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-Tv. .... '-. '.,,. - v. ; THE TIMES: JUNE 6, 1919 THE BRIDGEPORT TIMES AnrJLEvening Farmer (FOTJNDEClliO Sketches from Life By Temple i: LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS ha I" 1 VORJCIQN RElPIUaSENTATTTUS Bryant. Qrlfflth ft.Braawn. Mnr Tork. BooUa aaS Cblcsc VCUBEB.OF'IHB.ASOCUTED FRSSS PBOMB BDIWKM optica atanram.lui II FBONX EDITORIAL DEPABTUXN1 fcarnaci 1SSI ubllnhed by The ruvcr Publishing Co 17 FmlrlMd Am, Ilrldgeport. Coca. GAILY BOO month, i.0 per tw WEKKXT !- par year la advance Tha Associated frm la exclusively entitled to Uu so tor raoabltoattoa all newa dispatches credited to It or .not otherwise credited ta Uila papal ad also the local newa published herein. Entered, at Prat, Ofnoe. Bridgeport. Connectleot. mm aeconi FRIDAX, JTSfE 6, 1919. RATIFYING TIIK WOMAYS A SIEXDMENT S EVERAL OF the women actively interested in. the cam paign for equal franchise axo of the opinion that Con necticut ought to call a special session of the legislature to ratify the Susan B. Anthony amendment. "Why should Gover nor llolcomb refuse such a modest and reasonable request? If the people in this old world were not so largely given to anundue interest in near and trivial -things extra sessions would immediately be called in all Ihe states of the union where the legislature is not in session. The legislators, the governors, the people, if they were more accustomed to think of what is really vast and important, would not let the grass grow a week before they arranged for ratification. The enfranchisement of half tho citizens of America is in deed a great event, fraught with benefits of illimitable value. The nation which thinks out its public affairs with its whole mind, instead of with half its mind, is bound to attain a diver sity of good things, in unstinted quantity. The very knowledge that women are about to vote has produced profound consequences. It has made changes that reach into the depths of life. Women are lifted finally out of their condition of semi Mavery. They have rights in their own property, rights in their children, 1he right to do business, to practice the profes sions, to receive as good an education as a boy. More recently Ihey have been admitted to the right to re ceive equal pay for equal work; a very important economic privilege. They may share in tho good things that public of fice affords, and may lake over as many of the duties of gov ernment ns thoy are prepared to wield and able to hold. Their share will not be a small ono. The ratification of tho Susan B. Anthony amendment is the most important single action immediately confronting the , country, which it has "the power to delay, or complete. ' . Two chief obstacles rise, like walls between a special ses sion of .e Connecticut Assembly and the Susan B. Anthony amendment. The first obstacle Is the lack of imagination, which has been described; the mind that takes more interest in a present baseball game than it takes in the well being of the nation, and In tho promotion of half of the citizens of a nation. 'If tho. people had imagination, no politicians, no governing class would dream of opposing a special session t)f the General Assembly. ' The second 'Obstacle is tho selfish desire of politicians to keep things just as they are, as long as possible. All the poli J ticians, from Mr. Roraback down, want to delay woman suf frage. They -are in power when women do not vote. They fear they may pass from power when women do vote. Mr. . Roraback, led tho movement in Hartford, which pre vented the passage of the Connecticut presidential suffrage bill, lie was the typical politician afraid to meet new conditions, afraid to meet the test that politicians must meet when the women vote. The Times-Farmer sincerely hopes that the suffrage wom en will leave nothing undone which may refresh the imagina tion of Governor Holeomb, that he may call a special session f the assembly, to ratify the Susan B. Anthony amendment. gut: the SERVICE MEN SIX MONTHS' pay ALLEN E. VINCENT is of the opinion that the soldiers and sailors coming home ought to have six months' pay, preferably from the national government; but otherwise, from the state treasury. Mr. Vincent offers the following cogent reasons to back his opinion: When our boya went away from their Jioimes. many of them from good positions, to nerve their country. It was with the assur ance from every one that they would never be forgotten. Now, they are being: discharged and are returning: home, and by changed conditions, many of them will be. perhaps, several . month before they locate a position and get back on a good living- basis. Those who want across the water and served on the battlefield should be entitled to. at least, a little rest when they get home. Any way. they ourht not to be in a position where they must worry , for a few weeks if tbey do not get employment. It Is all right to give them flowers, a "Welcome Home' and tnualo on their return; that la good as far as It goes; but six (6) months pay extra after discharge is more substantial, and Is what I believe they will remember longer, and they are surely entitled to. I wish you would give this careful thought and help In start ing a movement, and see that our soldier and sailor boys get this six months' pay. Jf It