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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-08

When an individual forgets attend business and makes costly mistake it for him to blame everything his cheerfly his folly.
 the do not differ much in these respects from the individual The citizens of Bridgeport have united exravagance neglect avortsm They things which they should not have done They have left ndone things which they should hcve done.
 They the hour when their folles paid and baay human resentment The special tax not and cannot be popular. It is necessary and unavoidable
 Ma Atwatcr doesn't like to have laid He must. a promise put the city and column and he keeping his promise.
 complaints against the special tax indicative merely of vexaion they three suggestions that other remedy might be adopted.
 Some taxpayers say that the mayor should money.
 money the infections that malady The city has constitutional disease of wasteul travagance Debt is a symptom.
 is impossible to borrow money The debt limit been reached.
 urge, illegal things why not again?' First Mayor promised admins traon according to law The public has little gain { to lose by lawlessness of city officers.
 lenders will money upon paper f Others suggest the collection of taxes.
 The back taxes being collected There unpaid assessments. all these hand they would meet the .imperatve obligations of the city
 The special tax raises the money meet obligations and operations when the other prospective back taxes and cuded.
 taxpayer believe morally entitled to be specially irrated with the special always time voted against the administrations which pro- l duced many evils
 oneh has claim sympathy but he only suffers individuals suffer. It will frequently happen careful head of family pay raced by members of his household whom he failed to strain
 The will municipality exercised by majority ot the people voting in the elections Since the majority have
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-08
Optimism
 Spreads At
 Conference

Washington, Dec. S.-(By The A. P.)-An atmosphere of distinct op- tinlism and satisfaction over the pro- gress of the arms conference negotia- ions appeared to be growing among the delegations to-day as the Far Eastern committee of the whole con vened to proceed with it's disposition of questions relating to China. The proposal for a new four power treaty as a substitute for the Anglo-Ja apaneSe alliance and providing for a period of peaceful discussion before resort to arms over any dispute involving the Pacific islands was generally viewed to-day as a definite shaping of de- velopments along important lines of accomplishment
 While the governments concerned the United States, Great Britain, Japan and France-has given it's final approval to the agreement The discussions among the delegates are known to have reached a well ad- vanced stage. Affecting in its pro- posed terms neither Chinese prob lens nor Pacific Qualifications and the naval reduction program, the pro- ject is regarded by American delegates as establishing neither an alliance nor an entente but merely as applying to the Pacific islands the principle of the numerous Bryan treaties to which this country already is party, in providing a 'cooling off period' of discussion before going to war over international disputes.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-08
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1921 THE BRIBERY INVESTIGATION

discussing the best way bring the bribery charges to criminal authorities it will be wise not to become entangled in collateral issues.
 esteemed Bridgeport Telegram will admit that primo service done for the community when bribery of public official by another exposed prevented And it will freely Cornell making proper of such inorma Council he took the steps necessary to prevent the consummation of 8 serious crime.
 important to the Commonwealth that corruption successfully accomplished It especially de- we'll being of the city that the election of Mr Veness should not be crmnally prevented
 the part that Mr. Cornell took in preventing corruption exposing it. he is entitled to the thanks of the community.
 We have not the least idea that Telegram say that the knowledge improperly used Its complaint merely that the guilty had not been informed against
 The fully opinion that such crime should will not be hushed The facts must to public knowledge the guilty must be punished The crime of brb ing public officers secret crime, hard to detect hard to prove in its and therefore to be energeticay prosecuted and punished.
 perhaps technically the duty of Mr. Cornell to pro- since he not merely citizen but of the court with special obligations to prevent and expose crime
 procure the immediate arrest and crin punishment of the suspected is natural and credit information may have to him the under would not resort to criminal prosecution He speaks of special of humanity which he does not describe may feel hesitation about doing Something might resolve into false. but painful
 Nor was it necessary that Mr. Cornell should become the active complainant and prosecutor The facts published the world became the duty of the criminal authority to take notice taken the matter into purview and has quested Garick prosecuting attorney for Bridgeport to investigation, equipping him with the large which belong to the states attorney The investigation is n progress. The facts will become public
 In spite of unfortunate phrases, it that The Telegram joins with The Times in commenting Mr. Cornell for exposing bribery and that dissatisfaction addressed solely the circumstance that Mr. Cornell did not personally
 The intervention attorney assurance ample that full and fair investigation will be had and that justice will be done and that the public will have all the
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-08
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT KEMP, COLUMBIA STUDENT 41 YEARS,
 HAS ACQUIRED MANY DEGREES
Undergraduate" Now in His Sixties, Must Continue As Student to Get Annuity, According to Runor Campus Where He First Cavorted Way Back in the sos.

