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The Washington herald., 1921-02-27
Gives Explanation of Crime Waue
Juvenile Courts Partly Blamed

ening which would have brought great
suffering upon the general public, an edi-
tor wrote a powerful editorial entitled AN
organized minority may destroy an unor-
gained majority" to which one of his sub
scribers responded Il have always under
stood that the majority is organized and
that the name OF its organization is the
2 United States government"
The foregoing explains the apparent in
difference ofsMr. Average Citizen to the
problem. AS "a matter of fact he is neither
asleep nor indifferent He is keenly aware
OF the situation; but he looks to the estab-
ished forces of the law 10 function to
remedy conditions. However, policemen
are human and after they have repeatedly
had the experience of seeing slick thieves,
whom they have landed after days of hard
work set free on probation they can no
longer have the same attitude toward crime
and the criminal The attitude of many
policemen is Whats the use, bring these
fellows in and the judge puts them on pro-
baton and turns them loose" Here again
we see the trail of the serpent-the moral
suasionist. He not only opens the door
way of criminal life TO the youth but he
undermines the stamina OF the agencies of
law enforcement.
Another reason for the growth of crime
is the growing practice OF the courts in
suspending sentence and paro4ng as a
matter OF course the OHenQer VINO IS con-
victed for the first time This is serious
mistake. A first conviction does not neces-
sarily mean first offense. The offender
may be an old hand at crime. He may
have been slick enough to keep out of the
clutches of the law for long time. To
put him on probation as matter of course,
irrespective of his attitude toward society
in general is merely turning loose another
viper to strike at the hand that showed it
mercy.
For offenders in crimes involving un-
provoked personal violence for the pur-
pose of robbery there should be no clsm-
ency, no mercy, no probation and no sus-
pended or commuted sentences either for
the first offense or otherwise. The man
who for the sake of unearned money sets
upon and strikes down his fellow man is
the rattesnake OF society and shovid be
treated as such.
AS a matter of fact an apology is due
the rattlesnake for the comparison Tor he
at least gives his victim fair warning.
The best remedy for the crime wave is
to substitute a little old-fashioned, garden
variety, horse sense for the drooling and
maudlin sentimentality which appears to
have fastened itself upon US.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-27
Training for Careless
Thinking.

~oSA
scholarship of Chicago University should
cast at least ray of light, comes the die
tum approving the use of at is me" and
HE don't" However, one mans dictum
does not make a grammar and the Cook
County superintendent Of schools has but
stamped his trademark on carelessness and
lazy habit of mind.
He cannot make these two phases cor
rect English, nor gain more than that
easy advertising which comes from doing
or advocating the unusual AS a fact, he
approves what is fundamentally wrong in
education.
1t is the province of education to train
the mind to think clearly and exactly. Its
greatest enemy is carelessness, the slip
shod and inexact. In the teaching of Eng
lish, both its grammar and its literature,
ciation of what is correct, what is worth
while, what has beauty in dietion and value
in thought. The student is trained in cor
rect judgment. He comes to know and
choose by preference what is the best.
1t is just as easy and just as natural to
say, ut Is I" IS to say TT il me-" 1t is
as natural and easy to say HE does not"
or He doesn't" as to say He don't" 1t is
not pedantic nor stilted to use the correct
ear.
The gentleman who puts his approval on
these two familiar slips m English, should
not exclude long list of their companions.
Il have went" and its partners would be
equally stimulus to mental alertness. He
should give his endorsement to jazz in the
field of music as well as in English, and
should not 60 but half way.
What is excusable as a eolloqualism,
what may fit particular occasion, what
may be pardoned or even approved to give
force to an expression, must be distin-
guished from good usage. Certainly there
is enough careless thinking in the world
of today without schoolmen encouraging it
by approving careless speech.
The chief value, educationally, Of both
grammar and spelling, is for mental dis
cipline. A person may be -eye-minded" or
"ear-minded," but whichever he may be,
these two subjects are first in training to
that regard for detail, that instant recog-
milton of what is correct, which reacts to
bring clear thinking
The most frequent complaint from busi-
ness and professional men at the product
of the schools is just this, that the pupils
are not made to think clearly, and to dis
tinguish the right from the wrong. They
are found to be careless, inexact and weak
in the fundamental of grasping meaning,
~
blindly and grope along the way
There is but little hope of betterment so
long as schoolmen will sanction this very
fault in the use of English; when they
will not only excuse, but approve what is
Aagrantly bad and actually offensive to the
trained ear.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-27
DESCRIBES WEDDING
OF A TURKISH DOLL

