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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-15
Exchange

TT HE ramifications of business which covers
 not only the whole United States but for eign countries we'll, and the necessity of pay ing for commodities bought at distance have created one of the most complex problems of modern business-exchange.
 If you cash in Bridgeport a check drawn bank in San Francisco, you pay exchange. Probably you think of this a charge to cover the cost of sending the check to San Francisco, and collecting the money for it.
 While this is true, in a practical sense, it isn't the basis which the charge is made. The rate for domestic exchange is determined by the cost of shipping gold from San Francisco to New York to cover the amount of the check This stabilizes domestic exchange.
 Acting as collection agent for checks and drafts deposited with it, is of the most use- full services a bank performs for it's depositors.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-15

"stin in opinions. always in the
 wrong, Was everything by turns and nothing But in. the course Of one revolving
 moon Was scribbier. painter. statesman ana
 buffoon.''
 And now Churchill is thinking out what to say next. Times Ads Bring Results
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-15
Marearet Bjorklund

Margarets beloved wife of Charles Bjorklund, formerly of this city died in Sweden, March 18th. The cou- pie left Bridgeport last July to make years MT. BjorlxIund was a prominent contractor in this city and resided at 14eO Park avenue. The deceased is survived by her husband, one daughter, Mrs. Henry Borg of Stam- ford and a son son Arthur Bjork- iund of this city.
The Washington times., 1922-09-05
Works Both Ways
By BUGS" BAER

MOST Of our longest esta6'
1v1 nshed flappers are opposed
to long skirts. Censors are
opposed to short skirts.
7 OOKS like we'll have to com
- promise on no skirts at all.
T ATEST styles in fashionable
- fooiishness make women
look like stove pipes with rect.
NEW dresses make girls look
~ like members OF street
cleaning department. skirts
rattle on ground and collect all
kinds of tickle germs.
vruEY couldn't make skirts any
l. shorter and expect Con
gress to keep its mind on lts
amendments. So fashion butch-
ers decided to make dresses
long for this season In order
TO give mems eyes much neeo-
ed vacation.
ELAPPERS' Union is bringing
Il suit against dressmakers.
This union suit claims long
skirts are unhealthy and girls
cant walk in 'em. Flappers
fondness for walking is reason
why there are so many dif-
ferent colored taxicabs.
IT'S time for revision down
i ward. skirts were getting
so short that II you saw a lady
standing in back of saloon
swinging doors you woulon
know whether she had skirts
on or not.
NOW that granny, mama and
~ Co. are starting to fnhale
some sense about their clothes,
us time that papa stopped
dressing up like superintendent
of Barnum's clowns.
MEN have been screeching
Nl about way their wives
dressed for many laughing cen
turies. But for every woman
who dresses ulLZhy' thSio "V
two men who think that paper
hoops are full dress and crazy
quilts are vests.
EoR every flapper who dolls
L up like twin zebras. there
are two guys who think that
barber poles are neckties and
that Aurora Borealis Is pair Of
socks.
EoR every little dahlink who
Il ribbons herself up like
Maypole there are two dis
tinguished citizens who escape
from tailor store looking like
prize. winning float in annual
Mardi Gras.
DEOPLE who shop in glass
L windows shouldn't throw
fingers of scorn.
The Washington times., 1922-09-05

k for the District was end
IN ed yesterday, and today
the Government departments and
bureaus opened at the regular hour
of 9 o'clock.
This imitation of legal daylight
saving was undoubtedly the silliest
and most upsetting thing ever at
tempted in the District. Legal day
light saving is bad enough, but the
hybrid thing we hs J. here this sum-
mer did nothing b 1T keep the home
life of the town confused, impose
a severe strain upon mothers and
housekeepers upon whom rested the
responsibilities of getting early
breakfast for their charges, and
benefited only those who wished
to put in an extra hour at golf,
tennis, fishing, boating or other
pleasures.
1t is pretty safe to say that we
will never have any more of it:
President HARDING has promised
that so far as he is concerned rag
time" has ended for good. There
will be attempts next year to get
legislation from Congress for day
light saving law for the District,
but there is not much chance that
Congress will waste time on this
foolishness.
Daylight saving started out as a
sort of trick fad and has about
run it's course everywhere. In
= those States which have daylight
savings laws the foolishness may
continue until public opinion gets
so overwhelmingly hostile that the
laws must be repealed. 1t has
caused endless confusion, especially
in the conflict between railroad
schedules and the advanced time
in States having laws. !.
The real serious objection to it,
though, is the harm to children IN
school and to the mothers of the
land who must get up an hour
earlier each morning and remain
up until the usual hours attending
to household matters. Daylight
saving inculcates more selfishness
than any other law in the world.
1t is favored and upheld by those
who get an extra hour for play
and pleasure and who can sleep
as late in the morning as they de-
sire, or at least are sleeping while
the mothers and daughters who are
not blessed with cooks are up get
ting breakfast.
There is hardly a mother who
must do her own housework who
has a kindly word either for legal
daylight saving or the ragtime
stuff we have had here.
Let's forget all about it and be
prepared to knock it on the head
when it tries to revive next year.
The Washington times., 1922-09-05
The Next
Best Thing

