Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-18
OTHER VIEW POINTS

Right here at home, the news of rfa past few weeks has continued three or four blood-curdling items concerning attacks made on sleeping children by rats. Waterbury as vol as other com munities might take a lesson from the south and from California and before the menace of the disease carrying rat becomes imposing, begin a campaign their relatives.-Waterbury Republicanr
 The state certainly should not ba spending its money for this purpose mobile fees should be devoted entirely to the maintenance and upbuilding of roads the machines help to tear down. No part of this should be diverted to publishing an automobile list. If a list is to be published it should be setf through the sale to those who want copies.-Hartford Post
 There seems to need for a new school at the militia camp at Mantle one for the instruction of the sol- and decent conduct outside of the camp lines. The outbreak in New Lon don Sunday night. when police were attacked by miiitiamen and other per sons annoyed. shows that some of the soldier boys have a mistaken idea of
 
 does not mean license to act like hood iums.-Ansonia Sentinel.
 We don't care what plans the Post Office Department may make to give us as good mail service as we used to have. If We can find any way of car rying the mail without employing the Connecticut Company, and can satisfy | its resentment against that corpora- tion, while giving us adequate mall | facilities, we welcome it whatever the | cost. We have no interest in the com pany and are inclined to believe that the company has very little interest in the postal contract-Waterbury Ameri- can-
 Seldom a summer passes without a long period of 'dogdays" Tradition weeks, extending from about the | twenty-fifth of July to the sixth of September. This year it began at least | two weeks ahead of the traditional time. This may mean that we shall be over it the sooner or it may mean | judging from experience, the sooner we begin dogdays the sooner 1t will be over. We may get some fine | summer weather in August-New Haven Register. | largely of members comprising the | aw-lawyers-yet there is no statute equal to the occasion to have million aires taking the funds of innocent stockholders restore the loot Possibly when the next legislature of this state | meets the same railroad influence will be felt as in the past In fact the people. will continue to cater to the element, making it possible for the Morgans. the Mellens, the Thornes and men of that type to pull of some deal to even discount. the New Haven financial wreck of today.-<Middletown Press.
 No person who believes in order, de- cency and good government will oo- ject to the checking of the Sabbath | evils which have been the cause of much complaint from those who know conditions on the outskirts of the city Every honest minded citizen will be glad that something has been done to improve matters and we can all un- derstand that this shaking up has been a fine thing for our municipal well being. At the same time. for ths sake of our civic pride, we deeply re. gret that it was considered expedieni | to call in the state police to make thi, ] sweep of the city. We believe 1t could have have been done another way and l just as good results could have been complished.-Meriden Journal |