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EVENING SEN TINEL
South Nor-walk, Conn.
Naturally. The world. is deployed.
moaning in self-pity. Levity requires
light spirits. Then. too. humor is a.
Established 1870 by James demon:
sense of the ridiculous. And human-
ityAn its bewilderment after the war
B. L. k A. L. GOLDEN, Props.
is about 95 per cent. ridiculous. so
EARL C. DELAND,
Editor and General Manager.
jokesmiths are perplexed when they
seek contrasts that will strike people
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When the ridiculous was isolated. it
was a joke. Now it's epidemic. pan-
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Entered at
Oillce
the South Norwalk Post"
as Second (‘lass Mail. Matter.
What did we ever 'do with our-
selves. to kill time. before .we had
Miniature Almanac for Tomorrow
p. m
Ilicli title 2:35 a. m.. 2:35
Friday, December 22, 1923.
movies? If you forget. go to Harri-
sonfiv. J. It's a town of 10,000, but
I ' it hasn‘t a movie theater.
The reason? Because the City of
The Ansovlmcd Press is CXUIUMVBW Harrison has an ordinance levying I
entitled to the use {or puhllt‘atlon 0‘ g“ or 310,000 a yup on a movie
or
not othchis:e in this nr-wapnpcr and
also any local news published herein.
All rights of ptllillcnllnn of special this editorial.
all news dispatches credited to it
dispatches herein nre also reserved.
theater. A city election may knock
out this ordinance before you read
Taxation. carried to extremes.
A Thought for Today
limit lintn l‘i't‘i‘l‘t'd tli
iniiii~tcr the same on
in gmul «cum-tie ni' til
A»; m cry
gift. me"
in another.
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manifold grave of “ml—l Peter 4: 10. .
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Tie inn-l \\ ‘un [it \i 7‘ makes mig- Experts.
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Anonymous.
Trolley Fares.
There is to he rm lil‘lffllllfl‘
tintion o.’ the .‘lw rent troiii’y fare on
.\\I'll!i" strut rnr line. On
the “We?
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having :it ":‘v H :‘i it'st: rllziy.
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tuiks mm hero in .\‘nr\\.ilk seem not
to into l».it"wi
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to liflll'll“ them.I
men thought
¢'\llt'llil'l_V polite‘
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in a tun,
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The MUM iii tiglv'iril'lt,‘ phase in tel-
l'plihli" Nil.“ is tho,- llllltli. of many
pa uph- . .; lul'l) 11m 5 nt‘ liiw'lili; n. phone
lur in”; ll.:l"llh;~,1“llsv
ill-t
multivis 9} nu lili. 1:.
lug li-lt‘plllili"
cutisplcumis.
\\'liilc women
finished
:.tt in monopoliz-
nre more
Anyway, more are some
l
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IiiivH they
“Hilltli \\l.l) ml'. gossip a long time
mer nwxo ll'IllilliLjR. \\'llil~- others neod-
iiig the line for some pt't'ssing matter"
of twain» as must \“illl until the talkers
hm'o eyhnusttwl their subjects and are
out of hrruith.
lt' vnu fl“l( such persons to give up
they may retort angrily that
they lune [will fur the phone and
lime a right in use it all they Wish to.
ll. line.
«tillers. however. are more consider-
ate and will xiv-id it gladly on learning
that Hillllt‘ one else nemls it.
People
should not lle'flllltlir‘ to ask for a. line
if it has been filtil’iODOllZPd too long.
Some employes of business houses
ulio are supposrd to answer telephone
l-Ill!.. lune it \t'rv bored manner in
doing it tlmt repcls permitn A con—
t't'rn can «in ninth to Win favor by
training its empioyes to answer calls.
in an littertstr-d wnv. which makes it
<- . ill a: “if they appreciated being cali-
r-l.
it is Péi‘V to give an unfavorable im~
pression by n curt and abrupt tele-
[Illfine manner. A pleasant voice over
a. telephone is as winning as a. warm
smile and cordial handshake. The
cultiwitlon of the, same has been one
step that has helped many people win
success and friendships. It would be
well for some irritable people to re-;
member that tritphonn operators are
lllinllin and I doing work requiring
n-rvrius slrnln itnd closo attention.
and must flr‘r‘ftsinr‘ullx' make slips.
