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Connecticut western news., 1922-11-16
SCHOOL NOTES
What Is the Matter With Our
 Public School?

Out of school life is responsible for ninety per cent of the failures of the mentally qualified pupils of the public high school. Given tle guar anteed home environment, or con trol, and any school can guarantee results commensurate with a child's ability.
 If one will observe the lunch hah- it of the average American high school boy or girl, he will discover that his tendency is towards nick hacks, sweet pastries rather than to the wholesome nourishing food. His tendency is to eat on the run rather than to give proper mastication to his food. The need of medical at tention for throat, eyes, nose, and many other physical conditions that react upon mental alertness is evil dent in a large percentage of high school children.
 But in the public high schools par ticularly, there is evidence of more sleep. The high school girl and boy should be regular in sleep habits. But night after night of social intoxi- cation interferes both with sleep and with mental interests in he legitimate school work.
 There is growing up in American society today a looseness in high school social life that only the home can correct. The high school can ont undertake to guarantee success to pupils who are giving of their physical and mental strength to so- cial functions.
 Again the tendency is more and more toward abnormal night hours. Young people feel that a social function should not begin before nine o'clock or even later and that it should not break up before one o'clock. The high school can accept no responsibilities for young people who give themselves to such func- ticns and to such hours.
 Mothers need to give particular attention to he dress of their daughters. Low necks, peek-a-boo waists, ultra short skirts and sheer silk hose are bad taste in high school. 1t ought to be unnecessary to men tion lip-stick, rouge and penciled or plucked eyebrows.
 Again the subject of study needs serious consideration on the part of the parents. Home study hours should be spent at home. There is never anything gained by allowing the purl to go to the home of a friep4 to study. Such calls will prove nine-tenths social to one tenth study. Again, a great value of the home study is that it demands the self-achievements of the pupil Dependence upon others for study results is never beneficial. Digging a thing out is the only form of real study. Nothing else is study: it may be absorption-but not study. Un- til child has the study habit, he lacks the power of ability to do in- dependent work. A high school suc- cess demands independence of work
 Journal of Education
Connecticut western news., 1922-11-16
CORNWALL MAN MISSING
Charged With Attacking Girls, He
 Was Released on Bonds

Edward Biard of Cornwall, who was to be tried at the present term of the superior court on charges pre- ferred by two young women whom he took for an automobile ride from Torrington to Goshen, has disappear ed from his home town, according to information secured by the county authorities. Biard was at liberty under bonds. ; His case probably will he called during the conling week.
 Biard met the girls, Mamie Hae- gerty and Johanna Murphy, at the Elks fair in Torrington and invited them to ride home in his automobile. Instead of gong home, the girls charged he drove to Gocfen and there, it is alleged, attacked them.
 The accused recently pleaded not guilty in the superior court and elected to be tried by the judge.
Connecticut western news., 1922-11-16
RORABACK CONGRATULATED
National Republican Chairman Sends
 State Chairman Congratulations

John T. Adams, chairman of the republican national committee, has sent the following letter of congrat- ulations to State Chairman J. Henry Roraback of Connecticut on the re- publican victory in this state last Tuesday:
 I want. to etxend you and the members of the Connecticut organi- zation my heartiest congratulations on the splendid victory which you won for Senator Mclean and the republican ticket last Tuesday. Conn ecticut was one of the particularly bright spots in the country this time, and I know that great deal of this was due to your untiring efforts.
 With best wishes always, am
 Sincerely yours,
 s.--.a-.-..... ... ....,-. J. T. Adams.
Connecticut western news., 1922-11-16
WANT A NEW HAT?
Meeting Under Auspices of Farm Bu-
 reau at Theron Couch's Friday

reau at Theron Couch's Friday
 There is to be a meeting at the home of Mrs. Theron Couch in Ca- naan on Friday, Nov. IT, starting at 1O:3O A. M, Miss Mildred Amman, the rnilliner, will be there ready to assist you in making hats.
 She will have the material you may need but would like to have you bring velvet, fur or silk which you may wish to use for your hats. Even little material will materially cut the cost of your new hat.
 Another meeting will be held on the following Friday, Nov. "A for the same purpose and beginning at the same time. If it is possible for you to attend come as early as. you can as you will need all the time Miss Annan can give you in work on the hats.
Connecticut western news., 1922-11-16

