Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09
OTHER VIEW POINTS

The words of warning uttered by Governor Holcomb in his inaugural
 message to beware of the spacious in terests that have selfish purpose | in prompting big appropriations for road making are quickly strengthened. IThis brings news of great activity on 1 the part of associations on the make | to influence the general assembly and 1 persuade it to give millions where it l will do the most good to the least l number. The Governor knew full well 1 what he was talking about It be | hooves members of the legislature to l be on guard against the blandishments | of those who are out after state dol | lars.-Bristol Press. New Bedford is trying to throw off | the unwholesome restraints of the pur- | itanical law which prevents Sunday evening concerts. A local manager Se- cured 2,500 signatures to a petition for Sunday concerts all in a period of a few days and it is pointed out that such entertainment is provided in Bos- 1 ton, Fall River and many other cities with beneficial results. New York is making a similar fight, and has been for some week now. In the end this movement is bound to become general and to succeed everywhere ConSe-
 quently the public is becoming more and more aroused against the pres ent Sunday observance laws which have come down to use from a crump ed and narrow age. Laws little suited
 to the breadth and freshness of our present spiritual and intellectual view New Haven Union.
 Can it be that we are to suffer the horrible deprivation of a shortage of blotters? Will the paper shortage really go so far as to check the out put of the wonderfully picturesque as well as useful-advertisin blotters that have flooded our desks in years past? We may have raiIed at the in- O a at he 91aoJ- -11O sold us our coal, at the shoe dealer and others who advertised their goods in gaily colcred pictures on the backs oS blotterS. But we always used the blotters. And now, perhaps, they are to be no more. Perhaps we'll return to the breezy practice of waving en- velopes and letters in the air to dry the ink. We may use sand again for that purpose. Better yet, we may all begin to use typewriters and cease to need the blotter except for sigma lures. The last move would be the best, all things considered. It would paper, in blotters, in time, in energy and in the tempers of the people who
 read our orrespondence.-Mer Record.
 The startling theory has been ad- vanced by the secretary of the Con- necticut Good Roads Association in a letter sent to friends of the move
 
 legislative appropriations for the inn provement of the highways that the failure of the state at it's last legisla- tive session to appropriate large sums was due to the poverty of the associa
 tion. To overcome this difficulty this year, the suggestion is made that a publicity fund be created by the | friends of good roads, on the one hand, and by the various business in terests which may be promoted by a state appropriation of three four millions, on the other. If it is. true that the state halls of legislation have
 to be necessarily bombarded before they can be made to dispassionately consider the needs of the state in the matter of good roads, then the fright full thought comes voluntary to one that all other movements for the good anced And this quickly reduces the discussion to the comment of a des- perate old cynic who once declared that nothing ever went through the general assembly on its merits. We are not yet prepared to swallow either Good Roads Association or that of the desperate old cynic.-New Haven Journal Courier.
 It will. take more than prejudiced criticism or haphazard charges to than that the State School for Boys ] in Meriden is an ideal institution. When one considers what it has done | for so many boys, what a splendid start in life it has given to many | hundreds of them and how these is dffficult to reconcile these Ncondi tions with charges that were made !