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Good Roads
That civilization owes a great
am to the highway builders can be
’.‘tillderstood by reference to history.
The first European highways were
”those which went out from Rome.
that the Roman soldiers might have
nary and quick access to the remot-
jut bounds of his great empire. “’ith
him went law and order. Later.
over the highways, went the school
master and the college. the educa-
tion. the institution and its teachers.
~'I‘ho missionary of the Cross used the
highway. the church spread its doc-
«ttine over the highway. and to this
day, the great churches. schools.
colleges. hospitals and institutions
for the amelioration of the condition
of'mankind. are found always on.
or away. from great highways.
It is the highway which made the
1,.,Ity. not the city the highway. It is
gfihe highway which made the de-
;Jns.tid for the railroad, which is but
4 steel highway over which all
‘freight must move sometime, the
ilhlghway over which must travel all
at is good. noble. desirable in life.
3...‘ Where good highways are. there
“is a. good civilization. \\'herc are
ffloor highways. are usually ignorance.
V'bovcrty. disease. lmvlcssnt-ss. lack of
Thulture. poor standards of living
‘miiscry.
" Investment in highways means in-
,3estment in civilization!
. Johnson and Bok
4% . —--
f5 The lists for the 130k peace prize
{closed on Thursday night, Hut,.Hi-
‘jiani Johnson's famous Chimign
Nspeech was l-e'iol‘e midnight. The
"float that he is too modest to main-
:fhln that his program will pacify the
‘t‘vvorld and ki‘t'p it quiet should not
rfinr hilu. Not only should lliram
"Johnson's proposal be included in
ills mass of medicine for the ills
’ "f the world. but he should no giv-
n the 3100.000 and the incident
vihouid be closed.
' Listen. “'0. as a. nation must do—
. lilne to COUDll'llilllCO or participate
. .in the league of nations "or any of
fits subsidiaries." \Ve are mu 0
‘ lit down in counsel with those
ibtraincd with the burden .f ud-
Z'Justing the affairs of Europe or the
".‘World lost us become involved in
’Yl‘thcir political struggles." if ‘we
decide that certain things which we
0‘
e
h
u
. .Zjiavs to offer are good for Europe
They take thorn or leave them. We
.must "promote peace and endeavor
.10 prevent war." but caret‘uilv und
:"Qrudently. without selling out fin-
“gers or straining our backs. Dc-
,uill‘? Oh. leave those to George.
”\Ve'li pass on his findings proper-
ly.
There. if that doesn't deserve a
$100,000 prize as a program for en-
msuring peace and progress 3nd gen-
‘oral happiness. what possibly can?
-—-Ansonia Sentinel.
' THE “'EATflJ-th.
New England and linstcrn New
Cloudy Thursday. Colder
Thursday afternoon and night: lv‘ri-
day fair and colder.
Conditions:
During Wednesday the pressure
remained high off the Atlantic coast
and it was high and rising over the
upper Mississippi valley and the 11)-
per lake region and low along the
and ii. the tar
" Southwest centers of Minimum pres-
sure were charird'Monduy night
over Quebec, Alberta and Southern
. California.
: heather
The temperature become high
during Wednesday throughout the
Atlantic Status.
The outlook is 111‘ generally fair
but with considerable
, ’eloudlness Thursday and Friday in
_.the Washington forecast
.vTho temperature will be
district.
lower
.Wfl'hursday afternoon and night and
M‘on Friday in
the Middle Atllntlc
‘ but...
...
Winds: '
... North of Sandy Hook: Fresh
youth's-t shifting to west and
gmwest. Weather calmly and un-
l
. - Thursday.
,, Candy Book to Hatteras: Mode-
to fresh south shifting to west
northwest: Thursday weather
..., and unsettled Thursday.
Wigwam.
taken at 8 p. m. 751:;
at New Haven Weather.
30.20 58 cloudy
30.20 54 cloudy
30.18 5: cloudy
30.16 64 cloudy
30.00 48 cloudy
30.08 ' 48 cloudy
30.18 46 cloudy
30.10 40 cloudy
30.00 48 cloudy
30.22 60 cloudy
80.18 60‘ clegr
80.22 44 clear
48 cloudy
54 cloudy
so clear
54 cloudy
53 elm
48 cloudy
so cloudy
60 ciwdy
54 clear ,
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Jesse‘s-moms.
