Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-04
OTHER VIEW POINTS

i Coming before the May meeting of 1 the Common Council Mayor Quigley will ask for the passage of an ordi- nance which will revoke a.l licenses | to sell fireworks in this city on the Fourth of July. The outgrowth of a plea by Fire Commissioner Adam 1 son of New York, this action by the mayor is at once sensible and pa 1 tIiOtic. With the nation at war the 1 people of New Britain and other cities 1 can settle down to an ultra safe and 1 sane celebration of Independence Day, 1 sane fireworks, sane firearms, sane accidents.-New Britain Herald.
 ] Providence have obtained substantial increases in wages. the aggregate be- 1 ing estimated at seventy thousand dollars for the year. The shortage of labor has forced readjustments. Now 1 it Is necessary to raise the tax rate or to cut down the amount of work. Probably the increase vii be met by slight addition to the next levy and by limiting construction to necessary pro- ljects. Maintenance cannot we'll be sacrificed to any great extent without inconvenience and loss. But it may be practicable to postpone action on new plans, which, although desirable, are not absolutely essential this year. Providence Bulletin.
 We hope that the suspicious doings at Hartford will not fill any worthy employe of a private employer with fear lest, unknown to hiSnsef and con- trary to his desire, his employer force upon him an increase of salary. This isn't habit that is likely to become very common. Still you never can tell What mysterious spirit coming down from the sky and interesting it. self in the affairs of men, without their knowledge and contrary to their desire, slips legislation in as riders of lac <ac.sv, ,I1r rfne of people who don't want it, haven't asked for it never heard of it, and wouldn't think of it if they could help it? Such a disturbance in innocent minds has never been witnessed since the last time such effort was made to give money away to people in spite of themselves.-Waterb American.
 At present 1t looks as if paper milk bottles were going to take the place of the glass containers. The most common type of the new paper bottle is one of light cardboard coated with paraffin. It is tight and opaque. It is said that milk can be kept fresh in these card board bottles hours long CT than it can in the glass bottles. Incidentally the paper bottle is cheap, so that destroying it is not wasteful. The newest machine used in making these bottles manufactures them from wood pulp. instead of from finished paper. It turns out 216 paper bottles in 15o seconds. making 6o.00o bottles from a ton of wood pulp. Everything in the process is completely sanitary. The whole process is continuous. Only three men are required to run the machine. The doom of the old glass bottle seems to have been definitely sealed.-Meriden Record
 Let Teddy go to France. not neces- sarily at the head of a division, but at the head of the largest unit until he is able to command.
 It would be better to start him with l trained force, but if the impetuous l disposition of the colonel insists upon | an earlier movement, the training can | be had after the troops have arrived | in France
 Colonel Roosevelt belongs essential 1 ly to the order of military spirits. In | this field there will be scope for his | talents and energies. There are no l good reasons why he should not have | a commission. and many why he | should His commission shoid be just l as big as it is deemed his talents are. | That is. he should have command of | as large a force as it Is thought his