The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

The opinion of the governor of Del aware, or even of the whole state or Delaware, does not change the fact that the whipping post is a relic or the dark ages, a reproach to any civ ilized community.
 Once more the United States has been defied by Huerta but hds last proclamation against the grinSoS mas little of the venom of his former ut terances. It looks as if he had at last noticed the handwriting on the wall and was beginning to speculate on it's meaning.
 Burleson has given early postofhce recognition to that fine old fellow. Santa Claus. Children's letters VIII be delivered locally to his agents without the red tape that has made trouble in past years. This 1s' m deed, reform administration
 The desire of 800 hremen to have easier working conditions may, # their threat of a strike is carried out make 35,OOO persons in Lawrence, and a greater number who are dependent on them, suffer grievously for want of work, and the necessartes Of hfe which wages buy. This has much the appearance of industrial tyranny.
 The Winsted news item concerning a woman who has succeeded in keep ing her marriage g. secret for twenty two years gives an opportunity to re- Vfve a certain unkind remark con corning women and secrets, and which, in these days of claims to equal rights, it is saee not to repeat If it does not rain on Sunday, it halls or snows With all due res pect to the weather man and the va riegated climate of Connecticut 1t seems only fair that at least one Sun day out of four should have bit of sunshine and a, breath or two Of pure unsull1ed ozone.
 Curious that the Conference of Con gregattonal Churches of the State or Connecticut, recently in session in l Waterbury, should have passed reSo-t lutions condemning the Wilson ad- rninistration for segregating negro employees in the Washington depart
 nents and yet the resolutions have attracted almost no attention An how little the average person cares what is done to the negro.
 At last we have something worth while to the credit of the wireless service. For a. long time there have been reports of such trivial things as distress signals calls for help, res- cues, storms, etc, but now the real value of the. wireless is being shown in a way that the people can appre- ciate. When the U. s. Transport Thomas was off Manila not long ago she picked up all the scores of the Pacific Baseball League sent out from San Francisco 4,700 miles away. Who can now question the necessity of wireless apparatus on every vessel ahoat-?
 The recent offer of the Connecticut . Agricultural College to pay good cash ] prizes to the school children who from now to next April destroy the largest number of caterpillar eggs is having immediate results. Out in the little village of Da1evi1le the young sters brought in 7,31O egg clusters in one day. This is good work. The contest is happy thought Also 1t is commentary curious sporting system and contradictory measures. The State licenses persons to murder little birds and then st1nn- ulates children to do the work of the birds.
 Governor Baldwin in a brief inter view has expressed his views on the Mexican situation. His words are of especial value at this time and should serve to correct some erroneous inn pressions that are abroad. He gave 1t as his belief that the way the mat ter was being handled was very much to the credit of the President and of Secretary Bryan. The Governor can see clearly enough that here and there New England partisan news paper prefers war with Mexico rather than a satisfactory and peaceful set t1ement of difficulties by the present administration. Another thing that he called attention to is the manufac- tured news from Mexico. Too many papers use that sort. Inspired 'tnews''
 is pretty poor stuff at any time In a
 crisis of International proportions 1t IS a crime and a. danger. It is en- terprise closely kin to that which re- sorts to dynamite in labor disputes.
 The Post Office department at
 Washington has again displayed that rare moral Judgment which was evil
 dent when 1t barred from the mails the report of the Chicago Vice Com
 mission and kept on admitting mag
 az1nes and periodicals that contain
 all manner of suggestive, salacious N and prurient fiction.
 Now the department has decided
 that printed copies of the lectures on
 sexual hygiene being delivered before
 the pupils of the public schools of Chicago are not to be admitted to
 the malls, In other words the mat n ter taught Chicago children is not fit
 to be read by their parents.
 The gentlemen who made the ruI-
 ing deserves place in history with 0O40 nAdyOT FILZBSTa1O WhO
 distinguished himself by putting q
 stop to The Easiest Way in Boston,
 and was silent when ''The Girl from
 Rector's' and '"The Girl of the Mou-
 lin Rouge" presented their classic
 studies of the brotheI and vice. Coior-blindness has it's compensa-
 ttons, according to pr. August Lum- \ mer Of Breslau. ''The normal eye, g N says the doctor, 'shas an arrangement in N The rods perceive light and the cones
 color When a. person with a nor N nal eye tries to see in a ha1f-dark \ place the cones, which are useless, in fRrfa.e cAeea