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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-10
ELKS TO HAVE
 FLAG DAY SERVICE

Bridgeport Lodge No. 36, Benev- oIent Order of EIks, will hold their annual Flag Day services on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in the new ball room of their club, 360 State street and will be open ito the public, ladies and gents invited to attend.
 As usual the G. A. R. Vets will be the Elks' guests of honor on that evening and invitations have also been extended to all other veteran organizations
 United States Marshal William R. Palmer of New Haven will deliver the patriotic address and the Flag Record and Elks Tribute will be rem dered by Frederick W. Harrison of this city. Soloists for the services will be Miss Anna Riley, Nanchen Adams Rosan, Arthur LevaSseur and John L. Hughes.
 John J. Reynolds augmented or chestra of 40 pieces will furnish the music. Following the services there will be an entertainment put on by Messrs. Jack Sullivan, William Kee- nan, H. Schelinsky. Ray Nancy, Bill Toomey and Dunn & Farrell. The committee in charge of the affair con- sists of Edward J. Da1y, Robert A Mccullough, William Lounsbury, Thomas F. Conway, James W. Cough lin and Raymond J. keefe.
 Reception committee, William F. Kirk, Joseph c. Ivers. James T. Trainor, Robert R. Rosan, Irving FL son, Joseph D. Hartigan, Thomas J. Keegan, Charles Kelly, Frank F'as- sanella and Joseph T. Coughhn-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-10

 Gets Certificate

The first man to receive certificate Of attainment under the Navy's new educational system was John Butter worth of the destroyer Breck, it was first man in the U. S. Navy to finish Hhe first part of the course and to receive certificate of attainment
 The presentation was made by Rear Admiral Ashley H. Robertson, U-SN., commander of the Atlantic destroyer force, on board the U.S.S. Breck at Charleston, s. C., with the officers and crew of the desuoyers Breck, Lardner and Sharkey must er- ed at quarters.
 Immediately upon the introduction of the Navy Education System on the Breck during last November, But terworth enrolled for the engineering g courses and by hard work completed the assignments and passed a most Credatable examination.
 The introduction of the Navy Edu- cation System marks a new era in the United States navy. Designed by experts in the Bureau of Navigation 1t IS a. combination of correspondence courses carefully selected from the best material of widely known insti- tutions. The study of these courses is para1leled by careful and system attc practical instruction bY the ships officers and petty officers.
 The Navy Education System is in deed supplying the punch to the sbo- gan of Learn While You Earn
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-10
SIMS

P EAR Admiral Sims has accomplished result entirely A\ foreign to that which he intended His hatred every
 thing Irish gives vgor garruIous tongue luncheon in London Tuesday, congenia atmosphere surrounded by Tory smpathzer he sought bemrch their loyalty and bettle his fellow citizens country His to cater to the prejudices of his bearers and strike blow at the tempt however to njure the by assaing Americans has started reaction which emphasizes the strength country superiors Navy Depart ment and also Congress- responding to public opnon have taken him to account for his slanderous and unAmecan cusations This incident England great majority of Americans n pressed views of the Rear Admiral The reading public England will that this Government give it's ap this attack the great body of American citizens
 Irish birth and ancestry The British Government will realize that its treatment Ireland not receive the sympathy great American cizenry
 rebuke Admiral Sims receiving will teach those of Eng land who desire closer union of English speaking peoples harmony spirit
 dnce between the United States and England until Ireland receives justice speech the purpose showing England that the Irish vital living shaping public opinion in country Admiral Sims judged by the result of his effort rather than his move he should receive blessings their anathemas He rendered them conspicuous and distinct service.
 good effect, however does not absove the Rear Ad should follow such malicious unwarraned outbreak the part of occupying his position There for this display of malice He made the point which he seeking to mae rela friendship and union between this country and England, falling place alsehood and vil antpahy the Irish is always at the boiling noin and he cannot let any opportunity pass without ing it. When he touches this subject he loses all Of right Even the most intense Engishman will not attempt to justify Engand rule and oppression of Ireland principle of right justice. He will admit that is matter selfish expedency is therefore surprising and humiliat ing to American pride that distinguished naval officer should public address assa those this country who sympaize with righteous We heard word of criticism Admiral this country intervening the abuses in Cuba when this nation protesting against Turkish atrocities against the Amenans when the people of America were openly condemnn Germany for the 0f raised defense of right But he frohs at inc mouth when he thinks of opposing the policies of England We trust that the discipline administered will be such that will be fitting to paraphrase the ia
 Who loony now? and send to the Rear Ad nairal message sWho is the jackass now?"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-10
HOW TO TELL
 POISON IVY

