The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-06
EDITORIAL NOTES

Miss Jane Addams, the best known woman in America, will celebrate her ffty-third birthday to-day. This great friend of the friendless and her home for the homeless, Hull House in Chicago, are known and honored all over the civilized world. Like Thos. Paine, she can say, The world is my country; to do good my religion" Race nor religion, color nor creed, have ever limited her benefactions. She belongs to that great church which holds the world within it's star lit ais1es, that claim the great and good of every race and cline, that finds with joy the glint of gold in ev- cry creed. and seeks to develop the germ of good in every soul.'' A boundless love, directed by a brilliant intellect, have made of Jane AddamS an ideal servant of humanity.
 The little town of Cedarvil1e, H., finds it's chief claim to fame in that it was the birthplace of Jane Addams. She graduated from Rockford College, and her early ambition was to become a physician. III health forced her to abandon this project, and she spent two years in European travel, inves- tigating the various great institutions for social service. Before I had re- turned to America she has written, 'tI had discovered that there are other genuine reasons for living among the poor than that of practicing medicine upon them, and my brief foray into the profession was never resumed, having been undertaken from the first merely as a means to- an end" It was twenty-four years ago that Miss Ad- dams found her. life work by opening Hull House in the Windy City The famous philanthropist is firm be- Ifever in woman suffrage and was one of the delegates to the international yaAI1 in aT Zf She does not believe in the militant methods of Mrs. Pankhurst. She pre- diets that within two or three years the United States will be solid for suffrage. By that time" she de- cIares, American suffragists will have won their fight, and will have won it without dangerous methods"
 Lieut. Gen. Sir Archibald Hunter, who recently vacated the governor generalship of Gibraltar, was born if ty-seven years ago to-day, and has had a long and brilliant military ca reer in Egypt South Africa and In dia. Numerous scars and wounds. as well as many medals, testify to his gaIIantry A tact1ess speech, it has been alleged, caused his retirement as commander of the Rock" Sir Arch iba1d Ikened the town of Gibraltar to the Augean stables, issued orders re- Str1ctlng c1V1llanS, anu IHT0dLen0O Sd press censorship.
 Arthur Train, who was one of the leaders in the founding of the Au- thors' League of America, is a Boston ian by birth and will pass his thirty eighth milestone to-day. He was for merly a lawyer in his native city and his wide legal experience has been of great assistance in tn launching of the s'authors' uuion," which seeks to se- cure adequate copyright protection for all authors in the literary, dramatic and musical fields. MT. Trains first book, "McAllister and His Double" !" was published eight years ago, and innm ediately established his literary reputation.
 Brazilians will begin to-day the celebration of their independence day, and the festivities will continue through Sunday. The Brazilian brand of freedom, which dates from