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THE BRIDGEPORT TIMES Monday, June 13, 1921 Columbia which is one divorce to every ninety-one and thirty four one hundredth marriages. In this record Connecticut stands forty-first with a rati of one divorce to every fifteen and sixty-seven one hundredth marriages. So easily has it been made by the laws of many states to obtain divorces for what in many cases are but trivial reasons and so rapidly has the aggregate number of divorces increased that in many instances we have what practically amounts to experimental marriages. If divorces continue to increase as rapidly in the next few years as they have been doing we shall very soon as a nation be faced with the pertinent question, "Is the marriage institu tion worth saving?" THE BRIDGEPORT TIMES And Evening Fanner (FOUNDED 1790.) FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES Bryant. Griffith lc Branson, New York, Boston and Chicago MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHONE ECSIN'ESS OFFICE Barnum 1208 PHONE EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Barnum 1287 Published by The Times Publishing Co.. 17D Fairfield Ave., Brid&eport. Conn. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper ana aio the local news published herein. SCHOOL DAYS By DWIC wcCU SoLM 00 Pooa. ih.u ; t, a To we u.Lf CRACK.'- M Toe WIK rou - ig-r.) MONDAY, Jt.NE 13, 1921 CRfcCK HV5 o Page Six 7 1 tA vZJ HI M3 -! i ,1 a 7 A NEW SORT OF SIGN A PHOTOGRAPH from Seattle, Washington, shows a had turn of the road and a sign which reads, TWELVE YEAR OLD ROY KILLED RY AUTO HERE, March 28, 1921. DR. W. H. CORSON, CORONER. It might he well if similar signs were placed where fatal accidents had occurred or were most likely to occur again un less care was exercised. While to come suddenly upon such a sign on a pleasure rid would probably give a disagreeable impression. It might do something to stop the altogether loo large total of automo bile fatalities and it is evident from the large numbers of these that the ordinary sign is not effective or at least not effective enough. ALTO TRI THERE ARE five main methods of transportation in the United States today Steam, electrics, inland water ways, motor vehicles and horses. Of these the newest, and most re markable in its rapid and phenomenal growth, is motor vehicle transportation. It has become one of the greatest aids to com merce that we have. Last year motor trucks hauled over a billion tons of freight in this country. This stupendous amount lacks but a little of being one-half as great as that carried by the railroads in the same twelve months. It does not neces sarily follow, however, that this was on competitive tonnage for a great part of the goods hauled by the trucks were also hauled by the railroad and vice-versa. Neithor of them could have handled such a volume of business had it not been for the co-operation of the other. In fact each one of the five methods is particularly adapted to certain kind of transporta tion and each should be allowed to do, unrestricted, that haul age for which it is best fitted to serve the public. The great increase of good roads all over the country in the last few years is due primarily to the development of the auto motive vehicle. It has brought the better highways to us and contributed largely to their maintainence as well. In spite of this there is a tendency in some quarters to place heavy taxes on automobile trucks on the plea that they are dam aging the highways. If this is not done with reason and sound judgment there is a grave dangs-r that it will be a case of killing the goose which lays the golden egg. Motor trucking today is in a large measure interstate. There is an unfortunate amount of difference between the traf fic laws in various states and with no uniform or central reg ulation, motor operators seldom know whether or not they are breaking laws until they are held for some infraction. Indeed it is said that in many states laws are so unreasonable that every one is automatically infringing on the regulations. There should be, and eventually must be, uniform traffic laws for the whole country based on'sound common sense al lowing, not only the highways, a reasonable amount of protec tion but which at the same time will not in any way interfere with the proper development of transportation by automobile trucks. ADDING TO AMONG other things which the late Agricultural Legisla ture did was to pass an act imposing a tax of five per cent on amusements. This bill is now before the Governor awaiting his signature. A five per cent tax, of itself, is not a very heavy one but the fact is that