The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-29

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 Senator Borah, who has uttered strong views on the coal and railroad strikes has been asked by MT. Hard ing to come to the White House. Senator Borah will tell the Presid ent about his bill to create a Federal Coal Commission. and provide, if nec- essary, for standardization of the coal industry. This visit may, or may not, be significant of what is passing in the mind of the President. It fits in with certain declarations which he has made
 Manufacturers of Connecticut de- mand in the railroad strike contest fight to the end, with no compromise, especially on the seniority question Men in the railroad service gain rights of promotion based upon length of continuous service.
 When men strike they forfeit these rights. The men who do their work have been promised these promotions Perhaps might be better to compro-, mise. It, is difficult to know. The compromises of slavery resulted in the civil war, but they saved the liv- ing of that time from much that was uncomfortable. The living as rule do not know how to save themselves,
 +e, fnv- a welfare of the unborn. at the expense of the living.
 Governors are not above disputing with the President, about the strike situation. It is hard for men in politics to get away from the idea of votes. No situation is so terrible that some will not attempt to take a personal profit from it. Perhaps the terrors to which society is sub jected are no more than the symptoms of selfishness. There are billion or so of persons. If each thinks only of himself, there must be confusion, conflict and suffering.
 w. c. Durant announced, '.PH To- cate a plant in Flint to build my Flint car:'' Whereupon, Flint sub merged Durant in a flood of tele- grams, called an informal holiday, and turned the front pages of news papers into a chorus of affectionate interest When a big new indus try comes to Flint. they show signs of life How about Bridgeport? There is size to Durant. He has done big things. Let us have signs of life. The man who raises dead industry in Bridgeport, should have as much attention, as one who brings an infant industry to Michigan.
 Dora Boob, who lives in Chicago, has husbands in New York, Indiana. To the court of domestic relations. Dora. explains that the course of true love runs smooth for no more than thirty days; that a new husband is like a new hat; you have them both sent home on approval, keep them a while, decide something else would be better, and send them back. The CS~cHA dred thousand years or more to the time wAen marriage was based upon instinct and mating. purely a matter of the senses. Her case calls for a period of separation from the rest of society. She belongs in the cage for wild women.
 In Hope, Arkansas, which is with in the area of Ku K1ux K1an inf1u- ence. a. street paving foreman, white and a negro employee quarrelled over a drinking cup. Yesterday the negro was lynched. The civilizing influ- ence of the Klan is making itself felt
 Leonard and Tender, young Jewish prize fighters, fought on Thursday In this world, in which the accumu' lation of money is regarded as ex tremely important, these young per sons must rank as among the most intelligent of our citizens, unless in deed the idea that education is merely a high adaptation to environ ment must be abandoned. For a few minutes of fighting, in which the! did each other less physical damage than would be caused to a fairl. healthy man by eating an excessivel! large steak, they acquired the sum O nearly sS00,OOO, s191,250 to Leonard and s9O,o0o to Tender, the promote getting s153.750. The intelligence O these young men is absolutely beyond question. What shall we say, how of who paid nearly half a million dol lars to see these "undersized persons, as MT. Brisbane calls them, pound ing each other with pillows on thei hands?
 > Strikes do hurt. Five America1