THE opinion of Europe's CEN
tral trouble which Mr.. Hearst
i expressed on June 20 last in
the London Evening Standard re-
mains true, because fundamental:
What France, above all,
should want. is peace. France
wants protection against pos
sible retaliation from Ger.
many. Her best protection will
be a policy which will allay
all bitterness.
France s fear of Germany is very
human, and fear seldom begets
wisdom.
Equally human is Germany's un-
willingness to bear a perpetual
bondage in poverty without hope.
Put yourself in the place OF
either people and you can easily
appreciate how they feel,
But sympathetic feeling cannot
obscure the fact that the. only
safety for both peoples is in good
will.
Europe as a cockpit has failed.
Twenty centuries attest the folly
of hate as the polestar of inter
national relations.
That way can lie nothing but
more wars, more wastes, more bit
terness, more suffering.
1t may not be absolutely certain
that a change of tactics will bring
a change of results, but it seems
worth a gamble. -
France wants what evidently
France cannot get-prompt and
ample reparation.
She is entitled to it, she should
have it, but if she cannot get it,
what is the next best thingf
Frankly, it is to take what she
can get now in a spirit which will
make it easier for her to get more
in the future.
That spirit is not sabre rafting,
but cooperation in good will.
The Washington times., 1922-09-05
Bond SLaUes?
THE REVEREND CARLYLE B.
HAYNES, Seventh Day Ad-

HAYNES, Seventh Day Ad-
ventist, says: "God has a
plan for every individual human
life, as well as a plan for the uni
verse;
He adds in his eloquent sermon:
"The relation of God toward us is
that Of a slave holder. He is mas
ter; we are servants.
There is no doubt that Divine
wisdom put us here for work.
This planet, $4,000 miles round, bal
anced in sunlight, travelling nine
teen miles per second, around the
sun, and going with the sun, heaven
only knows how fast, toward the
great star Vega, must be more i'm
portant than the little human
being crawling over it. Our job
of course is to beautify, embellish
and improve that planet, draining
the swamps, irrigating the deserts,
incidentally improving ourselves.
We are the earth gardeners.
But the official statement that
men are slaves is disquieting. We
are His gardeners on this earth.
But even a self-respecting human
being would not have. SLAVES for
gardeners he would prefer FREE
men. And what becomes of the
text "Ye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you free. "
Free means FREE.
Paul, it is true, says we are
"bond slaves" but he said it meta
phorically. We are employed for
life, free men, fastened to this earth
like sailors to, ship.
The Washington times., 1922-09-05
WAYSIDE WISDOM
THE PATIENCE THAT FAILED.
copyright, is22.)
BY S. E. kiser

nAvID COGSwELL was a deacon, and
II very pious man.;
In church, on Sunday morning DAVID
always passed the plate;
He thought that he was living In accordance
with Q plan
That would get him something pretty
when he reached the Golden Gate;
He never used tobacco, no one ever hearo
him swear, .,
have tempted him to steal;
He bore with resignation troubles that he
And he thanked God for His bounty
every time he ate a meal.
IF he owed debt he paid it, making no
He was liberal in giving contributions
to his church; s,- I /.
He believed the Holy Scriptures, and ne
- tried to be saint,
He had mora..s that no temptress could
make shaky or besmirch;
But misfortune overlook him, nothwithstand-
ing all his grace,
And despite his constant, pious wish to
live a blameless life; 49,,
One afternoon the preacher, who nossesseo
handsome face,
Took the church funds and departed
with the deacons pretty wife.
nAVID COGSWELL bore it bravely; II he
~ wept he hid his tears;
People praised him for the patience
and the courage he displayed;
Yet worse was coming to him, for within
two luckles years
He was plucked of all his savings,
through "investmeuts" he had made;
Still he bore up resolutely till one hot day
in July,
When truck collided with him,
knocking all his ioists askew;
Then his patience seemed to fail him; look
ing inward at the sky.
He shook his fist and murmured: "God,
- what's wrong with You?"
The Washington times., 1922-09-05

