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Independence Day
Flags flying, picnics packing,
everybody going on a holiday!
'Whyl Fourth of July. And
what is the Fourth of July 1 In-
dependence Day.
A handful of serious men. sit-
ting around a table, signing a
document, knmving that every
man who signs it thereby stakes
his life.
Why, then. sign it? Because
human liberty seemed to them
worth far more than any man's
own single life.
Nearly 150 years have flown.
Independence. “hat is itl Ev-
ery man of a mob determined to
do as he pleases regardless ot
laws, of moral standards, of the
comfort of everyone else? Kill-
ing or maiming children with fire-
works so tliat a man may show
his independence of law and pub-
lic opinion? Dcspoiling parks
and roadsides so that he may
teach his children independence of
cleanliness and beauty 7 Hoggish-
ly defying every other motorist.
that he may teach his children
how to be independent of courtesy
and friendliness l Sneaking in a
bottle of poison and dividing it
among his friends that he may
teach his children defiance of
majority rule 1
Or is independence, in the last
analysis, self-discipline—the pmv.
er of the soul that comes from
living one's own life according to
high standards 7
The American spirit is not self-
indulgence, quarrelsomeneSS de-
fiance of law. It is indepcn 8100
of the shallow thinking and shal-
lower living of the mob. It is the
independence which say s, “No
matter what my neighbor does, I
will do richt. If every other man
on the road is a boor. I at least
can be courteous and friendly.
If half the town breaks tile laws.
I at. least can keep them."
Freedmn to live according to
the dictates of one’s conscience
was what men made America for.
Living thus is the real indemn-
deuce.
Is not something of that spirit
f independence owed to those
n around a table, offering their
s, with their names, for the
0f the .\'t“\\‘ \"tll‘id '3
Art 90 Per Cent Pure
A standard for judging antique
art is provided by French autori-
ties, as a result of the charge that
French artists 'had been faking
and selling spurious “antiques"
to American museums and private
collectors.
The French Antiquarian Asso-
ciation has ruled that Gothic fra-
ments and other antiques must be
90 per cent. genuine. Some re-
construction work is permitted.
but it must not amount to more
than 10 per cent. of the entire art
work. French artists who have
done work on the disputed speci-
mens for the Metropolitan Mus-
eum and other American collec-
tions insist that they have done
no more than this.
To an unskilled observer 3. lot
of highly esteemed “antiques”
look as if they would benefit by
having a great deal more than 10
per cent. of work done on them by
competent artists. But far be it
from any novice to meddle in the
domain of” art. The interesting
thing to the novice, anyway, is
f
I
this question of percentage—
Amerlcans are very strong on
percentages.
It has been said that a ship, re-
placed piece by piece as it wears
out, is still the same ship as long
as one original nail remains. But
that principle doesn’t apply to a
picture of a ship or a statue of a
sailor.
Robt. Lynch Is Special -
Deputy at Rowayton
Robert Lynch was appointed special
deputy constable for Rowayton yes. .
Ir.
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erday. Lynch has been sworn
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The World
Over
GAMBLING
Do yen play the stock market "on
margin?" If you do. you should be
backing a 10-to-I shot. in order to get,
an even run for your money. For 9
out of 10. who gamblsin stocks on a
marginal basis. lose their money.
Who says so? A high former offi-
cial of the Consolidated Stock Ex-
change, New York city. Paste this
in your hats. shoestring plungers.
PRICES
Iron and steel prlces. show a weak-
ening tendency—not enough to need
monkey glands. but sufficiently to
worry sales managers in other indus-
tries who watch the steel same as a
weathervane of general business.
When another period of depression
comes, prices will hit the toboggan
again. How far will they drop? Some
experts say prices never will go back
to what they Were in the old days.
“'e hope not. judging by this letter
written in 1779 to John Adams by
his wife:
"Corn is sold at $4.
per bushel. Linens are sold at 820
per yard. the most ordinary calicos
are $30 and $40; hroadcloths at $200
per yard; molasses at $20 per gai-
lon; sugar at $4 per pound; tea a:
:40."
hard meney.