Dr. E. V. Claypool of Hartford will occupy the Pilgrim pulpit on Sunday.
Connecticut western news., 1922-11-16
Luria Brothers Denied New Trial

In superior court Friday Judge William A. Maltbie overruled mo- tion to set aside the verdict of sec ond degree murder in the case of Mike and Louis Luria, recently sen- fenced with the murder in North Canaan of John Scisseri. The court also denied the motion for a new trial.
Connecticut western news., 1922-11-16

and Kane. Scorer, Place.
 The first home game of the season will be played at Town Hall, Satur- day night, Nov. IS. The Winsted Red Men will furnish the opposition. Turn out and see the reconstructed Evergreens play.
Connecticut western news., 1922-11-16

It is reported that the entire lower floor of the Canfeld Inn has been leased. It will be used for a com bined restaurant, candy and fruit store.
Connecticut western news., 1922-11-16

Rev. A. K. Skinenr will attend the Alumni committee of the Dartmouth Christian Association at New York on Friday.
Connecticut western news., 1922-11-16

Mrs. A. E. Cobb is able to be but again, after being confined to her home for some time with scarlet fever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-04
SUNDAY CLOSING IN VICKSBURG
 CARRIED TO AN EXTREME

f Vicksburg, Miss, is having taste of blue laws. A strict enforcement of the Sunday law prevented citizens of Vicksburg from enjoying baseball, picture shows and other amusements. That was bad enough, but to make Sunday treby dull, fruit stands drug stores, confection- cry stores, cigar stands and other places of business usually operated on Sunday were closed. The crowning absurdity was preventing telegraph companies from opening their of fices and the only morning newspaper in town from issuing Sunday edition. Even newsboys who attempted to sell out-of-town papers on the Streets were arrested.
 It is reported that this action was taken as d result of mass meeting at which a petition was signed asking the city council to enforce the Sunday closing law. If that is the way the people of Vicksburg feel about it, it is~their own affair, but general application of such foolish restrictions would arouse so much re- sentiment that the advocates of blue laws might not be safe from mob violence.
 Fhere is always a sensible mean between LWO extremes, put the average reI0rmer IS rarely able to see but one side of question. The agitation for blue laws in this country is largely the work of fanatics There can be an honest difference of opinions as to Sunday amusements, although no SC 5ible objection can be made to wholesome recreation on Sunday, but fo say that people shall not buy news papeE, send telegrams or buy cigar or soft drink is downright oppression.
 In the long run such tactics usually defeat their own ends After blue Sunday or two VicksEAurg will be glad to return to normal observiAnce of Sunday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-04
A MORNING PRAYER
DE VALERA HAS FALLEN FROM
 HIS HIGH ESTATE

