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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-21
A NEW SORT OF THIEVES

of the recent most of them costly. Of the latter sort of the the wholesale robberies of freight steamers lying the dock storage the experts criminoogy who called failed to these thieves and exporters of this kind excess twenty in other countries large England the total almost great These losses piled heavy burdens who have had to out enormous sums payment of claims. It is said that British settled claims amounting to million dollars
 great due to the broaching of depreciation of organized they showed great mecha ingenuity in removing valuable goods from boxes expert mechanics employed able open bound with and lined with the contents replace with junk such defy detection until the reopened That the thieves information to kinds times by hnrdly exception which Of this that must have been criminal colluOn with person in the offices of the shipper
 familiar with conditions of the opinion that discipline which during the with the lowering general of honesty At owing shortage of labor the transportation at and the discipline wormen obtained degree power pre- vented the enforcement of that would couraged offering
 The whole matter is the hands committee which is holding hearings to develop the facts of this pIferage, breakage and short cargoes
 Eventually, of the evil will be wiped at least reduced to otherwise commerce. verey handicapped 1t to be hoped that the underway will result such drastic being piled as to bring this desired result quickly
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-21
"LINCOLN OR LENIN"- CHOOSE YOUR LEADER
 WARNS CLERIC

Columbus. Ohio. July 21-ttThe United States Is the only country where every man has a reasonable chance to quadruple his income,' ,' said the Rev. A. E. Cowley, pastor of Hillerest Baptist church here, ser monizing on conditions obtaining in the average American home.
 "We need a genuine revival Of ap- preciation of the benefits enjoyed by the average American family" con tinued the Rev. MT. Cowley.
 ''The average annual income of the working class in this country is four times that of other peoples of the world.
 ."This is about the only country where the wages of the worker are rich decreasing. Here it is not true that the rich are growing richer and the poor poorer. The commoner now is enjoying benefits once had only by kings and queens, and the best things are being spread to reach all.
 'sThe trouble is not with our coun- try, its institutions or its government, but with the radical crowd that has been gripped with lawlessness. The workers of the United States must choose between Lincoln and LIenine Those who halt between Lincoln and Lenine should take their respective countries as samples of their work The place of the radicals is not here in Lincoln'S land, but in Russia, land of Lenine.
 Let us remember that the road to Happiness is not by violence, but by industry thrift obedience to law and loyalty to the flag"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-21
MYSTIC BURMA, LAND OF
 THE WHITE CHEROOT, MAY
 BE GIVEN SELF GOVERNMENT

Washington, D. C., July 21-The proposal to give a greater degree Of autonomy to Burma has been refer red to a committee of the British Par liament, which is now making a pain stalking study of the whole situation and, according to advices here from London, will shortly make report. It is considered unlikely that this re- port will recommend as complete a degree of se1f-government as has been urged in some quarters, but 1t is re- garded as almost certain that the committee will favor granting con Nstitution and a great deal more free dom than has existed heretofore.
 In the last few years remarkable progress has been made in Burma, largely as a result of the efforts of the British administration, but the country still retains many of its curious pagan customs. For example, amount of Occidental influence appears to be able to break men, women and children of the habit of smoking at all times and places, the ''whackin' white cheroot," made fla nous by Kipling's Burma girl. It is said that a. mother often transfers her lighted cigar from her own mouth to that of the wee child in her arms, and no Burma lady ever goes callin g without an ample stock of smokes"
 The habit of kun-chewing is com mon to Burman boys, girls, men and women of every age and condition of SeEE1IuQe- The 6uru1an mas been said to smoke between chews and chew between smokes, but to have little time for anything else The beteI nut is chopped fine, a red lime paste Is spread on a certain kind of astrin- gent leaf, and all are damned into the mouth together. To extract the last bit of flavor from the combina- tion the chewer comforts his face, while his cheeks puff out more and more and more, until finally dis comfort compels him to start again with a fresh charge.
 One respect in which the Burmese shine as a people among all other Orienta1s is in the position of their women. Though they consider man far superior to a woman, and though her fondest hope is that she may be born to this high estate in some fu- ture existence, she walks the streets in absolute freedom and puffs her cheroot to her hearts content She takes part in, and quite often has complete charge of, the business af- fairs of the family, retailing her wares in a stall in bazaar or mark ct, figuring her accounts in her head for she never has any schooling, and meeting her husbands friends on the same plane with him in the house. hold.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-21
Dining Out Is Fatal. :.