When a men'- s. man he doesn't lie.
and he will not play the cheat.
And be doesn‘t‘look with s scornful
eye at the beggar on the street:
And he doesn't brag of the things
he's done. or talk of his lands
or sold. _ .
When s. man's s. man you will and.
my son. that he’s gentle with
the old. "
When s. man's s. man you will find
his friend not nil of the chosen
few.
He never talks of the help he lends
or the good deeds be may do.
He never feats with a woman's name.
never sneors at the men who
fail. '
And a dog a pet from his band may
claim it only 11thth
When a men's s. man he will never
shirk the task that his hand
may find.
He is never too big for‘ the long
day's work. too busy to be
kind: .
He never sneer-s at the faith you
hold. never needless hurt he
gives —-
When a man's a man it is plainly
told by the gentle way he lives.
Advertising Honesty
Advertising has passed through
various stages. but never before in
its history was- it on so firm and
secure a foundation as it enjoys to.
days. says the Bridgeport Telegram.
Business men everywhere have come
to recognize it as a definite and
necessary instrumentality for the
conduct of their undertakings. and
have come to realize, almost to a
man. that. properly used. it is a
decided asset. while if unfairly man-
ipulated. it may' become a destruc-
tive boomerang. Years ago. men
saw the light of truth in advertising.
and a small number of pioneers hero
and there throughout the country
set up ideals and fought for them.
As a result. today. advertising is
overwhelmingly honest. and to the
point. Sharp practices. condoned in
some sections in the old days. have
been ridden out of the industry. on
a rail Business has called on the pub
lie to believe in it and its sincerity.
and in calling for faith. it has of-
fered truth. In a talk before the
Advertising Exposition at New York
on “The Daily Newspaper." Louis
Wile yet the New York Time stres-
sed the power and effectiveness Ol
truth in advertising:
"Better business bureaus are
springing up throughout the coun-
try. working for honest advertising.
and reputable publications are re-
fusing men to take a chance on the
dishonesty of suspected copy offer-
ed to them. it is not a wave of mor-
ul reform. It is a business measure
based upon Benjamin Franklin's
saying. 'llonesty is the best pclicy.‘
Honesty in advertising puts dollars
into the cash register of the mor-
chant evcntuaiy. as it does into the
cxchequers of publications. Only I
few years ago some publications
feared to refuse advertising which
did not conform strictly to the truth
lest doing so cause a. money lens. To.
day they know that to scorpt it
means a. money loss: and merchants.
manufacturers and financiers gener-
ally have the same conviction. It
pays to advertise—honestly."
In 1922 the people of the tnitcd
States paid $100,000.000 fOr chew-
ing gum. $145,000,000 for scented
toilet soaps. “3.000.000 for cosme-
tics. and $150,000,000 for halr nets.
In 1020 the national bill for toilet
preparations, which includes such
articles as talcum powder. cold
cream. rouge and lipsticks. was
$750,000,000 or :15 for every woman
in the United States. These tre-
mendous totals, while based on pro-
ducts which were fundamentally
sound. werc nevertheless made pos-
sible by advertising. honest saver-
lining. the same medium which ac-
quaints us all with the merits
factured anywhere and everywhere.
even at the ends of the earth.
The Teacher’s Task
You teachers—and it is s. more
truism, to say this—you teachers
make the whole world your debtor:
and of you it can be said. as it can
be said of no other profession save
the profession of the ministers of
the gospel themselves. if :ou teach-
ers did not do your work ‘flluu. t‘ is
Republic would not outlast the span
of a generation.
