Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 15, 1910, Page 7

‘The second of the monthly meetings under *the auspices of the prohibition town committee was held Monday eve- nping in the Bill block, having an at- teadance of about 30, of whom half were women. Henry D. Johnson was the presiding officer, opening the meet- ing with brief words of welcome. and prayer was offered by B. G. Smith. Music by the Willard male gquartette and a paper by Stephen E. Peckham upon The Christian Citizen and His Politics had to be omitted because of the {llness of Mr. Peckham. who is also a member of the quartette. O. E. Ryther’s Paper. There was a violin solo by Oliver E. Neff, for which Mrs. Ernest A. Smith played the accompaniment, and this was followed by a paper read by Ernest Allison Smith, unty organ- izer, which had been prepared by Or- man E. Ryther for the February meet- but reached here by mail a day Its subject was Fundamental Er- in All City Charters, and was Here Are Complete New Lines of Spring Derbies and Soit Hats rors as follows: The old saying is as true as old that any fool can find fault. The topic assigned me tonight is in a way a fault finding one. I have learnmed in my life's experience to go slow in the actice of fault finding. It is better ar to point out the good than to point out the bad—unless one has at least a glimmer of an idea as to how im- provement may be made. I prefer to treat a broader topic than the exact pne assigned e, since I am not deeply versed in the detail of the Norwich charter—“Fundamental ‘Mis- takes in All City Charte would be a preferable form of statement. Any man of fair intelligence is able to grasp the fundamental principles underlying many phases of study, or many lines of business, while the brightest mind may be overwhelmed by the detail of a small part of some one subject. * Our forefathers planned the general government on the two-chambered legislature basis, the states all followed their lead, and the years have proved the wisdom of their plan. ‘When our cities began to be Jof a size sufficient to demand special gov— ernmental machinery it was very nat- ural that they should follow the pai- tern of the states and general gove. ment, but the experience of the years goes to show this was a mistake. The basal difference between a legislature and a city government lies in the fact that the formier has chiefly legislative functions, the latter chiefly executive. ‘Many Heads Bring Confusion. In legislation many conflicting inter. ests can finally come to some sort ofan agreement, scme compromise which will fairly meet the call for the great- est good of the greatest number. But in the matter of execution many hezds bring confusion. One master mind, one responsible head, must make the ylans and give the orders and be held 1e- sponsible for result: Under tha most universal rule of many heads and no one held responsible untold evils have grown up in nearly all American cities; the rule of the boss with power but without responsibility; the rule of monopoly; favoritism, graft; rebates, rakeoffs of all sorts through all grades of public service have been the rule rather than the exception. Many good men became discouraged about the gossibilities of decent rule in cities. It remained for a great calamity to teach America a gerat lesson. The tidal wave that engulfed Galveston came near bankrupting the city. The old dual ‘board of city government broke down completely under the task of reorgan- ization, the citizens of Galveston took matters in hand in a way justified by the emergency and applied the meth- ods of a modern corporation to the work of rehabilitation and Galveston rose literally out of the depths in more ways than one and furnished a model of city government that has already been followed by all its sister cities in Texas and by mmny others. Desirable Features. Several features are gradually com- ing to be generally recognized as de- sirable in new city charters. 1—First we may name the abolition of the board of aldermen; there is practical unanimity on this point. 2—A reduction in the number councilmen. A Dead Stomach Of What Use Is it To Any- one? Thousands? Y sands of people are taking the aail ‘They are murdering tl ach, the best friend the their sublime ignorance they think they are putting aside the laws of nature. This is no sensational statement; it is a startling fact, the truth of which any honorable physician will not deny. These thousands of people are swa) lowing daily huge quantities of pepsin and other strong digesters, made espe- cially to digest the food in the stom ach without any aid at all from the d gestive membrane of the stomach. In other words, they are taking from the stomach the work that nature in- tended it should do, and are also refus. g it the only chance for exercise it Noticeable elegance of style is a characteristic peculiar to our entire {ine this season. Superb qualities and -bselulely fast colers distinguish the lime from all previous efforts. SILK HATS and SILK OPERA HATS in the new blocks. Handsome EASTER NECKWEAR. STREET GLOVES in proper shades mnd @& new line of Perfect Fitting SHIRTS at McPHERSON’S, The Hatter, 