The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-28

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 Greatness.
 Clemeno@au ar s1 is physically as fit as a much younger man. while mentally he is more it than a majority of men of any age. He goes early to bed. gets up early and lives simply, but he didn't vaen he was young. These are -= f~-e'T.ra.~- old ... node of fully fr n .h "a a -a1 does now and 1a. I.. .. a- sl. The life force i- .. easily controlled. At preset no one knows why one dies young and another $ hale and hearty at a hundred.
 
 Prof. T J. J. See. government astronomer at Mare Island. thinks he has discovered the cause of rravitation. one of the age break ing discoveries, if he has His theory says that Eravitation tray els with the speed of light. Light travels lS6,G00 miles as econd. Unless gravitatfon travels faster than light there is some reason for assuming that Prof. Sees dis covery is a mistaI-e- Somewhere in the universes there ought to be something travelling very much faster than light which is plenty fast enough for earthly communi- cation.but very slow when worlds thousands Of light years apart communicate with each other.
 Prof. John r. Tiernan, who made such a stir in the news papers and in the courts over his failure to recognize Baby Billy and who married another lady soon after he got his divorce, is home again, the courts hay ing set the divorce aside. He says that Baby Billy is his and that fhe first Mrs. Tlernan is nice, As for thes econd Mrs Tie-nau he says. 'I left her in Ch 'cago last night. I do not know where she is now or what she is doing. She Is in other hands" A mod est secIusion for this professor Is called for. His job is not teach inr others. but himself
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 Ebert J. Beveridee. writes a letter saying that statesmanship without intimate knowledge of the Bible is an absurdity. If Bev- eridge said this little earlier he might have been elected from In diana. "As a cold matter of prac- HcaI public policy" says Mir. Beveridge. the treatment re- ouired by the whole world at this very hour is an elemental and durable revival of religion" But faith must be mixed with intel Iigence. Nations may fail from lack of knowing more than from lack of willingness to do the right thing.
 
 Young people of the Epworth League have named as the three greatest men of all history Edi- son. first Theodore Roosevelt second and Shakespeare, third.
 These are very young people Many older people would do no better. What shall be the test uf ereatncSs9 Is 1t that some in dtv5duaI. thousands of years In advance of the rest of the race. had a mind stocked with kne;v- lcdre. as Roger Bacon did which. rryertr loss. was rave- conuuui- ga.ed to manktrd0 Or to be classified as tne Ereatezt shall t. be necessary for a man ro have $. uewerCur -usgE from which i'm pulses are comuun.eareE to the worlGo Thel a=- definition seems -1 be necessary. Tse man must be wise and ho must use his wisdom so tha- others ars Heu7- rttad. The greater tHe wisdom. inc wider the beueG-. rho greater rr- nan
 One editor says that Ar.s-r.e. Shakespeare and Newton are the three greatest men ir ais- tory. Aristotle transmitted a system which has been influential but the world doesn't really know where he got 1T. He may have been carrying on for o-Ner minds which have been lost Newton. 5- uraneStionah'y among the grea-ez- .2teIIec-s If h.s- tory: but ro- necessarily ShsAes- peare. who 5s merely a great in +euect of those who speak E0E- fish. and. ro a limited extent. e those who dc not speak English.