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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-24
BATTLE OVER BROOMS TAKEN
 INTO COURT

Harry Chambers. his wife Gather inc, and William Jackson, all of 19S Knowlton street, who are alleged to have participated in a whirlwind en- counter in the Know1ton street apart ment house last night, and to have bounced several bottles off the head of one Frederick Robinson. of the same address, were arraigned in the city court this morning, charged with assault. Chambers and his wife were sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined $25 and costs, but charges against Jackson were nolled. The jail sentence imposed upon the man and wife were later suspended.
 According to the story told in court Robinson, who was only recently dis charged from St. Vincent's hospital, had an argument over a clock and a broom with some mysterious woman from New Haven. The discussion wax ed warm, and Robinson's remarks are said to have been of very unf1atter- ing nature and to have included al- most everyone in the house.
 Mrs. Chambers, who was listening in' from the floor below, took excep ton to some remarks said to have been made about her, and rushed up- stairs to thrash it out with Robin SoA- oHe Was IouoWeu py Ter nuS- band The trio engaged in a verbal battle for a few. minutes, and then someone suddenly hurled a milk bot tie. Robinson returned the fire with another bottle and ducked behind a door for the purpose of protection and to secure more ammunition. Bottle" and dishes clogged the atmosphere to a considerable extent, and some of the missiles col1ided none to gently with Robinson's head. Jackson jumped into the fray in the role of peaeemaker, and succeeded in quel1- ing the disturbance just as an offic- CT arrived. Neither MT. or Mrs. Chambers were struck by the flying bottles. The New Haven woman could not be located this morning.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-24
COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS.

Compensation Commissioner B. T. Buckingham has approved of the fol- lowing voluntary agreements:
 Louis Boke of 38 Columbia court is to receive SIS a week while dis. ah1ed from the burns which he receiv- ed while employed by the Crane Co.
 Mozk Kocskos of 246 Howard ave. nue is to get $16.40 a week from the Crane Co. for contusions of the left foot
 John Teskey of 3S7 Iranistan ave- nue is to get SIS a week from the Crane Co. for burns on forearm.
 Stanley Su1ka of 751 State street is to get s15.03 a week from the Crane Go. for a hernia.
 Dan Dylewslzy of Stamford is to get s1039 a week from the Yale & Towne Mfg. Go. for lacerations os the fingers.
 Joseph Blumquist is to get $15.2s week from Baer Bros. for a burn5t foot. R. Jacobson is to get s14 a week from the Lake Torpedo Boat Co. for traumatic hydrocale. Fred CheckIey is to get s12.50 a week from the Blythewood Sanator- iunq for a broken shoulder blade. A. R. Smith of Danbury is to get s2.1S a week from D. E. Lowewe & Co for a sprained hand and wrist.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-24
Illinois Senator Says
 NeWberry Must Be Saved
GIVES WARNING HE'LL. "Go ovER'' UNLESS G. O. F. STANDS BACK OF MICHIGAN SENATOR
 NOW ON TRIAL

'I have dewlt within party lines since 1880---4o years this last Novem- her," the IIlinoisan continued 'I think I cannot fairly be accused of being too Liberal in matters of partisan pol icy, but if the Senator now on trial before the Committee on PrnelegeS and Elections (Newberry) shall be un- seated, one more vote will turn the majority in this chamber to the other side of the aisle, and I have that one vote,'' he shouted.
 Unless MT. Newberry is saved this chamber vii be for awhile, until the Governor of Michigan shall act, a. tie in the event a single Republican votes with the minority. This mock heroic virtue must cease. MT. PpreSident, I serve timely notice upon Senators up | on this side of the chamber that they must be Republican or there will be divers Senators here who. will refuse to do anything.''
 | In discussing the Newberry expen- ditures for both primary and A'nc+ion, Senator Sherman went to such length ]. as to surprise his Republican coilea- gues. most of who~ deserted the chamber while he spoke Although the Newberry Campaign Committee in a sworn statement admitted spending more than s176,000 in the primary alone. Senator Sherman justified the expenditures as legitimate. Disregard ling the Federal statute regarding Sem atoria1 elections, Senator Sherman as- serted he had just as much right as
 Judge Sessions, who is presiding over the Newberry trial, to pass upon that lQuestion.
 At the conclusion of Senator Sher- lman's remarks Senator Warren of lWyoming, himself an unyielding 'NOld
 Guardsman,' hurried to the Ilinoisan land whispered violently. Adjournment
 quickly followed and also withhold ling of the Sherman speech from the Record until it should have been conn., ipleted.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-24