is not thought best to make this a. national movement let US start a movement In the StaXe of Connecticut, and see that our (Soldier and sailor boys from the State of Connectlout are remem bered. Mr. Vincent's reasons are appealing. The soldiers were told that they would never be forgotten, that the best the coun try lias to offer is theirs. The soldiers ought to have a little time to look around before they enter the battle of life; or, if the urge to industry drives them, they ought to have the six months' pay for a nest egg, to put in a bank account, where it will be handy when the soldier starts a home some day, and useful for other necessary purposes. WALSH PRESENTS DEMAND FRANK P. WALSH has presented a demand to President Wilson asking the peace conference to investigate the Irish question. Mr. Walsh is a determined and enthusiastic re presentative of his cause, cool, intelligent, courteous and dar ing. If any man can add anything to the purpose of the presi dent to help Ireland, Walsh is that man. He is respected, and admired by the president, who showed signal confidence in him on two occasions. Mr. Walsh was raised to the head of the commission to investigate industrial conditions in the United States. The report he .prepared marks an epoch. He u put upon Ihe War Labor Board, and did a great deal to" en fContinued in Lost Two Columns) ' No Experience Needed WILL US ES By THE EI GUT TIOX. LORD KOBE RT CECIL I believe that the League of Nations will suc ceed The large class of men whose wisdom consists In wet-blanketing the aspirations of others as fool ish and impracticable have one principal . argument to prove the contrary. They say that on other occasions, and particu larly at the end of the last general war in 1815. attempts were made to establish by treaty a reign of universal peace. The new Covenant of the League, they tell us, will bo like those old agreements a paper bul wark against weapons of steel. But between that time and this the greatest political change has happened that the world has seen. Now, for the first time in history, the great masses of the peoples exercise the deciding voice in their national policy. The new League was born, not in the midst of a small governing class, but in the hearts of the people. From that unique circumstance of Its origin springs the legitimate confidence taht the League will endure. For it is the resolution of the people which is the keystone of the arch. While that holds no pressure can break it; when that goes no but tress can uphold it. Dangers that Face the League. All the same it would be well to examine some of the dangers which the League has to face. However stringent the Covenant to which the nations set their hands, the spirit of Junkerism and Chanvanism, if they survive the war. would still be a great danger to the peace of the world, if they survive, whether as the dominant policy of future governments or as the dominant creed of one or two great peoples, they will be a standing threat to the success of the League. Nevertheless, the League will not be at the mercy of one or two Intriguing governments as the peace of the world was at the mercy of the Cen tral Empires in the decade that proceeded the war. The path of the Junker will henceforth be full of obstacles and pitfalls. For there will be es tablished a machinery by which ail questions of foreign relations are brought into the open, and a Council and a Conference of Stau-s which will act as a clearing house for all the difficulties which arise between nations. Other limitations, too, will be placed upon the activities of those who might still be ready for selfish ends to risk bringing upon the world a cat astrophe In which our civilization would assuredly perish. There is every reason now to hope that the next few years will see a swift and continuing re duction of armaments. We shall, very soon reach the stage when armaments will have ceased to con stitute the immensely powerful interest in social life that they were before the war. The Safeguard of Publicity. No government will in the future be able, by forcing the pace of preparation, to terrify the world into the state of mind in which the tension is so great that In the end an explosion becomes Inevitable. publicity In armaments, publicity in international ' -publicity in armaments, publicity in International arrangements. No greater source of danger exist ed in the past than secrecy in these two matters. - This publicity will enable the League to win to Its support all the pacific parties that is to say, an the greater popular parties of a democratic state against an' Intriguing government that seeks to involve It in war for an unjust or trivial cause. I do not fear, then, the disintegration of the League through the. unjust and criminal machina tions' of any one or two of its more powerful mem bers. 