The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-10
SALIENT FEATURES OF REDFIELD'S. TALK,
 AT C. C. LUNCHEON

Some of the salient paragraphs ot ex-Secretary Redhelds speech before the members of the Chamber ot Commerce at the luncheon at the Stratheld, yesterday, are given be- low:
 Was it not Sidney Smith who put to silence an aggressive coster-Woman by calling her a paraHelopipedon be- fore which awful attack her powers of speech failed? We are apt to for get that words are tools having on the whole rather precise usages. There fore, just as we would not use a chisel for a screw-drlver or ask a machinist to drill with a shaper, so applied to uses for which they are unfit, unless, indeed, the charge be true that the purpose of language is to conceal thought
 Long ago I was told, I know not how correctly, that in it's origin the word 'triVaI' meant the man .On the opposite side of the river. the river itself having riven them apart or sep arated them so that from the very fact of their separateness they become an tagonists. Now, to the engineer and to most of us river is something to be bridged that we may meet and know the man on the other side Our question as we stand upon the bank is apt to be-how can we get across Something, however, of the ancient idea that the fellow on the other side is at least a potential antagoniSt whose activities are normally more or fcSs harmful to us still survives-a true continuance of the s;one-age Of thought into our modern life.
 To incompleteness of speech many add of necessity such close app1ca- ton to local and personal work that their absorbing interest therein con ceals realities and leads them to ac- cept a gospel of near-sight as the basic principle of commercial life. To them home, work, the town in which they live, their club, their church, their lodge become unconsciously a little world in which they live and move and the pressure of affairs pre- vents their standing on the outer edges of this limited area either to see what goes on outside or how 1t is affected by contacts not always wis ible from the local center. Thought of this limited scope we call paro- chial. As it becomes larger in sweep we label it provincial It may eN- pand into a national habit of thought and this in its turn into an interna- tiona1 outlook.
 As one passes from the smaller into the larger vision step by step, he finds manual surprises. Certain prejudg- ments or So-called preju6ices, decl- sions made or opinions formed With out all the facts are exposed in thelF nature and are dropped. Whole new areas of truth appear and one dis covers that the little life is not an isolate thing but a part of a larger life which surrounds it and of which 1t forms a necessary portion. A man ceases to be merely a citizen of his parish or-of his city or of his prov ince or of his nation and becomes better fitted for all these local and minor duties by reason of his partic- ipation in affairs of a larger world.
 On my desk is a clipping Saying g that a model copper mining camp in New Mexico is closed. The head line reads Slump in Copper Market puts 4.50o out of work" The article proceeds "A few short months ago 450O men, women and children work ed, lived and enjoyed life in what camp in the world. Now the mines are closed. There is no ore await ing shipment: no means of livelihood remains; stores have been closed; the inhabitants are leaving and the rad1- road has served notice that trains no longer are run. Why ou say because business is dull. True. but where2 Here in America? !? Let us be careful ere we answer not to be either parochiaI or provincial or even too national. The answer must be no-these mines are not closed be- cause business is bad in America but because business is bad throughout the world. If America were booming and that were all. the mines might run six months in the year but hardly more, for unless copper can be sold abroad our mines can only operate Rhout half the time. We have no means in this land of consuming much more than half the copper we produce, If so much.