The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-05-15
Houdini and the Un- explained Residuum Innocent Alder men-Mrs. Asquith Gives Advice to Newspapers Mother a Carnation. but Help Her Wash the Dishes.

INAOydiu AlpllnS VlSlLed Ln6 west ern battle fronts with King George and Queen Mary of England and King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of Bel gium. MT. Kipling has written q poem, not much of a poem as great poetry is judged. The poem contains two facts that are worth remember ing.
 The dead include Five hundred thousand gentlemen of those who served the king."
 These will not grudge their death unless, we they reqeemed denied their blood and mocked the gains it won"
 What are those gains? The Ger mans were beaten. But they are little not beaten. The kings are mostly gone. going. Russia has crushed property titles to a pulp. and has a species of government unknown be- fore. England is vastly idle. Her labor unions clamor for Russian changes. The gains. if there are any, in the future. in the system un- born, which seems about to emerge. MT. Kiphng does not tell us about that system. A true poet would know. lie would forsee it.
 Houdini. the distinguished handcuff king, tells how mediums produce the ghosts which Sir Conan Doyle tells about. His descriptions are conylnc- ing. There is this difficulty all of the exposures he describes were made by men who developed the art of detect ing trtckery in spiritisn. Most of these men declared that there re- mained something which they were unable to explain, a residuum of rpys- tery not founded on trickery.
 Tonight a committee of aldermen meet the Police board to tsk. Please don't enforce the law quite so rig idly" The thing has been done, but not openly. It is the better usage to pretend that the law will be enforced, even though the tip is quietly passed that things may run wide open. Per haps the Police commissioners will communicate some such truth to their visitors. Law is made to be ooeyed- It is much better that disob edience, if there should be any, shall not be openly contriVed. The aldermen have much to learn
 900 damaged by flames. No great loss, while some samples of each period remain Paiptings are among the first attempts of the human race. They do not represent the higher de- Velopment of the mind as much as some other things. Like the fruitage of the tree, the fruitage of the iptel- lect is the last to come. Men do sim- ple and comparatively useless things before they achieve the really diffi- cult things such as law and organized justice.
 British navy cuts it's officers 25 per cent. The men get retired pay. Who would have thought 1t, say ten years ago? The approximate cause is the conference, back of that the way, and back of those causes the fundamental prime cause. that invention has made surface ships & doubtful investment. The minds which created battle ships. have been followed by the minds which create submarines and air ships. Small and cheap instruments which sting the battle ships to death.
 Mrs. Asoutth gives her opinion of American newspapers. It is not flat tering. Partly she is right. News papers do deal 1ntenstvely with trivial things Too often they do not take the trouble to understand the mat ters regarding which they assume to give instruction. There is room for Improvement in newspapers in Amer ica. Mrs. Asquith does not quite un- 6erstand Tn the world are many simp1s persons. who. unless news papers were contrtved to interest them. would not read at all. They ant as some of the plain people in other countries. They read what they like to read. Some are thus induced to read what they ought to read. Education makes progress. Those same American newspapers which seem so hippant have scattered through them very solid and accurate matter, more usually than most of their readers care to read.
 Mrs. Ascufth complains that they asked about her skirts, about f1appers and many other ineonsequential things This insured her interviews would be widely read. She got her useful fnforrnation to the public. Her interviews were read by everybody. Under the dreary system which pre- vails in her own country, they would have been read only by those who knew them already.
 The American newspaper Is 'Nos1ng prestige fin some quarters. It is not potential as 1t should be in the di- partisan. or they take too little time to understand political problems, or they oppose or aid candidates for trial reasons. and do not have the weight they might have with the vot- CTS. Mrs. Asquith speaks frankly It is the way to speak and in this Amer jeans might take example.
 It was right to bring mother a car nation. Symbols are excellent. They remind us of duties Sometimes the symbol Is made to take the place of the duty This not so good. If you are home. bring up the coal. Help with the dishes. Mother gets tired. Help her and sooth her. Nth the tenderness which mothers need
 Mothers also owe duty. They must not be to tender When the child is young. insist that it shall be helpful. The grown up ohi1d who Is a bundle Of selfishness and fngratitude is often the victim of bad habits created by an over indulgent mother.
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