The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-10


 With the thermometer at 79, John D. Rockefeller, worlds richest man at s3, went to church, yesterday, in an overcoat, a heavy muffler, a leather waistcoat tightly buttoned, a pair of heavy soled shoes and a straw hat. The rich man keeps his body warm and his head cool Good judgment. At S3 the fire burns low, and the heat of the body must be conserved. It takes much heat to carry a man to 83. Few indeed are repositories of so much energy. The body is an in terna1 combustion engine, much more perfect than the engine in the best automobile; more economical of fuel and smoother running.
 
 H. G, welles fancifully describing the inhabitants of the moon, says that the lunar monarch has a brain so highly developed that the rest of his body is dwarfed. The brain works so hard they run a stream of water over it, to keep it cool. The more en- ergy a body emits, the more heat it tends to develop. The energy output of the human brain is small. No cooling is needed beyond that of the blood supply The Rockefeller out put has been large. Measured by the brain output of the great think CTS, small.
 
 Mrs. Molla Mallory, having talked vigorously, has been beaten at tennis, by Suzanne LengIen, the French champion, who proved her complete superiority over the American. Amer jeans who go abroad to contest cham pionships have a. special duty besides that of winning. if they can They must conduct themselves in a sports manlike way. being neither boastfuI before the event, nor small spirited after it. The American must improve her game and her temper
 
 The pictures of Paris gowns show the models in skirts that are longer. and longest. Some sweep the ground again. America has only good wishes for the great Partisan industry of fashion making, and Is willing to help. but not, let us hope, by giving up short skirts. Curiously, Partisan fashions are strongest in America. In Europe most of the people want American fashions. which they say are the prettiest and the most suit able. The short skirt is healthfuI. and pretty. and the American leg, us- ually not offensive to the eye.
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 Van Dissel, president of the Com munist organization of Holland. says that the Hague Conference is a last attempt to bolster up the rule of pri- vate property. He's wrong. Private property will exist for countless gen. erations. Communism is the first condition of savages who occupy the land in common. From time to time it will be thought wise to give to cer- tain enterprises a public character. but these will be a small part of the whole number.
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 It Is fashionable to talk about communication between planets and stars. The fastest thing men know are waves which travel 1S6,oOO miles a second. This would do very well for planetary communication. but would be slow for star work. Under lying the electron, which approaches the speed of light when it travels may be more refined forms of matter. with q speed greater than 1s6.Oo0 ihlles a second. For a long time man perceived only the grosser forms of matter. It may be that his means of seeing are still crude.
 War is expensive. America left be- hind in France certain materials ot war, including works of all kinds These were turned over to the French government under suitable arranre ment. Government has disnosed nj them, netting itself about s3OO.O OOO 900 Greatest cost of war is the 1dleness which follows it: the loss o1 the product which society might hayt created and did not
 
 Walter B. Lashar. returned from Europe, says that American heIp i, needed there. and that some of the ployed profitab1y for the nrornofio, Of foreign welfare True enourh The function of internationa1izatio i one Of the benefits which big bushes, prILsing TO the United States Thf: IS one world, in which all men ar. linked together for veal or woe, T. one part of the world suffers, all nart, Tn some degree must share in tht su1Ierlng- United States wisely heIn, itself when it wisely helps Eurone