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Evening star., 1921-08-06
Growing Confidence in 0bregon.

There is no need to discount the
danger of certain influences in
Washington-influen which have
the ear of certain members of the
administration-inp predicting that the
menace of Intervention in Mexico is
receding. There are many factors at
work clarifying the relations be-
tween the United States and the
republic south of the Rio Qrande, and
not the least of them are the
character and Intellectual capacity of
Alvaro Obregon fiimself
If Obregon really rids the oil fields
of the graft and intrigue and cor
ruption that have disgraced them for
SO many years he will have no
trouble about the export taxes he i'm
poses IN petroleum. Secretary of
State Hughes is not the sort Of man
to be caught in the interventionist
web: he will insist on maintaining
American rights. but he is not going
to confuse American rights with the
sovereignty of Mexico.
Mexico today has a great task
ahead of her in making interest pay
ments on her foreign-owned bonds.
upon which she has defaulted and for
which she Is being pressed more
sources of taxation, for her people
are impoverished, and naturally she
turns to her natural wealth for the
wherewithal to meet her obligations.
1t would be suicidal to make these
taxes confiscatory. inasmuch as this
policy would dry up the very springs
from which the revenues Of Mexico
must come.-Baltfmore Sun, inde-
pendent democratic).
Evening star., 1921-08-06
The Music of a Democracy.

In the universal mourning for
Enrico Of the golden voice and heart
one aspect Of his usefulness seems
to have escaped attention. Caruso did
the millions of Americans scattered
throughout our country than any
other single person-perhaps more
than any other force except the In
vention of the photograph itself. In
hundreds of thousands of homes the
the initial Impulse toward brass bands
and Uncle Josh had been satisfied
was something by the divinely gifted
Italian. 1t was not bought because it
was grand opera, and because 1t was
the famous Cousin Carus'." In this
good music for its own sake. Curtis
Vessel, editor of the Phonograph and
Talking Machine Weekly. informs the
Globe that whereas the average record
containing average music has a life
of only few months, practically all
and better year by year. What he
did for the people of America by the
magic of his voice thus used is hard
to estimate, but it was much.-New
York Globe independently.
The female of the species is more
comfortable than the male.-Harris-
burg Patriot.
The latest phase of the Russian
menace calls for a Gordon of buffet
states.-Norfolk Virginian-Pilot,
Uncle Sam has finally secured a di-
vorce from the war, but we are still
paying heavy alimony.-Asheville
Times.
Beauty specialists prescribe whis-
ky. AS an aid to beauty or as an aid
to busiDess.-Santa Barbara News.
They are going to kill the pigeons
that infest Wisconsin'e capitol and
do 1t great damage, but will spare
the politicians, who have been doing
the same thing.-Nashvtlle Banner.
The railroads need money, they say.
And the vacationist has a faint idea
that they are getting it.-Arkansas
Gazette.
The only red menace in America is
red tape-Birmpgham News.
It is possible that britannia rules
the waves" but not, the Gaels.-Co-
lumbia Record.
New Head Buyer for Armours''--
headline. Whose scalp are the pack
eIs altar nows-NeW ovlssnA Times,
P1caYunes
Evening star., 1921-08-06

English journalists are often sur
prised at the confidence reposed by
officials in representatives Of the Amer
lean press. This confidence is what
enables the American newspaper man
tn know what he is writing about and
to manifest discretion in the use of
quotation marks.
Evening star., 1921-08-06

The ancient puzzle as to which ex-
listed first the chicken or the egg was
not less interesting than the modern
query as to whether big volume OF
business will secure reduction of
rates or a reduction of rates will Sc
cure big volume Of business.
Evening star., 1921-08-06

Reports from Paris indicate be-
lief that Lenin and Trotsky will be
eliminated from Russian affairs. The
mystery is that they should have been
able to hold on so long.
Evening star., 1921-08-06

Limitation of armament appeals the
world over to taxpayers who have
looked into statistics relating to the
cost of war. In dispensing with the
great peril Of life. the cost of living
will be materially lessened.
Evening star., 1921-08-06