Tn students say this sentence was imposed upon him in his freshman year because he did not study hard enough. He was a freshman at the college in 1880. College gossip says that this man had a relative who was worried over his lack of app1ica- ton to his studies and devised unique method Of making him learn To this end he left an annuity of S2,5O0 to William, providing he could only draw this sun by remaining a registered and charted student of the university. If ever he left the classic seat of learning he could wave good by to the annuity.
 Another version of the will left by this fond relative is that he left the money to Kemp through fear William would beat it away from his studies at the college. But he hasn't tried to beat it yet, and he has plugged along for Al years as an enrolled student. He is still enrolled in the registrars s office as a student.
 Forbidden to Marry?
 The rumors of the campus go on to say that another clause in this strange will forbids Kemp to mar It also says he must make the college: or a part of the college. his dormi- tory. For he has never married. He has been living for a number of years in Livingston Hall. off South Field, where his lamp burns brightly every night
 Other students may worry for fear they will funk and fail to get honorable mention, but Kemp com stantly fears that he will pass and world without his annuity. And. as everyone knows, there are few things in this old world more helpless, or more dependent upon public charity sent out into the well known world without an annuity,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-08

Riga, Latvia, Dec. 7--The Russian army officer, stripped of most of his authority by Premier Kerensky at the very start of his regime in 1917, and persecuted in the early days of the Bolshevik rule as the personif1cation of all that was to be deSpised in bourgeois or aristocrat, is about to be restored to practically the same position he held before the revolution.
 The authority of an army officer in the field has been recognized by the Bolsheviki during the past three years, and nowhere has discipline, at least on paper, been strfcter than in the Red army, but, as a rule, officers did not find their work attractive. Their pay was not very much higher than that of the men, nor was there any great difference in their rations, while the responsibility was heavy.
 If they came from the old officer class, they were constantly under sus- picion and surveillance by the Com muniSt com nissars, one of whom was attached to each separate military unit.
 Now the Soviet government has come out with an admission that of ficers and men cannot be treated alike and that in order to secure suf- ficient officers, they must be provided for on a much higher scale than the soldiers, and '+it should be realized that the principle of equality is not accepta ble."
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-08
Mother Held
 For Leaving
 Baby Alone

While eating in a West End res taurant last night. a, Stratford young woman suddenly decided that she would like to go to a dance in the Casino if she could get someone to take care of her baby which she had with her at the time. The woman offered a restaurant patron 25 cents if he would take the job, and the man accepted the chance.
 A number of hours later, the bab's temporary nurse became terribly sick of his bargain, and turned the youngster over to a policeman. The officer took the infant to the Third precinct station, and the mother was sent there for her child when she re- turned from the dance. The young woman and the baby spent the night in the detention room at police head quarters, but we're released this morning after the mother had receiv- ed a severe lecture.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-08
HIS CELL APARTMENT
 WAS THE HOOSE COW