101 Main Street marlsd SPEGIAL! ’ This Week Only of Belezaire's French eriume Assorted odors 33C See window display. , hundreds throughout slow death of thou~ 1 0z. bottles has Mi-o-na stomach tablets relieve dis- tressed stomach in five minutes; they do more. Taken regularly for a few weeks they build up the run down stomach and make it strong enough to digest its own food. Then indigestion, belching, sour stomach and headache tablets are sold by druggists everywhere and by The Lee & Osgood Co. who guarantee them. 50 cents a box. § Cures catarth or money back. Just ( PRMKNCED HIGH-0-ME) marlidaw bmflwet.m‘ Ex&mpleteouf.fit , including Who Is Looking o Lelh e Ladies For the Following Vehicles? are cordially invited Democrats, Top and Open Business to attend the Wagons, Top and Open Concords. ot primn, oot 1+ censiteres oo SPIMG Opening w‘l‘!;wl.. L. Cflmh(;?; % Wednesday and Worth_a Dollar a Drop. Thursday, March 16th and 17th, at MISS BUCKLEY’S, 308 Main Street. PFred Patchen, Maulius, N. Y., writes: marled The Lee & 0Osgood Co. 131-133 Main Street, NORWICH,” CONN. “Por a lomg time I was affected with kidney trouble which caused an almost censtaut pain in my back and inflam- wnation in my Bladder. Other remedies did not even relieve me, but two fifty eant botties of Foley's Kidney Remedy 1y cured me and T have not hnd a symptoms of kidney trouble -d Co ar iwo years.” The Lee & Os- Fundamental Errors In City Charters| Set Forth by O. E. Ryther in Paper Before Good Citizen- ship Meeting—Discussion on Woman Suffrage. | 3—An increase in the length of term of service. 4—No more ward reprasantauvsl, but all elected “at 5—A large lncren.se in the number of appointive offices. 6—DMore regard for fitness'in the se— lection of candidates, i. e, the selection of "speein.usu" for their depa.runem. of work. 7—Retention of capable public ser- vants in’office for far larger periods. 8—The use of initiative and referen- dum clauses and the “recall” of public servants who fail to “make good.” All these changes are resulting in the so-called “short ballot” by which only a very few public officials are chosen at each election and every voter has a chance to know about the claims of each. This tendency is shearing the boss of his power. One important point has been omit- ed in the foregoing, and it #s one that seems to be giving a good deal of trou- ble in solving, that is, the method of nomination. The two methods being tried out are the primary election and | the direct nomination. At present the direct seems to to be having decided- ly the better of the trial. The prelim- inary or primary election in many cases is about as expensive of a gen- eral election, ahd often fails to settle matters at all. The direct nomination, requiring a fair number of signers be- fore one’s name can go on the ticket, | protects the voters fairly well from incompetent aspirants. Another result of the new movement is the elimination of partisan politics from city and town elections. coming to be generally recogni the government of citles has mo real connection with state or national poli- tice, but it is rather a matter of busi- ness—and the humanities. Some have said the rurming of a city is purely business and we have had the cry “Let us have a business administration.” There is certainly need for a good bit of business in it, but that term fails to cover the functions of a city gov- ernment. Business methods must or ought to prevail in all departments, but | something besides business is called for in the handling of schools, the poor department, the parks and boulevards, and other activities and enterprises. Monopolistic Control of Utilities. | 1t is quite generaly conceded today that the gravest danger to our cities is not from the boss as such—we may eliminate him—not from ordinary pet- ty graft—we may head that off—but from the monopolistic control of public and gquasi-public utilities. Who shall control and how control the transporta- tion of passengers and freight, furnish heat, light, power, control wharves, etc.? It has seemed, and still seems a very simple thing to give a railway a location in our streets, with nothing said about the limit of time or about remuneration—perpetual franchises in | fact. I was myself in the Norwich council chamber when the Westerly road was granted a location, and never a word was said about any limtl of time or reimbursement to the city, or the city have a right to take over the line at some future time. I suppose the same programme will be followed with regard to the Hartford electric line, but since the city has paid $400,- | 000 for a gas franchise some members of the city council ought to wake up a bit to the interests of the city. The point is, that no matter how poor the present outlook may be for a partic lar enterprise, none of us know w 50, 100 or 200 years may bring forth, and we ought to look to the interests of our descendants, especially since a | fifty yvear limit to a granchise would not operate to discourage any really worthy project. School District Absurd. I am of the opinion that few Nor- | wich people realize what an anomaly and absurdity its school system is. As I understand the