The poison ivy vine is found in many places in Connecticut, along roadsides. on stone walls, in fields and in fact it adapts itself and flour isies in almost any soil It IS often overlooked as it intermlngles with other shrubbery and the unsuspecung individual handles it and is poisoned The symptoms appear from a few hours to four or five days after con tact with the ivy vines The ivy IS more poisonous in the spring ana summer when the acrid juice Of the plant is most abundant
 The leaves of all forms of poison ivy are in threes, each leaf stalk hearine, three leaflets. The foliage is a, beautiful red early in the spring becoming green in summer and In the autumn turns to scarlet ana or anee shades. The Virginia creeper is found in localities where ivy grows and although it is harmless it IS o1- len mistaken for the poisonous var ;etv. The Virginia creeper IS easily di distinguisaable from poison ivy TOT each leaf stalk bears from three 10 five leaflets instead of three only, as in thf, case of the ivy vine In addl- tion- the creeper, being of me grape f.z,,f7v. bears small blue lnedlofe per- Tiae and has numerous tendrils-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-10
CAMPAIGN FOR
 MOTHERHOOD

London, June 10.-A campaign in the interest of motherhood and against the ill-effects alleged to re- suit from girls going in for athletics has been started here
 A resolution was passed at a meet ing of managers of girls schools and of women who claimed to have made a study of physical culture protest ing against the present system of physical education for girls as in furious to future generations A small committee was formed to draw up and circulate q manifesto on the subject
 Several letters favoring the move ment were read. Sir James Crich- ton-Brown, author of books on men tai and nervous diseases, wrote:
 Physical exercise and training are as necessary to girls as to boys, but these must have regard to physioIo- gical and developmentaI considera- tions- To ignore sexual differences is to court disaster in the long run-''
 women who develop masculine instead of feminine insdncts,'' wrote Dr. Arabe11a Kenealy, do this at the cost of the male potential which is transmitted by the father to the daughter in trust for the male line Athletic women produce female off spring and seldom have sons. When sons are born to them, they are apt to be puny and delicate. or generally emaSculate or of the inferior type. The cultured classes. who are mainly
 
 ing to provide sons of the fine phy- slque and the manly talents and ini- tiative which have set our Anglo Saxon race in the van of evolution"
 Miss Cowdray, the principal of a girls high school, who moved the res oIuuon of protest, said that the girls who had been trained to play hockey. cricket and football suffered at child birth Sometimes the child suffered. sometimes the mother ana sometimes one or them died Eighty per cent. of the girls she had known who had been trained to become gymnastio mistresses had been incapacfated for motherhood.
 A girl had a large store of vital and nervous energy which she could draw upon if normally developed at the great crisis of motherhood That strength was deposit account but if she used it a current account as a boy could afford to do, her children would pay the bill. She believed that the Victorian girl was a better mo- ther than the modern athletic girl
 MAS Radmar, director of the ds Egvi1Ie Michau School Of Physical Development, said that the feet were the only part of a girls body that need be made strong. A wo7nan's body should be elastic and strong chests and big muscles meant ineIas- tic chests and bodies. Drill appara- tus should be done away with
 Mrs Roger Watts pleaded for the teaching of boise. Let US go back to the Creeks she said. ito the sys- tenn which was the most wonderful ever known
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-10
PURITAN GIRLS WERE VAIN