Chicago, Dec. S.-James Conway. who is being detained in thts city, has been receiving his mail addressed in this fashion:
 'Mr. James Conway,
 Care Cell Apartments,
 No. 154, 440 North Dearborn St,
 Chicago"
 Mir Conway's parents in Philadel- phia will no doubt be surprised to learn that 440 North Dearborn street is the county jail. When Conway was arraigned before Judge Michael Mckinley for robbery he said he was his folks to know of his disgrace.
 Every ingenious young man" smiled the judge. "But I guess after all it's best to let the folks know, so I will write them."
 Conway is IS and & World War vet eran.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-08
Investigate
 Railroad
 Competition

Washington, Dec. s-Attorney Gen era1 Daugherty announced today that he would leave Sunday for New Eng land for Q personal investigation of trolley, steamship lines. and subsidy railroads of the New York. New Ha- ven & Hartford, with a view to de- terrnining the governments policy under the decree of October 1914, requiring the railroad company to dispose of these properties within two years.
 The question to be settled by in vestigation, Mir. Dau ugheTty said, was whether the trolley lines, steamship Hines and steam railroad lines in New England, owned by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad were operating in competition with the New Haven railroad.
 MT. Daugherty said he would hold open hearings on the matter in Hart ford at the hotel Bond, Monday, sim liar hearings at the h9e1 Touraine in Boston, Tuesday and probably would confer tin New York. Wednes- day, with the Federal judge before whom the decree was entered.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-08

New York, Dec. 7.-William Cullen Bryant Kemp, now in his 41st under graduate year at Columbia Univer- sity, will be a rah-rah boy for the rest of his life. He cavorted on the Columbia campus with Nicholas Mur- ray Butler back in 1880. pr. Butler is now president of Columbia and has achieved various kinds of fame, while Kemp Is still a student, a man in the sixties, with iron-gray hair, rather portly and with very snappy eyes. Also, he wears a cane.
 Kemp's real reason for sticking to Columbia is a dark and deep secret that has never been penetrated by his friends at the college. All sorts of stories have developed among his classmates as to what keeps him grinding out at his studies all these years, with no hope of relief. Most boys at college go through their four years acquiring learning with always the same aim in view-to get it over with.
 Has All the Degrees
 But it is different with Kemp. He dosen't look upon his college course as a matter of drudgery. He will not be interviewed or photographed. but his unusual academic career is fami1- far to the students of Columbia. Kemp. with his poetic name, has ac- quired all the degrees that can be conferred-A. B., A. M. IlL.B.. Ph.D. D. D.. LL.D., M. F., c. F., M. D. D. D. s. and few others. His greatest degree, however, was con- ferred by his fellow students-that Kemp has not yet tackled such subjects as archaeology, paleontology ornothology, anthropology and a few other ''ologies.' But give him time about Kemp is that he was sentenced for life to be a StudQt of Columbia
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-08
Investigating Stamford
 Accident

Coroner John J. Phelan will this af- ternoon visit Stamford to conduct an investigation into a. peculiar accident that occurred in the Lock City Dec 3, resulting in the almost instant death of Edward Stearns, New York city; and the death in Stamford hospital the following day of Hannah Hluboky, Stamford, both deaths resulting from fractured skulls.
 The Stamford woman, accompanied by her husband, was walking on the Cove Road. when Stearns drove his automobile toward them. There was some unexplained confusion. which the Coroner hopes to clear, and Stearns is believed to have tried to avoid striking the woman, by turning his car sharply toward one side of the highway. However, she was struck and thrown violently to the ground, while Stearns himself was catapulted from his car, which struck a tree
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-08
CASES BEING HEARD
 IN COMMON PLEAS COURT

With the memory of the Ria1to the atre fire in New Haven, which oc- cured one week ago last Sunday, with a, total loss of seven lives, settlement and withdrawal of two cases that were scheduled to be heard today in Common Pleas court, brings to mind the Bijou theatre fire in this city, which, while serious, was fortunately so handled by house alta cbes of the Fairfield avenue theatre, and the Fire department, that the casualties were confined to a few persons in jured.
 While the basis of the settlement could not be made public, Attorney R. R. Rosan, who represented Spencer S. Anderson and Mrs. Josephine l. Wallace, stated this morning that a satisfactory settlement had been se- cured, and the cases withdrawn from the court docket.
 Both were burned when uncovered films exploded, causing @ fire and near panic,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-08
RUSSIAN ARMY OFFICER TO
 HAVE AUTHORITY RESTORED