We had a wonderful wedding. Star Ha-
noun wore very long we'll over her we'd
ding gown; II was the best of Djimlah's
grandmother's headgear. Djimlsh was an
xious that the bridegroom should have
some trouble before he should see the face
of his bride at is worth all the pains in
the world" she said to US.
Semmeya was the kadi who performed
the marriage, and Djimlah insisted that the
bridegroom should be very generous in his
stipulstions as to how he would maintain
his bride. AS the kadi, Semmeya had TO
repeat all the promises of the bridegroom,
and never was she so wonderful in her
fabrications. She named all the gowns
Star Hanoum was TO receive from her
effcndi, and so marvellous was her descrip-
ton of them that an English girl who was
among the guests asked me If such gowns
did exist in Turkish houses. And |, spurred
on by Semmeya's inventiveness, declared
that indeed they did; that Turkish people
had an army OF trained spiders who wove
these gowns from the rays of the moon.
After the ceremony VIC took the bride
groom into the private chamber where
Star Hanoum sat proudly enthroned. Dim
lah made him kneel before her and vow
eternal love to her. Then she placed the
end of the veil in his hand, and he, with
our help, of course, raised the veil and
gazed upon her countenance for the FIRST
time.
He was a very handsome fellow, dressed
in the uniform of an admiral l was sorry
for that, because | had once heard my
father say that the Turkish feet leaked
like sieve and would so to the bottom
the first time it put to sea, and, Of course
the admiral would so 10 the bottom, too,
unless he were cunning old admiral and
watched the sea maneuvers from the shore
on the back of charger, as some OF the
Turkish naval officers did.
Djimlah knew nothing of all this. She
. was watching in her adoring way the effect
Star Hanoum was making on the admiral
1t was very great, must admit. He sank
to his knees at her feet, and before he had
time to- get up, Star Hanoum fell into his
arms. 1t was plain that each loved the
other very dearly.-From "The Lady OF the
Stars" by Demctra Vaka, in Asia Magazine
for March.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-27
VIII Stay Put.

Hollanders are proverbially thrifty
Awhile back they decided they were tired
paying the board and keep of the one-time
crown prince Of Germany. AS an interned
prisoner his bills go to the Holland gov
ernment He is not used to small econ
omies.
So The Hague concluded there was no
longer sufficient reason for treating him
as semiprisoner, that he should be at
liberty to wander at will, to 60 where
the spirit dictated and pay his own bills.
He could afford to do this. His father at
Doom is reported to have settled many
millions on him.
He also has comfortable fortune of his
own and it is not quite to his credit that
as an unlimited guest, whose host probably
saved his life, or at least his even partial
freedom, he should permit himself to be
pensioner. Gentlemen usually insist upon
paying their own rent and board, even if
they have to work with their hands to do it.
But for some cause, Holland has recalled
her decision. She revoked her bestowal of
the freedom of the country She has de-
cided that in the end, it will be cheaper to
pay the month to month quite certain cost,
than to become responsible for the young
mans wayward fancy. He will stay at
Wieringen with his keepers.
The Hollanders then win know just
where he is and something of what he is
doing. He can ride his bicycle and play
with the other children This is safer
than giving him chance to again play
with firearms. Another time he might
hurt himself
The Washington herald., 1921-02-27

If there is to be kitchen cabinet, that
would seem to be the logical place for
woman member. even if she had to go
through the Senate to get there.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-31
Health Talks
 By JOHN B. HUBER, A.M.;M.D.

