MONDAY, DEC. 2;. 1915
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JAMES GOLDEN
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HINIATURE ALMANAC FOR
TOMORROW.
MONDAY DEC. 27: 1915_
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X'AASON 1C” DIRECTORY
A ionized Convocation .of letter
'Gthpter No. 3, RA. M. will in held
-‘ on “Oddly «entire. Dec. zeta, at 11
CW-
Work—M M. M. Degree.
Refreshments after the work.
CHAS. A. TUCK. H. P.
Angst:—
F: S. LYON,
Secretary.
S Old wen Lodge, No.108. Rand A. M.
Meets in Masonic Building. South
loin street. 1st and 3rd Tuesday of
each monthw-Jnly and August ex—
ciptedaat 8 o'clock. All Master
stations cordially invited. SS'ivester
P. Decker W. M. RobertM. Wilcox,
Sac.
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A JOB FOR A STATESMAN.
the Fold peace
by
The epitaph oi
' druids seems to hate been written
.the tdltor oi the Tidens Tegnfl (the
[Sign of the Times) in Christianin, Nor-
' way. after the Oscar ll landed there:
“Mr. 'Ford lacks the. kuouledge to
. embark on such an enterprise Mr.
Ford’s greatest asset is a likable per-
sonality. He doesn't look culture, but 11
: world wide education.
~ i‘ The Verdens Gang (the Way oi the
AWoArld) put the same idea more blunt
11'!
"Fort is helpless us a child in ul-
‘iernnting an expedition of this sort
eon Accouht of his lack ol‘ knouledge
1, of the conditions in Europe."
“study here or abroad has serious-
l), questioned M1. Fotd’s intentions.
But it has been obvious from the
first that he was not (ill out to lead a
orld war of
Apeace movement in s 11
Even
such vastness and complexity
if the moment had been suspicious [or
pewsud it wasn ‘t——the Detroit 1111111
infaturer was hardly the man to 'put
- it over” .
‘I am a mechanic who happens to,
have. made money, " Mr. Ford once
wild modestly in a newspaper inter-1
Avior. A mechanic of warm heart, lib-
oral hand and high ideals but still a
minute. And it ever a situation call-
ed tor a great diplomat tainllisr with
. years
«All the history or Europe the person-1
nlltiea of its rulers, the prejudice of
is pooples and the precedents or its
as. for a saporstatoemsn.
ENTERPRISE
potent lntolersbly circumscribed.
camera was no place to play. Worse
5than that the yongstsrs in his new!»
boi‘hood didn't seem to know how to
7 play. Hodecldcd to do some mission-
hermit;
diplomacy. this situation does It‘s 11A
h tam 1ylsupposedly deteriorating effect of re
' A middle western boy. W 059 ‘ ‘cent immigration.‘
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‘Inovcd to New York. found his 811““- l The most distressing thing about the.
able. Ting western boy represents
the young men who go to Sew York
has all sections of the country, and
make good-and by pouring fresh blood
into ths_mstropolis keep it going and
make it ths’lbtuiness power that it is.l
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FREEDOM FOR PROFESSORS.
it the rumpus amused by the dis-
missal of lProf. Scott Nearing from the!
University of Pennsylvania last snarl
mer seemed to anybody s more temp-
est in s teacup, that view is now dis-
pelled and the storm is justified b1 the
results.‘ ’
Prof. Nearing in himself was unim-
portant but the principle of the thing.
