The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-03
Hole in Tom LawsOn's Publicity Buck e t Discovered N e W Haven Road Stock holders Guessing The Old ''FOrlorn Hope.''

"Frenzied Finance,'' sells his costly estate, Dreamwold, to pay some debts. He showed up" Wall street, but not soon enough. Whether the big fellows "got him." or whether he was got by his own speculations must re- main in doubt. He has money enough to live on comfortably, it is said; in which case he has paid no great penalty for his failure to play the game and say nothing.
 
 What is false falls, not because the falseness is exposed, but be- cause of the falseness. Some men, who see further than others cry out They are prophets. Mostly they are like the prophets who predicted the end of Sodom and Com orrah. The false struc- lures fall. Much of the depres- sion is falling falsehood. The concern watered it's stock, wat cred it's bonds, lied about it's vol ues. These are among the enter prises which fall
 Just now one reads about New Haven stockholders, how good they were, how innocent and how confidfng. It is not in order of things that the foolish. the incompetent or the stupid shall long flourish in their investments. There are keen, sharp fellows waiting to steal their substance. It goes on every day. The law of the market is, "be sharp as the other fellow, or go broke''
 
 Often it will be discovered that the innocent are not as stupid as they were complacent. When New Haven was being nisman- aged, and this newspaper told of it day by day, did not some stock holders read reluctantly, because they said to themselves. ''All this deceit. treachery. bribery, subor- d1nation of legislation is done for us, to make our stock worth more" Had they understood completely that all hhese iniquities ware done to, and not for. them, would they have remained so in nocent, acquiescent, stupid?
 
 We fear. indeed we know. that nature and nature as laws are so contrived that New Haven stock holders have little to hope for. Against them process was issued. served. and executed. There were some, many. who were not expect ing to share Against these the decree has been written that pen aies ignorance. Ono must not be in che path of the automobile when it shoots the corner at sixty miles an hour. Ones jewels must not be left exposed on the hotel bureau. The nice, little. soft rabbit must avoid the fox, or it win be eaten. This is the law.
 
 Beste wallack, New York, gives herself to the police. ''I am 6. bdgamist. I wish to atone" she says. Virginius Mayor, who 3s a bigamfst, fights police and law to the last ditch. Beware of general statements. But the con- science of woman is softer than the conscience of man: more wo- msen than men find themselves mnable to endure the pangs of sin.
 
 King Alfonso of Spain has for bidden all persons who come into the royal presence the use of gar lie. There are some advantages in being q king. MT. Harding may be willing to take the same stand on onions. Some excellent foods are proper to eat. but not proper to convey to social occas- ions.
 
 Pullman sleeping car company insures the lives of it's thousands of employees. This is excellent. The shepherd must not think sole ly of the amount of wool his sheep will yield, but of their health and happiness. If he does not, sooner or later it will be required. Employes, fortunately, are able to think about their own health and happiness.
 
 Russia assemblies troops on the Rumanian frontiers, trains her boys of eighteen to be soldiers. Does this mean peace or war? Who said that the biggest army