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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-02-02
THEFT THAT IS NOT YET MADE CRIME

A CRIME IS an offence commits against society brother which has been defined by law ana forbidden.
 It is rule of country that every offence which be described in such fashion that every man may that forbidden and what the pen doing the forbidden thing It follows that many or lenses are they forbidden by laxymaking body.
 Among ofenses ought to be forbidden adequately criminal is the ofsence of selling highly speculative to unnformed people by sul carefully formulated to avoid the law against fraud
 principle of fraud that it doesn't exist the aon is made about something which is merely expected or hoped for.
 promoter selling worthless stock tells his victim stock good stock that it has paid dividend and that it is represented by dollar of property for dollar of vau and his statements fase he guilty of raud but takes worthless piece paper and share in corporation which is not doing business which expect will do business if he that he expects is confident that he is absolutely tain that this stock will pay 1000 per cent he is not guilty of fraud the law stands although he may know full well that prince of liar and that the thing he proposes is not within the range of reason.
 Bridgeport full of this type of ofense Promoters thing and that promising fabulous profits to dealers in inquty do not reach the financially who have had training investments and the of poor financially ignorant they the widows m the hardly pennies of the and sick from these innocent they take their gotten gains easy this of fraud crime but it is comparatively stock promotion with guarding which will at least prevent the mpudent sort of offering
 The Times has been dealing with promotion schemes manages keep within the law but which nevertheless the interest of public morals and of public policy ought to be regulated out of business
 agents this did not hesitate to the canty savings of the world whom far they knew i'll and who needed every dollar that he had could not afford to invest his money securities sell ing cents at 50 cents and at $ per share
 The General Assembly is in session. The session should without legislation which will make this sort of thing good deal difficult, if not absolutely impossible.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-02-02
GET RID OF POLITICS.

ID RIDGEPORT NEEDS charter. needs one of the D modern forms of city present system has been tried. It has been failure.
 The chief evils of the charter failure sponsbilfty and it's principle of bipartisan government
 The has authority, but not of commissioners has but not much The authority single police commissioner cusion of a other authority in the police department times the only authority is vested in person who elected office
 The plan of putting two members of each party chief boards worked we'll This plan poor Democrats of good Republicans and Republicans Democrats The bipartisan plan ought to be designated tenn for the encouragement of political treachery
 There should be political labels the The should be composed should be chosen by the people because for that work which city officials
 The Times is distinctly in favor the pan Partisan politics necessary carrying
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-02-02
Standard Oil
 Cutting Wages

New Yorlx-Reports circulated in this city that the Standard Oil Com pany was planning a ten per cent reduction affecting it's employees in all parts of the United States were given added currency today by news Of cuts made by Standard Oil subsidiaries in widely separated fieldS-New Jersey and West Virginia
 Employees of the Bayonne and Bay Way (Eliabeth) plants of the Stand ard Oil Company of New Jersey con sidered the proposed reduction at meetings last night. while reports came from Mannington, w. Va, or wage reductions by one Standard Oil subsidiary, and of laying on or number of employees by another. The proposed reduction in pay, ac- cording to employees who have been notified of the plan, will take the form of suspension of ten per cent | wage bonus granted during the war. At the time the bonus was made CT | fective, the company reserved the | right to suspend it when nVlng cosls | returned to normal
 Mannington. w. Va.-The recent cut in the price of Penna crude oil | to five dollars a barrel is beginning | to be felt in the important fields ol northern West Virginia. Many pro jects which were to have been start ed with the opening of spring, have been temporarily abandoned, while field work already under way will b' confined to wells which must be com p1eted in order to hold leases O
 which would result in heavy los
 should operations be suspended.
 It was said today that the Sout
 Penn Oil Company had ordered tn
 suspension of thirty-one strings c
 tools and the crews laid off, Employees of the Eureka Pipe Lin <Company said that bonuses would n , longer be paid and each man place
 on a straight wage scale, other oi and pipe line companies have follow , ed retrenchment policies and al , planning no additional work unt
 the slump is over.
 Natural gas companies have m tyet commenced to retrench but it f said that drilling generally will
 postponed until operating costs ca be reduced.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-02-02
PRICE OF GAS
 CUT ONE CENT

New Yorlz.-The Standard Oil Com pany of New Jersey today announced a reduction of 1 cent a gallon in the price of gasoline and kerosene in New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and Louisiana.
 The wholesale price of gasoline in Jersey City and Baltimore was also reduced from 2s F to 2T1s cents a gall lon and kerosene from 1S1s to 173k cents a. gallon.
 The Standard Oil Company of New York reduced the price of kerosene from 19 to IS cents by tank wagon, motor gasoline from 31 to 30 cents in steel barrels and varnish makers and painters naphtha 80 to 29 cents per gallon, effective today.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-02-02
TWO BANKRUPTS.

