The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-06-06

AT a recent conference of ministers
1t was asserted that a large majority
OF the preachers of the country have
incomes of less than $500 a. wear IT
mas been always thus In everv age
Teilg1on has been ascettc- Those who
mad the most influence were fire.
quently seekers of aims, They lived
On monasttc institutions; slept in cold
bare cells; wore hair cloth, and went
barefoot The idea that the preach
er should have an income, as other
men, is comparatively modern. Tenn
pie religions have often .organized
TO a point where some few of their
cIergymen might be well paid, or
even in receipt of princeIy incomes,
but the vast number of the prfes+
mood have been in every faith little
familiar with worldly goods.
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In the news of yesterday was the
story of III Russian children with
CHAMBERS a terrible and filthy dis
ease, shot to put them out of their
misery They got the disease from
eating refuse. including the meat of
Elandered horses. This is part of
the penalty which the world pays for
war, accompanied by revolution born
ahead of time. Social stability is
slow growth. 1t is easy to disturb
it. and difficult to restore it, The
opposite of stability in government,
IS anarchy, more or less complete.
Here and there in America LABOR
leaders are devising new ways for
carrying on their fight. One way is
to loaf on the job. producing little
This is the way of starvation 1t is
not sound economic method. 1t
cannot work in practice for the win
ming Of the contest, and it is sure to
work, in the long run to make every
body poorer than before.
Industrial Division. Retail Board,
Chamber of Commerce, is sending out
$4,000 circulars, describing the at
fractions of Bridgeport. The circu-
lar Is tiny enough to enter the or
binary eneyelope. 1t is a compen-
dunn of merit Bridgeport has peo-
pie. power. diversified labor. housing,
harbors, numerou factories, and a To-
cation rs minutes from the greatest
market OF the world. Life is COM
portable in Bridgeport, and prosper
,oun
Lillian Russell, whose real name
was Nellie Leonard. entered vaude-
willie many years ago, VIII en- art in this
form was not so fashionable as it |
has become. She was beautiful. In
teIligent and Industrious. She did |
much to elevate vaudeville to its
present position; gained for herself. |
fame, fortune and husbands. She |
had four OF the latter. for which she
Fwas criticised. The early history of |
mad three and four wives, burt seldom
did a woman have as many husbands. |
Life was too hard on the women. AS
she came to advanced years the ia
lnous beauty became interested in the
poor, ana in various social problems,
following the law OF growth; which
brings seriousness with years, to those
who arc Intelligent
Distinguished cleric says that par
rents must not tell of communications
with their vanished sons. because only
damned souls communicate with the
living This is another interesting
contribution DO the literature of spir-
itism. Since nobody is very sure
what it is that communicates; or If
anything does; nor whether the phe-
nomena are teiepathtc, Or due to ODE
scure energies OF the mind not tele-
pathic, It Is good to have it settled
that there are communications. that
they do come from the souls of the
departed, and that the souls are in
hell The proof of continuation is
complete. provided. and here's the
question, that the clerical gentleman
can prove what he says.