Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-07
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The state dedicates today ,Wednes- day) in it's Capitol 4 monument to
 Ulysses Simpson Grant, hero or the civil war, eighteenth president of the
 United States and a grandson Of Con nectucut, whose forbear in the second
 Grant, Holland farmer. Even in
 Connecticut the fact is not generally known, any more than it's is generally
 known that he whose memory is thus honored was christened Hiram Ulys-
 ses Grant, and became Ulysses Simp-
 son Grant through an error in the pa
 pers by which he was admitted to West Point. The Sons of Veterans do we'll to perpetuate the information,
 that future generations may know Of Connecticut's claim upon this great soldier-Hartford Post.
 | The license laws of Connecticut put ] the question up to the voters of each | town, and in one case even to the vot-
 CTS of a village, as to whether Or not there shall be saloons in their towns.
 If the towns are small the chances are
 against the demon rum, but if they are large he gets a chance. This year, however, the demon loses territory, for
 six towns change from we ito dry, against two from dry to wet. In the towns that changed the feature of the
 day was the flint on this question, while in some of those which did not | opening of the polls to the counting of the ballots. While one vote would have changed the result in two towns,
 at least, the no-license forces have
 gained ground.-Hartford Courant.
 Illinois Is engaged in a fight led by prominent jurists and lawyers, physi- clans and social workers, to secure the enctment of a real eugenic lava law l to exclude from marriage the physical II, f~ fO I Iv~nf loE | that will stand the test of constitu- l tionality Until conditions of Aeliving become nearly ideal or rather less
 generally internal, the effort to dimin-
 ish unfitness among the members or any community will be .3ruitless- We're I the conditions of living what nature intended they should be, there would
 be no need for eugentic laws. Here is the flaw in all such efforts. The effort to make better men and better women should be at the point where prospect ] i've parenthood is vitiated by the con- ditions under which the youth have to labor to live-Torrington Register. . l Will Kensington become part of New Britain? Sentiment in favor Of be-
 coming annexed to the Hardware City grows apace in the village. The city of New Britain Is now closer to Ken sington tha his Berlin center. New
 Britain has expanded southerly and is l WlLl1n Q6nQ-SldhAIlS O4 tI40 home of the American Paper Goods shop The people of Kensington want 1 a water service, and New Britain is | in a position to furnish it. There Is | but one obstacle it nhe way, and that provision in our city charter. Water community, and hence Kensington must become incorporated with us be- fore she can have the service. Ac-
 cording to reports the people Of the
 1~v% %. &rlr
 sary steps to secure the much desired water service. A delegation of Ken sington people is expected to appear before the charter revision committee at it's meeting tomorrow night to plead
 for water, and perhaps give express New Britain Record.
 l The town of Durham is about to 1 hold it's first agricultural fair in fifty.
 years. Thus it will revive a practice
 that was held in high esteem by the Durhamites of a former generation,
 and give encouragement to the other l agricultural sections of the state to re- new their old customs. There is
 strong back to the farm movement In l this state, and 1t is quite conceivable | that in a few years, so prosperous will
 the farms be, these town fairs will be
 an economic feature of their lives and held in the consciousness of that fact. l Connecticut lost great deal when the
 fascination of the city seduced the
 farm boy from his native farm town
 and made of agricultural pursuits things of secondary importance. Un- der the direction of forward looking
 men, scientific farmers of the inten- sive sort, the promise Is rapidly being
 formulated that in few years Con-
 necticut will be restored to her dig nifty as an agricultural state of im-
 portance. Durham is contributing.
 Good for Durham.-New Haven Jour
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