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God
plod .
bright.
"Wisdom is planted in his mind.
kind.
Earth's beadty
eyes
And to its glories he shall rise.
and he
Defender of the faith shall be;
What more on him can I bestow .
Before to earth I let him go?"
"Wisdom is not enough. I fear.
Master. for all that he must do—
Grant him a. sense of humor. too.
i
Ilow laughable are angry men!"
ahe Battle of
w
a
a
on
loan be complimented because while
Jhe fight was hot it did not seem to
.‘bo bitter. It. did bring out the cau- WHUSWI.”
Sous voters and it helped many Nor-
.)Iaikers get acquainted. That’s, ~ THE RAYS NEWS
geomething a. good fight always does.
:fl‘bs women were out in force
Sand some of them did a liitlr
flpeechmaking.
Spring Cleaning
f It's here. Spring. Official arrival
tomorrow. Now is the time to begin
It is
a time to plan for a clean-up that
will put a neat dress on the city. The
:ng Job. of course. is up to the street
to make Norwalk attractive.
.I department to fix the roads so that Place. however, ,5 nearly seventy
traveling will not be a series of years of age.
“bumping ”"3 bumps". Th° “my" As vice president in charge of cor-
ing districts are naturally
for permanency.
be expected in small towns but not
in Norwalk.
Every resident can help this bet-
terment by cleaning
own individual plot of ground.
everyone will lend a hand Norwalk
will look pretty may this summer.
[lather Muddy Ethics?
(llartford Courant)
The students are accused of
gambling which may be true but.r
which is a matter of no great im-
portance if it should prove to be a
fact. No farmer would plant a
crop this your if he did not first
mentally wager that his skill would
enable him to succeed despite weeds,
insect pests and the vagaries of the
weather. Business Would cease if
business men wwre not frequently
’ ready to "take a chance” as some
of them term it.
May ltun “1th Coolidge
(\Vnshington Letter)
Arthur (Jappcr com'cs from the
soil. hilt. ho is essentially a journal-
ist. lie Went from high school to
the print shop, and rose to be pro-
prietor of the Topeka Daily Capital
. in eight years. Then he married a
Topeka girl. Today Copper is one
,fof the, largest owners of periodicals
in the wr-st. ills farm papers. is-
...sued in a number of states from
{Texas to I’cnnsvlvanla. reach mil-
“lions of farm readers. Wall street re-
gards Capper as a radical. but west-
ern radicals look upon him as a
Leonservativo.
«9 -
.. Divorce Rate Getting Higher
' (Census Bureau Figures)
‘_ There was one divorce to every 7.6
‘snarriages in the United States in
4.1912. In 1916 there was only one
iaivorce to almost 9.; marriages.
'rm; wuumm.
3'“... Southern New England: Increas-
nfll' cloudiness Thursday followed by
erature.
:3: Eastern New York cloudy Thurs-
;pay followed by snow in interior and
_ ow or rain on the coast Thursq
:day night and Friday no change in
Qempcrature.
Conditions: The weather chart of
Wednesday night showed abnormal-
ily low barometric pressure over and '
The the eastward of the Canadian
‘htaritime provinces with the center
f minimum pressure over New-
oundland.
Z The outlook is that the disturb-
;tnce central Wednesday night over
grouisiana will advance_ rapidly
‘gortheaetward and increase in in-'
nsity in the New England states.
., e weather will be fair Thursday
mow on Friday without material
change in temperature.
I; Winds; North of Sandy Hook:
fresh north becoming northeast fair
Thursday unsettled by Thursday
night. ‘
2 Sandy Book to Hatteras: Increas-
Qg northeast and out weather be-
ing unsettled and followed by
Thursday.
TEMPERATURE.
talent at S p. -. 15th
» at New Haven Weather
h.
The N orwaiks
A big battle. The Republican
caucuses. A line stand-up fight.
and the Republicans of Norwalk
too . .
