Lon.
don. now in this country, laments that
the United States has no standard of
pronunciation. He wants us to decide
on a standard and then live up to it.
Our educators. he says. “the school
the
could get together and select the ideal
system.
But what would they adopt as the
standard? And how would they “put
it over?" We have several distinct
types of pronunciation, firmly fixed in
the various geographical sections.
There the New England pro-
nunciation, represented at its best
by Boston. There is the New York
city pronunciation. which is a modi-
There is the geenrai
system of intonation and articulation
prevailing throughout the South. very
distinct from that of New England.
There is still a different system in the
West. and another. more western than
Middle West. And
variations
is
eastern, in the
there are definite
found in Vermont. Pennsylvania and
several other states.
if there is to be a standard. what
‘lliill it be? Most highly educated cit-
izens lean to the lloaton pronuncia-
ilOll. The stage follows the New York
pronunciation. with London improve-
in. general
local
ments l’ublic speakers
try to approximate the Boston or New
fork stage standard. But their ef-
ioris, however admired. never perco~
iate very far into the common speech
of thcpeOpIc west of the Hudson river
and south of Staten island. V
it is not to be expected that the poo-
pic of any big section will adopt the
pronunciation of any other section.
They could not if they wanted to. The
variations are probably due as much
to differences of climate as diiferences
of customs and traditions. A north-
erner going south eventually comes to
speak as the southerners do. So does
a New Englander in the West, or a
westerner in New England.
And why. indeed, should we all try
to speak alike? it is desirable, no
doubt, to get rid of local oddities or
unpleasantnesses, such as the sloven-
ly alurrlng of words or the over-ac-
centuatiou of unimportant syllables or
the flat and unpleasant "a" sound ut-
tered through the nose. But as for
general accent and manner of speech.
isn't it better to have variety rather
than dull unitormity?
Sir Herbert needn’t be so dogmatic
and superior about it. anyhow. His
London may set the best standard.
but his own‘ country doesn't follow
that standard. Not to mention the
wide divergence of Scotland. Ireland
and Wales, there is far more varia-
tion within the narrow limits of Eng-
land thanothare is in the whole Unhd
so... m and south mans can
hardly uderotand each other.
Ev'entually, we may work out by un-
conscious degrees a somewhat more
uniform pronunciation than we now
have. According to the Judgment or
an mourn scholar, it will approxi-
mate Chicago's pronunciation. And
was sot—ova if the very m‘
or it an. moon aid Documents
uteri ‘
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”summons-sounded
teachers and heads of universities," .
THE SOUTH NORWALK EVENING Sim
amen BATTLESHIP .m in new
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tieriuan mine. Some 125 monwerc lost.
be seen from a report lu‘at issued giV-! 8' RIKER APPEARS-TN COURT.
ing the status or British shipping. it:
appears that, instead of the British;
merchant tint being seriously crippled
by the sulmarine warfare of the past
fourteen months, it has actually in»
creased in spite of the destruction.
The report states that. up to March
28. England had lost from all war
causes together, including submarines.“ "as” w“ °°' “nu“ until W13!"
379 steamship! lm 1.30.0”1 The number t'i building iabn-eis on
ions. 31 sailing vuaoll “Stu-I’m” here is estimated at 450.
l Special policemen are on duty on
19.000 ‘0!“- and a confident!!! mlthe Itroets on account of the strike.
ber of trawlors when. tone. is micnlriaatioa w. new may or a.
important. These loans would. bynpofl that 100 special deputies have
deed, be a serious blow to must nay-:59.“ “0m ‘1' "‘0 N be called
tion‘s. Bil! film OHM '“ upon in can of disturbances.
large to bdn with that all the war1_" you had mu mSentinal
losses only amounted to about 6 per classified advertiser, at. the time you
cent. of its total tonnage. And “Mm!!!“ your present poation. perhaps
amazing are its recuperative powers.lm '0!“ 5“. Md one Fm
even under the handicap of warflhat "l” M 4“ with twice the
not only have these losses been made chaos A. m m.’
up but Great Britain's steam shipping O .-_.
has nciuauy made" a net gain of sa‘ ”'
vessels and 814,000 inn. 1’ l
Obviously. if the German submarines; I
cannot destroy British ships as tub-i l
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"URRINGTON. May 8.~l)anto Lu-
caiini. one of the striking building Ia-
borers, who was arrested on the
charge of breach of the pure, was
asked to plead to the additional
nix-u git of intimidation when arraign-
ed in Borough court Saturday. He
I‘ll‘iitlf‘d not guilty to both charm-zeal
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the British battleship Russell, 14,000 tons, was sunk in the Meditcranean, itui's believed, “73 i
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STATE LAWS ON FLAGS i
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live. Alta O. Ore-oy Arranges Ea.
corpto from convenient Statutes.
nicer-pie from the laws of (‘ou
necticut dealing with the flag of the
l nited States have been arranged by
his. Alta S. t‘ressy. of Hartford. pa-
liiotic instructor of the Woman's Re:
lief Corps. of Robert 0. Tyler Paul.
C. A. It.. with the cooperation of
State Librarian George 8. (W1
and will be sent throughout the state
in printed form. This action has.
been taken became of recent attnokol
which have been made upon the lag
by various speakers. The excerpts
contain parts of state sets which tell
lhow and when floss shall be display-
?ed and give the punishments for in-
lsuits to the lint. They were ar-.
ranged at the suggestion of the dc ’
prtment commander for Connecti-'
MONDAY, HAY I, 1916
Anniversary
Norwalk’s (heatest Sale Started
This Morning
A SALE WHEN PROFITS ARE CAST ASIDE
TO
SHOW OUR APPRECIATION TO THOUSANDS OF
OUR OLD CUSTOMERS AND CARRY OH
R NAME
INTO THJOUSANDS OF NEW HOMES.
