The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-25
Lei No Rude Hand Destroy NorNaIks Governments; They Are Wanted For
 An Object Lesson Centuries Hence

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 One of the wonders of tomorrow will be the fierce with which the of today opposed the substitution better methods of outworn and complex systems of municipal government
 laws of Connecticut winch the plans of city govern 1nent entobed, will come with a1nazement to the certain tonnes in which inscribed the legal cobwebs by which 43ridgeports neighbor. the divided Norwalk was bound from usefulness and growth which should have
 with unified government, the old tov7, eoveannenf with it's selectmen and town meeting & f 1as @ eopR i the time of the thing NorTalk legislatfvel disintegrated
 Tas town government znaa1ned exercising certain functions over the territory of the old town
 Trs[ [Itysof Norwalk came, with its government.
 The~C ~CIt5rof South Norualk came with it's govern znle1tzestablished to fight fires.
 17ares they vvere-th NorwaIIs. They became pop head necessary tosazl5Esosher business concern
 further antiquarian will be startled by esrp things have upon the minds of men, even Vhenthey nparatively new
 HeswiH find change from the coraplex and clmber- suneosthe new simple and workable admins tratiou proposed again and again, in the Norwalks from meaning and intelligent citizens. They are under the thrall of yesterday. What good father good enough for said one citizen to the other aainvncbe argument stronger in field and forum than thousand better ways.
 yesterday then conclude that the people Norwl than Americans usually were He will find that they progressive people
  automobiles, talking machines, typevTters bcy ces seanboat flying machines, factories and all the speedy machinery of modern industry they had. They light Eant the property of the munich ality unusual asthose days They supplied themselves vgatea progress but when they looked at under the paralysis of ideas that werescunrnondn their time,
 concluding his monograph sfThe AucienE Costly and Cumbersome Administration of the NorwaElzs, ''-1 win conclude with this paragraphs
 @7rleae people like millions of their time had not gTasped the idea that government law adIninis form much of invention talking chime, flying boat In all their other affairs they rried themseaves upon their progress but in their government their boast that done past That the NorwaIks of 1nunici and easy to work, not because the views of NorWalers were different in principle from those of their neigor but because they entertained views reseriosy and opposed bitterly every attempt at beneficial -c1ange.p
 Eorsfe saHe of o-rnorrozy1he Farmer ventures to hopesfa those persons who seek to modernize the zDractieeso of the Norwa1ks may succeed.
 Something should be left warning example. Af AfuFenberg the personal torture thaWe1e the equipment of governments prior the>seventeenfh century
 There ought to be preserved somewhere old fash foned mixed government in actual being, to which pa rents take their children for historical The multiplicity of public offices, the crpplng of busi uessenterpTse, the stagnatiOn of growth system may all be exhibited warning and lesson
 YrIle, the NorWaks will suffer by being thus preserv ed amuseu of ancient legislative and practices but her sacrifice will be for the people of the United States We have doubt that citizens of the future VIII take the same ghastly pride being exhibit ed as relic and municipal anachronisrn that per take in being pointed to as the possessor of hardened liver, the of conIete set of entirely ossifed arteries.