1 The desire of the executives to
have a financial man at the head of .
the New York Central railroad lines \
is said to have prompted officials of
‘ that road to select Albert Hall liar-
ris. vice president, to succeed Alfred
Smith was
killed recently in a fall from his
horse. Ira Place senior vice presi-
dent. and Patrick E; Crowley. vice
operations.
vacancy.
in thei
worst shape and must be smoothed]
over quickly and, we hope. prepared-
, Mud'ruis are to
up his or her
If
i
tasked.
“\Vhat keeps you patient?
asked.
tried ?"
"My sense of humor," he replied.
ll. Smith as president.
president in charge of
were mentioned for the
porate relations. Harris
included in the general system.
lawyer by profession and has been
in the service of the
[Central since the early '90's. In
addition to being Vice President of
the New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad Company, the parent
company. he has been Vice President
of the Michigan Central. tho Cleve-
land. Cincinnati and St. Louis. the
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie. the To-
ledo and. Ohio Central. the Kaua-
wha and Michigan. the Central
Northern. the Peoria properties.
lie is also a diréctor of the Guar-
anty Trust Company. the Reading
Company, the Imports Development
Company and a trustee of the Uni-
verslty of Rochester. of which he is
an alumnus. Ills principal clubs are
the University and the Metropolitan
of New York and the Metropolitan
of Washington. .
4- THE TWO FRIENDS
I have two friends—two glorious
fricnds——-two better could not
be.
And every night when midnight
tolls they meet to laugh with
me.
The first was_ shot by Carlist
thieves — ten years ago in
Spain. a!
The second drowned near Alecante
—while I alive remain.
I love to see their dim white forms
come floating through the
night. .
And grieve to see them fade away
in early morning light.
The first with gnomes in the Un~
der Land is leading a iordly
life.
The second has married a. mer—
maiden, a beautiful water-
wife.
G
And since I have friends in the
Earth and Sea—with a few.
I trust. on high,
'Tis a matter of small account to
me—the way that I may die.
For whether I. sink in the foam-
ing flood. or swing in the triple
tree.
Or die in my bed, as a Christian
should.~is all the same to me.
-—-Charlcs G. Leland.
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LIFE IN THE AROI'IO
FAIRBANKS. Alaska. March 20.
—-A glimpse of life on a remote is-
land in the Arctic ocean was afford-
ed by E. w. Wyaut. a trader. who
stopped here this winter on his way
from San Francisco back to his dio-
tant post.
On Bailey island. 250 miles east of
the mouth of the Mackenzie river.
where Wyant has been in businem
since 1917. the wind ‘biows, he
averted. at a speed at to make
Alaska's winter blasts seem summer
sephyrs. Nevertheless he was of
the opinion that a dirlgible like the ‘
Shenandoah would be able to reach
the North Pole by flying over his
territory in summer.
Leavingthelslandwithits 20 in-
habitants iast summer on s, whale'r
for San Fransisco. wrest made the
in three
........ 29.71 6! cloudy
tic City . . . 29.88 38 cloudy
Island . . . 29.74 36 cloudy
......... 29.74 38 cloudy
- . . . . .i... . 30.00 38 cloudy
»- ti 1...... . 29.93 it clear
"1.. .l... 30.0: It clear
u... Us.‘ 39.!2 80 cloudy
“an... 30.02 8: clear
........ 29.90 44 clear
ville ..... 29.74 58 cloudy
7 at, ”4, 29.86 86 snow
7 "4.... 10.10 I: clear
‘ i: m "i... 2!.81 3i clou-
' m ...a 29.48 62
' 4 . o.- J‘. 39.88 80
'J...s... 3’40“
w. to
“What shall I give him now?" said
"He has-the strength with which to
The ways of life. the love of right.
The gift of song when skies are
This man shall be both true and
shall delight his
”He shall know right from wrong.
Then spake an angel standing near:
"Grant him to smile at petty wrong.
The changing moods which sway'the
throng:
When cares annoy him. show him
then
Years after. when his strength was
fie was
“What keeps you brave who are so
is familiar
witluthe finances of the New York
Central road and the several lines
Harris. who was born in Roche-Ir
ter, N. Y., sixty-twu years ago is a
New York
DEMOCRACY.
