The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-06
Because She Gould Not Make a Good Wife, Dennis Harris Tries to D.ie-DO M en Seek Death Because They Cannot Make Good Husbands Who Has a Name for This Party?
This Party?

 she could not make a good wife. Dennis Harris. New York, Swal- lowed a dose of Veronal, and lay down to die. She didn't die be- cause the cigarette which she smoked set the bed on fire. The man seek to kill himself because he could not make a good hus- band? Men kill themselves be- cause they cannot get the woman the want; seldom, or never, be- cause they are not good enough for the woman the want.
 Such a. queer world with such mixed morality! Some would say that a girl who passes her dying moments smoking cigarettes, does not deserve to be saved. Life, being sometimes kinder than men and sometimes harsher, inter venes and makes the cigarette the source of the safety. Here is this girl, beset by poison and fire. The poison puts her to sleep. The fire calls people to save her life. Sometimes fire burns up whole families of quite innocent persons. while they sleep at night, after the toll of the day. How shall we account for these things? That is another story.
 Perhaps life. is not of such value as man, being the particu- lar mechanism that he is. sup poses. It may be that the the ological values are the true values: that it Is the hereafter which counts. Upon such a theory the cigarette and the fire might cooperate to injure the girl.
 If the sins of life are atoned for in some hereafter, it will often be true that a sudden taking off will be a blessing. There will be less to answer for.
 Here is a field for speculation. Has fate, by saving Dennis liar ris, benefited her, or would 1t have been better to die. Upon this problem philosophers have specu1ated for thousands of years.
 Miss Florence P. Lee is running Independently for Congress. She is forming a party of her own, for which she desires a name. She thinksjt the name Independent Emancipation party might do. Emancipation from what2 From what" says Miss Lee, "emanci- patton from political sin.' What man would think of forming a political party for that? Do not suppose that Miss Lee Is crank or a queer person. She is g wise and capable woman, who has had an abundant political exper- fence and who knows the ways of politics. In this title, which she proposes for her party, comes a glimpse of difference between the male and the female mind. The male is hope1essly sure that politics is inescapably mingled with sin. The women of fnagi- nation are sure that politics can be raised from the gutter.
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 The aldermen having tried in vain to pay themselves, now ask the people to pay them. Once they passed an ordinance offer ing themselves a salary of $500 a year. Nobody paid any attention to the ordinance. Especially the Board of Apportionment and Tax ation did not, and no alderman ever got the money. Last night the board favorab1y reported the ordinance proposed by Alderman Hogan to reduce the board to twelve members and pay each member $1,2oo a year. The people will be asked to favor this measure. Asking the people re- presents an improvement in out look.
 
 To say board of aldermen makes it appear as if the same mind were operating. It is the. same board, but other individ- ua1s. The election produced a mind which is more inclined to consult the people. So far so good. It does not follow that twelve aldermen are an ideal body, or that they ought to be paid. But the aldermen have the right to ask the people, and the people have right to say.
 Suggestion for epitaph on tomb stone, to be erected over defunct investigation of the high price of milk:
 What was I begun for
 So soon fo he dono for',