Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-15
OTHER VIEW POINTS

Vincent Astor has refused to turn socialist He has a better head on his shoulders than some of the men who would advise him.-Meriden Journal
 Congress has worth while task ahead of it, in enacting laws to pro- tect the public from exorbitant prices and unfit food originating in abuse of cold storage--Bridgeport Telegram.
 Of course, if the New Haven cannot hold trolleys, why should the New York Central and the Pennsylvania railroad companies? The same sauce for goose and gander.-New Haven Journal Courier
 We can't see disaster We can see real help. The decision fits well into the process of wiping the New Haven i slate clean and beginning a new reck- oning in which there shall be recog- milton of and consideration for funda- mentals too often despised by those who in the past set for themselves as l the guide of their rule their own i whims. their own desires. their own much overrated power-Hartford ! Times.
 l The greatest thing to be feared is 1 fire and people cannot be too watch ! ful. Stoves are naturally well filled up ! with fuel. furnaces are kept going at i full blast and in the eagerness to keep warm people are apt to become a bit 1 careless. and the tossing aside of i matches or papers, used in thaWing l out frozen water pipes. may start a fire l that may not be easily extinguisbed 1 certainly not before it does some dam 1 age and renders a house unfit for hu- | man habitation for some time-New ] Britain Herald.
 It is safe to say that when the
 earnest gentlemen were negotiating at | Hartford for the passing of a work mems compensation law, they did not | have in mind the possibility that a farm laborer who fell from an apple tree and was injured could automat-
 ically recover from his employer. But
 it works out to that. A phrase which used to be very common and eXpres- sive in the country, .'waat's sauce for l the goose is sauce for the gander." has l at least an indirect bearing on this sit
 uation.-New Haven Register.
 All streets should be made as safe
 as is possible. and those who use the
 trolley cars should be protected from
 danger in getting on and off of the
 cars If there is any one respect in
 which protection should be secured te
 the public it Is this. Almost every
 body uses the trolley cars and the
 cars have the right of way on the
 streets. The law that requires an auto
 to stop behind a stationary trolley cal
 is based on sound sense and public safety. It should be general and ev- anywhere enforced.-Bridgeport Stand
 ard.
 State Board of Mediation and Ar
 bitration that never mediates nor ar
 bitrates is an anomaly that is of nc
 benefit to itself. the state. the em-
 Dloyer or the states workingmen. Il
 has been pointed out several time: recently that the commission. whief
 should he one of the most importan and result producing in the state, i:
 purely ornamental and, if anything, : 7 detriment instead of an advantage tt ! the community There should be nt , hesitation on the part of the next leg islature in making over this cheer fully ineffective body into something } useful or else wiping it out altogether l-Ansonia Sentinel
 Hartford had 560 fires which called
 out one or more pieces of apparatu: during the year 1913, with a total losi si of S136,635, This represents an aver age loss per fire of $270. If any city in the country has done better, ol even as well, it would be pleasure l to know it. Hartford owes her mini [ mum of damage to the fact that hel fire department is equipped to maki all possible speed when called. 2 IS an old saying among hremen tha ] the first three minutes after a nri f starts are the moat valuable. If Hart ford needs any argument for the mo torization of the entire fire departmen
 here it is.-Hartford Post.
 There would be great busines , opportunity right now for Waterbur. and other cities of Connecticut 7 American municipalities were so con 7 stituted as to he able to take ad Lsantase of great business opportuui