The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-08
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M e e ts Wilson The Big Caruso Cradle Leaving Out the Kiss $ a n d m Broad Street.

Georges Clemenceau meets Woodrow Wilson and they talk 15 minutes. It was real drama, the writers say. What kind of drama? The two great divisions are tragedy and comedy. Comedy is the kind that has a. happy end ing. Tragedy is the kind in which everybody is killed off Mir Wilson, according to GI. Glenn enceau, has the same voice, man. ner, enthusiasm, habit of mind and keenness of intellect that he had when they were making the Treaty of Versailles and the Gov enant of the League.
 
 Nature distributes her physical gifts with hand that is not i'm partial. CIemenceau with his four score years tours the world with the vigor of a boy, while Wood row Wilson, sharer in the same tremendous past, scarcely is able to leave his own fireside. The voice. the mind. the enthusiasm are preserved, but the faltering body Iags behind. This is trag- edy.
 
 The Enrico Caruso Memorial Candle is five feet in circumfer-
 
 inches at the top. It is 16 feet high and weighs a ton. It will be placed in the Church of Our Lady of Pompeii. Pompeii, Italy. It will burn 24 hours a day on All Souls Day It is estimated it will last for IS centuries.
 After 8 centuries little is left. Not a cathedral has such an age. The pyramids are older. The pal aces of the Caesars have a great CT age but they are mere shells. Pompen is venerable with more than 1900 years. It is a shell dug out of the annihilation into which it was thrust in the time of the elder Pliny. After 1900 years, if the candle should endure, the probabilities are that no one will remember why it exists, nor why upon the day of All Souls it will be lighted.
 
 Timothy Healy as Governor General of Ireland did not follow the custom of kissing the kings hand before receiving his com mission. The ancient custom was waived by the king lest the formality give enemies of the Free State a chance to cause trouble. The king signed amidst the pomp and circumstance of thrones. Timothy Healy will keep no vice regal court, but will carry on like an American pres ident in the simplicity that marks the ordinary citizen Thus, out of the ancient the more modern thing is born. according to the necessity of birth.
 
 When modern Improvements are once introduced they super cede the more antique of such useful methods. It will not be long before the ritual of mOnar- chy will be simpliSied in England. The gay uniforms and the trap pings of the past will disappear from civil life as they did from military life during the war. It is as dangerous for a king in these days to wear gaudy garments as it was for a soldier in the trenches to don a scarlet uniform. The less attention kings attract the longer they will last. Perhaps it will not be long before England travels the whole road and has no king at all There is quite a Republican party in England, not large in numbers but large in intellect. Let us see what tomorrow will bring forth.
 
 In Mexico they prefer blood and sand. Where they kill the bull they throw the sand. Broad street merchants. with more sand than toreadors. threw sand on sIeet and ran off parade. This typifies the difference between two civilizations. Broad Street merchants set an example for Bridgeport. Cheer up. A The best is yet to come. A The street has earned it's spurs and ought to get it's white lights. The sixteen strings of inCandes- cents shining on last nights pa