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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-14
EMPLoYMENT AGENCIES

BRIDGEPORT BRANCH women's Friend and Domestic League. zo5 John St., has reopened, after war.
 Best of positions and help. Personal references. Bar. 10S7-14. B1ali~
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FARMS FOR SALE-116 acres of good land. .grow anything. ss5o, $60e cash payment: S5 acres, good room house and other out buildings $1,- 200, $700 payment: 25 acres, IF room house and barn, s1.600, $500 payment; 200 acres. good set build ings, ,0o0. Casey, BOT. Conn. Nat Bank Bldg. Tel. Noble 2S7.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-14

WE CAN place your money at att-ac- tive rates on good mortgages; also sell mortgages for cash. State Realty Co.,, 925 Main St. '19I10aits
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RELIABLE FURNITURE CO.-Sec- oud hand furniture bought and sold Stove repairing; also buy junk We pay best prices. 752 East Main St Phone Bar. 1649. B7alls
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STAT- GARAGE, Ranson & wheaton. Authorized Ford service. Auto re- pairing of every description. Corner Asylum St. and Boston Ave Noble 772-5, G21aH
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NOBLE AVE.-Corner property. two family house, 10 rooms, improve ments, Stratford, one family house. new,3 rooms,a1 Improvements, large grounds. Prince St., Remington Section, one family house. rooms, all improveents. Hancock avenue. 6 family house. 2S rooms, all inn provements. S Loewith & Co.,, 116 Bank St Tel. Barnum 99. Open Monday and Saturday evenings
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RUGS.

RUGS-Do not throw away or sell your old carpets; have them made into handsome new rugs. E1un rugs made by us are reasonable and last for years. That is why we sell so many. Bridgeport Rug Co.,, 122 George St. T12s"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-14
FARMS FOR SALE

WE SELL FARM HOUSES and busi- ness of all kinds. B. Michnieurcz, 1053, East Main St.
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HOUSES-2, 5 and 1 family houses wanted in all parts of the city. Buy CTS waiting. The Providenr Devel- opment Corp Real estate. insurance
 Room 6, 1119 Broad St. Ear 1912
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HOUSES AND FARMS for sale within easy distance, to the city; real bar gains. 731 Arctic St Open even ings. P11tfS
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NORTH END PAINTING co. Faint ing and paperhanging. Work guar anteed. We carry full line of wall paper and paints. We handle a splendid stock of 1920 style wall paper. Have your painting and papering done now. save 50 per cent. Prices raised April 1. 1850 Main St., opposite Charities Bldg. Rarn11r11 | 01 Q
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EDUCATOR SHOES for men, women
 and children. Carpenette Shoe Store. 1888 Main St. D10alls
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ALL KINDS OF BODIEs

FOR AUTOS, TRUCKS, ETC, BUILT TO ORDER BY EAST SIDE BODY WORKS, 1Ss HAMIL- TON ST. H15 al
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LOTS FOR SALE.

IF YOUR LOT is paid for let us build your house and pay for it in rent Post Office Box 5. City.
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AUTO REPAIRING

PHILLIPS AUTO REPAIR SHOP. Repairing of every rescription. Only first class workmanship. Storage for 2 trucks. Service car for towing
 76 Madison ave Barnum 1644-3.
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GARAGE FOR REPAIRING and storing automobiles and motor cycles Federal tires and tubes, gas, oil and accessories. Anderson & Alderman Motor Repair Co.,, 637 Grant St., cor. Barnum Ave, Bridgeport, Conn. Phone Noble 629. T16 all"
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AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRIC SERVICE CO. 676 Fairfield Ave We repair, rewire, rebuild and install electric starters motors, generators, mag
 netos, etc, on automobiles, mo tor- ,.,, cycles motor boats, aeropianes and electric vehicles Phone Barnun 25es, Bridgeport, Conn H24 al%
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SERVICES OFFERED.

