Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-29
OTHER VIEW POINTS

Profits, disturbed through wage in- creases. group insurance, and multi plicity of social schemes, are tangi- bIe evidence that great corporations are not entirely soulless. It profits i the cynic nothing to say that these actions are prompted entirely by self interest. The men at the head of big business are realizing more and moro that the loyalty of a working organ ization is best secured by giving its members a liberal share of the, profits which they have been so instrumental in ecuring.-Meriden Journal
 Not the least interesting phase of the agitation over the New Haven jail and the charges made against it is the attitude of the county com missioners. True to their kind they said, have long had the improve ments in mind" The answer is that left to themselves those needed im- provements would always be in mind, and never anywhere else The most direct route to all jail improvement is abolition of the county system and county commissioners. Real progress is made when that it done and the way is then clear for constructive work.-Bristol Press.
 It will be recalled that fifteen years ago some one in Connecticut thought we needed a change in our organic law. A convention was held. The best thing about that session was that we did not waste much money on it, after the true Connecticut manner. It wass a nable body of men who gathered at Hartford. Yet when the people came to vote on the fruit of it's labors only 31.O0o took the trouble to go to the polls, and more than two-thirds said they did not want it. That was good judgment. There were but one or two things in the new organic law which could not be done by legislation, and not one was really needed. Constitu- tional conventions are waste of money and a field for faddists to try and make other people uncomfortable. Bridgeport Post.
 The formation of a league to en- force peace would be an extension of the idea underlying the Monroe doc Urine, an extension to the old world. It would not be an "entangling a1li- ance," to use the phrase coined by Washington but rather an alliance to stop entaiglements leading to the horrors of war We must be careful not to let shadows of the past darken the path of the future, not to let wise words of the eighteenth century block wise courses of action in the twen- tieth. American independence was gained by an alliance, but not an en- tangling one. We must avoid ertan- gling alliances, but not alliances that will bring about more independence and security for ourselves and other peoples-New Haven Union.
 Waterbury is such hil1y place that the Connecticut company, nor any other company can afford to run cars on it's hillsides that are not properly manned with properly tested brakes. It is also unadvisable to permit cars to be stopped on hillside switches. The other afternoons accident was a very fortunate one for the company. It will look, on paper in the company's offices, with the records of a days mishaps throughout the system, only a trif1e out of the ordinary and not bad at that. It may look the same to the public utilities commissioners. To the people of Waterbury it looks bad, mighty bad, because they have to hide on hillside roads all the time, and they want to believe that the trolley cars they ride in are safe. It should not be necessary to wait until a cor oner's inquest is necessary to enforce the rule that unsafe cars be taken out of service even if the schedule cannot be steadily maintained--Water Republican