matter, Connecticut is the only state that permits the in- corporated district, and Norwich is th only town in the state that has over| two such districts; while we have five { incorporated dla!nc(s and the shreds and patches of the town outside of these | together with all the night schools cared for by a town committee, and | the high school privileges furnished by a private corporation. - In all seven separate sets of school boards with an average of about nine men to a board, something like sixty-three man on our school boards. It therefore goes without saying that we have absolutely the most archalc mixed up and absurd school system on the face of the earth. It is about time some of us waked up to a bit of sense and set to work to bring order out of { this chaos. The worst obstacle to a change was overcome a few years ago, when the town changed its manner of appopria- tion to the various districts; the in- equalitie: of taxation which existed | before that time have been so nearly | done away with that no reasonable | man can now be found to that con- sideration have weight with him. T| think the vote for consolidation would | have carried at the election if a | few men had carnestly advocated it in the public prints | Find Fault With Taxation, In the matter of taxation I find cause to find fault, both in the state laws and in thelr application by sessors. As to real estate, if the as sessors were appointed and not elected, and if once in five years or so thcv could serve the entire year and revalue all the property in town, and if they would follow the law and put all prop- erty in at its fair market value, there wouldn’t be much more to be desired: but—when it comes to personal prop- erty, it is enough to make a cat laugh | to see the spectacle. If you will take the trouble to look up in the summary of the assessors a few items, vou will realize what I mean. In this summary, i. e, the amount of money on intere for the entire town, is probably I than some individuals ought to put in and this same is true as to cash on ‘hand and in banks, subject to check— only a few thousands, while the depos- its in our banks run into the million: T am coming more and more to believe that.any tax that cannot be equitably assessed and fairly collected, so that the burdens of taxation will rest fair- 1y evenly on all, ought not to be re- quired at all. In Massachusetts the personal list is well towards as large as the real estate, but between our ex- emptions and our state corporation and other taxes, there is little left for the town officials to get hold of. -It may be I have said enough to set the ball a-rolling, and I sincerely hope discussion will be kept up until some action results for our city, which needs belp in some lines as much as any city under the sun. Woman Suffrage Question. Remarks upon the paper by Mr. Smith, were followed by another vio- lin solo by Mr. Neff and a debate, which was the feature of the eve- ning, upon the question, Should Suf- frage in the United States be Granted to Women on Equal Terms with Men? Robert McNeely read a paper for the affirmative and Dr. Lucille A. James fgr the negative, hoth being appiauded | for their arguments Reviewing the wa woman had won a recognition in rious flelds of activity,, Mr. Mc- V2ely chalienged the production of an: argyment why women should be refus- ed equal rights with men, and he read a letter received from Judge Ben Lind- say of Denver, who said that it was all a question of self government and he could see no argument why women as weil as men should not vote. Dr. James for the negative said she thought women could have the ballot if she wanted it, but she based hor as- l many special advantages—opportu There are good, — and NOW. SECONDLY—We sell as yours. prices were advanced—THER At 35¢c a yard A 42c. A complete showing of Whithal and bed rooms. Oil Cloths At 29c a yard. Floor Oil Cloths in 4-4 8-4 widt — Opening square yard, value 35C. Mattings | Hodge's Fibre Matting, of flax pulp, a splendid shov | ing of nmew colorings—at 2 | a yard, value ma. heavy and s vard, At 3%c—Straw 50c. value 55¢. 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Sewing Machines Third Floor see our display of the “P. & n about Furniture Coverings We a complete cluding Plushes, Velours We invite show line of Furniture Coverir n- Bt our Club plan hine at a low price Cretonne Tapestries, you to.call and see our splendid showing NOTICE—We will, upon payment of a reasonable deposit, store any goo ds bought duririg Opening Days until THE PORTEOUS & MITCHELL COMPANY zument upon the answer to the tions, Does she nced it? and Doe want it? In the first place, she s that God had given woman her right and she had ne need to ask for from any man, influence more than one, she (Continued on Page s1 has the Eight.) id, them Secondly, through th she can exert upon man and | privilege ! ques- e = he ‘The Sewing Light There are few thlngs as good as Post Toasties Nothing for breakfast equals it. “The Memory Lingers” Pkgs. 10c and 15¢ The KAY® Lamp makes the long evening brilliant with its steady white light for sewing or reading. 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