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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-27
Enormous Difference Between
 Price Food Producer Receives
 And Price Consumer Must Pay
United States Senator Arthur Capper Kansas Points Out the Faults In Our National System of Distribu tion Which Permits Food to Be Wasted In Some Sec tons While Shortage Exists In Other Sections

his products readily, and often is forced to sell on a glutted market at low prices. The consumer, on the other hand, is forced to pay an in creased price for his foodstuffs due to lack of equipment to bring the commodities to market. An investi- gation made by the United States rood administration showed that in the case of potatoes the margin be- tween the producer and the consumer rboadened 100 per cent. in periods of car shortage.
 Enormous numbers of persons ara engaged in the final processes of dis tribution, increasing the cost One city has one meat retailer for every 400 Inhabitants. It has been care fully estimated that one dealer couIe adequately serve every 1 200 persons The result of such a condition is that the retailers operate on a high mar gin and that only a small income is obtained by any of them.
 Thus it is evident that our waste ful system Of distribution is an un- fair tax on goth the producer and the consumer. This con be reduced
 It will be possible to place a larger part of the consumers dollar in the hands of the farmer and at the same
 time supply food to the cities ac q | lower cost.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-27
INVITES AMERICA TO HELP FRANCE
 IN CELEBRATION ]. 5:
Featuring Affair to Bind Up Wounds of France Will
 Be Great Exhibition.

New York, Dec. 27-American par ticipation in the celebration by Franc of the Tooth anniversary of the death of Napoleon on May next Mulligan Sloane, of Princeton, N. J., Epea king for the French Committed headed by Marshal Foch. A fea- ture of the affair whose objects it is stated, are ito bind upt the wounds of France" will be a great exhibition of Napoleonic relics at Malmaison France, to which collections will be loaned from all parts of the world
 Prof Sloane. who for 42 years held the chair of history at Princeton and latter1y at Columbia University, said thNt French statesmen, soldiers and men of law and letters well as oth- CT professions cocpose the commit tee which is arranging tn ecenten- nial.
 Making all allowance for every severe criticism of Napoleon's career he continued, .it is still true that his work unified France, saved it from partition among it's foes and. in civil life, prepared alike the foundation and structure of the society which in the World War saved France and helped to save all Western civiliza- = guidance that the financial credit of France was restored, that the mag istracy and administra ton took defin- ite shape, that the Civil Code was created, the University of France modelled on that of the State of New York and the Council of State or ganized.
 He made private property safe, opened public charges, great and small, to all classes, founded schools, colleges and secondary schools, bull. ms gnifcent highway, dug an elabor- ate system of internal waterways, i'm proved transportation of every sort and, above all, reorganized in his in stitutions the commanding position of belles lettres, the fine arts and natur- aI science. The superb inheritance of order, progress ana prosperity which he bequeathed made the France Of 1914.
 'fThe French Committee especially desires American participation by con tributions, by the loan of Napoleona from American collec ions and, above
 all, the moral support of intelligent interest on this side of the Atlantic
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-27

Although some traditions have it that Connecticut was the home of the blue laws, which actually remained in their primal severity on the statute books until 1866. one year after the close of the Civil War. the Connect- cut Federation of Churches is not lining up with the Lords Day Ali ance, the International Reform Bureau, the women's Christian Tenn perance Union. the Anti-Saloon League and others of the forty-one recognized organizations in the field to get a blue law amendment into the constitution of the United States. Instead, the federation will quizz Connecticut people of all walks of life in an effort to determine how public opinion in this state stands upon such laws. Beyond this. the federation at present has no pro- gram.
 According to Rev. Morris F. filling of Rocky Hill secretary of the Con necticut Federation of Churches, the sentiment of the federation, so far as obtainable, is against the interference in legislative matters of organizations having headquarters outside the state, and the federations committee on Sunday legislation has instructed MT.
 filling to consult various industrial
 labor and civil organizations to ma
 out what responsibilities the federa-
 ton may have in securing and main
 taiping one day of rest in seven for
 Connecticut workers.
 'The matter of a blue law cOnSu-
 tutional amendment has never been brought before the Connecticut Fed eration of Churches said MT. Alllng. "Persona1ly I don't approve of the program of the reform organizations now working in Washington. and l don't think the state federation will have anything to do with them. We do not want current agitation over the propa aganda of these organizations to throw dust into the eyes of good square Connecticut neop1e who have learned how to conduct the affairs of their own state. 1 believe that the first task of churches is to get people | who have taken the VOWS of the l church to live up to their obligations l for the main tenance of Sunday Wor- | ship rather than to attempt to say | to people of other religions, who do 1 observe Sunday as sacred day, and 1 those who. have no religions at all i how they shall spend their time on 1 that day" e., To determine further the trend of public opinion in Connecticut regard 1 ing Sunday legislation, the Connecti- l cut Federation of Churches will hold q social service conference in New | Haven February 15, to which will | be invited ai1 clergy and anyone else | who would like to attend. The pro- gram will be varied, but will consist 1 mainly of the consideration of socia | legislation which may then be before
 the Legislature. The federation will
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-27
CANCELLATIONS

