The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-06-07
CITY TO MAKE Drive FOR BACK TAXI
DIR. Day on Passion
Play-Age of Faith
and Age of Black
Death - Trust God
and Sanitate-WhO
Are Greatest Ameri-
c a n w o m e n
B e auty and La
MARKHAM Evolution.

Rev. DR.. William Horace Days in
terpretive lecture on the Passion
Play of Oberammergau was a delight
full picture of that historic drama, and
a stimulating invitation to universal
brotherhood. In 1888 the tiny Tyro-
lean village was visited by Black
Death, pestilence as terrible as the
last trump. AS an act of faith the
villagers agreed to perform the play
of Christ each ten years forever, and
with slight lapses have always done
so.
They were in the age of faith. In
this age the thirteenth and fourteenth
centuries were remarkable, and dur
ing this age. and on until the dawn
of the age of science, Black Death
ragged ferociously One-fourth of the
stroyed.
During the Great Plague of Lon
don, in 1864, in a population of AGO.
900, two-thirds of whom had fled, the
mortality was more than sizty-eight
thousand. In Naples 800, 900 were
taken in five months in Rome, where
the Cardinal Gastaldi had installed
measures of sanitation, but $4,000
died. London OF those days was dirty
as Oriental cities of more modern
times Diet was restricted, and the
simplest rules of health were I'M
known, or Impractical. Faith alone
did not suffice to destroy the Black
Death Faith plus intelligence was
successful. Black Death rules in low
intelligence civilizations.
Faith must be attended by thought
and action. The order of the world
is well adapted to the gradual sup
preston OF ignorance, and the preser-
walton of such as have the most wis.,
dom
The villagers of Oberammergau
produce their play today upon q plan |
as reasoned In its way. as that of the |
modern dramatist. Their effects are |
tiers. or from the very life of those
in and about Palestine. DR.. Day
says that these people have achieved
happiness, which means that they
have also achieved something OF wis
dom.
Ethan Allen, Continental officer,
powder dry Modern science says,
Trust in God. and Sanitate." The
first recipe Is for winning a battle;
the second.h for beating a pestilence
Arthur Brisbane once talked with
Lillian Russell. Her mother. Mrs
Cynthia Leonard said to him: Young
man let Lillian be a. lesson to you If
you over get married Before she
was born I determined that she should
be very beautiful and have a fine
voice and kept my mind on that all
the time until she was born" This
is the idea of Lamarck. that progress
comes Of desire. Quite different
than the Darwfnian. which makes 1t
process OF natural selection. It is
to be feared that tho road to beauty !
and song is not quite SO easy, Mrs.
believed. One can become
more beauttful. and may develop a I
richer voice, by desire and practice
No doubt of it ,
New York hod carriers signed up
for ST q day, for two years. Thirty
Years ago they were getting 50 day. .
Which is best and how much? Higher '
wages are best. But highness of I
wages must be determined by study
Of real wages What would 81 buy {
ong aso7 What will 81 buy now?
New York is a high cost city. The
content OF life has improved in every e
direction. In what life yields OF COM +
tort all wages are higher than they !
we're.
Republican senator's struggle with
he bonus, They find the problem
hard It has two Sides, both power
.ul- Mostly those who are going to
come up for another election this fall ,
IRE for the bonus. The logic of the 1
Republican primary elections impels
,thers to be for it. The first pur-
pose Of q senator is to getf elected
Il Is unfortunate for statesmen of r
III kinds that the world imposes
hese matters about which people L
hink differently. Life might be t
happier In Congress Is everybody | 7
would think precisely like everybody
Use. =.
Who are the twelve greatest living d
american women? Mrs. Carrie Chap =
nan Gait appears in many lists. Alice d
Paul is mostly absent Posterity may ~
ank her higher. Fighting men &C. "
upy a large number of places in Hall t.
4 Fame. Why not fighting women? =