The paTents young; the children healthy; earthly paradise.-Victor
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-31
THE SIMPLE TRUTH

Jasper McIevy Socialist candidate for mayor told he simple and in the United Church Forum last night when that Democratic office holders have often aided the Republican office holders in the perpetr ton extravaganza and bad government which complained of
 The Times. which assumes the duty o1 support what embarras ssments inflicted on newspaper by sins of members of its own side
 is of evils of long tenure of political power That the minority becomes far Of its ofce holders are concerned virtually part of the dominant ma chine.
 Mr. Wilson's administration has made business ot ap- office While these have not become e nublcans they Republican Machine Democrats
 The bipartisan system of government which is conferred m inc city charter this sort of thing and is The Times has of political reachery and or loose political morals
 Nevertheless main the rank and file of the Demo- narv itself of its Republican machine ele of of them It has nominated Fred AtWater and independent and with the rank and file Of have joined those who represent maor it1- of the votes the last Republican primary
 The nresen virtually citizens election Upon ~ side the in office and filled with the power
 tbo millions expended and with the weakness ot Its
 Upon the other side are all who wish for change and return to a ihore loIeS' 8ir' n' tenn government
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-31
MONDAY, OCTOBER s1, 1921
HOW TO VOTE THIS TIME

Voting largely emotional process almost too much to expect people to approach the ballot box in the spirit which they would approach business problem of their
 The voter is Democrat Republican and has strong prejudice in favor his de tendency to mis- takes when they made by his and to unduy probate mistakes made by the other party.
 There 5000 voters who will cast their ballots on the theory that they somebody connected with them holds city job which he will lose if there is change. perhaps has increased the and the burden light
 Some will vote because they expect to be made policemen uf fremen.
 Many improvements been made during Mayor Will sons administration some of which were necessary through in which the repudaed the principle competition and millions have been expended by the cost plus system, which work perfectly by which has powerful tendency toward extravaganza.
 who is going to vote because he is Republican or Democrat ought to however, what he is paying for the privilege and he will frequently be better judge of how he ought the very simple truth that the rent payer pays the tax the house in which lives.
 Houses and house lots taxed separately with building lots.
 The combined item amounts to si43.S65 900.
 Assuming of five persons to family there Bridgeport whose rent increased by muni cipal taxation by something over $i5i year.
 Some families pay and some less, but the average is than $I5t.
 Perhaps voters belong to thinks the landlord the and makes present of it to the tenant this voter He is quite beyond help
 who pays rent may be willing to have his rent higher municipal expenditures If he is there real reason in the financial sense why ne shou not for continuance of the policy which has been gong on Tor ten
 The votes for extravaganza must not com wi unless there IS change
 they up somewhat, matter who is elect already been done is in conceament and will not materaize before the next budget is made
 indeed that the voter do is to turn to economy by changing government The road back to low comfort will be slow and toilsome It is to spend than it is to save it.
 pays direct taxes, is with few exceptions determined to have change It is unnecessary to remind h of has increased from about Si per person about S5 and is still going up al though general prices have been steadily going down
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-31
BOTTLE BABIES,

I see you do not approve of raising
 @ baby on the bottle
 Answer-some have to be thus weakness. or illness But whenever possible, for the good of the race, I
 most earnestly advise the breast. Why?
 From humankind's beginning up to about the middle of the last century infants were entirely breast nursed; 1here was no other way. Nothing could have been more of an eternal
 verity than this. Some mothers, how ever, (and the exceptions such as the consumptive mother, were very rare 1ndeed), could not and cannot, by ity, fulfil this ideal Madonna func- tion. And it was in behalf of those motherS, thus bereft of their blessed sex right, that earnest physicians and in cows milk some adequate approx imation to mothers milk, which would serve somehow to nourish the infont during the first year of its ex- is*ence. An ideal, a perfect substi- 1 tute was not hoped for; and in point Of truth, far from achieving any such substitute there has been elaborated during all these 60-odd years, not even an adequate substitute.
 I believe that all physicians espe- l cially able in the diseases of children are of this opinion Nor in all prob ability will there ever be such a sub stitute. because of the insurmount- able difficulties which Nature has put in the way of the essay, and by req son of the irreconciIable differences there are in the milk of various living species. Wherefore pediatrists tell us
 that, as a rule, bottle-fed babies get their teeth later than those nurture6l on the breast-a most momentous fact, since teething goes, pari passu
 with the nervous system (espectaIly
 brain developmenD wi h speaking, with creeping, and walking.
 The former infants are prone to convulSions and to such abberrations from heaHh as are likely to develop later in life into hys teria and other l nervous disorders; they are istless, tsallow, tending to eak-bloodedness (by reason of their calcium starva- tfon); they are prone to rickets; they need far more air space than nursing infants-as much at least, as do adults. because their bodily temper
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-31
LEGION WILL CONTINUE FIGHT
 FOR Ex-SERVICE MEN'S BONUS

