O'NEILL FRONTIER
D. H. CRONIN
Q*N EILL. " NEBRASKA
An Increase In the exportations ot
wines and liquor* from France In the
first quarter of this year as compared
with the same period of 1911 la a sur
prising discovery. In the meantime
France has lost two of her biggest cus
tomers for wines and brandies, Russia
and the. United States. Of the brandies
ftnd liquors Germany took about half
-Argentina, Turkey and England followed
In order.
Churchmen throughout Europe are
greatly interested In the report that the
burial place of John Calvin has been
revealed. He was burled secretly. In the
fear that his grave would be desecrated;
and the knowledge of Its whereabouts
Was held by one family for three and a
half centuries. The sole remaining
member of this family Is now 71 years
old and felt he should reveal the spot
to the council of the Protestant church
in Geneva.
The Philadelphia Public Hedger quotes
Clemenceau, whose statue Is to he un
veiled soon at St. Hernlne, as desiring
tjkat no government representatives be
present at the ceremony. "There are a
few good chaps in the government who
do the Jtiest they can and whom I have
no desire to inconvenience; there are
others I do not hold In great esteem, so
the ceremony might end by me losing
patience, it is better they should stay
home,” he says.
Virtually the entire educational sys
tem of Peru Is now under the direction
Of American professors who were called
there recently to complete an education
al reform movement begun 10 years ago.
A new university called the University
of Technical Schools has been created.
Its branches are engineering, agricul
ture. pedagogical sclenoes, industrial
arts, and commerce.
A. S. Burleson, former UnRed States
postmaster general, who has returned
to Berlin after investigating the com
mercial, Industrial and financial condi
tions of Poland, Austria, and Czecho
slovakia, Is of the opinion that there is
little hope of selling Europe large quan
tities of raw materials until Germany
and central Europe balance their bud
gets and discontinue the Issuance of
paper money.
It Is rumored that the Leeds collec
tion of Jewels, which contains the finest
pearl necklace In the world, is to be put
on the market. It cast $200,000 of the
Heeds dollass to finance Constantine's
successful reclamation of the Greek
throne; and It Is estimated that It will
iake at least $500,000 more of them to
"keep things going,” according to the
Philadelphia Public Hedger's correspon
dent.
ACCU1UIUK III rc|«;i in "Hivu
all Paris gossiping, several stags -beau
tles accompanied by scions or tha
younger set, tired of the dancing and
wilting under the heat, recently bribed
the orchestra of one hotel to quit the
plAce and go with them to the shore of
Lake Geneva where, "attired" In a
manner reciniscent of the Garden of
Eden, the party danced until midnight
tn the water while the orchestra played
sad tunes, alternated with lively Jazz.
Even high communist officials are
openly attending church services and
christenings In the churches of Moscow,
nmg of them going to and from the
ceremonies In automobile^ says the
Moscow Pravda In an article warning
communists that they must set an ex
ample to the populace by not partici
pating In railgtous gatherings.
Sanitary engineers have been sent by
the public health service Into Yellow
stone, Mount Hanler, Yoscmtte, and
Grand Canyon national parks to look
out for the health or the enormously In
creased number of automobile tourists
who are. camping there. They will pro
tect the water and milk supplies and see
to the disposal of sewage and garbage.
Twenty-two states now havs compul
sory provisions for contlnuatiem school
attendance, which affords a etolld who
has left school opportunity for further
education. Only 12 states now provide
lor evening school attendance. In most
of them the law applies only to minors
over lfr who can not read or write Eng
lish well.
Royal. C. Keely, an Amerloal civil en
gineer serving a two-year prison sen
tence tn soviet Russia, won out recently
when he went on a hunger strike against
solitary confinement. Keely U held be
cause of his vle,ws oh bolshevism ex
pressed after an Inspection trip through
the country at the invitation of the so
viets. His two-year sentence dates from
May 12, 1920. |
A wave of love tragedies Is sweeping
through Italy. Not a day passes with
out a suicide or murder, generally be
muse of Jealousy. Several coses have
»en noted lately where girls have at
srnpted to end their lives when they
lscovered that their sweethearts were
nar.-Ved men.