amusements already have to pay a Federal tax of ten per cent., in addition they have to pay city taxes, state taxes, a city license lax, a Federal license tax, a special tax on films of four dollars per thousand feet, corporation taxes and income tax. Place on top of all this list a five per cent tax, and it at once becomes a very different matter. Of course it is obvious that if the Governor signs this bill the five per cent will at once show itself in the price of admis sion tickets and this too at a time when the amusement busi ness is faced with an unusual period of depression. Amuse ment proprietors claim that it would place a real hardship on their business and cause them to advance rates at a time when prices on other things are going down, even if very slowly. It would seem that amusement proprietors are justified in asking the Governor to carefully consider their figures and statements before he signs the bill. INCREASING TIME WAS in the United States when divorces were at least, nine day w onders and at tempts to obtain them were only made under the most unusual circumstances. Such an affair in a person's past was a thing to he mentioned under the breath. It is so no longer. There are said to be six' counties in the United States that have more divorces than marriages, these arc Pawnee, Okla homa; Washoe, Nevada: Trinity, California; Rutherford, Ten nessee; Union, Oregon; and Clackamas, Oregon. We look upon the Oriental as an inferior race and restrict immigration from Japan and consider the Japanese subject un fit to become a citizen of our nation, but as a matter of fact Japan had a lower divorce rate in proportion to population in 1916 than twenty-two American states. The average divorce rate for the whole United States is one hundred and forty-one to each one hundred thousand population. Twenty-five states exceed fhe average headed by Nevada with a ratio of six hun dred and fifty-two to each one hundred thousand population. There is but one state, South Carolina, which does not allow a divorce for any cause. Connecticut stands twenty-seventh in fhe list with a ratio of one hundred and thirty divorces to each one hundred thousand population. Divorces have become so common that in Nevada, accord ing to the census, the ratio of divorces to marriages runs from fhe record of Nevada which is one divorce to each one and fifty-four one hundredth marriages to that of fhe District of CKING A BIG LOAD DIVORCE 't ii What Others Say UITLE DREAMS (By Phyllis Coate) A young girl's eyes are tender things Where, fluttering with senile wings. Small dreams fly in and out. She can not keep the wee things still; They tremble in her eyes and thrill, And hover round about. Sometimes a mother's eyes are tired. And sometimes calm and love-inspir-,ed And always clear and deep. But dream-things of a young girl's kind In mother's eyes are hard to find; Their wee dreams seem to sleep. The dearest mother that I know Explained it all to me, and so I'll pass along the cue. She said, "The dreams that I once prized Have since then all been realized My little dreams were yon!" June Good Housekeeping. WHAT TO DO WITH THE FOURTH OF JULY Mrs. Thomas G. Winter, President of the General Federation of Women's Clnbs, has made an appeal to the members of the Federation to uphold its effort to secure a nation-wide ob servance of a citizenship day. In her letter, which appears in June Good Housekeeping, Mrs. Winter says : "I am appealing to you today to give your aotive and enthusiastic co operation to a plan of our Depart ment of American Citizenship a plan definite, concrete, deeply appeal ing and capable of being made a tre mendous agency for creating the spirit of American Citizenship, which is a far greater thing than the Amer ican Voter or the American PoliU cian. "In every little town and hamlet, in every big city, let the club women of this Federation start a movement to make the Fourth of July Citizen, ship Day. "No matter what other ' celebra tions are listed, let a part of that day that commemorates the time when American Citizenship became an actuality in the world, be given to a noble welcome extended by the whole community to the boys and girls who have come of age during the year and to the foreign-born who have become citizens. Both these groups should be included and recognized at the same time, thus intensifying in the minds of both the spiritual significance of the occasion. There should be a procession; there should be music for young feet to march by; there should be wise words uttered on the meaning of citizenship in this greatest of all democracies; there should be a proud welcome given by dignitaries