THE mind is "a sort OF parlia.
l. ment. 1t enjoys peace only
when there is a decided ruling
majority. When 1t is torn by
party factions and the vote is
about even on any given project
there is confusion and misery.
1t might be said that there
are two classes Of comparative
ly satisfied people in the world,
those who have entirely made
up their mind to be good and
those who have entirely made
up their mind not to try. Most
of us have not quite decided,
and hence most of us are quite
miserable.
That mind is assured of a GER.
tain amount of peace which has
settled upon a number of princi-
pies and has put them on the
shelf and refuses to take them
down and re-examine them.
Whoever continually argues
about his fundamental convic-
tions is digging out the soil
from under his house.
nF course, none Of us is all
" wise, and we do not know
whether what we believe is alb
The Washington times., 1922-09-05

oC DOuhN, INC ueW IhlIu
baseman of the Yankees, re-
- marked the other day:
What l like is to play ball
with a lot of men who can play
better than l can. That makes me
play better. l guess l am just like
a lot of other ambitious guys. |
like a pacemaker, and the faster
the pace the better l CO."
The bearin s of this remark, as
Dickens would observe, is in its
application.
The natural tendency Of all of
us is to like to associate either at
work or play with people of lower
grade than ourselves.
This flatters our vanity and
soothes us in the uncomfortable
chair of our egotism.
The sooner in life a young per-
son learns that he should mingle as
much as possible with his betters,
the better it will be for him.
In fact, the best, if not the only,
way to improve ones moral char
acter is by association with people
who have a finer sense of honor
than ourselves.
The best way to learn to do good
work is to be constantly in con-
tact with those whose craftsman
ship is better than our own.
The only way to learn to speak
good English is to go about among
people who speak good English.
And even the way to be well
dressed is to see as much as pos
sible of others who are we'll dressed.
One of the best exercises in
self-mastery which should be con-
stantly practiced is that of sub
jecting ourselves necessarily to
the magnetization of improvement,
which force we receive from our
superiors and not from interiors.
The Washington times., 1922-09-05
C0lOred Lady Filler

THE first and only colored lady
= aviator comes from Europe.
i Bessie Coleman is her name
and she has flown a plane
with a 220-horsepower motor, the
most powerful ever run by a wo-
man, it is said. She took to flying
naturally, without any teaching.
The colored race should supply
many excellent fliers. Colored men
and women have natural physical
balance superior to that of white
people. They usually ride a BIZ
cycle the first time they try.
The Washington times., 1922-09-05

TIME Half Man is keenly alive
l. to the sensation Of love,
but will not drill himself in
those essential habits and sac
rifices without which love can;
not be kept alive. e.,
The Half Man may have a
keen power Of observation. but
no power Of sustained thought.
The Half Man is susceptible
to infinite impressions. but has
no ability to set these in order.
The Half Man is overwhelmed
with particulars and cannot find
that poise which comes only in
generalities.
The cure for the Half Man,
the only thing that can make
him whole. is work. Work de.
velops the faculties. Work sus-
tanned. deliberate and regular,
completes the soul.
without work there is no es-
cape from the torment of one.
self.
The Washington times., 1922-09-05
do YOU.KNOW

On September Z. 1892. James
T. Corbett won the worlds cham
pionship from John L. Sullivan
in twenty-one rounds by a
knock out. The match was
soueht at New Orleans, La. for
a nurse Of $4,000, ands&0,000
stake mohey, Marquis Of Queens
berry rules. five+oun9e gloves.
Rix.dollars were various Ger
man. Dutch, and Scandinavian
coins. and are now nearly obso.
lete. They varied in value from
40 cents to s1.l5, but the typical
value was not far from 81. -
The Washington times., 1922-09-05