~ NE OF THE causes holding O back business is forcibly shown in the statement of Charles l.. Bernheimcr, Chairman of the Committee on Arbitration of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York.
 Says MT. Bernheimer: More than S2. 900, 100000 worth of merchandise is to be found on piers, in ware houses. at railroad stations on cars and in steamships in the United States, ownership of which is disput- ed because of fault finding. attempted cancellations. and actual cancellations while another $1,OOO, O,0GO.OOO worth of American goods is held abroad by similar circumstances"
 This is a most unhealthy condition of business with far reaching effects. In any affairs of life there is no con dition worse than uncertainty. This is emphatically true of business. Three billion dollars in an amount of value which can not be ignored even in the business of such a wealthy country as the United States. With the ownership of it in dispute and the public denied the use of the commodities of which it is made UT it must act as a brake causing great friction and seriously retarding the movement of tEe wheels of connerc,
 Net the least of the il! effects oi such conditions and practices is tho lack of confidence cngendered. Nc concern can go ahead with any sor of security if it has to feel that tn, orders on which it is working are Ii able to be cancelled at any time Such cancellations during tte pas year have been on an u;ipreccden- ed1y large scale. They are manifest ly unfair and an attempt on the par of those making them to play
 game of heads I win, tails you lose, policy on which no permanent bus mess prosperity can be built, an which in the long run reacts disas trously on those practicins it.
 MT. Bernheinler's observation lead him to believe that it is th comparatively new firms lacking ti, stabii.z:ng influences of experienc and standing possessed by the old, and well-es!ablshed business hoIs. who arc far more generally repudia
 ing their contracts than the old scho merchants.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-27
EXPLORATION WHICH
 COUNTS

IT TITLE KNOWN, seldom heard A@ of, yet of vast importance to the agriculture of the United States. and thus indirectly to the whole economic structure of the country, is the Bureau of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction goes on about it's work adding to the assets of the country.
 Attention has been called to it re- gently by the return of pr. H. l.. Shantz. its botanist. from a nine thousand mile trip through the heart of Africa in search of new nuts, fruits and plants which could be introduc- ed into the United States.
 pr. Shantz left this country in July. 1919. going direct to Cape Town, Africa. From here he jour neyed north, nine thousand miles through the heart of Africa to Port Sudan, which he reached on Sept. 2, 1919. Part of the way was through regions first made known to white men by Livingstone. Much of the time he was a thousand miles from the coast.
 pr. shantz brought with him three thousand photographs and the seeds of sixteen hundred varieties or spe- cies of plants. It is impossible to imagine how great may be the bene- fits which will be realized from some of those seeds. Carefully planted and cared for by the experimental de- partment there may be found among them fruits or grasses which will en- tirely change the agricultural condi- tions of large sections of the coun- try.
 Great benefits have resulted from this policy of securing the whole world for plants which can be in- troduced into the United States Su- dan grass was discovered in this way and found to be adapted to the semi arid districts of the western part of the country. It has proved an i'm portant forage crop and last year a quantity was raised estimated to be valued at $1O.OOO,oOO.
 In the same way too, explorers have brought thousands of plants from China and many of them rank with our most desirable products. Among them are the large Tamopan persim- mon and the Chinese jujube. From Africa was brought the long stapled Egyptian cotton, also the more inn portant Kafir corns and sorghums, crops which amount to approximateIy fifty million dollars value in a year.
 Too much can not be said in praise of the work of these men who in spite of the danger of disease and accident, spend years of their lives searching the most remote corners of the earth for plants which will turn worthless areas of the United States into valuable agricultural lands
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-27
State Churches Won't
 Join Blue Law Assn.