Two dry goods dealers filed pet- tions in bankruptcy today. Max Wet tenstein, who conducts clothing store at 501 BoStwic kavenue, entered against unsecured claims of s7215.os. A first meeting of creditors in this case will be held February 14- There are S9 creditors, most of them carry ing small claims. Hattie E. Fish, proprietor of a dry goods store at 275O Fairfield avenue, filed a peti- tfon in which liabilities amounted tc S2754 and assets $1,504.12.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-02-02
STUDENT WINS
 IN RACE WITH GRIM REAPER

Hebron, Maine-Racing against death, Lloyd Lowering, IS. of Read ing, Mass, covered the IFS miles of ice and snow and blocked roads be- tween Boston and Hebron in his open automobile in seven hours, arriving at Bebron Academy today with a bot save the life of his chum, Perez Bonney, of Medford, Mass, a stud who was at deatf's door. Academy authorities had telegraphed for anti toxin and- fearing the railroads would not get it there in time Lowering vol lunteered to make the dash
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-02-02

rv. %, friend oh yes ndeedl He's what I'd call "a fnend m r.e fact he's needing He takes out and treats me- then he strikes he's always broke and pleading never E m ba if can help accommodate with just little loan but th one f rest he's always for the pressed; he has pleading tone He tackles me upon when out to eat; he even ,Ia He wakes me up I'm asleep. disturbing all unbe.s deep and palt He always tells me he 's pay the mon lie. for when the day arvs why % L always needs another @ that much shy Sometime hope I'll find ov who's just big smp and will guarantee to intro
 e & friend just so bleed him dry and get the dough to settle up
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simons had not burned hts bridges behind him and that his presentation of the German attitude might enable him to gain important time both in anticipating the attitude of the new American administration and in reaching a definite settlement of the fate of Upper Si1esia-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-02-02
Does Not Feel
 Terms Are Final

Berlin-Germany does not consid- ar the terms of reparation decided up- on by the Supreme Allied Council at Paris last week as being the final settlement of the indemnity question but the basis of future negottations- This was indicated by pr. Walter Simons. foreign minister, who spoke on the reparations question before the Reichstag yesterday
 The prevalent opinion was rhat pr
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-02-02
SUE CITY FOR S1,5Oo.

Papers were filed today in the Su- perior court in the suit for s1,5oC damages brought against the City oi Bridgeport by Frederick. H. and Will jam P. Downs in connection with the John street extension.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-02-02
THE WEATHER

New Haven-weather forecast Tor New Haven and vicinity: Unsettled tonight and Thursday. snsntAy
 Conditions favor for this vicinity unsettled weather with snghuy higher temperature
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NOTICE

All members of Local Union No. 190, Painters and Decorators. are re- Quested to attend the meeting Friday night, Feb. 4th, Carpenters Hall. ITO Elm street. Business of importance to every member.
 Signed.
 E. L. MCCARTHY, Pres.
 w. M- LYON, Secy. Address P. O. Box 571- B bf STATE OF CONNECTICUT, District of Bridgeport, ss- Probate Court, Feb ruary l, 1921.
 Estate of Willie B. Mallory, late of the Town of Bridgeport, in said District, deceased.
 The Court of Probate for the District of Bridgeport hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof for creditors of said estate to exhibit their claims for settlement Those who neglect to present their accounts properly at tested. within said time, will be debarred a recovery. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to
 ISABEL MALLORY. Executrix-
 Executrix. Care of Charles A Hopwood- Attors ney at Law. 164 State St. Bridgeport
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-02-02
3S ASK PAPERS.