Never did a man have a more glorious op- portunity to serve his country and have his name handed down to future generations as the father of its independence that Emon De Valera. At one time he was regarded in the eyes of the world as great figure, patriot who cherished dream that stirred the hearts of people in every land. His fight for Ireland was epic and he himself wore the halo of pa- triotism.
 The change in his fortunes is tragic. The prize within his grasp, he showed the narrow ness and lack of vision that have brought him into disrepute with a majority of his fellow countrymen and have almost entirely alienated sympathy outside of Ireland. De Valera chose to break away from his more astute but not less patriotic colleagues, like Collins and Grif- fifth, and he is now merely the leader of dis gruntled minority, carrying on guerilla war fare and being hunted down by Irish troops.
 The responsibility for the fighting between Free State forces and Irish irregulars, de- plorable fratricidal strife, rests on De Valera. ~ ID ho ionSek QueStAon VI 1eASion. lhe Irish irreconciliables won't accept the large measure of independence granted them by the British government and they will never get what they seek.
 In the end the irregulars will be subdued. The Free State of Ireland will be firmly es- tablished and long-deferred peace will come to troubled land, but De Valera and his mis- guided followers will have no part in it. Zeal without vision, patriotism without statesman ship, come to nothing. Devalera is one of the most pathetic failures of modern times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-04
THE HELL OF DISHONESTY
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
 Missouri banker who had been in hiding for weeks following the wrecking of the insti- tuition of which he was head, surrendered with the statement, ''It's hell to play losing game"
 Remorse apparently came only when the game seemed lost. There was no thought back wonder, many months or perhaps years, ago, when the game was started, whether 1t was legitimate. When things were going well there was no hesitancy over the right and wrong of it, the "helP' that it developed into.
 The moral slant that often is to be observed in connection with matters of this kind is bit difficult to understand. A man is winner, usually, at making money; that seems enough. There is not much concern or question about how he is making it. If he gambles and wins, it is usually hurrah. The man is put down as clever, shrewd, wide awake. But let him lose or get caught; then the hell of it arises; pity and condemnation are turned in his direc- ton.
 It is hell to play losing game. It ought to be regarded as hell to play dishonest game.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-04

Alexander City to Alexandria, Egypt. Cotton from all over Alabama goes abroad through the gateway at Mobile. Pay rolls of the Bir- ningham district are being increased by an out flow of steel and iron products to Brazil, Ar genuine, Japan, China, Cuba, Porto Rico and the Pacific coast. It requires shps to move these products; ships that are friendly to Amer ican commerce. The exports of Alabama have been steadily increasing since the emergency fleet corporation provided the craft to move them
 It would be short-sighted policy to build hard roads from county to county and to the port of Mobile, if, when we arrived at Mobile with our lumber, cotton, iron and steel products and our grains we found ourselves provided only with foreign vessels primarily interested in the promotion of an incoming, rather than an out going trade.
 Senator Oscar Underwood is for the ship subsidy No one disputes his democracy or his love for the south. He is a safe leader. In matters that reach to the fundamentals the guide should be "horse sense" rather than any echo of former political attitudes and party traditions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-04
PATRIOTIC LIBERTINEs"


 The inventor of new phrase, especially one that is abusive, is now admired in select literary circles of a certain sort more than he who taketh city or develops new idea. So congratulations may go out to F. B. Kaye. who in "The Nation" coins novelty In articles expressing his disgust at love of country commonly practiced he speaks of the abandoned persons who display it as 'spa- triotic libertines"!
 What roues, then, were Nathan Hale and William Tell and the boy who stood on the burning deck! What lascivious old creature was Walter Scott when he wrote the lines about the man whose soul was so dead As for Roget de Lisle and Francis Marion Kew. they were obviously vermin of the deepest mire. In the clear language of James Joyce. in the much admired Ulysses" "Prffxt r' "Whoopsahv'
 When psychology digs little deeper it will doubtless shovel up reason why patriot ism is so hated. But why picked on all the time is mystery. Why can't the school of simperers let it alone? Is has done no harm to them except, perhaps, to breed in them sense of their own unmanliness But they knew this before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-04