prepare a digest of such of this leg1s- lation as affects the churches and will give it to the clergy of the state Owen Lovejoy, secretary of the na- principal speaker.
 "NVhile it may be true that certain churches and individuals in Connecti- cut have endorsed the national leg Alliance, the International Reform Bureau and other reform organiza- tions, the committee on Sunday leg isla tfon of the Connecticut Federation of Churches has not expressed itself as endorsing any proposals of these organizations said MT. filling. Ut has, instead, prepared digest Of tn ne Sunday laws of Connecticut and is prepared to give them to anybody wanting them. The committee has also prepared a list of six questions, touching upon the statutes now on the books, with a view to obtaining the opinions ia wide range of beo- pie including the clergy, farmers, me chanics, lawyers, teachers, business men and manufacturers upon some of the mooted questions. For in stance, opinions will be obtained as to whether the present law limiting Sunday sports to amateur game should be enforced or repealed. This question is asked because of the known fact that regular league base ball games are played in Connecticut. The question will be asked by the federation without any attempt to prejudice the answers one way or the ether. We want to know what the people think about these laws. This is our first task. Beyond that we have no program.
 The 1917 legislature amended the Sunday law, so as to give local op- ton as to baseball, motion pictures and similar secular amusements. The result is that some forms of diver sion are now common in many Con necticut towns and cities.
 | Retail merchants are forbidden to keep their stores open on Sunday, but the law as to this has not been en- forced for years. The law forbids anyone to work on Sunday Hin any shop, warehouse or mechanical estab- Iishment-'' During the war, however it was a common practice, and ir some cases still is, for manufacture CTS to operate their plants on Sundays on the plea of rush orders or neces- s:ty and to risk having to pay S5t fine for the infringement
 Until 1917 it was violation of the state law for anybody to attend 'a concert of music. dancing or any other public diversion on Sunday.
 There has grown Up in Connection
 g. more lenient spirit with regard te Sunday travelling, following the re
 peal in 1902 of the statute forbid
 ding the operation of trains within the boundaries of the state betweer
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-27

sunrise and sunset on Sunday except for necessity or mercy or for the car riage of mails or preservation of freight
 in carrying passengers on Sundays and they were never prosecuted or even hindered, though there was an- other statute which expressly for bade traveling on Sunday for amuse- ment recreation. Two New Ha- evn men were arrested and convicted in 1885 on the charge of Sabbath breaking because they had been rid ing in one of the then new horseless carriages flor pleasure'' on Sunday
 So far as known this was the last
 prosecution under the Connecticut blue laws Millions of automobiles have since come into use and they have and do travel all the roads of the state with entire immunity.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-27
RUSH TO TAKE OIL LANDS IN
 MONTANA

Helena Mont, Dec. 27-Oi1 is the magnet which has drawn spectators to apply for five-year leases on Mon- tana land in the last 15 months on a scale which nearly equals the old land drawings which attracted thou sands from every state in the Unio1, a few years ago when the federal government conducted gigantic lot terics in awarding prospective settlers theic place in the list to select home stead entries on Indian reservations.
 Land owned by the state has been ca gerly sought since one well came in in the central part of the state The State Board of Land Comm,s. sioners has given leases on total or sO72OO acres Of land for an annual rental of S6O,00G. The state executed 500 leases.
 So far, reports received by the board show that only one leaser has actually started drilling operations through every county in the state east of the Rockies.
 When the rush for leases started the state leased a section of land for an annual rental of S1OO, requlrlns 10 per cent royalty of all oil and gas of five years without any drilling re- quired.
 When the demand exceeded all expectations and grew into busl- ness which began to compare With the old time gold rushes the tate Land Board changed the lease
 Since March 8, 1920 the board cut the acreage to 320 acres for each lease, demands drilling started with, in IS months. and a 15 per cent roy aIty is now demanded. The nnu1 reDtl is the sne. but the lese goes to the highest bidder t the end of five yers.
 Under the first form for leases 252OOo acres were leased.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-27
NDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1920
A retur.< to the "old-fashioned

A returl<% to the "oId-fashioned care in doing business" which MT. Bernheimcr recommends is essential. It is also essential, and more so, that American business stops making scraps of paper of its promises contract.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-27
ANCIENT BURIAL CHEST

A cist (sepulchra1 chest) of mas sive slabs inclosing a cinerary urn, said to be pre-Christian, has been found near Douglas, Isle of Man.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-27
HIGH BRIDGE STAKES

London, Dec. 27.-An epidemic of high play at bridge has broken out at London clubs. Where $5 a point was regarded as high, the stake is now often $21 and $50. It is no un-t usual thing for a man to lose 5000 or s1O,000 between 4 o'clock and din- ner time.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-27
NEW INVENTION

motor wheel mounted in a frame that terminates in single runner supporting a saddle has been invented in Switzerland to combine the sports of motorcycling and skating.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-27
A SET I'll A>DE n<AN

There was young lady named Beecher, Who took position teacher.
 Now, she was beaut
 And remarkably cute; A comedy and shapely young creature. A ne 'er-do-zvell loafer named Dooling Proceeded at once to start fooling
 Around with the dame.
 Which was really shame. But Bill thought he'd thus get some schooling. Miss Beecher annexed him and wed him, Taught him. pampered him, petted and fed him.
 Now he takes all the credit.
 Is she sorry she wed ''it'a Not at all, and she wont even shed him.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-27
NOT HALF ENOUGH

