The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-05-08

What can a woman with seven children study? The question was asked of Miss Grace Murray, able leader of women. at Dr. Days Forum. last night. Home economics, perhaps. Too many times the moth CT of seven children will not be able to do anything but just bring them up the best she can. The founda- tional knowledge, if not acquired be- fore she has them. will be hard to get. Only in the land are large fam lilies an economic asset. In city life the father and mother of seven chill dren, not to mention nine or ten children. has a problem that gravely taxes the most energetic.
 August Stein, a Hartford bread mixer. was caught In a great bread machine the other day. His arm and leg were crushed. He will probably die Modern Improvements bring their peculiar burdens. The woman who kneaded her own bread was safe from such accident. Machine made bread prolongs the lives of women, by making their work easier. Stein is a vicarious sacrifice.
 Fred Atwater now that the shout ing dies away, finds that the admir- ing multitude is became a crowd of critics He asks for the co-opera- tion and help of his fellow citizens. They can't relieve him of mass of laws and ordinances, many of them foolish, and destructive, which goV- ern his work. They can sympathize with him, remembe that there never was and there never will be political jobs enough for all who want them.
 John Pullman. who has drawn two commission government charters. thinks the truest sympathy will be to establish the city manager plan, so that the machinery of government will make for efficiency. instead of against it. Much depends on the machinery. The misery of man has been relieved by machines.
 Too much weight is given to the idea of government by clean, honest. affectionate and loving hearted men. Too little to government by the skill full The man who had a valuable horse suffering from a sickness would not employ to doctor it a clean. hon. est, loving neighbor, but the one who had the most skin in doctoring horses. We said something like this many times before. It will be neces- sary to repeat it many times again. Cities may be skf1lfuIly operated. Love aIons won't do it Add skill fulr' to the list of qualifications.
 In Boston. q girl of seventeen. we'll known screen actor. In New York a young woman of eighteen. after a night in the cabarets. jumps into tho Hudson. and stays there. It might bs we'll to raise the age of consent These are children. The times axe more compiler This means delayed maturity. As civilization progresses the period of childhood is extended. Give the girls a chance.
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 British labor warns France to go slow. J. H. Thomas. noted labor leader. says thnt her imperialtstic tendencies will make trouble for Flu rope. Fear is the rnainspring that moves France France is close to | the seat of danger. has been many | times attacked. and remembers what | happened. It would be better if French labor warned against the 1 dangers of Imperialism | Fr- John Belford. Brooklyn clergy | man, says that the United States is | not a Protestant country. He sup ports his claim by saying that 60 per | cent belong to no church whatever, | and that of the a0.o0o.0o0 who have | some creed 1s.ooo.ooo are Catholics 1 He is quite wfong. Luther taught | that every man may interpret the i Bible for himself and be his own | priest Millions of Protestants take this literally. The Catholic system | which educates the child to believe 1 that the church Is essential to salva- | ton, reaps the result. Are certain moths equipped with 1 wireless? The facts are under in -estigation It Is not impossible. It Is not even improbable. There Is | evidence te prove some means of communication, otherwise than by | sight. sound, odor. Proved that | insects telegraph to each other by 1 waves in the ether. it Is slightly easier | to believe in telepathy. the comn.un-