Moreover. as an incident to your
avowed work. you render some Well-
hlgh unbelievable services to the
country. For instance. you render to
this Republic the prime. the vital
service of amalgamating into one
homogeneous body the children of
those who are born here and of
those who come here from so many
different lands abroad. You furnish
s. common training and common
ideals for the children of all the
mixed peoples who are here being
fused into one nationality. It is In
no small degree due to you. and 1;
your efforts. that we of this great
American Republic form one people
instead of a group of jarring poo-
ples. The children. wherever they
have been born. wherever their pe-
rents have been born. who are edu-
cated in our schools side by side
with one another. will inevitably
grow up having that sense of mu-
tual sympathy and mutsul respect
and understanding which is absoluv
tely indispensable for working out
the problems that we as ,oitissns
have before us.
~1beodoreRbo-evelt.
At'l'hemlh‘m
(American Legion Weekly.)
It was a hot day and seven cars
wore waiting their turn at I. fill-
ing station. The lest one was:
steaming little 1015 Rattler. with
six rattles end s. button. Finally it
gotltsturnendtnepoevisbstten-
dent relies: '
‘ "How many fishnet", ‘ <
The driver of Haste held up one
an". ~ “
"$7.". bellowed ‘ 3"
of.
‘ worthwhile products found or manuo
*-
fowmn-m
m statesmen wine are stsiing
that. chaos is at hand;~ the -' bow-
rm dread are waiting in every
, farm land;
‘ a greater war is
brewing annually we have seen; and.
still We gb on choolng. and burning
gasoline. Lloyd-George in grief is
wringing his sympathetic hands: he
”a. the vultures winging o'er deso-
‘ had
&;.he scenthe nations plug-
‘. this find putting-none grass; and
' still we go on chugging and burning
‘ l
costly'gas. For years we lived on
passion. our nerves were sorely
tried.an now his the fashion to
let a, crisis slide. The world is full
ofrsorro, w. of error-and abuse. and
still. today. tomorrow, we can for
Iobn’ 11’s juice.- We're Jaunnn by
AT THE PLAY
vvnh————_—
MARJORIE CANDEE
OEDIPUS REX.
Old Greek drama is different—so
amazingly different from modern
drama. Imagine the actors coming
onto the stage from the aisles o‘
the theatre! imagine no curtain. so
.that no matter how early folks in
the audience arrive at the theatre
they will see the stage set for action.
Imagine having the most important
episode in the play take place be-
hind scenes. and then a messenger
come running in breathlessly relating
the awful catastrophe, as he saw it.
Also imagine the dramatic power of
the old Greek plays. and you will
have some idea of the splendid pro-
duction of Sophocles' immortal
"Oedipus Rex" by Sir John 'Martin-
Harvey and his company. playing at
the Century Theatre. The play is
going to run for anotherweek. and
then Sir Harvey will stage some
other truly great plays by truly great
writers.
To run such a play as "Oedipus
Rex" in one act. with no interval
was s. difficult problem. Time and
Place unities. which are completely
ignored in modern drama where
closely adhered to in Grecian times.
Creon becomes the new King of
Thebes and walks onto the stage
with the kingiy crown on about two
seconds after Oedipus has blinded
himself. A herdsmnn. who lives
near a mountain. a. hundred miles
away from Thebes, receives the sum-
mons to come to the king and er-
rives—in five minutes. All the
events had to happen on the same
day. . . .
Sir Harvey. the producer and
actor, resorts to s. method of ex-
plaining the situation before the play
begins-mby means of two paragraphs
of exposition printed in the pro-
gram. It reminds one of "The Story
So Far." printed at the head of mag-
asino serial stories.
King Indus and Queen Jonsts
reigned in Thebes. It was prophe-
sied that their son should kill his
father and marry his mother. In
order to save their infant son from
such a hideous deem the parents
gave him to s. shepherd in the moun—
tains with instructions to destroy
him. The shepherd in compassion
for the child gave him to a Corin-
thian herdsman. who caled him
Oedipus. which means swollen foot.
His parents. fearing that some one
would be kind to the child and not
kill it. had an iron bar thrust
through the feet of their son. Oedi-
pus was afterwards adopted by King
Polybus of Corinth with whom he
grew up in ignorance of his true
parentage. There came a day when.
at a feast. a drunken courtier taunt-
ed Oedipus for being no true son of
Polybus. In fury he“ sought the
truth from the ancient Delphi, but
on a mountain track met King
mus. incognito. and his entourage.
