Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-16
OTHER VIEW POINTS
This is ice weather.

This is ice weather.
 There have been frequent long peri odS of cold weather of the sort that produces the refrigerator supply in sufficient amount to satisfy our needs. Ice ought to be cheap next summer. But.
 Labor is scarce and expensive and feed for horses likewise.
 So about May l be prepared for the careful and elaborate explanation of the reasons which make an increase in prices necessary.-Hartford Post.
 There are several bills now before the legislature introduced at behest of the state board of education that should receive the immediate atten- tion of the execEtioner. They have the earmarks of that member of the
 board known as B. D. Robbins and they no more deserve a place in the statute book than he does on the
 board. These bills propose to take from the school boards in towns un- der state supervision the power of purchasing books and giving that power to the state board, which would make five year contracts with acteristic attempt at uSurpation of power and one that every town con- cerned should resent.-Bristol Press.
 the restoration of capital punishment in Rhode Island. But the possibilities of war have brought the subject be- fore the general assembly. Capital punishment under the bill presented yesterday in the senate is limited to persons who burn or dynamite build ings. ships, dams, bridges or railroad tracks and equipment in time of war. the enemies of the country who may not be impressed by the penalties of fine and Imprisonment. Thus it is proposed to inf1ict the death penalty
 ,S-- -xox this is already permitted in this state when murder is committed by a per son while serving a life sentence- Providence Bulletin.
 Every bit. of accurate news that comes from the warning countries goes to sustain the belief that all the war ring nations have reached the conclu- sion that the land situation at present is practically a deadlock but that if 1t can remain so, the allies will win the war because Germany is starving not starving for food alone ,but for cop per, nickel, brass, rubber, oil-au the supplies which are consumed 90 heav- fly in war time.
 The failure of the German subma- rine campaign would probably be fol- lowed by a renewal of desperate struggle, for a time on land, but there is no reason to believe that the out come would be other than what it has been in the past In other words. if Germany does not win this U-boat warfare, the terms of peace will be written in Berlin, but not by Germans. Telegram.
 Canada fixes maximum prices for certain commodities, and makes it a felony to deal with food as, for in stance, a large Chicago speculator re- gently dealt with eggs, when he put millions Of dozens into cold storage and boosted the market until it re- turned him several hundred per cent. on his inventment
 The trend of things is<to insure the prime producer a substantial margin on his industry, then to get the goods to the consumer by the shortest, cheapest and most efficient route, with the maximum elimination of middle men.
 The attempt of anybody to take speculative profit of enormous size from dealings in food will soon be a crime in every part of the civilized world.-Bridgeport Farmer.