The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-06-13
Russian Gold Comes in Millio n S, It's w Orth Overesti- mated = Better to Do One Thing Well, tn a n M any H. Strikes Hard to Win in Hard Times Nature More Merci- full than Man.

SS6,oo0,000 from Denmark, thought to be Russian gold. A mere noth- ing. It would not suffice to carry on the trade of the world for a, day. if it were a condition that goods would be exchanged for gold. All the gold in the world is a sn1a,, matter compared with all the com modities in the world. Gold :s a mere yard stick, which plays an exaggerated role on the stage be- cause mankind is not yet scientific in his ways for exchanging goods.
 A gentleman who writes cIeverIy for The World, about Washington, has invented the Hearst-F'ord ticket, which he regards with humorous pride; and a measure of certainty that his ticket wouldn't get far on election day. It Is a custom to measure influence from the stand point of the election, but not g. sci- enttfic usage. In the course of a hundred years America can haye no more than ten or fifteen presi- dents. There will remain divers persons of the population, who will never get single vote. who will be more Or less influential in changing the thought of the times. For good or i'll Ford and Hearst are potential factors in American public life making for radical change.
 Wall street is going through one of it's gambling scandals, which bring 1t constantly nearer to the chastisenent which public opinion will some day tnflict upon t. Long after Wall street has stopped gamb- ling there will be petty gambling. It ts easier to correct the faults of 8 large and conspicuous institution, than it s to convert a large mum Der of obscure Individuals from the error Of their waya It Is easier to hold a great monopoly to obedi- ence to law than ft is a largo num- Der of small individual traders. It was TO in the earliest times It is so today,
 A gro0p of world newspapers have purchased the American rights for the new book of the for
 
 about himself. The book will have a large sale What the Kaiser has to say win not be of much value. Resd about Caesar. Ale1ander. Ma poleon, Ivan the Terrible. Louis the Fourteenth Read Buckles Ills tory oe Civilization" Read Wells Outline Of History" By noting the space given to those five mon arca,s in the outline, 1t will be easy to figure the space Wilhelm will get in the Outline to be written a hundred years from now. A mere line or two. Buckle provides some scientific standards with which to measure world events.
 Harvard has student who knows fifteen languages, and other things. He Is a mental prodigy, like those persons who can do any problem in mathematics. or play simultaneous chess. bnndfold. Is he gifted with an overdeveloped memory and nothing else. or has he faculties of reflection. which are, or will be, equal to his powers of as sinai1tation? A man no more than a sun can give out what Is not in him. At least. this student should be able to teach languages. He knows too many things to attain great excellence in any. The men who do the great things. are more or less single minded. Alexander Graham Bell thought telephone until he got it. Had he thought about 15 lam guages. the telephone patents body else
 MT. Gompers sees through fog.
 
 Labor fights are not thriving. They seldom do thrive in hard times. The strike Is a weapon of good times. It works when there is much to divide. In the nature of things it can't work where there is little or nothing to divide. The remedy for unequal distribution will never be had by striking. The path is not so easy. Intelligence understanding of the facts or pro- duction and distribution is neces- sary. Until men understand that the income Of the world is meas ured by its production they will be poorer than they really need to be. The strike is an educator. Like war, it produces certain amount of profitable reflection.
 
 Nature in a mighty mood In and about the vast city of New York took fifty lives, by agency of a storm moving at 120 miles an hour. Any aviator with. a gas bomb would despfse such record, flying over a hostile city in time of war The