QL‘ADRILLIONS
Russia has printed so much paper
money that the Soviet is six months
behind in announcing the total. But
from the Bolshevik revolution in
1991?. up to the first of 1913. over
two quadrillion paper rubles have
come from the printing presses into
circulation. To write that out. put
down the “2" and follow it with 1:2
ciphers. It's over a million rubles
for every man. woman and child on
earth.
CHILDREN
In New York city over 17.000 chil-
lren were mistreated and neglected.
in one year. sufficiently to be brought
to the attention of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Many more thousands were not re-
ported.
“'hen you consider a. record like
this. which is a black eye on our civ-
ilization, you do not wonder that so
many chldren mature into criminals.
failures and defectives. Solution of
most of our social problems is in
childhood.
CHANGE
Your success or failure mav He»
pend on the way you snake hands.
dress or eat, warns Rev. Dr. Lloyd
C. Douglas of Akron. Ohio:
Dressing and eating have to do
with appearance. They create the
first impression and reveal our de-
gree of cleanliness. orderliness and
common sense. The handshake ex-
presses character.
“'e. are made or broken by the im-
ple things of life—the "trifling" de-
tails—as much as by our abilities
Make a good Impression. and we
usually get more than a chance or
try-out. Remember. the best play is
not apt to please the audience if it
is staged poorly. Success requires
a certain sense of the dramatic—not.
ranting and forced acting. ‘but the
simple touches that please.
A good dispositiOn stones for many
defects of ability.
INDIA
Another of the last strongholds of
romance and adventure—Indla—be-
TIMES HAVE 0... can silver: 1776
p 5 ASENTINEL
DEMPSI-ZY'S $300,000.
(Hartford Courant.)
A! July Fourth approaches. and the
fight. between Jack Dempsey and Tom
Gibbons is at hand. the open reason
is here for moralizing over the injus-
tice of a system of civilization that
hands out to a mere prize fighter some
$300,000 {or a few minutes in the ring
as contrasted to what. brains can
command in the open mart One
writer will weep to think that Poe rc-
celved but 320 for "The Raven" and
another will point out. the well-known
fact that the President of the United
States gets but 875.000 a year as con-
trasted to the 850.000 more or less a
minute that Mr. Dempsey will clean
Shelby tomorrow. '
\Ve wonder. howeusr, iffitho=e who
cry out the loudest. against. such evi-
dent injustice in the way that. life
goes are not uttering their lamentav
lions more or less with their tongues
in their cheeks. Surely. if they are.
at all students of either history or
romance. they lnust know that such
preference is the \ery law of life and
that it will probably continue to be so
contifluee to improve itself.
It is true that as man emerged from
a. more or less pllmllhe state the
more muscular person has less and
less ceased to rule. lie is no longer
ruler of a city or a. country. the su-
preme authority and the leader of his
people against their common enemy.
By scheming and thinking. and
through clcxcr invention and the
power to use others for one's pur-
poses. it has become po.~sible for the
person rtlatncly unimportant phy-
tion. and it is. of course. extremely
fortunate for the advancement of the
race that this is so. But the fact re-
mains that. there is still in us an (ill-
mlration tor the perfection of physi-
glng succumbing to the steam roller.
civilization. “‘e like to think of In-
dia as a quaint Jungle country of
temples, tigers, buried jewels and
magicians. But a trade report tells
us that India already has 265 cotton
mills. swarms of steel plants. a hil-
lion dollars' worth of irrigation pro-
jects under way. and a. growing net-
work of government-owned railroads.
This is "progress"—which makes
the world duller.
donated the cigars
msxséxu. July
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Mail Bag ,
Dear Sir:
The Mulvoy-Tarlov Post. No. 603.
Veterans of Foreign Wars wish to ex.
tend to the Norwalk public their ap~
preciation for the hospitality shown
to our visiting comrades during the
state encampment last Saturday and
Sunday.
The courtesy of the Benevolent Or-
der of Elks and the Fraternal Order
of Red Men in donating their homes
and lodge rooms for this encampment
is one of the kindest sets of true com-
radeshlp we have ever received and
we trust our thanks and appreciation
will be accepted by these two orders
in the same spirit in which the offer
was made.
