The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-14

The Times reproduced in its Armistice Day edition 0 poem by Norman Shannon Hall, formerly a Bridgeport newspaper man and who served as Lieutenant in the war. The value of this poem lies in the realism and the faith fitness with which it pictures war; not an affair of glory, blar- ing trumpets and flying banners. 'The bard days. the marred days,
 when carried we token, A message and a promise to
 The very arms of Death"
 
 The epoch is prolific In poetry and prose which shows war faith fully as very disagreeable, dirty and hopeless affair When this generation of American soldiers completes It's contribution to liter ature and art the world for peace will be considerably strengthen ed. A parliament of the world may not be so far off.
 
 Woodrow Wilson, speaking af- ter the victory to 5000 persons assembled near his home, pre- diets a world peace based upon the League of Nations. English statesmen suggest that the Oar danelles ought to be put under the control Of the League of Nations. Slowly the better thing gets itself recognized; the world is impr; ov- ing.
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 It will be hard to realize how the world improves if the items in newspapers are too vigorously read. Just recently, 1000 die in Chilean earthquake; Turkish Ma tiona1ists hang eight anti Ma tiona1ists; the Christian popula- tion of Asia Minor is in flight; Russian Bolsheviki selzes Italian battIeships; Mary McSwiney is starving herself to death; wit nesses testify that Mrs. Gibson. who says she saw the Hal1-Mills' murder wasn't there.
 These newspaper items are not a. history of the world, they are the accident reports of the day; a record of the things that went wrong. They are the exceptions and not the rule. They should be read in this idea
 
 The gun that wasn't loaded comes upon the stage again, an actor that never retires. This time the weapon is in the hands of Otto Jacobs, il years old of Montvale, N. J. He shot and killed Katherine Sullivan, 5 years old. The Public Prosecutor has locked him up. Much better to lock up those who left the load ed gun where the boy could get 1t
 In Berks County, Pa, near the entrance to Berks County Prison is a statue to Frederick Lauer, who died in 1888. It was erected by the U. s. Brewers Association of which Lauer was president. Iauer was a man of importance and a useful citizen. The Chris tian Endeavors want to tear the statue down because Prohibition Mas come. Might as well destroy d7reek statues because Christian taty has come. It won't help Prohibition to destroy the statue of the brewer and it wouldn't help Christianity to wreck the pagan statues in the National Mu- scum at Washington.
 
 While they were taking All Renal Bey, Turkish newspaper editor, to the scaffold he was set upon by a mob of men and wo- men, stoned, s1ashed and cut to death. This shows that the Turks are only half civilized. Or does it? Are Americans only half cfvt- lized because of the massacres precipitated at Herrin?
 
 It is wrong to think in words that are too broad. in terms that are too general. A nation is . complex. Some are intelligent and altruistic, some are stupid and wicked, some are intelligent and wicked. In between are all sorts The true view is that un- der some circumstances some Turks act like some Americans act under other circumstances.