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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-20

- ~ ENRY and Martha were we'll
 launched into the second
 edition of their daily argu- ment
 Henry, I feel absolutely disgraced- Mrs. Mason asked me today to ask you please not to say such words to her Jimmy as you did last night when he , threw a stone at you in fun. She says it was terrible for big man like you to call little angel like that such aw- full names. Just because your family ain't refined doesn't excuse your act ing like a-a-I don't know what!"
 Henry fiercely resented the insult directed at his long-suffering family. He had just fallen over small red wagon belonging to the little angel' but left in the middle of Henry's side walk, and as a result was nursing a painfully sensitive ankle.
 i twill you please tell that dev-I mean angeI-that if he leaves any more of his confounded toys on my property, I'll call him names that even his father never heard, and that's go- ing some!"
 Martha was scandalized and let him know 1t. By the time they had reach ed the second and last course of din ner, he had heard the familiar list, greatly detailed, of his family's fail
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-20
rIMMY WAITE" Said Peg, sol-
 N emnly. I've decided to marry Miss Henderson to MT. Browne"

MISS 11SnuSTSOn lO bIO"h hC.
 Her next door neighbor sat down on the piazza railing, regarding her in stunned silence. Miss Henderson is too splendid to spend her life in a schoolroom and MT. Browne is perfectly fine. They've boarded here for ages. Mother doesn't lneed to keep boarders now I'm at work, but she'll never send them away. So I'm going to do it and you must help me-
 You don't usually need help in your wickedness." remarked Jimmy. How the mischief will you do it?"
 "There are two ways" she exclaim- ed. "PropinQuity-nearne you know"
 Jimmy promptly moved along the piazza rail
 Jimmy Waite!"
 He moved away slightly, teasing pretty Peg with mischievous eyes.
 And mental suggestion" finished the girl. When two people are thrown together great deal. they naturally fall in love; and if you keep the mat rimonial idea constantly in their minds it will have its effects. I've a theory that both methods com
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-20

discussion of the new turn in events. With unusual briskness for Henry he hurried home and entered the flat with a queer quickness of breath.
 "Martha!" he called.
 No answer.
 ~Martha!"
 Silence
 He searched the flat from end to end. He opened closets. pulling out their contents and seeming curiously pleased to find an old dusty suit case in the corner of one.
 "Martha!" he called again.
 After minute of unbroken silence his frown returned. He continued his search. He turned all the neatly kept flat into a topsy-turvy condition He wandered among the rooms without seeming destination. He was begin ming to have a choky feeling in his throat, and to wonder why the place felt so hot, when the kitchen door opened and Martha came in. For a moment he stared in unbelief. Then:
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-20

HERE! That settles his hash;
 With look that startled al ]. innocent student in a front seat Miss Mason, teacher at District School No. 7, crushed a letter in her 'Hahd and cast it into the waste basket
 Earl! Are those examples all done?"
 Nope"
 Then get to work" ! Shirley felt a pang of -c,,s,- .y inn imediately after her last words Ten iyear-old Earl looked at her in amaze iiment; then there flashed in his eyes 8 hurt expression In another instant Earl was pUzzling over his examples. Gollyi Why should she get mad at me? I didn't do anything. Let's see. If Rover drove 120 cows to pasture and Is were lost-Oh! I can't-I iguess-"
 At that moment the recess bell Trang. The doors were opened and the children filed out, signing with re- lief at the thought of a few moments of play. Waiting outside by the door stood great shepherd dog.
 Hello. old girl" cried Earl. as the dog ran to greet him. ''Be good now ard come with me-"
 Earl went back IhTo the room. :l,n de; following at his heels. For a mo- C1snt he wished he had not entered. Miss Mason's eyes were filled with tears
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-20
A Recruit From the City.

