The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-27

h. bit to denouncing E-u KIux Elan. Governor says that Con- necticut police know all about the organszaGon. Mayor Hyraa has ordared the police of New York City to rour the Kan out aI of which reads better than ir is. Religious quarre1s thrive on publf~F-v md rersacarf7u. That is {. ~ Eu EEIu- Kl- r I-os aa pers= .t-i t-- orated 1n .-. ...th.
 Best thing to ay ..a o-Eani- zations Of bigotry is to ignore them IT they commit crsm.s -.a crimes are to be 0anzsaed as usual Bigotry is only s5mG- lated by denunclltou. There are sections of the Country where Eu EIuxers are a threat. surh as some parts of the South and West where law and order are not thoroughly established. and Iyuch-Iaw is a GUS om-
 
 In the New EnzT~- 2 States. which are settled by diverse pop u.a-Ions repres .nuns all the counties of the world. effective religious rigotry E. at a mini mum. People of different denom- nations and Cafcns get a!slE very well together Under these cor- dirons Know-nothingism is a mere shadow whether It comes from the Ku Klux KIan denounc-ug views of Catholics or from poIit- ical candidates denouucing Con- EregaHonaItsts, Yale graduates and MayfIower. descendants.
 
 If anybody in Connecticut wants to wear a sheet. look like a ghost. and Illuminate hHltops and lake shores at night. let b.m do It. The fashion for playing some thing is strong In the American bosom. Judge Henry Stevenson, who certainly has abundant ex- periences with this playing spirit of Americans, says that all secret societies are c nuisance and ought to be abolished. Probably not. They seem to make life more in- teresting to O great many citl- zens- They do some good and not apparently very much harm.
 
 Georges Clemenceau tells about the economic costs of the war. How many goods were wasted. how much material was destroy ed and all that sort of thing. What he says is perfectly truo; the waste did take place.
 If a part of the world. while In imminent danger of having it's 0hroat cut. could produce all these goods that they might be destroyed. wha- prevents all of the world, now that the war Is over and nobody Is shooting at 1t. from producing enough goods to take the place of those that were destroyed2
 The job ought 10 be easy, uu- less it be assumed that men, to do their best work, must be in danger of their lives
 
 Europe will find. If it exam ines the question carefully. that what it lacks is the inteuiEeuce necessary to reorganization of Its work It must have an under standing for this purpose, other wise. Europe Is beyond rescue. There isn't vcalrh enough 3n America to sustain an idle Europe.
 
 Tn the editorial columns of the Sunday Herald the commission government plan and -ae city manager plan are described as un-democratic. Our con-emnor- ary travels by strange reasoning It is the exiting system os sov- erumenc which Is an-de-osrattc The people. ou~e s--e-51z s.tctr servants. have little control of them and they have less over the legislation by which the city VIII be bound
 
 How d-sseren. 1t is ,v.-h the proposed rA.--e-. The people are asked If .hey ~Hrt chang When the aw chucor IS eady t will be sln~a..cE 10 the people for their approval
 Under tHc present system. NGr. King or AIr- Challenger o- Mayor Atwater CT some other gentle man or two or three gentlemen working rose,nrr. wGu go ,o Hartford and get wEa. they. for the moment, believe they want This will oo done perhaps from the best motives, a-t Y ism, dem ocrauc- gu. -he contrary
 
 Bridsepa-- suffers from hlzh