Tobacco has been so expensive In Italy
as to cause great dissatisfaction; but
the government assigned experts to the
task of getting up a good Inexpensive
cigar and it is reported .that the task
has been accomplished. The new na
tional cigar will cost 2 cents, and look
like a "Pittsburgh stogie."
Francisco Cavida, savant of the re
' public of Salvador, in a notable address
Sunday, proclaimed that the Monroe
doctrine Is useful in the fight of demo
cratic republics against monarchy and
Imperialism.
Miss Jane Addams of Chicagp Is pre
siding over the Third International
Women’s Congress for Feaoe, in VI
unna. More than 200 delegates are re
ported to be present, representing near
ly all nations but Russia.
The Ar-T loan Graves Registration
aervloe Is having difficulty in establish
ing the Identity of the doughboys who
died as prisoners of war in Germany.
Many of the graves are Unmarked, and
In some places the names of the men
burled are unknown.
There are approximately SO,000 Ameri
cana In Mexico and of this number 8,000
live in Mexico City. It Is also estimated
that since Cvirmnza was overthrows
more than 8,000 American business men
have visited the republic.
At Moscow recently some 20,000 Vbrain
workers" were moved to leea comfort
able quarters to permit the "band work
ers” to occupy their homes.
A Russian soviet newspaper admits
that some ol the Russian factories are
producing leas than 8 tusr cent, ol what
they prodoeed before the war.
There were mono Bothers and sailors
by the name ef Cohen hi the world war
from New York city Sum of any other
name. But In the state as a whole, the
Smiths won.
Switzerland Is about to Inaugurate na
tional control of all traffic, automobile,
bicycle, and aerial, to supersede the local
control which results tn various arid
confusing rules.
A great struggle is reported to be go
ing on tn Rome between buyers and sell
erg, "It goes to the heart of the Italian
shopkeeper tv reduce flboee price* which
have made the for Cone rtwa the »—»
cables say. *
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CHILD SWALLOWED
DPEIJFETIPIH
Surgeons Forced to Use Knife
To Remove the Ugly Ob
struction — Recovery
Expected.
Gresham, Neb., July 26.—Clarence
Neujahr, two years old, has been in
a critical condition for two weeks as
the result of swallowing a safety pin.
The X-ray examination disclosed that
the pin entered the esophagas and
lodged in the chest with the pin open.
Physicians found it impossible to se
cure the pin by reaching down his
throat and were obliged to enter the
stomach and go up through the chest
for the pin. It was successfully re
moved and the child has a good
chance to recover.
TELEPHONE PATRONS
STUDY THE SITUATION
Bloomfield, Neb., July 26 (Special).
—Former patrons of the Union Tele
phone Company here, who are on a
strike against a 23 per cent, tilt in
rates, held a mass meeting at the city
hall Friday night. Owing to the un
favorable condition of the roads and
threatening weather, the attendance
from the country was light. The mat
ter of having an audit of the com
pany's books made by an accountant
was taken up and briefly discussed.
It was decided that it would be better
to defer action on the proposition un
til another meeting to be called a lit
tle later and at which a larger rep
resentation of the farmer patrons
could be present. The committee in
charge of the proposition will call an
other meeting within the course of a
week or 10 days. There were about
200 present at the meeting Friday
night.
NEBRASKAN GOING TO
GERMANY ON MISSION
Washington, July 26.—R. B. Howell,
national republican committeeman
from Nebraska, now is preparing to
travel in Germany, the postoffice de
partment announces, to study for
postmaster General Hays, the practi
cability of putting a wireless tele
phone receiving station on every
American farm.