of the commun ity in the presence of massed crowds of relatives; and the generation a little older, the youn? men who have fought for the land, should be there to point the onward hand to the newer Americans." SIMS AND HARVEY (.From the New York World) The hysterical excitement of the Harding Administration over the in discretions of Rear Admiral Sims's London speech is in striking contrast with its cynical indifference to the far more glaring indiscretions of Am bassador Harvey's London speech. When Mr. Harvey insulted all the American people in the name of the President there was not a word of of ficial disapproval. Not a Republican Senator made a protest. No hint of disavowal came from the White House or the SLate Department. On the contrary, the correspondents were told in effect that the Harvey speech was wholly acceptable to the Ad ministration. What a difference when Rear Ad miral Sims attacks a small faction of American Sinn Fein voters! Senator McCormick rushes to the White House to call the matter to the President's attention. Secretary Denby sends a cablegram to the Rear Admiral saying that "I have read with amazement certain extracts from a speech purporting to have been made by you." and ordering Sims to "in form the department immediately by cable whether or not you were cor rectly reported." The Senate prompt ly orders an investigation. There Is to be discipline for Sims but no dis cipline for Harvey. Yet the Sims speech, however much it may be open to criticism on the ground of fact and good taste, is merely the opinion of an individual. -Nobody would dream of Interpreting it as an expression of the United States Government's policy or opin ion. The Harvey speech, on the other hand, has been accepted everywhere In Europe as the formal expression of President Hardins's own views on international affairs. CONTROLLING DANDELIONS? A TROUBLESOME LAWN WEED Dandelions are among the most wide-spread lawn pests, but are par ticularly troublesome in the northern half of the country and sometimes become so bad thai the best method of eradication is to pier or spade the lawn and reseed it, but the Uniteo States Department of Agriculture ad vises against this method except in the most extreme cases. The gen eral care of the lawn is important in' controlling all lawn weeds, includ ing the dandelion -mowing, rolling, fertilizing, and watering. In other words, everything which contributed to the growth of the desired grasses will tend to combat weeds. In small lawns cutting the individ ual plants at least 3 inches below the ground twice a year is frequently the most satisfactory method of control. It does little good to cut them shal low. The best time to cut is in the spring when the dandelions are in 'early bloom, and again late in the summer. On large, heavily infested areas where the stand of grass is vig orous, spraying with a solution of iron sulphate, 1 1-2 pounds to a gallon of water is practical, especially on bluegrass lawns. It has not been found successful in Bermuda grass, red top, or bent grass. Spray 5 times, the first time jut as the blossoms unfold, and at inter vals of a month thereafter. It kills the tips of the grass and kills white clover entirely, but it will eradicate the dandelions to such an extent that '.he surviving plants can easily be re moved the following year. In small areas or as a follow-up means after spraying, a good method of killing dandelions is to apply about a ta blespoonful of kerosene or gasoline on the crown of individual plants. Dry salt may also be used effectively on cut surfaces. The best way to handle pastures in fested with dandelions is to improve the stand of grass by judicious fer tilizing, seeding and pasturing, so that the weeds will be crowded out. Dan delions do not infest well-managed pastures containing a thick, luxuriant stand of grass. THREE-QUARTER "VERDICT (From the Evening World) Judge James A. Allen has made several almost revolutionary propos als for reform of the judiciary and of judicial procedure in the State courts. Of theso by far the most striking would allow nine of twelve jurors to render a verdict in all civil and most criminal cases. Before such a change can be made the public will have to be educated to understand what it means. Trial by "twelve good men and true" and the requirement of unanimity in the verdict is more than established law. It is a tradition. But the tradition has been weaken ed in some respects in recent years. Many commercial associations have decided that arbitration is fairer and less expensive than judicial litigation. If such a change as Judge Allen ad vocates is to be made, it probably will