The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-06-23

The killing of Field Marshal Wilson
in Ulster must be put down a polit-
ical assassina ton, committed against
the will of the masses of the Irish
people. who have given abundant
evidence that they wish to have peace
and an1ity in their country. Every
quarrel of the public sort brings in
its extremists, persons of a fanaticaI
temperament, who are the backbone
of every instruction, rebellion o.
revolution. Peace being made, these
persons are no longer useful. and
they will be treated again as enemies
of the society in which they live.
The killing of the field marshal is
neither more nor less horrible than
many other killings in Ulster, in
which many humber persons have
been sacrificed. From immemoriaI,
however. the destruction of the more
gifted sort of citizens in state has
been regarded with more detesta ton,
probably because leadership is rela-
lively scarce One man steals ten
cents; another ten thousand dollars.
The crime is of the same nature, with
the same moral factors, but the
greater loss is more .keenly felt.
The assassination of the field mar
shall is we'll calculated to embarrass
in extreme degree the peace gestures
of Ireland. Everything is made
slightly more difficult. Such an as
sassipation may upset the govern
ment of Lloyd George. which might
result in a British government much
less sympathetic with Irish asp1ra-
tons. Greater results have come
from smaller causes The Great War
followed the assassination of an Aus
trian duke.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle says he
will write a psychic history of Amer
lea, in which he will describe the
psychic atm osphere of certain cities.
Will he tell about the psychics of
Bridgeport. reconci1ing perhaps the
Lii report, the disappearance of Mr..
Smith, the return from EIha, ana
the apparent disposition in Repub-
lican circles to regard morality and
opportunism as the same thing?
Have we bad spirits in Bridgeport?
Newtown graduated High school
class last night. Not many of them.
Boy for boy, twenty years hence, those
young people may make a better
showing. than the same number OF
- oi4 ioh
Country towns preserve the double
education; education of books and
education of hand and mind in real
tasks addressed to an Immediately
definite and useful purpose. The
city exists, that the country boy may
conquer it.
Problem in city education is, how
to tie up the book learning with life.
In Gary, Ind, they have partly solv-
ed the problem Some other places
are making the school a bit more
useful and a bit more like life, Put
ting thousands of boys and girls into
a room with books, keeping them at
it hour after hour, is necessary, but
when only this is done and nothing
more, things very useful are left out
and the education is not the best
that the times afford.
Brisbane tells of Italian woman. in
the thirties, mother of 20 children.
16 living with her, who thinks she
will have "a. He thinks someday
when earth is quite populated and
completely settled. each woman will
have two, and no more. 1t won't be
that way. In no time did each
woman have "a children. Records
show that certain Stratford settlers.
in the early days, managed, p. that
is the fathers did. with the aid of
two to three wives Then, as now.
the reproduction of the species ap-
peared to be a sort of specialization.
Some women had none. some sew
eral. and a few had many children.
1t will be the same to the end. Those
best adapted for parentage will pop
u.ate the earth.
The fIapper vote will not be neg
Iected Mrs George Bass and Mrs !
George NJ Baker, Intelligent leaders !
in the Democratic party, affirm that
the abbreviated skirt is no worse |
than 1.-THE long skirt which we used /,
to drag through the mud. or hold up
with one hand while We held our
bundles with the other The short
skirt is better, more sanitary. more
y hysienic, and more instructive in ma
turaI history Some day the unre- |
Elective people who do not know that |
both sexes have proper and necessary
legs will be instructed. and the short
skirt agitation will die out, just as
high heels are fortunately dying out