Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-05
OTHER VIEW POINTS

1t sometimes is possible for a seem
ingly inconsequential thing to start
strike. Out in Toledo some 500 trolley
motormen and conductors are out be-
cause the company won't permit them
to wear union badges. 1t may be a
matter of principle with the company,
but why be so fussy2 In these days,
the wearing of a badge comes pretty
near to being its own punishment
New Haven Register.
The news comes from Boston Of the
killing of a coon caught with the egg
shells on him, on a hens nest which
he had been robbing. We suppose
any reader of Mr.. Burgess stories
who remembered what u nice friendly
little chap Bobby Coon was, and felt
sorry for this tragedy in his life,
would be as silly as the man or
woman who wept for the slaughtered
deer.-Waterbury American.
In New Haven when the trolley
company clears its tracks of snow il
has TO remove the snow and cannot
shove it over to the side OF the road.
In Massachusetts the same thing is
accomplished, we understand, by a
state law. If we cannot make any ar
engagements that will improve ccndi-
lions in Meriden let US endeavOr TO
get a state law passed that will make
snow removal by the company imper-
atiye.-Meriden journal.
The city of Providence evidently
wants TO be a city beautiful ana to-
ward that end will sell to the people
at nominal prices. $4,000 shrubs and
rose bushes that possess a capacity for
decoration. The chamber of commerce
and various Improvement societies,
agitated the subject and brought il up
TO the point where the mayor appoint
ed April p as planting day. Appar-
emily the Providence plan is an elab
Grafton of Arbor day idea and it is
certainly worthy OF emulaJ!on.-Meri-
den Record.
1t is announced that the New Haven
railroad hopes to complete its new
bridge Cat New London) within year.
This will be a sizeable undertaking.
and il means that the old bridge will
be released for the use OF the state
sooner than was expected. II will
therefore be up TO the next legislature
TO provide for the alteration of the
bridge to make it suitable for highway
purposes. The acquisition of this
| bridge will be one Of the best pieces
of business the state has ever trans
| acted-Hartford Post.
Secretary of War Baker has an
nounced that only two of the aero
planes sent into Mexico with our mil
| itary expedition against Villa are now
| seryiceable. The war department has
| opened negotiations for the purchase
| of additional aeroplanes, 10 be deliv-
/ cred as quickly as possible for service
| in Mexico. We started the expedition
/ against the Mexican bandit with eleV-
| en- aviators and eight aeroplanes.
Suppose that this was a real full
I lodi Cd a a EsrrrnTNanT
erin what pickle would we find our
selves at the present?-Bridgeport
| Telegram.
The best place for that young pirate
| who has been holding up captain anC
| ship crew at the mouth of revolvers is
on the vaudeville stage. He is the last
| brilliant leaf on the tree of Captain
| Kidd He may talk now quite glibly
| about being a German spy and having
| a patriotic purpose of stopping the
voyage of the British steamer that h
Communicated, but the truth seems Il
be that he was out after the gelt anC
that his love for lucre was mucl
greater than his love for the father
land. A good generous term in n fed
eral prison would seem to suit hi!
case exactly. Or, If we don't care Il
take the trouble, turn him over to TIT
English and sea law can deal Will
him.-Ansonia Sentinel.
DIR. Arthur Warren Waite of New
York is suspected OF having slain hi
mother-in-law and his father-in- Law
for their money. 4 germ cabinet il
his possession, supposed TO contain
unknown thousands of deadly diseas
germs, is enc of the links in the chain
of evidence against him. One activ
consumptive, walking the streets AM
expectorating on the sidewalk, is
living, deadly germ cabinet, alongsid
whom DR.. Waite's collection of pc
bacteria ranks as a child's Noah's arl
to the Bronx zoo. The streets o
Bridgeport, in their present filthy
dusty, unswept, unwatered condition
liberate through the air every day
million germs for every one in DI
Waitefs cabinet. Why worry abou
DIR. Waite? He is only a poor tyro a
the art Of germ dissemina ton. TIL