come gradually first by three quarter verdicts in a limited field of civil law, then by extensions to all civil causes. If three-quarter verdicts result in as high a degree of justice in civil cases as does the present procedure, perhaps we may in time become ac customed to the idea and extend it in the field of criminal law. DRASTIC, BUT SALUTARY (From the Boston Post) The new regulations governing the manufacture and sale of fireworks in Massachusetts which have been is sued by Colonel Foote. commissioner of public safety, and approved by the Governor's Council, are pretty stiff; but who can say that they are jjot salutary? In the first place, makers of fire works must file a bond of $10,000 to cover loss, damages or injuries that might be caused by the mamrfactur ing or storage of the fireworks. Any person holding a public exhibition of fireworks must file a Dond of Jlo.OOo with the State Treasurer to cover losses and to protect persons who might be injured by carelessness or neglect of the exhibitor. Violation of this rule is punishable by a fine ot J500. And the innocent-looking fire balloon must not be sent up under penalty of $100 fine or a month in Jail, or both. The menace to property and per sons from the too-free shooting-off of aerial explosives Is too great to be longer tolerated without strict safe guarding. The new rules ought to be beneficial all around. km r M-w I kT UV- I . X - II, -J lJ - EDUCATION FOR CO-OPERATION (H. G. Wells in the July Yale Review) Education is really one of the new est of the arts and sciences. The idea of particular, exceptional peo ple pursuing learning has been fa miliar to the world for scores of cen turies, but the idea of preparing the minds of whole classes or whole communities for co-operations and common actions by a training in com mon ideas is comparatively a new one. The idea of education as learn ing still dominates us, and so it Is that while we have numbers of teach, ers of history who are or who at tempt to be, or who pose as histor ians who teach, we have compara tively few teachers of history who are teachers whose instrument is history. In relation to the science of history, and indeed to all the sciences, the importance of teacher as teacher is still insufficiently recognized. SUPREME COURT IS CHALLENGED BY LABOR Demand That Laws Passed By Congress Be Not Pass ed Upon Again Bv Su preme Tribunal; Ask Also) Immunity From Indict ment for Entering Into Combinations to Regulate Wages. (By International News Service.) Denver, Colo., June 13. An amend ment to the Constitution prohibiting the United Staltes Supreme Court or other Federal court from passing on the constitutionality of an act of Con gress after it becomes a law will be asked by organized latior following a recommendation made today bv the executive council of the American Federation of Labor. Under the proposed amendment am bill or resolution passed by Congress and made a law would be held valid under tthe Constitution. Tho executive council in its report declares the power of Federal courts to pass on the constitutionality of laws made by Congress "is one of the greatest menaces to measures intend ed to remedy evils In our govern ment." Unions picketing and ocher strike tactics which they use will be legal ized under the Federal law and courts prohibited from granting injunctions in any case involving or growing out of a dispute over conditions of labor or terms of employment, if another measure recommended today by the executive council and to be sponsored in Congress by organized labor be comes a law. Tile measure also pro vides immunri'y from indictment or prosecution of any person who enters into any agreement or combination for the purpose of regulating wages, hours or working conditions. The proposed law designed to re store the 'labor rights" eliminated by the Supreme Court in its recent de cision on the Clayton act and to pro test the unions in event the court's decision in the case of the Coronade Coal Company against the United Mine Workers of America is unfavor able to labor. If the decision sustains the grounds of the suit the collective bargain will become unlawful, and employers will have the righr. to seize union funds as strike damages, ac cording to the annual report of the executivo council, which reviews the case. It declares suits will be begun in every State where coal is mined and charges that the coal operators of several States have already refnwd to operate the machinery provided for in the agreements with the coal min ers for the collection of assessments to aid the striking miners in West Virginia. The council recommends that the American Federation of Labor pledge fuli support and aid to John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers, and tho other officials of the organiza tion, who are under indictment in In dianapolis in proceedings which grew out of the coal strike. ALMANAC FOR TODAY (Daylight Saving Time Sun rises 5:20 a. m. Sun sets - - . 