—the question whether college trus-
tees might curb the tree utterance of
professors by discharging them- for
expressing their personal
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opinions—J
was very important. There arose a de l
mand throughout the country that!
scholars intrusted with teaching out 4
American youth should be utrammelf
ed; that at least there should be no;
ground for suspicion that Wealth or;
vested interests in any form had po11'~'
or to control the teaching of special-A
ists in educational lnslitulons. {
Now the University of Pennsylvan-E
ia itself has yielded to the storm ol‘
criticism. There will be no more ruth- l
1955‘ ”’fliing' or professors. it has been Plohabl) the most Aictnarkahle;
decided that the trustees, in dismiss- "celillwfly ewr heard in a Septua-
lion suit is now coming out in
the suit. in the Supreme Court
have the consent of the faculty. and of New York by Mrs. Ada Brownl
the ”0mm” 0w" colleagues will Ketchum against. her husband,
hate the deem" “we M0mm”;Everett l’. Kclchum, a wealthv
When a ma" ‘3 ("owed f" a ‘md '9“ ,iawyer of New York citv. Soul}
mn‘ he M” be mm“ m ”me' “0 "m kisses that lasted for 111:0 hours
he need at be left without a job. are frequently 111entioncd
Such a conclusion should give 11 In denying_ the' assertion“ that
new spirit of sell-respect and freedom W”
to the leaching force of every .college to buy weapons. I w
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I John Hopkins University and the
lt‘arnegis institute have decided to
lgive courses in selling "to insurance,
The Spot'ldlnr an insurance iournahtand other coups“ are preparing to
has made an linpi‘essits stud) of A'm- lloilow suit. That settles it. You
encun llllli’llot records in the last ten; might just us well give up and take
The result isnt flattering to a 2 out that policy.
countrv that prides itself on its 1111-: .
porter civilization and humanity. A OSBORN ON WALKER CASE.
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Mrs. Ada Brown Ketchum. ' 1
lug professors or instructors, must
in the country.
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HOW TG’LOWER MURDER RATE.
The rericu covers thirty cities Aln
all sAAsctions of tho country. Thnhputh.
makes the most unlmombie showing,
due doubtless to its large and compar-i
“WEI” irresponsible “‘0'” ‘l‘ol’ulfl' ten, 11 mcmbci of the State Parole
“011 Ml’mpnla, Tenn. wins the unilat- lBoard in discussing the parollng oi
loving this of the “most murderous‘lianker William F. Walker, of New
‘ili'ltsin, has given the following in-
t1 rview.
“Walker is now 70 years old. When
he was sentenced to prison eight
years ago, he Weighed 146 pounds,
When he lctt.-1bo other day, he welgh- 1
ed 94. if he wore young and able to
enjoy any part of his loot he would
never have been paroled. Ordinarily
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Parole Granted Chieily Because oi ills
Age and Poor Health.
' (‘oL Norris G Osbotu, of New lla-
city in the norm." For the decade
of 19044913, out of 100,000 residents of}
Memphis, 63.4 were murdered every?
year, on an average. (‘halestom S..C.
comes next in the list. with 32.7 homi-
older 11 year per 100,000. Savansh, Al-
lantu, New Orleans and Nashville tolv‘
low close after. Then comes s end .
den drop in Louisville to 16.6, and when a man is sentenced it his con-
' ' he is
. . Jduct in prison has been good. .
the rule sinks to 11.8 for San Fiancis lrel ed A“ tile 9 of his minimum
co, (1.3 for Chicago. 6.1 for Cleveland
sentence. if we had (allowed this
and New York, 5.3 for Pittsburg, i for mm Walker would have been reigned
liul'i'alo. and n pround mlnintum of
seven years ago.
only 2.4 for Milwaukee.
“The fact that Walker has maln-
The average yearly murder for the tsinsd ‘} ”lemefefi‘m‘“ m" he ‘1"
southern cities was 18.11; for the Pa-lmfeddetlttierfizidgodtrlfi :zmbSEYSE
cific Coast cities. 12.8; for the cen-
tral cities. 11.6 and for the eastern cit-
Cnl. Osborn added: “Of course, should
ice 4. 9 Thus in this respect, at least
it develop that he has some left, and
he spends one cent of it. he will be
the East may lay unquestionable claim
to higher civilization. in spite of the
recommibted to Jail. He is still i pris-
'oner ot the State. All that was con-
sidered by the Parole Board was
whether he was entitled to parole. ”
The question whether Walker would
be allowed to leave the State under
parole warrevived in the interview.
and Gol. Osborn said it {would not be
permitted by the board “because in.)
stantly the people of the State would
say that he was going to dig np‘hisI
.bnrlsd treasure.” it had previously
‘boea‘ announced by another. member
situstion is that the murder rate . in
every section seems to be inoreaslns
The figures for the yesr1914 are
found to be uniformly higher than the
average figures for the pretious de-
code. The increase is most marked
causing injury.