Naval construction is regarded by
English statesmen as necessary pend
ing negotiations. in spite of numerous
indications that it Is not likely to
prove a needful or profitable form of
investment.
Evening star., 1921-08-06

incidentally, pugilist champion
becomes a motioh-picture star with
whom no manager is likely to venture
too far in quarreling about salary.
Evening star., 1921-08-06

If the ex-kaiser has been reading
the literature circulated concerning
next winters fuel supply, he will be
found chopping wood more indus
triously than ever.
Evening star., 1921-08-06

Caruso's wonderful career is a refu-
tation of the belief. more or less en-
Couraged abroad. that America is not
a music-loving nation.
Evening star., 1921-08-06

A U. S. tax on automobiles will be
regarded as burdensome If it involves
the necessity of carrying proofs of
payment. There is not much room for
more tags on the average car.
Evening star., 1921-08-06

Many citizens of Germany are a gree
ably surprised to find that business
can go on under IL republican form of
government with more comfortable
prospects than under a monarchy.
Evening star., 1921-08-06

A certain element Of unemployment
may be due to the man who refuses to
work unless he can get the kind of a
job he likes and name his own COM
I,ensation.
Evening star., 1921-08-06

German citizens cannot fail to OBJ
serve the fact that a president has
proved far less troublesome than an
emperor.
Evening star., 1921-08-06

The pocketbook snatcher has been
superseded in attention by the robber
who seizes satchels from bank mrssen-
gers.
Evening star., 1921-08-06

Russian peasants who burn villages
are pursuing custom which under
takes to deal with a bad state OF at
fairs by making it worse.
Evening star., 1921-08-06

Siberia. once regarded as bleak and
almost uninhabitable, is now the OBJ
ject of a variety of residential aspira-
tions.
Evening star., 1921-08-06

The stamp on a bank check is, after
all. likely to be by far the least diff
cult part of the transaction in hand.
Evening star., 1921-08-06
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

| Those Primitive Ref0rmers.
! When first Apollo smote the Tyre
And filed the world with song
! No phonograph helped him inspire
The numerous dancing throng.
When Sophocles produced his plays
With artistry secure
There we're no syndicates to raise
| The funds and book a tour.
When Plato sat down for thought.
| So wondrous and so grand,
! Typewrfting had not yet been taught.
He did the work by hand.
| When Cincinnatus in the field
Pursued his way serene
He never had to help the yield
A harvesting machine.
They had no railroads built for speed.
No telephones for talk,
No comic supplements to read,
No fiivver cars to balk.
Those good old-timers had their use;
Their work was fine and strong;
and yet we wonder how the deuce
They ever got along.
Definition.
"What is your idea Of true states
MANI"
"a true statesman replied Senator
Sorghum, "is a man who feels the
pulse Of the people and then prescribcs
what he honestly believes is good for
them instead of prescribing patent
| medicine in which he is interested"
Jud Tunkins says he never hesitates
to lend an umbrella, because it's worth
the loss of the umbrella to get rid Of
q false friend.
Endless Chain of Thought.
The tariff is work of art
That calls for great precision.
AS soon as it's revised they start
Revising the revision.
Economies.
Does your wife take an interest in
economy"
"Yes," replied Mr.. Growcher. "She
thinks I ought to be able to make q
lunch Of piece of lettuce and spoon
full of ice cream the same as she can."
The Artful Angler.
''That man is what I call a. first
class fisherman" remarked Farmer
Corntossel.
"But he never brings in g. fish,"
mo. But he can set down and en-.
tertain the company for hours explain
ins how he happened not to catch
anything"
Evening star., 1921-08-06

In a few months the hot weather
ressimist will be shuddering in fear Of
tie cold. wave flag.
Evening star., 1921-08-06

The Hohenzollern family continues
to provide one of the most mournful
examples of unemployment.
Evening star., 1921-08-06
Economies.

