The Newtown bee., 1892-12-30
EDITORIAL INK DROPS.

TIE BEE wishes all it's readers Hap py New Year and many returns.
 Mir Winslow, the much-abuSed dairy commissioner, has been unusually active in securing the arrest and conviction of violators of the oleo law. 'ris said that he has secured more convictions than did luis much-praised predecessor, Mir Tatem. The Connecticut Farmer pats him ap- provingly on the back, although admit ting his appointment was wholly po- litiCal one. Mir Winslow deserves praise for his good work, and the farm CTS should recognize it. If oleo is to be sold at all, it should be offered on it's own merits and not as a substitute for honest butter. The farmers do not ob- 'ect to oleo as oleo, but have a right to he indignant when it is palmed of as the genuine article. Give us still more wig orous legislation touching this matte r and let the violators be punished to the full extent of the law. Right in this connection, we expect that Gov Morris will have the good sense to ap- point farmer to this office. There is no lack of capable democratic farmers. At all hazards, the farmers should have one of their own number in this position. If the governor is hard up for candi- dates, Fairfield county might help him out. How would Dairy Commissioner !. C. Johnson of Monroe strike you? Ex-Senator William N. Northrop would also make capable official.
 It is an encouraging sign when the city boards of trade discuss road improvement, as is quite often the case now. ''Im- provements of roads in the state," is a topic for discussion by the state board of trade at the annual meeting in Bridge port, next month. As the Norwich Bull letin says, "rhe more the matter is talk ed up, the more it will come to be talked about in various quarters. And it seems impossible to doubt that when once pub lie interest has been aroused in the sub ject, public intelligence will unite in de- manding a reform of the present miser- able and wastcful highway system" This lS StINts lIC bIllbS LC NO, we believe, is for the state to aid the country towns in permanent road build ing, and back of this should be national aid to the states for the same purpose. It is preposterous to suppose that the sparsely settled country towns along the main thorOughfarcs between the great cities, shall tax themselves beyond all reason for road Improvement. The state must "chip in''Sand help us out. We hope a beginning will be made in the coming Legislature on the matter. Sen ators Houlihan and Morgan will un- doubtedly favor anything that is reason able, which looks toward a solution of this question. It is fortunate for this section that it has two such well-posted men in the upper House.
 Bridgeport's board of education is said to be interesting itself very strong ly in proposition to secure the estab- lishment of a state normal school in that city and q committee has been appoint ed to advance the matter in the Legisla- ture. It seems that every county is en- titled to normal school by the general statutes, but Fairfield county has been left out in the cold. It is said that $75,- 000, the cost of the normal school at Willimantic, would be sufficient to erect and equip one in Bridgeport, the state to furnish the funds. This sounds very we'll, and as far as Fairfield county and ;1 Iyn ta see them behindhand. But with thor oughly equipped normal school at New Britain, we hardly see the necessity of saddling this expense on the state. If more money is needed for normal schools, why not expend it in improving the in- stitutions which now exist. We believe that Gov Morris will take a conserva- tive position on these questions, how ever generous the Legislature may be. inclined to be with the state funds.
 There is more truth than poetry in the remark of the Connecticut Western News, "that life is too short to wade through such jumbo editions of daily paper" as the Bridgeport Post and Springfield Uuion, have recently sent out. As the News also states, the dailes seem to be on a strife to see who can get out the largest anniversary or sou venir edition. They may show enter prise itis true, but quality is apt to be sacrificed to quantity. The outside sheet of the Post souvenir would have done credit as a poster for ballet show. Quality will receive more attention by the model daily newspaper of the future. Quality alone is what has given the | Springfield Republican Independent democratic) Hartford Courant (republi- can) Boston Journal Republican, and