Kansas City, Mo-. Oct. 31-The question of a national bonus for vet erans of the World War will not be- come Q dead issue, John G. Emery, National Commander of the American Legion, declared in his address open ing the third annual convention of the American Legion here today.
 "Such means as were used last ton cannot ultimately succeed,'' said Emery. Nothing is settled until it is settled right. And the national ad- justed compensation issue has not been settled at all. The American people are the court of last resort, and wherever the American people have, by the ballot, passed judgment on the matter that judgment has been an endorsement of the Legfon's stand.
 'I cannot conceive of a Congress so 6erelict in it's duty. so unmindful of it's just obligation to those who serv- ed their country at great financial loss, or so blind to the wishes of our people as to be misled again into re- fusing to adjust the economic balance between the man who went to war and the man who did not" he added.
 When the Senate last summer at President Harding'S personal request killed the McCumber bonus bill, it bowed to the will of the Executive and not to fact or reason" asserted Emery. The cost of adjusted com pensation was grossly exaggerated" by Secretary Mellon, declared the Le- zion commander.
 Emery praised the Legion's efforts in behalf of disabled former service men, giving the late Col. Frederic w. Galbraith, Jr., commander of the Le- zion up to the time of his death, full credit for the success.
 '@The greatest Legion acllievenl ent of the year has been won for our dis abled comrades, declared Emery. From press and platform the people were deluged with a mass of incon- trovertible evidence of the shocking conditions confronting our helpless and disabled veterans. The effect was almost instantaneous. In two
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-31

months the case of the disabled had become national issue"
 Emery indicated that the Legion will actively press it's efforts on be- half of unemployed veterans
 ''As a class ex-service men are suf- fering more keenly than any other in the present period of industrial de- pression and subnormal employ ment,' he said. "It is a duty of the Legion to extend every aid to these comrades, and a duty which I know the Legion will not fail to perform g
 Emery warned against permitting politics to become intermingled with Legion affairs.
 "No person in public life should be allowed to speak for the Iegion,'' he said. '"The Legion must be allowed to speak for itself when issues involv- ing service men are concerned, and then in terms which all the world will understand"
 The Legion has steadily strength ened its position in the last year, Elm cry said.
 ''In the face of adverse industrial conditions, which have hit the ex-ser- vice men harder than any other class. the Legion has gained in strength D declared Emery ''ItS financial situ- ation has steadily tnlproved.'' braith marked Commander Emery s address.
 The honor of having led the Le-- mine" he said. '"They were con- ceived and accomplished by that great leader and patriot who has done more to advance the destinies of the Legion than any other man our late and beloved commander, Frederic w. Galbraith, Jr. God rest his soul. Let us stand for one mo- ment in the hope that silence may convey what words cannot.
 Ut has been Galbraith's year. add ed Emery, after the great assem blaze had paid it's tribute of silent prayer to the dead commander. "A year which will always shine in the history of the Legion"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-31
IS COLOSSEUM
 4 PUBLIC CHURCH?