HANDCUFFED*IN “BLACK
HOLE” OF PRISON SHIP,
GIRL SEEKS $100 PRIZE
e
shelving side of a tiny cell in tho
“Black Hole” of the English convict
ship Success, now anchored at New
York, Miss Jeanne DuBrui and 18
year old Brooklyn, N. Y„ school
girl, Is attempting an endurance test
which no other woman has volun
tarily* undertaken. Many women died
in the cell while confined there under
sentence when the Success was a re
ceiving ship for women prisoners out
side of Melbourne, Australia. Others
went mad or became blind. Miss
DuBrui, one of the more than 1,000
women who volunteered for the test,
is trying to remain in the cell 24
hours. If sho succeeds she will win
$100 offered by the vessel's com
mander. Capt. Smith, and will devote
the money to a younger brother’s
education. The convict ship Success,
which has been exhibited in all parts
of the world is tho oldest vessel
afloat, having been built in British
East India in 1790. She is the last
of the dreadful fleet of "Ocean Halls"
which carried convicts from England
to Australia.
Those who feel they are handi
capped should consider what Ben
Turpin, movie comedian, has been
able to do with a pair of crossed
eyes.
The joy of spring gardening Is in
the eating.
Automatic voting machines may
he just the tilings needed, since most
people vote automatically anyway.
A soldier bonus can be paid without
strain to tho treasury by applying the
Interest due on the allied debt for only
two or three years, says Representative
Hamilton Fish, Jr. He asserts that the
Interest will soon amount to over $2,000,
000,000 and this sum in all probability
would be sufficient to pay the bonua.
Under the leadership of the Chamber
ot Oommorce, the grocers and frull
dealers of Greenwich. Conn., have In
augurated a boycott of bananas
lemons because of the excessive prices
charged for them. The Qreenwioh
Chamber of Commerce will try to extend
the bopoott to oorer all Mew England.
IF LIFETE1ER
*tepfatker of Murdered GirJ
Makes Dramatic Appeal
Before Nebraska State
Beard.
Lincoln, Neb., July 23^—Mark Kent,
60, faced tho man who murdered his
14-year-old stepdaughter, bankrupted
him and transformed his wife from a
robust woman to a nervous wreck,
at the state penitentiary this week
and demanded that this man remain
behind tho walls until he breathes his
last. His demand was made before
the state board, of pardons ai.d pa
roles at Its monthly hearing when
the application for pardon of John J<
Hamblin, murderer of Rachel Engle,
stepdaughter of Kent, came up.
“If I had snapped my finger this
man would be dead today,” Kent told
the board. "For three days men stood
in groups with ropes in their hands
at Grand Island, ready to take the
law in their hands and avenge my
little girl if I saici the world.
“But I always was a peaceful citi
zen and believed the law would pro
tect me. And I am demanding today
that it continue to protect me.
"For nine months after this man
shot the girl she lay on a bed of pain
in a hoepltal, paralyzed from the
wound, before she died. The expense
“broke” me and the trouble made my
wife a nervous wreck.
"If this man should be pardoned
my wife wouldn’t stay In the house
a minute unless some one was with
her. Since the shooting I have had to
call a doctor for her two and three
times a week. I can get 3,000 Grand
Island citizens to sign a protest
against the application.”
Hamblin asked that consideration
of the application be postponed until
hia attorney returned from a vacation <
in October. Hamblin claims the gun
shot wound was not the cause of
death. He was sentenced to death,
but the supreme court lightened the
sentence to life and recommended
that he never be set free.
DISTRICT JUDGES HELP
IN SUPREME COURT
Lincoln, Neb., July 23.—Twelve
more district judges have been or
dered In for the fall term to assist the
supremo court under the new con
stitutional provision providing for
this draft.
The Judges are to come according
to the following schedule:
September 23—Guy T. Graves, Pen
der; A. A. Welch, Wayne. October 3—
George Corcoran, York; O. Hostetler,
Kearney. October 10—R. D. Brown,
Crete; Bayard H. Paine, Grand Is
land. October 17 — Willis G. Sears,
Omaha; W. H. Westover, Rushville.
