Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-28

vice rendered Then again the vol unteer firemen of New London go right in where the fire is raging and give it battle, which is the only effective way of conquering the fend.
 The volunteers rush right into the burning structure with every faith in the stream of water for protection from the fiery element while the paid fire man cautiously puts on water from the outside let it strike where it may, but without desire to take changes of in jury lcr the glory there is in it. as they are firemen for the money there is in the work, and like the great majority of the human herd, do not do any more work than possible for the pay receiv- ed. In consequence the fire losses are unnecessarily increased, as the food ing process is the mode adopted by the paid fire department, while the volun- teers endeayor to extinguish the fire with the least possible loss.
 So all sorts of recommendations are
 made periodically by advocates of a
 paid fro department, and perhaps sim ply because there are no volunteer de-
 partments in their old home towns
 These fellows seem to know all about paid departments and frown upon such
 thing as volunteer department in a
 city that pretends to be in the least
 progressive. One man recently sug-
 gested that the city have at least one
 paid company connected with the de-
 partment and the rest volunteers, and
 that then better results would be at-
 tained. Such a suggestion is amusing to the New London firemen. and is
 not considered at all practical, and is absolutely unnecessary. The city of New London is fortunate in having such a well equipped department, one
 of the very best and the most econon- ical in the state of Connecticut. In this matter, as in many others, it is
 well to leave well enough alone,
 For the first time in thirty years New
 London will have a senator and two democratic representatives in the state legislature, and with democratic gov-
 ernor. They are Alton T. Miner, a business man, Abel P Tanner, a rep ! resentative lawyer. and James R. May, 1 a business man, all without legis- | latiye experience, but all who by pre- l vious association and experience are 1 well versed in parliamentary law and knowledge in legislative procedure. E
 the representatives from New London will figure high in the legislative aver 1 age Senator Miner has had long ex-
 perience in the court of common coun- l cil, is the senior alderman at the pres I ent time, and in the absence of Mayor | Mahan will be the acting chief magis- l trate of the city. He will no doubt be
 given the chairmanship of some irn- | pertant committee. Mir. Tanner is near
 the deanship of the bar of New Lon- | don county and will probably be given | while MT. May will be given place on a committee of the higher grade.
 New London has figured prominent 1 Iy in some of the legislatures of the
 past, especially in that of 1911, and the l present delegation is composed of gen. | tlemen competent to uphold the repu- tation of the past in this respect. They ! are men who will not devote all their time to the game of politics, but will
 work for the best interests of their | constituency and the state, without re- | gard to party. It is well that this is
 so. for they are fully cognizant of the fact that their election is due to the
 support of republicans who favored a
 change in legislative methods.
 Some local office seekers are already
 convinced that they cannot depend up-
 on the local representatives to devote i their time in behalf of the aforesaid
 office seekers, and in consequence ap-
 peal is made for support from repre-
 sentatives from other towns in the 1 county By the way, when 1t comes to 1 count of noses among the seekers of
 office within the gift of the governor and the legislature more than one New | Londoner will be found willing to ac- cept every office. Twas ever thus and | ever thus twill be.