CF,rom the Philadelphia Inquirer)
 At last we are coming around to the view of philosophers, ancient and modern, to the effect that women do not change much in their ideals nor in their conduct The world moves along rapidly because men make cer- tain scientific discoveries which alter the outward appearance of life but modern, to the effect that women do
 One might appeal to the Code of Hamurabi (2300 B. co or the records of Egypt, which go back much fur ther, to Homer. Plautus and Terence, not to mention the Hebrew prophets, who have insisted that women arc vain of their appearance and love dress. ornaments, clothes and hair dressing above the more serious things of life, to show that the female mind has in all recorded history re- mained static.
 These are commonplaces of the stu dent, but we confess that we were wholly unprepared to discover that
 
 England efforts were made to curb the extravagance and display on the part of women so far as their clothes were concerned It is due to New England writers (whol1y of the male persusasion) that we got the idea that in the first century of life in that section god1iness was common to the entire population and that pomps and shows and vanities had no part in their life
 In consequence it is shock to read that just four years after Boston was founded a terrible situation was dis covered and that it was promptly suppressed by law so far as law ever suppresses any woman. It seems that in 1884 Boston men were hor-. rified to find that women were sport ing newe and immodest fashions, such as the wearing of silver, go1de, sl1ke faces, girde1es, hat bands,'' sc. on scale which i'll comported with Puritan ideals. As a result statutes were enacted cutting down simmod-
 
 Icng Wlngs,' sc, with fearful pen alties- But the ladies were allowed to wear out what they already DOS sessed
 Nothing happened. The Puritan women seem to have been a bad lot just as bad as they were in the time of Sargon the Elder, or as bad as they are now-in that they will not obey the men They loved f1n- cry, and the man who does not rec ognize this and doesn't cater to it is an impossible being In this world, which is ruled by the whims of wom- en who kindly allow men to suppose that they are running it on abstract principles And to think that some day we may have a woman President!
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-10
SIMNIS FRUITS AGAIN
From the Boston Post)


 The news that Secretary of the Navy Denby has asked Rear. Admiral Sims if he was correctly quoted in his address to the English Speaking Un- ion in London on Tuesday should be welcomed by all fair-minded Aneri- cans
 This perennially proABritish naval officer of the United States took oc- casion in that address to insult a very considerable part Of the American people who are as good Americans as he is, but who feel very deeply and honorably on the subject of 1reland's aspirations To call them '-jackasses" whose influence is negligible and Americans when they want money" is certainly going it rather strong for a foreign-born naval officer who is supported by the taxes of all of the people
 Admiral Sims was rebuked for one of his English speeches by President Taft He richly merited rebuke by President Wilson, put did not get it. President Harding may find it neces- sary to emulate his Republican pre- decessoE
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-10
STRATFORD BOY WINS PRIZE FOR
 BEST DRAWINGS

Joseph Hancourt, Jr., son Of Mr. and Mrs Joseph Hancourt, Sr, of Stratford, has won 9 prize for his clever crayon drawings for the third time this year. Every year it has been the custom for the grade pupils to have a drawing contest for which two prizes in gold are offered with a blue and red ribbon.
 The judges who were Mrs. Stiles Judson and Mrs. DeRuyter Rowland selected Josephs painting of the "SMauretania,' and his prospective drawing of the Western Fast Express disappearing in the hills, as the two best in the contest. When Joseph was nine years old he won his first prize for the best submarine destroy CT which was offered by the Woman's Home Companion and during the war he received a War Saving Stamp fos the best Liberty Loan poster.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-10
Why Do MaCkerel
 Swim One Way

Brighton, Eng, June 1o--Ine question why the mackerel in the anuariurn here always swim rom left to right round the rock in thelr tank and never vary the direction of their endless journey has puzzled many and even when the question was recently asked at meeting or the Sussex Sea Fisheries Committee no one was able to supply the infor- nation. At a later meeting Of the committee the clerk offered a solu-
 He said he had received a letter from Mrs Gilbert. of Greencastle. Pa who said she had read an ar ticle in an American paper about this mystery She was of the opinion that the reason for the one-way swimming of the mackerel was that they swan in harmony with nature. or, in other words with the motion of the earth.
 The letter has been sent to the British Board of Agriculture
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-10
A MORAL FOR JOURNALISTS
(From the Globe and Commercial
 Advertiser)