'Nor do I fear, then in the second place, that the League will be destroyed by a secretly planned and brutally effected act of treachery such as Ger many committed in 1914. Germany had everything in her favor, and she failed, and her miseries will be for a remembrance to aggressors for generations to come. And any State that wishes to break hereafter' the peace of the League by a sudden and secret at tack will have . to taks into account a weapon that Witb. wa, Of im mense power that the League will simultaneously apply against it. This weapon is the immediate and universal boycott and blockade which the Covenant ordains against aggressors, and in which the whole of the rest of the world will take part. Tho experience of the war has taught most governments to realize more clearly than the pub lic does what an overwhelming powerful it is, and I have the greatest confidence in its restraining force. In all this I have assumed that the League of Nations will shortly include every civilized State. This I believe to be an essential condition of its success. There are certain difficulties, it is true, in the way of immediately admitting our late ene mies, and Germany in particular. But we must not allow resentment to blind our eyes to expedien cy. Admission to the League is from one point of view a privilege; and from another it is an as sumption of duty and recognition of obligations. The peace of the world can never be safe while any powerful State or States remain on tho outside. So long as that state of affairs continues it will be threatened with the danger of being no more than an alliance. While there is little reason to fear, though good reason to jruard against a failure deliberately caused by the criminal act of a member State, there is danger which is more serious, because more subtle than this. I mean the danger lest the League of Nations should perish of neglect; lest the world should forget the lesson it has learned with so many tears, and lose the impulse to international cooperation which has brought it thus far along the road. Much is done in the constitution of the League to guard -against this danger. The Governments signatory thereto bind themselves to work actively together in many important spheres; such are, amongst others conditions of labor? the white traffic; international transit questions; the preven tion of disease. The duties imposed epon it by the Treaty of Peace will also serve in some degree to keep the League before the eyes of the world, and to lessen the danger that it may be murdered by the selfish apathy or the governments and by the forgetfull ness of private citizens. The League of Nations ' is not a government of the world, it does not change our citizenship, but it is the expression of the feeling that has spread like wildfire over the world in these last few years that every citizen o'Cs a duty to man kind not opposed to but supplementary to the duty he owes to his own country. if, now the worst of the danger is over, we lose this conviction and let the League of Nations die, what Is the alternative? The race of armaments will begin again and the old poison ' of secrecy and intrigue will begin to work afresh. - We shall be walking helpless and hopeless on the brink of the- precipice even more terrible than that which we have so narrowly escaped. And, the decision I must say it again rests with the peo ple and not with the Governments. Only the, finm resolve of the men and women who do the ordinary work of the world can breathe into the Covenant of Paris a living soul. This must never happen again was the deter mination often unspoken, but often, too, openly expressed of the men who fought and won the war. Their consolaUon in facing death was the belief that In doing so they were bringing broadcast an end of It. If we can keep alive the spirit which has won the war and created the League I believe that war between the peoples will become forever unthink able, and their purpose will have been fulfilled. And If not there can be no question that humanly speaking the next war will destroy European civil ization. That Is the choice befere us; The League of Nations, or Chaos. Once that Is realised can any one ask: "Will the League fail?" , '-. I must think ' It will succeed '.Let each of ua aea that as far as In him or her Ilea Its success la assured. . , " - -. . (From The Farmer, Friday, June 6, 1869) Bridgeport employs about sixty-five school teachers at the ! present time: Sabbath school teachers not included. Judge Slade returned last night from his trip, and the Pro- f bate Court was reopened this morning. According to the new directory, there are 13S streets and avenues, and 47 public halls and blocks within the limits of the ' town of Bridgeport. Strolling hand-organs with vagabond attachments; are now all the rage in Bridgeport. Cannot something be done to abate these intolerable nuisances. Advices have been received Ln this city from Mr. Frederick: Wood and family and they are expected home on the steamer Cuba, due next Tuesday. A French humorous paper has been suppressed for calling Eugenie '"Our Venerable Empress." It won't do for anybody to say or write "Old Maids"' when the female suffrage move-' ment has culminated in the new dispensation of things. One hundred and sixty singers will leave New Haven, next Monday morning for the Boston Peace Jubilee. Thev gave a matinee rehearsal at Music Hall, in New Haven, in the'morning before starting, consisting of the music they have been prac tising to 6ing at the jubilee. A firm of English coach builders advertise in a recent Eng lish paper that it has "imported wheels from America, made at Bridgeport, Ct., and is now prepared to build light carriages'' on the American models. This speaks well for the carriage' builders of our "burg" and shows