James Russell Lowell of New Eng-
land. believed the framers of the
American constitution were far from
wishing or intending to found a. dem-
ocracy in the strict sense of the
word, though. he admitted. every
expansion of the scheme of govern-
ment they elaborated has been in a
democratical direction.
"Few people take 1he trouble of
trying to find out what democracy
really is," Lowell said in an address
ixf England. later published as an
essay on democracy. “Yet this would
be a. great help. for it is our lawless
and uncertain thoughts. it is the’ln-
dennitenese of our impressions. that
fill darkness. whether mental or
physical. with spectres and hobgob-
lins.
"Democracy is nothing more than
an experiment in government. more
likely to succeed in a new soil. but
likely to be tried in all soils. which
must stand or fall on its own merits
as others have done before it. For
there is no truck of perpetual motion
in politics any more than in mechan-
ics.
“President Lincoln, defined demo-
cracy to be ‘the government of the
people by the people for the people.’
This is a sufficiently compact state-
ment of it as a political arrange-
ment. Theodore Parker said that
‘Democracy meant not, ‘I’m as good
as you are.’ but ‘You're as good as
I am.’ And this is the ethical con.
ception of it. neceuary as a. com-
plement of the other: a conception
which. could it be made actual and
practical, would easily solve all rid-
dles that the old sphlnx of political
and social economy who site by the
roadside has been proposing to man-
kind from the beginning. and which
mankind has shown such a singular
talent for answering wrongly.
“In this sense Christ was the first
true democrat that ever breathed, as
the old dramatist DelEker said he
was the first true gentleman. The
characters may be easily doubled, so
strong is‘ the likeness between them.
\ \
. minim?
“REGULATION OF RADIO MOST
00wa PROBLEM BEFORE
U. S.” SAYS HOOVER
"The regulation of radio is the
most complex and difficult problem
in regulation that has ever cen-
fronted the government." “Herbert
Hoover. secretary of commerce. de--
elared recently in». an interview.
"two conflicting principles assert
themselves. One is the right of in-
ventors to earn a profit on their pat-
ents. and the other is the broad prin
clple that nobody must be permitted
to monopollse or control the means
015- public communication. 1 think
that is a question for the courts to
some, and I am not a: lawyer.
"I eve. however. that every-
body s euld be permitted to send out
anythingthey like. The very 0-
meat that the government begins to
determine what can be sent, is es-
tablishes a censorship. (I almost
immediately it will be, ed upon
to discriminate between opera and
sass. fundamentalist ltd ‘moderniat
sermons. and so on throghout » the
whole field of clashing ‘ldess.
‘fNer retest anybodyeiss be per.
miffed to act as sensor. rum be
h M... 1,. added significantly. “a
”A beautiful and profound parable
of the Persian poet Jellaiadcem tells
us that 'One knocked at the Belov-
ed's door. and a voice asked from
within 'ch0 is there?‘ and he an-
swered ‘It is I.‘ Then the voice said,
'This house will not hold me and
thee;' and the door was not opened.
Then the lover went into the desert
and fasted and prayed in solitude,
and after a year he returned'and
knocked again at the door and again
the voice asked ‘cho is there?’ and
he said ‘lt is thyself;' and the door
was opened to him.‘ But that is
idealism. you will say, and this is an
only too practical world. I grant
it: but I am one of these who be-
lieve that the real will never find an
irremovable basis till it rests upon
the ideal. '-
"It .used to be thought that de-
mocracy was possible only in a small
territory, and this is doubtless true
of a democracy strictly defined. for
in such all the citizens decide direct-
ly upon every question of public con—
cern in a. general assembly. An ex;
ample still survives in the tiny Swiss
canton of Appenzell. But this im-
mediate intervention of the people in
their affairs is not the essence of de-
mocracy; it is not necessary. nor in
most cases. practicable.