CLINTON REPAIR sHoP-we sell and repair bicycles, sewing ma chimes, taking machines, typewriters. etc. Entrance at 3S0 Clinton Ave- near Fairfield. I9aS%p
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SANTERRE & COFFIN, Cor. Park Ave and Johnson St., just south of Railroad Ave. Auto repairing, storage and accessories. Tel. Noble 766-2
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FORD EXPERT - Special prices; grinding valves, $2.50: lining brakes. g: overhaulin~ drive shaTt, rear end, complete without parts.s6, complete overhauling car without parts, s25; taking up on bearings. A. Pequon- mock Garage, 293 PeQponnock St Barnum 5s19. D10all"
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s5.50o 9UYS a beautiful home in Devon; large lot: convenient to troll ley; very attractive: could not be built today for that money; Eill also sell furniture. which Is all new, if desired; all ready to walk into. Mall colm T. Kerr, at the big white house, Just across Washington Bridge G15sG
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MACHINERY AND TOOLS

WE destra. build and renovate tools and small machinery of all kinds5 we spesialize, in patent developments tred c. Breul, 2S2 Rossuth St. =
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makes all gasoline motors miser1y on fuel: stops car bon knocks; increases mileage. Carroll. distrbuter. 925 Main St., Room 26. '19L16ail"
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OVER $s,ooo net profits on investment Of s1o0. Is it possible? Yes. Let me prove it Facts from United States government experts and bona fde engineers reports. Proposition limited to a few E. A. Porter 100 Broadway, New York
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SCALES

SCALES-AH types standard scales and trucks; also repairing. installing and adjusting scales of all kinds, either large or small Standard Scale and Supply Agency. 1S3 John St. Phone Bar. 22T7. A1atiS
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POSITION WANTED
PAINTING AND DECORATING

PAINTING AND DECORATING SHOP. Painting and paperhanging. We do right work. Estimates cheerfully fur nished. 97o Madison Ave. Barnum 4996-12. T22aIs
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BLACK ROCK GARAGE-Auto re- pairing in all branches. Tires. tubes, accessories at right prices. Auto storage by week or month. 2652 Fairfield Ave, Phone Noble 11e7,
 H13 all"
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SELL YOUR OLD CAR to Bridgeport Auto Wrecking Co.,. 1910 North Ava Full line second hand parts and tires on hand Barnum 55S6-2.
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EAST EATON sri family house, s rooms, all Improvements: Hancock Ave, family, 28 rooms, all irn- provements; Norman St., family house, 10 rooms, all Improvements: Lindley St., family, Il rooms. all Improvements s. Loewith 6 Co.,, 116 Bank St. Tel Barnum 99. Open Monday and Saturday even- tngs '19B13ails
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BOSTON GARAGE - Auto repairing of all kinds. Work guaranteed. Full line Of accessories. Cars stored by day, week or month. Cars bought and sold $40 Boston Ave. cor. Beecher St RarnUm 7914-4.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07

the Interborough. Their amazing
plan is born probably of nothing
worse than sheer ignorance or of a
desire to play politics.
Nevertheless, the facts are as in
dicated above. To pay the Inter-
borough present worth would mean
to give the company perhaps $780,
100000 more than it's investment.
The subway contract, though the
Mayor and Comptroller do not seem
to know it, provides a cheaper way
to purchase. The city, after ten
years, may take over the operation
of the lines at cost, plus Is per cent.
What the city would do with the
white elephant following acquisition
is another matter. 1t could not
under present conditions by the fod-
der of five-cent fare keep it alive,
and would be compelled to make tax
payers contribute to the ration. But
into this phase Of the subway prob
lem it is not necessary at this time
to go.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07
Action, and at Once