Judge Taft fears he's taking on weight in London. Dispatches don't say what he's doing with his wine glasses.
 Lawyers declare Lou and Geraldine have not made up. This is not, however, the most depressing news of the day.
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 The time is coming in this country when the person who hasn't written book will be entitled to sit on platform.
 Long since the Patagonien monster dropped out of the public prints It was good yarn while it lasted
 Ambassador Harvey, in his white topper, bears more than passing resemblance to the late George Primrose.
 Virginia Rappe left an estate of $134. vir- ginia didn't have time in her brief career to go to a savings bank.
 Virginia paper objects to the term "civil war; As matter of fact, it was deucedly unciyil.
 Cuckoo clocks, pink silk nightgowns and wicker furniture lend spice and variety to tariff tinkering.
 Nobody enjoys the day quite as much as the Fourth of July" orator
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News
 All old cats were kittens once.
 A word to the wife is sufficent--to start a row.
 Practice what you preach, unless you need the money.
 Many man commands respect by simply looking wise.
 The lonesomest man in the world is the third party in hammock.
 Never judge candidate by the company he keeps before election.
 It is the height of cruelty to send children to school circus day.
 Many a divorce suit has started with the bread mother used to make.
 As for the man who lives on easy street he's away from home good deal.
 Boys really should be clubbed for their neg lect of the kind of girls they want their sisters to be.
 The honest man never has to waste much time telling about his honesty. The other kind hires publicity agent.
 As far as men are concerned the milliners may make hats just as small, inconspicuous and inexpensive as they please.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-04
LORNA DooNE,s HOME

From the New York World.
 The Borough Council of Teddington, Eng land intends to mark the house where lived and died Richard Doddridge Blackmore, au- thor of Lorna Doone' and score of other novels The idea is to take form in tablet plaque.
 Blackmore was singularly attached to the place. After his marriage to a Portuguese lady he became in 1858 classical master at Willesley House School, on Twickenham Com mon. few years later his uncle left him . of money, and with it he bought plot of land-then it was all country-and built himself Conner House (named after a fa- vorite dog), and thenceferth and until his death wrote novels there and grew peaches, nectarines, pears and strawberries. He maue business of his hobby and sent the results to Covent Garden. Like many others, he found the middleman too much for him, ana went so far as to set up stall of his own in the market.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-04
SECTIONAL ISSUES ARE
 OUT OF DATE

The efforts of certain republicans to wage "bloody shirt" campaign, based on memories of 1861, will not succeed.
 Just as the south is weary of the professional southerner who was wont to parade his unre- constructed attitude toward the north, so is the north weary of the eastern negro-phile, who in- sists on making an issue out of something that is no longer issue. Northern men have travelled the south and southern men the north mutual respect for the different sections has developed between them, each section recogniz- ing that the other is the best judge of how to handle its local affairs.
 Alabama does not advise the Pacific coast as to it's treatment of the Japanese and the southwestern states as to their treatment of the Mexican Alabama has not suggested to Massachusetts cotton and wool mill operators how to handle their foreign labor questions. As for acts of violence, for which the south has been held to account by the bloody shirt" crowd, there has never been in the south an outbreak approaching in brutality the recent affair of Herrin, III.
 Southern and northern men have fought side by side in two wars. Conditions suited to car rying elections on sectional hate no longer ex- ist, except in few northern congressional baili- wicks where politicians pander to the negro vote.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-04
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
oPTIMIsTs' CONVENTION A SUCCESS

"One of the most interesting events of my life was my trip to Kansas City last week to attend the meeting of International Optimists' club" said M. F. Messer.
 "Our first stop was at St. Louis end there we were entertained royalty. A luncheon at the Statler, dinner at the Buckingham and in the afternoon lawn fete at the beautiful home of the retiring president Cyrus w. Wilmore. In the evening 300 delegates from various op- timist clubs who assembled in St. Louis were entertained at the municipal opera, a wonderful thing, by the way, and in our honor the oc- cason was called 'Optimists Night The Yeo- man of the Guard was sung and the occasion was most enjoyable.
 "Later we took the optimists' special for city was ours We elected Sunshine Jack Martin of California as our next president of International 0ptimists, a Birmingham boy by the way. He is a very young fellow, born in 1887, and has made magnificent snccess out in the Golden West. He is millionaire and one of the most attractive men ever met We call him Sunshine because he is red headed, as was the retiring president, who was called Red Wilmore.' We secured the annual convention next year for Chattanooga, and optimists clubs from European and South American countries will be present, making the occasion great event"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-04
BERNHARDT Ay SEVENTEENTH
From the New York Telegram.