Lotus pffended Oedipus by refusing
to let him cross the path. Oedipus.
infuriated at this affront offered to
him by the travellersi-slew the King
and thhs. unknowingly. fulfilled the
first part of the prophecy.
Thebes. about this time. was rav-
aged by a terrible riddle expounded
by the Sphinx. “What animal is
that. whicbbss four feet at morn-
ing brllbt. has two at noon. and‘
three at night?" Those who failed
to interpret the riddle were instant-
ly killed. Oedipus came. solved the.
riddle. saved the inhabitants of
Thebes.” who in their gratitude made
him their King and gave him their
Queen in marriage. .Thus Oedipus
still unknowingly fulfilled the-190-
ond appalling half of‘the prophecy.
The play opens “with more than”
two hundred of the’luhsbltsnts s’t.
Thebes, sensed by s. ‘ tori-1m.
plains. running up to the Xing's'
door and. on their knees; with hands
outstretched. implorlng him to dive
them from the pestilence. erect-
.n U“ m. We at, ,
‘ W‘ia
tint the" «it on
his efforts to save the people from
their doom. Oedipus finally realizes
that the "unclean thing" is the-lay-
er of Laius, Oedipus himself. What
happens when this overwhelming
discovery is brought home to him
must not be told.
The play lasts s. little over two
hours. and goes straight through
without a break. or a drop curtain.
The scene of the King's palace. with
three flights of steps. is built right
into the theatre and goes clear over
the orchestra platforms which are
used to support the columns of the
palace. The Greek costumes. of
rnny hues. are well set off by the
great columns and the palace itself.
which is entirely black.
“Oedipus Rex” was produced at
Covent Garden. London. last year
and the demand for seats was so
great that eight more preformances
had to be given. than expected.
.Ludging from the large response to
the play in this country. "Oedipus
Rex" will undoubtedly run longer
than at first anticipated.
The chorus (the Greek chorus is
not like the modern "chorus," de-
cidedly not!) is composed of the
Theban elders. about a dozen old
men with long white beards and
gray robes. It is led by Harvey
Braban, and their chantings serve as
relief after particularly intense seen.
es. They carry on the theme of
the play. ‘
Sir John Martin-Harvey played
the role of King Oedipus with skill.
The most impressive thing about
him from the point of view of an
average theatre-goer. is his voice.
which is so deep and resonant. and
well suits a kingly role. Jocasta.
his queen. widow to Lalus‘. was play-
ed by Miss Miriam Lewes. Orson.
brother to Jocasta, played by Gor-
don McLeod. spoke with remarkable
distinctiveness.
Sir Martin-Harvey said about
"Oedipus Rex": "My only regret is
that it contains no part for my wife.
but she will appear later as Ophelia.
Katherine, and in each of our other
productions." ' ’
The honorary committee which is
assisting Sir Harvey in this Greek
drama is composed of the heads of
many Eastern universities, as well as
famous theatre managers and play-
wrights.
And no. from s. modern critics's
viewpoint. or from a Greek student’s.
viewpoint. or from Just .an average
person's viewpoint. the play “Oedi-
pus Rex" is thoroughly enjoyable;
whatever way one looks at it.
M ’
Qualified
a ‘ .
Professor—If a person
health. but. who imagined- himself-
sick. should send for you what
would you do ' ‘
Meal Student—Give him some-
thing to make him sick and
minister an antidote. “ ,
Professors-Dow! waste any more
time here. [Hang out your shingle:
~Waterbury Republican.
The Power Of Alcohol.
Will remove stains ' from «aminef
will also remove summer «:1 tires.
not only from this man who-”drain
it but-also from his’wlfe and obi '-
area. _,It will remove household!“ .
the use of his wire. and the happier
anes- from his home. As a remover
o’f-thln‘gs-sloohol has'few cubs ‘ A
Woodbury Rem" ‘ ' r.’ all“ _
Charged _ th , stealing . m
«W‘mhbo estate of E. dimer.
in good
thenad- i
'M'oxohsnsosevs that —-§lc§h¢1 .
clothes. ‘ The exchange 13 fight; inf:
niture. from the house and 'es'ta es .
fmmthepsntmthesmll from
L Free schools and compulsory at-
tendance are new experiences. No
power of government can bring to
them success. If they succeed. it
will be through she genuine effort
and support that. can come only
from the heart of the people them-
selves. It is this condition that
makes the position of the teacher
rise to such high importance.