Last week the prospects for a
ratification of the treaty when the
Senate reassembled were bright. It
seemed as if an agreement practi-
cally had been reached.
Now once more there are doubt and
uncertainty. What has brought the
disappointing change? What force
has neutralized the labors Of the
compromisers?
Another veto of ratification has
apparently come from the White
House, the headquarters of no-com-
promise. By grapevine or other
means of communication the Demo-
cratic Senators have been told to
draw away from the parleys, and
they have obeyed. A determination
to be free men and free Senators is
not yet dominant on both sides of
the Senate chamber.
The country wants the treaty rati-
fed. The world wants the treaty
ratified. In no quarter is there de-
sire to have the peace settlement
postponed until next year.
Except the small group of irrec-
oncilables, almost no one outside
the White House would have the
treaty question a campaign ISSUE
Senator Lodge, it is true, has ex-
pressed a willingness to go to the
country, but this is second choice
with him. His preference, as his
votes attest, is for ratification with
reservations.
Moreover, Senator Lodge controls
no vote except his own. He is no
master and does not pretend to be.
He is but one among ninety-six Sen
ators, and neither exercises nor at
tempts to exercise dictatorial power.
Petitions for the ratification of
the treaty appropria tely flow to the
White House. There is the trouble
source. 1t is time to give stubborn
ness much needed rest and vaca-
ton. No man or set Of men may
claim to possess a monopoly Of wis
dom. The existing situation is pre-
posterous. The country asks action,
and at once.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07
The German Milestone

The revelations which are continu-
ally being made Of William IFS in
firmities, pettiness and general in
competency speak for themselves as
an indictment Of the efficiency of the
monarchical form of government.
Yet there are some Germans who
haven't yet been able to see the
point.
Grand Admiral Won Tirpitz is one
Of these. In his Memories" he tells
narrowing tale of incompetency on
the part of the Imperial and ROYAL
Government. 1t failed completely, he
says, in its pre-war diplomacy and
IN its conduct of the war. He mar
rates with bitterness the story of his
own gradual alienation from the
Kaiser by men who had the latter's
cares pecially by -Holl-
veg. He describes the Emperor as
surrounded-up to the time he al
lowed a partial military dictator
ship to be set up by Ludendorff-by
weak and fawning men, courtiers
rather than statesmen or soldiers.
Tirpitz naturally regarded his own
exclusion from leadership as one Of
the irretrievable blunders of the
war. Yet he writes, with a sort Of
hold-over reverence and conviction.
of the power and might and eff
cheney Of the old Prussian monarchi-
cal system. He also excoriates the
German Socialists and radicals for
breaking away from that system.
Here is a fiat contradiction be-
tween theory and experience. The
Prussian royal house produced a
Frederick the Great, who was pos
sibly in many ways the most compe-
tent man in the Prussia Of his time.
1t produced a William I, ruler Of
limited talents, who had the good
sense to surround himself with men
Of far larger caliber-Roon, Bis
marck and Moltke-and to give them
q free rein as administrators. But
at the greatest crisis in German and
Prussian history a pinchbcck imita-
tion Of Frederick the Great hap
pened to sit on the throne. He
couldn't divest himself of the the
atrical role which he had been play
Ing In peace. Nor could other men
wholly crowd him off the stage.
Gcrmany's fortunes remained, there
fore, tied up hopelessly with the per-
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07
Back to 1890!
Old-Fashioned Virtucs viii Solpe
All Our Problems
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t seems to me that the chief
cause for the present state of unrest
is the number of harebrained theorists
that are continually being sprung upon
the public by so-called thinkers.
The world is to be saved by soviets;
the world is to be saved by interna-
tionalism; the world is to be saved by
a scientific distribution of free food
Nearly every week we are introduced
to some new way Of saving a long suf-
fering world. But now comes the ban
ner scheme Of all. The world is to be
saved by having women enter the
trades-just like men-thus doubling
the number of workers and making it
possible to have a four-hour day! Why
not put the children to work, too, and
make it a two-hour day?
l am surprised that a reputable au-
thor like George Weston should have
joined the growing army Of theorists
The only things that this world wants
are work and thrift and general
practice Of the other old-fashioned
virtues. If all would simply get together
and act the way that people acted back
in 1890, for instance, the worlds prob
lens would be solved within six months,
and we wouldn't have to train women
to do work for which they can never be
fitted, either by art, nature, literature
or experience. COMMON SENSE,
Plainfeld, Conn.,, Jan. S, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07
Mr.. Mann Slips Again