8:25 p. in. Length of Day .... 15 h. IS m. Day's Increase 6 h. 10 m. Ilhrh water 5:5 a. m. Moon Kds 1 :07 a. m. KTT&6. swwe The Adventure of the Abbey Grange Part Five By SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Copyright, 1921, by Harper & Bros. Published by special arrangement with. The McClure Newspaper Syndicate. (Continued from Saturday.) I should say, that it was unusual for such men to leave a hottie half emp ty.. How do all these unusuals strike you, Watson?" "Their cumulativo effect is cer tainly considerable, and yet each of them is quite possible in itself. The most unusual thing of all. as it seems to me, is that the lady should be lied to the chair." "Well, I am not so clear about that, Watson, for it is evident that they must either kill her or else secure her in such a way that she could not give immediate notice of their escape. But at any rate I have shown, have I not, that there is a certain element of improbability about the lady's story? And now, on the top of this, comes the inci dent of the wineglasses." "What about the wine glasses? I asked. "Can -you see them in your mind's eye?" "I see them clearly." "We are told that three men drank from them. Does that strike you as likely?" "Why not? There was wine in each glass." "Exactly but there was beeswing only in one glass. You must have noticed that fact. What does that suggest to your mind?" "The last glass filled would be most likelv to contain beeswing." "Not at all. The bottle was full of it, and it is inconceivable that the lirst two grasses were clear and the third heavily charged with it. There are two possible explanations, and only two. One is that after the sec ond glass was filled the bottle was violently agitated and so the third glass received the beeswing. That does not appear probable. No, no, I am sure that I am right." "What, then, do you suppose?" "That only two glasses were used, and that the dregs of both were poured into a third glass, so as to give the false impression that three people !ml been here. In that way all the beeswing would be in the last glass, would.it not? Yes, I am con vinced that this is so. But if I have hit upon the true explanation of this one small phenonmenon, then in an instant the case rises from the com monplace to the exceedingly remarka ble, for it can only mean that Lady Brackenstall and her maid have de liberately lied to us, that not one word of their story is to be believed, that they have some very strong rea son for covering the real criminal, and that we must construct our case for ourselves without any help from them. That is the mission which now lies before us. and here, Watson, is the Sydenham train." The household at the Abbey Grange were much surprised at our return, but Sherlock Holmes, finding that Stanley Hopkins had pone off to report to headquarter.", look posses sion of the dining-room, locked the door upon tho inside, and devoted himself for two hours to one of those minute and laborious investigations which form the solid basis on which his brilliant edifices of deduction were reared. Seated in a corner like an interested student who observes the demonstration of his professor, I followed every step of that remarka ble research. The window, the cur tains, the carpet, the chair, the rope eaeh in turn was minutely examin ed duly pondere.d. The body of the unfortunate baronet had been re moved, and all else remained as we had seen it in the morning. Finally, to my astonishment. Holmes climbed up on to the massive mantelpiece. Far above his head hung the few indies of red cord which were still attached to the w:r:. For a long time he gazed upwards at it, and then in an attempt to get nearer to it he rested his knee upon a wooden bracket on the wall. This brought, his hand within a few inches of the broken end of the rope but it was not this so much as the bracket it self which seemed to engage his at tention. Finally, he sprang down with an ejaculation of satisfaction. "Tt's all right Watson." said he. "We have got our eas one of the most remarkable in our collection. Hut, dear me. how slow-witted I have been, and how nearly I have commit ted the blunder of nny life-time! Now. I think that, with a few missing links my chain is almost complete." "You have got your men?" "Man, Watson, man. Only one, but a very formidable person. Strong as a lion witness the Mow that bent that poker! Six foot three in height, active as a squirrel, dexterous w.th his fingers, finally. remarkably quick witted, for thia whole ingenious story is of his concoction. Yes, Wat son, we hav- come upon the handi work of a very remarkable individual. And yet,, in that beli-rope. he ha given us a clue which should not have left us a doubt." "Where was the clue?' "Well, if you were to pull down a bell-rope. Watson, where would you ,t & iA ...... 