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Jokes.
More hum-its. That's what the
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m tlt- l‘stmv of any
i
contin-
likely
lll'll’l‘ lllilii tin"
corporation!
.tua tlmt ill llllliJ—fllld a;
that twn-protit-i
m. in-ltiuwl (inei
" “ ”m “‘1“: _ struction of values, ravaging of tiel'is'
"llUlCCI They are telling Human childreninnd shooting up of cities. the allies
. States?"
as waste makes haete.
taken seriously in Detroit. where a
robber got "AM-from Henry's bank.
21 events. being a’hard row to hoe. .
may have seen s. "Stop" sign and ‘
.ltopped. Anyway, they claim
a billiard player might say this done
has a fairly good tip.
line. And we thought everybody in
Wall Street was a suspect.
a monkey race.
and wines
their own bonus. "
coming when it comes time to “chill.
brings prohibition of the thing taxed.
Would national prohibition have been
c more effective if liquorbad been tax-
.3 ed 810 a quart. the revenue going to
o. l’ncle Sam instead of the bootleggers?
money by pulling his own teeth. They
', bury him at Columbia. Pa... dead from
i blood poisoning.
Did you ever ruin an article or
botch a. job by trying to do it your-
self instead of summoning an ex-
pert? This is an age of specialists.
A old locksmith, asked to itemize
a b i, did it this way: "To opening
safe. 35. To knowing how to open
it. $95.00.
. Success has a hard time dodging
ltho man who becomes an expert—
'In almost any line. from business
l doctor to machine operator.
HY .mnrox “BONNER
NRA Stat! ormspondl-nt
in the meantime
l —————e———-——
' done to h e l
' Mame. Germany stab“:
u —_ ize the m a r it .‘
I in one night 92 American amateur steadying food
.‘ radio operators send messages that and c l o t h i n g
l are picked up in Europe. prices. January
l Where is the wireless thing‘ lead- will E" grave
danger to the re~
public.
ing'.’
3 it eliminates distance. shortly will
bring the whole world to every radio may 8“?le a
{fan's door. Strange friendships start ifggiicmfls an
fnow, at vast distances. by radio. A other "putsch"
common event. later. to restore the
"‘ HINDENBURO ‘
dictator; in power.
Out of this might easily grow civil
war. ,
if this occurred, with its further de-
ltadio may be the greatest inven- ”"01“” 0" put ‘
tion of our lifetime.
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Note and Comment.
could kiss goodhy any hopes of re-
lh’“ 1“ "° Santa. Claus. Many wm'paratlons or indemnities. unless they
Mk. "1'th What ll ”16 l'nl'vedlgrnbbcd chunks of German territory.
Since I have. visited Germany this
time. there have been incidents of
grave import. In cities as scattered
as Cologne, Dusseldorf. Dresden and
Brunswick. there have been serious
disturbances. maddened by high
prices. spurred by Communist preach-
ing. mobs smashed windows and loot-
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Nice thing about winter is you can
lay off Congre- and cuss the poor!
street car service.
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Due to Christmas nirguns. women
i
arms. Also in many parts of Germany
the renetionaries are supposed to have
organizations with subsidiaries which
call themselves
drill in secret.
:nctlonnry forces appear. guns in hand.
my the government had showed itself
fpowerlnss. Therefore they would re. l
Flore order.
ed shops. .
It is signified that most places plun-
dered were groceries
will continue their window shopping.
to buy new windows.
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Zuharoif. world's richest man_ is a
woman hater. so some will say that
is why he is the richest man.
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Even though the Turks do come
from Tartar stock. you would be
wrong in calling them the cream of
Tartar.
in
’aea
There is a lot of money in work-
ing. but it is hard to get.
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Johnny Weismuller has broken sev-
erul records in swimming pools. which
makes Johnny a. pool shark.
. e e e
The fastest run on record is the
Christmas run on the bank.
