The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-15
Too Many Cigarettes Bad for Discouraged People Shutting the Lid on Thought -Hooting Winston Churchill-What Is ROckefelier's Recipe for Wealth - One More Vaccine Want ed.

Jesse A. Wassermann, New York stock broker, climbed into a bathtub filled with water shot himself through the head and died in three hours He wrote a letter saying 'it takes a lot of courage to kill ones self" The ends of between 40 and 50 cigar cites were piled on a tray in the living room.
 These cigarettes tell the story. Nerve centers poisoned by dis coura cement were additionally poisoned by nicotine. Too many cigarettes aren't good for dis couraged people nor very good for those who are not discourag- ed
 Suicide in itself is scarcely an item. To be real news the event must be uncommon. This item comes all the way from Paris. MT. Brunier of Rton, searching for his wife found her in a trunk beside a charcoal brazier suffo- cated by the fumes of carbon monox:de, and quite dead. She climbed In, shut the lid, and this was the earthly end of her. Some thinkers are like that. They climb into a mental trunk, shut the lid and that is the end of thinking.
 Winston Spencer Churchill, former British ceretary for the colonies, tried to talk to a group of Dundee socialists the other evening. They shouted him down. Hard to say how much it will help Socialism to repudiate free speech, a right which Socialists ought to support more than other men, because they need 1t more.
 
 The people of New York do not attach the same idea of the value of the services of their Judge in their Court of Appeals as some of the friends of the Judges do. Amendments raising the salaries from $10,0O0 to ST. 500 a year were defeated by some 100000 votes Times are not roaring, though they soon may be,
 
 to wait for a salary increase.
 
 John D. Rockefeller, Jr., repeats his rules for success: save pennies, work eight hours a day, respect laws, especially the Prohibition law, and do not run an automo- bile unless you can afford 1t. These are not necessarily rules for financial success. Thousands of poor people who love God and their neighbors and vigorously keep the laws and rear large fam files can testify that these things do not usually produce wealth, though they may produce hap piness.
 
 As between wealth and hap piness 1t is better to have the former. Most of us would pre- fer to learn from MT. Rockefel- Ter his recipe for wealth. One J- &4 1Na how, y-iO way is to get into the oil business early and intelligently. Perhaps MT. Rockefeller has no recipe. Wealth may be merely happy meeting between the right man and the right opportunity.
 
 The Supreme Court decides that Public Schools can exclude people who are not vaccinated. It sus- tains the old rulings. It would be better to let them in because if the doctors are right, vaccinat- ed person cannot have smallpox and cannot suffer by contact with an unvaccinated person
 Vaccinated and unvaccinated share the work of lodging auto mobiles, whooping-c measles and other neglected troubles which really destroy a great many people without being
  about.
 How nice it would be to have vaccine or a serum which would make people immune to destruc- ton by automobiles, which kill every year in the United States many times more people than smallpox does.