The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-12
Church Obeys Orders and Burns Down Legislating for Wo- men-T e a c h in g Americans to Speak Gaelic Supervising Dance Halls.

1i1iiiIy MeIn O0iSt Cnurcn III Windsor, Connecticut, obeyed the rder of the Fuel Administration nd used soft coal in boilers in ended for hard coal An exp1os- on from coal gas set fire to the boiler room; the church was damaged s15, 1000. Merely one of the smaller injuries that flow from the anarchy in the coal bus mess.
 Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch addressing a meeting of the Ma tional woman's Party in Wash ington said, Legislation by sex is rapidly coming to the place where 1t will be considered as undemocratic and un-American, as legislation by creed or color. It is more and obviously the wrong way of fighting the evils of labor exploitation" It makes a difference how the thing is said. Some laws will be neces- sary for the protection of the pro- spective mothers in industrial or other employment, that would not be necessary for the protection of men. Women have social and economic needs which spring from physiological facts. Where na- ture draws a line, legislators can not rub that line out.
 The question again comes up, do public dance halls promote sex Immortality" The question cannot be intel1igent1y answered without some thought about the origin of the dance. It was in earlier times a religious institu- tion. It was also @ sex institu- ton. Young people coming from a public dance, especially if 1t isn't properly supervised, are much more likely to transgress than young people coming from church. There are several req sons why this is so. The chief reason is in the nature of the dance itself, and the other is in the nature of the persons who at tend public dances. A well super vIsed public dance has its place. The utmost supervision of public dances will not. however. be too much,
 
 Anne Sullivan, 1s. met at a dance one whom she knows as Dutch" He took her to a Chin csc restaurant; showed her a pis- tol. The pistol went off and the girl was seriously wounded. Had the young woman met Dutch in a Sunday school, she would have known his full name, she probably would not have gone to a Chinese restaurant with him, and it is 1000 to 1 he wouldn't have been carrying a gun.
 One of the speakers at a mass meeting for the cause of Irish irregulars suggests that the Irish in America ought to Fearn to con- verse in Gaelic, because some day they can present a more solid front against the English. It would be difficult to think up advice to Americans that would do them more injury If adopted. The problem in America is to get the people together. They are to be one people; brothers under the Declaration of Independence. This country desires to speak one tongue, to live by one set of in- stituttons. It will not tolerate organized hatred of any other countries. or institutions. To teach race hatred is to prac- tice a form of Ku Kluxism. Amer ica wants no such propaganda.
 
 Bavarian Fascist made a dem onstration and attacked mem- bers of the Allied Control Com mission. Result: Burgomaster of Passau, where the attacks occur red. makes an apology and the Berlin Central Government pays one million gold marks. the fine imposed by the Allies. So far. so good. but if Germany breaks into complete anarchy. like Russia. Europe will be an unhappier con- tinent than it is now.
 
 France is the storm center of Europe. Lloyd George says that France is afraid of +1e German birthrate and extraordinarily anx- ious to occupy German territory up to the Rhine. He asserts that the French government has. for this reason, declined British guar antees for the safety of France. The British statesman serves mo- tIce that the nation which goes to war to get land belonging to the nationals of another country. will have the sympathy of neith- CT England nor of the United