Does your wife take an interest in
economy"
"Yes," replied Mr.. Growcher. "She
thinks I ought to be able to make a
lunch Of a piece of lettuce and a spoon.
full Of ice cream the same as she can.
Evening star., 1921-08-06

Endless Chain of Thought.
The tariff is a work of art
That calls for great precision.
AS soon as it's revised they start
Revising the revision.
Evening star., 1921-08-06
2,O4l Yards. Chambray
Specially Priced, 10c Yard

Another sale material be used the making of
aprons house and chidren's play clothes.
good servceabe weight well chambay the desirable
shades of tan, blue pink green and lavendey.
yards this and the last shipment sold
very short time. "a inches wide Good fast colors.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-20
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

It to be most difficult matter to get the American citizen to take amount of precauon against unbelievable property destruction by fires during twelve months Those whose business to investigate and keep record of such matters tell that the part wholly the result of careessness Something should be done to different attitude toward fire fire awaken the fact while distribute number of people, it neither prevents replaces them.
 This is pertinently pointed out by Franklin H. Wentworth
 
 lowing paragraph:
 "In Europe who has fire is looked upon pub lie offender In America he is looked People still imagine that the underwriters the los that they pay hundred fifty million dollars their surplus and capital stocand remain solvent The waste touches the pocket of every the nation Every of goods insured the added to the cost of the goOds when buy coat pay this insurance concealed price goods
 Every fire today against the whole people, crime for which should not withhold punishment. community today it's legal reprisa against the who
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-20
A GREAT RECORD FOR A SMALL SECTION

At recent imposing ceremonial twenty-six tablets unveiled the Hall of York University. This in addition to what there before makes total of sixty hree Of this sixythree, thryfour than half daughters
 states Out of this part there fine showing of the Bay state whose daughters twentysx tablets the walls of the lofty columns overlooking the heights which New York University stands New York and Virginia tied with each while little while states represented by two Ohio and Only has been found of the Mis- spp who has been voted worthy of fame and that is Mark Twain.
 distinguished group that reflects the fame of Massa- chusetts being Ralph Waldo Emerson Nathaniel Hawthorne Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, George Bancroft William Cullen Bryant Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Lothrop Motley Edgar Allan Poe Francis Park man, Horace Mann, Mark Hopkins, Phillips Brooks George Thomas Morton, Samuel F. B. Morse, Eli Whitney, Elias Howe, Joseph Story, Rufus Choate, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin John Quincy Adams Mary LyOn Maria Mitchell and Charlotte s. Cushman.
 To Connecticuts credit Jonathan Edwards Henry Ward Beecher Harriet Beecher Stowe and Emma Willard little Rhode William Eery Charming and Gilbert Charles Stew while Maine has Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and New Hampshire, Daniel Webster.
 A pretty good showing this for old New England
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-20
WHERE THE BLAME LIES

Recently the papers been full stories committed by youngsters Some of hem which the of reliability almost unbelievable. It is hard to think of boys ranging from five to to twelve and fourteen committing matter of fact crimes which not long but hardened criminals would have thought of attempting Many wondered could be the for such deplorable condition.
 Such cause, and principle too, pointed out yesterday by Magistrate in New York; who respons- bility squarely the mothers Commenting what he termed the Baby Crime Wave, he said:
 "A certain type of modern mother seems to think
 of gadding about, gossipng with the neighbors & md attending cheap motion picture shows tEan of ras
 ing boys and girls in the they should It is the
 mothers of this type who the real criminals of this sort. The fault to be with tbem The
 fahers having provide the living for fhe family,
 must necessarily be away from home and the chi-
 attention to vapid amusement than shey do to
 the we'll being of their children is not to e wonder
 at, that the youngsters astray'
 There doubt that this Magistrate quoe& above responsibility exactly where it belongs It is only too that mothers do not have of responsibility interest the bringing of their This matter which cannot be delegated to another who her and pleasure ahead of responsibility constant watchulnes for and develop her children has much to for If their job to street expression 4here would be less boys and girls go wrong
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-20
TRINITY HAS
 GRADUATION