There is a lesson for all American journalists in the account which Wal ter White sends to the Evening Post of the blunder which led to the Tulsa race riots. The rumor which caused the uprising was the usual one that a white girl had been outraged by a negro. What actually happened, ac- cording to MT. White, was an incident that would have passed without no- tice if both participants in it had been of the same race Dick Roland, a negro youth, entering an elevator op- erated by a white girl, accidently stepped on her foot, and when she demonstrated lost his temper and jostled her. The girl screamed and Rowland ran- The next day the Tulsa Tribune appeared with the story of Rowland-s arrest and the charge that the girls face had been scratched and her clothing torn, both of which assertions, it was later dis covered, were untrue. This one in cident is believed to have been re- sponsible for the riots, which began on the night the misleading story was published, and which cost the lives of at least fifty or sixty people.
 Those who take part in lynchings or incite others to take part are as guilty as though they were accom- plices in an ordinary murder, and this the law must recognize if it is to be worthy of respect But behind the law stand the influential forces of the community-the journalists, the clergymen, the labor leaders, and the business men On their attitude will depend the degree of civilization that their communities can attain.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-10
CHICAGo's REFORM VICTORY
(F'rom the Springfield Evening
 Republican

Most refreshing news is that which comes from Chicago of the sweeping victory of the coalition forces against the Thompson-Bundin machine in the Cook county judicial e1ecuon- The emphatic stand for honesty and de- cency augurs well for a complete routing a little later of the mayor and his gang And what Chicago can do other cities can do.
 The very audacity of the machines defiance of public opinion proved to be a decisive factor m Mondays results The blacklisting. because of refusal to accept machine dictation, of a majority of the 20 circuit court judges whose terms were about to expire was, as Artemus Ward would say, "2 much.'' Every one of the judges was offered nomination on a coalition ticket-to appear under the "Democratic'' designation. Four teen-nine Republicans and five Dem- ocrats-accepted, while five stood by the machine. To the surprise of the coa1itionists, Judge Theodore Brenta- no, the only member of the Superior Court whose term was ending, also chose the machine. The opposition put up Timothy D. Hurley, a Demo crat, well known for his work for juvenile welfare and originator of the Big Brother movement in the Uni ted States. He went in with the rest, though by a smaller plurality.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-10
What Others Soy
CORRECT, BUT UNUSUAL

(From the Hartford Daily Couran)
 To the Worcester Telegram should be awarded. if not the Pulitzer pr1ze next year. at least some distinguished badge of merit. In an editorial in that paper yesterday the following appears:-
 The effect was really to ere
 ate. like F'rankenstein, a mon
 ster...
 The observations of several years makes us willing to bet that 999 out of every 1000 writers would have incorrectly wrote:-"NThe effect was really to create a Frankenstein."
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-10
DRAGONS HAVE
 GIVEN WAY
 TO AIRPLANES

Picking, June 1o-China's ancient dragon, feared and worshipped for centuries, has a foreign rival Tail spread, his wings gliQing in the bril- liant sunlight, this newcomer floats and scars unmo1ested above a hun dred scattered villages daily. As he utters his buzing, ratting cry, Chi nese stream from their hutS and hail him with shour5, running pell-nel1 toward the spot where he prepares to a5ight. They swarm around him with ad1niring looks
 Airplanes. is means of food ais tribution, are now being used over a considerable section of the Eastern several hundred pounds of supplies, usually articles needed in an emer- gency by relief workers who are in inaccessible places. Though their trips they can make in a day is very large, and as messenger vehicles they are proving invaluable in checking up on conditions over large areas
 At first the arrival of an airplane near a village almost depopu1ated the place When it became evident, however, that these terrifying sky wagons were food transports this fear soon gave way to interest and admiration. Now the most difficult part of the relief aviatoT'S work is to make a landing anywhere in the vicinity of a village without moving down the inhabitants
 To widen the range of this airpfane service, gasoline supplies have been cached in various districts, enabling planes on messenger or famine scouting duty to remain away from the larger cities for several days at a time In Investigating new areas they are much more efficient than any other means yet found, and the clear, dry air of the famine districts, with out rain, provides admirable condi- tions for their use. Occasional wind storms are their worst enemies, forcing them to ride for hours above the smother of dust and sand that sweeps across the plains.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-10
NOT so EASY

