The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-16
With Many Children One Is Happy, the Other, Unhappy Neither Believes in Birth Control Abolishing $ ant a Claus COwardice of Politicians.

MT. and Mrs. Malich Fisher having been married for 75 years celebrated their diamond jubilee wedding anniversary at Martin que Hall, the Bronx, last night MT. Fisher is 94 and his wife is 96. Among the guests were married children, B grand-chil- dren and II at-grand children. MT. and Mrs. Fisher do not be- Heve in birth control. Theirs has been a happy life.
 
 Mrs. Dora Margowski, 39, New York City, appeared Thursday be- fore Magistrate Alexander Brough to explain why her daughter Leah, 15. did not attend school. Mrs. Margowskf has been married 17 years, has Is children and as she says has everything out of life except happiness. When eighteen 1oaves of bread a day and that made all they had to eat. Mrs. Margowskf has most decided views about birth control. She doesn't believe in it.
 The Soviets of Moscow are out to abolish Santa Claus No angels will appear on Christmas trees; there will be costume plays and masquerades, instead. The Soviets should be more open minded. This life is very com plex- In the universe are many strange things. There may be angels To deny the unknown is just as unscientific as to assert it.
 
 Governor John NJ. Parker of Louisiana, invited 14 Governors to stand up and be counted against prohibition and the K. K K. Nobody stood. He might have divided the question. but he did mt. Two hours later Governor Ben ". Olcott, of Oregon, did. He left prohibition out and asked for a declaration against the K. K. K. He told about defeat by the Klan last Fall because he opposed the constitutional amend ment destroying the parochioI school system. Nobody moved. No action was taken.
 
 Most of the Governors ex- pressed opposition privately. but weren't prepared for public decla- ration. Politics is a cowardly occupation. Politicians seldom speak until they have a sure thing or think they have. Olcott is & defeated man. This Parker is e governor in being and may be credited with courage. Cour- ageous men in such a case would stand up and say one thing or the other.
 
 BOnar Law says that Britain cannot pay the United States the four billion dollars that Germany owes us," until Germany pays her. He says that debt unaided would impoverish the British nation for generations. The ten billions which America loaned the Allies
  Americans. while the rest were at war. within a period of three or four years Within 25 to 30 years the 2O0,o0O,O0o millions of able to produce over and above their own needs an equivalent quantity of comm oddities. If the nation could be induced to think in terms of commodities and ar range for offsets in kind, there might be less trouble with the war debts.
 
 All that the people of this c country and Europe raised for the war. had for the most part. 10 be created by them during the period of the war, while the best of their men were fighting. If these same peoples, now that they are in peace, cannot create in the same time. over and above their needs. a quantity of goods equi- vaIeut to those consumed in the war, there Is something wrong is.