N09: the INMW‘ mm“ where he in the southern and!" western states. l
‘cnd there was a Vito-111““ that “'3 The homicidal eminence oi the 1111-
Wm“? WM 10“ M a] tion as a. wholt is seen in the fact
m It happened to be b31117 law" that, for the lining population, 100 per-
A'wun was. Then" boy "i“ *0 sons are murdered in 1111’ United
We the other M! “01°“ “9 “‘9 suited to so in italy, or in Prussia, and
but they m W “W- 'oaly is in England " 1
rwwfldfim the m °' ‘9 L What can sedan room out 11111
to all that trouble Mn" ”8 ““9 cashiers! record? frho 1. Spectator
7 ‘ ~ '* nukes a peninébthnd practical-sug-
ms. Nearly two-thirds or
Borders saamlnod were committed by
m on; chief nose! to: his
lacrosse 111mm crkna‘s ' flVOB.
o! the board that Walker would not
he showed to leave the State, because
in that case his parole would no lun-
ger be effective, its—11s would be out-
ddo the Jurisdiction oi the Board and ’
the State authorities.
WNTY COMMISSIONERS ISSUE
' LICENSES. .. ..' \
”To date the county commnionera - .
hoveislusd issiigporandss drusl',
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chili certm'cates havebsen mood in , L:
this count}.
011 December 28. the commodities" ?
vmaotomsidtosmtns rs
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(or 30 feet, landing on the opposite
side or the trolley car. Mrs. Green
bill was men's through the rear
window of the trolley car, landing oil.
the floor. The accident come as s
l sad ending to a happy Christmas eve
{shopping party. The four had been
in Bridgeport buying Christmas pres
ems. At 1: 40 o'clock Saturday morn-
ing they 11ers» on their way home in.
the Ford car. At the corner at
Strattord avenue and Connecticut
avenue” the auto being driven out 01
the latter, the accident occurred.
Witnesses Accident.
Edward G. Gaynor. factory man— i
lager o; the Gaynor Msnutacturing‘
compshy ot Stratlord, is probably the
first witness of the accident, outside
0! those concerned. For a few mo
meats preceding the accident, he had
been driving his car along Strattord
avenue, abregst oi the other car, on,l
Connecticut avenue. As he came to
the intersection of Connecticut aye,
nue and Strattord ayenue. he slow.
on up slightly to let the other auto-
mobile dri1e shead of him. The:
clash then occurred. Mr. GaynorA
wheeled his car about and called for:
the Emergency ambulance He also
brought a doctor with him.
Police Aid Rescues.
Two policemen whose names can- ,
not be. secured did excellent work,
The men on the car here organized
. into a rescut (row The Ford has
lifted up and .1lr. (lreeuhill “as thin 11
out. The hood of the Ford was ra-m l
med so tightly into the front of the
trolley car that it was necessary toi
jack up the car to get it out. The top
of the automobile was down when it:
was proceeding along Connecticut»
avenue but after it struck, it was
thrown on to 11 considerable distance.’
Ambulance Makes Two Trips.
The ambulance made 1110 trips to
the Bridgeport hospital. The first‘
‘83 made in ten minutes. The trolley
car, which “as in charge of Motormnn‘
Peter Fey and Conductor Joseph
Martin. was badly damaged. The
vestibule was completely smashed.
Coroner Secures Pictures.
Conner Phelan took photomphs,‘
of the melt. The accident occurred.
in the town oi Straitord, just over
the line from Bridgeport State Po
iiceman lions ll. Wheeler ls intesti-
lgstlnu and had witnesses at the in-
‘ quest this morning.