Washington, ID. C---The Republicans of the United States Senate must ''save'' Senator Truman H. Newberry of Michigan, now being tried for con- spiracy, fraud and corruption in con nection with his election, or Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman of Illinois is likely to turn the Democratic minority into 8 majority Party solidarity must be preserved, no matter whether an election has been delbauched, was the general tenor of the Illinois RepubH- cans recent warning to his party l colleagues, delivered at the top of his voice.
 We on this side of the chamber are either headed to lose one vote or we must stand together great deal bet ter than we have been doing, de- claimed Senator Sherman, following defeat of an amendment he had offer ed to the deficiency bill requiring the War. Department to furnish copies ot the draft records of the constituents
 of any Senator or Representative '1 Isomewhat resent the superior virtue implied for voting on all matters witt the minority he contained. q car tdo some of that myself; I have al lready done so a time or two, as z ttimely warning, and I will do a greal deal more of it before my term expire:
 unless there is a change of behavior lon this side of the chamber"
 Then followed Senator Sherman't threat to possibly throw the majorit. to the Democratic side of the Senati
 unless his Republican colleagues stooC
 as one to retain Senator Newberr. in his seat, irrespective of the outcom of the criminal trial now in progres
 at Grand Rapids.
 1 As Senator Sherman withheld hi remarks from the official Congressiona
 Record in deference to the protests o some Republicans, a copy was obtaine
 from the ofnciaI stenographer and thes jquotations are from his record.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-24
RAISING SALARIES

T~ HE STURDY quarreling which among the Re- publican mercenaries is but the expected manifesto ton condition there longer loot enough to go round.
 The administration of Mayor Wilson, The Times has frequently pointed not composed of the representa- lives of political party He has not been elected by epub by Democratic votes but by the votes of those who sharing in the spols.'
 This does not mean every freeman who voted for Mayor Wilson got something the administration. It that the body of posmen is large enough so that it's voes the influence sufficient to the election.
 election instance, had behind it the weight place holders desirngo keep their places police school teachers without regard to normal political preferences husing for Wilson, be- they expected the event his eecon sub stanta salary The remen and the police hope that 95 per cent of both bodies contributed the campaign fund of Mayor Wilson
 influences swelled by the efforts of contrac and their followers who working cost plus basis had large gain to expect and no losses to risk
 upon expenditure, and sustained by the outlay of unusual sums of public money spent that it cannot continue except by the practice of methods that will already vexed munity to the point of rebellion.
 The tried and hitherto successful method used until they have broken of their weight What the method? consisted in exravagant increases in the grand list which enabled large to be raised without entire y aenang the citizenship by the mere magnitude of the tax rate
 These revenues supplemented by borrowing. In borrowing possible by continued imitation of the grand list These nfaons of the grand list made toerabe by shifting the incidence One year dwellings would another Main street property and when the desperate, manufacturing property. For years manufacturing property has been little bothered
 The this has been explained The Inanufactur ing group with certain exceptions have supported the admin istraion- By seeing you could always get what you wanted"
 It with reluctance that the authorities desperate for funds approached large the manufacturing lists The made but not maintained When Mayor Wilson met the victims of the mpost face to face he couldn't stand the impact and the grand list dropped eleven millions
 Already the expeden issuing notes and creating debt to meet deficiencies had been adopted There expansion here.
 Maturing bonds no longer paid More debt, 8 higher rate of interest being issued pay the maturing debt This closed another
 Pc1ings poor. There mouths to satisfy there used to be. Each mouth needs to fill it.
 It is not strange that the holders quarreling their of the spos Mayor Wilson, the first time scious that hands have been dipped deep into the municipal gold is afraid that the salary grabbing of his comparots confederaes whatever the best word will lnjure
 But the machine consists of many persons, bound together by the tie of interest It looks the Mayors ordnaes going to get theirs" matter what happens him.
 The Bridgeport taxpayers going to get theirs rgh in the neck, as the boys say, when they talk slang
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-24
MIR. FORD'S OWN PAGE