From the very beginning of the Bolshevik regime, many officers of the army of the late Emperor Nicho- las have served the Reds. Some were compelled to do so, others were at- tracted by the promise of food at the time civilians were starving, while still others. hberal-n1inded politically. volunteered, considering the Red army, after all, Russian to the core, due to Trotzy's insistance that the Russian army be as efficient as any other in the world, and also to the gradual progress made toward bet tering their lot.
 To supply the Red army with we'll trained, junior officers, the Bolsheviki have opened scores of training schools The ''kursantS" as these young officer aspirants are termed, are spick and span and as well set up as American West Point cadets. In addition to school training, they are given actual battle practice at every opportunity. being sent into the field as shock troops against counter-revo1utiona or bandit" bands in the Ukraine. They greatly distinguished themselves in the revolt at Kronstadt last March.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-08
Chinese
 President
 May Resign

Washington, Dec. 3-President Hsu Shih-Chang, of China, has offered to resign if North and South China can- not unite under his administration paving the way for the election of a successor who can accomplish unifi- cation of the country, according to a. dispatch from the Tokio Foreign of flee, received by the Japanese Confer ence delegation here today.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-08
ASKS S165

John L. Carpenter. this city. agent ed an action Common Pleas court in which he asks damages of S165 from E. N Smith ct a1., this city, to cover an alleged debt for tires amounting to s128.30 said to have been due since December 1.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-08

lated to a complete settlement and that this proposition had not yet been accepted by the Japanese gov- ernment.
 Press dispatch from Honolulu quot ing a Japanese newspaper as to ac- ceptance by the Tokio government of the quadruple plan. the British spokesman said this was correct, and that the Washington conference knew it to be correct.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-08
Japs Accept
 Quadruple
 Understanding

Washington, Dec. S-The Japanese government has accepted the pro- posal for @ ouadrupa1 understanding in the Pacific, an authorized British spokesman said today.
 The British spokesman said the 5-5-3 ratio proposition with regard to capital ships was in some way re-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-08
Eu;ES 5000 STrr

The Spring Perch Co.,, Stratford, has filed suit in the Common Pleas court against Charles Hutchinson, address given as Bridgeport, asking damages of $500 to cover an alleged debt due since November 26, last, of S765.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-08

pretty steadily voted for the kind that suited in all these irritating things all the people have to suffer the penalty
 The city just big family Mayor Awater the head of the family trying to correct the family budget He do ing the best thing that be done under the circumstances
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-08

Umbrellas of the customers in one New Yors< store areB safeguar1ed by racks, each of which locks with a special key, which the owner of the umbrella keeps until he collects his property
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-08
Battery Care in Winter
DIED.

DIED.
 DIE VINE-Tn Stratford, Conn.,, Dec. 6, 1921, Miss Mary A. DeVine.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral at the home of MT and Mrs. Wm. A. Stagg, 1122 Broad- bridge avenue, Stratford. on Fri day, 9th inst, at 3 D. m.
 Burial in Union cemetery, Strat- ford. a~
 ANNIVERSARY MASS.
 Anniversary mass to be said Sat 11rday morning at o'clock for the late Charity Commissioner Margaret M. Ford, at St Patrick's church, on Noxfh avenue T86sp
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-08
TODAYS WANTS.

rooms, all improvements, second floor, corner Warren St. and South Ave. Inquire SIS South Ave.
 TSS*p
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-11-16
OrIQinal Incubator.

