The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-05-04
Adam Had No Child hood Magic That Works - Parade of the Children-Mod- ern Knights and Mothers Scuttle of Coal-Perils of the Gang.

New beaten, Administration is panic stricken. and takes the bonus bill out for careful consideration Beveridge. who defeated New in the Indiana primary. specialized on the bonus That helped, but there were other factors, including the women and Beveridge, who is much the abler man.
 Kansas has girl who specializes in second sight She tells loving people whether they will be wed not, finds lost articles and predicts the future She lost her wrist watch and called in a better magician. Put a want ad in the daily paper. This was ever the way of magic. The Magician in The Connecticut Yankee, Twain's book, prophecies the acts of kings and queens of distant lands. What have I in my hands, behind my back?" Thus the Yankee con- founded the seer. The best magic is modern invention, product of reflec- ton and industry.
 The Federal prisons contain some hundreds of persons who were con victed during the war of offenses against the country. These were German eympathizers. or socialists. communists, or other pacifists, some times towards. To move the heart of the President, children of these prisoners were paraded before the White Housee. Editors say that this dramatic exhibition will make no diff ference. The editors are wrong. They used to say that about suffrage demonstrations and Irish hunger strikes. What is vigorous, unusual, dramatic, rouses the public, stirs the heart, produces reflection, and often action.
 Adam was the first man. Eve the first woman. They never had childhood. To this day most adults do not renber childhood. its life, It's ways, the manner of its thought, A tremendous mental gulf separates children and grown-ups.
 
 This may be why due care TOT poy and girl came so late in the history of the race Indians thought little of throwing away an unnecessary child. Tn China babes were exposed to die, especially the girl babes. Through the ages boys and girls grew up by accident and death took heavy toll of them.
 
 This is the age of fep1in1sn1, which makes it the age of the child. While men were sole ar'biters of hu- man government the child lived in the background When women came to power the child stepped in to the foreground.
 Community Chest represents this change. in visiting nurses, who teach infancy how to live and be healthy. In homes for children. especially for those who are i'll. There are import ant institutions which guide the play Instinct in boys and lead them into the right way.
 
 Boys club and Boy Scouts are or ganizatSons differing in type. but sim liar in principle. They are mould CTS of that plastic substance, the child brain, through which soul and mind function. The street Is not a good place for boys, though better than it used to be. Boys club Is foe of the gang and the street corner. How bad is the gang, in which the so- cial nature of the boy becomes often monstrously distorted; even to gang murder! Scouts arc something else again. In oIden time the knight received the accoIade. The king, with sword, 1 touched him upon the shoulder. In church. before the altar, the knight made VOWS O. chivalry, truth and chastity. Swore to protect the weak and beat down the evil. Promised to be in all things soever true man and leal
 Such are Scout boys who. while i the mind is a parchment upon which good -r evil may be written, are 1 trained in certain modern chiva1ries, 1 modern knights. being trained in the practical chivalry of the twentieth | century. A true scout does good deeds every day. such as bringing scuttles of coal from the cellar to help mother, without whining, or de laying. A wonderful thing this would be. A generation of boys helping mother 1 willingly; never skimping. or teas ing. Almost the millennium! Spare the rod. spoil the chtld.' is @ worn out maxim "Join the Scouts, make 1