Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-19

cases or '1nduStr1al 1llneSS, a year. II these figures are accurate, he's certain ly right in maintaining that there is need of more national preparedness in industry and public Sanitation.-Wa- terbury Republican.
 In the excitement of scanning the Maine results, people are apt to over look one of the important results of that election. This was the passage of a measure limiting the employment of women and children to 54 hours a week-not more than inc hours a day for six days. This measure went to the voters of Maine on a referendum and was overwhelmingly passed. The
 Maine bill of course applies to wom en definitely employed in mercantile or industrial establishments. But how many of the Maine housewives, we wonder. who have to get three meals every day for husbands and the boys, also for the farmhands, are enjoying the 54 hour week k?-Bridgepor Tele-
 gram.
 The Meriden Humane society has for a long time been handicapped by a lack of funds. It could not prosecute it's work with the vigor it desired be :.
 cause there was nc money save for the barest necessities. The history of the local organization is rich in ac- counts of individual effort on the part
 
 dition of animals in need of attention. The time has come however when there must bo something more tangi- ble than a few choiI< spirits working g I in this good cause. There must be 1 hearty cooperation on the part of the i general public. If the membership
 were materially increased there would | be sufficient funds to prosecute the work cessfully,-Meriden Record. ] There may be, are, varying opinions | in Connecticut concerning the political i past. present and future Of Frank E. Healy of Windsor Locks, who went 1 from the republican state convention | which witnessed the defeat of his am- l bition to be governor to the bedside of l his child stricken by the dread infan- 1 tile paralysis Whether one approves l or disapproves of MT. Healy's ambi- lions with reference to the governor | ship, there is no one, the whole state over but sympathizes with him in his 1 present trouble. It is given to few men i to have more and warmer friends than 1 he, and there is in all Connecticut no i feeling but regret at the trouble which has come upon the Healy home i Hartford Post.
 i It seems to be the sentiment Of the 1 editors of New York that while it may | be perfectly proper to hire strike l breakers when a strike is called, it is i hardly as proper to put men without 1 training in the handling of trolley 1 cars in charge of the operation of 1 them. There has been so much evi- l dence during the present strike there l of recklessness of this nature that the l trolley company has sacrificed much | of public sympathy. It has undoubt- edly teen made the victim of strike l breaking agencies which reap harvests | in the profits of such labor disturb = I aS7 40 Sof S,, | other ways, but having had it's atten- ] tion called to this feature of it's ser l vice + should lose no time in remedy l ing conditions even if it has to re- l duce the service on that account. - l Waterbury Republican.
 There is something soothing, almost hypnotic, about watching a woman knit. She does 1t with such utter ab- sorption, and yet the semblance of 1 benevolent interest in things trans
 piring about her. She can juggle hold one or two in her mouth, and reel off yard after yard of garments which season after next will repose eacefully in nlothbal1s in some se-
 cluded corner of the attic. For of
 course it is utterly impossible that
 all the sweaters now in course of
 construction will be worn by the fem mine population of the United States for more than brief period. The
 sweater is ephemefal. It is the con- | ception of the moment, and will pass save as a utilitarian garment which has a definite mission and is quite
 capable of fulfilling it. But we hope
 knitting has come to stay. It should
 be still more widely cultivated as a calm n-inspirfng pastime in a nation which is too hectic and nerve con-
 scious at best.-Merfden Journal.
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 From the Commerce Reports.
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