Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-19

who are against them, The sheep and the goats. if you please, the men who those who have centered their thoughts on some other land must all line up for the final inspection This is the dividing of the ways. There can be no middle ground when America Is at stake. If 1t has to be made cam paign question for 1916 well and good. Either you are an American or you are not an American. and that is the end of the story. America first New Britain Herald.
 After the denoument of the early week, when 1t was announced that many of our great battleships must have new engines installed because the first ones haven't turned out we'll. we lack something in the heartiness of joy that the California is to be eQup- ped for electrical propulsion. Secretary Daniels speaks wonders for the new idea. as does Dr. Steinmetz. the dis tinguished engineer of the General Electric company. But no other na- tion has dared to make the experiment and the time to praise 1t is after 1t has been demonstrated a success New London Telegraph.
 It is doubtful whether any Ameri- can women except the handful that hope to marry into English titles will be pleased by Mrs. Tweedle's conclu- sion that the American woman is what the modern English woman might have been had she not cen turies of conservation and tradition
 behind her; we (the English) are what the fair American may yet be-
 come" Let our men. at least. utter a
 word of protest If the evolution of
 the American Is going to make her
 more and more like the English wom-
 an, we want no more evolution. We nrafar fI~xy a ora Waterbury Democrat
 Perhaps it is because the Baltic sea seems remote, or perhaps it is because only freight steamers are being sunk and apparently without loss of life. but we are hearing very little detail about the British submarine raids upon com
 merce between Germany and Sweden.
 Yet shipping is being lost about as fast
 as the Germans were sinking British
 and neutral ships in the spring. Ger
 many is finding out that two can play | at that. Another proof that war is a game with no umpires came yesterday.
 The British officially announce that they attacked the enemy under cover of a cloud of smoke and gas" Re-
 member the outburst over the first use of gas by the Germans. Apparently, ] if the other fellow insists on making
 new rules, the only thing to do is to
 beat him at it.-Waterbury Republi-
 can.
 In our own state of Connecticut we | harbor. the man who is regarded as the pioneer in modern submarine construc- 1 ton, Simon Lake. Strange as it may
 seem. the United States is said to Navy of TIT. It was invented by David Bushnell of Saybrook. Connec- ticut. and is described by historians as
 a turtle shaped affair. carrying 15t pounds of powder. with mechanism tS fire same when in contact with ships bottom" Thus. having made
 the start in submarine invention anC construction there is no reason whI the United States should not lead th'
 world in maintaining and improvinl its work along these lines America
 has been prone to let others take ul
 where she left off. In the future ther'
 should be no laying off-New BritaiE
 Herald.
 In New York the gas company i
 now announcing a new type of ga ! light which it apparently expects c compete on even terms with tho i'm
 proved forms of electric light. Tn
 new gas lamp is of the mantle" O
 incandescent type, but differs from ol forms in that it has three small man ties instead of one large one, and use no chimney. The small mantles are s
 tough as to be practically indestruct l ible. while the absence of chimne does away with the nuisance of smolS ed and cracked glass The light 1 . question will give four hours of bril [ three times the candle power of tn l old lava tip burner, at one-hah tE : consumption of gas. This competi a ton between gas and electricity in tn e field of illumination is a healthy or | in which the public is the gainer.- Q Bridgeport Telegram.
 r Boston has discovered that by tf = use of calcium chloride 1t can sprink I it's streets in the winter time wit s entire success. Calcium chloride Is a very inexpensive chemical salt havin = a strong affinity for water. The stat d of Connecticut uses it in large guar n titles as a dust preventive and ros O binder. In addition to these Qualitie 3: 1t has the faculty of greatly lowerir If the freezing point of water. By the e, n pedient of dissolving sufficient calc - um chloride in each filling of wt T tering cart, streets may be sprinkle @ In the winter time and the old tin = dust bugaboo allayed- The need f
 such sprinkling would be only vel o occasional of course. A good part n the winter season brings rain ar IS sleet, and there Is certainly no net = of sprinkling them. Snow on u }. ground is of course dust preventiv h and there is no trouble from du e when the wind is low. But on a kee IS dry winters day with high wind. u $ dust nuisance is intolerable. inlee 'r 1t is quite probable that the fl 'r which Is blown in the form Of du of into peoples mouths and noses n such occasions is far more respons in ble for the winters epidemic of col m and sore throats than the dampne IT and cold which are generally blami le for such troubles.-Bridgeport Earn s- CT.