The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-29

in enormous quantities waste fully destroying values, is work.
 When work stops, money which
 is merely symbol for work, takes on an aggravated value Sometimes thoughtless persons come to regard money as more important than work, and more important than goods. Indeed, if work stops and little is done, ' money is actually more important for the simplest of reasons. Sup pose Robinson Crusoe. living alone on his is1%ld, depending for food upon his crops, should have 8 bad harvest So that he must depend on the food he had stored. The stored fod would be vastly important until it was gone. If no more crops should be raised, the immeasurable value of the crop as compared with the mere storage of food would be quite plain to the starving Crusoe.
 
 Money is. in one of it's powers. stored labor. It can be used to call out the things to eat, drink, and wear, that were created be- fore the famine. but if the people understood better than they do how inferior money is to work, and how important commodities are compared with money, they would all of them be striving anx- iously to go back to work, and they would not be so anxious to borrow billions
 The Turk tells the allies that they must not fortify the Darda- nelles. British troops at Chnak are surrounded by the forces of Renal Pasha, and he talks to Europe as no Turkish commander has talked in many years. It may be the beginning, say some think CTS, of another tide of Oriental invasion. as when Atti1a swept down upon Europe with legions of Huns and when Turks mach ed up to Vienna, shouting the name of the prophet. The Ori- enta1 will go nowhere in Europe unless the white man helps him. The Turk speaks bravely, because he thinks he has the 150 millions of Russia back of him; and Rus sia can fight. There was no more magnificent victory in the great war than that in which Brusilof, the ,CZar's commander, fighting on a front of two hundred and fifty miles, rolled the German Austrian armies back, taking three hundred thousand prisoners and five hundred great guns,
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 To treat Russia as outside the hall of nations because the Allies have not liked the Russian form of government was always an er- TOT and may turn out to be the greatest of errors. Between Rus sians and the Orient there is a link. Russia indeed is in it's na- ture partly Oriental. It is the land in which European civiliza- tion fades into Oriental civiliza- tion. Russia has the white mans ways, the white mans firmness and the white mans weapons. If Russia leads the Orient, there may be a yellow peril.
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 Dr. William Horace Day, speak of conditions in Switzerland, the hotels closed, the watch business depressed and the lace industry worse than that. He gives, how ever. too much weight to the price of exchange. The lace in dustry is as much depressed in Venice as it is in Berne, but the Swiss franc and the Italian lire are not on their former equality. The lire is down to q few cents and the Swiss franc is as good ass any money in the world. Since the lace business is as bad under the lire as under franc, some other cause must be operating.
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 The cause is the impoverish- ment of Europe. American tour 1StS do not buy as much lace as they did, nor as many watches England, the great market for Swiss watches and Swiss lace, is on the edge of the poorhouse. Her people are not buying as much as they did. The trouble in Switzer- land Is like the trouble every where else. The people are too poor to buy and not we'll enough organized to go to work
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 President Harding's father, Dr. George T. Harding. will vote for Clyde L. Herring. Democratic nominee for the Senate, in Iowa, Says Harding, Sr., MT. Herring is a, gentleman. The man who is running against him is a Socialist. I don't want to see Socialist in Washington causing trouble. My boy has enough Bolsheviks > troubling him there now" This raises an interesting question. Can a man be a Socialist and a gentle man? Marcus Aurelius, who was the ablest emperor of the Rom ans, used to raise that question In another way. He used to i'm qutre whether a man could be a Christian and gentleman When new movements come along, they are like new ma chimes, they have to be tried out before final judgment can be pass cd IinOn them 'The,-e are So,ooo