More and Greater Bargains Than
Ever Before Howe Been Prepared
for This Anniversary.
NEW OFFERINGS “IHICH WILL BE BROUGHT
FORWARD EVERY DAY WILL SERVE TO IN-
CREASE THE ENTHUSIASM OF OUR CUSTOMERS
AS THE SALE GOES ON.
Plenty of Good Tings for Everybody.
Don’t kiss a Day.
STORE OPEN UNTIL 9 O'CLOCK THIS EVENING.
out.
Prices of R995
hove ahead. and will advance more, but we‘ purchased a
largo quantity inatl’eb.. aothatwcareabletoahowa
better turn their fighting energies to:
more fruitfuLpurpoaeu. And when we:
consider that it is for thh nogatiVe re;
suit that Germany has incurred thej
enmity of the entire neutral world,
our wonder grows at tho infatuation
of the German government and people
for the lawless Von Tirplta policy.
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Judge Tuthiil. of Chicago. has decld.
ed to set aside the now celebrated dc.
crec in which be credited Bacon with
the authorship of Shakespeare‘s plays.
He is moved by complaints of hisl
brethren of the bench to the effect
that he has “affected the dignity and
standing of the court." Supreme Jus-
iice Frederick A. Smith will now pass
upon the case. and it is rather expect-
ed that he will reverse Judge Tuthiil.
it only Shakespeare himself could
stage that trial!
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Premier Asquith says that the 'Bri-
tish Empire has tarnished more than
5,000,000 soldiers since the war began.
At least 85 per cent. of them have
been raised in Great Britain. if the
United States did the same in propor-
tion to population. we should have an
army of 10.000.000 men.
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We havo heard much about the
“starving of German babies" by the
sine editor. after ”"11! "9” in
Germany. “so!" that ‘5' 9m
babies are flit-trial is '0“ '5 "“-
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(our “mar—Jaw» York World. .
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The executive committed at the
hospital board of the Boldlers’ Home
has applied to the civil service com
ant-sat: for a steward at the Home
and to. pace. abolished by a former
“in. will be restored. The
connotation will hold an cumin»!
M d W2 m h-Iegpliell
oil-am. ‘n asset‘s-elm-fifiinnk? W .
the British can build than. the! m. ”
Allies' blocked! shutting o! the nuts,
supply. But s..s. loam. the cyst '
“The British were luckier at KM _
Amara than we tho-lilt- 'l‘hey 1'" T
But alas! my didn't 1°" WA .
[Incubus of the sum! as.
fliWAID m roam m '
of White
Paris draws the silhou
whole world.
N, Paris A” 3: f
In the Wanamaker Sale
Paris inspiration
ette that ap to the
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line assortulnt of patterns in Tapestry Brussels.
Brussels. Velvet Amninster and Wiltona, at prices that are
far below the present value.
This is the Place to Buy Your Rugs
Body
| foundation stone of this Wanamaker Sale of do.
i Wherem Pam Art Is The A. J. AflVeV fie & SOT! CO
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I Copied at Little Cost
. 134—136 WASHINGTON ST. SO. NORWALK.
A P llaaatte Arlette ‘
aris-ike ni htgown of An unusualn' h wn re- i
delicately coio rose ba- produced from 1:830 French _ 4
hate Wit embroidered col- model. 0f lln rie cloth _..__ ”w“ r _ "‘d‘ ' __ '
lar and cuffs that give the with wide plea frillings,
effect of Madeira hand - each pleating is edged wrth
work. Its long bow is of
blue ribbon. $4.50.
Babette
A combination that copies
a model created fisher,
the dressmaker. h-col-
ored batiste with fine laces
and embroidery and conve-
nient ribbon shoulder straps
at $7.50.
. Paysan
A new sleeveless night-
wn of white batiste intro-
' ucing Philippine hand-
made cluny lace. $3.
The Shoulder Strap
Sleeveless Nightgown
A copy of a $25 Franc
model. Made out lingerie
cloth with wide-blue or pink
satin ribbons and fine nov-
rose or blue, and the belt is
colon-nod white here is a
combination of both in one
nightgown. The skirt in
flash color batiste. thebo-
dice and hem are white, the
laces and em ' mo-
tifsare amen the loveliest
tint came to abroad.
Mariette ‘
—a new circular chanuse'
cut on the very wide lines
required this season. The
extra fullness under the
city 'ennes laces.
$6. 75.
Within the last two weeks
five huge cases have. come
framParis. containing hand.
. ‘ made blouses and hand-
}' made lingerie. .
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Paris Lingerie and Blouses
.Tlu Wanaisahr Sim will ”summon—M‘W '
Order W. it!“ murmur 150810". Spring
and Summer “WM 500“”er
m.
mOtlm-imd. ,
droml’aris.’ .
lanai Paris
tars 315.
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an. $13.30 andfls.
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$7.50.
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23%.”? with the O B Ja-cksonp . now“.
to Fantafiio ' OPTICIAN ' «I
— r those find the .
cmiudimndrhgtmendah Everything in the Upticnl Linc
Eyes Flats rr. med Free
_ BEAUTIFUL Bill-USES
Adimityofnewstylesinthemoat desirable fabrics
$133331: a? if? Blfil: | of the mason, daintily trimmed, aim 34 to 46.
iii" lfi‘wfifltfi ".
$3.15. Exceptions? Offerings at
$1.00, $1.50 and $1.98 -
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