The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-06
Best Place for a Play Ground - Rights of Unions and Others No Excuse for Vio- lence- BrewerieS and Stone Axes Initiating the Movie Hero.

Murray Hubert. president of New York City's Board of Aldermen, will tell the Elks, when they meet in At Iantio City, that each lodge should buy and equip a playground to be called Elks' Field. for the use of the children. If the public fails. the Elks may do good by filling they old. But the playground should be either in public park. or attached to 6 public school A playground attached to public school gets about ten times the use of a playground placed some where else. As a principle. the American people should see to it that the schools, public and private. carry on most of the secular activities of boys and girls of school age. The schools are organized for the work, and can do it more economically and more efficiently.
 t; President Harding upholds the right of an American to work for whom he p1eases; also the right of men to organize in unions. and have collective bargaining. There Is no contradiction. He might have said, 1T uphold the right of a man to go to what church he pleases. and his right to determine his own religion" This is precisely what we do. Each church has the right to win as many adherents as 1t can. This is the right of labor unions. Once churches had, and used the right to boycott, or kill those who would not join.
 The custom of conversion by tor ture, or killing. or burning at the stake, practiced by medieval church. men of nearly all creeds, became so distatsteful to society that. after much war and bloodshed it was stopped. Result: religion was never so powerful in any age, it is now. l Unions of employers and employees are repeating the history of religion Violence is obnoxious. Harding will insist upon order and legality.
 
 In the United States there is little excuse for violence, by lynch law, by hob, or otherwise. The system of government affords to any group If men the utmost freedom for intro duction Of new ideas of Justice. eco
 
 have every right to convert: others have no right to do lawless violence upon others
 pr. Flinders Petrie. famous Egypt ologist Of the University of PennsyI- Vania, has dug up the model Of a brewery nearly 4,oOo years old. Pom pen shows the remains of many bar rooms. older than the Christian Era. These things are not now surprising. A few centuries hence they will seem as strange as the tools of the stone age, shipped out of the rough rock. In the United States breweries and stone ages are about equally scare.
 William c. Daly, better known as tF7ather Biu.'' age 80. is by judicial decree separated from his wife, Ellen, with whom he has lived for 26 years. Daly was a remarkable man; a poor boy, he earned some money, bought a horse. became an owner of racers and acquired wealth, although handi- capped by the loss of a. leg. The wife charged cruel and inhuman treat ment. She said that Daly had beaten his son. for not exercising the horses. Tennyson wrote a poem. which described the husband. "who will hold thee little nearer than his horses, a little dearer than his dogs" or words to that effect It happens sometimes.
 George Murray, nine years, attend ing a. picture show in Midd1etown, New York, put a pistol to his head, and pulled the trigger. The blank cartridge didn't hurt him much. He said he was initiating the hero. Lit tie girls have more sense. They inn ttate the heroine. using nothing more deadly than a lip stick, an eyebrow plucker, and powder to suit the com- plexion. A boy who wishes to be a grown up hero must live to grow up. Look like the hero, but don't shoot
 
 Fire Chief John Kenlon of New York, congratulates Fire Chief A. R. Dyer, head of London Fire Depart 1nent. saying Your drill was in all respects equal to anything I have ever seen in Europe or America" That was polite, but not accurate. The truth would be, Your fire depart ment isn't so much, but your fire losses. measured against American losses, are next to nothing" Europe