The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-05-09

enough to describe a crime. Not to o
 hastily must courts be criticised for
 these weaknesses in the law. An
 act may be wrong and not be a
 crime A crime is an offense which
 must be described with such exact
 ness there can be no doubt of what
 it is.
 Moscow inflicts the death penalty
 upon eight priests and several oth-
 CTS because they opposed government acquisitions of church property. In all ages desperate governments have turned a, covetous eye upon the prop
 erty of the Gods. History is full
 of the story of the confiscations of temple goods and temple lands. The
 practice has been carried into mod
 ern times. Sovfets are merely. the
 most recent offenders.
 Always some men have turned seeing the greatness of the universe
 have dwelt upon the smallness of man. The thing is not proved. Mag nitudes are not the measure of might The earth may not be an ant hill. It may be a gigantic fact, observed with eager interest by the watchers in the infinitudes. Some times those who call men tiny. are not humble. but proud. They find satisfaction in seeming humble. the better to show their superiority. Ad- uniting that man is less than noth- ing. say these, I am a man who knows it and that makes me slightly larger than the others.
 President Harding Boss of the American ant hiu," announces that 1t will cost sixteen hundred million dollars less to run the government in the present year. Something more than an eighth of the reduc tion is attributed to a budget pro- gram, which provides a closer scru- tiny of income and outgo. This is important to the country. It means that living conditions may be some ! what easier and that business has a better chance to pick up. If actions l rightly directed to human happi- | ness do not count somewhere, and for some useful purpose. then are men given to vain dreams.
 Such as we are. that must we be. ! Pain ts q fact. hunger is a fact. Grief is another fact Upon the most brutal theory man is an auto maton wound up to live his time. He must even let the machine run down. Under the religious theory man Is a child of God. who has an interest in him. and desires him to learn l the hw and live by 1t. Tho latter l concept Is the more useful. At the 1 more comfortable while they func- 1 ton. Man may not be the center | of the universe, but he has import ance fin it.
 War times are easy times. Almost l anybody could ask for money and 1 get 1t Russta had 1so. 100000 in habitants, and these were needed for 1 the war. Bakhmeteff had from the q dollar for each Russian. His crowd 1 failed. Mir. Hughes wants to know what was done with the money It was wasted. no doubt. since war is chiefly waste.
 Uncle Joe is ss years old. He is leaving tha House, where he has been & member for many, many years Affoe Robertson. woman member, sympathetic as women nearly always are. hopes that Uncle Joe will rest two years. then come back. He can be no more than a erected to other days, but tho public will welcome him. All have an interest in great age. It Is a hope held out to all who wish to live a long time There are two ways of regarding the aged. The prophet said. that all is vanity. be- cause all have the same end. Uncle Joe has lived a full. and a useful life. That may count hereafter. Re igion says it does. Sir Conan Doyle, who says he has it direct from dis emoOoleO SplTits, says the SooO Ire counts.
 H. P, Davtson is gone. He was q human dynamo. with 2 gift for mak- ng money His fortune Is small as fortunes go, only ten millions or so. iC It would have been larger had he lived During the war he did yeo- nan service for the Red Cross. No ioubt at the last the recollection. Of | his work was more comforting to lin than the millions. Nor schould ! | be too hastily concluded that the | work killed him. Perhaps 1t made aim than the millions. Nor should I