The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-19

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 Charles Bouzek, B, deputy sher- if of Jefferson County, Missouri, u1n- piring a baseball game at Fenton. was killed, early in the week by dissatisfied spectator, who struck him on the head with a bat. The assai1ant, Charles woolsey, IS, will be charged with first degree murder It was the usual situation. Decision didn't please the home crowd. Tells of 'sKin the umpire The scene. except the actual killing, is common at baseball games.
 The wish is father to the thought Some killing will always flow from the thought of it. The moral of this little incident? Thou shalt mot kill, of course. Not so wildly the moral is, make baseball a sporting event Act like sportsmen. Only few urnpires will be killed during fifty years, by indignant fans, but many will be insu1ted. Worse, a. spirit of unfairness is engendered in thou sands of inpressionable young per sons, especially in those not over burdened with brains. This is bad. It is not sportsmanlike.
 It is natural to wish the home team to win It is more intelligent to wish the best team to win It is right to shout for ones own side, y,-l, side to win unfairly.
 The out of town team is guest of the community in which it plays. It is entitled to a fair field. with no favors, and courtesy. Insulting the umpire. jeering the visitors, is not good manners, nor good morals. If fans will carefully observe who in dulges most in these operations, they will find a large percentage Of very young persons. The thing Is mainly a product of immaturity; it comes from those who are not yet grown up; sometimes from those who never will grow up.
 
 plane as high as college football The visiting team in the Yale Bowl, is not insu1ted by the home crowd The higher the scale of human un- derstanding, the more the courtesy and the fairer the field. Chess play CTS. and those observing the game do not conduct themselves, after the fn1 hy ruhn of baseball fans. Think this advice over It Is good for baseball and good for those who attend baseball games.
 MT. Carnegie thought it a disgrace to die rich. He did not quite avoid disgrace. although he gave away mill lions. Rev. Dean William McNuIty of Paterson, s5 years old, 65 years a priest, Is dead, leaving an estate of ss,16s. In life he gave away s2.- 100000. He must have given abun- dantly of his. spiritual riches, confer ring blessings worth more than mill lions can buy. Every man, must ask himself of the value of riches which cannot be transported out of the world.
 New York Times says of the strikes ready to break loose" It advises res olute grappHng. Brisbane says Res olute grapplnS is good; walking into powder magazine with a lighted candle is not SO good" Candles are good. and grappling is good, each in place. The times call for intelligence, flrmness and mutual consideration. If then problems must be settled by grappiing. precedent will be affirmed. the powder magazine will blow up and some will be blown to pieces. This writer puts his money, for the present, on reason and understanding g.
 Gene pebs, who ought to be a con- cfliator, tells the workers that "the crowd you fought for in the war would now shoot you down like dogs He knows that governments, in keep ing order, will shoot if they must. No government has ever beer able to evade this necessity, and remain a government; neither the government of 1-enine in Russia, nor the govern ment of Griffith and Collins in Ire land. As for the lawless shooting, winch takes place between the angry com mbatants in a labor dispute, it is in these days about fifty fifty, with rather more notches in labor's gun.
 A savage society had to have its periods of order. "A civilized society must have order. The whole system would break into bits and utmost an archy would follow a general break ing down of the power of govern. 1nent to keep order. Railroads, tele- graph lines, -ater works and many other things can function only where there is stability, authority, freedom from mob action and mob violence Turn oyer government tomorrow tC the most radical persons in the coun. try, and they would be under the