whether we shall all enter again upon an era of wasteful compe- tition, or whether by information al suggestion and understanding we shall enter upon the safe and serviceab1e plan of looking to each other for the things we can best do.
 The industries of the world are being held back simply because the nationalism of a past time keeps it's dead hand upon the present.
 What do the desolate coun- tries of Europe want? Some say they want food, and we have been sending food for years in magnificent quantities. But food only keeps people alive; it does not start them toward self-sus- taining industry.
 What these countries need more than our charity is our business. They need that the doors be flung down so that we may buy from them the natural materials they have to sell, ma terials whose labor content is ele- mentary. This will start their own industrial lives going again, by giving them a job, giving them trade, giving them the op- portunity to accumulate capital and resume their former activi- ties. But a foolish nationalistic arrangement prevents this just now. Tariffs that were reared as protective devices are now acting as hindrances. Each nation hud- dles behind it's own barriers which exclude beneficial relations and the world hobbies along un- der an unnatural restraint.
 Tariffs are imperfect things unless they are made to respond automatically to the need of the time. They should be made to turn on and off as the peoples welfare require. Certainly these are times when the laws which govern in normal conditions should be made adaptable to ab- normal world conditions. There was no law against large quan- titles of raw material flowing out ofthis country to other lands as soon as the war stopped; why should there be laws preventing the flow into our country of the materials we need to keep our wheels turning ?-the traffic in which would be the much needed industrial starter of many suffe ing foreign lands.
 Internationalism in some form or other challenges us on every hand. It is part of every phase > of nationalism. We find that we cannot be even national without international relations, as, an in- dividual cannot be fully human without social relations and re- responsibilities. How soon the politicians will be able to see this, is a speculative question. But the people readily see it, and even where they do not clearly see it, they sense it and are waiting for it.
 A partnership of peoples makes for peace, progress, production of the necessary materials of life and consequently prosperity which can be shared by large na- tions and small nations alike according to their willingness tc work.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-24
TO CLOSE THEATRES UNLESS DEMANDS
 ARE MODIFIED

Chicago, Feb. 24-Owners of most of the 407 motion picture theatres in Chicago today announced that they would close February 29 unless the Moving Picture Operators Union dis missed it's business agent and modi- fled demands. Film exchanges also announced they would cease delivery of reels after February 29, thus fore ing to close those theatres that other wise would have remained open.
 The questions involved, according to the owners announcement, are the number of machine operators each theatre should employ and an alleged attempt by the business agent. Tom Mal1oy, to control screen advertise mentS.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-24

A year ago the statesmen of the world, or such of them as knew the hopes of the people, were wholly engaged with inter- nationl problems. Their every inference and plan had interna- tional bearing. An American President was touring Europe and people whose tongue he could not speak and who could not speak his tongue, thronged him with plaudits because they knew that his intentions were interna- tional, his goodwill was world wide, his version was inclusive of all humanity.
 No statesmen seemed to be thinking of himself, no nation seemed to be seeking it's own separate interest. Everyone de- sired that affairs be so arranged that the common equal benefit might be secured, and world in- terests esta ablished as a common wealth of all humanity.
 There is no doubt at all that during that interval the pIalu.p peo- pie of the world had a very clear vision of internationalism as the best guarantee and the highest fruition of nationalisn, and there was a general willingness to make those compromises of spec ial interest which might be nec- essary to secure it.
 That was a year ago.
 What has happened since? We have only to look about upon the political and industrial worlds to see what has happened.
 In the political world there has Seen a settled slump back into the old ruts, in the industrial world there has been q costly failure to grasp the opportunities which international outlooks and plans would have given us.
 Look at the political world first of all. Scarcely had the states men settled to their task of in- ernationalizing the higher and common interests of humanity, when the call of national and sell fish interests began. to distract them.
 The first distraction came from politics-politics in its lower, ward-heeIer sense.
 The work at Paris took first class statesmen away from their home -centers. The work could not be done by mail, by proxy Or any other 1ong-distance de- vice, and this necessitated the absence of leaders.
 This gave the opportunity for little men. malcontents and of -fce-seekers at home, to strike from behind and to make politi- cal capital out of the leaders ab- sence. The Italian premier was a victim; the British premier was victim; as was also the American president. Each had to turn to lesser, petty matters from the high and solemn task of bringing the world together in unity.
 The very ground on which they stood as representatives of their respective nations was threatened to be cut from under their feet; the "outs' at home were laying plans to deprive them of their representative character altogether. Partisanship actually
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-24
soVIET ooMMUN1ouE.

