Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-13
OTHER VIEW POINTS

The Democratic candidate for Con- gress in this distrirt, Jeremiah Dono- van, in his statement of campaign eX- penses filed at Washington, says that he has not spent a single cent in his battle for Congress. We can apre- ciate this statement in it's individual bearing, for it Is Certainly hedging in the direction of safety. MT. Dono- van takes no chances! But his party has perfectly legitimate expenses, and 1t seems to have taken some chances in his nomination-and lost. Bridgeport Standard.
 For years we have heard a great
 deal about American manufacturers capturing the South American mar
 peared to be confined mostly to at tempts made by mail. Even with all the advantage given by the Euro pean war the results acn1eveu do not apear impressive. One would have
 thought Peru about the most un- likely of all the Southern countries as a promising field for manufactur- ing aggressiveness and enterprise, but
 returns indicate that she is a liberal purchaser and gives American made goods the preference, especially in hardware. That should prove encour- aging and lead to renewed energy in other sections.-Bristol Press.
 The English sparrow is doomed.
 War has been declared on that busy
 little fellow by the League of Ameri- can Sportsmen, who place all man
 ners of crime at his door. Three
 years have been determined upon to
 make good task of it. Just how it is
 to be accomplished IS a matter not yet made clear but the Department of Agriculture believes that the best
 method would be the destruction of ls s-,11 T-srJ they will have to be slaughtered near homes and children will probably wit ness the suffering of the little fellows and it is not improbable but that the
 suggestion of the Department of Agri- culture will be the best method of
 ending their existence.-Rockville Journal
 While Meriden has good supply of
 pure water now with the Broad Brook
 reservoir and its millions of gallons
 that will not last long if the city keeps growing and we keep on vast
 ing water. It is the most natural thing in the world to waste water
 From childhood we are brought up on the idea that it is limitless and that it is free. When we draw water from the faucet we waste gallons and we bring our children up the same
 way. If every house in Meriden was d
 present supply would last for genera
 tions. There would be no need to worry about it for a great many years
 no matter how rapidly we grew: It is good training to meter the water De- cause it teaches trift, 1t makes the children guard against waste. Waste is expense and if we are taught to be careful with the city water we are
 more likely to be careful about other things, more likely to think of the expense, less likely to do a thing first and consider the responsibilities after l ward. Let us meter the water and
 save all we can.-Meriden Journal.
 Bridgeport's electorate should not fail to remember and continue to work among their friends in favor of the
 adoption of the commission govern ment charter at the coming special election. The reasons why this char ter should be adopted are so numerous and patent and have been outlined so many times that 1t seems super1uous to mention them here again at this time. The people have shown in the past that they ravor a plan of govern ment by commission and 1t now re- mains for them to turn out en masse at the special election and see to it that the charter is adopted. The days which remain between now and the holding of that election should be speut by those in favor of this great