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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-01-06
NEWFIELD BANK
 ELECTS OFFICERS

At the election of officers of the Newfield bank this week Arthur F. Conner was elected president, Will T. Nichols and Morton F. Judge, vice president: secretary and treasurer, George Hugo. The following were elected directors for the coming year:
 Melvin E. Bassett, Lacey R. Black man, Edwin N. Black, Arthur F. Con- ner, Charles F. Greene, Abraham S. Goldman, D.Walter Haggerty, George Hugo, Charles B. Nichols, Will I. Nichols, G. Edward Ober, Timothy Lynch, Hyman Schine, Samuel Schnee, Everett B. Sniffin, John H. Hickey, James A. Turner Adolph Sherman, John G. Stevens and Con rad Selgln.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-01-06
FOUNDAHELPLESS
 BY HIS NEIGHBORS

Without friends money to take care of him in his illness, James Bick- with, age 50, residing at s04 Lafay- cite street, was removed in the emer- gency ambulance to Hillside Home man was found helpless by neighbors who notified Dr. J, F. Keegan, the cfty's doctor. Dr. Keegan ordered the man removed to Hillside Home where he will receive the best of treatment
 Bickwith is an old man and has been out of work for some time and the funds that he had saved for rainy day are all used up.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-01-06
GEORGES AND ANDRE
 FOUND NEWSPAPER

Paris, Jan. 6.-Clemenceau and Tardieu, in search of new organ through which to express their ideas of Fhenoh policy, have founded PEcho National. The new paper will appear for the first time January 10. It will bear the titles. "Georges Clemenceau, founder and Andre Tardieu, political director"
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14
The Nation to
SaUe MOney

TT is only few years since bill
lion dollar Congress was a sub
. ject for execration and apology.
That billion covered its two ses-
sions. And now we are asked to
be thankful because the national
budget for the single year Of 1928
is only little less than three and
a quarter billions.
The estimated receipts are so
close to that sum that the likely
deficit for 1923 is to be merely
beggarly $273,93s,712. Indeed,
President Harding hopes, that by
June 80 ways and means will be
found to wipe out the prospective
deficit and to balance the national
budget. And 1924 even promises
a surplus.
That is a consummation devout-
ly to be wished. The more so, as
'. are increasingly insistent that
the European nations now verging
on bankruptcy shall undertake the
balancing of their budgets. before
even expecting further help from
America. ..
The. burden of armaments-in-
cluding the payment for past wars
and the maintenance of equipment
for possible future wars-is the
greatest contributor to national e1-
penditure with US, as with the
European powers. Mere self-de-
tense and the needs for naval hu-
manitarian service and protection
of commerce must prevent appre-
ciable reduction of expense in our
military and naval establishments.
President Harding in sending the
budget to Congress called attention
also to expenditures which are be-
ing made in lines of research, i'm
provement and development which
have become a recognized part of
Governmental activities. Certainly
it is not desirable to curtail such
functions.
The President is to be congratu-
lated upon the success of his watch
fulness and for the economies ac-
complished by his Administration.
Whether or not the action was
reasonable, there is no doubt that
a large part of the recent protest
against the party in power was the
general impatience with the in
creasing burden of taxation and the
decreasing margin between average
personal income and outgo.
America is growing bigger.
greater. richer. But our national
and individual watchword must
still be Economy.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14

SSMAN alone" says Schopenhauer.
NA hunts game for which he has no
use and which does him no harm"
A man who wants food might be sx-
cused for killing a deer. A man who
prefers venison to beef might also be
covered by the mantle of charity. But
why. in Heavens name, should q man
want to travel hundreds of miles to
prove his superiority over q graceful.
timid animal that wants to run away
the moment It catches q smell Of him?
To gather q pair Of antlers az . trophy?
It is q trophy Of sheer brutality, COM
parable c.ly to q Philippine head hunt
er's collection of the skulls of his
enemies.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14
Good Will

A BIG business house, with an
"a obviously Jewish name, ad-
4 "A vertises that it will give credit
"as generous as the Christmas
spirit. One should not deceive
oneself that such advertising has
an eye to business. But one may
also see herein sign of that better
time coming when such names as
jew and Christian. Protestant and
Catholic. will merely mean friendly
rivalry among historic groups for
serving the common good.
Don't wait for "the better time
coming" but catch now the
Christmas contagion of good will.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14
WashingtOn's AdUice

n ONE folks, exceedingly up-to-
date-and-beyond, profess to
- believe that George Washing
ton lived too long ago for use as
political adviser to the America of
today.
Perhaps on so seemingly unim-
portant a problem as is brought
forward by Education Week one
may be pardoned for recalling
what the Father of Our Country
said on this subject to his children
of the farthest generation:
Promote, then, as an object
of primary importance insti-
tutions for the general diffu-
sion of knowledge.
The ultimate ruler in a democ-
racy is enlightened public opinion.
This, in turn, is made up of all
the private opinions in the land.
If your share in that unorganized
ultimate government is to be worth
while. you should never leave
school"
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14
Something to Think About By L.s.'nr