Thirty-eight applications for citi- zenship were granted this morning by Judge Keeler, in the Naturalization court.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-02-02
DIED
TODAY'S WANTS

ablebodied American, with family, desires any kind of work. Good at carpentering. painting, plumb ing, etc, soc per hour; will chop wood at $2-50 per cord. Write Box UA, care this paper, B2ssp
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-02-02

state elections larger extent in federal elections is not necessary conduct affairs of manufacturing city
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-02-02

Your identification must be in writing.
 It must be brought or mailed to The Times Onice-
 The person making the first iden- tification under the rules will oe paid S1.0O.
 This is the profile of one of Bridge ports oldest and most distinguished clergymen- He has served in the pull pit of two Bridgeport churches. and is widely known as any man of his cloth who lives in this community. Who is he?
 FOUR KNEW CONLIN.
 Four identified the profile of James J. Conlin that appeared in yes terday's Times, among them being the well known identifier, M- J. O'Reilly who once more just missed being first Patrick J. Smith of 406 Park street won the dollar and O'Reilly was second. The others who had the right answers were Miss Marie Mooney of 1616 Main street, and Hugh B. Dewitt of l Myrtle Court.
 DIED
 LOST-Vicinity Main and Congress Sts.. Tuesday night, skunk scarf. Reward
 if returned s44 North Ave. ANNIVERSARY MASS. A requiem anniversary mass will be solemnized at St. Augustine's s church on Thursday morning at ' | o'clock for the late John E. Moran, | SPA Pequonnock St a'p
The Washington times., 1921-12-11

wholesale destruction Of the cfvil
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discoveries in such matters, so that
the knowledge OF them. having be.
come public property, their use as
weapons Of war by any single state
may be rendered improbable. o..
Clearly, II any number Of scient.
lists do not consider the use Of
poison gas inhuman this proposal of
the League Of Nations will not be Of
much value. But there is no doubt
that the use Of gas by the Germans
in the second battle Of Ypres was re-
garded as a barbarity. So much
was this the case that many dis
tinguished soldiers were doubtful
whether we ought to use gas in
reply.
By the Hague Declaration Of
1889. which was signed by both
Great Britain and Germany, 'the
signatories agree to abstain from
the use Of projectiles. the sole
object Of which is the diffusion of
asphyxiating or deleterious gases"
In The Hague Convention of 1907
both Britain and Germany agreed
not to use poison or poisoned
weapons. Germany got round these
agreements because the gases used in
the second battle of Ypres, were
strictly. not poison, and they were
discharged from cylinders, not from
projectiles. but she was universally
regarded as having evaded the spirit
OF her agreements, and was con-
demned accordingly. There is no
doubt, therefore, that the use OF
poison gas was held, before and dur
ing the war, to be inhuman. Why
should there be any change of
opinion now7
The peculiar inhumanity in the
use of poison gas. as compared with
other weapons of war. is that its
use may. as the report Of the
League Of Nations says, Involve
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fellow had to laugh at last. and that
was the end of him.
Women will be wise II they con-
slider this question Of tact and bring
as much as they can Of It into q
world a little weary Of masculine
dominance.
The House of Commons, tired Of
an oratory which threatens and
beats tin boxes in anger, might read
lily listen to the woman who breaches
that the quality Of mercy 10 not
strained.
A Judge who turns impatientIy
from the ordinary pleadings Of coun-
sci might turn kindly ear to the
pleading Of woman. She would
never forget that the covering
prisoner was some heartbroken
mothers son-and 80 she would
plead the cause of every erring son.
The old comedians taught us this
and harped upon 1t for two cen.
turies. Man for them was a ranting
animal.
Woman, on the other hand, was
all nentleness and wonderful as
diplomat. How she flattered the
irate fool; how she waxed him; how
cunningly she. who knew the truth.
hid that truth from him! And the
victory was always that of her tact
and apparent art,essness.
pertinent in taking woman into its
counsels and endowing her with new
responsibilities and powers. She Is
being watched and ultimately she
will be Judged out Of her own mouth.
(Copyright. 1919
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wholesale destruction of the cfvfl
population ''~'-
AEROPLANE PERIL.
Early in May. 1915, the Germans
made their second gas attack 1t
Ypresy employing a far greater vol.
ume OF gas than in their first AZ.
tack. remember that early In the
morning, when this second attack
took place. was riding just outside
Haasebrouck, when my horse sud.
denly refused to 60 a yard further.
and soon after 1 felt my own ewes
smarting. ~
When I got back to my office I
received a telegram with the news
OF the gas attack. and realizeed that
and my horse had felt the sas
twenty-one miles from the place
where 1t had been discharged. n
that gas had been really poisonous
the thousands Of women and chill.
dren in Haasebrouck that day might
have been killed. A fleet of aero
planes could now carry for several
hundred miles as much gas as the
Germans discharged on that occa-
sion; and II the gas were really pols-
onous, and the breeze carried n ror
a distance of twenty-one miles from.
the place where II was dropped, the
destruction OF the civil populatioa
would indeed be wholesale.
The only way that I see Of pre-
venting the use Of the former. It
least until the League Of Nations
has succeeded in abolishing war.
is for every nation to know how to
make It. and TO have the means Of
making IT. so that any government
thinking of employing gas will know
that an equally deadly gas may be
Co.,, ~ reply, and that by using gsA
II is exposing its civil population -
wholesale destruction.
Copyright. 1919
The Washington times., 1921-12-11
LONDON. Dec. 10.

