Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-25
OTHER VIEW POINTS

If automobile users are not conn pelled to pay a very much higher price for gasoline than they have ever paid it will be due to something now This is not the fault of the oil man, but a condition growing out of the in- creased consumption of gasoline and the extraordinary demand for fuel abroad, coupled with a rapidly de crea sing production. He looks for gas oline to reach 30 cents a gallon be- fore many weeks and it will not be surprising if it goes much higher New Britain Record.
 The trained farmer is doubtless as essential as the trained soldier to any scheme of nation preparedness And better farming processes mean cheap CT food for the people in times of peace Provided-the distribution of food stuff, its transportation and methods of marketing, are managed in a fair way.
 The annual fall spectacle of acres of choice fruits left to rot, on acrount of car shortage, and of thousands of dozens of eggs spoiled in cold storage on account of price manipulations, is one of to, discourage the great goddess Demeter herself, not to mention her devotees, the farmers.-Bridgepo Standard.
 The bill introduced by Representa- tive Back of Killingly to safeguard bank deposits in savings banks and trust companies has more to com mend it in spirit and purpose than in the means sought. Connecticut has been disgraced within the near past by a number of savings bank fail ures that were inexcusable. To good many, however, those breaks appeared to reflect as much on the state as on the institutions because the state assumed protectorate by virtue of its bank commissioners and examinations that proved utterly in adequate. The state should either give a real protection to depositors or withdraw entirely. Protection that is such in name only is a sham and deceit. MT. Backs scheme of taxing one bank to protect another is open to criticism.-Bristol Press.
 i-vaccinationists will find fresh ammunition for their campaign in case of a sodier tried at Kansas City on charge of rifiing the mails. Federal imum fine because he found the sol dier to have been weakened mentally by the heat upon the border, and by the injector of anti-typhoid serum.
 Oponents of vaccination will not be slow to seize upon that decision as an argument against serum treat ment as a preventive of disease. The decision, if well founded, is rather of a DlOW to the m6Q1Cd1 theory CnaC no harm can come from anti-typhoid in oculation.
 At best the introduction of diseased animal matter into the human body by vaccination is disgusting, but we have come generally to approve of the practice because of the benefits most doctors assure us the human race derives thereby. And such cases as this, while they do not by any means prove that vaccination is all wrong, make it easier for the antis to get converts to their constellation Post.
 In the passing of Uncle Horace Johnson, the Middle Haddam weather prophet, Connecticut loses a unique personality. Many laughed at MT. Johnson's predictions, especially when they seemed to have failed of fulfill ment, but he always pointed out that they had come true somewhere in the country, and insisted that he could not always predict the exact locality of storms and similar disturbances"