The Newtown bee., 1906-03-02
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EDITORIAL INK DROPS

EDITORIAL INK DROPS. The editorial committee of New towns Bi-Centennit u book have been deeply gratitied at the commendation from various sources given the volume A hearty word comes to hand from our associate on the Bi-Centennial Executive Committee, Rev Otis w Barker:
 My dear Brother Smith: The New town Bi-Centennial book found it's way down into modern Babylon, last Thursday; and thousands of flags were swinging to the breeze in cel' bration of the great event. After looking it over, I feel like paraphrasing crudely | verse from Proverbs to say: "The l entire Executive Committee wrought nobly, but the editorial committee has excelled them all." While lady was one day standing in rapt admiration before the beautiful Cathedral of Cologne, which like poem in marble or frozen burst of choral music lifts it's snowy masses toward the sky, a workman near her quietly remarked, i've did fine piece of work over there." "And what part in it did you have?" returned the lady. "I mixed the mortar for two years across the way" came the workman's ready re- sponse. Though some of us feel that our part in the big Bi-Centennial eel ebration was not much more than mixing some mortar, yet now that the fitting cap-stone has been placed upon the structure by the completion of the Bi-Centenntal book, think, MT Ed ,. itor, we can all jump aboard the train Q on which rides the editorial we and say, i've did fine piece of work in this 2OOth anniversary affair.""
 It is one thing to have some bits of colored glass tossed loosely together in the hand; it is quite another thing t. take these bits of colored glass and place them in such relation and pro- portion that they shall form the beau
 tiful pictures of the kaleidoscope; but that is just what the great editoria
 triumvirate has done, and we all who
 love dear old Newtown still, with al
 her grievous sins and blunders, uncaK
 to you, my brethren, in the gate. No = body cared much for the speeches
 when we had gotten through witt
 them on the great BiCentennial day
 The words had gone out on the breez t. and were forgotten, or, at best wer y preserved in manuscripts and notes E. which, even though your notes, M
 Editor, were not there, no one els
 could decipher but the man who wrot
 them down. Your committee ha
 taken these disjointed notes and Sc
 them in framework that consists o - the portraits of handsome men (sav
 one), and given them the legacy of
 permanent form which will mak h. them ia thing of beauty and a joy fol ct ever" I shall certainly keep my cop
 of the book as dear friend among m
 few heart-companions on the book
 shelf; and when I get through with i, my children and children's childre
 will, I know, never let it find it's wa
 to the ash-heap.
 } I almost wish there were somethin to criticise in the book. for I greatl
 fear that there is danger of burnin
 too much incense to your glory. It
 hardly too much praise to be said i
 favor of the book that, considerin
 the object it had in view, it is blame
 less. The mechanical makeup of tn !. work is perfect, showing that you hi . upon the right firm to do the printin z and binding; the editing evinces tn
 hand of a ready writer. In lookin
 over the history of MT Johnson I fee
 that every one whose civic pride ha
 not altogether stagnated in it's flo' vs through his veins, should say persor ve ally to him, II thank you." Ezra, tn . Scribe. has again done worthy wor r. for his countrymen; and although a }, the contributions to the book are e1
 ceedingly readable, for enduring an its valuable qualities MT Johnson's wor ~ stands facile princeps. l was enoug - on the inside track to know somethin
 of the researches MT Johnson made i
 musty old records, of the fires he bull
 to take the chill off while he run l' maged through whole afternoons ami
 the contents of lonely rooms, of tn
 trips he took to Danbury and othe
 places in search of more light fu : which he refused compensation, an + the midnight oil he consum I'd in boi F ing his great mass of collected mater