The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-05-23
Try Your Detective Faculties on the W a r q Mystery Missionaries Want ed for Ulster-DO It TOgether-NO Roll ed Stocking Prob lem in Spirit Land Vaccine Needle Puts It All Over Nero.

the Marines. Ward says he killed because he was tired of paying blackmail. Ward is represented as a person of unusual personal courage It is inferred the blackmail consist ed of g, mere threat to do him v1o- 1ence. Not likely.
 Here is a field for speculation, equal to that in a mystery novel What did this young and courageous man do which made him pay thou sands to keep som ething from being told; made him finally kill. He says it was not women. Women are the great basis of b1ackmaiI, Then comes concealed crime, such as theft, we may assume. Ward was Implicated What was the powerful motive? Peters did time in a reformatory. He had been discharged from the navy for bad behavior. Interesting easel
 Ulster reaps the fruitage of age old hatreds which in other parts of the world are outworn, forgotten. or de- tested. Catholics and Protestants kill each other beca use they have lived side by side in that spirit for centuries. In England where three Or four thousand years ago. the same things happened, they have been long put away. Friendship has replac- ed hatred. In the United States men of creeds and races that in their own lands have hated are friends; run for
 
 shops: fnternarry; never dream of staying. There might be a mission to Ulster of such as are of good will, to copvers those heather to Christia nifty.
 There shouldn't be a difference of opinion over the sale of poppies that grow on Flanders Field. Unity will sell more. Divided the boys won't fall. but united they'll take in more money. Remember how successful was the Pon meeting. Let things for the common cause be done in common This will be more produc- tive
 The spirits who communicate with 1 Sir Conan Doyle talk f1ippantly. i There is no wisdom in them This | is neither for nor against the be- lief that there are spirits who talk. | There is no particular reason why 1 the spirit of a human creature should | be all at once wiser, merely because l s1t is dtsembodied. The spirits seem 1 to be wiser, little. They never | tell of being blown up by exploding 1 ! hooch; they do not shoot each other | 6rivolously No spirit has indicated l that rolled stockings are a super 1 mundane problem.
 It Is safer to kill humble persons 1 . parltament was shot in the back, and l died. Today great raid brings in hsome hundreds of Republicans. who ! might be still at large If the slaughter i were confined to comparatively ob- ! scure private persons. A govern 1nent begins to appreciate the nature i of sudden taking off, when its own members disappear. Something l 1 more than reprfsal is needed Agree ment understanding amity. common 1 sense and mutual trade are needed.
 Mr. Bryan. good and able man, whose heart ts tn the right place, de clares that profiteerdng is unrestrain- ed and keeps the country back. He is the one who said there is nothing in the theory that men and monkeys are related. Now he accuses so- ciety of monkey tricks. Monkies cooperate little Each gets all he can for himself and cares little about his nefghbor. Monkies seldom in dulge in reflection. Profiteering Is not the trouble. Trade does not go on without profit. Reforms are needed in the system of trading. There is no one with power to make them. and no one who knows just what changes should-be made. Ignorance of essential trade conditions is the trouble Wisdom, product of study and cooperative remedy is needed.
 Marc Rlaw, theatrical producer. brings from Italy @, bit of lava graved with skull. He says it's the first dead head ticket admitting to the ex- tihittons in the Coliseum. triumph of ancient Roman architecture. That's wrong Nero issued dead head Is tickets They invited the recipient to go upon a long journey. If the ( ticket was refused, Nero used to send kt a centurion with file of guards to make it a personally conducted tour. Nero,s system has been improved. In modern times whole communities are required to be sick all at the same time. Some are violently despat ched to join the Roman tyrant. The