Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-31
OTHER VIEW POINTS

The proposition to make a cHCu4l court out of the court of common pleas is not new, but 1t is just as sound as 1t can be. Putting it on the road would increase its dignity and amplify it's usefulness amazingly.-New Haven Journal Courier.
 A bill to prohibit women from smoking is to be presented in the Massachusetts legislature. This looks like a rank invasion of Women's rights, but we doubt whether the suffragists will attempt to make an issue of it, Springfield Union.
 The postoffice is going to be helped in beginning to handle express busi- ness by the caution 9(shippers and the public generally They will wait
 to see how the thing works before go- ing in very heavily to use the post office as an express company.-Water- bury American.
 Often a little book on language ,or literature or electricity or banking iz just the thing needed to start boys mind at work, and his having 1t at hand will make just the difference; once fairly started, he will find his way to libraries no matter how much trou- ble it involves-at the outset one booB in the hand Is worth a million on the shelves-Springfeld Republican. r. Connecticut's Mckinley club is busy planning it's annual banquet, Jan. 29, and this year the affair promises to be by no means a party jollificatiQn h. deed, the occasion is s4chy~a one as might make 1t profitable for each mem
 Der to seriously ask himself: What, in the present exigency of the republican
 party, would be A1cKinley's advice If he were here ?"-Ansonia Sentinel.
 The express companies have fought
 the parcels post movement for years and 1t looks now as if their fears as to its effect upon their business would be
 realized. If it does not force some of them, at least, out of business, 1t will confine 1t to large packages, and it is doubtful If they can secure sufficient
 such a small line.-NeW Britain Her aid.
 Can you walk up to a fellow and say Be my friend and let's be happy to- gether?" Rather does not happiness have to come incidentally, as a by product to some form of activity? If you give unselfsh effort to some good cause working in church, social settle ment or society enterprises, meeting people on the common ground of in- terest in and devotion to a good ob- ] ject, you quickly enough find friends and happiness.-NewH Haven Union. Our postoffice building was a skin | tight fit when it was frs
 : 4l,o& +I. IL. office and other buildings in this coun- l try. Shortly after it had been occupied 1 it was found too small and an addition
 was needed. Fortunately, there was ground room and the addition was built. Now that We are to have a par | cels post department, once again the l office is too tight a fit for the busi- 1 ness and there is need of more room. We presume that we shall get it. Bridgeport Standard.
 The republican members of the Con- necticut house of representatives have
 it in their ~ower now to win public confidence or to deal the party blow
 below the belt. Their choice of
 speaker will materially affect the for
 tunes of the party statewise for some l time to come. A speaker with any
 corporation or lobby taint will be a l disaster. There are men enough of capacity, backbone, independence and 1 freedom from taint of any sort. One i of that sort chosen, the party is in a | position to win nopular approval A
 man of the discredited kind will bring 1 disaster.-Bristol Press.
 1 The small taxpayers are exceeding
 ly desirable inhabitants of a city. Their property interests tend to make them permanent residents, they have honest
 pride in the place that is home to them
 and they constitute the best class of
 voters because they have every incen- l tive to a prudent choice of representa-
 tives. If taxation becomes excessive.
 their numbers are sensibly diminished, ! and the city is occupied by a nomad
 population which has no real love or
 respect for it's temporary place of
 abode. For this reason tax boards
 should go very slowly in expending
 public money upon objects for which
 the taxpayers receive no direct return. Bridgeport Telegram.