The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-06-30
Civil War Common Irish War Expected
 Keep Gates Closed Now - No Disre- spect to Decalogue Senator on Edge of Defeat.

or Defeat.
 Civil war is common enough. Too common. Such wars have been the bitterest. When relatives quarrel they hate each other more than they do strangers. A wife will hate her husband, and he her. sometimes. England had War of the Roses, the Cromwellian Wars and many others, that were internecine. France often fought with Frenchmen. Our own Civil War was remarkable for the mercy that was rendered to defeated kinsmen. Lincoln was the father of this mercy. That act places Lincoln in every list of greatest men.
 The Civil War in Ireland belongs in the realm of the expected. It would be stranger if it did not occur. It has been conducted humanely If it becomes an economic war, it will be bitter. No war more bitter than class war. Russia. proves this.
 Newspapers want circula ton. It is quite the fashion to say the things that are popular. Some newspapers advocate immediate opening for inn migration. They point to millions of foreign born in America. Say that time not very remote saw every white American foreign born.
 Nevertheless there 'are thos who may be said to be Americans in the larger sense, because their generations in the land have deprived them of their consciousness of participation in any other land. The foreign born person immediately arrived, leaves behind him father, and mother, chil- dren; a village he loved; scenes dear to his mind. Children, hearing their parents, have affection for the father land. Their children say, whats it to us?" In tn fourth generation Is the new land is the only land. Mem ory of the old is all but gone. Read how the Saxons assin1iIated the Nor mans.
 All who live in America, who fn- tend to live here. wish to live wisely. They are a. great family willing to receive guests, but not more guests than they can properly entertain. They will wish to pick their guests Flu rope Is full of people whom Amer fca wants in due season, Has others who would be merely a burden +o Americans, who ought to be support ed in the land where they belong. It would be wrong to open wide the gates just now.
 General Federation of wonnen's Clubs. wish citizenship taught in all schools. Brisbane, abIest of editors. wants to know What is there lack ing fin ten commandments in the way of an education in good citizenship, :" The elements that are lacking in the way Of an education in chemistry. The good citizen. to execute the com mandments. must know the facts of government. the nature Of industry. the use of money. the phenomena of distribution and many other things To love efficiently. even a mother must act intelltgently. It is not dis respectful to the commandments. to teach mothers the art of child rear ing.
 One editor says that the next war will be a war upon insects. He says that the enemy of the entire human race Is the insect. Insects fertilize the flowers. which give the fruit They help in other ways. Some fn- sects are enemies; some are friends Killing off insects will not be easv It will be hard to know which to kill Nature has a nicely balanced svster, The removal of one evil often pernits spared.
 Porter J. McCumber, Senator since 1899. is on the edge of defeat bv North Dakota Republicans. voting in primary election for nominations Cause-a divided Republican mind Lynn J. Frazier represents other side of party mind; a radical with tepden- cies to policies that would be social ASl4S "ehe they not intended to inn prove the condition of farmers only. One of the two great parties must undergo the ordeal of being made over, or 1t may be destroyed. Parties are built of beliefs. When there is no common belief. party life cannot be long.
 This is an age of change. New concepts conflict with old. The bet- ter machine displaces the worse. It is the same with social machinery as with machines of brass and steel. The latest modern improvement com mands the market. But in the SO cial market transactions are slower More people have to make up tbe.r