Mother" said MT. Cobbles. q hope you will be as considerate of our new hired man as you can for few weeks"
 What for?" asked Mrs Cobbles.
 Hes only getting $50 a month and his board. It's up to you and me to make him forget that. he made sl0 a day during the war;"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-20

No matter how well you live some one will always be able to live better. so have the courage to live according to your own means.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-20

-~ ENRY and Martha were well
 E launched into the second ~ -~- edition of their daily argu-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25
STILL AT 1T

,6OLONEL McCAIN'S report from Chi
~ cago that W. T.. Foster is still engaged
In: his radical propaganda within the labor
unions will surprise no one who read
Tdster's book on the steel strike.
In that illuminating volume Foster inti-
m3tcd that the radicals were making a
ersevous mistake in remaining outside OF the
REGULAR labor unions. II they Joined these
uilons they could readily turn them into
revolutionary organizations and could
further the causes in which they were in
te1ested much more effectively than if they
wdtked Independently
The only flaw in the Foster theory lies in
its ignoring of the fact that the American
w0fkingman. whether in n union or outside,
:not revolutionary. lie knows that in a
pJlitical and industrial system in which
ahiiity is recognized and which is essentially
de3nocratc no worthy person has anything
to.fpar.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25
THE TAX RATE BUCABOO

MAYOR MOORE'S aversion to n sug-
4A gestei increase of the tax rate is sup
partcd by Il candid and specific survey OF
municipal finances which cannot fail to
carry conviction to all persons save those
. wiibse vision is not obscured by fractional
prejudice.
Mr. Moorc's warning against excessive
concentrations for county departments Is
pertinent and we'll timed. The joint juris-
diction Of county and municipality in this
ciey has long been more than source of
administrative Surcrluity In the present
situation machine control of the county
of5ces is rapitalizcd by anti Administration
forces to cmbarrass the city departments
and obstruct their just claims for adequate
financial support.
Che Mayor has clearly proved that the
municipality will not be financially crippled
II appropriations for the county bureaus are
kept within bounds. His report in which
the dubious course of short -rirCuting APP
pEppriations and depending upon transfers
and extraordinary receipts 70 make up the
deficiencies at the end of the year is en-
plfntically ccnsured. is a model of we'll
arrni ed. definite information.
The tax rate bugaboo is an old expedicnt
for disturbing public opinion and e!iciting
IT'S disapprovnl of those political elements
which appear to bear the blame for threat
enSd Increase. In his citation of the prac-
tical and important improvements under
taken by his administration this year and
the limitations upon extravaganza and
'ws&te, the Mayor has conclusivey shown
where the odum for imposing or planning
to Impose higher rates must lie.
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as ruthless ana decidedly less whimsical than
the seven -wived Bluebeard Of legend.

A. ruthless and decidedly less whimsical than
the seven -wived Bluebeard Of legend.
With such figures Of either history or
fable, neither the late Nat G. Goodwin nor
the present divngating Hopper present
many analogies. Both players have stood
high in popular favor. Mr.. Hopper's
breezy comic talents have lost little of in
tclligent appeal in the long period Of his
admirable services to the stage.
His fifth wife leaves home apparently In
the best of tempers. dubs him good fell
low and by construction and in prospect
blcsses an imaginable sixth set of nuptials
in his variegatcd life history.
Mr.. Hopper ought to be a shocking phe-
nomenon. lie should be and the uxorous
but tickle Mr.. Goodwin before him should
have been horrible examples Of the frivolous
abuse of the marriage tic.
The good -naturcd public persists in smil-
ing. evidently refusing to take Mr.. Hopper
more seriously in his domestic than in his
footlight relations.
His matrimonial performances bode little
or no Ill to the social fabric. They are. as
were Mr.. Goodwin's, too amusingly ex-
travagant. too naively contcmptuous OF ex-
pcrcnce, to be typical.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25
SIMON N. PATTEN