"Democracies to which Mr. Lin—
coln's definition would fairly enough
apply have existed. and now exist,
in which. though the supreme auth-
ority resides in the people, yet they
can act only indirectly on national
policy. This generation has seen a
democracy with imperial figurehead.
and in all that have ever existed the
body politic has never embraced all
the inhabitants included within its
territory. the right to share in the
direction _of affairs has been confined
to cltlzens and citizenship has been
further restricted by various limita-
tions. sometimes of property, ‘some-
times of nativity. and always of age
and sex."
'In the Biglow papers, Lowell
opined: .
Democracy gives every man
A right to be his own oppresser.
practicing it should be given
widest possible latitude.
latory powers now vested in the De-
partment of Commerce are totally
the
The regu-
adequate and would have eroken
down completely but for the volun-
tary co-operation of ‘the stations.
About all we can do is to assign
wave lengths and issue licenSes. No
license is issued for longer than
three months. because we want to
keep the situation tightly in hand.
The White bill names the causes for
which licenses could be revoked, and
creates other powers which I am
confident would enable us to' keep
ths‘ether open to everybody.
"You will recognise that iii any.
body should be able to have the ex-
clusive use of a certain wave length
he would have a monopoly on that
part of the other. That cannot be
permitted. We have protected the
other. or ooume, certain Deovle have
patents on the instruments by which
you got in and out of the ether. Lure
all patentoes. they have certain
rights which should be protected.
That la a matter for the courts. 1:
malfbr for the exercise of broad vis-
ion by‘ people in control of great in.
enterpdgea”
. .
final. , approach_ by the Transit ‘ ‘
sixty-ave of the highest .
the Adirondacks and Catskills M,
observation towers. These totter-
are, manned by competent rehash-L
on during the dry. ‘
connected by
houses of the forest
a. lire.oecur_s the observer-
.the ranger who'-
mepof
Cal '
A British colonel once advertised
for a servant and an Irishman ap-
plied for the Job. '
"\\’hat I want." said the colonel.
"is a useful mam—one who can cook
drive a car. look after my horses,
clean boots‘and windows, feed poul-
try. milk the cow and do a little
painting and papcrhanging.”
“Excuse me, sort." cried Pat.
”but what/kind of soil ave aye
here?" _
"Soil?" snapped the colonel.
"what’s that got to do with it?"
"\Vell. I thought if it was clay
I might make bricks in me spare
toime."
A new prominent lawyer, in his
early days at the bar. often had to
deal with poor clients. Or one oc-
casion he defended a very poor man.
and oil‘cred to do so for nothing.
He won the case. and the client was
so grateful that he sent the lawyer
15 shillings. The attorney accept-
ed this small sum. so as not to hurt
the man's fceirngs: but later on he
was rcproached by a fellow lawyer
for doing so.
“Why." said the latter gentleman.
"did you take 15 shillings? Don't
you know that it is unprofessional
conduct for us lawyers to take less
than gold?"
"Well." was the answer. "I took
all the poor beggar had. You don't
consider that is unprofessional. do
you?" ‘
“~—
TIIE FIEND IN THE FOREST
(Boston Post.)
Fire has meiodramaticaliy.
very truly. been termed a “fiend."
Certainly when it gains the mastery
over men or nature. and lets loose
all the horrors of which it is cap-
able. it is fiendish in its seeming de-
termihalton to work slaughter. and
havoc. ~
In the haunts of humans, in the
cities and towns, this are fiend has
been pretty woll curbed. Rarely
nowadays does he get very far along
in his. work of destruction. Man
has learned to fight him at his own
game; to smother him with water
and chemicals; to call him to a.
halt before he goes out of bounds.
The modern. lire-fighting system is
one of the finest productions of
human ingenuity. courage. and in-
stant attack. It is quite likely that
no great American city. will ever
have another vastly destructive lire
barring the results of war or earth~
quake. The days of the “conflu-
gration" are over. _
But out in the big wild spaces,
where the forests stretch their
thousands of square miles. man has
not yet conquered the dead. or even
begun to. Every your great fires
blaze their way through almost
pricelesstimber and not only burn
up millions of dollars. but blast the
forest for centuries. Only lest
summer a forest fire in New Bruns-
wick caused a monetary loss or
$200,000, and a future weedland
loss of a. great. deal more. .
