The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-25
Handling Labor Lead ers-TwO Kinds of Coal Advice Cham piOns of the People Writing A g ain Pershing's R e clip e for Success-A Dis tinguished Sengel- ese-MiIw auk e e Teaching Days.

takes. Governor Miller of New York was reported as saying: wall Street can handle labor unions, because it can and does handle union leaders" The fact is that Henry Ford made that state ment. By printers error the para graph from Ford's speech, got into Miller's speech. It doesn't make so much difference who said it. Is it true? Probably it would be correct to say that some labor leaders are handled by Wall street and more are not. Every flock has it's black sheep.
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 MT. Ford says: Don't buy much coal. There is plenty in the market which is being held for higher prices" Government ex- perts say: ''Doon't use much coal, because there isn't much" Tn this case MT. Ford is sure to have his way, because most folks will have to use a little
 
 Mayor Hylan has written a let ter in which he calls Hearst the champion of the people. Mr. Hearst writes editorials in which he calls Hylan the champion of the people. Around election time the country is full of champions of the people. They write eacn other letters and say beautiful things to each other. but death and taxes keep rolling on.
 General Pershing knows no recipe for success. He proposes honesty, industry, modesty, gen. erosity and a high sense of duty. He has an adjective before each of the first four qualifications
 He would have honesty scrupu- 1ous, industry persistent, modesty genuine and generosity unseIfsh.
 He doesn't designate the kind of success he has in mind. He is undoubtedly thinking of spiritual success. These are the quaIifica- tions which gain a man a saint ship.
 The gentleman who walks away with the material rewards very frequently has none of those qualifications. Some success in the material order is more likely founded on certain mental char acteristics. plus a certain oppor- tuntty. To be a great general Napoleon required type of mind. general unless his age had been an age of war. Ofentimes a sim gle quality makes 8 man success full. He may be neither honest, industrious, modest or generous and may invent a patent fly screen Or discover an oil we'll.
 
 Carpentier, hero and pugilist, was whipped to a standstilI in Paris yesterday by Battling Ski, a Senga1ese, while the French audience hooted with delight to see the "best man" win. There isn't any moral. The prize ring repeats the ethics of the herd. Carpenter went into the ring once too often. The man who whipped him. like the man who whipped John L. Sullivan. was likely not so able a fighter.
 Sporting circles in London were thunderstruck at the result of the bout. Negotiations have already been opened to bring Ski to Lon don to meet the British cham pion. Presently America may have the honor of app1auding the distinguished Sengalese. You may be sure that his visit to Eng land or America will attract more attention than the visit of
 insert here the name of the wisest, most useful man you can think of.
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 A distinguished contemporary thinks that the Democratic pro- hibition plank is a straddle. It isn't. The women wrote it into the platform. They meant busf- ness. As Miss Ruttz-Rees would say: The person who thinks that plank stradd1es thinks hope.'' The prohibition amendment IS the source of prohibition. The Volstead act is pale rehec- ton of the amendment. The women's plank says that the Vol stead act must be amended to conform in letter and spirit to the amendment This means that If the women have their way there will be more rigid en- forcement.
 How strange is human natureI In Milwaukee they had 193 actual Doo-5