I DON'T feel . BIT sentimental about It.
I'm not much interested IN Wild ami
mails. and, besides. there aren't enough
left In this country to get excited about.
We have had too many hunters.
But am interested IN human nature,
and II IL so distressing to see. over and
over again. the manifestation Of those
traits Of primitive savagery which. one
hoped, were gradually becoming extinct.
Traits. also. OF an exceedingly low In
telligence. What 10 the use Of hoping
that some day we will have no more
wars when you nnd 30 many people
taking delight IN senseless slaughter!
1t Is enough to make an angel psssi.
mistic.
(Cspyrlrht 1922, By King FssA.s3
GgnAisate. Inel
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14

THIS is the hunting season. This is
l the season of the year hen d GER
tain kind of human being shoulders a
gun. pays for a hunting license, hires q
guide and undergoes a certain amount
OF physical hardship in order to kill
some inoffensive animal that never did
him any harm.
1t Is something l never could under
stand. II it is merely the bang Of his
gun that this valiant hunter enjoys 50
much, why can't he lie on the roof of
his house and shoot into the ART II It
Is the mere lust Of killing that thrills
him, why doesn't he go out into the
streets and shoot dogs and horse1!
Can 1t be possible that he merely
wants to kill without going to 5al7
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14
CIen1encitis

THE country is being subjected
to a virulent attack of Glenn
i encitis. The Tiger is him
self the very embodiment of an
aggressive France evoking the
militarism which it fears.
M. Clemenceau's plea for an
American altruistic internationalism
which shall guard France s militant
nationalism has been we'll met by
Representative Julius Kahn, of
California.
In the House last Monday he
said:
American mothers will not
send their boys to fight for
France while French mothers
will not raise boys to defend
their own country.
Frances safety, threatened by
her falling birth rate, depends not
upon her menacing nationalism, but
upon precisely that unselfish cos
mOpolitanism to which in us she
appeals so confidently through the
fighting Tiger. Clemencitis is it's
own worst enemy.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14

III
IN bill is UP for consideration.
IL is every Americans duty
to support President Harding.
Some labor leaders seem TO
have a wrong impression OF
the bill, thereby causing the
rank and file Of their organ
izations to view IL from q
wrong angle.
In short, the passage Of the
bill will mean work for thou
sands Of men IN our shipyards
along our docks and will put
more thousands to work TO
man our ships, which will
mean prosperity to the country
at large.
II win mean that the mil
lions now being lost every
month by the Shipping Board
and the millions paid out 10
keep our ships tied up along
the coast will stop being q
loss. 1t will mean that Amer
leans who have money to In
vest will not invest II In for
eign ships run under a foreign
flag, such as is the case Of the
international Mercantile Ma
rine Co, a fleet Of British
built, British repaired and
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14
Ship Subsidy Imperative

British manned ships, or run
by es per cent American cap
ital. II will also mean that
the taxpayers original war in
vestment will not be a total
loss but will be sslvaged for
all it's worth.
How can we expect Ameri-
can shipowners TO compete sue
cessfully against foreign ship
owners when the latter are
heavily subsidized by their re-
spective governments? Fur
thermore. a good merchant ma
rine is an indispensable
necessity IN time Of war, as
was proven I'm the last con-
nict when we spent billions
in a mad rush to build ships
TO make UP for our unprepared-
ness.
So let us not forret the
lesson that we learned. Let us
see that the Stars and Stripes
are kept flying on q merchant
marine manned by Americans.
TO be used when needed a. an
auxiliary to our navy IN any
emergency which may arise.
Our situation as . first class
power demands q first class
merchant marine.
A. c. MENZIEs.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14
Million Lost
MFdke Stock