CGMON NELSON PATrEN was a pro-
~, found and original thinker, OF impreg-
naale intellectual honesty. and one of the
most lucid interpreters of the principles of
economics in the annals of n complex and
elliive science.
Traits OF personality. winning in init
m3te Associations were occasionally mis-
construed in more distant view, and 1t
ives occasionally the fate of a candid. in
physically ovable philosopher 10 be re-
Easiled as n rash radical and an exponent
ofAverturn In the social structure. His ad-
mlrers-and thousands OF the graduates Of
th& University Of Pennsylvania can be num-
be4td in this category-will not cease TO re-
Erff this misconception OF a strongly marked
Individuality.
IN later years. it is true, DR.. Patten's
ex3icriments with literary forms uncongenial
to- .his tnlpntS-such as novel and hymn
whiting him with reputation for
er3hnt fantasy and oddity. These qualities
srs not. however. discernible in his long
sef,es of writings. as erudite as they are
clear, upon economic problems and their so
lutiOn.
During the best period Of his activities
hig,intellectual leadership in his chosen field
wSt authentic and world wide As an
ecfhomist his rank is secure and his name
Btptham. Ricardo, Henry George, Carey
ard Adam Smith.
il comparatively little Of the theories Of
these pioneers is unquestioned today, If
controversy has ranged about some of their
most cherished deductions. their integrity Of
p,SSpoSe and the effect of their reasoning
uIsvn modern political economy is undenl-
able.
Economics Is study perpetualy in a
state of huX. At the height of his long
scholastic career, DR.. Patten performed In
vmuable services in the cause of the critical
inSestigation of the modern social industrial
and financial structure. The present
prestige of the Wharton School of the Uni
vQ9ity of Pennsylvania is largely traceable
~ this inspiration,
N his death. despite all his later vagaries,
tAe community loses one of its wise men.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25
MELTED MUSIC

TN PANAMA, in Madras or in Singapore
L nobody would conceive Of giving an
open-air concert in the broiling sun at
o'clock in the afternoon. Residents OF the
tropics understand their own climate and
adjust their habits to its character, with
the result that life in the torrid zone Ia by
no means the scorching horror that Is I'M
agined by outsiders.
Philadelphians, on the other hand. per-
sst in pretending that their summer weather
is not violently equatorial. become incensed
ut high temperatures which the weather
Bureau sercnely pronounces normal and are
repeatedly vcxed when the heat interferes
with pleasures and pursuits suitable to
Copenhagen in July, but not to South
eastern Pennsylvania.
If proper respect were paid to the sum.
mer isotherms Of this region. business would
he suspended for couple Of hours around
midday. cloth suits and stuffy straw hats
would be discarded for white ducks and
pith- helmets, the noon siesta custom would
be brought north from sensible Latin
America. and commercial and recreative ac-
tivitcs would he confined to the early morn
ing and late afternoon hours.
Of course this arrangement Of the day
will never be effected here. Americans have
acquired the notion that rushing around in
the heat connotes enterprise and progress
and that suffering In summer Is necessary
evil. 1t Is perhaps useless to combat that
view. but even acceptance Of It Is no pallia- =
ton for the absurd plan of holding sizzling
matinee concerts under the blazing sun at
Lemon Hill.
Naturally n single performance-that Of
last sunday ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the
impractcability of the venture. Musicians,
auditors and instruments were almost liter
ally roasted. 4 fortunate abandonment OF
the concert after the first number saved the
violins from liquefying into puddles Of var
nish and the horns from becoming masses Of
molten metal.
The cultivation Of the tropical mind and
Of tropical turns of thought will do much
more to make summer in town bearable
than the most determined efforts not to
mind the weather. It Is good enough
weather If handled with intelligence.
Happily, the management is displaying a
comprehension Of realities in canceling all the
Sunday afternoon dates of the Paramount
Park symphony Orchestra. That admir-
able organization will be heard nightly on
week days at Lemon Hill. where the eve
ming breezes carry some refreshment, while
for the Sunday program a series Of chill
dren's concerts on Saturday mornings will
be substituted.
1t is announced that these performances
will begin at 10 A. NJ. An even earlier
hour would seem advisable, If one reflects
that there Is virtually no shade in the open
auditorium and that heat and humidity hold
sway quite as intensely in Philadelphia in
summer as on the coast Of Surinam.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25
MATRIMONIAL PARADES