Courtship in Burma is a more open and natural Irritation that it is in almost any other part of the East. The young man usually manifests his interest at one of the pagoda feasts by shy attentions. He then calls in company with his boy friends to find that the young woman, with a bevy of her girl friends is aw aiting him. If the families consent he perSuades the girl of his choice to eat a meal with him in public, and by virtue of this procedure his bache1orhood is abruptly ended.
 Before the young girl in Burma makes her debut she must have her ears pierced for earrings. The holes are kept open and enlarged by wear ing in them glass or metal tubes of increasing size until they are half an inch in diameter, capable of carrying weights similar to the decorations worn by the South Sea Islanders In o1den times the fashion demanded much larger holes than those in vague now, and many an old Bur mese woman uses hers as holders for Der cheroots, as the American dough- boy often carried his cigarette be- hind his ear.
 Rob the Dead of Fare.
 A dead man in Burma always pays his fare across the mystic river of death with a small coin which he car ries in his mouth. The curse that rests on grave-diggers as a class probably comes from the fact that most of the men of this trade have no scruples about digging bodies up for the coins It is believed that this causes the spirits of the disturbed ones to return. to this world to suffer all the ills that the Burman imagination can conjure up for them.
 The Burman is the cieanIiest and dressiest of the races of his country, but his gaudy silk shirt is no indica- t1on that his pockets will give forth the merry jingle of coin. He has a pride that makes him in his own estf- nation second to none on earth. He is descended from angels who came on earth and gradually adopted the ways of human beings.
 There is no elaborate caste system among the Burmans such as that which proves a curse among the Hin dus, but certain classes are outcasts. The pagoda slave remains a pagoda slave generation after generation; a grave digger never hopes to rise above his occupation and his benight- ed social position; and the lepers, beggars and the deformed or maimed are believed to suffer the stigma of some terrible sin of a former exist eQce-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-21
NOW
 LIVE IN DUG0UTS

Warsaw, July 3-Inspectors of the American Relief Administraf+"n of the European Children's Fund Poland have just explored districts along the eastern frontier of the new republic where thousands of persons made homeless by war are living in soldiers dugouts and where no white three years. Heretofore, it has been almost impossible to reach these areas chiefly because of lack of -raEs- portation.
 In the Pripet marsh country, be- tween Pinsk and the Russian border one inspector reported that after reaching the railroad terminal he had travelled two days by automobile, visit people who had been reported in need. Potatoes had been the prin- cipa1 food upon which these people existed during the winter, the inspec :. tors reported, and with the coming of spring, men, women and children lived chiefly upon cooked grass, dan deiions and some farm products.
 At various points along the from Russian trench line of 1917, peasants who had been driven from their homes by advancing armies, have been returning, only to find their everything gone excepting the bare land. They have taken to the dug outs for shelter until they are able to build shacks upon their holdings.
 In scores of villages in this battle area not one house has been left standing. They were demolished either during the fighting between the Russians and the Germans or afterward when the Bolsheviki in vaded the territory which is now a part of Poland. No attempts hay been made to reorganize the local government.
 In 1914 the village of Toboly had 124 buildings. Not a house is left standing. Of the inhabitants about 500 are living in dugouts and so other persons have sought shelter in nearby barracks.
 Three hundred persons who claim Swanowicze as their home town are all living in dugouts.
 When the German and Russian ar mics c1ashed, Lubieszow, was a thriv- ing village of 995 buildings. Twenty houses are now standing, Some badly damage by shellfire. There 800 persons are living in barracks and the 20 houses.
 Because of the shortage of horses it was a common sight in these dis tricts, according to the inspectors reports, to see men and women puII- ing blows in the fields. Arrangements ts have been made by the relief officials to get food to these districts as soon as possible and, during the summer, kitchens will be established where all children up to IT years of age will receive one full meal each day.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-21
Renal Has Narrow wEscape
 From Death

London, July 21-Mustpha Renal Pasha, commander of the Turkish Nationalist army and head of the Angora government, had a narrow escape from death at the hands of a Greek air bomber just before the Greeks captured Kutaia- arccordins. to a Central News dispatch from Athens today.
 Eleven men were killed and 20 wounded when bomb exploded in front of kemaPs headquarters at Kutaia- It was dropped by a Greek aviator.
 Turkish Nationalist forces are again in retreat on the Anatolian front, rapidly pursued by the Greeks, said a communique issued by the Greek legation today. King Constantine and the Greek general staff have gone to Ouchak. Eski-Shehr was captured by the Greeks on Tuesday night after a violent battle.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-21
Tells Italians
 U. s. Will Not Enter League

Noples, July 2.-Richard Washburn Child, the new American ambassador to Italy, who reached here Wednes- day on the steamer President Wilson was interviewed by the Giornale DItalia today.
 The newspaper quotes him as say ing that the American government was greatly pleased over ratification of the treaty of Rapallo and was delight ed to know that relations between Italy and Jugo-Slavia would now be of most cordial nature, and would solve any pending questions, such as the presence of DAnnunzio in the port of Baros.
 He concluded by assuring the ItaI- ian people that the United States would not enter the League of Ma tionS.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-21
Committee
 For Protection Of Stock Holdings

Several hundred Bridgeporters who are stockholders in the Martin (or KelIey) Tire and Rubber Co.,, Inc of New Haven, which is now in the hands of a receiver. will be in terested in the appointment of stockholders protective committee The commfttee is composed of New Haven. Hartford and Waterbury bankers, and will take any action necessary for the protection Of 1ndl- vidual stockholders interests
 The concern went into the hands of a. receiver on June l, when Judge Jo11n w. Banks appointed the City NationaI Bank of Bridgeport as tenn no-av receiver The original capi- tsJizafion was S1,0oO,000 under the Connecticut laws, but later it was re- Centralized under the Delaware laws st S5 900 ,000-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-21
STARTS FIENGo HEARING.