A MILLION dollars is not much
~ money = as stock operations
The sum would be just pebble
on the beach of Wall Street. =
But when it is taken out Of the
pockets of widows and girl clerks
in such a city as Washington it is
a great deal of money indeed.
About that amount, according to
creditable sources, was lost in
fraudulent stock transactions in the
District of Columbia this year.
1t was enough to cause hunger
and suicides and tragedies of all
sorts.
1t was enough to impress upon
District people the urgency of sup
porting the present efforts of local
bankers to make too smooth-talk-
ing, worthless security statesmen
take the fastest express trains out
of the National Capital.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14
Thomas Jefferson
On Sea Trade
TO THOSE Democrats in Con-
gress who are opposing the ship

ITO THOSE Democrats in Con-
gress who are opposing the ship
. subsidy bill the following words,
to the House of Representatives in
1898 by Thomas jefferson, immortal
founder of the Democratic party,
may carry some weight. Referring
to the American Merchant Marine,
he wrote:
"0ur navigation involves still
= higher considerations. As a branch
of industry it is valuable, but as a
resource of defense essential. Its
value as a branch of industry is
enhanced by the dependence of so
many other branches on it. In
times of general peace it multiplies
competitors for employment in
transportation and so keeps that
at its proper level, and in times of
war-that Is to say, when those
nations who may be our principal
carriers shall be at war with each
other-if we have not within our
selves the means of transportation
our produce must be exported in
belligerent vessels at the in
creased expense of war freight and
insurance, and the articles which
will not bear that must perish on
our hands.
But it is as resource of de-
tense that our navigation will ad-
init neither neglect nor forbear-
ance. The position and circum-
stances of the United States leave
them nothing to fear on their
land board and nothing to desire
beyond their present rights. But
ON their seaboard they are open
to injury, and they have there, too,
a commerce which must be pro-
tected. This can only be done by
possessing a respectable body of
citizen seamen and Of artisans and
establishments in readiness for
shipbuilding."
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14
WAYSIDE WISDOM
lCopyriEht. 1872:
BY S. E. Kiser-

7 WONDER what Is in his mind
Who has not kept his conscience clear.
Who has forgotten to be kind
While passing onward through the year.
wonder if he thinks of those
Who grieve because he passed their
way,
And whether. at the old years close.
He finds that selfish sforts pay.
7 WONDER if his though hts are free
From any tinges of remorse,
As, looking backward, he NUT see
The wreckage strewn aloag his course
The wrecks of hopes that he upset,
The wrecks of plans that he destroyed.
The faces clouded by regret
The days that might have been enjoyed.
7 WONDER if he looks ahead
Without q wish to put aside
Remembrance of the words that led
To troubled dreams and loss of pride.
l wonder if he ever cares
How much his cunning scheming cost,
Or if, in secret. he compares
His joys with those ths' have been lost
I WONDER if he goes to sleep
With calm assurance that all's WELL
And if no hollow voices keep
Repeating things he fears to tell.
I wonder if, when he's alone,
While darkness dims the closing year,
He ever hears a mocking moan
That fills his shriveled soul With fear.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14
ON KILLING CLEVER
CHILDREN.
By DR.. Charles Fleischer
MOT much use In being clever

MOT much use in being clever
before you are born.
However wisely you think you
have chosen your parents, you
are likely to find that they
know next to nothing about the
prompt development Of your
powers, 80 that you may quickly
become an effective citizen Of
the world.
And so you Join the great
human army OF cute bsbies.
You grow a bit. and you are pro-
NOTED to lie a wonder-child. A
little longer. and you are a most
promising youth. hen, for a
time, the world is yours. and
you dream OF its conquest.
And, soon thereafter, as likely
as not, your promissory note
presented in the great Bank Of
Practical Life-goes to protest.
IF one lives long enough. one
wonders duly what has be-
come Of the host of bright and
promising and romarkablJ chill
dren. The only available an
swer is: They were killed by q
conspiracy Of human ignorance,
whose members are loving par.
ems, well-mean.ng teachers, q
helpless. hopeless. vicionless
mass Of half-alive men and
women. and a collection Of
worse-than-dead institutions.
So. yon see, the progress Of
the race must needs be slow.
The production of a type Of
human being that will quickly
be lifted to the heights. to live
long rpon a sunlit plateau of en-
thusiastic efficiency and Of Gre
ative activity-that is the hope
full dream Of democracy, born Of
a brooding love for each pre-
! cicus individual Of us.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14

