Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-15

Representative Reilly has another postmastership going begging. His nominee for the office in Cheshire has resigned and MT. Reilly is desperately seeking a new candidate for the place. This idea of Democrats refusing fed eral jobs is getting to be so much of a habit as to be almost unbelievable. Bridgeport Standard
 Of our immense acreage of roofs we have hitherto used only minute frac- ton. and of that fraction only an in- f1nitesimal part for purposes domestic and philanthropic. We are going to be wiser in the future it seems. and thanks be the reform will neces- sitate rigid enforcement of the smoks-nuisance laws. Nobody can be happy on a. roof while subjected to 8 rain of comminuted carbon.-water- bury Democrat.
 Not as many as usual are leaving Connecticut this summer for a vaea- tion elsewhere. Those who stay are enabled to see why those who never go can be happy here. There are few places in this country where the cli- mate, the scenery and conditions of living are so conducive to comfort and happiness, as most parts of Conn
 ecticut. Look right around you here at home and see for yourseH.-Water-
 bury American.
 There is a great responsibility upon drivers of automobiles. but there is an important responsibility too, upon pedestrians. To insist upon crossing a street in front of an automobile that has been instructed to move by the traffic officer in charge of the crossing, | it's a very foolish way to risk ones ! life. When traffic at intersecting corn CTS has been closed in one direction
 and opened in another, pedestrians in | the closed section should await their | turn. just as automobiles, street cars ! and. all other vehicles are obliged to do.-Bridgeport Telegram,
 | Summer has only begun. There is ! considerable warm weather to be ex- | pected yet and with it all the discom- i forts that warm weather brings ir various forms. To most people the
 weather of summer is far more accep- | table than the weather of winter. Il costs less to live in summer, if one if | healthy. It costs more to live in win | ter, of course, but 1t costs much more | if one is suffering from the effects | of illness contracted during the sum- mer as the result of the activity oi | disease spreading insects For these
 to keep the community in which ht | lives free from such insects, and tC
 encourage others to do so than tc
 tolerate breeding places for flies anc
 similar pests, however. begrudgingiy I-Waterbury Republican.
 [ No one Is going to claim that the l present Representative of the Fourtt | District has any desire to cripple the
 industries of Connecticut. but he mus
 realize that they have suffered be- ! cause of the legislation of the las
 year He may believe in the policy ! of protection, but he must vote as the
 majority of his party in Congress dictates. And it may be taken fol | granted that the former Republican, | who voted the Progressive ticket 1T
 1912 and thus helped to place tht l present party in power. are not eagei | to try the experiment again. If tn.
 sentiment of the country is similar ts ] that which finds expression today ii | Stamford, the next election will b,
 fought out upon old party lines. anC l everyone will know that the Republi- can candidates stand for protection tl | our manufacturing industries and fol
 remunerative employment to AIneri can workingmen-Stamfo Advocate |