Smoking in moderation does
no harm. Drinking tea or eat.
ing ice cream or doing any.
thing else to excess In harm.
full. 80
ER . M the standpoint of
l. taste. l do not like TO see
a woman smoke. II I ever saw
my mother or my wife smoke
a cigarette, I think I would
have a fit. I think it is rather
vulgar habit. But, Lucy
dear 1 will tell you a habit
that think even more vulgar.
And that is butting into other
peoples habits which do neither
you nor the community any
harm. And yet 1 haven't tr,ad
10 organize an Anti.Buttine.Inn
League.
II you do not smoke, Lucy.
It Is very likely thateth odor
OF tobacco annoys you. WHY
not keep away from It? Some
day we probably shall have
Ladies' Smoking Cars on every
train, and no one will compel
you to enter one. .
The odor of perfume always
robs me of my appetite. And
yet I'll bet that IL I got up an
AnttPerfume League / would
get a thousand suckers to Join.
F you are really interested
i in the female race" Lucy,
and are not just dispensing cal.
brio atmosphere. I will give you
the few fragments that I hav.,
gathered from the wisdom OF
countless ages.
Let the girls smoke. MIKE
a sour face at them when yo,,
see them and pull up your
skirt as you pass them-to
register disdain--if your skirt
is long enough. But do not
worry about them. 1t 10 a
fad, a fashion. a hunch, 4
style, a vogue. or whatever
you choose to call 1t, and IL will
not hurt them a bit. The
momentN 1t interferes with
health. the smoker loses her
complexion. the brightness OF
her eyes. her appetite, her
sleep-and swears off forever.
DUT IL you feel that you
ID must have some kind OF 0
league to help your sisters
a.ong. get up one that will
Take care Of the babies OF
the thousands Of women who
cannot do It themselves
Strive to abolish child labor
Educate shop girls =
Promote good cooking. /
-
TH e world needs lots of
i leagues, and they can all
accomplish incalculable good.
But they must be intelligent.
No, I own no stock In any
tobacco corporation.
Yes, I smoke. And I sup
pose smoking has cloudsd my
brain. .... 1
But--the one thing that
drives me crazy is to hear SONS
one say. wait a minute"
And yet I've never organized
an Anti.wait-a.Minute League.
The Washington times., 1922-09-05
SAP and SALT
BY Bert Moses

tcopyrisht, isa7. by Premier Syndicate, 1nc)
The talk you hear about things is usually
much bigger than the things themselves.
One reason why civilization makes 30 little
'headway n because we keep on teaching
what was taught US.
Hez Hack says: Folks with stomach
trouble keep busy teln' others with the same
trouble how 10 cure It."
The Washington times., 1922-09-05

IN an old novel I find these
words describing a certain
person:
"If he had been a total and
complete ass he might have
loafed in the comfortable haze
which surrounds the average
intelligence and cushions 1t
against the world.
This calls attention to a large
and unfortunate class of people.
These are the Half Men.
Only those people are happy
who are one thing or another.
And 30 many Of US are. unhappy
because we are neither one
thing nor the other.
We are content in our mo-
ments Of completion. Our chief
cause Of discomfort arises from
indecision.
The Washington times., 1922-09-05
THE SPECTATOR
Half Men

solutely true or not. Fortunate.
ly we do not have to know. We
can fix upon those things which
are most probably true, and,
having fixed upon them, we can
quit thinking about them. :. ~,
One thing that makes a Half
Man is lack of craftsmanship.
He does not know how to do
anything In a mastery way
simply because he has not had
enough self-discipline to make
him practice. l., w ~ /,
There is many poor genius
cursed with perceptions he can.
not express and with impres.
sions that he cannot inteliectu-
alize. -. -.
Many a second.rate person
thinks he is a poet or an orator
simply because he has great
emotions and has glimpses OF
great ideas. H..
Really he is a Half Man. He
can only see and feel, and he
lacks that long training and
disciplined mind tnat alone can
give satisfactory expression.
The Washington times., 1922-09-05
Stars and Stripes
TOO GOOD TO LIVE.

TOO GOOD TO LIVE.
Some people make such virtue of
their virtue that It seems pity they
can't die before being led into temptation.
NO PEAK TOO HIGH FOR HIM.
b, The people who were trying to reach
the peak Of Mt. Everest have failed. They
should have taken an American profiteer
with them AZ their pathfinder.
The Washington times., 1922-09-05
MERE WORDS.
X. G. B.

MERE WORDS,
II is possible sometimes to so back and say
the word that was left unsaid, but no one can
ever return and unsay the word that ought
not to have been said
The Washington times., 1922-09-05
JAZZ GAINS PRESTIGE.

Jazz has been added to the musical
programs at the Broadway cinema tenn
plies. Showing that the public are look.
ing for human interest In their music
as well as their films.
Gamma walska may be a lover Of grand
opera. but she doesn't marry any man
for a song.
The Washington times., 1922-09-05
Something to Think About
BY Bruno Lessing-



