Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-17
OTHER VIEW POINTS

If Austria is bluffing, as they say, she'd better take the hint and back down while she can do so gracefully. It wouldn't be healthy for her to have Servia, with the backing of the allies, call her bluff.-New Haven Register.
 The petition to the incoming legis- lature for an act to prohibit the car rying of the red flag in public pa rades probably will be vigorously op- posed by the Industrial Workers Of the World One nag is enough for this. country. and Old Glory is that f1ag.-Springield Union,
 The woman who wins bridge prizes and reads erudite papers before the Woman's club is at the front in mod ern society. But some old time in stinct so lives in her that she stands humbled and reduced to silence when a well filled preserve closet is opened for her inspection.-New Haven Un- ion.
 A recent hearing before the board of fire commissioners showed plainly that discipline is none too good in some of the companies. When men
  there is a chance for almost anything to happen. Possibly a few transfers would improve the situation and in crease efficiency. - Bridgeport Tele- gram.
 Charles S. Whitman, district attor ney of New York, seems to be another Hughes in the appreciation of his work and the approval it receives generally. There are many good, sound, strong men left in New York yet, and if they would get together and act together the general result would be an uplift-beyond question. Bridgeport Standard.
 The Yale Alumni Weekly very prop erly suggests that way may be found to improve the system of awarding tickets for the annual Yale Harvard football game which the ticket de- pertinent has had laid down for it by the athletic moguls. Improve the sys- tenn is good advice, but better way is to build that coliseum and provide seats for all.--Waterbury Republican.
 AnS to think that some day, in the dim future and when other genera tions have possession of the press, newspaper men may become as good as laweyrs! Professor Talcott Will Hams. in his Yale lecture the other evening, held out this very great hope and even went so far as to predict that Journalism eventually would be ranked with law and medicine. It hardly seems possible that it could ever thus descend.-Ansonia Sentinel.
 There is a lot of talk for and against Highway Commissioner Macdonald. Now comes a movement in New Ha- ven to have his roads and department investigated If the investigation is by unprejudiced experts. it strikes the Courant that MT. Mcdonald can ask for nothing better. If 1t is to be made by personal enemies or by political op- ponents, then it will be farce. That about the size of this new movement. A strong sentiment ill the commits sioners favor has set In of late, and there is a general feeling that he should have a fair show.-Hartford Courant.
 Blease knows his constituency. He knows that no advocate of law and order can obtain an election to any important office in South Carolina at the present time. Very likely his per sonal preference would be to speak as respectfully of the constitution of his state as any public man ever did. But that sort of thing would not ac- complish his object It would not pay. He must have the votes of the lawless element who are in the majority there and he has no principles or scruples that stand in the way of the attain ment of his political aims.-Hartford Times.
 Prominent among the republican candidates for the speakership of the next house of representatives is Col William H. Hall of Wilmington, who takes the polite stand of declaring that he does not care to compete for the hono~ unless republicans show a positive interest in his candidacy. He states that he does not believe any man should work to secure such a position merely to satisfy his own am- bitlons Those who know Colonel Hall down this way seem pleased with his candidacy for the spealership. Xvi dence that his home town believes ir him also is to be had In the fact that it has just elected him to serve his seventh term in the legislature. The six terms he has already served have given him abundance of experience and from that viewpoint he would seem to be well equipped.-Ansonia Sentinel.
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