The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-22
Ryan Comes Down Like the Stick -. Proper Attitude To- ward Step Mothers Wed to Elderly Par ent -IlIn ss of NOrthcliffe - Tariff on Gloves BOthers Nations Fun OH the Rubber Planta- EOnS.

rocket in Wall street comes down like the stick. He owes thirty-two millions, largely secured and has as sets, no more than $673,OO0. He is son of Thomas Fortune Ryan, one of come to the rescue. Father mar ried recently. Son was not kind about it. A bad combination.
 
 The offspring of Richard Croker understand what happens when the young people are not well disposed toward the belated matrimonial ad- ventures of their immediate ances- tors. The stars never fought against Sisera more successfully than an old mans darling wars against the grown up step-children who are against her admission to the family. Prudence in such a case is plain. The young people must bow low.
 As for those who fail in Wall street. there need be no sympathy. They are shaking dice, and it isn't aces up most of the time. Some day Wall street will be purged of its iniquity. There won't be much of 1t left, though it does perform cer- tain useful functions.
 
 Lord Northcliffe, English newspa- per Napoleon, is sick unto death. News tells of rebe1lions among his editors. This was ever the way of power founded upon individual au- thority. Those held in discipline fret under the leash, and seek for tune and the freedom of their wills, when 1t can be safely done. Usually those who have become great in the shadow of a great man, do not re- The fierce sun wits and destroys them.
 London Times, discussing the Safe guarding of Industries Act, which is a species of protective tariff meas ure, declares government has r,,ob- bled again" The article is fabric gloves. It's the same in this coun- try, where the senate can't make up
 
 tion gloves ought to have. The par Iaments of the nations continue to wrangle over how to keep the busi- ness, while the nations continue to do little or no business.
 
 These was a great scarcity of rub Der. The good rubber came from r{% <aI H- the world. The best came from South America. and was called Para Rubber. Progressive men planted trees, cultivated the stuff, made it cheap and plentiful. War came. Germany couldn't get rubber Russia couldn't buy any. Austria, couldn't get any. Stocks of cultivated rub are ruined. Great plantations re- turn to jungle. Rubber trees are cut down, Governments try to linn 1t production. Holland wants to put on an export tax. to raise the price Universal td1eness prevents the nor nal use in everey country. After the war. "Ain't we got fun"
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 In recent report to the Board of Education Acting Superintendent E. E. Cortright says: '"The gifted children have been generally neglect ed. Yet it Is in this group that the future leadership of the country lies We should be very certain that we recognize this group and give them a richer curriculum One gifted child, grown to mans estate, may be an Edison. a Marconi, or a pure sci enlist, upon whose work, much of so. eta1 utility may be founded Tc 2puble the number of such individ. uals would be to pay ten fold the entire cost of public education,