The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-22
EDITORIAL NOTES

1
 At Habelschwerdt, in Prussia, there 1 will be celebrated to-day the centen-
 ary of that towns most famous son, Titus Ulrich, the poet. The works
 of Ulrich, although little known among English readers, still enjoy a
 wide popularity among the poets l countryrnen, and a new edition has 1 been Issued to mark the centenary. l Ulrlch was born on August 22, 1913,
 and received a French education from | his father, who was a, man of wide 1 learning and a linguist, but very poor. 1 Titus had to pay his way through the l universities of Breslau and Berlin by
 acting as tutor to students possessed | of more money, but less gray mat | ter. After leaving college, with the | degree of doctor of philosophy, he be- | came a journalist, but at first was not 1 very successful and his poetic gen l jus often manifested itself amid the direst privations.
 The poet who lives in a bare garret,
 and sings his songs from full heart l but an empty stomach, is an appeal l ing figure in fiction, but U1rich knew l the grim reality. Some of his best | poems were written while the pangS 1 of starvation gnawed at his vitals. 1 Bread and beer were the Staples of l his diet, and often he was deprived of
 those necessities of life and for days lions he suffered naturally made him 1 a. political radical, and many of his
 poems were arraignme of the exist l ing order.
 1 At this time the nghtnings of revo lution famed along the European ho- I rizon. Karl Marx, the chief of inter national scientific socialism, preached l the abolition of capital. Bakunin, the Lassalle was engaged in welding together the mighty fabric of Ger
 man social democracy. All over Germany the agitators of all kinds l were busy. attempting to overthrow I the existing order. U1rfch was pro- foundly affected by this abortive
 movement for the creation of a new were attempting to overturn thrones. 1 One of his greatest works, entitled
 Victor published in 184S, BRs a bit
 ter attack on the monarchy
 l After the failure of the various Eu-
 ropean revolutions of 1s4s Ulrich be I prosperous. His latter years were spent as an editorial contributor on 1 the staff of the National Zeitung of Berlin The most widely read of his poems is an epic, s'Tneg Song of
 Songs,'' which was published in 1845.
 Salt Lake City, the capital of Nor
 nnonisn, was founded sixty-six years ago to-day a month after the arrival on the shores of Great Salt Lake of
 CSrignam Young, the .prophet' of the church and 142 followers The popu | 1ation of the new Zion was augmented l within a month. by the arrival of 1,553
 Mormons from the Middle West, who l had made the trip across the plains 1 and mountains in 580 prairie schoon- l CTS" The city originally had 260 l blocks, each an eighth of a mile square and containing ten acres. Each block was divided into eight lots of
 an acre and a, quarter each-a wise
 provision. perhaps, consider the l size of Mormon families. Since then
 many of the blocks have been divided l by intersecting streets, but the length ] of a Salt Lake City block' is still pro-
 verbal. The great Mormon taber- 1 nacle was commenced soon after the l founding of the city and occupied forty years in building.
 The attempt to found a new Nor
 mon Zion in Mexico has been aban- i doned, owing to the unsettled condi- l ton of that country, and it is under l stood that the church leaders will now concentrate their attention on building up a great Mormon center in western Canada.
 l Born sixty-five years ago to-day in
 the little Illinois town of Hudson. the
 son of a country clergyman. Melville Elijah Stone now holds a position of l power and prestige that many a mon l l men of the earth have been glad to
 honor him, and he has been received 1 by the Emperor of Germany, the Czar l of Russia, the King of Italy, the l Pope of Rome and many other rulers 1 of men. Magnates with nultitudtnA ous millions have fowned before him,
 seeking his friendship and his fa- l vor, and have learned that he was
 neither to be bought nor hattered into
 subservience.
 Carlyle. in his Heroes and Hero
 worship" remarks: t'Edmund Burke Parliament, but in the Reporters Gal l Iarys wonder there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.'' As
 chief of the "A. P.''-the Associated
 Press-NEelville B. Stone i@ the most l influential member of the Fourth
 Estate in America, perhaps in the
 world. He is the greatest of all Amer l ican reporters, and his daily assign
 Enent'' covers the world. He. is the 1 directing force of a great news gath l ering orga nization that operates 40,- l O0a niles of telegraph wires, stretch 1 ing from Halifax across the continent 1 to San Francisco and Mexico City. Be 1 sides collecting and distributing the news of the United States, the "A. P 1 trades news with the agencies of l Canada, Latin America, Europe. Af- l rica, Asia and Australia. In addition 1 to rhis, the organization maintains
 correspondents of it's owa in all of the
 great cities of the world.
 l MT. Stones youth was spent in a country town and in Chicago to which l city he removed at the age of twelve.
 He was only sixteen, and fresh from 1 high school, when hez became a re- | porter on the Chicago Tribune. Upon attaining his majority he decided to
 abandon newspaper work for some
 thing more profitable, and started a l foundry and machine shop. The big
 fire wiped out his plant and left him penniless, but within a few years he
 had amassed a little money and, with l a partner, founded the Chicago Daily 1 Neus In 1881 he Joined Victor. F.