The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-27

Who Occupies a Unique Position in
 the Writing World as an Author
 fty on the Problems Of Girls.
 IT you were training a dog and it misunderstood your orders. would you beat IL or try pattAltly to make your self clear?
 > If you had a collie pup. and in Samooiing aoouI IL broke your best vase ana cut its paw on Iae sharp pieces, would you send Tor d YeISr- nary ana nave It's wounds bound us. or would you beat IL 10 dcaxn-v.- Iurn IL out Ineo the cold to lend for I.seIf.
 rooiish quesions-aren't thS ?- for the answers are so clear But lne answer Is Just as clear vrl,ct. ft comes 10 numanS-anu N.x mos. .. Us act as IT IT were becIouaeu HI l..y.- ! .ery anu almost beyond a sage ss..- Ing-
 l ISccently I said clearly and with s,l, | .ne Iorce a. iny command mat | u.-- | iicNeu most earnestly that any ....- | aIlan be.nS was enuued tO a Ii...s | so conc pack IL Ine bglck z.... . | or q laniIy wants to oleacn yu.-- | why snOuiu Ony one keep IurO.....-
 mud on n-s p.Iins coat: Tne ...-' | ueau was sasrIIIng- Nnen 4 IIIsa:E woman has blum | derec, why snOuiu sociesy try IO .s,-.- | nm or nCr uvYn tO the IcvtI o,s .,... ! pIunderins fo do tnIs can o,,N .- | 10 neip iIianuIacJure human N.,..- | A sCrO4.s enough swImnIer may s,..- ! an auEeESs | for an unoeiI-N SbIe length oI t.--. But II, when ne's worn ana spent .t.. aAa-uS nuIils.Ia hands I-zrsn.s n.S N..- 1 rom the rYpe Ee < trying lO rSacn e.. | rom the rlEgIng ne Ivnss po cI-Isls, .,.
 course ne a..Iise go down at last. ->,
 one can Keep ola sNIuriIing fOreV,.s- . | when one who has Scraed tries to
 ma tne path to decency mag s.,,. | nave wna. savru 1ustlcs calls 4 --Tl.-s.
 70 assistance BuI why interfere 4s-sa
 am.
 If a convict comes out of priso,,
 and hnds that there ism any pla -.-
 Tor nm Tn the worIa or industry, at Is-
 nnds himself branded as a rn.cI .,.
 Iorscr, whats ne going to dV.- | The cynical reply tO
 But 1 must nye," is
 I hardly see Inc necessity of that
 In spite of tine clever sharpness .- l that cruel speech. there remains In-
 instinct that has maue the race-III.-
 instinct 10 fight for survival. And IEe EconNict who wants to go right uEn.-,
 and nghis 10 go right-buI 1T he sets
 nothing from the world but blows anu
 snoTes back into his pit, isn't II abuUs
 a hundred 'o one that when he
 starving he's going to steal or forg..
 again? So presently NC have a haU..
 oI crime It's not only the cru-s
 easiest way IL comes to seem thS, only way.
 Society is beginning to see that 2 There are efforts being made in be- ? half of the man who will go straight | II EtIS hetp Ncu as Tor the r man wno VIII go straight if he does
 not get hindercd- . The same principle that applies ;o the man who doesn't want to be herd l ed into the class OI criminals whvr..
 one blunder put him applies to the ? woman who mas tasted Ur the fru.I Of the Tree of Knowledge and wants I no more evil and bitter fruit g Perhaps her wrongdoing has riads.
 her gentler to others who-bcinE hu- 8 man ' may stray from some hish a has made her eternally grateful for kindness Perhaps 1t has made her the finer. stronger woman just . her fight To live oown the evil In her z own nature.
 lt If our world were an idea! place
 there would be no sickness and no . | temptation perhaps But the nSht to advance toward the ideal is mad. !, the bitterness Of evil than those who sit smusly wrapped in . mantle or goodness
 Goodness isn't worth notice-It has no value at all-if il does not include . charity. And charity isn't patron . izing. True charity has either enough < imagination to be grateful that it has escaped temptation or else it has = struggled for righteousness and re = | spects all struggles
 If there were any way for us 10
 make sure that we won't merit eter- - nal salvation in some other phase f defying salvation 10 some one eIs.. e here and now
 f But not to give a-hand to some one
 who wants to climb up is 10 push IT him down.
 a What any one WAS cannot matter d as compared with what they may yet l. be.
 To deny any other human bein-. a l. chance to make good is to deny self e a chance to be q big, fine soul T Any one who WILL can come back d if he isn't denied his goal by a cruel h group who are too good to let any - one be good unless he started tha. L. way in the cradle