that they now are, as al ways heretofore, duly appreciated at home and abroad. The iron columns used by Sammis & Thompson, in front of their new store, on Water street are to be exchanged for heavier ones of the same material. This is done more as a matter of precaution and from a desire to be indisputably on the safe side, than from any real fears that thote now there will be unable to bear the weight that is to be put upon them. We learn that the disagreement between tlxe Howe Manu facturing Company, and ihe men in their emploj-, in regard to wages has been adjusted to the satisfaction of both parties. Here is a little gratuitous advice. If you lose anything advertise in The Farmer! If you find anything advertise in The Farmer! If you want to sell anything advertise in The Farmer! If you want to buy anything advertise in The Farmer! Experience has demonstrated that advertising in The Farmer restores lost articles to their rightful owners, brings good customers to the merchants, mechanics and professional men, and directs traders and the public where they can find the best goods, the most skillful artizans, and secure the most desir able bargains. It is the duty of every live, enterprising busi ness man to advertise in The Farmer, and of every reader to peruse carefully this important department, and we believe they do it. A traveller in Pennsylvania asked the landlord if they had any cases of sun-stroke in that town. "NTo. sir," said the land ljrd, "If a man gets drunk here we say he is drunk, and we never call it by any other name." A man was tried, for stealing several clocks. The lawyer who appotired for him set up this defense. "After the prisoner had taken the clocks to his own house, he put 'em all back!" But the jury didn't see it. The New York Herald has a startling account of a suicide. It says "he laid himself down and with his bigoe shot himself." A curious instrument to commit suicide with. Reckon it was loaded with nails. Anna Dickinson declares that "Politics today means an in decent scramble for office, where every man is for himself, and the devil takes the hindmost. As for the foremost, they are already safe in his hands." And Anna isn't far from right. (Continued from First Two Columns) able ihe harmonious conduct of industry during the war. His services in Bridgeport are remembered in Connecticut with t?ie war plants labor dispute, of which he was one of the chief ad judicators. AGAINST INDEPENDENT ACTION HE STATE Federation of Labor goes on record by an overwhelming vote against independent political ac tion. This conservative organization sticks to the Gompers policy of seeking legislation for labor from the party that will g;ve it. This leaves the American Labor party, of which a branch exists in Bridgeport and another in Hartford, caught between two difficulties. It lacks the support of the conservative labor groups. It is actively opposed by the radical labor groups in the socialist party. BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE XO THE LIST of those who have brought special honor to Bridgeport add the name of Miss Emily Porter, who has received from King Alexander of Greece the, medal of Mili tary Merit. With other American girls she gallantly fought the fearful malady typhus, more dangerous far than bullets. The king, that is to say the representative of the Greek people, ad dressed thesn young women in terms of gratitude, praising them because of their braveroy and because of the lives of Grexks they saved. None of these young women bore arms as combatant sol-" diers, but they were, nevertheless, in the war and, among the bravest of the brave. Miss Guthrie. Heads Bridgeport Teachers Miss Margaret Guthrie of the High school faculty was elected president of the Bridgeport Teachers' associa tion at their annual meeting held ln the High school asditorium yesterday afternoon. Miss Bessie Jacobs was elected first president; Miss Agnes Q. Collins, second vice president, and Miss Anna Donovan, third vice presl Ddent. Miss Henrietta Wyrtzen la treasurer of the association with Miss Mary Mallon, the financial secretary. Miss Margaret Dorsey is recording secretary. Miss Augusta Mendel her assistant and Miss Bessie Sullivan corresponding secretary. MJss Mary Light is the association's registrar. The retiring president. Miss Cece lia Keane," who had been a very eftl clent officer during Ihe first two years of the -organization! made a very forceful addreaa to Ihe members em phasizing the work! dona duflng the past two years, culling actenuon a the defeat of the Morrison bill ln the last legislature and the patriotic work of the members during the war both &s an organization and as Individuals. '' A banquet will be given by the asso elation at the Black Rock club . Thursday, at which there will be out ot town speakers and a musical pro--gram. GRIEF FOR WIFE -MAKES IZZOILL .Wnrrv nv.r tho Ueath of his wife is given as the cause for the demented' nnntflHMi of Jrwrmh TksO. who ml talken by the police thiss monlnc from r ' the home of his sister, Grace iMkshel-' ; ino. 113 Quince street. He was talten j miiri4. ITm a wtiTl MB MM WaS ' diagnosed as "melancholia" and is-bo- lng neia lor ooserv anion. HAr h daath at his wife, which. occurred ln 'New Tork two weeks are Isso came to BrldaTspefrt and baa -bean ln treat mental mr ' "V