The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-06-02
Bad Habits and E1n- bezzlement Lenin Bucks the Church. Morality May Exist Without Civilization cree en Actresses Learn Nothing from
 Art-Vitality as Mi1-


 Sells guess your weight weighing machines, Likely to have conoes- s!ons with some carnival. He may be drinking heavily. He has a hacking cough from the use of eig- arettes Thus police describe missing tax collector. in circular broadeasted to world, If these facts had been broadcasted to Bridgeport would Smith have been elected tax collector One who smokes cigarettes until he has a hacking cough, who enews gum stock market and drinks heavily may be suitable to hold a conces- sion in a carnival, but not to han de large amounts of other folks money,
 Some men do all those things and never steal a nickel. Some steal. who have no vices. Horatio z lBottomtey. editor of John Bull. promoter Of International hatred, is sentenced by a. London jury to seven years in prison. He er1bez- zled the proceeds of Liberty bonds, sold to his countrymen during the war Total theft. about s76o.OOO. Neither is the habit Of creating race hatred an evidence that a man will be a thief, The mind is & strange instrument, It leads men into c.f,~ &hs A. scription would read. Able editor, writer. ostens1ble patriot. indepen- dent. no bad habits, except ora tory"
 It Is useless to reproach con- gress with charges that 1t Is dtla- tory. The blame is with the people. There was congress which had developed q policy which. remain ing In power. might have executed what had been determined. The new congress took over no poll cies, but many divisions, the chief being the tariff and the bonus. The tariff Is hard to handle because the people are divided about it. The bonus is even harder, for the same reason. The division exists within the Republican party and outside of 1t Members of congress are hu- man. They wish to be elected, and they don't know what to do. Hence the do nothing. That's human ma ture.
 Stage Is offared as a school fin morals and manners. Love Is especially theme of stage Mar riage is aim of love- Screen plays are popularizatioD of the stage. More Knowledge to more persons Screen stars seem not to learn the art of matrimony. Constance Tal- madge, screen favorite. is the most recent proof that the school does- not succeed with the teachers. She is divorced from John Pialoglou, her petition. having proved mental cruelty The husband made DO answer. In role this actress sell dom failed to pick the right hus- band.
 Little English lady, Gwendoafne Thomas. bordering on spfnsterhood, bet on horse fin English Derby and won s25oJ0oo. Wall street Is American Derby. To win s25o,ooo there is no uncommon thing. To keep it is not so usual More us- uaI it Is to play Wall street and lose. For every winner there are a hundred losers. and for every great winning, at least one loser who is made a thief. The little lady rraRy keep her winnings. and live happy ever after. Most who bet on the Derby are unhappy.
 Mir. Bryan says that morality is the foundation of civilization. No doubt it is. No morality, no civ- ilization- But morality may exist without civilization Your Indian ascetic. leading the perfect life. in the midst of a jungle, naked, ex- cept for a breech cloth, may be leading a moral life. If there are no bath tubs, no running water, no hospitals, no surgeons, no hygiene, no knowledge of the forces of ma ture and little or no control of those forces. there is no civilization. Civilization is morality plus scien- tific intelligence God is also wis dom.
 %@ A1 m TIkhon. religious head of Rus sia. He will put his own patri- arch in. Napoleon tried to do that. It didn't work well. Henry Eighth tried something of the kind. His program is working yet. Each event depends upon it's own anteee- dents. It is not easy to know how one horse will run, by observing the record of another horse Of the same color. Lenin will probably get the worst of it. Bucking the church %,,YaA 4r hiSSorr