October 24—L. W. Colby, Beatrioe; A.
C. Wakeley, Omaha. November 7—W.
4. Dilworth, Holdredge; E. P. Clem
ents; Ord.
PERMIT HOLDERS TO
BE CLOSELY WATCHED
Omaha, Neb., July 23.—Convictions
for violation of any of the liuuor laws
that apply in Nebraska henceforth'
will be cause for haling any holder of
a permit to dispense alcohol before
federal prohibition officer U. S.
Rohrer. This he says will be the
method he will employ to control il
legal traffic in his jurisdiction.
DOVE INTO SHALLOW
WATER, BACK BROKEN
Lincoln, Neb., July 23.—Emil Deus-,
er, 18 years old, of this city, a sen
of Raymond, Neb., banker was prob
ably fatally injured Wednesday, when
he broke the fifth vertebrae of his
back while swimming. Deuser and
some companions were swimming in
the “sand pits" near town and his
companions say that he dove into
shallow water striking on his head.
MIDWEST STATES JOIN
IN GRAIN FIGHT
Lincoln, Neb., July 22.—Nebraska
MU join in the grain rate fight which
will be staged before the Interstate
Commerce commission at Washington
August 15. Five states will be rep
resented: Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota,
Kansas and South Dakota. Com
missioner Thorne A. Browne has re
turned from Chicago where he at
tened a conference of representatives
of state railway commissions. Th^
Interstate Commerce commission, on
its own motion, fixed the date on
which to hold a hearing to consider
rates on grain, grain products and
hay in the western group of status.
The main committee is slated to
meet at Washington several days in
advance of the hearing to give it
plenty of time to prepare its exhibits
before the Interstate Commerce com
mission. This will permit each of the
state commissions represented at the
hearing to make a showing of the
conditions in kits own state. Each
state is to loan the services of an ex
pert and share in the expense of pre
senting the case before the national
body. The committee which will pre
sent the case for the railway com
missions will meet in Des Moines,
July 29.
Agricultural organizations are ft
vited to co-operate with the commit
tee of the railway commissioners in
preparing data and to present on l»e
half of themselves anything they'law
sire to have offered before the Inter
state Commerce commission. They
are especially asked to prepare a
statement of the economic situation.
CLIMTON , IAh BOY BCOUTS
NOW HEADED HOMEWARD
North yiattft. Neb., July 24.—The
Clinton, la., caravan of btiy eoouta
reached here Thursday afternoon
from Sidney. The boys are enroete
home from Yellowstone park where
they went Into camp June SO. In the
party are 376. 200 »f whom are eoouta.
two physic tana, three nurses, a post
master and banker. They will ar
rhre in Council Bluffs, •aanrday. sad
spend the nKbt there.
RENEW EFFORT if
Attorney General of Nebraska
Determined Technicality
Shall Not Cheat
Justice.
Lincoln, Neb., 'July 25.—Balked In
one attempt to send Ray A. Lower,
alleged wrecker of the Valparaiso
State Bank, to state prison, by the
supreme court’s action In annulling
the first complaint on which Lower
was convicted on a technicality, At
torney General Clarence A. Davis an
nounces that his office will start pros
ecution again on other counts charged
against laiwer.
"There are 22 different counts pend
ing aigalnst Lower, relative to his
acts as cashier of the Valparaiso
State bank and the state can select
any one of thqpi as the basis of its
cases," Davis said.
"Lower was allowed to plead In
the former trial to a charge of loaning
the bank’s funds to himself; but there
are other counts involving embezzle
ment and falsifying records to the
state banking bureau, for which heav
ier penalties are provided. He is sulT?
Ject to prosecution on any or all of
these and we do not Intend to let him
go free on a technicality.”
