Norwich bulletin., 1915-08-03

A Georgia jury returnen a verdict or acquittal in 20 minutes in the case of
 a minister who had returned from the
 west to face a murder charge for
 deed committed 45 years ago. He said
 he knew he wasn't guilty but he just
 wanted to prove 1t to the people of Georgia He took a great chance in
 Georgia,-Hartford Post.
 The risk which those take who go
 in public uninspected boats. as are
 those under fifteen tons. is compara-
 lively slight because of the small num-
 If there is any virtue in Inspection It
 would seem that the government will
 do well to extend 1t to boats of this size.-New Haven Register.
 The Boston News Bureau in double leaded editorial declares that the Bos- ton & Maine is in immediate danger of a receiver and that the management has helped the crisis along by doing $900, 900 worth of track work in June this year, instead of doing it in the fall as usual But for that extra $9o0,oo0 of expenses, it says. the books
 would show $2o0.000 of surplus for the year, while now there will be Q $700s-
 GOO deficit-Hartford Courant-
 The seven railroads of New England have presented to the court of claims at Washington demands for more than SIG, 100000 in the aggregate, on the | ground that they have lost that sum of money in the last six years through carrying the mails under the present system of weights. The companies ob- 5ect both to the quadrennial system of weighing and to the rate of pay per 1 mile. It will be a good thing all | around to have the facts all brought | to light through court procedure. No- body wants the government to pay more for the service the railroads per- form that the service is fairly worth. ! Nor, on the other hand, does any one | want Uncle Samuel to be a piker or
 8 psckpocket---Hartford Courant-
 | This world is a funny old mixture. ! While Chicago nouTns and raises a | huge fund for the Eastland victims, a
 crowd of unemployed gathers in front | of the Western Electric company and clamors for the hundreds of jobs made vacant by the disaster. From one point l of view it looks like a callous scramble for dead mems shoes and, no doubt, ! 1t is. in some cases But, on the other hand, many of the c1amorers probably | need work and need it badly. The | company turned all applicants away rather brusQuely. declaring that there | were no jobs-and that was probably | true at the moment. Corporations, ct certain times. have souls no less sen- sttive than the souls of the individual ! HIGH WHO ulT6CL IliclAt-1uo ID 6bAOD
 a time.-Waterbury American
 Do not be alarmed for the freedom ! of the press. The government Is not | likely to interfere with the rabid pro-
 German press even when 1t borders on | reasonable talk. For the present al
 least public opinion can deal with | them. Note what the press and public of Utica did to the Standardization Alliance ard it's president, Henry Weis- mann. for their attack on American | policy and on President Wilson, in res olutions and speeches. No threats were made against the 2,00o mauiacs | who pledged themselves to stand to- | gether'' if worst came to worst be- tween the United States and Germany,
 but they were given plainly to under
 stand that Utica people had no use
 for them and their sentiments and that l their presence and their talk were not agreeable. This ugly German feeling | can be controlled in this way and it's ! expression allowed up to a certain ex- tent as a safety valve of relief-Wat- | erbury American.