The first and original incubator
seems to have been the clever inven-
ton of an Australian bird Of large
size called the brush turkey" 1t
saves the fowl great deal Of time
and trouble.
The hen turkey lays her "clutch" of
eggs In q neat circle and then she and
her mate scratch together a big pile
Of leaves and other forest truck to
cover them. Decomposition Of this
vegetable material produces heat,
whereby the eggs are kept at proper
temperature for incubation.
From time to time the male bird
gives the heap a scratching over as If
to make sure that the temperature de-
veloped is neither too high nor too
low.
He does not permit the newly
Matched young ones to emerge, how
ever, until they are full fledged and
able to take care Of themselves. Then
he helps them to get out.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-11-16
STARS IN STEADY ROTATION
Move in Orbit So Vast Il Takes Thou
sands Of Years to
Complete It.

When an Arctic explorer has the
pole star exactly overhead he is still
80 miles from the North pole because
the Pole star-Or Poiaris, as it is
known to aStrOnomerS-is not the
north celestial pole, to which the geo.
graphical North pole corresponds, but
nearly three times the apparent
breadth of the full moon from it. The
fact Is that the Pole star merely hap.
pens to be the nearest bright star to
the North pole. This latter point Is
an imaginary one In the heavens,
marking the spot toward which the
earth's axis is directed. Owing to
causes which need not be entered into
here, this imaginary point Is moving
in great circle In the sky, circle
so vast that about 10000 years Is
taken to complete it. A few thousand
years ago it was a long way from the
present Pole star, and in those days
the star was quite an ordinary one,
differing in no way from hosts Of 9TH
ers We see around us on any fine night.
In another few thousand years to
come our present highly important
Pole star will have again sunk into OBJ
security through having been left In
the lurch by the steadily moving
north celestial pole. The brilliant
blue-and-white Vega will be the most
magnificent Pole star of the future. 1t
will be about 10000 years, however.
before it's turn comes.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-11-16

tnat ne wanted Alice Farweli to be -
own more than anything else in tHs
word, and that life would be worth
very little II she did not come back
ana ne did not know where she wasl
But there came dav whom
."loueh 1orce Of habit, he went to the
aquarium once again. His glance
swept to the seal tank; aud then his
neart stood still. She was there. He
hurried to her with cry of welcome
Allce." he cried, caring nothing for
conventions. where have you beenr.
ohe turned at the sound Of his voice
anu ne saw that her face was wasted
ana thin, and that the hand she
stretched to him trembled. He drew
her outside into the sunshine and toni,
ler 10 bench. Tell me-tell he p
he said eagerly.
was moving to another apart-
meht' she said, land slipped on the
sidewalk one day and struck INV head
When l woke up l was in bosnlta,
ana found that couldn't remember
anything about myself. had no cards
or letters, so they didn't know who
was either. But yesterday | stood 10
Tor the first time, and 1t all came back
10 me in flash. l told them who I
was, and they said l was we'll enough
TO go out, so did, and heie am
Henry Bolton hesitated no longer.
Alice, DEAR" he said, you are never
going to get lost from me again. DuI.
Ing those three awful weeks when I
cldn't know where you were l found
out that loved you, and now You've
come back won't let you go. Do you
want to stay?"
Her head sank on his shoulder.
Yes. Henry; l want TO stay more
than anything in the world"
From the aquarium came sharp
barking. Alice started up.
Let's go and announce it to Henry -
she cried. HE introduced us, didn't
he? He should be the first to know"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-11-16
Human Life Lengthening.

Among those who have given the
subject of longevity considerable at
tention, there is substantial agree
ment that the span Of human life
ia frightening. In the last quarter
of century it has increased man $
expectancy matter of four years.
decidedly an acquisition to the millions
who regard existence as a desirable
thing to cling to. The secretary OF
the American Insurance union is re-
spOnsible for the claim of the addeu
wears. DIR. William ]. Mayo, the we'll
known surgeon of Rochester, Mimi,
has cause to believe that the span
of human life has heightened even
more than four years in the last quar-
ter of century.