"WoMEN stand for the
w higher ideas Of life. 1t
will end in the ruination Of the
female race II the women per-
sist in smoking"
The author Of this philo.
sophie outburst is Lucy Page
CASTOR, who is connected with
an organization known as the
Anti-Cigarette League. This
organization is not connected
with the Anti.Lip-Stick League
or the Anti Bobbed Hair
League. 1t is independent.
stands on its own feet and
treads on it's own toes.
WHAT are the higher ideas
Nv of life, Lucy? Do you
mean the cardinal virtues
which, according to the an.
cients, were prudence. temper
ance. Justice and fortitude? Do
YOU mean religious faith? Just
what do you mean, outside Of
hot air? And why aren't men
in on II?
You can't mean motherhood
and wifehood, Lucy. because
those are not "ideas of life"
They are the very highest
functions of your sex. And q
function and an idea are as
close to each other as a powder
puff and a dredging machine.
Isn't there just a teeny-
weeny bit of bunk in this sen.
tence, Lucy?
A s for the ruination Of the
"A female raCe"-that is a
horrible picture to hold up
Aren't there going to be any
more women II they keep on
smoking? No sweet. lovablc
matrons, no charming wives
no adorable chickens and flap
pers? Are they Eotng to be
poisoned by nicotine, or. like
the chap who was told that II
he beheld a Boojum Shark. he
would
suddenly and silently vanish
away
And never be heard Of AGAIN.
Gosh! I'd want to commit
suicide! -
ar, do you mean that the
~ habit Of. putting a cigar
cite will lead inevitably to
other wicked habits which will
so undermine their mora'e that
their bodies will disintegrateH
Because they smoke they must
lie and steal and lead immoral
lives? Is that the way you
dope It out?
NOW, listen, Lucy. And
IN please tell this to, your
friends in the Anti.Cisarette
League.
There are only two stand
points from which the smoking
habit can be inteliigently dis
cussed. One 10 the standpoint
Of taste. II smoking Injuries
health, the NJ. DIS will take
care Of Il. They know more
about toxemia, purin bodies.
pyridin bases and vasoconstric'
ton than you do.
The Washington times., 1922-09-05
A CERTAINTY.

Well, II there are women In heaven-and
who can have any doubt about t!-the place
must be ali nicely fixed up with lace curtains
The Washington times., 1922-09-05
The Passing =
of Ragtin,e
By BILL PRICE.

I'm AGTIME" daylight saving
for the District was end
IN ed yesterday, and today
The Washington times., 1922-09-05
The Pacen,aker

TOE DUGAN, the new third
baseman of the Yankees, re-
y marked the other day:
The Washington times., 1922-09-05
LOOKING BACKWARD, A. D. 1000

Copy light. 1922. bv Star Company.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-12-01
FOUND JA|l GOOD PLACE
FOR TIRED MAN TO REST
Millionaire Red Pardoned,
Served Eight Days; Bene-
fitted by Experience.

chicago. Dec. l.-swilliam Brosse
Lloyd. wealthy Chicago radical, and
20 associates had their liberation
from prisons after serving eight days
20 sentences Tor violation OF the I'LL
nois svndicalism act TO be thankful
for Yesterday.
GOV. Lon Small commuted their
terms late "Wednesday. Shortly befor,
n o'clock "Wednesday night Lloyd
and the six others sent 10 the Joliet
Prison for one to five years walked
cut. Three hours later the nine mer
confined m the Cook County Jail. al
sentenced TO serve one year were re-
i.ascd.
BESIDES Lloyd. those released a
Joliet we're Jack Carney, Arthur
Proctor. Edgar owens. Ludwig Lore
l.. IL. England and Niels kjar. Thos,
freed from the county Jail We're sam
uel 4. Ilankin. James a. Meisinger
Karl y Sandberg, Charles krumbein
samuel Ash. Perry Shlpman. Morri,
4 stolcr, John Nogel and y. J. Chris
tianson.
Mrs. LLOYD was waiting at the pris
on gates for her husband In the fam
49, limousine. accompanied by Rober
Howe Lloyds secretary.
We'll. BILL" Howe queried aftei
tho interchange OF greetings, "hov
did YOU like it?"
Great" replied Lloyd. "lt's a goo,
rest would be for a tired bushes
man
"Oh. honey" interjected Mrs. Lloyd
did thcy cut your hair?"
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-12-01

mot one wisp." answered Lloyd as
he removed his hat.
Lloyd accepted the $40 gate
money" given all departing convicts
and an additional 81 cents for trans
portation. He left the Penitentiary
with s26o.45. When he entered. Nc
vember %. he had $252.9s. Prison
records showed that he spent during
his eight days in Jail a total OF SAL.
Lloyd. in giving his impression OF
prison life. said he believed prisoners
who could not maintain friendly rela-
tons with their guards were persons
who We're always in trouble.
Il remember at college," he said.
there were some men who could not
get along with certain teachers. and
found these teachers fine. Well. it's
the same down there
In announcing executive clemency