The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-08

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 President Harding has his troubles. Sincerely seeking to eettle the strikes with the mini mum of unhappiness, he incurs the anger of the parties to the quarrel, without gaining from the public any appreciation. MT. Harding knows something Of what MT. Wilson had to endure in the White House. He may well say to the coal miners and the coal operators, in the lam guage of Mercutio. "A plague upon both your houses."N
 This is usually the way in this unhappy world, where most take sides, and justice is little deslr- ed; and the more necessary 1t is the more it is condemned.
 Everybody yells ''kill the umpire" in the baseball game. though If it did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. Men had to invent govern ment, to save themselves from their Quarrelsome natures. Man had to create somepower stronger than himself. to make him behave
 Perhaps Mir. Harding would be more popular if he worked with the iron hand, velvet glove off, for oneside or the other, or bet ter yet. for the public, without regard to either side. Men ad- mire strength. They like the man strong enough to make them behave. It is not the child with the indulgent parents. who loves |. them most and treats them best. It is the child wnose parents are firm and just. strong in anger and certain in punishment who respects and reveres his progeni- tors.
 News from Paris asserts that Harold Mccormick, millionaire. and gallant lover. is not appar- ently benefited by his gland op- eration. He says, 'It is the fault of the newspapers, who have wor- ried me beyond expression with their unwelcome publicity"
 Newspapers might not be so worrying, if transplanted glands restored youth An elderly man turned young. wouldn't worry about newspapers. He would say, ''What do care about news palpers7 I'm young again."
 There's Mir. Rockefeller, for instance. one of worlds remark able men. who in his ninth decade strives with might and main to exist Into his tenth. The wealthiest man in the world, could he be restored to youth. he wouldn't mind newspaper talk, nor the loss of every nickel.
 Take my millions. and give me back my youth" he'd say.
 MT. Rockefeller will let other men work out the road to youth through transplantation of glands. He will be satisfied with right living, and no gaIlantry. The health of humans con- tinues to improve slowly. Over 8 large part of the world they smell better. look better and live longer than they did a few cen turies back; better than now. in some backward parts of the world. Forty was old age. not so long ago. In some parts of America the average age is sixty, or beyond, at death, and the av- craze for the country is close to fifty.
 No reason why with care, un- derstanding and good habits life should not be prolonged well toward the century mark, and perhaps longer than that.
 It would be interesting 70 md out why it is that the average life is eight or nine years longer in Kansas. Is 1t the Free Soil CTS who originally settled the state. Were they an exceptio& ally sturdy stock. Is it that they abolished alcohol. one of the first of the states. There is a reason. It would be worth while to know 1t. Eight years more of life is a lot. when it is the last eight.
 War figures of health of Americas young men are not consoling, until you read that they are the best figures in the world. Rhode Island, with but 400 sound men in a thousand needs to take heed. Other states may profitably do the same. Much of the work of creating health must be done in schools