hoped for Mexican settlement which thought 1 about to be realized, all off and apparently away Yesterday morning Mexican papers flaming asserted Mexico has refused to United proposal"
 it very much where it last with the wondering what and Mexico srng and down the center the shouting grandiloquent phrases
 justification however, for President eons in his claim that he is barred by constitution signing the agreement fngton sincere this it hopeful indication. Mexico begins to act honestly in the basis for ultimate solution car, and American difficulties
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-10
FINAL HONORS
 FOR A. I. HERT

Louisville, Ky, June 1o.-Ffnal marks of respect were paid by a sor- rowing city to Alvin T. Hert, capitalist and politician, who died Tuesday in Washington. Right Rev Charles E. Woodcock. Episcopal bishop of Ken lucky, and Dean R. L. McCready of Christ Church Cathedral conducted funeral services.
 Numbered among the honorary pail bearers were members of PreSid ent Harding cabinet, the Republican Ma tional Executive Committee, forne Governor LoWden of Illinois and Gov ernor Morrow of Kentucky.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-10
HUMANITY ES, U. S. MAIL
(From the Evening World)

United States Commissioner Hitch cock was 100 per cent right in refus- ing to entertain a complaint against Robert C. Mayer. who "obstructed the mails when he caused the arrest of a mail collector driving a lame horse.
 Uncle Sam and his servants ought not to be free from the dictates of common decency toward the horse No jury would ever bring in a verdict against a man whose only crime was feeling of pity for a dumb animal
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-10
KILLED 256.OoO FLIES.

Pana, Ill, June 1o-Facing dep1e- ton of its treasury through popular ity of a swat-the-fy campaign the Pana Women's Club today announc- ed the body could not longer pay a bounty of ten cents promised to chill dren for each 100 flies killed. The campaign was started on May 24 and to date 356 ,o00 flies have been turned
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-10
Is NEGROES ESCAPE.

Jacksonville, Fla, June 1o-At least IS negroes escaped from the Duval county jail here early today. One of the negroes sawed through the door of his own cell and then released the others, one of whom was awaiting trial for murder.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-10
DELANEY NOW
 VICE PRESIDENT LEGISLATIVE CLUB

Senate Leader Alexander L. De Laney, of Bridgeport, was elected vice-president of the Legislative club of 1921, on Wednesday. The club is composed of members of the General Assembly, and a resolution was unani rlollsIy adopted to hold reunion In January in Waterbury for all mem bers of the legislature.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-10
worID NOT REDUCE BOND.

In continuing the case Of George Wellington. of 474 Seaview avenue, until June 8, Judge Frederick A Bartlett in the City court today re- fused oreduce the bonds from the original s2.00o figure Wellington is being held or very serious charges which were preferred against him by six little girls
The Washington herald., 1921-11-24

NoTlcE-This eIcbsnGe will be closed 10
day, Thanksgiving Day.
The Washington herald., 1921-11-24

NEW YORK Noy 2aTota Exchange
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The Washington herald., 1921-11-24
LOCAL


Potomac Eiec cons 5s. 81 900 at s1t.
kiSgs Realty tlongl BE-, 81 900 at 80.
Capital Traction, 0 at efL.
Americas National Bank. 10 at 151.
CoUiDental Trust Co.. 10 at 90. at seb
Union Trust Co.. 10 at l1sh.
AerHenthaier Anotyps, . at 1s4. 10 al
lS4&, 10 at Is41a. 10 at 135.
AFTER CALL
Washington Gas 7hs, 800 at Io4k.
Wssh Ry and Elee d. s., 900 at sIh.
Pot Elec em and Ref "a. W. L., 81 600 a,
1914, $500 at lo2h.
Money, call loans. and per cent.