Mr. Camp was untried. Up to :1
Automobile hearings will be held by short tAiAiAne ago he llv ed with his wife
Secretu 1 . and. ildren in Higganum. near
r or “‘8 3m" (“"1“ "‘ uiiddimown Conn. but came to
Burnes at the t‘apilol next Wednesday Sttatturd [0 board with Mr and \irs.
Everett P. Ketchum.
licr
'..\irs Ketchum says
he kissed her too often. His‘
caresses, she said greatly inter-
fered nith the routine of her'life.
Many of tthc incidents 11 crc
chronicled in the diaries, the 111c11~
tion of which caused the witness
to become hysterical. From the
her husband did not wish
suul kisses,
wayAMrs. Kctchuni told it, her
married life was just one
after another.
kiss
AUTOMOBILE HEARINGS Willi
NESOAY AFTERNOON.
Violators of 11.1.} Vehicle Laws to
Appear Borers Mr. lorries.
a.l " p. 111.1121 followu: :Afiicenhlll 11l1llc working for the
“'ulter '1‘. Cahlll, Meridvll. upwatfillridemll ”“55 “man" i” “u 3“
sembler. ‘
i111: motor vehicle while intoxicated, l
Martin Davis. Stamford, operating (3"ch “mug; GOMES T0 sHOP.‘
while momentum.- ’
George P. Gabriel; Bfldxeport. rs~
opened case to show cause why li-
ccnse should be issued. ..
Pro-Christmas ,storm 1. out of anti
' oua Dowanw Pitt-larch .—Chattyf
. and Bright, Well on Toward too. .
Joseph Jusson, Washington, I‘eck- MIDDLE-POW): Dec. 27-“1‘1‘9 Old'l
less driving and concerned in accident 93‘ Christmas “”99" who “'33!
|seen on the street here this year;
lwss Horace Johnson at Middle Hsdfi
'dam. Mr. Johnson was in town thel
k middle of last week, weudlug his way
among the crowds oi Christmas
ibuyem with several bundles tuckedA
under his arm. lie was interested
in the show windows, rscognlzorl'
old acquaintances here and xtberc,
and chatted pleasantly with tho
clerks in the stores. He announced
Fred F'. 1.911111, Bridgeport relklcssl
driving
Isadore Pomerania. Hartford, me
less driving.
Ralph ARobinaon. Bridgeport. con-
corned in fatal accident in Bridgeport
on November 18,1915.
Herbert F Selp. Stamiord operat-lo
ing motor vehicle recklessly and mo
lng along public highway. that there Would be a storm of about
Arnold Vosgerum. Stamford operat 1‘“ hours duration before Christ-
ing motor vehicle recklessly and rac- mas and, sure enough, Thursday
In: alone public highway :the storm put in an appearance in
~ . iobodlsnce to the decree or this
. JOY tN PITTSBURGH. .wegthsr visual, and a heavy mist
IITTSBURGH. Po. Dec. 24. ~Jov settled over the city and soaked its
cardigans“. .1: mu: m ......... ........1...
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the enhancement lots today by 3.5 upon the street. It lasted lust about
C. Erick. millionaire. coal magnate“ ’th hours ‘3 M" Johnson bad 9”
that ‘1 ill pay in fig! 5 a OhrlstmasA dictod
a accoun the til 000 Mr. Johnson is well i. 90 but
children depositors in the Plltilbul’shl be my, Ind mam, ,3“...
Bank for Savings which was closed
here last Wednesday by order or the“:trio "“1" lost the same. His facul-
State Dopuflnontol
deposits amount to am, 186.“ showers;
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and those who study Hr.
”Ml will l” made ’“ cash 1““ 3“ Johnson conclude that there is a
man who knows how to live to be a
undred ,
soon as the necessary umgsmenls
can he completed which will probably“
be about January 3.
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at Bottom Prices
BUY _HIM A ‘ HAT
AS A GIFT '
Any gentleman will appreciate such a gift.
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for a hat.
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