London, Feb. 24-The capture of ice breaking and other naval craft by the Red forces which are over running the Archangel and Mur- nansk sections in north Russia is re- ported in a Soviet communique re- ceived from Moscow today. The statement reads:
 According to supplementary in formation from Archangel our troops captured the battleship CD of the Chesma river fiotiIla and two heavy and five light ice breakers.
 1.-The enemy is bonibarding Ghenit- chask (sea of Azov) from the sea-
 Fierce fighting is continuing around Rostov and Nakhitchoskn Con the Don).
 Red troops have captured the for tiications of Gulitch."
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-24
DEMAND FOR VETO ON R. R.
 BILL CROWS
Continued on Page six)

CCon1nued on Page Six) bitterly attacking the governments general policy and the manner in which it had dealtswith the wage con- troversy.
 The leaders also were forced to combat moves of radical elements in several directions. They said these might take definite form at any time.
 That the general committeeman are not by any means united in favor of the presidents proposition was indi- cated by private discussions among the executives as to courses of action in event the plan is rejected. E. J. Manion, president of the Brother hood of Railroad Photographers, was said to have suggested that the whole controversy be referred to the gen era1 membership. This proposal has not, gained headway among the other executives, it was said.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-24
MEET TO OPEN DRIVE

Two hundred of Bridgeports live wires meet at 6:30 tonight in the up- per gymnasium of the Y. M. c. A. to start the drive for 500 new mem- bers in one week.
 At the final luncheon of the Execu- tive Committee, Generals, Aides and Captains yesterday noon at the Stratfield the report showed a prac- tically perfect organization. Each division has a full line of splendid captains and practically every team was reported up to full strength. The first report of progress will be made after the supper Wednesday night
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-24
SIGNAL MARS WITH SMOKE.

Bryn Mawr, Pa, Feb. 24-Use of the governments surplus of smoke making material left over from the war in signalling Mars was suggested today by James J. Crenshaw, asso- ciated professor of chemistry at Bryn Mawr College, who served in the chemical warfare section of the American Expeditionary Forces. Smoke screens hundreds of miles in width, he believes, would be more likely to be discerned by possible Martians than the geometricaI de- signs which Sir Oliver Lodge sug- gested be laid out on the Sarah de- sert-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-24

took issue against humanity; To- cal politics of the most selfish and shortsighted stripe became an obstruction to international ism. Never in human experience has the great and the little, the noble and the ignoble been in such clear-cut alignment of op- position.
 Well, for the most part the in sincere negotiators o< an inter nationalisn understanding have returned to their two-hy-four To- cal politics and what meets them there?
 Internationalism meets them at every turn! President Wilson's political foes made good their VOW to humiliate this country by preventing it taking it's leading part in the Eery League it pro- posed. Very well. They vowed and they achieved But what is the result? Why the League of Internationalism meets them at every turn. They discover it, like nemesis, it turns up where they least expected it. It surprises them at every corner. It has proved a, boomerang to every en- emy.
 We cannot escape information alism even if we would, for it is upon us in one form or another. We are just learning that if we will not have internationalism in .ts higher and better forms, we will have it in it's lower and more dangerous forms
 What is the unrest that dis turbs us today? Nothing else than an international disease which economic boundaries have not been strong enough to keep out. What is this grasping bower that would subdue all production and commerce to it's greed? Noth- ing else than an international capitalism which will come to rule if we refuse persistent1y to establish international co-opera- ton.
 You see, it is not any longer a choice between nationaIism and internationaIissn.
 It is a choice between good and helpful internationaIism, and bad internationaIism.
 NO Hdl1On any longer lives to itself alone. And certainly our nation does not and cannot, es- pecially since our part in the war and our principal role in the new era of international obligation and goodwill The very fates seem to be bringing about a po- etic revenge for the enemies of internationahsm. It is interna- tionalism that they must choose; there is no alternative. If they choose bad form, they are the enemies of their country. If they choose the good form, then they surrender to the very prin- ciple they hoped to destroy
 Industrially, we see very much the same condition of affairs. In ternationa1ism is being thrust up- us whether we will. or not And in this field also we must decide whether the good or the bad form will come to us. To be strictly national is impossible. Coun- tries outside of us serve as our customers or our sources of sup ply. The view we take of our relations with them will decide
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-24
SHELBY FILES BRIEF.

W. Parker seeley, assistant city at torney, today filed his brief in the one fare hearing recently held in this city at which representatives of Mil ford, Stamford, NorwaIk and other surrounding towns and cities were present. At the conclusion of the hearing the Public Utilities commis- sion instructed the various complaints to file briefs of the case.