The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-05-23

Changing Conditions: The people,
all over the world, are feeling the
changes brought about by the brain
storm of the war mad autocrats of
Germany. Thinkers are beginning to
realize the interdependence of all hu-
mantty and that when disease is al
lowed to spread unchecked by proper
regulations, the whole humanity is
liable to suffer.
Through many years of painful, up
hill work and through much suffering
we have learned to isolate those that
are infected with diseases that may
cause others to become infected, but
we are now, after thousands of years
suffering, beginning to realize that
the nation that lusts after power or
land or property or dominion is a
greater menace to the welfare of hui
man1ty than is the leper, the syph-
little or the smallpox victim, and that
we must at all costs stamp out the
disease and utterly destroy it. We
must, and that is a big word, recog-
nize the basic and fundamental right
of all nations, states and individuals
to an equal chance in all the bounties
I'll 41dIOIO oLAO Lilo O0Il6ulS OIL our
united efforts. We must recognize the
brotherhood of man and develop a
parliament of man, a federation Of
the world
We have in the Agricultural Depart
ment at Washington developed what
we call system of demonstration or
experiment stations and in various
states they have state demonstration
farms, fruit farms and stock farms
| These have proven their value and
the whole state and nation has been
benefited.
The Swiss Republic has been a sue
cessful demonstration of cooperative
sef-government, and the French Re
public has successfully enlarged upon
the idea. 1t has remained for the
United States of America to demon
strate upon still larger scale the
fact that many sovereign states can
dwell in harmony, greatly to the ad-
vantage of all their inhabitants under
one cooperative government, and as
this lesson spreads until it covers all
of the peoples of all the earth, the
| individuals will all benefit, from the
greatest to the least.
AS a matter of fact, a large major
| ity of the people of this country of
abundance have already been bene-
| flied by reason of the fact that we
have, by recognizing the emergency,
been forced to share the burdens of
our brothers ''over there We are
sharing with them our dollars, our
bread and meat and we are sharing
with them the very lives of our be-
loved young men.
The changing conditions brought
about by this now universal desire for
service has brought out and deveI-
oped latent forces in all of US. Our
eyes are clearer and our blood circu-
lates with a strong steady pressure
that betokens increased health, as
well as increased interest, and pur-
pose in life. We, are finding both
health and economy in other foods
than meat, wheat and potatoes, and
as we more fully learn the splendid
value of fruits and vegetables in their
fresh, uncooked state, the more fully
will we come into the full heritage of
health and prosperity. To eat I'm
cooked food is to conserve not only
labor but fuel as well, and by the
process we take into our bodies the
vital elements, the so-ca1led vita
mines. that are largely destroyed by
cooking.
We must take advantage of the
changed conditions to the fullest ex-
tent and make the best of everything.
There will be still greater changes as
time goes on, and more and more o1