The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-16

garden, fracturing his skull. Cable from Rome says. that doc- tors fear for his brain. During the world war the feats of D'An- nunzio in the air amazed the AL lied armies. He lost an eye, was wounded in the arm; survived hail storms of shot and shell. Soldiers are fatalists. "If you're not born to be killed by a bullet, then you'll not be- they say. It is strange to survive so much and be destroyed by so little.
 
 Lena Stein, mute for 70 years, recovered her speech, in the Jewish Home in New York. She spoke, however, in the English, not in German, which was the speech of her youth. Not strange, that English should be her speech. She has been think ing. Speech is in the brain. People can think in words with
 
 forming muscle. Lena speaks English because she has been thinking English. Thought is the most important.
 
 Arthur Griffith, Irish patriot, is buried today. Thousands fol- low the cortege. mourning in deep sorrow. Another great man will presently be laid away, in England. Which will have the greatest place in history, Griffith, the statesman, or Northcliffe. the editor? Who rendered the greatest service to society. Who had the purest motive. These clements enter into the estimate. Each person may form his own conclusion,
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 What Is immortality, that som ething in the dead which makes the living desire to recall them generations after the inn mortals are in the tomb? What test shall be applied? :? Shall it be the same test which Is applied to materials. Men say, '"This machine has been in use for a hundred, or two hundred, or more years. It is a good ma chine."
 A count of names will help. Socrates. Jesus. Paul, Joan of Arc, leader Of French armies; the French nation honors her as fer vent1y today. as 1t did three hundred years ago. Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, comparative private business, render vast ser- vice sometimes, but history does not remember them long. The greatest of the immortals were . the pure in heart: those who did unselfish service for the mNl- titude.
 Of Bridgeport institutions how many survive that were here a hundred, a hundred and fifty, or two hundred years ago? Among tho oldest Is the United Church. Old. but younger, is The Times succeeding in unbroken change from the weekly newspaper es- tablished in 179e. Long life of show that germs of immortality are in altruism, in the institution that serves others rather than itself. Rotarians have a motto, Service above se1f.''
 
 Mrs. Ivy Giberson, County Jail, Toms River, N. J.. screamed loudly. Neighbors found the body of her husband. shot to death, with a .3s calibre bullet. Woman said burglar killed him. Witnesses assert that body was cold within 40 minutes after the screaming. Bodies do not give up their heat so readily. Nature works against falsehood. One .who tells lie Is in a net of cir cumstances \ which holds him captive. He can't escape.
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 New England railroads discuss merger. Governor Cox. Massa- chusetts, tells conference New England's material interests de- nand merger. The railroads need it, if New England does not. The more the railroads look the more they will see how high cost of transportation stif1es railroad business. Neighb orhoods resume industries abandoned for twenty years. Motor cars arrive in null tftudes. Highways are built by 1nyriads of miles, all of con- crete, smooth and hard. The ut most railways can do by economy and unity will hardly suffice to weight the scale so that the bal ance may turn in their favor. TRADE NAMES REGISTERED. Souvenir Home Bakery is the ne ,ame of the shop managed by MI Aspasia Voultsos at 1079 Stratfo venue, according to papers filed wi he secretary of state at Hartford ye erday. Other new trade names re