We also wish to extend our thanks
to Mr. Golden. Golden's ' Ice Cream
parlor for his generosity in donating
the ice cream for an banquet.
Our thanks are further extended to
the Cinco Cigar. Manufactures who
for our banquet.
CHAS ISRAEL.
Commander.
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cal excellence. the supremacy of bod~
ily strength. Our conception of the
gods is of men raised to the height of
bodily beauty and strength.
For Mr. Dempsey we may easily
have a contempt because _0f the re-
port. evidently a. correct one. that he
evaded military service when it obvi-
ously was his duty to go with other
able bodied men to fight for his coun-
try. But in spite of that, we are will-
ing to exploit him in all our news~
papers from one end of the country to
another. for he is. to date. the most
skillful fist tighter on this terrestrial
ball. The very longing of the human
race for perfection is its greatest asset.
To honor that which most nearly ap-
proaches it. is a natural result. “’0:
are not prepared to assert that. it is
Just that. a professo'r who understands
the Einstein theory and can weigh the
stars should receive a pittance for
the display of his extraordinary brain
power while Mr. Dempsey becomes in
a. few years a. millionaire, but we re-
fuse to appear surprised by the fact.
Misunderstood.
(Boston Globe.)
A Duluth pastor makes it a. point to
welcome any strangers cordially. and
one evening after the completion of
the service he hurried down the aisle
to station himself at the door.
A girl was one of the strangers in
the congregation. She was em-
ployed as a domestic in one of the
fashionable homes. and the minister.
noting that she was a stranger
stretched out his hand.
He Welcomed her to the church and
expressed the hope that she would be
a regular attendant. Finally he said
that if she would be at home some
evening during the week he would
call.
"Tank you." she murmured bub-
fuily. "but A! have a falls.“
4
up as a result of his little encounter at]
jsupervlslng the education of women.
then though “hut we term civilization i ”‘N‘W‘SRF no mo”. lady—I have it
of necessity the head of the tribe, the‘
.wore it long should be excluded from
slcally to occupy a. commanding posi- :
Head Club of America. submits the.
following. as bringing "Longfellow up‘
to dalez”
"Lives of bald heads all remind us.
“'e should choose our wives with
care.
Or departing leave behind us
Half our natural heads of hair."
A Ford Cabinet.
(Kansas City Star.)
The "Chicago Tribune" suggests as
assistants to Mr. Ford as President
the names of \‘oliva. Upton Sinclair.
La Follette. "Wlldman" Brookhsrt.
Brisbane and Brian. There are still
several offices in the cabinet to fill
and R. M. H. suggests the recall of
Emma Goldman for the purpose of
Then there are .‘frs. Bergdoll's little
boys, Erwin and Grover. to be taken
care of. .
The Detective Instinct.
(life)
Detective—You can‘t
what night this happened? Lady—
.\'o. I was so excited at the time: I
only remember I was in my bath. De-
remember
—it was Saturday night
But it “'as n Belle.
(Life)
Hubby—Isn't the dinner by" early?
\i'ifo—That's not the dinner bell.
““‘lxut is it?" Only our daughter tr3'«
ing on her new earrings.”
“'hen Christianity first spread Over
lhc world the clergy opposed the hair
lminz worn long. and in a canon in
1096 it was declared that they who
the church and not. prayed for when
vlcad.
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ROAD -.\IAKI.\'G
The other day 1 saw a weary col-
ored man down south massaging the
new and slick highway with soothing
omhrocations containing tar and other
healing ungents. and I remembered a
heap of things about road-making.
Some of the things I remember an
fluently and distinctly from time to
time have actually Occurred at one
time or another.
In the dear. dread days fortunately
beyond recall. we used to "work the
roads." My father and brothers and
myself would get out the team and
plow 'a furrow up the middle of the
dirt road as far as we would so in a
day. One of us would ride the end of
the plow beam so that there would
enter the hard-pscked ground. If we
found a place where we thought the
water might possibly drain of! the
Not in the eagle's screaming do you
find our country's pride.
Not for pomp of valor Would our
. heroes say they died;
Not for the Joy of conquest were the
bells of freedom rung.
The splendor of our nation is the fu-
ture of our young.
W'Shave not fought for money. we
have not fought for fame.