Rome, Oct. 31.-The question whether the Colosseum. that ancient monument of imperial Rome, where the Christian martyrs suffered death and men fought wild beasts to make a Roman holiday. is a public church has again been raised and decided. A proclamation, attributed by some Of the Roman newspapers to the Vat 1can, declares that the famous build ing Is a public church.
 The point was raised recently when the Roman police prohibited the delegates to a convention of the Ital- ian Catholic Young Mems Associa- ton from congregating in the Co1os- scum and holding a parade from that point to the Vatican.
 The public announcement of the decision on this point recounts the history of the Colossuem from early times. It saates that Popes Clement X, Clement XI, Plus V in their pom tif1cates prohibited further profana- tIons of the holy ground sanctified by the blood of the martyrs" Benedict XIV, in 1756. declared it to be a pub lie church.
 From 1756 to 1870, masses have been sung regularly in the Co1os- scum, but when Victor Emmanuel IT took possession of Rome in 1870 the practice was discontinued.
 During the war, the custom of holding religious services in the Col osseum was again revived. After the war, requiem mass for the soldiers who died ln the great war was held there.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-31
POLICE AND
 FIREMEN IN
 FINE SHOWING

The annual Police and Fire de partm ent parade was held on sched- uled time Saturday afternoon. The column passed from Police head quarters through Fairfield avenue to Main street. thence to State street to Park avenue, to Fairfield, and most of the line again passed through Fairfield avenue to Main, and dis banded in the center of the city, fire men mounting their apparatus and scattering to their various stations.
 The police headed the line, Super intendent Flanagan marching at the front of the column of men of which he is so proud. The Harvey Hubbell band kept the men in step. The ''black Marias' followed and then came Chief Johnson riding at the men of each company marched fol- lowed by their apparatus.
 The companies appeared in the fol- lowing order. headed by the Wheeler & Wilson band: Engine and hose companies Nos. I: 3, ', g, II, ?, 4, Nos. 1, 2 and 8 followed the engine companies to which they are the most closely allied. as did trucks Nos l. ?. 4, 8 and 5. in the order named. Scattered through the line appeared several other features, among them a reserve piece of motor apparatus, formerly the No. 1. steamer. the first motive apparatus lIl6 u0pdELIl1eIls De41lS Sl1lI III SsOOu condition. A new motor truck. not yet assigned appeared and is a, hand some piece of work. The real feature of the parade, and the prettiest thing in the line was another reserve steamer, drawn by horses, now obso- lete in the Bridgeport Fire depart ment.
 The passing of the horse brings to mind the passing of another line of fire fighting apparatus, for it will not be many years until the steamer will be as old fashioned as the horse but a few now remaining to be replaced by the more modern gasoline pump CTS. All assistant chiefs and nearly all of the auxiliary motor trucks were in line, and it is improbable that any other city of the size of Bridgeport could display a better looking or more efficient fire fighting depart ment.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-31
BOLSHEvIKS
 MOSTLY USE
 ENGLISH TONGUE

Moscow, Oct. 31-English, or rath- CT American, has become the pre- dominating foreign language in the government departn ents and in Mos COW generally.
 Fourteen thousand Russians, or naturalized Americans of Russian or igfn, came to Russia when the revo- lution opened up the doors for them. They streamed across Siberia for months and found their way to their old homes in the land of revolution.
 The number of English-speaking persons has been swelled by depor- tations from America and by emil grants from England and its colonies who were interested in the experi- ments which the Soviets were work ing out.
 Through their training abroad, most of these English-speaking per- sons were better equipped for gov ernment work than native Russians and have made their way into inn portant places with the governme ont in both Asiatic and European Russia.
 Three years ago most of the Rus sians returned from America were extremely bitter in their denuncia- ton of the United States. But they have modified. Their experience in helping them to run a government has taught them 1t is not as easy as it looks. They have changed as the entire Soviet government has chang ed, and 1t Is not unusual to hear them speak with affection of Amer ica- They look toward America for help. Most of them insist that Amer ica is the only country which is broad enough in guage to develop a country the size of Russia.
 Almost without exception, the Rus sians who have been in America be- lieve the American child-feeding is an initial step toward recognition. They have ceased denouncing America as an exploited" land. The floods of abuse are now poured out on France, Poland and Rumania. After the United States, England seems to be most in favor, with Germany a close third.
 Language schools in Moscow have great demand for English lessons and second hand book stalls in the mar kets find a ready sale for English books.