The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-21
The OzaZOOker

Mayor Atwater visited Hillside Home. the beautifud floral gardens at Beardsley Park and the Welfare inspection trip Now the mayor is going to confine his public speaking to the fine institutions in Bridgeport and the accomplishments of the past
 
 Now, wouldn't it be nice if Mayor Fred spoke on the future and then have thirty thousand voters speak or the More wonderful accomplishments of Bridgeport I think that is what the Mayor really will do. Just watch and wait, and then see the truth of it in a couple of years.
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 A real ysanthemum show with no stentation-nothdng but real care fully cultivated flowers and blooms, was presented to the inspecting eye of the Mayor at BeardEsley Park MT Ciffes gardens are among the beauty spoes of the city. Yesterday af- ternoon with that beautiful fading sun, over @ faint cerulean sky, the place was a gorgeous spectacle.
 
 The rainfall of the last couple of Bridgeport, as the reservoirs will well come considerable water, and are slowly filling up to their normal ca pacity
 It is shyly rumored that there may be a new hotel in the Park City, as an addition to Polls new theatr1cal building in course of construction on Main street Never can tell what they'll present us with, and it seems to us pretty good scheme. too.
 Mark Twain week is being obserrv- ed this week in the schools. and at the same time, the famous Connecti- cut Yankee photoplay is running for another week in g. local theatre. One of the best and most remarkable fea, lures of the picture is the picture of MT. Clemens himself in his study, as his characters pass before him in dim review.
 In a case of this nature. with the Mark Twain observance snuultone- ously carried on in both school and picture house, there should be a greater incentive for the students to familiarsze themselves with the work of the great humorist. Educators have long maintained the value of the educational film, and with the screen ing of this film at the same time that the schools are devoting time to the study of this author, the experiment should be carefully noted.
 Apropos of the recent appearance of Al Reeves aa the Park City when the veteran minstrel charmed his ad- n1irers of many years by picking ms banjo, which helped make ZAP fa- nous the country over, the following verse recently penned by F'rnak L. stanton of the Atlanta Constitution is appropriate to the occasion: With tribulation fyin' like the
 witches round the moon, He jes' tood down his banjo, an rat tied off 8 tune!
 Jes thought about the good times
 that would bless the country
 
 He kept the strings a-tinklin'-oh, he
 rattled off a tune!
 Then he saw the light a-shinin' where
 the world was lool<in him Twas a halleluja season to the stng1n soul of himi
 An the deeps Of dark December had
 the blossoms O. the June; Oh, he jes took down his banjo, an he ra-ttled off a tunel
 Am the world-it heard the music, an
 it's sorrow spread it's wings, An th,e very stars seemed moving to
 that banjo's .inklin' strings; An he heard after an echo-"Ohs the light'll find us soon,
 If he'll jes' keep up the music-if hell
 rattle off tune!
 The sunsets artists have painted and poets have sung may be seen on any fair evening by any who at the proper time will look due west, out Fairfield avenue, out State street. Gold and purple, orange and pink, all the eye joys that can be conferred by the prisrnatic colors and thafr combt- nations are for any Bridgeporter who will look. Our sunsets are as good as any.
 The setting sun by metaphor often is applied to describe the fading of a career. But She sun also rises, and it may happen that Cliff Wilson, who has declined in the political firma- ment, may come up again in the legal sky. He will practice law, and many partners are assigned to him by un- authentic rumor, the latest being the gifted and esteemed Judge Nicholson.
 
 Fred Atwater must be a 1tsing sun. The gubernatorial boom salutes his morning rays, with noisy adoration. Fred will not pause from his du4y of putting Bridgeport into shape to heed this new cult of sun worship. The first duty of a sun is it's job. This Fred discovered wears ago. Most glorious among rising suns is the old pay envelope. Slowly, all too slowly, the mists disappear. That statistician of rare gifts, Alpheus Winter of the Manufaosurers' Asso- ciatior. of Bridgeport. shows that the unemployment cloud was thickest on July ?, when the employed in 31 fac tori es was but 49 per cent. of normal Now nearly 56 per cent. are in the sunshine.