V1fHEN DR.. Johnson defined the remar.
w riage of a widower as the triumph of
hai,e over experience his characterization
w0s apt but his imagination limited. Just
what the marital adventures of De Wolf
Hbbper typify, unless it be an unfair race
v1gh Nat Goodwin, deceased, it would be
- to say.
4edda Hopper, who Is suing the popular
eGlnsdian for divorce, describes her viva
clSEs husband as "One Of the grandest men
M america" He is all of that and more
~. irrepressble optimist, an unwearied
aihtory conquistador, perhaps even an un-
(eGojsAed idealist.
i Henry VIII whose marital record is sell
tied, even nowadays, could not be said
4 have sincerely pursued the eternal femi-
80. 1t was not so much the 'ewige
WI >1ichkeit" as cynical politics which
"a In his half dozen marriages. Fur
more, he was a bloody old rufian, quite
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25
NOW MY IDEA is THIS!
Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphian Subjects They
KnOU Best

the great bulk Of which had been down for
twenty. five years or more, .S;es. and OF this
a concrete foundation. The life Of a pave
ment is about twenty five years and few
cities figure on any type of paving giving
more than this length Of service.
'"There are about $50 miles of asphalt
paving in the city and this paving will also
age, much Of it being not on concrete
foundation. Where a concrete foundation
is used the foundation itself is reasonably
permanent and the surfacing may be re-
granite block and asphalt, represent the
great majority of the paving in Philadel-
phia.
A Great Year for Street Work
''In Philadelphia it is our practice to use
six.inch concrete foundation in every case
where rebuilding is found necessary. and 1t
is our invariable rule to 60 clear to the bot.
tom and construct the most permanent road
bed which can be laid. Whatever surface
type is used, the foundation is now the
same where rebuilding is done.
1.-THE Year 1921 was by far the greatest
year. in the history of the city for road
any year in the past which is in any way
comparable with it. Then we placed con-
tracts for sixty-nine miles of streets. of
which thirty nine We're completed at the
close OF the year and the remainder is in
progress this year. For this work Council
appropriated S6,00O,0O0. Of which the
sixty nine miles consumed $1,000, 900 and
with the remainder, twelve miles of new
roads are under construction this year.
when 1t Is considered that the previous
average of construction was only about
fifteen miles a year. 1t will readily be seen
what was done last year. This figure is
for years prior to the war; as, of course,
during that time very little could be ac-
complished.
Salvaging Granite Blocks
THE policy of the bureau in repaving
the granite block streets is to have the
blocks recut and set upon the concrete
foundation, thus saving the blocks and
saving very considerable amount to the
city. In the thirty nine miles completed
last year, twenty seven were of recut gran
ite blocks. In 1912 there were $50 miles of
granite block paved streets in the city and
now, ten years later, there are 343. OF
asphalt. there were then 472 miles against
640 now. This means that practically nil
the granite block in the city then is simply
ten years older now, the recutting of them
and relaying on the concrete foundation
being one Of the features of the 1921 paving
program.
Street. making rises and falls with the
rate of new building in a city. Phiadel
phia has now 1904 milcs'of improved streets
and roads in the city limits, very close to
the length of the entire road system of tho
State of Maryland. Only Greater New
York and Chicago have Il larger mileage
AS a rule the road mileage of Il city follows
closely ITS place in population. Condition
~ one OF the main things. and in this resnect
Philadelphia Is now holding its own we'll"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25
WHEAT IS PLENTY

A CCORDING to estimates made in Wash
n inston, the wheat crop of the world.
exclusive Of Russia, will be 2,753 1856 900
bushels this year. Reports from Russia
Indicate a good crop there.
These figures have been surpassed many
times in the past. In 1913, for example,
els or more than l 800, 600 900 in excess of
this year's crop. But this was an excep-
tionai year. In 1917 the crop was only
. oo4 600 900 bushels. In 1915 it was about
20 600 900 bushels more than this year, but
the Weld this year is greater than in any
other year since the war ended.
II the Russian crop is big enough to sup
ply the local needs, the crop in the rest of
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25

the world will Be sufacient for al rsason-
able demands upon It. and cheap bread,
which we have had for some time, will
continue. The normal crop Of Russia is
about SOC, ,OOO, 900 bushels, a considerable
portion Of which was exported. 1t Is not
likely that anything like this amount has
been raised this year. But 1T is generally
believed that she has enough to avert the
fear Of famine for the next twelve months.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25

