Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-09

Mayor Danny Dunn, of Willimantic, took the law in his own hands when he spanked boy who was stealing a ride on the back of a trolley car. Guess the boys folks will not object when they realize that the lesson the mayor taught may save the boys life. -Merideu Journal.
 If we break into Mexico in order to pacify it. we shall simply draw the combined attack of all the various factions there, who will stop quarrel ing with each other to fight the hated Yankee. If we had intervened earlier, we might have had the backing of one faction. This is something Huerta points out.-Waterbury American.
 When one realizes that the trolIeys of Connecticut have been made to pay millions toward the construction and maintenance of highways, it does seems an unfair deal that turns these freely open to the jitney, and it is a many, who patronize the latter as often for sheer noVelty's sake as for any other good reason.-New London Telegraph.
 Shall we cut twenty five feet from the east end of The Green to make room for a jitney stand or shall we do without the jitneys? The public would probably decide on the latter. The jitney is too recent an arrival to be entitled to @ch consideration as would be implied in devoting a consid- erable proportion of our central park to the purpose of a jitney stand. Ger taiuly a proposal to give a portion of The Green to the trolley company for the purpose of installing sidetracl<s for the storage of its cars would not be looked upon with favor. Why should sl z mode of transportation? n?-Waterbury Republican.
 To the business man the Organized Charities should appeal strongly be- cause there is such a combination of business methods that waste is elim- mated. Every race and creed is given the same consideration by the Organ ized Charities, thus doing away with any denominationalism which some times thwarts the best endeavors of charitable undertakings. The new organization is entitled to the hearti- est support of the public. The men and women actively identified with it are of such calibre that their motive cannot be misunderstood and the time and energy they are devoting to the subject indicates their confidence in it's iveness.-Meriden Record.
 0L CndTlIy UeS1nS at nome. why is it, therefore, that several we won't say. how many, though the num- Der is far too large-why is it that several of those who vaunt Manches- ter and declaim about it's beauties and its advantages become so silent, so reserved, so more than humanly mod est, when they visit New York or Chicago or almost any city outside this state? Even when signing the hotel register in the place they are visiting, their hand proves untrue to the song in praise of Manchester their hearts are doubtless hymning. The traitorous hand, endowed with a will of it's own, is ever recalcitrant, false to their dearest wishes. It seizes the well-inked pen and just below the ho- tel clerks guiding finger inscribes - of Hartfordl ! Truly, the left hand often knoweth not what the right hand is doing.-Manchester Herald.
 We know, nevertheless that the deterrent effect in the case of released criminals. once imprisoned in terrible surroundings is myth. The system based on this theory has failed to ac- complish its purpose for the prisoner when free returns to his crime with 8 sense of injury which makes him more reckless than before. The in- terests of society are not furthered then, by cruel and inhunan policy in the treatment of the imprisoned but rather are endangered, particu- larly if unsanitary surroundings rem der the prisoner physically and men, tally a menace to his fellows. On the side of punishment, it is evident that the emphasis must be placed, there fore, on the deprivation of liberty and all that this implies. The treatment must be affirmative and not negative It must build up and not break down so that a man may not only realize his misdeeds through self dissatis- faction but may be led to adopt a use- full career when released from im- prtsonment.-NeM Britain Record