The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-06-28
Gambling Hell Sup ports Useful Science
 Fascinating MT. M urray w h y Crimes Get B i g Headlines Backing the Four Hour Day Advertise for a Boss-HOld Up Men Need Statistical In- StructiOn.

Prince Albert of Monaco, ruler of a territory eight miles square, drew his revenues from the great gambling establishment at Monte Carlo, which his subjects were not permitted to enter for purposes of play. He ex- pended money in exploring ocean bottoms and mapping ocean currents.
 Such contrasts are common in life. In the old, wet days some excellent clubs were mainly supported by profit from the bar room. Predatory if nance founds colleges and endows churches. Some of the greatest cathedraIs were erected in expfation of crime. Many a man who gets his money doubtfully employs it use fully. Most of us are creatures of opportunism, better than the stomach permits us to be.
 John Murray of Passaic, attempted filtration with Mrs. James Gibson. wife of a, neighbor. She told him to go. He didn't. She came with a gun. He escaped alive, but fright ened. The world is full of such men. If the women should shoot every one of them, ammunition factories would run over time. Most women are too tender hearted to shoot.
 Today's morning papers have headlines as follows: Body tossed where Peters was found; Mystery in Motive of Double Staying; Paris Got Me, said Self Poisoned Girl; One Man Slain as Gang Gets s5,5oo Payroll; and many more of the same sort. In days to come such news will usually be told inside the paper, in few words, under a small head.
 We are comparatively savage: are not informed about the proportion or things Monuments of generals are more numerous than monuments of scientsts, though battles influence course of life less than inventions do IS a matter of mental age, Boys ioiio" Famous prize fighter in crowds. as he goes up street. The older person gets himself some ,+b.- kind of a hero.
 Another reason Is lack of develop ment of the mathematical sense. If everybody understood that in so many millions of population, there will be so many murders. suicides. and sW on. that these things are as certain as can be, interest would be less.
 There isn't enough knowledge of biology. sociology and pathology. If everybody knew that the great pro- portion of the persons who are in vofved in these antics were mental ly eubnormal. often mere morons. there would be less interest in the criminal, and more interest in the remedy.
 There are a few more interested in measures for insuring that men and women shall be soundIy and properly born, than in the circum- animals which they largely are.
 It isn't very complimentary. but in the whole world only here and there a person is interested ip the things that really matter. It is the trifling things, close at hand, easy to see, though not always so easy to under stand, that devour attention. Much easier to grasp the abilities of pitch
 
 understood, would make Bridgeport a better city to live in.
 Miss Kiely. young, intelligent and courageous, who Is doing her best to keep her union on a four hour day, it being her duty so to do as its head, is fearful. that young people may be kept in school late that they will be coming home after dark. When the young lady has family of her own, she will understand that the parental problem for young people of High school age, is not to get them home In time for supper. but to get them in before midnight. when they go out after supper
 Why not advertise. Ad should read something like this: Wanted; Ambitious politician to lead one of Bridgeport's leading political parties, Obedience guaranteed to right per son. Compensation, twenty per cent on all city business. Opportunity for right man to make a fortune"
 Hold up men are mostly deficient in arithmetic in school years Right applications of figures weren't taught. Problems from actual statistics might include, such: What is the percent age of chance that hold up man will get away with the loot and keep out of Jail? If the chance is ten to one