Hartford. Conn.,. June 2o.---Com- mencement day at Trinity College saw a gathering in Alumni Hall much larger than that in many years. It was the first commencement under President Remsen B. Ogilby. The us- ual academic procession proceeded the exercises Degrees in course were conferred upon thirty-two men, of whom thirty received the bachelor Of arts degree and two master of art
 The honorary t@grees conferred were as follows:
 Master of Arts: Edward Milligan, Hartford and Charles E. Chase, Hart ford.
 Master of Science: Magnus Wash ington Alexander, of the General Electric Company.
 Doctor of Music: John Spencer Camp, of Hartford.
 Doctor of Literature: Professor Frank G. Moore, of Columbia Univer- sity.
 Doctor of Science, Colonel William Barclay Parsons of New York
 Doctor of Laws: Vittori Roland1 Ricci, Ambassador from Italy to the United States.
 Doctor of Divinity: Rt. Rev. Philip Cook, Bishop of Delaware; Rev. J. w. Nichols, of Shanghai, China; Rev. E.. T. Sullivan, Lynn, Mass.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-20
REPUBLICAN DIsQUIETUDE.
(FTom the Tim es)

Everybody who spends any time at Washington comes away with reports of great uneasiness on the part Of Republican leaders in and out of Con gress. The party honeymoon is now over. The little miseries of married life have begun. Certain incompati- biIities of temperament have deVel- oped. The Republican family is not that happy. harmonious whole to which the rosy optimists looked for ward. Sharp differences have develt oped- The managers are worried over the series of deadlocks and the fact that promises of speedy and effective legislation are already so long over due. Behind every member ce the Ga binet and each would-be director of party policy Black Clare is riding. If one went to Washington merely to, find Republican gloom. he could easily discover it on every side thick enough to cut with a. knife.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-20
No Positions 
 On Hill Top

The present industrial condition in Bridgeport is reflected in the situa- tion in which more than half of the fifty-eight students who are soon to be graduated from Bridgeport High school are placed. Up to the pre- sent the principal of the Commercial deDartment Lewis B. Matthias, has received no word of a position which might be filled by one of the girls or boys, graduating this year.
 In past years, practically all the class has been placed in positions several weeks before the formal clos ing of school and sometimes the num- Der of openings is so large that the pupil may make his choice of two or three offerings. But this year the situation is different in the ex- treme. The only pupils who are confident of employment for the summer are those who have secured work through their own accord or through the influence of a friend. When the conference with manufac- surers of the city about the matter, High school authorities were told that instead of taking on new help, some of the very highest type of worknen are being laid off.
 It is sometimes the case that when out of work High school graduates enroll at some of the business col in shorthand and typewriting. Be cause of this fact and because it is expected that quite a few will still be idle in September a post graduate class for commercial students will be formed at the High school at the be- ginning of the new term if enough people register for the course.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-20
EXCESSIVE REGULATION.
(By James Hartley Beal).


 Another fact frequently brought to the attention of the student of poli- ticaI history is that people who have obtained their liberties by the most heroic of sacrifices have so frequent ly thrown them away again the fri vo1ous pursuit of things they thought would make their liberties still more secure and their freedom still more free.
 The story of the democracies that have failed shows that their vigor and prosperity regularly declined with the growth of internal legisla- ton, or with the forcing of obnoxious regulations upon their citizens by the factions which successively obtained control, until they had so weakened themselves by internal strife that they fell to pieces of their own weight or were an easy prey to enemies from without.
 Of course no people ever intention ally dsokaxyed their own liberties. They always intended their law-mak-
 
 and stronger. Their uniform mis- take was in consenting to the viola tion of fundamental principles for the sake of some fancied immediate good which their radical legislation was expected to accomplish.
 The one great lesson of all these unsuccessful attempts at self govern melt is that nation which willingly submits to the suspension of free government for the sake of expedi- ency, or for the accomplishment of some quick and immediate reform. will in the end always come to grief. Principles that can be suspended for beneficient purposes can also be suspended for evil purposes, and laws intended for purely good ends can also be enforced oppressive1y
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-20
WARNING THE WASHERS.
(From the Boston Post)

(From the Boston PosO If some of the politicians at Wash ington have not as yet realized the intensity of the nationwide demand for economy it is encouraging to see that others have. James w. Good, one of the Republican leaders, on the occasion of his recent resignation ing to his confreres. He said:
 '-The Republican administration must make a big reduction in gov ernment expenditures with a conse- quent lifting of oppressive war taxes or it will be swept out of power"
 That the matter of economy is the great test there can be no question. It is true here as in other countries, and especially in England, where the slogan, Turn Out the Wasters'' has cost the Lloyd George coalition sev- eral seats in recent bye-elections.
 Orators of the party now in power made the alleged Democratic waste the basis of savage criticism in the last campaign, and a large meas, e of their success was due to their pro mise to cut down the tax burden.
 The burden has become increasing ly heavy in the past year, because money is not so flush now as it was and as a result the demand for gov ernment economy is greater than ever.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-20
A SINGULAR MUSEUM.