Coroner John J. Phelan today start ed his inquest into the death of Anna Fiengo, 256 Lexington avenue, who was killed a few days ago when a railing is said to have suddenly given way while the woman was adjusting a pulley clothes line.
 An interpreter was necessary at the hearing this morning, at which the first witness called was Theresa Giuliani, of the same address, who was with the woman. and had helped adjust several lines before the wom- an fell three stories to the ground and was killed. A long list of wit nesses, nearly all foreign born and unacquainted with the English lan- guage.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-21
CONGRESS DID
Senate

Passed Sweet bill co-ordinating <royernment agencies for relief of dis abled soldiers
 Admiral Sims and the Irish prob ,eno discussed at length by Walsh (Mont).
 Rorah offered a resolution calling on inc War Department for informa- t;on concerning American troops in Europe. :. F,fforts were made in vain to fix time for voting on the bill to regulate the use of wine and beer for medicinal purposes.
 Secretary Mellon was heard further regarding the proposed refunding of fine foreign indebtedness.
 House
 Refused by vote of 92 to 52 to per r1ff compensatory duty on leather uroducts as offset to manufacturers for Is per cent ad yalorem duty on
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-21
Ex-Emperor Wants To Leave
 Switzerland

Paris, July 21-Former Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary has de- manded that he be allowed to leave Switzerland for Denmark, according to the news received in official circles here, which expressed belief today that this move concealed a plan for another attempt eventually to restore Charles to tho throne of Hungary.
 The question is now the subject of an exchange of diplomatic notes, and Switzerland it is said, probably will be asked to prevent the ex-emperor from leaving the country.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-21
JUDGMENT SUSPENDED.

Joe Barboni, who lives "in a house" Alex Bain, of IFS HaIlett street and George McCabe. Of Bridgeport, were arrested by raii- road detectives last night for tres passing on railroad property in the East Eide freight yards. Judgment was suspended in all three cases, by the City court today.
 Barboni, who had great difficulty in answering the questions which were put to him, and who insisted that he lived ''in a house, will be sent to Hillside home for observa- tion for a few days
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-21
Will Institute
 Trackless Trolley

New York. July 21.-A trackless trolley system is to be instituted and operated by New York City on Staten Island Grover A. Whalen, commis- sioner of plant and structures, in an- nouncing his plans today said the cost of operation would be 1715 cents a mile as compared with 27 cents for gasoline buses. The cars, with rub Der tires, can be steered to either side of the road to avoid vehicles and pe- destrianS.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-21
TOURING WITH BEAR.

Touring the country in a Rord with 2 hig bear as a watchdog seems to pleaset a family of gypsies who are now in Bridgeport. The Ford is made in two compartm erts and the front is used for a travelling and sleeping compartment and the rear is used as a residence for big bruin- The bear was brought from France blythe gyp- SiaS
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-21
BUY LAND ON MAIN STREET

Keough & McLevy have purchased the property at the corner of Main and Grand streets owned by Mrs. FL len Bee. The land has a frontage of 129 feet on Main street For a long time a portion of the property has tenants.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-21

hides.
 Democratic Leader Kitchin wired his colleagues to stand solidly against tariff bill.
 Major Bruce Campbell who Mrs Bergdou testified was paid S5,oo0 to help in getting Grover BBergdon freed failed to attend hearing of investi- gating committee
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-21
QUESTION BOARD.

A question board for the Bridgeport Civ Market has been placed on the Plaza. The wholesale marks will be posted between 4 a. m. and a. m. and retail prices will be listed from ' until 10 every morn1nG
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-21

Notice is hereby given that I shall apply to Hon. John W. Banks, a Judge Of the Superior Court of the Court House in Bridgeport on the i st day of August. 1921 at 9:O0 0cIock a.. m. Standard Time) to be licensed as pilot in the harbors and ports on the Connecticut Shore of Long Isl- and Sound from Greenwich to Ston- ington both inclusive. and the wa ters of Long Island Sound from Greenwich to Stonin gton, both inclu- sive and the waters adjacent to all of the same and the waters of the Housatonic River.
 Dated at. Bridgeport, Conn.,, July 21,
 1921.
 CHARLES [. LEWIS.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-21
DEPARTMENT CLOSED.

The metallic department of the. IT. 1 M. c. has closed down until Aug. 1, | according to reports yesterday. About | branch
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-21
ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY

Because of the lack of cars % grain elevators on the Rock Island Railroad in Kansas and Oklahoma have been closed.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-21

All inquiries addressed to Dr. Hu- Der in care of the Health TaIIxs'' department will be answered in these columns in their turn. This requires considerable time, however, owing to the great number received. So if a personal or quicker reply is desired, a stamped and sef-addressed enveI- ope must be enclosed with the ques- tiOn.-EditOr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10
How you can build your own home
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10
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