The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-28
Light Wines and Beer in the Lime Light You Must Seek the Plank to Know What It Means COnstan- tine Gets Out-Intel- ligence Common, but Originality Is Scarce

center or the stage, getting more attention from most of the Amer jean people than the prospect of crats, who had a wine and beer plank two years ago, have made very dry plank this year. The Massachusetts Democrats have come into line for wine and beer. but there is a string on that. The plank reads: 'In the interest of law and good he1ath, of civic de- eency. as well as true temper ance. while we are opposed to the return of the saloon, we believe in the legal use of beer and light wines"
 There can't be any legal wine or beer while the 18th amend ment is in force, unless people will be satisfied with near wine and near beer. Any wine or beer which will intoxicate will be completely forbidden while the amendment exists. In New York state Senator Sake "and women'' plead for wine and beer plank in the Republican platform. Some women are for wine and beer, but more women are against it. Whenever the women are con- suited all of them. 1t makes hard s1edding for those who want wine and beer.
 
 | Greek king is the last to get Kaiser is plain gentleman who will soon marry again. The Sul- tan of Turkey is a. ward of the English and he has no force as a ruler. The King of England and the King of Italy are tho only virile representatives of mon archy whose thrones appear to be in no immediate Jeopardy. Since ability is seldom transmit ted. 8. line of kings tends to be a line of weddings, but in a line of American presidents every man will be reasonably vigorous, in- te1ligent and strong. There will seldom be a downright weakIing, which Troves that the democratic method for picking rulers is the best.
 Dr. Faunce of Brown Univer- sity says that a good education Is being wasted on young men who lack original minds He seems to believe that colleges can manage their affairs so that their classes will consist only of per- sons of original minds. This dream is vain. The rarest thing Is person with an original mind. Nearly everything which makes civilization in the United States distinct from earlier civilization is the product of comparatively small number of minds, The function of the rest of us has been merely that of acceptance. Education Is not as rule pro- motive of original thinking. It is rather the custodian and the sta bi1izer of what has been done and tends to make the mass do what was done before. This tendency is so pronounced that somebody has said that presently we shall come to a time when only an un- educated person will be capable of an original investigation.
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 Universities will continue to be populated by those who can af- ford to go, those who have funds with which to pay their way or those who are rugged enough and ambitious enough to work their way through. Some will rebel at the discipline, the routine and the apparently useless character of some of the things which are taught. Of these who refuse col iSSO SNoSoI4OAi, VIII DS d1l an inferior sort of persons, but some will belong to that rare category of those who can do original thinking.
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 The tendency among mankind is to suppress originality. What ever is different from that which is usually done is regarded with hostility. In savage races this hostility will usually lead to the extinction of the original thinker. Where civilization is higher, the original thinker is tolerated but he IS regarded as a queer person who is to be thought of as quite impossible. America has more tolerance of original thinking than any other country. This tolerance, however, is largely for machinery and invention in ma terial things. Original social , thinkers are not much more well come than they are elsewhere.
 
 K1u K1ux Klan Is representa- tive of the tendency which has been described. These people, be- ing trained in one method of sec .arian thought, cannot endure that there should be any other sort of thought, and broadly speaking there is powerful ten- dency in every group to supp its own way is the best and to re- sent the ways of persons not in sympathy with them. However,