LONDON. Dec. 10.
~iINCE the subject of the use of
poison gas in warfare was mooted
at this years meeting Of the
British Association, there has been
much discussion in the press, and
find that number Of scientists have
declared that the use Of poison gas
Is. in their opinion. not inhuman. or
at least not more inhuman than tho
employment of explosive shells or
other forms of destruction.
I desire to combat this view be-
cause I believe that the possibility
OF limiting the use Of poison in war
depends largely upon the scientists.
MY opinion has now been indorsed
by the assembly of the League of
Nations, which has adopted the re-
port of it's Third commission on the
reduction of armaments. That re-
port contains the following passage:
Il has been stated that inventions
have been made or perfected since
the war whereby wholesale destruc-
ton Of the civil population would be
possible by the dropping Of poison
bombs and the like from the air, nor
Is there any reason to suppose that
the limits Of invention In these fiend-
ish devices have been reached. And
II, as seems possible to the commit
tee to be arguable, the employment
Of these weapons will be rendered
impracticable II there were no Sc
crecy about them, the possibility OF
obtaining complete publicity Tor
scientific researches in this domain
is certainly worth exploring.
APPEAL TO SCIENCE.
Accordingly the committee recon-
mended the temporary mixed com
mission should be asked Ia con-
slider whether an appeal should not
be addressed to all scientific men
In the world, urging them TO publish
TO the world the results Of their
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By SEIEILA KAYE-SMITa--
(The omar NOUeLst, of "GreenA AppLe
Harvest" Writes the NeU W0nsan-An Old CHcheJ
oman AT Her Best i'm the More Decorative Ways of c-n the
Production and Distribution of Beautiful Necessities or In Those Pro
fessOn Most Akin to Motherhood the Care and Education of Crena

