The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-12

general moratorium. 1ake the SIdII a new start for everybody.
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 What would happen to lending and borrowing if this should happen? For a time there would be a reluctance on the part of lenders. In a little while it would be forgotten, and everything would be resumed. Or, perhaps, nations deprived of the op- portunity of borrowing might go on by themselves. become more self reli- ant, might take the cash and let the credit go,'' as the Persian poet put it.
 
 One Mexican, not liking what the editor wrote, killed him. The daugh- ter of the editor killed the man who killed her father. This is American. It is the beginning of one of those feuds, common in the moutains of Kentucky and Tennessee. Members of families kill each other through generations.
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 Joseph Vernon. s2, who says he is a veteran of the Civil War, presented himself in a Brooklyn police station, yesterday, weak and hungry If he is a veteran he will be cared for by the government. He has but to pre- sent his proof and the soldiers home is open to him. America does not neglect her veterans of the Civil War, if opportunity is given to provide for them
 
 Rabindranath Tagore, Hindu poet of genius, complains that the western mind is obsessed with ideas of con- :, quest. "If you have in you pride of race, pride of sect and pride of per sonal superiority there is no use in trying to do good to others" he says. - Turiously, Eindus, who have less saride of conquest. have developed more pride of sect, of race, and of personal superiority. The West has its little prejudices, against the col ored man. let us say. But no west erner would consider himself insu1ted if the mere shadow of somebody else should fall across his person, or if somebody else should step upon his shadow. Few facts in life are more rigidly terrible than the castes of In 7: dta.
  .. The Western civilization produces 'nNore individuals who are clean, up- right, comfortable, free from disease, from famine and pestilence. Life is less sordid in the West, more conven- tent, less filthy, less painful. West ern men and women are not angels, l,11% o1n he angels. Judged by its fruits, the Eastern philosophy is not superior.
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 John wanamaker, AS, great mer- chant and former postmaster general, says. Hook up and look forward" Excellent advice. The aged must needs to both. Who can go on a journey without looking forward, and who can hope for heaven without looking upward?
 The venerable merchant speaks kindly of the men in his own occupa- ton.
 says, with the merchants I have known. They are all simply looked upon as money makers. Many of them are bringing together the work of the world. They are giving em- ployment, hope, courage and life to homes" All true.
 
 When men get to be S4 they begin to inquire into the ethical quality of their works. That life which in youth seemed as interminabl ble is per ceived in it's true relationship, a mere flicker in eternity. Society does not so much enquire of a mer- chant whether he is ethical, as whether he is useful.
 MT. Wanamaker improved mer- chandising. He is entitled to credit He built a species of labor saving machine Merchandising is in itself a species of labor saving. Merchants exist because they are useful. When they cease to be useful, they will cease to exist. It is law of life that useless creatures cease to be. The process of elimination may be slow, but it is certain.
 are two departures, which seem to be contradictions. There is the great store, which tries to get everything under one roof.
 There is the little chain store which seeks economy by dealing Tn few articles, sold in widely scattered small stores. with little expense for operation It seems reasonably cer- tain, just now that the ordinary small store, not in a chain, and not big enough to stand up in the midst or the city population, will have hard time. Perhaps there will be conbi- nations of such stores.
 MORE WOMEN VOTE THAN MEN. Staunton, Va, July 12EFor the