We seek no selfish glory. no high but
empty name;
To be the strongest nation with can-
non were but vain.
llnlees our strength were blinded that
freedom lull remain.
mu mama”; butler
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road. we would dam up the place
Now and then we would pile up a lot
of fresh soil right smack dab in the
center of the pike. so that the next
rain would make a fine. large juicy
lohlolly of it. Then we would call it a
day for each of us, and two days for
the team. which satisfied the intelli-
gent law that father had worked out
his road tax for another year.
Next day a neighbor would bring his
horses and sons out and undo what we
had done. in so far as possible. and
Nobody supervised. nobody carer! a
whoop what had been done except that
Dome of us had not out and wearied
ourselves and a team for a whole day.
If there was any way of diverting a.
brook so that it would run along the
road for a merry half mile or so. we
did it. This was so that when the
horses not their legs muddy in the
lohlollics, they could wash them off
again in the stream. without going out
of their way.
If all the time and money and labor
spent in enthusiastically ruining roads
or temporarily repairing them had
been expended in making as much
permanent road as that money and
ishor and time would have made, the
United States would be entirely mud-
holeless and every highway would be
made of concrete.
There isn‘t. there. never was. there
never will be. atrv excuse for a peer
road or far a. temporary repair.
The reason convicts are so often
used in making- macsdam and concrete
roads is that a great many of these
persons were highwaymen by profes-
sion before their promotion to endur-
ance vile. and that the way
transgressor is supposed to be harder
than that or other workmen-Strick-
land Gilltlan in Farm Life.
INSTALLATION
Progress Forum, F‘. F. L.. No. I.
held a regular meeting in the Union
club rooms at 100 \Vashington street.
last evening. Installation of officers
took place followed by a social time.
Past Esteemed Advocate of Conn F. C.
Riedell acted as deputy and' was in
charge of the celebration. Past State
Advocate. Howard ‘vVilmott. as Grand
Instructor. and Past Grand Esteemed
Advocate. Richard \‘oigh‘t, assisted in
the installation.
Those who were installed are:
George B. Mills. advocate: A. Dclius.
vice advocate: F. C. Riedell. instruct-
or; A. \Vllson. guide: F. Sconeld. inter.
cessor and trustee. Advocate Mills ap-
pointed the entertainment committee
whose members are: F. C. Riedell.
chairman. Alfred \Vilson. William
Bloom. Harold “'llmott .and Clinton
Bloom.
JULY THE FOURTH
Tomorrow and tomorrow along the
lane of years
There shall be more of laughter ’and
less of cruel tears:
A land of happy faces. aglow with
health and free
From gaunt oppression's clutches, is
what our land shall be.
Our dream is" something higher than
courage of the brute. .
We guard the tree of freedom that all
may share its fruit:
01n- power is of the spirit. our beast
is of the soul. -
A. nation, noble‘hearted we vision as
_ our goal. . '
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COMFORT IN AGE
I rest beneath my upas tree. when comes the closing of the day; there
comfort in this thought for me—I have my
' tel towers uprear. I have my modest little pile,
filiga.::arr and clip some coupons with a smile. I have enough 1: z: (:1
price of all I'll need while I remain. to purchase hats and boon gut rm (-1
gas and casings for my wain. The kindly gods I often thank. now t
and halt and gray, that I have roubles in the bank. a modest parcel“); awe.
Youth says. "We'll go it while we‘re young. for we shall be a long 0
while yet our withers are unwrung we'll paint“?
t have 'our fun while you are I u
:oi'lizscllf few men. and waltz through life with pep and vita. But always coo
should recollect that youth is transient as the dawn: some day a gray ha.r
you’ll detect. and you will know that youth is gone. And if you salted down a
a dime before you blew in feur or five. you'll think your prudence was sub.
lime. when life’s dark wintry days arrive. I rest. beside my garden gate. and
croon these words, the evening long; “I'm thankful that I saved a crate of con]
when I was hale and strong "
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4th. OF JULY
No matter how you look at it, the Fourth of July is the
one day of the year that tells the big American story; the day
that commemorates the clean, straight-trom-thQ—shonlder
character of the men and women who gave us the land at the
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