Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-17
OTHER VIEW POINTS

If Germany send out submarines to blockade the British coast, and they sink an English cruiser, that is war. vessels which, simply in the interest of humanity, seek to rescue the drown ing crew of the sunken cruiser, that is not war. Bad as war is. that is some thing Worse-New Haven Register.
 Some one asks what has become of the man who used to take five min utes and throw in a few shovelfuls of earth to prevent a hole in the highway from getting deeper? Well, just now he. is telephoning the high way department to send around pair of horses and a gang of men to do the same Job.-Meriden Journal.
 The basis of every permanent high way is concrete. Roman roads, built use They have been kept up, but the original concrete is in many of them. Concrete needs only to be laid intel igently to make superior highway. Concrete construction permits the To- cal contractor to enter, which is not the case when the community deals in pavements with patented name Bridgeport Farmer.
 The arguments against capital pun ishment are mainly sentimental ones, and the arguments in favor of it are mainly practical ones. Thus the effort which is now being made in Connecti- cut to abolish capital punishment, and likewise in New York state, is backed for the most part by persons who are opposed to capital punishment as a matter of sentiment while capital pun- ishment Is being upheld by persons who support it because they know that it is one of the most effective deter rents of murder.-Bridgepo Tele- gram.
 While there has been more or less hostility to the personal tax on the part of the people of the state it has been of a sporadic character that did not rally the most intelligent voters to that side of the controversy. Now the bill which aimed at the repeal of the law, has been defeated in the legisla- ture and the question is settled for two years to come. It would have been most injudicious proceeding just now, when the state needs every cent of the revenue it can raise, to wipe out this tax, which is bringing into the treasury considerable sums and which is just getting in a state of efficiency as regards collection Anspnia Sentinel.
 Connecticut is getting from its legis- latorS this year exactly what it sent them to Hartford to accomplish. The practical needs of the state are being considered in practical way by prac- tical men. Mush and hectic oratory are conspicuous by their absence. Senators and Representatives are ask ing to be judged by the record of what they have accomplished rather than by their ability to make stump speeches in the legislative halls. This, it must be said, is just as it should be and will tend to confirm the gen. era1 impression that, whenever eff1ci- ency in the management of the state S affairs is wanted, 1t is very advisable to put Republican administration in power.-Bridgeport Standard.
 It is to be hoped that the general assembly will find some other way for levying taxes on corporations than by using the so-called market value" of their shares. It is safe to say that in nine cases out of ten these are not correct. Go out and try to sell at one shot 1000 out of the 5000 shares Of the big Aetna Insurance company and see what you can get for them in a market where usual dealings are more | likely to be in tens than in hum dreds. Down goes the price, that is l the market value.' But turn about and try to buy 1000 shares of the same cnnonanV in a naQrninG and see