Perhaps there is unique anywhere ln existence than which rapily filling ington, D. c. This particular museum is not called at all and is really a part of the laboratory of the Internal Revenue department In kept samples of all those connections pre- paraons of various sorts which American ingenuity vsed in effort to quench thirst and populay known of "hooch Even the itself these products sold throughout the country This number however the tens thousands the chemists nations that nnetynne cent of them harmful to health and not unfrequently rank great number items in the collection the fertility of American ingenuity degree of American thirst The collection great curiosity at future time.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-20
What Others So y
MAKE TT NATIONAL.
(From the Wor1d)-


 It would be eninentIy fitting if the Federal authorities shouh vigorous ly deal with the building conditions which Samuel Untermeyer and the Lockwood committee have so thor oughly exposed in New York. If the combinations in New York, in Chicago and in Buffalo are so well established, it is safe to assume that there is not a city of any size in the United States without it's own inner circle of profiteers The abuse is Nationwide in scope. the investiga- tion and the indictments should be on the same scale,
 With every days testimony the scandal grows. In Buffalo, as in New York. it was the schools that suffered most heavily. And though Buffalo bids amounting to s1O,OOO,- 900 have been rejected and the tax payers have been saved in this in stance from barefaced robbery, sim liar padded estimates are elsewhere being accepted-or if they are not accepted, children are suffering from a lack of accommodations in the schools.
 There have been trusts before, and there are no doubt other trusts in other trades built on similar lines and with similar powers But noth- ing so stupendously dishonest as the building combinations has evar bo lore come to the notice of the puo- hc' Nothing that takes place in Washington touches the people of ths country more nearly than the endea- Vor to root out and destroy the prac- lice or fixing prices on materials needed for the houses in which thev live.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-20
WITH \ WALLET.
(F'rom the Evening World).

VT OA11 bAlS w OA4A(-
 Congress is in a worse deadlock than ever over naval appropriations increased by the Senate to s494, ,0Oo,- 900, which the House insists is s9S,- OOO,O0O too much.
 It would be a good thing if Senate and House could be shut up in a hall an forced to listen to recent words of the Secretary of the Treasury phonographically and negaphonicaI- ly reiterated until they. made some impression:
 ''The n-,:ion cannot continue to spend at this shocking rate The burden is unbeara bte
 "In the absence of d-astic cI'> in military and naval expendi- lures there is almost no prospect, according to the estimates, of any substantial available surplus even in the fiscal year 1922
 If the need of reducing armament costs as a means of relief to this over taxed country cannot be gotten into Congressmen's heads by reasoning, then it ought to be driven in with a mallet.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-20
BLAME FOR FLOODS.
CFrom the Chicago Tribune).

(trom the Chicago Tribune).
 The tragic experience of Pueblo, Colo, trapped and devastated by floods, once more calls the attention of the nation to the needIessness of such calamity, with all it's suffering and loss. It is only by ignoring facts that the holocaust can be attributed to an unkind. Province. In reality 1t should be attributed to the greed man.
 Floods such as the present is in Colorado or that which swept Ohio, Indiana, and adjacent districts few years ago can be controlled or avoided. The toll of hundreds of thousands of lives which they take and of the many millions of dollars worth of property which they destroy is due not to divine wrath but to human error. As such it is capable of correction.
 Floods cannot be stopped, but the opportunity for ruin in their path can be eliminated Europe has learned the lesson In scores of valleys there one finds not only the normal river channel is bridges, but to reach that bridge one drops down into the flood channel, four or five times as wide and probably dry for eleven months out of the year, but unobstructed. The spring thaws and freshets come and go and the water is carried away as nature intended, with no apprecia- ble danger