1. ? . , .V JXA inn spot where it is attached to the wire. Why should it break three inches from the top, as this one has done?" "Because it is frayed there?" "Exactls-. This end. which we can examine is frayed. He was cun ning enough to do that with his knife. But the other end is not frayed. You could not observe that from here, but if you were on the mantelpiece you would see that it is cut clean off without anv mark of fraying whatever. You can recon struct what occurred. The man need ed tho rope. He would not tear it down for fear of giving the alarm by ringing the bell. What did he do? He sprang up on the mantel piece, could not quite reach it, put nis knee on the bracket you will see the impression in the dust and so got his knife to bear upon the cord. I could not reach tho place by at least three inches from which I infer that he is at least three inchea a bigger man than I. Look at that mark upon the seat of the oaken chair! What is it?" "Blood." "Undoubtedly it is blood. Thia alone puts the lady's story out of court. If she were seated on the chair when the crime was done, how comes that mark? No, no, she was placed in the chair after the death of her husband. I'll wager Ithat the black-dress shows a corresponding mark to this. We havo not yet met our Waterloo, Watson. but" this is our Marengo, for it begins in defeat and ends in victory, i should like now to nave a tew words' with the nurse, Theresa. We must be wary for awhile, if we are to get ithe information which we want." She was an interesting person this amiability. She did not attempt to picious, ungracious, it took some time before Holmes' pleasant manner and frank acceptance of all that she said thawed her into a corresponding amiability. She did not attempt to conceal her hatred for her late em ployer. "Yes, sir, it is true that he threw the decanter at me. I heard him call my mistress a name, and I told him that ho would no;t. daro to speak so if her brother had been there. Then it was that he threw it at me. He might have thrown a dozen if he had butr. left my bonny bird alone. He was forever ill-treating hr, and she too proud to complain, she will not even tell me .ui that he has done to her. She never told me of those marks on her arm that you saw this morning, but I know very well that thev eome from a stab with a hatpin. The sly devil God forgive me chat I should speak of him so. now that he is dead! Put a devil he was. if ever erne walked the earth. He was all honey when first we met him only eighteen months ago. and we both feel as if it were eighteen years. Shr had only just arrived in London. Yes, it was her first voyage she had never been from homo before. He won her with his title and his money and his falso London ways. If she made a mistake she has paid for it. if erer a woman did. What month did we mr et him? Well. I'll tell you it was just after we arrived. We arrived in June, and it was July. They were married in Jan uary of last year. Yes, she is down in the moming-room again, and I havo no do-ubt she will see you, hur you must not ask too much of her, for she has gone through all that flesh r.nd Mood will stand." Tomorrow The Adventure of th Abbey Grange, continued. Soviet Russia Is Not Friend Of U. S. Labor, Report Says Denver. June 13 The executive council of the American Ketlera.ti''n of Ijabor charged today in its annual report that tho agitation to open tr;ide relations with Soviet Ru.-'s.a "has been concentrated to a lare extetn within the lrtbrtr unions wi1 h a view of overthrowing- the bona fide labor movement of America as a con dition precedent for the overthrew of the Republic of the United States ' The report, bitterly attacking the Soviet government, says, refc rrinp to it : "The labor m ovoment of the world has now a new and powerful enemy." It also charges that ? b a "T -ad es and Industrial Unions" section "-f the fommunldt party in this country h sndinff out circulars "for the de struction of the American trade unions and the American -''-deration Ot Labor." using th1 address -f the Queens County LaXor Lycr urn, ol Brooklyn, N. Y. DonH Sua "1 Saw It In tho paper." Say, "I Saw It in The Times.' . . . . . . L,