Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-30
OTHER VIEW POINTS

The brief reappearnce of Fuel
 Commissioner Garfield gives his critics
 the opportunity to call attention to
 what they term the utter failure of
 government control. It must be ad-
 mitted that Mr Garfield lacked much
 that is essential and some of his acts
 were extremely unp. pular but one
 fact stands out clearly and prominent ly-during the war the price of coal
 was considerably less than at present, when conditions are infinitely better for it's production and delivery. In other words, MT. Garfield and govern
 ment control saved the people a vast sum of money and protected them from profiteering spirit that is prev alent and first cousin to Prussianiem. Bristol Press.
 Waterbury, city of the highest 1m- portance to our government in the war that has just ended would do well to gather into one place for the enlight- enment of future genratlons a collec- 1 tion of interesting posters, pictures | and manufactured articles that were i produced here during the war or used i in war work. Such a collection should i be placed in the Mattanucl1 Historical | society building. Our manufacturing l plants turned out a large number ot products such as shell cases, fuses { badges and buttons for uniforms l belts for machine gun bullets and ] hundreds of other articles that would make a most interesting collection il brought ogether,-W aterbury Repub-
 lican.
 1 The appeal made by Carroll A i Campbell, director of public works i that residents use their best efforts te i keep the city clean after the street de partment has made it's preparations
 for the parade, is a good one, but one
 which should not be necessary in sucE
 a city as MiddletoWn.
 l There are few ways in which a city can better demonstrate it's civic pride l than that of keeping it's streets clean l A city of clean streets is a city wortf 1 living in, and it is not too much to asf i of residents that they cooperate Witf ! the city authorities at all times te ] bring this about.
 Americans and America have made q reputation for themselves in Europe l during the recent war for theil | cleanliness and excellent sanitation I Whole cities and large areas abou them in France have been cleaned III and made better places in which tt f live, by Yankees.
 I There is nothing that will attract at tention so quickly. or that will n1ak, such a decided impression upon a wis
 itor as & clean street. Middletown ha. one of ehe finest main streets in Con l; necticut. But it should not only b. broad, it should be clean at all times-
 MiddletoWn Press.
 Many of the young folks will be glac that the good old noisy Fourth of Jul, is coming back, but older folks vii
 dread it.
 ; Let it be hoped that in the years o a restricted Fourth the people hay
 learned that fireworks display is ia [ more interesting where professional . produce them and the laiety watch 1, than where everybody is his own nois producer.
 The old time Fourth means man things besides joy and noise. It means death for some. It mean burns, blindness and many lesser trag :. edies for many more.
 There is no reason why Semblanc
 of the old time Fourth can not be re 3 stored to US, but the devices whic , were dangerous should be forbidden t 9 the public.
 . Pageans, parades. games and nigh !? fireworks are amply able to take tn Q place of guns, giant crackers and othe B devices.
 y It is mainly the children and a fey '' rowdies who delight in the latte e things. And the children will neve r know what they have missed if joyou
 substitutes are provided.
 = Above all things spare the communi O ty from the "old time Fourth with ii e morrow's casualty list. - Bridgepol g Standard Telegram.
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