The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-06-26
Rich Mans Simple Burial - Treat the Living Right Pro- gress a Product of out h - Monkey Not Human-VOtes Look Big.

of the richest men in the world, who is dead at his home in famous Tar rytown. The poor indulge themselves more freely in elaborate funerals The rich turn to the simple funeral.
 
 The simple funeral is an old in stitution for the poor. It is new Comparatively to the affluent and the powerful. Once upon time the dead man was thought more important testimonial to the belief of ancients in the authority of the dead.
 
 Moderns know that the thing must be done for the living. When a man is dead, the world can do little for him. This leaves out the influence of prayer. Nothing can be done by costly monuments and a long fun eral cortege. Best way to appreciate a man is to treat him right while he lives
  Ancestor worship had it's place, has place now. It makes peoples backward. In America there is less of it. In China more. All the way from America to China ancestor worship increases.
 
 There is more of it in New Eng land and less in the West. Old forms old habits, old methods press down upon the new. and make progress diff ficult. Biologists believe that death takes place to give the world a chance. Progress is a product of youth. If individuals lived to be each a thousand years old. all social forms would be rigid. ossified, unchange- able. like MT. Shaw's old people, who wander about the forests. generation after generation. uusing.
 
 MT. Rockefeller's bootb1ack will at tend his funeral. Not an exhibition of the democratic spirit. but rather a return to the feudal principal. The old Lord, gathered about him all his peasants, retainers and underIings When he passed. they attended his funeral. Democracy consists in do- ing service to the people. in the spirit of brotherhood. Time will show that William Rockefeller did some excel lent service. No doubt he made mis- takes.
 ~-SsS Rich man leaps off Brooklyn Bridge. He is drowned. Boatswain falyls off U. S. S. President Arthur. He is rescued in eight minutes In a universe perfectly adapted to meet the whim of each Individual. it might be arranged for the rich man to get the boatswafu's ptacs. Part of the oddity of the mind. that some prefer that which others look upon with ut most horror.
 s-sss Monkeys arc getting scarce in Abyssinia. They are killed for their fur which women wear. Blood of monkey is very like blood of man. Bones. muscles. and so on have hu- man similitudes. No monkey thinks of wearing the skin of a woman. proving that the monkey is not a hu- man being.
 
 Lightning tore hole in a house, yesterday. Thousands shivered with fear while the thunderstorm ragged Fear should be on a mathematical basis Lightning seldom kills. Over eating often does. Let us be afraid of the really dangerous things.
 
 Around election time public off eiaIs often are very cowardly. A few votes look big. Loss of office looks bigger Lester, owner of Herring Strip Mine had telegram from Mo Dowell. superintendent of mine read ing, My God, send the troops: we can't hold the mob off any longer" Twelve times the officials refused the troops. Forty were nlassacred. Those officials ought to be removed. Union labor. if it has intelligence will join in bringing about the re- noval The assassination and mas sacre habit is not a wholesome thing to introduce into the United States.
 
 Tn New York Policeman Henry Beckman Is badly bitten by cat he was pursuing. Pete Harr. Jamaica. meets four foot alligator on his farm. They fight. Mrs. Hirsh. young and frail, shoots her husband. oscar A Hirsh, wealthy former the atrical producer. It doesn't pay to drive the feeble into a corner. The humblest creature can kill.