Something must be done to curb
this _terr.ibie destruction—but what?
That is the question that conserve.-
tionists and forest-lovers tugboth
Canada and the United Staffs ari
trying to answer. Manyetafea have
organized efficient fire-fightingi‘nte‘
thods. New York has piecewih‘:
peaks in
means endure
toldphonr with she
WW
Ripphng. Rhymes
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duel: Sm. '
By wen lama.
Ialwaylhoiototbsbeilefthat
men are mostly and straight.
and sea brings an . bitter grief when
someone proves a crooked skate, be-
trays them of a thief. an:
earns his neighbor: scorn and hair
It’s sad to- see a neighbor lose hi
grip on honesty and worth: {in
spectacle gives me the him. an}
stillee all my bubbling mirth: and 2
heel him from the earth. The.
will not wait an hour for proof the:
he has sinned as feople claim: they
gaze from minaret and roof. and so:
his record is a shame; they kick hin.
with exultant hoof. and hang the
jinx sign on his frame. They will
not listen to a‘lword that one would
i say in his defense: such argument is
vain. absurd. and short of truth and
common sense; the sinner is a vile
old bird who should be shooed and
chivled hence. But I refuse to
shake a friend because some say he
is a crook. unless the evidence that
lend is final as the Sacred Book. and
arm in arm with him I wend to fish
{for suckeu in the brook. Let oth-
lers ply the vicious knout, and say
ithe sinner should be shot. I'll think
‘ my friend a good old scout until they
prove that'he is not; I'll take him
. pannikins of Kraut. and luscious
lwienies. smoking hot.
but the fire tower is far more prac-
tical in a. section where areas are
high and not extending over too
large a. stretch of uninhabited coun-
t ’.
”Given money enough for adequate
work. we have found the best meth-
ods of putting out forest fires. Ade-
quate funds. however. are hard to
obtain from Legislatures and Con-
greuea. There is now a. bill in our
500.000 for eo-operatlon with the
states in the work of fighting fir .
It is not half enough, nor does
encourage the states to appropriate
their proper share. Ten million a
year thus expended would be a na-
tional economy. Lawmakers might
well be urged to see the matter in
that light. -
But it is better to have no for-
est tires than to have them and then
put them out. Almost every one
of them springs from preventable
cause—from man's carelessness. To
educate against this is the great
but ’
duty of state and nation. Such
education might well begin even in
the lower schools. and be hammered .
at adults uneeasiagiy. Propaganda.
has become a rather tiresome word,
but. what finer kind could there bei
than that applied every day in the
year to the magnificent service. of
forest preservation?
LIKE AN ACID
TEST
a
Prove to y ourself
whether you have the
stamina to resist the urge
to spend all the money
you earn, or whether you
are a slave to money and
will always have to labor
for it.
‘ We will assist you by
receiving your weekly or
monthly deposits and ad-
ding interest to your ac—
count.
ls sad to see the crews of guys Who’- .
ll
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a ram; mtg-1:1“.
~‘S’af‘ety—
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! «.by eliminating the risk of speculative in
in ’ vestment and assurino yourself a 4.135; r:-
i'.‘e turn on your funds in the Savings ohm:
: ' Deposit Department of this institution.the
'9“ Bank of Safety and Service with a bar-k.
:I ground of 100 years of couscn‘aii‘x‘c barium
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Congress appropriating about 32,-!
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in our fire and
theft-proof v a u 1t
will place your val-
uable and valued
possessions beyond .
dang'ér of theft or .
destruction :
and
also serve to safe-
guard against mis-
laying them.
So. NorWalk Trust Co.
SERVICE
SECURITY
Estimates cheerfully rendered on
any Building Operations.
Good work and a fair price assured
T O. F. BURGHART
Burghart Built
Means Well Built
Bridgeport, Conn.
Phone Noble 4073
. The
City National
’ Bank ' .
South Norwalk, Conn. ',
HAyE YOU, A .
CHECK. ' ACCOUNT?
If not, come to the con-
veniently located bank on
Washington street,
where courtesy rules, and
where a small deposit: is
welcome.
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