The standards which teachers are
required to maintain are continually
rising. Their work takes on s. new
dignity. It is rising above a calling.
above a profession. into the realms
of an art. it must be dignified by
technical training. ennobled by cha-
racter. and sanctified by faith. It
is not too much to say that the need
of civilisation is the need of teach-
ers. The contribution which they
make to human welfare h be
estimation. your};
Governor Tcmpleton‘s Appointment
Many Catholics of the state of
Connecticut are quite unable to un—
derstand the governor's apparent
member to the board of directors efv
the state farm. Not all the inmates
are of their faith. When dld re-
ligion begin to figure in the appoint-
ment of incumbents to public posts?
is not fitness for the once the am
and chiefest requirement? Are we
to have s. religious test in this com-
monwealth Why not waive the
question of creeds. and appoint a.
superintendent =broedmlnded enough
to treat Catholics and Protestants
with equal Justice and with equal
courtesy? "
The Transcript had heard of no
Catholic candidate. quaCstholic. for
the post made ‘vacant by the retire.
ment of Mrs. Rogers. It takes pies;-
sure in noting that the Catholic pre-
late who was invited to suggest an
incumbent for the post held severely
and serenely aloof and refund to
ing an ostensible proof of the M'
favors. but fair play.
The implication conveyed by the-1
governor's .ofler makes Catholics. to
appear petty. resentful. partisan and
_reeents.tlve to use‘ the privilege so
xenerously tendered by his excel-
lency comes in the nature of I. vin-
dication and a public declaration
that» the Catholics ofthe common-
wealth do not account themselves s
and kept good by. the dispensing to,
them of occasioaslplums of‘doubt-
fut flavor. ' ' '
eagerness to appoint s. Catholic
and sane—sauted enough so be able '
accept the favor. tendered. thus glvv“
that the Catholic church seeks. not .
unworthy. The refusal of their—rep; '
class apart—La faction.» be 9W .
‘ , YWfrAgtooionghy
the rivers. we're. touring on the
_ plain. while poor old Europe quivers
in agony and pain. It's cruel, don-
norwetter. to jog around and grin:
but would we make things better if
we were butting m? Would Europa
be enduring lcs trouble and dis-
grace. if we cut out the touring and
hit "the wailing place! Would they
Iowa! friendly 31880118. the Gov-punts
clued the French. if we should park
our wagons and use the mourners'
bench? We cannot make them
happy by raising an “Alas!” so.
John 13.. make it snappy. ..nd till
.our tanks with gas.
Our Hats
Where did you get that hat?
Wombn know their hat frames
and shapes are imported. but the
average man never thinks of his
headgear as an outstanding illustra-
tion of foreign trade.
..Approximately ninety-eight per
cent of the raw materials entering
into the manufacture of American-
rnsxle soft felt. hats, derbies and top
hats are imported.
Coney skins are brought
Scotland and England. hare
from Continental Europe, nutris
skins from the Argentine. rabbit
skins from Australia. raw sill: from
China and Japan. sheep and goat
skins from France, and shellac from
India.
Even the hemp braid for our or-
dinary domestic straw hat comes
from Switzerland. and hemp and
straw braids from Japan and (“um
from
skins
Bacon for Breakfut
(Kansas City Star)
The particular advantage in the.
sugar cures is that. there is less
danger of the meat becoming too
salty. and less skill is required. The
age and condition of the hog at
killing time has quite as much to do
with the outcome as the cure itself.
Young hogs flattened well and rapid-
ly and weighing from 190 to 2:35
pounds will produce hams of the
highest quality. It. is important.
too. that the hams cure slowly.
come too salty and hard and dry.
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