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uuvfcKiNrntiN i rKUUttus iu
COLLECT LIQUOR REVENUE
Lincoln, Neb., July 25.—Uncle Sam
has now placed liens amounting to
$18,440.79 against property of Ne
braskans located in the territory of
the Lincoln division of the United
States district pourt. This is the
exact amount of the liens filed at
Lincoln by A. B. Allen, collector of
Internal revenue growing out of
charges and convictions under the
federal revenue laws. Ella Van
Busklrk, of Beatrice, is the latest res
ident of the district to have a lien
against her. The lien defines her as a
“retail liquor dealer.” The revenue
tax against her is $927.07.
Other liens filed by the federal rev
enue collector are against the follow
ing: William Ruegge, Falls City,
$1,038.54; John Eldrege and Stanley
Hall, of Rock Bluff, $1,065; William
Risor and Harry Bayne, Hebron,
$986.94; Albert Fanka, Crab Orchard,
$1,833.34; George Hendrick, 836 New
Hampshire street, Lincoln, $2,041.66;
.John Patton, Palmyra, $1,442.26; Wil
liam Ross, Talmage, $1,833.34; John
L. Schiek, Beatrice, ex-sheriff, $2,
620.82; William and Glen Emery, Nor
folk, $1,416.66; Porter Q. Collins,
Holmesville, $2,376.73 and James Bro- '
back, nine miles east of Beatrice, $1,
426,26.
PLAN ORGANIZATION OF
KU KLUX KLAN AT FREMONT
Frenoont; Neb., July 25.—Promi
nent business men of this city have
received within the past few days
communications from the Ku Klux
Klan, accompanied by questionnaires,
in the event that they decide to be
come members. The "strictly per
sonal” letters contained circulars
dwelling on the purposes and ideals
of the'Organization. .The application
blanks asked for information as to
age, birthplace, occupation,"“race, re
ligion, education, characteristics,
politics, belief or non-belief in supre
macy over the blacks, fraternal or
ganizations andjallegiance. The re
cipients are tolrwthat they have been
suggested for membership by friends.
Thuew are asked to return the filled
out applications to a given postoffice
box number. A picture of a band of
members, attired in tlte Klan garb of ;
white gowns, is on display in a store
window with a card bearing an ad
dress if information is desired.
BACK BROKEN BY DIVE;
YOUNG ATHELETE DIBS
Lincoln, Neb., July 25.—Emil Deu
ser, the 18-year-old boy whose spine
was injured while he was diving in
the "sand pits” near here Wednesday
night, died Friday. Physicians state
that his death was probably caused
by parlysis of the respiratory organa
caused by the injury. Deuser was a
prominent athelete and a son of a
Raymond, Neb., banker.
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NEBRASKA WHEAT CROP
HURRYING TO MARKET
Omaha, Neb., July 25.—The Ne
braska wheat crop is moving fast to
market according to Omaha grain
firms. Receipts of the Omaha Grain
exchange have incresed 150 per cent
in the last week and shipments east
have increased 125 per cent in the
same time.
Most of the wheat shipped from
Omaha is going to foreign countries,
grain firms said. Germany entered
the market for wheat within the last
two weeks and the first shipments
of Nebraska wheat to the Germans
will go forward in a few days.
STATE 8HERIFF BATTLED
with sturdy moonshiner
Hay Springs, Neb., July 25.—Gus
Hyres, state sheriff, with several dep
uties, raided fho farm, home of Jim
Divan, living eight mltos southwest
of here, and arrested Divan on ft
charge of possession fcnd manufac
tute of liquor, after a free-for-all
fight had been staged between the
farmer and Hyers.
Myers emerged from the battle with
nmrke of it on his persot. Divan is
now out on bond.
NEBRASKA AUTO TOURIST
< KILLED IN COLORADO
Denver, Oolo., July 23.—The body
of A. C. Bisrley, farmer, of near Mon
roe, Neb., who died from Injuries re
ceived when the automobile which be
was driving overturned In the moun
tains near here, was sent to the Ne
braska town Friday.