James R. Mann has come to the
front again-this time with a pro-
posal to prevent summary action in
the Berger case. Mr.. Mann even
goes further than that. He is not
only opposed to excluding Berger
when he appears to present his Gre
dentials, but is also opposed to un-
seating him at all.
The Chicago Representative made
many blunders when he was the
Republican leader in the House. He
was out of touch with the American
spirit. He wanted the United States
to soft pedal on the question of sea
rights in the hope of avoiding war
with Germany. Before the war, also.
he had obstructed military prepared
ness. His many alterations cost him
tho confidence of his colleagues.
When he claimed the Speakership
nomination in 1919, having had it in
1917, he was set aside for Mr.. Gillett,
Experience seems to have taught
Mr.. Mann nothing. He doesn't give
his reasons for wanting to see Ber-
ger seated. Possibly they have
something to do with the theory that
the House ought to accept the recent
verdict in the 5th Wisconsin Dis
trict. The House held that Berger
had disqualified himself for men,
bership. The district dissented from
that Judgment. Has the district the
final say?
Wilkes and Bradlaugh were sent
back to Parliament by stubborn con-
stituencies until Parliament let them
IN. But Wilkes and Bradlaugh were
standing out for liberty of political
or personal opinion. Neither had
been found guilty in court of hav-
ing obstructed the operation of
war measure or of having violated
the provisions of a sedition act.
Berger failed his country in a
crisis. He was lacking in patriotic
duty. Men of his stamp have no
Place in Congress. The Constitution
leaves either branch free to purge
itself of members whose qualifca-
tions it disbelieves in. The House
doesn't believe in Berger's, and no
contrary view on Milwaukee's part
ought to shake its conviction.
Mr.. Mann's predisposition to faulty
Judgments cannot save Berger. 1t is
fortunate for the Republican House
organization that the ex-leader's
vagaries can no longer reflect on its
capacity to distinguish sound from
'unsound leadership.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07

sonal failings Of the Kaiser and with
the traditions Of personal exercise
of power by the ruling monarch.
The German monarchists always
used to speak pityingly Of the weak
ness Of the democratic systems Of
France and Great Britain. But
Tirpitz's book and Ludendorff's book
are both filled with laments at the
shortcomings Of the German govern
ment and envious comments on the
greater war capacity Of the British
and French governments. The Brit
ish democracy put Lloyd George into
power. The French democracy finally
chose Clemenceau as it's leader. And
in the political field, which was pre-
eminently the Kaiser's field-both
Tirpitz and Ludendorff admit that
Lloyd George and Clemenceau ex-
hibited energy and craftsmanship far
superior to those of any leader
whom Germany was capable of pro-
ducing.
Democracies are more inherently
powerful in war than most Of their
critics imagine. They take short
cuts to a dictatorship when dicta-
torship is needed. Germany couldn't
take any short cut. The Kaiser and
his prerogatives stood in the way.
Not meaning to say so, Tirpitz and
Ludendorff, nevertheless, do say, in
effect, that the rigid Hohenzollern
type of government was one Of the
greatest war handicaps under which
Germany suffered.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07
Largess for the Interborough

The Hylan-C Craig plan (if this
vague proposal may be called a plan)
for the city's acquisition of the sub
ways says that the city shall physi-
cally value the lines; that new secu-
rites to the amount Of such valua-
ton shall be issued, with the city
guaranteeing principal and interest.
Where would the city get off under
this? In ditch, with pockets
picked. The marlborough securi-
ties owners would receive more than
they ever invested or now expect to
get-enough to dry up all the water
in the company's stock. We are not
in the confidence Of the owners Of
Interborough securities, but venture
to predict, if the Hylan- Craig plan
were put into legal form and the
offer described submitted, that they
would dance with joy and that the
stock market would see great boom
in fractions.
What is the physical or replace
ment value of the Interborough's
property? What is the present dol
lar worth of its real estate, it's
power houses, it's cars, it's rails, and
OF the parts Of the tunnels which
were dug with its money?
1t Is possible to make guess. In
1914 the physical property of the
New York Railways (surface lines)
was valued by public authorities at
$85, 100000. An investigation just
completed indicates that it would
now cost 100000 to duplicate
the property. The advance In labor
and material costs accounts for the
great increase. Similarly, the re-
placement value Of subway property
has been enhanced.
The Tribune has no disposition to
accuse tho Mayor and the Comp
trollsr Of being under tho control Of
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07
Following Roosevelt