Souse-IIave you ever sec me with more than I could carry?
 E'riend-No, but I've seen you when I thought you should have made two trips for your load.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-27
WORTH TRYING

For residences equipped with steam heating systems device has been in vented that utilizes the steam to heat
 water for kitchen and bathroom use
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-27
GOES WITHOUT. SAYING

Mexico has a nsw president and, of course, plans aresin the making for Q. new revolution.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-27

Chicago has less than half the building trades workers it had six years ago. There is a shortage of 1n0-O00 homes in that city
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-27
NORTH DAKOTA
 HAS UNUSUAL.
 ACTIVITIES

Ferso Y. D.. Dec. 27-The state of North Dakota is engaged in four lines of activity usually followed only by private interests. These are:
 l. Insurance for public building and for crops)
 2. Operation of mill and elevators
 3. Operation of a bank.
 4. Operation of a home building association.
 These activities are part of the in dustrial program, backed by the Non partisan league. The last three named are under the control of the industrial commission of the state.
 Possibly the most ambitious of the four programs is taht for a chain of state owned mills and elevators. A state owned flour mill with a capa- city of 125 barrels a day, is in opera tion at Drake. A 5000 barrel day mill and 100000 bushel elevator are being built by the state under one roof at Grand ForKs These will be ready in time to handle wheat of the 1921 crop, it is expected
 The mill and elevator system is to be only beginning, says H. E. More. state secretary of the Non-partisan eventually, machinery to handle live stock and other farm products. The final aim, according to MT. More, is to handle. store, manufacture and distribute in finished form all thes. products rom within the stare,, thu avoiding 1 ansportatlon to u1slaI1e factory points and cost invo,vau nv passage through the hands of middle men.
 ! "ro~ra~r O. the state bank, according to Mir More, is to extend credit to the farmers, and to mob4 izc money in the state at point | posting it ill local banks at these points. The western end of the state. l impoverished by five years of crop 1 failures, has had until recently, $1,- | originally drawn from that section, he says.
 1 Before the November election a law provided that all public funds ifl l the state be deposited in the stat Q bank but an initiate law passed at that time now makes the depository of county township. municipal and school moneys optional with the The capital stock of the bank is S200O,O0O.
 The home building association, which is in it's infancy, has built
 about 100 homes throu2hout the
 state.
 Mir More says: The plan is to build
 homes costing $5,000 or less and sel them for cash payment of one fifth the value and the rest in ter monthly payment on S5,0oO house } after the S1,000 has been paid, would
 be s2S.64, including interest, undel l the lHStle !-ISdi pla1I.
 All public buildings in the stat { are insured against fire and wind
 storm. There is demand, accord ing to league officials, that this in = surance be made available for pri f vate buildings. The administrator ' of this tax is more economical thar ! in old line companies and as 500 - l as a sinking fund has been accumu
 lated, the cost which now is abou = equal to that charged by the old lin i companies, will be lowered, Nil
 More says.
 4 three-cent per acre tax is levie
 on all tilIable land for the state ha tax. Last year this tax cost the farm
 CTS wko insured their crops twenty c eight cents Fer acre. This compare e according to Mr. More, with 77 cen
 per acre charge by private companie e foc hail protection. Both forms 1T state insurance, he adds. are E,al ,. .ng money.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-27
DIED,

DIED,
 HAaT-in Az h this 1aso city suddenly. Saturday. Dee 2, 1920, M Elizabeth RIaei-' widow of the late Henry W. Hart agea S years: months. q days.
 Funeral services will be held at inc serVlce rooms of HawIey & WiImot soe Lafayette street, on Tuesday, 2sth Burial Mountain Grove cemetery, a. Sunday, Dec. 26, 1920, at bis late residence, in Stratford, Conn. H2ward W. Curtis, in his s1st year.
 Funeral services at the residence of his father, H. J. Curtis, 2155 Main Street, Stratford, on Wednesday, Dee: zg, at z;5o p: Tn- T27bs JUDSON-At his residence in New Ca naan, Conn, Dec. 27, 1920, Robert Nor timer Judson.
 Private funeral services on weines- day, Dec. 18th, at Il 80 a. m T27b*
 CARD OF THANKS.
 l desire to thank all my friends and heip @ ana sympathy in the loss of my he!p and sympathy in thel oss of my flowers. William IT Cur+:s- Stepney a.n
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-27
TODAY'S WANTS

IT'S IDLE MONEY - Convert your old Sold, Jewelry and Silver into cash, Value cheerful1y given. Clarence w Eooy, 46 Cannon St Phone Barnum 9Vo-A R20aL
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-27

ELLEN JOHNSON vs. OSCAR JOHN
 SON-Order of Notice STATE OF CONNECTICUT, Fairfield