Funeral eexvlse# were hoW In the
scanty hospital, witnessed by Mrs.
Big ley and hot two sons, who are
recovering frem ta>iriee received In
the ewokleoC
A Diplomatic Correspondent in New York Times.
^fRheut official admission of the fact, tlfc report nevertheless persists in
Washington that out of the veil of mystery and the haze of reticence which
shroud our foreign policy the Versailles treaty will soon emerge on its way
back to the Senate. To the thoughtful observer of the confusion of the ad- . .
ministration in its effort to combine a policy of "isolation” with one of "
helpful participation" it has long been manifest that the Versailles treaty
offers the only escape from the insoluble difficulties and hopeless tangles.
The League of Nations, say some, must be cut out of the treaty to make
way for the nebulous, but as yet undefined, association of oationsj. It has
generally been understood in Washington for many weeks that Secretary
Hughes has been busy combing out the Versailles treaty v*th a view to the
elimination of all reference to the League of Nations. It would be bitterly
ironical if Secretary Hughes should be disclosed as the instrument of ex
cision, in view of his oft-made declarations in favor of the league, and of the
fact that his criticisms have been confined to proposed reservations.
The report is easy to believe. The peace of the world today is the-w
Versailles treaty. Nowhere else is it defined. Nowhere else is it guaran
teed. There is no other machinery for its maintenance and enforcement.
As against the central powers, there is no other quarter to which this coun
try can turn for the security of its rights or the definition of its dues. In
deed, we can no more make a practical and effective peace with the cen
tral powers in defiance or disregard of the treaty tl)an we can spell the
word "peace” with some strange and unheard-of combination of letters.
If one but reads the economic and financial clauses of the Versailles
treaty it is at once apparent that our former enemies, Germany and Austria
Hungary, have delivered over their industrial resources and their very en
ergies as nations to control and direction by the signatories of the treaty.
Neither can make any separate treaty except subject to the provisions of the
Versailles treaty. The situation is almost on all-fours with that which arises
when a receiver is appointed in a creditors’ action. It is impossible there
after for a creditor to proceed independently to enforce his rights against
the common debtor. He Is forbiddon to interfere with the assets qf the deb'
tor, who in turn is forbidden to incur indebtedness or enter into any con-,
tract with regard to his property.
So it is with Germany. It is idle to talk of an Independent treaty with.
Germany that touches at any point the issues of the war or the extensive
subject matter so particularly and exhaustively covered by the provisions
of the Versailles treaty. We might, it is true, make a treaty of amity with
Germany if its provisions were sufficiently general and amounted to no more
than a gesture. But if we should seek to include in the treaty of amity, pro
visions relating to mutual commerce, the exportation of German products
and the establishment of German credit, we should find at orice that we were
in collision with the Treaty of Versailles by which Germany is absolutely
bound, committed and estopped in all these respects.
When attention is turned to An stria-fiungary it is at once apparent
that the Austria-Hungary which figures in the Knox-Porter resolntion no
longer exists. The country has been superseded by a group of "succession"
states, sprung from the loins of the Versailles treaty and having neither
boundaries nor charters except as therein defined.
Yes, the treaty will go back to the Senate. The fact is that it is tha
solitary avenue of approach to the solution of our international problems.
Like a truth crushed to earth, this fact rises again and again. Conferences
are adjourned and resumed. Alternatives are discussed and discarded. It
rides with the president to Raritan. It dogs the footsteps of Knox to. Valley
Forge. It brings Lodge in a hurry to the White House. Sometimes it spoils
the putting of distinguished golfers at Chevy Chase. Hughes is instructed
to find some escape, but he cannot. There sttwids the fact. Duty to the
country, duty to our allies, national honor and consistency join in the invi
tation to return the treaty to the Senate. And the invitation will be ac
cepted.
When It Failed.
From the Des Moines Register.
