The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-09

The automobile continues to-. run a race with bootleg to get. the record for the largest number of killings. In Thompsonsville Sunday, Mir. and Mrs. T. S. Walsh of Savannah, Ga, drove into Fresh Water pond. Their month old baby was drowned.
 In Fairfield, Saturday, Mrs. Charlotte Smith, struck by an auto, sustained a fractured spine.
 In Meriden an accident to car deprive one man of his ear.
 Near Wheeler, Ind. Mrs. Har- riet Harigot and her six children were killed when the--- automo- bile stalled in the tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad.
 
 It would be interesting to know whether children neglected be- cause of the new freedom of fem inisn, or children riding in auto mobiles, sustain the most injury OI NdI1Odo Sol III oCollll5 "1Il1 children it is probably true, since most mothers are devoted, that more damage Is done to child life and character by misplaced kind ness, than by any other one thing, excepting neglected heredity, and deficient diet.
 
 Automobile is the modern Jug gernaut. Under it's wheels the very best Americans throw them selves and are crushed to death. freedom of the persons who drives an automobile to drive as ke pleases, without hindrance by his neighbors. This newest freedom is so precious that Americans will 1ingly sacrifice many thousa nds of lives to 1t every year.
 
 President Harding has issued a nationwide call for Near East aid, which proves again that United States is a part of the world, and that it will not be separated from any crisis. The Near East demands now grow out of the damage the Turks have done.
 For once the World Series is playsd to an unssupected finish, thanks to the fiasco of the game that was called for darkness. In this case virtue is not its own immediate reward. The profits are not what they would have been in longer series. The con- viction that everything was done on the level may make up, when the returns from next season are counted.
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 The law provides that when g. certain number of electors of the city of Bridgeport sign a certain petition, it shall be effective. Thousands of electors did just that. including many well known men. Come now political gentle men who do much admire pro- gress, with tales of when an elector is not an elector.
 
 According to the count made by Bridgeport's town clerk, an lector is not an elector, if his name is George B. Smith, and he signs it G. B. Smith. He may have voted fifty times, but he is not an elector if he gives the address where he lives, instead of the one where he did live.
 Under this magic substitution of technicalities, an e1ector Is not an elector just because he Is; he is.not, because somebody says he is not. A little advice from a newspaper office will not be amiss. Let those remain electors who are electors. When gentle men run for office again it will ot be hard for the omitted persons to explain that not being electors. they cannot vote for those per- sons who discovered that they were not electors.
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 Sarazen, having defeated Ha- gen, goes under the knife, at tackled by appendicitis. He will recover in thirty days, says the surgeons, This physique Is mar vel1ous'' That Is merely the probability. He should recover quickly according to the math- ematics of these cases. The in vasion of the body is always dan gerous, and some do not recover Here an old question is opened It is not enough for long life. t>1 have a splendid physique. Un- less each an devery vital organ Is sound, a diminished life will result The ideal Is the one horse shay. so well built that no part Is stronger. or weaker. than any other part
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