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So many people are sounding
alarms on one thing and another we
don't know which way to lump.
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What's in a name? 1!: Vermont. a
big dairy is owned by Mr. Bovine.
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Haste doesn't make as much waste
s
a a a
Ford's advice to spend money wa.sl
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Harvard’s 1928 rowing program has
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An Aitlantic City runaway horse
he did.
a O
Valile discussing ‘ autosuggestion.
"Wall Street Suspect Held"—-head-
40 WALL STREET
gAdmirnl llorthy
and shoe stores: I so in (ite‘mnny
,.German Civil Wilt Pe
.lows, easily inflamed to violence.
' liclplehs-z.
bodes no stood to toreigners.
come into Germany. eating up
He put it like this:
“finder the Versailles treaty the w-
regime; ipublie is allow-d a maximum of 100
non WOODS.
000.000 is a. tremendous task.
violence started all ‘over Germany.
the government simply might not be
able to handle theI situation.
“I fear that is what the Monarch-
lats wish. The junkers doubtless have
'stortn troops' and
“s"d'lrnl’ You might Pl‘fl thppp re.
under old army officers. They would
They might not aim at
immediate restoration of the throne
but might imitate what happened in
Hungary. l
"Just in the roynlists there named
as supreme dictator.
r _ ' (I ‘
also that in every case the old hands Hindenburs or-e Ludendorfl.
lat Communist agitation took no parts
ERLIN. ———L’nlcss:.‘llost of the riotcrs were young fel- W00“! ‘7“? ““313”qu mm
in reactionaricl.‘ The ‘result would be ,
so in e t h i n g is [almost PW" instance the police were Ch“ “11’-
A thing happened at Dresden that;“
The ’isucceasi’ul.
mob marched to.ihe lending hotelasirltfi “"394 ‘ lesson from ‘ l
«and howled execrntlon at those who tempt. Most of “my" “’04 1‘
meimieed on Junkcrestatea. It is pos-
people's food an'i forcing up prices. sible "WY '3'“ “Ck ‘0 “1“"
l One. of the best informed editors in “my womd‘notailowzany 13°"
Berlin expressed to me his fear {of
. ’to come to the cities.”
, C o m m u n is" 1 the republic.
ture.
sought out Eduard Bernstein. Social
policing ‘1' Hanan of 55_. Democratic veteran. He didn't seem
n mob . alarmed.
‘local plundering and that the Mou-L
archists might try a p h. But 1
think these dangers “grated. The
mas of workmen are true to the re-
public. .As to the country landlords
starving the cities _into pubmimion.
.many worksh‘ on the edatea are in ,
sympathy and email! .with the city
workers. The would.th permit any
such tactics. . ’
"Finally the
porter of food an
in the cities. .»
"The republic‘has mitt: foes. but
[also many determined drienda. It may
encounter rough
countries will give us halt-a chance.
it will make port in peaceful
mama“:
they might set up a
a e o ‘
A horse race is always attended by
O 0 O . . . .
The Legion is against-taxing beer
for the soldiers to 98! ~
fiomeof'llfirrorrPage & ShawandApglo,§esid¢som-.om.nm 1 ‘V
meson;
3W“ men It? they have no luck
Hell's Halt Acre. has. been ,oilietal-
tu'tivity. , .
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"The bulk of the,
working class
the
"in the Kipp putsch the workmen
ruck and the strike proved highly
But I fear the n—
.1.
Jobs.
food
That seemed mane a disturbing pic-
I ,went to the Reichatag and
kid he: '
"There is alwayaaome danger of
rnment is an im-‘
‘thoee supplies are
«FREDA? DECEMBER 19 ,
Journal.
All“ alarmed European economist
asks what Russia. and Germany have
in common that counts—Wall Street
- "High“ School N
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. The Nom‘aik High
1 play the fourth .
”n tomorroW E‘ , . g‘me
“lien they take
or Norwaik. T “5‘
mapped by the
Fin88011. and
n ncin
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.‘ nior eiasr
thguditorium ragtiftm a
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I year: eriiert Miller.
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visitors at the of” “
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once at thr- End‘o‘ml
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