IT is perhaps not too much to
l. say that. in general terms.
the relative size OF the waist
is a truer test Of age than mere
count Of birthdays. The ques-
ton is. Are you growing old
faster by the tape line than by
the calendar? The point Is
brought out nicely by a glance
at a photograph that shows
Jack johnson. the former cham
pion. and a young pugilistic as
pirant. named Floyd johnson.
sparring. You do not need TO
see the faces to know which
is the relatively old man ard
which the young one. The
waist lines tell the story.
The great difficulty is that
the expansion OF waist like
the creeping on OF age Is so
insidious that we are likely 10
ignore it. A pretty good plan
for a man is to keep an old
pair Of trousers somewhere
stored away and TO get them
out and test his waist line with
them on his birthdays For
woman, no rule Is necessary.
She is sure TO know just what
is happening to her figure
whether or not she has the
strength Of will 10 keep herself
young by abetemious living and
adequate exercise.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14

eether' and keep opera stars
apart.
GO far as average tax con-
~ stimer is concerned. he
wouldn't care n both Of 'em got
sore gums.
OPERA is one OF civiiizattonIs
" liabilities Its dovetsiling
discords and double jointed blue
notes are sung in foreign syils-
bles in order that our free and
equal ignorance shall not perish
from this earth.
EXPLANATIoN in opening
~ chorus makes you wonder
what it's all about: and grand
finale makes you wonder why
you didn't leave sooner. Com
plete ensemble constitutes one
successful evening In grand
opera. Like story OF Santa
Claus. you are supposed TO be-
lieve in IL and ask no questions.
business man. who demands
- silence from his barber. his
wife. his clerks. and his con-
science. will pay ten dollars for
privilege Of hearing grand opera
stars shattering his theories.
WALRUsEs get fed for MAX
w ing less noise than i'm
ported baritones. Police have
cranked up their vans for hap
pier shrieks than those pub
lished by alien sopranos.
IT LIE lines have been thrown
II and brave men have defied
angry surf in answer to fewer
groans than those broadcasted
under name of grand opera.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14
POOR OLD WORLD

POOR OLD WORLD.
THE world" says one of the philoso-
pliers. wants many things that are
naughty" Moreover, many things that
are naughty are thrust upon it,
Greece is one of the small nations
that seem to be exercising their right of
self-extermination
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14
Stars and Stripes

A woman driving an automobile by
an attractive millinery window will in
variably teach the traffic regulations how
TO take a joke.
We bought a stick of chewing gum
the other day with what we have saved
as the result of the Disarmament Con-
ference
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14

Of the waist line is a normal
development with advancing
age. Even a person who holds
to a restricted diet and keeps
up a system OF vigorous exer-
cises cannot altogether escape
this evidence Of advancing
years. The best that can be
done is to keep it within rea-
sonable bounds. You cannot
hope to have at fifty the waist
line that you had at thirty.
But you can keep from assum-
ing the contour OF an apple.
And you will be wise to do 20.
for probably no one Of that fig
ure ever attained longevity.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14
UNDER SUSPICION.

When man lets 1t be known now that he
is going to Europe he gets the same kind of
a look that the rural deacon gets when he IL
caught purchasing a pound of raisins.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14
We TOWNE GOSSIP
u oopyriSht lo7a, b. Vtar Compsny
BY X. c. B.

TWICE EVERY |
week.
THE: psE:'OtHr.
OF THE .. S. A.
RECEIVES
REPORTERS.
IN HIS private office.
ALL ma body.
AND THEY ask him
questions.
AND he answers
them.
AND DOESN'T get
mad.
OR ANYTHING.
AMI, rvE' been
thinking.
FOR A couple of
weeks.
1T wovLo be good.
IF THE U. s. Senate.
WOULD AMEND its
rules.
so ONCE . week.
OR 14lREAsours.
1T WOULD hold a
session.
At walcA tn.
public.
UP IN the gallery.
would BE
permitted.
. . -
TO Ask it questions.
I'VE rHoveHr of
this.
EVER SINCE the day.
THAT THE colored
man.
o
IN HIS uniform.
AND WOUNDS Of
war.
SAT IN the gallery.
WHILE A Senator.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14
Test Your Age Dith a
Tape Line
BY Henry Smith Williams.

