The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-19
France Wants Poland in Turkey and Eng land, Gibraltar in Cons t a n tinople- Thus War Between Turks and Greeks Exists-MOst Teach ing Is Average Time Factor Impor- !. tant to Learning.

The saddest feature of the massacre in Smyrna is the con- viction that 1t was desired by the two greatest of the enlightened powers of Europe. If Paris and London did not desire the debacle in set terms, they desired their own selfish programs so com pletely that they were willing Turk and Greek should kill. This willingness carries complete mor- al responsibility for what has taken place in Smyrna.
 If Europe cannot acquire some will for peace, cannot in some degree allay it's selfish ardour for injurious and stupid advant- age of one section over another, America at last will find it ne cessary to abjure all things Eur opean, permitting those peoples to kill as they ever have killed.
 The automatics of war have become instinctive in Europe. They cannot think in terms of cooperation, and useful, exchange Of service. They are doomed, ap- parent1y, to think in terms of taking and killing. doing the killing themselves, or causing it to be done by less civilized peoples, who are even more ad- dicted to killing. France, for a Poland in Turkey; England, for a Gibraltar in Constantinople cause the deaths of innocents in Asia
 Beware of being or of seeming to be more yirtuous than others. More will be demanded. MT. Ford, who pays the highest wages in tho world, shuts down his plants because the price of coal is prohibitive- It is immediately suggested by learned and virtuous journals, that he ought to pay his help just the same. This would not be expected of any other man; but MT. Ford sets an example. and Is expected to keep on setting. It would be simple. however. to devise plan of un- employment insurance, which would work for everybody. This would be cheaper and better than spasmodic industry.
 
 The victory for Senator Lodge is less impressive when viewed from another angle. Joseph Walker who ran against him in the primary, po1led one fourth of the total vote, which indicates that to one Republican in every four in his party the champion of frey hide and protected wool Is non persona grata-
 
 Reading discussions by teach CTS, and periodicals devoted to teaching, it is amazing to note how much is said about teachers, and how little about children. The ideal. expressed in the loft fest terms of a1truisn. is fre- auently the same ideal that is known in other circles as 'Fboost- ing help and restricting product ion" The greatest number of teachers in charge of the smallest number of children Is the goal most commonly described.
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 Learning is more important than teaching. As between the best and the worst teacher, there is. of course, a great difference. But given a sufficient time factor with the worst teacher, and a too scanty time factor with the best, and the better work will be done by the poorer teacher. There is too much mysticism about teaching. One teaches a class to lay brick. If he is a good teacher the class will progress somewhat faster But the pro- gress will depend mainly upon the class, and the quality and quantity of the performance, up- on the time factor.
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 Tn school system ten per cent of teaching is the best, and ten per cent the worst. The rest is average. The best work is done where the time factor is not too much limited.