The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-27
r4LrE oE rnE EE SpEEcn.

There is lot of wit and wisdom in the familiar old saying, If you don't
 see what you want, ask for it." The
 application of this philosophy to the
 needs of the city of New Haven, which
 while they are ever changing never
 disappear gives encouragement to the free and intelligent criticim of prac-
 tices as they are and attitudes of minds
 as we are accustomed to them Scold-
 ing is one thing; the careful consider ation of evident needs is another thing.
 and that community is the most intel
 ligently progressive which encourages
 it.
 At hearing Friday evening before
 the aldermanic committee having in
 charge the movement to establish here a hospital for contagious diseases, Judge Wolfe of the Court of Common
 Pleas said with considerable truth that
 the city of New Haven, speaking of 1t as a community of men of many minds, was too prone to discuss and oppose rather than to discuss and advance. He had in mind the difficulties which have beset this undertaking to establish a hospital, difficulties which are mainly obstructive and not of character cal culated to advance the cause. It was so when the sewer improvement was under discussion and. was so when it was suggested that the enlightenment of the community would be increased by the establishment of a free public library Judge Wolfe advised the al- dermen to select site from among the sites recommended by the physicians of the city and erect thereon a hospital
 Tn years time," he said, every body would be glad it had been done"
 We agree with this estimate of the temperament of the people of New Ha- ven, for we have in many instances seen the truth of such vigorous atti- tude vihdicated by popular acclaim. A new generation is about to come into the control of our ,destnies. The trans fer of power is almost completed, and it is for its benefit that the idea should more and more be promulgated that while thought and consideration are ot incalculable value action and progress are equally essential We need, for example, contagious hospital in the city of New Haven. not for the benefit of individual householders, who can easily quarantine themselves if attack ed by contagious disease but for the benefit of that large class which is necessarily lodged in buildings where more than one family resides. It has got to be located somewhere and should be located as near as possible to those who are to be protected by it, even though additional time will have to be consumed in teaching them by prac- tical experience that the hearness of the hospital will endanger neither the health nor the property of the nearest of them. Judge Wolfe by his frank admonition of us has made this clearer and he should be thanked for it.
 Colonel Isaac M. Ullman is another who deserves commendation for speak ing his views out loud, where they can be heard in the market place. In questioning the soundness of the the ory that all of the native graduates of the State Normal school, beyond an standing at graduation, should be sent to prove their useful ness as teachers into the country | towns before being given occupation | in the city where they were born and where they have been educated, Col onel Ullman has performed a public service. It is not at all a question of |