"HAT phrase. "The New wom-
an" IL the very oldest cliche
the original epigram. I can
4 not conceive 1t. as OF any later date
than Adams surprised exclamation
at the sight of Eve. when all things
were new. including himself. Now
Adam is never anything but the
Old Adam. where Eve is still New.
AS a matter Of fact, / sometimes
think that she is just as old az
Adam. but. woman-like. she has
mastered the problem of old age,
and contrives to keep young as a
subject Of controversy. She was a
topic in ancient Babylon, in ancient
Rome, in the times of the Renais-
sance, in the times of Decadence
and Oscar Wilde twhen people first
discovered that the term new
woman" was old, and now In 1921
she is still the center OF discussion,
and still apparently as new as ever.
TRANSITION STATE.
No doubt terrible lot Of non.
sense IL being talked about her,
now as always. One particularly
popular form of nonsense is to
look upon her as a revolution.
People talk as II the modern wom-
an belonged to an entirely new
order of things; they point back to
the Victorian woman, with her GRIN
oline and her Tennyson, and offer
her as the type. par excellence, Of
womankind-her admirers even 20
SO far as to call her a womanly
woman. The fact is that It was the
Victorian woman who was the rev.
olution and the breakaway. She
was a phase attending the COM
bined phenomena, Of the rise Of
Teutonism in high places and the
rise Of the middle classes out OF
Industrial exploitation. Because
she blocks our immediate past, we
have come to think she fills the
whole Of 1t. We neglect to look be-
hind her. II we did, we should find
the hearty eighteenth-century girl,
who ate her breakfast Of beef and
beer, rode long miles and days
a-horseback. and read Tom Jones"
with an enjoyment uncondemned
either by herself or her critics-be-
hind her again we should find the
witty Carolean dame. with her
knowledge of life and politics
then comes the Elizabeth boy-girl
Il can't believe that Shakespeare
heroines are quite imaginary
grandchild Of those towering WON.
en- Of the Renaissance, mistresses
Of learning and lovo. the women
who could read Latin and Greek
and Hebrew, who ruled countries
and empires and pulled the strings
Of puppet armies Of men. who did
their rough and dirty work.
can't conceive the most extreme
advocate Of women's rights de-
manding more.
Women are now in a transition
state Of recovery from the set
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back Of Victorianism, and on their
way back to that freedom which
was theirs before the Tennysonian
age. That is what is making their
position in these days at once 30
conspicuous and SO insecure. They
are fighting-often with much
clamor and often not quite fairly
Ito win level with the men who
got ahead of them during those
years when they were stationary
under the Good Queen. women's
standard of freedom and educa-
ton may have been lower under
Queen Anne than under Queen
Victoria, but It was not 30 notice
ably behind that of the men. IL
women were illiterate and un-
franchised in the eighteenth CEN
tury, SO were the men. except the
conspicuous few; but in the nine
teenth century the reform acts
immensely enlarged the male scope
in politics without doing anything
for women. and though the educa-
ton acts were more impartial.
the rise Of masculine tyranny and
vanity under a w0nan's reign made
1t comparatively difficult for wom-
en- to avail themselves of their
privileges. In the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries men at least
tolerated intellect in their wives.
LOVE AFFAIRS.
Woman now has very nearly the
same political and educational ad-
vantages as man. but you can
not be much impressed by the
use she has made of them. Poll
tics have surely never been more
treacherous or commercial than
they are in these Utopian days,
when woman has the vote, and edu.
cation seems to have persuaded
some women to think that their
highest aim In life is to produce a
feeble imitation of their brothers.
Marriage Is going out of fashion as
vocation. and a great deal of
nonsense is talked about men and
women working together side by
side and being Independent Of each
other. I have even heard It said
In praise Of the modern women
that she does not look upon mar
riage as her aim i'm life. but looks
forward to entering a profession
and earning her Living independ.
emily Of male support. ~.
To me this schoolg irish contempt
OF natural emotions is just as bad as
early Victorian prudery. II a wom-
an does not look forward to mar
riage as the central hope of her life
1t means either that she intends TO
pursue her love affairs anti-socially
or. worse still, that she does not
mean to have any at all OF course.
there Is that most recent product of
the age. that standby of modern
Journalism. the superfluous woman.
But people forget that she is merely
"A passing phenomenon. and not !,
fact of nature, and that there is no
reason why ideals. morals and eco
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to battle with her own weapons. but
with those put into her hands by
man.
She will meet him upon his own
grounds, give a Roland for his OIL
yer, and 80 carry herself that her
masculinity will win the applause
from the multitude.
THE PERFECT WOMAN"
Herein feel sure that she il
wholly wrong. The qualities which
We ask Of her. those which will best
serve the nation, are not Of a
rugged, but Of kindlier order. We
need her womanhood, not her ca.
pacity for combat. She must be.
come the perfect woman. nobly
planned"
Through the ages philosophers
have taught us that in certain
moods she is irresistible. We see
her as the heroine of comedy and
tragedy-but always as the woman.
What every woman knows Is that
she is a woman, and that in her
womanhood lies victory.
II In this play Sir James Barrie
had created a shrew who said to her
husband: II have been educated at
Cambridge. I play football and
hockey. l shouldered myself into
the lecture rooms" the good man
would never have had his speech re-
ter have listened TO him. Maggie
knew well that he was fool; but
she was careful to. conceal the fact
from him. She was slow in words.
but strong in deeds. And the poor