The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-04

s32,0oe to protect $26. 100000 worth of securities for which the State Treasurer of Pennsylvania is respon- sible. This sounds businesslike and imposing. It is nevertheless dis cordant with modern practice. A state is ab1er to carry its own losses, than any insurance company can be. It is cheaper for a state to carry it's own losses. because for the insur- ance it must pay a. large profit
 
 The probability that any considera- ble amount of Pennsylvania securi- ties will be obtained by a burglar Is so much smaller than the size of the premium paid for protection that 1t would really be cheaper for the state to send a delegate and put down a small stake on the tables at Monte Carlo. Insurance has it's proper place in the protection of the individ- ual who cannot afford to risk a loss of the property he owns, even though the probability of loss is remote.
 
  has been in session during one leg islatie day of 2,475 hours. The leg islative day is an arrangement which dispenses with formalities. the chief part of which is the opening prayer by the chaplain One prayer has been eliminated 104 times There never has been a period in which the Senate has needed prayer so much. The news that the sessions open with the usual invocation is good tidings to the country. The Senate chaplain must pray powerfully and hope for the best.
 Coralie Coudert, once Mrs. William Gould Rrokaw. next Mrs. William G. Rocker, next Mrs. Harold Perry Erskine, is again a widow, the pro- duct of a French divorce court. Mrs. Erskine has been among the best dressed women of her set, rates as a vantages that wealth can procure. Hers is one more American high life experience in matrimonial shipwreck It would be interesting if a compe- tent scientist would investigate the causes Of divorce among the wealthy Are some such persons unfit to mar ". and would they in a world sci- duties and responsibilities of welded life?
 Tha automobile makers announce price cuts. really large slicing. Au- tomobiles. especially those of mod nor more servtceable than they are now. They are the greatest temp tation that has come in this age to Americans of every degree. The richer the man. as a rule the richer the car he buys; but the poorest man must have one. The amount of in- come diverted from other purposes to the operation of automobiles Is enormous. Incomes have not in creased in the same degree. there fore the money spent on autom obiles must be partly diverted from hous- ing, food, clothing and other con- ventences and necessities which the people consume.
 The owners of railroads say "No" to the Preside ent. Leaders of work men may say 'Yes.'' Workmen have not so much the habit of will fulness. because they are less prac-
 
 time is coming apparently when workers may be just as willful as their employers. Before this hap pens, government ought to bring the labor disputes in transportation and coal mining into subordination tc all such disputes It must decide and its decisions must be honored The economic welfare, the materia prosperity and the happiness of the country depend upon just this result
 
 The telephone service in the United States and Canada stops for one minute today as the body of Alex ander Graham Bell is lowered into it: grave on a mountain top near Sidney Nova Scotia It would have been { tribute more to the liking of Bell i provision was made for the greates possible use of the telephone for on, minute That silence is a species O negatiou of the dead mans work Bells claim to greatness is the vas service his inventive genius rendered to mankind. That this service should cease completely for even a minut is not so fine a tribute as its nor intensive use would be.
 GORMAN'S DAUGHTER