THE old Romans had q say
L ing to the effect that most
men dig their graves with their
.eeth. They expressed the same
thought in another saying,
which declared that "giuttony
kills more than the sword"
The idea is rather repellent.
10 one likes a glutton. and
nost of US would be very in
ignant IL accused Of gluttony.
let 1t is true today. as sppar-
.ntly il was true in the old
roman days, that most Of us
AXE a good deal more food
han our systems require. We
may not eat in a giuttonous
manner. but we eat too much.
THE proof is found. not mere
l. Iy in the statistics of the
,hys;ologists. but in the indi-
ridual experiences Of thousands
of people who find themselves
year by year growing a little
stouter. and who worry about
it more or less persistently. and
vet who cannot curb their ap-
petites.
There is another group OF in
iividuals who. through some
hereditary or temperamental
Siss. do not tend to put on
weight excessively. regardless
Of overeating. Some OF them
,annot even attain normal
weight. They may appear to
nave good digestion. yet they
10 not assimilate their food in
4 way to turn it into sdipose
for general distribution.
DUT even for such excep-
II tional individuals there is
a test that may usually be ap-
piled successfully. 1t is made
with a tape line about the
waist. As a rule, adipose ac-
cumulates here, even though
the rest Of the figure is rather
gaunt.
1t should be explained, how
ever. that a certain expansion
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14
AN OMISSION eY TIE TIGER,

Why did M. Glen snceau neglect. when he
was in Boston, to lIy a wrsath upon John L.
Sullivans tomb? Tohn L. was some fighter.
too,
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14
CLOSE TO THE HIDE.

Henry Cabot Lodge would be justified in
regarding his recent election as a sort Of
skindication.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14

grmmu the yaAsa NE Eauas i sos
O-O-O-O-O-PER-A-A-A
By Bugs" Baer

DOLCE have finally got oper- I
atic season under control.
Two Of our most prominent
raisers Of notes are within easy
cable distance Of each other.
Gamma walslxa accepts man.
datory over Europe. Mary
Garden will broadcast America.
Nov. they can insult acoustics
Az in peace, II not harmony.
WE didn't get much ear drum
w ming last winter. because
our giant cAnaries were 90 tenn
peramentai they wouldn't eat
unless they were invited out.
MARY said that Gannie was
AVA harvesting her crop. Gan
ME claimed that Mary was en-
bezzling her thunder. Result
was that both prima donnas put
away their megaphones. When
rent day stepped around they
discovered that silence wasn't
golden.
THEY did chirp enough for
l. eats and cakes. But there
was no deliberate opera season.
Other sopanos gnashed their
pivot teeth in delightful uproar.
Fickle public forgot all about
Mary and Gamma under influ-
ence OF counterirritants.
Nov, Gann.e is singing loud
AN and shrill in Paris. while
Mary is pushing colored pins
around on her operate war
map. League Of Nations was
designed to bring nations to-
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14

(Cspyrlght, i022, BY King fss4ns9
GgnAisats. lne.l
The Washington herald., 1922-12-14

Nov. they can insult acoustics
Az in peace, II not harmony.
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
BOY SCOUT SERVICES
IN CHURCHES TO-DAY
5000 Members Are Expected
to Attend.

Boy Scout Sunday is being observed
by churches all over the United States
to-day In Manhattan. churches repre-
senting all faiths will hold special scout
services. which will be attended by the
5000 scouts who are affiliated with
Manhattan Council.
The First Reformed Episcopal Church,
317 East B'iftieth street. will have a
special scout service this morning with a
sermon on the work of the scouts by the
Rev Percy 7. Edrop. Boy Scouts will
march into the church in a body and
will repeat the scout law and oath.
In the Holy Rood Episcopal Church
Fort Washington avenue and 179th
street, there will be special services to-
night. Troop 7S2, of which Bertram II.
Rolf is scoutmaster, is connected with
this church. The Rev. Dr. Gustave Ar
mold Christensen will conduct the SER
vice.
st. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
has five scout troops, Nos. 104, los, 106,
107 and los. The scouts will receive
holy communion in a body at o'clock
mass this morning.
Scoutmasters and troop committee OF
st. Joseph's Church viii have their an
nual dinner in the Hotel Pennsylvania at
80 tomorrow eveing. officers of Man
haitian Council will be honor guests.
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
MASONS GO TO HAVANA
TOHONOR EXPLORER

A party of forty prominent Masons OF
New York. New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania sailed yesterday for Havana on
the Ward liner Siboney to take part in
the unveling of a bronze tablet to DIR.
Elisha Kent Kane, the polar explorer.
The tablet is placed OH a small house
in the Cuban capital in which DR.. Kane
died i'm 1851. and the ceremony will take
place on February 16 the sixty-fifth
anniversary of his death.
Among those in the party were Judge
Advocate Harold Lipplncott, represent
ing the Grand Lodge of New York; j..
Il. Hardenbergh. general manager of
the New York City News Association.
representing the Grand Lodge of New
Jersey; state Senator C. c. Pilgrim of
New Jersey and Daniel b. Smith. mas
ter of Kane Lodge, New York city.