Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-20
OTHER VIEW POINTS

Frederick c. Howe. commissioner of immigration, has observed that a great number of immigrants are com ing back. from the country into the cities He attributes this condition to the fact that a great portion or the land formerly devoted to agricultural uses is now unavailable to furnish these immigrants with a necessary working area MT. Howe advocates the breaking up of vast private estates into small farms so that the foreign born population may be given to agri- cultural pursuits. f. there is any state in the Union that can offer itself as the subject to carry out the experiment suggested by Commissioner Howe = namely, the cutting up of great estates into small rms-Connecticut is that state.- New Britain Herald.
 Up in New Hampshire young man has solved the problem of running an auto through the snow by converting his flivver into vehicle that is half automobile and half sleigh. Removing the front wheels, he had attached a set of runners steered by the usual wheel. The front wheels are put back under the body of the car just a short distance in front of the back wheels and by a chain device they are con nected with the rear wheels. This gives the car a double set of drivers, increasing it's purchase on the snow. This car will go anywhere that any vehicle can go and skidding is prac- tically unknown to it's history.
 There's no known reason this idea, which is not patented, should not be- come very general in the winter sea- son.-New Haven Union.
 With a municipal abattoir one man can inspect all the animals killed. Sanitary conditions of slaughterinG 6 he have absolute control over the premises used. Unsanitary slaughter ing places will be driven out of ex- istence because the city will forbid the municipal stamp will be affixed ionly at the municipal slaushtering place.
 A municipal abattoir is not a prop osition meaning an added heavy eX- pense. There is no economic argu- ment against it. New Britain is build ing one at a cost of $5,000. Hartford s need cost little more. Once built and put in operation the plant will be self maintaining through the fees that will be charged for slaughtering, and per haps show o profit.-Hartford Post.
 One of the effects of the smallpox outbreak here is the institution or something like a boycott against Wa terbury residents in other cities or the state. ,. In the state normal schools the students have noticed it. In the hotels and other quasi-public places the an nouncement that one is from Water buEN is not pleasant to the rest of the guests of bystanders. Waterbury is persona non grata," so to. speak, because of it's Identification as the town of the state that has the small poX epidemic in it's strongest form: In view of this is it not the sensible thing to do to get together and join forces with the authorities and the neighbors to hasten the end of the epidemic and all the evils that go with it and re-establish the city's bill of heath? These anti-vaccination cru sades are not going to be helpful in hastening the end of tht epidemic nor in establishing the confidence of the people outside of the city in the intention of Waterburians to stamp out the diseast as<rapidly as possible. It should be borne in mind that though there were only two or three cases there would be the same adverse sen tirnent without and that this alone should spur all on to get the city's