The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-05

President Harding, tells his old friends at Marion, "I will welcome the day when I can come back and stay with you permanently" Office holders neafly always say such things. Sometimes they mean them. Charles Fifth was the greatest monarch of the Sixteenth century He had vast possessions and weighty responsibili- ties. In 1856 he formally laid down the crown of Spain, after ruling for forty years. He was gouty, given to excesses at table, and weary in spirit and flesh.
 Napoleon, also weary, clings to power to the end. Deprived of it. he returns from Elba, collects his forces, and fails at Waterloo. He so loved power that his life was less than nothing to him, and to gain power he often led his soldiers into the thickest of the battle. But when his life was threatened by assassins. he suspected the Bourbons, and for an example to them caused the young and innocent Prince d'Enghien to be l. He loved his life, but power more.
 
 Rule is that flew die and none re- sign" President Harding belongs rather to the type that does not much crave power. He doubtless spoke his inmost mind to his fellow townsmen of Marion. Why men should crave 4I.z e., Power usually is attended with ex- cessive labors and followed by exces- sive humiliation. Man is perhaps a machine wound up to be ambitious.
 Walter (Speed) Ellis. New London, eleven, marries Florence Bourke, 1s, secretly, and takes her publicly over the side of a lake steamer, into small speed boat, when her parents take her on a vacation. Less expen- sive than a good church wedding, and more theatrical. Assuming that the young people haven't sold the motion picture rights, their devotion to ex- citing methods does not promise happy. married life. Too much ex- citement weakens domesticity.
 A Nationalist soldier attempts the assassination of Harden. the editor. The papers show cartoons of a per son with a yelled countenance, re- sembling the late kaiser. The kill ing of Rathenau was of the same or der; two killings that will not help. Not thus are monarchies restored. The workers, who rule Germany, all ready arc dsvisfng means to make the Republic moro secure.
 Dr. George A. Dorsey, ethno1ogist, divorced by his wife, says, "I have no use for men of forty or fifty who want to marry flappers. A man should be a good sport and play the game" One who plays matrimony Is a good sport when he plays it well enough to keep his partner, and plays 1t through to the end, that is to say, the grave.
 Israel Zangwi1l.5 famous Zionist, author and playwright, says that the British have betrayed the zionists. The Jewish National home offered us was at best not Jewish, or national or a home" Quite so. To be Jewish is to practice a particular religion; to be national is to believe in a parti- cular country; to be at home is to be satisfied among ones family and ones neighbors: America Is as near to
 
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 "The rumbling of insurgency in Democratic ranks" as neighbor Tele- gram expresses it, is the sound of weeping and anger proceeding from those who have no political rewards. There are not jobs enough to go round. The number is smaller, be- cause economy demands reduction of personnel. The times cali for civil service, with merit system. Get rid of the spells system, which replaces even women stenographers, and mere clerks, with others, for political req sons. Get rid Of the spells system, so that 1t will be possible intelligently to decide what is best for the city.
 
 Chicago League of Women Voters sent questionnaire to candidate for city political committees, asking if the gentlemen, or any of them, had been in jail, or were under indict- ment, or had an alias. The candi- dates say the women are impertinent. Suppose a similar questionnaire had been sent in Bridgeport. What would Smith, Caskey, or some of the aldermen have thought about it?
 
 In Pittsburg they are indicting for election frauds. Assistant. United States Attorney Falk. New York, said that in his investigation of opium sInugglers he learned that men high in political circles of the city are involved in the illicit traffic in opium and habit forming drugs. This is