Great was Theodore Roosevelt's 3
ability to think ahead. The gift was
displayed in the editorial article
yesterday republished by The
Tribune on "The League Of Ma
tions," written by him on January 3,
1919, which was awaiting revision
when the final summons came.
At that time no draft of the
covenant had appeared. The news
from Paris was a fog bank and
Through it the Presidents tanned
correspondent shed no light. But
the main things Colonel Roosevelt
saw. After a year of debate the
country has arrived in judgment
about where he was.
The period Of aloofness he saw
was over. America could not il
she would go back to her isolation.
$50 our departed friend and safe
4adyiger favored assumption of world
obligations. But not to the extent
So of taking part in every petty war.
America was to reserve her influ-
Eence for big matters and act on her
Kown judgment.
q As to the leagues organization
Eour seer said it should begin with
E3nd center in the league Of the
4ilies which fought and won the
sreat war. He had no patience with
3hoge who wanted the unworthy to
BE taken at once into full fellow
ship and who weakly shrank from
Ssiting a peace Of justice.
Finally, he saw what would be
e probable defeets of the league
he OWNED the Presidents course.
8 foresaw truths made dim by
uds Of words and rhetoric. He
e full Of proper scorn for efforts
substitute formulas for deeds
hted 10 do real international
"a. not merely to talk about
sr it. He sensed wherein the
sdent was deficient, as events
II disclosed.
III living. thsTs II no rsaSon to
New-York tribune., 1920-01-07
The Guinea Pig Test
o the Editor of The Tribune.

o inc EOltOr OF Inc tribune.
Sir: Charles Hanson Towne states in
his letter which you publish in to-
days edition Of The Tribune that
guinea pigs thrive on wood alcohol and
they never die from the poison. He
also goes so far as to say that they
abominate cherries. l do not pretend
to know as much about these rodents
as Maurice Maeterlinck knows about
bees. but l have a certain academic
knowledge of this subject, and | think
that Mr. Towne is wrong. The domes-
ticated guinea pig belong to the cavv.
or couies, genus. The aperca, or rest
less cavy of Brazil, is closely related
to it. Encyclopaedia Britannca, elev-
enth edition, Volume v, Page 5S7)
In series Of experiments which were
undertaken on the Island Of Onckotan
by Professor Ludwig Todesschweiss,
the French scientist, several years ago,
it was found that only eight out of
300 rodents survived the effects of wood
alcohol.
There Is much smaller species (Do-
lichotis salinicola), without the charac-
teristic black band above the tail
which inhabits the salt plains Of Ar
gentina. Perhaps Mr.. Towne had this
species in mind when he wrote his
letter.
All the caviid@ (rodcntia) family
will dcvour cherries, but will not touch
olives. ] still claim that these rodents
may be used in testing cocktails.
MARCEL STEINBRUGGE.
New York, Jan. 8, 1920.
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French Housing Improves
More Hotels Available for Tour.
lists. Saws Paris Official

fARiS. Jan. e.-Housing difficulties
IN taris are being overcome and the
noteis are no longer overcrowded.
according to a statement by the
psrns'dsnt tsom sa OF the Private HOTEL Assoeia.
uon, from SO to SO per cent Of the
room OF hotels In the organization
=. aso now available. both in Paris and
INC provtnces. A few hotels still
occupied by the government win he re
aoasea from control soon. 1t will be
possanie to accommodate from 60,0ou
" ou.o0O tourists in the near future.