The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-05-01

mankind, including the United States and including Bridgeport. The thing is bad everywhere. It is heavenly in United States, if the evil is measured against the darker evils of other places. Tn Central Europe $50, 900 children wander over the land. They are little trarnps, with no place to go. They are on their way, but they have no destination.
 
 Thds sorrowfu1 crusade of the chill dren is a small marching. Armies of men and women have been made homeless. They migrate as the hordes of ancient times did, when food failed in their neighborhoods. Not so marched the hordes of Ghengis Khan. They came fighting, staying. dfspossessing the weak from the soil they occupied. This was tho old way. Modern poverty, wholesale, carries on a different kind of dispossesston. We won't talk about that now. In Bridgeport where all sorts of humanities are carried on. these fear full European experiences do not oc- cur. It is hard to be out of work, to be poor, and to be deprived of the accustomed luxuries and convent ences. It Is good that men and women cooperate to make hardships as little as possible.
 
 The Community Chest is the out ward and visible manifestatd tdon of that American spirit which says that man is & brother, that a child is precious and that man and child must be sheltered in misfortune, healed in sickness. kept fit for the day when the clouds pass over and work is good again.
 
 There are some who speak of an- other order of societg- Of a sys- tenn of work and industry which would bring millennial happiness Of a time when there will be no idle ness any more. no hunger, no pow erty; no sickness. except that of old age or accident. The dreamers of these dreams. the planners of this age. no doubt are right Men will be happier thar they are: wiser and better. They will know how to work, as much as they need to work They will not be stupidly afflicted with idleness in the midst of plen- teous instruments for profitable toll.
  Men cannot however ride in auto mobiles before they are produced Men and women must not starve from now until the golden age. That was the Russian error, an error fatal to millions of contemporary Russians, no matter what benefits may accrue 10 Russians now unborn, Russians changed a system in a night, and multiplied pain a million fold.
  We live in an established order. We do not know how to make work ab- soiutely steady. nor how to have get everybody to lay aside something for rainy day. We do know sym pathy, and care of the sick, and aid for those out of work, and how to tide over until times are good again.
  Sometimes it has been said that a hospital did not promptly receive nearly always false. What a cry goes up, of abhorrence and criticism l 1rom those who know that care of l the sick is imperative, and that not | to render it promptly is a crime.
 
 You str. or miss or mauam, boy or l girl. or man or woman grown, may fall upon the street today, and your life may depend upon the promptness with which the community comes to your rescus. What right have you to the service, if you do not sacri- , flee for tts support Why should you in such a case be helped, if you selfisf1lessly stand aloof. It is for you to do. according to your aoIlIty There is no other road to self re- spect; no other decent thing to do.
  How many there are (we all know some of these,) who once were pros perous; had positions of dignity: l money, friends and influence, who , have fallen into poverty. They have | Cropped into need, sometimes | through faults. and often. very. very often, by sequence of misfortune be- yond their own control Who knows | the sources of misfortune? Who knows who will be next or when or why7 You also arc human. and frail and | live in a world of peril" and are sub i ject to the whim of the unkind Fates 1 Say, now. sir or madam, do believe |