A dispatch from Paris tells of an Amer.
lean named Thomas Knock who has dis.
covered by painful experience that the copy :
ing of ''old masters" is ilOurishing indus =
try in the Latin Quarter. He paid $50, 900
for forty three fakes. To the takers every
Knock Is boost.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25

De Valera bottled up, remarked tn
Man Without a Conscience, is now depend
ent upon his Cork 8 crew.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25

After he has been knocked out, Old
Man Business will neither know nor care
whether he was hit by a cob Of coal or a
length Of steel rail.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25
Quit your porrying and tretting

Quit your worrying and fretting
O'er the future of the fair.
Never, nerer be forgetting
Bonniwell is here! SO there
TO his charm pe'H be behoidcn.
BOnny peH his tale he'll fcH
Quaf the eloquence still golden
From the deSths of BonniUeH!
Still, ne're kn0wn some guys pho kneo
things.
What zoe needs a chap to do tAtnys.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25

General Bruce says the eventual ascent
Bruce must have interviewed modern spider.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25

Smithsonian Institution report says the
English sparrow is q friend Of the farmer.
lie never, never puts on lugs. He has an
annette for bugs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25

The natural supposition Is that IL un
covered knees are not dimpled shore resor
policemen pay no attention to them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25

Practice Is making local postal workers
expert with rcvolvers. The bandit business
may yet become precarious.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25

The illcgality Of traffic In stolen goods
Is bound to have a depressing effect on
Russian commerce.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25

From the very first, remarked the Sap.
less Bean. the radio business has been on q
sound basis.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25

How much Of the coal we are getting
from England Is arriving in American
bottoms?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25

Ii Billie Burke will only forgive Flo
Ziegfeld for whatever she mistakenly thinks
he has done, an anxious world will resume
its normal functions
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25

Irish irreRulars are said to be retiring
to the Knockmealdown Mountains; pre-
sumably for q pickmeup.
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Today's AnnIversarIes

lSl4-Battle of Bridgewater, or Lundy' q
Lane. one of the most destructive Of the
War of 1912
=, lS2o-George II. Pendleton, United States
Senator from Ohio and nominee for Vice
PRESIDENT, born in Cincinnati. Died IN
Brussels, Belgium. in 1880.
:, tooiLsamuel T. Coleridge, famous Eng.
lish poet and writer, died. Born October
q. 1772.
,, lsa1-Dr. Ezra Green. oldest graduate Of
ia narvnrd ,W College, died at Dover, N. H., in
1S57-Nat C. Goodwin. lone a nonulsr
actor actor OF the American stage, born in Boston.
DIED In New York City. January 81, 1910.
ls61-The Rev. John Freeman YOUNG
Florida.
lS7S-British Parliament voted the Duke
OF Connaught $50,0O0 a year on his mar.
rage with Princess Louise Margaret Of
l9le-The President prohibited shipmcuts
OF arms from the United States to Mexico.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25

Take 1t as a rule, any man who dsres
to sacrifice himself for the public is bound
to get slammed
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25

Coal Strike and Rail Strike are twin
screws on rack on which the public is
stretched.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25

State troops are due to discover that
rules work better when diluted with com
mon sense.
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Why Not?

the human voice thrown on Il screen. This
is marvellous, but in an age that has pro.
duccd the phonograph and the radio we are
prepared for marvels. Perhaps the next
step Will be to print the voice waves so thaI
one may read them as rapidly as one wishes
without having to wait fOra the delibers"
oratorical periods Of a phonograph.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25

John d. at SO Still Bars Reporters. u
But as he grows older he may yet see the
error of his ways.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-25

Burglars in New Haven, Conn,
home are alleged to have given silver the
acid test before taking it away. 1t is
positively depressing to realize how sus-
picious the sophisticated grow.