Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-14
OTHER VIEW POINTS

There is one thing about the
 changed Srailroad conditions in other sections and the curtailment of train
 service, all of the branch lines leading
 in and out of AIiddletown are contln- uing the same schedule as established when the roads were originally con- structed.-Middletown Press.
 Waterbury spends over SIPS, 900 q year with the post office and probably $250,000 a year riding on trolley cars. Between them. the post office depart
 ment and the trolley management
 ought to be able to give us those night
 mails even if it does cost $500 or $1,000 a year. The public be pleased | is a good motto even for monopolies.- Waterbury Republican.
 There are times when misery's love l of company is due to something bet ter than a mean disposition. For in
 stance, on Friday the New Haven stock found & new bottom level, but
 Is wasn't alone on the tobaggan, for New York, Ontario and Western. | Chesapeake and Ohio and New York Central were going along with it-not ! so fast, but going. It was a com | forting sign.-New Haven Register. It is well that the Mayors and the
 ex-Mayors relax every twelfth month | so that they may tone up their de- 1 pleted physical and mental conditions.
 It is fine thing to have them come
 together. How much time they spend l comparing notes on the duties. the | annoyances and the few positive l pleasures of the Mayoralty ofnce, is not a matter of moment. They are of | for a, good time and they are entitled l to the same to overf1owing measure | New Haven Union.
 The Derby police could not do bet | ter than to turn their attention to l some of the foul mouthed gangs | round street corners and insulting passers by especially if they are ac- 1 companied by women. Prompt and | drastic action by the police in some exceptionally offensive case of insult would have a most beneficial effect ] upon the rest of the thugs, who an-
 noy men and women on the public
 streets.-Ansonia Sentinel.
 Those who sell drugs without per- mission are being severely punished by | the courts when caught, but those who use the drugs do not experience any | great difficulty in supplying them | selves with 1t. Here in, New Britain | there are young people as well as some l old ones who are so completely under | its influence that they are gradually becoming stupid. They are to be Seer on the street at all hours and their ap- | pearance easily betrays their physical | condition. The police know them and i try as they will they find it difhcult l to ascertain where they get their pills New Britain Herald.
 The state has for some years beer ! advocating planting of the white pine Now it issues warnings against 8 l blight or blister rust that is doing
 deadly work. The U- S. agricultural
 department says it is a serious menace So it goes. Our old fayorites. once | dependable fall victims of disease and
 the restoration of wood and timber i lands becomes more of a gamble than ! business proposition. To be sure | there are other trees, such as the ash
 maple. oak, hickory. whitewood and ], locust but most of them grow too
 must find a profit in such ventures
 The problem is a puzzling one.-Brfsto Press.
 The town of Seymour is fortunate ir l the gift of s51,000 from the late
 Charles B. Wooster. to be used fol
 the erection of public library
 conducted library for some time past l and it has been kept well supplied with books and periodicals The build ing, however, has been entirely made ] quate to the necessities of the library and its patrons. This need promises | now to be supplied. Mir. Wooster'l
 benevolences and charities reached out to a number of institutions and cause: | in Seymour, Oxford and New Haven but among them all there is probably 1 not one which will be more appreci-
 ated than this gift of a permanent
 home for Seymour's lyibrary.-Hart- 1 ford Times.