"Without frontiers, currencies, gold
reserves or eredits, Poland was flung
into the world two years ago by
decree of the Paris peace conference,
and told to get along as best she could.
The red Invasion and the necessity for
postponing all effort at organization as
a state was bad enough, but the expense
of equipping and maintaining in the
field 800.000 men was still worse. Her
public finance can only be called the
finest bid for bankruptcy ever made by
any modern state in Europe with the
sole exception at Russia.”—Wall Street
Journal.
If the Journal and newspapers like it
could be persuaded to state all the facts
we could begin to come to some intel
ligent conclusion with regard to the new
states set up in Europe, of which Po
land happens to be most tn attention.
Nobody knows whether Poland or
any of the others weuld have been set
up as independencies if it had not been
in the thought of everybody to create
a league of the world powers to sustain
the smaller states. It was furthest from
the thought of anybody merely to create
new states hnd turn them loose in the
turmoil that was bound to come if the
world was not to be organized to help
them.
Everybody understood that it meant
merely to BaJkanlze central and eastern
Europe to set up new states, without
a steadying Influence of -come sort. That
Is why the peace conference tied every
thing together, self-determination fBV
the smaller peoples, mandates for those
that were not ready for Independence,
all under the guaranty of the bigger
self-governfng peoples, leagued to en
force law and order and to protect
territorial rights.
When the United States refused to
become a party to world organization
then the old situatiorrhegan to reassert
Itself, and the old cleavages to reopen.
Of course, Poland Is In trouble. And It is
not Poland alone. Every state In Europe
Is in trouble. *
The Paris conference planned to start
Poland and the rest with fair guarantees
of uninterrupted Industrial progress. It
Is too bad that the experiment could
not have been tried. And why should it
not "have been tried, when everybody
knew In advance what would surety
come from going back to the old way?
The Freedom of the Press.
From the Baltimore Evening Sun.
In justice In must be said that the
supreme court in the case of the Mil
waukee Social Democrat handed down
March 7 last a decision which, appar
ently, gives some support to the posi
tion taken by the court of appeals of
t^e District of Columbia in the Call
case. But since the Milwaukee opinion
was delivered one c< the judges of the
highest court has died, aifd there is at
least ground for hope that on a fresh
appeal the Influence of Justices Brandeis
and Holmes, who hare so often held out
against infringements upon constitu
tional guarantees, will-be stronger than
it has been in the past. In any event
the Call proposes to appeal, and the
Evening Sun will share its rejoicing if rt
To be sure the present postmaster
general, Mr. Hays, has in point of fact
already restored the Call to the mails,
bufc the fact that its rights rest merely
upon this new fiat, however benign, is
no less vioJattve of the principle in
volved. It is upoa that ground, as we
understand It, that the appeal to the
highest court is to be( taken. If the
supreme court restores the Vail to its
full rights we shell then and there have
a beginning of the end of consorshlp.
If the appeal fails—gnd If. as a matter
of permanent Judicial construction, a
newspaper must continue to exist mere
ly by the beacftoeat grace of a postmas
ter general or die at his will—then, in
deed, the time wftl have arrive* for
the American preset, as a whole, to look
to Ms safety end freedom.
We pe further. Bearing In mind all
that we held against the principles ad
vocated by tins Call, its cranky doc
trines, Its extravagances and its raucous
bad tasta in Ue advocacy of Its pinch
beck '‘revotutlen." taut Insisting on its
Inalienable right to speak and to be ■
hesrd, w* make this proposition: The
Evening Sun, tf the offer Is acceptable,
win be glad hi contribute $&0 to the
CbWs fund for carrying Its case to the
Sopreusu oeurt. Aed it calls upon all
ether Ansarteua newspapers that believe
genutoHr In *ae speech and a free
press ft) fehtur ft. Especially R calls
upsfc those that are unaKeraMy opposed
to the OeH pofttteafly and denounce Its .
