The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-28


 will start from various points in the suburbs, will journey with joyful sounds to the Plaza, all to advertise, herald, proclaim and boost the Style Show which the merchants have arranged for tonight.
 Strangers are coming in from the pected, especially if the weather is good, and parking space has been provided for them in one corner of the Plaza, that great square which the city created. without knowing quite what 1t intended to do with it.
 
 Here is one use for the Plaza, de- veloped by the newly recreated spirit of civic pride, which has produced the Style Show and the Speeding-Up cam paign. The Plaza will be a fine place for great out door meetings, with room for automobiles, fountains, seats, and spots of green.
 The Style Show with its four bands Is an outward and visible sign of an ln"aIo diAo 11iN1SloA0 Sp1I1L WILL do much for our city. Not in in stant perhaps. but in time; something soon, or earlier than that. Bridge port has bsensself satisfied. snug, compIscsnt. with more business than 1t could do, and rather unwilling to do all of that.
 Adversity has it's advantages The war being over, and the war business gone, and rents idle, and unemploy- ment common the mercantile and manufacturing sort of men, with otherewho have joined with them. are going to help things to move a little faster, chiefly to be rid of unemploy- ment. and then to benefit themselves.
 It was a great thing for the world when commerce was invented, and the first two men traded with each other the things that each had pro- duced a wild rabbit for quantity of wild grain. or something of that kind, perhaps. Commerce is Of such a nature that it cannot prosper unless many others prosper, and thus IL makes for prosperity. and is largely the source of those blessings which are contained in the phrase efhclency of civilization"
 g The merchants of Bridgeport have combined to make Bridgeport buster. That means better. Busy cities are never as bad as idle cities: That was a wise maker of maxims who said that .iStin the Devil finds some work for campaign will find work for idle hands to do. which proves that the same maxim can be read more than one way.
 The Style Show may be regarded as the symbol of a spirit of enterprise. and as a practical aid to the protect which will make the city busler PlainIy a city which spends its money af home, when it can find at home, reasonably, the thing that 1t wants, munity which constantly sends its sn,oney abroad. The Style Show helps neople to trade at home. It's an eX- ceIlent reminder of the right thing to do.
 There is something in the ctrcurn- stance of being active, enterprisins and awake that makes cities prosper, i,Ist as the same qualities make men Drosper One man. the environment being adverse, quits as the speech is, while another, more energetic and reflective, improves his condition, or, at least, holds his own.
 The Style Show proves that Bridge mort women can be as well dressed from Bridgeport stocks, and for less money, as from any other stocks. The garment bought in our city, gown, bonnet or coat, helps make Bridge port~ prosperous, more than If 1t were bought in some other town.
 
 A little later, perhaps, the mer- chants may have week for the dis play and sale at retail of goods made in Bridgeport which would always be bought here if the proper energy were used to promote their distribution.
 
 Bridgeport, in the sense of popu1a- tion, is one seven-hundred-h -hftieth part of the United States. In the com mercial scale, it is more. The manu- facturer who can increase his busi- ness by one such part, selling to his own town, has gained in an equivalent 4s way. Each business is made up of a : multitude of fractions, and it is the sum of all of them which makes any - business. If a fraction of the coun- Try as large as Bridgeport is not con then no other fraction is much worth thinking about.
 The idea is simple. This is our s town, in which our people are to have the good things of life, including em- ployment. Idle rents need to be filled. Doctors, and lawyers, butchers. bak- CTS and candle stick makers, insur- arce men and realators, have an in 3 terest with all others in that co-opera- tion which helps all and helps each. The Retail Division of the Chamber of Commerce is doing a generous and . necessary work.