From the New fork Telegram.
 Neither times mutations nor surgery's mutilations have dulled the vivid personality of Sarah Bernhardt. Despite her. TT sum- mers, despite the fact that for 50 years she has displayed her art behind the footlights, regardless of the loss of a leg, the queen of the French stage is just as much a figure as she ever was.
 It is therefore encouraging to note that Mime. Bernhardt contemplates another Amer iean tour. She admits that she could not consider, as of yore, a coast to coast con- quest of the American public and the Amer ican box office, but she has ambitions to ap- pear again in a few of our cities.
 New York, Boston, Phils iephia, Baltimore, Washington and Chicago-perhaps few others-she told interviewers in Paris last week might satisfy her latter day desires.
 The divine Sarah is undecided whether to bring with her "The Sphinx," by the junior Rostand, or Sacha Guitry's Adam and Eve" Perhaps she might try both, she said And if the latter play it will be the role of Eve that she essays. We'll, well
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-04
DICKENS AT YALE

Stanley T. Williams, in the North American
 Review.
 With the departure from Boston for Wox- cester, Springfield, Hartford, and "a place called New Haven,' began the observations on American travel, American hotels. Amer ican expectoration, which were in the main excluded from American Notes, and which make the vital interest of the letters After two hours and half by boat from Springfield to Hartford-"queer travelling" Dickens ayers-he undertook bold adventure-the train journey to New Haven. This was com pleted speedily in three hours, and Dickens was again in university life. But alas for Yale! Whereas the young men of Harvard University had yearned one man to sit under the novelist as a teacher, these others, more carnal, craved no intellectual mama Instead, they sang to hm-yes, sang to him, under his window at bedtime. And unsuc. cessfully. The Yale students, declared the Atlantic Monthly, in the dear, familiar phrase, were there in force.' Dickens amazement at this custom was not wholly pleasurable. And when," he says sadly, "at last we got to bed and were going to fall asleep, chor- isters of the college turned out in body, under the window, and serenaded us! We had had, by-the-by, another serenade at Hartford, from 8 Mr. Adams Ia nephew of John Quincy Adams) and German friend. They" says this cutting novelist, "were most beautiful singers"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-04
WORDSWORTH RESIGNS AS LEADER OF BARONS

After serving Is years with the Birmingham baseball club, IA years as manager, Carlton MoJesworth has resigned. His departure will be viewed with regret by many baseball fans who have come to look upon the chubby y-faced manager as fixture at Redwood.
 To direct the fortunes of one baseball club as long as Mr. Molesworth has done is in itself a unique accomplishment. To have managed team IA years without losing his popularity, or his grip on the baseball situation, is even more remarkable. Under Molesworth's guidance Birmingham has always had a good team It has won two pennants and has finished in the second division but once. Other teams in the Southern league have had their ups and downs. Some of them went under, some struggled along with poor support, but Molesworth's "Barons" were to be reckoned with every year.
 That the "Barons" have consistently made good showing for the past IA years must be att tributed to Molesworth's ability as manager and his knowledge of baseball. Although he is said to have accumulated comfortable for tune, he plans to stay in the game as a manager.
 Baseball is important in the life of any city and Molesworth has done his part to keep Bir- mingham on the baseball map
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-04
REFUSES AIMS PERMITS

T have received many calls from crippled persons to beg on the streets of Birmingham, 9 said Mrs. M. E. Miller, in charge of the city welfare department.
 T have refused these permits only in ex- treme eases where conditions in the family of the person demanded that money must be forthcoming for food and other necessities It is our duty to protect the citizens of Birming- ham and we endeavor to keep up with all needy cases in the city and relieve them substantially and completely, but in most cases the beggars had rather sit on the streets and beg than to do useful work to earn living.'