Mens du every oeeaeten. The rurv-v la- 1
vutve* ie the earns) of fuse speech ia j
Thought She Knew.
The sweet young thing had been un
able to buy the article she wanted, but
In each case the clerk assured her that
"next time” it would assuredly be in
stock.
One day she called at the store to
find a new clerk on the job. "Do you
have spats yet?” she inquired.
"No, ma’am,” he stammered. "I'm cz>t
living with my wife now.”
A Practical Start.
Prom the London Weekly Telegraph.
Flapper (romantically)—Oh, mother,
I want to rise to higher things. I want
to act for the films and reach the top
most rung of the ladder.
Mother—'That’s the right spirit, Elsie,
Now clirpb right up on this stepladder,
and put up the clean curtains.
In Folly Fifty-Fifty.
Prom the Boston Transcript.
A man’s idea of economy is to tell his
wife how to save money. A woman’s
idea of extravagance is what her hus
band spends on himself.
/
A few miles south of Anchorage in
Alaska gold quartz is found, assaying
$100 to the ton. Rock yielding $2 a ton,
even less, means a fortune. Don’t rush
to Alaska, but reflect on nature’s way of
distributing human beings. That gold
discovery will send to Alaska tens of
thousands of white men that Alaska
needs. The majority will find no gold,
but will find opportunity, and Alaska
will find in them energetic men to de
velop her agricultural wealth, more im
portant than metals.
Gold and the hunt far it have taken
men all over the earth, to mountain
tops, deep valleys—and they have stayed
and developed civilization long after tha
gold was gone. High up in the moun
tains of the Austrian tyrol you see aban
doned gold mines that attracted the Ro
mans, as the yin mines drewr Phoenicians
to England, without compass across tha
dangerous waters in frail boats.
B. C. Forbes, able writer on finance
and business, addresses a letter to the
banks. He reminds them that they
would deeply recent it if business men
organized a "run” on banks. He asks
how they think business men like the
hammering that bankers have been giv
ing them, compelling them to liquidate
stocks at any price and pay up with
violent suddenness.
Princess Fatima, here from Afghanis
tan, with a valuable jewel in her no3e,
says that her family tree goes back to
Alexander tl*e Great. It is generally
understood that Alexander’s family was
wiped out, thanks to female Jealousy
#and misfortune. But strange things may
have happened in those early days.
More interesting to America than tho
Fatima lady’s geneolcgy is the hand
some sapphire that is fastened ip a
hole In the side of her noso. That would
fill with disdain many of our Fatimas
who would gladly wear a sapphire in
a hole in each ear.
Reformers tell congress they want no
work done on Sundays, no trains run
ning, no mails. Perhaps the reformers,
after stopping work on the seventh day,
could find some way of supplying work
to 6,000,000 or so on the other six days.
The real problem of the country is week
day woTk, not Sunday work.
i ariTT m diumomtg oock.
From the Minneapolis Journal.
Tariff-making is slbw business. The
Senate wfll spend three or (our nwmthe
at it, at loast, a*»d {be Hous-es must
then come to an agreement. It will be
November at leosrt befoie the biii goes
to Mr. Harding. If tax reform lvia to
wait its turn, the year's business will
all have been dvrve ai^3 the books closed
before the taxpayers know what taxes
tl*ey will have to pay. The Influence of
this rttuatiqn is bound to bo repressive,
and the longer the delay, the greater
the depression caused.
The New York judge who iias taken ___
under adviseaient hie decision as to
whether a doughnut ia emnetolog
that ‘is toiled, or tolled, or med,
might as well admit his inability to
decide. Any cook wiil tell him that
a nice fat doughnut, sparkling with
crystals of sugar, hi neither boiled,
baked, or tood. It just ie.
The CMoajo Rally Newts' frtsA air
horsfttal fer eieli bsbt-ea fees Jset opened
Ite lit, year, fn a sew |3tl.irtiJ fireproof
building.